The Daily Reveille - March 11, 2013

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BASEBALL: Tigers beat Huskies 7-5, completing weekend sweep, p. 7

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Today marks start of elections Judah Robinson

Senior Contributing Writer

Thousands packed Mardi Gras World in New Orleans this weekend for Buku Music + Art Project, two days of throbbing bass lines and memorable performances. Artists like Kid Cudi, Passion Pit and Kendrick Lamar rocked crowds at three stages on the riverfront.

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Japandroids guitarist and vocalist Brian King [top left] sings, Kid Cudi [top right] emotes a lyric and Action Bronson [bottom left] cheers with audience members Saturday at the Buku Music + Art Project in New Orleans. See a photo story, p. 5.

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If the over- lsureveille.com/buku. it was UK native all theme of Buku Music + Art Alt-J pulling a local brass band onProject was electronic dance mu- stage to jam or Icona Pop toasting sic, Flux Pavillion was the cen- cans of Heineken to their journey terpiece. Performing to a large from a couch in Sweden to a stage crowd at Buku’s main stage, in Louisiana.

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After about a month of campaigning and last week’s debate, students may officially begin voting for their next Student Government president.

Voting begins at 7 a.m. today and will continue until the polls close at 6:59 p.m. Tuesday. Students can vote online at lsu.edu/sgelections after logging into their myLSU accounts.

T Graham S. Howell and Kaitlin Torké’s Impact LSU ticket is facing off against John Woodard and Taylor Parks’ Unite LSU ticket. Howell said he and Torké are excited about this week’s election.

“The general feeling among everyone on our staff is excitement rather than worry or fear,” Howell said. “We’re ready.”

Woodard said he and Parks are anticipating good voter turnout.

“Taylor and I are excited about how the next few days are going to turn out,” Woodard said.

Howell acknowledged that many students do not vote, but he said he hopes voter turnout in this election will improve.

“We realize that a lot of people don’t vote,” Howell said. “We have 26 great ideas that are going to make people care, and if they can give us that year in office, we are going to show them what Student Government can do for them.”

Woodard said he wants unlikely voters in this election to take to the polls.

“I think that in any election, it’s your opportunity to make a difference and have your voice heard,” Woodard said.

The results of the election will be announced at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Contact Judah Robinson at jrobinson@lsureveille.com

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INTERNATIONAL Security problems, frayed relations interfere with U.S.-Afghan talks KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of security problems and fractured relations with Afghan leaders plagued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s first trip to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, including the Afghan president’s accusations that the U.S. and the Taliban are working in concert to show that violence in the country will worsen if most coalition troops leave.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, quickly rejected the charges President Hamid Karzai made Sunday as “categorically false.”

Venezuelan opposition leader to run in elections to replace Hugo Chavez CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles is set to announce he will run in elections to replace Hugo Chavez, setting up a makeor-break encounter against the dead president’s hand-picked successor, an adviser to the candidate says.

“He will accept” the nomination, the adviser told The Associated Press. He spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the decision publicly ahead of a formal announcement scheduled for later in the day.

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel shakes hands with a female Afghan non-commissioned officer under training Sunday during his visit to the Kabul Military Training Center.

Rebel Syrian forces begin to take over after seizing capital last week BEIRUT (AP) — Since rebels seized the capital of Raqqa province in northern Syria from the government last week, they have posted guards at state buildings, returned bread prices to pre-war levels and opened a hotline that residents can phone to report security issues, anti-regime activists said Sunday.

At the same time, they have killed captured security forces in public squares and driven their dead bodies through the streets.

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Enduring storm surprises region with much more snowfall than forecasted

NY airport flights 25 percent fueled by leftover Louisiana cooking oil

WHITMAN, Mass. (AP) — The late-winter storm that buried parts of the country was forecast to be little more than a nuisance for most of New England. Try telling that to the residents of Connecticut and Massachusetts who spent two days shoveling as much as two feet of snow.

“The forecast was two to six inches and I think I’m looking at about 12 to 14 inches,” West Roxbury resident Mark Spillane said as snow continued to fall Friday. “I did not expect to have to bring out the snow blower.”

Reports: Harvard administrators secretly searched deans’ emails

Colorado Democrats push gun measure, give up other proposals

NEW YORK (AP) — A Dutch airliner is flying from New York to Amsterdam on a fuel mix that includes leftover oil from frying Louisiana’s Cajun food.

The KLM flights from Kennedy Airport in New York are powered by a combination of 25 percent recycled cooking oil and 75 percent jet fuel.

After the first such flight Friday, the concept will be tested on 24 round-trip trans-Atlantic trips every Thursday for the next six months.

KLM executive Camiel Eurlings jokingly told the New York Post that “it smelled like fries” while the plane was being fueled.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Democrats advanced aggressive guncontrol proposals after a 12-hour marathon debate Friday in a state wrestling with its history of heartbreaking shootings and Western heritage where gun ownership is treasured by many.

Democrats moved forward with new ammunition magazine limits and universal background checks. But they withdrew two of the most controversial pieces of the package, including a gun ban on college campuses.

(AP) — A spike in homicides last year led the federal and East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors to focus on felons carrying firearms.

Both District Attorney Hillar Moore and U.S. Attorney Donald Cazayoux, who say they meet regularly to discuss the issue, tell The Advocate that firearms seized for any reason should now be processed as if they are evidence from a murder scene. That includes checking the weapons for DNA.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University administrators secretly searched the emails of 16 deans last fall, looking for a leak to reporters about a case of cheating, two newspapers reported.

The email accounts belonged to deans on the Administrative Board, a committee addressing the cheating, The Boston Globe and The New York Times reported, citing school officials.

The deans were not warned about the email access and only one was told of the search afterward.

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EVENT

TEDxLSU presentations focused on local community, change Zach Carline Contributing Writer

Ideas of creativity, innovation, bicycling and musical collaboration were shared at the soldout TEDxLSU event at the Reilly Theatre on Saturday afternoon.

The event consisted of three 90-minute sessions in which local entrepreneurs, activists and artists discussed their “ideas worth sharing” in hopes of changing the Baton Rouge community. The captivated audience included Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins, Dean of the College of Music and Dramatic Arts Laurence Kaptain, students, faculty and members of the Baton Rouge community.

The event kicked off at 12:30 p.m. with a performance by the LSU Jazz Trio, followed by three rounds of talks, with each segment punctuated by an intermission.

Local food trucks were on hand to provide attendees dinner with a bit of Baton Rouge flair.

The talks focused on the theme of “evolve,” and most speakers encouraged the audience to be part of change in their community.

“It was everything we wanted it to be,” said Joey Watson, curator for TEDxLSU. “We don’t know how this is going to change us yet. The most rewarding part of this is going to be watching how it unfolds and grows in the community.”

Watson said he enjoyed the

intense engagement among audience members during the intermissions.

Physics freshman Andrew Olivier had never heard of TED talks before being told about the event two weeks ago.

Olivier said he did not know what to expect from the event but “liked the emphasis on community building.” The event was “very professional and well done,” he added.

Many of the students in attendance were volunteers from the University.

Marketing sophomore Jordan Koenig was one such volunteer.

Koenig said he watched many TED talks online and was excited to have the opportunity to sit in on one of the sessions.

Koenig said he particularly enjoyed the talk given by local filmmaker Zack Godshall, who used few resources and a small budget to create his film “Lord Byron.”

“I like the idea that you can make something creative but successful with nothing but what you have,” Koenig said.

Music graduate students Nick Hwang and Will Conlin presented a musical collaboration using a saxophone and homemade instruments.

Conlin, who recently attended TEDxBroadway, said TEDxLSU was similar, but more intimate and reflected the idea of community.

The duo said they felt their presentation went well and would love to be invited to present in more TED talks.

“People came up to us and said they were inspired, and they were really interested in what we were doing,” Hwang said.

Hwang said he also enjoyed the other speakers’ presentations, calling the talks inspiring.

“The messages are really similar — you see what other people are doing, and you want to get involved,” Hwang said. “Their passion is infectious.”

Kaptain said an event such as TED was long overdue for Baton Rouge.

“This is a creative and intellectual watershed,” he said. “It is something we should have been doing, and now we’re doing it.”

Watson has already obtained a license for a TEDxLSU talk in 2014 and said he hopes to streamline some things for the next talk, though he wants to maintain an outstanding lineup of speakers.

“We learned a lot this year, logistically and structurally,” he said.

Watson said he hopes to have more student engagement in the future, with the potential for more student presentations and tiered ticket pricing to make the event more affordable for students.

Contact Zach Carline at zcarline@lsureveille.com

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Learn how to gain experience & build your resume NOW Tuesday, March 12-Thursday, March 14, various events Learn more @ careercenter.lsu.edu/work-experience-week 7th Annual LSU Night of French Cinema: une nuit blanche à Baton Rouge!

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Nation’s best chili cooks converge on LSU campus 7th annual cookoff crowns champions

Weltikol won a competition in South Carolina recently, placing first in the red chili category.

He said he often competes at the world championship in multiple categories, and he looked to conJonathan Olivier tinue that by competing in many Staff Writer categories over the weekend.

“The trick is you got to catch Pots of chili heated up with the competition this weekend them judges with a little someduring the seventh annual Loui- thing different,” Weltikol said.

Weltikol’s recipe hasn’t siana Regional and State Chili strayed much since he began Cookoff.

Cooks from Illinois, Con- cooking, so he said he must be necticut and states across the doing something right.

Eric Patterson and his wife southern U.S. labored for hours Linda traveled to craft the right from Satellite mixture of texRegional winners: Beach, Fla., to atture, seasoning · Spirit Award: Dearl Thomas from tend the cookoff and flavor. in Baton Rouge Contestants Illinois competed in up · People’s Choice: Richard Patterson for the third year.

Patterson to four categories from Florida has been cooking – red chili, chili · Homestyle: Pam Nelson from for around a year verde, homestyle Florida and salsa. The au- · Salsa: Eric Patterson from Florida and a half and his wife has for three dience also chose · Chili verde: Roy Tobey from years, he said. a People’s Choice Linda has winner, and a Arkansas placed in comSpirit Award was · Red chili: Dearl Thomas petition before, given. The top prize was $700 for the red chili and on Saturday, Eric won first category, and first-place win- place in the salsa category, allowners will advance to the World’s ing him to advance to the world championship.

Championship Chili Cookoff.

Accounting senior Jessica Tents were set up in front of the John M. Parker Coliseum in Hewett said the chilis kept geta U-shape, creating a walkway ting better with each cup she for visitors to stop by each of the tasted.

Hewett said she was surcooking stations adorned with colorful signs and packed with prised at the large number of conseasonings and small tabletop testants from all around the country and said traveling the country stoves.

After the cooks prepped the just cooking chili seems like a chilis, they patiently waited as good life.

Among Hewett’s favorite the assortment of seasonings and meat simmered on the stove, al- chilis she tasted were the differlowing time to converse with the ent homestyle chilis, she said, particularly the mixture of beans crowd and fellow competitors.

Galveston, Texas, resident and meat.

Ryan Travis, music junior, Kevin Foley said everyone who competes in the cookoffs is like and his brother, Garret Travis, a big family and there is a bond English senior, tasted one of the Patterson’s chilis. between them.

The brothers tried an assortFoley and his wife, Donna, actually met while cooking chili. ment of chilis and noted they “She wanted to know my were all delectable, but the red recipe,” Foley said while laugh- chili was a favorite.

Attending a unique event ing.

Foley placed third in the sal- such as a chili cookoff is something Ryan was able to check off sa category Saturday.

Adjacent to the Foleys’ tent his bucket list. “[We’re] living Ryan’s life was cookoff veteran Larry Weltikol, a master chili chef who has goal,” Garret said. “I get chili had the distinction of competing along the ride, so I’m good at the world championship 14 with it.” times and will extend that streak to 15 in October.

The Palm Coast, Fla., resident is retired and travels the Contact Jonathan Olivier at country in search of cookoffs with his wife Jan. jolivier@lsureveille.com

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[Top] Robert Patterson, co-creator of “Chillaxing Chili,” spoons a sample Saturday for a visitor to the chili cookoff on LSU’s campus. [Bottom left] Chili simmers on a portable stove Saturday during the chili contest located at Parker Coliseum. [Bottom right] Chili boils over in a pot at the chili contest Saturday at Parker Coliseum.

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French DJ group Birdy Nam Nam [top]; Michael Angelakos, lead singer for American indie rock band Passion Pit [middle left]; and Martina Sobrara, singer-songwriter for the Canadian electronic dance music band Dragonette, perform for audience members [bottom] Friday and Saturday at the Buku Music + Art Project in New Orleans.

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Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo, known under the stage name Icona Pop, sing and mix on stage Saturday at the Buku Music + Arts Project in New Orleans.

Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt, rapper and member of the group Odd Future, brought the crowd to its feet for his set. The crowd, full of Earl Sweatshirt superfans, was the largest at the Ballroom stage that night. The up-and-coming rapper played favorites including the notable “Hive.” He also performed a number of new songs that will be on his upcoming album “Doris.”

Overall, Friday night at Buku brought a wave of energetic artists, both old and new.

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“I’m from a city called Compton, California, but every time I come up in this mother****er, I know y’all feel me,” headlining rapper Kendrick Lamar told his screaming crowd at the Power Plant stage.

The festival certainly did feel him during his evening set. Old school rap legends Chuck D and Flavor Flav of Public Enemy had already built up the energy by the time Lamar took the mic, and Lamar’s set was less of a performance and more of a shout-along session — in Lamar’s words: “This isn’t a Kendrick Lamar concert. It’s a party.”

The rapper pulled out all of his classics and worked the stage as his own hype man, at one point dedicating “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” to a member of the crowd he felt wasn’t partying hard enough. The audience fed off Lamar’s confidence with manic enthusiasm, and the sound of thousands of hoarse voices screaming every word into Lamar’s extended microphone made the show unforgettable.

Kendrick Lamar wasn’t the only act getting people to put their glowsticks and drinks in the air Saturday.

Passion Pit delivered a more performance-heavy set, but it received just as much of a response with strong renditions of fan favorites. Across the festival grounds, the screams for the opening notes of “Sleepyhead” were deafening.

In the Ballroom, Icona Pop pounded out one of the highlights of the day. The duo seemed to be having the time of their lives as they jumped on the barricades and bumped fists over their turntables.

Stompy classics thrilled fans while extended remixes worked for those who just came to dance, and “I Love It” closed the set with a bang.

A wall-to-wall crush of people jumped and grooved their way through the nighttime lineup in the Ballroom. Despite a 45-minute delay, Alt-J played a solid set before passing it off to Trinidad Jame$, who packed even the VIP section with his festival-friendly songs about Molly.

Dragonette commanded the room with swagger, and its electrifying rendition of “Hello” made even the people halfway passed out behind the bar pay attention.

Saturday was also a day for weirdness, however, from the flailing, glitter-soaked crowd in the Float Den for STS9’s dual sets to the one intrepid concertgoer who stripped and danced stark naked through Passion Pit before Buku officials forced clothes back onto him.

Major Lazer bounced and rolled over its fans in giant inflatable balls, STRFKR’s set featured a crowd-surfing astronaut and a man in a bunny suit, and Action Bronson rapped half of his set from inside the audience.

Buku ended in a haze of smoke and lasers, streaks of body paint and bass still echoing over the river.

Mardi Gras World will stay quiet until next year, when New Orleans will prove itself as a home for great music once again.

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Incorporating a three-dimensional backdrop featuring videos of explosions and a quadraphonic sound system that took the bass level up a few notches, the crowd was pleased with Primus’ efforts to set itself apart from other acts at the festival.

Best Coast, a duo consisting of Bethany Consentino and Bobb Bruno, brought a distinct SoCal pop vibe to Buku.

Playing crowd favorites “Our Deal” and “The Only Place,” Best Coast was well-received by an audience that sang along to Consentino’s signature bubblegum pop lyrics.

At one point, sections of the crowd began chanting a resounding “Boyfriend,” to which Consentino replied, “Don’t you guys know any other songs?”

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the Power Plant, Flux Pavillion made the crowd move with an abundance of heavy electronic remixes and a light show that reached halfway across Mardi Gras World.

Kid Cudi, in an attempt to meld into the electro-pop vibe of the festival, incorporated electronic beats to many of his songs. The opening of “Pursuit of Happiness” erupted in a chorus of dance-worthy beats, sending the crowd into a frenzy.

Like many of the acts at Buku, Kid Cudi made a point to thank the crowd for being so receptive. Cudi said many times he could feel the energy.

Japandroids, a two-piece band from Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, brought a

different flavor to the Buku crowd at the Ballroom stage.

Playing primarily garage rock tunes with heavy percussion, Japandroids was a definite split from the many electronic and DJ sets of the night.

Although Japandroids is a relatively new band on the scene, it has gained recognition in the short time it has been active. In 2012, it won Spin Magazine’s award for Band of the Year, earning a top spot on many indie playlists.

Judging by the crowd, Japandroids was a clear favorite — the sparse crowd near the beginning of its set quickly filled out as the raging sound of guitar licks and bass hits wore on.

The veteran Primus took a different approach to showmanship with its set in 3-D.

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First f ive batters thrust Tigers to top Washington

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Washington may have struck first in Alex Box Stadium on Sunday, but the top of the Tigers’ order eventually pounded the Huskies’ pitching staff to secure a 7-5 win, completing a weekend sweep.

LSU sophomore starter Cody Glenn (3-0) took the mound seeking his third win of the season, having not allowed an earned run in any of his previous three outings. It didn’t take long for that streak to end, though, as the Huskies (4-11) scratched two runs across home plate in the second inning to give Washington an early 2-0 lead.

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LSU senior infielder Mason Katz (8) swings at the ball Sunday during the Tigers’ 7-5 victory against the Washington Huskies in Alex Box Stadium. Katz launched a two-run home run during the win.

“Early on, I didn’t have my best stuff, and I was leaving the ball up a little bit, and it showed for the first two innings all the way to the third,” Glenn said.

“That’s why they were able to scratch a couple off me.”

Then the Tigers’ offense went to work.

Senior first baseman Mason Katz, who hit two home runs Saturday night, stayed scorching hot at the plate, hitting a two-run bomb over the left field wall to score fellow senior Raph Rhymes and tie the game at 2-2. Junior catcher Ty Ross would add a long fly of his own, a solo home run, which sailed over the left field bleachers to give LSU (15-1) a one-run lead.

Freshman shortstop Alex Bregman added two hits and two RBIs, and freshman right fielder Mark Laird raised his batting average to a team-high .411 after recording four hits and an RBI in the contest. “[The high batting average] comes with experience,” Laird said. “The more games I play, the more comfortable I get at the plate. I’m just doing better at hitting the ball where it’s pitched and WASHINGTON, see page 10

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Home runs lift Tigers past MSU Fico dominates in 21-inning weekend Spencer Hutchinson Sports Contributor

If it wasn’t true before, it’s true now — the LSU softball team plagued by poor offense is a thing of the past.

Where a team seemingly allergic to offense once played, an up and down powerful lineup now stands.

No. 12 LSU (19-5, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) took two of three from Mississippi State in the opening weekend of SEC play with an impressive display of power that was practically non-existent for the Tigers in 2012.

On Sunday, the Tigers took game three of the series on home runs from four separate players, driving in eight runs en route to a comfortable 9-2 victory.

In game one of the series Friday, the Tigers were far from comfortable through a 14-inning marathon but managed a 1-0 win on the heels of a solo home run from sophomore A.J. Andrews.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers fall to Ole Miss, 81-67 LSU looks ahead to SEC Tourney Chandler Rome Sports Writer

With his head down, poring over the box score that showed the carnage of a sound 81-67 drubbing at the hands of Ole Miss, LSU coach Johnny Jones perked up as a hypothetical question was posed during his postgame media session.

Jones couldn’t help but interrupt the reporter as he asked what the first-year LSU coach would have done in the preseason had someone predicted a 9-9 Southeastern Conference record for his first team.

“Hugged them,” Jones said with a smile. “Give them a

big hug.”

Even with the sting of the Tigers’ (18-11, 9-9 SEC) loss to the Rebels (23-8, 12-6 SEC) still fresh in his mind, Jones couldn’t help but be proud of how far his team had progressed — especially after a less-than-hopeful 0-4 start in SEC play.

“I’m just amazed,” Jones said. “For them to compete at this level in this type of league, with the coaches and teams you have in this league, it says a lot about these guys.”

Returning only three consistent starters from last year’s 18-win team that advanced to the NIT, this year’s crop of Tigers has already equaled that win total and is in strong contention for similar postseason positioning.

LSU sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III, who finished the loss with 17 points

and 12 rebounds, pointed to last season’s teams as proof that anything is possible come tournament time.

“When you go into the conference tournament, anything can happen,” O’Bryant said. “Last year [in the SEC Tournament], we played a good game against Arkansas then faced a good Kentucky team. We had them, and we stayed in the game. ... The teams are 0-0 right now.”

LSU senior guard Charles Carmouche, playing his final regular-season game in the PMAC, had his first half cut short after being bulldozed in mid air by Rebel forward Murphy Holloway in the game’s second minute, sending him to the locker room for an extended period.

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LSU junior guard Andre Stringer (10) drives past Ole Miss junior guard Marshall Henderson (22) on Saturday during the Tigers’ loss to the Rebels in the PMAC.

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Georgia tops Lady Tigers, 71-53 Tyler Nunez

LSU forward Theresa Plaisance is pressured by Georgia forward Tamika Willis, left, during the second half of LSU’s 71-53 loss to Georgia in the SEC Tournament on March 8 in Duluth, Ga.

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The No. 22 LSU women’s basketball team was handed an early exit to the Southeastern Conference Tournament when it fell to No. 12 Georgia 71-53 on Friday night.

The loss ended a seven-game win streak for the sixth-seeded Lady Tigers’ (20-11, 10-6 SEC), as No. 3 seed Georgia (25-6, 12-4 SEC) advanced the tournament’s semifinals.

“A lot of credit to Georgia and the execution of their game plan,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell in a news release. “We are not going to let this define who we are. We are a team that can beat some of the best teams in the country.”

The Lady Bulldogs sprinted out of the gate to an early lead and never looked back, holding LSU to 29 percent shooting from the field.

Georgia ran past the Lady Tigers with a balanced attack in which five Lady Bulldogs scored in double figures.

Georgia senior guard Jasmine Hassel shot 9-for-12 from the floor for 19 points and freshman guard Shacobia Barbee posted a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman guard Tiaria Griffin finished the night with 15 points after hitting five shots from behind the arc.

LSU junior forward Theresa Plaisance finished the game with 13 points and seven rebounds.

The contest was the 30th straight in which Plaisance has scored in double digits.

Plaisance said she is making it her responsibility to ensure LSU’s NCAA Tournament experience does not end in similar fashion.

“I am going to make it my job personally to not let these seniors go out like this,” Plaisance said. “We are going to take these two weeks and put a lot of work into the things we struggled with.

These seniors deserve the best because they have given a lot to this program and the school.”

LSU junior forward Shanece McKinney left the game early with a head injury after a collision on the floor, leaving the Lady Tigers with just seven active players. Her status for the NCAA Tournament is still unknown.

Georgia went on to lose in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament on Saturday to No. 7 Kentucky, who lost to No. 19 Texas

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A&M in the finals on Sunday night.

The Lady Tigers now await an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, which they are expected to receive on Selection Monday at 6 p.m. March 18 on ESPN. As hosts of the first and second rounds of

the tournament, they hope to play their first games in the PMAC.

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Lady Tigers tie for LSU falls to No. 5 Alabama second place in S.C. Tigers post highest Men’s golf looks to defend Argent title James Moran Sports Contributor

The LSU women’s golf team tied for second at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate at the Long Cove Club in Hilton Head, S.C., on Sunday.

The Lady Tigers began the third round in second place, but a 15-over 299 in the final round left LSU with a final score of 28-over 880 for the week, two strokes behind No. 4 Alabama.

LSU sophomore Madelene Sagstrom finished second overall, posting an even-par 213 for the week. She held a 36-hole lead after a tournament-low round of 4-under 67 in the second round, but shot 4-over in the final round to surrender the lead.

Arizona State sophomore Noemi Jimenez shot 3-under in the final round to erase the threeshot deficit and finish four shots ahead of Sagstrom.

Freshman Elise Bradley was the next highest finisher for LSU with a tie for 14th. Bradley shot 9-over for the week, which was highlighted by a 1-under second round.

Junior Ali Lucas had two rounds of 3-over and one round of 6-over to finish the tournament at 12-over, good for a tie for 27th overall. Fellow junior Lindsay Gahm finished one shot back of Lucas at 13-over which left her in

a tie for 30th.

Freshman Nadine Dreher struggled to a 9-over final round and finished the tournament at 17-over.

The Lady Tigers’ next event will be March 22 when LSU hosts the Tiger Golf Classic at the University Club.

MEN’S The No. 17 LSU men’s golf team will travel to Choudrant, La., today to defend last season’s victory at the Argent Financial Classic.

Last season the Tigers won the tournament by seven shots after posting a 4-under 860 over three rounds at Squire Creek Country Club.

So far this spring season the Tigers have notched second place finishes at the Louisiana Classics and the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate to go along with a tie for fourth at the John Hayt Invitational.

LSU junior Smylie Kaufman finished tied for second at last season’s Classic after posting a three round score of 4-under 212.

Junior Andrew Presley finished tied for sixth at 2-under.

This week’s field includes instate foes Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech and McNeese State.

The tournament will conclude Tuesday.

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The No. 4 LSU gymnastics team fell to No. 5 Alabama on Friday night despite the Tigers posting their third perfect 10 of the season and highest team score since 2008.

“We got beat by an Alabama team that’s the mirror image of us,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “They beat us tonight because we didn’t stick our landings on beam. We had to count a low score on floor. We’re right there with them. Mirror image.”

Heading into the final rotation the Tigers were down .075 to the defending national champions and about to start the event where no one in the nation has been better.

But LSU saw its confidence dwindling early in the rotation when miscues cost the team nearly half a point.

“In the last event, No. 1 floor team in the country, we really thought we would be able to overtake it and win it.” Breaux said. “Our first three people gave away some tenths that we couldn’t make up in the end.”

The shining moment of the topfive matchup came when sophomore Lloimincia Hall became the only gymnast in the country to garner a perfect score for the second time this season.

Hall, who has been flirting with the milestone in recent weeks, had yet to be perfect on the PMAC carpet until Alabama.

Unfortunately for Hall and the Tigers, it was too little too late.

But according to the Texas native,

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LSU sophomore all-arounder Lloimincia Hall dances during her floor routine Friday during the Tigers’ 197.500-197.725 loss to Alabama at the PMAC.

between her teammates’ and the arena’s chants for perfection, it was a long time coming.

“That has happened for the last three home meets, and the judges do not listen,” Hall said. “So for them to finally listen this week, I think that was more of an emotional experience because my teammates were pulling for me, the arena was pulling for me. I’m at home.”

The surprise of the meet came when Breaux pulled junior Kaleigh Dickson out of competition after a hard fall on bars apparently tweaked

the gymnast’s knee.

Breaux cited mistakes in premeet warmups as another reason behind swapping Dickson out for freshman Randii Wyrick.

Breaux said she isn’t sure if Dickson will compete in the team’s final regular season meet at North Carolina State this weekend, but believes the team is deep enough to replace its No. 2 all-around competitor if needed.

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choosing which balls to swing at.”

The first five hitters in the Tigers’ order were responsible for 10 of the team’s 11 hits in the game.

The weekend was an offensive explosion for LSU, who scored seven or more runs in every game of a three-game weekend series for the

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watched in the locker room, the Tigers struggled to maintain their early seven-point lead, quickly watching it evaporate courtesy of a 34-9 run that spanned both halves, even after Carmouche returned to the floor.

“We tried to execute while

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the weekend, which raised its team total to 22, almost twice the number it had all of last season.

“This team is very talented offensively, and at times I think they have underachieved,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “This is what they are capable of all the time.”

One similar characteristic of both the 2012 and 2013 versions of the Tigers is dominant pitching from its ace. Senior pitcher Rachele Fico completed two gems, pitching all 21 innings of both the Tigers’ wins in the series.

Fico tied an SEC record, striking out 22 batters while pitching the entire 14-inning shutout

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first time since 2011.

“Over the last couple of weeks, our offense is really starting to gel,” Katz said. “[It was tough] early in the year with the wind howling around.”

Meanwhile, Glenn hung around on the mound for five and two-thirds innings pitched, recording three strikeouts and picking up

his third victory of the season.

“I was proud of the way I bounced back from [the second inning],” Glenn said. “I’m proud that I was able to battle and compete and get as deep into the game as I could for my team. Every time I’m on the mound, I’m thinking of going the distance.”

Glenn’s victory wouldn’t have

been possible without the bullpen’s effort, as a combination of junior Nick Rumbelow, freshman Hunter Newman and seniors Brent Bonvillain, Joey Bourgeois and Chris Cotton tossed three and one-third innings of three-run baseball.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri still wasn’t satisfied, though.

“Bourgeois and Cotton are

fantastic, and I think Nick Rumbelow can be really good, too, if he was a little more consistent,” Mainieri said. “But we still need somebody to emerge.”

[Carmouche] was away,” said LSU junior guard Andre Stringer.

“But we let some of their guys get open for some shots. Against a team like that, you can’t do that.”

Not even LSU’s trademark full-court press slowed the Rebels down as Andy Kennedy’s squad handled it with ease, getting past half court for many

two-on-one or three-on-two breaks leading to easy buckets.

Stringer, who scored a teamhigh 18 points, lamented his defense on Ole Miss junior guard Marshall Henderson, who scored a game-high 22 points and put the nail in the Tigers’ coffin with an open 3-pointer after the Tigers cut it to a 10-point lead late in the

second half.

Even with the bitter taste after a disappointing end to the regular season, Jones was optimistic in forging ahead to the SEC Tournament, especially given the fiveday layoff his team has to heal up after a grind to end the conference slate.

“Not playing on that first

night is huge for us,” Jones said.

“Anything can happen in the tournament. You just want to be playing well at the right time.”

against the Bulldogs on Friday.

She hurled more than 320 combined pitches in her two outings, giving up only one earned run all weekend.

“I’m always ready to pitch whenever my name is called upon,” Fico said. “I’ll throw as long as I can for my team. I’ll do everything I can to keep them in it.

I’m confident that they will score for me if I give them the chance to do it.”

Fico’s performance comes as little surprise with her All-America honors from last season, but the Tigers’ hitting proved that predicting their future performance based off of last season’s results would be a mistake.

The only people unfazed by advantage Friday with a three-run the drastic increase in LSU’s of- home run in the first inning. Bell fensive production seemed to be drove her third homer of the seathe Tigers themson into left field selves. a two-strike ‘I’ll throw as long as I on “This team is pitch from Missisextremely talent- can for my team. ... I’m sippi State pitcher ed,” Torina said.

Owen. confident that they will Alison “They have a ton Bell’s dinger of power. Some score for me if I give sparked a barrage of these freshmen of Tiger home are just very, very them the chance to do it.’ runs off Owen, good hitters, and I including fellow Rachele Fico think you’re going freshman Sandra LSU senior pitcher to see them conSimmons’ two-run tinue to improve shot in the fourth. as they get more confident and Juniors Tammy Wray and Allifigure it out more and more.” son Falcon also put balls out of One of those freshmen, Bi- the park Sunday, contributing to anka Bell, gave LSU its early LSU’s victory.

LSU now returns to Baton Rouge for 10 consecutive home games, beginning with a midweek matchup against Nicholls on Wednesday. After more than three weeks since playing in their home park, the Tigers said they will be glad to finally be back in front of a friendly crowd.

“This has been a grind this last month and a half,” Torina said.

“It’s not like we’ve been playing just anybody. We’ve played a who’s who list of teams around the country, so it will be a huge relief to be at home all week.”

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Compulsory gun ownership only way to combat Obama BUT HE MEANS WELL GORDON BRILLON Columnist

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Ever since the Republicans lost the White House, we’ve been warned every day that Big Government is coming for our freedom and our guns. And every day it was dismissed as the ramblings of paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists.

Well folks, the nanny state is in full effect, and it’s just a matter of time before we’re North Korea-lite, threatening to build militarized fences on our southern borders and unprovokedly nuke countries ideologically opposed to us.

We can’t say we weren’t warned.

Luckily for us, there are still enclaves of freedom and fierce individuality fighting the good fight and keeping the spirit of America alive.

The north Georgia city of Nelson proposed a mandate last week that would require all heads of household in the city to own guns.

Bravo, Nelson. What better way to fight the threat of bureaucratic interference than for town leaders to step in and give an ordinance making all citizens carry some ordinance?

In a time when the government is trying to take away our inalienable rights to wallow in uninsured squalor and order tubs of carbonated sugar water with our 27-inch meat-bathed party pizza, it’s refreshing to see liberty upheld and forcibly enforced by a small town.

Nelson, with its population of 1,300 and police presence of one patrolling officer at a time, introduced the mandate to help citizens protect themselves from crimes.

Rather than increasing funding for the police and introducing further socialized law enforcement, Nelson is calling upon its responsible citizens to protect themselves. And if some of the citizens are less than responsible, the responsible citizens are empowered to keep them in check with maximum firepower.

Nelson is returning to the last time Americans were truly free: the Old West.

Instead of the bleak, grey, totalitarian grind of New York City under Comrade Bloomberg, the

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air in Nelson will ring with the gunshots of lawmen and vigilante citizens.

Maybe they can get some loudspeakers to play Ennio Morricone on a perpetual loop.

Some pinko critics of the law have said that the Nelson town council is itself becoming too big for its boots and intruding in its constituents’ lives.

Some people just have no perspective.

This isn’t a dangerous government mandate, like stealing freedom by forcing people to have health insurance.

Making everyone in town carry a gun promotes freedom as well as keeping the general populace safe. Who would dare commit a crime or speak out against the consensus of the community while living under the constant threat of being shot by everyone around you?

Sure, the Obama administration will tell you that having fewer guns leads to fewer deaths.

In fact, a study released last week using Centers for Disease Control data shows that exact correlation – states with more gun control laws have significantly fewer gun-related deaths.

But who are you going to trust –– a bunch of bespectacled scientists from Obama’s socialist cabal or 1,300 patriots from backwoods Georgia?

Take it from Nelson councilwoman Edith Portillo, a staunch defender of the Second Amendment and proponent of the bill.

“It’s a statement from a little town to the government – you’re not going to get into our lives and take our firearms away, that type of thing,” Portillo told POLITICO. “This government intrusion in our lives is getting bigger and bigger – it’s getting into every section of our lives.”

Portillo is right. Government is getting bigger and bigger, and we need to find a way to solve that problem.

And if a problem can’t be solved by waving guns everywhere, then I just don’t think it can be solved.

Gordon Brillon is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Rhode Island.

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Quote of the Day “If frogs had side pockets, they’d carry handguns.”

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Restroom rules or an attempt to catalog us?

FRIED PHILOSOPHY AARON FRIEDMAN Columnist Coy Mathis, a first grade biological male from Colorado, identifies as a girl. She dresses as a girl, her teachers refer to her as female and until recently, she used the girls’ restroom at school.

After Eagleside Elementary banned Coy from using the girls’ lavatory — offering the boys’ or faculty restrooms instead — a transgender rights group filed suit against the school for gender discrimination.

This is where critics of the parents flooded in.

What sort of neo-hippie liberal parents would allow their child to decide its gender?

I understand the sentiment.

Kids are dumb.

When I was in first grade, my career goal was to be a Power Ranger. I knew their hiring standards were lax, and I wanted nothing more than to karate chop Rita Repulsa’s smug face in half and do the Macarena on the pink ranger.

I still don’t know what “Macarena” means, but it’s decidedly sexual here, at least in the way a first grader perceives sex.

That’s the second argument.

Children have the most limited understanding of sexual anatomy

WEB COMMENTS The Daily Reveille wants to hear your reactions to our content. Go to lsureveille.com, our Facebook page and our Twitter account to let us know what you think. Check out what other readers had to say in our comments section: In response to Chris Grillot’s column, “SAE incident should incite change in the Greek community,’” readers wrote: “To Chris Grillot and “evolve1318,” I’m not surprised that someone, such as yourself, has such dislike for the greek community.

At the same time, I do not expect you to understand the traditions of brotherhood and sisterhood that come from taking part in greek organizations. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, as a fellow member of a greek organization I feel it is my responsibility to defend the greek community as a whole. I’m not saying that I condone the actions of SAE, but to sling mud at the lot of the greek community is not ok.

-Nationally, 71% of all fraternity and sorority members graduate, while only 50% of non-members graduate.

-All fraternity and sorority GPAs are higher than the overall collegiate GPAs.

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Coy Mathis, a first grade boy who identifies as a girl, was banned from using the girls’ bathroom at school. Society has yet to understand transgendered poeple.

and gender, which is a social construct that seeks to divide behaviors and interests as either male or female.

Despite this, I maintain that if a child is experiencing discomfort conforming to gender norms, that child knows him or herself better than a wave of condescending strangers.

Also, his or her story is not analogous to a first grader wanting to be a Power Ranger.

Gender identity, with its innumerable shades, is hard to pin down and when denied can have severely detrimental

psychological effects.

Children shoehorned into expected gender roles might experience behavioral problems, depression or even suicidal thoughts, according to American Psychological Association.

Sometimes it’s uncertain whether gender nonconformity is permanent or transitory, but Coy’s parents’ support is better than the alternative, even if you think they’re a little too gung-ho.

Historically, our society has gone to great lengths to catalog everyone in neatly defined groups, inventing new and often nonsensical

-Since 1910, 85% of the Supreme Court Justices have been fraternity or sorority members.

-85% of the Fortune 500 key executives are fraternity or sorority members.

-Of the nation’s 50 largest corporations, 43 are headed by fraternity or sorority members.

-76% of Who’s Who in America are fraternity or sorority members.

-All but two Presidents since 1825 have been fraternity or sorority members.

-70% of the U.S. Presidents’ cabinet members since 1900 have been fraternity or sorority members.

-76% of U.S. Senators are fraternity or sorority members.

-Both women appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court were sorority members.

-Over 85% of the student leaders on 730 campuses are members of Greek-letter organizations.

-Less than 2% of average college student expenses go towards membership dues.

-A study by the University of Missouri found that Greeks throughout the US and Canada are more involved on their campuses and rate their overall university experience better.

-The same study found that fraternity or sorority members are more involved in their communities; and give more

generously to their alma maters.

-Fraternity or sorority members form the largest network of volunteers in the U.S. -Nationally, fraternity or sorority members volunteer approximately 10 million hours of community service annually.

-Fraternity or sorority membership strongly encourages within its community to uphold the ideals that they were founded on: sisterhood and brotherhood, scholarship, leadership, philanthropy, and becoming better citizens of society.

-Hazing is against National Fraternity or Sorority Headquarters policies.

-Nationally, fraternity or sorority members are the largest and most visible value-based student organizations.

Still think the greek communities positive attributes are slim to none?”

- crobe44 “Nice statistics, but please provide a source, Proving 85% of Supreme Court Justices, 70% of U.S. President’s cabinet members, and 76% of U.S. Senators are in fact greek members only sets up the greek community as the scapegoat of the failings of the American political system. Since greek life has such an overwhelming presence in American politics, are we to blame greek life principles and traditions

rules to simplify judgment when necessary.

For instance, when mixing between blacks and whites made it too difficult to make racial distinctions, laws like Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Act sprang forth, deeming anyone with a single drop of African blood to be considered “black.”

There was this fear of the unknown then — of foreign contamination chipping away at white racial identity, distorting it until it no longer existed.

Today, educated opinion has calmed those anxieties, but the feelings of unease are re-awakened and amplified when we attempt to define people on the basis of gender.

To be transgender is particularly offensive because it means to exist in an uncomfortable gray area of our society’s understanding of gender.

What do we do with a biological woman who identifies her gender as male or a biological man who identifies as female?

What do we do with someone whose gender falls somewhere in between?

Even some of the most understanding among us lack the vocabulary to refer to such a person in conversation. “Do we say ‘he’?” we ask. “She?” Is it offensive to use transgender as a noun or say “transgendered”?

Many do not even know the

meaning of “transgender.”

Unable to differentiate between definitions like transgender or transsexual, we lump them together or downright ignore them.

We view them inwardly only as inconvenient outliers or defects.

We acknowledge them fleetingly in public — with bemusement as if they were entertaining spectacles, or with a sliver of disgust as if we were just backsplashed while defecating in a public restroom.

We tell them to compromise, like Coy, because we do not understand how important using your gender’s bathroom is to your sense of self. And didn’t we go over this already? Separate but equal is not equal.

We fail to see the human being before us, instead fixated on our own failure to classify them, and that is what’s most damning.

Denying Coy the right to use the girls’ bathroom isn’t just denying a place to pee — it’s denying her right to be the person she envisions herself to be, as if anyone’s identity ever relied on someone else’s permission.

for creating inept and corrupt politicians? I don’t like to think so, but if so many politicians stem from greek culture, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to argue.

I will admit, greek members have held many prestigious political and private offices, but I am not commentating on the state of greek life in the past. I am speaking solely on what I have experienced within the last four years at LSU and other colleges throughout the country such as USC, San Diego State, Arkansas, Tennessee, and University of Michigan. Recently, greek life has been plagued by national news stories involving disgusting hazing practices, sexual harassment, and substance abuse; so using terms such as animalistic behavior, ignorance, and pretentiousness, like I mentioned in my previous comment, have become adjectives used to describe greek life more frequently.

It would be difficult to argue that a good portion of greek life revolves around partying, so yes, I am sure that national fraternities and sororities have wonderful policies and mission statements. But are they being put into practice?

Clearly not.

Of course, it would be ridiculous to assume that all members of greek life viciously haze pledges, sexually harass women, and partake in substance abuse, but since fraternities and sororities are organizations, those

members who do partake in those acts represent the organization and it is the organization that suffers the consequences.

Also, websites like Total Frat Move, getting drunk and fighting each other at Tigerland, and stories involving disgusting acts, such as the one involving Sigma Alpha Epsilon, are not helping your cause. Just because greek life was at one point a prestigious community, does not mean it will continue to be and based on the current trend, greek life seems to be moving in the opposite direction. Instead of attracting true gentlemen and upstanding women, greek life is now attracting animalistic and immature college students who value impressing their friends and getting wasted over upholding their organization’s legacy.

It is definitely possible for greek life to turn around and I hope they do so. It would be a shame that something so rich in tradition and history would be destroyed by imbeciles who could care less. “crobe44” you seem like someone who is capable of changing the stereotype.”

- evolve1318

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

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