The Daily Reveille - Sept. 9, 2009

MOVIN’ UP

CRIME Student arrested for carnal knowledge of a juvenile, page 4.

Many former LSU football stars make an impact in NFL, page 5.

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EBR’s Sheriff’s Office: 689 sex offenders in the Baton Rouge area, 0.3 percent per capita

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Senior Staff Writer

OFFENDERS, see page 11

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The computer screen doesn’t have chicken pox.

The dots covering the map of Baton Rouge on Family Watchdog, the popular sex offender-tracking Web site, mark the residences and workplaces of sex offenders — perpetrators of rape, sexual battery, offenses against children and other crimes.

One registered sex offender lives within a quarter-mile of the University, and another three offenders reside within a half mile radius of the University, according to numbers from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. Thirteen offenders live or work

By Kyle Bove

within one mile of campus and another 60 within two miles of campus.

The closest offender, convicted of an out-of-state date-rape offense, lives at 3299 Ivanhoe Street near the Northgate area.

Sreelatha Yalamanchi, electrical and computer engineering grad student, lives off State Street near the Northgate. She was unaware that Chad Taylor, convicted sex offender on an out-of-state offense, lives blocks away on Ivanhoe Street.

Within two months of moving to the neighborhood, she said she experienced a sex offense from a stranger. “[A drunk man] came up to me

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Contributing Writer

Sushi booths to appear in Death Valley this season Tiger fans will be saying “Hello” to a new kind of concessions this football season — sushi.

Local Japanese restaurant Hello Sushi will open three booths inside Tiger Stadium this fall, offering sushi rolls and edamame to about 92,000 people.

“Sushi’s been growing more and more [popular in Baton Rouge],” said manager Ashley Clarkson. “We’re hoping fans will think about us when they’re going to get their peanuts and hot dogs.”

The booths will open this Saturday for the home opener against Vanderbilt in the stadium’s student section, visitor section and on the fourth floor of its south entrance.

Game goers can pick between the super cali roll and the crawfish roll — Hello Sushi menu items that can hold up well in the Louisiana heat. Although the price is not finalized yet, Clarkson said rolls will be sold for about $7. An order of edamame will cost about $5, she said.

The University will receive part of the sales, Clarkson said.

Hello Sushi General Manager Stephanie Leblanc said she is excited about the project, which has

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FOOTBALL

TRANSPORTATION

Baton Rouge traffic ranked 36th worst in nation Congestion expected to get worse

By Lindsey Meaux Senior Staff Writer

Baton Rouge has gained notoriety for its food, football and — in recent years — traffic.

During the course of the first half of 2009, Baton Rouge moved on the congestion rank to No. 36 in a ranking of the 100 most popu-

lated cities in the United States, according to the INRIX National Traffic Scorecard. It ranked 33rd in 2008.

Results of the 2008 survey indicated Baton Rouge was the only city of the top 100 most populated cities to increase in congestion.

The 2009 survey of the first half of the year indicates Baton Rouge is one of 64 cities to experience an increase.

The average commuter’s travel time in Baton Rouge has continuously increased with a typical

30-minute drive taking 33 minutes during peak traffic hours, INRIX Vice President of Marketing Scott Sedlik said.

In Los Angeles, No. 1 on the 2009 congestion list, a typical 30minute drive takes 40 minutes in peak traffic.

In March of 2009, shortly after the 2008 report released, Sedlik said the excessive traffic condition was indicative of Baton Rouge’s thriving economy.

TRAFFIC, see page 11

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Traffic backs up on the corner of West Parker Boulevard and Burbank Drive on Tuesday afternoon as students return home from classes.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Nation & World

INTERNATIONAL

NATIONAL

4 Americans killed in attack in Afghanistan

Obama space panel says moon return plan is a no go

KABUL (AP) — Four U.S. troops died Tuesday in a militant attack in eastern Afghanistan, and NATO forces acknowledged for the first time that civilians were among the dozens killed in an airstrike on two hijacked fuel trucks.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — With a new attorney general, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is trying to get even tougher on drug cartels and those who protect them.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA’s return-to-the-moon plan just won’t fly. The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA’s current $18 billion annual budget. “Under the budget that was proposed, exploration beyond Earth is not viable,” panel member Edward Crawley, a professor of aeronautics at MIT, told The Associated Press Tuesday.

UN caught in Gaza dispute over study of Holocaust

Obama tells students to take responsibility

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza students won’t learn about the Holocaust this year. Protests by Palestinians disrupted tentative plans to introduce information about the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews into the curriculum in U.N. schools.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Take responsibility for your education.

Go to class and listen. Don’t let failures define you. That’s the advice President Barack Obama gave schoolchildren on Tuesday in a speech that drew fire even

With new AG, Mexico tries to revamp drug war

before he delivered it. “We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems,” Obama said. “If you don’t do that — if you quit on school — you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.” The White House posted Obama’s remarks on its Web site Monday.

Firefighters contain 60 percent of LA-area fire LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters have contained 60 percent of the huge wildfire that has burned north of Los Angeles for 14 days. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Tom Debellis said Tuesday the 251-square-mile fire is burning deeper into the wilderness of the Angeles National Forest. Officials say crews aided by waterdropping aircraft are focusing on keeping the fire from moving farther east. No homes are threatened.

STATE/LOCAL

Litterbugs Beware: State cracking down on rural littering

Ed. Dept. says more students reach ‘basic’ level

SHREVEPORT (AP) — Folks who choose to sneak down country roads and dump their trash could be in for a rude awakening. If a hidden camera or the member of a stepped-up patrol, catches them in the act, they could be looking at a fine of up to $100,000 along with time in the slammer. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, along with Wildlife and Fisheries, increased surveillance of littering and illegal dumping throughout Louisiana. Littering law enforcement focuses on individuals while illegal dumping law enforcement pertains to businesses that illegally dispose of wastes. “We already write more citations than any other state agency, but we will be stepping up what we do,” LDWF Enforcement Division agent Jeff Mayne said recently. “Our guys work in a lot of rural settings, so they run into a lot of ghost littering situations. And they’re seeing more and more caustic materials in illegal dump sites.”

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With results in from standardized tests given to Louisiana public school students this past spring and summer, the state education department said Tuesday that there was a 4 percent increase in the number of students achieving a score of “basic” or higher in all grades and subjects from 2008 to 2009.

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HEALTH

Professor to found anti-smoking organization Group promoting a smoke-free campus

By Mary Walker Baus Staff Writer

Even though rival football fans think the University’s campus smells like corn dogs, to Judith Sylvester, the campus smells like cigarettes.

Sylvester, mass communication associate professor, founded the Smoking Words campaign to educate students about the dangers of smoking and effective ways to quit smoking in 2001.

This year, Sylvester partnered with The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco Free Living’s Fresh Campus Campaign and is working to create a student organization dedicated to promoting tobacco education at the University. The Fresh Campus Campaign involves 12 other universities all striving to make Louisiana college campuses 100 percent tobacco-free.

“Fresh Campus is designed to have students involved,” Sylvester said. “The better thing to do was to form a student organization and brand it more Fresh Campus than Smoking Words, but I want Smoking Words to be behind it. It has to be educational.”

With the Fresh Campus/ Smoking Words student organization, Sylvester said she wants to promote smoking cessation, education about the harmful effects of smoking relating to beauty and future employment issues and education about the manipulation of tobacco companies to appeal to college students.

“I’m hoping students will resent [tobacco companies] enough to not support them,” she said. “A lot of that is awareness ... knowing what those triggers are, and tobacco companies will know those traps and understand those patterns, and they will go after whatever appeals they can to pull students into it.”

Sylvester said she received a community grant of $17,000 from Tobacco Free Living. She said the grant will cover promotion and advertising expenses. Sylvester said educating students about smoking will be the key to have advocacy in terms of government policies.

Sylvester said she already wrote the constitution for Fresh Campus/Smoking Words, but still needs student involvement. She said she and her students will still be involved with anti-smoking activities, such as the Great American Smoke Out in November and Kick Butts Day in March whether they are an official student organization or not.

Herbert Reese, human resource management junior, is signed up to join the Fresh Campus/Smoking Words student organization.

“I don’t smoke, so I think it’d be nice if people didn’t smoke around campus,” Reese said.

‘It’d be good [to have the organization], but people should be able to smoke Garrett McKneely on campus.’

Leslie St. Blanc

‘[Having a student organization dedicated to anti-smoking] doesn’t offend me.’

mass comm freshman

human ecology sophomore

“Smoking is a big deal to me. I hope we can come up with something where we can get students to not smoke on campus.”

Sylvester said the students who smoke outside the library entrance, outside Lockett Hall and in walkways cause problems with secondhand smoke and littering of cigarette butts.

Sylvester said in spring 2009, 27 percent of University undergraduate students smoked

cigarettes. She said the number of smokers increased after Hurricane Katrina because cigarettes act as a form of stress management.

“Nicotine is a very difficult addiction to break,” said Kathy Saichuk, Wellness Education coordinator. “It doesn’t matter what age you are. The younger a person becomes addicted to any substance, the more difficult it is to break that addiction.”

The University’s policy on

Buck Beatrous biology junior

‘It doesn’t help to limit where people smoke. I don’t think it’ll be effective.”

smoking states smoking is prohibited within its facilities, including Tiger Stadium.

“If it’s more difficult to smoke, you might smoke less,” Saichuk said. “When you change the environment, sometimes you lose interest in things that were part of that environment before.

[People] thought stopping smoking in restaurants would hurt business, but it’s shown to help business.”

Shannon Carney, general studies junior, said the Fresh Campus/Smoking Words student organization is a good idea if they are aiming to educate students, but trying to make the University smoke-free will not decrease the amount of smokers off campus.

Sylvester said she doesn’t blame the smokers for the smoking problem areas, including outside Middleton Library. She said she blames the University for keeping the smoking receptacles right next to the doors.

“I’ve asked for [the receptacles] to be removed,” she said.

“That’s the thing we can change.

We have to stop it some place, and it should be on the LSU campus where we can educate the state and set the examples.”

Contact Mary Walker Baus at mwbaus@lsureveille.com

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MUSIC

Breakdancers battle head-to-head Crews compete to settle local rivalry Contributing Writer

Local breakdancers are preparing to compete in a battle against a rival Lafayette crew Oct. 3.

Choppin’ Broccoli, a group of Baton Rouge and New Orleans dancers, will go head-to-head against Lafayette’s Soul Town Villains in a show at the Metropolitan Night Club in New Orleans.

Alex Koai, CB member and graphic design sophomore, said the two crews have been rivals since he started dancing about eight years ago. Koai said the groups have never competed officially, although they have battled many times.

“We’ve been wanting to do this for a long time now,” Koai said.

Koai said a battle consists of individual breakdancers or crews challenging each other to a competition of skills. He said this battle will be more official than previous competitions because both crews will compete with eight members, and the event is well organized.

CB added an eighth member, Chris Handal, to its crew Friday night after about 10 local breakdancers auditioned for the spot in the Student Union’s Vieux Carre room.

Justin Kenney, CB member, said the crew looked for a dancer who was in sync with the music and organized with good stage presence. Auditions consisted of four elimination rounds.

Handal, math senior, said Baton Rouge and Lafayette breakdancers routinely battled at Buck Nuttys Skate Ranch in Lafayette until about a year ago when the owner stopped hosting competitions.

Handal said the two crews consist of the “best b-boys in Louisiana,” although there are many other crews in the state. He said CB will likely practice about three times per week until the show in October.

Koai said the club will probably not provide official judges for the competition, but he said battles usually end with an apparent winner.

“It makes it more fun in a sense, but it also makes it more controversial,” Kaoi said.

Handal said crowds are usually most impressed by fancy tricks like head-spins and do not

Campus Crime Briefs

MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING BOOKS A 23-year-old man unaffiliated with the University was arrested Aug. 31 at about 2:30 p.m. for allegedly attempting to steal $519 worth of textbooks from the LSU Bookstore.

Elijah Warren, of 8010 Haney Drive, New Orleans, was arrested after someone at the bookstore called the LSU Police Department and said Warren attempted to steal the textbooks, said LSUPD spokesman Capt. Russell Rogé.

During questioning, Warren told officers he was in the process of registering at the University and knew what classes he had to take, but couldn’t afford the textbooks.

He was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a theft of goods charge. Upon investigation, police found Warren had not registered with the University.

By Emily Holden

MEGAN J. WILLIAMS / The Daily Reveille

A dancer competes Friday night for a spot with Hip Hop Coalition to compete in the Metropolitan Show in New Orleans on Oct. 3.

consider actual dancing skills.

“You’ve got to be able to dance,” Handal said. “It’s called break dancing, you know?”

Koai said the club will pay each dancer $200 to perform. The

show begins at midnight and entry costs $10. Only adults ages 21 and up will be admitted.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

UNIVERSITY STUDENT ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION A 19-year-old University student was arrested on charges of marijuana possession after officers found 11.9 grams of the drug in his dorm room Sept. 2 at about 11:30 p.m.

LSUPD Crime Interdiction Unit officers questioned Michael A. Taylor, of 22172 Sutter Road, Zachary, after an anonymous caller reported possible marijuana in his room in Annie Boyd Hall, Rogé said.

Taylor admitted he had marijuana in bags in the room, but said his roommate didn’t know about it.

After searching the room, officers found 11.9 grams of marijuana in separate plastic bags, Rogé said.

Taylor was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

UNIVERSITY STUDENT ARRESTED FOR CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF A JUVENILE A 19-year-old University student was arrested on Sept. 4 at about 10:45 p.m. for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy.

Officers originally responded to a complaint about possible drug possession or drug paraphernalia possession in Nathan Profito’s Evangeline Hall dorm room, Rogé said.

When officers questioned Profito, of 104 East Garden Drive, Thibodeaux, about the complaint, he invited them into his room. He told police he had a marijuana pipe and a grinder, and the officers seized the paraphernalia.

A 16-year-old boy was in the room at the time and, when questioned, told officers he and Profito had been having sex, Rogé said.

Profito told officers he and the 16-year-old had been dating and having sex, Rogé said.

Profito was arrested and booked in EBR Parish Prison for carnal knowledge of a juvenile.

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Sports

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

JAMARCUS RUSSELL

Defensive end 2009 Draft No. 3 Overall

Quarterback 2007 Draft No. 1 Overall

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FOOTBALL

JOSEPH ADDAI Running back 2006 Draft No. 30 Overall

TYSON JACKSON DWAYNE BOWE

Safety 2007 Draft No. 6 Overall

LARON LANDRY

Wide receiver 2007 Draft No. 23 Overall

Miles: Tackling needs to improve

By Rachel Whittaker Chief Sports Writer

Cornerback 2008 Draft No. 68 Overall

CRAIG ‘BUSTER’ DAVIS

Fullback 2008 Draft No. 69 Overall

Wide receiver 2007 Draft No. 30 Overall

Linebacker 2003 Draft No. 103 Overall

CHEVIS JACKSON

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PIPELINE TO THE PROS BRADIE JAMES

NFL rosters filled by 41 former Tigers, players taken in six consecutive drafts

By Michael Lambert Sports Contributor

The locker room of the Kansas City Chiefs is a melting pot of players from across the country with different paths to the NFL. But four Chiefs players took a similar route from Baton Rouge to Kansas City.

Former LSU players Rudy Niswanger, Dwayne Bowe, Glenn Dorsey and Tyson Jackson have made the transition from hot, humid summers to cooler temperatures and from purple and gold to red and gold.

The dominance of former Tigers in the NFL is becoming a new trend this decade, and 41 former

Tigers are on active NFL rosters, while three more are on practice squads, and one is on injured reserve.

The Tigers have had a player drafted in the first round of the NFL draft for six consecutive years, the longest active streak in college football.

“The system we use to develop our players on and off the field, in the weight room, in the classroom, gives a great structure to those guys that leave here,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “We do a good job recruiting. We develop them, and they go on to have success in the NFL.” PROS, see page 10

Number of former Tigers in the NFL

Arizona Cardinals Atlanta Falcons Baltimore Ravens Buffalo Bills Carolina Panthers Chicago Bears Cincinnati Bengals Cleveland Browns Dallas Cowboys Denver Broncos Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Houston Texans Indianapolis Colts Jacksonville Jaguars Kansas City Chiefs

3 3 0 2 0 1 2 1 2 0 1 2 1 1 0 4

Miami Dolphins Minnesotta Vikings New England Patriots New Orleans Saints New York Giants New York Jets Oakland Raiders Philadelphia Eagles Pittsburgh Steelers San Diego Chargers San Francisco 49ers Seattle Seahawks St. Louis Rams Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tennessee Titans Washington Redskins

0 0 3 2 1 2 1 0 2 4 3 0 1 1 1 1

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JACOB HESTER

LSU coach Les Miles denied the fatigue from the two-hour time difference between Baton Rouge and Seattle caused the defense’s numerous missed tackles.

“Being tired wasn’t necessarily the issue,” Miles said. “We did give thought to that, and a very specific plan was put in place to adjust our sleep patterns. It was nice to see ...

Log on to our defense resee Miles ally managing discuss this the game the past back half.”

Saturday’s But the LSU football game team prevailed against against WashWashington. ington by eight points Saturday, sending the Huskies to their 15th consecutive loss.

But LSU coach Les Miles said Monday that communication issues on offense and missed tackles on defense were keys to the Tigers falling behind early.

“We accomplished the goal — to overcome the new era of Washington football,” Miles said.

“That being said, early on, if we had tackled more crisply, the game is much different.”

The LSU offense was on the field for only 48 plays against a Washington defense ranked No. 110 in 2008, allowing 452 yards per game.

Miles said the coaching staff planned to play true freshman quarterback Russell Shepard in the season opener. But with LSU TACKLING, see page 10

FOOTBALL

Toliver has break-out game in Wash.

Junior catches two TDs in season opener

By Andy Schwehm Sports Writer

one.

Jordan Jefferson was looking for any-

Senior wide receiver Brandon LaFell was double-teamed and the sophomore quarterback was just 2-for-7 for 20 yards,

putting the LSU offense in a quagmire.

Then on 2nd and 10 with just under 1:30 left in the first half, a Washington defensive end dropped back into coverage and a cornerback sagged, leaving LSU receiver Terrance Toliver open over the middle of the field on a slant.

Jefferson hit Toliver in stride. The junior receiver took care of the rest, running through a would-be Washington tackler to get into the end zone for the Tigers’ first offensive touchdown of the season, providing a boost to the Tigers, who were in a

struggle against Washington.

Jefferson had found his new go-to guy.

“We knew that Terrance was going to get the ball a good bit off how Washington played [in the past],” Jefferson said. “Once I knew their coverage was what we had been practicing for, I started to find him.”

But Toliver didn’t stop there, as he had another catch and run with six minutes left in the third quarter, this time for 39 yards BREAK-OUT, see page 9

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LSU junior wide receiver Terrance Toliver runs a pass in for a touchdown Saturday during the Tigers’ 31-24 win in Seattle.

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FOOTBALL

Athletic Dept. fills all freshman football ticket requests Office sells ‘mini’ packages to students

By David Helman Sports Writer

A new batch of freshmen will attend their first home football game Saturday — at least, the ones who bought the right ticket plan will.

The LSU Ticket Office sold the remaining 1,800 seats in Tiger Stadium’s student section to freshmen as part of one of two mini plans this season.

This year is the second-straight year the Athletic Department opted to split up its remaining tickets for freshmen, offering a gold package with tickets to the Louisiana-Lafayette, Florida and Tulane games, and a purple package, which features the Vanderbilt, Auburn and Louisiana Tech games.

“The thought process was we

Lisa Lynch elementary education freshman

‘I’m glad I got tickets.

Freshman don’t usually get tickets, so I’m glad I got at least three.’

could help a really small number of students get all the tickets, or help everyone get something,” said Tim Messa, LSU assistant director of ticket operations. “If 1,000 seats are available you’re helping 2,000 students.”

The Ticket Office switched to the mini plan system before the 2008 season in anticipation of high demand caused by LSU’s 2007 national title. The ticket package freshman students get is determined

Bryce Cohen biology sophomore

by a lottery, rather than by the prior method of first-come, first-served.

“Some people feel it should be a race to see who gets tickets because maybe they think it proves you’re a bigger fan,” Messa said.

“The reality is that some people have class or they can’t get to a computer at that time, so this is a much fairer system.”

Unfortunately, the high demand in 2008 kept many freshman from getting tickets despite

BABBLING BROOKS

‘Other’ football as important Are you ready for some football?

College football has some huge matchups this weekend with No. 3 USC traveling to face No. 8 Ohio State and the No. 18 Fighting Irish of Notre Dame going to the Big House to take on Michigan.

T h e s e two big games coupled, with the NFL’s season opener Thursday, are enough to raise the pulse of Johanathan most football fans. But just Brooks Sports Columnist because American football is now about to be in full swing, let’s not forget the other kind of football that captivated fans during the summer.

The United States Men’s National Soccer team shocked the international soccer world in June by knocking off the then-No. 1 team in the world, Spain, in the Confederations Cup semifinals.

That upset created a huge buzz among many sports fans during the low period in the sports year — also known as midsummer baseball. The win was even so impressive it led some fans to believe our country had finally

arrived as a major player on the world scene.

It was not to be, however, as Brazil defeated the U.S., 3-2. in the Confederations Cup final despite holding a 2-0 halftime lead.

Since then, the love fest for the national team has died down, and soccer has been relegated back to its status as a sport perpetually on the periphery of the average American’s sports consciousness.

But America has still been playing pretty good soccer, and more people should recognize it.

The Red, White and Blue traveled to Estadio Azteca and lost a hard-fought match to Mexico in

August in front of a truly hostile crowd that showered forward Landon Donovan with all sorts of liquids on a corner kick attempt.

The U.S. also defeated El Salvador, 2-1, this past weekend in Sandy, Utah.

And now the U.S. has another very important match on the horizon.

The U.S. has a 2010 World Cup qualifying match against Trinidad & Tobago tonight — a match that may be a huge determining factor in whether the Yanks qualify for soccer’s most SOCCER, see page 9

‘I made it to a few games [last season]. You can buy tickets if you look for them, but I haven’t been to [an SEC] game yet.’ splitting up the seats. Messa said roughly 4,500 requests were made for 1,000 available seats this past season, leaving about 2,500 freshmen out in the cold.

“I didn’t get any tickets,” said Bryce Cohen, biology sophomore, referring to 2008. “It was a bad year. I made it to a few games. You

can buy tickets if you look for them, but I haven’t been to a Southeastern Conference game yet.”

Messa said the school’s supply actually exceeded demand this season. Out of about 3,000 freshmen requests for 1,800 available seats during each game, 2,400 mini packages were sold, leaving room for 600 freshmen to be offered tickets to all six games available in the package.

“The first 600 names in our lottery were offered the full package,” Messa said. “We had only offered them three games, so we offered them a chance to opt out of it. If they did, we extended the offer to the next person on the list.”

Ronny Strauss, mechanical engineering freshman, is one of the FRESHMAN, see page 9

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FOOTBALL

Alexander back from injuries, making most of sixth year Defensive tackle to play Saturday

By Jonathan Schexnayder Sports Contributor

LSU senior defensive tackle Charles Alexander walked onto the field for Senior Day last season against Arkansas knowing he wouldn’t be in Tiger Stadium for the last time.

Alexander will get another opportunity Saturday when the Tigers face the Vanderbilt Commodores in their Southeastern Conference ‘I just home opener.

LSU coach wanted to Les Miles become back lieves Alexand have a ander has put complete, himself in a to healthy position make an impact season.’ this season.

Miles said the 6-foot-3-inch, Charles Alexander 2 9 8 - p o u n d senior defensive tackle Breaux Bridge native has lost some weight and is “faster than he has been” in the past.

Alexander has been with the program throughout Miles’ tenure in Baton Rouge. He is the last remaining player on a Nick Saban-coached LSU team.

“Our team has great respect for him,” Miles said. “We can’t wait to see him have the year he wants to have.”

Alexander said he receives much of that respect from younger players. Most take the advice in stride without giving the 23-yearold Alexander a hard time about his age.

“I guess they forgot how many years I’ve been here,” he said jokingly. “I help with the young guys and anything they need. I see it as a blessing and take it with me.”

Alexander missed nearly two seasons because of injuries. The NCAA granted him a somewhat rare sixth year of eligibility in February.

“I knew I was going to come back for another year,” Alexander said. “I discussed it with coach [Les] Miles and the trainers, and I wanted to come back.”

Under NCAA guidelines, student-athletes have five calendar years to participate in four years of competition.

The NCAA reviews the entire body of work in special cases like Alexander’s, LSU Sports Information Director Michael

Bonnette said. That body of work includes a degree, which Alexander received last May. Alexander had unfinished business to take care of in a place he’s been sparingly during the years — the football field. He started for the Tigers on Saturday against Washington and had two tackles.

“I just had things that were undone here,” Alexander said.

“I just wanted to come back and have a complete, healthy season and just go out there and play the best ball that I can.”

He saw action in the first game of his redshirt freshman

season in 2005 and emerged as a run-stopping force at defensive tackle with 24 tackles one season ago.

Injuries hampered his progress, however. His redshirt freshman season ended almost as soon as it got started with a foot injury during practice after the first game.

During LSU’s 2007 national championship season he was injured again in practice before the South Carolina game. This time Alexander went down with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

“It was the last play of practice, and they called a running

play, and I was just trying to shed off a block, and my knee just buckled,” he said.

Alexander said his knee is “100 percent” ready to go.

But if it isn’t, playing through adversity is something Mike Mowad, Alexander’s coach at Breaux Bridge High School, has witnessed.

“He was a kid that was giving 100 percent every play,” he said. “He wouldn’t let a small injury keep him out for a game.”

Mowad said he knew Alexander had the tools necessary to make it to the next level even then.

“He was an excellent player with good character,” Mowad said. “He set goals and wanted to achieve those goals.”

Alexander said he has drawn inspiration from other teammates such as junior defensive tackle Drake Nevis to stay positive. His will to get back on the field for

one last season is a testament to where he wants to go.

“I have a lot of friends that are in the NFL,” he said. “That’s my dream right now. I want to play in the league. I got to go out there and give it my all and hope I make it.”

Contact Jonathan Schexnayder at jschexnayder@lsureveille.com

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Senior defensive tackle Charles Alexander lines up against Alabama on Nov. 8, 2008. Alexander received permission from the NCAA to play for a sixth year.

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wednesday, september 9, 2009 SOCCER, from page 6

prestigious tournament.

Not making the World Cup would be a major disappointment for the States, who are currently fielding what some consider the best American squad ever.

With the standings so tight at the top of the Confederation of North, Central American and

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Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) region, the game tonight is as close as a must-win game for the United States could be without actually being a must win.

In soccer standings, three points are given for a win and one for a draw. Both the Yanks and Honduras have 13 points in the standings.

But America sits at second place in the region standings based on their goal differential.

Honduras has 14 goals for, with seven against, and the United States has 13 goals for with nine against.

Costa Rica and Mexico are both tied with 12 points each in the standings with Mexico leading because of goal differential.

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All the teams have three games left including the ones this week, which means a draw for the U.S. against Trinidad & Tobago wouldn’t eliminate the U.S. from tournament contention.

But a win, on the other hand, gives the Yanks a little breathing room between them and the No. 3 and No. 4 teams, especially because America has a game against Honduras on the horizon, and could catapult them into first place.

Only the top three teams in the region secure an automatic berth into the World Cup. The most hardcore members of Sam’s Army shouldn’t be the only ones paying attention to the U.S. throughout its upcoming matches.

These upcoming matches are all important games, and it’s always an exciting time anyway.

They will show you why soccer is truly called “the beautiful game.”

And if you’re lucky, you might even get to see forwards Jozy Altidore and Charlie Davies do the “Stanky Leg,” after a goal.

And that’s just funny.

Johanathan Brooks is a 21-yearold mass communication senior from Powder Springs, Ga. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_jbrooks.

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lucky 600. Strauss said he wanted the gold package specifically so he could attend the Florida game and ended up receiving the full season.

“I like that they effectively doubled the amount of people that got tickets,” Strauss said. “However, so many of the people that I know who got tickets aren’t even football fans.

To me, there should be a way to make sure that the people who are the biggest fans of LSU football get the full season ticket package, but I understand this would be impossible to do for freshmen.”

Many students find the circumstances unfair, but Messa said students can check the LSU Ticket Marketplace for tickets.

The Ticket Office announced Tuesday in a broadcast e-mail that single-game tickets to Vanderbilt, Louisiana-Lafayette, Tulane, Louisiana Tech and Arkansas are now available.

So even if this weekend isn’t the season opener for every freshman, for at least this season, every freshman has a ticket.

“I’m glad I got tickets,” said Lisa Lynch, elementary education freshman. “Freshmen don’t usually get tickets, so I’m glad I got at least three.”

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[From left] U.S. soccer players Jose Torres, Carlos Bocanegra, Chad Marshall and Kyle Beckerman waves to fans Saturday night after the American national soccer team beat El Savador, 2-1, in a World Cup qualifying match in Sandy, Utah.

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thanks in part to a cornerback blitz, to give LSU a 24-13 lead against the Huskies.

He would eventually finish the game with four receptions for 117 yards and the two touchdowns as the Tigers went on to win, 31-23.

“That was the best game of my career,” Toliver said. “Like I said in the spring — I’m ready to go, and I think I proved that Saturday.”

LSU coach Les Miles said the coaching staff knew all along Toliver had the ability to have a breakout performance.

“He had a big night,” Miles said. “He will be part of every game plan ... The opportunity for us to throw to him is certainly something we look forward to.”

Getting into the end zone is nothing new for the tall target from Hempstead, Texas.

Toliver was rated the No. 1 wide receiver in his class by Scout. com and ESPN.com coming out of high school as a 2006 Parade AllAmerica team member. He was also the Texas state champion in the long jump and a starter on the basketball court.

He caught 50 passes for 780 yards and 10 touchdowns as a junior before taking in 42 passes for 861 yards and six touchdowns as a senior at Hempstead High School.

With all the hype, the 6-foot 5-inch junior didn’t disappoint as a member of the 2007 BCS National Championship team, as he was used frequently in three wide receiver sets during his first season as a Tiger.

In his freshman campaign, Toliver was named to the Southeastern Conference All-Freshman Team after he saw action in all 14 games with two starts, catching 10 passes for

249 yards and three touchdowns.

Toliver again got two starts last season while seeing action in all 13 games. He was frequently found by LSU’s trio of quarterbacks, catching 22 balls for 257 yards and a touchdown.

Toliver said his playing time as an underclassman helped develop him into the receiver he is today.

“I know more of the offense now,” the junior said. “I know how to read coverage ... In my freshman year I was just running a route instead of reading coverages.”

There was only one problem with Toliver’s night — ESPN’s coverage of his first touchdown catch.

The network was coming off a small segment between plays when Jefferson connected with Toliver, and the national television audience and Tiger faithful only got to see Toliver run the final 20 yards of his score.

However, Toliver said he wasn’t upset.

“Some other people told me they only saw the run,” Toliver said.

“I saw it on YouTube later at the hotel, so it’s all good.”

Contact Andy Schwehm at aschwehm@lsureveille.com

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NFL draft expert Mike Detillier said LSU’s recent success in sending players to the NFL stems from recruiting, the lifeline of any prominent team.

“It’s part of the strategy Nick Saban had when he came to LSU,” Detillier said. “He built a 30-foot levee across the state.

Very few of the top players left.”

Wide receiver Michael Clayton and defensive end Marcus Spears began the six-year streak when they were drafted in 2004 — Saban’s last year at LSU. Miles had eight players drafted in the first round under his watch — running back Joseph Addai, quarterback JaMarcus Russell, safety LaRon Landry, wide receivers Dwayne Bowe and Craig Davis, and defensive linemen Glenn Dorsey and Tyson

TACKLING, from page 5

down early, Miles said he didn’t want to put Shepard in a pressure situation.

“Down seven, we wanted to make sure we held the ball with great efficiency and didn’t make mistakes,” Miles said. “We didn’t think it was fair to put a true freshman in the game at that point.”

Miles was impressed with the play of sophomore cornerback Patrick Peterson and senior linebacker Jacob Cutrera, who returned an interception for a touchdown Saturday.

“Peterson had nine unas-

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Jackson.

“Les has continued that same kind of recruiting,” Detillier said.

“Now they are getting recruits to at least pay attention to them from any area of the country.”

During the last decade, LSU has transformed itself into one of the elite college programs in terms of success at the professional level.

“The schools more comparable to LSU right now are Ohio State, Oklahoma and USC,” Detillier said. “The greatest common denominator is the fact that success on the football field leads to success in the draft.”

These former LSU players don’t only play in the 16 regular season games, but a total of 21 former Tigers have won a Super Bowl championship. Four of them participated in Super Bowl XLIII, with Pittsburgh Steelers

running back Justin Vincent and analyst for ESPN and TigerVicornerback Ryan Clark capturing sion. “He is overlooked because Super Bowl rings. of his position, but he’s been The Chiefs lead all NFL great in the NFL.” teams with four active players Albert Elias, NFL agent for from LSU, while former Tigers such the New England as Randall Gay, Patriots, Arizona Jarvis Green and Cardinals and San Herman Johnson, Francisco 49ers said LSU players rank second with are sought after three active playby NFL teams. ers each.

“The track The longest record of playLes Miles tenured Tiger is ers that come out LSU football coach Tennessee Tiof LSU is great,” tans center Kevin Elias said. “[NFL Mawae. He began his career for scouts] say they have superior the Seattle Seahawks in 1994 be- athleticism and discipline.” fore being a mainstay for the New LSU has continued to mold York Jets for eight years. Mawae and develop players to make the has made seven Pro Bowls dur- jump from college football to the ing his career.

NFL. Top competition from the “He’s been around forev- Southeastern Conference helps er,” said Rene Nadeau, football prepares LSU players for pro

‘‘

‘We develop them, and they go on to have success in the NFL.’

sisted tackles and was in position Washington offense in the first most of the game to make plays,” half.

Miles said. “That’s a start of a “It’s time to enjoy the delot of Saturdays velopment of the for him. And it’s defense,” Miles no surprise to me said. “Our first that Jacob Cutrera game out of the played like he chute, we played did.” probably one of Miles said the best quarterhe is not conbacks we’ll see cerned about the all season long.”

Les Miles defense’s slow Miles said the LSU football coach start, as defenTigers will have sive coordinator another tall task John Chavis’ revamped unit al- ahead of them when Vanderbilt lowed 296 total yards to Husky comes to Baton Rouge. quarterback Jake Locker and the The Commodores amassed

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‘Early on, if we had tackled more crisply, the game is much different.’

620 yards of total offense in their 45-0 rout of Western Carolina on Saturday, their first shutout since 1999.

“Vanderbilt returns 18 starters, and Bobby Johnson does a great job in coaching,” Miles said. “We’ll look forward to hosting them this Saturday in Tiger Stadium in a game that counts more because it’s an SEC opponent.”

INJURY UPDATE Junior defensive end Lazarius Levingston left the game Saturday, but Miles said his injury is “not terribly serious,” and

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 football, Detillier said.

“The SEC is the closest thing to the National Football League,” Detillier said. “Scouts like that each and every week they are going up against top coaches, top players and great athletes. Those are the kind of guys you want to try to get in because the transition to the NFL is easier.”

Nadeau said LSU’s recent success in the NFL doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon, with offensive tackle Ciron Black, wide receiver Brandon LaFell and running back Charles Scott projected as potential first round picks.

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com surgery won’t be necessary.

Miles did not specify what the injury was.

“It’s one that may keep him out of the next game, but I’ll have to let you know on a week-byweek or day-by-day basis because it’s really been good news.”

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and started touching me and my hair,” Yalamanchi said. “It was a bad experience.”

He only fled when three pedestrians came near, she said. She did not report the incident and said she began riding the bus to avoid similar incidents.

Among Southeastern Conference and other southern university cities, the Baton Rouge area ties for the second-most sex offenders per capita at 0.3 percent, according to each state’s respective sex offender registries.

Sharing that position is the Knoxville area, home to the University of Tennessee, and Columbia, home of the University of South Carolina.

New Orleans, home of Tulane and Loyola Universities, the University of New Orleans and others, topped Baton Rouge with 0.4 percent.

LSUPD Capt. Russell Rogè said sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism — there’s a large chance they will commit sex crimes repeatedly. He said this behavior is the reason they are required to update their registration.

“Knowledge is power,” Rogè said.

According to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, there are 689 sex offenders in the Baton Rouge area. Of those, 498 are actively registered, 23 are wanted for sex offenses, and 168 are incarcerated.

There are 382 inactive offenders in Baton Rouge — those who have relocated or whose registration period expired.

As of July 31, 38 rapes were reported to have occurred in Baton Rouge since January. In 2008, four forcible sex offenses were reported to have occurred on campus, according to LSUPD statistics — an increase from one such offense in 2007. Two of the offenses in 2008 occurred in oncampus residential facilities.

TRAFFIC, from page 1

“Although nobody loves traffic, in this particular case, it could be a positive [from an economic perspective],” Sedlik said in March.

“It means that consumers are going to the malls. They’re making trips to the stores. Businesses are building products and shipping products.”

Dek Terrell, economics professor, said construction on the interstate system is more likely to blame than the economy for traffic problems in Baton Rouge during 2008 and 2009.

“If a weak economy is causing a reduction in traffic problems, a lot of it is probably trucking,” Terrell said. “If there’s a reduction in the demand for things that are sent by truck, that’s going to reduce the traffic.”

Regardless of the economy, construction in Baton Rouge definitely plays a role in the increase in congestion, Sedlik said.

“In Baton Rouge specifically, we can suspect traffic congestion will continue to get worse,” Sedlik said. “A number of the stimulus projects that are focused on road

WHAT THE CHARGES MEAN:

• Molestation: Usually involves a juvenile and a person senior to that juvenile.

•Sexual Battery: Touching of any party’s genitalia without consent.

•Aggravated Rape: Sex offense that involves two or more offenders, a weapon or resistance that is violently overcome.

•Forcible Rape: Not as severe as aggravated rape, no weapon but forced used to overcome some resistance.

Information provided by Detective Stephen Murphy of BRPD.

ON-CAMPUS RESOURCES Rogè said additional patrols usually linger around residential areas on campus, and extra officers patrol the Quad, Nicholson and Edward Gay Apartments, East and West Campus Apartments and Sorority Row for eight hours each night.

Rogè said Residential Life added security cameras to its facilities and gates to the Nicholson and Edward Gay Apartments.

“ResLife has done several things to curtail that from happening again,” Rogè said in reference to the 2007 double homicide at the apartments. “Crime’s going to happen no matter what you do.”

LSU is an open campus, and Rogè said the presence of two major state and city roads passing through — Nicholson Drive and Highland Road — brings a criminal element to the University.

But he said increased security during the past 10 years has helped to keep reported rapes low on campus. Many of the sexual crimes perpetrated on campus are not reported to LSUPD, he said.

The victims sometimes choose not to report the incident, and the Student Health Center cannot report incidences it confirms without victim authorization.

Ashley Granger, Wellness Education coordinator at the Health Center, said in an e-mail there have been seven anonymous reports so far this year to the Sexual Assault Victim’s Advocacy.

Of those, only one was reported to authorities. Since SAVA’s inception in 2003, there have been construction are starting to backup the freeways and highways.”

Sherif Ishak, civil engineering professor, said the volume of drivers on the road are not responsible for the congestion in Baton Rouge — it’s generally poor planning.

“The problem is with the planning from the very beginning,” Ishak said. “The way the urban sprawl here in Baton Rouge is really indicates that there is no good planning.”

The lack of turning lanes on Highland Road, Nicholson Drive and Lee Drive are an indicator of poor planning, Ishak said. Turning lanes would help with operations and safety on major highways.

In many cities, turning lanes in front of neighborhoods and major residential complexes efficiently move traffic, Ishak said.

“There’s a huge difference between the traffic in the summertime [and during school],” Ishak said.

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79 reports from student survivors of sexual violence.

The program and its 60 oncampus personnel provide confidential guidance and support to student victims of sex offense and may decide to report the crime to police, she said.

She said the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner provides immediate and comprehensive forensic evaluation, and since the 2006 inception of SANE, nurses have performed 15 exams.

Rogè reminds students to travel in well-lit areas and in groups at night, to park in open areas and to use Campus Transit, which is available until 3 a.m. He said pepper spray and stun guns are allowed on campus for protection.

Kathy Saichuk, Wellness Education coordinator at the Health Center, said sex offenses are the most under-reported crimes, and SAVA sometimes experiences surges in incident reports, though no clear trends exist.

She said the fact that LSU is an open campus makes it a “mini city” where real-city risks exist.

She said LSU’s resources need to be utilized for safety.

“This is a door-to-door service from five in the evening to 3 a.m.” she said of Campus Transit.

“Faculty take advantage of that, too.”

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OFFENDERS NEAR OTHER UNIVERSITIES The universities in the SEC with the lowest number of sexual predators per capita include the University of Auburn and the University of Georgia — whose home cities have minimal percentages of sex offenders.

The closest sex offenders to Tulane University reside one mile from campus, but the number jumps from seven to 97 at the two-mile mark, according to Louisiana State Police numbers.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette has a sex offender within a quarter-mile of the campus and 36 within one mile.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, four sex offenders live within a half-mile radius of the University of Florida campus, and 15 live within one mile. The University of Texas has five sex offenders affiliated with the campus itself, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

At the University of Arkansas, three offenders are located within one mile and 12 within two miles.

Other state Web sites did not provide radial projections of sex offender residences.

Janay Martinez, LSU general studies senior, said she feels safe in when she visits her boyfriend at his State Street residence. She was also unaware of the sex offender on Ivanhoe Street.

“Everybody looks out for each other around here,” Martinez said. “[Neighborhood sex offenders are] nerve-wracking as everything else ... I think if time was served ... he grew up a little.”

Contact Sarah Lawson at slawson@lsureveille.com

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been in the works for a while.

“LSU is pretty picky as far as who they allow in the concession area,” Leblanc said. “But once they came into Hello Sushi, they were impressed.”

Leblanc said the booths will have the same modern, Anime design featured in the restaurant.

And while the concept of eating sushi at a football game might seem a bit odd, she said it will work.

“There are ‘LSU is lot of people pretty picky awho are trying as far as to be a little who they more health onscious,” allow in the cLeblanc said. concession “It’s a great item that’s also area.’ a finger food ...

Stephanie Leblanc much healthier than hot dogs Hello Sushi or nachos.” general manager Hello Sushi has two locations near campus — one on Burbank Drive and one on Highland Road.

Clarkson said the booths will be managed by Hello Sushi servers and one of the restaurant’s head sushi chefs will be at the stadium to answer questions.

In addition to Hello Sushi, Great American Cookie Company, Honey Baked Ham, Chickfil-A, Triple B’s Cajun Cuisine, Repicci’s Italian Ice, Hershey’s and the LSU Dairy Store will all have locations in Tiger Stadium this season, according to Larry Wallace of Tiger Concessions.

Contact Kyle Bove at kbove@lsureveille.com

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OUR VIEW

Prof.’s informative anti-smoking campaign applauded Smoking is bad for you.

It’s a fact our mothers, teachers and government have told us since we were small. But, when students begin to adjust to college — and the newfound freedom they find there — many choose to pick up the habit anyway.

The negative effects of smoking are well-known and well publicized.

Pretty much everyone has seen at least one public service announcement showing charred lungs and disheveled, burnt-out faces. Smoking is an undeniable hazard to a user’s health — and let’s not forget that second-hand smoke is an equally serious problem.

We applaud Prof. Judith Sylvester’s efforts to raise awareness about

smoking and the health risks associated with the habit by organizing the Smoking Words campaign. It is commendable for such a campaign — especially a campaign fueled by student activity — to ensure University students are aware of exactly how much damage they do to themselves by lighting up.

That said, Smoking Words

needs to remain an education effort in the strictest sense of the word.

If the campaign begins to try to coerce or bully students who smoke in any way, then it has crossed the line from a good-natured attempt to inform students to an organization that interferes in individual decisions.

A college student has a right

to smoke — even if it harms him greatly.

Smoking Words needs to be careful to maintain a passive, nonevasive role. If it begins to turn intrusive, it’s hurting both the campus and it’s own cause.

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BURNS AFTER READING

Universal parking access will not solve problems

Parking headaches have become one of the most common complaints around campus the last few years.

Every student at LSU has a laundry list of traffic or parking-related horror stories.

Unfortunately, the people most affected by the inefficiencies of our parking system are the students who can’t afford the spiraling costs of oncampus housing.

Because of these exorbitant costs, students with pre-existing financial constraints depend daily on the University’s parking infrastructure.

But these costs have continued to soar while on-campus parking access has drastically declined. The problems caused by University action have only been exacerbated by various expansion projects and University regulations, such as “Easy Streets,” which protect faculty parking at the expense of the average student.

Today, commuter lots, which were originally designed to accommodate a relatively small overflow

of students, are now being forced to accommodate thousands of students daily.

And thanks to the massive influx of commuter parkers, the parking calamity has snowballed on and around campus. The insane traffic has caused resources to be reallocated toward addressing the mere symptoms of University parking rather than addressing the underlying disease of limited parking availability and the inordinate costs of on-campus living.

Many students today are demanding the University provide universal access to on-campus parking by eliminating the highly controversial “Easy Streets” program.

This sort of plan might sound appealing in theory. Especially to students who like the idea of granting all students access to the same quality parking faculty members receive.

But, in practice, we should see such a plan would actually achieve the direct opposite of its stated intent — namely because it fails to deal

with the underlying problems.

The truth is we won’t actually “fix” anything until we first address the root problems and start devising more innovative ways to increase parking availability and promote viable alternatives to driving.

Scott Burns As with any Columnist debate, we must understand what the real problems are before we can come up with real, rational solutions.

Virtually everyone agrees — at a university as privileged as ours — every student should be able to attain quality access to campus.

That’s why we need to start thinking of practical alternatives to the status quo. What we don’t need to do is appeal to the same institutions that exacerbated the problems and blindly hope everything will magically fix itself.

Besides, our current on-campus

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Americans need health care reform now

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Our nation cannot afford to wait on health care reform Our health care system is broken; there is no doubting that. American families urgently need a solution. When there are 46 million uninsured Americans having to decide whether to put food on the table so they can take their children to the doctor, it is shameful to make the claim that health care can wait, or that health care “must be defeated.”

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parking infrastructure can hardly sustain its present burden — especially with the drastic budget constraints they’re currently dealing with. Throwing thousands more students into an already fragile system without a plan for real change will only create more chaos and headaches.

There are plenty of pragmatic ways we can increase parking capacity and promote various alternatives once we think outside the box.

But first we need to reject the myth that simply providing universal access to on-campus parking will somehow solve everything.

We’ve seen objective evidence showing how the University has actually prevented parking alternatives from arising by limiting — or monopolizing — the campus region through “Easy Streets” and by reducing the amount of commuter lots on and near campus.

But to really succeed, the University needs to abandon its asphyxiating policies and allow entirely new alternatives to arise.

As logic suggests, there’s nothing really magical about “access” to on-campus parking because our existing infrastructure is highly inefficient and entirely unsustainable.

If we really want everyone to have quality access to campus, we need to stop looking to the University for an easy street fix and start working toward real, practical alternatives.

Ultimately, our objective shouldn’t merely be to provide universal access, but to encourage better efficiency and optimal results so everybody benefits.

But what do I know? I’m just a college student who likes using metaphors.

times faster than wages. Half of all personal bankruptcies stem from medical expenses. We have all heard these facts time and time again. Yet some people in this nation chose to deter any progress in respect to universal health care coverage. That, of course, is their right. But to spread fear and false claims in hopes of thwarting any success in a plan that would cover all Americans is not only irresponsible, it is ignorant.

Our nation’s health care infrastructure is severely undeveloped. With that said, our national government has the duty and responsibility to provide for its citizens — for their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness or property.

Government should take steps to reduce costs by

improving efficiency and investing in preventative care. Government must guarantee every American the right to choose his plan and doctor — including a public insurance option — while at the same time ensuring quality, affordable care for every American.

Health care reform cannot wait. The health and well-being of American citizens cannot wait.

Our nation’s politicians cannot wait in passing health care reform. Our leaders must not hesitate in providing for their citizens in protecting their health and their future.

Scott Burns is a 20-year-old business and history junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter@ TDR_sburns.

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Judson Watkins political science freshman

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Organs should be allowed to re-enter free market If you’ve ever tried to sell football tickets, economists have little to teach you about the law of supply.

You may love your spot in the heart of Death Valley, but — at some price — you’ll happily watch the game at Brightside Bar & Grill.

All else held equal, higher prices result in more people selling their tickets.

Whenever prices are above what economists call the “marketclearing price,” there are surplus offers without enough takers.

Whenever prices are below the market-clearing level, there is a shortage of people willing to give up their highly valued resources.

If you want to think like an economist, the next time you see a shortage say, “the price is too low.”

Let’s practice.

This year, 6,500 Americans on the organ waiting list will pass away. If you count those who left the list because their worsening sickness made them

poor candidates, that number goes to 9,000. Count others whom doctors never even bothered to put on the waiting list in the first place, and you’re looking at a deadly shortage.

Clearly, the price is too low.

There’s a lot to admire about someone who freely gives his or her organs. Even more striking are those who go under the knife to give a kidney or part of their liver.

Unfortunately, the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act made the buying and selling of organs from both living and dead sources illegal — hence the shortage.

Imagine a world where grieving families had a way to deal with funeral expenses, the blood donor buses occasionally parked alongside Free Speech Alley could offer a $20 payment, and liberal arts graduates could repay their student loans by selling a part of their liver — if they still have one left.

The market-clearing price for kidneys is around $15,000,

according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker and Julio Elias. This is far less than the alternative — a lifetime of dialysis, which costs twice as much every year It’s hard to see how anyone could be Daniel Morgan pragmatically against freeColumnist market organ transplants. Those who need organs get their life extended, and those who need more money boost their finances.

Like any voluntary transaction, all participants leave in a better position than they started. That is, after all, why they volunteered to participate.

But perhaps this is a situation in which ethics trumps pragmatics.

Perhaps an abstract moral principle should stop the desperate from improving their situation.

Detractors might say it’s wrong to “put a dollar value on human life,” but every time they drink, smoke or overeat, they themselves are valuing short-term pleasure over their long-term health.

Nobody infinitely values their body, and there’s nothing wrong with that decision. This choice doesn’t suddenly become wrong if they choose money — a means to both pleasure and necessity.

That being said, the very last thing I want to do is put a dollar value on human life. I want people to put a dollar value on their own organs. If times turn tough, I might be willing to sell one of my kidneys for $15,000, but I probably wouldn’t for $3,000. Some would.

And that difference reflects the diversity of human values.

Ironically, it’s those against a free market in organ transplants who are militantly putting a dollar value on human organs — the price is zero. At that price, the only motive left is altruism.

As economist Alex Tabarrok said in an article on the subject, “Altruism is a fine thing, but it is in short supply.”

Prices lead to efficient distribution of resources.

Altruism and top-down controls don’t.

Humans own their own bodies.

No one can argue otherwise without using their own bodies to make the point — an argument-imploding contradiction.

You should be free to do what you want with your property as long as you’re not hurting others, even if it’s something almost as valuable as football tickets — a part of your liver.

Daniel Morgan is 21-year-old economics senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter@ TDR_dmorgan.

Contact Daniel Morgan at dmorgan@lsureveille.com

FREEMAN OF SPEECH

Obama, denial from Tiger Stadium motivate

I was on academic probation last year.

This Saturday, my efforts to redeem my situation will pay off with the help of 92,599 of my closest friends.

Taking a semester break from pissing off half of the campus and all of Student Government in my columns was the second toughest decision I’ve made as a University student, just after resigning from the University after Hurricane Katrina.

With my GPA below 2.0 and probation in place, I walked up to Tiger Stadium last fall hoping the ticket counters simply wouldn’t notice.

They did notice and politely — read: sarcastically — asked me to step away from the Valley.

As grateful as I can be about being stopped from witnessing a lackluster 8-5 season, it hurt to be prevented from getting that feeling when the entire stadium shakes after the Golden Band from Tigerland steps onto the field.

I vowed, right then and there, I would return to Tiger Stadium to regain that feeling for the Fall of 2009.

I set a “Geauxl.”

This Geauxl — and kudos to my cousin for coining this term for me — sits at the heart of President Obama’s speech to the nation’s schoolchildren yesterday, along with the idiocy of the conservative argument against said speech.

I’ve never heard the word “indoctrination” used so flippantly.

Most of the complaints about the leader of the free world speaking to the nation’s schoolchildren on the first day of class had to do with needless politics. In a “lesson plan”

sent out by the White House, schoolteachers were encouraged to facilitate discussion among the children by asking such awful questions like, “What is the President trying to tell me,” “What is the President asking me to Eric Freeman Jr. do,” and “What new ideas and Columnist actions is the President challenging me to think about?”

The controversy was spurred by anti-intellectuals who fear that the president actually will indoctrinate their kids and brainwash them into falling hook, line and sinker for the entire Obama agenda.

God forbid our third graders agree with the need for health care reform.

The most prominent critic of the speech was Jim Greer, Chairman of the Florida Republican Party, who made the rounds on CNN and MSNBC all weekend. He argued, before the remarks were posted on the White House Web site, it was unfair for Obama’s “socialist ideology” to be imposed onto students.

After reading his remarks, Greer had no problem with Obama’s remarks, adding, “It remains to be seen if it’s the speech he’s going to give,” according to the New York Times.

His and other inflammatory remarks about the president giving a speech to schoolchildren — which other socialist pigs as Ronald Reagan and Bushes I and II did as well — sparked so much controversy, parents actually kept children home

from school yesterday to protest.

This raises an important question about whether these parents were worried their kids would listen to Obama — and not just his Fox News caricature parroted by their parents — and actually understand what he said.

The message he did give to schoolchildren had to do with personal responsibility and their potential successes being dependent on hard work. Toward the end of the speech, Obama laid down the gauntlet. “If you’re quitting on yourself,

you’re quitting on your country.”

I quit on myself a year ago, but it took a ban from Tiger Stadium to make me get my act together.

Goals are what you make of them and are unique to each individual. The promise of financial success wasn’t enough to get me to want to do well in school. But I found my own reason to want to be successful, embodying the same message Obama wanted to get across to our nation’s children.

This Saturday, when the band walks on the field and plays the first

four notes of “Four Corners,” 92,599 fans will lose their minds and scream with every fiber of their being.

Look out for me.

I’ll be the one who looks like he just saw a Geauxl become a reality.

Eric Freeman Jr. is a 22-year-old political science senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter@ TDR_efreeman.

Contact Eric Freeman Jr. at efreeman@lsureveille.com

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