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Kinesiology senior Megan Miller auditioned for American Idol from July to November, when she was chosen to go to Hollywood and compete. Miller said she is honored to have made it this far in the competition.
At age 12, Megan Miller as- Her singing reclusion came to a halt tounded her mother with a karaoke when her family dined at a karaoke rendition of a Martina McBride restaurant. song. Years later, her raw talent “I went and signed up for ‘A produced the same effect on Nicki Broken Wing’ by Martina McBride, Minaj, Mariah and my mom was Carey and Randy like, ‘You know Taylor Schoen Jackson when she that’s a really, reEntertainment Writer auditioned for ally hard song. “American Idol” last summer. Why don’t you sing what the other The University kinesiology se- girls are singing? Like ‘Strawberry nior and former Miss Greater Baton Wine?’” Miller recounted. “I was Rouge will be competing with this like ‘No, I want to do this.’ And I got season’s cycle of “American Idol” up there and I blew her away, and she hopefuls, and the episode in which hasn’t tried to prevent me from singshe was offered her spot on the show ing ever again.” aired Thursday night. Her precocious talent prompted Miller said she has loved mu- Miller to continue singing and evensic ever since she was “little bitty.” tually led her to audition for the meHer musical muses range from Mar- ga-hit singing competition, “Ameritina McBride to Adele, and she has can Idol.” drawn inspiration from these songMiller said she waited until this stresses through the years. point in her life to try out because she Miller said her singing career wanted to ensure she had a college began at an early age. She was self- degree before chasing her dreams. taught and has never had a voice The initial audition process lesson. She said she had a “shel- began back in the muggy days of July tered” upbringing in Ethel, La., and only sang behind closed doors. IDOL, see page 11
REORGANIZATION
Admins send students invites McKenzie Womack Staff Writer
Emails inviting students and faculty to participate on the Transition Advisory Team’s subcommittees were sent out Thursday. The Transition Advisory Team consists of 10 people — none of whom are students or faculty members — tasked with studying the reorganization of the LSU System and reporting to the LSU Board of Supervisors about plans to reorganize the system. LSU Student Government President Taylor Cox and former LSU SG President J Hudson have been vocal advocates of adding students to the Transition Advisory Team, but administrators have not acquiesced to their requests. Instead, administrators have insisted students will be able to STUDENTS, see page 11
CAMPUS SAFETY
New key procedure meant for more security Process aims at better access control Gabrielle Braud
Contributing Writer
In the wake of numerous school shootings and bomb threats, the University’s Facility Services department is taking steps to make the campus safer with a new procedure for issuing and keeping track of keys on campus. Door by door, Facility Services workers will be making their ways around campus over the next few years in an effort to create a centralized electronic database that tracks the cutting and issuing of keys. About two years ago, the issue of tracking and retrieving keys became a concern to the Associate Vice Chancellor of Human Resource
Management A.G. Monaco, as well as LSU Chief of Police Lawrence Rabalais. They, together with Executive Director of Facility Services Tony Lombardo, decided the best way to improve safety for everyone on campus was to improve key control, according to Associate Director of Facility Maintenance Sam Territo. “It’s more about security than it is about the keys,” Territo said. With the old key system, Facility Services would cut and issue keys from its own lock shop based on work orders from various departments. Once keys were cut, Facility Services issued keys to building coordinators, responsible for communicating with Facility Services about public safety and risk management concerns within their building. These building coordinators then issue keys to professors. For more than a decade,
building coordinators have been keeping track of each facility’s keys with a notebook, Territo said. Territo said the informal tracking made it difficult to retrieve keys from professors leaving the University. Not knowing how many people have keys to buildings around campus raised concerns for the LSU Police Department about the possibility of thefts on campus, Territo said. Territo said not being able to track keys could lead to the wrong individuals having access to everything from dangerous materials like chemicals to musical instruments that could be pawned. “There was no University tracking. It was all very decentralized and independently done,” Territo said. “Underlying everything is a terrorist act or a Virginia Tech-type scenario. KEYS, see page 11
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A door is unlocked at LSU’s Facility Services Office on Thursday.
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INTERNATIONAL Millepied of ‘Black Swan’ success named director of Paris Opera Ballet PARIS (AP) — Benjamin Millepied, the “Black Swan” choreographer who helped transform Natalie Portman into an obsessed, paranoid ballerina for the film and later married the actress, was named director of the Paris Opera Ballet on Thursday. Millepied, 35, is a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet who left in 2011 to create his own dance company in Los Angeles, L.A. Dance Project. He starts at the Paris company in October 2014, when the current dance director, Brigitte Lefevre, retires. Spanish paper halts edition with fake photo of Venezuelan president MADRID (AP) — The leading Spanish newspaper El Pais withdrew and reprinted its Thursday edition after discovering that its front-page exclusive photograph supposedly showing ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez being treated in Cuba was a fake. The paper apologized to its readers for the mistake. The poor-quality image showed the head of a man apparently on a hospital bed with tubes in his mouth. El Pais had received the picture from an agency, Gtres Online, which declined to comment on the issue.
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Benjamin Millepied (left) and Natalie Portman arrive at the 69th Annual Golden Globes in 2012. Millepied was named director of the Paris Opera Ballet Thursday.
Honduran government unable to pay bills, neglects public services TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Street surveillance cameras in one of the world’s most dangerous cities were turned off last week because Honduras’ government hasn’t paid millions of dollars it owes. The operator that runs the cameras is now threatening to suspend police radio service as well. Teachers have been demonstrating almost every day because they haven’t been paid in six months, while doctors complain about the shortage of essential medicines, gauze, needles and latex gloves.
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STATE/LOCAL
Rhode Island House easily passes gay marriage bill, awaits Senate approval
New Orleans told to narrow Super Bowl ‘clean zone’ to Superdome area
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation to allow gays and lesbians to marry in the only New England state where they can’t. The House voted 51-19 after an often emotional debate that touched on civil rights, religion and the nature of marriage. The bill now moves to the Senate, where both supporters and opponents of gay marriage say it is difficult to predict the bill’s fate. Nine states and the District of Columbia now allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. NASA begins testing vintage engine from Apollo 11 rocket for future use
Foreign adoption rate by Americans declines again, lowest since 1994
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The city of New Orleans must scale back its plans for a “clean zone” where the use of banners, signs and flags would be restricted during Super Bowl week, a federal judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt’s temporary restraining order says the city can only enforce the limits in an area near the Superdome, where the game will be played Feb. 3. The city had also planned to enforce the rules in the French Quarter and surrounding neighborhoods. The judge’s ruling comes after the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an activist and a street preacher.
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents fell by 7 percent last year to the lowest level since 1994, and is likely to plunge further this year due to the new ban by Russia on adoptions by Americans. Figures released Thursday by the State Department for the 2012 fiscal year showed 8,668 adoptions from abroad, down from 9,320 in 2011 and down about 62 percent from the all-time high of 22,884 in 2004. The number has dropped every year since then.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling on the Republican Party to “recalibrate the compass of conservatism” as party leaders on Thursday promised fundamental changes to help stave off future losses. “We do not need to change what we believe as conservatives — our principles are timeless,” Jindal says. “But we do need to re-orient our focus to the place where conservatism thrives: in the real world.”
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A vintage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar mission into Earth’s orbit more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape. The engine was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, but was grounded because of a glitch during a test in Mississippi and later sent to the Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years. Now, engineers are using the bell-shaped motor in tests to determine if its design can be improved for the next set of moon explorations.
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Credit hour guidelines to force more studying McKenzie Womack Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate reviewed Thursday a definition of credit hours and passed a resolution to look at the University’s make-up procedures through an ad-hoc committee. The newly revised Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges’ guidelines for credit hours dictate that for every one hour of time in the classroom, there must be two hours of out-of-classroom work each week over the course of 15 weeks. That means students taking 15 credit hours should spend 45 hours a week on school. Some faculty members were upset because of the potential backlash from students over additional work, but others liked the guidelines
because they thought they would force students to study more. The Faculty Senate has no authority to change the new rule, said Courses and Curriculum Committee Chairman Larry Rouse. “We don’t have a choice,” Rouse said. “Faculty members are going to have to show that the course is not just three hours in class sitting on your butt.” T. Gilmour Reeve, vice provost for Academic Programs, Planning and Review, said the policy should not incite problems. “There’s going to be some students that do it very quickly and some that won’t do it anyway,” Reeve said. “We are responsible that the course, through its face-toface and out-of-classroom work, approximates this definition.” The ad-hoc committee will review what make-up procedures will be followed in the cases of
excused absences. Committee Chairman Bill Demastes said he has found “irregularities” from instructors refusing to give make-up work. Demastes said he found that some instructors do not allow makeup opportunities for labs, quizzes or tests. Instead, some professors add weight to sections of final exams to make up for missed exams during the semester. He also denounced reformatted make-up exams and tendencies to drop exams and avoid a possible make-up test. Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said the committee’s decision will give students protection in the event of a faculty member refusing to allow a student to make up missed work. RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
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POLITICS
Mental health regulation may not prevent gun violence Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer
Mental health provisions in President Barack Obama’s executive order on gun control may not be as successful as planned, according to some University faculty and students. In his address, Obama framed mental health care as a component in gun violence prevention. His plan aims to identify mental illnesses and make mental health care more accessible. The overall concept is more complicated, according to Justin Ory, a clinical psychology graduate student specializing in neuroscience. He said that many non-violent citizens who suffer from mental illness may be denied their Second Amendment rights. “If you look at the rate of severe mental illness in the general population, that’s 1 to 3 percent,” Ory said. “That’s jeopardizing rights for everyone with that disease.” In “Violence and Mental Illness — How Strong is the Link?” Richard A. Friedman states, “Of course, because serious mental illness is quite rare, it actually contributes very little to the overall rate of violence in the general population; the attributable risk
has been estimated to be 3 to 5 percent.” Psychology professor Alan Baumeister said privacy is a major obstacle for potential regulations. “Can the federal government ask doctors or require them to provide this information? The answer to that question may be no,” Baumeister said. Ory said physicians cannot share an individual’s medical records, but people can give physicians permission to release information. Additionally, most people who have psychological problems already have a “stigma” and do not want their problems to be made public, Baumeister said. According to the Louisiana Concealed Handgun Permit Laws and Administrative Rules, anyone carrying a concealed weapon cannot suffer from a mental
disease or illness. Baumeister said mental health regulations may not necessarily prevent gun violence. If someone cannot purchase firearms legally, that does not mean he or she will not be able to acquire them, Ory said. “There are a lot of sick people who have never been committed to a hospital,” Baumeister said. Mental disease does not always mean violent behavior, Ory said. “Only one in 100,000 people with schizophrenia are going to commit a mass shooting,” Ory said. In regard to the Sandy Hook, Conn., shooting on Dec. 14, Ory said, “It sounds like a failure of his mother to not properly secure the weapons, rather than the system.” Ory said psychologists for people who commit such crimes
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could be at risk after concluding evaluations. “There are legal and safety implications. If you are a psychologist and do these assessments and someone commits a crime with a firearm, if you run the assessment,
you are responsible. It’s a liability I’m not sure a lot of psychologists would welcome,” Ory said. Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at fsuarez@lsureveille.com
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ADMINISTRATION
Vice chancellor search begins Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer
University administrators say they hope the third time’s the charm for filling the position of vice chancellor for Research and Economic Development — a position that has been vacant for years after two inconclusive searches. “I think KLEI we’re going to find somebody,” said Thomas Klei, who holds the interim position. “There’s a determination to do it. I think they’re looking a little differently and a little harder. I think that the third time’s the charm.” The search process began when Brooks Keel, now the president of Georgia Southern University, left around four years ago, Klei said.
Since then, two searches have resulted in no relief for interim vice chancellors Klei and Doris Carver, who now works at the National Science Foundation. “I’m the interim vice [chancellor] – that means I didn’t really want to be or will be the permanent vice chancellor,” Klei said. “I agreed to do it for two years, and now it’s going on three.” Before filling the vice chancellor position at former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton’s request, Klei worked as an associate dean in the Veterinary School. “My plan is that I’ll go back to the vet school and focus on my research this summer,” Klei said. Klei said he agreed to take the position because the University was experiencing budget cuts that put the office in a difficult position, but the trend has continued, deterring many who would be well-suited for the job. “How budget cuts are affecting us is that we’re unable
to fill some of the positions,” Klei said. “We’re in a difficult situation, and quality people are leaving here all the time. We’re losing the top level and hiring in at the bottom.” Klei said despite a difficult budget situation, he retains a positive outlook. “I’ve been here 37 years, so I know something about LSU. I’m going to die here. I have a real affection for the University and the state. But that’s not what sells the place. What we need to do is find someone who wants a challenge and has what it takes to do this,” Klei said. “Somebody in our case who will fit into the research culture and can develop those programs and actually increase the research activity of the University – not only increase it but improve it and maintain it.”
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PHOTO STORY
Students present MLK showcase
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[Top left] The Legacy dance team performs a piece in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on the University’s MLK Performing Arts night Thursday. [Above] Ignatious Carmouche sings “Beautiful Surprise” by India Arie. [Bottom left] Members of the LSU National Pan-Hellenic Council perform a stomp routine. Nine acts performed in the annual showcase to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.
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Homecoming
GYMNASTICS
Tigers face top opponents in Texas
Kentucky native Hickey leads LSU into Rupp Chandler Rome Sports Writer
Shunned by both Louisville and childhood favorite Kentucky, Anthony Hickey, native of Hopkinsville, Ky., can only hold onto his last visit to Rupp Arena. The 5-foot-11 dynamo drew the double team and kicked it out to his Christian County teammate, who drained a 3-pointer to send the arena into a pandemonium as the Colonels captured a double-overtime, state championship victory. Despite Hickey being named Kentucky’s “Mr. Basketball” that season, it wasn’t enough to woo Kentucky coach John Calipari or Louisville legend Rick Pitino as Hickey made his way to Baton Rouge. “Yeah, it [does] bother me,” Hickey said of his lack of recruitment. “I’m here [at LSU], though, so I get to play against them.” Playing in Rupp for the first time since that high school state title game, Hickey will lead a young LSU (10-6, 1-4 Southeastern Conference) team into the raucous environment to face the defending NCAA Champion Wildcats — a shell of last season’s group. The freshman trio of Anthony Davis, Marquis Teague and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is gone and Darius Miller’s veteran presence is clearly missed as the Wildcats (12-6, 3-2 SEC) have stumbled out of the gate with two SEC losses and no top-50 wins on the season. “They’re an OK team,” said LSU junior forward Shavon Coleman. “They’re not the team they usually [are], like when they had John Wall, Brandon Knight and Anthony Davis. They’re just a normal team.” Calipari’s new crop of Wildcats are led inside by USA Today High School HICKEY, see page 7
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LSU sophomore Anthony Hickey lays up the basketball over Texas A&M senior foward Ray Turner on Wednesday in the Tigers’ 58-54 victory against Texas A&M in the PMAC. The Tigers travel to Kentucky this weekend.
Top 25 opponents will clash as the No. 7 LSU gymnastics team takes on No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 9 Georgia, No. 16 Oregon State and unranked Washington on Saturday at the Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. The Tigers enter the meet averaging 196.158 points per meet, but will face two teams with scores higher than 197 points in the Sooners and Bulldogs. LSU is fresh off its first loss of the season, in which the Tigers lost points after four falls from four different athletes, losing against No. 5 Alabama 196.575 to 195.525. “We can’t make these kinds of mistakes at this level,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux in a news release after the match. “We had some bright spots in the meet, but we were certainly disappointed in the overall performance of the team.” Despite the slip-up against the Crimson Tide, LSU still ranks in the top 25 in every event, including No. 3 on vault with a 49.308 score and floor with 49.325. Lloiminicia Hall has led the way for the Tigers on the floor as the highest-ranked gymnast for an individual event. Hall is No. 3 in the country with an average of 9.933 after scoring consecutive 9.95s in the first two meets of the GYMNASTICS, see page 7
JaMarcus Russell is delusional THE BERT LOCKER ALBERT BURFORD Sports Editor
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JaMarcus Russell, a former LSU star quarterback turned NFL flop, is attempting to make a comeback to the NFL despite his massive 300-pound frame.
Does anybody actually believe a 308-pound man can play quarterback in the NFL? Not to mention a 308-pound man who has a history full of attitude issues, substance abuse problems and last played professional football in 2009. JaMarcus Russell, the 27-year-old ex-LSU quarterback and No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft told Yahoo! Sports this week about his plans to work his way back into the
league, saying he’s employing the help of former LSU and NFL receiver Michael Clayton, former NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia and former NFL running back Marshall Faulk. He’s even reportedly training at the TEST Football Academy, where Patrick Peterson and Joe Flacco practiced, and is receiving consultation from a doctor for “mental and psychological analysis.” Russell is tired of hearing criticism, too. “People would say [that] I didn’t love the game, but that pisses me off,” Russell told Yahoo! Sports. “People don’t know the real you, but I want people to know the real me and see what I
can do. People are always saying that I’m a bust. I want to show them I’m not. I’m committed to this now.” You know what’s the real punch line of the whole “JaMarcus’ return” joke? He’s lost a whopping 12 pounds since this fall in preparation for his return. No more 320, he’s at a fresh 308. That’ll do it, Jam-Jam. It would be a great story if Russell could pull off a return to the NFL, but it’s not one to which anyone should pay much mind. As nice as it is to see a guy get a second or third chance, some people throw away those first few opportunities in such a vigorous RUSSELL, see page 6
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Men seek revenge against Mississippi St. Trey Labat Sports Contributor
The No. 25 LSU men’s tennis team will have its hands full this weekend as it takes on two ranked opponents at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend tournament. The Tigers will open play against No. 11 Mississippi State on Saturday before facing the winner of the No. 21 Auburn vs. No. 23 Indiana match on the second day of the tournament. The tournament comes on the heels of a dominant performance by LSU against Southern Miss last weekend. The match against Southern Miss highlighted one of LSU’s greatest attributes on the season: its superior fitness. Sophomore Chris Simpson and freshman Tam Trinh both fell behind early in their matches,
only to battle back and dominate in the following sets. “Fitness is definitely something we’ve worked on a lot recently,” Simpson said. “We’ve changed our diet and put a lot of extra work in; I could tell we were in much better shape than [Southern Miss].” The Tigers are taking on a Mississippi State team that beat them soundly last season. The Bulldogs dominated the Tigers 6-1 in singles play, with four of the Tigers’ five defeats coming against ranked opponents. LSU coach Jeff Brown cited familiarity with an SEC opponent as something that would help the Tigers through the first match-up of the tournament. The Bulldogs only return four players from last year’s squad, though. Four of their top
six singles players are freshmen, including the No. 25-ranked singles player, Romain Bogaerts. According to Simpson, the Tigers aren’t taking the challenge lightly. “We’ve got payback on our minds,” Simpson said. “They defeated us pretty easily this year, but we have improved and we’re looking forward to the challenge.” While the men’s team seeks vengeance in Starkville, the women’s team will take on Northwestern State and Southern University on Sunday at the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium. This will be the first dualmatch of the season for Lady Tigers, and the first of coach Julia Sell’s career at LSU. “I’m pretty excited about the matches this weekend,” Sell said. “It’s the first dual-match, and it’s
a double-header so it should be a good test.” Unlike the men’s team, the women will be facing an unfamiliar opponent in Northwestern State, a team they haven’t faced in more than seven years. In the second match of the double-header, LSU will take on Southern, who the Tigers have beaten every year since the 2000-01 season. “We are looking forward to the matches this weekend,” said senior Ebie Wilson. “We haven’t played Northwestern State since I’ve been here, but Southern always brings a couple of good players and is a good early season challenge.” Contact Trey Labat at tlabat@lsureveille.com
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Lady Tigers travel to No. 5 Kentucky Bria Turner Sports Contributor
The LSU women’s basketball team will travel to Lexington, Ky., to take on its highestranked opponent this season, the No. 5 Wildcats. LSU (12-7, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) comes off a 54-51 victory against Vanderbilt and a 7-point loss to No. 19 South Carolina. LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said the Lady Tigers are ready to take on the task. “It’s going to be a really competitive game,” Caldwell said. “It’s going to be a game that our team welcomes, and it’s a challenge that we will not back down from.” Kentucky (18-1, 6-0 SEC) enters into the game with its only loss coming from No. 1 Baylor by 34 points in November. Although senior guard A’dia Mathies, current SEC Player of the Week, leads the team in scoring
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manner that they don’t deserve any more — and Russell is one of those people. Let me know when there’s a team in the market for a quarterback whose last sniff of professional football career came in 2010, when he failed to dazzle the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins during mid-season tryouts for their backup quarterback positions. Here are a few things more likely to happen than JaMarcus Russell successfully making an NFL roster, much less proficiently quarterbacking a professional football team: · The LSU men’s basketball team qualifying for the NCAA Tournament
with 15.4 points per game, junior forward Samarie Walker leads the team in rebounds, blocks and steals with 156, 29 and 41 respectively. With wins against then-No. 12 West Virginia and the return of players who were a part of the team that beat highly ranked Kentucky twice last season, Caldwell said LSU has the ability to win in Lexington. She noted that competitive play of senior guards Adrienne Webb and Bianca Lutley and junior guard Jeanne Kenney can lead the team and pressure Kentucky to turn the ball over. “Our team has proven that they are capable of playing with some of the best teams in the country,” Caldwell said. “We’ve got players returning who understand what it takes to beat Kentucky.” Lutley, Webb, freshman guard Danielle Ballard and junior forward Theresa Plaisance are all
averaging double-digit points per game with Plaisance leading the pack with 18.3. Following the loss to South Carolina, Caldwell noted a change in intensity for her players, which carried over to the game against Vanderbilt on Sunday. “I feel like the team is competing at a different level,” Caldwell said. “They understand the task at hand, they understand what we have to do each week and that this is a tough conference to play in. They’re making the choice to be better for each other.” According to Caldwell, more players are getting into the gym and making shots and free throws outside of practice, which Caldwell said is helping the Lady Tigers continue to grow into a team of their own. “This team is still finding
themselves and finding their identity,” Caldwell said. Kenney said although Kentucky is a highly ranked team, anything can happen when playing in the SEC. “Any team in the SEC is beatable on any given day,” Kenney said. “There’s not one team that is clearly going to have a win during the game.” LSU leaves for Kentucky on Saturday morning and will watch the LSU and Kentucky men’s game Saturday afternoon. Caldwell said the Lady Tigers will be the “sixth man” for the Tigers in their game against the Wildcats.
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9.95s in the first two meets of the season. “[Lloimincia is] our anchor, and she’s our anchor for a reason,” said LSU sophomore Rheagan Courville. “Her routine has so much pizazz and excitement in it, and the crowd gets into it. … We just love watching it because every time she does it, she does something different. She puts her own little twist into it.” LSU has dominated the floor routine this season with four competitors ranked in the top 70 nationally, all of whom average scores of more than 9.8. “I don’t think there’s a competition between us,” Hall said. “We all have different styles and that’s what makes it so awesome. It’s just like having different portions and you can’t really put a competition on that when there’s different styles or different genres of music to make a team.”
KENTUCKY, from page 5 National Player of the Year forward Nerlens Noel, a Davis-esque shot blocker who has swatted 76 thus far while chipping in 10.7 points per game. Noel will present a different challenge for LSU sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III, who will need to go right at the lanky 6-foot10 post player. “The best way to attack him is just to go at him,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones. “When you go at him, generally you can at least try to put them on the defensive and play through them or get them in foul trouble.” The Tigers are fresh off their first conference win against Texas A&M. In the win, the Tigers forced 24 turnovers and rallied from a 14-point first-half deficit. LSU will rely on guard play and a full-court press that has given opponents a hard time all season. Hickey, the NCAA leader in steals, was the benefactor of tipped passes in the A&M game, using Coleman and freshman guard Malik Morgan at the front of the press as he grabbed a season-high eight steals. “We don’t run the press that much, but it’s all about how we’re playing on defense,” Hickey said. “If we’re playing over top and get hands on balls, we have a chance to win.” Known for its reputation as one of the more intimidating venues in the country, Rupp Arena can strike fear into any opposing team, especially one as young as the Tigers. Hickey, though, may alleviate the stress that Big Blue Nation may present – referring to calls he received from hometown friends after the two Tiger losses to Kentucky last season. “They told me, ‘Good job, but you gotta win some games against Kentucky,’” Hickey said. “We’re going to win some of these. I can’t keep playing Kentucky and not getting a win.”
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Unfortunately for the Tigers, one of the few teams that has more athletes ranked higher than LSU in the floor exercises will be walking into the meet alongside them this weekend. The Sooners have five competitors ranked in the top 50 nationally, as well as having three of the top 15 all-arounders in the country.
The Daily Reveille Oklahoma junior Taylor Spears is No. 8 in the all around, averaging 39.4, and sophomore Erica Brewer is No. 9 with an average score of 39.388.
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It’s all a conspiracy Lunacy the only explanation for avid Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist
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Gene Rosen becomes emotional as he speaks in an interview with The Associated Press on Dec. 17, 2012, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Rosen has been harrassed by Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists who allege he is a “crisis actor.”
SCUM OF THE GIRTH PARKER CRAMER Chief Columnist Forgive James Tracy, for he knows not what he types. Tracy, an avid conspiracy theorist and tenured professor at Florida Atlantic University, believes the Sandy Hook massacre — in which 20 children and six adults were killed — didn’t really happen. At least not the way the media portrayed it. Tracy, like many conspiracy theorists, doesn’t offer much to back up his claim, other than his conspiracy laid out on a cute little blog. He believes the shooting was nothing more than “[news] intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends.” Basically, he thinks the
shooting was a ploy by the Obama administration to kickstart further gun control measures in Congress. It’s tough to imagine the type of cynic who could be led to such an outrageous conclusion. How do we explain this type of person? Is he crazy? I don’t have any answers for you. I’ve never met him. However, if I was going to blog about an elementary school shooting being a hoax, I’d probably get intoxicated first for that idea to make sense. So for the sake of simplicity, just picture Tracy as the highest and/or drunkest person ever. High people love conspiracy theories almost as much as they love “Cosmos” with Carl Sagan. Conspiracies are nothing new. With every major incident, there’s always the guy — either on the far left or far right — who claims the government is behind everything.
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Take JFK’s assassination, which we all know was carried out by James Bond and Elmo in cahoots with the CIA, or 9/11, which definitely wasn’t carried out by radical Islamists, but rather Kate Middleton, as a way to recapture Prince William’s attention. How could we forget the infamous Pearl Harbor? Which, in actuality, was Quentin Tarantino and his Japanese crew filming one of his earliest budget films, “Kamikaze Chronicles.” The news media obviously has its shortcomings. If fair and accurate are the standard, then slanted and patchy would be the practice. For instance, many news outlets reported that Obamacare had been struck down by the Supreme Court (even though it wasn’t), because all those reporters were about to blow up all over Capitol Hill if they didn’t get the news on TV before everyone else.
News media failure 101. However, the media didn’t create 26 dead victims in a New England elementary school. Neither did the government. Sandy Hook wasn’t a ploy by Obama to disarm this nation in order to prep our country for an invasion by the Chinese. So if you are going to be a conspiracy theorist, realize that everyone will hate you. They will call you an idiot behind your back, and every ounce of intellectual respect you’d managed to garner will disappear overnight. James Tracy, Vicodin is not meant to be snorted. Parker Cramer is a 21-year-old political science senior from Houston.
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“People in this state (and country for that matter) cannot seem to fathom the possibility of not legislating something. They cannot realize that just because you might disagree with something does not mean you should legislate against it. I support the legalization of abortion, marijuana, and gay marriage. Give people the freedom to make their own choices (even though being gay is not a choice). I don’t smoke but that doesn’t mean I should write a law preventing others from doing it. Are Americans that afraid to make a choice for themselves? Do they have to have a government body make their decisions for them? It seems that way but I certainly hope not.” - sch11midt
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Hey PETA, quit overreacting to python killing THE TRADITIONALIST CHRIS ORTTE Columnist Back in my heyday along Lafayette’s Bayou Vermilion, I’d spend my afternoons in search for all sorts of reptiles. Snakes were always the most dangerous and naturally intriguing to confront. Consequently, there was nothing cooler than whipping my machete over the snake and splitting it in half. Later, I would coil the carcass and place it conveniently in the path of my sister’s morning routine. Appalling? Maybe leaving it for my sister was, but her reaction proved a dead snake was the only good snake. PETA, however, may not have been so happy with my prank. In Florida, a battle has started between the state and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, known in households as PETA. In an attempt to reduce the population of non-indigenous Burmese pythons, the state has sponsored a hunting contest this January offering cash rewards to the hunter with the most and the lengthiest trophies. There are a couple of theories as to how the massive serpents have reached the wetlands of south Florida, but regardless, they are not a natural species of the ecosystem. With the lack of a natural predator in the habitat, stable populations of other indigenous critters in the area have become an issue. The battle between Florida and PETA is purportedly over the humaneness offered to a
targeted snake. Florida has endorsed a number of efficient and effective ways to kill a python that result in the immediate loss of consciousness. The method under scrutiny by PETA is decapitation. Decapitation in some ancient cultures was an honorable means of death. However, in the serpent’s instance, though quick and painless, it’s shameful. Akin to dogs and horses, the wild python has coexisted in ways with humans — specifically south Floridians — that have been fruitful enough for them to be owed some decency. I suppose lethal injection is more of what PETA is requesting. PETA’s opening statement on its website, “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in anyway,” is misinformed. Humans do not purely act on instinct, while animals do. We contain the capacity to perceive good and bad, making us a higher species. PETA’ians may see it otherwise. However, I believe this is widely uncontested, placing us at the top of the food chain, and making animals ours to eat. Humans have dined on good ole red meat — a great source for protein and vitamin B— for centuries. Do you think a neanderthal, when bitten by a winter frost, grabbed a pair of cotton slacks to warm his keister? More likely he fashioned himself with a bearskin coat. Or later on, if a cowboy needed a new pair of boots, he may have skinned a rattler and cobbled a nice pair of snakeskin shit-kickers. Pinky and the Brain have done much for modern medicine, and
just this week some Louisiana lab chimps were given retirement and pension. My dogs, though gullible, are awfully entertaining. What’s going on in Florida is far from abuse. Although, I’m sure there are plenty of instances — past, present and future — of indecency to animals that should be prevented. But snakes, especially where they do not belong, deserve no such decency. Ironically, by educating competitors of efficient
harvesting methods through a required training process and listing rules and regulations, Florida is effectively being humane. PETA’s initiatives seem to have trouble staying focused on truly viable issues. There is a distinction between animal cruelty and an attempt to control a predatory species disrupting an ecological cycle — PETA has failed to make it. As of Jan. 21, hunters have only harvested 27 pythons. I am unaware as to what the state is considering as par, but I’d guess this is
not up to it. Nevertheless, a life is a priceless treasure, and we should remember those who have fallen further than the dirt beneath their slick bellies. Chris Ortte is 22-year-old political science senior from Lafayette.
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Teaching creationism in La. high schools a denial of science SHARE THE WEALTH JAY MEYERS Columnist The best science classes and, by extension, the best science teachers are those that require students to systematically pursue knowledge in the form of empirical observations and testable explanations. This is, however, not a view shared by Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Rhodes Scholar and graduate of Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Ironically enough, Jindal signed into law and is a vehement supporter of the Louisiana Science Education Act. The LSEA is legislation that allows public funding to go toward privately chartered schools that teach creationism, either alongside or in place of, evolution in science classrooms.
In spite of his biology background, Jindal’s passage of this law demonstrates an inability to acknowledge scientific evidence, which speaks to the irrational mindset that has taken over his party. Creationism, creation science and intelligent design are theological explanations arguing that matter, the various forms of life and the world were created six thousand years ago by God in seven days. Indeed, the issue of whether to teach creationism or evolution in public schools has enjoyed an extensive history in the United States, with the theory of evolution gaining overwhelming public support after the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. Why did evolution gain the upper hand? Put simply, because creationism is purely faith-based — thereby inherently non-scientific. How can someone prove or disprove by observation or experimentation the existence of God?
You certainly can’t prove God’s existence through science. Science is a strict and rigorous process. For any idea or belief to pass as scientific, you have to formulate a valid hypothesis and then support it with repeated testing. Creationism extends beyond science’s realm, therefore, it should not be considered a legitimate science and be left out of public high schools. Nevertheless, Louisiana, along with several other states, is increasingly allowing public funding to be given to schools that teach creationism. Thankfully, Baton Rouge native Zack Kopplin, who is currently a history major at Rice University, has launched a campaign to repeal the LSEA. Kopplin partnered with Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, DNew Orleans, to sponsor bills intended to repeal LSEA. More notably, Kopplin was able to garner 78 Nobel laureate scientists who support his
repeal efforts. Kopplin, through his website, put the watering down of science education in concrete terms. His analysis of Jindal’s voucher program found at least 20 schools in Louisiana that use a creationist curriculum. These 20 schools are allowed 1,365 voucher slots and can expect to receive as much as $11,602,500 in taxpayer money annually, according to Kopplin. To give you an example of what a creationist curriculum might consist of, let’s take a look at Claiborne Christian School in West Monroe, LA. First off, its handbook explicitly states that students are taught, “to discern and refute lies commonly found in [secular] textbooks, college classes and in the media.” Additionally, in the January 2010 school newsletter, the principal of CCS declared, “Our position at CCS on the age of the Earth and other issues is that any theory that goes against God’s word is an
error.” CCS has 28 voucher slots and can receive up to $238,000 in taxpayer money, according to Kopplin’s website. And Louisiana isn’t the only state dealing with ridiculous creationist high school curriculums. Kopplin said there are hundreds of more voucher schools across the nation that are similar in both form and function to CCS. The U.S. is the most technologically advanced nation in the world, and we owe a large part of that to scientific innovations. Let’s keep it that way by educating students with actual, factbased science, not religious dogma. Jay Meyers is a 20-year-old economics sophomore from Shreveport.
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Friday, January 25, 2013 tion episode premiered Thursday. Miller made it to Hollywood, in New Orleans. Miller performed and she is competing with about 20 “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” other contestants for a chance to be by Christina Aguilera while sporting the next “American Idol” champion. crutches and anticiTo set herself pating surgery later Tune in to 91.1 KLSU at apart, Miller plans 4:20 and 5:20 that day after breakto play up her role ing her leg in an ac- p.m. to hear more about as a brainy pageant cident prior to the and humaniMiller’s idol experience. queen audition. tarian. “In any other instance, I would “My organization is all about be really nervous, and my nerves education and volunteerism. So I would be the biggest enemy for me,” think the way to set myself apart is Miller acknowledged. “But that day, to show them I’ve definitely given I didn’t really care about anything back a lot,” Miller explained. “I’ve else. I’d been in an accident previ- been volunteering for the past four ously, and I was going into surgery years for the Baton Rouge area and immediately after my audition.” Louisiana in general. So what sets Alex Bossetta, a Spanish junior me apart is I wouldn’t let them porand friend of Miller for three years, tray me as a stereotypical, superficial went to the auditions to support the beauty queen.” budding musician. Bossetta said she To cheer on local talent and believed Miller was destined for watch Miller strive for stardom, tune Hollywood. in to Fox on Wednesdays and Thurs“I’ve heard Megan sing a thou- days at 7 p.m. sand times, so I know what she’s capable of,” Bossetta said. “I had no Will you be following doubts about her making it, but the Miller’s journey? Vote at anticipation of waiting to hear the relsureveille.com. sults was the worst.” Bosetta said she was excited about audience and judge reactions Contact Taylor Schoen at to Miller, especially to her crutches and eminent surgery, after her auditschoen@lsureveille.com
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provide input in the reorganization process via membership on subcommittees. Multiple students were invited to sit on the subcomittees, which range from academics to student experience. Cox was invited to be part of the Technology and Operations subcomittee. “I saw the list of all the students and faculty who were asked,” Cox said. “It’s the most undiverse group of people. It looked like a bunch of
upper-middle class, Caucasians. ... We’re all heavily involved overachievers with a good GPA.” Student Government’s Director of Academic Affairs Thomas Rodgers was invited to sit on the Academic subcommittee, and mass communication senior and Daily Reveille opinion columnist John Parker Ford was invited to sit on the Student Experience subcommittee. Cox said the list appeared to be 65 names or more of faculty and students from each LSU
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For example, someone who has keys could enter a part of a building and basically barricade themselves in.” Territo said the University is running an inexpensive pilot program for a new key system that allows Facility Services to track the keys in a central database as keys are cut and issued. The Student Health Center was the first facility on campus to try the new procedure. Territo said the pilot procedure was successful in the health center and allowed his department to learn more about the most efficient way to distribute and track keys. A centralized database of the information allows Territo to print out the key records, determine who has which keys, and from that information, decide if certain key requests for a building should be fulfilled. Along with Facility Service’s new key procedure, Residential Life has also taken steps toward improving dorm security by transitioning to Tiger Card building access for all dorms on campus, as well as a dorm room entry system that Territo called “hotel style” access with an ID feature. Residents of newer residential
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Parts of locks sit on shelves Thursday in the LSU Office of Facility Services.
halls like Blake, East and West Laville and the Residential Life colleges now use their Tiger Cards, combined with their own four-digit code, to get into their rooms. “It’s about security, and with the students, they are taking the lead,” Territo said. As Residential Life facilities continue to under go renovations, residential halls will be converted to the electronic locks, while Facility Services will continue to make its way around campus in the coming years to bring more buildings onto the new key system.
Currently, the Business Education Complex, Choppin Hall Annex and the Wetland Resources building are on the new key system, Territo said. The next buildings start using the system will be the parking garage and bookstore, the new Animal and Food Science Lab building and the Huey P. Long Fieldhouse. “To the average person, they just need to get in,” Territo said. “But security is still separate in my mind.” Contact Gabrielle Braud at gbraud@lsureveille.com
System campus. He said the subcommittees will meet a minimum of three times and not all of the meetings will be in Baton Rouge. The Daily Reveille will continue to report on those invited to become members of the subcommittees as the names become available.
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