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LSU athletes address the possibility of a gay teammate information compiled by TYLER NUNEZ · Sports Writer Despite homosexual athletes around the nation struggling to find support, it seems the controversial topic is a virtual non-issue for a vast majority of LSU student athletes. A great number of individuals representing a wide range of LSU sports conveyed a single common belief that a teammate’s sexuality simply has nothing to do with the sport he or she plays.
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rofessional sports leagues across the country are preparing themselves for what seems to be inevitable: What happens when the country sees its first openly gay active athlete in a major sport? Everything from desegregation, such as Jackie Robinson’s smashing baseball’s color barrier, to centuries-old religious differences have found their way onto athletic fields throughout history. In one way or another, they have worked as proponents — or, in some instances, opponents — of change in society. This generation’s conflict has taken shape in the form of equality for those who identify themselves as member’s of the LGBT community. A football locker room has long been drenched in traditional
masculine attitudes, making it a prime battleground for the samesex equality movement. “Football is supposed to be this violent sport — this aggressive sport that grown men are supposed to play,” said senior LSU running back Alfred Blue. “Ain’t no little boys out here between them lines. So if you gay, we look at you as a sissy. You know? Like, how you going to say you can do what we do and you want a man?” A line has been drawn in the sand on the issue of openly gay athletes in football. On one side stand those who see the sport through the same eyes as Blue — who could be expressing a common attitude among NCAA football players. TRUTH, see page 4
Football needs to deal with reality of homosexual athletes THE BERT LOCKER ALBERT BURFORD Sports Editor It’s time to stop pretending as if homosexual athletes don’t exist — especially in football. Research conducted in 2012 by Gallup shows that 3.4 percent of Americans identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. There are 109 athletes listed on the LSU football team’s roster alone, and LSU has 14 other varsity sports teams. It would be an extraordinary statistical anomaly if there were no LGBT football players to ever play at LSU or no current homosexual athletes here. Thus, the topic of
homosexual athletes deserves some attention — and it’s gotten some recently. Former LSU women’s basketball player Seimone Augustus is openly gay and has voiced her intention to marry her partner. On Wednesday, No. 1 overall WNBA Draft pick Brittney Griner casually said she is a lesbian and received virtually no backlash. In 2007, former NBA player John Amaechi became the first NBA player to speak openly about his homosexuality. It was met with mixed responses. Some players supported Amaechi, while others, such as former NBA player Tim Hardaway, expressed their uneasiness at the prospect of a gay teammate. REALITY, see page 11
‘We accept everybody because they’re our teammates. We go to battle with them, and we go out there and try to win baseball games.’
‘I do not think I would do anything differently [if I coached a gay player]. They are people.’ Karen Bahsen women’s golf coach
Stefan Szacinski senior tennis player
‘If they are part of LSU and the culture that it involves, it doesn’t really matter what teammates decide to do.’
‘I don’t see any problem with it. You are what you are, so we’re going to be accepting of you, no matter what.’
Kaitlin Burns senior tennis player
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INTERNATIONAL Venezuelan troops beat protesters for refusing to accept election results CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — National Guard troops beat dozens of opposition supporters inside a barracks for refusing to accept the government-certified electoral victory of Hugo Chavez’s heir, a leading Venezuelan human rights lawyer charged Thursday. Alfredo Romero said his group’s lawyers also compiled evidence supporting opposition activists’ claims that National Guard troops had used excessive force against protesters, including shooting some point-blank with plastic shotgun pellets. Frugal pope nixes bonus for Vatican employees despite years of tradition VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis, known for his frugal ways, decided Vatican employees won’t be getting the bonus that traditionally comes with the election of a new pope. In the past, the Vatican’s 4,500-plus workers — both religious and lay — would receive an extra little something upon the death of one pope and another upon the election of his successor: In 2005, the total reportedly came to 1,500 euros (nearly $2,000) apiece.
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Elvira Guzman mourns over the body of her husband, 45-year-old Jose Luis Ponce, a Chavista militant allegedly killed Monday in Venezuela.
Pair of wallabies on the loose in Austria after escaping from a farm VIENNA (AP) — Volunteers are searching for a pair of wallabies hopping through Austria — yes, Austria. The kangaroo-like marsupials, which are smaller than “roos” and primarily found in Australia, escaped from a farm in the upper Austrian countryside, about 110 miles northwest of Vienna. Thursday was the third day of the quest to find them. Owner Gabrielle Schrammel says the female has a joey in her pouch.
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FBI issues photos of two suspects in Boston bombing, asks for help
Jindal says legislative backing on LSU deals doesn’t carry force of law
BOSTON (AP) — The FBI released photos and video Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the attack. The photos depict one man in a dark baseball cap and the other in a white cap. The men were seen walking together, and the one in the white hat was seen setting down a backpack at the site of one of the blasts, said Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston. Tale of kind act after Boston blasts goes viral; finisher gives up medal
Scientists: Superstorm Sandy jolted United States like a small earthquake
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday he won’t seek legislative approval of his administration’s LSU hospital privatization agreements, though both the House and Senate have voted that they want such decision-making authority. Jindal said he believes the legislative resolutions that have received support requiring budget committee backing of the lease agreements don’t carry the force of law. He said lawmakers would need to change state statute to get such approval authority, citing an attorney general’s opinion issued before the resolutions were filed.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As Superstorm Sandy lashed at New York City and New Jersey, a national system of 500 earthquake sensors, some as far away as the Pacific Northwest, recorded the force of waves slamming into other waves shook the seafloor. The energy generated by Sandy was similar to small earthquakes between magnitudes 2 and 3, seismologists at the University of Utah estimated, enough to physically shake the ground across the country ever so slightly.
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal says he’ll veto any cigarette tax increase that wins passage from lawmakers, unless it’s coupled with a corresponding cut in taxes somewhere else. Jindal reiterated Thursday that he will oppose anything considered a net increase in state tax revenue. A few weeks ago, the Republican governor was pushing for a $1.05-per pack increase in Louisiana’s 36-cent cigarette tax.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An act of kindness by an Alaska stranger in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon explosions has gone viral. Runner Laura Wellington was diverted from the finish line by the police after the bomb went off just as she was about to finish. As she was calling her family, a couple walked by, KTUU-TV reported. Wellington wrote on Facebook that the man proceeded to take the medal off from around his neck and placed it around hers, saying “You are a finisher in my eyes.”
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Civil rights panel addresses past and current states of equality Nic Cotten Staff Writer
Five civil rights panelists – including current and former journalists and activists – talked Thursday morning in the Holliday Forum of the Journalism Building about the horrors of the segregated South and the courage to lead the civil rights movement amid the hate. Moderator Hank Klibanoff, former journalist and editor and current professor of journalism at Emory University, said white supremacy at the time was not subliminal, but instead consisted of a brutality and terrorism in the South comparative to the terrorism today. “Bombs, abductions, lynchings and castrations was the way life was,” Klibanoff said. “It was more than just water fountains.” Moses Newson, journalist for African-American newspapers during the civil rights era, said he first understood how “far down on the totem pole” he was when a group of German war prisoners got to sit at the bottom of the movie theatre in the white section while he had to sit up in the balcony. “It occurred to me that a few months earlier, these people were part of a regime killing Americans,” Newson said. “But they had more privilege than citizens who live and work here.” Dorothy Cotton, civil rights activist who worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr., said she was first inspired to be a part of the civil rights movement when she was a child and heard a white boy riding a bike down her street and singing a parody of “Deep in the Heart of Texas” that included racist slurs. “I remember that moment, a feeling I couldn’t put words to,” Cotton said. “I knew there was something wrong; I remember the pain hearing that song. There was a churning inside of me. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I had and still have that feeling.” John Seigenthaler, former reporter at The Tennessean in Nashville, who served as special assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy during the civil rights era, described being a child in segregated Nashville and seeing but not fully
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Civil rights advocate Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr., discusses the lessons she learned during the civil rights movement at the Civil Rights Forum in the Holliday Forum on Thursday.
acknowledging the racism. He recalled being on the trolley car and bus watching black women pay their fare after a long day of working in a white woman’s home and then struggle to fight through the crowd to the back of the vehicle. “I never heard from my parents and teachers, and I never heard once on the pulpit about the indecency and injustice of it all,” Seigenthaler said. “Where were our heads and hearts?” The conversation shifted to whether the panelists think segregation will ever end, to which Gene Roberts, former editor of both The New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, answered with a story of King and his impact on the poor African-American community in Durham, North Carolina. He said he could not even get close to the door at a Durham church where King was speaking because it was packed. He was able to get a boost from a deacon, sit in the windowsill and watch the end of the speech, Roberts said.
“Money was so hard to come by that they tied loose change in a handkerchief and knotted it to make sure they didn’t lose it,” Roberts said. “King’s speech talked about brotherhood, non-violence and no hate. One of King’s staff members asked for money and everyone was unwrapping their coins. I left thinking there was going to be massive change because I had seen clear evidence of how strong the support was to change in black American – from the old to the students.” When asked about the current state of civil rights, Cotton said there is always more to do. “It isn’t over, but it will never be over,” Cotton said. “We are on a journey; you stop along the way on the journey. We must put some energy into what is not working and how to address it. When you finish working on that, there will be something else.” Contact Nic Cotten at ncotten@lsureveille.com
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page 4 need to be talked about,” Hairston said. “But I think the main thing The running back does not stand is people can learn as fans, as athas the lone opponent to an era of letes, as just people in general, just change in football, as shown by respect one another and it ends at San Francisco 49ers’ cornerback that.” According to a Gallup poll Chris Culliver, who made similar remarks only a few months done in 2012, approximately 3.4 percent of the American populaback. tion identify them“I don’t do the gay guys, man. ‘If I knew I was lining selves as members of the LGBT comI don’t do that,” Culliver said dur- up in front of somebody munity. Statistically, ing an interview at that was gay, I’m going out of the 109 Super Bowl Media Day. “Ain’t got no to pancake him and sit athletes currently the LSU footgay people on the on him just like I would on ball roster, four team. They gotta of them could poget up outta here on anybody else.’ tentially be gay. if they do. Can’t However, the acbe with that sweet Trai Turner curacy of that stuff.” sophomore offensive lineman number can never On the other side are those who say it wouldn’t be truly known due to the fear of affect them. The You Can Play a backlash or prejudice directed at project — an organization that’s their announcements. Rivers said a major factor mission is to ensure “equality, respect and safety for all athletes, in why no active football player without regard to sexual orienta- to date has come out may be the tion” — and its slogan, “If you can inevitable trash-talking and unplay, you can play,” have given wanted media attention he would the movement national attention. receive by becoming what some The NHL recently announced are already calling the “Jackie a partnership with You Can Robinson of gay rights.” Play. “College football is a business and you have to conduct yourself in a manner where you respect everyone you deal with,” said LSU sophomore offensive lineman Trai Turner. “I feel like if the person is gay, he must still conduct himself in the manner of a football player, and if a person isn’t gay, he must still look at the person who views himself as gay, or says he is gay, as his teammate.” Turner acknowledged that there are people in college football who would be hesitant to accept an openly gay teammate. He said people are raised differently and hold varying beliefs, but added that personal beliefs should be left off the field, no matter what they are. “Being gay won’t do nothing for you,” Turner said. “If I knew I was lining up in front of somebody that was gay, I’m going to pancake him and sit on him just like I would on anybody else.” When asked how they would feel about having an openly gay teammate, most athletes continued to preach teamwork and brotherhood. LSU sophomore quarterback Stephen Rivers summed up the attitude in just one sentence. “If he can play for LSU, he will play for LSU,” Rivers said. However, the notion of an openly gay football player brings with it a level of tension and anxiety among athletes — despite which side of the issue they are on. The topic of openly gay athletes in football is so taboo, the LSU Athletic Department would not allow players to be asked questions on the topic before they were properly prepped for the interview. LSU junior kicker James Hairston said the deeper issue is the respect people show to one another throughout their lives. “I believe that this is an important issue, one that does need to come to the forefront, that does
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The Daily Reveille “In today’s society, I think there would be something extra for the person lining up against that person,” Rivers said. “You get trash-talking whether you have those problems or not, and I could see that happening.” Even if the number of openly gay athletes on the football team is zero at the moment — something Blue insisted was the case — the possibility still remains that a player may come out in the future and LSU coach Les Miles and his team will have to respond. “I would handle it as what’s important and what’s best for the team,” Miles said. “I would treat him, and expect his teammates to treat him, in an appropriate and straightforward manner. ... It would have to be something that I took to an office and kind of describe how I saw locker rooms and how I saw travel and how I saw staying in hotel rooms and how I saw those things. If that’s not an issue, I think things could be resolved.” Contact Mike Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com
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Road Rivalry
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No. 3 Tigers travel to Tuscaloosa to battle Tide Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer
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LSU senior infielder Mason Katz (8) swings at the ball Wednesday during the Tigers’ 4-0 victory against Grambling at Alex Box Stadium.
There’s no denying LSU and Alabama have become well-acquainted over the years. The Southeastern Conference Western Division rivalry has turned into a battle of attrition across numerous sports, as the two programs’ football squads mash heads every year and the contest between the universities’ basketball teams went down to the wire this past season. Now baseball’s in the spotlight. When the No. 3 LSU (35-3, 13-2 SEC) baseball team travels to Tuscaloosa to battle the Crimson Tide (23-16, 8-7 SEC), the Tigers will look to stay dominant on the road against conference opponents. Next up for Though the the Tigers: LSU-Alabama rivalry has grown Who: LSU (35-3,13-2) vs. over the years, the Alabama (23-16,8-7) Tigers don’t believe that it will make the When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, weekend series any 7 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. more important. Sunday “[The Alabama series is] just as Where: Sewell-Thomas important as us go- Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. ing to Arkansas or Watch or listen at home: playing Kentucky at home,” said se- Saturday’s game on FSN; nior first baseman all games on 98.1 FM Mason Katz. “It all counts the same. It’s a fun rivalry for sure, and everybody lives for that stuff, so it’s fun, especially for us going and playing there. Regardless, it’s going to be an exciting weekend and we’re looking forward to the rivalry.” The Tigers are 9-2 on the road in 2013, with losses at Mississippi State and at Arkansas. Nevertheless, LSU feels it is battle-tested, and the players intend to use the same winning formula that has propelled them to the thirdbest rank in the nation. “We’re going to go out there and just keep playing the way we do,” said junior third baseman Christian Ibarra. “We’re going to go out there and swing and make our plays. TIDE, see page 7
GYMNASTICS
Tigers to compete in national semifinals
Berth to the Super Six on the line Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor
The No. 5 LSU gymnastics team will start its journey to become only the fifth different school to win an NCAA women’s gymnastics national title in the past 31 years when it takes the floor today at the NCAA Championships in Los Angeles’ Pauley Pavilion. The Tigers (20-6) are slated to compete in Semifinal I at 2 p.m. against No. 1 Florida, No. 4 Georgia, No. 8 Minnesota, No. 9 Stanford and No. 12 Illinois. Semifinal II kicks off at 8 p.m., and the top three finishers from each group earn a berth to the Super Six Finals at 6 p.m. Saturday. LSU coach D-D Breaux, who has guided the program to 24 NCAA Championship berths and two Super Six appearances in 2008 and 2009, is familiar with the territory. She acknowledged the great talent her team is sure to face and said she wouldn’t overlook lower-seeded teams like Illinois. “Everybody that’s [at the championship] has won the right to be there,” Breaux said. “It’s a very elite group of 12 teams, GYMNASTICS, see page 7
FOOTBALL
LSU Spring Game allows fans to measure progress Offseason changes make for good show Tyler Nunez Sports Writer
LSU fans will get their first taste of LSU football Saturday after an almost four-month hiatus when the Tigers take the field for their annual Spring Game in Tiger Stadium. A lot has happened since LSU’s heartbreaking 24-25 loss to Clemson on New Year’s Eve in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Since LSU coach Les Miles introduced Cam Cameron as his new offensive coordinator, an
LSU-record 10 underclassmen declared for the NFL Draft and a slew of early enrollees have arrived on campus looking to fill the voids left by these departures. This means LSU fans have more to look forward to than a glorified scrimmage. It is an opportunity to see how the Tigers have progressed since December and how they have adjusted to such a variety of personnel changes. OFFENSIVE CHANGES: Since Cameron’s introduction as LSU’s new offensive coordinator, speculation about the impact he will have on the Tigers’ offense has been one of the most intriguing aspects of
spring practice. LSU is hoping Cameron — who has played a role in the development of such quarterbacks as Drew Brees, Philip Rivers and Joe Flacco — will be able to transform senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger from a good quarterback to a star quarterback. Based on reactions from players early in spring practice, the most noticeable difference will be an accelerated pace. Running backs are also expected to become more involved in the LSU passing game. Junior wide receiver Jarvis Landry said even though the passing attack has been given a SPRING GAME, see page 7
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LSU freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings (10) hands the ball off to senior running back Alfred Blue (4) on April 11 during practice at the LSU Football Operations Center.
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LSU set to face off against Missouri Spencer Hutchinson Sports Contributor
The No. 11 LSU softball team begins its final homestretch of the 2013 regular season today, with game one of the series against Southeastern Conference newcomer No. 12 Missouri. Today’s and Saturday’s games are both set to begin at 6 p.m., and Sunday’s rubber match is slated for 1 p.m. Saturday’s game will be LSU’s annual “Strikeout Ovarian Cancer” game in which LSU will wear teal jerseys to raise awareness for ovarian cancer. Missouri (24-6, 9-5 SEC) and LSU (36-9, 11-4 SEC) aren’t strangers to one another. The two teams met in the 2012 NCAA Columbia Super Regional, where LSU eliminated Missouri to earn a trip to the Women’s College World Series. LSU hasn’t lost an SEC series all season, but that streak will be put to the test this weekend against Missouri — the highest-ranked opponent LSU has hosted for a three-game series yet this season. “Everyone has been looking forward to the teal game, and we’re all really excited to play against another really good team,” said LSU freshman shortstop Bianka Bell. “It’s nice to be at home, but we just have
to keep things simple.” Missouri started the season 222, garnering top-10 national rankings, and the Tigers are scuffling as of late, dropping back-to-back series against Alabama and Arkansas. Missouri boasts a league-leading .316 team batting average in conference games, but pitching was an issue in the two series losses. In the six games against Alabama and Arkansas, Missouri pitchers allowed more than six runs per game. LSU, on the other hand, has won eight of its last 10 games, including a series win against Arkansas and No. 13 Texas A&M. In each of LSU’s last three games, the Tigers have scored at least seven runs. Missouri is just the first of two home series LSU will host against top-25 opponents. No. 4 Alabama will travel to Baton Rouge next weekend to wrap up LSU’s home SEC schedule. “This is the reason why girls come to LSU — to play against top-ranked opponents,” Torina said. “We get two of them in the next weeks at home, and it’s just nice to get to face them with the Tiger fans’ help.” Contact Spencer Hutchinson at shutchinson@lsureveille.com
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We’re going to keep playing good defense and keep hitting.” LSU’s pitching staff had a roller-coaster series this past weekend, as junior starter Ryan Eades got roughed up in his first loss of the 2013 campaign and sophomore southpaw Cody Glenn took a line drive off his leg that knocked him out of the contest on Sunday. LSU coach Paul Mainieri said he isn’t certain of Glenn’s health status for Sunday’s start against the Crimson Tide. He expects Alabama to play the Tigers well, and he doesn’t look at his conference rival’s record as any indication of its ability on the diamond. “If we take anybody lightly, then we’re going to get beat,” Mainieri said. “I have a lot of respect for Alabama’s program. I think they’ve got a great coaching staff, and they’ve got some good young athletes, three solid starters, a good closer and a good bullpen.” He also noted that this weekend is both team’s spring football game festivities. “It’s Spring Game weekend for them, so there’s going to be a lot of buzz on campus and a lot of enthusiasm, so we have to go in there with the eye of the tiger and be ready to play,” he said. Contact Lawrence Barreca at lbarreca@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca
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and we think we’re one of the best.” LSU heads into the championships in top form, having earned a 197.275 or better in three of its last four meets. The Tigers, who failed to eclipse the 197 mark last year, far surpassed that score in 2013, having even flirted with an elusive 198 in last month’s third place finish at the SEC Championship. “It’s a huge confidence booster,” said sophomore all-arounder Rheagan Courville. “We never ended up getting [a 197] last year, and it says so much about how we’ve improved this season. It’s been great to see those
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shot in the arm, LSU has no plans of diminishing the role of its running game. “We are still going to run the football,” Landry said. “Just because Cam comes in does not mean he is going to take away the running game.” DEFENSIVE ADJUSTMENTS: LSU’s defense has taken the brunt of the impact made by the number of early departures, especially in the trenches. Every member of the Tigers’ starting defensive line in 2012 has to be replaced. LSU is hoping it can build
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high scores come up because I beam, then go to our two stronknow— and everyone knows— gest events, we’ll set the table,” how hard we’ve Breaux said. worked.” “Then if we go ‘People say ‘it’s not The Tigers to bars and have will start the semi- how you start, it’s how a consistent bars final on beam and you finish,’ but in this performance, we follow with a bye, should advance. meet, it’s how you do People say ‘it’s floor, vault, a bye and bars, in order. not how you start, the entire meet. If LSU’s sophoit’s how you finyou make one small ish,’ but in this more all-arounder Lloimincia Hall mistake, it’s a difference meet, it’s how is the top floor you do the enbetween fractions.’ tire meet. If you gymnast in the country, and the make one small D-D Breaux Tigers are the namistake, it’s a diftion’s best vaultference between LSU gymnastics coach ing team with a fractions.” 49.495 regional qualifying score. The past four champi“If we go in and we hit ons – Utah, Alabama, Georgia
and UCLA – will be competing in this year’s championship, creating a 1-in-3 chance the title will remain in the family. But the possibility of a dark horse contender still remains, and a potential fifth member of the upper crust could reside in Baton Rouge. “We would love to be that team, and we’re good enough to be that team,” said junior all-arounder Kaleigh Dickson. “I think everyone in the country knows that we’re a definite contender for the national championship.”
a solid line of new faces around Collins are most likely to fill the the experienced duo of junior shoes left by these former Tigers, and the spring game defensive tackles Ego Ferguson and ‘We are still going to is the perfect opportunity for them to Anthony “Freak” run the football. Just make their case. Johnson. “DBU” also because Cam comes ANTHONY JENNINGS: took a big hit This early enwith the departure in does not mean he is rollee of cornerback going to take away the quarterbackfreshman out of Tharold Simon Marietta, Ga., has and safety Eric running game.’ seen significant Reid. The loss of Jarvis Landry playing time in two of the most LSU junior wide receiver all three of LSU’s prominent of last scrimmages during season’s “DBU” means that someone else will spring practice. In total, he has completed 17-of-31 passes for have to take the reigns. Senior safety Craig Loston 170 yards and three touchdowns. Jennings has also displayed and sophomore cornerback Jalen
promise as a legitimate dualthreat by accumulating 61 yards in nine carries for a 6.8 yardsper-carry average. If Jennings does take any snaps this season, they will likely be out of a package designed for him to run, but he is definitely someone to keep an eye on. His performance this spring has raised eyebrows, and he may be leading LSU’s offense earlier than expected.
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NRA: Senate Sugar Daddy Congress ignores Americans as gun bill fails
SCUM OF THE GIRTH PARKER CRAMER Chief Columnist Everybody knows somebody who shouldn’t own a gun — but chances are, that somebody owns several. Why is this? How are guns finding their way to irresponsible or dangerous owners? Shouldn’t there be some system in place that prevents the mentally ill, convicted felons and repeat offenders from obtaining deadly weapons? There is — sort of. The problem with America is the laws are different everywhere. Some view this as a way for each region of the country to express its uniqueness and individualism, but to others, it’s silly and annoying. Some states (the responsible ones) already require background checks any time a firearm is sold. That includes pawn shops, retail stores and even gun shows or auctions. Other states, like Louisiana, buy and sell guns as if they were mangoes, treating them as a harmless commodity. Federal law only requires federally licensed firearm dealers to initiate a background check on potential gun buyers. Private gun sales, like those conducted on Craigslist, at gun shows and anywhere the federal government doesn’t have a presence, don’t require a check. Even sales conducted over the Internet require no background check at all, which not only enables dangerous criminals but also makes their firearm acquisition convenient with at-home delivery. I don’t want to say this is the National Rifle Association’s fault,
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but it is. The NRA does a lot of good by promoting gun safety and recreational shooting, especially for kids. However, it also protects every American’s Second Amendment rights. Let me reiterate, every American’s Second Amendment rights, regardless of how insane or irresponsible he or she may be. The NRA claims to want to keep guns out of the hands of these people, but the legislation they push through Congress doesn’t support that claim. How can you keep guns away from crazy people if you don’t bother to find out if they’re crazy before they buy them? Or felons? Or sex offenders? The NRA mongers fear by telling small-minded Americans that the government is creating a national gun registry to track who has which guns, so eventually they can be confiscated and America can become England 2.0. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The government wants basic responsibility. As guns evolve, do our rights evolve as well? Eventually, rocket-propelled grenades, or RPGs, will look like BB guns compared to the weapons of the future. Does that mean it’s every American’s right to own one? You know, for protection? Can’t leave home without my RPG; you never know when I might have to fight off a helicopter. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love guns. I plan on owning at least one for the rest of my life. They’re fun to shoot and they make me feel safe. That being said, I’m a better shot than most Americans. I’m more responsible than most Americans. That’s not arrogance, In response to Landon Mills’ column “Government should stay out of child rearing,” readers had this to say: “If you're a teacher, are those kids your responsibility or not? We ALL have a role to play in children's lives. They spend many of their
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks March 14 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate turned down a bill Wednesday that would require nationwide background checks for gun purchases.
it’s just #realtalk. I don’t want guns in the hands of dangerous people. If you agree with me, don’t be deceived by the NRA. The NRA has bought off most of Congress, and that’s why we’re even having this debate, despite the overwhelming majority of Americans (as high as 86 percent in some polls) supporting background checks. The NRA needs to protect responsible gun owners, not enable the irresponsible ones. Parker Cramer is a 21-yearold political science senior from Houston. Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_pcramer waking hours each day with adults OTHER than their parents. So, of course we all have a responsibility for the children in our community. This is partisanship for the sake of partisanship. If anything, what Harris-Perry is saying is prolife.” - WMB
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National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre speaks in Washington following the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“This article lacks any real analysis and you seem to miss Harris-Perry's point. You don't address education at all, and the use of the word ‘liberal’ as some sort of insult is incorrect. The majority of this piece is Harris-Perry's quotes and you offer no real insight into the matter. This is a very poorly organized
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“First ship ‘em dope and let ‘em deal to brothers. Give ‘em guns, step back, and watch ‘em kill each other.”
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Thatcher’s death offers look at modern conservatism BUT HE MEANS WELL GORDON BRILLON Columnist Oftentimes, we liberals like to exaggerate when it comes to describing our political nemeses. George W. Bush wasn’t actually a money-grubbing warmonger, just an easily-swayed patsy surrounded by a lot of bad influences. Mitt Romney was a shameless panderer, but his record showed he clearly wasn’t actively hateful toward poor people. But sometimes, there comes a figure so malignant, so cruelly adherent to the worst of conservative, “me-first” ideology, that you can’t help but think some infernal force had a part to play in their rise to power. Maggie Thatcher was one such figure. Thatcher, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, died at the age of 87 last week of complications from a stroke after a long battle with dementia. I guess only the good die young. But why should we care about the life and death of a politician across the pond? Well, hopefully, the distance will allow us a little perspective and let us see things blocked out by our myopic and rosy-glassed memories of that era.
Thatcher was Prime Minister for the entirety of Ronald Reagan’s term as president, and they shared many of the same policies. Their similarities led to a beautiful friendship forged in the fires of disregard for the needy and what Reagan apologists like to call “fierce individuality.” During her reign, Thatcher was responsible for a sweeping set of government programs that emphasized privatization of government-run industries, a pointless and now-forgotten war in Argentina and the absolute demolition of the power of labor unions. Thatcher and Reagan’s policies set a new course for political conservatism, one that the conservative and Republican parties still hold to today. The fall of unions and their demonization in public discourse has led to the death of real liberalism in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Without unions, liberals lost their greatest asset in the mobilization of the working class, which ought to be their base. On both sides of the Atlantic, the conservative parties picked up the slack and attracted poor laborers by allying themselves with socially conservative religious movements, dividing the working class against itself and making unions a dirty word in the process. Thatcher’s big showdown was with the National Union of Mineworkers, the United
Kingdom’s largest coal miners union. When a government body threatened to close 20 mines, the NUM led a strike of two-thirds of the country’s miners, effectively stopping mining operations. Thatcher’s government immediately declared the strike illegal, and Thatcher herself named the strikers “the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty” than foreign threats. The strike was ended with the help of a riot gear-equipped army of police, more than 150 mines were closed and the “Iron Lady” was, somehow, a hero to misguided and self-righteous Brits everywhere. Nevermind that the closings effectively destroyed the economy of Northern England, and the region is still relatively depressed to this day. What disturbs me about all this is how the American right wing has canonized Reagan since his death. You can’t make a speech at a Republican convention without name-dropping Reagan somewhere. It doesn’t seem like Thatcher’s memory will be held in the same light. For every post I’ve seen online referencing how Thatcher saved the British economy, there are hundreds of comments describing her with words we simply can’t print here. Hopefully our lack of a sentimental attachment to Thatcher here in America will help us
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see more clearly the toxic legacy she and her like-minded contemporaries left, and allow us to leave a more appropriate message in the time following her death. Goodbye, Maggie, and good riddance.
Gordon Brillon is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Lincoln, R.I. Contact Gordon Brillon at gbrillon@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @tdr_gbrillon
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Congress needs to work together rather than bicker Daniel Delaney Brown Daily Herald — Brown University
(UWIRE) — How do we work together? That seems to me to be the question for this new year. We’ve certainly spent more than enough time learning how to disagree. Just ask the United States Congress how much they know about that. I’ve learned a lot from them about disagreement and not working with others. U.S. history teaches us this country was built on compromise, a system of give-and-take and, above all, an underlying mutual respect for the person sitting next to you. The idea was that if our representatives worked together, the country would work better. But you know what’s a great example of our country’s compromising values? The $1.3 billion that lawmakers cost the U.S. government while they were holding the debt ceiling hostage in 2011. The threat of a potential debt downgrade nearly blasted another hole in our
already-precarious economic system. The $1.3 billion was the minimum loss estimate. But what’s ironic is they did it all over again on the fiscal cliff. A message to Congress: The next time there’s another chance to have an incredibly vacuous argument about whether or not to move the country forward, please remember how much money it costs to bicker. But Congress certainly wasn’t the only one teaching class in recent years. My man Mitt Romney sure gave his fair share of classroom lectures. I learned from Romney that changing your opinions to please people is a good way to try to get ahead in the world. I learned that if you work toward avoiding peoples’ concerns, rich folks will give you lots of money to keep doing it. But most importantly, I learned that caring 47 percent about anything gets you nowhere — sorry Mitt. I mock what I watched this November, but it’s not with pleasure that I do so. I love this
country and I find it disheartening that the 2012 presidential election reminded me more of a censored Jerry Springer episode than a contest between great men of great intent and aspiration. President Obama lost the first debate not because Romney had any content to his argument, but because Obama underestimated Romney’s capacity for obfuscation and his determination to reposition himself — yet again — to suit the mood of the general electorate. It’s sad that we live in a time in which people are so uninformed and uninterested in working toward a common good and that politics is now a form of entertainment — or blood sport — instead of the respected form of civil service that produced great men and women in our history. How can it be that we claim to be the descendants of the “Greatest Generation,” a group of people whose great strength lay in their understanding that, at times, individual sacrifice and compromise are necessary in order for
everyone to be better off? Two months ago, a gunman in Connecticut mowed down 27 people: 20 small children, six teachers and his mother. This happened three days after a gunman shot up a mall in Oregon and in the same year as fatal mass shootings in Minneapolis, Tulsa, a Sikh temple, the midnight showing of a movie, a coffee bar in Seattle and a Halloween party on a college campus. Twentyseven, two, six, three, six, 12, six, two. That’s a body count of 64. It’s time to ask again: How do we work together? It’s time that our political system answer that question and learn to live within the times — not expect the times to live with them. Our age is being reshaped by mass communication and mass communication is where change will begin. I loved that after every presidential debate, Facebook turned into a political forum for ideas and opinions on the candidates’ performances. That shows me there is hope, that people are
interested. All of you who put up statuses that told me to keep my politics to myself can get lost. We need discussion. That’s how we will begin to make a difference. Next time you read about something you think ought to be recognized and changed, I want to hear about it. My friend at Northwestern University wants to hear about it. The Herald wants to hear about it. Chances are, people you never would expect to care want to hear about it. In the end, it’s simple. Whether or not we solve the issues of our time will be the ultimate reflection of whether or not we can learn to work together — you, me, our congressmen, our professors, the deans, our new president — we is all of us.
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Friday, April 19, 2013 REALITY, from page 1
A football team’s locker room is a different beast than those of other sports, but it shouldn’t be that way. The perception of all football players as macho men and jocks is tired, and I would like to think the sport has moved past that. In late March, CBS Sports reported a current gay NFL player is “strongly considering” coming out. Multiple NFL players, including former New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita, have recently
shown their support of gay rights. Another CBS Sports story that came out Thursday said an unnamed NFL player is homosexual, but not publicly “out,” and his teammates know. The story said they don’t care about the player’s sexuality, which is great. But when players like Alfred Blue look at the possibility of homosexual teammates as having a “sissy” on the team, that bigoted culture rears its ugly head again and perpetuates falsities. Those misconceptions about homosexuals only make it more difficult for football, which
The Daily Reveille may already be behind other sports in LGBT progress, to move forward and accept an openly gay player. The first step in moving away from the unwelcoming nature of some sports toward the possibility of homosexual teammates is denying the naïve thought that there are no gay athletes. Homosexuality in athletics can no longer be treated as taboo if progress is to be made. There’s a reason a Sports Information Director from LSU told a Daily Reveille reporter his interview with senior quarterback Zach
page 11 Mettenberger was finished when the word “gay” came up. The Athletic Department was likely worried a player may say something insensitive about the controversial subject. That’s the heart of the issue — many of these football players didn’t seem as if they had discussed or even considered the possibility of homosexual athletes in their sport. That is, until after the Athletic Department hand-picked LSU’s backup quarterback and kicker to speak to us.
This isn’t a call to “out” football players. I wasn’t convinced the issue of gay football players mattered until I heard how some players felt about the idea of a homosexual teammate. The issue should be an afterthought for football players and all athletes and people — but first, it must be a thought. Contact Albert Burford at aburford@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @albertutz
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