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Interim chancellor ref lects on Reveille named best his service to the University daily college paper Jenkins prepares for retirement Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer
As he reflected Wednesday on his time as interim system president and chancellor, William “Bill” Jenkins said contrary to popular belief, he won’t spend his retirement playing golf five days a week. After immigrating to the United States from South Africa in 1978 with his wife and children, Jenkins found a position at the University as the dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine and began climbing
the ranks. Now in his second term in the office of system president, Jenkins will step down soon to make way for newly elected System President F. King Alexander. Jenkins said he is ready for retirement and wants it to be spent with his family — his wife, Peggy, four children and nine grandchildren — in Dallas, teaching seminars and writing. While he never wants to return to administration, Jenkins said he will “never turn [his] back on LSU. If they need me for any purpose, I’ll do it.” After more than 35 years JENKINS, see page 6
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Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins answers a question in February from the Student Experience Subcommittee.
The Daily Reveille was named the country’s Best AllAround Daily Student Newspaper on Wednesday by the Society of Professional Journalists in its national 2012 Mark of Excellence Awards. Along with being named the best daily college newspaper in the nation, two writers on The Daily Reveille staff were named national finalists by SPJ, including columnist Gordon Brillon for General Column Writing and former sports writer and sports
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INTERNATIONAL Turkmen president falls from horse in race, accident hidden from nation MOSCOW (AP) — Seeing the president slam face-first into the ground after falling from a speeding horse would be a shock to any nation. In authoritarian Turkmenistan, many residents didn’t even get the chance. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov apparently wasn’t seriously injured Sunday when his horse stumbled and he pitched into the dirt track at the hippodrome on the outskirts of the capital, Ashgabat. But the fall was certainly a wound to the pride of the 55-yearold Central Asian leader, whose allpowerful personality cult portrays him as effortlessly competent. U.S. State Department keeps Cuba on state sponsors of terrorism list HAVANA (AP) — A State Department spokesman said Wednesday that Washington has no plans to remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism that also includes Iran, Syria and Sudan. The news is sure to ruffle feathers in Havana, which vehemently denies any links to terrorism. Cuba’s government contends its inclusion on the list is a political vendetta by a U.S. government that has kept an economic embargo on the Communist-run island for 51 years.
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Guards run Sunday to help Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov after his horse threw him during a horse race in the capital of Ashgabat.
Italy’s ugly race problems exposed with appointment of black minister ROME (AP) — It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes. But Cecile Kyenge’s appointment as Italy’s first black Cabinet minister has instead exposed the nation’s ugly race problem, a blight that flares regularly on the soccer pitch with racist taunts and in the diatribes of xenophobic politicians — but has now raised its head at the center of political life.
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Missing Pa. woman, thought dead, surfaces in Fla. after 11 years
Judge dismisses lawsuit that would block use of money to balance budget
LITITZ, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously disappeared after dropping off her children at school 11 years ago has surfaced in Florida, telling police she traveled there on a whim with homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges and survived by scavenging food and panhandling, authorities said Wednesday. Brenda Heist, 54, had been declared legally dead, Lititz Borough Police Detective John Schofield said. Ohio executes man who drunkenly killed, raped girlfriend’s 6-month-old
(AP) — Republican lawmakers seeking to stop the use of patchwork financing in next year’s budget lost a legal battle Wednesday in their bid to keep the Legislature from plugging that money into operating expenses. A Baton Rouge judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Jefferson Parish lawmakers asking to block the use of money from property sales, legal settlements and other one-time items sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal to balance the 2013-14 operating budget. Republican Reps. Kirk Talbot and Cameron Henry claimed it is unconstitutional to use one-time money to pay for ongoing programs. House rejects ban on discrimination against homosexual state employees
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her. Steve Smith, 46, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Lucasville in southern Ohio for the 1998 killing of his live-in girlfriend’s daughter, Autumn Carter, in Mansfield. Smith had recently tried to get his sentence reduced to life in prison, arguing that he was too drunk to realize that his assault was killing Autumn and that he didn’t mean to hurt her.
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Lititz Borough Police in Pennsylvania say Brenda Heist, who disappeared after dropping off her children at school 11 years ago, has been located in Florida.
Friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect arrested for protecting him BOSTON (AP) — Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of trying to protect him by going into his dorm room and getting rid of a backpack filled with hollowed-out fireworks three days after the deadly attack. The three 19-year-olds were not accused of any role in the bombing itself. But in a footnote in the court papers, the FBI said that a month before the attack, Tsarnaev told them that he knew how to make a bomb.
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Iraqi professor enjoys Baton Rouge’s similarities to home McKenzie Womack Staff Writer
Fakhri Al-Bagdadi remembers when the University’s School of Veterinary Medicine was in Audubon Hall. Back in 1975 when Al-Bagdadi came to the University, the school had only been open since 1973. Every student who has graduated from the school did so with his help. Al-Bagdadi specializes in histology, which is the microscopic study of cells and tissues in animals ultrastructure morphology, which is comparing the cellular ultrastructure of normal cells to cancerous cells, drugged cells and control cells in animal organs and cell culture. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, “Dr. Al” — as his students call him — taught at schools in Baghdad and Copenhagen, Denmark, before moving to the United States in 1970 to earn a master’s degree from Iowa State University. In the year he was doing research in Copenhagen, he saw The Beatles perform and he met his future wife. “The Danish police refused to protect The Beatles from the public. The government put them on the third floor of a hotel. They were on a balcony. People love them so much they can rip off their clothes. … I stayed there and got a wife from Denmark,” Al-Bagdadi said with a sly grin.
After earning his master’s degree from Iowa, he moved to the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign to get his doctorate. Fifteen days before he was supposed to begin working in St. Louis, his wife suggested they go camping in Louisiana. “My ex-wife liked to go camping. We camped in Slidell, and a friend at the Vet School told us to stop by before we left. The department head said they needed a histologist and asked me to work here,” Al-Bagdadi said. His ex-wife is now a Unitarian priest at a church in Atlanta, and his son lives in California. Al-Bagdadi became a United States citizen in 1981. Since moving to the U.S., he has only returned to Baghdad once — in 1988 when the government invited citizens abroad to return for a short trip to see their families. “I had a chance to see my family. The ruler of Iraq was a violent man at that time. He ruled with a violent fist. I stayed about 10 or 12 days and I came back,” he said. Al-Bagdadi’s father died during his son’s first year in veterinary medicine school, and his mother died during the war between Iraq and Kuwait. He has two sisters and four brothers — with families — who still live in Baghdad, and he communicates with them through email and over the phone. From 1990 to 1992, Al-Bagdadi
spent two years as a Fulbright professor in Jordan establishing teaching processes, developing laboratories and helping schools grow. By his second year, schools all around Jordan were asking him to help, he said, but the University refused the request for a third year in Jordan because it needed him back in Louisiana. Al-Bagdadi said Baton Rouge reminds him of home, which is why he has stayed here so long. “Iraq is the land of two rivers — one called Tigris and the other Euphrates. The Tigris River runs through Baghdad. You can sit in a cafeteria or a restaurant and watch the river,” he said. “Baton Rouge reminded me of Baghdad because of the Mississippi River. Plus I liked our former dean and our department head. Those two made me stay.” The Southern food also reminds him of his former home. He said it is similar because a typical meal in Baghdad is rice and stew. “When I was in Denmark, their main meal is potato. I had a hard time adjusting without rice,” he said. “You don’t miss it here because we eat rice all the time. When you come here, you don’t have to adjust your food style.” Al-Bagdadi takes a personal stake in how he teaches. He said one of his favorite aspects of teaching is when students understand what he’s teaching. “[I like] when students respond
Dr. Fakhri Kareem Al-Bagdadi, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine associate professor, stands April 29 in a laboratory at the vet school. AlBagdadi has been a professor at the University for nearly 40 years. LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille
to what you say and they absorb it, they get it. Students always ask questions if they’re not sure. I’ve changed lectures based on student critiques. … I get the class involved during the lecture,” he said. Al-Bagdadi said students still contact him after they’ve graduated. Sometimes they call to tell him what they’re doing, sometimes it’s because they want to know more about a lecture he taught when they were students. Sometimes they simply call to say hello. First-year veterinary medicine student Margaret Chatry took his histology class and now takes him for a skin elective. She said he’s one of her favorite professors. “He really cares about his students a lot, probably more than most
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professors do. He’s always very willing to answer all your questions,” she said. “Even though he’s been teaching for so long, he’s still really willing to change to best meet students’ needs.” Farm Animal Health Maintenance professor Matt Welborn, who had Al-Bagdadi in 1983 and 1984 and now teaches at the Vet School, hazily remembered a time when the students got Al-Bagdadi a belly dancer for his birthday. “She started doing her routine, and he picks her up and carries her out like he was going to take her away. I think it really surprised her. It was a hysterical moment,” he said. Contact McKenzie Womack at mwomack@lsureveille.com
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Chancellor plans to increase salaries, eliminate positions The AgCenter has lost 330 faculty members since 2008, partly because of stagnant faculty salaries, a condition AgCenter Chancellor William “Bill” Richardson said he plans to remedy by eliminating administrative positions that will free up funds to potentially provide salary increases. Richardson said the “very unusual” loss is a 29 percent reduction in full-time faculty and can be blamed on the trend of decreasing state appropriations that has left the AgCenter budget more than $23 million short of where it was just five years ago. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell said Richardson’s predicament is not unknown to other university campuses. “We’re using every opportunity to see if there’s a better way to meet the needs of the campus in terms of service and money,” Bell said. “But eventually you just can’t provide services.” Some campuses can raise tuition to offset budget woes, but the AgCenter — which has no students — does not have that option. While AgCenter faculty aren’t receiving pay raises, similar positions in neighboring states and in private industries have more to offer, and talented faculty are flocking to those jobs, Richardson said. “It’s logical to me to think that
people will want to leave,” Richardson said. “Salary increases are really wearing on people. I hear about that more than any other issue we’re dealing with.” Of the 330 people the AgCenter has lost since 2008, 190 held academic positions, 125 were civil service employees with hourly pay and 15 held salaried but non-academic jobs. Richardson said instead of ousting sitting administrators, he plans to simply not fill positions as they become vacant – starting with a vice chancellor position that was held by Paul Coreil, who retired earlier this semester to serve as LSU Alexandria’s interim chancellor. AgCenter Associate Vice Chancellor Dwight Landreneau’s position will also be left vacant when he retires June 1, Richardson said. The duties for these positions will be divided among five or six other AgCenter faculty members, including Richardson himself, he said. Together, the salaries for these positions totaled about $365,000 plus benefits. However, Richardson said it would take about $500,000 to provide just a 1 percent salary increase for all AgCenter faculty. Richardson said while he plans to “let the dust settle” on the budget decided by state legislators before determining what other administrative changes need to be made, he isn’t afraid to cut more positions if necessary. “We’re trying to make our
administrative structure as lean as possible,” Richardson said. However, Richardson said he only plans to eliminate vacant positions rather than “those with bodies in them” and will examine what roles can be consolidated as positions open up. Most students haven’t felt “the hard budget challenges we often talk about” because administrators and faculty have fought to preserve the core mission of academics and student experience, Bell said. “We have a 23:1 student-faculty ratio now, but it used to be 18:1. We’re at that point where there’s not a lot left we can do. With every
position we say, ‘Can we do something here?’” Bell said. Reducing administrative positions is not the only measure Richardson is taking to combat dwindling state appropriations. The AgCenter has closed three research stations around the state, asking already-stretched-thin employees to take on more responsibilities while cutting entire programs. “In some cases we have things that just aren’t getting done,” Richardson said. Looking at ways to streamline procedures is another goal of Richardson’s. Richardson said he plans to hire
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New TOPS legislation would award students who return to Louisiana for graduate school in high-demand fields after studying in another state. House Bill 612 by Rep. Hunter Greene, R-Baton Rouge, would offer TOPS exclusively to students who have graduated from out-of-state universities accredited by the U.S. Department of Education and return to the state for graduate degrees. Under the legislation students must maintain standards for the initial undergraduate award in a Louisiana college or university and have graduated from high school during the 2008-09 school year or after. Director of External Affairs Jason Droddy said about 10 percent of students return to Louisiana for advanced degrees. “The general assumption is that student aid would draw more students,” Droddy said. Additionally, the bill states the tuition amount awarded should not exceed amounts determined by the administrating school and will equal the tuition for postgraduate study or undergraduate enrollment by the highest cost of a public university.
The bill passed, moved to the Senate and was read to the Committee on Education. Droddy said because the bill will only cover four- and five-star jobs, like petroleum engineering or systems management, the real question is whether the bill will also cover medical school and veterinary school as it does a master’s in chemical engineering. Mathematics master’s student David Ali said he agrees with giving TOPS to graduate students, however he does not think some fields should qualify and not others. “It should be like regular TOPS in the state,” Ali said. Ali is a Louisiana resident and received his undergraduate degree from the University, so he would not qualify for the award. Droddy said there is a misconception that the money that should have gone to the students when they went out of state was saved for this funding. Funding for the award would come from the General Fund or the TOPS fund, Droddy said.
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Bill considered to prevent La. human trafficking Judah Robinson Senior Contributing Writer
Though typically seen as a global issue, human trafficking is a crime that hits surprisingly close to home — so close that state legislators are taking official action to prevent it in Louisiana. In a recent effort to address the issue of human trafficking, the state legislature is considering a bill that would require “sexually oriented businesses” to verify the ages and work statuses of their employees. House Bill No. 651, authored by Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-East Baton Rouge and Livingston, would create a Human Trafficking Prevention Act and require employers of sexually oriented businesses to
conduct a questionnaire with potential employees to verify their ages and work statuses. According to the legislation, a sexually oriented business includes adult arcades; adult book, novelty or video game stores; adult cabarets; gentleman’s clubs, go-go clubs or strip bars; adult motel or adult hotel; adult motion picture theaters or adult theaters; escort or escort agencies; massage parlors, nude model studios and sexual encounter centers. The bill is currently awaiting approval from House Labor and Industrial Relations. According to a 2008 report by Shared Hope International, a nonprofit that works for the eradication of sex trafficking, more than 100
minors were identified as victims of sex trafficking between 2006 and 2008 in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans metro areas. Tigers Against Trafficking president Bridget Savoie said the bill is a necessary step forward. “Just the fact that legislation to address human trafficking is beginning to come up is a huge win for us,” Savoie said. Savoie said she hopes as awareness of human trafficking increases, so does action to eradicate it. “This bill is going to have a positive impact on the treatment of young trafficking victims. Instead of being treated as criminals or delinquents this bill ensures that minors are treated as victims and given the care they need,” Savoie said in
an email. Operators of sexually oriented businesses must conduct an interview with potential employees from a questionnaire that will be provided from the Louisiana Workforce Commission and must retain the answers to this interview. The questionnaire will include “leading questions to give an indication whether or not a potential employee could be a victim of human trafficking,” according to the legislation. The bill requires business operators to contact local law enforcement or the Trafficking Information and Referral Hotline if they suspect they have come in contact with a victim of human trafficking. If business operators do not
cooperate, there would be a variety of possible consequences depending on how many offenses that operator has. A first-time offense would result in a fine of $500 to $1,000 or imprisonment for 30 to 90 days. A second offense would result in a fine between $1,000 and $5,000, and the operator’s occupational license would be suspended for 30 days. A third offense would result in the operator’s occupational license being revoked, banning that individual from operating a sexually oriented business in the state of Louisiana.
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Caterpillars will be around a few weeks after exams
Students continue to be terrorized Olivia McClure
Contributing Writer
They’re cute and fuzzy — and they’ve been unavoidable in recent weeks. Forest tent caterpillars, identifiable by their blue markings and furry appearance, are more abundant this year thanks to drought and recent warm winters, said Tim Schowalter, entomology professor and department head. These caterpillars, along with the white-marked tussock moth caterpillars, turn into brown moths, Schowalter said. The spiny stinging caterpillars turn into buck moths, which have black and white markings, he said. Schowalter said the commonality of caterpillar species depends on climate conditions
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A caterpillar walks across a railing Wednesday. Caterpillars have been plaguing the campus for weeks.
and the amount of stress on the trees on which they feed. One of the caterpillars’ favorite foods is live oak tree leaves, which are plentiful at the University,
he said. Some caterpillars are beginning to spin their cocoons, but most will continue crawling around campus for a few more
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‘I won’t touch it, but I won’t kill it — it’s not hurting me.’
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‘I think they’re just OK. They don’t bother me.’
‘They had caterpillars like this [in Girl Scout camp] ... it makes me sentimental.’
‘They don’t hurt anyone.’ David Dulske music freshman
weeks, Schowalter said. The forest tent and tussock moths will appear in about a month, while buckmoths will not fly until around December, he said.
Until then, Schowalter said it doesn’t hurt to know some basic caterpillar first aid. If stung by a stinging caterpillar, Schowalter suggested putting a piece of tape on the affected site. Removing the tape pulls out any spines and reduces the amount of venom that enters the skin, he said. Schowalter said to relieve the pain of any of the caterpillars’ stings, remedies range in applying meat tenderizer, toothpaste, vinegar or ammonia to the site. Taking Benadryl is also a good idea to prevent an allergic reaction, he said. There is a bright side to the caterpillars’ seeming omnipresence, however: Schowalter said in forests, caterpillars’ waste aids decomposition, which makes plants grow faster and healthier.
Contact Olivia McClure at omcclure@lsureveille.com
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STATE
Bill would allow La. colleges to set tuitions Senators School performance would play key role Littice Bacon-Blood The Associated Press
(AP) — Two measures that would take lawmakers out of setting college tuition rates started advancing Tuesday in the Louisiana House. The House Education Committee approved a bill that would allow boards for the state’s four public college systems to increase tuition and fee amounts under a policy that would be established by the Board of Regents, which oversees higher education in the state. The policy would include an outcome-based performance standard that schools would have to meet before they are allowed to raise tuition. The proposal by Rep. Walt Leger, D-New Orleans, was approved 13-4. Currently, the power to increase tuition and mandatory fees lies with the Legislature. It takes a two-thirds vote of lawmakers to boost tuition, and Louisiana is the only state in the nation with such a requirement. Leger said higher education
officials needed the flexibility to govern their budgets and that lawmakers needed to get out of the “tuition business.” The proposal “seeks to put us in line with 49 other states and take us out of the business of having to vote by a twothirds majority to deal with tuition issues, instead give it to the experts who work in higher education.” The bill would set a tuition cap equal to the Southern regional average. Backers of the bill said higher education officials need the flexibility to set tuition that would give them a predictable revenue stream. The bill was amended to include a caveat that state funding for higher education would not be decreased if tuition were to be raised. While agreeing that higher education has taken financial hits, Rep. John Bel Edwards, DAmite, said tuition has steadily increased over the last five years. However, money from the state’s general fund for higher education has consistently decreased, he said. “That’s not the component that’s broken,” he said. “We used to fund higher education from the general fund at 70 percent, now it’s at 35 percent. Will we go
times as an administrator were watching the University’s progworking in higher education, Jen- ress and success be slowly underkins said his career has had many mined by relentless budget cuts. “The gradual decline started, highs and lows that emphasize his desire to bring beneficial and and it was hard because I could sustainable change to the Univer- see how far we had come and the quality of our faculty and stusity. “There’s very little in my ca- dents,” Jenkins said. “It’s hard reer I haven’t experienced, from when you had such momentum the heights of joy to the depths of and such great expectation.” Despite budgetary and gloom,” Jenkins said. administrative His favorite ‘There’s very little in challenges, as moments at the as tragic University were my career I haven’t well student deaths the days he set devastated goals to push the experienced, from the that personUniversity toward heights of joy to the Jenkins ally, the Univerbeing a tier-one sity persevered, institution. Asdepths of gloom.’ he said. piring to and Jenkins said achieving that William “Bill” Jenkins the University’s goal were some Interim system president triumph, despite of his best expeand chancellor so many obstariences, Jenkins cles, is due to the incredible peosaid. “I began seeing the progress, ple that he has worked with durthe research and enrollment be- ing his time as an administrator. “I’ve found them involved, gin to increase. Then admissions standards and graduation rates caring, bright. It’s tremendous,” began to climb,” Jenkins said. Jenkins said. “And the students, “We bathed in the success, and my focus was on that.” Jenkins said other moments of pride at the University include winning the BCS National Championship games. When all areas of the University experienced such prosperity, “everything began to pulse and beat with a rhythm that was very inspirational to me,” Jenkins said. But there were difficult times, too, he said. Jenkins said his toughest
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to zero?” continue to be raised without Edwards voted against the the schools showing improved bill. graduation rates and other perforA second bill approved mance measures. Tuesday by the House and GovThe constitutional amendernmental Affairs Committee ment would need support without objection would take a from two-thirds of lawmakdifferent approach. ers in the House and Senate, That measure by Rep. along with voters at a statewide Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, election before it could take would spell out in the Louisiana effect. Constitution that Both bills college tuition ‘We should try to make head to the full and fee increases for debate. higher education as House don’t require a The educatwo-thirds vote affordable as possible.’ tion committee of the Legislaalso approved a ture like other fee college tuition James Caillier hikes. executive director, Taylor Foundation bill sponsored by “We do beits chairman, Rep. lieve this is a sound concept, one Stephen Carter, R-Baton Rouge, that has been repeatedly recom- that would authorize a one-time mended by policy groups,” said tuition and fee increase by colCommissioner of Higher Educa- lege boards in 2016. tion Jim Purcell, who said LouisiHowever, the increase would ana’s tuition rates are among the have to be less than the averlowest in the South. age tuition and fees of Southern James Caillier, executive di- Regional Education Board peer rector of the Taylor Foundation schools and would come only if which works on higher education the school’s graduation and reissues, raised objections to Car- tention rates were on par with its mody’s bill, saying it could make peer institutions. college out of reach for some students. “We should try to make highContact The Daily Reveille’s news er education as affordable as posstaff at news@lsureveille.com; sible,” Caillier said. He said tuition shouldn’t Twitter: @TDR_news there’s something different about this generation. They have a sense of involvement and a sense of community that I’ve been truly impressed by.” Looking back on his years at the University, Jenkins has found enough inspiration to necessitate two manuscripts, which he said he has already started writing. Jenkins said the first story will be biographical, written for his children and grandchildren. It will focus on his academic career and some of the more interesting aspects of his life. “I’ve done and seen things in my life that would shock you. Especially in South Africa,” Jenkins said. The second manuscript will focus more exclusively on Jenkins’ experiences at the University, especially leadership scenarios that succeeded and failed and “the dynamic of that,” Jenkins said. Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com
reject cap on TOPS program The Associated Press (AP) — An attempt to control the costs of Louisiana’s free college tuition program known as TOPS, by establishing a cap on awards, was resoundingly rejected by the Senate Education Committee. Legislation to place limits on the popular program are killed year after year in the Legislature. The education committee Thursday rebuffed the bill by Republican Sen. Dan “Blade” Morrish, of Jennings, without objection. The program is expected to cost $204 million next year. Opponents, including Gov. Bobby Jindal, say the program has encouraged more students to attend college and they don’t want to limit funding. Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_news
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Sports
Who’s your favorite? Tigers list their favorite MLB players
by CHANDLER ROME · Sports Writer LSU coach Paul Mainieri consistently names legendary Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda as his favorite manager of all time, occasionally dropping a sage piece of advice given to him by the 20-year coaching veteran after a tough loss or a thrilling victory. Now, his crop of players has voiced its favorite MLB influences, filling out a lineup of the Tigers’ “All MLB-Favorites Team,” which ranges from a former three-time Cy Young winner to the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player.
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Christian Ibarra on Jose Bautista:
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His leg kick and his finishes after his home runs. Just all around the way he is.
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Josh Hamilton Los Angeles Angels, RF Ryan Braun Milwaukee Brewers, LF Albert Pujols Los Angeles Angels, 1B
Ty Ross on Yadier Molina:
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Derek Jeter New York Yankees, SS
He’s an awesome catcher. I love watching him because he’s so active behind the plate and always is throwing guys out.
Jose Bautista Toronto Blue Jays, RF
Troy Tulowitzki Colorado Rockies, SS
Yadier Molina St. Louis Cardinals, C Adam Jones Baltimore Orioles, CF
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Pedro Martinez former Boston Red Sox, P
Jacoby Jones on Adam Jones:
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Because he wears an arm sleeve and he’s really good. That’s why I have the same stance as him.
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BASEBALL
Tigers look to rebound against Fla. Glenn to start in series opener Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer
The No. 3 LSU baseball team still has a bitter taste in its mouth from its most recent Southeastern Conference matchup, and a potential remedy makes its way to Baton Rouge this weekend in the form of the Florida Gators. Last weekend, No. 15 South Carolina arrived in Alex Box Stadium and downed the Tigers (406, 16-5 SEC) in two out of three contests, bumping LSU down in
the national rankings and hurting the squad’s standing in the SEC West. In the final two games of the series against the Gamecocks, LSU scored only two runs. After recharging with a seven-run effort against McNeese State on Tuesday, the Tigers look to take back their SEC dominance against No. 21 Florida (25-20, 12-9 SEC) beginning tonight. “[The Florida series] is pretty important to us, because no one wants to lose, and [South Carolina] was our first one,” said junior third baseman Christian Ibarra. “We’re going to go in on Thursday and to try and play the way we know we can.”
The Gators’ season started as a struggle, as the squad suffered a six-game losing streak against nonconference opponents in late February. Florida has since amped up its play, entering Alex Box off of a series win against Tennessee. Senior first baseman Mason Katz realizes the importance of the upcoming series. “It’s a huge series,” he said. “[Florida] started off rough, but the talent those guys have is great. Sometimes teams go through a rough patch, and they did that at the beginning of the year, but they’ve been hot recently. They’re going to come in here, BASEBALL, see page 10
LSU sophomore pitcher Cody Glenn (24) throws the ball to first base March 10 during the Tigers’ 7-5 victory against the Washington Huskies in Alex Box Stadium.
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BASEBALL
Players deal with heckling Katz’s versatility considered an asset from opposing teams’ fans Chandler Rome Sports Writer
Mason Katz admitted it — his position at first base gets rather mundane. And for a player who struggles to remember how many different positions he’s played in an LSU uniform, it isn’t at all surprising. “It’s just standing there and catching balls all day,” Katz complained. “I like to move around a little — that’s why I go out and take balls at second.” As he was being recruited by LSU coach Paul Mainieri, the senior clean-up hitter was only assured of one thing: he’d have a bat in his hand four or five times per contest. Beyond that, the Jesuit High School product who spent his days as a Blue Jay either roaming the outfield or squatting in catcher’s gear wasn’t given much insight as to what he would contribute in the field once arriving in Baton Rouge. “When Coach [Mainieri] recruited me, he told me, ‘We have no idea where we’re going to put you,’” Katz said. “‘You’ll get catcher’s gear, you’ll get a third baseman’s glove, a first baseman’s mitt, an outfield glove, a second baseman’s glove. And I was like, ‘All right, I don’t really care.’” Starting his baseball career as what he said was a skinnier, speedier player, Katz began as a center fielder as he made his way up the little league ranks. As other players began to improve at other positions and Katz bulked up with the help of his father, he switched to catcher before moving to Jesuit.
While at Jesuit, Katz played left field, catcher, first base and third base for the Blue Jays, winning one state title in his sophomore season. Katz said he played almost every position during his senior season, even toeing the rubber as a pitcher, a position he’s asked Mainieri to reprise in Alex Box Stadium. His pleas fell on deaf ears, much like during Tuesday’s game against McNeese, when Katz suggested he replace freshman Alex Bregman at shortstop late in the game. It’s the only position Katz hasn’t played. “Everybody has their limit,” Mainieri said. “And that’s my limit.” Mainieri hailed Katz’s versatility as an asset for the current team. He’s placed his senior at second base this season while also watching him battle fellow teammate Christian Ibarra for the third base job in the fall. “You don’t become a good defensive player by accident,” Mainieri said. “You have to have a lot of pride in it and work at it, and [Katz] has.” Katz said while his everyday position might bore him once in a while, he embraces any position he plays and can’t necessarily pick a favorite. His true favorite, however, doesn’t use a mitt. “I like hitting,” Katz said. “As long as I’m in the batter’s box, I don’t care where I am defensively.” Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Rome_TDR
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Mainieri tries to keep players focused Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer
LSU junior third baseman Christian Ibarra trots out to his position at the “hot corner,” fielding ground balls during infield practice before the first pitch of the inning. The 5-foot-7 Ibarra casually goes about his business, making his routine throws to first base as he prepares himself for the inning ahead. Then the insults begin. “Hey, are you [former Tigers third baseman Tyler] Hanover’s little Mexican brother?” one opposing fan screams. “You’re not that good compared to Hanover. I don’t think you can take it.” Ibarra’s heard it all this season from Tulane to Tuscaloosa. At this point, the third baseman is used to the heckling he receives from opposing fans. “They usually just start in the first two innings, and then if I don’t say anything or make any reaction toward them, then they usually just be quiet after that,” Ibarra said. “Just a bunch of drunk people telling me off and stuff.” Recently, the LSU baseball
team has been diving full force The Tigers seem to have into the heart of Southeastern done a good job dealing with Conference play, and with that the pressure of playing on the comes the conference’s vivacious road, as they have won 11 of fans. 14 games away from Alex Box The squad has travelled to Stadium. Mississippi State, Missouri, ArLSU coach Paul Mainieri kansas and Alabama since the said he doesn’t pay attention to start of the 2013 campaign, and the heckling his squad receives several Tigers said the fans have from opposing fans. been rowdy. “I never hear it,” Mainieri Both Ibarra and senior said. “I’m always so focused on first baseman Mason Katz the game.” acknowledged that Alabama’s Instead, Mainieri tries to fans didn’t give have his playthem too much “I just tell them, ‘Just ers ready for the trouble. verbal bashing remember that the But several they’ll receive on players noted the people who are yelling the road. Arkansas series “I try and as one to remem- at you don’t know you prepare the kids, ber. LSU took because I know personally...’” two of three conthey’re going tests in Fayetteto get a lot of Paul Mainieri ville in mid-April, that on the road, LSU baseball coach and the fans were as I’m sure our sure to make their presence felt to fans do to other players when the visiting Tigers. they come here,” Mainieri said. “I was impressed [with the “I just tell them, ‘Just rememArkansas fans],” said LSU senior ber that the people who are left fielder Raph Rhymes. “They yelling at you don’t know you stayed on us the entire game, personally, and they don’t reand they never let up. I mostly ally care about you, so you got stuff about my hair, which can’t take anything that they say I understood. I got a lot of ‘Joe seriously.’” Dirts’ and ‘princesses’ and that kind of stuff. That’s all part of Contact Lawrence Barreca at it. They love their school, and I lbarreca@lsureveille.com; think it’s fun to go into somebody else’s yard.” Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca
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Colleges recruiting middle schoolers crosses the line BARRECA’S LAW LAWRENCE BARRECA Sports Writer What were you thinking about when you were in middle school? Were you worried about passing your next algebra test? Were you scheming to impress your teenage sweetheart? Were you weighing scholarship offers from multiple colleges that are miles from home? You probably didn’t have to think about that last question, but Dylan Moses, an eighth grade football player at University Lab School in Baton Rouge, has that inquiry on his shoulders. Standing tall at 6-foot1 and 215 pounds, the multi-position
prospect has received scholarship offers from LSU, Alabama, Florida State, Florida and UCLA, and he has yet to step foot in a hallway as a high school student. In the race to be the next championship-caliber program, university football teams have turned their respective attentions to the fields where 7th and 8th graders compete during the fall, forcing an issue on athletes who shouldn’t be thinking about their college education yet. At some point, a line needs to be drawn in the sand. Last summer, LSU was the first to jump on the recruiting train, offering the 14-year-old Moses a scholarship after he attended one of their annual summer football camps. Universities haven’t stopped at age 14, though.
NFL
Former Warhawks reunite as Saints
Tabby Soignier The Associated Press
MONROE (AP) — Two former ULM players who started their careers together as Warhawks will now try to make the next leap in football together. Receiver Brent Leonard decided this week that he will participate in the New Orleans Saints minicamp next weekend, instead of his previous invitation to the Dallas Cowboys. The Saints invited fewer receivers than the Cowboys, prompting Leonard’s decision, and there he will meet back up with tight end Keavon Milton, who signed a free agency deal Sunday following the NFL draft. “We are both excited about it,” Leonard said. “It’s nice that I will have someone that I know there with me. [Milton] has always been a guy I respected. We have a long road ahead of us, though.” Both players grew up in Texas and played their prep careers at high schools separated by just
about 90 miles. From there, the duo came to ULM in the fall of 2008 — Milton as a scholarship player and Leonard as a walk-on. Milton said he learned that Leonard was coming to the Saints camp while at dinner earlier this week, and he made quite the scene. “The first thing I did was yell with excitement,” Milton said. “Everybody was looking at me like I was crazy, but I didn’t care because all I’m thinking about is that he will be there with me.” The Saints drafted five players this past weekend, including one receiver: Kenny Stills from Oklahoma. Milton is one of two tight ends that signed a free-agency contract with the team and will wear No. 83. “This whole process is a blessing from the man above, and it looks like he has more in store for us,” Milton said. Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at sports@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_sports
Florida State, Louisville, Miami, LSU, Ohio State and Clemson have all “expressed interest” in 13-year-old Tyreke Johnson, a Trinity Christian 7th grade student in Jacksonville, Fla., according to MaxPreps.com. The 6-foot-1, 172-pound quarterback prospect has colleges drooling, and it may not be long before he receives the same treatment Moses is currently getting. The view from the family of a young recruit is one of unlimited potential. Moses and his family have a plethora of opportunities lined up. The 8th grader can choose between five different football programs and educational institutions to further whatever career he intends to pursue, whether that be football or elsewhere. But having a middle school
athlete begin to ponder about college choices is too much pressure for a young teenager to deal with. “I think it’s to the point where [college programs] don’t have a choice,” said Rivals.com Southeast recruiting analyst Woody Wommack. “When it comes down to it, you have to keep up with the Joneses, and in this case, especially with schools like Alabama offering kids that early, other schools have to jump in, too.” It’s a problem, and the NCAA needs to solve it. At some point, it needs to make an attempt to regulate the recruiting practices of universities to protect the well-being of these teenagers. It’s fine for programs to host camps and let the athletes show off their potential, but allowing colleges to begin offering scholarships
is a completely different story. “I don’t know how you can legislate it, but I really think coaches should do their best to try to stay out of it and make a gentleman’s agreement or something like that,” Wommack said. “Recruiting is so competitive now, and you’ve got to get on the kids earlier and earlier.” The consequence is seeing middle school athletes making life decisions before they learn to deal with high school drama. Lawrence Barreca is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Slidell. Contact Lawrence Barreca at lbarreca@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca
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MLB
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Cubs chairman considers moving team from Wrigley
Jason Keyser The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The owner of the Chicago Cubs for the first time publicly threatened to move the team out of Wrigley Field if his plans for a big, new video screen are blocked, saying Wednesday he needs new advertising revenue to help bankroll a $500 million renovation of the storied ballpark. Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts had said nothing as dire until now, despite months of contentious negotiations over how to keep everyone happy in sprucing up the 99-year-old stadium in the heart of Wrigleyville on Chicago’s North Side. “The fact is that if we don’t have the ability to generate revenue in our own outfield, we’ll have to take a look at moving — no question,” Ricketts told reporters after outlining renovation plans to Chicago business leaders. He added that he remains committed to working out a deal and it is difficult to imagine the Cubs playing anywhere else. However, the fight over the Friendly Confines boils down to money and, of course, something unusual — it’s the Cubs, after all.
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and they won’t be scared of this crowd or of us. We’re going to have to meet them toe-to-toe on Thursday night, and it’s going to be a great series.” LSU coach Paul Mainieri intends to use a different
By far the thorniest issue is the plan for a 6,000-square-foot video screen over left field, a common feature in many major league ballparks. The difference is that Wrigley Field — the second oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball behind Fenway Park in Boston — is surrounded by privately owned clubs with rooftop bleachers whose owners object to any changes that could block their bird’s-eye views into the stadium. The rooftop businesses have been left out of discussions on the proposed upgrade, but they feel they should have a seat at the bargaining table because they have a contract in which they share 17 percent of their revenue with the Cubs. Legal action is a possibility. Ricketts presented an architectural rendering of the video screen during his speech to the City Club of Chicago and insisted that the team’s own studies have shown it would have minimal, if any, impact on the views. He described the sign as “midsize” compared with those at other stadiums, thought it is nearly three times as large as the scoreboard currently atop the centerfield bleachers. Another smaller sign with the name of a sponsor is
planned for right field. He said without such signage, the team was losing out on $20 million a year in ad revenue — essential for helping fund the extensive renovations without dipping into taxpayer funds. “All we really need is to be able to run our business like a business and not a museum,” Ricketts said. Ricketts said the team formally filed its full renovation proposal with the city of Chicago on Wednesday. The plan must get approval from city planners and the City Council. There will also be public hearings. The overall plan calls for more night games, a 175-room boutique hotel across the street, a new clubhouse and upgrades for fans. The proposal also calls for an open-air plaza and an office building with retail space. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the alderman whose ward includes Wrigley Field, Tom Tunney, support the overall plan. The mayor’s office has already agreed that the outfield signs can be installed, but there has been no agreement on size or design. If the deal wins approval, Ricketts said work could
begin after this season ends and be completed over the next five years. One of the rooftop owners, Beth Murphy, told reporters after listening to Ricketts’ speech that it was the first time she’d seen any drawings of the screen and that she and other owners would have a lot of vetting to do before determining if the proposal works. “It looked big to me and it looked like it blocked out the neighborhood,” Murphy said. The rooftop owners have previously threatened legal action, and Murphy said she was confident their contract would hold up and protect their businesses. Commenting on the possibility that Ricketts might take the team elsewhere, Murphy said doing so would not be “a wise business decision.” “The reason the Cubs are such a tourist destination ... is because it’s a ballpark in a neighborhood,” Murphy said. “I don’t think a new ballpark in a parking lot is interesting and that’s why other ballparks don’t have the tourism that Wrigley Field does.” If Ricketts is serious about leaving, he already has a suitor. Several weeks ago, the mayor of
nearby Rosemont said that the village near O’Hare International Airport has a 25-acre chunk of land that the Cubs could have for free if they wanted to build a replica of Wrigley Field there. While Mayor Bradley Stephens said the idea of the Cubs leaving Wrigley was the longest of long shots, he wanted to make sure that if the Cubs did decide to leave they knew about the offer. Cubs fans said they doubted Ricketts would move the team and that he most likely raised the prospect out of frustration with the negotiations. “I’m surprised it’s taken him this long to snap,” said Rick Kaempfer, who created the fan blog justonebadcentury.com. He said he shared those frustrations and wished the rooftop owners would back off and allow Ricketts to run the club as he sees fit. “We should trust this organization because they have shown over time that they take the history of Wrigley Field seriously and so far nothing they have done has diminished it,” Kaempfer said.
pitching strategy against Florida. Sophomore southpaw Cody Glenn, who was originally scheduled to start against McNeese State, was held back for tonight’s contest against the Gators. The potential for inclement weather tonight prompted
Mainieri to move sophomore starter Aaron Nola’s start to Friday. Mainieri did not want Nola to begin a start tonight only to see the contest rained out after a few innings. Junior right-hander Ryan Eades will take the mound for the series finale Saturday.
With only 10 games remaining in the regular season, every contest is critical in moving forward. “We need to do a good job in these last 10 games, obviously the nine conference games are the most critical,” Mainieri said. “If we can do a good job
in these last 10, then we’re going to have a regular season for the ages.”
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Entertainment
Thursday, May 2, 2013
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The Daily Reveille entertainment staff’s
MOST ANTICIPATED
OF
SUMMER 2013
music
movies
May 14:
“Modern Vampires of the City” — Vampire Weekend “Secondhand Rapture” — MSMR
photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 21: “Random Access Memories” — Daft Punk “Trouble Will Find Me” — The National
June (date TBA): photo courtesy of POST HOC MANAGEMENT
“MGMT” — MGMT
May 10:
May 17:
“The Great Gatsby”
“Star Trek Into Darkness”
June 14:
June 21:
“Man of Steel”
“Monsters University” “World War Z”
July 12:
Aug. 9:
“Pacific Rim”
“Elysium”
photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
tv premieres May 26:
Aug. 11:
“Arrested Development”
“Breaking Bad”
June 11: “Pretty Little Liars”
July 16: “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
babies Prince William + Kate Middleton
Kanye West + Kim Kardashian
BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
Front Yard Bikes teaches local children valuable skills Taylor Schoen
Entertainment Writer
Deep in the heart of the McKinley neighborhood lies a small, modest warehouse filled to the brim with bicycles — the Front Yard Bikes Shop. The shop may not be gorgeous, but the local children who frequent the garage are more interested in its contents. To gain awareness and funding for this budding campaign, Front Yard Bikes is teaming up with REVO, another nonprofit organization that raises money for a variety of causes, to host a local hip-hop showcase at Mud and Water on Friday.
Dustin LaFont, University alumnus and Front Yard Bikes founder, started this nonprofit organization with the intention of teaching people, mostly youths, how to fix and maintain their bikes. He also tries to instill values into the malleable minds of children like work ethic, anti-theft lessons, community development and brotherhood. LaFont said Front Yard Bikes’ mission is inspired by the Christian parable of “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” LaFont said Front Yard Bikes, true to its name, started in
his front yard while he was living on Wyoming Street, although he never actually planned on creating a grassroots organization during its inception. He said a neighborhood boy asked him if he could help him repair his broken-down bicycle. The bike was too damaged to salvage, but LaFont said his roommate had an unassembled spare bike. “I said, ‘look, I have this bike that’s in parts. If you put it together with me, I’ll show you what to do. You put it together though, and you can earn it. But you’re gonna work.’ And he said BIKES, see page 15
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Bikes sit in a warehouse Tuesday at Front Yard Bikes in Baton Rouge.
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Reveille Ranks
New Girl, “Virgins”
ENTERTAINMENT
FOX
Yes, it’s true. Nick and Jess finally banged. Tuesday’s episode of “New Girl” at long last delivered on the unresolved sexual tension it’s been building since the season premiere, and though we’ll inevitably sit through at least another season before the couple figures out its relationship, props to the writers for letting them sleep together before summer hiatus. The episode built up to its dramatic climax with flashbacks to each character’s story of how they lost their virginity, letting the actors shine with hilarious embodiments of their awkward teenage selves. “New Girl” can veer toward tedious with some of its ongoing will-they-or-won’t-they threads, but with “Virgins” the writers hit their stride with the perfect balance of humor and romance. KACI YODER
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Melvins, “Everybody Loves Sausage”
Ipecac Recordings
Pounding drums, crashing cymbals and low growling kick off the Melvins execution of Venom’s “Warhead” on the alternative metal group’s cover album “Everybody Loves Sausages.” In an unexpected twist, the next song on the roster is Queen’s “Best Friend” with a spectacular addition of 8-bit beats and smooth background vocals. Usually known for slow tempos, Melvins speed things up with a lightning-paced rendition of “Black Betty” originally performed by Ram Jam. The veteran rockers exalt a serious amount of range and mastery of genres outside of their usually metal comfort zone while still giving metal heads what they know and love. The cover of The Fugs’ “Attitude” slows things down with a mellow ’60s vibe but is also equipped with brutal chanting. The Melvins deliver metal of many varieties, punk, folk and some electronic, so there’s truly something for everyone. TAYLOR SCHOEN
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Iggy and the Stooges, “Ready to Die”
Fat Possum Records
Iggy and the Stooges return with a new album that is something different from their classics like their debut album “The Stooges” and “Raw Power.” While it may be different, many elements are similar to what someone could expect from Iggy and the Stooges . Everything is here, from the heavily distorted guitars to Iggy Pop’s signature voice. But surprisingly, the album is not entirely the distorted, heavy punk the band is known for. There are a few lighter moments here like “Unfriendly World” and “The Departed.” These tracks add something different to the album but ultimately aren’t memorable. The tracks that keep the spirit of their classic songs are the ones that stand out. Iggy and the Stooges’ new album is a welcome release, but it lacks the memorability their classic albums have. ROB KITCHEN
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MGMT, “Alien Days”
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
MGMT’s recently released single “Alien Days” is poorly recorded, much like the hit from their last album “Brian Eno,” and extremely difficult to follow for at least the first two listens. Yet, strangely, none of this is to designate a poorly written or constructed song. The song is brilliantly and meticulously constructed, in fact, which is probably why it comes with a learning curve. The song offers no respite to fans of old singles like “Time to Pretend” and embraces the twisting and unpredictable chord progressions of songs like “Siberian Breaks,” drawing a stark line in the sand to separate the two camps. “Alien Days” deserves plenty of credit for its bold and technical melody, but the odd choices in synth sounds and somewhat underwhelming climax present a mediocre, though exemplary, MGMT track. CLAYTON CROCKETT
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LL Cool J, “Authentic”
SLG, LLC
A nightmare heralded by his collaboration in Brad Paisley’s single “Accidental Racist,” LL Cool J’s new album “Authentic” shows the veteran emcee has lost touch with what made “Ladies Love Cool James” a household name. Produced by S-Bro Music, LL Cool J’s 13th studio album, trailing five years behind his last, is a departure from both record label Def Jam Recordings and his self-ascribed reputation as G.O.A.T., or “the greatest of all time.” He tries to cover up the album’s awkward falsity with a flood of collaborators, including Eddie Van Halen, Earth, Wind & Fire and Fatman Scoop. Paisley also makes an appearance in “Live for You.” Just looking over the tracklist is telling: “Between the Sheetz,” “Bartender Please,” “Ratchet” and “Bath Salt” are as desperate as you’d think. SAMANTHA BARES
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EDITOR’S PICK: Still Corners, “Strange Pleasures”
Sub Pop Records
The second record from electronic duo Still Corners finds the group settling into a comfortable groove and finding a smooth style that washes over as quickly and abruptly as summer heat. Releasing tracks like “Fireflies” and “Berlin Lovers” months in advance to “Strange Pleasures,” Still Corners cement a place next to dream pop legends Beach House, creating smooth, soothing and enthralling soundscapes. Tessa Murray’s vocals are mesmerizing, as her vocal sounds become repetitive to the point of hypnotism. The tracks sometimes run together with similar progressions and tones, but the record has enough dreamlike highs to put “Strange Pleasures” somewhere special and pave the way for the artists BRIAN SIBILLE Entertainment Editor behind this fantasy world.
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Project Runway disappoints When “Project Runway” first announced that this season would be a special “teams edition,” I knew that things were about to get bad, and fast. While it’s not uncommon for the fashion design reality show to have REBECCA DOCTER group challengEntertainment es, the concept Writer of having teams for the entire season just didn’t sit well with me. When the season began and I saw what these challenges looked like — poor attempts at collections filled to the brim with rules meant to make team members argue — I thought, “How will [host and former supermodel] Heidi Klum and company pick a single winner if everything is based on groups of designers?” The program ended up discontinuing the teams about halfway through the season, save a few final challenges. This completely botched the season. That’s what probably made this season of “Project Runway” the most disappointing one so far — the show’s premise didn’t even play a large part in the season at all. The first few episodes utilized the team aspect, and the show was more packed with drama than previous seasons, but the design work suffered greatly due to designers having to fit their creativity into ridiculous team challenges instead of just designing something in tune with their individual aesthetics, also known as the point of the show. Michelle Lesniak Franklin, the Portland-based designer who I’ve been rooting for since episode one, ended up winning the show, but definitely not in the way she should have. The show’s two other finalists, Patricia Michaels and Stanley Hudson, were bogus competition for Franklin. Michaels shouldn’t have made it past midseason — her crafty fabric creations didn’t ever enter into her actual designs — and Hudson had clearly not been creating his best
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[Top] Designer Zac Posen is the new feature judge for the new season of “Project Runway.” [Bottom] Host Tim Gunn promotes the show’s new season on July 19, 2012.
work for the final few episodes, ending with a collection that was less than satisfactory. In the words of Heidi Klum: “It felt old.” While the season definitely had its ups — beautiful designs from Franklin — it definitely had its downs. Ultimately, the last season of “Project Runway” was a total letdown.
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THEATER
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Show features Broadway classics “There’s something for everyone. The diversity of the cast really brings something unique to the performance,” said theatre sophomore John Michael Moore. Daniel Catalanello Patrick-Harris said the show has been a collaborative process for Entertainment Writer her and the students, as she worked The students of resident voice closely with her students in makprofessional Terry Patrick-Harris’ ing casting and staging decisions. musical theatre class will be taking Biology junior Glenn Carman said he contributed to Broadway to the stage staging the finale, tonight in a celebraSingo de Mayo: “Do You Hear the tion of musical theatre When: 7:30 to 10 p.m. People Sing?” from both old and new. “Les Misérables,” in Singo de Mayo tonight which the alumni of will be held at 7:30 Where: Union Theater p.m. in the Union The- How much: $20 public, $15 the class have been invited to join the ater and will feature faculty, $10 students (with students from a vaperformers on stage. riety of backgrounds I.D.) “The show re-
Students perform variety of songs
performing their renally gave the students ditions of various well-known musi- a chance to be in a position of leadership,” Patrick-Harris said. cal theatre productions and more. Other duties were divided The concert features a wide range of songs, including selec- among the students with the choreography led by histions from “Les Misérables,” “Music ‘There’s something for tory junior Adam Gilbert. PatrickMan,” “Annie,” Disney’s “Mulan” and everyone. The diversity Harris said Gilbert the “Legally Blonde” of the cast really brings worked tirelessly with the students Broadway musical. The show marks the something unique to the to perfect the 11th anniversary dancing. performance.’ of the event, which This year, John Michael Moore is being held at the University alumtheatre sophomore Union Theater this nus Mason Griffin year for the first time. will join the group The show is being put on by to conduct. Patrick-Harris said Grifthe 35 students of Patrick-Harris’ fin, a pianist and coach working in class, who are all of various majors New York City, is returning to his and backgrounds. Patrick-Harris alma mater this year to help with the said the diverse group of students show. “We’re really grateful to have are brought together by their love of Mason conducting,” Carman said. musical theatre.
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Kyle Moffatt and Christian Simon from last year’s Singo de Mayo appear in this year’s show.
“He expects a lot from the vocal performances, so the standards are really high.” Bill Grimes, notable orchestra arranger and professor at the School of Music, has contributed his arrangement of a medley of classic musical theatre songs that celebrate New York City. Carman said they’ve been working on the show for the entire semester and that after a few pre-show fundraisers he’s excited to bring the show to the Union Theater tonight. Contact Daniel Catalanello at dcatalanello@lsureveille.com
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PHOTO STORY
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Models strut runways in Belarus, Lahore Fashion Weeks
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A model walks the catwalk in a creation by Belarusian designer Natasha Tsuran on Sunday during Belarus Fashion Week in Minsk, Belarus.
Pakistani models display the fashions of designer Wardha Saleem on Monday during Lahore Fashion Week in Lahore, Pakistan. Dozens of designers, brands and textile houses present their collections in the four-day Lahore Fashion Week sponsored by the Pakistan Fashion Design Council.
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A Pakistani model presents a creation by designer Maheen Karim on Monday during Lahore Fashion Week in Lahore, Pakistan.
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A model struts in a creation by Belarusian designer Olga Kucherenko on Sunday during Belarus Fashion Week.
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A Pakistani model twirls in a creation by designer Wardha Saleem on Monday during Lahore Fashion Week.
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MUSIC
BIKES, from page 11
Detective details financial woes of Michael Jackson’s doctor The Associated Press
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Dustin LaFont stands near children who frequent his shop at Front Yard Bikes in Baton Rouge on Monday.
‘all right, that’s a good deal,’” LaFont said. From there, the boy brought back his siblings, cousins and then their cousins’ cousins. Word spread, and the rest is history. Even with such close proximity, the University area doesn’t feel like a welcoming neighborhood to many citizens of the McKinley community, according to LaFont. “We have this poor community that’s getting angry that students are taking their place, that leasers don’t want to give houses to the poor, black community. They want to give them to the college kids,” LaFont explained. LaFont said one of the auxiliary goals of Front Yard Bikes is to bridge the gap between the campus community and the McKinley residents. “Hopefully this will bridge the relationship we have between college-age young adults and neighborhood kids who need mentors, who need to see that young professional life and see people succeeding in academics that they can model themselves after and not just think college is a place next door. It’s a place they can go. It’s a place they’ll belong to,” LaFont said. Matt Bruce, University alumnus and founder of the REVO Baton Rouge chapter, said REVO often participates in fundraisers to promote change for issues affecting third-world countries, but this will be the first fundraiser for a local campaign. Bruce said he got behind the cause because he knows the importance of children being
involved with something and the impact it can make on all aspects of their lives. “What Dustin is doing, helping these kids out, you know, is not only good because they’re learning these skills to fix up bikes, it’s just good for kids to be involved with something,” Bruce said. While visiting high schools with the organization Invisible Children, Bruce said the principal told them the students who were involved with the Invisible Children club also started improving their grades and overall scholastic performance. Bruce helped select the artists who will be performing the fundraiser based on talent and their passion for activism. One of the hip-hop artists is Baton Rouge native Marcel P. Black. He said he’s a fan of REVO and helping out his community in general. “As a person who lives, works and creates music for the people in the community, it’s only right that I’m a part of a fundraiser that’s going towards something positive for young brothers and sisters in Baton Rouge,” Black said in an email. The line-up also includes local talent such as Truth Universal with DJ EF Cuttin’, Lyriqs da Lyraciss and James Jackson. The fundraiser will take place at Mud and Water on Friday. It begins around 10 p.m., and tickets are $7. Contact Taylor Schoen at tschoen@lsureveille.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The doctor convicted of involuntarily killing Michael Jackson appeared to be on trial again Wednesday as a lawyer for Jackson’s mother tried to show the physician’s desperate financial situation drove him to extremes in his treatment of the superstar. Attorney Brian Panish, questioning a police detective, hammered away at the depths of debt that enveloped Conrad Murray when he agreed to give Jackson what he wanted — infusions of the powerful anesthetic propofol to make him sleep. The pop star offered Murray $150,000 a month to travel with him on his ill-fated “This Is It” concert tour. AEG Live LLC, the concert promoter, reluctantly agreed, according to testimony in the doctor’s criminal case by AEG executives. Panish used the testimony of police detective Orlando Martinez to suggest that if AEG had investigated Murray’s background, it would have found a man so encumbered by debt that he was not trustworthy. The testimony came during the trial of the negligence lawsuit filed by Katherine Jackson claiming AEG didn’t properly investigate the doctor who gave her son a lethal dose of propofol. The company denies wrongdoing.
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Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s former doctor, sits in a courtroom during his involuntary manslaughter trial Oct. 21, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Murray is not a party to the high-stakes court contest. He is serving a four-year prison term for involuntary manslaughter. AEG attorneys said they intend to call him as a witness. He remains in jail and is appealing his conviction. A coroner ruled that the 50-yearold star died of the overdose of propofol in his bed on June 25, 2009, while under Murray’s care. The drug was not intended for home use.
Martinez, who was the lead investigator on Jackson’s death, said he discovered that Murray faced student loans, home loans, child support obligations and credit card payments that were in arrears in 2009. Panish said the debts totaled nearly $1 million. Martinez said he found that Murray had eight children by seven different women and was supposed to be supporting all of them. He said the doctor was about to lose his home and his office in Las Vegas. Without his big payday from Jackson and AEG, he would have been in financial ruin, Martinez said, suggesting this caused him to disregard his medical oath. Martinez testified he found most of the debts against Murray in public records that would have been readily available to AEG. AEG denies it hired Murray, and it is likely to blame Jackson for insisting on having Murray as his doctor because of his dependence on propofol. Millions and possibly billions of dollars are at stake in the trial, which may last 90 court days. Contact The Daily Reveille’s entertainment staff at entertainment@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_entertain
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Squirrels are next on the hit list THE PICKUP PERSPECTIVE JOHN PARKER FORD Columnist
Last week, I wrote a column attempting to amass a studentled army to destroy the caterpillar population on the University’s campus. The response was overwhelming. If social media interaction equals enlistment, we have a standing army of more than 1,000 students ready to kill whatever I tell them to. Unfortunately, 1,000 people are too many militiamen for one campaign. I have decided to start a second concurrent campaign. We’re going to take care of the furry-tailed rats all over campus. I speak, of course, about the squirrels. Before you get all worked up — seriously, I can hear the
complaints now: “Don’t touch the squirrels, they’re precious and cute!” or “I used to have pet squirrels, they’re domesticable.” “Those squirrels save lives!” “I’m a vegetarian, I love animals,” — I want you to shut your whiny mouth. I want you to shave a squirrel’s tail. Seriously. Do it. Googling it could work, too, I guess. Either way, disgusting, right? Also, squirrels are not innocent. In Russia in 2005 – back when it was still the commie Soviet Union, probably – a stray dog was barking at a gang of squirrels. The Crip squirrels weren’t having it, so they decided to gang-kill the dog – presumably as an initiation ceremony. But squirrels don’t stop at attacking other animals. Sometimes, they go for humans, the purest earthly race. In Cuesta Park in California, squirrels attack little, precious,
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innocent children. Thirteen — an unlucky number — attacks were reported between May 2006 and March 2007, forcing the Fish and Game Commission to issue a statement calling the parks’ squirrels a “threat to continued public safety.” So what did Fish and Game do about it? It decided to trap and kill the squirrels. One might naturally assume that the brave Fish and Game rangers placed nut-filled cage traps around the park and waited. Well, you know what they say about those who assume — if you don’t, you’re an idiot. The rangers used decoy baby carriages to trap the squirrels because the squirrels were routinely jumping into baby carriages to bite little children’s faces off. I was not able to find out if it worked. The rangers never made it
back to file a report. Syfy is drafting a script now. But my reasoning for this doesn’t stop with squirrels being gross and dangerous. I think they’re up to something more ... sinister. On a hunch, I Googled “squirrels + spies.” It wasn’t a waste of time. The first headline comes from the clearly reputable ynetnews.com: “Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for spying.” According to the state-sponsored news agency IRNA, Iranian “intelligence operatives arrested 14 squirrels within Iran’s borders” for “carrying spy gear of foreign agencies.” Thanks to the astute and obviously overly-suspicious Iranian intelligence agents, the squirrel uprising was quelled before they took action.
The list of people and organizations that want to spy on LSU is not short. Texas A&M’s football team and Gov. Bobby Jindal are two excellent examples that I just easily came up with right now. As these instances show, squirrels are capable of so much more than we give them credit. Something must be done about this not-so-phantom menace, and we have the standing army to do it. Oh, yeah. Squirrels are edible, too. Go forth, Sheep. John Parker Ford is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Alexandria. Contact John Parker Ford at jford@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @JohnParkerFord
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Quote of the Day “The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
Henry David Thoreau American author July 12, 1817 — May 6, 1862
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Lulu blurs line between networking and crazy FRIED PHILOSOPHY AARON FRIEDMAN Columnist More than half a century ago, George Orwell’s novel “1984” described an authoritarian future where our every move is vigilantly monitored by an unseen eye. Well, not only is that future already here, but it just might think you’re, like, really #hot. Lulu, the iPhone and Android app that allows women to anonymously review men and rate them using an online quiz, has been sweeping college campuses — and in my opinion, it is a pantsshittingly terrifying sign of our times. The app, rebooted and released in February 2013, has some dubious features: after demanding access to your Facebook and phone contacts, Lulu tracks down men in your area, allows you to add them to your favorites and then updates you on any of their activities. Combined with the social and geographic trails we already leave on other social media sites, Lulu begins to close the gap between the worlds of “networking” and tracking the migratory patterns of humpback whales. Except in the whale’s case, nobody is judging its blubber or relationship with its mother — which is completely normal for a whale his age. Anyway, I’m not too worried about Lulu damaging my “cred.” Besides lacking said cred, I figure I can generally steamroll
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University social media unprofessional Most of the student body is either involved in or heard stories of the unprofessional manner in which the university’s official twitter account presents itself to the public. Now it has gone too far, too long. The realm of social media can be a dangerous one, but sending messages to more than 38,000 subscribers through the university’s twitter feed is one of the most dynamic and innovative ways to engage every member of the LSU community. In recent weeks, the LSU account sent out ill-mannered, condescending responses to its followers. The messages sent are not only embarrassing, but also purely disreputable. As a major organization, replying to followers and rudely attacking them is not an appropriate way to conduct oneself via social media.
over my social awkwardness for at least one encounter — or if I’m at a bar, I can just plaster over it with the patented ol’ “Aaron Friedman charm” (hint: it’s alcohol). My major gripe is that I can’t comprehend Lulu, and it muddles my understanding of the already confusing fairer sex. Here’s where some of my confusion begins: Lulu explicitly says in its frequently asked questions section that it’s “definitely not evil” and that vindictive reviewers can’t carelessly — or carefully — defame the men they hate. However, photography junior Allison Ballard, who downloaded the app to laugh at its ridiculousness, says some inaccurate reviews of men she knows has got her saying, “No he’s not [like that] — not at all.” In fact, the vengeful nature of some users is featured on the blog of Lulu’s website. HerCampus BC — who claims she is not a “serial psychoreviewer” — posted the following: “To all you guys who never gave me the time of day, watch out ... If you were ever a jerk to me, my roommates, my sister or someone I was ever friends with, I will probably leave a harsh review of you.” Really? Can we be sure that a reviewer like this would spare anyone? I mean, Christ, she claims that Lulu gives her “the power to be Taylor Swift.” That’s too much power. But do women even heed the Taylor Swiftian warnings from their peers? Sophomores Brooke Menzato and Amanda Morice, who Yes, we will concede that some messages by the follower base aren’t the nicest either, but the messages sent from LSU should embody the reality of the true values of LSU which lie in the hearts of its faculty, staff and student body. As students, we are concerned with how the Twitter account is reflecting our university. With its deep southern roots, LSU is known as one of the friendliest universities in the country. And as mass communication majors, we are also concerned with the lack of social media values being shown through LSU’s Twitter. In no way does the distasteful need to act so childish leave a “fond memory” or “tender glow” in our hearts. We doubt it does so to the rest of the country watching as well. T Graham S. Howell public relations junior, Public Affairs for La. Dept. of Education Katherine Fremin public relations junior
both downloaded then deleted the app after several days, agree they would never trust Lulu’s advice to be unbiased. Also on Lulu’s blog, RecruitmentChairTSM tells another story of a girl who ignores Lulu’s advice. In it, a nameless sorority sister falls in love with, then cyberstalks, “Aaron (insert Greek letters here)” after meeting him at a mixer. When it’s revealed on Lulu that Aaron is actually a big-footed seventh-year senior with commitment issues and an unfavorable rating, she does the deed with Bigfeet anyway and catches a ride home the next day with her pledge-servant. The story concludes with, “Girls will be girls,” to which I say: What are you, crazy? I mean, I’m all for women’s lib — sexual and otherwise — and I hate that “crazy” is used to dismiss girls like emotionally distressed flies, whether they like you too much, don’t like you at all or simply cried during the season finale of “The Bachelorette.” But this is different, right? If the point of the app really were to point women toward good relationships, why would someone so blatantly ignore it? And why wouldn’t Lulu include the hashtags that might actually matter had Aaron (not me, the other one) been harboring darker secrets than size-17 feet? For example, I’m sure #AbusiveDrunk or #HeTriedToRapeMe would be helpful advice to someone if they applied. The simple answer might be because that would take away from the Lisa Frank girly fun of
Judicial conduct an academic threat Imagine playing in a tennis match. You have played three of five sets and won two of them. It is your opponent’s turn to serve. They serve a fault. The judge motions for them to serve again. They serve another fault and the judge says, “Love-all. Ok, please keep on serving until you serve it correctly.” You say to the judge, “excuse me, but you are not calling the correct score, these are not the rules of the United States Tennis Association.” The judge responds, “Look, you are already two sets ahead so please be quiet and let them serve until they stop faulting, and then we will continue playing.” You speak out again, “Excuse me, but this is wrong. What gives you the authority to rewrite the rules of the game?” The judge says, “Well, I am the judge and I can make up rules as I go along. And the next time you raise your voice, I will have to levy a fine against you for questioning my
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The Android and iPhone app Lulu allows female users to review the men they are friends with on Facebook.
an app that’s as good at forming healthy relationships as a game of MASH. If that’s the case, then I don’t want to ruin the fun; I just want to understand it. Is Lulu meant to be a joke, despite creator Alexandra Chong’s assertion that it is indeed a serious tool for women? Or does Lulu genuinely not realize how it’s emulating the system of objectification and judgment that most girls claim to hate? Yes, I acknowledge that men have been rating and reviewing women online for years, and some sites are far worse than Lulu. Jennifer Grossman warns decision, so please be quiet. This is my tennis court and I can decide how the game will be played.” Eventually you lose, and the judge declares your opponent the winner of the match. Now, you know this does not happen in real life; at least not when playing in national tennis tournaments. But in the civil law court of Federal Judge Helen Ginger Berrigan it is happening to me. The “set” I am playing on this Court involves not a trophy, but redress of violations of my contractual and Constitutional academic freedom and tenure rights (and the protection of those rights of other academics). When the rules of the court system are so subverted that a party’s ability to participate in the process is obstructed, it is called fraud. And if it is perpetrated by the judge, guess who gets to decide if the judge has committed fraud? The judge herself. Can any human being be objective when determining if they themselves are guilty of fraud? If indeed our system of government still puts its trust in God, then these words might provide some
women on Lulu’s blog to never “initiate any contact with a man,” and “never, ever let the crazy out there,” but I’m begging you: ignore that advice. Instead, break out the crazy. Initiate contact. Let me know what Lulu is really all about, because I honestly still do not get it. Aaron Friedman is a 22-year-old Spanish senior from Destrehan, La.
Contact Aaron Friedman at afriedman@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @AmFried guidance. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). Biblical scholars believe that the “word of God” is “what God speaks,” whether it be law or Gospel. His “truth” is adapted to show an individual exactly what he/she is. Truth always has this power-impressed upon the conscience. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the judge to respect and comply with the law and act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary. One can only hope that Judge Berrigan searches her conscience and makes the right decision. Stephen Rushing Baton Rouge resident Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at opinion@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_opinion
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Thursday, May 2, 2013 REVEILLE, from page 1 national championship that carries with it the same prestige associated with a BCS win by the LSU football team or No. 1 rating in baseball or track,” said Student Media Director Bob Ritter. “The difference is that [The Reveille] earned [its] award over a far longer season.” The national finalists for Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper included Indiana University’s student newspaper
Indiana Daily Student and The Oklahoma Daily at the University of Oklahoma. “I’m incredibly honored to see my staff receive an award that they’ve worked so hard for,” said Reveille Editor in Chief Andrea Gallo. “Our goal is always to serve the LSU students and community.”
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