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A Reason to Race

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Runners take off from the starting line of the 5k Susan G. Komen Baton Rouge Race for the Cure on Saturday on Nicholson Drive Extension.

Race for the Cure brings out more than 15,000 supporters

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ore than 15,000 runners, supporters and breast cancer survivors gathered Saturday at the LSU Old Front Nine for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

This is the 17th year Race for the Cure has been serving East Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes, and it’s the fifth year the University has hosted the event.

“LSU serves Race for the Cure very well and has been accommodating to our needs,” said Baton Rouge Affiliate President Angela Miller.

In addition to the accommodations provided by the University, Komen set up an exclusive tent for breast cancer survivors at the race.

The tent, sponsored by Zeta Tau Alpha sorority nationally and run by the University’s chapter locally, provided breakfast and small gifts to the survivors as a way to show support.

As with all Komen Races for the Cure, a 5k run began at Nicholson Drive Extension and Ceba Lane, traveled through campus along Dalrymple Drive then West

Lakeshore Drive, and finished on began coming to Race for the Cure Nicholson Drive Extension. four years ago as a way to show The Baton Rouge Komen af- support for her grandmother. She filiate localized Race for the Cure started a team for Phi Mu sorority, to Louisiana by holding a jamba- which grew from 52 girls last year laya competition to determine the to 70 this year. best jambalaya chef. Forty teams “Getting more girls [to participarticipated in this additional fun- pate] means we are committed to draising effort to contribute to the do doing something about breast $2.8 million raised locally. cancer,” Bates said. “It is the small“It is an element of Race for est difference I can make all year.” the Cure,” Miller The event said. “It is also a ‘Getting more girls [to began with a oneway to provide participate] means we mile fun run for a festival atmosupporters of all sphere and is fun are committed to doing ages who were to participate, as something about breast not registered to well.” compete in the 5k cancer.’

Miller said race. raising money for With a oneSamantha Bates breast cancer remile fun run, the School of Social Work search is important 5k run and walk graduate student because Louisiana and the jambaleads the nation in deaths caused by laya competition, survivors, runbreast cancer. ners and supporters concluded the Loy James, Baton Rouge resi- event with a parade and a celebradent and breast cancer survivor, has tion for the survivors. been coming to Race for the Cure The celebration included for 20 years. awards and a performance by Rani “I come because I’m a survi- Whitfield, also known as the Hip vor, my mother is a survivor and Hop Doc. He performed a song he dear friends are survivors,” James made specially for the Race called said.

“Pretty and Pink.”

Samantha Bates, graduate stuRACE, see page 10 dent at the School of Social Work,

Breast cancer rates increase for young women Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer

Breast cancer awareness and prevention are on the rise, and so are the detection rates for young women.

Last week, The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study stating women between the ages of 25 and 39 diagnosed with breast cancer rose approximately 3.6 percent a year from 2000 to 2009.

Though breast cancer research has made several strides in recent years, these numbers are still rising.

Sydney Prescott, nurse practitioner and oncology specialist, said reasons for the increase could be varied, such as lack of exercise, hormones in food and being overweight.

The study does not mean younger women should be screened earlier, said Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the American Cancer Society Len Lichtenfeld in a STUDY, see page 10

Check out a photo gallery from the Susan G. Komen Baton Rouge Race for the Cure at lsureveille.com.

Les Miles rumor: a lesson to journalists MIC’D UP MICAH BEDARD Sports Columnist If you’re not first, you’re last.

Ricky Bobby’s dad was most likely under the influence of drugs when he uttered that phrase in “Talladega Nights,” but it definitely applies to the world we live in today.

Journalism has not been given an exemption to the rule.

The rush to be the first to break a story has become more addictive in the journalism realm than Blue Magic in “Breaking Bad.” Regardless of if the intention was to break a story, a prime example of how rumors gain traction came up Saturday night when a Western Kentucky University broadcast news student and Bleacher Report contributor Sam McGaw tweeted out a rumor he read about LSU football coach Les Miles. “@sammcgaw: There are rumors that LSU head football coach Les Miles will step down on Monday Read what after allegedly hav- was being ing an affair with a said on student. Hmm...”

Twitter McGaw stated about the in additional tweets that he read about rumor, p.16. the innuendo on an online message board. The problem? The site was Bamaonline.com, devoted to LSU’s biggest rival.

Now Mr. McGaw certainly wasn’t the first person to make this RUMOR, see page 8

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INTERNATIONAL Accused Scottish cardinal admits unspecified sexual failings, resigns LONDON (AP) — A Scottish cardinal on Sunday acknowledged having engaged in sexual misbehavior, apologized for his actions, and promised to stay out of the church’s public life in a statement that comes at an awkward time for the Vatican.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien had been Britain’s highest-ranking Catholic leader until he resigned Monday from his position as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, a departure prompted by a newspaper report about unnamed priests’ allegations that he acted inappropriately toward them.

Kerry says U.S. releasing millions in aid to help Egypt’s future democracy CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy.”

Yet Kerry also served notice that the Obama administration will keep close watch on how Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt’s first freely elected president, honors his commitment and that additional U.S. assistance would depend on it.

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Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said priestly celibacy is “not of divine origin” and should be reconsidered.

Swiss voters approve plan to enforce tougher limits on corporate greed BERLIN (AP) — Swiss voters voiced their anger at perceived corporate greed Sunday by approving a plan to boost shareholders’ say on executive pay.

Some 67.9 percent of voters backed the “Rip-Off Initiative,” with 32.1 percent against, according to the official count broadcast by Swiss public television station SRF. The outcome of the referendum was considered a foregone conclusion after opinion polls in recent months showed strong public support for the initiative.

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Smiling 3-month-old polar bear cub debuts at western New York zoo

Power failure causes short outage, blamed for New Orleans water issues

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A smiling, playful 3-month-old polar bear cub has made its public debut at the Buffalo Zoo in western New York.

The fluffy white cub was introduced Friday as the zoo announced the next phase of fundraising for a new $18 million polar bear exhibit.

About $4 million is still needed.

The Buffalo Zoo says it’s one of only two zoos in North America to have polar bear births in 2012.

The cub is still too small to exhibit but she’s visible via closedcircuit television at the zoo on weekday afternoons.

Mo. taxidermist preserves man’s best friend for distraught clients

Tamed Dragon supply ship arrives at space station after initial problems

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Taps in New Orleans briefly went dry Sunday after a boiler’s heating flame went out of control in the plant supplying electricity for the city’s water treatment.

Marcia St. Martin, executive director of the city’s Sewerage and Water Board, said the outage lasted less than 20 minutes Sunday morning. Twitter came alive with residents bemoaning the loss about 9 a.m., and Mayor Mitch Landrieu tweeted to his followers that the city was looking into the matter.

Martin said the loss of pressure opened the way for possible contamination, and water samples are being taken citywide.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private Earth-to-orbit delivery service made good on its latest shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, overcoming mechanical difficulty and delivering a ton of supplies with high-flying finesse.

To NASA’s relief, the SpaceX company’s Dragon capsule pulled up to the orbiting lab with all of its systems in perfect order. Station astronauts used a hefty robot arm to snare the unmanned Dragon, and three hours later, it was bolted into place.

(AP) — Southern University will hold a “Stop the Violence March” Tuesday to protest violence in Baton Rouge, in memory of Treyvon Martin’s death.

The Advocate reports the march is scheduled for 5 p.m. University spokeswoman Erin Fulbright says students and residents from the surrounding community will gather in the Sith-Brown Memorial Union Courtyard at 4:30 p.m. before proceeding down E.C. Harrison Drive.

SLATER, Mo. (AP) — Pet lovers across the country count on Saline County taxidermist Anthony Eddy to faithfully preserve their beloved companions for posterity. Even if it means shelling out thousands of dollars and waiting more than a year for the pets’ return.

Departed pets spend up to one year in hulking, freeze-dry metal drums before they are painstakingly preserved and returned to owners.

Eddy said his business is one of the few in the country to specialize in pet taxidermy and has a twomonth waiting list.

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Veterinary technician Alice Rohauer holds a 3-month-old polar bear as she is shown to the public during the “Our Bears Belong in Buffalo” event on March 1.

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CONSTRUCTION

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Union Square parking garage opens after six-week delay Students with passes credited $40 Gabrielle Braud Contributing Writer

Students who bought parking passes for the parking garage at LSU Union Square will finally be getting their money’s worth after the six-week delay to the garage’s opening.

A University broadcast email announced the garage’s opening Friday and said students with passes would be credited $40 to offset the delay.

Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation Director Gary Graham said issues with two or three of the elevators in the garage delayed the opening, which was set for early January before heavy rain delayed final fencing and landscape work.

The 750-space parking garage at LSU Union Square divides student parking, faculty and staff parking as well as paid meter parking, with access to the garage from East Campus Drive.

Student parking permits for the garage cost $330, compared to the $165 students pay for resident, Greek and commuter passes, Graham told The Daily Reveille in January.

The garage consists of 90 spaces for faculty and staff, 200 spaces for students and 460 spaces of metered parking, Graham said.

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The Union Square parking garage, originally slated to open in early January, opened Friday. The garage will add 750 spots for students, faculty and staff and visitors.

available on the first floor, with student parking on the fifth and sixth floors of the garage. Wand-accessed parking is reserved around the clock for assigned permit holders only.

Paid metered parking is also available on the second, third and fourth floors for $1.50 per hour every day from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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

Graham said he expects the

garage to raise $1.2 million in revenue, with most of that money coming from the visitor parking in order to pay back the bond used to build the garage.

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

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

LSU Police Department Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said the police department is not going to have anyone directly

assigned to patrolling the garage, but there will be frequent patrols of the area.

“We will concentrate with mountain bike and motorcycle officers because it will be easier for them to maneuver in and out of the garage,” Lalonde said. “Other

officers will still patrol the area 24/7, just like we patrol all the other areas of campus.”

Contact Gabrielle Braud at gbraud@lsureveille.com

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Advertising professor and author W. Glenn Griffin spoke to students at the AdFed Conference on Saturday about research strategies and the different ways advertising professionals think of their great ideas.

“Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” was the theme of the American Advertising Federation student conference at the Journalism Building.

Throughout the day, different speakers gave presentations on public relations, account management, video production, social media and innovations in advertising, and at the end of the conference, professionals reviewed the students’ portfolios.

This year, the conference featured more diverse speakers from different branches of advertising, according to co-chair of the event and graphic designer at Xdesign Inc. Tiffanie Pitre.

“This year we got a more diverse group of speakers and brought in elements of PR and social media strategists and asked students what they wanted,” Pitre said.

Advertising senior Haley Shales said this was her third time attending the conference.

“It has definitely helped me talk to and develop a better relationship with professionals,” Shales said.

Griffin, advertising professor at the University of Alabama and author of the book “The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising’s Big Ideas are Born” was a headliner of the conference and spoke about his book, the changing industry and “metacognition.”

He explained metacognition is simply “thinking about thinking,” and a driving force of anyone in advertising.

“The conversation culturally about advertising is very bleak.

People think we’re professional liars,” Griffin said.

In an attempt to change this conversation, Griffin and his coauthor, Deborah Morrison an

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advertising professor at the University of Oregon, wrote a book asking advertising professionals to investigate their creative processes and illustrate them.

He said this concept does more than just let readers know how advertising professionals think — it forces metacognition into perspective as an imperative part of the creative process.

“You understand how your mind works better than anyone else does. People in advertising must be metacognitively efficient,” Griffin said. “If you are metacognitively aware, you are going to be able to put your mind into full gear when you need to.”

This year’s conference also included a social media panel of local professionals: CEO of College District Jared Loftus, creative director of Socially Awkward John Worrel and social media strategist at Zehnder Communications Ben West.

Pitre stressed the importance of students acknowledging the strong local talent, saying students do not need to move to Madison Avenue to produce good work.

“We want to keep attracting young talent,” Pitre said.

During the panel, Worrel advised students to experiment with social media branding.

“Throw something out there and try to be creative with it and see how it works,” Worrel said.

Advertising senior Johnny Sciortino asked the panel whether to post funny unrelated content or posts with links for products when running social media for a brand.

Loftus said balance is key.

“You need to balance what you are there for, what you like and what sells,” Loftus said.

West encouraged all advertising professionals to research in order to stay relevant.

“Research on social media so people know what you are talking about is important when developing the voice of a brand,” West said.

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SAFETY

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University encourages students to report concerns C.A.R.E. team can intervene, help Gabrielle Braud Contributing Writer

It’s that moment when you see something sketchy on campus — someone’s behavior causes you to take a second glance or a classmate seems a bit off — but you can’t think of who would care.

There is one organization on campus whose job is to do just that: to care.

Following the rise in random acts of violence over the past decade, universities have developed behavioral intervention teams to provide resources to their campus communities when people exhibit or report behaviors of concern.

The University has a 4-year-old

behavioral intervention team, known as the C.A.R.E. team, which stands for communicate, assess, refer and educate. The team seeks to identify students in crisis, in distress or of concern and intervene in the individuals’ lives by providing resources that will prevent escalation of the situation.

Jennie Stewart, the assistant dean of students and the associate director of C.A.R.E., said the need for intervention could be triggered by anything ranging from a selfreferral to something someone has observed, heard, seen or read, a student’s outburst in class, declining grades or even getting arrested.

Anyone can report to the C.A.R.E. team using a link on the Student Life and Enrollment website called LSU Cares.

Stewart said the C.A.R.E. team’s response depends on the nature of what is reported.

“The more information people provide, the better, because it gives us a broader range of options for how to respond,” Stewart said.

In certain cases where a student might touch several different departments, that individual is discussed at weekly C.A.R.E. team meetings when members put puzzle pieces together about the situation and share and gather information, Stewart said.

The C.A.R.E. team is made up of representatives from various campus life groups who are better able to determine the best way to intervene and get an individual the resources they need in complicated instances.

However, Stewart said most things shared with C.A.R.E. are not going to go through the team.

“I’m like the middle of the spider web,” Stewart said. “I am serving students by trying to gather and

share information so that we know the best and most efficient way that they can be served.”

Stewart said C.A.R.E. reports increase and are more severe during the spring semester with reports regarding mental health and substance abuse. In contrast, the fewer reports in the fall semester tend to reflect student adjustment issues, drinking and substance abuse.

LSUPD’s C.A.R.E. team member Sgt. Kevin Scott said many of the issues that are brought to the team come from police interaction with students.

“We see things at all hours,” Scott said. “We are the only ones students can call when everyone is at home.”

LSUPD’s 24-hour availability to students allows them to be the “eyes and ears” on the C.A.R.E. team, Scott said.

For this reason, Scott said

students should not think of police as enforcers, but as valuable contacts for concerns.

“In my experience on the team and interacting with students, faculty and staff, there is a large percentage of folks who don’t want to call the police because they think that is too severe based on concerns,” Scott said.

Scott said the LSUPD is not going to evaluate a situation as an enforcer but instead will focus efforts on making contact with the appropriate resources to help an individual.

“That may have been true 15 or 20 years ago, but law enforcement’s role is changing and evolving with social trends to deal with folks in distress,” Scott said.

Contact Gabrielle Braud at gbraud@lsureveille.com

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SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Crews on Sunday razed more than half of the Tampa-area home perched over a huge sinkhole that swallowed a man three days ago, managing to salvage some keepsakes for family members who lived there.

Jeremy Bush, 35, tried to save his brother, Jeff, 37, when the earth opened up and swallowed him Thursday night. On Sunday morning, Bush and relatives prayed with a pastor as the home — where he lived with his girlfriend, Rachel Wicker; their daughter, Hannah, 2; and others — was demolished and waited for firefighters to salvage anything possible from inside.

Early Sunday morning, just before the demolition began, Bush and an unidentified woman knelt and prayed at the mailbox in front of the home, owned by Leland Wicker, Rachel’s grandfather, since the 1970s.

After praying, Bush and the woman walked across the street to a neighbor’s lawn to watch the demolition.

The operator of the heavy equipment worked gingerly, first taking off a front wall. Family belongings were scooped onto the lawn gently in hopes of salvaging parts of the family’s 40-year history in the home.

As of Sunday afternoon — when demolition had stopped for the day and only a few walls of the home remained — a Bible, family photos, a jewelry box and a pink teddy bear for Hannah were among the items saved. Firefighters also were able to pick out the purse of one of the women in the home.

Cheers went up from family, friends and neighbors each time something valuable was salvaged.

Wanda Carter, the daughter of Leland Wicker, cradled the large family Bible in her arms. She said her mother and father had stored baptism certificates, cards and

photos between the pages of that Bible over the years.

“It means that God is still in control, and He knew we needed this for closure,” she said, crying.

Carter said she lived in the home from age 11 to 20, and she had to close her eyes as the home was knocked down.

“Thank you for all of the memories and life it gave us,” she said.

The Rev. John Martin Bell of Shoals Baptist Church said he had been with the family all morning.

“We just prayed with them,” he said.

He added that all five who lived in the house — Bush, Wicker, Hannah and two others aged 50 and 45 — were in need of support and prayers from the community.

Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill said the remaining walls of the home would be knocked down Monday and then crews would turn to clearing the debris as much as possible to allow officials and engineers to see the sinkhole in the open. Officials also will determine what will happen to the two homes on either side of the nowdemolished house; experts say the sinkhole has “compromised” those homes, but it’s unclear whether steps can be taken to save them.

Several generations of family members lived in the home at the time of the ground collapse, including Jeff Bush, the man now presumed dead.

Jeremy Bush tried to save his brother by jumping into the sinking dirt hole. He had to be pulled out of the still-shifting hole by a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Deputy, who was visibly shaken when talking about the incident more than a day later.

“I’ve never seen anything move so fast and do so much destruction,” Deputy Douglas Duvall said.

The search for Jeff Bush, 37, was called off Saturday. He was in his bedroom Thursday night in Seffner — a suburb of 8,000 people 15

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Demolition experts watch as the home of Jeff Bush, 37, is destroyed Sunday in Seffner, Fla., after a sinkhole opened underneath it late Thursday evening swallowing Bush. Rescuers said there were no signs of life since the hole opened Thursday night.

miles east of downtown Tampa — when the ground opened and took him and everything else in his room.

Five others in the house at the time escape unharmed as the earth crumbled.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is conducting the investigation. Detective Larry McKinnon said the sheriff’s office and the county medical examiner cannot

declare Bush dead if his body is still missing. Under Florida law, Bush’s family must petition a court to declare him deceased.

“Based on the circumstances, he’s presumed dead; however the official death certificate can only be issued by a judge and the family has to petition the court,” McKinnon said.

The area around Seffner is known for sinkholes due to the

geography of the terrain, but they are rarely deadly. No one — from longtime public safety officials to geologists — could remember an incident where a person was sucked into the earth without warning.

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‘The Last Great Race’

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The competitive part of world’s most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod, starts Sunday in Willow, Alaska, 50 miles north of Anchorage. The race teams leave the big crowds behind for remote terrain shared mostly with their dogs on a grueling 1,000mile trek through unpredictable wilderness to the old gold rush town of Nome.

Whoever reaches Nome first wins a new

truck and $50,400. The next 29 mushers to cross the finish line will split the rest of the $600,000 purse.

Here’s a gallery of pictures spanning the last three years of “The Last Great Race.”

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Rig owner cites BP’s estimates ‘Giant Slayer’ makes $28 million, tops box The Associated Press

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Oil can be seen April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.

The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 says BP hampered efforts to stop the resulting gusher of oil by misleading government officials about how many barrels of oil were flowing each day from the damaged well on the Gulf floor.

The Transocean corporation’s assertions were filed Friday in federal court in New Orleans, where a civil court trail began last week to determine percentages of blame and how much BP, Transocean and others will pay for the April 2010 catastrophe that killed 11 workers and sent millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf for 87 days.

“In short, beginning in late April and continuing throughout May 2010, BP repeatedly represented to source control decision-makers, Congress, the press and the public that 5,000 bpd was its best estimate of the flow rate,” the Transocean filing said. “It withheld numerous documents, analysis and estimates that would have allowed those outside BP to realize that BP’s flow rate claims were misleading and fraudulent.”

Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to BP, says

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the leak could have been stopped two months earlier. The motion filed Friday seeks to limit or eliminate Transocean’s liability for damages, and outlines a case for collecting damages from BP itself.

Transocean’s filing says federal officials attempted a method of stopping the flow that was destined to fail because oil was spewing at a greater rate than BP was publicly acknowledging. That method, known as “top kill,” involved plugging the well by injecting drilling mud and solid material.

The attempt failed. Transocean, citing various documents and evidence including BP’s recent guilty plea to criminal charges, said BP was well aware of estimates that much more oil was flowing, varying from 70,000 to 100,000 barrels per day.

Ultimately, a device known as a “capping stack” stopped the flow.

Transocean said that, but for BP’s actions, the oil flow could have been stopped sometime in May. BP has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges and has racked up more than $24 billion in spill-related expenses, including $4 billion in criminal penalties.

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company and its partners in the drilling project are liable for much more in civil damages under the Clean Water Act and other environmental regulations.

BP could be on the hook for nearly $18 billion if a judge finds that it acted with “gross negligence.”

The trial resumes today and is expected to last for months.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It wasn’t exactly a mighty victory, but “Jack the Giant Slayer” won the weekend at the box office.

The Warner Bros. 3-D action extravaganza, based on the Jack and the Beanstalk legend, made just $28 million to debut at No. 1, according to Sunday studio estimates. It had a reported budget of just under $200 million.

But the studio also hit a milestone on the global front with Peter Jackson’s fantasy epic “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” crossing the $1 billion mark worldwide. The first of three films based on the classic J.R.R. Tolkien novel has made $301.1 domestically and $700 million internationally.

“Jack the Giant Slayer” comes from Bryan Singer, director of “The Usual Suspects” and the first two “X-Men” movies. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Ian McShane and Stanley Tucci.

Among other new releases, the college romp “21 & Over” from Relativity Media made only $9 million this weekend to open in third place. And the horror sequel “The Last Exorcism Part II” from CBS Films debuted in fourth place with just over $8 million.

Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros.’ executive vice president of theatrical distribution, said “Jack the Giant Slayer” opened lower than the studio had hoped, but he’s

encouraged by its CinemaScore, which was a B-plus overall and an A among viewers under 18. One bit of good news for “Jack” is that it had a 56-percent uptick from Friday to Saturday, suggesting strong word-of-mouth and more family audiences for the PG-13 adventure.

“That tells us that the audiences that are seeing it really do like it,” Goldstein said. “The international opening in Asia has been very strong — the 3-D component of the special effects works in a big way outside the domestic marketplace.”

“Jack the Giant Slayer” made $13.7 million in 11 international territories for a worldwide total of $41.7 million. Internationally, “A Good Day to Die Hard,” the fifth film in the blockbuster Bruce Willis franchise, was the big winner of the weekend with $18.3 million for a global total of nearly $222 million.

Domestically, this is the sixth weekend in a row that movie ticket sales are down, said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. He pointed out that many of the action pictures aimed at men this year — including “Snitch,” “The Last Stand,” “Bullet to the Head” and “Parker” — have been disappointments at the box office.

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assertion about Miles, true or not, and certainly won’t be the last. But he should have known better.

I couldn’t believe the 165 Twitter accounts that retweeted McGaw and the 30,000-plus people who hit the follow button on his Twitter account. People believe anything they read on the Internet, especially when it’s from someone who is employed in the media industry.

When all those blog enthusiasts and message board mavens saw someone with a journalistic background who found the assertion plausible enough to send it out to the masses, they took the bait, hook, line and sinker. If you’re going to tweet something out, rumor or not, about a 59-year-old man having an extra-marital affair with a student, you better have sources to back it up.

After seeing McGaw’s tweet and other rumblings of the Miles rumor, a reporter here at The Daily Reveille contacted LSU Sports Information Director Michael Bonnette about the ordeal. He sent a text message in reply saying LSU doesn’t comment on online rumors, and there was and is no news conference scheduled for today.

Although I’m not a journalism major, I’ve been involved with both the print and broadcast aspects of Student Media at LSU for more than two years, and I’m smart enough to know you have to take message boards for what they are: places that give fans the opportunity to bring up whatever comes to mind when they wake up in the morning.

If I were to report news from an LSU message board, I could have reported actress and former Brown University student Emma Watson was at the LSU baseball game Friday night when she was nowhere to be seen.

McGaw’s assertion would have been fine if he was just an average Joe trying to stir up trouble, but as a journalist, he should have seen these repercussions coming his way.

Saturday was a warning to anyone trying to make a name for themselves in today’s journalism business: You are what you tweet.

Journalists have to think of the impact of the information they send out on social media because they will be held accountable and reputations will be damaged if what they report turns out to be false.

Even if the outlandish rumor does turn out to be valid, McGaw’s and others’ assertions on the Miles fiasco would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Sourcing stories and reporting news shouldn’t revolve around message boards and hearsay.

McGaw retroactively tweeted multiple times he hadn’t talked to any sources or done any research into the matter. He just put out a rumor he heard about on the Internet.

If he is indeed right, it’s just a one-in-a-million occurrence and shouldn’t set precedence for aspiring journalists from here on out.

Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.

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Economy hamstrung by D.C.’s brinkmanship Nicholas Riccardi The Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) — Three budget crises ago, in early 2011, Republicans and President Barack Obama faced off over raising the debt ceiling — and Alison Brown saw the writing on the wall.

Washington had entered the cycle of partisan brinksmanship over the budget that has sown confusion among federal agencies and delayed contracts to small companies like Brown’s Navsys Corp., which designs satellite navigation systems in this military town.

So Brown slashed her 40-strong workforce in half. And as she feared back then, her revenues have since plunged by half.

The latest crisis hit Friday with across-the-board automatic spending cuts. They total about $85 billion, but the economic damage created by two years of showdowns is far greater. And there’s no end in sight: Temporary resolutions funding the government expire on March 27. May brings another debt ceiling standoff.

“We’re planning for the worst,” Brown said in her office with a view of the Rampart Range, a portrait of President George W. Bush on the shelf behind her.

“We’re not going to be taking risks and making investments, and that’s bad for the country as a whole.”

Thousands of businesses are in similar straits, from defense contractors like Navsys to wind turbine manufacturers to wheat farmers. It is one reason the U.S. economic recovery has been so persistently anemic. But it is happening quietly, drowned out by dueling news conferences inside the Beltway and general disgust at the perpetual drama over federal spending.

In a paper this year, three economists estimated that 2.3 million private sector jobs have been lost since 2008 because of uncertainty over government policy.

That uncertainty has spiked dramatically since the start of the budget showdowns in 2011.

While debates have always generated some uncertainty, “now every single decision is subject to this excruciating process,” said Scott R. Baker, one of the paper’s authors and an economics professor at Stanford University.

“We seem to be stuck in this series where we’re staggering from politically made crisis to politically made crisis, and even if we solve it, we do so in a way that lowers confidence in our ability

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President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans made no progress last week in heading off $85 billion in budget-wide cuts that automatically started taking effect Friday.

to deal with the next one,” Baker said.

With deficits setting records in recent years, Obama insists on a mix of tax increases and spending cuts. Republicans insist on cutsonly. Voters ensured two more years of uncertainty by re-electing Obama and a Republican-controlled House in November.

The impact is felt in Colorado, an economic microcosm for the country with 7.6 percent unemployment, only 0.2 percent below the national average. Its economy includes a robust aerospace industry and several military bases, and it contributes more in federal taxes than it takes in.

On the eastern plains, Colorado farmers should be enjoying skyrocketing prices for wheat, soybeans and other staples. Instead, they’re fretting over the fate of the farm bill that has been held up in the budget debates. Farmers don’t know if they’ll still be protected from crop failures or other natural disasters. A last-minute, temporary extension Congress issued in January is little comfort to those who must decide what to plant based on the seasons, not the congressional calendar.

“You can tell that people are keeping their money close to them, waiting for resolution,” said Kent Peppler, a grain farmer in the town of Mead who has put off buying machinery. “The farm bill is like

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the rule book. It’s pretty hard to play the game if you don’t know what the rules are.”

Denver’s suburbs were partly insulated from the economic downturn by a strong renewable energy industry. But wind energy tapered off when a federal tax credit, due to expire at year’s end, became a hostage of the presidential election. Republican Mitt Romney called it a wasteful subsidy. Obama and some Republicans called it crucial to a growing industry.

The credit was extended in January, a few days after it expired, for one year. But that was too late for Vestas, a Denmarkbased wind turbine manufacturer that employed 1,700 people in Colorado at the start of 2012. On Feb. 21, it announced it was cutting 10 percent of its remaining 1,100 manufacturing workers because of the late extension.

“It does take a while to get the industry re-started,” said Peter Kelley of the American Wind Energy Alliance, which has tracked thousands of layoffs caused by credit uncertainty. The industry fears more turmoil because the new credit expires in December, he said.

“We continue to tell everyone on Capitol Hill you need long-term policies to get long-term growth in the wind industry,” Kelley said.

The budget battle’s most

visible impact in Colorado has been on its many defense contractors, ranging from giants like Lockheed Martin to smaller firms like Brown’s Navsys.

In 2011, Obama and Republicans could not agree on cutting the deficit enough to convince the House to raise the debt limit. They did agree to $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years that ultimately kicked in March 1 if they couldn’t find other savings and revenues.

Half those cuts affect the military. The combined pall of looming cuts and month-to-month budgeting has frozen the civilian defense industry. “No real investments are going on,” said Brad Michelson, a vice president at Infinity Systems Engineering, a Colorado Springsbased government contractor in engineering, intelligence and information technology.

At Navsys, five of its 20 remaining workers have shifted to a four-day workweek. Navsys has won competitive bids, Brown said, but the money won’t come because the budget limbo has delayed payments. Brown is focusing more on commercial contracts.

“I’m not holding my breath that this problem is going to get fixed,” she said.

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Mike the Tiger high-fives Susan G. Komen Baton Rouge Race for the Cure participants Saturday at the starting line for the 5k race.

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news release.

“It is important to point out that this increase is only in the diagnosis of advanced diseases, not in localizes or regional stages of breast cancer in women under age 40,” Lichtenfeld said in the release.

Prescott said the best way to increase prevention is for women to inspect themselves regularly at younger ages and go to the doctor if they see any significant changes.

“You need to know your breasts. Look for changes like lumps and bumps especially above or below your collar bone because that’s where your lymph nodes are,” Prescott said. “Also, keep an eye out for swelling, redness or a rash.”

Communication disorders senior Janelle Arnold said the study will give more reason to go to the doctor early on if she sees any warning signs.

“Breast cancer runs in my family, and it helps to get tested early so doctors can make sure nothing is wrong with us,” Arnold said.

Secondary education senior Lauren Termine said the study will encourage her to start doing regular self-examinations.

“It’s about keeping up with it, not just slacking off,” Termine said.

Another way young women can take preventative steps is by knowing their family history.

“A lot of people are more aware of their family history for all cancers. You can determine what your risk factors are and how soon you should be screened,” Prescott said.

Termine said because breast cancer can affect young women, it is important that the University promotes breast cancer awareness.

“Zeta [Tau Alpha sorority] does a good job at promoting it on campus. It’s good that they are on campus,” Termine said.

Lichtenfeld said that this study makes further research more important.

“As the trend continues to increase over time, we cannot predict what will happen over the next ten or 20 years. As a result, it is important we continue research to understand what is contributing to this observation.”

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Miller said she has a passion to find a cure because she has had seven family members affected by breast cancer, and Susan G. Komen is committed to finding a cure for breast cancer.

“The treatment is so barbaric,” Dana Cates of Baton Rouge and member of the Real Men Wear Pink team said. “It is imperative we find a cure.”

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Keeping It Clean Trainers, coaches employ tactics to banish PEDS

Chandler Rome Sports Writer

Office monitors athletes’ activity Compliance officers investigate offenses Mike Gegenheiner Sports Contributor

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series detailing steroids and steroid testing among LSU athletes.

Steroids.

Just the word itself raises eyebrows. It has broken down the mightiest of the mighty, called into question the most untouchable of records and artificially assisted the ushering in of a new generation of sports fans to an ever-changing landscape.

Whether they’re racing out of the starting blocks or stepping into the batter’s box, track stars and baseball players find themselves more scrutinized under the black cloud of speculation.

Speculation recently found its way to the NCAA, seen in late January when Miami’s entire baseball team was subject to human growth hormone testing after one of its assistant strength coaches, Jimmy Goins, was CLEAN, see page 19

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ADMINISTRATION

The top floor of the Athletic Administration watches over the various LSU athletic venues from high upon its perch.

It’s only fitting it houses the five offices responsible for monitoring more than 450 LSU student-athletes, ensuring they don’t break any of the seemingly endless number of rules and regulations the NCAA imposes.

The compliance department is responsible for everything from making sure boosters don’t give money to recruits to confirming that programs provide only NCAA-approved snacks — and yes, there is an NCAA rule that prohibits schools from providing certain spreads such as cream cheese or jelly for athletes’ bagels and fruit.

“I would refer to what we do as being a defense attorney for the athletic department,” said Andrew Donovan, education and communication director for compliance at LSU. “Sometimes we have to be the bad guy, but our job is COMPLIANCE, see page 19

BASEBALL

Tigers complete weekend sweep against Nicholls, 2-0 Glenn pitches 7 scoreless innings Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer

After taking down Brown University on Friday and Saturday, the No. 9 Tigers sealed the weekend sweep Sunday as they tackled Nicholls State University in a 2-0 victory.

LSU (10-1) rode the arm of sophomore southpaw Cody Glenn (2-0) over seven innings of shutout ball. Glenn helped his case to finally obtain the No. 3 spot in the rotation after holding the Colonels (7-5) to three hits while striking out five.

“Cody was outstanding again,” said LSU coach Paul

Mainieri. “He made some big pitches when he needed to, and that was great. When Cody Glenn pitches the way he can, you need to play good defense behind him. I thought he pitched great and gave us a chance to win.”

The Tigers’ defense was solid over the nine-inning span, including a sensational diving play by freshman center fielder Mark Laird in the top of the third inning. Laird, formerly the squad’s right fielder, was shifted to center to add extra speed to the position.

“I’ve played it my whole life,” Laird said. “I guess it’s kind of like riding a bike. I just like being out there, though.

Put me in left, center or right, I don’t care. I just like playing.”

Glenn said his two-seam fastball was his most effective

pitch Sunday, and he credited the defense with playing well behind him. Glenn has yet to allow an earned run so far in 2013.

“You imagine going out there and putting up a lot of zeros, and fortunately for me, I’ve gone out and done that so far,” Glenn said.

Glenn’s performance capped off an outstanding weekend for the Tigers’ starting staff, as the trio of sophomore Aaron Nola, junior Ryan Eades and Glenn combined to shut out their opponents over a three-game span. LSU’s starting staff hasn’t allowed an earned run in 27 2/3 consecutive innings of work.

“That’s like four really good starts in a row from our SWEEP, see page 18

LSU sophomore southpaw Cody Glenn (24) pitches Sunday during the 2-0 victory against Nicholls State at Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers swept the weekend, winning two games against Brown on Friday and Saturday and closing out Sunday with a shutout defeat of the Colonels.

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LSU rallies on floor to top Georgia Tigers struggle again on beam Mike Gegenheimer Sports Contributor

LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux didn’t mince words Friday night after her team’s tight 197.050-196.825 victory against No. 7 Georgia went down to the final rotation.

“We’ve got to have five or six people hit solid on beam,” Breaux said. “Georgia almost beat us tonight because they came in here tonight and they did great on beam and they had been missing on beam. We need to fix the beam issue.”

The win is the first time the Tigers have topped the 197-point benchmark at home this season, but Breaux said she believes the outcome would have been different if LSU ended its night with beam instead of floor like it would in a road meet.

“I use the term ‘blood in the water,’” Breaux said. “The same thing happened to us at Auburn.

We did tentative beam at Auburn and it cost us the meet. … This team is learning how to win.

They’re learning how to stick the sword in, but we just have to be a

more tenacious beam team.”

Fortunately for the Tigers, their dominating performance on floor — where they rank No. 1 in the country — culminated in a 9.950 for sophomore Lloimincia Hall and salvaged their less-thanstellar performance on beam.

The underlying storyline of the night was the last minute lineup changes Breaux made throughout the meet. “[The team is] used to Ericka [Garcia] going first, and Ericka was awful in the warm-ups so I had no choice but to pull her out,” Breaux said. “And obviously Britney Ranzy is not mentally ready yet on beam. We’re just going to have to go back into the gym and practice.”

The most notable change in the night came in the decision to hold Morrison out of vault competition despite Breaux saying the injury-plagued gymnast would compete in the home meet.

Coaches made the decision a few weeks ago that Morrison would not compete in any road meet for the rest of the season until post-season play in an attempt to rest her injury-prone ankle. “[The decision] was made yesterday,” Morrison said.

“We’re trying to hold me out for SECs, regionals and nationals. I trust the coaches with their

decisions, and it was a good decision tonight. The vault team hit tonight and I was just happy to get to do the [uneven] bars.”

Morrison said she hopes to be able to compete in the vault next week against No. 4 Alabama.

Morrison and freshman Randii Wyrick became the first gymnasts this season to defeat top-ranked Georgia gymnast sophomore Chelsea Davis on bars, both scoring a 9.925.

Sophomore Rheagan Courville earned her 10th all-around title this season, scoring a 39.450 — almost a full tenth of a point higher than her season average that has propelled her to the No. 3 all-arounder in the country.

But like many other aspects of her team’s night, Breaux wasn’t completely satisfied with her star gymnast’s performance.

“I think Rheagan is capable of so much more than we saw of her tonight,” Breaux said. “My expectations for Rheagan are way beyond what she’s winning with right now. To win a national title and to take this team to the next level we need her to be great, and right now she’s good.”

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LSU sophomore all-arounder Rheagan Courville twirls on the balance beam Friday during the Tigers’ 197-196 win against Georgia.

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Tigers look to defend title at Louisiana Classics Presley aims to keep individual title

the tournament at 10-under 206, which gave him a three-shot victory over former Tiger Sang Yi. “I like the course a lot,” James Moran Presley said. “The greens are really grainy. It is kind of like my Sports Contributor course back home in Fort Worth, The No. 14 LSU men’s golf so I just feel really comfortable team will look to defend its title playing there.” at the Louisiana Classics in LaPresley said the team is alfayette today. ways excited to play this tournaThe Tigers won last season’s ment because they all have had tournament by 14 success at the strokes after postcourse.

‘It always gives you ing a team score Behind Preof 17-under 847 confidence when you go sley, the Tigers’ over the three lineup will conrounds at Oak- back to a place where sist of junior bourne Country you’ve had success.’ Landon Lyons Club. and sophomores “It always Stewart Jolly, Chuck Winstead gives you confiCurtis ThompLSU men’s golf coach dence when you son and Myles go back to a place Lewis. where you’ve had success,” said Lyons and Jolly played in LSU coach Chuck Winstead. “We last season’s Classic, finishalso like the fact that the course is ing the week at 1-under and 3just an hour down the road, which over, respectively. makes it a really light travel trip.”

Junior Andrew Presley won the Classic’s individual title last season.

Presley finished PRESLEY LYONS JOLLY

This will be the Tigers’ third tournament of the spring.

They’ve previously notched a second-place finish at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate in Alabama and a tie for fourth at the rainshortened John Hayt Invitational in Florida.

“I think the team has played

pretty well,” Winstead said.

“I think we need to get more efficient on and around the greens with our putting and chipping, but I think we are hitting the ball pretty well.”

LSU is the only Southeastern Conference team in a field that includes Louisiana Tech,

Southeastern Louisiana and Louisiana-Lafayette, who is hosting the event.

The tournament will conclude Tuesday.

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Hardeman’s stature provides motivation 2014 DB recruit stands at 5-foot-9

like I can come in there and make plays, so I was like, ‘Why not go and play in the SEC and be a part of something special?’”

Lawrence Barreca Jordan acSports Writer knowledged favoring HardeIn life, they say size isn’t evman’s decision erything.

For 5-foot-9, 180-pound deHARDEMAN to attend LSU, and it’s one of his fensive back recruit Chris Hardeman, his size is one of the main mo- player’s main talking points.

“LSU takes its athletes and lets tivating factors he uses when lining up against opposing wide receivers. them be athletes,” Jordan said. “I “My motivation is to prove ev- think [Hardeman] will thrive in the erybody wrong,” Hardeman said. system at LSU. He helps improve “People say I can’t [play corner- the people all around him, and he’s big on LSU. He back] because I’m talks about it. I this size. I go out ‘People say I can’t know he’s all LSU there to prove peo[play cornerback] right now.” ple wrong every Hardeman day.” because I’m this size. said he already has Hardeman, who is a member I go out there to prove a game plan for when he arrives LSU’s 2014 repeople wrong in Baton Rouge. cruiting class and a every day.’

Some players like junior at Alief Tayto look at college lor High School in Chris Hardeman as a four-year plan, Houston, is one of LSU defensive back but this recruit has only two defena different, more sive backs under 5-foot-10 ranked on the Rivals.com motivated plan in mind for his future.

Top-250 recruits list.

“In three years [at LSU], you’ll This could pose a problem when Hardeman reaches the South- see me [looking to be draft eligieastern Conference in two years, ble],” Hardeman said. “I feel like where wideouts are physical ma- with the determination and dedicachines in between the numbers. For tion I have to this sport, if I come in reference, LSU’s top two options at and prove to the people in college receiver in 2012, Odell Beckham that I can play physical and fast and Jr. and Jarvis Landry, are 6-foot and make plays, then I’ll definitely be 6-foot-1, respectively. Alabama’s drafted in three or four years.”

Amari Cooper and Kevin Norwood are 6-foot-1 and 6-foot-2, respectively.

Contact Lawrence Barreca at Alief Taylor head coach Jody lbarreca@lsureveille.com; Jordan doesn’t worry about how his Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca junior’s height will affect his future.

“I don’t think [his height] will be a factor,” Jordan said. “He goes up against some of the biggest wide receivers at our school. We have a 6-foot-3 and a 6-foot-4 receiver, so he goes against those kind of guys at practice every day.”

Hardeman uses a combination of technique and speed to overcome any height differential. According to ESPN, the 2014 recruit clocked in at 4.58 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

“I get up in there and make everything difficult for [the receiver],” Hardeman said. “If they beat me off the line of scrimmage, I have comeback speed. I just really play my technique and play like I’m [6foot-1]. It really doesn’t affect me, being a smaller corner and whatnot, and I just go out there and play.”

LSU is renowned for turning defensive backs into superstars in Tiger Stadium. Several recent corners who currently find themselves in the NFL or preparing for the draft include Patrick Peterson, Morris Claiborne, Tyrann Mathieu, Tharold Simon and Ron Brooks.

“It was a big part of my decision,” Hardeman said. “The [defensive backs] coach develops them to be first-round picks, and they play tough as a defense. I feel

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Lady Tigers upset No. 13 Texas A&M in regular season finale Forwards contain A&M’s Bone Tyler Nunez Sports Writer

The LSU women’s basketball team all but secured its spot in the NCAA Tournament by defeating No. 13 Texas A&M, 67-52, on Sunday in Reed Arena in its regular season finale.

After handing the Aggies (219, 11-5 Southeastern Conference) their third straight loss, LSU (1910, 10-6 SEC) has won six straight games — three against Top 15 teams — and will head into the SEC Tournament as the sixth seed.

“I’m proud of this group because they’ve done a tremendous job of taking a game plan and executing it,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell in a post-game radio interview. “... This team is mature, they’re tournament ready and they are playing with a lot of confidence.”

After a dismal start in which the Lady Tigers scored only 11 points in the first 16 minutes of the game, they found themselves trailing the Aggies by 13 late in the

first half.

LSU then went on to score the last nine points of the period and headed into the half trailing Texas A&M by only four.

The Lady Tigers then stormed out of the locker room and put up 16 points in under four minutes to give themselves a 36-29 lead early in the second half.

“We changed our team’s mindset, they refocused and they went into LSU mode,” Caldwell said. “... They were unselfish, and our defense really tightened up in the second half.”

LSU never looked back after taking the lead, as it went on to dominate the period, outscoring Texas A&M 47-28.

The Lady Tigers’ earned the big win despite having only seven players see the court, four of which scored in double digits.

Junior forward Theresa Plaisance led the way with 16 points and six rebounds.

LSU freshman guard Danielle Ballard earned a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds in addition to three steals and three assists.

“Everybody did something positive,” Caldwell said. “It made a big difference when we got

Ballard on the boards for us.”

Texas A&M junior center Kelsey Bone was held to 6-for-19 from the floor for 13 points and seven rebounds.

Caldwell felt that freshman forward Derreyal Youngblood and junior forward Shanece McKinney’s containment of Bone, despite her team-leading performance, was vital to the Lady Tigers’ success.

“Our MVPs were Shanece McKinney with her defensive presence and Derreyal Youngblood,” Caldwell said. “[Youngblood] did a great job of trying to be physical and keep Bone out of her comfort zone. … Our bigs really played a tremendous game defensively.”

The Lady Tigers now look forward to a week off before they head to Duluth, Ga., where they will take on the 11th seed in their opening game of the SEC Tournament.

“We’re coming in, and we’re playing some good basketball,” Caldwell said. “... We’re seasoned.

We’re ready.”

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Tennis teams fall to Kentucky.

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LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb drives past Texas A&M center Kelsey Bone on Feb. 4. The game was a 57-74 loss against the Aggies. In Sunday’s rematch, the Tigers won, 67-52.

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LSU falls at Missouri, 89-76 Heat rally past Knicks to win 14th straight Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor

The larger Missouri lineup spelled disaster for the LSU men’s basketball team, as it dropped an 89-76 decision in Mizzou Arena on Saturday afternoon.

Missouri (21-8, 10-6 Southeastern Conference) outscored LSU (17-10, 8-8 SEC) 52-24 in the paint while tallying 24 secondchance points. Senior forwards Alex Oriakhi and Laurence Bowers both secured double-doubles, combining for 41 points and 20 rebounds for Missouri.

“One of our concerns was [Missouri’s] ability to score in the paint,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones in a post-game radio interview. “That came to haunt us. …

We were probably a little bit outmanned and a little bit out-toughed today, and they outplayed us there in that area.”

The first half featured several momentum swings, as a 25-6 LSU run fueled by a 3-point shooting clinic put the visiting Tigers up by 13. But Missouri struck back, capitalizing on its size advantage to drive its deciding 29-8 run.

While Missouri had a balanced first half in terms of scoring, sophomore guard Anthony Hickey carried LSU with 17 points on a 5-of-8 shooting clip from beyond the arc.

Hickey racked up career-highs with 22 points and six made 3-pointers.

Though LSU went into the break down by only four points, Missouri pushed the lead to 10 in the early minutes of the second

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Missouri’s Phil Pressey (left) shoots over LSU’s Anthony Hickey (right) during the first half of LSU’s 89-76 loss to Missouri on Saturday in Columbia.

half. Missouri spent most of the second period leading by double digits, as LSU couldn’t quite produce a run to close the gap. LSU made several defensive stops down the stretch, but it was rarely able to turn those stops into points.

Five Missouri players scored in double figures, with Bowers leading the way with 23 points.

Junior guard Phil Pressey thwarted Hickey with 15 points, eight assists and five rebounds.

“I thought Anthony was playing extremely well, but unfortunately picked up a few tough fouls,” Jones said. “He was guarding one of the best players in the nation

a two-run lead. Senior relievers Joey Bourgeois and Chris Cotton sealed starting pitchers,” Mainieri said. “If the deal for LSU with scoreless outwe can do something like that on a ings in the eighth and ninth innings. consistent basis, I know sooner or “This game is going to be a later our offense is very humbling going to figure out a some‘When your pitcher game way because you’ve times,” Mainieri got too many good pitches the way he did, said. “Guys aren’t hitters in that line- you still find a way to going to hit every up.” day. When you Offensively, the win, even though you have one through Tigers had trouble only scored two runs.’ nine being pretty breaking through good, guys can against Nicholls take their turns Paul Mainieri State junior leftbeing the hero LSU baseball coach hander Taylor Byrd of the day. When until the bottom of the sixth inning, your pitcher pitches the way he did, when junior third baseman Chris- you still find a way to win, even tian Ibarra, junior right fielder Sean though you only scored two runs.”

McMullen and Laird strung together three consecutive hits and put the Tigers on the scoreboard.

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in Pressey. It was a very physical game, a very quick game.”

Senior guard Charles Carmouche accumulated more than 20 points for the third straight game, finishing with 21 points and five assists. Sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III followed up with 18 points and eight rebounds.

LSU will compete in its final road game of the regular season when it takes on Texas A&M on Wednesday night.

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NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James stretched his arm above the rim, soaring high on a shaky knee and turning his steal into a finishing dunk as Carmelo Anthony hung his head near midcourt.

The Heat took the Knicks’ best shot, but it wasn’t good enough to beat the defending champs.

Nothing is right now.

James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and Miami tied a franchise record with its 14th straight victory, rallying for a 99-93 victory at New York on Sunday.

“We feel like this is one of our better wins of the season, even under the circumstances that we went through tonight, a little adversity being down double digits,” James said.

Dwyane Wade added 20 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the Heat, who had to overcome a 16-point deficit to beat the Knicks for the first time in three tries this season. Chris Bosh bounced back from a dismal first half to finish with 16 points and Shane Battier hit all four 3-point attempts to score 12.

The Heat won their sixth straight on the road by controlling the final minutes against a team that had a pair of 20-point victories over them this season and looked ready to run them out of the building again.

But James shook off

a third-quarter leg injury and was back in top form by the finish, putting it away by coming up with a steal and throwing down a dunk with 23 seconds left.

“Obviously, it’s great to win games, period. But when you’re on a win streak, you’ve got to find many different ways to win ballgames and we’ve had comebacks in the last seconds, we’ve had double-overtime games, but this was probably the most thrilling one,” Wade said.

“It was the most challenging.

For a team who beat us twice, they handled us twice and they were up 16 in the first half, for us to have the resilience to come back, find a way fight out this win, it was great.”

Carmelo Anthony scored 32 points for the Knicks, who had won three in a row. Jason Kidd emerged from a lengthy slump to finish with 14 points, eight rebounds and six assists. J.R. Smith had 13 points and 12 rebounds, but shot 5 of 18 from the field.

“We are disappointed because we had an opportunity to win a ballgame here at home against the champs,” Kidd said. “So it’s something we can look at and get better at with those mistakes, especially later in the game.”

Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at sports@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_sports

Monday, March 4, 2013 Biogenesis of America LLC, the now-closed clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., that has purportedly been linked to performanceenhancing drugs, recently released records naming several Major League baseball players, including Seattle Mariners’ Jesus Montero (pictured), as having been involved. The investigation extended to NCAA baseball when a Miami assistant coach was linked to the clinic.

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linked to the now-defunct Biogenesis of America, LLC — a company that reportedly sold HGH to Alex Rodriguez.

While the results weren’t immediately made public, Miami released a statement saying that in 10,000 tests performed on Miami student-athletes, there wasn’t one positive result.

It’s hard to pinpoint what just one positive test could mean. LSU senior associate athletic trainer Shelly Mullenix said Tiger athletes have the option to self-refer, at which point he or she would see the licensed psychologist and social worker the school has on staff.

If the athlete doesn’t self-refer, he or she leaves the door open for a bombshell—and that’s exactly what LSU got last November.

THE VACATION That bombshell came in the form of Methylhexaneamine. It’s not termed a steroid, but nevertheless is still a banned stimulant found in common over-the-counter substances.

LSU senior sprinter Semoy Hackett tested positive for the drug last fall, and for only the second time in NCAA history, a women’s sports team had to vacate a national championship (the other was UCLA softball in 1995 for scholarship violations).

No one can really know if Hackett was aware of her misstep – she called the violation “unintentional” in a news release. LSU associate sports information director Will Stafford declined The Daily Reveille’s request to speak with Tiger track coach Dennis Shaver.

NCAA policy states it “conducts testing at all of its championships,” and that’s where Hackett’s positive test occurred — at the 2012 Outdoor National Championships.

Mullenix said the NCAA showed up on campus more often

than usual in the fall, but wouldn’t pinpoint Hackett’s test and the ensuing vacation as the impetus. She cited phoning a colleague at Alabama who said that program was subject to the same treatment.

“We normally see the NCAA probably twice a year,” Mullenix said. “So to have had them in three times within probably a fourmonth period is a big deal.”

PROCEDURE AND PREVENTION Mullenix explained the NCAA shows up on campus at various times of each season, requesting a random sampling of rosters from each team to test, and added football, track and baseball were the three general sports it focuses on.

Anyone on any team is subject to a test, from a first-year walkon to a consensus All-American, no matter the media hype or lack thereof surrounding the individual.

While not commenting specifically on Hackett’s case, Mullenix said a self-referral or positive test by a particular athlete opens the door for more stringent testing of the individual, but not of the entire team, unless an athlete gives them reason to.

Each individual sport also carries out its own in-house, random testing. The baseball team uses a three-prong attack to avoid positive tests, employing trainer Jon Michelini, strength and conditioning coach Jeremy Phillips and coordinator of sports nutrition Jamie Mascari.

As baseball players gain interest in a new substance, each is required to email all three aforementioned individuals, who then check the ingredients and details of the product before rendering a decision.

Michelini said he’s had to Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Rome_TDR

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nature, provides or is intended to provide only a minimal recruiting, to be a resource for our coaches competitive or other advantage and boosters to try and find ways and does not include any signifiaround the rules and find a way to cant impermissible benefit.”

According to Donovan, too work within the rules.”

But most people don’t hear many secondary violations can about the department until it’s too add up to a major violation, but a violation such as late. a booster giving “Usually if ‘Our job is to a recruit money you get called by investigate ... and if would automaticompliance, it’s be a major not a good thing,” a coach doesn’t heed a cally violation. joked LSU gymwarning, we have to The NCAA nastics coach D-D Breaux. “Nobody file a violation with the defines a booster as “representawants to get that SEC or NCAA...’ tives of the inphone call.” stitution’s athCompliance Andrew Donovan letic interests.” departments typiEducation and Communication Director Typically, this cally receive anyfor Compliance means someone where from 20 to who donates mon50 infraction reports a year from fans, other com- ey to the athletic department.

The most common rules viopliance departments and NCAA and Southeastern Conference of- lations, according to Donovan, are infractions committed by boosters fices.

The five-person staff must illegally contacting recruits.

“If a booster does something then determine which reports are credible and need to be reported to wrong that puts the institution in jeopardy, sometimes we have to the NCAA. “You’re going to find in most say, ‘You can’t be around the proDivision I schools and in your big gram anymore,’” Donovan said.

BCS conferences things are going “We have sanctions against us and to happen,” Donovan said. “Peo- the NCAA is going to expect us ple are going to make mistakes. to uphold this. We have great fans It’s our responsibility as the com- here at LSU, but our fans underpliance department to show the stand that if they do things imNCAA that we are monitoring it.” properly, they will make winning According to Donovan, com- here much more difficult.”

Schools like Miami and pliance departments work in a Southern California are two of the type of tier system.

The NCAA regulations are most recent victims of boosterthe bare minimum that all insti- related sanctions that have taken a tutions must follow. From there, visible toll on the programs, with conferences may have stricter their football teams going 7-5 and regulations with particular institu- 7-6, respectively.

The infraction that LSU fans tions possibly being even stricter.

There are also tiers involv- may be the most familiar with in ing the seriousness of infractions recent years though is the drug policy. within the hierarchy.

According to Donovan, the A secondary violation is defined by the NCAA as “a violation NCAA does not require schools that is isolated or inadvertent in to report failed drug tests or even

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page 19 have drug tests at all. The only requirement is that schools have a policy and follow it.

Hypothetically, if a school decides not to test its athletes, as long as players pass NCAA drug screenings, no one would ever hear anything.

LSU’s drug policy is a threestrike system, with the first failed test simply resulting in more random screenings and various other minor punishments. The second failed screening results in a “15 percent loss in countable competitive contests,” — most notably the recent punishment handed down to former football players Tyrann Mathieu, Tharold Simon and Spencer Ware in 2011. The third failed test means a mandatory one-year suspension, with reinstatement at the discretion of the administration — Mathieu in 2012.

The NCAA’s policy is much simpler, with the first failed test resulting in a one-year suspension and the second is the removal of all eligibility.

If an athlete or coach breaks one of numerous regulations they are expected to follow, the compliance department doesn’t act as executioner, but rather the investigative bureau.

“You need the support of the athletic director, the chancellor, the athletic administration because they’re the ones at the end of the day who are going to have to lay the hammer down,” Donovan said. “Our job is to investigate … and if a coach doesn’t heed a warning, we have to file a violation with the SEC or NCAA and possibly send a letter of reprimand or impose a self penalty in the hopes that the NCAA doesn’t.”

Contact Mike Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com

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The simple solution UNC rape case highlights important issues surrouding a too-common problem

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[Left] UNC-Chapel Hill sophomore Landen Gambill, center, stands with supporters during a rally Friday on the steps of the South Building on campus. Gambill was informed last week by the student-run judicial system that she has been charged with an honor code violation for speaking out about alleged abuse and sexual violence by an ex-boyfriend, who also is a student. [Right] Chancellor Holden Thorp said on Tuesday that some members of the Honor Court have received threats to their personal safety.

SHUT UP, MEG MEGAN DUNBAR Columnist Women have all heard the advice to stay safe from the ephemeral rapist — carry pepper spray, take a defense course, don’t ever walk alone.

But that doesn’t take into account the fact that most sexual assaults are committed by someone the survivor knows. Someone close to them, someone they can’t exactly pepper spray in the face without wondering if they’ve just done something horribly wrong.

The simplest advice is not for the survivors, but for the perpetrators: don’t rape.

Don’t take other human beings against their will — whether they be drunk, asleep or not interested — and have any sort of sexual relations with them.

I hope by now you’ve all heard the latest news out of the University

of North Carolina about the alleged rapist who’s claiming his survivor — and former girlfriend Landen Gambill — made campus an unsafe place for him in the aftermath of Gambill’s Honor Court hearing after which he withdrew from the university.

Friends of the survivor say the unnamed boyfriend stalked her, visiting Gambill’s dorm room as many as seven times a day looking for her, The Daily Beast reported.

According to the Center for Public Integrity, thousands of these cases continue across the United States today, but how many do we hear about?

UNC is not alone in its survivor-blaming quagmire, but right now, its case is the one hogging the spotlight, so the outcome of this mishandled issue (letting an undergraduate-run honor council rule on a rape case?) is what matters most.

UNC has the chance to set an example of fairly run rape cases for the rest of the country, and it’s doing a pretty horrible job.

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The worst thing any public institution could do is stigmatize rape for the survivor, which is exactly what UNC has done, no matter what the official statement says.

UNC forced Gambill to come forward with her story, which she never wished to do in the first place, hence her using the Honor Court as opposed to going to the police.

Imagine yourself in her shoes; a college freshman who maybe doesn’t want to become the poster child as the most recent rape survivor on campus or deal with the court proceedings for the rest of her college career.

Now her name will forever be linked to the case. Imagine worrying about potential employers Googling your name, and instead of finding your fancy personal branding site, they find a million different articles concerning your rape case in college.

That leaves an impression it shouldn’t in today’s culture.

The Honor Court would be the perfect discreet setting to put this matter to rest. Since the case was

heard, UNC has decided Honor Courts can no longer decide upon cases involving sexual harassment or assault, which is a much better decision in the long run, so it’s a non-issue now. Gambill, though, had the option.

Instead of helping this quietly go away, here she sits.

Sure, “#StandWithLanden” was trending on Twitter not too long ago, and there are so many Facebook events to support her and to put pressure on the university that I can’t wade through all of them.

A campus rally this past Friday garnered support even from a student at Duke University, UNC’s famed basketball rival. It’s a hatred akin to LSU and ’Bama. If that doesn’t convince you of the issue’s severity, I’m not sure what will.

All this goodwill doesn’t change the fact that UNC’s system forced Gambill to come out with this story against her will, or that former UNC students came forward in support, telling their own similar stories of the university’s ineffective protection of survivors.

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This isn’t just a UNC problem, though.

In 2010, there were five reported forcible sex offenses on LSU’s campus, according to a report from the LSU Police Department. That’s not a realistic number if you consider numbers reported by the National Institute of Justice that would suggest at least 4,500 currently enrolled Tiger women will have been sexually assaulted by the time they graduate college.

According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, only 46 percent of rapes are reported to the police.

Want to see those numbers drop in a real manner? My answer hasn’t changed. We can make this go away.

Don’t rape.

Megan Dunbar is a 19-year-old English junior from Greenville, S.C. Contact Megan Dunbar at mdunbar@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_MDunbar

Quote of the Day “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

Mark Twain American author Nov. 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910

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It’s week number eight, and midterm exams are afflicting most students.

So take it easy, whether that means putting Safari on private browsing and doing some “research” or kicking back with some Netflix.

But we all know midterms are malarkey — essentially normal tests with more threatening names — that are supposed to make students freak out in the middle of the semester.

Here’s a list of the opinion section’s top ways to procrastinate during midterms week:

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8) 7) 9) 10) Purchase a kitten and a Compose an eloquent Catch up on The Walking Clean your room, then your puppy and watch them email for your professors, Dead, Parks and Recreation, bathroom, then the living interact. explaining an intricate room, then do the dishes, do Girls, 30 Rock, story — one he/she can’t the laundry, then hook up Community, Breaking Bad, 4) with your roommate. Then Call Riverside Towing every turn away — about why Ancient Aliens and every you can’t take do it again. In that order. other show on Netflix you hour, claiming they towed your midterm. haven’t finished your vehicle with your dog 5) (or started).

2) inside. Tell them it needs to Take MySpace selfies Google hairless bears and be fed.

Replace dog with pet — growing increasingly 6) goats screaming like tortoise every other time. risque— and post them to Using only a rope and humans.

3) Facebook with captions knife, track, kill and field Create a unique blend of like “bored lol” or “I wish I dress as many squirrels on 1) different cereals. wasn’t so fat.” campus as you can.

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Murderers don’t deserve more privileges than victims THE TRADITIONALIST CHRIS ORTTE Columnist Brandon Scott Lavergne, the Churchpoint man who was convicted for the murder of Mickey Shunick and Lisa Marie Pate, has complained of some unfair treatment in his Angola home within the past recent months.

Lavergne is threatening to file suit against the state for being in extended lockdown at Angola where he has been deprived of medical care, legal resources and contact family visits.

First, let it be known that those persons convicted by the law and rightly placed in prison are subject to the loss of certain rights given to law-abiding citizens by the Constitution. However, prisoners are protected from cruel and unusual punishment.

A look into Lavergne’s claims should lead some to believe he has not exactly been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.

What he means by this lack of medical care is not by any means life threatening. He is complaining about the C-PAP machine he has not been given to treat his sleep apnea.

Is this cruel and unusual?

Within the side effects of sleep apnea are daytime fatigue, maybe a slower morning, some restless nights and possible headaches or forgetfulness.

Tortuous right? Apparently, for a murderer and someone with such a strenuous daily agenda that he needs to be well rested.

As per his complaint of restriction from legal resources, this comes from his initiative to form an appeal on the basis that the legal counsel for his case was ineffective.

But how effective does a legal counsel need to be when the suspect pleads guilty in order to avoid the death penalty? Would one actually need legal counsel if he was going to sign a plea bargain? What kind of appeal could he have anyway? What could Lavergne get out of this appeal?

I wonder if there is a judge out there who would find it legally just to appeal Lavergne’s plea bargain, but then if there is a jury somewhere that would actually acquit a man in a case where the evidence does basically everything but provide a video account of what happened.

He is also deprived of contact visits with his family, restricted to an electrically monitored, closed circuit telephone, according to his complaints.

Is this not what most prisoners

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Brandon Scott Lavergne is escorted to the Lafayette Parish Courthouse by Lt. Jack Lightfoot, left, and Detective Stephen Bajat for a hearing Aug. 17, 2012, in Lafayette, La. Brandon Scott Lavergne has pleaded guilty to two counts of firstdegree murder in the slayings of two Lafayette Parish women, Michaela “Mickey” Shunick of Lafayette, and Lisa Pate of Youngsville.

are subject to?

You know the phones we see on television shows and movies where the family sits on the other side of the glass. Next, we’ll hear that the single-ply toilet paper is too coarse and he has requested triple-ply.

But thinking of prisoners in general and what rights they have or should have — along with the

high incarceration rate we have — we tend to question the integrity and productiveness of Louisiana’s prison system.

People find a large part of the problem is the rehabilitation of inmates, or lack thereof. There is a need for some kind of educational process in order to readmit these hardened criminals back into society as civilized citizens, or at least

a prison environment that is more humane and conducive the needs of prisoners.

However, such programs should certainly focus on who are not murderers and rapists.

The criminals of Lavergne’s class have had such little regard for the sanctity of human life that it is really hard to justify catering to their petty needs like a C-PAP. Compassion is a wonderful virtue we should all have and exercise, and trying to understand why these people did what they did will help us to prevent such gruesome events to occur again.

When push comes to shove, these criminals have already revealed what kind of perspective they have on the natural rights of others.

So why would they be given any more consideration than they gave to their victims?

They’re already privileged to keep their own lives, which is exactly what they took from their victims.

Chris Ortte is 22-year-old political science senior from Lafayette.

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