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Feminist and queer zines join Women and Gender Studies Library BY caitie burkes cburkes@lsureveille.com

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A decade characterized by third-wave feminism and the Riot grrrl movement managed to fit into a 36-inch-by-12-inch cardboard box.

This box, full of cultural and historical significance, sits in the Women’s and Gender Studies Library in Himes Hall. Last week, new WGS Director Jacqueline Bach unveiled the gold inside this treasure chest, which came in the form of feminist and queer comics and “zines,” or self-published magazines.

“The purpose behind people writing zines isn’t necessarily to sell or make money,” Bach said. “It’s just a personal need to express oneself through print.”

In the past, zines were typically homemade or run off on copier machines. Today, most of them are presented as online blogs and cater to readers’ specific interests.

“It’s not quite the same as what you can experience holding one in your hand,” Bach said.

She said when the WGS program started at the University in 1991, faculty members who belonged to the organization donated books to the library they thought students should read. From there, WGS accumulated a small collection.

Erin Rice, one of the first department graduates from the University, donated the materials to the library. Rice started building her collection when she was a student, obtaining feminist and queer journals, articles and stories from a newsstand in downtown Baton Rouge.

Rice continued collecting for 10 years before she decided to pack her belongings and give it all away. She said she did it as a way to give back to

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Professor researches lake water quality

BY rose velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com For hydrology professor Jun Xu, the issues plaguing University Lake — like shallow depth, pollutant accumulation and excess sediment and nutrients — could be water under the gate.

Xu and his graduate students study the quality of several major Louisiana bodies of water, including University Lake, the largest of the Baton Rouge lakes. Xu said a sluice gate, a gate that controls the flow of water, could serve as an alternative to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s proposal to dredge University Lake as parts of its master plan.

“People want to dredge, which would be certainly helpful, but it is not a long-term solution, and that is because after they dredge, the material will accumulate again,” Xu said. “The lakes were dredged many times before in the past 70 to 80 years.”

The lake is a man-made and artificially maintained ecosystem,

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Mormon Church announces support of LGBT rights BY hayley franklin hfranklin@lsureveille.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Jan. 27 its support of anti-discrimination laws regarding both LGBT and religious rights. Though some University professors and students view the statement as a social or political issue, two Mormon missionaries said it was really about love.

Sister Alexis Pearson and Sister Whitney Carpenter are often in Free Speech Plaza inviting students to write on their inspirational white board. The missionaries volunteer at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints near campus and are dedicating 18 months to the Mormon Church before continuing college.

Pearson related the announcement to parental love.

“It reminds me of my parents when I was going to school,” Pearson said. “My parents wanted us to be treated fairly and be treated with respect by all the other kids at the playground.”

Others at the University didn’t believe the announcement was so simple.

Religious studies professor Stephen C. Finley understood the recent announcement as a reaction to the social acceptance of the LGBT community across the U.S. Gay marriage is currently legal in 37 states.

Finley compared the LGBT announcement to the Mormons’ stances on African-American priesthood during the 1960s. In 1969, Mormon Church leaders

voted to allow African-Americans to become priests. The motion did not pass, but in 1978, Mormon leader Spencer W. Kimball claimed to experience a revelation instructing a reversal of the racial policy.

Finley said he did not believe the recent announcement represented a movement to include more LGBT members within the church.

“If it’s more than just rhetoric, it would seem to me that they would have to be more open and inclusive to members who were LGBTQ,” Finley said. “And I’m skeptical because some of their most important doctrines, including marriage, are heterosexual.”

In the Mormon Church, a marriage can only be sealed in a Mormon temple between a man and a

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Sister Whitney Carpenter [left] and Sister Alexis Pearson [right] encourage students to share acts of kindness on a whiteboard Feb. 11 in Free Speech Plaza.

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Women’s golf faces stacked field The No. 16 LSU women’s golf team is set to compete against an elite list of opponents from around the nation beginning Feb. 22 in the three-day Allstate Sugar Bowl Challenge. The tournament is hosted by Tulane at English Turn Golf and Country Club in New Orleans.

The Lady Tigers (57-18-0) are set to compete against four of the nation’s top 10 teams and nine inside the top 25.

The Lady Tigers slid into a second-place finish against quality competition in their first tournament of the spring and look to improve as the season progresses.

UREC Block Party to be held Sunday afternoon The UREC will celebrate National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day with a Block Party this Sunday, Feb. 22.

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Rec Day aims to encourage college recreation while celebrating the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association’s founding date.

LSU Press receives awards for content, design University publisher LSU Press received an honorable mention for the PROSE Awards in the earth science and music and performing arts categories.

Craig Colton’s book “Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance” and Ben Wynne’s book “In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music” were recognized by the PROSE Awards.

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Press were also honored by the Association of American University Presses for book jacket and cover designs.

Books honored by the AAUP are “In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music,” “Steward of the Land: Selected Writings of Nineteenth-Century Horticulturist Affleck,” “Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890 – 1940” and “Put Your Hands In: Poems.”

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In the Feb. 19 issue of The Daily Reveille, in an article titled, “HydroGuard quenches athletes’ thirst hands-free,” we incorrectly named the product Hydro-Guard. It’s name is Hydra-Guard. The Daily Reveille regrets the error.

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State Legislature to address medical marijuana bill

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER wpotter@lsureveille.com

The Louisiana Legislature will once again look at medical marijuana in its upcoming session in April.

Rep. Dalton Honore, D-Baton Rouge, prefiled the bill legalizing marijuana distribution for medical purposes. The state passed a law in 1991 allowing doctors to prescribe medical marijuana but distribution is not protected.

Doctors can prescribe the herb, but patients don’t have access to it, like in other states.

A similar bill was introduced last year but it did not get past the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. More than 20 other states and Washington, D.C. have legalized medical marijuana.

Mass communication freshman Charles Wheat said if it works for other states, it’s time for Louisiana to give it a shot.

“I’ve seen how well it’s worked

in other states like Colorado and California,” Wheat said. “I have friends with family who have moved to Colorado because of cancer-related problems and they’ve said it helps them.”

The proposed law allows patients suffering from glaucoma, spastic quadriplegia and chemotherapy-related symptoms to take medical marijuana to alleviate their conditions. The bill also establishes the Therapeutic Marijuana Utilization Review Board as the rulemaking body for administering the drug.

Producers, distributors and prescribing physicians would need to get a license from the state, according to the bill’s abstract.

About 80 percent of Louisiana residents support medical marijuana legalization, according to the University Public Policy Research Lab’s 2014 Louisiana Survey.

Wheat said it’s time for lawmakers to stop standing behind disproven research.

“It’s a ‘we don’t want it here,

but we don’t have the propaganda behind us anymore’ message,” Wheat said. “They can’t say that anymore.”

Marijuana is effective in reducing pain for HIV patients, especially when combined with opiates, according to a 2007 study by integrative medical specialist Donald Abrams. It is also used to treat nausea.

Coastal environmental science freshman Jacob Nunez said the drug definitely has medical benefits, but it’s still addictive.

“It has harmful effects,” Nunez said. “It depends on the person. It helps people with anxiety, but it’s highly addictive.”

The Louisiana Sheriffs Association opposed last year’s bill, but English senior Brian Lafourcade said the state should close the loophole.

“If you’re going to do one thing, you should do the other,” Lafourcade said. “Politicians make stupid laws like that all the time. It’s just so stupid.”

‘I actually do have a friend that has neural problems and she smokes marijuana to help with her migraines. It soothes the pain. Marijuana isn’t a drug to me. It’s an herb. It can be used for health issues, so I think it would be good to legalize it.’

Bria Craige childhood education junior

‘Of course, marijuana can be used for a lot of different reasons. I believe that, if it’s sold medicinally, it will not be abused. It will be profitable for the state of Louisiana, also. It’ll help out the economy.’

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SCIENCE

University researchers look at termites for scientific insight

BY JOSE ALEJANDRO BASTIDAS jbastidas@lsureveille.com For most, termites are an inconvenient pest occasionally invading homes, but for a group of University researchers, the insect is a swarm of scientific discovery.

Postdoctoral researcher Cai Wang, along with entomology professor Gregg Henderson, research associate Bal K. Gautam, entomology Ph.D student Jie Chen and graduate student Dependra Bhatta, studied termites’ reaction to disturbances, finding their ability to work in groups as a possible indicator for the species’ long term survival. Henderson refers to this phenomenon as “panic escape.”

“Termites seem to be more uniform about how they run, how they pace themselves, climb over on top of each other, and this behavior is instinctive,” Henderson said.

“They don’t think about it. They don’t panic and ask, ‘Where am I going to go now?’ Someone makes a decision and they all just start following that individual in an instinctive way.”

To conduct this research, the team placed hundreds of termites into Petri dishes, marking a number of them. Once the termites were acclimated the team created a disturbance by slightly tapping the dish, or dropping it from a somewhat higher distance than normal.

The team found the disturbance caused different reactions in both types of termites.

Worker termites would walk uniformly around to petri dish edges, while soldier termites would go against the grain snapping their mandibles.

Henderson said this comes on instinct because soldier termites don’t think about protecting their fellow insects.

“Sometimes it’s easier to explain things in human terms, but insects don’t think like humans,” Henderson said. “You’re really doing a disservice when you give human terms in trying to help explain something to an audience because you’re misleading them by giving them that type of terminology sometimes.”

The team’s research caught worldwide attention when their research paper claimed termites were the first animals to create societies, a fact Henderson chose to include from his expertise on the insect.

“Through my education and through knowing insects and the phylogeny of animals I knew that termites evolved 200 million years ago,” Henderson said. “It was actually after I made this statement that I was contacted by people and friends telling me that I had to reinvestigate my statement with

some worry, but as it turns out I’m still as accurate as anybody, no one can claim I’m wrong at least. The statement was put in to draw attention to the paper as a fact and it still remains a fact.”

Termites’ social behavior may give key insight to help humans in social situations.

Henderson said the study could help humans develop better emergency evacuation routes, noting that in moments of crisis people tend to panic leading to fatal accidents.

When presenting his findings to the Louisiana pest control industry, Henderson said this research has limited applications for the work entomologists at the University focus on — studying insects to better control their spread in homes and urban areas.

However, Henderson said these findings can contribute to better understanding the species and to

get the public interested.

“One of the things we could look at would be what makes the soldier different from the worker,” Henderson said. “This behavioral change could actually be looked at on a chemical level [such as] asking what chemicals and hormones have changed to cause this behavioral shift. Such further research

could lead to us using biological control methods to target termites.”

Bhatta, who came to the University fall 2013 from Nepal, said termites are an issue in the southern region of the U.S., and entomology department research helps with pest control.

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Friday, February 20, 2015 ACADEMICS

Triathlon club highlights students’ Class offers a new view athletic strengths, versatility of women’s history

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER wpotter@lsureveille.com The club huddles around in the UREC entrance hallway at 6 a.m. in their shorts and running shoes. It’s cold, windy and dark, but the members of the Triathlon Club are not easily swayed. By 6:05, they’re out and running.

Just like their sport, the members practice in threes.

The University’s Triathlon Club meets three times a week to train for the components of triathlon races. The club is currently training for the NCAA National Championship in Clemson, South Carolina. Almost every college with a team competes, said geology senior and club vice president of sponsorship and funding Tyler Hebert.

The club caters to both experienced runners and beginners.

Hebert said most members have not competed in a triathlon before joining the club.

It takes time to get into the sport.

“It’s one of those things that’s hard to get into when you’re younger,” Hebert said. “Usually it’s people that already do one of the sports and decide to add two more.”

There are some club members who trained on their own before coming to college, said mechanical engineering freshman and club member Sam Aleman, but beginners outnumber

the experienced.

Aleman said training with the club has a huge advantage over doing it alone. Though it’s an individual event, the club encourages members to train like a team.

“I had been used to doing this on my own, but with the club it’s nice to do it with other people,” Aleman said. “With the Triathlon Club, it’s a group of people that do the specific workouts.”

The members help motivate each other, Hebert said. The training is difficult to do alone and the teammates provide support during workouts.

“It sucks to train at 6 a.m. but it’s better to do it with other people to share in your misery,” Hebert said. “It makes the dayto-day grind so much easier.”

Hebert said all the members have greatly improved from where they started.

Each member has a different sport where they excel and can provide experience.

“If I get hurt or something and it’s minor, maybe someone there will know something,” Hebert said. “The expertise from every event coming together is really nice.”

The club makes training beginners a priority, Hebert said.

It’s in the best interest of the team and its members.

“It’s all a learning experience and it helps us to better the team,” Hebert said. “It helps us bring up the next group of triathletes for LSU and will help

us continue the type of success that we’ve been having lately.”

Marketing freshman and club member Benjamin Maas is training to compete in an Ironman, a type of triathlon, in August. Maas said this is his first year competing in this type of event.

Maas practices with the club with Olympic distances, which includes a 1500 meter swim, 40 kilometer bike and 10 kilometer run.

“I never did a triathlon until this,” Maas said. “But I decided I’m just going to go for it.

I’m training with the club for Olympic distances, but then I do longer workouts alone in the afternoon.”

The club drew many students at the beginning of the fall semester, so it had to schedule waves of practice to accommodate the new members, said graphic design senior and club president Catherine Flotte.

The club focuses on providing a fun and beginner-friendly atmosphere.

The members share inside jokes and stories from the long car rides and different events, Hebert said.

“There’s nothing too crazy other than the fact we somehow enjoy torturing ourselves,” Hebert said. “I’m pretty sure every time you’re doing a race you think, ‘why did I pay for this?’ After you finish you’re always like, ‘alright, let’s do another one.’”

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course, Tuttle said students learn throughout the semester to think about broader gender Though a woman’s role in roles and the contrast between society is different today than what it meant to be mascuit was 100, 50 or even 20 years line or feminine in different ago, one University history societies. class wants to go even further “So in the course of thinking back. about women, we’re also think“Goddesses to Witches,” a ing about what it means to be special section of HIST 2195, male,” Tuttle said. traces women’s history from This is the first semester 500 BCE to 1700 CE. Tuttle has taught the course, “There is which is also ofno worshiping ‘One of the things that fered as a Womof goddesses or we often laugh about is en’s and Gender performance of students who take those Studies elective. witchcraft in the said the class 1000-level survey classes, She class,” said assowill return in the a lot of people discover future as HIST ciate history prothat they actually fessor Leslie Tut2014. like them.’ tle, the course’s The class is instructor. “It’s part of a broader LESLIE TUTTLE, essentially a effort by the hisassociate history professor women’s history tory department class that examto offer more ines the roles of classes at the women in ancient 2000 level. society by Greek and Romans Tuttle said many students and the Middle Ages and then enter college with enough AP or all the way up to the early mod- dual enrollment credit to skip ern period in Europe through the 1000-level histories. the age of the great witch hunt.”

Expanding the curriculum Tuttle said students use would provide a way for stuprimary source reading to un- dents to try out college history derstand women in ancient without committing to an upper times, but the method has its division elective, Tuttle said. challenges.

“One of the things that we ofBecause most people were ten laugh about is students who illiterate during the time pe- take those 1000 level survey riod, the authors are not always classes, a lot of people discover representative of their subject. that they actually like them,” “Women were even more Tuttle said. “So we just want to likely to be illiterate than men make sure that even if students were,” Tuttle said, “so there are can’t take those classes, but a lot of sources describing the they want to try it out, that there lives of women written by men is a kind of supportive environwho led very different lives. So ment you’re not surrounded by we have to learn critical tech- senior history majors when you niques to think through that do it.” barrier.”

Tuttle said her class offers a The class has 36 students, different way for history majors and Tuttle said males make up and non-majors with an interest about 25 percent. in ancient Rome, Greek mytholWhile she acknowledges ogy or even “Game of Thrones” the class is a women’s history to view these subjects.

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All-arounder Jessie Jordan performs a floor routine on Jan. 23 during the TIgers’ 197-192 victory against Missouri at the PMAC.

LSU deserves large crowd for monumental meet LIFE OF BRIAN BRIAN PELLERIN Sports Columnist A national championship preview at the PMAC this weekend? It’s happening.

Florida comes to Baton Rouge fresh off the highest-scoring performance in the nation so far this season, while LSU edged

out a close road meet versus Auburn.

If you haven’t figured it out, this isn’t basketball. The phrase “national championship” should have told you that.

Instead, it’s the No. 3 LSU gymnastics team’s meet tonight against No. 2 Florida.

I’m not going to pretend to be a gymnastics expert. I don’t know all the technical mumbo-jumbo or why no one ever scores below a 9.7 without falling down.

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No. 3 gymnastics team renews rivalry with No. 2 Florida

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL cboutwell@lsureveille.com The moment the LSU gymnastics team has been waiting for all season has finally come.

The No. 3 Tigers (8-1, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) have the chance to show their worth in a top-three showdown with No. 2 Florida (5-1, 4-1 SEC) at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the PMAC. LSU has faced one other top-three team

this season when it posted a 197.425, just short of No. 1 Oklahoma in the Metroplex Challenge on Jan. 31.

“There are six teams that are excellent teams,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux.

“Any one of them on any given night can be that great team. We are where we want to be. We are hitting routines, we are able to do numbers in practice, demand a lot of out of kids varying our practice and

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BASEBALL

Freshman pitchers Lange, Godfrey hope to build on debuts weekend at Alex Box Stadium.

While Godfrey will look to improve upon his first perforLSU freshman pitchers Alex mance at the Box, Mainieri said Lange and Jake Godfrey are there isn’t much Lange needs both anxious to make their sec- to change from his debut last Saturday. ond collegiate starts, but “Obviously with for completely different Lange’s performance, reasons.

I think we’d be hard Lange will try to pressed to find a more prove his five-inning impressive first outing shutout against Kansas of any freshman pitcher last weekend wasn’t a in the country,” Mainieri fluke. Godfrey hopes to said. “First pitch was 95 show his brief, threeLANGE [mph] right on the knees run outing against the [for] strike one. That’s the stuff Jayhawks was.

Both Lange and Godfrey will that legends that are made out likely get starting nods from of.”

Lange (1-0) dominated KanLSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri when the Tigers (3-1) play sas from the start. The rookie host to Boston College (2-2) this right-hander’s first three pitches

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clocked at 95, 94 and 93 mph beFor his next start, Lange said fore he fooled a Jayhawk batter he’s hoping to get a repeat perinto swinging at a breaking ball formance from the Tigers’ defor his first career strikeout. fense, which he credited as being Lange pitched five scoreless responsible for his eye-catching innings for LSU, striking out sev- debut. en batters while surren“When you have a dedering two hits before befense behind you that like ing relieved in the sixth how we did and they’re inning. Lange did walk making the plays for you, and hit a batter on sepait makes pitching easy,” rate occasions, but those Lange said. “You just rookie miscues never try to get ahead early cost the Tigers any runs. and them put the ball in However, Lange didn’t GODFREY play, and your defense is dwell on his impressive going to make the plays. debut for long.

Playing with a defense like that “Coach Mainieri always says behind you is a big confidence when the next days comes, it’s booster, especially for a young time to focus on the next game,” pitcher.”

Lange said. “So I got to enjoy that However, Godfrey is hoping until about midnight.” for a completely different outing

than his first, from both himself and LSU’s defense.

The right-hander pitched 3.2 innings in his debut last Sunday, surrendering three runs on two hits and three walks. Godfrey also hit a batter, threw a wild pitch that resulted in a runner scoring from third base and gave up a solo home run.

But Godfrey wasn’t discouraged by his rocky debut. He said every game is a chance to learn and improve.

“That’s growing,” Godfrey said. “That’s experience. That’s what we wanted. That’s what Mainieri wants us to be at when we get out there. He throws us in those situations because he

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Tigers aim to rebound against Boston College after midweek loss Series opens with Friday double-header

BY jack chascin jchascin@lsureveille.com It’s bounce-back time for the No. 2 LSU baseball team.

Two nights after the Tigers’ (3-1) shocking upset loss to Nicholls State, their first midweek loss since March 2014, LSU returns to the diamond to play Boston College in a threegame series spanning two days.

“We just need to get better,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

“It was just our attitude in the batter’s box. We weren’t in an aggressive, attacking mode.”

Because of expected inclement weather, Sunday’s series finale was moved to 2 p.m. today, with Friday’s regularly scheduled series opener following at 7 p.m. The series will conclude on Saturday with a 3 p.m. start.

According to weather.com, Sunday’s forecast suggests severe thunderstorms throughout the Baton Rouge area with an 80 percent chance of heavy rain.

The first half of Friday’s double-header is open to ticket holders of Sunday’s game. The stadium will be cleared between games and fans with Friday’s original game ticket will be readmitted.

The schedule change forces the Tigers to move around its rotation and lineups more than expected because of the short rest.

In the wake of the Tigers’ shaky offensive production, Mainieri said he will shake up the lineup and move junior shortstop Alex Bregman to the three hole while putting senior

first baseman Conner Hale down to the five spot amid other changes to be announced.

“Wherever he puts me, I’m going to hit,” Bregman said.

“I’m going to try the best I can for the team. I like hitting third.

I’m going to go in there and try to impact the baseball.”

The rotation will remain as expected, with sophomore southpaw Jared Poche’ taking the mound for game one of the double-header and freshman pitchers Alex Lange and Jake Godfrey to follow.

LSU’s biggest struggle through four games this season is its lack of execution all over the diamond.

The Tigers have committed the most errors of any Southeastern Conference team so far this season with nine and are dead last in the conference in fielding percentage at .943 percent.

“We’ve had four errors for two games in a row,” Mainieri said. “We just can’t do that. ...

We’ve always taken pride in our defense, and between second and third base, we’ve had five errors in four games. We just need to have consistent play there.”

LSU has also had its trangressions on offense. The Tigers are 11th in base percentage (.381), runs scored (22) and RBIs (21) in the SEC. Of the Tigers’ 51 total bases, they have left 36 men on base.

LSU’s inability to drive in runs became a main concern for the Tigers after stranding 17 runners in their Wednesday night loss.

“It’s hard to fathom leaving 17 men on base,” Mainieri said. “I don’t know what the record is, but that has got to be close to it.”

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LSU sophomore infield Kramer Robertson (3) runs to first base Feb. 13 during the Tigers’ 4-1 victory against Kansas.

The Tigers’ inability to execute in the batter’s box and on the diamond comes as a surprise, given the depth and experience the team possesses in the lineup. But the Eagles (22) come to the Box with a 6.69

ERA on the season, giving LSU an opportunity to awaken its bats.

Bregman said he needs to drive in runs for the Tigers to be a contender, and he’s confident in his ability to do so

moving forward.

“If LSU is going to win, Alex needs to be the guy,” Bregman said. “He’s going to be the guy.”

You can reach Jack Chascin on Twitter @Chascin_TDR.

Friday, February 20, 2015 MEET, from page 5 changing our lineup. That’s where you want to be right now.”

Both teams are ranked in the top six for every event nationally.

The Tigers sit sixth on vault, compared to the Gators in third. The two are tied at No. 2 on bars and No. 3 on floor. LSU had an edge as No. 1 on beam in contrast with Florida in fourth.

Both teams boast starstudded lineups. Each has three gymnasts cracking the top-25 national rankings in the all-around.

LSU is carried by senior allarounders Rheagan Courville, who is third in the nation, Jessie Jordan, who sits in fifth and sophomore all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat at 20th.

Florida counters with three highly ranked gymnasts of its own: senior all-arounder Kytra Hunter at No. 6, freshman all-arounder Ericha Fassbender at No. 12 and freshman all-arounder Kennedy Baker at No. 24.

Florida gained another key piece for tonight. Junior allarounder Bridget Sloan, who hasn’t competed since the Gators’ season opener, was cleared by team medical personnel and will compete on bars.

But LSU also get one of its key performers back. After missing the Tigers’ meet against Georgia on Feb. 6 and competing only on bars against Auburn last week, Jordan is set to return to her all-around status against Florida.

“It would mean a whole lot to defeat Florida, and we have the capability of doing it,” Jordan said.

“It’s just another stop for our bus on this journey to a national championship. We are setting our own pace and not focusing on what other teams are doing. We’re trying to stay in the process, take each meet one at a time and keep moving forward.”

Breaux said the Tigers truly can count on strong performances from their three all-arounders but also can be confident in

The Daily Reveille performances from the rest of their lineup.

“We like the flexibility that we have been able to have,” Breaux said. “And the notion that we have been able to put someone in the lineup, take someone out and not really feel a difference in what this team can accomplish. Just our ability and our willingness to do that has built some confidence in our depth.”

Tonight’s meet could be the largest crowd in LSU gymnastics history. The reserved seating section was already sold out by Monday.

“I know that I have worked my entire career to begin to see this happen,” Breaux said. “That’s pretty exciting for me because I’m the person that stood in the rain to give out tickets at different venues years ago, and it has never stopped.

Our fans have a great appreciation for really good gymnastics.”

You can reach Christian Boutwell on Twitter @CBoutwell_TDR.

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Senior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall performs a floor routine during the Tigers’ 198.075-196.850 victory against Georgia on Feb. 6 at the PMAC.

PREVIEW, from page 5 Even when they fall down, they still get a 9.1.

It’s all so technical and confusing, but that’s probably because my knowledge of the sport goes as far as the one meet I attended in January and my little cousin’s birthday party about five years ago.

But what I do know is the LSU gymnastics team is good. Like, really good.

Recently, the Tigers have developed into one of the premier gymnastics programs in the country, reaching the Super Six in 2013 and 2014 and four times in the last seven seasons.

This year, LSU looks ready for a return trip.

The Tigers feature two of the five best gymnasts in the country in senior all-arounders Rheagan Courville and Jessie Jordan, who rank third and fifth in all-around average, respectively. Courville is second on bars, seventh on vault and No. 22 on beam. Jordan ranks second on beam, No. 10 on floor and No. 11 on bars.

That’s just the Tigers’ two usual all-around competitors. A bevy of other competitors have LSU ranked in the top six on all four events and top three on beam, bars and floor.

Sophomores Ashleigh Gnat and Sydney Ewing, freshmen Myia Hambrick and Erin Macadaeg and juniors Randii Wyrick and Jessica Savona make up a strong supporting cast on their respective events for the Tigers’ two superstars.

If you’re an avid LSU gym fan, you’ve probably noticed I left out senior all-arounder and three-time Southeastern Conference floor champion Lloimincia Hall. If you’re not a gym fan, then you’ll probably remember her swagger-filled routine from last season that reached 1 million views online.

Hall sports an unusual style on the floor. It’s not your traditional floor routine filled with grace and elegance. It’s the most exciting minute and a half you might ever see in college gymnastics.

This year, her routine

features the same power, rhythm and enthusiasm to go along with the music of Louisiana. If you haven’t seen it yet, go to the meet tonight to check it out. It’ll be one of your only chances to hear “Neck” at the PMAC. Associate head coach Jay Clark said on Feb. 7 on Twitter he wants 10,000 people to attend the meet against Florida. If he gets his wish, you’ll never hear the PMAC any louder than when Hall closes out the meet with her floor routine.

Dads planning to take your sons to the baseball game tonight, move it to tomorrow and instead take your wife and daughter to the gym meet. Students, give up your free drinks at Fred’s for one weekend.

If you want to see a perennial national champion contender perform at the highest level, there is nowhere else to be.

Brian Pellerin is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Kenner, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @Pellerin_TDR.

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Tigers look for sixth straight home win

BY JAMES BEWERS jbewers@lsureveille.com LSU men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown is no stranger to the coach of his club’s opponent this weekend at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

Tulane coach Mark Booras served under Brown for 10 seasons in Baton Rouge from 1999 to 2008, aiding the Tigers (8-1) to 10 NCAA Tournament appearances, four Sweet Sixteen appearances and one Final Four.

Booras was even named the 2007 Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Assistant Coach of the Year.

For the fourth straight season, Brown’s and Booras’ squads will meet up, but on Sunday at 2:30 p.m., the Green Wave (9-1) will present a new challenge for the Tigers.

Tulane is off to its best spring season start since Booras took over and has the current ITA No. 5 singles player, junior Dominik Koepfer, on its roster.

Green Wave freshman Constantin Schmitz is also 9-0 in singles to start the spring season.

While he commended Booras’ accomplishment of bringing back the program from a threeyear hiatus after Hurricane Katrina, Brown joked there’s still an incentive to beat the in-state foe. “[Booras] and I have familiarity, and I have a lot of respect for him with what he’s done with the program, taking it after Katrina,” Brown said. “Him bringing that program back, I know the difficulties he’s faced. But we still want to beat their brains out, of course.”

If there is a rivalry, Brown said his team isn’t focused on outside pressures to beat the Green Wave. The Tigers are more focused on the current Tulane team that has swept three of

PITCHERS, from page 5 wants that experience to happen.”

Despite saying Godfrey pitched just an “OK” game, Mainieri was pleased with his young pitcher’s resolve after the Tigers’ infield made things worse with a few costly blunders.

LSU committed three errors with Godfrey on the mound, but the rookie pitched through the defensive mistakes and allowed only one earned run, something his coach was glad to see.

“I wanted to see how he’d handle adversity, and he handled it really well,” Mainieri said. “We gave him an A for poise and composure and maturity out there on the mound and for what he’s been up to this point. He’s going to be fine. He’s going to get better. We’re going to keep running him out there, and I think we’ll

its 10 opponents this season.

However, Tulane hasn’t tallied a victory in a doubles or singles match in the three previous appearances against the Tigers.

“We know that they’re a very good team that’s had a history of being a top-20 program that’s on their way back,” Brown said.

“There’s some external pressures, but we deal with that a lot.

I don’t think the team feels it. I think they see it as an opportunity [to play] a good, ranked team on their home courts.”

Meanwhile, LSU has won five straight matches, all at home, losing only one match between doubles and singles in the process.

The Tigers’ lone loss was junior Andrew Korinek’s 0-6, 6-2, 4-6 singles defeat against Rice sophomore Max Andrews on Jan. 15. Despite his loss, Korinek had been battling injuries and was glad to be back on the court.

“I hadn’t been playing a whole bunch, but it was definitely good to get out there for three sets,” Korinek said. “The first set was a little bit rough, but I definitely felt a lot better as the match went along.”

After the Tigers and Green Wave face off Sunday, LSU will begin its Southeastern Conference slate against Tennessee in Baton Rouge.

Korinek said matches like the one he had against Rice will aid him down the stretch against conference opponents.

“It’s definitely really important to get a few matches before SEC play, because you got to get used to playing at that high level,” Korinek said. “[Andrews] was a good player, and the ball was coming back pretty quick, the timing and the speed of the game definitely speeds up when you get back out there.”

You can reach James Bewers on Twitter @JamesBewers_TDR. see some good stuff out of him.”

Despite Godfrey and the infield’s struggles, the Tigers picked up the win and the freshman learned some invaluable lessons about patience, focus, and pitching stress-free, which he said was more important than his individual performance.

“I was making stressful pitches and a lot of extra pitches, and that’s really what it came down to,” Godfrey said. “That hinders you in late innings. When you get tired because you’ve thrown so many stressful pitches, it’s going to hurt your game.”

But like Lange, last weekend’s performance doesn’t matter anymore to Godfrey — he’s moved on to the next start.

“The greatest thing is we get to do it all over again this weekend,” Godfrey said.

You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.

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Friday, February 20, 2015

OSCAR OMISSIONS

OUR LADY OF ANGST

SIDNEYROSE REYNEN Opinion Editor This Sunday, I will no doubt be bundled up on my couch with a glass of sparkling grape juice watching the Academy Awards.

Sitting on top of piles of ignored homework, I’ll roll my eyes at every corny joke host Neil Patrick Harris makes and explain the synopses of all the films to my bored boyfriend as they’re mentioned.

And for those of you who will be watching the oh-so-grandiose pop culture orgy along with me, there is one thing you should pay attention to — the overwhelming whiteness of the 2015 Oscars.

I’m not just talking about Tom Cruise’s teeth. I’m talking about how not a single AfricanAmerican performer has been nominated this year.

The most notable case of the snubbing was “Selma,” which told the legendary story of the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. With exceptional performances by David Oyelowo, Andre Holland and New Orleans’ own Wendell Pierce, “Selma” was expected to pick up at least nomination for acting.

And although the film was indeed nominated for the highlycoveted Best Picture Oscar, the film’s African-American director, Ava DuVernay, was conveniently ignored for the Best Director award as well.

I’m not strictly defending “Selma” though. I’m advocating for a Hollywood that gives equal respect and attention to the work of a demographic other than “Old, White, Straight, and Probably Male.”

Because on another front, the majority of the films nominated this year are also largely maledriven and male-directed.

“Boyhood,” directed by a man, is apparently about how hard it is to grow up as a white boy in Texas. “Whiplash” is about two male sociopaths drumming their little hearts out. “American Sniper” is the hypermasculine wet dream of an Islamophobe and was directed

by Hollywood’s favorite machoman, Clint Eastwood.

One of the most egregious snubs, however, was novelist Gillian Flynn for her work on “Gone Girl.” The film was a massive hit and made every American husband turn to their wife and say “Please don’t ever ‘Gone Girl’ me, sweetie.” But Flynn was just another female writer ignored by the Academy.

In comparison, last year’s Oscars were as diverse as Epcot.

Lupita Nyong’o made her way into America’s collective heart

after winning the Best Supporting Actress award for her moving performance in “12 Years a Slave.”

After “Gravity” cleaned out the majority of the technical Oscars, the film’s Mexican director, Alfonso Cuarón, won the Best Director award. And who could forget Barkhad “I’m the captain now!”

Abdi’s deserved Best Supporting Actor nod for “Captain Phillips.”

Hell — the 2014 ceremony’s host was Ellen DeGeneres, a lesbian.

I guess the only thing similar between this year’s Oscars and last year’s is that they’re hosted by blonde, blue-eyed gay people.

When confronted with this information, many are quick to quip, “They’re just awards, they don’t matter. It’s just a silly show, not a social justice-palooza.” To that, I say, a social justice-palooza sounds like a great, effective way of bringing about equality to the world.

And in a world where I could instantly spew out Nielsen ratings, I’d also say that the Oscars do matter, especially to the 43.7 million viewers who tuned into last year’s ceremony. Not to mention, the Oscars is the most influential award show in Hollywood.

While some of you might be more worried about the oil prices, the Islamic State or the impending doom of midterms week, you cannot deny the importance of films.

Films can and should reflect our lives, passions, and dreams in front of us on the silver screen.

Going to the movies means so much more than just stale popcorn-fueled capitalism and sticky floors. As a film and media arts major, I know I’m biased here, but movies are the best thing that ever happened to me.

And such a beautiful art form shouldn’t be clouded with racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia. The award shows that celebrate and judge the film industry cannot fall into the trap of only recognizing the work of old white dudes anymore.

The western world needs to realize that not everyone fits into that narrow definition. I certainly don’t.

Films helmed by directors like Ava DuVernay or writers like Gillian Flynn can’t keep getting looked over like this. At this point, it’s looking like the Academy purposefully ignores the work of anyone who doesn’t look like the Koch brothers.

So get out your wallet and bet your friends that all of Sunday night’s winners will be white. Because, as they almost always have, the Oscars will ignore the countless individual perspectives from African-Americans, women, disabled people and the LGBT community that were captured on film.

SidneyRose Reynen is a 19-yearold film and media arts sophomore from New Orleans. You can follow her on Twitter @sidneyrose_TDR.

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The majority of nominations for the 2015 Oscars is comprised of white, male individuals.

2015 Oscar Nominations Best Actor

Best Picture “Whiplash” “American Sniper” “Birdman” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” “The Imitation Game” “Selma” “The Theory of Everything”

Michael Keaton - “Birdman” Eddie Redmayne - “The Theory of Everything” Benedict Cumberbatch - “The Imitation Game” Bradley Cooper - “American Sniper” Steve Carell - “Foxcatcher”

Best Director

Best Actress

Morten Tyldum - “The Imitation Game” Bennett Miller - “Foxcatcher” Alejandro González Iñárritu - “Birdman” Richard Linklater - “Boyhood” Wes Anderson - “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

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Chandler Rome Erin Hebert Rebecca Docter Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez SidneyRose Reynen

Editor in Chief Co-Managing Editor Co-Managing Editor News Editor Opinion Editor

Best Supporting Actress Emma Stone - “Birdman” Patricia Arquette - “Boyhood” Meryl Streep - “Into the Woods” Laura Dern - “Wild” Keira Knightley - “The Imitation Game”

Best Supporting Actor

Felicity Jones - “The Theory of Everything” Marion Cotillard - “Two Days, One Night” Reese Witherspoon - “Wild” Julianne Moore - “Still Alice” Rosamund Pike - “Gone Girl”

Editorial Policies & Procedures

Mark Ruffalo - “Foxcatcher” Edward Norton - “Birdman” J.K. Simmons - “Whiplash” Robert Duvall - “The Judge” Ethan Hawke - “Boyhood”

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Quote of the Day

‘It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.’

Audre Lorde Writer and civil rights activist Feb. 18, 1934 — Nov. 17, 1992

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#BlackLivesMatter should encompass female and male lives MY BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL CLARKE PERKINS Columnist After the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, three women started the movement “#BlackLivesMatter.” It remains extremely popular, used constantly on social media, and remains the slogan for many protests around the nation.

According to Alternet, every 28 hours an African American is killed by law enforcement.

We should all know by now the stories of Martin and Michael Brown. And we should because these are just a few examples of thought to be innocent black lives taken by law enforcement. Tamir Rice, Ezell Ford and Eric Garner may also be names that ring a bell when you see #BlackLivesMatter.

Heated protests began in Cleveland a few months ago after Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police, but many weren’t made aware a black woman was also killed by law enforcement in the same city a week prior.

The woman killed was Tanisha Anderson, but her name is not the first thing that comes to mind when we see the hashtag.

Anderson had a “mental

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Desuirea Harris, grandmother of Mike Brown, second from right, is comforted by Lala Moore, right, at the memorial to Brown in St. Louis on Feb. 9, marking six months since Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. health episode,” and her mother called the police in an attempt to quickly get her to a treatment facility. When officials arrived, she resisted them and then went limp.

Her family claims officials slammed her to the ground, pressed a knee into her back and then failed to seek medical attention for her as she lay unconscious. The 37-year-old’s death was ruled a homicide. The case

will soon go to the grand jury.

This didn’t spark much attention in the media, probably because she is a female — a black female to be specific.

Sadly, this is just one of many examples.

The list of black female lives that were innocently lost and have not been brought to the nation’s attention goes on and on.

Yvette Smith, Miriam Carey, Shelly Frey, Darnisha Harris,

Malissa Williams, Alesia Thomas, Shantel Davis, Rekia Boyd, Shereese Francis, Aiyana Stanley-Jones , Tarika Wilson, Kathryn Johnston, Alberta Spruill and Kendra James are all just some of the black females killed during police encounters. Those encounters varied from raids, traffic stops, or people with mental illness that were being “abrupt”.

Yes, Michael Brown could’ve been my brother, but Tanisha

Anderson could’ve very well been my sister, mother or my best friend and we must understand that black female lives are at danger too.

We hear more about black male lives because we have labeled them “endangered,” but all black lives are vulnerable in our nation. We need to stop assuming black victim equals black male, but instead make sure that black women are brought to the same attention that black male lives are.

President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” program is definitely a start in the right direction. This program was put in place to support young men and help them reach their full potential.

But where is the “My Sister’s Keeper” program? In order for the #BlackLivesMatter movement to work, everyone needs to work together to show all African Americans are equal.

These protests and Tweets need to continue until we finally start seeing change, and we need to make sure that we are shining a light on all black lives. Whether it’s a man or woman, young or old, every black life matters.

Clarke Perkins is a 19-year-old political science freshman from New Orleans. You can reach her on Twitter @ClarkePerkins.

U.S. involvement in Middle East counterproductive SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist Last week, President Obama asked Congress for fresh war powers authorization to take military action against the Islamic State. In a strange twist of fate, his former opponent for the presidency, Sen. John McCain, is his biggest supporter.

McCain is calling restrictions on the war powers authorization “unconstitutional.”

It’s a far cry from the Obama we saw in 2008, who ran on plans to drastically de-escalate military action in Afghanistan and pull our soldiers out of the Middle East in general.

After delaying withdrawal from Afghanistan and keeping tens of thousands of troops in Iraq, this is something the American people have come to expect from him by now.

Just like his position on gay marriage, the President has evolved. So, instead of sounding like a homophobe he sounds more like a deranged, homicidal maniac intent on paving a warpath through the Arabian peninsula until every last Muslim wants to see the

spectacular downfall of the U.S. You might wonder why the President doesn’t just go ahead with his campaign against the burgeoning caliphate. Why bother with a Congress who would rather see his policies burn in the eternal fires of hell along with the homosexuals and the vegans?

McCain is in the right ballpark with the answer, but wearing the wrong jersey. The U.S. Constitution has no provisions for the commander-in-chief to wage war without the consent of the people. It’s because of this lack of constitutional authority that Obama has to grovel for his guns.

Of course, the President doesn’t admit that, and he certainly doesn’t act like he believes it. The U.S. has been fighting the IS for six months already. Apparently he forgot his manners and is now politely asking mom and dad if he can go back to playing on the other side of the pond with his rich Saudi friends.

Obama’s fake deference to Congress serves a much more important purpose. It’s a way for him to try and convince the American people that this is a worthwhile war to wage.

Right now it’s working about as well as New Coke did in the ’80s.

After abandoning his entire anti-war base, Obama is trying to placate liberals with a half-baked attempt at cultural sensitivity. He refuses to acknowledge that radical Islam is the enemy of the West, calling it “an ugly lie.”

This statement stands in opposition to the facts of the war against the “Islamic” State as the intended target for the military action. The IS is an attempt to create a new Salafiststyle Islamic caliphate akin to the 700 A.D. empires of the Umayyads.

The U.S. has been fighting in the Middle East since U.S. planes shot down Libyan ones in the ’80s and we haven’t stopped since then. Every time we seem to squash a threat, another seems to pop up.

It’s almost as if the innocent people who live in the Middle East are tired of being slaughtered by drones, run over by military contractors and getting gang raped by soldiers.

Maybe, just maybe, they’re turning to terrorist violence because they have no other option against a world hegemon like the U.S. It’s time to stop pretending

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that there is a real threat to the U.S.’s security in the region and acknowledge that our government are corporate shills looking to protect oil interests and continue the military-industrial complex.

Get ready ladies and gentlemen! Coming soon to a

political theatre near you, ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom 2: Electric Boogaloo.’

James Richards is a 20-yearold mass communication sophomore from New Orleans.

You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

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woman. According to Mormon law, marriage is eternal and continues into the afterlife.

Because of the Mormon marriage doctrine, Finley believes the announcement will not lead to any change regarding gay marriage in the Mormon Church.

Though the announcement was not a statement on gay marriage, it still came as a surprise to LGBT communities that the Mormon Church would formally announce anti-discriminatory policies.

Economics, international studies and Spanish freshman Ethan Deslatte-Guerra, activism leader for University LGBT student group Spectrum, said he was surprised by the announcement but viewed it as the Mormon Church “quasi-supporting LGBT nondiscrimination policies.”

He said he also wondered if it was a political move within the church to protect itself from being branded as a hate group.

“It came as a surprise to the community and to a lot of other people, like people involved in politics, that the church would make a stance towards that,” DeslatteGuerra said. “However, people have analyzed it to believe that they are only doing it to sort of promote or increase their religious liberties.”

The Mormon Church struggled for religious liberty when it first relocated to Utah in 1846, and its struggles against religious discrimination are still present.

Pearson and Carpenter said they are sometimes met with insults because of their faith.

The religious protection portion of the announcement appealed to the two because of the trials they have experienced as missionaries. While knocking on doors, the two sisters often had “doors shut in their faces,” and were not always treated with respect.

“As missionaries, there’s a lot of crazy things that happen to us,” Pearson said. “People don’t say very nice things to us a lot. A lot of people put down our religion and the things that we believe.

It’s nothing that no one else goes through. I’m sure that people from other religious faiths deal with this, too.”

To the two Mormon sisters, the announcement does not serve a political or social agenda but is about loving others as children of God. The beliefs of the Mormon faith, the sisters said, revolve around loving everyone as Christ does, including the LGBT community.

Both Pearson and Carpenter said being more accepting of the LGBT community is not something new to the Mormon Church.

Carpenter said she has had gay friends and loved them as anyone else. To her, the Latterday Saints’ announcement is a confirmation that it is important to love the members of the LGBT community.

“It puts it out there to the public, but also is a reminder to all of the church, how we are supposed to treat members of the LGBT community, but then also to make sure that it’s publicly known that we also expect that same treatment, and that we’re normal people, too,” Carpenter said.

Xu said. Despite the dredging, which took place in the early ’80s, garbage, pollutants, sediments and excess nutrients continue to collect in University Lake.

“My graduate students go there frequently, and we have found everything possible,” Xu said. “We even found a refrigerator, a couch, a sofa. People throw everything in, even big pieces of plastic.”

Xu proposes replacing the existing gate between University Lake and the Corporate Canal with a sluice gate. He said the current gate has a damming effect, causing pollutants, sediment and garbage to build up over time, as if the lake is a sink or a bowl.

“If we lifted this gate today, this whole lake would disappear because the water here is artificially maintained at this level,” Xu said. “If you go there, you will see the lake’s water is about 10 feet higher than the canal.”

If the existing gate were removed, the water would flow into Corporate Canal because of the height difference between the two bodies of water.

Instead of leaving the space between the two bodies of water open to permanently separate the two, Xu said the opening could be replaced with a sluice gate, which can be raised and lowered based upon the calculated amount of time it takes to flush the desired amount of the lake’s contents. After the lake is flushed and the gate lowers, fresh rainwater would replenish the lake.

Xu and his graduate students began studying the water quality of University Lake in 2008. In

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A variety of feminist and queer zines and comics are displayed at the Women’s and Gender Studies Library in Himes Hall.

zines, from page 1 the University.

WGS graduate assistant Ray Siebenkittel analyzed the contents of the publications and said he found meaning and solidarity in them today.

The publications range from one of the first all-femalestaffed comics from the ’70s to queer resource guides from the ’90s.

The all-female-staffed comic, Wimmen’s Comix, started in 1972. Siebenkittel said a lot of women started there because it was the only place where they could get a foot in the door.

“It sort of acted as a space for women artists to build a foundation and then springboard,” Siebenkittel said.

Siebenkittel also cited another comic, Real Girl, as something that engaged in national conversations still relevant today.

“The fact that there aren’t many women in comics and video games [today] ... it’s the same discussion that they were having

in 1997,” he said.

Another of the box’s contents, Deneuve, was an essential resource guide for gay youth in the 1990s. Siebenkittel said it worked on a national scale for people whose only queer resources could be found in the particular zine.

Bach said the zines and comics give readers a snapshot of specific communities around the time the WGS program started in the early ’90s.

“Being able to put [the issues] into comics might reach audiences,” Bach said.

She said students will soon be able to check out the new publications through the Middleton Library system. Until they are marked and catalogued, students can go in the WGS library in Himes Hall and read them there.

“These aren’t necessarily documents that mainstream libraries will seek out,” Siebenkittel said. “A lot of these didn’t last long ... but the important part is the message they had and the meaning they had for people.”

addition to the lake gate, they identified three other issues: stormwater runoff, algal bloom and sediment resuspension.

Storm drains line the streets surrounding University Lake, funneling excess stormwater into the lake. Xu said the waters flowing through the storm drainage system could be filled with pollutants, like pesticides and fertilizers used on nearby lawns.

Xu said the contaminated stormwater draining into University Lake stimulates algae growth and causes algal bloom, a rapid increase in algae population that often causes water discoloration.

As the algae die off, they sink to the bottom of the lake and decay, consuming dissolved oxygen in the water. Xu said the lake’s dissolved oxygen level dropped so low that fish began to die in large numbers because of extreme oxygen deprivation.

When wind blows over University Lake, the turbulence causes the water to stir, which suspends the sediment resting at the bottom of the lake, clouding the water and reducing visibility.

Xu said University Lake’s average depth is around 2 to 3 feet.

When he and his students lowered a device into the water to test visibility, the object became indiscernible after being lowered just 6 inches into the lake.

“In the lake at the bottom, you have all kinds of material — like dirt, like organic debris, like tree branches, grasses, all kinds of stuff,” Xu said. “This material will be flushed out when you open the gate, so that is basically like a dredge, but you’re using a gate to dredge the lake.”

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Friday, February 20, 2015

Undermanned Gators visit BR for rematch with Tigers

BY DAVID GRAY dgray@lsureveille.com

The Florida men’s basketball team will be without its top two scorers when it faces LSU on Saturday.

But that doesn’t matter to the Tigers, losers of four of their last six games. With a potential NCAA Tournament berth still uncertain, LSU can’t afford to take any opponent lightly.

“No matter who we play, we can’t overlook anybody,” said sophomore guard Tim Quarterman.

The Tigers (18-8, 7-6 Southeastern Conference) will look to rebound from their latest setback when they host the depleted Gators (13-13, 6-7 SEC) at noon Saturday at the PMAC. For LSU, Saturday’s early contest will be a chance to erase the sting of another close game it let slip away in the final minutes.

After thumping Tennessee by 18 points on the road last Saturday, LSU couldn’t sustain momentum throughout its rematch with Texas A&M on Tuesday.

The Tigers led the Aggies by eight points in the second half but missed their final seven field goals en route to a 68-62 loss.

Close calls and narrow defeats have become familiar themes for the Tigers, whose last

four losses have come by an average of 4.5 points per game.

Despite the numerous setbacks, LSU junior guard Keith Hornsby said the Tigers can’t keep their heads down with an NCAA Tournament bid still within reach.

“It’s very taxing just because of how much work we put in and how much we care,” Hornsby said. “But at the same time, you can’t just let it deplete you because we have five big games, and they’re all very important.”

The Tigers have five games left in the regular season to make their case for the Big Dance. After keeping his team’s focus on each game rather than the bigger picture for most of the year, LSU coach Johnny Jones said now is the time for his squad to think about what it needs to do to qualify for postseason action.

“With what we’re trying to do, these last several games are really important for us, and it’s going to be important that we’re playing the right way,” Jones said. “Wins have to be our focus and certainly on our minds now.”

Unlike the Tigers’ rematch against Texas A&M, they’ll face a team they’ve already defeated when the Gators come to town.

LSU beat Florida on the road, 79-61, earlier this season, and now the Gators will

likely be without their top two scorers, junior guard Michael Frazier III and junior forward Dorian Finney-Smith, in their rematch.

Frazier, who’s averaging a team-high 13.2 points per game, has missed the last three games because of an ankle injury.

Finney-Smith, who’s scoring 12.9 points per game, missed the Gators’ victory against Vanderbilt on Wednesday after he was suspended indefinitely for violating team rules.

But no matter who Florida coach Billy Donovan sends on the court, LSU sophomore forward Jordan Mickey said his team must be ready to battle.

“That can’t change anything,” Mickey said. “We still have to stay focused. Florida is a good team, even without [Frazier and Finney-Smith]. Billy Donovan is a great coach. He does a great job of getting his team together.

We just have to be focused and ready to play.”

Despite playing without their top scoring threats, the Gators rallied past Vanderbilt, 50-47, Wednesday night.

Now Florida will try to upset LSU on its home floor, something opponents have done often in recent weeks. After starting 9-0 at home, the Tigers have dropped three of their last five games at

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LSU junior guard Keith Hornsby (4) shoots the ball on Feb. 10 during the Tigers’ 7169 loss to Kentucky at the PMAC. the PMAC. Mickey said it’s time for the home losses to end.

“We can’t let guys come in here and beat us on our home court and in our house,” Mickey

said. “It’s something we have to protect and value at all times.”

You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.

TRACK AND FIELD

LSU indoor teams close out regular season with Twilight meet

BY JACOB HAMILTON jhamilton@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s and women’s track and field teams compete in their last regular-season meet at the annual LSU Twilight meet at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Carl Maddox Field House in Baton Rouge.

The teams are primed for another championship run as the men’s and women’s teams are both ranked in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Top 25 power rankings before the last regular season meet of the indoor season.

The No. 6 Tigers have 10 marks that rank among the top-16 in their events to qualify for the NCAA Championships spanning March 13-14 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Lady Tigers’ No. 18 ranking is solidified by six qualifying scores.

The Tigers’ sprinters, hurdlers and 4x400-meter relay team account for all of the qualifying scores.

“We have an opportunity in the 400-meters down and in the hurdles on the men’s side,” said LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver. “From an NCAA standpoint, we are not where we would like to see us be in jumps, throws and middle-distance races. To make a run at being a national champion, we have to have people that can score in all

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LSU distance junior Andria Aguilar (6) runs Jan. 9 during the Tigers’ track and field meet at the Carl Maddox Field House. of the events.”

LSU has three sprinters with qualifying times in the men’s 200-meter dash, including two of the 10 fastest times. Senior Aaron Ernest leads the team with a time of 20.73 seconds for a No. 5 ranking, sophomore Tremayne Acy is No. 9 with a career-best 20.85, and senior Vernon Norwood’s time of 20.92 is No. 15 in the nation.

Norwood also has a qualifying time in the men’s 400-meter

dash, in which he ranks No. 4 with a time of 45.56. He is accompanied by senior Quincy Downing at No. 9 and junior Darrell Bush at No. 15.

Acy also has the 16th-fastest time in the nation in the men’s 60-meter dash.

Senior Joshua Thompson is No. 5 nationally in the men’s 60-meter hurdles after tallying a career-best time of 7.73 at last weekend’s Tyson Invitational, while sophomore Jordan

Moore has the 13th-fastest time in the event.

The last NCAA qualifying time on the men’s team is the No. 3 ranked 4x400-meter relay team consisting of Bush, Downing, junior Cyril Grayson and Norwood.

The Lady Tigers are led by senior Tori Bliss, who ranks second nationally in shot put with an indoor school record of 57 feet and 4 ¾ inches.

Sophomore Nataliyah Friar

has excelled in two events this season, after qualifying for the NCAA finals in the long jump during her inaugural indoor season. While she is No. 16 in the long jump, she has the 12thlongest triple jump mark in the nation.

The Lady Tigers have two freshman qualifiers in the 60-meter dash. Freshmen Aleia Hobbs and Mikiah Brisco are No. 12 and 13, respectively.

Sophomore Jada Martin rounds out the women’s qualifiers with the 10th-best mark in the nation in the 200-meter dash.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers have the LSU Twilight meet and the Southeastern Conference Championships to improve their scores to qualify for the NCAA Championships, and Shaver said he wants to see improvement in the field events.

“The regular season is winding down this Friday night, then we get into the championship portion of the season,” Shaver said. “[The SEC Championships] is their last opportunity to qualify. We hope we pick up some more people, but in reality it’s a really tough competition.”

“You’re going to see a lot of movement take place in the top 16 spots in a lot of those events over the next weekend.”

You can reach Jacob Hamilton on Twitter at @jhamilton_TDR.