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Football news highlights ill-advised priorities THE CHAMPION SOUND ALEX CASSARA Deputy Sports Editor

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Felix Sherman Jr., the owner of Ambrosia Bakery, and 7-year-old Paul Pittman frost and make king cakes Jan. 17 as part of a king cake demonstration at the LSU Museum of Art.

Turns out Manti Te’o’s girlfriend was the one doing the actual burying, considering she never made it into the ground, much less this world.

She managed to bury the news of Chip Kelly leaving Oregon, but college football’s most ingenious offensive mind of the decade wasn’t the only victim, as the sports coverage would have you believe. In fact, this whole week showed just how confused our priorities – i.e. those of the media, the region, our own university system – really are.

A report surfaced early this week stating that public universities participating in Division I athletics spend three to six times more money on sports than PRIORITIES, see page 11

GREEK LIFE

Blog spotlights ‘most attractive’ University sororities, fraternities Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer

“LSU Greeks That Matter,” an anonymously operated blog created to highlight the University’s “most attractive” Greeks, went viral this week as the site flooded with photos and links to the Facebook pages of numerous fraternity and sorority members.

According to the blog’s first post, only Greeks from fall 2012 rush and their pictures are submitted and posted.

But anyone can post photos of someone without permission and

link to their Facebook pages as well. asking readers, “The question re“We will be documenting those mains: which sorority won?” found to be the best lookPetroleum engineerRead a ing as listed here,” the site ing sophomore and Pi Beta writer’s reads.

Phi member MacKenzie One category, titled Caldwell said the blog opinion “Queen Bees,” features might have started with on the women from each sorority good intentions — for nettitled as the top tier of their “LSU Greeks working or to compliment That Matter” Greeks — but she said the pledge class.

As of Thursday, Delta blog, p. 8 site is “asking to hurt peoGamma, Tri Delta, Chi ple’s feelings.”

Omega and Kappa Delta sororities “Even the name is negative,” and Kappa Sigma fraternity have Caldwell said. been featured.

She said it is easier to access to Tri Delta and Kappa Delta both are featured in an interactive vote BLOG, see page 11

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An anonymously operated blog, “LSU Greeks That Matter,” has gone viral. The blog features photos of the “most attractive” LSU sorority and fraternity members.

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INTERNATIONAL New video game based on Syria’s civil war raises controversy over crisis BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A new video game based on Syria’s civil war challenges players to make the hard choices facing the country’s rebels. Is it better to negotiate peace with the regime of President Bashar Assad, for example, or dispatch jihadist fighters to kill pro-government thugs?

The British designer of “Endgame: Syria” says he hopes the game will inform people who might otherwise remain ignorant about the conflict.

Traces of horsemeat identified in beef burgers produced in Ireland DUBLIN (AP) — Food quality officials said Thursday they have identified more horsemeat traces in beef burgers produced in Ireland and pinpointed the problem in an imported ingredient. Ireland’s second-largest manufacturer of supermarket beef patties shut down its production line in response.

The Irish Agriculture Department said nine of 13 burgers analyzed Tuesday tested positive for horse DNA. It said seven ingredients added to the product were tested, and only one tested positive for horse DNA.

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The video game “Endgame: Syria,” based on Syria’s civil war, seeks to illustrate the hard choices facing the country’s rebels.

Hugo Chavez reportedly fights for his life in rumored home of Fidel Castro HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is bent on maintaining a large degree of secrecy about his battle against a cancer somewhere in the pelvic region. Venezuelan government officials have released few details on the cancer since it was first discovered in June 2011, and they’ve been no more forthcoming during his latest stay for a fourth surgery, on Dec. 11.

Chavez is reportedly recovering in the rumored home of Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Federal judge prepares to approve public nudity ban in San Francisco

Ville Platte and ACLU end lawsuit against pedestrians-only curfew

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge appears ready to allow San Francisco’s public nudity ban to go into effect on Feb. 1.

Public nudity activists filed a federal lawsuit seeking to invalidate the new law. They argue the government-ordered cover up violates their First Amendment right to express their political views.

But U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen said Thursday takes more than simply disrobing in public to make a political statement.

Federal money for gun violence studies may prevent future incidents

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The city of Ville Platte and the American Civil Liberties Union have signed an agreement ending the ACLU’s lawsuit against a pedestrians-only curfew.

The city did not admit liability but will pay the ACLU nearly $16,900 in attorneys’ fees and costs and agreed that any future curfew will be the least restrictive needed to meet a “compelling need.”

“The simple fear of crime is not such a compelling need, and Ville Platte residents are now protected against future restrictions based on fear alone,” the ACLU said in a news release Thursday.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Researchers say President Barack Obama’s order to encourage use of federal money to study gun violence may help lead to more knowledge about how to prevent firearm injuries and deaths.

About 30,000 Americans die from gun violence each year, nearly the same number as from car crashes.

One reason is that rules passed in 1996 at the urging of the National Rifle Association barred use of federal money for research that might promote gun control.

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Chuck Newell records a demonstration against a nudity ban outside a federal building Thursday in San Francisco.

Poisoned Chicago lottery winner’s body to be exhumed Friday CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities plan to exhume the body of a Chicago businessman Friday hoping to learn how he ingested a lethal dose of cyanide.

Urooj Khan died in July as he was about to collect $425,000 in lottery winnings. His death was initially ruled a result of natural causes, but a relative pressed further. Toxicology results revealed in November that Khan was poisoned. His death was reclassified a homicide.

An autopsy is expected to be finished by Friday afternoon.

New Orleans braces for record crowds as “Super Gras” approaches NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is bracing for record crowds as the biggest sporting event of the year, the NFL Super Bowl, collides with the Mardi Gras season in what many locals are calling “Super Gras.”

The city’s hotels are more than 90 percent occupied for the weeks before and after the big game, according to Stephen Perry, president of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In the Jan. 17 edition of The Daily Reveille, in the article titled “String Music,” The Daily Reveille incorrectly reported LSU guard Andre Stringer’s 3-point percentage was 48.9 before Wednesday night’s game against South Carolina. His actual percentage before the game was 41.7. We regret the error.

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HEALTH

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Influenza La. Marathon events kick off today outbreak Live music, food, dancing to ensue hits hard this season

Zach Carline Contributing Writer

Flu season is in full swing, and this year it is hitting full force, with cities like Boston and New York City declaring public health emergencies.

University students are just one week back from the holidays, and the Student Health Center has already confirmed 17 cases of the flu.

Despite its widespread reality, several students said they do not feel at risk of catching the flu.

Apparel design junior Brooke Salter was just one student who caught the flu.

“I didn’t realize there was a big epidemic,” Salter said.

Salter said she often has sinus infections, so she didn’t think she had the flu when she started feeling ill.

Chief of Medical Staff at the Student Health Center Nelson Perret said the center is seeing more flu cases this year than normal, and the close proximity of students increases the chance of an epidemic.

“This year we are seeing [the flu] earlier than we did last year,” Perret said.

Medical Director of Lake After Hours Kevin DiBenedetto echoed the same sentiment.

When flu season starts strong, it commonly spreads rapidly during the holiday season, he said.

The Student Health Center attempted to vaccinate as many students as possible before the break.

Associate Director of the Student Health Center Julie Hupperich said the Student Health Center gave a little less than 2,700 flu shots to students before the break. The center is now out of shots, but she said it will be ordering more and that it is not too late to get vaccinated.

Although the vaccines are not guaranteed to prevent the flu, they are effective most of the time.

“The latest from the CDC is 60 to 65 percent effectiveness, but [with the vaccine] the symptoms might be less” Perret said.

Although the flu is more prevalent this year, it is not a stronger variant of the virus, Perret said.

He also said students who are experiencing flu-like symptoms and are normally healthy can usually stay at home and self-medicate with ibuprofen or another drug that can stop a fever, but if symptoms include shortness of breath, dizziness, or chest pain, then students should seek medical assistance.

Students should wait until 24 hours have passed without running a fever before returning to classes and should be without the assistance of medication, Perret said.

Contact Zach Carline at zcarline@lsureveille.com

“You live here to have fun and eat; you live here because it’s a great place to live and you spend a lot of time with friends, family and food.

But if you can interject a run in beJonathan Olivier tween each one of those gatherings, Staff Writer you’re going to live a pretty good, balanced life,” Bourgeois said.

Participants from 47 states and Bourgeois’ rationale helped 12 countries will gather in down- the founders come up with the town Baton Rouge this weekend for marathon’s motto: “Run, eat, dance, the second annual Louisiana Mara- laugh.” thon to experience a vast array of The weekend events are schedlocal food and Louisiana-style live uled in relation to the motto, with entertainment and running. multiple opportunities to do each The Louisiana Marathon kicks activity listed. off a plethora of events today that Today’s events include an expo extend until Sunin the atrium of See a schedule of day, offering visithe Belle of Baton tors and partici- events at lsureveille.com. Rouge, which will pants a chance to run until Saturday unwind and take part in a running and is open to the public. event like no other in the region.

“Fifty vendors, some national “It started out to be that Ba- and some local, will be present at the ton Rouge — or the Gulf Coast — expo,” Sweeney said. doesn’t really have a locally run The expo will feature guest event, or a signature running festi- speakers with personal stories as val,” said marathon Marketing Di- well as advice to aspiring runners. rector Danny Bourgeois.

Starting at 7 p.m. tonight, The MiBourgeois co-founded the chael Foster Project will perform marathon with Race Director Craig downtown at the Hilton Hotel.

Sweeney and Course Director PatSaturday morning, The Advorick Fellows in 2010. cate Cypress 5K will begin at 8 a.m.

The founders strategically and The Advocate Kids Marathon chose Baton Rouge as the location will begin at 9:30 a.m., ending with for the marathon and hosted the in- a Family Fest post-race party at the augural event in 2012.

Louisiana State Museum.

“For runners, it’s a chance to go The Family Fest will begin at somewhere that’s not as high profile, 9 a.m. and include activities such as so they get a chance to feel more in- face painting, an obstacle course and timately involved,” Bourgeois said. local children’s bands.

The trio also recognized a need The Louisiana Marathon and to incorporate Louisiana’s culture the Half-Marathon will take place at and lifestyle into the event.

7 a.m. Sunday, starting at the steps

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SoleSisters running participants, (from front to back) mass communication junior Carley Wahlborg, kinesiology sophomore Caitlyn Babco, elementary education junior Emily Labbe, and accounting junior Molly Longo, jog around the LSU lakes Thursday near the UREC to prepare for the Louisiana Marathon, which starts today.

Read more about the SoleSisters online at lsureveille.com. of the state Capitol.

“It starts right in front the Capitol, then down North Boulevard, City Park, LSU and around the lakes,” Sweeney said. “The half- marathon runners return back downtown. The full marathon runners head out to Tara and Goodwood subdivisions.”

A finish festival, including various food items from local

restaurants and two live bands, will welcome runners as they cross the finish line into AZ Young Park.

The marathon will close the weekend with a race after-party in the Manship Theatre, with special guest Papa Grows Funk.

Contact Jonathan Olivier at jolivier@lsureveille.com

DO YOU HAVE AN OCCURRENCE? Call Sam at the Student Media Office 578-6090, 9AM- 5PM or E-mail: oncampus@lsureveille.com

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CONSTRUCTION

Parking garage to open Saturday Gabrielle Braud Contributing Writer

Heavy rain and flooding around the University hindered the final construction of the new parking garage, causing the opening date to be pushed back once more.

After its scheduled Monday opening was pushed back due to weather conditions, Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation Director Gary Graham said the garage will not be opened until the elevators are inspected, which should be completed this morning.

If the elevators are working, the garage will open Saturday.

Other final touches, like fencing and landscaping, are also being held up by the rain, Graham said.

Facility Services Planning, Design and Construction Director Roger Husser said he anticipates construction to be completed in the next week.

The $22.5 million parking garage, originally set to open during the Spring 2012 semester, has been continuously pushed back each month throughout the year, Graham told The Daily Reveille in November.

Once open, the 750-spot garage will consist of 90 spaces for faculty and staff, 200 spaces for students and 460 spaces of metered parking.

Graham said student parking permits for the garage cost $330, compared to the $165 students pay for resident, Greek and commuter passes.

“That’s a lot to pay for parking equally as close to the overflow lot at the UREC,” said Trevor Johnson, a psychology junior living in East Campus Apartments.

Johnson said he was disappointed when he received an email regarding parking permits because he thought the garage would be open to anyone to park wherever they wanted.

TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

The parking garage behind the LSU Bookstore sits unfinished Aug. 23, 2012. Its opening has been pushed back multiple times but is now scheduled for Saturday.

“I’ve driven around for 20 minutes looking for a spot,” Johnson said. “Maybe if it got to that point again when the garage is open, I would pay for a metered spot, but probably not.”

However, Johnson said he hopes the garage will alleviate some of the parking congestion around ECA. “I’m hoping people buy the new parking passes, and it opens up 100 spots around the area closer to ECA, but I haven’t talked to anyone who bought the spots,” Johnson said.

So far, 65 student parking permits for the garage have been sold.

The passes are currently only available to on-campus residents and law school students, but Graham said permits may be opened up to students wishing to purchase commuter passes based on how permit sales go in the coming weeks.

Graham said he expects the garage to raise $1.2 million in revenue, with most of that money

NATION

Dear Abby’s legacy: Warm, witty advice The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two men had recently bought a house together in the tiny San Francisco neighborhood of Nob Hill, and the neighbors were annoyed. The men were entertaining “a very suspicious mixture of company,” the neighbors wrote into their paper’s advice column, asking, “How can we improve the neighborhood?”

“You could move,” Dear Abby replied.

That zinger was such classic Abby — real name, Pauline Friedman Phillips — that it moved her daughter to burst into laughter Thursday when reminded of it, even though she had just returned

from the funeral of her mother, who died a day earlier at age 94 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

“People weren’t really talking about homosexuality back then,” Jeanne Phillips, who now writes the famous syndicated column, said.

“But you know, there wasn’t a subject my mother wouldn’t take on.”

On the Web, Dear Abby’s admirers noted that behind the humor and wit was a huge heart, and a genuine desire to improve people’s lives.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_news

coming from the visitor parking in order to pay back the bond used to build the garage.

In terms of safety, the garage will be equipped inside and out with a total of 47 security cameras, including cameras in the elevators.

The garage will also have security guards on patrol from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week, Graham said.

LSU Police Department Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said the police department is not going to have anyone directly assigned to patrolling the garage, but said there will be frequent patrols of the area.

“We will concentrate with mountain bike and motorcycle officers because it will be easier for them to maneuver in and out of the garage,” Lalonde said. “Other officers will still patrol the area 24/7, just like we patrol all the other areas of campus.”

Contact Gabrielle Braud at gbraud@lsureveille.com

Check out today’s online-exclusive content at lsureveille.com: “Bound for Books” reviews a “Twilight” rip-off.

Check out a blogger’s pick for a rainy day playlist.

“That Comic Book Guy” breaks down the differences between DC and Marvel.

Read a wrap-up of the week in pop culture.

Listen to a radio broadcast about how jazz is not dead.

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Sports TOO LITTLE, Tigers hungry for

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

TOO LATE first conference win LSU falls at South Carolina, 66-59

Tyler Nunez Sports Writer

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LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb (10) shoots the ball over a Mississippi State defender Sunday during the Lady Tigers’ 62-42 win.

The LSU women’s basketball team was unable to overcome an early deficit as it fell 59-66 to No. 18 South Carolina Thursday night at Carolina Coliseum.

The Lady Tigers (11-7, 2-3 Southeastern Conference) have now seen six of their seven losses occur away from the PMAC and are now 2-6 in road games.

LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said her team performed formidably against the Top-25 Gamecocks (15-3, 3-2 SEC).

“I saw an LSU team that fought,” Caldwell said in a post-game radio interview. “They played together. They tried to do everything that we asked of them.”

Unfortunately for Caldwell, her team’s performance was not enough to pick up the win.

LSU followed a recent trend in its road contests by playing a perpetual game of catch-up, starting when it fell behind 9-19 in the first half.

But the Lady Tigers fired back quickly with a 13-3 run capped off by back-to-back 3-pointers from LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb to tie the game at 22.

LSU fell behind again early in the second half, only to make another comeback and take a 50-48 lead with just more than seven minutes to play in the game.

But the Gamecocks struck back

Chandler Rome Sports Writer

It may be desperation Saturday in Stegeman Coliseum.

Both LSU and Georgia are off to 0-3 starts in the Southeastern Conference, which some call the worst power conference in college basketball.

“Every game we play is a must-win game,” said LSU sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III. “This is a must-win game. We have to go down there and get this one.”

Each team’s road to the bottom of the standings, however, couldn’t be more different.

The Tigers (9-5, 0-3 SEC) have shown moments of brilliance, highlighted by a 16-point comeback in a nationally televised victory against Seton Hall and rallying from 21 points down at now-No. 25-ranked Marquette, only to fall 84-80 in the waning minutes.

A plethora of poor shooting nights and difficulty handling a zone has plagued first year coach Johnny Jones, who’s still in search of his first conference win at his alma mater.

“If we continue to play hard

and keep battling, some great things will happen for us and some games will start falling in our favor,” Jones said. “We just have to stay the course until then.”

On the other hand, the Bulldogs (6-10, 0-3 SEC) have looked lifeless in their 16 games this season, losing contests to Youngstown State and Iona and scoring only 54 points in a win against East Tennessee State, showing why they rank No. 318 in the country in points per game.

Coached by Mark Fox, a protégé of former LSU coach Trent Johnson, Georgia’s offense mirrors LSU’s of last season — a deliberate, half-court style O’Bryant said he remembers.

“We know a lot of their sets,” O’Bryant said. “They ran the same exact offense as Coach [Johnson] last year. We’re going to try to speed them up and get them at our pace.”

The Tigers will need more production out of junior guard Andre Stringer, who was 4-for13 from the field last time against South Carolina, including an 0-for-5 performance from the BASKETBALL, see page 7

GAMECOCKS, see page 7

TRACK AND FIELD

Women defend high ranking Spencer Hutchinson Sports Contributor

The LSU women’s track and field team retained its place as the top-ranked dual-meet team in the nation on Wednesday, and on Saturday the Lady Tigers will face their toughest challenge to that ranking so far this season.

In their first scored event of the season, the Lady Tigers will square off against No. 2 Texas A&M and No. 5 Arkansas on Saturday in the Texas A&M Triangular meet.

“In every regular season meet, we’re just hoping that everyone can get a little bit better than what they did last week,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “I think the unique thing about this week, though, is that it gives our athletes an opportunity to get into a team scoring meet where the team

is a factor.”

LSU competed in the Crimson Tide Indoor Opener last Saturday, but it didn’t field a full squad.

Though the Lady Tigers are going against stiffer competition this weekend, LSU will continue to limit certain runners because it still needs much more training, Shaver said.

“We’re still going to pick and choose what we have our people doing,” Shaver said. “It’s a long season, and while this meet is a great opportunity for us to line up and do some things, we don’t have enough competitions under our belt to go into a meet like this and ask the athletes to do multiple events.”

One of the athletes running multiple events Saturday is senior sprinter Kimberlyn Duncan.

In December, Duncan received

collegiate track and field’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy when she received The Bowerman from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Duncan took first place in the 60-meter sprint last weekend, but she didn’t compete in her best event, the 200-meter sprint. She is the two-time defending indoor and outdoor national champion in the 200-meter and will defend her title Saturday, running the event for the first time this season.

Duncan, who was placed on The Bowerman award’s watch list again for this season, is the early front-runner to become the first repeat winner in The Bowerman’s four-year history.

With the chance to further establish herself as one of the TRACK, see page 7

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LSU sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III (2) dribbles Wednesday during the Tigers’ 73-82 loss to the Gamecocks in the PMAC.

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GYMNASTICS

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Tigers shoot for first Tide victory since ’09 make this a winning effort.”

This will be the first away meet for a strong freshman class that LSU will travel to Tuscaloosa, includes 2012 Canadian Olympic Ala., today to face off against two- team alternate Jessica Savona. time defending national champion “From what I’ve been told, Alabama. away meets are a lot more difficult No, football season hasn’t ar- with crowds, and this is Alabama, rived early, but rather, the No. 5 one of our rivals,” Savona said. “I’m Tiger gymnastics team will take to trying to stay focused on myself and the mats against the the team and doing No. 6 Crimson Tide in well for the team. I’m Next up for hopes of securing its trying not to let all the the Tigers: first victory against the negative stuff get in the conference rival since Who: No. 5 LSU vs. No. 6 way.”

2009.

Savona has comAlabama LSU, fresh off peted in every event its highest score since When: 7:30 p.m. Friday except bars in both March 2010 against Where: Coleman Coliseum, meets this season, with No. 3 Florida, is aver- Tuscaloosa, Ala. Breaux alluding to aging 196.475 points the possibility that the through the first two Watch at home: ESPNU, freshman may move Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m. meets. into the all-around “We expect concompetition in the comsistency,” said LSU coach D-D ing weeks.

Breaux. “We’re expecting the same If Savona were to be addperformances we saw in the first two ed to the bars roster, she would weeks. I think this team has learned become the third all-around competquickly that they’re talented, and I itor for the Tigers, all of which are think they also know they have to underclassmen. rely on each other. There is no one “[The sophomore class] has person on this team that is going to come in and got out there and gave Mike Gegenheimer Sports Contributor

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LSU sophomore all-around Jessie Jordan flips on the beam Jan. 11 during the Tigers’ 196.875-196.575 win against Florida in the PMAC.

us almost a third of our lineup and are really the backbone of the team,” Breaux said. “But we’re seeing a lot of leadership from Kaleigh Dickson and Sarie Morrison, a lot of high impact in the lineup, which is taking some pressure off our freshman class.”

Morrison is coming back from a sophomore season filled with injuries.

She was relegated to just the bars competition after two foot surgeries despite competing in the all around as a freshman.

“I honestly didn’t think I would ever be able to compete in vault

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Alabama scored 196.45 in its season opener against Missouri last Friday, a win that included a score of 49 or better in all four events and won all five individual titles. Junior All-American Kim Jacob posted a 39.275 in the all-around for her first win since her freshman year.

Contact Mike Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com

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Women

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1. Arkansas 2. Florida 3. Texas 4. Texas A&M 5. Oregon 6. Arizona State 7. Indiana 8. Minnesota 9. Arizona 10. LSU 11. Auburn 12. Wisconsin 13. BYU 14. Virginia Tech 15. Stanford 16. Florida State 17. NC State 18. Penn State 19. UCLA 20. Mississippi State 21. Northern Arizona 22. Kansas State 23. Mississippi 24. Oklahoma 25. Pittsburgh

1. Clemson 2. Kansas 3. Oregon 4. LSU 5. Florida 6. Texas A&M 7. Arkansas 8. Iowa State 9. California 10. Washington 11. UCF 12. Arizona 13. Stanford 14. Texas 15. Baylor 16. Wisconsin 17. Georgia 18. Indiana State 19. Michigan 20. San Diego State 21. Nebraska 22. Illinois 23. Michigan State 24. Auburn 25. Illinois State

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greatest runners in LSU history, Duncan said she knows other athletes will be nipping at her heels.

“It’s an honor to be back on the watch list, so I’m excited to see how my season goes,” Duncan said.

Duncan and the Lady Tigers are also out for redemption this season. The Lady Tigers were forced to vacate their 2012 NCAA Outdoor Team Championship after then-senior sprinter Semoy Hackett tested positive for the NCAAbanned stimulant Methylhexaneamine.

Duncan and the other members of the 4x100-meter relay team, of which Hackett was also a member, were required to return their individual event awards.

“We worked hard all season long to get to the end,” Duncan said. “I still say we won. The girls

did a great job. Then, for that to happen, it hurt us, but we know that we still have to come out and do the same thing.”

On Saturday, the men’s team will also face a tough test, opposing a pair of top-10 teams in No. 1 Arkansas and No. 4 Texas A&M. The Tigers picked up two individual event wins at the Crimson Tide Opener from sophomores Aaron Ernest and Quincy Downing in the 200-meters and 400-meters, respectively.

“We have some young athletes who are running extremely well,” Shaver said. “But we have some athletes that this is their second indoor meet of their career, so it’s difficult to judge what we’re expecting for the end of the year with the second meet.”

Contact Spencer Hutchinson at shutchinson@lsureveille.com

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with a 9-0 run, and the Lady Tigers were unable to recover.

LSU committed 18 turnovers to South Carolina’s 10. The Gamecocks were able to come away with 19 points off of these turnovers.

“Our turnovers led to layups for them, and that disrupted us a little bit with our offensive execution,” Caldwell said.

LSU junior forward Theresa Plaisance led LSU in scoring for the 11th time this season with 18 points to go with nine rebounds, an assist and a block.

“We tried to establish Theresa, and I thought she did a great job

BASKETBALL, from page 5

3-point line.

Stringer, who has had his fair share of streaky shooting in his career, acknowledged he had to righten the ship if LSU was to get back on the winning track.

“We’re not playing the way we normally play,” Stringer said. “[Other teams] know the shots we’re used to taking. … We need to get better shots.”

It’s a one-man show for Georgia as former McDonald’s All-American guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope averages 16.8 points and 6.4 rebounds per game — the only Bulldog averaging

page 7 of trying to be that presence in the paint for us again,” Caldwell said.

“She is somebody who we’re going to continue to go to. She played with great composure.”

Senior guard Ieasia Walker led South Carolina with a game-high 24 points and five steals.

Webb and senior guard Bianca Lutley also had big nights for the Lady Tigers, putting up 14 and 16 points, respectively. Webb also contributed with seven defensive rebounds.

LSU is 2-3 in SEC play, putting the Tigers at No. 9 in the conference.

Despite the loss, Caldwell anticipated success in the future.

“This team is playing now at a different level than what we played in the past, and we’re just going to build from this and move forward,” Caldwell said.

LSU will look to bounce back from the defeat and prove Caldwell’s point Sunday when it comes back to the PMAC and hosts Vanderbilt.

Contrary to their play on the road, the Lady Tigers have been tough to beat at home, suffering just one defeat in the PMAC – a 64-66 overtime thriller to Tulane.

Contact Tyler Nunez at tnunez@lsureveille.com

double figures.

Jones warned against paying too much attention to CaldwellPope, as it could cause another Georgia player to have a career night, much like South Carolina’s Michael Carrera did to LSU on Wednesday when he exploded for 23.

“We have to make sure we try to contain him,” Jones said.

“He’s one of the guys they really look to to get them going.”

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Sillybus Week Syllabus week is a big waste of everything BWALLY’S WORLD BEN WALLACE Columnist Assuming students admitted to our University can read, syllabus day (or week) is an insult to our intelligence, a monumental waste of time, and a carbon-footprintincreasing requirement that should push tree-huggers worldwide into a blinding, protest-inducing rage.

Now beginning my eighth semester here, I’ve sat through my share of syllabus days. On one occasion, a professor handed out a five-page printed syllabus, read over it, and then pulled up an uninspiring black-and-white PowerPoint which covered the same things almost word-for-word before letting us out an hour early.

Another time, the professor handed out the syllabus and proceeded to audibly enunciate the words on its pages — an absurdly boring introduction and poor incentive to encourage future attendance. One brave instructor even warned us how mind-numbingly uninteresting the course would be, using the word “boring” at least five times in 50 minutes.

She should receive a promotion.

Is that what our rising tuition pays for?

I drew up a syllabus week survey on Monday and shared it on my Facebook timeline. Of the 21 responses, about half reported their first day of class went something along the lines of this: Show up, find out that nearly everyone in the class goes by a nickname, read a syllabus and get out at least 15 minutes early.

Don’t blame the professors, though.

They’re only adhering to University policy, which requires all instructors to distribute written syllabi in their courses, both graduate and undergraduate. The policy essentially ensures throwing away the first day of class into the growing dumpster of University inefficiencies.

Chemistry instructor John Hogan usually outlines the architecture of his course on the first day and lectures “a little bit.” Although he doesn’t consider syllabus day a waste of time, he does abhor timewasting in general, such as those feeling entitled to give pre-class announcements on, for sake of argument, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’s riveting latest happenings.

Sure, students who consider the first couple weeks a browsing session could argue diving headfirst into relevant material may put them at a disadvantage if they end up switching classes before the University’s designated add course for credit date (Thurs, Jan. 24 at 4:30 p.m.), roughly two weeks from the first day of classes.

But like I said, we can’t blame professors.

“I’m not unreasonable for a student that adds late,” said English instructor Eric Schmitt. “I try not to cover too much too quickly, just to kind of be prudent on that.

But, on the other hand, I don’t feel any responsibility to wait to cover material so that students can shop around.”

Therefore, most of our problems could be solved before the sun ever comes up on that first day of school.

Suggestion numero uno: Alter policy by requiring professors to upload electronic, downloadable syllabi onto Moodle before class begins. It would save money, paper, time, and least importantly, Al Gore’s sanity (once he finds out about it).

Suggestion numero dos: Have students’ Moodle courses updated before the first day of class to make suggestion numero uno possible.

But if this might crash the University’s server, an easy solution would be for teachers to email digital syllabi to their students, who would then be free to print and distribute as many copies as they wish, so far as it’s on their own dime, and not the University’s

ever-tightening payroll (see midyear budget cuts, a lack of faculty pay raises in five years, $100 million reduction in state-appropriated funds since the 2008-09 fiscal budget, etc.).

Finally, suggestion numero tres: Discourage and possibly ban reading aloud the syllabus during class, offering varying numbers of papercuts as punishment for violators. A lone exception will exist for when professors must defend themselves and class policy against unruly students who have failed to read their readily available online copies.

If — as expected — these

Friday, January 18, 2013 suggestions go unnoticed, find yourself a broad magnolia or a stately oak, and ask yourself: Would this look better as my syllabus?

Syllabus day, please go away.

Ben Wallace is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Tyler, Texas.

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‘Greeks that Matter’ blog a childish excuse for attention CROME IS BURNING CHANDLER ROME Sports Writer As the “Greeks that Matter” blog made its way to computers in fraternity houses this week, I imagined the diverse reaction it would receive.

Some fraternity houses contained men with gaping mouths, just dreaming of what would happen if they cornered one of these glorified women in the corner of Reggie’s.

Other houses, like mine, simply laughed at the thought that someone, probably not confident enough to actually talk to these women in person, had enough

time on his hands to concoct such a webpage, creating a divide within the entire Greek community.

Still, other houses probably responded with a simple yet ignorant phrase — “This is so frat!”

For those who are still staring at the innocent girl who probably still doesn’t know her picture is plastered all over the Internet, I’ve got a question for you.

Do you think it’s “frat” to endanger the well-being of these women?

In case you haven’t seen this elementary-level webpage, it posts a link to each woman’s Facebook page for anyone to peruse at his or her liking.

Congratulations, anonymous creator. You’ve just exposed countless young women to that middle-aged guy we all know

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with a mustache who lives in his parent’s basement and gets off to Facebook stalking.

But you’re so frat, though.

This website represents what Greeks are stereotyped to be and tarnishes the reputation they already have to strive to achieve.

The Kappa Delta sorority is home to the SG vice president.

She narrowly defeated a Delta Delta Delta to claim her seat. A Chi Omega is your current LSU Homecoming Queen.

All three of these sororities are on the blog, but none of these upstanding women are honored.

Is it because they’re not cute enough?

To me, all three of those women “matter” regardless of their outward appearances.

The creators of the blog have

single-handedly tarnished what Greek Life is supposed to represent. Fellow members of the Greek community and I constantly fight the notion of superficiality that follows non-Greeks into any house.

I can imagine the creators’ response to their critics, though.

“Screw them, they’re GDI’s!”

Well, this comes from a fellow Greek. What you’ve done is reprehensible. You’ve exposed innocent women — most of whom are freshmen — to the world without their knowledge, leaving already vulnerable people even more defenseless.

To all the other Greeks: What if one of these women was your sister? Imagine your reaction.

Even better, imagine your father or grandfather’s reaction when

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any scumbag off the street has access to his precious angel’s pictures and contact information.

I sincerely hope you realize how dangerous this is and come to your senses and stop what you’ve begun. It’s pretty painless and harmless to do so.

But I know how Greeks behave. You’ll read what I just wrote, laugh at me, call me a faggot and keep on trucking.

You’re so frat.

Chandler Rome is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore and member of the Greek community from Baton Rouge.

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Quote of the Day “I hate wasting ‘people’s time.”

Daniel Day-Lewis Academy Award-winning English actor April 29, 1957 — present

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We’re ashamed of LSU’s leadership We won’t go down without a fight

The Daily Reveille Editorial Board The brass of the LSU System must think the students at this University are stupid.

They’ve ignored us, spun us and redirected us every time we’ve pointed out the fact that not one student is represented on the group of people making the most important decisions about the university in decades.

Many students emailed Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins asking for more student representation in the reorganization process. Instead of listening to the requests of the people helping to pay his salary, the chancellor sent back a note informing students that the 10 businessmen, doctors and lawyers on the board were “independent and critical thinkers.”

As opposed to the students at

your own university, who aren’t independent and critical thinkers, Chancellor? Is that what you’re trying to tell us?

We’re sick of being lied to and being told that students will be represented on a subcommittee dedicated to student experience.

Sure, the subcommittee will exist.

We guarantee it won’t influence the actual Transition Advisory Team.

We’re also disappointed in the leaders at this University who have yet to acknowledge the importance of students in this process. We’re not 3-year-olds who you can amuse with building blocks and toys as you make important decisions behind our backs. We are the primary stakeholders of this University, whether LSU’s top-dogs will admit it or not.

To the LSU administration:

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Why haven’t we heard the voices of the people tasked with representing student life? Where is K.C. White, our dean of students? Where is Kurt Keppler, our vice chancellor for Student Life and Enrollment? Did somebody put a gag order on them during this reorganization process?

Why isn’t anybody at this University standing up for us?

We will not give up. We are not afraid. We are young, smart, talented, enthusiastic people with more to give back to this University than you can possibly imagine. We care about LSU and its future. And just because we’re not millionaires who sit on the Board of Supervisors, our voices still matter.

We don’t take “I don’t know” as an answer. The enormous

number of individuals invested in this University, this System and this state deserve transparency during this pivotal time. Yet the students, the vital criterion for an educational institution, are slammed in the face with a closed-door policy.

If students are left in the dark about the future of our education’s value and respect, does anyone else have a chance for honesty and genuine input?

That must be reserved for CEOs. The Daily Reveille is not letting go of this one. We will write about it until our fingers bleed, we will submit public records requests to expose the truth behind the closed doors that you’ve led us into, we will call every administrator who left this University and ask for them for answers.

We will not be led into this

web of lies and bureaucracy without a fight.

Students, we encourage you to do everything you can to make the point to your leaders that you are more than a small blob clad in yellow in the panoramic photo of Tiger Stadium. Go to the chancellor’s office and stay there until he agrees to see you. Send emails to the chancellor, the provost, the dean of students. Demand answers.

At the heart of all of this is a university people love and care about. It’s about 30,000-plus people and countless others. This isn’t an election or a campaign or a politics game. This is a university. And we want what’s best for it.

Contact The Daily Reveille Editorial Board at editor@lsureveille.com.

D.C. shouldn’t be the only city with all the fun stuff SCUM OF THE GIRTH Parker Cramer Chief Columnist Washington D.C., where you can see a lesbian couple lighting up a blunt while being married in front of the White House.

Well, maybe not every day.

Both medical marijuana and gay marriage have recently been legalized in the District of Columbia.

The two policies, both of which are controversial in their own respects, seem to be going fine.

Most Americans probably aren’t aware that certain D.C. residents could smoke marijuana as they strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue as treatment for cancer or HIV, much the same as someone would smoke a cigarette.

As the nation’s capital, it should be expected that D.C. would be at the forefront of what some might call progressive changes.

It’s the city that houses our federal government and also where hope goes to die.

But not in this case.

On a personal level, I’m excited that D.C. residents have taken to the polls to be some of the first in a long line of Americans who will adopt gay marriage and marijuana legalization in future years.

However, our federalist system of government confuses me.

The United States is special, we have extraordinary girth and bravado. And perhaps as a result of every American believing his or her way is the correct way, the law has

evolved differently everywhere.

OK, I can accept this. Different people have the right to make differing laws.

That being said, it begs the question: If something is legal at the Obama residence, why isn’t it legal for all Americans?

Issue one: marijuana legalization. There are more marijuana dispensaries in Colorado than Starbucks — fact. Despite the rough economy, people still buy drugs — fact.

The nation is trillions of dollars in the can. Regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol, or the Chinese will come break our collective knees.

Issue two: gay marriage. It’s the civil rights movement of the 21st century, albeit less violent in most cases, but nonetheless a fight for basic American liberties.

Twenty-five stunningly sculpted gay men are legally permitted to have massive, Greco-Roman style orgies and film them to make money off closeted pastors. Yet, two average, non-porn star homosexuals can’t tie the knot for fear of ruining the sanctity of marriage and perverting society?

D.C. is sin city, the white marble Vegas. What happens here, the intern will probably tell her parents.

The issue here really comes down to states’ rights, and in this case, districts’ rights.

Yes, it would be nice — not necessarily easy — for the federal government to legalize marijuana and gay marriage nationwide. And yes, after the subsequent nuclear war between North and South ends

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Louisiana wouldn’t be alone if it legalized recreational marijuana use — Coloradans (pictured) passed a measure decriminalizing the practice Nov. 6, 2012; regardless, it is still a federal offense to use, possess or sell marijuana.

and the embers all burn out, we may still have a country left.

But the feds will never legalize anything cool all at once. It’s up to the states.

One by one, blue states are taking back statewide referendums from the Republicans, who have been using the states’ rights excuse to keep blacks, immigrants and gays at bay since the ‘60s.

So I challenge Louisiana, in all of her glory, to realize that

tourism is a huge contributor to our economy, bringing in an estimated $5.2 billion annually.

Imagine walking down Bourbon, hand-in-hand with your gay lover, and after having just been married at Jackson Square, you’ve decided to stop by one of many coffee shops in the French Quarter, where selling small amounts of marijuana is now legalized and taxed, drawing thousands more to our great state.

Call it the Mardi Grass initiative. Reducing crime by eliminating the black market.

D.C. did it. Why can’t we?

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

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

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new member rosters, which explains why only new members are targeted in the blog.

Carly Robin, marketing freshman and Kappa Delta member, found out Monday she was featured on the site.

“I didn’t even know about the website until I found it on the pledge class wall,” Robin said.

Robin said the “creepiest part” was that she was unaware of how her old Facebook pictures were made into a collage and posted.

“Not only is it creepy, it’s dangerous, and it’s spotlighting people for reasons that don’t need to be spotlighted,” Caldwell said.

Angela Guillory, assistant dean of students and director of Greek Life, said this is the third time she has seen an instance like this, and the University does not have the power to take down the blog.

Guillory said she advised chapter presidents to ask their national organizations for assistance to have an attorney send a message to discontinue the use of official trademarked sorority names.

She said none of the women on the blog allowed their pictures to be posted.

Guillory said chapter presidents and advisers are urging their members not to involve themselves with the blog, whether by submitting, commenting or visiting it.

“I’m not into all this stuff, and if things get out of hand, someone should take action,” Robin said. “I hope people don’t see a picture of a girl and think of her differently.

Greek Life isn’t about being ‘the hottest on campus.’ It’s about sisterhood and friendship.”

Caldwell said she and her sisters were “mortified” and are dreading the day the blog starts making submissions for her sorority. If her picture is posted, she said she will email the site to have it taken down.

Is the blog LSU Greeks That Matter an invasion of privacy? Vote at lsureveille.com.

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academics. In 2010, the average amount spent on athletes was $91,936, while the amount spent on the typical student averaged $13,628.

Don’t be alarmed Tigers; it gets much worse.

To not even Te’o’s surprise, as evidenced by his team’s play against Alabama in the BCS National Championship, the Southeastern Conference schools’ spending gap is by far the widest, with the league spending 12 times more on its student-athletes than on its other students. That’s 40 percent more than the Big 12, which spends the second most, and 60 percent more than the PAC-12, which came in third.

You do indeed get what you pay for. The SEC’s hyper-inflated number is undoubtedly affected by its affinity for football, which requires by far the most extensive roster and expensive equipment.

These numbers are the kind of thing that perpetuates the negative stereotypes the rest of the country has of our otherwise rich Southern culture. This is Honey Boo Boo in football pads. We can’t get away from it.

We are in a unique situation among this mess as LSU students.

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From 2008 to 2012, the University budget was slashed by almost half; however, the Athletic Department’s budget has seen an increase of nearly 27 percent.

Our athletic department is one of seven nationwide that doesn’t dip into taxpayer money, according to USA Today, and the only one that’s ever kicked money back into the system. At least we have that.

But it’s still not enough to make me feel better about this.

While our Tigers thrive, our University struggles to hold on to administration, faculty and entire colleges.

From 2008 to 2012, the Athletic Department’s budget increased by nearly 27 percent while the school’s state funding has been slashed by almost half, as The Daily Reveille reported.

With “Bumbling” Bobby Jindal in office until 2016, there’s no end in sight.

This is what we have in

common with the rest of these schools. What will it take to change what is an absolutely backward collegiate athletic system? A sweeping takedown of top-tier programs, which all skirt the NCAA’s rules in one way or another to simply have a chance to compete, would shock the system and reset the bar. But would that ever happen?

No way.

Forget that our love of football, to which I admit subscription, and other displays of athletic prowess are so ingrained that we’d miss it too much to kill it: money rules everything. These monstrous young men bring in the bread, none of which, I must mention, they ever see. And where there’s bread to break, there will always be more bread. It’s a cycle as vicious as the sport we glorify.

But hey, at least our athletes are notable enough to date real girlfriends. Thanks for backing us up, Brent Musburger.

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

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