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Student advocates for gender-neutral restrooms BEC converts women’s restroom to family restroom staff reports news@lsureveille.com The Business Education Complex’s third-floor women’s restroom is now a family restroom.

MPA student Peter Jenkins requested the change to accommodate genderqueer and transgender students.

Jenkins uses the term genderqueer and the pronoun they as an identifier instead of he or she because they identify as a combination of both male and female.

Changing a restroom or speaking out about certain questions on medical papers are small changes Jenkins said can make a difference.

Having a bathroom changed was about more than advocacy, it was a matter of safety, they said.

“I understand that some people who may have the same gender identity as me would just make the choice and feel really bad and internalize that,” Jenkins said. “So hopefully through my advocacy, even on the small things, positive changes will be made.”

Jenkins said they contacted E.J. Ourso College of Business Dean Richard White about a family restroom in the BEC because they found family restrooms safer than the men’s restroom.

“For a lot of people who don’t understand or don’t focus on gender identity very much, I look like a guy in a dress, and if they see me in the restroom, people get really upset sometimes,” Jenkins said. “Transgender people have one of the highest rates of being murdered of any group of people, and for me it is a safety issue.”

Jenkins said they used to wait to use the restroom or walk to the Student Union before the family restroom was created. White’s response allowed them to feel safer in a BEC restroom, they said.

College of Business Associate Dean Timothy Chandler was put in charge of restructuring the BEC bathrooms, an issue over which White expressed concerns.

White said there are not enough restrooms in the BEC, and a family restroom was already deemed necessary for

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The South Stadium parking lot is currently undergoing construction to fix problems with the sewer system underneath. parking

Commuter lot faces construction woes Sewer renovation blocks about 40 parking spots

BY amanda capritto acapritto@lsureveille.com Parking on campus is a constant battle for every student, especially commuters.

Students duke it out every morning for the parking spots closest to campus, and their struggles are made even more difficult by ongoing construction in commuter parking lots.

The latest project on campus

is blocking off about 40 parking spots in the commuter lot on Nicholson and South Stadium drives with various construction vehicles and large piles of sand and rocks. This project is related to the development underway in front of the military science and public safety buildings on South Stadium Drive.

Director of Utility Services Jim Mayne said the construction is part of a city-wide project called the Sanitary Sewer Overflow Project.

According to the Baton Rouge Department of Public Works’

Baton Rouge Projects website, a sanitary sewer overflow is a discharge of untreated, raw wastewater into local waterways. This overflow can come from various sources, including manholes, cracks and other defects in sewer lines and emergency relief outlets.

The city began the project about three years ago and ran piping from the University’s School of Veterinary Medicine to the Football Operations Center. The city project is now

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geology

Researchers travel to Hawaii for planetary science projects Lava tubes and pit craters shed light on Mars

BY jose alejandro bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com Scientists have many questions about Mars, and for a University research team, the best place to search for answers lies on the island of Hawaii.

Geology doctoral student Donald Hood — along with research assistant professor J.R. Skok, mechanical engineering junior Nicholas Olsen and anthropology and geology senior David Susko — embarked on a weeklong expedition with NASA’s Field Investigations to Enable Solar System Science and Exploration team to study Hawaii’s pit craters, magma chambers and lava tubes.

“Anyone in our lab that was interested in participating on the trip submitted project ideas in order to participate in the expedition,” Hood said. “Hawaii is a fantastic place to do planetary science research, at least on Earth.

You can’t pass up an opportunity to go there on a field mission.”

Funded by a grant given to Skok and assistant professor Suniti Karunatillake by the Louisiana Space Consortium, the team spent the second week of January collecting samples, measuring craters and visiting different sections of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to provide insight on Mars’ surface and the planet’s evidence of life. Samples from Hawaii are a reliable source for research on Mars because the lava forming in both locations is chemically similar.

Hood measured and tried to understand why pit craters in Hawaii differ from those found on the moon, Mars and in Iceland.

“There was a paper, I think in 1998, that explained how pit craters form, and even though the science was right, there was something about Hawaii that doesn’t add up for me,” Hood said. “We have a really good grasp about how pit craters form in other places. In Mars, for example, the craters form perfectly in line. Hawaii’s craters don’t, and it’s just bizarre. I want to figure out how they form.”

Hood didn’t get the results he aimed for because the magnitude of some craters proved too difficult.

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Assistant professor J.R. Skok [left] and mechanical engineering junior Nicholas Olsen [right] perform research at a pit crater in Hawaii.

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The Union Theater hopes to attract students to participate in the various activities within the presentation.

Tickets are available on the Union Theater’s website at uniontheater.lsu.edu.

Pennington Biomedical publishes obesity research studies The Pennington Biomedical Research Center recently released the results of the two largest genome-wide research studies of obesity ever, which were published in the scientific journal Nature, according to a Pennington news release.

The results, gathered from a survey of 340,000 people, cited

97 new genetic factors contributing to obesity and 49 genetic markers contributing to where the body stores fat.

Research was gathered from more than 400 researchers around the world, including Pennington scientists Tuomo Rankinen, Claude Bouchard and Mark Sarzynski.

LDA Foundation to offer free dental care The LDA Foundation, partnered with the Louisiana Dental Association, the LSU School of Dentistry and America’s Dentists Care Foundation, is bringing the Louisiana Mission of Mercy to Baton Rouge.

The program will provide free dental care to

approximately 1,500 residents today and Saturday at the Armed Forces Reserve Center.

Patients will be served on a first-come-first-served basis by 200 volunteer dentists and 1,200 other volunteers, including hygienists, pre-dental students and service groups.

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Friday, February 27, 2015 ACADEMICS

Organization helps globalize engineering

BY JULIAN SCHARDT jschardt@lsureveille.com The College of Engineering and the Office of International Programs have partnered together to make it easier for engineering students to study abroad.

The University joined the Global Engineering Education Exchange last spring. The organization is geared specifically to engineering and computer science students who wish to study overseas. There are currently over 70 member Universities located in 23 countries around the world.

Students pay University tuition — TOPS is applicable — whether they decide to study in Japan, The Netherlands, Egypt or any of the other 20 countries the Global Engineering Education Exchange offers.

Office of International Programs Director Harald Leder said it has been difficult for engineering majors to find study abroad programs that offer the courses on their respective flow charts.

Global E3 contacted the College of Engineering just as they began searching for ways to make international programs more accessible to their students, Leder said.

The Global Engineering Education Exchange facilitates the study abroad process for engineering and computer science students. The group offers numerous courses in a wide field of engineering disciplines.

Leder said the University offers an engineering program in Germany during the summer, when students can visit many established firms, such as Mercedez, Porsche and BMW. Mechanical engineering junior

Eric Crouch attended the program in Germany last summer and enjoyed his experience. He now plans to use the Global Engineering Education Exchange to return to Germany and study at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Crouch planned to spend just one semester at Munich University, but he has decided to spend the entire 2015-16 school year in Germany.

“It was almost a perfect match.

They have fluid dynamics for mechanical engineers, and my professors couldn’t refuse to accept this class because it is dead in line with what we’re taking,” Crouch said.

Chevron Center for Education Manager Warren Hull oversees the engineering aspect of the program and helps prospective students plan out coursework.

Hull said making sure the courses taught overseas are on par with University standards is a priority.

“In engineering, we have an accrediting body called Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,” Hull said. “One of the things we are very conscious about is making sure that a school in another country conforms to some type of standard similar to ABET.” There are only three students using the program to study abroad this semester, but the numbers are projected to grow, he said.

As a former employer, Hull said the international experience students may gain is invaluable.

“Having a new hire who has done something international and is not intimated by having to travel, having to work with other cultures, other languages and multiple time zones is a real plus for employers,” Hull said.

CONSTRUCTION

University tunnel myths revisited

BY JULIAN SCHARDT jschardt@lsureveille.com

There are numerous urban myths about the vast tunnel network that exists under the University, but the truth surrounding the infamous tunnels is much simpler.

At one time, tunnels were a fundamental part of construction design. Now they stand as a piece of history.

The tunnels are as old as the buildings that stand above them.

They date back to 1922, the year the University started construction of the current campus.

Beginning underneath the engineering shops, the tunnels run along both sides of the Quad before branching off to the Gym Armory, Foster Hall, the Pentagon and the Music and Dramatic Arts building.

Facility and Utility Operations Director Dave Maharrey said the 1.6-mile network’s primary purpose was to house steam coils, which provide energy for some of the old radiator style heaters on campus and chill water coils for air conditioning units.

Music education graduate student Jay Williams said he’s heard stories of strange Greek life rituals that occur in the University’s underworld from his circle of friends.

“I heard there was little hazing going on. Most times they would make the guys run through [tunnels] and mess with them,” Williams said.

Kinesiology junior Jacob Brown said he heard about the tunnels but doubted their existence.

“I heard there are tunnels underneath LSU used for transport and emergency exits,” Brown said.

“I haven’t seen any entrances or anything like that, so I don’t know if I believe that.”

Maharrey said the tunnels are

STUDENT LIFE

Local entrepreneur shares experience

BY CHLOE HUFF chuff@lsureveille.com Forbes magazine named local entrepreneur Jared Loftus “College Football’s Biggest Entrepreneur” in 2011. He’s sharing his business-savvy brain with Baton Rouge business owners and hopefuls.

Once a month, members of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization soak in every word their guest speaker offers in hopes of gaining the knowledge to help them become the next big thing.

Jared Loftus gave pointers about business start ups at the organization’s Feb. 25 meeting.

Similar to his audience, Loftus’ business endeavors began while he was in college. To raise funding for his student government campaign at the University of Southern Mississippi, he sold T-shirts out of his backpack.

“And then the next season, football season, people started hitting me up. ‘What’s your shirt gonna

be? What are you doing this year?’

I hadn’t really considered it. It wasn’t a business, it was just this thing I did,” Loftus said.

After LSU football’s 2003 BCS National Championship, Loftus’ “thing” transformed into a business. He brought his custom tshirt business to Baton Rouge and opened Tiger District.

He sold the location and moved his store online, while also opening other “District” websites to suit rival teams.

A passionate entrepreneur, Loftus stressed the importance of adaptation, especially in a business that depends on the success of 18- to 22-year-olds on a football field.

With the growing popularity of food trucks, Loftus’ entrepreneurial spirit pushed him to operate not only a taco truck, but also an adapted version for a Louisianian’s sweet tooth — Ninja Snowballs.

He’s since given ownership of the trucks away.

Guests speakers such as Loftus

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facilitate the mission of the club.

“To spread the entrepreneurial spirit across campus,” said CEO’s president Derek Worstell. “We’re trying to bring people towards starting their own company, being their own boss and also helping the Louisiana economy.”

The organization does not help start a business the way the Student Incubator does. Instead, it puts members in connection with people with similar experiences.

Thomas Greckhamer, the club’s faculty adviser, said the club tries “to create a space where likeminded individuals can come together and can express their ideas surrounding the entrepreneurship aspirations.”

One of the ways CEO does this is through its elevator pitch competition. CEO, with the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute and the Student Incubator, hosted its third annual Student Pitch Competition in November. Seventeen participants gave 90-second pitches to potential investors.

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The tunnel network that exists under the University dates back to 1922, and was originally intended to house steam coils to provide energy for University heaters. off-limits due to the high-pressure equipment that poses a risk to individuals not properly trained.

After working at the University for 10 years, Director of Utility Services Jim Mayne has also heard his share of stories, including one of former governor Huey Long using the tunnels to get to football games in Tiger Stadium.

“There is a tunnel running from here to the [downtown] capital,” Mayne said jokingly. “Somebody said they were sure of it.”

Mayne said he has never encountered students or other individuals loitering underground, although graffiti and empty cans are sometimes found by maintenance workers.

There are around 40 entrances to the tunnels that can be found

all over campus. Only 25 percent are locked. Some lie in plain sight, such as the grated entrance near the Foster Hall Subway, while others are a little harder to reach.

“If you’re willing to crawl on your stomach, there are a lot of [accessible] entrances,” Mayne said.

Nowadays maintenance workers enter the tunnels multiple times a week to perform asbestos removal to facilitate repairs and reduce the risk of harm to maintenance, Maharrey said.

“All the pipes were originally insulated with asbestos. As it deteriorated we started to replace it.

Now we’re taking it,” he said.

Maharrey said the newest tunnel was built in the late ’30s, and there are no plans for additions to the existing network.

FEBRUARY

EVENT CALENDAR

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Nicholls State Women's Basketball - Stopher Gym

5:00 PM

Funny F'n Friday's - George's Place

5:45 PM 6:30 PM

Dance Marathon at LSU 2015 - John M. Parker Coliseum, LSU Campus

7:00 PM

Louisiana State Baseball - Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field - LSU

7:30 PM

Nicholls State Men's Basketball - Stopher Gym

8:00 PM

Sommore - Baton Rouge River Center Arena

10:00 PM

St. Peter Afternoon Movie - St. Peter Branch Library

LSU Men's Tennis - W. T. "Dub" Robinson Stadium

Cam Pyle Band - Superior Grill

The Nacirema Society - UpStage Theatre

Ray Boudreaux & Friends - The Varsity Theatre-Baton Rouge Will Blades Trio - Chelsea's Cafe Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn - Capitol Park Museum Jamie Baldridge - Baton Rouge Gallery for Contemporary Art

ALL DAY

A World of Dreams - Louisiana Art and Science Museum and Planetarium An American in Venice: James McNeill Whistler and His Legacy LSU Museum of Art Brave Steps: The Louisiana Native Guard - West Baton Rouge Museum

For more information on LSU events or to place your own event you can visit www.lsureveille.com/calendar

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Rural Life, Textile Museums to host English tea event

BY EMILIE HEBERT ehebert@lsureveille.com

Pinkies up, ladies.

A collaboration of the LSU Rural Life Museum and the LSU Textile Museum, the “Tea, Fashion and Fancies” event Saturday will give attendees a traditional English-style tea menu and showcase guest speaker Mignon Faget’s jewelry designs. The event will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Rural Life Museum’s Visitor Center by registration only.

This is the fourth year the museums have partnered to host “Tea, Fashions and Fancies.” Rural Life Museum director David Floyd said the event gives the Rural Life and Textile Museums exposure and unearths old customs of the South.

Floyd said though the event is described as a “high English tea,” it is more an adaptation with a Southern twist to reflect the culture and traditions of Louisiana.

“Museums put on interpretive events in order to enhance the visitors’ understanding of your collection and of the history of Louisiana and the traditions of Louisiana,” Floyd said.

“Sixty years ago, coffees and teas were so common, and we’ve kind of lost that. So the ladies here at the museum thought this would be a nice way to resurrect some of these traditions

— sitting down at a nice table with nice china ... and to kind of slow down and relive the social traditions we used to have.”

Guests will be seated at tables complete with fine china and will dine in courses offering an array of sandwiches and pastries. Various kinds of tea will be served to match each course.

During the tea, Faget will discuss onstage with WAFB weathercaster and event emcee Diane Deaton her career and the inspiration she draws from Louisiana culture for her jewelry collections.

Students from the Textile Museum will model Faget’s jewelry during a fashion show. Faget will also have a trunk show at the event with pieces available for purchase.

Coeli Hilferty, marketing and public relations manager for Mignon Faget, said Faget will talk about her transition from designing clothing to creating jewelry.

Floyd said the museums invited Faget, a New Orleans native, to speak and to showcase her jewelry at the event because of her ability to translate Louisiana’s rich culture into her designs.

“She gets her inspiration from Louisiana, and each line of her jewelry has something to do with either New Orleans or Louisiana itself and its traditions,” Floyd said. “That’s why

I think she’s so iconic and why she does so well, is that she understands and uses our past in order to incorporate it into her jewelry design.”

He said the staff has made it a point to keep young children interested in the event. Inspired

by Faget’s fashion show this year, children will make their own jewelry and show it off to the crowd.

Though the event attracts mainly women, Floyd said he sees more men bringing the special women in their lives to treat them to a nice event.

“While we thought we were doing it for the ladies, all of a sudden we started seeing grandfathers come in with their granddaughters, and fathers and daughters,” Floyd said.

“Tea, Fashions and Fancies” is one of many events hosted by the Rural Life Museum.

The goal of these events is to bring the history of Louisiana to life in fun ways everyone can enjoy.

Floyd said history is much more than what is found in a textbook.

“The past isn’t always about history or artifacts or even buildings,” Floyd said. “It’s a lot about our social traditions and customs. This is just one of them that is kind of unique.

It engages little girls and young ladies and madams and, there again, really grandfathers and daddies, too.”

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The LSU Rural Life Museum and the LSU Textile Museum will host the ‘Tea, Fashion and Fancies’ event at the Rural Life Museum’s Visitor Center on Saturday.

DIVERSITY

Student body diversity does not extend into all majors Certain programs draw more males, females

BY DEANNA NARVESON dnarveson@lsureveille.com The University welcomed its most diverse freshman class to campus last fall, but the student body’s diversity with regard to gender does not extend into many areas of study.

According to the Spring semester’s 14th day Enrollment data, while the University has a slight majority of females at 51 percent of the undergraduate population, there are large discrepancies between genders within University programs.

The College of Engineering has a total enrollment of 4,055, but 3,230 of them are male.

The College of Agriculture has 1,252 students enrolled, but 335 are male. But only one in three students the College of Art and Design students are male.

College of Agriculture instructor Luke Laborde said his impression is nine in 10 of his students are female.

Laborde’s former student, renewable natural resources junior Jessica Waller, said there may be more females in her college because the field doesn’t

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LSU renewable natural resources senior Ryker Doskey is in the gender minority in his college. guarantee a lot of money.

“There are ways to make money, but when it comes down to it, you’re not going to be making engineer salary,” Waller said. “I think girls are not as concerned with that. It may be just an assumption, and it may

be a wrong assumption, but if you look in engineering, there’s mostly males.”

Sociology professor Dana Berkowitz said she doesn’t think the gender dispersion at the University is necessarily due to future salaries.

“I would say that the reason why you have gender segregation at the University and in different colleges and departments is because as very young children, we are trapped into different specialties,” Berkowitz said. “So you learn very different qualities and skills based upon the toys and games you’re encouraged to play as children.”

Berkowitz said boys’ toys are geared toward building and constructing, and girls’ toys are more centered on nurturing and caregiving.

“Boys are socialized to sort of always be able to have the right answer, and where arts and English and humanities, you don’t necessarily have an answer, and I think that has a lot to do with gender in schools,” Berkowitz said.

The skills picked up in childhood from toys and socialization when they are young can be tracked into what people choose to study.

Renewable natural resources senior Ryker Doskey said he chose the School of Renewable Natural Resources because he wants to go to veterinary school to be a veterinarian for pet reptiles.

“It’s kind of hard to tell when

a reptile is sick,” Doskey said.

“I didn’t realize it until [now], but now that I think about it, most of my classes are women.”

Doskey said he has enjoyed the classes in his major and plans to go to the LSU Vet School after some postgraduate work. In the past, Doskey had various reptiles as pets and even bred his female bearded dragon.

Berkowitz said the gender majorities in education are also related to ethnicity.

“There’s a much larger story to be told,” Berkowitz said.

“If you look if you look at the numbers, you’ll find that white middle class boys are still very much represented in the student population, but what you’re seeing less of is boys and men of color.”

There are more female students than male students at the University, but there are fewer Hispanic and AfricanAmerican males than AfricanAmerican and Hispanic females going to college, Berkowitz said.

Berkowitz said the percentage of males compared to females enrolled in a University program might mirror the faculty of the program because people look up to role models of the same gender.

Sports

Friday, February 27, 2015 FOOTBALL

Tigers hit with recruiting sanctions

BY MARCUS RODRIGUE sports@lsureveille.com The Southeastern Conference has penalized the LSU football team for a recruiting violation that occurred in the fall, according to a report from of The Advocate.

The team is restricted from extending financial aid agreements to recruits who wish to enroll early for two years. LSU will also forfeit 10 percent of its 210 recruiting evaluation days in 2015, according to the report.

Matt Womack, a three-star offensive tackle as rated by recruiting service 247sports.com, agreed to receive financial aid from LSU in August with the intent of enrolling at the school in January. But the Senatobia, Mississippi, native flipped his commitment to Alabama, signing a National Letter of Intent with the school in February.

If a recruit signs a financial aid agreement with a school, that school is granted unlimited access to the recruit. But LSU’s contact with Womack became illegal when he decided to decommit from the Tigers.

When the NCAA updated the specifics of financial aid agreements in April, it issued a warning that schools that offered such agreements to a recruit could face sanctions if the prospect didn’t eventually enroll.

You can reach Marcus Rodrigue on Twitter @rodrigue_TDR.

battle for the

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Sophomore forward Jordan Mickey holds the ball Saturday during the Tigers’ 70-63 win against Florida at the PMAC.

Postseason seeding up for grabs as Tigers take on Ole Miss

BY DAVID GRAY dgray@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s basketball team has already notched one victory against Ole Miss this season, but tomorrow’s contest carries a little more meaning.

The victor will have the inside track to a top-four seed and a first-round bye in the Southeastern Conference

Tournament, which takes place March 11-15, while the loser will be on the outside looking in.

“You have to talk about where we sit in the standings, and this could put us in good position that we could be tied for that [No. 4] spot,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones. “But it’s the next game on our schedule, and that makes it just as important.”

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LSU edges out Lions, set for series with Princeton

BY JACK CHASCIN jchascin@lsureveille.com The No. 2 LSU baseball team avenged last week’s midweek loss, routing Southeastern Louisiana, 9-8, on Thursday night at Alex Box Stadium.

The Tigers (7-1) continued their hot streak in the batter’s box with 13 hits, three of which went for extra bases. While the Tigers maintained success on offense, they let the Lions (5-4) creep back into a game that seemed to be otherwise in hand.

“It was a rather interesting game,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “It wasn’t a thing of beauty, but we found a way to win.”

Lions pitcher Domenick Carlini started the game retiring four of the first five Tiger batters he faced before the Tigers, led by senior catcher Kade Scivicque, went on a two-out rally. The next three LSU batters would single safely to load the bases for sophomore second baseman Kramer Robertson.

Carlini fell into a quick hole against Robertson, eventually walking him on a 3-1 count to score Scivicque and tie the game up at one. But the Tigers would leave the bases loaded on the next batter when senior right fielder Jared Foster popped up to the second baseman.

The result was nothing new for the Tigers, who lost to Nicholls State, 6-3, a little more than a week

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SOFTBALL

LSU aims to stay undefeated at Purple and Gold Challenge

BY MORGAN PREWITT mprewitt@lsureveille.com The No. 7 LSU softball team will look to continue the best start in program history when it hosts Stephen F. Austin, Ball State, Florida Atlantic and Northwestern State in the annual Purple and Gold Challenge this weekend at Tiger Park.

The Tigers (16-0) will start with doubleheader tonight, facing Stephen F. Austin (5-6) at 5 p.m. and Ball State (6-8) at 7:30 p.m.

Despite heading into its third home tournament of the season as one of the three remaining undefeated teams in the country, LSU’s focus is on constant improvement, not on

extending its winning streak.

“We’re showing up [in practice] and trying to be 0-16,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “We will show up on Friday night and be 16-0 again ... but we’re going to work this team this week as if they are the worst team in the country.”

By focusing on constant improvement, the Tigers have remained calm and played loose throughout the streak because returners and newcomers alike have stepped up in key positions.

The balance of speed and power in the LSU lineup combined with its deep pitching rotation has fueled the Tigers through the streak.

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Junior infielder Bianka Bell (27) stands at second base Feb. 7 during the Tigers’ 10-0 victory against Tennessee State at Tiger Park.

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Friday, February 27, 2015

MEN’S GOLF

Tigers aim to succeed in Cabo San Lucas

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL cboutwell@lsureveille.com

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Freshman middle distance runner Jack Wilkes [right] and senior middle distance runner Julian Parker [left] participate in middle distance Jan. 9 during the Tigers’ track and field meet at the Carl Maddox Field House.

LSU competes in SEC championships

BY JACOB HAMILTON jhamilton@lsureveille.com

The LSU men’s and women’s track and field teams will compete at the annual Southeastern Conference Championships starting at 9 a.m. Feb. 27-28 at Nutter Field House in Lexington, Kentucky.

The men’s team enters the meet with 86.11 team points for a No. 6 national ranking. It’s the fourth-best SEC team in the field, behind No. 1 Florida, No. 3 Arkansas and No. 4 Texas A&M. The No. 21 Lady Tigers have 39 team points, making them the No. 8 SEC team.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers competed at Nutter Field House at the Rod McCravy Invitational Jan. 23-24, and traveled to Lexington a day early this week, to get used to the oversized track.

“None of the athletes on this year’s team had an opportunity during their collegiate career here at LSU to run in Lexington, so that was the main reason for us coming during the regular season,” said LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver. “Even the field events are a little different here. The runways are a little different, and also the running events because of the oversized track.”

While competing for the SEC title, Shaver wants to pick up more national qualifiers in the field events, namely the vertical and horizontal jumps.

For the Lady Tigers, senior shot putter Tori Bliss enters the meet with the best chance to claim an SEC title. Her schoolrecord breaking mark of 57 feet, 4 ¾ inches is second in the nation and best in the SEC. Several men’s sprinters and hurdlers pose a threat for the title in their respective events.

In the 200-meter dash, the 2013 SEC Indoor Champion senior sprinter Aaron Ernest is poised for another title run as the second-fastest competitor in the field. Sophomore sprinter Tremayne Acy follows Ernest as the fourth-fastest runner in the SEC. The 400-meter dash will feature two Tigers that are top six in the conference. Senior sprinter Vernon Norwood enters the meet as the reigning

bronze-medalist in the event, while senior sprinter Quincy Downing was the sixth-place finisher last year.

Senior hurdler Joshua Thompson has his eye on the SEC title in the men’s 60-meter hurdles, an event in which he enters the meet with the second-fastest time in the conference.

The men’s 4x400-meter relay title will be hard-fought. The reigning NCAA champion LSU team’s best time this season is within two seconds of times run

by Florida and Texas A&M. Shaver said the competition at this weekend’s meet will prepare his athletes for an NCAA title shot, which will come March 13-14 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

“In many ways this is a more difficult meet than what the national meet is simply because of the quality of the field in the SEC,” Shaver said. “It’s going to be a rehearsal in many events of what it’s going to be like at the national meet in a couple of weeks.”

You can reach Jacob Hamilton on Twitter @jhamilton_TDR.

The No. 3 LSU men’s golf team aims to continue its spring campaign success as the team travels to the Querencia Cabo Collegiate in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, beginning on March 1.

LSU will compete against seven of the nation’s top-15 collegiate teams in the tournament, according to Golfweek. The elite field also includes three Southeastern Conference opponents: Arkansas, Vanderbilt and Ole Miss.

LSU coach Chuck Winstead said his team began to play better and progress as its debut tournament came to a close, and that has continued into the team’s preparation for this Sunday.

“Our focus is to continue to get better,” Winstead said. “We have so many tournaments ahead of us.

We are not there yet, but we just have to continue to focus on getting our games in shape.”

The Tigers settled in a tie for fourth-place finish in their opening event, led by a strong performance from senior Myles Lewis, who concluded his week by capturing a tournament score of 10-under par 206.

Lewis was trailed by sophomores Eric Ricard and Brandon Pierce, who were the only other Tigers to score under par.

Ricard rewrote his personal record when he scored a new careerlow round of 66 on the final day. He finished the tournament at 9-under par, one stroke behind Lewis.

Pierce ended his week shooting 7-under par, placing him into a tie for 10th place. Senior Ben Taylor and freshman Blake Caldwell also competed for the Tigers, finishing at 7-over par and 13-over par, respectively.

Winstead commended his team on rallying as a group and

becoming more cohesive as a squad in its tie for fourth in the Prestige tournament.

“They continue to fight, and it is being proven,” Winstead said.

“The more comfortable they get, the more they stretch their vision of who they can be and the more they are capable of.”

Winstead said he is ambitious to see how his team will fare with tougher conditions expected on the Cabo San Lucas course.

“This course in Cabo San Lucas the scores will be higher,” Winstead said. “There will be more adversity. The wind will be between 10 to 20 [miles an hour], but the weather should be good. It will be a harder test, so I am looking for-

ward to seeing how we stand when facing adversity on a harder golf course.”

California and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, are the first two stops on the Tigers’ busy traveling schedule this spring, which is crucial to Winstead. He said the early adversity the team has faced this spring will be beneficial for his troupe down the stretch this season.

“Guys need experience on playing in different places,” Winstead said. “We need travel around, getting the team more experience when playing in different places around the country.”

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Friday, February 27, 2015 POSTSEASON, from page 5 The Tigers (20-8, 9-6 SEC) will look to extend their winning streak to three games and stifle the Rebels (19-9, 10-5 SEC) a second time when the conference rivals clash at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the PMAC. LSU defeated Ole Miss, 75-71, on Jan. 14 at Tad Smith Coliseum, but the teams have followed different trajectories since that meeting.

The Rebels have won nine of their last 12 games, with victories against Texas A&M and a 96-82 win against thenNo. 19 Arkansas. Since defeating Ole Miss, the Tigers have gone 7-5, with a pair of losses to lowly Mississippi State and Auburn.

Slowing down Ole Miss’s offense — which ranks fourth in the SEC at 73.0 points per game — will likely determine if the Tigers come out on top, said Jones.

“They’re one of the more prolific scoring teams,” Jones said. “They can score from a lot of different areas on the floor and have different guys that can put the ball in the basket.”

Like the first meeting, the Tigers’ focus will be to slow down sharp-shooting Stefan Moody, the SEC’s leading scorer in conference play at 18.7 points per game. The junior guard ranks second in SEC play in free throw percentage (89.7), fourth in 3-point percentage (38.5) and seventh in field goal percentage (43.4), putting him third among guards.

LSU junior guard Keith Hornsby disrupted Moody’s

VICTORY, from page 5 ago. LSU stranded six runners in the first two innings on back-toback bases loaded situations.

But LSU’s lack of offensive execution last week wouldn’t come back to haunt them.

The Tigers’ bats jumped on Carlini early in the bottom of the third. After juniors Mark Laird and Alex Bregman reached safely to start the inning, junior designated hitter Chris Chinea roped a line drive single to left, scoring both Laird and Bregman for an early 3-1 lead.

Foster later slapped a two-run double off the left field wall to extend the Tigers’ lead to 7-1, chasing Carlini off the mound after also giving up a Scivicque sac fly and a Robertson RBI single in the inning.

But the Lions wouldn’t go down without a fight.

Southeastern roared back to cut the Tigers’ lead to one on a fiverun fifth inning with three hits and a wild pitch by sophomore reliever Parker Bugg.

Southeastern continued the rally, tallying two runs with two outs in the top of the seventh to cap off the improbable comeback and reclaim the lead at 8-7.

LSU senior reliever Zac Person, who replaced Bugg with the bases loaded and two outs, walked home the tying run for the Lions

flow in the first meeting, holding the Rebels’ top scoring threat to 14 points and a 2-for-9 clip from deep.

However, Moody has erupted in recent weeks, averaging 20.1 points and draining 26 treys on 42 percent shooting in his last eight games. But Hornsby said his approach will be the same as the January meeting.

“We just have to try to do the same thing,” Hornsby said.

“We know that he’s going to shoot [3-pointers]. Just have to contest him as best we can and drive them off the 3-point line.”

Jones said it’ll take a team effort to stymie Moody this time around. “[Ole Miss] does a lot of actions for [Moody] and screening and trying to get him open, so guys have to be conscious of being in the sight line so he’s not getting easy catches or shot opportunities,” Jones said. “We’ll have different people help out on him. We can’t just give him one look.”

Aside from his defense, Hornsby was also the highpoint man for LSU in the first meeting with 23. But sophomore forward Jarell Martin may have delivered the Tigers’ most efficient performance that night, knocking down nine of his 12 field goals for 18 points.

Getting to the paint early was Martin’s focus for the first meeting, something he said he’ll have to do again.

“I started off attacking the basket, getting to the rim and making plays at the rim,” Martin said. “I hit a few mid-range jump shots and got myself before throwing a pitch away from Scivicque and giving the Lions the lead.

“It was a strange game,” Mainieri said. “I don’t think we pitched particularly well. We gave them four, five runs really. We walked in two runs, and I think we wild pitched in two runs. We need to be better than that.”

The Lions’ rally put the pressure on the Tigers, but it wasn’t enough to put them away.

Southeastern was unable to gain insurance in the eighth, leaving the bases loaded and failing to score headed into the bottom of the inning. LSU sophomore left fielder Jake Fraley sent a two-run triple down the right field line to give the Tigers the lead for good.

“It’s great to get a big win like this with an in-state team,” Fraley said. “They always play us hard.

The only thing I can say is it’s truly a blessing.”

The Tigers now have a quick turnaround as they are faced with playing Princeton tonight at 7 p.m. at Alex Box Stadium.

LSU sophomore pitcher Jared Poche’ takes the mound for Game 1, earning another shot at being the Friday night man for the Tigers moving forward with freshmen Alex Lange and Jake Godfrey to follow in Games 2 and 3.

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LSU junior guard Keith Hornsby blocks a shot Saturday during the Tigers’ 70-63 win against Florida at the PMAC. going. That’s what I have to do again.”

With the regular season winding down, every game carries a little more weight.

But as they’ve done all season long, Jones said the Tigers will take it one game at a time — beginning with Ole Miss on Saturday.

“It’s our next game on our schedule,” Jones said. “It’s here at home, and it’ll have an importance all of its own to perform the right way in front of our fans and playing for them.

We want to win as many games as we can, and we only have three other regular season opportunities to do that.”

You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.

Returning slappers senior outfielder A.J. Andrews and sophomore outfielder Bailey Landry lead off the Tigers lineup, hitting in the No. 1 and No. 2 spots.

Andrews has been LSU’s lead-off hitter since her freshman year in 2012. This season, Andrews leads the Southeastern Conference with 16 walks on the season and is tied for the conference lead in triples with four.

From the No. 2 spot, Landry trails only Andrews in on-base percentage (.529). Landry leads the Tigers’ slappers with 11 RBIs. Returning power hitters sophomore infielder Sahvanna Jaquish and junior infielder Bianka Bell have started off the year hitting lights out and are tied for the team home-run lead with six apiece.

Jaquish leads the Tigers with 25 RBIs and hit LSU’s first grand slam of the season against San Diego State on Feb. 19.

Bell leads LSU with a .490 average and a 1.000 slugging percentage through the Tigers’ winning streak. Bell’s is tied for the conference lead with seven doubles.

“Our team is just so diverse and we cover every aspect of the game that has really helped us,” Jaquish said. “For the other teams, I don’t know how they are going to play us because we have everything.”

Freshman pitcher Allie Walljasper (6-0) spearheads the Tigers’ four-deep rotation into the weekend and leads LSU’s pitchers in four statistical

categories: strikeouts (35), ERA (0.59), complete games (5) and innings pitched (35.1).

Although Walljasper excelled early in her LSU career, sophomore pitchers Baylee Corbello and Kelsee Selman have shined in their own ways this season.

After leading the Tigers with 188 strikeouts last season, Corbello has notched 18 strikeouts this season and allowed opponents to bat only .188 against her, which is good for 14th in the SEC. Selman leads the rotation in opposing batting average and has tallied 23 strikeouts to only three walks in her 16.2 innings pitched.

The other freshman pitcher, Carley Hoover, brings a completely different dynamic to the pitching staff with her power pitching. Hoover has posted a 1.50 ERA in her 28 innings pitched.

“Our bullpens are fun every day,” Walljasper said. “I learn something new every day, and it’s awesome knowing that I can rely on them if I’m having a bad day or they can rely on me if they’re having a bad day.”

The marquee matchup of the weekend comes on Saturday when the Tigers take on Florida Atlantic (13-1), whose only loss of the season was by one run against Kansas opening weekend.

Junior infielder Melissa Martinez, who notched four home runs and tallied 29 RBIs this season, leads the Owls’ lineup.

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Clarke Perkins’ column, “Obamacare helps more than it hurts,” some readers had this to say: “Many feel lied to?

I suppose the ones who don’t understand English? ACA did exactly what it was sold to us to do. The only argument I’ve seen to the contrary is that individuals have allegedly not been able to ‘keep their plans’. This of course being false, the only people who didn’t get to ‘keep their plans’ were those whose plans were predatory and exploitive in nature and were made illegal under ACA. ACA has minimum standards explicitly set so that predatory plans are no longer viable options for insurance companies to peddle... If you had good insurance before ACA you were not forced to change it (though private insurance providers have always and always retained the right to change their plans). So that said, what were we being lied to about? Health care now more accessible to the american people than it has ever been, and we as a nation are paying less for it under ACA in both tax dollars wasted on uninsured patient care and as individuals en masse. No matter your political persuasion, that is a good thing.

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Yik Yak showcases worst of LSU, should be banned LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist “The Quad at noon looks like they’re filming Planet of the Apes 3.”

This is what I saw when I opened Yik Yak for the first time. A friend had told me that the app was filled with racist and sexist sentiments, but they did not adequately prepare me for what I saw when I downloaded the app.

Yik Yak is a social media app that allows users to post Yaks — short statements about any and all topics — and displays the Yaks posted within a 10-mile radius. The app, which launched in 2013, only became popular on campus within the last year.

Yik Yak has a history of wreaking havoc on campuses where it gains popularity. K-12 school districts across the country have banned the app due to its tendency to create a hot bed of cyberbullying among younger students.

But it’s not just middle and high schools that have attempted to ban the app. Emory University’s Student Government Association tried to have the app banned last year but was forced to back down after immense student backlash.

Last October, Ryan Chapin Mach posted an editorial in The Huffington Post on why college campuses should ban the app. He compared the nasty things said on the app to the scribblings on a public bathroom stall.

“But Yik Yak isn’t like using the restroom,” Mach stated. “In fact, yakking is about 10 times less useful than taking a dump because there isn’t a conceivable situation in which one would ever really need to do it.”

The article advocated for full censorship of Yik Yak and all apps that allow users to post anonymously on college campuses. The backlash was immediate.

Critics of Bach’s argument for censoring the app argued that doing so would violate free speech — the ever-important bastion of people who like to say rude things on the Internet.

Free speech is constitutionally protected. Hate speech is not. During my infrequent glances at the app, I have seen disgusting amounts of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and slut shaming. The app is a constant spew of hate speech, and it’s all being posted by people on this campus.

This app shows there are students on this campus who still equate black people with monkeys. There are people here who believe murder is justifiable if a transgender person doesn’t reveal their biological sex before entering into a relationship. These people gleefully passed around links to a sex tape that involved an LSU student, calling her a whore while doing so.

I don’t want to know that I attend school with these people.

Discrimination runs rampant across LSU’s campus, though students normally save their slurs for when they’re in the company of like-minded people. Yik Yak gives these students a platform to shout their insulting opinions from and get reinforced by the community.

The app itself is not the problem — Yik Yak has a system in place where any post that reaches a net score negative five in the app’s voting system gets deleted. Unfortunately, the most controversial posts are almost always upvoted to the top of the Hot page, where more users then reply, chiming in with their agreement.

If LSU weren’t such a cesspool of

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ignorance, most of the problematic posts would be gone almost instantly. But they’re not.

I believe adamantly and passionately in every American’s right to free speech. However, I agree with Mach — Yik Yak should be banned from college campuses.

This is not impossible to do. By partnering with a programming company that generates digital maps of almost all middle and high schools in the country, Yik Yak has been able to build a “fence” around these places, disabling the app while on school grounds. This could also be done for any college campus.

The last thing LSU needs is more division, especially at a time when the school should be coming together to fight for its future in the face of impending budget cuts. Yik Yak has become a shining beacon for bigotry and hatred on this campus.

By revealing the true colors of some students, the app makes minority students of all types feel unwelcome. The people that use this app to blast their negative opinions are doing nothing but creating an image of LSU that is hostile towards black people, the LGBT community, women in general and many other groups who are fighting to gain respect.

If LSU wants to continue to attract students, Yik Yak needs to go. Otherwise, this campus’ reputation as unwelcoming will begin to turn away potential students, and the last thing this school needs to do when facing budget cuts is give high schoolers another reason to look past LSU during their college search.

Logan Anderson is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Houston, Texas. You can reach her on Twitter @LoganD_Anderson.

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Board of Regents’ sexual misconduct policy gets it right for once SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist I started writing this column with the intent of bashing the Board of Regents for not doing enough to prevent sexual assault at Louisiana colleges. It’s just in my nature to immediately criticize a board full of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s appointees and old white guys.

After reading through the “Uniform Policy on Sexual Misconduct” passed at the Monday meeting, I can’t write that column. The Board of Regents released a carefully considered, well-constructed policy with just about everything a concerned student could want.

It’s sad that I’m surprised by how well the Board has responded.

When you expect them to screw up something as important as sexual assault policies, it says something about the trust you place in systems of governance.

Despite all my cynicism, I have to applaud the Board for taking the issue seriously and developing a solid framework for individual schools to develop.

Among the new requirements are student surveys at least every three years to gauge the expanse of the problem of sexual assault on college campuses. In addition, universities are required to offer educational programs about sexual assault to students throughout their schooling.

One of the things that really impressed me was the depth and

focus of the educational requirements. Not only is the Board requiring universities to teach students all the policies, it has mandated both bystander intervention information and risk reduction programs.

More specifically, it combines the thrust of the White House’s “It’s on Us” campaign to confront men to stop sexual assault when it happens with the more conservative “don’t walk alone and carry mace” type advice. Not everybody will think this is perfect, but it’s a happy compromise I think people can work with.

Even feminist propaganda and notorious troll site Jezebel would be proud of the Board’s definition of consent. It’s probably the first time Jezebel would be proud of anything in our state, except … no,

nevermind. I can’t think of anything.

According to the document, consent to sexual activities must be “clearly communicated” throughout the entire encounter, may be revoked at any time and is not valid if coerced.

Apparently, the Board also realizes the reality of the hazy nature of many college relationships.

The policy states drunkenness or inebriation can lead to incapacitation and an invalidation of consent. However, it notes, someone who is drunk or intoxicated “is not necessarily incapacitated.”

This means the guys worried about drunk hookups turning into rape claims can stop worrying and start fretting about lack of women who want to sleep with them sober.

If I had a complaint about this policy, it would be that it doesn’t set a specific timeline for when those accused of sexual assault will face disciplinary action other than saying it should be executed “promptly.”

What we as a University community don’t want are potential rapists languishing without any punishment.

It honestly seems like the Board of Regents took the time to develop a proactive policy to help eradicate the problem of campus sexual assault. Let’s just pray somebody doesn’t screw this up somehow.

James Richards is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from New Orleans. You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

HOW NOT TO DIE DURING MIDTERMS 2015 SMALL THINGS CONSIDERED ALEX MENDOZA Columnist

Step 1: Make friends first day of class.

Exchange numbers under guise of sharing notes.

Step 2: Skip all classes until midterm. Assure new friends it’s just a stomach bug.

Step 3: Casually text friends the night before midterm. Ask for 60+ pages of notes.

Step 4: Take midterm. Drop class. Repeat next semester.

SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist

If midterms are stressing you out, don’t worry.

Take a break and think about the impending collapse of Louisiana higher education to get your mind off of physics.

MY BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL CLARKE PERKINS Columnist

My brain gets extremely heated when I think about how well I have to do on midterms.

The way I see it if I fail my midterms, I will end the semester with terrible grades, which would then destroy my GPA. A devastating GPA means no law school, no law school not only means I will not be rich and successful, but it also means I won’t meet my future lawyer husband.

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JAY TALK JAY CRANFORD Columnist

Because my midterms came early this week, I’ll be drinking wine and watching “The Twilight Zone” while the rest of you are suffering.

Kourtney Kardashian has a college degree. If she can do it, so can you.

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Midterms week: Where showing up to the library with an IV bag full of coffee dripping into your bloodstream is perfectly acceptable.

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LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist

Having survived seven consecutive semesters, my advice to you all is: Continue to stress out. It doesn’t get better. It actually gets much, much harder until it culminates in a night where you finally can’t take it anymore and you snap, deciding that midterms are a construct of the patriarchy and they must be dismantled before the coffee wears off, and you fall asleep, waking up just in time to make it to your test and get the lowest possible passing grade.

Not that I would know or anything.

CODY SIBLEY Columnist

At least you’re not the guy who showed up naked in the library.

COLLEGE CANDY JEN BLATE Columnist

Don’t worry: If you fail all your midterms, you’ll just die a slow death. No big deal.

BE THE HAMMER NOT THE NAIL GAELAN HARRINGTON Columnist

Day 63: Still no study guide found, syllabus checked and confirmed 30 percent of my grade is at stake. Paper and energy supplies running low. No food found. I will continue to search. I don’t know if I’ll make it, Internet connection is spotty in area. If this note is found, I may be dead. If you find this note, you may be next. If you are reading this, you are the resistance.

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[Top] A member of the research team collects a sample of hardened lava rock.

[Bottom] Researchers enter the Kaumana Caves in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Hawaii, from page 1 However, Hood said he now knows how to approach the area and what tools he needs to get the information the next time he makes the trip to the rocky island.

Susko’s project required sample collection to characterize lava flows from different areas in Hawaii.

Hood said Olsen’s research, inspired by a rare palm tree that only grows in Arizona slot canyons, looks at the ability of lava tubes to protect and preserve microclimates.

“These trees come from a time when the air wasn’t so arid in Arizona,” Hood said. “So these canyons are kind of like a window to the past. What [Olsen] is doing is trying to quantify the capability of lava tubes to protect microclimates. Say Mars was habitable 2 million years ago — if there’s a stable lava tube that can hold a microclimate for 2 million years, that’s where we should look for life. It’s like [the movie] ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth,’ but not science fiction.”

Karunatillake said the projects proposed by Susko, Hood and Olsen were promising for the team’s research.

The team’s trip to Hawaii, Karunatillake said, is an oddity, as most research on Mars is done through virtual portals.

Though expeditions with specialized research focuses are rare, University students in the geology department are required to take one “field camp” course to get first-hand research experience before graduation.

“Exploration and wanting to reach beyond what we have access to is the key thing that makes us human,”

Karunatillake said. “This kind of research gives students an immediate experience where they get to go to places they’ve never had access to and consider questions that no one has asked before. Sharing that sense of excitement that early explorers had in the past is really a unique experience that justifies the funding used for projects like this.”

Karunatillake’s research team is currently looking for undergraduate students with knowledge on image editing and web hosting to join the team.

coming through campus because the University is allowing them to use the grounds to save about a mile of piping, Mayne said. The piping will continue down Gourrier Avenue to Gardere Lane.

The large piles of sand and rock are “bedding material” to cushion the pipes underground, Mayne said.

The multi-billion-dollar project, called Pump Station 42, began because the pumping facility on River Road has a failing infrastructure.

“It’s pretty bad,” Mayne said.

“I think this is a good thing for the University, especially because they’re building a lift station on Nicholson close to campus as a sort of ‘payment’ for us.”

Mayne said the commuter lot portion of the project was supposed to be completed before Bayou Country Superfest in May, but the construction is several weeks behind schedule. The workers already dug the trench in which the pipe will be fitted but ran into wet sand and haven’t been able to remove it as quickly as anticipated.

Mayne said the University can’t do anything to help progress.

“The problem is that they are working for the city, not the University, so we can’t really speed up the process,” Mayne said. “We have some input but not total input on this project.”

Students should expect the blocked parking spots to stay blocked and to potentially encounter more blocked spots, Mayne said.

The Baton Rouge Projects website said the city is making this large capital investment now to make the sewer system more sustainable as the population grows.

The goals of the project are to reduce sanitary sewer overflows, rehabilitate the sewage collection system, increase the water-power capacity of the system and accommodate city growth.

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The third-floor women’s restroom at the Business Education Complex was converted to a family restroom to accommodate genderqueer and transgender students.

restrooms, from page 1 after-hours safety.

“We’ve been looking at the bathroom situation here since we moved in,” he said. “There are not enough bathrooms in this building, but also we wanted a bathroom that met all the [Equal Employment Opportunity] standards. Most importantly, we wanted a bathroom that was secure after hours.”

EEO standards set guidelines on discrimination policies.

White said Jenkins helped accelerate the process. White also said one of the main policies of the College of Business is human dignity, and helping Jenkins was part of the policy.

“I travel around the country a lot, and I don’t think you’ll find a university with a higher sense

of diversity and human dignity and interpersonal relations than LSU,” White said.

As an advocate for the LGBT community, Jenkins has seen the impacts of diversity at the University, and said they have seen mostly positive responses to transgender and genderqueer issues and accommodations.

Jenkins said they had hope for improvement and set a goal for family restrooms on campus.

“Something like restrooms, that’s a really simple fix — you literally just order new signs and you put them up,” Jenkins said.

“I personally think that 25 percent of the bathrooms in the University should be gender neutral by the start of the fall semester.

That would be a great goal that I think we could set.”

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Friday, February 27, 2015

No. 2 LSU faces rival Alabama in top-five showdown

BY JACOB HAMILTON jhamilton@lsureveille.com

The No. 2 LSU gymnastics team is set to face the sworn enemy of all Tigers in its fifth-consecutive top-10 showdown.

LSU (9-1, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) takes on No. 5 Alabama at 8:00 p.m. tonight at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

The last time Alabama (6-1, 4-1 SEC) hosted a top-two opponent, it upset then-No. 1 Florida 197.400-196.800 on Jan. 23. The victory kickstarted a streak in which the Crimson Tide scored more than 197 in four of five meets, including a season-high 197.800 against Boise State on Feb. 13.

But an Alabama opponent hasn’t scored more than 197 all season, a mark LSU surpassed six times through seven meets.

Despite LSU’s barrage of high scores, LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux said her gymnasts can improve on several areas, particularly on vault.

“We saw six vaults Friday night and only one was a true, really good stick,” Breaux said.

“Which means of the five scores that counted, I’ve got four spots where I can possibly get another half-tenth or a full tenth.

That’s critical.”

“We turned the corner about halfway through the season [last year], so we’re looking forward to going against a really good, strong Alabama team putting some pressure on us and making us hit those landings.”

LSU enters the meet as a clear favorite with the statistical advantage in three of the four events. Vault is the only event Alabama enters with the advantage, ranking No. 5 in the RQS rankings. LSU is right behind the Tide at No. 6.

The Tigers haven’t played down to their competition this season, and they don’t plan to start now with an unblemished regular-season SEC record on the line.

“To win the regular season would be huge,” Breaux said.

“Going undefeated in this conference all season long says a lot for this team. We would love to do that. Winning is the bottom line.”

LSU has more on the line than an undefeated conference record. With a victory, the Tigers secure bragging rights for the next year against a school everyone is familiar with.

“I see the drive in everybody; how much they want to prove their worth to LSU and how committed they are to the university,” said junior all-arounder

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Senior Jessie Jordan performs her floor routine Jan. 23 during the TIgers’ 197.350-192.725 victory against Missouri at the PMAC. Jessica Savona. “Everybody wants to beat Bama, and I do as well. It’s greater than beating, it’s being superior.”

The key to victory is bringing the energy the team had in its 197.950-197.425 victory against Florida last Friday night, said sophomore all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat.

Alabama will have plenty of energy of its own. The

Rolling Tide averaged the second-largest attendance in the NCAA in 2014 at 12,825. LSU nearly eclipsed Alabama’s average crowd size last weekend with a historical 12,217 fans. Breaux told her gymnasts to pretend Alabama’s crowd is the same one cheering for them at the PMAC. “We’re going to have to feed off of [their crowd] a lot,” Breaux

said. “Not only do they have a big crowd, but whatever crowd we have, they put them up in a section of the bleachers that don’t even face the floor. It’s going to be great environment.”

“If you can’t get motivated to go to Alabama and compete, then you’re unmotivationable.”

You can reach Jacob Hamilton on Twitter @jhamilton_TDR.

MEN’S TENNIS

Tigers open conference play against Tennessee, Kentucky

BY JACK WOODS jwoods@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s tennis team concludes its home stand this weekend at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium with a match against Tennessee today at 4 p.m. and a match against Kentucky on Sunday at 1 p.m.

The matches are the last two of eight consecutive matches the Tigers (9-1) have played at “Dub” Robinson Stadium. LSU won the previous six, with instate rival Tulane being the only foe to take more than one point against the Tigers.

LSU coach Jeff Brown said the Tigers feed off the home crowd.

“It’s just like in any sport,” Brown said. “You get some energy from the crowd, you get some energy from your teammates, who are generally fired up a little bit differently at home.”

Tennessee (8-4) has had an up-and-down season so far. The Volunteers started their season with four wins in the Tennessee Spring Invitational. But then the team dropped its next four matches before getting back on track with four straight wins heading into the matchup with LSU. Kentucky (6-6) started the season much like Tennessee.

The Wildcats began their season with two wins but dropped their next six matches. However, they rebounded, winning the

previous four matches and gathering momentum to head into the weekend.

Brown said Tennessee and Kentucky have talent throughout their lineups and both teams are under-ranked.

Last season, the Volunteers and the Wildcats bested the Tigers. Kentucky defeated LSU, 5-2, at “Dub” Robinson Stadium, and the Volunteers defeated the Tigers, 4-1, in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Senior Chris Simpson said losing the matches last year makes the Tigers want to win even more this weekend.

“We really, really do want Kentucky this year,” Simpson said. “Since I’ve been here we haven’t beaten them, so that’s one match we really want at the moment. And then Tennessee, we’ll always have good matches against them, and it’s always been 50-50. So we really want that one as well.”

The matches this weekend mark the start of Southeastern Conference play for LSU. The SEC is full of ranked teams. There are 11 SEC teams featured in the latest ITA rankings, nine of them in the top 50.

Eleven of LSU’s remaining 13 matches are against teams ranked in the ITA top 75. Simpson said it’s important for LSU to get out to a good start in conference play this weekend with the tough schedule ahead.

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LSU senior Chris Simpson hits the ball during the Tigers’ 7-0 victory against Jackson State on Feb. 7 at the W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Stadium.

“Last year, it was kind of tough,” Simpson said. “We got off to a little rough start, and we were always chasing. This year we want to get off to a really good, quick start. We’ve got two

matches that are definitely winnable for us, and we want to get off to a 2-0 start in the SEC.” You can reach Jack Woods on Twitter @Jack_TDR.

Check out lsureveille. com/daily/sports for coverage of the women’s basketball team’s loss to Ole Miss.