The Daily Reveille - February 22, 2013

REORGANIZATION: Administrative, Revenue BASEBALL: LSU fights back to Generation and Technology task forces meet, p. 3 beat BYU in ninth inning, p. 5

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Friday, February 22, 2013 • Volume 117, Issue 92

In the Running

STATE

Jindal unveils budget today Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer

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Mass communication and psychology junior T Graham S. Howell announces his Impact LSU campaign Monday with running mate Kaitlin Torké, mass communication and political science junior, in Free Speech Circle.

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Finance junior John Woodard and psychology and communication studies junior Taylor Parks stand in Live Oak Alley on Monday. Woodard and Parks are running for president and vice president on the UNITE LSU ticket.

As election season gets under way, The Daily Reveille has compiled stats and stances of the candidates thus far.

Active campaigning begins at 7 a.m. on March 4, and the general elections will be held March 11-12.

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• Impacting academic, student life, transportation, Baton Rouge and the LSU community • Protecting LSU from higher education budget cuts • Improving the academic environment on campus *Social media information is as of 11:30 p.m. on Thursday.

• Implementing a Student Organization Board of Delegates • Moving Middleton study room reservations online • Enabling live streaming of SG meetings to increase transparency information compiled by JUDAH ROBINSON / The Daily Reveille

GUEST SPEAKER

Atheist activist seeks to disprove resurrection Barker advises to think for oneself Erin Hebert Contributing Writer

With the start of the Lenten season, many Christians are preparing to celebrate what they believe was Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. According to former evangelical preacher and current atheist activist Dan Barker, who visited campus Thursday night, Jesus probably never existed and firsthand accounts of his resurrection were most likely hallucinations

or exaggerations.

Barker told a group of about 30 at the “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?” event, hosted by the University’s Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics club Thursday night, that four key lines of criticism should be taken when answering whether Jesus actually rose from the dead. Barker, who became an evangelist at the age of 15 and preached for 19 years, said his switch to atheism was a gradual process that took four or five years and culminated in publicly announcing his lack of faith on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1984.

BARKER, see page 4

Atheist author Dan Barker speaks to students and faculty Thursday at the “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?” event in Coates Hall.

Check out a video of his speech on Jesus’ resurrection at lsureveille.com.

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Although Gov. Bobby Jindal will present the preliminary executive budget today to the joint legislative committee for the 2014 fiscal year, changes in the University’s state appropriations remain uncertain.

The amount of state funds the University will receive in the 2014 fiscal year will be initially proposed in March and will be approved in late summer, said University Director of External Affairs Jason Droddy.

Last year, state support to higher education decreased by $65.9 million, and while the higher education budget also saw an increase of $48 million in fees and self-generated revenues, the amount of state appropriations each university receives are not reflected by those numbers alone.

Funds are not equally divided among the universities that receive appropriations, so the overall changes in the budget affect some institutions more than others.

Changes in tuition and faculty salary, which are significantly affected by state appropriations, will remain in question until the budget includes more specific figures about how higher education general funds will be allocated to each state university.

Keep an eye on TOPS funding, Droddy said.

As state appropriations decrease and tuition increases, TOPS has also increased.

“Parents and students are always concerned about the status of TOPS,” Droddy said. “Prospective students are trying to figure out which college to attend, so they’re always sensitive to TOPS information.”

Droddy said changes in health science funding should also be expected.

“Revenues flow from the hospitals to the medical centers, so we do not know what that will mean once the hospitals are leased,” Droddy said.

Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com

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INTERNATIONAL Three British men convicted in bomb plot, said it would be ‘another 9/11’ LONDON (AP) — They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck.

On Thursday, a London jury convicted the three young British men of being ringleaders of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to explode knapsack bombs in crowded parts of Birmingham, England’s secondlargest city. The men had pleaded not guilty, but were recorded discussing plans for attacks that one said would be “another 9/11.”

TV show winner charged with drug smuggling, 2.9 pounds of heroin found SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A winner of the TV talent show “Latin American Idol” who was once loved by thousands in her native Dominican Republic was charged with drug smuggling after police found heroin stuffed in the heels of her platform shoes, authorities said Thursday.

Martha Heredia was arrested late Wednesday as she was about to board a plane to New York, said Frank Duran, the National Drug Control Agency’s director for the city of Santiago.

He said police found 2.9 pounds (1.3 kilograms) of heroin in the heels of three pairs of shoes.

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The clock purchased as a timing device for the bomb was found Thursday in the safe house in White Street, Birmingham, England.

All eyes on Venezuelan hospital; no sign of Chavez, only motorcades CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At Caracas’ military hospital, the only outward signs that President Hugo Chavez is a patient inside are the motorcades that come and go and the soldiers standing guard, some of them wearing red berets.

A poster with a large photo of Chavez smiling sits atop the Dr. Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital, but it has been there since long before the socialist leader was admitted upon his return from his latest cancer treatment in Cuba.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Drew Peterson sentenced to 38 years for the 2007 murder of his third wife

Road work scaled back amid debt ceiling, state will borrow money

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Drew Peterson — the swaggering Chicago-area police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger fourth wife vanished in 2007 — was sentenced to 38 years in prison on Thursday for murdering his third wife.

The sentence came moments after Peterson shocked the courtroom with a rare public outburst of anger as he proclaimed his innocence in the death of Kathleen Savio.

“I did not kill Kathleen!” he shouted at the top of his lungs, emphasizing every word.

(AP) — Louisiana will borrow $100 million to repair and improve rural roads around the state, in a plan scaled back Thursday by state officials grappling with a shortage of construction funds and trying to stay under the state’s debt ceiling.

Commission member Rep. Jim Fannin sponsored the bill that authorized the rural road borrowing and pushed for the bond sale — even at the smaller size.

“It’s not just rural roads. It’s about putting people to work and doing the right thing for the state,” Fannin, D-Jonesboro, said.

Revenue falls at Louisiana casinos by nearly $30 million in Jan. decline

Flu shot not protecting older people, proving only 9 percent effective ATLANTA (AP) — It turns out this year’s flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting older people, the most vulnerable age group.

The vaccine is proving only 9 percent effective in those 65 and older against the harsh strain of the flu that is predominant this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

Health officials are baffled as to why this is so. But the findings help explain why so many older people have been hospitalized with the flu this year.

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Will County Judge Edward Burmila sentenced Peterson (above) to 38 years in prison Thursday for the murder of his wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2007.

Fisherman found possible mammoth tooth in waters off New Hampshire RYE, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire fisherman has discovered whale vertebrae, porpoise skulls and an old fuel tank that he thought was a treasure chest. Now, he may have hit the big time: a possible mammoth tooth.

Mike Anderson of Rye was fishing for scallops near Rye Harbor on Tuesday when he winched up the dredge he trawls behind his boat and noticed a 6-inch, triangular object amid the scallop shells and rocks.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Statelicensed casinos in Louisiana won $185.2 million from gamblers in January, down considerably from the December holiday season figure of $211.4 million and a slip from the January 2012 figure of close to $185.7 million.

None of the casinos escaped the post-holiday season drop-off, and only a few saw improvement in January-toJanuary comparisons.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In the Feb. 21 article titled “Hot Wheels: Roller Derby brings new sport to Baton Rouge,” the derby nickname “Villainelle” was incorrectly spelled “Villianelle,” and the nickname “Beat Ho Ven” was incorrectly spelled “Beat Hoven.” We regret the error.

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Friday, February 22, 2013

REORGANIZATION

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Transition Advisory Team task forces begin discussions Klei attended Revenue meeting Alyson Gaharan and McKenzie Womack Staff Writers

The Transition Advisory Team’s technology and finance subcommittees’ leaders joined to create six task forces that began meeting for the first time Thursday.

Thursday’s meetings were the first of many that will examine the strengths and weaknesses of each campus’ inner workings and define a course of action to suggest to the Transition Advisory Team, which will consolidate each task force’s suggestions for a final proposal to the Board of Supervisors this summer.

The task forces that held their first meetings Thursday were Administrative Services, Revenue Generation and Technology.

At the Administrative Services task force meeting, leaders began working with the idea that consolidating managerial operations, which differ from campus to campus, could improve efficiency and save money.

“We’re used to doing it one way, and everyone’s hesitant to change their campus’ system. But we aren’t as big as Walmart, and they do it,” said Jake Netterville, chairman of the Board Emeritus, Postlethwaite & Netterville.

Others at the meeting had different opinions about the direction the changes should take.

“There’s not a single system that’s perfect,” said Mike Ferrell, LSU Shreveport’s vice chancellor

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Center for Computation and Technology Director Joel Tohline addresses the rest of the Technology and Operations subcommittee during their meeting Thursday in Efferson Hall.

of Business Affairs. “You want to make sure you don’t have to go in and overhaul the systems just to do something new.”

Combining resources across the system has downsides as well as upsides, said SSA Consultant Christel Slaughter.

“What the wise people did is they picked the best of the banks and picked the best systems of each. That’s where higher education is headed,” said Lee Griffin, the Finance and Revenue subcommittee co-chair and president and CEO of the LSU Foundation.

Technology task force members strongly emphasized the importance of collaborations across campuses.

“There is a tremendous opportunity for the campuses, especially in the research area, to do some type of consolidation,” said Jennifer Rood, a professor and associate executive director of Cores and Resources at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

Deron Thaxton, executive director of Information and Education Technical Services at LSUAlexandria, said they should look at merging student data.

“If we can pool student data, we can start building trends and models, and we can look where we need to get students, who the model students are and where those students are going,” Thaxton said.

“We have to have the connectivity between campuses.”

Slaughter said some shortterm goals can save the University money in a short time and provide better functionality across campus units.

She said there is an idea of campuses coming together with a governance structure for technology.

“What it would mean is that every campus would have a tech person, and they would all meet – maybe monthly – and they would talk about issues in their commonly-shared systems,” Slaughter said.

FACULTY & STAFF

Reception celebrates retirement of two assistant registrars Lee, Yancey formed friendship Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer

Assistant registrars Patricia Lee and Pat Yancey celebrated more than 80 years of combined service for the University on Thursday at their retirement reception in the University Suite Stadium Club.

Lee has worked for the University for 49 years, and Yancey has worked for the University for 33 years. The two became close friends during their time in the Registrar office, where they would not only work, but also hang out and eat lunch together.

“I’ll always remember the good parties we’ve had in the office. We work hard and we party hard too,” Lee said.

Senior Associate Registrar Patti Beste said the two women would sit down to eat lunch in the break room of the office and share a bowl of popcorn together every day.

“You could always count on them to be in the lunch room with their popcorn, and sometimes we would join them,” Beste said.

“They are a huge part of the history of the office.”

As an assistant registrar, Lee worked for the University for 49 years and determined residency for in- and out-of-state students while running co-op programs with other universities.

“I’m the go-to person if you’re lost and you can’t find your way at LSU. You find yourself in my office,” Lee said.

She said she started working in the office as a receptionist and moved to work in registration.

Lee first met Yancey when they worked registration together and hired her for a full time

position afterward, Lee said.

She said since then, they have shared many good times in the office together.

Yancey, University alumna and assistant registrar, spent 33 years scheduling and moving classes.

“It’s quite the work load, but after 33 years I have it down to a science,” Yancey said.

Beste noted that Lee and Yancey have seen several transitions in the University registration system.

“They were there from the days of paper and pencil and...put everything in place,” Beste said.

“Even as their supervision, they have taught me more than I was teaching them.”

She said replacements have not been found and a search is still going on.

Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at fsuarez@lsureveille.com

“They would make recommendations and list their priorities, and there would be sort of a higherlevel governance that would then decide which are the most important.”

Thomas Klei, the interim vice chancellor for Research and Economic Development, was a special guest at the Revenue task force meeting. He said the University needs to invest in people to increase revenue.

“It starts with people … faculty that you hire, investing in students and graduate students,” Klei said. “We need money to drive the people apart.”

Robert Kuhn, interim CFO and vice chancellor for Finance and Administrative Services, said the cornerstone of the University is the faculty.

“LSU has been asking for

stability in the past year,” Kuhn said. “The root of this is recruiting and maintaining quality faculty.”

Kuhn also spoke about the problems with a per-credit tuition rate.

“To be a full-time student, all you have to do is take 12 hours.

Those hours taken above 12 are virtually free, and you pay the same whatever your major,” Kuhn said. “LSU is in a great position to increase revenue. LSU doesn’t require that freshmen live on campus. We’re in a good position that demand is very high and the quality is very high. I haven’t heard any complaints about the increase in residential life fees.”

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NATION

Friday, February 22, 2013

Elite universities offer online courses at no cost Terence Chea The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More of the world’s elite universities are joining the rush to offer “massive open online courses” that are broadening access to higher education. But some experts question how much so-called MOOCs can help students trying to earn college degrees.

Coursera and edX, two of the leading MOOC providers, announced major expansions Thursday that will roughly double the number of universities offering free online courses through their websites.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based edX, which was founded in May

by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it will add six new institutions, including five outside the United States, which will offer at least 25 additional courses.

The Mountain View-based Coursera said it will add 29 institutions, including 16 outside the United States. Over the next several months, the schools will offer 90 new courses, including some taught in French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.

“Having courses taught in other languages will enable more students to take our classes,” said Andrew Ng, a Stanford University professor who co-founded Coursera last April.

MOOCs have attracted

BARKER, from page 1

The first criticism is the philosophical and historical objection, which Barker said does not rule out miracles, but cannot address them.

“The miracle may have happened, but history is the wrong tool for knowing that,” Barker said.

After the historical method, Barker said the next step is to seek out naturalistic explanations for Jesus’ resurrection.

He referenced theories that Jesus never actually died and was just passed out or that those who claimed to witness his resurrection were hallucinating, but he said most naturalistic attempts to explain it give too much credit to the text.

The third critical method Barker mentioned involved internal discrepancies in the story that make it impossible to believe.

Barker said the New Testament’s different accounts of Jesus’ resurrection by his followers don’t add up to the same narrative, noting differences in the descriptions of the time, those who were present and various other elements.

“The internal contradictions don’t disprove the resurrection, they just severely damage the credibility of the documents,” he said.

Barker said the final and “most powerful” tool is to seek out

millions of students and captured who took traditional classes. the public imagination over the There was a steeper decline in past year, allowing people from performance among students all walks of life to learn from who are young, male, black or leading scholars at top-tier uni- economically disadvantaged, according to the report. versities — free of charge.

“Online education as it’s But the question remains: Can these large-scale, highly been developed so far, including automated classes help increase MOOCs, I don’t think has been college completion rates or lower effective for struggling students,” said Tom Bailey, the cost of earn‘We’re not finding you who directs Coing a degree?

ComSo far, only can’t learn online, but lumbia’s munity College a small number we’re finding a less Research Center. of institutions “We’re not findare offering deeffective outcome.’ ing you can’t gree credit for learn online, but MOOCs, but that Tom Bailey we’re finding a could change if more colleges de- Director of Columbia’s Community less effective outCollege Research Center come.” termine the digiEdX President Anant Agartal classes meet their academic wal said colleges should use standards.

Earlier this month, the Amer- MOOCs to improve — rather ican Council on Education said than replace — campus-based it will recommend credit for five education by combining online Coursera courses. The associa- lessons with classroom instruction is evaluating more MOOCs tion.

San Jose State University for possible credit recommendations, which many schools use to students who recently took a decide whether to grant credit for “blended” version of an edX engineering class performed signifnontraditional courses.

But some experts say icantly better than students who MOOCs can’t replace traditional took the classroom-based course, classroom learning, especially he added.

“I really believe the blended for struggling students who need more face-to-face interaction and model is really a key approach to mentoring to succeed. improving campus education,” A new study by Columbia Agarwal said.

The MOOC movement has University found that community college students who took also encountered some setbacks small-scale, online-only courses during its rapid expansion.

Earlier this month, Coursperformed worse and were more likely to drop out than peers era suspended an online course the evidence of legend in the story.

“With Christianity, either a real event or an exaggerated event happened,” Barker said.

Barker is the current co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, an organization whose primary goal he said is to ensure the separation of church and state across the country.

According to Barker, about 30 percent of people under the age of 30 are nonreligious, a statistic he called “huge.”

“Do your own thinking,” Barker said. “Don’t let a pope or a preacher or a missionary or a parent or a teacher tell you what you must think.”

Political science and communication studies senior Kyle Aycock said Barker ’s written work led to his full conversion from agnosticism to atheism.

Psychology sophomore Athena Lietzau said although she hasn’t read any of Barker ’s books, she has seen some of his debates and thinks his arguments are wellthought-out.

Barker said students who are questioning their faith should remember they are not alone, and even though it may be difficult right now, a light is at the end of the tunnel.

Contact Erin Hebert at ehebert@lsureveille.com

offered by Georgia Institute of Technology because of technical problems. The company hopes to relaunch the course, “Fundamentals of Online Education,” in the near future, Ng said.

Last week, a University of California Irvine professor, Richard McKenzie, said he would stop teaching a Coursera economics course halfway through the term because of disagreements over how to run the class.

McKenzie declined to comment Thursday, but Gary Matkin, UC Irvine’s dean of distance learning, said the course would continue as scheduled because the instructional materials have already been created.

“Prof. McKenzie is not accustomed (as few are) in teaching university-level material to an open, large and quite diverse audience including those who were not seriously committed to achieving the learning objectives of the course,” Matkin said in a statement.

Ng said Coursera played no role in McKenzie’s decision to stop teaching, but he noted that teaching a MOOC is quite different from teaching a traditional course and “it really isn’t for everyone.”

“We’re all experimenting still with what makes sense for MOOCs,” Ng said. “There will be missteps along the way.”

Coursera currently offers 220 courses from 33 institutions and has almost 2.8 million

registered users who have signed up for nearly 10 million courses.

Only a fraction of enrollees actually complete the courses, in part because it’s easy and free to sign up.

The 29 new Coursera partners include Chinese University of Hong Kong, Technical University of Denmark, National Autonomous University of Mexico as well as the universities of Copenhagen, Geneva and Toyko.

EdX, which currently offers 25 courses from six universities and has 700,000 registered users, will add six new members: Australian National University, Delft University of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, McGill University, Rice University and the University of Toronto.

Delft University in the Netherlands will be the first edX partner to provide courses as “open content,” which means that other universities are free to incorporate the materials in their offerings, said Agarwal.

“People can reuse it and remix it,” Agarwal said. “It enables courses to get better and better over time by allowing people to share content.”

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

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Unlikely Hero

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers to host Bama in rematch LSU looks to even score with Tide Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor

for the Tigers as sophomore center fielder Chris Sciambra followed with a four-pitch walk.

After surrendering singles to true freshmen Mark Laird and Alex Bregman, Milke completed the implosion, watching as senior left fielder Raph Rhymes crushed a fly ball to

Sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III raised his eyes and perked up when he heard the word, as if he had been waiting for it.

That word – “revenge” – will be on the collective mind of the LSU men’s basketball team when Next up for it plays host to Alabama on the Tigers: Saturday afternoon in the Who: LSU PMAC. The Ti- (15-9,6-7) gers (15-9, 6-7 vs. Alabama S o u t h e a s t e r n (18-8,10-3) Conference) and the Tide When: 12:30 p.m.

(18-8, 10-3 Saturday SEC) tussled Where: PMAC two weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Watch or listen Ala., with Ala- at home: SEC bama coming Network, 98.1 FM out on top in a 60-57 slugfest.

“I really wanted to win that game,” O’Bryant said. “After being down in Tuscaloosa, I really tried to play as hard as I could. So I’m going to try to do the same thing

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REMATCH, see page 11

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LSU players celebrate Thursday after senior left fielder Raph Rhymes (4) hit a walk-off single to lead the Tigers to a 6-5 win against BYU at Alex Box Stadium.

Nine-hole hitter Ibarra ties game in ninth to spark 6-5 LSU win Chandler Rome Sports Writer

On an admittedly frustrating evening when LSU hitters couldn’t catch up with BYU pitching, the Tigers got a lift from a seemingly unlikely source.

Junior third baseman and ninehole hitter Christian Ibarra lifted a

1-0 fastball over the wall in left to knot the game at five in the bottom of the ninth inning, propelling No. 9 LSU (5-0) to rally and capture a dramatic 6-5 victory against the Cougars (2-3).

Ibarra, mainly known for his defensive prowess at the hot corner, turned on the head-high heater to the surprise of the sparse Alex Box

Stadium crowd, but not to his teammates who had seen it all before.

“He’s got that little Spanish swag to him that I feel like he’s just going to launch one once in a while,” said senior first baseman Mason Katz. “We’ve seen it out of him, and he’s got the swing for it.”

Ibarra’s homer off Cougar closer Matt Milke opened the floodgates

SOFTBALL

Grand slam vaults LSU past Brigham Young Spencer Hutchinson Sports Contributor

The LSU softball team launched three home runs, including a seventh-inning grand slam from freshman first baseman Sandra Simmons to notch a 10-6 victory against BYU on Thursday in the first game of the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Palm Springs, Calif.

Eight of the Tigers’ 10 runs came from long balls, with junior infielder Allison Falcon and senior third baseman Tammy Wray each adding her own two-run home runs in addition to Simmons’ grand slam.

No. 11 LSU (11-1) led 6-2 before the bottom of the sixth inning, when BYU (4-7) tallied three runs off junior pitcher Meghan Patterson and one run off senior pitcher Rachele Fico in relief of Patterson.

Simmons’ base-clearing homer in the seventh gave LSU a four-run inning to match BYU’s and lifted the Tigers to their highest run total of the season.

“The coolest part about today’s game is that we were able to answer back every time after BYU scored,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “That was really exciting for us to be able to do that. It hasn’t been a typical thing for our team to outslug someone.”

The Tigers’ three home runs on Thursday raised their season total to 13, tying their total from last season.

Simmons, a California native, finished with the best performance of her young LSU career, playing in front of her family for the first time in an LSU uniform.

“It’s very exciting for me to be back home in California and

represent LSU in front of my family for the first time,” Simmons said.

“It’s still all about doing anything I can to help our team get the win.”

LSU snatched a 2-0 lead in the first inning with the first of its three home runs. Falcon’s two-run shot scored sophomore outfielder A.J. Andrews, who reached on a leadoff single to start the game.

Wray launched LSU’s second home run of the day in the fifth for a two-run shot that gave LSU a fourrun lead.

Wray’s homer was her teamleading third of the season. Her two RBI’s Thursday also gave her a team-high 11 RBI’s, two more than her 2012 total.

“You have to give all the credit to our hitters today,” Fico said. Fico GRAND SLAM, see page 11

LSU freshman first baseman Sandra Simmons throws the ball to home plate Feb. 8.

Simmons hit a grand slam Thursday to lift LSU to a 10-6 win against BYU.

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Morrison skips vault competition Battle of top-15 teams at Auburn Mike Gegenheimer Sports Contributor

After multiple injuries throughout her career, LSU junior gymnast Sarie Morrison is no stranger to watching the vault competition from the sidelines.

The only difference is she’s never done it the week after scoring a perfect 10 in the event — something she’ll have to do when the No. 6 LSU gymnastics team travels to No. 14 Auburn on Friday night.

“We have to be careful with her ankle,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “Sarie has a big frame, and she manages herself really well with her fitness and her commitment to giving us 100 percent.

We just feel like if we try going with her at this point in the season, we won’t have 100 percent of her in the postseason.”

Morrison compared the vault competition to riding a bike in the sense that she never really loses a feel for the competition despite skipping the event, sometimes weeks at a time.

According to Breaux and Morrison, the Dallas native will only compete in the vault at home meets and in the postseason in an attempt to give her as much rest as possible.

Morrison scored the team’s second consecutive perfect 10 after sophomore Lloimincia Hall scored a 10 in the floor competition the week before. LSU hasn’t scored consecutive 10s since the 2004 season and never by two different gymnasts.

“Being able to get back into the event was exciting,” Morrison said. “To be able to go out and get a 10 is such an honor and to be able to share that with my teammates and everyone in the PMAC. ... To be able to come back and get this 10 after all the adversities I’ve had is amazing.”

Morrison’s strong vault performance this season propelled the Tigers to No. 2 in the nation for the event — the same ranking LSU achieved for floor exercises.

This weekend will be the second meet of a four-meet stretch in which the Tigers will face a top20 program. Auburn, which isn’t considered a traditional power in the gymnastics world, has been on a steady incline in recent years.

“They’re going to be pushing hard to make this a pivotal point in the season for them and do it over LSU,” Breaux said.

“They’re going to jam as many students into the lower level of that bowl as they can. ... We have to rise up and be as good as the best team in the country in order to fulfill our goal for the next two weeks.”

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LSU junior all-around Sarie Morrison prepares to grab onto the uneven bars Feb. 15 during the Tigers’ 196.825-195.625 win against Arkansas in the PMAC.

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Track teams travel to SEC Men’s golf goes to Championships at Arkansas Hayt Invitational Sports Contributor

Despite being ranked No. 1, the LSU women’s track and field team is not the favorite to win the Southeastern Conference Championship meet this weekend at Arkansas.

No. 3 Arkansas is the expected winner.

LSU coach Dennis Shaver said to win the SEC Championship, teams must have both quality and depth, but winning the NCAA meet, which is in two weeks, only requires quality.

“The reason we’re ranked above Arkansas right now is because of our quality, not depth,” Shaver said.

Shaver said the SEC meet will be close, so every point the Lady Tigers can add on Friday and Saturday will help the team Sunday afternoon.

Shaver said the Lady Tigers must score in 12 or 13 of the 16 total events, but beating Arkansas competitors in the events will ultimately win the meet on the women’s side for LSU. “When you have that kind of result, it adds points to your team and it takes away some points from their team,” Shaver said.

LSU will also have to hold off No. 6 Florida, No. 7 Georgia and No. 9 Texas A&M. On the men’s side of the meet, No. 1 Arkansas will dominate the meet according to Shaver.

Thompson all played in the invitational last season. Presley finished 27th overall at 7-over 223 for the tournament while Kaufman shot 11-over and James Moran Thompson posted 14-over.

The tournament is being Sports Contributor hosted by the University of North The No. 12 LSU men’s golf Florida.

The LSU women’s golf team team will look to build on a strong start to the spring season when it will start its spring season in New begins play at the John Hayt Invi- Orleans on Sunday at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate. tational on Sunday in Florida.

Tulane University will host The Tigers finished second on Tuesday in the Mobile Bay Inter- the tournament at English Turn collegiate in Alabama, their first Country Club. The Lady Tigers did not play in the tournament tournament of the spring season.

“I felt like we had a good last season, but LSU coach Karen week,” said LSU coach Chuck Bahnsen said her players are faWinstead. “We started a little miliar with the course. slow, but in gen“English Turn ‘We have had success is a great place to eral everyone had a pretty solid the season,” there before. It is a good start week.”

Bahnsen said.

The invi- course that is narrow “We have gotten tational will be to play there a three rounds at the and normally the wind couple times and Sawgrass Coun- is blowing making it a the course is in try Club in Ponte great shape. We’re very good test.’ all really looking Verda Beach, Fla., forward to it.” and will conclude Chuck Winstead Bahnsen said on Tuesday. The LSU men’s golf coach her lineup will Tigers played in this tournament last season, fin- consist of juniors Lindsay Gahm and Ali Lucas, sophomore Madeishing eighth in a 15-team field.

“We have had success there lene Sagstrom and freshmen Elise before,” Winstead said. “It is a Bradley and Nadine Dreher.

The 18-team field will ingood course that is narrow and normally the wind is blowing clude Southeastern Conference opponents Auburn, Alabama, making it a very good test.”

Winstead said the Tigers will Florida and Texas A&M as well use the same lineup as the last as the defending champions tournament: juniors Andrew Pre- from Duke. sley and Smylie Kaufman along with sophomores Stewart Jolly, Curtis Thompson and Myles Contact James Moran at Lewis. jmoran@lsureveille.com Presley, Kaufman and

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LSU sophomore Rodney Brown throws in the shotput Feb. 15 during the LSU Twilight Meet at the Carl Maddox Field House.

Following the Razorbacks are No. 2 Florida and No. 3 Texas A&M. Shaver said the rest of the conference will scramble for the 4ththrough 8th-place rankings, including No. 16 LSU. The LSU men’s track and field team hasn’t won an SEC conference meet since 1990, and Shaver credits that to the team’s lack of depth.

“It’s just one of those things that’s a real challenge for us just because of the make up of our team,” he said.

Shaver said the SEC has always been this competitive, but the

addition of Texas A&M and Missouri has changed the dynamics of the meet. He said A&M has an overall solid program, but Mizzou brings competition in the throws on both the men’s and women’s side.

“When [the expansion] just happened last year, [we] don’t have enough time to adjust your team makeup to become more competitive,” Shaver said. “It’s those teams that are already made up that way that’ll have that success.”

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Perils in the pill cabinet

Spike in painkiller overdose deaths highlights underlying addiction problem in America SCUM OF THE GIRTH PARKER CRAMER Chief Columnist Welcome to America, where we’ll take anything to get high.

From heroin and crack cocaine to PCP and crystal meth — if it’s made in a bathtub, it’s gotta be good.

Can I get an amen?

But one of America’s deadliest killers isn’t a pill made in a tub, but rather, millions of pills, mass produced and over-prescribed to the point where a thriving black market now exists.

Nearly 40 Americans die each day from prescription painkiller overdose, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That amounts to 15,000 deaths per year, caused by an overdose from a pill deemed safe for their consumption by the Food and Drug Administration. The Associated Press implicates Vicodin and OxyContin, both prescription painkillers, as the cause of death in three out of every four overdose cases.

Prescription painkiller deaths now outnumber deaths caused by heroin and cocaine combined.

So what’s the real problem here? Is it the pills? Should we ban the medicine?

Of course not. It’s not the pills’ fault the consumer is an addict.

Painkillers are great, and they come in handy quite often. Off the top of my head, childbirth would be especially worse without them.

That being said, painkillers are

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OxyContin pills sit in a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. on Feb. 19. Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines. As in previous recent years, opioid drugs — which include OxyContin and Vicodin — were the biggest problem, contributing to three out of four medication overdose deaths.

overprescribed by doctors who are overworked to a populace that’s over-addicted.

It’s a serious problem, and must be handled as such. We shouldn’t react with prohibition — not that we ever would. Pharmaceuticals run this nation, not oil and gas, my friends.

Off topic, but relevant. Marijuana overdose doesn’t lead to death, and when taken appropriately, marijuana can relieve many of the same ailments as prescription medication, with much less risk to

the consumer.

Yet it remains prohibited. And instead, Americans are forced to take the only legal alternative for pain relief, highly addictive pills.

Thankfully, because there are so many advertisements for prescription medications, now I can tell my doctor what I need. What’s he (or she, all my single ladies) know that Google and I can’t figure out for ourselves?

Our current laws have not been written in our best interest. The “pill for every ailment” philosophy

has gotten way out of hand. The idea that synthetic is always better than natural has permeated society like a wet fart though the boys’ locker room.

These medicines help more people than they hurt, and we must acknowledge this. However, we shouldn’t be barred from exploring alternative options for pain relief.

Our bodies are our own, so who is the government to tell us what we can and can’t do with them?

If I want to smoke crack

“I think something needs to be cleared up here. TOPS does not offer a full ride to an in-state university. It only pays for tuition, but then you have to cover fees and housing for yourself. In fact, when I originally meet the requirements for TOPS, I was supposed to get tuition and then $800 back in my pocket, but I receive nothing from TOPS because it all goes to my fees, plus I have to pay extra to cover anything that TOPS doesn’t.

To answer your questions: Would they even attend

college at all?

Without TOPS, I would not be at LSU, and I doubt I’d be in a university at all. My parents wouldn’t have been able to afford it, neither for my older sister, me, or my younger sister who’s starting college next year. At best, I would’ve went to a trade school or a community college twenty minutes away from my hometown and then entered into whatever career I could find. And honestly, after starting a career/job, I doubt I’d return to an education system again unless I really

loathed my work environment.”

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and drink a 40 oz. soda in Times Square, I won’t be able to buy the soda. The crack is easy, New York pigeons actually poop little crack rocks. It’s pretty convenient.

But New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned big gulps to help combat obesity and rising healthcare costs. And while I maintain that I should be able to do what I want with my body, I think the government should help me not.

Bloomberg hasn’t made soda illegal — now I just have to walk my fat ass over to the machine and get a free refill. I can still be fat, he’s just made being fat inconvenient.

This is exactly how the federal government should handle the War on Drugs, including the prescription ones.

Instead of imprisoning drug offenders, why don’t we treat addiction as a public health issue and not a criminal offense?

The government will never ban prescription painkillers, but it can make them more difficult to get.

These medicines are overprescribed, and subsequently abused.

Someone is writing these prescriptions. Find out which doctors like to party, and you’ll find the source.

It’s much easier to be an addict when nobody notices you’re using.

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

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its greatest resources. We should seek to preserve these resources through responsible limits instead of constantly urging legislators to increase them. As an avid fisher, I see irresponsible practices far too often from those I share the water with.”

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Raising minimum wage only helps the right people FRIED PHILOSOPHY AARON FRIEDMAN Columnist Money — sweet, beautiful, hunger-staving, rub-it-all-overmy-body money.

Obama promised to raise minimum wage to $9.50 by 2011, and although it’s a too little too late, it looks like he’s trying to deliver.

Last Tuesday, Obama announced his push to raise minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 during his State of the Union address. My reaction? An excited, yet subdued “Hooray.”

I’ve worked several crap jobs in the past, including two that dealt with actual feces. Both of those jobs paid less than $9 an hour, and the thought that I could’ve made even 75 cents more to hose diarrhea and dog vomit off an

overactive, sick Labradoodle is a nice consolation.

It gives hope to millions of people like me and those who work the type of jobs I once held.

After all, minimum wage jobs may not require intensive training or a college degree, but they can still be physically and/or emotionally demanding.

Today’s minimum wage, however, is neither reflective of that effort, nor does it reflect changes in today’s economy.

When the folks over at The State of Working America — the Economic Policy Institute’s flagship publication — adjusted past wages for inflation, they found that minimum wage workers today make less than their 1970s counterparts.

The federal government has combatted inflation by raising minimum wage 10 times in the past 35 years, averaging one raise every three-and-a-half years. With the

last change occurring in 2009, it makes sense to raise the minimum wage now — the most peripheral reason being keeping with tradition.

The only thing that leads me to believe raising the minimum wage isn’t a good idea is the fact that I’m the one saying it.

I’m young, single and come from a family living above poverty. Obama’s proposal isn’t exactly aimed at helping me or, for that matter, most of you reading this.

If all goes according to plan, we’ll have college degrees within the next four years and won’t be working minimum wage jobs regardless of if we have families.

According to the Associated Press, however, 15 million Americans work for minimum wage, including some who may never work anything but a minimum wage job.

Although we may not be directly affected, we should consider the well-being of those people.

Having said that, opponents of the change claim those Americans will actually suffer from the raise to $9 an hour. Employers, they argue, will be forced to cut employee benefits or fire workers to meet rising costs. Furthermore, they’ll also be less likely to hire new employees with the high cost of training.

On the other hand, the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that raising the minimum wage in the past has had an inconclusive or insignificant effect on the job market.

Initial losses were offset by the attraction of higher paying jobs, which in turn lowered the employee turnover rate. The CEPR concludes that when employees’ salaries are adequate to cover their expenses, they’re less likely to leave, even when other $9 an hour jobs exist.

Of course, raising the minimum wage isn’t a cure-all for poverty. It may need to work in concert

with certain tax cuts or credits, and many without jobs won’t receive the benefits either way.

That doesn’t mean we should abstain from aiding the people we can, though. There’s certainly no shame in unintentionally helping college students or pimply teenagers from middle and upper class families along the way, either.

In the end, employers will be able to find an equilibrium and minimum wage workers will be able to help themselves while pumping money back into the economy.

As I see it, Congress is wasting time by having not approved the raise already — and time is money.

Aaron Friedman is a 22-year-old Spanish senior from Destrehan.

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Carnival Cruise failure could spark new vacation fad SHUT UP, MEG MEGAN DUNBAR Columnist The recent Carnival Cruise Lines engine fire that left 4,200 passengers and crew members drifting in the Gulf spurred me to a realization: I never, ever want to set foot on a cruise ship.

I’ve never been on a cruise.

The cheesy formal dinners, piano music and canned smiles just aren’t something my family or I enjoy.

Plus, there’s something odd about the idea that all the comforts of a midsize American town can be found in the middle of the sea, especially when this town is powered by a single engine with a barely functional backup plan.

I’m just going to hazard a guess that most of you would prefer spending your spring break with your feet firmly planted on terra firma, gazing out upon the sparkling Gulf instead of stuck inside a 15-story drifting Porta-Potty.

I mean, who wants to spend their vacation stranded in the middle of the ocean on a boat with no means of self-propulsion or sewage treatment in case of emergency?

We’re talking biggest oversight since the Titanic here. At least everyone returned to shore this time, unlike the 1912 tragedy.

There have been similar capsizing, torpedoing and collision incidences since, but the Triumph should be a catalyst for changes in cruise line safety. Certainly mainstream media latched onto and hyped the entire five-day ordeal enough for people to become passionate.

Maybe instead of promoting

JENNIFER REYNOLDS / The Associated Press Patricia Wagner, right, hugs her sister Mercedes Perez de Colon as their group is reunited on Feb. 15 after taking separate buses to Galveston, Texas from Mobile, Ala., where the disabled Carnival ship Triumph docked. Hundreds of passengers opted to take an eight-hour bus ride to Galveston from Mobile. Galveston is the home port of the ill-fated ship, which lost power in an engine-room fire last Sunday some 150 miles off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

cruise ship safety and spending the millions of dollars fixing the ship, Carnival could spin the Triumph as a “Survivor”-esque vacation to get to the roots of familial hardship.

Carnival’s PR department could design pamphlets for couples and family therapists to display in their waiting rooms.

“Experiencing a technologysoaked home life? Want to get away from it all and get to know your fellow vacationers on a deeper level?

Join us in the sunny Gulf of Mexico for a four-day, off-the-grid cruise.

Bond with your fellow passengers in a never-before-seen manner over

gourmet ketchup sandwiches and stale water!”

It could be a four-day immersive dive into strengths and weaknesses of character and past wrongs, and the crew could lead team-building exercises such as “Make Sure the Pregnant Woman has Water” and “Endure the Stench.”

Instead of “Survivor”’s voting people off the island, you could vote entire families – ones not acting like a cohesive unit – below decks, where the stink is greatest and ventilation least.

This could spur a whole new side to family vacation intensity.

Instead of the summerlong roadtrip with angsty teenagers, a short cruise could be the new desirable option.

This way, Dad doesn’t have to drive, and Mom doesn’t have to navigate.

This could drive vacation expenses way down as well, and we all know that money matters.

By the end, like the movies, everyone will have reached a deeper understanding of themselves and their family members.

Onboard fires similar to Carnival’s have happened with surprising regularity on other cruises, according to CNN, so this could be expanded to other lines with ease.

Just make sure you know how to swim, because something else could go wrong, and then you’d be stuck in a lifeboat for days.

But hey, what better way to pass the time than listening to your great-uncle’s stories about his childhood?

Megan Dunbar is a 19-year-old English junior from Greenville, S.C.

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deep left field that Jacob Hannemann misplayed, scoring Sciambra and sending the Tigers to their fifth straight win.

Laird’s single capped a four-hit night for the freshman, the most of his young Tiger career.

“I’ve been trying to settle in over the first couple of games,” Laird said. “I was just trying to find a quality pitch to swing at and tried to put it in play.”

Laird seemed to be the only Tiger in sync at the plate as the Cougar combo of Desmond Poulson and side-armer Derek Speigner fooled LSU all night, scattering eight hits through the first eight innings.

Katz opened the scoring in the second inning, busting out of an early-season slump with a solo home

run into the left field bleachers, putting the Tigers up 1-0.

The Cougars punched right back with four runs off of LSU sophomore starter Aaron Nola, including a threerun home run from center fielder Jaycob Brugman that hit to the deepest part of the ballpark.

Nola struggled with his command all night, walking a careerhigh three batters.

“I didn’t have my A-game,” Nola said. “I missed one of my spots in a crucial situation and [Brugman] made me pay for it.”

The Tigers would manufacture two runs in the bottom of the third after Laird doubled to open the frame and Rhymes drew a walk. Junior second baseman JaCoby Jones brought them both in with a double into the gap as he continued his torrid season.

LSU tied the game up in the

The Daily Reveille seventh inning when freshman shortstop Alex Bregman drove in Laird with a bloop double that barely landed fair in right field.

BYU pulled ahead again in the eighth as Brugman delivered again with an RBI double off Tiger reliever Hunter Devall, setting up the late-inning heroics.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri was unhappy with his team’s missed opportunities, but applauded the Tigers’ resolve heading into tonight’s contest with Southeastern Louisiana.

“We let some opportunities to score go by,” Mainieri said. “As I said through the first four games, nobody panics on our team.”

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this time around.”

O’Bryant exploded for 22 points – a career high at that point – and 11 rebounds in the first contest, good for one of his SEC-leading 11 double-doubles. O’Bryant set a new benchmark for points in a game with a 30-point performance at South Carolina last week, and he’s averaged 21.5 points over the Tigers’ last four games.

Though sophomore guard Anthony Hickey initially said Saturday’s matchup would be treated just like any other game, he went on to echo O’Bryant’s vengeful sentiments.

“It left a bad taste [in our mouths],” Hickey said. “We went down there, lost by three and had a couple of errors. We lost that game because we let them get up. We let them get in the paint more than we should. We’ve just got to keep them out of the paint.”

Hickey will be tasked with defending Alabama junior guard Trevor Releford, who leads the Crimson Tide with 14.5 points per game.

Releford was one of four Alabama players to score in double figures in the first game between the two.

“I know I’m going to get ballscreened, but I’ve got to keep [Releford] in front of me,” Hickey said.

“I’m going to do my best. I’m going to do better than I did in Alabama.”

The LSU guards are undersized in comparison with their Crimson counterparts, and Hickey said the Tigers’ focus on offense will be to

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was awarded the win, pitching the final two innings of the contest.

Patterson received a no-decision, pitching five innings and giving up four earned runs on nine BYU hits.

“Meghan definitely missed some pitches location wise and was a little bit up in the zone,” Torina said. “She made more mistakes than she’s made in a while. At the same

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LSU sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III evades defenders Feb. 16 in the Tigers’ 80-68 victory against Mississippi State in the PMAC.

use their speed to penetrate into the lane. LSU coach Johnny Jones acknowledged the disparity in size, but stressed the importance of playing with a sense of urgency and making the proper rotations on defense.

LSU will spend the last leg of its season trying to improve its seeding for the SEC tournament, as it currently sits at ninth in the conference. With only three home games remaining on the final five-game slate, O’Bryant placed significance

on the chance to defeat Alabama on his home court.

“We really should have won [the first game], but we let some opportunities slip away, and I really think Alabama knows that.”

O’Bryant said. “... Hopefully they’re prepared for us, because we’re definitely prepared for them.”

time, BYU is a quality offense.

They are known for their offense and will make you pay when mistakes are made.”

Thursday’s matchup was the first of five games in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic this weekend.

The Tigers will close out the weekend with games against Ohio State and UNLV on Friday, No. 14 Arizona on Saturday and No. 16 UCLA on Sunday.

The Tigers’ games against

Arizona and UCLA will be their first against ranked opponents since facing then No. 22-ranked North Carolina twice in LSU’s seasonopening Tiger Classic tournament.

LSU’s lone loss of the season came in a 3-1 defeat in the second game against the Tar Heels.

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