The Daily Reveille - January 23, 2013

SPORTS: Johnny Jones faces off against friend when Tigers meet Texas A&M, p. 5

CONSTRUCTION: Kirby Smith renovations underway, p. 3

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Tiger Territory This graphic depicts the locations LSU recruits arrived from since Les Miles began his tenure as head coach. The data displayed represents every recruiting class from 2006-2013.

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Read about the recent recruiting trends and what they mean for the future of LSU football, p. 5

Check out our interactive map for additional features, including players’ hometowns, positions and more at lsureveille.com.

LSU SYSTEM

Foundation plans to grow LSU endowment, offset tuition hikes McKenzie Womack Staff Writer

The LSU Foundation has developed a plan to double the amount of money it raises per year and to swell the University’s endowment by 2016, according to William Davis, director of Advancement Services and Strategic Planning for the foundation.

The foundation, as a private entity, raises money from donors for the University. Its “Road to

2016” plan is meant to increase fundraising from $30 million to $60 million per year and to grow the foundation’s endowment from $330 million to $430 million by 2016, Davis told the LSU Staff Senate.

In the longer term, the plan aims to raise the endowment to $680 million by 2022, he said.

“The goal is to increase the number of donors, raise amount of money we are getting from donors and grow the amount of money we give to the

University on a yearly basis,” Davis said.

From 2003 to 2012, the foundation contributed $249 million to the University from donor funds, said Lee Griffin, president and CEO of the LSU Foundation.

“The entire reason we exist is to raise money for the LSU main campus, the Agricultural Center and the LSU Law Center,” said Sara FOUNDATION, see page 11

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Lee Griffin, president and CEO of the LSU Foundation, is hoping that by increasing fundraising and growing the foundation’s endowment, he can help offset tuition hikes.

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INTERNATIONAL Exit polls: Prime Minister Netanyahu narrowly wins Israel election JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hard-line allies fared far worse than expected in a parliamentary election Tuesday, preliminary results showed, likely forcing him to reach across the aisle to court a popular political newcomer to cobble together a new coalition.

While Netanyahu appeared positioned to serve a third term as prime minister, the results marked a major setback for his policies and could force him to make new concessions to restart long-stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.

Algeria scours Sahara Desert for 5 missing foreign energy workers ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian forces scoured the Sahara Desert on Tuesday, searching for five foreign energy workers who vanished during a chaotic four-day battle with hostage-taking Islamist militants.

One official says the men may have fled the sprawling complex during the fighting and gotten lost.

In all, 37 hostages, including an Algerian security guard, and 29 militants were killed, but five other foreign workers remain unaccounted for.

Nation & World

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Fight leads to gunfire at Texas community college; no deaths

Conservative House group seeks changes to expand state budget

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets his supporters in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday.

HOUSTON (AP) — A fight between two people erupted in gunfire Tuesday at a Houston-area community college, catching a maintenance man in the crossfire and leaving students and others cowering in classrooms.

No one was killed, but the volley of gunshots heard shortly after 12 p.m. on the Lone Star College campus sparked fear of another campus massacre just more than a month after 26 people were killed at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

(AP) — Conservative House lawmakers said Tuesday they will push a package of proposals aimed at expanding areas of the state budget that can be cut during shortfalls and to limit the use of patchwork funding for ongoing programs.

Rep. Brett Geymann, a Republican leading the “Budget Reform Coalition,” outlined the basic concepts to a Baton Rougebased business organization. The bills will be unveiled next week, to be considered in the legislative session that begins in April.

Dutch police: 3 suspects arrested in last year’s high-priced art heist

Rigs crash on Pa. road leading to hundreds of gallons of spilled soda

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Romanian authorities have arrested three suspects in last year’s multimillion-dollar art heist from a Netherlands art gallery, Dutch police said Tuesday. The stolen works with an estimated value of tens of millions of dollars, by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet, have not been recovered.

The announcement marked the first breakthrough for police since thieves broke open an emergency exit and swiped the seven pieces on Oct. 16 in a late night raid at the Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam.

READING, Pa. (AP) — Everyone knows soda can be bad for your teeth. Sometimes, it can threaten the morning commute, too.

Police say two tractor-trailers collided on U.S. Route 422 outside Reading, Pa., around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday. The Reading Eagle reports one of the trucks was carrying 2-liter bottles of soda.

Hundreds of gallons of sugary drink spilled onto the highway and froze in the frigid early morning temperatures, shutting down the roadway for more than five hours.

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Harris County Capt. Ken Melancon addresses the media at Lone Star College-North Harris Campus following the Texas campus shooting Tuesday.

Army general defers entering plea at hearing on sex charges FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general brought back from Afghanistan to face court-martial on a series of sexual misconduct charges deferred entering a plea Tuesday. His attorney indicated he would enter his plea at a later date.

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, who served five combat tours, is headed to trial following a spate of highly publicized military sex scandals involving high-ranking officers that has triggered a review of ethics training across the service branches.

2-year-old killed in accidental shooting; suspect arrested (AP) — Baton Rouge police are investigating the accidental shooting death of a 2-year-old.

Police say Travin Varise was accidentally shot Monday as 18-year-old Terrance Varise played with a handgun.

The toddler was transported to a local hospital where he died.

Terrance Varise was arrested and booked with negligent homicide, cruelty to a juvenile and felon in possession of a firearm.

Police say they were not sure about the relationship between the victim and shooter.

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RESIDENTIAL LIFE

New hall to replace renovated Kirby Smith Zach Carline Contributing Writer

Bids for the renovation of the Kirby Smith Residential Hall floors eight through 11 opened Tuesday with hopes of student availability by next fall.

Director of Residential Life Steven Waller said the construction will include ripping out the furniture and renovating the bathrooms — the same renovations done to the bottom floors before the reopening of the hall in the fall of 2011.

Associate Director for ResLife Jay High said last year, there were 300 students on standby for dorms, and the new renovations will open up about 240 beds, alleviating some of the backup.

High said Kirby Smith often fills up quickly because many students enjoy the suite baths as well as its close location to The 5 dining hall and the core of campus.

Waller said he expects the project to cost about $400,000, all of which will come from student rents.

These new renovations will only be used by students for a few years.

High said there are plans in the works for a new residential hall that will stand where the Hart Lot is currently located. The new hall has not yet been named and will replace Kirby Smith, housing approximately 330 students.

Kirby Smith will then

become yearlong conference housing. This conference housing will be used for different groups or speakers visiting the campus who need a place to stay.

High said this may include business leaders, high school football and cheerleading teams or Future Farmers of America.

High said he believes this newly available housing will increase visitors to the University.

Construction on the new hall is set to begin in June and is expected to open for fall of 2015, Waller said.

The new residential hall will also aim to earn a LEED certification, he said, which reflects the utilization of sustainable energy features.

The hall would be the first LEED-certified building on campus, and some sustainable features the building may include are solar panels and rainwater recapturing, High said.

“The certification could help the building see a significant reduction in utilities and hopefully create awareness on energy usage. It is important to raise awareness,” Waller said.

While the University has already begun attempting to go green in other areas, the new certification will show that the University has an interest in environmental sustainability, High said.

[Top] rendering courtesy of RESIDENTIAL LIFE; [Bottom left, bottom right] RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

Contact Zach Carline at zcarline@lsureveille.com

[Top] The building in the rendering will replace Kirby Smith and stand where the Hart Lot is currently located. [Bottom left] A bathroom is stripped Tuesday during the remodeling of Kirby Smith. [Bottom right] Kirby Smith renovations include remodeling the suite bathroom between the two rooms.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

New SG chief justice seeks change

Judah Robinson Senior Contributing Writer

The judicial branch of Student Government received its first new leader in three years with Chief Justice Morgan Faulk, who seeks innovative change within the branch.

Faulk, nutritional science senior, was elected chief justice over the judicial branch of SG last fall, a position Danielle Rushing held since 2009.

Faulk said she begins her term as chief justice optimistic about the future of the court.

“Other than myself and my Deputy Chief Justice Dustin Landgrave, all of the other members of the court are new,” Faulk said.

This gives the judicial branch a unique opportunity to implement new changes to the court and “start from scratch,” said Faulk.

“I don’t think there was anything wrong with the way the court was run,” Faulk said. “There are just things that I would like to do differently.”

One thing the court can work on, according to Faulk, is what it does with its time during the judicial meetings.

Faulk said in past years, a majority of judicial meeting time was spent reading documents.

“That’s just a waste of all of our time,” Faulk said.

Faulk added that she would much rather spend the court’s time doing something productive rather than waste time reading

Campus Crime Briefs Phi Delta Theta house mother arrested, issued misdemeanor The Phi Delta Theta fraternity’s house mother was arrested for threatening a woman when her dog ran into the Phi Delta Theta house’s backyard.

Teri Lee Meier, 53, of 322 West Hugo, Yoakum, Texas, was issued a misdemeanor summons for simple assault after the Jan. 15 confrontation, said LSU Police Department Spokesman Cpt. Cory Lalonde.

The victim said she parked in East Fraternity Circle, and her dog jumped out of the car and ran into the fraternity’s backyard after hearing other dogs.

Meier then approached the victim aggressively and threatened her, Lalonde said.

Student arrested for possession of 1.8 grams of marijuana in dorm A student was arrested after the smell of marijuana coming from his dorm room was reported to LSUPD. Bryce Redner Dennis, 19-year-old kinesiology freshman, was issued a misdemeanor summons when police found 1.8

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Student Government Chief Justice Morgan Faulk stands in front of Free Speech Plaza on Tuesday. She is the first new chief justice elected in the past three-and-a-half years.

documents the justices could read on their own before the meetings.

In addition to implementing new changes to the way the court is run, Faulk said the court will be busy with court cases related to the upcoming SG election.

“Our decisions have absolutely had an impact on previous elections,” Faulk said. “During last year’s election, we had to sanction a campaign ticket for violations.”

Another thing Faulk said she hopes to do during this semester is increase communication and cooperation between the three

different branches of SG: executive, legislative and judicial.

Faulk said she and other SG branch heads will plan a weekly meeting where all of the heads have the opportunity to communicate what is taking place within their own branches to emphasize cooperation among the different SG branches.

grams of marijuana and a pipe in his LeJeune Hall dorm room Jan. 15, Lalonde said.

received a citation for an expired driver’s license, Lalonde said.

Two men arrested for marijuana possession, one fined for expired driver’s license LSUPD arrested Joseph Zorn, 23, of 107 Parsonage Lane, Lafayette, and Britan Gerard Domingue, 22, of 314 Constitution Drive, Lafayette, for possession of marijuana Jan. 15, Lalonde said.

LSUPD pulled over Zorn and Domingue because the car had no brake lights and found Zorn in possession of 3.7 grams of marijuana and Domingue with a marijuana cigarette, according to Lalonde.

Both men were issued misdemeanor summons for simple possession, and Zorn also

Contact Judah Robinson at jrobinson@lsureveille.com

Student arrested for marijuana after traffic stop on Highland LSUPD arrested a student for possession of marijuana after being pulled over for failure to yield at the corner of Highland Road and South Campus Drive.

Donnell Borne, 19-year-old pre-architecture student, was arrested for simple possession of marijuana and issued a misdemeanor summons when police found a blunt on his person during the traffic stop.

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

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Sports

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Friends & Foes

FRONT PAGE STORY

Miles’ recruiting classes improve Trey Labat & Lawrence Barreca Sports Contributor & Sports Writer

[Left] RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille; [Right] DUSTY COMPTON / The Associated Press

LSU basketball coach Johnny Jones [left] will face longtime friend and fellow Louisiana native Billy Kennedy [right] when Kennedy’s Texas A&M team comes to the PMAC tonight.

Tigers seek first SEC win in matchup pitting friends against each other

Chandler Rome Sports Writer

Like any good friend, Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy was delighted when Johnny Jones was named LSU head coach last spring – until he realized what that meant for his Aggies.

“From a friendship standpoint, I was excited he got the job,” Kennedy said Monday in an interview with The Daily Reveille. “[As] a competitor, I wasn’t excited. Now recruiting in Louisiana is going to be difficult … like the Dale Brown era.”

The two Louisiana legends, who have yet to face each other as head coaches, will finally match wits at 7 p.m. tonight when the Tigers (9-6, 0-4 Southeastern Conference) tangle with the Aggies (12-5, 2-2 SEC) A&M, see page 7

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers struggle on road Tyler Nunez Sports Writer

Looking at the Lady Tigers’ schedule up to this point, it does not take an expert statistician to deduce that they are more successful at home than on the road.

LSU has a 10-1 home record, 2-6 road record, 75.4 points per game in the PMAC compared to the 66.1 average in opponents’ venues, better rebounding and fewer turnovers at home — the list of statistics supporting this idea is seemingly endless.

The Lady Tigers have been winless on the road since Nov. 25 when they defeated Florida International to win the Florida International Thanksgiving Classic.

LSU junior forward Theresa Plaisance credited the home crowd after LSU’s come-from-behind victory against Vanderbilt on Sunday.

“Having this home-court advantage is so great because we have such an amazing crowd to keep us in the game,” Plaisance said. “In those

momentum swings, we have that extra effort coming from the crowd, giving us that extra energy.”

But for every game when a team gets to play the hero in its own house, it has to play antagonist in a venue far from home in front of a hostile crowd — and that is where the Lady Tigers seem to run into trouble.

“In your psyche it’s a huge factor,” said LSU junior guard Jeanne Kenney about playing on the road.

“It’s a different environment and sometimes it can make you feel uncomfortable.”

But is the location of the game making that big of an impact, or is another factor at play?

A closer look reveals that while venue may play a factor, the opponents in these venues may make the biggest impact.

The 11 opponents LSU has played in the PMAC have a combined overall record of 84-105 (.444 winning percentage) this season, and TRAVEL, see page 7

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

The Lady Tigers have struggled while playing off their home turf. They have been winless on the road since Nov. 25.

LSU coach Les Miles’ recruiting hauls have been much like fine wine: they get better with time.

The upcoming class, which as of Jan. 22 features 19 four-star prospects and no unranked recruits, is the latest high point in what has become an upward trend. Since 2006 — Miles’ first full season of recruiting — the recruits have gotten progressively better.

In 2006, seven prospects who were not ranked by ESPN committed to the Tigers with no fivestar recruits. In 2007, the Tigers brought in two five-star recruits — including stud safety Chad Jones — and cut the number of unranked commits in half.

The growth in recruiting culminated in the 2009 class, a group that will potentially feature 13 NFL players out of an original 24 recruits. This group includes Barkevious Mingo and Sam Montgomery, who are consensus firstround picks.

The 2009 class already boasts four NFL starters, and first-round picks Michael Brockers and Morris Claiborne have made significant impacts on their respective teams.

Going into the 2013 season, LSU will depend heavily on the talented 2011 recruiting crop. Ten of the 22 starters will come from this group, including standout sophomore offensive guard La’el Collins and freshman running back sensation Jeremy Hill.

Miles’ tentacles have reached all the way into the junior college ranks. Junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger was plucked from Butler County Community College after winning the junior college national championship.

Arriving with the 2013 class, JUCO transfer Quantavius Leslie will add some much-needed size to the receiving corps. The 6-foot-4 receiver posseses explosive speed that should help LSU stretch the field in the coming season.

Looking forward, the 2014 class is already well on its way to following in the footsteps of previous recruiting classes with all four early commits being featured on the ESPN watch list.

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

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S TENNIS

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Report: New staff brings excitement Assistant Coaches come from arrested varied backgrounds Jan. 12 Trey Labat

Sports Contributor

Chandler Rome Sports Writer

LSU women’s basketball assistant coach Tony Perotti was arrested Jan. 12 after an incident outside of downtown Baton Rouge’s City Bar, located at 333 Third St., as stated in a report from TigerRag. According to the report, Perotti was confronted by officers after he was “kicked out of the bar for inappropriate behavior” and “refused to leave” while he “stood by and cursed” at the guards.

After refusing to leave, Perotti was arrested on one charge of disturbing the peace by public intoxication and two charges of remaining after being forbidden.

He was bonded out of prison later that Saturday, the report said.

Perotti was coaching at Lady Tiger practice on Tuesday, where LSU women’s basketball spokesman Bill Martin said the program will not comment any further.

“LSU Athletics is aware of the these allegations regarding women’s basketball assistant coach Tony Perotti and will not comment on this situation at this time, as this is an ongoing legal matter,” Martin said.

Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Rome_TDR

Newly appointed LSU women’s tennis coach Julia Sell brings an immense amount of success, not only as a coach but also as a player, at the collegiate level of tennis.

Sell has assembled one of the best coaching staffs in the nation at LSU, a staff that includes her husband, Michael Sell, who was JULIA SELL recently hired as the head coach for John Isner, the No. 1 American player in the nation.

Julia Sell, most recently an assistant coach at Notre Dame, helped lead the Fighting Irish to back-to-back Final Four appearances in the NCAA Team Tournament. The Irish also won three Big East titles during Sell’s time with the team.

“Julia is a rising star in women’s tennis,” said LSU Athletic DirecBOUSTANI tor Joe Alleva.

“She is very bright, passionate and competitive. … I am very excited about having her join our team.”

As a player, Julia Sell was

the top performer for the Flori- NCAA-II National Tournament da’s 2003 national championship 11 consecutive times and was team, after which she received named the ITA Division-II Nathe Intercollegiate Tennis Asso- tional Coach of the Year twice. ciation South ReHe also won Congion Player of the ‘We don’t want to be ference Coach Year award in the of the year for a team that accepts nine consecutive same year.

Michael Sell being in the middle of years. was the assis“We have the rankings.’ tant coach for the been friends for men’s and woma long time and Julia Sell en’s squads durshare the same LSU women’s tennis coach ing the 2012 Lonpassion for tennis don Olympics and and coaching,” also worked as the head coach for Julia Sell said. “His background the U.S. Tennis Association Play- in collegiate tennis and player deers Development from 2003-12. velopment will be a huge asset to “We feel extremely lucky this program.”

The coaches have a common to have one of the best coaches in the nation as our volunteer philosophy: fitness. When Julia coach,” said senior captain Kai- Sell was first hired, she set out tlin Burns. “He brings a lot of on a path to change the culture of experience from LSU. Julia Sell said many women the top level, and tells us what were vomiting during the first 10 players at the minutes of practice early in the pro level are do- season, but have recently shown ing to get bet- improvement.

“We are probably the fittest ter.”

B r i n g i n g team in the country right now,” MICHAEL SELL an international Burns said. “Even our practices flair to the pro- are super physical.”

The new coaching staff has gram, Amine Boustani rounds instilled a level of excitement and out the highly decorated staff.

Boustani — who hails from desire to win that has recently Casablanca, Morocco — most been missing from the program, recently served as the head of they said.

“We don’t want to be a team coaching and development for that accepts being in the middle the Qatar Tennis Federation.

Before working in Qatar, of the rankings,” Boustani said.

Boustani was a highly respected “We want to compete at the top and successful college coach. His level and challenge some of the career began in 1994 at Drury top teams in the nation.”

University, where he was eventually inducted to the university’s Contact Trey Labat at athletics Hall of Fame.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 A&M, from page 5

in the PMAC. Kennedy, a Metairie native, recalled meeting Jones in Natchitoches, when the first-year Tiger coach was known around town as “The Bullet” from his playing days at DeRidder High School.

As Jones coached under Brown at LSU, Kennedy moved around the country as an assistant coach before landing back at home with Centenary before becoming the head man at Southeastern Louisiana University.

After a five-season stint at mid-major darling Murray State, where he led the Racers to an NCAA and NIT tournament appearance in back-to-back seasons, Kennedy returned to Texas A&M, where he had a one-year assistant coaching stint in 1990.

“He’s really been successful at every program he’s been in,” Jones said. “He’ll do the same at Texas A&M in due time.”

Kennedy’s first season as the Aggies’ head coach in 2011 came with additional tribulations as the 48-year-old was diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson’s disease and took an immediate leave of absence. “[Jones] called during that time and was real supportive like a lot of people were,” Kennedy said. “... I know he’s genuine and I respect that about him.”

Now with his condition under control and his team off to a fast start, Kennedy has his Aggies raising eyebrows in the SEC. In an 8371 win at Kentucky, senior guard Elston Turner poured in 40 points to sink the Wildcats.

Turner, who leads the Aggies with 16.1 points per game, isn’t the only weapon the Tigers have to guard against, according to Jones.

“The ball is generally in [Turner]’s hand or goes through their point guard [freshman] J’Mychal Reese,” Jones said.

“Those guys are distributors … they’re making plays.”

LSU sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III, hobbled by a sprained ankle since an 84-80 loss against Marquette, looked healthier than ever Saturday night as he powered to 16 points and 14 rebounds in a loss at Georgia.

“He had a little bit better lateral movement on Saturday, so that gives us an opportunity to get excited if he can continue that type of play on both ends of the floor,” Jones said.

As he’s seemingly done all season, Jones will match wits with a familiar face on the other bench, although he assured any allegiances are set aside once the ball is thrown up.

While Kennedy said he’d rather play against someone he doesn’t have a close relationship with, he was thankful for the positions both he and his friend have.

“We’re both blessed to have great jobs,” Kennedy said. “Coming from our backgrounds and the roads we had to take … I’m excited that LSU has a Louisiana guy as a head coach, and I’m blessed to have this situation at A&M.” Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Rome_TDR

TRAVEL, from page 5

only three of them have winning records.

This trend bleeds into Southeastern Conference play as well. The three SEC teams LSU has beaten at home this season have thus far combined for a conference record of 3-12.

On the contrary, LSU has played eight teams on the road that combine for a 104-44 (.703 winning percentage) overall record, all of which have winning records. Three of these teams were in the Top 25 at the time they played LSU. If the Lady Tigers want to compete for an SEC Championship, they will have to put an end to this pattern

page 7 and find consistency.

“We have to be a team that plays through adversity,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell. “We are turning a corner.”

The trend of facing tough opponents on the road will continue Sunday when the Lady Tigers travel to Lexington, Ky., to take on the No. 5 Wildcats.

So how does LSU get past this roadblock and pull off a long-awaited road win?

“When you’re prepared, you’re confident,” Kenney said.

Contact Tyler Nunez at tnunez@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @NunezTDR

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Opinion

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The First Redditor In wake of Aaron Swartz’s death, professors should consider open access

MANUFACTURING DISCONTENT DAVID SCHEUERMANN Columnist It often takes tragedy to wake us from our apathy.

On Jan. 11, 26-year-old computer programmer and digital rights activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide, leaving behind a short but rich legacy.

At 14, Swartz helped develop the RSS 1.0 specification, which allows people to aggregate and read web articles and blogs. He later created a company that would merge with what is now known as Reddit, and, in 2010, he founded Demand Progress, an online group which helped defeat the notorious Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last year.

However, Swartz’s digital advocacy eventually led him into trouble.

Swartz was arrested Jan. 6, 2011, for breaking into a Massachusetts Institute of Technology storage closet and leaving a laptop he programmed to download millions of scholarly articles in bulk from the nonprofit database JSTOR. Although JSTOR dropped all charges, federal prosecutors led by U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz would indict Swartz on 1313 counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — a charge that carried up to 35 years in prison and a fine of $1 million.

Many have blamed the aggressive prosecution for contributing to Swartz’s death and have thus tried to expose and criticize Ortiz for

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Reveille wrong in criticism of University leadership In the column “We’re ashamed of LSU’s leadership,” it is disappointing the Reveille chose to levy unsubstantiated accusations at the LSU administration rather than engage in a fact-based discussion of a critical time in LSU history.

Across the United States today higher education is being

AL PODGORSKI / The Associated Press

The casket of Internet activist Aaron Swartz is wheeled Thursday to a hearse outside Highland Park’s Lubavitch Chabad Central Avenue Synagogue. Swartz, 26, was found dead Jan. 11 of an apparent suicide Friday in his New York apartment.

her actions.

Yet, I would like to focus on what I think was most important to Swartz: his determination to provide free and open access to scholarly research.

As college students, it’s easy to take our access to the latest scholarly journals and research for granted.

Paid for by our institution, most articles we need can be easily found and read in the library.

Unfortunately for the general public, most scholarly research is sealed away behind paywalls.

Traditional scientific journals pay for their costs through the reader via subscriptions or the purchase of individual articles. At most universities, subscriptions are paid through

the library’s budget.

These costs have become increasingly more exorbitant, however, and have served only to limit who can have access to the treasure trove of knowledge that rests just behind the paywall.

“The traditional model has become unsustainable,” said professor and Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics Jorge Pullin. “The cost of scientific journals has been rising at four times the rate of inflation over the last 20 years, library budgets are strained to the max and they’re cancelling subscriptions and so on because the costs are out of control.”

Fortunately, there is an alternative: open access, which is a model of providing unrestricted access to

peer-reviewed, scholarly research via the Internet. By shifting the costs away from readers and pushing them onto the authors, who usually have adequate funding to pay for these costs, open access journals broaden the potential audience that academic research can reach.

Pullin, editor of the open access journal Physical Review X, believes more and more people from the public are interested in reading research that is typically locked in databases.

“The public in general tends to be furious when they discover that research that was paid with their own taxpayer dollars is in a journal that they don’t have access to and have to further pay to see the article,” Pullin said.

challenged as never before by changing demands and needs of students, technology-driven innovation, and a growing affordability crisis. LSU must adapt and this topic deserves accurate reporting.

The Reveille criticized Dr. Jenkins for not including a student “on the group of people making the most important decisions about the university in decades.” The Transition Advisory Team will not make the decisions about re-organization.

The Board of Supervisors will make those decisions. That Board includes a student representative. This was in the email the Reveille critiqued, but the Reveille did not include

that information.

The Reveille criticized Dr. Jenkins for describing Transition Team members as “independent and critical thinkers,” and assumes students are not considered such by the administration. Dr. Jenkins’ letter first described the members as “individuals who have broad experience in transforming organizations.” The Reveille did not include that information.

Dr. Jenkins has said students will be appointed to subcommittees that will provide the critical information for the Transition Team to assess and communicate to the Board. The Reveille said of the subcommittees

“We guarantee it won’t influence the actual Transition Advisory Team.”

The Reveille presented no supporting facts to back up this bold prediction of the future.

The Reveille poses a theory about Student Life leaders, asking the question whether “somebody put a gag order on them.” It would be better if the Reveille actually asked that question of someone before tossing it — and phrases like “closed-door policy” and “web of lies” — to its readers to provoke emotion without supporting information.

The Reveille has a responsibility to accurately inform its readers.

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The problem that the open access movement faces is one of prestige and prominence. The field of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals already has established players with renowned reputations, such as the journals Nature and Science.

“Scientists want to publish their work in journals where their articles will be read,” said Department of Physics and Astronomy Chair Michael Cherry. “Publishing in high impact journals is, therefore, quite important if one’s work is to be widely known.”

Yet, it is quite possible for open access journals to gain prominence as long as academics are willing to submit their research to them.

Even simply posting a PDF file of the research onto publicly available repositories would be a step toward a more connected, knowledgeable world.

“The fact that the current model is broken, the fact that there are calls from the general public to open up the data and finally the possibilities that having the data available opens up in the age of Google” are all reasons for giving open access models a chance, according to Pullin.

Let’s honor Swartz’s memory, not simply by attacking the conditions that may have contributed to his death, but instead by creating the world he wished to see.

David Scheuermann is a 20-year-old mass communication and computer science junior from Kenner.

Contact David Scheuermann at dscheuermann@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_dscheu go of this one. This re-organization is a big story and one that will change LSU for generations.

This part is also accurate: LSU students “are young, smart, talented, enthusiastic people with more to give back to this University than you can possibly imagine.” The Reveille has a rich history of reporting news and framing issues for the LSU community. The Reveille leadership should exercise responsible news gathering practices and report and express opinions on this issue based on complete and factual information.

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Reveille will continue unbiased SG election coverage FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK ANDREA GALLO Editor in Chief When Student Government election season rolls around every year, everyone affiliated with The Daily Reveille newsroom is told to follow the same protocol: no campaigning, no taking push cards and no showing any form of bias in reporting.

As journalists, it’s of the utmost importance to us that we maintain our credibility by being objective throughout the campaign season. We were stunned to find out that someone who works

in The Daily Reveille’s advertising department is a vice presidential candidate in the spring elections.

The Daily Reveille, while one entity under the University’s Office of Student Media, has two distinct components: editorial and advertising. Every article, photo, video and column that runs is under my discretion since I’m the editor in chief of the paper.

I do not, however, control most of the advertising content that we run. The people who work in our advertising department do not report to me, they do not have to follow our newsroom policies and they are in a separate office that’s not connected to

our newsroom.

We’re not happy that our credibility could come into question during election season since a Reveille employee who’s outside of our newsroom is causing a conflict of interest.

This is my letter to you, the students and campus community, telling you that our SG election coverage will not change. Our advertising department exercises no control over the editorial content of our newspaper, and most of our newsroom employees do not even know the advertising employee who is running for SG elections.

Legally, as per the U.S. Constitution, we cannot deny anyone his or her right to run for public

office. Ethically, we can shake our heads and say we wish our advertising department had the same policies that our newsroom, along with KLSU, LEGACY magazine, TigerTV and the LSU Gumbo Yearbook follows.

Our SG coverage will still be impartial. Newsroom employees will still turn down push cards in Free Speech Plaza and we will still write our election stories in alphabetical order by the presidential candidate’s last name.

On election day and results day, we will still encourage our SG reporter and editors directly involved in SG coverage to pick out the earth tones from their closets as to not appear on the side of any particular ticket.

The leaders of each Student Media entity are working to decide if we should craft a policy for Student Media across the board to prevent this sort of conflict of interest in the future.

Until then, we apologize to our readers who have lost trust in us because of this. If you think our coverage is biased, feel free to send a letter to the editor at editor@lsureveille.com. You can also get in touch with Kodi Wilson, our advertising sales manager, at klwilson@lsu.edu.

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Video game violence not worth time and money express themselves.

I’m sure Victoria’s Secret models have indirectly caused more than a few cases of anorexia in teenage girls. Why not legislate responsible modeling to combat this?

The commonly made argument that criminals will break the law is valid. Violence prevention legislation already exists, and it doesn’t work when one person wants to hurt another.

Additionally, every second and dime we spend combatting video game violence is one we don’t spend on the things more closely associated with youth violence, such as mental health care (right, Governor?) and home life.

The government should focus on improving children’s quality of life by supporting strong families and increasing access to and reducing the stigma of mental health treatment.

Bottom line: Violence — even of the school shooting variety — has been around a lot longer than video games and movies.

THE PICKUP PERSPECTIVE JOHN PARKER FORD Columnist President Barack Obama presented his plans in a news conference Jan. 16 for the government’s future initiatives on gun control.

In the conference, he announced 23 executive orders.

Most of these made sense in the grand scheme of things, but others — “Nominate an ATF director” — probably should have just been notes on the President’s iPhone task list.

In addition to the executive orders, Obama suggested Congress fund a study on the societal effects of violence in entertainment media, especially video games.

For reasons I cannot fathom, Fox News and MSNBC are not included in the list of media to be studied.

Reuters reported that a “senior administration official” said the president urged Congress to send $10 million to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund the study.

At first glance, this seems like a rational response to the recent stream of violence our nation has been wading through.

Ten million dollars isn’t much these days, either.

This study would certainly be at least 30 times more useful than the $325,000 the government spent to create (mwahahaha) “RoboSquirrel,” a fake squirrel built to see how a rattlesnake would react to it, right?

I don’t think so.

After Googling for about 0.46 seconds (according to Google, so no questions), I came across more than 30 existing studies on the effects of video

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John Parker Ford is a 22-yearold mass communication senior from Alexandria.

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre blames violent video games, among other things, for mass shootings across the nation. “Bulletstorm,” pictured above, is one such violent game.

game violence. Here is a small but semi-representative sampling of the findings: First, a study by the University of Georgia’s J. R. Dominick found physical aggression was related to arcade video game playing.

Second, a study by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s G. Kestenbaum found video games not only have a calming effect but also help children vent their frustration nonviolently.

Third, a study by Iowa State’s D. Gentile and Ohio State’s B. Bushman found violent video

game consumption, along with factors such as familial violence, increased the risk of aggression in children.

These three examples nicely wrap up the history of studies on video game violence — it may or may not lead to aggressive behavior. Will a new study find something different?

I find the third study, which was performed in 2012, most telling because it points to other things that contribute to violence.

Even if video game consumption leads to aggression in some cases, problems like bad parenting

do as well.

A study published in the 2010 March/April issue of the psychology journal Child Development showed that poor parenting influences bad behavior. Surprise, surprise.

Government officials should not attempt to legislate video games because they cannot effectively legislate everything else that causes aggression.

There’s no need to single out one or two industries, especially when doing so affects those industries and their consumers’ First Amendment rights to

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STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Online classes emerge as norm AHA aims to raise Administration rethinks education Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer

Alternatives to traditional higher education that emphasize technology have caught the eye of the Transition Advisory Team and University administrators who say efficiency is the guiding principle of the LSU System reorganization.

“There’s no doubt that technology’s going to play a huge role,” said Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins. “How we teach is changing, and how you’re going to go to class is changing.”

Jeff Selingo, author of “College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students,” addressed the Transition Advisory Team via Skype at its Jan. 8 kickoff meeting to inform the team about alternatives like hybrid classes and online courses that are necessary for some universities struggling with decreasing state appropriations.

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Crow, director of communications and Donor Relations. “We want to make sure we raise money for what the University and the other two campuses need. They set the fundraising goals and the foundation helps to bring in the money.”

Of the University’s total operating budget, 38.9 percent comes from state funds, according to the University’s Office of Budget and Planning.

That number has been dwindling since state budget cuts began in 2008.

In 2008, state funds to the University were 57.9 percent of the budget.

“People think there will come a day when the state provides zero [percent],” Griffin said. “What will replace it?”

He said student revenue and growing the student base will help.

“Can we do things in a more productive manner, and can we do things at a lower cost?” asked Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell. “Can faculty and students work together across these campuses?”

Many students don’t realize their classes are already part of the push toward an increasing hybrid education experience because the use of websites and other online aides seems like a natural progression, Bell said.

“Ten or 20 years ago, everything was done with a soft rock on a hard rock. Today, we try to get students doing things outside of class,” Bell said. “[Today’s] generation is used to doing this. Hybrid is a way that we can engage the students at a higher level so they can learn better material at better depths and the one on one time with the great faculty is preserved.”

In some cases, a three-day class may require only two days of class by expecting students to do more online, Bell said.

“If I said to you, ‘We’re going to have a class three times a week, 8-9, Monday, Wednesday

and Friday, and we’re going to do that for 15 weeks,’” Jenkins said, “does that make sense to you in terms of learning? That you’re saying everybody’s the same, and we have to do it at the same pace?

Can’t some of us get this done in two weeks and some of us in 20 weeks?”

Selingo said the team should consider that the traditional student demographic is expanding, a change University administrators have also recognized.

“People seeking online master’s degrees are a different student base,” Bell said.

Last semester the Board of Supervisors approved four onlineonly master’s degree programs – an MBA, two in the College of Human Sciences and Education and one in engineering, Bell said.

Bell said these courses will be taught in seven-week modules, and students can earn their degree after a 14-month period.

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presence on campus Erin Hebert Contributing Writer

The University’s Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics club is gearing up for its biggest semester yet, according to newly elected AHA president Chad Thibodeaux.

Thibodeaux, a 27-year-old chemistry Ph.D. candidate, has been involved with AHA for two years.

AHA plans to host Louisiana’s first secular conference, “Reason on the Bayou.” The conference will take place April 14 in the Royal Ballroom of the Student Union.

Thibodeaux said freethinking and secular groups from across Louisiana plan to attend, as well as groups from Florida, Tennessee and Texas.

Economics sophomore and three-semester AHA member Garrett Ordner said he sees the conference as

a sign of progress for both the club and Louisiana.

The conference’s keynote speaker will be Nate Phelps, estranged son of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps. Nate Phelps is now an activist for secular thinking and LGBTQ rights.

The conference currently has 14 other confirmed speakers, including Zack Kopplin, who attended Baton Rouge Magnet High School and began the initiative to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act, which many have claimed violates the Constitution by allowing creationism to be taught in Louisiana public schools.

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LSU Foundation goals: • Invest in people, specifically LSU Foundation employees • Redesign the foundation’s organization and operations • Strengthen collaborations among LSU, the Ag Center and the Law Center • Execute large-scale fundraising efforts, which means seeking out large gifts of $10 million and $20 million

“Hopefully, we won’t have to increase tuition too much if we can get the foundation to double where it is,” Griffin said. “If we do that, we might be able to get out of the clutches of the state.”

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