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Bomb suspect arrested

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LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde [above] speaks to the press Wednesday about the University’s efforts to detain William Bouvay Jr. after he made a bomb threat to LSU’s campus Monday. Bouvay’s house at 8224 Skysail Ave. [left] had a small bag of marijuana [below] on the driveway.

Arrest made within 48 hours of bomb threat

An alarming text message, campus-wide confusion, hours of gridlocked campus roads, bomb squads scouring buildings, questions left unanswered — it wasn’t even 48 hours before the man responsible for a threat that rocked the University was arrested.

William Bouvay Jr., a 42-yearold Baton Rouge resident unaffiliated with the University, was arrested late

Bouvay’s arrest record reveals repeated offenses · by KEVIN THIBODEAUX Special Reports Editor

Tuesday night for reporting the false bomb threat.

The East Baton Rouge Parish 911 Call Center received the threat at 10:32 a.m., with a chilling message on the other end, according to an arrest affidavit.

“Yes, I planted three bombs at LSU’s school campus,” the thenunidentified man said. “My colleagues planted three bombs at LSU

Before 42-year-old Baton Rouge resident William Bouvay Jr. registered on local law enforcement’s radar for calling in Monday’s bomb threat, he had a long rap sheet of run-ins with the law including multiple accounts of domestic abuse, theft, impropBOUVAY er telephone communication, violation of a protective order and attempted second-degree murder.

· by BRIAN SIBILLE News Editor

to go off in two hours if my—” he trailed off. “This is not a joke. I’m gonna go there and—” The call disconnected.

Exactly an hour later, students, faculty and staff received an emergency text message ordering a campus evacuation because a bomb was reported on campus.

ARREST, see page 6

Friends, neighbors of Bouvay say act was out of character · by JOSHUA BERGERON

Bouvay has faced nine serious criminal charges since 2001 and has seen even more cases against him dismissed since.

His arrest records reveal that history repeats itself, at least in terms of Bouvay’s criminal activity. Bouvay’s bomb threat wasn’t the first time he made threats involving the University.

In 2004, an arrest warrant for charges of improper telephone communication was filed against Bouvay on

William Bouvay Jr. was just another neighbor to some residents of Skysail Avenue until Tuesday night.

Deon Sartain, a resident of Skysail Avenue, said Bouvay’s routine is not unusual.

“He was a good guy, nothing out of the ordinary,” Sartain said. “He just came home from work, hung out on his porch and that’s about it.”

But after Baton Rouge Police canvassed the neighborhood Tuesday, searching houses to find the culprit behind the University’s bomb threat, many residents considered whether Bouvay made the call as a joke.

RECORD, see page 6

CHARACTER, see page 6

Staff Writer

“Yes, I planted three bombs at LSU’s school campus. My colleagues planted three bombs at LSU to go off in two hours if my— This is not a joke. I’m gonna go there and—.”

- from William Bouvay Jr.’s arrest affidavit

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Nation & World

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INTERNATIONAL China investigates protest activity around U.S. ambassador’s vehicle BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it was investigating an incident where about 50 protesters surrounded the car of the U.S. ambassador, tried to block him from entering the embassy compound and ripped the car’s flag.

Chinese police cleared roadblocks and some Japanese businesses reopened after days of large, sometimes violent protests in many cities over Japan’s recent purchase of islands also claimed

by Beijing.

Apprehension rises over Harvard claim of ‘Jesus’ Wife’ papyrus ROME (AP) — Is a scrap of papyrus, suggesting that Jesus had a wife, authentic?

Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married.

Experts in the illicit antiquities trade also wondered about the motive of the fragment’s anonymous owner, noting that the document’s value has likely increased amid the publicity of the still-unproven find.

NG HAN GUAN / The Associated Press

Chinese paramilitary police march with their shields outside the entrance to the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, China, on Wednesday.

S. Sudan refugee camps crowded, disease-filled, more could arrive YIDA, South Sudan (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have already swarmed to a refugee camp in South Sudan and community chiefs expect a new wave to soon begin the trek from Sudan’s wartorn Nuba Mountains, setting up what humanitarian workers warn could become a catastrophe.

As many as 15,000 more refugees could stream across the border from Sudan by the end of the year, straining a camp that has been hit by malaria and diarrhea with many people arriving malnourished.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

U.S. seafood catch reaches 17-year high, Massachusetts in the lead

New auto technology training center planned for BR costs $14 million

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. seafood catch reached a 17year high last year, with all fishing regions of the country showing increases in both the volume and value of their harvests.

Commercial fishermen last year caught 10.1 billion pounds of fish and shellfish valued at a record $5.3 billion, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That’s a 23 percent increase in catch by weight and a 17 percent increase in value over 2010.

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday backed nearly $14 million in state construction spending to build a new automobile technology training center at Baton Rouge Community College.

The center will educate students seeking careers in the auto industry, part of a local community effort to bolster skills training in the region.

The governor said he’ll ask the Bond Commission to support the funding through the state’s construction budget, the final step to pay for the project. Jindal’s allies make up a majority of the commission, so the multi-year funding is expected to get approval.

Increased volume of catches in Gulf above some state pre-spill levels

Obama administration creates national monument in Colorado DENVER (AP) — President Barack Obama’s administration will create a national monument at a dramatic rock formation in southwestern Colorado that is sacred to the Southern Ute tribe, officials confirmed Wednesday.

The move to preserve 4,726 acres of high desert at Chimney Rock will be announced Friday.

The Denver Post first reported the decision, which was confirmed by Senator Michael Bennet’s office.

The monument will be the third created by the Obama administration.

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Chefs at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass., set a new Guiness World Record by cooking a 6,656-pound seafood stew at a Labor Day barbeque.

Space shuttle Endeavour makes stop in Houston, citizens disappointed HOUSTON (AP) — Waving American flags and space shuttle toys, hundreds of people lined the streets and crowded the airport Wednesday as they watched space shuttle Endeavour touch down in Houston on its way to be permanently displayed in California.

But for many, the experience was bittersweet, tinged with an aftertaste of having been cheated of something they believe should rightfully have been theirs.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gulf of Mexico fishing boats hauled in far more menhaden last year than in 2010. Catches of some other important species were above pre-spill levels in some Gulf Coast states. But a federal official says it’s too early to rule out long-term effects from the spill.

A national report released Wednesday says the Gulf’s menhaden catch last year was nearly 66 percent above that in 2010.

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RESEARCH

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

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Anticancer activity University panel discusses found in Petri dishes controversial anti-Islam video University research moves toward cure

Ben Wallace Senior Contributing Writer

Before FDA approval, before extensive animal testing and before any idea that medicine could be a cure for cancer, the first victories in the battle against one of America’s deadliest diseases will happen in a Petri dish.

Seven days a week, researchers at NuPotential, a biopharmaceutical company that works out of a second floor lab at the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center on the University’s east side of campus, conduct experiments looking for a cancer cure, as well as remedies for other debilitating diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

“Right now, we have a number of drug candidates that have demonstrated anticancer activity in Petri dishes,” said Ken Eilertsen, NuPotential’s founder and president.

Although Eilertsen acknowledged that a cure wouldn’t be available to humans for at least a decade or so, some drug candidates will begin the animal testing phases within the year, moving to human clinical trials within the next few years.

“Basically, we’re trying to develop novel therapies to treat diseases with unmet needs,” Eilertsen said.

A New Orleans native, Eilertsen founded NuPotential in 2005 when he moved back to Louisiana from Wisconsin to work at the University’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center to study epigenetic and nuclear reprogramming.

The two fields make up the backbone of NuPotential’s

disease research, with the growing field of epigenetics serving as the key to the fight against cancer, while experiments on other diseases like Alzheimer’s use cellular reprogramming.

Essentially, an epigenome is part of a cell’s nucleus that regulates whether specific genes are either “on” or “off” at the simplest level, Eilertsen said.

Many cancers spawn due to mixups in these instructions, such as a gene being turned on when it should be off. And although NuPotential’s drug candidates have yet to flip the switch, Eilertsen said they have shown anticancer activity in isolated culture systems, a good sign that gene power control may happen in the near future.

“His work is really important stuff,” said Arthur Cooper, executive director of LETC. “It’s nice to have that type of work going on in the state.”

NuPotential uses adult stem cells during experiments, which should not be confused with the controversial method of embryonic stem cell research, Eilertsen said.

For example, researchers may take an adult skin cell from a living human and convert it into what’s called an ipso, or induced pluripotent stem cell, that basically serves as a functional equivalent of an embryonic stem cell for research purposes, he said.

“They have very early patents so they’ve been kind of a pioneer in what they’re doing,” Cooper said.

Before his time at LSU, Eilertsen co-founded Infigen, a biotech company recognized for cloning the world’s first bovine from a non-embryonic cell. They named him “Gene.”

Contact Ben Wallace at bwallace@lsureveille.com

Alyson Gaharan Contributing Writer

West Hall was standing room only with a diverse group of students, professors and community members Wednesday evening for a panel discussing the anti-Islam video that sparked violence in the Middle East last week, touching on topics ranging from the video itself to general questions about Islam.

The event was scheduled to last until 8 p.m., but attendees stayed well past 9 p.m. to continue their discussion.

“There are a lot of huge misconceptions,” said University alumnus Ahmed Abdel-Khalek.

Associate professor of history and Rector of Global Connections Residential College Meredith Veldman moderated the panel, which consisted of visiting assistant professor of international studies Darrell Ezell, Muslim community member and National Director of Disaster Response Services for ICNA Relief USA Jane Aslam, assistant political science professor Laura Moyer and Vice President of the University’s Muslim Student Association Nicholas Pierce.

Moyer explained that Americans enjoy their right to freedom of speech, but not all nations have the same freedom.

“Speech can cause people to respond. That’s something we appreciate about our democracy.

It’s also something that can be very frustrating,” Moyer said.

Aslam agreed that after so many offenses, Muslims have a right to be angry. Violence is not an excuse, but it is an explanation.

Veldman said the idea to have the panel came to her during a class lecture last Friday.

She explained that one of her students came up to her after class and asked why people from the

Middle East hated Americans.

“It hit me that there was a conversation that needed to be had here,” Veldman said.

Veldman said this is an interesting question because both sides feel the same way.

Aslam said that, like all major religions in the world, Islam is a peaceful religion.

“We look at the Quran burning, and we say, this is not representative of the U.S. It’s easy for both sides to think that everyone hates everyone else,” Moyer said.

Muslim and American students in attendance agreed that the media does not offer an accurate perspective. Students pointed out that only a small percentage of Muslim populations are protesting.

“Although something might be alien to you, it’s not harmful

to you,” said one Bengladeshi student. “I think that we’re not confident that another culture might be equal to ours.”

Students wanted to know how stop the religious intolerance that led to videos like the one that sparked so much controversy.

“Social media is one way to fight back about that one interpretation that the Western world has it out against the Muslim world,” Moyer said.

Ezell said it takes dialogue to resolve conflict.

Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com

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ENVIRONMENT

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Greening America’s Capitals chooses Baton Rouge Ferris McDaniel Staff Writer

Baton Rouge has been selected as one of five cities to receive assistance for its proposed “Downtown Greenway” through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greening America’s Capitals program.

The downtown greenway is a network of pedestrian and bicycle paths that will link downtown Baton Rouge to LSU, connecting seven BREC parks and the levee bike path along the way.

The EPA’s website states that the purpose of the Greening America’s Capitals program is to “help state capitals develop an implementable vision of distinctive, environmentally friendly neighborhoods that incorporate innovative green building and green infrastructure strategies.”

Designers will visit Baton Rouge in October or November to help lay out the greenway’s design and help the city learn how to effectively use areas under the interstate and improve lighting, architecture and aesthetics around the

greenway, said Davis Rhorer, Downtown Development District executive director.

“What they will do is bring in a team of design professionals and start the process, referred to as schematic design, for the greenway at no cost to us,” Rhorer said.

The design team will also assist the city in developing implementation strategies for the discussed designs, according to the EPA’s website.

Rhorer said that schematic design, which involves looking at

images of how the greenway will work, is the first step in a three-step project like the greenway. The next step, design development, is where the city will take over the project, he said. The remainder of the project will be funded in part by $3 million in grant money already attained by the DDD. Rhorer said the design team being deployed by the EPA is estimated at about a $50,000 to $100,000 value — a considerable chunk of money the city will not have to spend on the project.

The Greening America’s Capitals program is a project of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities between the EPA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The other cities chosen for the grant include Indianapolis, Ind., Des Moines, Iowa, Helena, Mont. and Frankfort, Ky. Contact Ferris McDaniel at fmcdaniel@lsureveille.com

RESEARCH

Professor conducts study on Southern dialects Juliann Allen Contributing Writer

Tucked away in the basement of Hatcher Hall, a University professor studies the identification of communication impairment in a way that questions the norm and focuses on diversity rather than conformity.

Janna Oetting, communication sciences and disorders professor and speech pathologist, is in the midst of researching Southern white and African-American English dialects in children and scoping out a way to accurately separate those who have communication impairments from those who do not.

Oetting said some teachers view dialects in children as inferior, and they send the student to speech class where he or she may be misclassified. On the other hand, Oetting said some children who have language impairments go unidentified with the impairment being mistaken for a dialect.

The assessments to test language impairment come only in

mainstream American English, and there are no tests designed for those with dialects, she said. Therefore, children who do not have this mainstream dialect can be more easily misdiagnosed.

Oetting said 7 percent of kindergartners will have a language impairment, but some of them are overlooked because they communicate effectively.

“They might not learn to read until closer to fourth grade,” she said.

To prevent this from happening, Oetting said she and several graduate students travel to area schools to interact with children for 20 to 30 minutes. She said they use language kits with toys to entice children to speak.

Speech pathologists must remain quiet in order to let the child speak, allowing them to analyze the child’s speech.

“Children don’t like the silence, and that presses them to fill it,” Oetting said.

Oetting said through her research, she is trying to identify language structures with which

speech-impaired children struggle and develop tools to help other pathologists in testing these particular dialects.

Oetting said she will also document the dialects because not many people scientifically study Southern dialects.

Oetting said compared to languages like Hebrew and Italian, all English dialects have more in common than not.

Oetting explained a standard English phrase may be, “He is walking,” while the same phrase in Southern dialect would be something like, “He walking.”

This phrase would be contrastive, or different, among different dialects. Oetting said concepts like “the” or “a” coming before nouns in a sentence would be noncontrastive,

or dialect-neutral.

Tests usually evaluate in noncontrastive ways where structures in both dialects are the same, she said.

The problem lies in not using structures that differ, like verb structures.

“If you go around these structures and you don’t include them, you are not doing a service for the kids,” Oetting said.

Eleanor Canon, speech pathologist at the LSU Laboratory School, said she uses the mainstream English test for students, but would use nonmainstream English tests if the school was more multicultural.

Canon said she does not want to step on anyone’s toes for trying to “fix” a child’s English and always talks to the child’s parents to see if the way the child speaks stems from a dialect spoken at home.

“We’re trying to erase any variations, and I don’t want to do that,” Canon said.

Though there are dialects of power in the world, for example, a mainstream English dialect, Oetting said a child should never want to lose his or her own dialect.

She said Louisianians’ Cajun ancestors were slapped on the hand for speaking French in school, but now people approach the situation from a view of value to be able to speak two dialects.

“You think, [these children] are going to be able to do something that other people cannot do,” she said.

Contact Juliann Allen at jallen@lsureveille.com

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

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Student voters more interested in candidates’ personalities Pew study looks at election buzzwords

What do you think affects the popularity of a presidential candidate the most?

Joshua Bergeron Staff Writer

Opinions of President Barack Obama have changed drastically since he took office.

A Pew Research study profiled the change in opinion. In 2008, voters described Obama as inexperienced and young. Those opinions are drastically different in 2012. The most frequently repeated words in the study were “trying” and “failure.”

Mass Communication Professor Rosanne Scholl said the change isn’t surprising. Scholl attributes the change in perspective to time.

“Four years have passed since Obama took office,” she said. “We now have a lot more information about who he is. Obama came in promising change. It was a pretty massive vision. I think a lot of voters have been disappointed.”

Despite attempts to win voters with their policies, many students are interested in Obama and Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s personalities.

“I don’t really care about either one’s views,” said Trevor Lopez, undeclared freshman. “Most of the things they talk about won’t affect me. I think their personalities are a lot more important.”

Ashley Reed, biology freshman, agreed.

“Policy is great, but sometimes you can’t implement your policy and get things done,” Reed said. “The recession has taken up all of Obama’s term, he really couldn’t do anything.”

She said personality often helps determine what future decisions will look like. If a president’s term is marred by a crisis, knowing what he or she might do is more important than policy views, Reed said.

Scholl described Obama’s image as being active and energetic.

“We have seen several pictures of him vigorously playing basketball,” Scholl said. “Voters often use personality traits like playing basketball as a shortcut to being informed.”

Lewis Evans, marketing sophomore, responded with “really rich” and “not interesting” when asked about Romney.

Presidential candidates often try to market themselves as middle-class Americans. When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he appeared on Saturday Night

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‘Background, you know.

The way they talk to people.’

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‘The media.

How they portray people.

It’s very biased.’

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Live playing the saxophone. Another common example is presidential candidates throwing the first pitch at baseball games.

Romney and his wife appeared on “Live with Kelly and Michael” last week to market his softer side. On the show, Romney admitted he is a fan of Snooki from MTV’s show “Jersey Shore.”

“I’m kind of a Snooki fan,” he said, “Look how tiny she’s gotten.

She’s lost weight. She’s energetic.

Just her spark plug personality is kind of fun.”

President Obama is also beginning to appear on talk shows in order to appeal to the electorate.

He appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Tuesday.

Anthropology freshman Regina Schneider said personality may decide the presidential race among the millennial generation.

“Young people just want to elect someone like us, not some

Cuong Le computer science freshman

Jared Wilson natural resource and ecology management returning student

‘I guess if they were a womanbeater, I wouldn’t vote for them.’

‘Their methods of speech; how they come into an argument.’

‘Standings on public policies and how it pertains to the environment.’

rich person that is out of touch with the world,” Schneider said.

“If they do things that we do, it makes them more appealing.”

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Contact Joshua Bergeron at jbergeron@lsureveille.com

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By Tuesday evening, police had tracked the call to a deactivated phone that could only dial emergency numbers. Officers were able to determine the coordinates of where the call took place, narrowing it down to either 8222 or 8224 Skysail Ave. After searching residents’ phones and once questioning the wrong man, police brought Bouvay, of 8224 Skysail Ave., to the LSU Police Department, where he admitted placing the call. He is now in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Though little light has been shed on Bouvay’s motive for calling in a “prank” bomb threat to the University on Monday, his criminal past and the events leading to his arrest were clearer after a news conference from local, state and federal officials Wednesday afternoon.

Much of the conference was spent lauding the collective effort of LSU Police and police forces around Baton Rouge and the state.

“Apprehension of this individual in such a short period of time is almost unprecedented,” said Baton Rouge Chief of Police Dewayne White.

Praise also flowed from Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins.

Police refused to reveal Bouvay’s motive, citing ongoing investigations that could be compromised by divulging information.

It is not yet known the length of time Bouvay will spend in jail for the false bomb threat, but it’s possible he could face up to 20 years on state

charges alone. Additional charges like terrorism could add 15 years.

Authorities said his bail will likely be set at $1 million.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux mentioned Bouvay could face charges for an unrelated, offcampus incident on Sept. 14, but did not elaborate on the circumstances.

LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said threats are usually called in to university administrators directly, but this situation was unique because the call first went to a 911 center.

In this case, the call center’s ability to gather information and inform the University was quick, and administrators took the time necessary to make the decision to evacuate campus, Lalonde said.

Officials repeatedly recognized what they deemed a successful evacuation that ensued once campus was notified of the bomb threat. They claimed campus was clear and free of traffic an hour and 20 minutes after the emergency text message was sent.

However, students attempting to leave campus faced a halted traffic gridlock as they fled. Many took to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to express anguish with the slow, and at times stagnant, traffic. Some students gave up on leaving campus or walked to their destinations after spending more than an hour in traffic with little to no progress made.

Contact Brian Sibille at news@lsureveille.com

bond was filed on April 20, 2009.

The warrant states that on Nov. 26, June 8 of that year and he was arrest- 2008, Bouvay visited his wife at her ed on July 21. Bouvay was sentenced home and pinned her to a bed, usto 60 days in East Baton Rouge Par- ing his knees to keep her down. The ish Prison, but his jail time was sus- warrant states Bouvay wrapped his pended. Instead, he was sentenced hands around Laphand’s neck and to a six-month probation and had to began strangling her, and Laphand enroll in anger management classes. told Bouvay she couldn’t breathe.

LSU Police Department spokes- The strangling continued for several man Capt. Cory Lalonde said Bou- minutes, according to the warrant.

On Dec. 17, 2008, the court vay was arrested by LSUPD after he harassed an ex-girlfriend who granted Laphand an 18-month proworked at the University at the time. tective order.

On Feb. 20, 2009, Lalonde said one witView the arrest felony charges of doness claimed Bouvay threatened to come to affidavit and other mestic abuse and batcampus and shoot at the court documents tery were filed against time, but LSUPD was at lsureveille.com. Bouvay, and he pleaded guilty to the charges on able to obtain warrants for his arrest before any action was May 16, 2011. He was sentenced to an 18-month supervised probation. taken.

Among the conditions for the In 2003, Bouvay was issued a probation, Bouvay was required to temporary restraining order.

On March 27, 2008, a domestic attend two Alcoholics Anonymous violence case brought to the court meetings per month and remain drug was dismissed after the petitioner, and alcohol free.

Yet another charge was brought then-wife Dayatra Laphand, failed to show up to court. On April 16 of against Bouvay on Oct. 6, 2009, that year, Laphand, who divorced when an arrest warrant was filed for Bouvay on Oct. 6, 2009, filed similar violation of the protective order precharges with the court, but she again viously issued for Laphand. An apfailed to appear before the judge, and pearance bond was filed on Nov. 16 of that year. Misdemeanor charges the case was dismissed.

On Sept. 16, 2008, an affidavit were filed against Bouvay on Jan. of probable cause was filed, charg- 25, 2010, but the case was dismissed ing Bouvay with simple criminal on May 16, 2011. damage to property, simple battery and simple robbery, among other Contact Kevin Thibodeaux at charges. kthibodeaux@lsureveille.com On Nov. 26, 2008, a domestic case against Bouvay was again dismissed because Laphand failed to appear.

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“Will was probably just messing around,” said Demarcus Newman, another neighbor. “I don’t think he is really that smart to make a bomb.

If he really did do it, then he must have not realized how much trouble he could get in.”

The Daily Reveille attempted to contact a number listed for Bouvay’s residence as well as multiple family members, but only his ex-wife Dayatra Laphand replied and acknowledged her relationship with Bouvay.

“I know who he is,” Laphand said. “I don’t talk to him. You can find the history yourself.”

An attempt to speak with the incarcerated Bouvay was denied because he is still in central booking at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, and it will be a week until he can

Thursday, September 20, 2012 have visitors.

Sartain and Newman called themselves close friends of Bouvay.

Both said they were surprised when police made the arrest, but most neighbors said they didn’t see Bouvay enough to make a judgment.

Christopher Lewis, a Southern University student, lives across the street from Bouvay’s residence but said he rarely saw his neighbor.

“I think I saw him once or twice,” Lewis said. “He kind of just stayed to himself.”

After tracing a 911 call’s GPS signal to Skysail Avenue, police walked door-to-door asking to search residents’ phone call logs.

But according to Sartain, police were ambiguous about their intentions.

“They asked me to see my phone because someone called 911, as if someone were in trouble,”

Sartain said. “They didn’t even mention that there was some bomb threat.

I told them, ‘Do your job officer, but I didn’t call you guys.’”

Police arrived between 8 and 9 p.m., according to Sartain. After searching through several residents’ cell phones, police took a resident of 8222 Skysail Ave. in for questioning.

“I knew they had the wrong guy,” Newman said. “That man never did anything wrong.”

Police lit up the neighborhood again shortly before midnight, bringing the resident of 8222 Skysail Ave. home and arresting Bouvay after connecting him to the bomb threat. · Additional reporting by Staff Writers Chris Grillot and Ben Wallace.

Contact Joshua Bergeron at jbergeron@lsureveille.com

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Finding his place

Sam is a breath of fresh air THE CHAMPION SOUND ALEX CASSARA Sports Writer This is the first installment in a series of columns on junior defensive end Sam Montgomery.

Today, an introduction to the man they call “Sonic” and why he’s so interesting.

Samming

in the Colts’ contest with the Jacksonville Jaguars six games later, but that would be the only action he saw for the rest of the season.

The Colts put Nevis on injured reserve Dec. 6. He spent almost all of the season watching his team lose from the sideline, as the Colts didn’t win until Week 15, finishing 2-14.

“It was tough because it’s something you love,” Nevis said of the injury. “God has a plan, so I always stay with a focused mentality

Sam Montgomery is the “Most Interesting Defensive Lineman in the World.”

Well, maybe not.

I can only speak about it up the players I cover.

But he definitely gives the Dos Equis Man a run for his money.

Before I go on, you should know this: the guy is evil. Montgomery told me the last thing he was scared of was the dark — until he embraced it in middle school.

That’s when Montgomery started playing football. And that’s when he channels his inner darkness.

In 22 games at LSU, he’s recorded 22 tackles for loss and 12 sacks. He’s considered a top-five prospect by some draft experts.

“That’s what this sport teaches you to do, not to be fearful, to overcome everything. I have football to thank for that,” Montgomery said.

While Auburn quarterback Kiehl Frazier should be terrified, you shouldn’t.

NEVIS, see page 10

MONTGOMERY, see page 10

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

Then-junior defesnive Drake Nevis recovers a fumble Sept. 26, 2009, from Mississippi State in LSU’s 30-25 victory.

Former Tiger Drake Nevis still adjusting in the NFL Alex Cassara Sports Writer

In the second year of his NFL career, former LSU defensive tackle Drake Nevis is still learning how to be a pro.

“It’s something that you can never master,” Nevis said. “You approach it with a learning mentality every day.”

Nevis was a four-year contributor for the Tigers, but he truly burst on to the scene as an upperclassman, registering 106 tackles, 24 of them for loss, and 10 sacks in his final two

seasons. He forced three fumbles as a senior and was named an All-American by four outlets.

His dominance caught the eye of the Indianapolis Colts, who drafted him in the third round of 2011 NFL Draft with the No. 87 pick.

He looked promising in the early go, racking up 16 tackles through his first four professional football games.

But when he fell on his tailbone in the Colts’ Week 4 match up with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his rookie campaign was halted.

Nevis attempted a return, adding three tackles

VOLLEYBALL

Khourtni Fears makes big impact in freshman season Tyler Nunez Sports Contributor

TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

Freshman middle blocker Khourtni Fears spikes the ball during practice Wednesday.

Keeping true to her surname, LSU freshman middle blocker Khourtni Fears gives opponents a reason to be afraid.

Fears has stormed out of the gate to begin her collegiate career, leading the Tigers and ranking third in the Southeastern Conference with 1.21 blocks per set.

This comes as no surprise to LSU coach Fran Flory, who said her natural blocking ability became evident early in her career at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas.

“She’s going to be one of those special players,” Flory said. “These athletes don’t come

around all the time and certainly not very often.”

Flory went on to compare Fears to former LSU standout and First-Team All-American Brittnee Cooper.

Cooper was a force at the middle blocker position in her time at LSU, picking up 1.37 blocks per set her senior season in 2009.

“I don’t know that she’ll have the accolades and career that Brittnee Cooper did, but she certainly has the ability to play that high,” Flory said. “Hopefully, she’ll continue to progress as a player and have that type of impact on our program.”

Blocking has been a weak point for LSU since Cooper’s graduation, but due to the recent

play of Fears and junior middle blocker Desiree Elliott, the Tigers are picking up 2.33 blocks per set, up from 2.07 in 2011.

Much of this improvement can be attributed to the addition of assistant coach Sam Ojie.

Players and coaches agree that, since his arrival, blocking has gained a new level of importance in practice. Players are not just learning how to block well, but also how to love blocking.

“When I came here, I was a blocking girl, but I was not in love with blocking and did not block like I do here,” Fears said about Ojie. “He’s taught everything about blocking and how to love it.”

FEARS, see page 9

Fears’ stats for the 2012 season • • • • •

Leads team with 41 total blocks on the season Leads team with 1.21 blocks per set Third in the SEC in blocks per set Fifth on the team with 40 kills on the season Fifth on the team with 1.90 points per set

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SEC Power Rankings: Week 3 MIC’D UP MICAH BEDARD Sports Columnist 1/1 Alabama (3-0) It wouldn’t have made a difference if Arkansas starting quarterback Tyler Wilson would have played last Saturday.

The Tide dominated from the opening kickoff, thrashing the Hogs 52-0 in their own backyard.

Alabama has outscored its first three opponents 128-14 and hasn’t allowed a point in nine quarters.

Enough said.

2/2 LSU (3-0)

After only leading Idaho 21-14 in the second quarter, LSU quickly erased any doubts of an upset, scoring 42 straight points en route to a 63-14 victory.

The only downside was starting running back Alfred Blue leaving the game with a leg injury. He won’t play against Auburn this weekend.

Luckily for the Tigers, they have more than enough firepower in the backfield to go around.

3/3 Georgia (3-0) The Dawgs showed no mercy to Florida Atlantic, racking up a school-record 713 yards in their 56-20 laughter against the Owls.

I’m still waiting for Georgia to be tested. That might not come until Oct. 6 when the Dawgs visit Columbia, S.C. 4/4 South Carolina (3-0) The Gamecocks had little trouble with UAB, shutting out the Blazers in the second half on their way to a 49-6 blowout.

Starting quarterback Connor Shaw reinjured his shoulder in the contest. South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier isn’t worried about Shaw’s health as he plans to start him as the Gamecocks take on Missouri.

5/6 Florida (3-0) I expected Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray to make a statement to a national audience against the Gators last week. Instead, it was Florida signal caller Jeff Driskel who stole the show.

Trailing 20-13, the Gators scored the final 24 points of the game, taking down the Vols 3720 in Rocky Top. For the first time since some guy named Tim Tebow left campus, the Florida offense looks like it can actually put points on the board.

6/8 Mississippi State (3-0) The Bulldogs narrowly escaped Troy, Ala., with a 30-24

win against the Trojans. A close game against a Sun Belt foe probably isn’t what Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen planned.

As long as his team is undefeated he’ll be fine.

7/5 Tennessee (2-1) Well, being ranked in the top-25 was fun while it lasted.

The high-powered Tennessee offense on display the first few weeks of the season vanished in the second half against Florida. I just hope the Vols don’t take it out on Akron when the Zips come to town Saturday.

8/9 Missouri (2-1) Mizzou held off a pesky Arizona State team to gain its second victory of the season, 30-24.

Kudos to Tigers starting quarterback James Franklin, who sat out the game against the Sun Devils after refusing to take a painkilling shot earlier in the week. Franklin is confident he’ll be on the field Saturday as Mizzou travels to face South Carolina.

9/10 Texas A&M (1-1) Aggies freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel is making A&M fans forget all about Ryan Tannehill. He accounted for six total touchdowns in Texas A&M’s 48-3 rout of SMU. 10/11 Auburn (1-2) The Tigers were almost the second team in two weeks to fall to Louisiana-Monroe, topping the Warhawks, 31-28 in overtime.

Earlier in the week an Auburn blog suggested if JordanHare Stadium is “all the way turnt up,” the Tigers have a chance to take down LSU. Good luck.

11/7 Arkansas (1-2) At a news conference earlier this week, Razorbacks coach John L. Smith told media members to smile or he wasn’t going to talk.

I have to applaud Smith for having such a positive attitude after being shut out at home by Alabama. I hope he still has a sense of humor when Arkansas shows him the door after the season.

12/12 Vanderbilt (1-2) Commodore running back Zac Stacy went crazy in Vanderbilt’s drubbing of Presbyterian, 58-0, averaging a ridiculous 21.8 yards per carry.

Vanderbilt needs another Herculean effort from Stacy when it visits “Between The Hedges” this weekend.

13/14 Ole Miss (2-1) All good things must come to an end. In this case, it’s the massive two-game winning streak for Ole Miss.

The Rebel Black Bears should be able to get back on track in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Saturday when they face Tulane.

14/13 Kentucky (1-2) I can understand the Wildcats losing to in-state rival No. 20 Louisville in Week 1.

But losing to Western Kentucky?

Get this Joker out of here.

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FOOTBALL

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All eyes on freshman Tigers struggle with raucous in first tournament crowd at Auburn in recent years Lawrence Barreca Sports Contributor

The LSU men’s golf program is expecting a future impact from its trio of freshmen, but Zach Wright has already come out swinging.

“If I had to choose one of our freshmen [to play right now], I’d choose Zach Wright, and we’ve only seen him in one round of golf thus far,” said LSU coach Chuck Winstead prior to the season. “He qualified for the [United States] Amateur squad this year, and he has the most experience.”

Wright signed with LSU as the No. 1-ranked recruit in Arizona and one of the top 10 recruits in the nation for the Class of 2012.

Golfweek ranked him as the No. 17 recruit in the top 100 of the 2012 class.

Before the season began, Winstead had to make the decision regarding which golfers to send to the opening Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic in Rocky Face, Ga. He made sure to include Wright in the final roster.

When Wright’s name was placed in the rotation for the upcoming tournament, he was expected to play beside the likes of junior Andrew Presley and sophomore Curtis Thompson.

Wright acknowledged looking at both Presley and Thompson as mentors, and Presley was excited to see the freshman in action.

“He’s a good freshman,” Presley said prior to the team’s

FEARS, from page 7

Aside from her blocking ability, Fears also elevates her teammates’ play with her mental toughness and approach to the game.

Coach Flory attributed much of Fears’ success this season to her ability to take criticism and use it as a challenge to become a better player.

For Elliott, there is a noticeable increase in energy every time Fears takes the court.

first tournament. “He got himself into the lineup, and we’re really excited about him and to see how he does. He’s a really good player.”

And there Wright stood, a freshman in a sea of veterans from around the nation at the Carpet Capital Classic.

The pressure of being in his first college tournament might have affected Wright’s play, but he tried to keep his performance in perspective.

“I tried to take it as the same tournament I’ve been playing over the summer,” Wright said. “I just wanted to play like myself. I didn’t want to look at it any differently.”

Wright completed his first career tournament tied for 31st place after shooting an even-par 72, a 2-over 74 and a 4-over 76 in three rounds of play.

He finished better than two of his junior teammates, Presley and Landon Lyons, proving he has what it takes to play with some of the more experienced golfers on the squad.

Though he performed admirably in his first collegiate appearance, Wright believes he can be even better in due time.

“I’ll keep improving,” Wright said. “You can’t really get worse here. Eventually, I’ll be the top guy here like Andrew and Curtis.”

Contact Lawrence Barreca at lbarreca@lsureveille.com “She’s a lot of fun,” Elliott said. “She always brings a positive, feisty, competitive attitude when she steps on the court, and we love it.”

Despite her early success, Fears will be the first to say she has a lot of work to do. She made it clear she is always looking to get better, citing a sharpened connection with setters Malorie Pardo and Jaclynn Gerig as her primary need for improvement.

Fears will look to continue her success this weekend when

LSU has one win at Auburn since ’02 Chandler Rome Sports Writer

Josh Dworaczyk had a problem.

Getting his first action of the game during a goal-line formation against Auburn in 2008, the New Iberia native was in trouble before he even got down in his stance.

“I look around, and I look next to me, and I can’t hear the guy next to me,” Dworaczyk said.

Now a sixth-year senior on the offensive line, Dworaczyk said he’s warned the younger Tigers of the tension they’ll face in Jordan-Hare Stadium as LSU opens Southeastern Conference play Saturday against Auburn.

“Some of the guys were asking me, ‘Is it loud?’” Dworaczyk said. “Yeah guys, it’s loud.”

Traditionally a thorn in LSU’s side, Jordan-Hare Stadium has been more than unkind to the visiting Tigers since 2002, with LSU escaping for one victory in five attempts.

LSU’s most recent visit went according to that script, with eventual Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton shredding the Tiger defense for 217 yards on the ground in a 24-17 victory for the eventual 2010 national champions. the Tigers finally play their first games at home against Kentucky and Missouri.

“The fact that we have home court is amazing,” Fears said. “I can’t wait to show our fans what we’re actually capable of.”

More specifically, what she is capable of.

Contact Tyler Nunez at tnunez@lsureveille.com

Coupled with a controversial “no-call” during a late game loss in the 2006 contest, LSU coach Les Miles has tallied only one win at Jordan-Hare in his seven-year tenure at LSU. Miles called the stadium a “wonderful place to play” but acknowledged his team’s longstanding struggles there.

“I’ve taken some really quality teams there and not done as well as we’ve liked,” Miles said.

“It’s a really live venue.”

Playing in the 2010 contest, senior defensive lineman Bennie Logan noticed Auburn assistant head coach and wide receivers coach Trooper Taylor helping to “rile up” the crowd.

Famous for his over-the-top antics and backwards hat on the sideline, Taylor left an impact on Logan, who said once the crowd is ornery, it’s tough to quiet them.

“Once they get riled up it’s kind of hard to calm them down,” Logan said. “We can’t buy into what the crowd says.”

Junior running back Spencer Ware, whose fourth quarter halfback pass to Reuben Randle tied up the 2010 contest, remembered the Auburn home crowd for getting up close and personal with its visitors.

“It’s a pretty tough environment,” Ware said. “They’re real close to the field.”

Senior wide receiver

Russell Shepard agreed with Ware in saying the crowd is much closer to the action than in other SEC stadiums, causing Shepard to feel some less-than-friendly liquids hit him on the field.

“A lot of spit, maybe some soda,” Shepard said. “You can definitely feel some stuff.”

Regardless of the atmosphere, Ware said LSU is aware its road and conference opener will be “intense” and will warrant Auburn’s best game.

As for the advice he gave to the underclassmen, Ware kept it simple.

“They goin’ hate us when we walk in, they goin’ hate us when we leave,” Ware said.

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

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There’s a duality to Montgomery. By all accounts, he’s kind and welcoming off the gridiron. Quirky, even.

This is a guy who’d rather play RPGs than watch MNF. He boasts a 1.5 KDR playing against what he says is superior Xbox Live competition. He retweets messages professing his love for “Bleach,” an anime on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.

Montgomery has eclectic, extensive tastes in video games: “Mortal Kombat,” “Left 4 Dead,” “Gundam,” “Oblivion.” I mentioned “Final Fantasy VII” and he rattled off the names, albeit fudged, of almost every possible party member.

Cid Highwind is his favorite, in case you were wondering.

But by far, his favorite

NEVIS, from page 7

and stay positive.”

Indianapolis overhauled its organization during the offseason.

Injured Colts legend Peyton Manning was spurned for the Second Coming, Andrew Luck. The Colts have relied on Luck heavily early on, attempting 76 passes in the first two weeks of the season for a 56.6 completion percentage.

“He’s a special player, you’ve just got to give him time,” Nevis said. “... He’s a good pro.”

The Colts also hired Chuck Pagano — who coordinated the vaunted Baltimore Ravens defense in 2011 — as their new head coach, bringing with him a new 3-4 defensive scheme and a different team feel.

“It’s like a family. Everybody’s playing for each other,” Nevis said.

Now that he’s 100 percent healthy, Nevis is establishing himself in the rotation. He’s listed as the second defensive tackle on the Colts’ website and has four tackles so far through two games.

“It’s a process,” Nevis said. “Everybody’s good in the National Football League, so that’s

character in all of Imaginationland is Sonic the Hedgehog. It’s where Montgomery got his nickname “Sonic Sam,” his Twitter handle and background and his sack celebration. The picture of him sitting at his locker, surrounded and covered in Sonic merchandise, is priceless.

Montgomery’s video game fanaticism is well-documented because journalists love writing about him, even if he makes us wait while he inhales his post-practice burrito.

Listening to my recorder, I counted off 34 seconds from the time he was asked a particular question to the time he answered. His smacking was audible.

I’m confident when I say he’s the unanimous favorite interview on the team, and he knows it. When I asked why he thinks that is, Montgomery said he could provide something everybody should expect, a tough challenge every play.”

He said his time at LSU was a blessing, teaching him that nothing comes easy. The competition in the Southeastern Conference prepared him for the next level, he said.

Nevis’s impact is still felt on LSU’s defensive line. Tackle Bennie Logan said he took his cues from Nevis as a young Tiger, learning how to practice, study and credit God. “The mindset he installed, it helped me to learn and be able to be successful in my college career,” Logan said.

Logan said he talked to Nevis prior to LSU’s game against Idaho on Saturday.

“The thing he always tells me, you don’t want to get comfortable where you’re at,” Logan said. “You always want to strive to get better, and that’s what really motivates me to keep working hard.”

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

two reasons: 1. “I never gave a sugar-coated answer.”

2. “If I give an answer, there’s a right way and a wrong way to answer things, [and] I answer with respect and courtesy. And I tell the truth as well.”

Well that makes three, but you know what he means.

Players are coached on how to give the media the blandest answers possible. Unless you’ve bumped shoulders with him at Bogie’s, how many fans actually know what quarterback Zach Mettenberger is like?

Generic quotes make for stock stories. There’s only so many times I want to write, and you want to read, “Tigers not looking past [INSERT +42.5 UNDERDOG HERE]”. But every time you mine Montgomery’s words, you strike gold. His witty,

Thursday, September 20, 2012 intelligent personality is evident in every line.

He’s also an open book. Last September, Montgomery, unprompted, mentioned in passing to one of The Daily Reveille’s former sports writers how his Sonic nickname ties him to his murdered brother.

He made an intimate personal revelation to a sports writer out of the blue, which is unusual. Many of the athletes we cover would rather do any number of things than talk to us. Their lips usually open just enough to spit a cliché.

Not Montgomery. He treats the media like people, even considering them friends. He digs at them like an old pal. “[I just want to] see what everybody’s up to,” Montgomery said. “See if anybody’s lost any hair.”

As a student journalist, I hope I don’t have to worry about that any time soon, but this isn’t about me.

What can be said here is that the way Montgomery handles himself in the media is natural, along with the rest of what he does.

Whether he’s tearing a quarterback’s head off, speeding through the Green Hill Zone, or hamming it up with old, cynical writers, Montgomery is always himself. That’s why he’s truly interesting.

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

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Entertainment

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Battle Grounds Student Recreation Complex hosts Battleship Competition

Austen Krantz Entertainment Writer

Water sputtered high into all directions of the air at the Student Recreation Complex’s pool as Battleship participants skirmished in the game’s heated first round.

This newly added intramural sport pits four teams of four students — two males and two females each — against one another in the SRC indoor pool. Each team is given a boat, buckets and some type of shield.

Their goal? Shovel as much water as possible into competing boats to sink their opponents, explained Matt Boyer, assistant director of leagues and tournaments in University recreation. The last boat floating wins.

Battleship filled its 16-team capacity quickly, and students unfamiliar with the game pressed against the glass window near the pool, eager to see what all of the splashing was about.

“We knew it was going to be a hit when people walking through the building inquired about it,” said Boyer.

BATTLE, see page 15

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Teams participate in Battleship, a new intramural at the Student Recreation Complex, on Sunday in the pool. See more photos at lsureveille.com.

MUSIC

Shirtless high school band serenades drivers on Highland David Jones Entertainment Writer

A cacophony of blues, rock and funk permeates the streets of Highland Road every weekend, but it’s not the signature roar of the Golden Band from Tigerland.

The pulsing sound can be attributed to local band You Know Who, comprised of three occasionally shirtless high school sophomores serenading a crowd of passing cars in front of a garage.

J.P. Rivers, the band’s drummer, said the group started in seventh grade when he met Taylor Gordon, who became the band’s lead singer

and guitarist. Rivers said after the pair stumbled upon a guitar, the two became hooked on playing music.

“We found this acoustic guitar in a trash can in the back of my neighborhood,” Rivers said. “We came over, and I turned some buckets over [to drum] with pencils, and we started playing.”

Three years later, the duo began to expand by adding new members and equipping themselves with “real” instruments. The last member to join was bass guitarist Kellen Cooper.

Cooper, 14, attends Lee High; Gordon, 15, attends McKinley High; and Rivers, 15, attends Baton Rouge

Magnet High School.

Rivers said the trio regularly performs for people stuck in traffic on Fridays and during almost every home game on Saturdays. He said the band rarely plays on weekdays because of school.

Onlookers have taken notice of the three bare-chested band members as each road performance becomes more frequent and consistent, Rivers said. He said the group has gotten positive reactions from passing cars, including constant cheers and honks from enthused drivers. But he said the most bizarre response is when BAND, see page 15

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Taylor Gordon, vocalist and guitarist for You Know Who, performs the original “Uptown Blues” on Highland and Delgado on Wednesday afternoon.

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The Killers/“Battle Born”

MUSIC

Vertigo Records

Prodigal son Brandon Flowers has returned to The Killers for its first album since 2008, and the band’s sound seems to have evolved during the four-year hiatus. Between the heartfelt single “Runaways” and dramatic orchestrations like “A Matter of Time” and “The Rising Tide,” “Battle Born” is a strong, cohesive rock album.

Unlike the band’s previous releases, though, it’s hard to pick out a stunner single on “Battle Born” when so many tracks seem to work best in context. There’s no “Mr. Brightside” or “Somebody Told Me,” not even a “When You Were Young.” The Killers have grown past pop rock glam-jams and fleshed out Dust-Bowl-meets-Bowie vibes with a record of anthemic stadium rock. As an album, “Battle Born” is solid, but The Killers may have to work harder to find a place on top 40 radio this time around.

[B] KACI YODER

Band of Horses/“Mirage Rock”

Columbia Records

Mirage Rock offers the typical loud but pleasant Band of Horses experience with a few unique pieces that nod to related alternative country-rock giants. “Knock Knock” opens the door to the album with heavy distortion and familiarly pleasing melodies, maintaining the balancing tone the Seattle group often presents in its music. But a few distinct pieces stand out with some different approaches. “Dumpster World” begins with a sound that emulates a band like America with soft Americana sounds such as acoustics, an easy-going electric guitar and softly crooned vocals. The song suddenly erupts into explosive distortion to create a special moment in the album and in the band’s catalogue. Similar moments in Mirage Rock make it worth checking out for listeners who enjoy the group’s other works.

[B+]

Grizzly Bear/“Shields”

AUSTEN KRANTZ Warp

After a three-year recording hiatus, the soft-spoken hipsters of Grizzly Bear are back with their fourth studio album, “Shields.” Lead vocalist Ed Droste’s sincere tone and effortless falsetto make his songs sound as though they are overheard pillow talk. It’s no wonder the indie-rock band has cultivated a reputation for ethereal, dream-like tracks.

“Shields” is a solid album and has a more organic, unrefined sound than 2009’s “Veckatimist.” “Sleeping Ute” and “Sun in Your Eyes” stand out among other songs on the album, but it lacks that breakout hit. “Shields” feels more ambitious than the Brooklyn-based band’s previous efforts with more textures and infusions of psychedelic pop. Grizzly Bear fans may rejoice as “Shields” will make the three-year wait for new music feel as though it was just two weeks.

[B+] JOSH NAQUIN

P!nk/”The Truth About Love”

RCA Records

Pop’s badass returns with a vengeance serenading audiences with what she knows best and as the album title suggests, the frustrating, complicated and exhilarating adventure that is love. Like her previous records, this one is filled with both heart-wrenchingly honest ballads and guilty pleasure party tunes. P!nk pens relatable lyrics about the love/hate relationship many have with their significant others and not being able to move on from him or her in “True Love.” Another noteworthy track is “Slut Like You” where the punky crooner performs a tongue-in-cheek piece about thinking like a man when it comes to sexual endeavors. Overall, the album is what fans have come to expect from any P!nk production: poppy love songs with some bite. She’s not redefining genres or stepping out of her comfort zone, but at least she’s consistent.

[B]

GOOD Music/“Cruel Summer”

TAYLOR SCHOEN GOOD Music

As a collaborative album featuring the performers of Kanye West’s GOOD Music label, “Cruel Summer,” ideally, would show off the label’s variety of performers. Indeed, this is the key to any successful crew album. But when Kanye West is the head of a label, it’s safe to say the record won’t be conventional. With West’s solo records, that leads to great music. But on “Cruel Summer,” it doesn’t work as well. In the album, West relentlessly refuses to be upstaged by label-mates like Big Sean and Pusha T. “Cruel Summer” has some high moments, like “Clique,” which boasts a stellar hook and one of Jay-Z’s best verses since “The Blueprint 3.” West and Pusha T deliver stunning verses in “New God Flow,” backed by a beautifully simplistic beat. But “Cruel Summer” is ultimately too short on quality music to entertain. Instead, it constantly leaves its listeners wondering about how great it could have been.

JOEY GRONER

[C+]

EDITOR’S PICK: Carly Rae/“Kiss”

Interscope Records

This summer’s pop princess is back on the scene with an album full of sugar-dusted, mildly corrosive ditties. The 26-year-old continues to croon about age-inappropriate romantic situations, but with less sticky-sweet seduction as “Call Me Maybe” or “Good Time,” leaving the remaining tracks to appear unexciting in comparison. “This Kiss,” in particular, grates on listener’s earbuds with ’80s-sounding synths, offering no graspable hook. The album is a fair attempt at recapturing her fans, but her previous level of fame is impossible to sustain and this collection won’t even come close. Jepsen may be able to ride the “Maybe” wave a little longer, but these songs fail to seep into the souls or the subconscious of radio consumers.

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University grad students play Iranian classical music Concert celebrates Iranian composer Josh Naquin Entertainment Writer

The LSU School of Music Recital Hall will be transported to the Middle East tonight with the entrancing rhythms and exotic notes of classical Iranian music.

Navid Mozaffari, engineering graduate student, and Amirhosein Shadkam, physics graduate student, will perform songs on traditional Iranian instruments including the tombak, a drum, and the santour, a stringed trapezoid.

“With all the bad news about nuclear weapons, it’s important for us to present the good aspects of Iran’s culture,” Mozaffari said.

The musicians were both born in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and both students began musical education in their youth.

Shadkam said it is hard to describe Iranian classical music as it varies greatly.

“It can be happy and it can be sad,” Shadkam said. “It’s influenced

by Indian and Mediterranean music, but still has a unique sound.”

The concert will be held in honor of Maestro Faramarz Payvar, a pioneer in Iranian classical music who passed away in 2009. Shadkam said Payvar began transcribing old songs into international music notes about 60 years ago. He said before

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LSU engineering graduate student Navid Mozaffari (left) plays the santour and physics graduate student Amirhosein Shadkam drums on a tombak Tuesday.

Payvar, all music within the genre was memorized.

Shadkam and Mozaffari sit side-by-side as they play their music. Shadkam slaps the stretched deer hide of the tombak resting in his lap while Mozaffari strikes the 72 strings of the santour with a small wooden baton in each hand. Mozaffari said the tombak and santour are traditionally paired together in classical Iranian music.

Each instrument is crafted with wood from walnut trees, Mozaffari said. He said Iranians prize the dark walnut wood because it’s malleable, which helps it to resist warping in humid climates.

The musicians said they are

looking forward to their performance and aren’t worried about a cultural barrier between themselves and the audience.

“Music is a language to connect people all over the world,” Shadkam said.

The concert begins at 7 p.m. in the LSU School of Music Recital Hall. Tickets are $10 for University students and $20 for nonstudents.

Proceeds will go toward the cost of renting the venue as well as the Iranian Student Association at LSU.

Contact Josh Naquin at jnaquin@lsureveille.com

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

ART

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New exhibit displays origins of tattoos, scarification Body modification tools also featured Josh Naquin Entertainment Writer

Beauty may only be skin deep, but for the new occupants of the Student Union, so are religious affiliations and societal status.

The Union Art Gallery’s new exhibit, which opened Saturday, displays the many forms of body modification practiced across the planet. Ancient Marks: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking features enlarged photos from ethnographic photographer Chris Rainier’s world travels.

The black and white photos, many measuring about three feet tall and just as long, depict traditional tattooing and scarification techniques from a diverse group of cultures. Inked and scarred residents of Samoa, Cambodia, Morocco, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Ethiopia, among other nations, are depicted.

Lindsay Elliottsmith, gallery

assistant, said the exhibit reminds her of a time before tattoos were co-opted by the main stream.

“Beliefs surrounding tattoos have changed,” Elliottsmith said.

“Tattoos are no longer worn to display status or religion as they once were.”

Ellen Farrar, painting and drawing junior, said she saw the exhibit photos being hung up and had to come back to review the finished setting. Farrar said she views the human body as another form of canvas for artists to explore.

“Nowadays I feel like tattoos and piercing are looked down upon,” Farrar said. “I like that these photos celebrate their beauty and spirituality.”

David Garver, ITS employee, happened upon the exhibit and noted the portrait of a Japanese Yakuza mob wife as one of his favorite items. Many of the photographs, including the mob wife, depict fullbody tattoos.

A testament to the enduring power of ink rests, with bony fingers curled under palm, on a podium toward the center of the gallery.

The mummified arm of an Incan

woman, dating back to 1,100 C.E., displays a still discernible tattoo pattern on the parchment-like skin of her forearm.

Also on display are contemporary and antique tattooing tools from the personal collection of Lars Krutak, anthropologist and host of the Discovery Channel’s “Tattoo Hunter.” A television set up at the far end of the gallery plays episodes of Krutak’s explorative show on a loop.

Krutak will visit the University on Oct. 4 to orate a lecture entitled “Skin Deep: the History and Art of Indigenous Tattooing.”

Photographs of three New Orleanian tattoo artists’ work hang in color, representing the divide between old monochrome and vibrant contemporary tattooing technique.

The Union Art Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday with shortened hours on Sunday. The exhibit is open to the public and admission is free.

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Ellen Farrar, painting and drawing junior, explores the new exhibit in the Union Art Gallery, “Ancient Marks,” on Wednesday afternoon.

HALLOWEEN

City of the Dead: Necropolis 13 returns Friday Graveyard filled with undead fun Taylor Schoen Entertainment Writer

Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is disturbed when she finds intruders in her graveyard. As an act of vengeance, she summons an otherworldly being, The Baron, who has the power to raise the dead. After a sacrifice is offered, hoards of zombies, vampires and ghouls emerge from their final resting places to terrorize the living.

This spooky tale is what occurs at local haunted house 13th Gate’s outdoor attraction, Necropolis 13, opening Friday.

Necropolis 13 opened its ghastly gates last year to those looking for a unique scare experience.

Dwayne Sanburn, owner of 13th Gate, said the cemetery is 40,000 square feet of undead fun, equipped with more than 400 crypts and underground passages, or catacombs, for thrill-seekers to explore.

The boneyard has another enticing feature — a live performance by fire dancers. The actors take part in the ritual of necromancing with fiery flair. The group performs a dance with batons and fans aflame while eerie voodoo chants and erratic drumming echo through the tombs.

Having an inferno mere inches from her face doesn’t seem to bother local actress Lauren McCallum. McCallum said she has been fire dancing for six years, and this is her second year performing at Necropolis 13.

“One of the reasons that I came back to work again was because of the owner Dwayne, he’s great and keeps the experience fun,” McCallum explained. “We’ve also grown a lot over the years as a fire troop.”

Corey Williams, another member of the troop, also decided to return to play with fire.

“I’ve always loved fire, and Necropolis allowed me to find a place and people who share my interest,” Williams said.

Sanburn ex- plained Necropolis 13 was created to showcase his love for all things Louisiana.

“I wanted to incorporate something that’s from this area — voodoo, the above-ground crypts and zombies are all a part of Louisiana.

So it was just a natural fit,” Sanburn said.

Sanburn said Necropolis 13 also came as a way to offer audiences more variety and to break up waiting time in lines. He said the voodoo fire show is meant to keep audiences entertained while they wait.

Sanburn said he and his team work year-round to make 13th Gate and Necropolis 13 the best of the best.

“It’s a lot of hard work, but I do this because I love it,” Sanburn said with a grin. “Halloween is in my blood. It’s very rewarding to see people laughing and screaming when they come out of the attraction.”

He went on to explain that 13th Gate and other haunted houses are helping to keep Halloween alive.

“You used to be able to go trickor-treat down any block, and it was safe. There were Halloween parties.

Halloween was, like most holidays,

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Necropolis 13 performer and Inferneaux members Katie Gromlovits, left, and Lauren McCallum, right, practice their voodoo fire dance on Monday. Necropolis 13, part of the 13th Gate haunted house in downtown Baton Rouge, is a 40,000-square-foot graveyard.

innocent,” Sanburn reminisced.

“Nowadays with crime and everything, it’s just not the same. Halloween, without the haunted house industry, would have suffered quite a bit.”

Those wanting to keep the spirit of Halloween alive can get started Friday at 6:30 p.m. when 13th Gate and Necropolis 13 begin the season of screams.

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COMEDY

The Daily Reveille talks fashion

Blue Duck hosts monthly show Austen Krantz Entertainment Writer

Try shopping beyond pricey designer labels I cringe when I see poor souls drenched in ostentatious labels from head to toe. What are they thinking? Surely these students know how tacky they look. But perhaps they don’t. Label whoring yourself is not only distasteful, but costly.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against labels.

There are a couple of designers to SHAMIYAH KELLEY Fashion Columnist whom I have somewhat of a brand loyalty. However, it is unnecessary to have every logo of every designer label you’re wearing completely visible. It doesn’t make you look rich. No one is impressed. You don’t look cool.

Labels belong on the clothing tag. There are ways to stop this ongoing epidemic.

Label whores commit two cardinal sins. The first is wearing a hideous piece only because it’s a designer label. I’ve seen girls wearing Lilly Pulitzer dresses that look like my grandmother’s curtains. Just because it’s Lilly doesn’t mean it’s cute.

The second cardinal sin is buying from a designer who consistently churns out low quality garments. This is quite reminiscent of high school days when Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister were all the rage, regardless of the fact that the clothes would literally fall apart after wearing them.

The purpose of labels is an assurance of quality. However, there are some luxury designer brands that are not of high quality and lack longevity. You do not have to shell out tons of money to buy high quality garments and accessories that are chic and on trend. The ability to recognize quality will serve you well in life. It’s a matter of paying attention to the fabric construction, stitching and hardware of the garment or accessory.

Fabric construction is important because it determines how the clothing will lay on the body. All fabrics are not created as equal. Heavier fabrics such as brocade, cashmere and leather hold their shape well and are made to last a lifetime. These fabrics are better for cooler climates because they don’t allow for much air flow. For our humid Louisiana weather, seek out airy chiffons, jersey knits and cotton. These fabrics are somewhat shapeless, but they’re sturdy yet breathable. All of the information about the fabric can be found on

the clothing tag just below the neckline or on the inside seam.

Stitching has to be the single most crucial factor in determining the quality in a garment. Stitching is the equivalent of the central nervous system in the human body, it holds the garment together. A good stitching foundation ensures longevity. Closely examine the seams for loose stitches, puckering or any other flaws. All of these things could lead to the garment falling apart. If possible, seek out hand-stitched pieces as opposed to machine-stitched, because hand-stitching is likely to have less imperfections.

Finally, consider the hardware of the piece. More often than not, hardware will be more important in accessories like handbags.

The hardware refers to anything made of metal on the garment or accessory. That includes zippers, closures and feet on the bottom of a handbag. The actual metal used in the hardware is not as important as the construction of the hardware. Check for any warping, rusting or discoloration.

Additionally, make sure the hardware is firmly affixed to the piece to make sure it will not come loose with extended use.

The next time you’re out shopping, I challenge you to look beyond the label. Seek quality over the name brands. You won’t be disappointed.

Shamiyah Kelley is a 19-year-old mass communication junior from Irmo, South Carolina.

Sounds of music and cheers blast out of venues between campus and downtown, but students are starting to hear more laughter echoing from the doors thanks to Blue Duck Comedy.

Blue Duck, a comedy-oriented production company, hosts its monthly feature show at Chelsea’s Café on Friday. This Friday’s event will feature comedian-writer Joe Faina from Austin, Texas.

The monthly event often draws in big name comedy acts from out of state, which Bryan

Wooldridge, the owner, co-manager and University alumnus, said plays a large role in drawing in more attendees.

“The local talent is awesome, but we want to keep this show as fresh as possible with rising stars from around the nation,” Wooldridge said in an email. “And in doing so, we also make connections that could help our [local] guys get booked elsewhere.”

Blue Duck Comedy began as Salami Vice Productions, but in 2011, Wooldridge said he thought the company needed some rebranding and reorganizing.

Wooldridge, who took the helm of

LSU GAmes with

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on the BIG SCREENS

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Wolfgang Gartner Piece Fulton and Popeska

Cody Canada and The Revivalists

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the company in 2009, explained the new brand was more appealing and easier to promote.

“I had a friend once ask me about Salami Vice, but he unintentionally referred to it as Sausage Pajamas,” he said.

“At that point, I knew I needed an image that would stick in peoples’ minds.”

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Thursday, September 20, 2012 BATTLE, from page 11

After a conference at Oklahoma University last January where the UREC staff heard from other universities about the success of the game, the group decided a Battleship league would be a fun addition to LSU events.

“Mainly since Alabama was doing it, we figured we could do it too,” Boyer joked.

Matches are expected to run every other Sunday in September through November, which Boyer said will fall mostly on home game weekends during football season.

While Sept. 4 marked the cutoff date to sign up, students will have another opportunity to play when

BAND, from page 11

spectators throw money.

“We’ve had like handfuls of change tossed out at us.” Rivers said.

“I mean, it’s pennies and nickels and stuff, but it’s hilarious.”

Rivers said some drivers even stop by and join in on the jam session, including a University student who came over and played jazz.

The trio’s impromptu set list is usually comprised of Jimi Hendrix covers and original songs, but the band always plays one signature tune, Rivers said. “‘Use Me’ by Bill Withers is one of our favorites because our lead singer can really belt out the song,” he said.

Rivers said the band mostly plays original music written by Gordon, but some songs are a product of spontaneous creation during their time performing in front of Rivers’ garage.

Of the 57 songs Rivers has uploaded to his personal iTunes library, only 14 are covers, he said.

Rivers said the band has amassed a following — both on and off the streets of Highland. He said many of his peers have decided to start their own bands in response to You Know Who’s success.

“It’s kind of surprising because in middle school no one really wanted to listen to us because we sucked, but now we finally have a following.” Rivers said.

He said the band often collaborates with other groups in and around the neighborhood.

The garage isn’t the only place the band performs, Rivers said, as

the league starts back up for the duration of Homecoming Week.

Cameron Edwards, a graduate assistant in intramural sports, helped oversee the first matches of the game he largely helped bring to the University on Sunday. He said the game presents a different way to engage the SRC Indoor Pool, while creating a new and unique sport for the UREC. “There wasn’t a whole lot in my mind that we had done with the pool,” Edwards said. “It was more based for free swim, and I said, ‘Why not bring something to the pool that changes things up?’”

In the spring, Edwards oversaw trial runs of the game where Intramural Sports staff members they have graced the stage of Here Today Gone Tomorrow and various local parties, including some of their own.

Rivers said the band aspires to perform at North Gate Tavern, but all of its members are under the required age of 16. When they come of age, Rivers said they will try to land a gig at the venue.

Before the year ends, the band wants to tour across the “sunbelt” or southern Louisiana because they have only played one show out of Baton Rouge, which was at one of the band members’ family gathering.

In the future, Rivers said he plans to fulfill his childhood dream of studying physiology at the University. Gordon wants to major in journalism and Cooper plans to study graphic design.

Hear You Know Who play on 91.1 KLSU at 4:20 and 5:20 p.m.

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The Daily Reveille broke into teams organized by their departments. This allowed the staff to test the rules of the game while grabbing the attention of nearby students.

“We got a lot of attention that night, too,” Edwards said. “A lot of people were just ready to play right then and there. We knew it would be something we could jump on in the fall.”

While the game involves filling up opponents’ boats with water, it still engages participants in a strategic, team-oriented competition.

Col Erlandson, an Intramural Sports supervisor, explained it presents a different challenge with four teams starting in four corners of the pool.

page 15 Edwards said in the staff members’ game, some canoes stayed in their corners for protection, but others raced to the center of the pool on the offensive. While a female member of the team shielded their boat from water, Erlandson and his other teammates emptied water from the boat and threw some at opponents.

“I enjoyed having four [teams] competing against each other,” he said.

Edwards said the game should engage elements from various programs at the complex.

“It’s a strength and conditioning thing because it’s a long game, so you’re bringing in group elements and fitness elements,” he said.

Cali Bollier, a marketing sophomore and leader for one of the teams, The Black Pearl, said the game proved more taxing and strategic than she expected. Teams had to choose from different-sized shields and buckets to throw water while simultaneously propelling and steering their boats.

“It was exhausting, but fun,” she said. “It was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be. You had to judge what buckets were the best to use.”

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‘One hour and 20 minutes’ is a lie, Monday a failure The Daily Reveille Editorial Board One hour and 20 minutes.

That’s the amount of time University administrators and police forces across the state keep uttering when they estimate how long it took everyone to evacuate campus after three bombs allegedly set to detonate around 12:30 p.m. were reported to police.

Ignore the incredible volume of tweets, Facebook statuses and angry students who claim to have been caught in traffic for hours. If our administrators say it took an hour and 20 minutes to evacuate, what’s there to argue?

But the number is wrong, and Monday’s evacuation was a failure that should not be praised.

Some students reported creeping down campus roads after an hour in their cars, only to abandon their vehicles to start walking or give up entirely on leaving campus.

As late as 1:30 p.m., students were tweeting pictures of cars still in line on Highland Road and reflecting on the four hours they had spent in their cars with no luck getting anywhere.

How University officials and police formed such an egregiously incorrect estimate of the time it took for campus to be clear of students and traffic is unknown.

A simple online search shows just how wrong they are.

Even if campus would have been cleared in an hour, lives still would have been lost if William Bouvay Jr.’s threatening phone call had been true.

A poll on The Daily Reveille’s website shows that 56 percent of 265 students who answered said they were not able to leave campus after an hour of waiting.

In Bouvay’s phone call, he said the bombs would have detonated in two hours, and students weren’t told to evacuate until an hour after he cried wolf.

But instead of taking

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responsibility, acknowledging their mistakes and using this as a lesson for the future, University officials seem to be ignoring the utter failure that could have cost tens of thousands lives on Monday. Instead, our leaders are endlessly patting each other’s expensive suit-covered backs.

To some degree, there’s no one to blame for the hellish gridlock. This is the first emergency of its kind the University has seen, and a flawless execution was impossible.

However, our University leaders and police officials will be at fault if they don’t wipe the satisfied grins off their faces and realize that Monday was a frightening experience for students and their families.

We were lucky that day, and while it should be acknowledged that police have done outstanding work to bring the man responsible for this crime to justice in fewer than two days, the madness that unfolded Monday is no cause for celebration.

“We have the opportunity every Saturday night in the fall to continually look at how we evacuate this campus after football games,” said Louisiana State Police Superintendent Michael Edmonson at Wednesday’s news conference. “I think we beat it on that particular day here this week with this call coming in.”

We cannot consider Monday a victory.

If the University cares about the students, faculty and staff of this campus, what some have called “our greatest assets,” our leaders will own up to this fault and start correcting it now, before the possibility of lost lives becomes reality.

Contact The Daily Reveille Editorial Board at editor@lsureveille.com “Questions unanswered after bomb threat,” readers had this to say: “It would be a miracle if someone managed a speedy exit amid the unending lines of cars that tangled across Highland, Nicholson and nearly every other path that exited the University.’

I managed to get off campus in 20 minutes while taking Highland,

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LSU students, faculty and staff remained stuck in traffic for hours as everyone evacuated campus on Monday after a bomb scare.

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turning left on Aster, and heading south on Nicholson.

My secret? I walked.

Actually, I was walking for 15 minutes before realizing there was a bomb threat. I left my department building at about 11:20 to visit the grad fair. I didn’t have an umbrella, rain boats, or a coat, so I relied on a reveille copy to cover my head. This wasn’t working out, so I stopped by the Union to buy an

umbrella. Security stopped me at the door, warned of a bomb threat, and sent me on my way. I joined a mass exodus of students heading north on Highland, many of whom vocally expressed relief after passing the north gate.”

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all go in the same direction using both lanes of surrounding streets immediately following A FOOTBALL GAME, then they certainly should be able to do so AFTER A BOMB THREAT. Right??!!”

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“If the LSU Police, BR City Police and Louisiana State Police can make tens of thousands of cars

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Patience, understanding the antidote for hate BLUE-EYED DEVIL NICHOLAS PIERCE Columnist It has been nine days since America’s consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was put to the torch and nine days since Ambassador Christopher Stevens died at the hands of militant sociopaths.

All across the Muslim world, the demonstrations of anger that have targeted our embassies show no sign of abating.

Around the world, emotions are high, and here at home, the recent bomb threat on campus hasn’t helped put any minds at ease.

In the past nine days, we have learned that Sam Bacile, the progenitor of the hateful film that first struck the match and ignited this whole debacle, is a fraud — and that members of his

crew have been blacklisted as Coptic Christian radicals in Egypt for years.

We have also learned the attack that took the life of Ambassador Stevens was almost certainly the act of a well-armed and organized extremist group.

It was not a crowd of everyday Libyans, so galvanized by this stupid movie they felt murder justifiable and laid siege to our consulate on the 11th.

In fact, it was quite the opposite — a video taken by a bystander and posted to the BBC’s website tells another side of the story.

As our embassy burned, everyday Muslims, horrified by the attack, forced their way through the smoke and flames and carried a still breathing Stevens out of the building’s wreckage.

To the cries of “He lives! God is great, he lives!” the crowd of terrified civilians rushed Stevens

to a Benghazi hospital, where doctors worked to save him for more than an hour.

Most importantly, we have learned our world is not as small as we would like to believe.

Despite the World Wide Web and our 24/7 access to smartphones and Facebook, people can still have widely different perceptions of one another’s values.

There is a real clash of civilizations under way. Americans don’t understand the Muslim world because they’ve been taught American values since they were young, and vice versa.

There is nothing wrong with that, especially when we recognize our differences and use those differences as the building blocks of genuine friendship — which can take an almost uncomfortable level of tolerance.

But decrying Muslim outrage as barbaric and uncivilized is not all that different from a red-faced

Salafi cleric prognosticating on the decadence of the West because American girls like to wear short shorts.

I decry short shorts as bad fashion, not bad religion, but again: Islam is not a monolith.

And America is not a monolith.

There are those among us who do not understand the emotions that motivate the thousands of protestors, but are ready and willing to understand that this travesty does not represent an entire faith or people.

And there are those among us, like the Louisiana Ku Klux Klan — which is holding a recruitment drive in Zachary as you read this — who find the world easier to handle when it’s black and white, albeit mostly white.

At its heart, narrow-minded hate is what allows hardline militant Muslims to dismiss us as nothing but blue-eyed devils.

And narrow-minded hate is also what allows LSU students to take pictures of their Muslim classmates during a bomb scare and post them to Twitter with captions like, “Guess who planted the bomb?”

We’re all guilty of hyper sensitivity — or hyper insensitivity — at times. And just as Muslims must understand that Sam Bacile’s hateful film does not represent the majority of Americans, the hatred employed by radicals represent the Islamic world doesn’t either.

The only solution for this crisis is to not pass judgement and to leave the door open for understanding open.

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

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Louisiana hunter’s supply and demand is a dilemma THE TRADITIONALIST CHRIS ORTTE Columnist The way I look at it, Louisiana’s seasons go in the order of Mardi Gras season, crawfish season, fishing season and duck season, with a hurricane season that likes to linger somewhere between fishing and duck.

And last weekend marked the opening of teal season, a taste to hunters of what’s to come this November.

Even though the weather hasn’t cooled much and the mosquitoes are even thirstier as winter approaches, many sportsmen will take to the early morning marshes and rice fields to bag their first limits of the season.

However, Hurricane Isaac, though only a contribution to the problem, was a bitter reminder of what hunters old and new face besides mosquitoes: erosion.

Coastal erosion has been a long withstanding problem that a great deal of premier hunting clubs encounter. Looking out from Highway 82 over some of the most renowned hunting marshes, skeletons of once fruitful blinds now sit abandoned in open water.

As salt intrudes into the marsh grass, the grass recedes, opening up water and killing off habitats. When the habitat shrinks, so does hunting land, and hunters must recede deeper into a disappearing land where birds become pressured and eventually move out.

David Pfister, a longtime duck hunter of the marshes surrounding Delacroix, La., sheds

light on another factor. Although Hurricane Isaac hit them hard, his particular piece of marsh did not see erosion, but it was the saltwater intrusion that presented his problem. The saltwater has destroyed all freshwater food and seaweed.

Pfister said this causes a problem in keeping the ducks in these marshes.

“Once they figure the lack of food, they’ll move — likely further south or west,” he said.

This can be good news for hunters in southwest Louisiana for the time being, but a longterm struggle for the entirety of waterfowlers down here.

It is certainly no secret we suffer constant coastal erosion, but this is a dog that will never die — so we can’t beat it enough.

It’s a “holy war,” as former Gov. Mike Foster called it.

Some hunters have deliberated that Ducks Unlimited’s encouragement of hunting in areas north of Louisiana has hurt our hunts. But DU has and will continue to be one of the largest backers for the restoration of Louisiana’s wetlands. The organization has conserved 358,443 acres in Louisiana and raised $1,766,175 in 2011 for the cause.

However, with the amount of licensed hunters constantly growing, our coastal erosion presents a simple supply and demand dilemma, with a not-so-simple solution.

A byproduct of this supply and demand dilemma is a problem that hunters call “pressure,” when wild game is being hunted too often or too hard. Nowadays, blinds will compete for the same flight of birds in the area, trying to call louder than the other guy and eventually losing the birds.

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Thirty minutes before the sunrise each morning, shots ring out like a civil war. And each year it becomes more and more a sign that more and more hunters are filling the only available areas.

This fact of the growing waterfowling population leaves me torn. I advocate for hunting. A passion for it is great to develop the young mind and keep the old sane — it could do some good for anybody.

But now the hunt has become such an industry that it tends to become less and less a gentleman’s sport, where it used to be

more about the adventure, nature and the company that comes along, rather than just bagging the limit. Within the younger generations, much of it has become a tool for a social reputation.

Sure, miraculous hip-shots or my buddy Three-Shot McGee missing that spoonbill are memories I won’t soon forget, but the best parts of the hunt come in the still moments: when the birds slow for a spell, and you get to watch that flight teasing the horizon line that can’t decide whether it’s night or day.

Maybe it’s true that south

Louisiana hasn’t yielded in the marsh as it has in the past, and maybe there’s more than just coastal erosion that hurts the hunt.

Whatever the source, there are no easy solutions, only prescriptions that require our awareness and effort.

Chris Ortte is a 21-year-old political science senior from Lafayette.

Contact Chris Ortte at cortte@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_chrisortte

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