The Daily Reveille - September 14, 2012

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ALUMNI

Manship grad lands Lucasfilm toy career Joshua Bergeron Staff Writer

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Chasing history Tiger win would make record-breaking victory streak

Idaho may not be LSU’s scariest matchup, but victories with last week’s 41-3 dismantling of the Vandals present a rare chance at Washington. history for the Tigers.

The Tigers can also eclipse the Spencer Hutchinson With a win against the Vandals school record of 19 consecutive Sports Contributor on Saturday, LSU can become the home wins in Tiger Stadium. The first school in NCAA history to win 40 straight last team to best the Tigers in front of their home non-conference regular season games. crowd was No. 1 Florida with a 13-3 win in 2009.

The Tigers tied Kansas State’s record of 39 consecutive non-conference regular season FOOTBALL, see page 11

LSU junior running back Spencer Ware reaches for the goal line in the Tigers’ 41-3 victory Sept. 8 against the Washington Huskies.

THE DAILY REVEILLE’S KEYS TO THE GAME: Establish the run game early.

Challenge the Idaho secondary early and often.

Pressure Idaho quarterback Dominique Blackman.

Lock down wide receiver Najee Lovett.

Win the turnover battle.

In a galaxy not so far away, University alumnus Chris Spitale works with Star Wars toys for a living.

Spitale graduated in 1996 with a degree in advertising, but he said he was unsure of his career path until he returned to school to earn his master’s degree in media management in 1998.

In a presentation to students in the Journalism Building on Thursday, Spitale talked about what he does on a daily basis as well as how he attained his current position.

Spitale said Career Services was one of the most valuable assets to him.

“I was looking through a book called America’s Top 100 Internships,” he said. “When I discovered Lucasfilm had an LUCASFILM, see page 11

TECHNOLOGY

EA game-testing center to relocate to main campus Ben Wallace Senior Contributing Writer

The University will soon provide a résumé-boosting opportunity to its main campus where students can pound Mountain Dew, crunch on Doritos and toggle joysticks — all while raking in a little dough.

Video gaming giant Electronic Arts, better known as EA, will move its North American testing site from its current location at LSU’s south campus to the third floor of the new Digital Media Center by Dec. 1, said Arthur Cooper, executive director of the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center.

“This was part of an overall project to try and get the digital media space growing,” Cooper said. “The goal is hopefully over time to see collaborations between EA and LSU.” Along with EA, the

state-funded $25 million, 94,000 sq. foot Digital Media Center next to the LETC on Stadium Drive and East Parker Boulevard will house the Center for Computation & Technology, the University research program that helps academic disciplines better utilize innovative technologies.

“The Digital Media Center, first and foremost, is finally a good location for [CCT] to operate out of,” said CCT Director Joel Tohline. “Right now, we’re in an old dormitory [Johnston Hall] that butts up against the football stadium.”

Whether it’s constructing models of storm surges in the geography department, analyzing genome models in biology or building databases to probe thousands of English or history documents, the CCT mainly functions as a program that crunches endless amounts of data

rendering courtesy of LETC

The under-construction Digital Media Center will be next to the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center on Stadium Drive and East Parker Boulevard.

into user-friendly formats.

“The design of the building and the whole concept behind it was to provide a collaborative work space and to be co-located with a major digital media company,” Tohline said, “hoping that

will then spark and facilitate action between the researchers from the LSU side and the developers from the game design company.”

Although EA is scheduled to move in Dec. 1, it will likely be a couple months later before CCT

can join it. But as soon as the center gets the green light, even if it’s mid-week or mid-semester, Tohline said it would find a way to make an immediate transition.

EA, see page 11

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Nation & World

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INTERNATIONAL Scientists identify ‘Lesula,’ new species of monkey in central Africa KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in central Africa that had been known to the locals simply as Lesula, a mediumsized, slender animal that looks similar to an owl-faced monkey that was already known to scientists.

In findings published this week in the scientific journal Plos One, the researchers identified the species as Cercopithecus lomamiensis, which is endemic to the lowland rainforests of central Congo.

Guatemala volcano erupts outside tourist center, prompts evacuation ESCUINTLA, Guatemala (AP) — A long-simmering volcano exploded into a series of powerful eruptions outside of one of Guatemala’s most famous tourist attractions Thursday, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles (three kilometers) high, spewing rivers of lava down its flanks and prompting evacuation orders for more than 33,000 people from surrounding communities.

Guatemala’s head of emergency evacuations, Sergio Cabanas, said the evacuees were ordered to leave some 17 villages around the Volcan del Fuego.

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The Lesula, a newly discovered species of monkey, is only the second new species of African monkey discovered in the last 28 years.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Great Dane from Michigan earns world’s tallest dog Guinness record

Dept. of Environmental Quality probes chemical leaks at Isaac-hit facility

OTSEGO, Mich. (AP) — The Guinness World Records 2013 book published Thursday recognizes Zeus of Otsego, Mich., as the World’s Tallest Dog. The three-year-old measures 44 inches from foot to shoulder.

Standing on his hind legs, Zeus stretches to 7-foot-4 and towers over his owner, Denise Doorlag. Zeus is just an inch taller than the previous record-holder, Giant George.

Zeus weighs 155 pounds and eats a 30-pound bag of food every two weeks.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State officials are investigating how many chemicals leaked from storage tanks at a facility flooded

by Hurricane Isaac with about 10 feet of water.

Isaac’s surge damaged the Stolthaven Braithwaite LLC chemical storage and transfer facility next to the Mississippi River in Braithwaite, a Plaquemines Parish community protected by levees overtopped by floodwaters.

The facility is owned by Stolt-Nielsen Ltd., a Norwegian company that ships bulk liquid chemicals and vegetable oils around the world.

Libyan attacks on Americans said to be two-part militant assault

Ex-boxer Muhammad Ali receives Liberty Medal in Philadelphia

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador, was an organized two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and U.S. security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday.

The attacks Tuesday night were suspected to have been timed to mark the 9/11 anniversary, eastern Libya’s deputy interior minister said.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Retired boxing great Muhammad Ali has been awarded the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia.

The award was presented in a ceremony at the National Constitution Center on Thursday. It recognizes his longtime role as a fighter outside the ring for humanitarian causes, civil rights and religious freedom.

A frail Ali did not speak, but stood with assistance to receive the medal from his daughter, Laila.

LA-based production company plans $15M film complex in St. Rose ST. ROSE (AP) — Quixote Studios, a Los Angeles-based production services company, is breaking ground on a $15 million sound stage and “film campus” project in St. Rose.

Quixote CEO Mikel Elliott says the company opened a studio shop in New Orleans last year and moved to the St. Rose location two months ago.

Elliott said he eventually wants to land a long-term television show.

DAVID J. PHILLIP / The Associated Press

Flooded railcars and storage tanks are seen at the Stolthaven Braithwaite LLC chemical storage facility in Braithwaite, La., in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac.

Denham Springs City Council passes new obscenity ordinance DENHAM SPRINGS (AP) — The Denham Springs City Council has unanimously approved an obscenity ordinance.

City attorney Paeton Burkett told the council Wednesday night there are no businesses in the city that would violate the ordinance, but it will prevent such businesses from locating in the city.

Mayor Jimmy Durbin said inquiries about the possible opening of an adult business in the city brought the issue before the council.

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STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

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Club sees cultural value in anime

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FLASHBACK: FALL FEST 2008

Meetings feature shows, discussions Olivia McClure Contributing Writer

For the past decade, the University’s Japanese Animation and Culture Society, JACS, has brought together students interested in anime.

Anime, the Japanese pronunciation of “animation,” denotes a type of cartoon show originating in Japan. The style developed throughout the latter half of the 20th century as an animated version of Japanese comics called manga.

JACS president and petroleum engineering junior Patrick Blume said the organization’s Wednesday evening meetings are frequented by about 25 dedicated members who gather to appreciate anime and socialize.

The group’s First Officer Kit Simonson, creative writing senior, said the attendees are all surprisingly normal.

“At first you’re like, oh wow, there’s going to be a lot of basement dwellers here and then it’s like, nevermind,” he said.

JACS member Stephen Walker, civil engineering junior, said curiosity and his interest in anime persuaded him to try out a meeting. After that, he joined the organization.

“I was surprised how much I could talk about it and not come off…” Walker paused.

“Super nerdy,” Simonson said, laughing as he finished Walker’s sentence for him.

Blume said the group’s meetings consist of watching and discussing episodes of a variety of anime shows that members suggest and vote on. The shows range in genre from comedy to romance.

“I think one misconception is that it’s a very narrow field. It has basically every field you would see in American cartoons,” Simonson said.

He said part of the value of comedy anime is the light it sheds on Japanese culture. Basic elements of these shows are often rooted in quirks of the society.

“It definitely offers a window into Japanese culture,” Simonson said.

“But just as a disclaimer,” Blume cautioned, “just because you watch anime doesn’t mean you know everything about Japanese culture.”

Simonson said not everyone in Japan watches anime, though Darius Spieth, art history professor and faculty advisor for JACS, described manga comics that inspire anime as “absolutely pervasive in Japan.” He noted their availability at most supermarkets, gas stations and newsstands.

Spieth believes there is artistic value in anime and manga because of their origins in Japanese popular culture. He said it is a misconception that things in-

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LSU students watch the anime series Accela World in Coates Hall on Wednesday afternoon as part of Japanese American Culture Society meeting.

spired by pop culture are inferior because they are just different reflections of a society.

“At all times, you will see a lot of influence going back and forth between those two levels,” he said, referring to a distinction many people make between “high art” and art that draws on elements of pop culture.

Spieth does not make the same distinction.

“The high culture, the art of museums, has always been influenced by popular culture,” he said.

Anime manages to entertain beyond its Japanese audience.

For example, Blume and Simonson cite the success of Pokemon in the United States as proof that anime is capable of entertaining a global audience.

Anime shows with more serious themes incorporate inspiring stories that can be appreciated worldwide, too.

Simonson illustrated this by describing a show about a man who receives a picture of a beautiful woman while living on the moon and then goes back to Earth to find her. This underscores a belief shared by many cultures: that doing what you believe in is important, Simonson said.

He also said several recent anime shows deal with issues like unemployment and bullying in schools. Anime has generated

social commentary that applies primarily to Japanese viewers, but others can relate to it as well, he said.

“It’s stuff like that that has gone under radar and you want to share it,” Simonson said, pointing to the fact that JACS searches for obscure anime shows that reveal unique angles to common crises in today’s global age.

JACS members agreed that being able to connect with others on campus with the same interests is perhaps the most important part of their group.

“There’s value in finding real people locally who like similar stuff– even Japanese cartoons,” Simonson said.

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Rainbow Rush draws LGBTQ crowd Alyson Gaharan Contributing Writer

Booths and music transformed the Cotillion Ballroom in the Student Union Thursday night from an event hall to a haven for students interested in learning about LGBTQ resources.

Dozens of students gathered in the ballroom for the annual Rainbow Rush event hosted by the University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Students collected information from booths and enjoyed a mixer that included refreshments and dancing.

LGBTQ project coordinator Chad Freeman said Rainbow Rush has two main objectives — to show the University’s LGBTQ students that they are welcome on campus, and to create a connection between resources available on and off campus.

“This is important for our campus. It’s a university-recognized event that welcomes our LGBTQ

students and our allies,” Freeman said.

Spectrum Vice President of Administration Kameron Kilchrist described Rainbow Rush as “the LGBTQ community’s rush” because it gives students a chance to learn about organizations they can get involved with.

“It’s nice to know what’s out there [for LGBTQ students],” said Daniel Lucio, music education sophomore.

Freeman explained that Rainbow Rush is not just about LGBTQ organizations, and all groups at the fair are welcoming to LGBTQ students. “[Rainbow Rush] is community outreach. The LGBTQ community is more than just what’s on campus,” Freeman said.

Organizations present at this year’s Rainbow Rush included First Contact, Spectrum, Feminists in Action, the Hispanic Student Cultural Society, Metropolitan Community Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana Trans Advocates and Capital City

Alliance, among others.

Capital City Alliance, a notfor-profit organization aiming to improve the lives of LGBTQ members of the greater Baton Rouge community, was just one of many community organizations present Thursday night.

CCA Board Chair and associate professor in the University’s School of Social Work Elaine M. Maccio said half of CCA’s members are under the age of 25.

“It’s good to have young people involved. It seems like young people are more involved and engaged,” Maccio said.

Maccio explained that Rainbow Rush highlights resources available for LGBTQ students at the University, as well as those off campus, such as CCA. “It’s about collaborating,” Maccio said. “We wouldn’t miss an event like this.”

Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com

MADE YA LOOK!

ELECTION

Forum addresses media effect Megan Dunbar Staff Writer

A long line formed at a voter registration booth Thursday evening following a forum about media coverage of politics hosted by the Manship School of Mass Communication.

Students checked absentee voting protocol and registered to vote in Louisiana.

Southern University professor Albert Samuels joined LSU professors James Garand, Chris Weber and James Shelledy in addressing questions about media coverage of politics.

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social media playing a role in the election, moderators urged the audience to tweet questions using the Twitter hashtag lsuvotes.

Questions chosen included, “Now that technology does not allow candidates to hide as much as before…is this the most honest presidential election ever?” from user Joey Giglio.

This prompted a response from Shelledy, who replied with one word. “No.” Garand elaborated on the answer, saying candidates know if they distort the truth they will be “called to the carpet by someone, but might not be by everyone.”

Samuels said ratings matter for

television news coverage.

“The fundamental bias is, will it make money?” Samuels asked.

Shelledy said if voters think they can get the whole story of an election by flipping on the TV, they’re “sadly mistaken.”

Twitter user T Graham S. Howell asked if campaigns should target college voters.

Garand said if the Obama campaign wishes to have as much success as in 2008 with the 18 to 25-year-old demographic, they have a long way to go.

Contact Megan Dunbar at mdunbar@lsureveille.com

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Remember the Names VS.

No. 3 LSU

Idaho

Game Week Notebook LSU SCHEDULE Sept. 1 Sept. 8 Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Sept. 29 Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Oct. 20 Nov. 3 Nov. 10 Nov. 17 Nov. 23

LSU 41, UNT 14 LSU 41, Wash. 3 Idaho @ Auburn Townson @ Florida South Carolina @ Texas A&M Alabama Mississippi St. Ole Miss @ Arkansas

Linebackers forging their own on-field presence

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ften overshadowed by the defensive line’s mediapraised members and without a reputation like “DBU,” LSU junior linebackers Luke Muncie, Kevin Minter and Lamin Barrow keep one thing on their minds.

“We made it our mindset this year to make our names known,” Minter said.

Through the first two games,

it’s been mission accomplished.

Conference],” Barrow said. “You With Minter tallying a team- don’t want to be overshadowed, leading 15 tackles and Barrow our main thing was to have a in a close second presence on this Chandler Rome with 13, the Tiger defense.” linebackers have Hindered by Sports Writer pushed aside the the loss of Stefoin skepticism that greeted them in Francois and Ryan Baker, outsidthe preseason. ers and critics pointed to the line“You see rankings and our backers as the Achilles’ heel of an linebacking corps wasn’t ranked otherwise vaunted Tiger defense. in the top of the [Southeastern But according to Minter, the

torch was passed seamlessly.

“They were the leaders on our team, and it was a pretty big loss,” Minter said.

Before junior linebacker Tahj Jones was ruled ineligible for the 2012 season Wednesday, Minter said this current crew of linebackers is “better than what we’ve had in the past.”

LINEBACKERS, see page 7

TIGERS STATISTICS PASSING

· Zach Mettenberger: 387 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT

RUSHING

· Alfred Blue: 224 yards, 30 carries, 1 TD · Kenny Hilliard: 187 yards, 26 carries, 4 TD · Michael Ford: 98 yards, 18 carries, 0 TD RECEIVING · Jarvis Landry: 102 yards, 9 catches, 0 TD · James Wright: 90 yards, 7 catches, 0 TD · Odell Beckham Jr: 70 yards, 5 catches, 0 TD

VANDALS STATISTICS PASSING · Dominique Blackman: 352 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT

RUSHING

· Ryan Bass: 76 yards, 23 carries, 0 TD · James Baker: 37 yards, 11 carries, 0 TD · Jahrie Level: 6 yards, 1 carry, 0 TD

RECEIVING

· Najee Lovett: 128 yards, 10 catches, 0 TD · Jahrie Level: 119 yards, 10 catches, 0 TD · Mike Scott: 85 yards, 8 catches, 0 TD

TEAM STATISTICS TOTAL AND SCORING OFFENSE LSU: 82 points, 41 points per game Idaho: 16 points, 8 points per game

Rushing offense LSU: 558 yards, 279 yards per game, 7 TD Idaho: 79 yards, 39.5 yards per game, 0 TD

Passing offense LSU: 387 yards, 193.5 yards per game, 2 TD, 1 INT Idaho: 521 yards, 260.5 yards per game, 1 TD, 2 INT TOTAL AND SCORING DEFENSE LSU: 17 points, 8.5 points per game Idaho: 41 points, 20.5 points per game

Rushing defense LSU: 102 yards, 51 yards per game, 0 TD Idaho: 252 yards, 126 yards per game, 3 TD

Passing defense LSU: 300 yards, 150 yards per game, 2 TD, 2 INT Idaho: 543 yards, 271.5 yards per game, 2 TD, 2 INT LUKE JOHNSON / The Daily Reveille

LSU linebacker Kevin Minter (46) tackles Washington tailback Bishop Sankey (25) on Saturday during the Tigers’ 41-3 win against the Huskies in Tiger Stadium.

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Tigers preach appropriate lessons to athletes COOL HAND LUKE LUKE JOHNSON Sports Editor The message is simple for LSU athletes: If you mess up, you will face the consequences.

For that, kudos to LSU coach Les Miles and the LSU Athletic Department.

The Tigers were dealt a blow earlier this week when they found out presumed starting linebacker Tahj Jones would miss the rest of the season along with three others.

Miles wouldn’t comment on the details of the loss, even amid reports from the Times-Picayune that Jones, linebacker D.J. Welter, offensive lineman Evan Washington and tight end Tyler Edwards were academically ineligible.

If that is the case, the LSU football program is proving to have its priorities, and more importantly, the priorities of its student-athletes in order.

While it doesn’t hurt that the Tigers are sickeningly deep at nearly every position on their roster, they certainly did not welcome the news with open arms.

Jones was expected to be an impact player the an LSU defense in 2012 after recording 27 tackles, a sack, a fumble recovery and an interception in mostly reserve minutes last season.

With only four returning linebackers with game experience, Jones could have been a lynchpin to LSU’s success this year.

But LSU is taking the proper steps toward sending its athletes, LESSONS, see page 7

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Former LSU sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu before the Tigers’ 9-6 victory against Alabama on Nov. 5, 2011, at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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SOCCER

Friday, September 14, 2012

Tigers host new conference rival No. 10 Texas A&M Chris Abshire Sports Writer

Welcome to SEC futbol, Texas A&M. The No. 10 Aggies (6-1) have been an integral part of LSU’s recent history, and now, they’ll be among the Tigers’ competition for conference titles, starting tonight when the two meet for their league opener in the LSU Soccer Stadium.

“They give us a very natural rival,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “When I first got here eight years ago, we honestly didn’t deserve to play them because we weren’t on their level. I modeled our program after them — used A&M as a template on how to win in this part of the country. We’re on a similar playing field with them.”

But A&M has been a nightmare opponent for LSU, even as the Tigers (4-1-2) have ascended to an elite status in southern soccer by winning four of the last five SEC West titles.

The Aggies knocked LSU out of the NCAA Tournament in two of the past three seasons, winning a

2009 second-round match on penalty five goals through seven matches. kicks in Baton Rouge and clobbering Kinneman was the starting keeper the Tigers, 4-0, in College Station in against A&M in November, her first November. start in more than two months, when Lee said there’s no revenge fac- she allowed three goals. tor for his team, but sophomore de“We’re familiar with what Texfender Jodi Calloway said the 4-0 as A&M brings,” Kinneman said. drubbing is still on her “It’s about keeping our mind. defense together and Next up for “Of course any not losing concentrathe Tigers: time a team beats you, tion for 90 minutes. there’s a little extra fire Who: LSU (4-1-2) vs.

We’re not expecting it the next time around,” No. 10 Texas A&M (6-1) to be easy.” she said. “All of us A dynamic LSU from last year, we still When: 7 p.m. tonight freshmen class, which remember they ended Where: LSU Soccer Stadium has accounted for five our season.”

Listen at home: 91.1 KLSU of the team’s nine Calloway and the goals, will try to rerest of the LSU backverse the Tigers’ recent line will be at the heart of the action woes against the Aggies. tonight, as the Aggies boast a potent Rookie midfielders Heather offensive unit.

Magee and Fernanda Piña have each Sophomore strikers Annie Kunz accounted for five points, while and Kelley Monogue have scored freshman Colby Maffei scored her four goals apiece for Texas A&M, first career goal against Memphis. with midfielder Shea Groom adding Eight of the 11 Tigers who a team-high four assists. have recorded points this season That firepower will challenge are underclassmen, and that youth LSU junior goalkeeper Megan movement has spurred a four-game Kinneman, who has only yielded unbeaten streak.

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LSU freshman midfielder Victoria Sample battles for the ball with Memphis senior defender Averi Hallman on Monday during the Tigers’ 2-1 win against Memphis.

But Texas A&M is the first ranked opponent LSU will face this season and, according to Lee, perhaps the best one.

“The road to a conference championship will go through them,” he said. “That starts tonight. It’s not the

NCAA Tournament anymore, it’s the SEC now.”

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CROSS COUNTRY

Men, women open seasons at Commodore Classic James Moran Sports Contributor

The LSU cross country team will begin its season at Vanderbilt’s Commodore Classic on Saturday while eyeing the Southeastern Conference meet in October, which will also be held at Vanderbilt.

LSU coach Mark Elliott said no one on his team has ever run the Vanderbilt course, which is why they decided to open the season there.

“Our ultimate goal for the season is to run well at the conference meet,” Elliott said. “That is why a big part of this weekend is getting to know the course and figuring out what we need to work on to have success there.”

On the men’s side, senior Roger Cooke is the Tiger’s top returning

runner from last season. Cooke is the lone senior on an inexperienced men’s squad that will send one junior, five sophomores and three freshmen to this weekend’s meet.

“I kind of feel like an elder to these guys, somebody they can look up to,” Cooke said. “I just want to be the best role model possible.”

Cooke finished No. 83 at last season’s NCAA regional meet. His top performances from 2011 were tenth place finishes at the Bulldog Invitational and the LSU invitational.

Elliott said the team needs Cooke to step into a leadership role this season. He said Cooke has done a good job so far this fall.

“The juniors and seniors always play a role in helping prepare the freshmen and sophomore[s] for what is to come,” Elliott said. “So far

Roger has played that role very well and hopefully he leads by example with his performance this weekend.”

On the women’s side, the team is led into the opening weekend by senior Laura Carleton. She was the team’s most successful runner in the 2010 season before redshirting in 2011 to focus on running indoor and outdoor track.

In 2010, Carleton paced the Lady Tigers in five out of six meets and posted three top-10 finishes for the season.

“I am really excited about this season,” Carleton said. “This is my senior season and fifth year on the team, and I think after sitting out last season, I think I have a deeper appreciation for it.”

The Lady Tigers go into this weekend with a much more

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experienced team than the men.

Aside from Carleton, the women’s lineup includes two other seniors, two juniors, two sophomores and one freshman.

“We have a pretty solid tenured group of girls this season, and

I think everybody is going in running better than they have before,” Carleton said.

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LSU ready for SEC play after tough preseason slate Leak coming into own as matches loom Alex Cassara Sports Writer

The LSU volleyball team is eagerly anticipating this weekend’s Southeastern Conference openers, when it will travel to Alabama and South Carolina after a daunting but preparatory nonconference schedule.

“We’re ready to get into conference play,” said senior defensive specialist Sam Delahoussaye.

“We had a really tough preseason

LINEBACKERS, from page 5

Even without Jones’ experience in the huddle, the linebackers racked up 44 tackles in the first two games, spearheaded by Minter in the middle.

It’s been more than just the tackles for Minter, who has assumed the role of defensive leader from his middle linebacker position.

It’s something the Suwanee, Ga., native got a taste of at the tail end of last season.

“Towards the end of [last] season, everyone had confidence in me,

LESSONS, from page 5

particularly those on the football team, into the world with the appropriate perspective.

Ask former LSU defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, who appears genuinely humbled after his dismissal from the team in August.

Again, to protect his players’ privacy, Miles didn’t confirm the reasons behind Mathieu’s ouster.

But Mathieu is back on campus after spending time in a drug

schedule and we’re just ready to play the teams we normally play.”

The Tigers exit non-conference with a middling 4-5 record, while the Crimson Tide and the Gamecocks have a combined 221 record. However, a look at the teams’ previous opponents may explain the disparity in wins.

Four of LSU’s five losses came against ranked teams — the fifth doled out last weekend by North Carolina, who’s also garnered votes in the poll. While the Gamecocks dropped three exhibition sets to the Slovenian National Team, both South Carolina and Alabama didn’t play a single ranked opponent between them.

LSU coach Fran Flory knew she was “biting off a little bit too much” for her team when she scheduled, but she still hoped for a 5-4 record to be “super comfortable.”

“I wanted to play people that were bigger and more physical and better in preconference, so when we got up against [similar SEC teams] we didn’t see that for the first time in the season,” Flory said. “I don’t know that it’ll work, but that’s why I chose that pathway. The other people chose to get wins.”

She said her team turned a corner in its 2-1 effort at last weekend’s Carolina Classic

tournament, where LSU had a season-best .311 hitting percentage in its final match. The team was not as ready as she thought after the summer, and the nonconference slate allowed her players to better understand their roles, she said.

Flory also said she’s learned how to properly play her freshman contributors Khourtni Fears and Cati Leak. She said she put too much pressure on Leak early in the season, but Leak found a balance in North Carolina, where she recorded 20 kills, 24 digs and five blocks at the Carolina Classic.

“Being with new players,

you’ve just got to learn to adapt to their styles and their different place [on the court],” Leak said.

“Maintaining consistent balance is what I’ve learned I have to do.”

Flory will see if her preconference gauntlet pans out when her Tigers travel to Alabama on Friday night and to South Carolina on Sunday afternoon.

“I think we’re going to win a whole lot more than we lose this year in the SEC,” Flory said. “I’ll be very surprised if we don’t.”

and I had confidence in myself to lead this team,” Minter said. “I’m playing a lot faster, and we’re gelling like never before.”

Both he and Barrow lauded the newest crop of freshmen linebackers as hungry to step outside the shadows of “DBU.” And for those who may feel left out of the limelight, Minter has a simple message.

“There’s a reason why we recruited you,” Minter said. “You’re a playmaker, and there’s a reason why we got you on the field with us.”

Barrow pointed to an early season 7-on-7 drill when he picked up on freshman linebacker Deion Jones’ desire to play with the big boys.

“We’ve just really put our minds together and stuck hard in the film room, practiced hard and really just built a strong bond,” Barrow said.

That camaraderie between young and old has paid dividends, as illustrated in the Tigers’ opening weekend rout of North Texas.

After Barrow ended a play shaken up, Jones steadily held down the position, bursting through for a

crowd-pleasing open field tackle on his first snap off the bench.

Now with the experienced Jones ineligible for the entire season, the rapport among the linebackers, old and new, will be more invaluable than ever as the Tigers progress to SEC play.

But as for now, LSU coach Les Miles has no issues with the middle of his defense.

“I think they’ve played extremely well,” Miles said. “I think Lamin is playing his best year of football.”

And young or old, with or

without the likes of Francois and Baker, Barrow still thinks his group can compete with the best.

“I feel like this is one of the best groups I’ve been around,” Barrow said. “The best in the SEC and the best in the country.

rehabilitation center. He’s watching the team win from the stands rather than the playing field. His tuition is coming from his pockets rather than an athletic scholarship.

“We have a standard that our players are held to and when that standard is not met, there are consequences,” Miles said after Mathieu’s dismissal.

Those are some pretty hefty consequences for someone who just 10 months ago was a finalist for college football’s most

prestigious award.

Look at last season, when the Tigers rallied in the face of adversity when senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson was indefinitely suspended for his possible involvement in a brawl at Shady’s Bar. When the news broke, Miles conveyed his disappointment in a brief opening statement before turning the floor to his team’s leaders to address the media and publicly apologize for the

team’s behavior.

The lessons are applicable for both the stars and the reserves on the roster.

Those select few destined for NFL will face even more scrutiny.

Those who will instead use their degrees for a job off the field will already know that things aren’t always so easy.

Now is the time to learn those lessons.

They may carry the added weight of expectation and minor

celebrity, but don’t forget that these players are kids.

LSU isn’t forgetting, but it isn’t coddling its players because of their status, either.

Nobody is guaranteed anything — the Tigers have made that clear — and that’s the appropriate message to send.

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

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Turmoil in Libya Chaos surrounding U.S. ambassador’s death is a victory for extremists of every stripe BLUE-EYED DEVIL NICHOLAS PIERCE Columnist U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was an American — and Libyan — hero.

Stevens arrived on the shores of Benghazi at the height of the Libyan people’s revolt against Moamar Gadaffi.

He brought with him a lifetime of service in North Africa, a love of the region and a fluency in Arabic.

He slipped into the city when the fighting was at its worst and aided anti-Gadaffi forces.

Stevens was the face of American-Libyan reconciliation.

Late Tuesday evening, he was killed as Libyan security forces and United States marines were overwhelmed by a wellarmed and frenetic mob of angry militants.

In the weeks leading up to Sept. 11, 2012, the U.S. State Department and various American intelligence apparatuses reported no increase in extremist activity, no building threat.

What brought about the unexpected siege of the Benghazi consulate? What provoked Ambassador Steven’s murderers?

On Sept. 5, Morris Sadek, a Coptic Christian and Egyptian expatriate living in America, began circulating the trailer for a low budget indie film around the blogosphere and on YouTube.

Sadek, a far right wing antiMuslim activist, had his Egyptian citizenship revoked after inciting religious strife, calling for the deaths of Muslim Egyptians and declaring himself the Prime Minister of a new Christian Egypt, which existed only in his imagination.

The film he was pushing is titled “The Innocence of Muslims,” and was showcased by his friend and associate, Florida pastor Terry Jones – yes, the same Terry Jones that held a national “Burn the Quran day” two years ago in Gainesville.

The 14-minute section released to the public opens with

the Prophet Muhammad being duped into giving his wife oral sex and goes on to depict the Prophet as a rambling maniac who molests children and consorts with barnyard animals.

With Jones’s endorsement, Sadek leaked the film clip in a mass email sent to hundreds of prominent Arab journalists before going on a virtual tour de force of rabble rousing and mob incitement.

And on Sept. 9, an Arabicdubbed version of the clip hit Egyptian airwaves — that’s when the Arab spin doctors, the Egyptian and Libyan equivalents of our own Fox News and Glenn Beck, went to work.

Sadek must have clapped his hands with glee when Sheikh Khaled Abdalla, an Egyptian television personality and mouth piece for radical Islam, picked up the clip and sent Muslim outrage into the stratosphere.

It was falsely reported in North Africa and throughout the Middle East that this film, which was directed by mysterious Israeli-American Sam Bascile, would open in theaters across the U.S. on the 11th.

Needless to say, in a culture that has refused to even paint a portrait of the Prophet for over fourteen centuries, this did not go over well. People took to the streets.

Sam Bascile told the Wall Street Journal he made the film because “Islam is a cancer,” and his film was meant to be a rhetorical and political weapon designed solely to galvanize Muslims.

The Associated Press also interviewed Steve Klein, a California Evangelical activist and technical director on the film, about the violence that had taken place.

“We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen,” he said.

So, on Sept. 11, the dominoes were perfectly aligned.

Ibrahim Matri, a petroleum engineering junior here at the University, and son of a Libyan diplomat and close friend of Christopher Stevens, just returned from a recent trip to Libya.

He paints a vivid picture of

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A Libyan man holds a placard in English on Wednesday during a demonstration against the attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador Chris Stevens and the three other Americans died in an attack by armed protesters angry over a film by a California filmmaker that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

the circumstances that allowed for the assassination of a United States ambassador.

“The area east of Benghazi is a hotbed for militant activity.”

Matri said, “The government is a shadow, at best. It’s nonexistent at worst.”

He believes the film had little to do with the actual attack on the American Embassy, but it did provide for an environment in which the already strained Benghazi police were scattered and pushed to the breaking point even before the assault was launched.

“These militants, these thugs, they are criminals. They are like the mafia,” Matri said as he detailed the state of militancy in post-Gadaffi Libya. “Fighters from the Ansar al Sharia (a group linked to Al-Qaeda), they run the countryside. They’re too well armed; the security forces don’t stand a chance against them.”

All they needed was an

excuse and the perfect set of circumstances, said Matri. Sadek, Klein, Bascile and all those determined to yell fire in a crowded theater gave that to them.

So, under the cover of a mass demonstration, the militants surrounded Benghazi’s consulate in a noose – and after a fire fight that went on for hours, they watched as security forces broke and ran.

For the first time in almost forty years, an American ambassador lay dead on the dirt he had sworn a heavy oath to cultivate – and extremists of every stripe reveled in the terror they had wrought.

When asked if he had any regrets about the film they made and leaked to the Arab media, Steve Klein, the producer from California, said no.

“The blood’s on their hands – not mine,” he told the Washington Post.

And he’s right: the blood

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isn’t on his hands. The objective was to put blood on someone else’s.

They provided something that was much in demand amongst militant Islamist — an excuse to justify killing innocent people — and their only price was publicity and headlines for their hate-filled cause.

Klein, Bacsile and friends have made men like Ambassador Stevens obsolete, they accomplished what numerous religious thinkers and humanitarians have been endeavoring to do for centuries.

They’ve brought Christians and Muslims together.

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

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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”

George Orwell English novelist and journalist June 25, 1903 — Jan. 21, 1950

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Trading Barbs

TOP 10 SHOCKS FOR IDAHO WHEN IT HITS LSU’S CAMPUS 10. Most tailgates are bigger than their homes.

9. Discovering the biggest stadium they’ve ever seen is just the Greek Theater.

8. The reason it’s called Death Valley.

7. The scoreboard is not broken.

6. Underage drinking is encouraged.

5. Tiger Stadium holds eight times UI’s enrollment.

4. The air is so humid you breathe your daily supply of water.

3. The fact that only half the radios are playing country music.

2. LSU’s mascot is quite capable of eating them.

1. The contents of gumbo. · From the pens of LSU’s MC3002 feature/column writing class

TOP 10 THINGS LSU FANS DON’T KNOW ABOUT IDAHO 10. Parents in the Northwest come up with names far cleverer than Barkevious, Jerqwinick and Ego. 9. We’re just happy we’re going to Baton Rouge and not Ruston...

8. Our All-American punter averaged two more yardsper-punt than yours did last season.

7. We’ve never had a Heisman finalist. We’ve also never had a Heisman finalist been dismissed from the program.

6. You don’t need a translator to understand Idahoans when they speak.

5. Continued from 6… Did I see Les Miles on Swamp People last week?

4. In the Pacific Northwest, we use relative dating to determine the age of geological formations. In the South, it has a completely different meaning.

3. We actually are jealous you get to eat gumbo and crawfish, no sarcasm there.

2. Pet alligators aren’t allowed in our dorms.

1. The WAC is dissolving, any room for us in the SEC? · From the University of Idaho’s student newspaper, The Argonaut

People should be better protected from surveillance MANUFACTURING DISCONTENT DAVID SCHEUERMANN Columnist The clocks have struck 13.

Governments around the world are implementing surveillance programs designed to keep tabs on their populace in the name of combating crime and terrorism.

The European Union has the INDECT project, a software research project designed to monitor closed circuit videos for “threat detection” and take action.

In the United States, a program known as TrapWire has made waves across social media.

Like INDECT, it is a closed circuit surveillance system that attempts to identify threats based on facial recognition and even the way someone walks.

While there are currently no plans to make these projects nationwide, it is likely that, without

the proper protections, such programs will be implemented in a vast scope as the technology and time progresses.

These are the first steps in the creation of a surveillance state that would make George Orwell’s jaw drop. They are the beginnings of technological systems in which guilt is presupposed over innocence, and all citizens are subject to the watchful eyes of their government.

And that’s only your outside behavior.

Your private communications, your digital profiles, may be sitting in a National Security Agency (NSA) data storage facility somewhere, according to a NSA whistleblower.

William Binney, a former NSA “crypto-mathematician” with 32 years of experience, has come out in the last year detailing the NSA’s domestic spying programs. Binney has estimated that 15 to 20 trillion “transactions” have been collected by the NSA, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation

(EFF), and he has publicly stated that he believes the agency has copies of “most” emails in the United States.

“Right now, the government is collecting a digital dossier on Americans,” said Rebecca Jeschke, media relations director and digital rights analyst at the EFF. “Who knows when and how that information might be used?”

When Senators Ron Wyden, D – Ore., and Mark Udall, D – Colo., asked the NSA for an estimate of how many Americans have been spied on, Charles McCullough, inspector general of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, wrote back in a letter that revealing such information “would itself violate the privacy of U.S. persons.”

Wrap your head around that.

Now, I can already hear the defense for these programs: If you don’t have anything to hide, then you have nothing to fear.

Yet, I think this attitude fails to take the past actions of our government into account.

COINTELPRO was a series

of covert FBI projects aimed at monitoring and infiltrating domestic political groups involved in activities ranging from the civil rights movement to Vietnam protests.

The Espionage Act of 1917 was initially used to arrest those who spoke out against World War I. Our government has a history of silencing and monitoring dissidents, activists and journalists.

These new surveillance technologies would only serve to add ammunition to their arsenal, regardless of whether the official reason is to stop “terrorists” or “child pornography.”

Our rights to privacy must be protected and updated for today’s digital age.

The first step is to pressure developers into placing privacy protections in their technology from the start.

“We can and should demand privacy protections from hardware and software developers that are clear and easy to

understand,” Jeschke said. “I don’t want a future where if I’m not constantly super-vigilant, then I lose all my privacy.”

But we must also work at reforming our laws.

I don’t see this being discussed on television news, and I definitely don’t expect these practices to be debated during the presidential race.

We need to take steps to ensure that our rights are protected or else we’ll wake up one day and find they are already gone.

When Big Brother comes, it will be because a Brave-NewWorld-type populace was too distracted to stop it.

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

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Friday, September 14, 2012 FOOTBALL, from page 1

If the Tigers are going to stamp their place in the history books on Saturday, they will have to shut down a pass-happy offense for a second straight week.

The Tigers dominated Washington’s pass-heavy attack last week, holding the Huskies to under 200 total offensive yards.

Idaho brings a similar attack to Baton Rouge with the bulk of its offensive production this season coming in the passing game.

The Vandals tallied 521 passing yards in losses to Eastern Michigan and Bowling Green this season, but suffered in the run game.

In its first two games, Idaho struggled to move the ball on the ground, collecting a meager 94 total rushing yards.

LUCASFILM, from page 1

internship in that book, I thought ‘Wow this is what I want to do.’ I went to Career Services and filled out an application but didn’t get the job.”

But Spitale didn’t give up. He applied the following year with the help of his graduate adviser and got the internship.

After the internship, Spitale stayed in touch with Lucasfilm employees, which ultimately led to a job with the company. He worked his way up from a production assistant and now serves as the senior manager for global product development.

“Most of my day is spent on the computer,” he said. “My desk and office is cluttered with things to approve ... but getting to handle all of the Star Wars memorabilia is really the coolest part of the job.”

Spitale said his office “signs off on” every part of a product from packaging to marketing materials to final production.

EA, from page 1

Charles D’Agostino, executive director of the Louisiana Business Technology Center at LSU South, where EA currently resides, said he believes the new facility will only further solidify Louisiana, and specifically Baton Rouge, as an area for high digital media growth.

“Over the years, we’ve had a number of small start-ups come just to be around EA,” D’Agostino said, since EA has created a surplus of trained testers in the area.

He’s currently working on bringing several international media companies to Baton Rouge, from places such as New Zealand, Israel and Canada— which means new jobs and economic growth, D’Agostino said.

Digital media companies come to LSU because of the soft-landing business incubator, but other universities have those, too. What they don’t have, he said, is EA. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based gaming company will move all of its Baton Rouge employees, which include somewhere between 400 and 600 testers and managers rotating between two shifts, to the new facility, said Sandy Goldberg, a spokeswoman for EA’s corporate offices.

The Vandals might want to pick another week to kick-start their running game.

The LSU defense suffocated North Texas’ and Washington’s running attacks, allowing only 102 net rushing yards with a 1.7 yard-per-rush average.

The Tigers’ stable of running backs, on the other hand, has had no such problems moving the football.

The Tigers have racked up 558 rushing yards and currently boast the No. 2 and No. 3 leading rushers in the Southeastern Conference — junior Alfred Blue and sophomore Kenny Hilliard.

The Tigers’ passing attack will look to erase the memory of multiple dropped passes that plagued an otherwise efficient game from quarterback Zach Mettenberger on Saturday.

As an example of his daily routine, he described a holidaythemed Darth Vader statue.

“We had to think about what would Vader be doing in a holiday atmosphere,” Spitale said. “My idea was, ‘What if he is building a death star in the snow?’”

Some Star Wars characters only appear in the films for a few seconds. The crew, therefore, often reinvents the way characters look when creating action figures — although the action figure cannot deviate too much from a character’s original appearance.

Spitale spends most of his time at Lucasfilm’s facility in the Bay Area, but he said he enjoys coming back to Baton Rouge.

“I miss the culture, and I miss the people,” he said. “The South has a nice energy in the fall, especially around football season, that you just don’t get anywhere else.”

Contact Joshua Bergeron at jbergeron@lsureveille.com “Somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of current testers are students,” Goldberg said, adding that since the new location will make it easier for students to get to, the percentage may increase.

The Digital Media Center will connect to the University’s new supercomputer, Mike II, with high bandwidth network connections, so that the CCT can take advantage of its ultra-high processing power.

About the size of a large office, the $2.6 million supercomputer will essentially contain about 7,400 Intel processors linked together on super-packed motherboards, making it about 3,700 times as powerful than an ordinary dual-processing personal computer.

“The challenge is to write a program that can use all of these cores simultaneously, and really get, say, the 3,700 times additional potency out of the machine,” Tohline said.

Cooper, who also serves as the CEO of the LSU System Research & Technology Foundation that facilitated the funding for the project, summed it up concisely.

“It’s going to be cool.”

Contact Ben Wallace at bwallace@lsureveille.com

The Daily Reveille “If we don’t have five drops, we probably add 50 to 70 yards and another touchdown,” said LSU coach Les Miles in his Monday press luncheon. “Simply put, if we want to do some of the things that we want to do, we need to fix that.”

Sophomore wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. said he wants to forget his performance against Washington ever happened.

On Monday, Beckham tweeted, “Sept 8 is a dead day in history.”

“You just have to erase it from your memory,” Beckham said Tuesday. “You can’t keep looking at it. There’s nothing you can do. You can’t go back in time, so you just have to move on.”

The passing game is lagging behind the Tigers’ rushing attack this season, but Miles said this

page 11 week should present opportunities to open up the playbook and throw the ball more.

“We’ d like to have the same balance we had offensively and to throw the ball better,” Miles said.

“A part of that is to not mishandle well-thrown balls.”

While the offense is focused on increasing its passing output, the defense is focused on repeating its dominance in the passing game.

Junior linebacker Kevin Minter said the pass-heavy approach of Washington and Idaho forces the Tigers to run more nickel packages than they are usually accustomed to.

But the Tigers seemed to excel in nickel packages last week, holding Washington to an under 50 percent completion percentage.

Minter said the fact that Idaho

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can force the Tigers out of their defensive comfort zone is what makes them a potentially dangerous team.

But Minter also acknowledged that in a week like this one, with Auburn and the grind of the SEC schedule looming, it is hard not to overlook a winless Idaho team.

“To be honest, you’ll see people not taking it as seriously, but we can’t do that. We have to take it seriously,” Minter said.

“You can’t just take it for granted.

We have to go out and play every week because if we go out and lose to them, our national championship hopes are out the window.”

Contact Spencer Hutchinson at shutchinson@lsureveille.com

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