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BY JOSE alejandro bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com

Student counselors find solace in crisis center Galvan began training Thursday for a nine-week commitment to the crisis center.

Her training includes 30 hours in an online course and 30 hours in a classroom, working with instructors to simulate actual calls and situations.

“We’re doing hands-on

With talk of dark clouds and uncertainty looming over the state’s higher education budget, one thing is certain: The University is running out of fat.

With budget cuts of the expected magnitude, University students could face an array of changes from raises in tuition and fees, larger classrooms and postponed renovation projects to eliminated degree programs and college closures, said Jane Cassidy, vice provost for human resources and facilities management.

“We’ve had so many budget cuts over the past five years that all the low-hanging fruit is already gone,” Cassidy said. “Right now, we’re in a place where we can provide the type of education that we want to provide our students.

There’s not much left before we start cutting into that.”

While the state’s budget is still

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Volunteers at the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center attend training to become active counselors on the crisis hotline.

BY carrie grace henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com When she was 15, communication studies and political science senior Allie Galvan lost her 17-year-old brother to suicide.

In 1970, the University lost six students to suicide, one of whom was then-Student Government President Art Ensminger.

Out of that tragedy came The PHONE, a student-run crisis hotline headquartered on the University’s campus. And out of Galvan’s loss came a desire to help people like her brother and their grieving loved ones.

“I know what it’s like to go through something like that,” Galvan said. “If I can help at least one person in any way to feel like

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they don’t have to do that, or so their family doesn’t have to go through that, that would mean a lot.”

Since the ’70s, The PHONE has evolved into the nationally certified Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center, which still utilizes students as its main source of phone-line and crisis chat operators.

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Billiard hall now houses exercise classes BY julian schardt jschardt@lsureveille.com The Student Union and UREC have partnered together to bring a part of the UREC closer to campus.

The UREC began exercise classes Jan. 20 in the Union, utilizing the space that housed Tiger Pause Billiards on the first floor.

Tiger Pause Billiards did not renew its lease for the 2014-15 academic year, and as a result, the space remained empty for

the fall semester.

Auxiliary Services communications coordinator Heather Bilodeau said many businesses, such as an optometrist and multiple food vendors, vied for the space, but it was decided the UREC would be the best fit.

“We thought the UREC would be a good alternative,” Bilodeau said. “It will bring more people into the Union, and it will be more of a communal space. It’s not just for students — it’s for students, faculty and staff.”

Not all students agreed on

whether Auxiliary Services made the right move.

Chemical engineering junior Leo Grizzaffy said UREC exercise classes are a good idea but out of place in the Union.

“There is a better place they could put it than right in the middle of the Union,” Grizzaffy said.

Anthropology sophomore Isabella Mallow disagreed with the idea and said the Union should have tried to keep the space communal, like the space in front of

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The former billiard hall in the Student Union now functions as an exercise class space, offering classes provided by the UREC to students, faculty and staff.

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WARSAW, Poland — The head of Rome’s Jewish community, whose grandparents were killed at Auschwitz, visited the former Nazi death camp to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its liberation. He ended up spending the night at the police station after triggering an alarm.

Riccardo Pacifici and four other Italians stayed behind following ceremonies Tuesday after receiving permission to shoot footage of the site for an Italian broadcast. The gates were closed and they had an appointment to be let out by guards at 11:30 p.m.

Finishing early, they went to the main gate to leave but found the guards had not yet arrived. They thought they could get out from the visitor’s center and got in by pushing through the window. When they opened a door to leave, the alarm went off.

Security guards came rushing in and asked to see their identification documents. They refused, prompting the guards to call police, who took them to the station for questioning, police spokesman Mariusz

Sokolowski said.

There they were held from 11 p.m. until shortly after 5 a.m. until finally being released.

“They treated us like real criminals,” said Fabio Perugia, the spokesman for the Rome Jewish community, who was one of the five questioned.

Sokolowski said security guards at Auschwitz should have been more attentive to the needs of the Italians, but that the Italians also should have used their phones to call for help when they realized they were trapped inside.

Pacifici tweeted throughout the ordeal, saying that their “only crime ... was to try to leave by a window!!!!”

However, police and museum officials said normal security procedures had to be followed.

The visitor’s center contains a post office, a shop, a donation box and an ATM, with money on site.

Sokolowski said the questioning took several hours because the Italian consulate was called and all the documentation was translated into Italian.

He said the group was taken to a police station simply so that the bureaucratic procedures

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Rose Schindler, a survivor of Auschwitz, and her husband Max, both 85, visit the former death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday. Schindler was among dozens of survivors to visit the site a day before major ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by the Soviet Red Army. could be carried out in a more comfortable place.

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Balloon crew surpasses flight distance record ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two pilots soaring over the Pacific Ocean made history Thursday, traveling farther than the 5,209-mile (8,383-kilometer) official world distance record for human flight in a gas balloon. But according to the rules of international aviation, they didn’t set a new record quite yet.

“There it is! There it is!” shouted team members at the flight’s mission control in Albuquerque as a monitor showed the helium-filled Two Eagles balloon passing the record set by the Double Eagle V in 1981.

The Two Eagles pilots, Troy Bradley of Albuquerque and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia, are aiming to set both distance and duration records with their flight from Saga, Japan, which began shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sunday Japan time, and was nearing North America on Thursday.

To do it, they need to exceed the current records by 1 percent, as confirmed by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. For distance, that means they need to travel about 5,260 miles (8,465 kilometers).

They also hope to beat the duration record, set in 1978 when Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman made the first

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trans-Atlantic balloon flight.

That record of 137 hours, 5 minutes and 50 seconds in the air in a traditional gas balloon is considered the “holy grail” of ballooning achievements. And to beat that, the Two Eagles team must remain aloft for about 138 hours and 45 minutes.

The pilots had been aiming for Canada until a high-pressure ridge formed off the U.S. West Coast, forcing a sweeping right turn toward Mexico, where they now plan to land on Saturday.

“Think of it as hitting a wall: It will have to go left or right,” a mission control statement said.

The northerly course would have taken them over the Canadian Rockies to somewhere in the northern U.S., possibly Montana or North Dakota. Instead, they’re headed south, aiming for the peninsula of Baja California.

The balloon is outfitted with an array of monitors and other instruments that are tracking its course and compiling data to be submitted to the record-keepers. With a massive, helium-filled envelope and a specially-designed carbon fibercomposite capsule, it is designed to stay aloft for up to 10 days.

Their last task will be a safe landing. With no certainty about their destination, the team set up a network of balloonists across the continent to serve as chase crews.

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BRAF reveals working designs for Baton Rouge lakes

History professor Leslie Tuttle gives a lecture Thursday in West Laville Hall.

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation revealed the first working designs for the Baton Rouge lakes master plan on Thursday during an open house in the Lod Cook Alumni Center.

After a presentation from Kinder Baumgardner — president of SWA Group, one of the project planners — attendees were invited to break up into groups to take a closer look at the maps, identify personal areas of interest and ask questions about the preliminary designs.

The lakes have been a mess since they were built, Baumgardner said. Despite the appearance of the lakes as a natural landscape, the area is man-made and requires maintenance.

Issues that have arisen over the years include poor water quality, missing signs, erosion and barriers to access, Baumgardner said.

The proposed designs focus on addressing water quality, dredging and grading, traffic circulation, programming, architecture and landscape.

Baton Rouge resident Nathaniel Klumb said if even half of what has been proposed by the planners can be carried out, the lakes will be significantly improved.

“The lakes are as good as we have, but they’re not really that great right now,” Klumb said. “I have pedaled in them many times, and most people ask me why I even go out there.”

Klumb said he is glad to see the working designs showed greater connectivity both around and between the lakes.

Baumgardner said the plans displayed during the meeting were not finalized drafts, but rather were framework designs.

“What we’re showing you guys is the results of work, listening to people, putting pen to paper,” Baumgardner said. “After listening and researching and doing all of that analysis, you’ve got to draw a line, and the first time you draw a line, people react, so that’s what today is about.”

BRAF hosted the second of its master plan meetings in December, allowing community members to suggest designs for lakefront parks and other amenities and generate solutions on where to relocate the materials dredged from the lakes.

The working designs produced by planners SWA Group and Jeffrey Carbo Landscape Architects built off the ideas developed during the December meeting, as well as information gathered from University students and commentary provided online.

BRAF director of communications Mukul Verma said feedback gathered from attendees will be passed on to the planners who will make appropriate design changes, revealed on April 29.

The final plans will be presented

Professor offers insight into Harry Potter’s popularity didn’t know the rules, I didn’t know how anything worked Eight years after the publica- ,so I was able to identify with tion of the seventh and final in- Harry.” stallment of J.K. Rowling’s “HarTuttle said there used to be ry Potter” series and four years an ideology that modern sociafter the release of the last film ety became disenchanted with adaptation, scholars are trying to magic and turned to science as answer why society continues to an answer for the unexplainable. enjoy magic despite disbelief.

However, modern scholars’ reUniversity history professor search, like Tanya Luhrmann at Leslie Tuttle presented some the University of Cambridge and ideas and answers to the cause Iver Neumann, a scholar from of “Pottermania” on Thursday at Norway, show society has not left the Roger Hadfield Ogden Hon- magic behind, but incorporated ors College residential college as it into their lives differently. a part of a lecture series.

Tuttle researches the 16th The Harry Potter series is and 17th centuries when people translated in 73 languages. There believed in magical elements, but are 450 million books in print also saw them as scary and evil. and 11 million copies of “Harry She compared this to the modern Potter and The Deathly Hallows” day appreciation of magic as enwere sold when the seventh book tertainment. was released.

Anthropologist Clifford “One of the things I find so Geertz defined a religious exdelightful about ‘Harry Potter’ perience as an experience that is how surprised the publishing differs from mundane everyworld was by its success,” Tuttle day experiences, allows one to said. slip temporarily into a differTuttle said she became inter- ent framework of meanings and ested in the topic changes their of Harry Potter ‘One of the things I find sense of the world, because it led stu- so delightful about “Harry Tuttle said. dents to take her Potter” is how surprised Tuttle agreed history courses the publishing world was with Geertz about about witchcraft the experiences of by its success.’ and superstition. reading the books, Leslie tuttle, She has read all of which have a balhistory professor the books and can ance of humor understand why and seriousness, they are so well liked. reason and fantasy and blend Biochemistry freshman Re- typical genres of literature like becca Bock said she identified the boarding school stories and with Harry Potter as a child be- epics. cause she had a rough experi“For me, what Geertz is talkence socially. ing about is an idea that there is “I was a military kid and I meaning beyond just the things was always going from one world that we see and touch around us,” to another, and from one school Tuttle said. “We should aspire system to another,” Bock said, to grasp that meaning. ‘Harry pointing out how Harry Potter Potter’ is related to our desire is thrust into another world. “I to do that.”

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The Baton Rouge Area Foundation revealed the first designs for the renovation of the Baton Rouge lakes, addressing issues like erosion and water quality. to BRAF and its partners this summer.

“The goal at the end of the process is to listen to this community, because you ultimately own the lakes,” said BRAF executive vice president John Spain.

One of the project’s major undertakings will be dredging the lakes.

According to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the healthy average for lake depth is a minimum of 5 feet. At 6.5 feet deep, College Lake is the only one of the lakes to meet or exceed that average.

In 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hired engineering firm GEC Inc. to develop a plan to restore the lakes, which included dredging the lakes to increase their depth.

Baumgardner said a cofferdam system will likely be used to divide the lakes into segments and excavate each segment individually to minimize the effects on wildlife, homeowners and the University.

“I was glad that they didn’t seem to be planning to dredge the lakes all at once,” said Baton Rouge resident Bobbie Marschall.

“I worry most about wildlife surviving the dredging, and then in the case of the birds returning, of the pelicans returning.”

One of the primary goals of the project is to preserve the history of the lakes and to protect and improve the lakes’ ecology, Baumgardner said.

Preliminary design ideas include building a public boathouse, forming wetlands to produce greater diversity, creating multiuse and separate bike paths and establishing a gateway to the University between Dalrymple Drive and Stanford Avenue and an LSU Bird Sanctuary.

BRAF raised $750,000 for the design process, but the funding necessary to execute the project has yet to be obtained, Verma said.

“The actual dredging and all that work is going to cost tens of millions of dollars,” Verma said.

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Biology sophomore Anna Sudyam volunteers at the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center as a crisis counselor.

crisis center, from page 1 exercises so they can really get a feel for what its like when they get on the line,” said Haley Shows, clinical supervisor and training lead at the crisis center. “When they come to us, its not lecture. They can actually practice the skills which they are learning.”

Galvan is a member of the center’s largest volunteer class.

Graduates of the class will join a team of volunteers who work weekly shifts on the 24-hour phone or online chat line.

“I think it’s really a testament to where we are in our society that people are still wanting to do this,” Shows said. “It just gives me such hope that people are still wanting to take their time to volunteer and help others.”

Though some college students may not feel they could be of help in a crisis situation, she said many of the callers are collegeaged, and it can be helpful to match demographics.

Shows said when college students call in, it is beneficial for them to make a connection with someone who is their age or who has gone through

billiard hall, from page 1 the new workout room.

“They should have tried to preserve it as a hangout space,” Mallow said.

Group class participants also lack privacy in the space, she said.

To combat this problem, there will be a backdrop hanging down at all times to provide privacy for fitness class participants.

Kinesiology junior Lauren Beauchamp agrees with Auxiliary Services’ decision and plans to take advantage of classes in the new location.

“I think it’s a good idea,” she said. “Instead of playing pool,

similar situations.

“We do get a lot of college kids calling in or even coming in on chat,” Shows said. “It’s easier to have [volunteers] be relatable.

They understand the stressors of what’s going on for them in college.”

Biology sophomore Anna Suydam, a volunteer with the center for almost a year, got involved because of her interest in psychology and neurology.

Working at the center helped Suydam put her problems in perspective.

“It’s actually my outlet,” Suydam said. “I go there for a shift and spend around three hours there, and it’s kind of the time out of my week that I can realize that my problems are a lot smaller than I think they are.”

Suydam said her experience has taught her how to be empathetic with others without letting their problems affect her, but there is one part of her work she can’t help but bring home with her — in a way, she’s become a counselor to her friends.

“We all joke about it,” Suydam said. “We have friends that would call us just to gossip, and you find yourself using the skills that they teach you in training to counsel them with

their problems.”

In addition to the developing professionally, she said she has learned a lot about herself.

“Training was actually a really big growing experience for me. I’ve realized a lot in a professional sense,” Suydam said.

“I’ve realized a lot of my potential for counseling and how I’d enjoy doing that in my future career.”

The center’s commitment to the University remains strong even after moving off campus, Shows said. From every student’s required fees, $2 helps fund the center, and there is an “LSU line” always available.

The LSU line is specifically for callers who identify themselves as University students at the beginning of their chat.

Shows said the center works with the School of Social Work, offering internship opportunities, and also with other areas of campus.

“We have a lot of people that are residential advisors who do this work to kind of strengthen their skills in that setting,” Shows said. “Some really want to do it because they want to go into this field, and we’re really the first company that will say, ‘We’ll take you under our wing.’”

people will be able to get exercise.”

UREC director Laurie Braden said the Union reached out to the UREC and made an offer they could not refuse.

Braden said many angles were taken into consideration — like the fast food restaurants nearby, privacy and the types of classes that could be held in the space — before devising a plan to bring the UREC to the Union.

The UREC is not bound by contract to the Union, so classes will take place as long as they are deemed beneficial to students, the UREC and the Union, Braden said.

“This is a pilot semester to

test and see how it works for us and them, and to see how much students use it,” Braden said. “If students use it, we’ll continue to provide services.”

The Union will be taking a 15 percent commission from specialty course fees as payment for the right to use the space, Braden said.

UREC coordinator of fitness and wellness Jennifer Mills said free classes will be held as well.

Free classes include Zumba, Street Beats and Yoga Nidra.

Specialty courses include POUND and GET FIT for faculty and staff. They last about four weeks and are $30 and $45 for members, respectively.

early in the development process, University officials are working with the legislature to ensure the loss of state support will not be as dramatic as previously announced.

For Baton Rouge resident Anna Simmons, who will resume her education at the University in fall 2015, legislators should be willing to cut other projects, like industry benefits.

“We have a booming media business here, but it shouldn’t come at the cost of our education,” Simmons said. “[The University] is our state school and should be a top priority, not making movies.”

Government officials notified higher education institutions in the state to prepare for at least a $300 million financial reduction for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

However, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reported Jan. 27 this number could increase by $50 million to $100 million because of the state’s reduced revenues from the recent drop in oil prices.

“We got a University president and a provost, as well as a group of external constituents, who are working really hard to try to mitigate these cuts,” Cassidy said. “I know for sure that’s happening on a daily basis. We’ve got people who are meeting with anybody who will listen.”

The University’s operating budget, Cassidy said, comprises 85 percent personnel expenses and 15 percent equipment expenses.

Cutting from the non-personnel 15 percent would mean getting rid of materials needed for faculty and staff to do their jobs.

LSU President F. King Alexander discussed potential budget cuts on Jan. 22, saying higher education could face a $384 million budget cut statewide, with a $53 million cut for the University.

These amounts, however, represent a worst-case scenario.

The official number won’t be decided until the legislative session in April, said Tommy Smith, associate vice chancellor of Finance and Administrative Services and vice provost for finance.

The state will receive a more accurate estimate of the cuts on higher education when Gov. Bobby Jindal’s version of the budget — House Bill 1 — is presented to the state legislature on Feb. 27.

Higher education would normally be discussed during the legislative session, but representatives are trying to call for a special session to focus solely on higher education funding, Cassidy said.

“What we want the students to know is that they’re our top priority,” Cassidy said. “Keeping students in class with a world-class education — that is absolutely, without question, the top priority.”

Student Government President Clayton Tufts said it is important for students to be informed during the budget decision-making process and to voice their concerns to either SG representatives or their legislators. “[SG representatives] are going to be thrusted into these conversations and have access to these discussions,” Tufts said.

“We’re relying on students’ input, because it’s always better to have our homework done before going to the table.”

Sports

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LSU sophomore forward Jordan Mickey catches a breath during Tigers’ 67-64 defeat against Texas A&M on Jan. 17, in the PMAC.

Shallow Breadths Men’s basketball searching for depth behind Mickey, Martin BY james bewers jbewers@lsureveille.com

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efore the season began, some argued the LSU forward tandem of sophomores Jarell Martin and Jordan Mickey, 2014 Southeastern Conference All-Freshman Team members, could form one of the best frontcourts in college basketball.

In hindsight, it’s hard to discredit that prediction. Martin and Mickey are third and fifth, respectively, in points per game in the Southeastern Conference. But the question of depth still remains in the frontcourt.

LSU coach Johnny Jones has tried multiple frontcourt options throughout the season, but inexperience continues to hinder any progress. With the intensity of SEC play consistently ramping up, prolonged minutes for young big men doesn’t seem to be an option.

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Tigers brace for road trip to Mississippi State BY david gray dgray@lsureveille.com The road has become familiar territory for the LSU men’s basketball team.

After rallying past South Carolina for a dramatic 64-58 home victory Wednesday night, the second-place Tigers (16-4, 5-2 Southeastern Conference) will play on the road for the fifth time in eight games when they square off against struggling Mississippi State at 1 p.m. Saturday at Humphrey Coliseum.

LSU has won five of its last six games against the Bulldogs (9-11, 2-5 SEC), including the previous four. But the Tigers are 2-2 in their last four trips to Starkville, Mississippi, with each game decided by five

points or less.

But LSU coach Johnny Jones isn’t too concerned about how the game may play out. Whether it’s another wire-to-wire finish or the game becomes a blowout, Jones said his squad has shown it can win in a variety of ways.

“We’ve been able to play through a lot of different styles and still had a lot of success,” Jones said.

LSU has experienced nearly as much success away from the PMAC as it’s had inside. The Tigers are 5-1 in road games, which is the most road wins for an SEC team so far this season.

LSU also has taken care of business at home, with Wednesday’s win against South Caroli-

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gymnastics

LSU competes in Metroplex Challenge BY jacob hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com The No. 2 LSU gymnastics team will have a chance to avenge last year’s Super Six Championships loss to No. 1 Oklahoma in a battle of the top teams in the NCAA. LSU (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) will face Oklahoma (4-0, 0-0 Big 12), No. 8 Arkansas and Iowa State in the Metroplex Challenge at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

The matchup likely will be a preview of the 2015 Super Six Championships, which will be held at the same venue.

LSU and Oklahoma competed against each other four times last

year. The Tigers won the first matchup 197.650-197.325, but the Sooners came back with a vengeance and won the Metroplex Challenge, 198.125-197.875.

Oklahoma also outscored LSU at the NCAA Semifinals, 197.500197.100, and again at the Super Six Championships when it tied Florida for a share of the NCAA title, while LSU finished in third place.

But it’s a new season, and LSU’s gymnasts said they believe they improved more than Oklahoma since their last meeting.

“We just want to get out there and do what we have been training, because if we do that, we will beat them,” said LSU senior allarounder Rheagan Courville. “I

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LSU senior Lloimincia Hall performs a floor routine on Jan. 23, during the TIgers’ 197-192 victory against Missouri in the PMAC.

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Tigers riding confident play against Purdue, Wisconsin

BY JAMES BEWERS jbewers@lsureveille.com

Teams often get snake-bitten when they look past a lesser opponent in favor of a more challenging one.

The LSU men’s tennis team avoided a letdown as it rolled by Lamar and Nicholls State in double-header matches to open the spring season Jan. 18. But even before the season started, the Tigers (3-1) had their eyes set on San Diego the following weekend in the opening round of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Kickoff Weekend in College Station, Texas.

LSU’s focus didn’t go to waste as it finished off the Toreros, 4-2, to advance to the championship round.

“We had really been pointing to San Diego for a long time,” said LSU coach Jeff Brown. “We couldn’t completely overlook [Nicholls and Lamar], but we were assuming we would somehow get through those [matches]. [We knew] San Diego was going to be

a big challenge, and it was. We gained some confidence.”

Gaining confidence is huge for a team that features only one senior, and it’s something the Tigers want to build on as they turn to dual matches against Purdue (2-2) on Saturday and Wisconsin (1-2) on Sunday at “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

Facing quality opponents is nothing new to Brown’s club, which plays in a talented conference that went 2-10 in last season.

The Tigers got an early taste of the type of opponents they would play in the Southeastern Conference in a 1-4 loss to TCU in the championship round of the ITA Kickoff on Sunday.

No. 18 TCU knocked off thenNo. 10 Texas A&M to secure its spot in the final.

“We didn’t really lose a lot of confidence against TCU,” Brown said. “We knew going into the season they were a top10 team, and they beat Texas A&M, who was at [No.] 10. We really knew what level they were,

so we saw that we are not far off from that level.”

LSU’s emotional high was brought back down as junior Boris Arias won the only match for the Tigers on Sunday, 6-1, 6-3. Brown said his team played well for about five days in a row, including practice and the San Diego match, but fell flat when it reached the Horned Frogs.

Arias, who is 4-0 in singles to start the season, agreed with Brown about how close the Tigers are to competing with teams like TCU. “There’s always something you can improve on,” Arias said.

“That’s why we have this week to practice. We have to try to practice as hard as we can and do the things we didn’t do last weekend against TCU. [We need to] just try our best this Saturday and Sunday.”

Although Arias, junior Andrew Korinek and sophomore Jordan Daigle are dealing with lingering injuries, the Tigers won’t be able to look past Purdue, which returns six players from last year’s NCAA

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LSU junior Boris Arias swings Jan. 18 at LSU’s 6-1 victory against Lamar University.

Tournament team.

The Boilermakers dropped both of their matches last weekend against Tulsa and Auburn, and Wisconsin lost two of its three opening matches to East Tennessee State and Washington.

“I don’t know very much [about

Purdue and Wisconsin], but every single school has very good players,” Arias said. “I know they are going to be good, so we have to be ready for them, too.”

You can reach James Bewers on Twitter @JamesBewers_TDR.

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Seattle Seahawks have edge in Super Bowl XLIX matchup LIFE OF BRIAN BRIAN PELLERIN Sports Columnist The weeks of hype are almost over. It’s Super Bowl time.

Millions of Americans will host parties to sit around their television screens, eat stale potato chips and watch the commercials they complain about all year long. The commercials will be radical, bold and a little crazy — much like what’ll be happening in the actual game.

Between those lovable commercials, two of the biggest villainous brands in the NFL today will be battling it out. It’ll be like a Freddy vs. Jason movie, but hopefully Sunday’s game will

have more action.

First from the AFC, the air pressure-reducing, signal-stealing, diabolical geniuses, the New England Patriots.

The Patriots come into this game in peak villainous form, fresh off a cheating scandal in their most recent game. I’m sure you’ve heard about the lack of air pressure in footballs that helped Tom Brady grip them better and subsequently devour the Colts, 45-7.

The controversy will undoubtedly put the officials on high alert so the Patriots won’t get too used their secret weapon in the Super Bowl.

But they will still have their best kept secret — their defense.

Most casual NFL fans know Darrelle Revis, but New England also has former Seahawks

cornerback Brandon Browner, defensive lineman Vince Wilfork, and emerging star linebacker Jamie Collins to go along with a host of other strong role players.

The offense will be as strong as always thanks to Tom Brady, running back LeGarrette Blount and Bogie’s own Rob Gronkowski.

The bad news for the Patriots’ offense is that its roster is filled with sorry receivers, and we know what happens to sorry receivers when they face the Seahawks. Cornerback Richard Sherman took “a sorry receiver like [San Francisco’s Michael] Crabtree” to the woodshed in last season’s NFC Championship Game and subsequently let sideline reporter Erin Andrews know about it.

Sherman is the leader of

Seattle’s ‘Legion of Boom’ secondary. Its hard-hitting, trashtalking attitude makes the Seahawks the more likable of the two villains to me.

Seattle’s roster is like the island of misfit toys. It’s littered with NFL rejects exiled from other teams for not fitting the mold.

Quarterback Russell Wilson was too short. Running back Marshawn Lynch didn’t have the upside that C.J. Spiller had. Sherman didn’t have the work ethic.

Even LSU’s own Tharold Simon is playing an important role for the Seahawks.

Last year, the Seahawks came into the Super Bowl as the villains trying to take down American icon Peyton Manning. They not only beat him and the Broncos but ran them out of New Jersey to the tune of a 43-8 win.

This time, the Seahawks are flying under the radar thanks to the Patriots’ newest scandal of the month. The defending champions flying under the radar sounds ridiculous, but it’s true.

Give the Seahawks a reason to feel like they don’t belong, and they’ll show they actually do, which will be the case on Sunday. Seattle will grind it out with Lynch, get a few plays from Wilson and the defense will make the big play to win it.

This will be a fun Super Bowl, but in this battle of villain vs. villain, I’m going brawn over brains.

Brian Pellerin is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from Kenner, Louisiana.

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Tigers travel to Arkansas for two-day Razorback Invitational BY jacob Hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s and women’s track and field teams are competing against the best collection of talent they have faced this season in the Razorback Invitational this weekend.

The two-day event begins at 11 a.m. tomorrow and extends through Saturday at Randall Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers are coming off last week’s Rod McCravy Invitational where they broke one school record and combined to secure three event wins, eight indoor personal bests and eight performances ranking among the NCAA’s elite.

LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver said the surplus of talent at this week’s meet will force his team to perform better than it did last week.

“There’s a lot of really good teams there, just like at the McCravy meet,” Shaver said.

“Every meet we go to the overall competition level will get a little stiffer, and I think that’s what our team needs to get prepared for the [Southeastern Conference Championships] and the postseason.”

This weekend’s meet will

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LSU senior hurdler Joshua Thompson competes on Jan. 9. during the indoor track events at the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse. get the team ready for the postseason in more ways than elevating competition level.

The NCAA Indoor Championships are held at the same track March 13-14.

Shaver is looking for the men’s 60-meter hurdles and women’s 4x400-meter relay

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runners to show an improvement this week.

The hurdlers are expected to perform better after being granted extra rest this week.

Last weekend, sophomore Jordan Moore finished in fifth place, while senior Joshua Thompson finished in sixth

after he won the event title in his first two meets.

Shaver is pushing the women’s 4x400-meter relay team to improve on last weekend’s seventh-place finish when they crossed the line more than 10 seconds off the lead.

But the reigning NCAA

Indoor Champion men’s 4x400meter relay lineup will experience a shake up because of its success early in the season.

“There are several things that we got accomplished in a big way in Kentucky, so we won’t try to do those again this weekend,” Shaver said. “The men’s 4x400 had success in getting a top time and getting qualified, so we won’t be running our best people.”

Despite running an NCAA Indoor Championship qualifying time, LSU lost to Florida by six one-hundredths of a second last weekend, and the Tigers’ second-string lineup is looking for revenge.

Shaver expects sophomore Morgan Schuetz to be more consistent in the women’s 800-meter race. Schuetz holds the best time in the nation in the event, but she is looking to defeat Florida junior Claudia Francis after finishing half of a second behind her last week.

“I feel like she didn’t run as well as she is capable of against bigger competition,” Shaver said. “She is going to get better competition this week too, so it will be a great challenge.”

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Friday, January 30, 2015 depth, from page 5 Jones utilizes only a sevenman rotation — four guards, two forwards and a center — for much of the 40 minutes of any given game. The center in the rotation is sophomore Darcy Malone, who has started the past five games.

Jones seemed to see something in Malone in 16 minutes of action in the Tigers’ double-overtime win against Georgia on Jan. 10. While the Australian averages only a rebound and just more than a point per game, he does the little things that please his coaches and teammates.

“What I’m more excited about is that his teammates trusted him,” Jones said after LSU’s win against South Carolina on Wednesday. “Early in the game, you had Jordan Mickey catch it high, throw a low post pass and [Malone] finish it ... That means your teammates really trust you.

That’s big. Darcy has been playing with a great deal of confidence.

“It doesn’t show up on the stat sheet, but he allows your offense to flow smoother because his knowledge and understanding of where he’s supposed to be ... He’s really given us some positive minutes on the floor.”

Still, Malone has averaged only 14 minutes per game in his five starts this season, leaving Martin and Mickey, who both average more than 30 minutes per game, to shoulder the load in the post.

Before Malone became the Tigers’ fifth option in the starting lineup, senior forward John Odo started 10 of the first 13 games.

metroplex, from page 5 don’t think that they are a better team than us. They haven’t done more practice than us and they’re not more confident than us. It is just going to be how we carry ourselves in this competition.”

LSU is also familiar with the talent Arkansas (1-2, 1-1 SEC) is bringing to the meet.

The Tigers defeated the Razorbacks, 197.225-196.275, and Arkansas finished four spots behind LSU’s No. 3 finish at the 2014 SEC Championships.

Iowa State (1-3-1, 0-0-1 Big 12) enters the matchup narrowly missing out on a top-25 national ranking. The Cyclones average a 194.758 per meet, and their beam lineup is No. 17 in the nation, while their bars lineup is No. 25.

“I think the competition is going to have to be played out,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “It’s a game of consistency. The team that is most consistent and can stick the most dismounts will ultimately be the team that wins.”

Oklahoma has done the best job of sticking landings through the first three meets of the season.

LSU and Arkansas are coming off meets where they scored their highest total of the season, but Oklahoma is too, and its 197.850 team score on Jan. 23 is the highest score in the nation so far.

Heading into the Metroplex Challenge, the Sooners rank in the top-four in every event. LSU

But the 6-foot-10 Odo didn’t have the kind of production Jones was looking for, so in stepped Malone against the Bulldogs.

“I sort of knew prior to the game that I would be called upon to play,” Malone said after the game. “I didn’t know how many minutes. I didn’t know it was going to go into overtime, of course.

I just tried to get myself ready for however many minutes I [would] play. If it was one or it was 40, that’s how you warm yourself up.”

Even more surprising than Malone’s increased minutes is the absence of 7-foot-1 freshman center Elbert Robinson III. Robinson, an ESPN four-star rated center out of Garland, Texas, started the first four games of the season but has appeared only in six of the last 16 games.

Sophomore forward Brian Bridgewater’s 18 appearances is the most for any post off the bench. Despite his large frame at 6-foot-5, his minutes continue to be sporadic, and he didn’t play in two of the past four games.

Martin, though, said he would advise each big man to take advantage of the opportunity to play when he gets it.

“Come out playing the role,” Martin said after the Tigers beat Ole Miss on Jan. 14. “Come out being aggressive. Just be really aggressive, box out and get rebounds.”

In the absence of freshman guard Jalyn Patterson, who suffered an injury against Vanderbilt on Jan. 24. Jones continued to mix it up, bringing in freshman forward Aaron Epps off the bench against South Carolina. Despite not registering a basket in seven eclipses its mark only on beam, where it averages the highest score in the nation.

“I think somebody that really studies the numbers and looks at this stuff on paper would say Oklahoma is a favored team,” Breaux said. “They are ranked

The Daily Reveille minutes of action, the 6-foot-9 Epps grabbed two rebound and was the seventh and final man off the bench.

Jones said he liked what he saw from Epps, who hadn’t appeared in a game since LSU lost to Missouri on Jan. 8. “[Epps] did a great job,” Jones said. “He had a tremendous practice. He knew he was going to be in a little bit different role today.

When you talk about a freshman who sits there for a few games and then come out there and play like he did with a sense of urgency, there was no let up, no slippage or anything when he was out there on the floor. That was a huge positive for us.”

Despite a 16-4 overall record and a 5-2 mark in conference, LSU may need to expand its rotations against deep squads, such as Kentucky coach John Calipari’s “Platoon System,” which employs two five-man groups.

Jones said extended minutes for his primary seven was not a part of his plan, but his team will continue to work to improve its depth down low.

“We have to really pick our spots and our moments on how we are going to play it,” Jones said.

“It takes away some of the press you may want to do ... With the caliber of competition we play against, when they find you resting, they have an opportunity to attack you, and you can’t have a lot of downtime on the floor. So we got to get guys back out there on the floor to get us back in the rotation.”

You can reach James Bewers on Twitter @JamesBewers_TDR. No. 1 and we are No. 2, which is perfectly okay with us. We will go in as an underdog having to fight and scrap a little bit. That’s what we do. We are tigers.”

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page 11 Despite the loss, MSU junior guard Craig Sword provided na being the latest case in point. a major lift. Sword — who led On Wednesday, LSU over- the Bulldogs in scoring last seacame a dismal first-half shoot- son before missing 10 games ing performance to clip the this year with a back injury Gamecocks for its third con- — pumped in a game-high 27 secutive victory and fifth in six points and went 5-of-7 from games. The Tigers preserved 3-point range. the dramatic win with four With the team slowly beblocked shots in the last 32 sec- coming healthy, Jones said the onds, including three emphatic Bulldogs are starting to put all stuffs by sophomore forward of their pieces together on the Jordan Mickey. court.

LSU will try to avoid an emo“They had injuries early and tional letdown when it tips off had guys out from surgery,” against the Bulldogs, who have Jones said. “They’re back. dropped five of seven but lost They’ve had the [chance] to get by a combined 12 points in their back in game shape, and that’s two previous allowed for their outings against ‘[The Bulldogs’] record games to be more Georgia and Ole doesn’t dictate how good competitive.”

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As a team, the Mickey, who they are. They’re a scrappy Bulldogs shot a collected his team, and we have to be sizzling 55.6 perready to play. We can’t cent from the 177th career block against the look past any team. We floor against the Gamecocks to have to take on every game Rebels, including move into second 38.9 percent (7like it’s the last one.’ place in LSU hisof-18) from deep. tory, said MSU LSU sophomore Jordan Mickey, is better than its guard Tim Quarsophomore forward current standing terman said he suggests. expects his team “[The Bullto be tested with dogs’] record doesn’t dictate another close game. how good they are,” Mickey “They had a lot of close said. “They’re a scrappy team, games in conference, too, but and we have to be ready to play. they just fell short,” QuarterWe can’t look past any team. We man said. “They play until have to take every game like it’s the end. We have to go down the last one.” there with the mindset that we The last one for the Bulldogs go into every game with belikely left a bitter taste in their cause they’re really going to be mouths. On Wednesday, MSU on us.” led Ole Miss by as much as 13 points in the second half before You can reach David Gray on dropping the contest, 79-73.

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In response to Logan Anderson’s column, “Stigma surrounding period sex should be eradicated,” one reader had this to say: “Uses the phrase ‘rape culture’ - CHECK. Take pot-shots at Christianity - CHECK. Wow, I’m only one away from winning Reveille Bingo!

Seriously though, this article devoted ONE sentence giving the positives of period sex and then two sentences and an extra five bullets identifying the need for precautions and then providing some.

How about some more realistic reasons why people don’t want to have period sex? For starters, blood gets everywhere, and that could range from turn-off to serious phobia for some. Others worry about ruining their liners or that dark shower towel. The woman may feel self-conscious. One or both parties may be grossed out. On the other side of the coin, some people have fetishes with it. You don’t even need to penetrate a menstruating woman to pleasure them.

Please dive a little deeper next time.

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Ignorance of deaf community unacceptable COLLEGE CANDY JEN BLATE Columnist This Saturday, the city of Port Allen, Louisiana, hosted a deaf education summit where people came from all around the state to make sure the deaf community has a voice.

More than 20 years ago, something revolutionary happened for the deaf and hard of hearing community: The Louisiana State Legislature passed the Deaf Child’s Bill of Rights, which states that all deaf and hard-of-hearing students have the same rights and the capability to become independent like hearing peers.

However, deaf and hard-of-hearing students are not receiving the accommodations they need in K-12 schools, which are providing noncertified interpreters for them as well.

Many students who are deaf and hard of hearing already start school with language deficits simply because they are hard of hearing and are not able to get all of the pertinent information that is necessary for their success.

But the Deaf Education Alliance (DEA), a small group of sponsors that includes parents, teachers and administrative educators, is trying to change that so the deaf and hard of hearing students do not have to struggle in school.

One major goal of the conference last weekend was to discuss how the Deaf Child’s Bill of Rights could be updated to include stricter phrasing. This would allow legislatures to acknowledge this bill and provide deaf and hard-ofhearing students with the appropriate accommodations and encouragement they need while in school, because this bill does not have enough enforceable language.

However, with recent budget cuts, providing these accommodations to students K-12 isn’t all that simple.

“The only downfall is the increased cost of providing accommodations for deaf and hard of hearing students,” nationally certified sign language interpreter and assistant director of Disability Services Natasha Aymami said in an email. “For instance, schools are responsible for employing and providing qualified and certified communication facilitators, such as: sign language interpreters and captionists. However, standard pay rates for these services can be costly. Captionists require specialized training with C-Print software, which allows the captionists to type using phonetics and the words expand as they appear on the computer monitor for students with hearing loss to read along with their peers seamlessly on their laptop, iPad or even a smart phone.”

We have seen this with people of color, and those with physical or psychological setbacks and changes have been made in a positive light. So this should be no different to the deaf or hearingimpaired community, too.

Quite frankly, it should not be tolerated. According to a petition on Change. org by the Deaf Education Alliance, children can oftentimes get behind in school because of their language deficits, which can result in them graduating with a reading level of fourth grade or below.

But we can all relate to this scenario because many, if not all of us, know someone that has some type of disability.

The answer to that is simple. Every day, I know I see people being treated differently just because they have a disability or a setback. Even if it is just something as “nonchalant” as staring, it is undoubtedly noticeable, and it isn’t cool. Our body language can demonstrate a multitude of emotions that are very passive aggressive, and even our tone of voice can portray a lack of consideration or concern.

As a student body, we need to be aware of those who have disabilities and be as accommodating to their needs as we possibly can.

Nevertheless, we are all distinctive in our own way, but each thing that makes us the person we are is really quite beautiful, even an individual’s disability.

And although you may not currently know someone that is deaf or hard of hearing, maybe next time you encounter someone who is, you will be able to see things from their perspective.

Jen Blate is a 24-year-old sociology junior from Miami, Florida. You can reach her on Twitter @Jblate_TDR.

The opinion columnists’ take on the NCAA academic fraud case LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME

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UNC’s “paper classes” — classes that were apparently created for the sole purpose of granting athletes credit — mostly took place within the African American Studies department. According to “News & Observer,” over 3,100 students took these classes over the course of 18 years ... UNC helping athletes cheat is bad. But throwing an entire field of study into doubt and increased scrutiny is worse, and will no doubt have a longer lasting effect.

As far as I can tell, any special treatment given to athletes isn’t making it more difficult for me to make my grades. Would it look bad on the university? Maybe a little bit — LSU would receive their sanctions and move on; it’s the way it goes in the sports world. No employer would question my crediblity for going to college where a student-athlete was given special treatment.

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I’ll be damned if someone who wears a number on their back only has to worry about being the best player they can be, while meanwhile I’m stressing myself out trying to juggle all my classes.

College athletes already have it good. They have the best seats in the house, walk around in their topnotch athletic gear and are treated like celebrities. The least they can do is their schoolwork.

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Quote of the Day ‘Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.’

Mark Twain American writer and humorist Nov. 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910

Opinion THE WAR ON EDUCATION

Friday, January 30, 2015

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The U.S. displays its skewed priorities in how it spends its money ENTITLED MILLENNIAL CODY SIBLEY Columnist Last month, President Obama officially “ended” the war in Afghanistan. This war lasted 13 years, cost us $753.3 billion and killed about 2,200 of our soldiers.

Of course, Obama didn’t actually end the war. He’s keeping 10,800 soldiers there in 2015 and is reducing the number to 5,500 by 2016. That doesn’t seem like the end of a war to me.

Meanwhile, the army is deploying soldiers to Ukraine now.

We have no business going to Ukraine or anywhere else for that matter. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are already expected to cost us between $4 and $6 trillion.

We should have spent that money on things that benefit our own country, like infrastructure or health care or higher education.

We need long-term investments like these to keep our economy strong and the American people prosperous.

What if, instead of war, we spend $4 trillion on higher education?

According to the State Higher Education Executive Officers, public universities took in $61.8 billion in 2013, which includes loans and grants. At the same time, student debt is at $1.1 trillion.

If we would have invested the $4 trillion on education instead, we could have forgiven everyone’s student loans. Then we could have used the remaining money to make public college tuition-free for the next 30 to 40 years, depending on inflation and enrollment.

We could have educated millions, possibly billions, of Americans for free.

People wouldn’t be burdened

by student loans. College graduates wouldn’t have to move back home after they graduate. They could actually do adult things that stimulate the economy, like buying houses and cars.

We’d have more STEM graduates who could further our advancement in science and technology. Renewable energy would be the norm in our country. Cancer could have possibly been eliminated.

More people would be educated, so we’d move past the arguments over ridiculous things like climate change or same-sex marriage.

We’d have a more educated

voting group, so politicians like Sarah Palin and the entire Bush family wouldn’t even be relevant.

But instead, our government chooses to waste trillions of dollars on two wars that killed an estimated 154,000 civilians and 6,802 soldiers. And our government is choosing to prolong this destructive behavior by keeping soldiers overseas.

The worst part is that our lawmakers would rather sacrifice college education for the sake of funding war.

John Boehner criticized Obama for ending the war in Afghanistan. He said it wasn’t the right move and formally ending a

war wouldn’t solve any problems.

But then he criticized Obama’s free community college proposal by saying that $60 million over 10 years is too much money.

Does he realize how much a war costs compared to community college? Does he realize how much this 13-year war has already cost us?

Two years of free college is a sorry attempt at making education more accessible, and the fact that Obama waited until 2015 to propose this idea is ridiculous. But at least he’s doing something to help our economy. What exactly did the Iraq and Afghanistan wars do for us other than put trillions of

dollars in the hole?

I’m tired of lawmakers saying that we can’t afford higher education or universal health care. We shouldn’t be talking about cutting benefits for Social Security and Medicare. We should instead have conversations about expanding these benefits to more people.

Until America takes care of people in its own country, it can’t keep policing the rest of the world.

Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Opelousas, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @CodySibley.

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S LOP-SIDED DISCRETIONARY BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR 2025

DEFENSE $495.6 billion

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES $73.7 billion

EDUCATION

$68.6 billion

VETERANS AFFAIRS

$65.3 billion

2015 OPPORTUNITY, GROWTH AND SECURITY INITIATIVE

$55.4 billion

THE NEXT 20 PROGRAMS $316.9 billion

data courtesy of the washington post