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Senate bill could decrease TOPS

By Kyle Bove

Chief Staff Writer

A proposed Senate bill would put a cap on TOPS scholarships at a level that would cover tuition at every other state public college except LSU and the University of New Orleans.

The TOPS base award for LSU is worth $3,494 per academic year, but under Senate Bill 85 — submitted by Sen. Butch Gautreaux — the base award would be worth only $3,200. Tuition is expected to increase by 5 percent at the University, along with higher student fees. If the bill is approved by the Legislature, whose session begins next Monday, the change would mean an increase of more than $250 that wouldn’t be covered under TOPS. The bill could help Louisiana cushion Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed cuts.

“A cap at this time — at this level — could cause the better students in the state to leave the state,” said Chancellor Michael Martin.

The proposed cap would still cover most of LSU’s tuition and wouldn’t affect the TOPS Performance or Honors awards.

Capital City home to popular exploration sites

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[Top, left] Graffiti covers the walls of tunnels under parts of campus. [Above] Locks on the gates of the old steel wharf on River Road haven’t kept people from following the recent trend of urban exploring.

By Leslie Presnall Staff Writer

Colleen Kane explored an old abandoned asylum in Edison, N.J., observing patient files scattered over the floors, a wing too dark to navigate with a mysteriously spongy

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floor and a room where metal adult cribs had been pushed into the empty swimming pool.

“It was scary, fascinating and huge, and you never knew who you’d run into there,” Kane said.

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Marijuana arrests on campus continue to rise LSUPD: CIU stopping more suspicious people

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LSUPD has made 38 drug-related arrests this semester.

Marijuana arrests on campus are rising like smoke.

The LSU Police Department has made 38 drug arrests this semester, and a majority involved marijuana.

LSUPD spokesman Maj. Lawrence Rabalais said the number of marijuana ar-

rests has significantly increased since the implementation of the Crime Interdiction Unit in 2008.

Formed in response to the murder of two University doctoral students in December 2007, the CIU is made up of four officers who patrol campus in plain clothing.

Their goal is to stop and identify suspicious people, Rabalais said. Drug arrests nearly tripled between 2007 and 2008 — climbing from 56 to 152.

“Since we have enacted the Criminal Interdiction Unit, they are making more stops for probable causes such as expired license plates, speeding and red light [vio-

lations],” Rabalais said. “In doing so, it has become more apparent to them — through the number of increased violator stops — that people are using marijuana.”

Rabalais said if an officer smells marijuana during a traffic violation stop, he or she will question the driver.

“Typically, the persons admit to either having the marijuana in the vehicle or having smoked the marijuana — subsequently giving consent to search,” Rabalais said.

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GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations opens its first global racism conference in eight years today with the U.S. and at least six other countries boycotting the event out of concern that Islamic countries will demand that it denounce Israel and ban criticism of Islam. The administration of President Obama, America’s first black head of state, announced Saturday that it would boycott “with regret” the weeklong meeting in Geneva, which already is experiencing much of the bickering and political infighting that marred the 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa.

ROME (AP) — Even before all the debris from Italy’s latest devastating earthquake is cleaned up, investigators fear that organized crime is poised to profit from contracts worth billions of dollars to rebuild schools, hospitals, courthouses and homes. The crime clans have many connections to cement companies, debris-removal outfits and other businesses which could infiltrate the reconstruction process if authorities aren’t vigilant, warned Franco Roberti, head of the Naples office of investigative magistrates who probe the Camorra crime syndicate based in that southern port city.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — It was 14 years ago when Doris Battle’s parents were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, just two of the 168 people who died during the nation’s worst domestic terrorist attack. “I can’t go home and see him anymore,” Battle said of her father, Calvin Battle, who died with her mother Peola when the Oklahoma City federal building was bombed on April 19, 1995. And Battle said the passage of time has not diminished the loss she still feels. Battle was among 400 people who gathered Sunday to observe the 14th anniversary of the bombing of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, an attack that also injured hundreds of people.

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Columbine students Pres. Obama decides to striving 10 years later keep some Bush secrets LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — The “boy in the window” — who fell bloodied and paralyzed into the arms of rescuers during the horrifying Columbine High shooting rampage — is doing just fine. Now 27, Patrick Ireland has regained mobility with few lingering effects from gunshot wounds to his head and leg a decade ago. He is married and works in the financial services industry. His mantra: “I choose to be a victor rather than a victim.”

Like Ireland, many survivors of the April 20, 1999, massacre have moved on to their respective careers.

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TECHNOLOGY

Study finds frequent Facebook use affects GPAs Students say they multi-task easily

By Steven Powell Contributing Writer

A recent Ohio State University study found a correlation between frequent Facebook users and lower GPAs, despite students saying they can multi-task without consequences.

Aryn Karpinski, Ohio State graduate student, said the study did not definitely prove frequent Facebook use leads to lower GPAs, but merely a correlation between students with lower GPAs and those who use Facebook frequently.

According to the study, which is based on a survey of student volunteers, Facebook users had an average GPA between 3.0 and 3.5, while non-users had an average GPA between 3.5 and 4.0. Also, Facebook users studied an average of one to five hours a week, while non-users studied 1115 hours a week.

Karpinski said this 219-student study was only an exploratory study that she hopes will lead to further research and findings.

“The real interesting finding is 79 percent of Facebook users said Facebook didn’t have an impact on their performance,” Karpinski said.

Emily Elliott, psychology professor, said using Facebook while studying is worse than people think, because many

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to search.”

If someone smoked marijuana before driving and smells because of it, officers cannot arrest the driver for marijuana possession. A driver can also refuse to give consent to search, but officers can still detain the driver and get a search warrant.

Rabalais said LSUPD recently switched from using verbal consent to search to written consent, where a person signs a statement saying the police are allowed to search his or her property. He said this rule eliminates the “he said, she said” issues that may arise in court.

Many marijuana violations occur in residence halls too. Rabalais said officers can only search rooms if they have probable cause — like smoke billowing from the room, for example. If there’s more than one person living in a room, officers can only search the consented person’s portion of the room.

“We have laws to follow — we have the Constitution to follow,” Rabalais said. “A lot of people don’t understand that. We can’t arbitrarily just search your room or stop you for any reason without that probable cause.”

Eric Norman, Student Advocacy and Accountability associate dean, said there is a “separate but parallel process” when students are caught with marijuana. A student generally has to deal with the criminal and academic aspect of the violation.

on,” she said. “I don’t really use balance school and distractions a computer much except to check at the moment, but might have a problem down the road. She’s my e-mail.”

Steib said she uses study more distracted with Facebook breaks to check finances and plan than with distractions before the her budget; something she said Facebook era, she said.

Sarah Baird, Center for Acamay be odd for a college student.

“In addition to doing financ- demic Success associate, said es, I usually procrastinate study- procrastinating is a significant ing by playing a game or watching problem for students that often TV,” she said. “I’ve gotten better never goes away. She said the key over the past year, which is pretty is finding a strategy to avoid promuch why I crastination. don’t check Fa“ W h a t cebook often.” we tell stuFacebook dents is think Log on to see students’ can be espeof your longopinions on the distracterm goals, cially distracttions of Facebook and tune then continuing in class beinto KLSU at 5:20 p.m. to ally break them cause humans hear more about this story. down into ‘how are naturally will the next 50 drawn to new faces, diverting the attention of minutes contribute to the overall surrounding students every time a goal,” she said.

Facebook is more problemnew picture pops up, Elliott said.

Student laptops are necessary, atic than past distractions, such as despite the potential distractions telephones or televisions, because it is so different and distracts stufrom lectures, Karpinski said “In the class I teach, I know a dents on many different levels, lot of my students are on Facebook Baird said. It is also a problem – it’s perfect for in-class distrac- because new technology allows tions,” she said. “You can’t avoid students to have constant access it because laptops are needed for to Facebook, she said.

“I liken Facebook to having certain activities and classes, but I a big group of friends following know what they’re doing.”

Stephanie Juneau, biology you around all the time and each freshman, said Facebook is some- one talking to you at random times times a problem for her when of the day,” she said. “It’s not like other distractions because of the she’s trying to study.

“I definitely procrastinate presence of other people.” studying and homework,” she said. “I’ll study for 30 minutes, then take a ’10-minute break’ and Contact Steven Powell at end up on Facebook for an hour.”

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Kyle Richard, biological engineering sophomore, studies on Wednesday on the first floor of Middleton Library with Facebook open on the next computer.

students think they can multi-task without consequence. However, Facebook is cognitively demanding and hinders the brain to grasp the concepts of the study material, she said.

“Facebook is a new face to an old problem in the sense that it’s very engaging and rewarding, because it’s fun,” she said.

“But if you really love a TV show and have your books open while watching, are you really studying? This is the same as flipping back and forth to Facebook.”

Using Facebook while studying is comparable to talking on a cell phone while driving — the problem isn’t missing a hand from the wheel but the loss of attention

to the road and surroundings, Elliott said.

Anthony Cozzi, psychology senior, said he always finds himself on Facebook while studying.

“Facebook hasn’t really hurt my grades,” he said. “It just takes longer to do homework. I always have Facebook on in the background when I’m studying.”

Cozzi said Facebook is the biggest distraction, because nothing seemed to distract him from studying before Facebook.

Brittany Steib, general studies senior, said Facebook doesn’t distract from her school work.

“I only check my Facebook once a week, unless there’s a party or something else going

Norman said students aren’t normally expelled for marijuana violations unless they are caught with a felony amount — 28 grams — or have multiple offenses. Students caught will normally take courses, become part of a group, are suspended for one to two years to clean up or — if more serious — will seek input or output treatment.

Norman said his office typically receives incident reports from police as a starting point for student treatment. Most student drug violations involve marijuana and Adderall, Norman said.

“The point for us is to make sure that they’re going to change the habit,” Norman said. “Most students don’t roll back with another one, and if they do, they probably have an addiction issue that we need to resolve.”

Rabalais said LSUPD’s goal is to prevent students and other citizens from using again.

“The bulk of what we’re dealing with is if someone’s got a gram or two,” Norman said. “We just want to make sure we turn around the behavior.”

According to the CORE Institute’s 2007 Drug and Alcohol Survey, 23.7 percent of LSU students used marijuana in the past year, 13.5 percent used marijuana within the past 30 days and 8.5 percent use illegal drugs other than marijuana.

“That’s our goal in police work — whether we arrest you or let you off with a warning or a traffic ticket,

our goal is to make sure that you do not repeat that type of behavior,” Rabalais said.

As for legalizing marijuana, Norman is torn.

“I am still debating this in my mind,” Norman said. “It might ease up our court system, but the adversarial health effects of the marijuana use may offset any gains in that regard. Marijuana is a gateway drug, so if legalizing the use or possession increases the use of other drugs with increased psychological and [physiological] addiction issues, I would not be in favor.”

Rabalais said he is against legalization.

“It’s a controlled, dangerous substance,” Rabalais said. “I think if you legalize it, at that point, where does it stop? What will be next?”

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Urban exploration — touring abandoned, off-limits buildings or tunnels — has been around since cities have existed, but the term was coined in 1996, according to the Urban Explorers Network.

Explorers examine storm drains, buildings, rooftops, transit tunnels, college steam tunnels, old ruins and other man-made structures.

The popularity has exploded, leading to thousands of Web sites allowing members to share exploration stories, photos and tips.

Kane, a Rutgers University alumna and Baton Rouge resident, began urban exploring with her friends in high school, stemming from boredom and curiosity.

Kane’s brother led the pack and would often come home announcing an abandoned house he had stumbled upon.

“Then us bored teenagers would go there and see what we could find, which was usually just graffiti, bottles and other evidence of bored teenagers who came before us,” she said.

Kane moved to Baton Rouge nearly two decades later and picked up the hobby again when she noticed the interesting buildings left to rot around the city, she said.

“I’ve always had a taste for the morbid,” she said. “I’m a horror fan, and this hobby plays into those interests.”

Kane stops at any abandoned building, pokes around, looks in the windows and takes pictures.

“If the places were open, we might be tempted to go in,” she said.

One of Kane’s favorite places to explore in Baton Rouge is The Bellemont Hotel, formerly Baton Rouge’s premier motor lodge where movie stars stayed when filming in town. The plantation-style hotel and convention center was built in 1946, according to a Yahoo travel listing.

“Now it’s mostly in ruins and getting overgrown by plants and mold, although some of the rooms there are still lived in,” she said. “I took so many pictures; I had to go home for another memory card.”

Kane said for the most part no one bothers her on her explorations.

“I rarely go out alone anymore and really should be taking more precautions than I do,” she said. “I do frequently encounter someone sitting in the shade at a site, and then I usually just quietly turn around and go the other direction.”

Today, Kane maintains a blog to document her excursions. She said she usually tries to explore at least a few times a month.

Baton Rouge is home to many popular sites including old plantations on River Road, drainage tunnels under Government Street, The Real Superstore and the Lincoln Theater Complex near downtown.

One popular site was the Geodesic Dome, built by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1958, according to one urban-exploring Web site.

The dome was the 9th largest in the U.S., sitting on a stretch off Scenic Highway, but was closed and left in desolation in 1983. The dome was demolished in 2007, but still remains a popular site for exploration.

UNIVERSITY TUNNELS Running under the Quad and three miles throughout campus, with dozens of access points, the University houses a maze of tunnels that

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have been popular for students to explore for decades.

“We call them utility tunnels because they carry all the campus’ utilities,” said Bobby Pitre, executive director of Facility and Utility Operations. “They carry electrical power lines, data cables for the Internet, compressed air and all domestic water for drinking.”

Some of the tunnels are more than 70 years old and range from large passageways up to 6 feet tall to tighter squeezes of only 18 to 20 inches high.

“You can crawl through there if you are small,” Pitre said.

Pitre said he’s only been in the tunnels a few times to repair leaks, and he must carry a flashlight and dress properly because of asbestos.

“There used to be a lighting system, but over the years, no one has ever put the money into fixing it,” he said. “But since I’ve been here, they’ve made a tremendous amount of progress repairing [the leaks].”

Pitre said he’s currently in the process of applying for a grant to receive stimulus money to repair the tunnels.

“Some of the areas are really old, but the bigger issue is the energy,” he said. “The insulation on the piping is 50 to 60 years old. It’s falling off the pipe and wasting a lot of energy.”

Students may notice a warning sign on an unlocked gate under the stairs near Subway in Foster Hall or

the large steel doors scattered around the Quad with a ladder leading into the pitch-black, musty tunnels.

“They’ve tried to secure some of the tunnels when they can, but we really hesitate to put locks because we don’t want anyone doing work to get locked in,” Pitre said. “None are locked, but the doors are pretty heavy.”

Pitre said students exploring the tunnels has lost its popularity in the past 10 years, but he still finds clothes, trash and graffiti from current explorers.

Associate Dean of Students and Director of Judicial Affairs Eric Norman said he’s only heard of the tunnels and was unsure if they really existed.

“I usually get a few folks that walk into H.P. Long a handful of times a year,” Norman said. “Usually, a small group of folks go in.”

Norman said the sanction for trespassing varies.

But he usually assigns disciplinary probation, an ethical decisionmaking class and possibly community service or restitution if there was any damage.

LEGALITIES Sgt. Don Kelly, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman, said going onto private or public property without permission could be considered trespassing, and violators could be cited under city or state law, depending on the circumstances and

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The Bellemont Hotel is one of Colleen Kane’s favorite places to explore in Baton Rouge.

location.

“Not to mention, it could be very dangerous,” Kelly said.

According to East Baton Rouge Parish law, trespassing includes the unauthorized and intentional taking possession of any tract of land or structure thereon without the consent of the owner or the unauthorized entry upon any enclosed immovable property or lands belonging to public institutions.

Individuals found guilty of trespassing could be fined up to $25 and imprisoned up to 20 days.

But urban exploring usually includes only taking pictures — not vandalizing, stealing or breaking in, according to the Urban Explorers Network.

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Sports

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Rocky Flop

SPRING FOOTBALL

Mistakes, inconsistent pitching cost No. 1 Tigers two of three games against Tennessee

Shepard shows promise in spring game Scott runs for 70 yards

By Rachel Whittaker Sports Writer

Tennessee senior pitcher Ty’Relle games on the weekend and snapped Harris knew he had nothing to lose in LSU’s streak of an SEC-record nineSunday’s rubber game straight conference seBy Casey Gisclair of the Volunteers’ weekries victories.

Chief Sports Writer end series against No. Tennessee has been 1 LSU with Tennessee a nuisance to LSU the sitting in last place in the Southeastern last three seasons and has won seven of Conference standings. the past nine games the teams played.

Harris delivered and sent Tennes“Sometimes, I guess, people just see to its first road SEC series win of have your number,” said LSU senior the season and pitched 6 2/3 innings in pitcher Nolan Cain. “They’ve had ours the Volunteers’ 9-4 win. since I’ve been here.”

“You’re in last place, so what are LSU coach Paul Mainieri said his you going to do — sink into last place team’s struggles against the Volunteers deeper?” Harris said. “We just had to is more about LSU’s poor play than come out here and fight and try to show about Tennessee’s recent dominance of people that we’re better than our re- the series. cord.”

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LSU freshman third baseman Tyler Hanover attempts to throw out a runner at first base Friday night versus Tennessee at Alex Box Stadium.

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LSU junior catcher Sean Ochinko bats Sunday afternoon against Tennessee.

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LSU senior pitcher Nolan Cain pitches Sunday during the Tigers’ 9-4 loss to Tennessee.

Freshman Purple team quarterback Russell Shepard showed flashes of success Saturday in LSU’s annual spring game, but two mistakes proved costly in the Purple team’s 27-0 loss to the White team in Tiger Stadium.

Shepard finished 7-of-12 for 70 passing yards and rushed eight times for 16 net yards. But a lost fumble and an interception made him “look like a young quarterback,” coach Les Miles said.

“When you evaluate a guy like Russell Shepard on a day, you have to see some of the things he Log on to did positive see video and negative,” highlights Miles said. of the “He has a very spring athletic body game. and needs reps to develop throws. He can be a quarterback who has the ability to both run and pass.”

Sophomore Jordan Jefferson started for the White team at quarterback and completed 8-of10 passes for 97 yards with no turnovers. He said he feels more confident with the way the offense runs, and he said he sees great promise for Shepard.

“This year I understand the SPRING, see page 10

TIGERS IN THE DRAFT: A FIVE-PART SERIES

Injury concerns shadow Beckwith Linebacker projected to be third-round pick

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

Former linebacker Darry Beckwith caused problems for opposing offenses with his quickness and open-field tackling ability in his four-year career at LSU. But leg and knee injuries throughout his career have some professional teams questioning whether Beckwith can have the same impact at the professonal level.

“Injuries are the biggest concern about him,” said local NFL draft analyst Mike

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Detillier. “If you can’t stay healthy for 12 [games], then now you’re playing 16.

His injuries were legit, but it’s still a conMike Detillier cern. Anytime NFL draft analyst you have a similar injury all at a similar time in the season, it draws up a red flag.”

Beckwith moved into the starting lineup in his sophomore season at LSU and started 34 of the 35 games he played in

from 2006-2008.

The Baton Rouge native was an impact player as soon as he was moved into the starting lineup and was second on the team with 65 tackles in 2006.

Beckwith also had 65 tackles in the 2007 season, the season in which he made arguably the biggest play of his career when he intercepted a pass in the Southeastern Conference championship game to seal LSU’s win against Tennessee.

But injuries forced Beckwith out of five games in the past three seasons and slowed up his numbers to just 51 tackles in

‘[Beckwith] is a sound tackler, and he is above average in pass coverage.’

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Former LSU linebacker Darry Beckwith runs the 40-yard dash during Pro Day on March 16. Beckwith is projected to be picked in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft.

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GYMNASTICS

Tigers finish sixth in Super Six Clare-Kearney claims national titles

By Rob Landry Sports Contributor

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LSU senior gymnast Ashleigh Clare-Kearney said earlier this season winning a national title would be icing on the cake for her career.

On Saturday, she got two servings of icing.

The Manchester, Conn., native won individual national championships on the vault and the floor exercise, becoming the first gymnast in LSU history to win two titles. “[Winning the national title] was an amazing feeling,” ClareKearney said. “It was really an honor.”

Clare-Kearney beat out another Tiger — junior Susan Jackson — by only .006 on the vault to become the fifth individual national champion at LSU under coach D-D Breaux. This also marked the first time LSU had gymnasts finish first and second on one event in the national championships.

“Susan went first and really pushed Ashleigh and set the bar,” Breaux said. “Then Ashleigh slightly beat her and they went one-two in the event. It was fabulous.”

Sophomore Staci Schwitkis added even more history to the night with her 10th place finish on vault — the first time the Tigers have had three gymnasts place top 10 nationally in one event.

Junior Summer Hubbard, the fourth Tiger to compete in an event Saturday, finished in 16th place on the uneven bars.

Though Saturday was a day of many firsts for LSU gymnastics, Friday’s Super Six meet did not end with the result LSU desired.

The Tigers finished the meet in sixth place, one spot lower than their fifth place finish last season.

“I think [the meet] could have gone a little bit better,” said junior Sabrina Franceschelli. “Overall we were pleased, but we wanted to do better than we did.”

Georgia ran away with the title, scoring a 197.825 en route to their fifth consecutive national championship.

The Bulldogs were led by senior Courtney Kupets, who posted a 39.900 on the day. Kupets scored perfect 10s on the vault and the uneven bars. She also scored a 9.950 on both the balance beam and floor exercise.

The title was especially meaningful for the Georgia gymnastics program because it marks the end of coach Suzanne Yoculan’s illustrious career. Yoculan has won 17 conference titles in 26 seasons

at the helm of the Bulldogs’ gymnastics program. This was her 10th national championship.

Alabama came in second in the meet, followed by Utah, Florida, Arkansas and LSU. The Tigers started the meet well on the floor exercise by posting a 49.300, their third highest score of the season on the event.

But fatigue set in by the time the Tigers reached their final event, the balance beam.

“We just ran out of gas,” Breaux said. “By the time we got to beam there was nothing left.”

Though the beam was the team’s biggest struggle, it turned out to be Clare-Kearney’s biggest success of the day. For the first time in six meets, Clare-Kearney was able to stay on the beam for her full routine.

“I knew I did not want to end my career falling on the beam,” Clare-Kearney said. “That monkey is off my back now.”

Clare-Kearney was one of four women nominated for the Honda Sports Award for gymnasts. The winner of the award will become a candidate for the Honda-Broderick Cup, awarded to the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.

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MY OPINION

Want to buy an album for $20,000?

around the North Gates of LSU after 11 years of playing there, and a few people know him by name.

For White, the people he meets makes the half-mile walk from his house worth the time.

“Leroy is a genuine good guy.

He’s passionate about two things: music and people. I doubt you’d find someone else who loves what they do as much as he does,” said Chad Vignes, mass communication senior. “That’s the first thing I

Between illegal downloading and a troubled economy, many artists are having trouble selling their music in conventional ways. But one musician found an new way to make some serious money.

Multiinstrumentalist Josh Freese, formerly of A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails, recently made an astounding Ben Bourgeois $20,000 for an Entertainment obscenely deWriter luxe version of his album Since 1972.

Why would anyone pay $20,000 for an album? Well because it includes a tour of Long Beach, a game of miniature golf with Freese and his rock star buddies and a personal drum lesson (or back and foot massage).

Super fan Thomas Mrzyglocki, 19, traveled to Freese’s home earlier this month to redeem his deluxe prize and said he loved every minute of it. Though many of his friends told Mrzyglocki, a high school senior, to make a more sound investment on something like a car, he said he bought something much more valuable.

“Almost anybody can buy a car,” Mrzyglocki said in an interview with Wired.com. “Only one person gets to buy Josh Freese’s

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FREESE, see page 9

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Leroy White, a local musician, frequently performs along Chimes Street. White has been playing his guitar and singing in the North Gate area for nearly 11 years.

Chimes Street Troubadour

Local artist expresses his passion for music for passers-by at the North Gates of LSU As a woman in her early 20s walked up the steps into The Chimes on Highland Road, she didn’t look happy.

Talking on her cell phone, she seemed to be in the midst of an upsetting argument.

While most passers-by wouldn’t have said anything to the young woman, Leroy White couldn’t pass up the chance to cheer her up.

“Don’t be so sad, baby,” he said to the woman. “Everything is going to be OK.” The woman rushed past White

and up the stairs without breaking weren’t as heavy. stride, prompting him to burst into These occasions are why White song. plays his guitar.

On her way back out to her car “If I can cheer someone up, I’m a few minutes later, happy, and it even the young woman makes my day betBy Jake Clapp paused to watch ter,” White said.

Entertainment Writer White strum his White, a 57guitar and sing an upbeat melody year-old Vietnam veteran, walks to he titled “I Love You, Baby” in a The Chimes from his home on West soothing voice that has been weath- McKinley Street at least three times ered by age. a week to sit on the steps and play The woman walked away after his guitar for anyone who will listhe song with a grin on her face and ten. at least for a moment her problems He has become a familiar sight

RECREATION

Student, alumnus invent psychological fish bait Father-son duo’s lure memory-based

By Jack LeBlanc Entertainment Writer

For Todd Munsey, human resource education senior, and his father “Stubby” Steve Munsey, School of Veterinary Medicine alumnus, the fish are biting.

The Munseys think they may have figured out what fish want to eat, and the answer seems like common sense —fish food.

The two have developed a bait, Stubby Steve’s, that is made to look and smell exactly like the fish pellets fed to fish raised in ponds and lakes.

The logic is that many of the freshwater fish in America’s rivers,

lakes and ponds were at one time fed fish pellets, so when they see and smell what they think is a fish pellet, they get hungry.

“It’s the same sensation you get when you go to [Raising] Cane’s and sit in your car, and you can smell it, and your mouth starts to water, and your senses start to go wild. The same thing happens to fish all the time,” Todd Munsey said.

Todd Munsey said fish get the same sensations people get when they smell food from their childhood.

“It’s like when you’re a kid and you remember eating that first bowl of spaghetti with meatballs. You remember the way it smells, the way it tastes,” he said.

The two have sold more than 3,000 packets of their fish bait throughout the country and are

looking to gain a foothold in a $19 billion per year fishing equipment industry.

Every year, Americans make 337 million trips to ponds, lakes and rivers to fish, according to the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation conducted by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Freshwater anglers spent $26.3 billion on freshwater fishing trips and equipment, according to the survey.

Todd Munsey said despite tough competition in an enormous industry, his bait has been performing well.

“The response is off the charts,” Todd Munsey said. “In the end, what fish want to eat the most is fish food, and Stubby Steve’s smells and looks FISH, see page 8

photo courtesy of Stacy Plugh

Anna Munsey, Todd Munsey’s sister, poses with a rainbow trout she caught. Munsey plans to follow in her father’s footsteps and apply to the Vet School.

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DESIGN

Architecture students finalists in design competition Students’ chair places in contest Two fourth-year architecture students are finalists in the American Institute of Architecture Students’ Chair Affair competition.

Sarah Clement and Drew Wallace teamed up in January to begin creating their chair. The duo submitted the design in March. They were informed later that month that they were in the top six of the 171 contestants.

Clement and Wallace then shipped the chair to San Francisco, Calif., for further judging by the AIA. The students will find out in early May how well the chair placed.

Awards will be presented to the first- and second-place winners in Las Vegas later this year.

The chair will be on display in the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. over the summer.

“We were really excited when we found out that we placed,” Clement said. “But now we’re kind of nervous to find out the final results.”

The challenge was that the chair could only be made of cardboard and glue. The competition is unlike others of its kind because the design had to be actually built.

Clement and Wallace used digital fabrication technology, a threedimensional computer program, to design the chair. The components of the chair were cut with a laser printer.

The students recycled 13 cardboard boxes for the chair and put about 13 man-hours into building it.

“It all felt up in the air until we actually constructed the chair,” Clement said. “The moment of truth was when we first sat on it.”

The chair is estimated to sustain

200 pounds.

The duo was inspired to enter in the competition in December while at the AIAS convention. They saw last year’s chairs and decided that the competition would be a fun project.

The pair said that they collaborated very well. While Wallace concentrated more on the structure, Clement concentrated on the texture and connecting the pieces. The two felt that they worked equally on the project and made a great team.

Clement and Wallace explained that the continuous support from their instructors and classmates really helped them finish the project.

“It was great to stay up all night and then have everyone be excited about the progress made. It made it all worth it,” Clement said.

nary Hospital in Tazewell, Va., and makes and sells the bait in his spare time.

Steve Munsey, a 1983 graduate of the Vet School, makes all the product himself in a workshop behind his house. Munsey is currently selling Stubby Steve’s through his Web site and in 21 Magic Mart locations in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina.

Steve Munsey is now looking to spread his business outside his home region, and is using his son Todd’s connections in Baton Rouge to spread the word.

Todd Munsey has been visiting bait shops, talking to students and taking people fishing for the past few weeks. He seems excited to be selling a product he genuinely loves.

“We’ve had a very positive response from the local community,” Todd Munsey said. “It’s the greatest feeling in the world knowing that your bait might help a 7-year-old catch his first fish.”

By Lindsay Nunez Entertainment Writer

photo courtesy of Sarah Clement

Architecture students, Sarah Clement and Drew Wallace, are finalists in the American Institute of Architects Chair Affair competition. Their chairs [featured above] are solely constructed of cardboard and glue and can support 200 pounds.

FISH from page 7 more like real fish food than any other bait on the market.”

The pellets are made of rubber and are 100 percent biodegradable.

The Munsey’s secret recipe uses concentrated fish food smells to keep the fish biting.

Nate Herman, a Cabella’s lake and ponds service provider in Illinois, said he stocks fish in ponds, removes fish from ponds, sets up habitats in ponds and takes clients on guided fishing.

“Even if you feed a fish fish food for the first two weeks of its life, it’s always going to remember that smell and taste,” Herman said.

“I’ve been tying fish food wrapped in pantyhose to the end of my line for years. It’s basically the smell.

What makes Stubby Steve’s so nice is that it stays on the hook.”

Todd Overton, owner of Overton Fisheries, Inc., fish farm and hatchery in Buffalo, Texas, said he has been impressed with the bait and

is not surprised by its success.

“It emulates a fish pellet. It looks almost exactly like what we’ve been feeding our fish. I guess it tastes like that too,” Overton said.

“The fist time I used Stubby Steve’s I caught five different species within thirty minutes.”

Overton said he thinks Stubby Steve’s would also be successful for catching wild catfish, even though the catfish had never eaten a fish pellet. Overton said the smell would still be appealing to the fish, and could be used on the same line as other lures.

The Munseys agree.

They have been selling their product to pond experts like Herman and Overton since January and are poised to make their entrance into the retail market.

In January, Steve Munsey began packaging his product in packs of 20 and marketing it to major players in the pond-fishing industry.

Steve Munsey owns and operates Town and Country Veteri-

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MUSIC, from page 7

noticed about Leroy. He was passionate about his music, and his joy came from playing it for other people.”

Vignes and his three roommates asked White to play at a series of house parties in 2007 and 2008.

“Leroy never asked for any type of payment for his performances,” said Stephen Paternostro, Vignes’ roommate. “He just played for tips, and he came out pretty well.”

White constantly looks for an outlet for his passion for music and people.

“I wanted to find a place for my music, and I like to be around people,” White said. “The people around the LSU campus have wonderful personalities, and I wanted to meet these people and brighten their day.”

Music has always been a big part of White’s life. His father, a local blues musician in the ’40s and ’50s, passed his love of music on to his son.

Training began early when his father started to teach White the guitar at four years old as a way to

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White’s passion for music stems from his father, who was a local blues artist in the ’40s and ’50s.

occupy his time.

“I was the ninth out of 10 kids, but I wasn’t interested in playing with them a lot,” White said. “I wanted to keep playing the guitar.”

The guitar has been a huge part of White’s life ever since, always keeping one around, even when he joined the U.S. Navy after turning 18.

White served 12 years as an airplane mechanic, has been stationed in Rhode Island, Florida and Hawaii, and has toured most of Europe and the South Pacific.

While serving in the Vietnam War on the U.S.S. Intrepid, where enemy fighter-plane attacks were frequent, White had his first-hand experiences with combat and the

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turmoil of war. His service left him with nightmares and memories that would haunt him throughout the rest of his military service.

In 1981, White was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and honorably discharged from the Navy.

Roughly 500,000 Vietnam veterans deal with PTSD, an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which physical harm has occurred or was threatened, according to the Veterans Outreach Center.

White uses his music to help him cope with PTSD. “After I got out of the Navy, my guitar helped me relax,” White said. “It helped me through some pretty rough stuff.”

White returned to Baton Rouge after leaving the Navy and moved into a house down West McKinley Street from where he grew up. He still lives there today with his 89year-old mother.

He has held several jobs since then, including a security guard and salesman, has been married twice

and has fathered five children — all life experiences that fuel his songs.

Although White doesn’t hold a regular job anymore, he considers his time in front of The Chimes as a full-time position.

“I’m out here a lot, but it’s what I love, and I’m happy,” White said.

The businesses where White plays seem to appreciate what he is doing, since they have allowed him to come back to the same spots for so long.

“People around here have been good to me,” White said. “They come out and talk to me, give me drinks or just listen. I’ve been around the world, and the people here are the best I could ever find.”

For White, he hopes he can do this for the rest of his life.

“Let what’s inside of you enhance what you play,” White said.

“Every string on a guitar is an emotion, and it all lies in the music.”

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limited-edition package.”

Freese’s unique sales tactics come at a time when many artists are struggling with making traditional record sales. And although his CD packages are some of the crazier ones out there, Freese isn’t the only one offering fan-oriented, “freemium” content to get his music heard.

Just last year both Radiohead and Freese’s former Nine Inch Nail bandmate Trent Reznor released their content for free online to much success. Radiohead’s album even went on to be the top-selling vinyl record in 2008.

And Freese’s methods appear to be working too. In addition to earning him a few outrageous sums, Freese has been getting plenty of free publicity. But he said most of the money goes toward covering studio costs.

“I’ve made a little bit of money,” he said in an interview with Wired.com. “But I’m not out shopping for cars, you know what I mean?”

But maybe he would if someone bites for his most stellar package, a $75,000 deluxe edition that includes flying trapeze lessons with Nine Inch Nail’s Robin Finck, taking shrooms and riding around in TOOL’s Danny Carey’s Lamborgini and having Freese come to you and “be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks,” according to his Web site.

Freese, an in-demand session drummer who has played on nearly 300 albums from Avril Lavigne to Filter, shouldn’t have had much trouble selling a decent amount of $7 CD’s online. But considering the press and money coming in, these tactics may be worth it.

Some may think Freese’s offering foot massages on the Internet to sell albums may be selling out at best and whoring himself out at worst.

But it sure is working.

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playbook more, and I’m able to bring more to the table than last year,” Jefferson said. “Russell did well — he made all the right reads and is good with his feet. We’re going to use him to his full ability.”

But the running backs stole the show Saturday as senior Charles Scott and junior Richard Murphy accounted for the offensive touchdowns in the White team’s win.

Scott led the White team in all-purpose yards with 70 on the ground, and his touchdowns came from 3 yards and 1 yard out in the first half.

Murphy, who switched from the Purple team to the White team in the second half and finished with six carries for 41 yards, said he feels a good chemistry has developed among the running backs in the spring.

“Charles and I felt really comfortable together,” Murphy said.

“The offense opened up because you never knew who was getting the ball out with me, Charles or Keiland [Williams] rotating in and out — Keiland could be at fullback and Charles at tailback, or Charles at fullback and Keiland

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“They just outplay us,” Mainieri said. “I don’t know what else to say. I don’t think it’s the color of their uniforms or the name of their school.”

The Volunteers jumped out of the gates early and took advantage of one of the worst starts of the season by LSU sophomore starter Austin Ross.

Ross pitched just two innings and allowed six runs and six hits.

Tennessee scored two runs in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead.

Volunteers sophomore center fielder Kentrail Davis started the rally with an RBI double. Davis scored two batters later on a wild pitch by Ross.

“Ross’s stuff isn’t overpowering,” Mainieri said. “He doesn’t throw 90-92 miles per hour ... So when he’s not perfect with his location, they hit him.”

Tennessee second baseman Cody Grisham extended the lead to three runs in the top of the second inning with a sacrifice fly to left field.

Ross was run out of the game in the third inning, where the Volunteers plated three more runs.

LSU junior reliever Paul Bertuccini inherited runners on second and third base with no one out after a single by Vols first baseman Cody Hawn.

Bertuccini allowed both inherited runners to score to give Tennessee a 6-0 lead.

Sophomore Daniel Bradshaw cooled the rally and got the Tigers out of the inning without any further harm.

But the West Monroe native’s first full inning was not as productive as he gave up home runs to left fielder P.J. Polk and Hawn to give Tennessee a 9-0 lead.

The Tigers finally broke through in the fifth inning on an RBI single by freshman third baseman Tyler Hanover off Harris.

LSU added home runs in the sixth and seventh innings to push

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at tailback. We opened up all our options.”

Senior wide receiver Brandon LaFell led all receivers with 59 yards on five receptions, and he gave his effort Saturday a “Bplus.”

“I started off slow after my back injury in the [Chick-fil-A] bowl game last year,” LaFell said.

“I caught balls but I had one drop.

That drop around here, that’s a lot, especially for a guy with a history of dropped balls.”

Freshman wide receiver Tim Molton caught two passes for 35 yards for the Purple team.

On defense, senior Harry Coleman played significant minutes at linebacker in the spring game. Miles said Coleman proved Saturday he can make the transition from safety to linebacker easily.

“We need another greater athlete at that perimeter spot, and Coleman can be that guy,” Miles said.

Coleman said the coaching staff wanted to utilize him as both a run and pass defender in the linebacker position.

“That’s the reason they moved me to linebacker,” Coleman said.

“Instead of running different per-

sonnel on the field, I can cover a receiver as well as take on the run.”

Sophomore safety Ron Brooks returned kicks for the Purple team, and he said he feels more comfortable at the safety spot after converting from cornerback this spring.

“We’re more hungry than we were last year,” Brooks said.

“I have more freedom back there [at safety], and I hope to have a prominent role as a kick returner.

It felt good to get the ball in my hands.”

Miles praised the performance of punter Derek Helton, and he said “the day was good” besides a 50-yard missed field goal by Josh Jasper. “[Helton] punted with great hangtime and in the direction just where we needed him to have it,” Miles said. “He’s a newcomer to our campus, and it was a key piece to the day.”

closer to 9-4.

Junior designated hitter Blake Dean hit his sixth home run of the season in the sixth inning, and freshman right fielder Mikie Mahtook hit a two-run shot to right-center field in the seventh inning.

Cain had his best performance of the season and kept the Volunteers off the scoreboard in his 4 2/3 innings, but LSU was unable to push closer and lost for the third time in its past four games.

Mainieri said the Tigers will

have a meeting tomorrow to address some issues the team is having and will look to rebound before Tuesday’s game against Southeastern Louisiana.

“All of our goals for the season are still in front of us,” Mainieri said. “All is not lost, and we’ll look to regroup.”

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outs. “I came here to improve my time, and I did that, so I don’t have too much to complain about, and 2008.

“No one questions what he can I’m very happy about how the day do when he is at full strength,” Detil- went.”

Detillier agreed with Beckwith’s lier said. “He just has had problems staying at full strength throughout a comments but said Beckwith’s biggest question mark will remain season.”

Detillier said Beckwith is pro- whether he can stay healthy over a jected to be a third-round pick be- 16-game NFL season.

“He helped himself at the workcause NFL teams like his versatility outs,” Detillier said. on the football field you know despite questions ‘No one questions “But what? I’m not a real about his health.

“He’s a great what [Beckwith] can big workout guy. I am more a guy that athlete,” Detillier said. “He moves do when he is at full likes to see a guy on film and likes to down the field well. strength.’ see what a guy can He is a sound tackdo on the field. And ler, and he is above Mike Detillier Beckwith has proaverage in pass covNFL draft analyst duced at a high leverage. The teams el when he’s been like his skill set.”

Beckwith helped his cause at out there. The question just remains LSU’s Pro Day on March 16 and im- whether or not his body can last for a proved his 40-yard dash time to 4.65 full season.” after running 4.77 at the NFL Scouting Combine.

Contact Casey Gisclair at The 40-yard dash was the only cgisclair@lsureveille.com drill Beckwith took part in at Pro Day after performing a full workout Log on to read about Colt at the combine.

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OUR VIEW

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America’s drug policy needs to be reformed, repackaged Many of the most credible media outlets — from CNN’s Ted Turner to CBS’s Walter Cronkite, from the conservative Wall Street Journal to the liberal New York Times — have labeled America’s War on Drugs an abject failure.

We stand by that assessment.

In opining on the Vietnam War, a critic offered that America was

fighting an invisible enemy in an undeclared war backed by a silent majority. As with most wars of similar circumstance, an invisible enemy indicates no clear path for victory.

It doesn’t take an Einstein to understand that expecting entirely different results from the same tried methods constitutes insanity.

Many solutions to the nation’s

drug problems further complicate the same problems the War on Drugs seeks to eliminate.

Drug policies are in serious need of reform. As they stand now, policies are better at wasting money and diverting resources from solutions than they are at curbing the rise of drug use or its societal aftermath.

In a timeline of the drug war,

PBS noted during the Richard Nixon era, the majority of funding aimed at drug abuse went to treatment rather than law enforcement.

This was the only time in the history of the War on Drugs that fiscal policy provided a somewhat sound budget to combat illicit drug abuse.

The drug war is far from over.

But rather than ending the war — which isn’t possible without either side forfeiting — it should be relabeled, repackaged and reinstituted to combat real, rather than perceived, threats.

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FREEMAN OF SPEECH

Prohibition didn’t work once, isn’t working now

Raise your hand if you remember Chicago in the early 1930s, at the height of alcohol Prohibition.

The early ‘30s saw mafia warfare at its highest, featuring all-time highs in black market profiteering and bootlegging what so many enjoy on a nightly basis today.

Alcohol was prohibited by the 18th Amendment, but for the next 16 years, alcohol sales thrived underground while violence and murder rates skyrocketed.

Prohibition was eventually repealed in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt at the height of the Great Depression.

Yet today, the country faces another pandemic as a black market incites violence caused by demand of an illegal product.

Today, Americans want to smoke marijuana.

Over 100 million people, including President Obama, have admitted to smoking weed and another 25

million admit regular use over the past year, according to The Washington Post. Moreover, in 2007, 62 percent of those who admitted first-time use of the drug were under age 18.

Marijuana is by far the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S., yet the substance itself stands alone in comparison to legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco.

In 2000, alcohol by itself, without counting drunk drivers, claimed the lives of 85,000 people. Tobacco holds a rate six times higher, killing 435,000 people, according to the Journal for the American Medical Association.

Not a single person has ever died from a marijuana overdose, yet 775,137 people were arrested for simple possession in 2007.

The momentum from the 1980s in fighting our “War on Drugs” has taken a different turn, as more and more citizens plead with lawmakers to produce legislation to decriminal-

ize, regulate and tax marijuana.

Chairman Betty Yee of the California State Board of Equalization endorsed a bill in February to regulate the estimated $14 billion marijuana market, citing a potential income for the state of Eric Freeman Jr. $1.3 billion. The $14 billion figColumnist ure came from eliminating expenses in marijuana law enforcement and a taxation level comparable to alcohol and tobacco.

The state currently collects $14 million from marijuana dispensaries — marijuana shops legal under state law — a figure that will grow after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Feb. 26 the DEA would no longer raid them.

In the medical community, scientists have produced repeated

studies about the benefits of marijuana, specifically for those who suffer from glaucoma, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and certain cancers, primarily those who suffer from loss of appetite.

Marijuana legalization will not come easily. But leaders need to be more honest about the nature of marijuana and what it does to people.

The truth changes from person to person.

“The problem is that it’s difficult to tell what the effects of marijuana will be for any given person at any time, because they vary based on the person, their drug history, how much marijuana is taken, and its potency,” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Obama recently addressed legalization in terms of stimulating the economy at an online town hall meeting in the White House.

After pointing out the weed question was the No. 1 most asked question in three different categories,

including the economy, law enforcement and health care, he belittled the online audience and hypocritically dismissed legalization altogether.

If Obama was arrested for his weed use, he wouldn’t be president.

Instead of lighting up a substantive debate over decriminalization, regulation and taxation of marijuana, Obama ignored the plea of a nation dealing with border violence, overflowing prisons, crippling diseases and a stagnant economy.

Presumably he doesn’t want to be remembered as “the weed president,” but he shouldn’t worry.

We don’t remember FDR for legalizing Jell-O shots.

Eric Freeman, Jr. is a 22-year-old political science junior from New Orleans.

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NIETZSCHE IS DEAD

Sorry, students, marijuana should still be illegal Marijuana is bad.

On this most auspicious of days, the calls for legalizing marijuana reach their wheezing, coughing climax.

And year after year, these calls go unanswered for good reason.

As much as we want to think our parents are over-protective and paranoid, there’s a reason they always told us not to smoke pot, and there’s a reason pot is still illegal.

Marijuana smoke contains 20 times more ammonia and five times more hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen oxide than tobacco smoke, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The drug also doubles the risk of depression and triples the incidence of suicidal thoughts, according to Life Science Weekly.

Contrary to some arguments, marijuana has been connected with

criminal activity – four out of every five repeat felons has a history of drug use.

It’s use contributes to vast social problems south of the border – the anarchic violence in Mexico a potent example.

Despite the dangers pot poses, some propose arguments that cast the drug in a good light, but virtually all of them are totally baseless.

The first — and most tired argument — is that marijuana is useful for medicinal purposes. Although the jury is still out to some extent on tightly-regulated medical marijuana, it is most definitively in on legalization.

The Institute of Medicine, the American Medical Association and the Mayo Clinic have all made public statements against legalization.

Besides, medicinal marijuana already exists in pill form as

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The second argument is that legalization would free up space in overcrowded jails. This also has no basis in fact. Only 5 percent of inmates in federal prison and about 27 percent of state prison are incar- Matthew Albright cerated for drugColumnist related charges, according to the DEA. Another argument is drug-related violence would decrease with legalization. But this assumes violence is a result of conflicts resulting from trafficking – instead, most drug-related crimes are committed by those on drugs, not those seeking them. A user on drugs is six times as likely to commit violent crimes as an addict

looking to obtain them, according to the DEA. Proponents argue legalization of marijuana will eliminate the dangerous and violent black market involved in its distribution. But this market will exist with or without drug laws.

If marijuana is legalized, an apparatus would have to be constructed to regulate its distribution. High maintenance costs for this apparatus aside, pure-grade marijuana would almost certainly not be allowed – thus a black market would exist for these drugs anyway.

And don’t forget all the drugs that would certainly sustain a black market.

The final myth legalization advocates advance is that legalization will not lead to a significant increase in marijuana use. This is patently untrue. Legalization has been tried

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before – Alaska voted to legalize it in the 1970s, and the drug’s use among teens doubled.

In fact, marijuana caused enough problems for the state to recriminalize it in 1990.

Although many college students would love to see marijuana legalized, and many students have turned the search for evidence that it is not harmful into a personal crusade, the hard facts indicate one simple truth.

Marijuana is bad. And it always will be.

Matthew Albright is a 20-year-old political communications sophomore from Baton Rouge.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

Hunter S. Thompson American Journalist and author July 18, 1937 - Feb 20, 2005

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Reporters, politicians distort marijuana discourse AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — April 20th is a special day — a day when strangers will exchange a wink or a nod, casually addressing an issue that is taboo for the other 364 days of the year.

But we formulate our understanding of this issue and public sentiment through the prism of the media. And because of a combination of political and financial influences, that understanding has been blurred, rebuffed and stagnated.

The politicizing of marijuana likely originated in the Southwest U.S., where targeting Mexicans — with whom marijuana was exclusively popular — was a good way of drumming up support. Epitomized in the 1929 film “Reefer Madness,” lies and exaggerations led to excessively frightening views of the plant.

Politics were again important for marijuana policy when Richard Nixon declared his war on drugs.

Since then, marginalizing marijuana users has been a tool of conservative politicians to shore up a policy of legislating morality, dividing traditional Americans from radical hippies.

Today the media continues

observing this line and hinders marijuana policy discussion.

Reporters and anchors use words like “marijuana cigarette” or “water pipe” to give the impression they’ve never seen a joint or heard of a bong before.

Chances are though, those journalists are among the estimated 100 million people who have used marijuana. One CNN poll — undoubtedly receiving low numbers because of marijuana’s stigma — found that 47 percent of Americans had tried marijuana, with a whopping 3 percent saying they were “not sure.”

Perhaps that minority falls into the Bill Clinton category.

Clinton admitted on MTV he had smoked, but not inhaled, consequently encapsulating the irrationality of the marijuana discussion. Clinton knew a majority of Americans had no problem with others smoking marijuana, but knew people had been trained to object to it.

Did Obama inhale? “Frequently,” he said coolly. “That was the point.”

Obama was still willing to engage in the same tired rhetoric. Dur-

ing his “virtual town hall meeting,” Obama answered the most voted-on question by Americans, which asked how marijuana could be used to grow the economy.

But instead of giving the typical, long, thoughtful answer, he dismissed the question in simplistic MARK MACMURDO terms, adding only suggestive Columnist comments about Internet users.

Seeking clarification on the president’s answer, one reporter asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs whether the president was questioning the fact that taxing marijuana would increase tax revenue. The best justification Gibbs could muster was it’s “not the right plan for America.”

The question was forgotten after a reporter made a joke about “green jobs.” The giddy reporters all broke into laughter — representing the seriousness with which the media consider the issue.

While the media continue to frame the discussion of marijuana the way moral conservatives want — as a moral issue — several financial factors also bear influence. The pot industry doesn’t advertise, but pharmaceutical companies do. They therefore have an interest in making sure any competitors to their advertisers — like medical marijuana proponents — aren’t given the time of day.

The Partnership for a Drug Free America — the group that brings you the hilariously ridiculous antidrug commercials — is a marketing company with a history of funding from the tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical industries.

Today, groups like these rely on logical fallacies including the “gateway theory” ad hominem attacks (making jokes about the Grateful Dead), and appeals to emotion (protecting the children).

Even after the world’s greatest Olympian was ousted as a marijuana user, the media conversation stayed the same. It didn’t even allow for serious discussion by failing to emphasize the three most impor-

tant elements of marijuana reform: legalization, decriminalization and medical use. The same shoddy arguments resurfaced, and the news cycle continued.

Most interviewed said they thought individuals should be able to make their own personal decisions.

Others vaguely said they were “disappointed” in Phelps. Of course, this didn’t stop him from issuing a cookie cutter apology, and Kellogg’s dropping his endorsement.

It is imperative we end the climate of marijuana policy discussion that stifles rational and pragmatic ideas. The conversation has for too long been influenced by political pressure. Obviously we have to engage in discussions — the kind that happen once every April — with real people, rather than relying on the media or politicians to show leadership.

Mark Macmurdo is a 22-year-old economics and history senior from Baton Rouge.

Contact Mark Macmurdo at mmacmurdo@lsureveille.com

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The facts and logical fallacies about marijuana use The Facts No one has ever overdosed on marijuana In 2001, 331 people died from alcohol overdose, with 75,000 people having alcohol-related deaths, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is impossible to know the number of deaths caused by marijuana, although most experts agree it is significantly lower than alcohol.

Students lose federal aid when convicted for possessing marijuana In 1998, an amendment to the Higher Education Act withdrew financial aid from students convicted of any drug offense — including simple possession — before or during studies. Although the bill has been scaled back to include only those convicted while in school, a bill introduced by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., seeks to repeal all penalties. More than 200,000 students have been denied aid by this provision, according to Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

Marijuana does not cause cancer According to a UCLA study — the largest of its kind — even heavy marijuana use does not lead to lung cancer. Although marijuana contains known carcinogens, it is believed THC keeps cells from becoming cancerous. Marijuana

contains tar and other chemicals, which may lead to an elevated chance of bronchitis and respiratory infections. However, these risks can be nearly entirely eliminated by using a vaporizer — a device used as an alternative to smoking — which only combust the THC.

Marijuana is not addictive While any behavior can become a force of habit, marijuana is not physically addictive. Those who experience withdrawal symptoms, if experienced at all, are extremely mild. Nicotine withdrawal is much worse by comparison.

Marijuana has not been proven to impair long term brain function While intoxication impairs learning ability and memory, no study has proven any long-term cognitive effects of marijuana.

There is no evidence that marijuana kills brain cells.

Marijuana is America’s No. 1 cash crop Although the exact amount is impossible to know, one study estimated the total marijuana production in the U.S. in 2006 to be $35.8 billion. That’s more than the combined value of domestic corn ($23.3 billion) and wheat ($7.5 billion).

Marijuana has medicinal value Marijuana is useful in reducing nausea in chemotherapy patients, reducing the pressure of glaucoma and stimulating appetite for AIDS patients, aside from other treat-

ments for pain. Critics argue the commercially produced pill Marinol is not as effective as smoking marijuana.

Legalizing marijuana would have a net benefit of about $15 billion per year If marijuana was taxed like tobacco and alcohol it could bring in $6.2 billion, according to a 2005 Harvard study. The nation would save $7.7 billion in law enforcement ($5.3 billion in state and local government expenses, $2.4 billion in federal expenses). Who knows how much of the federal deficit could be eliminated by taxing marijuana consumption.

lem with anyone under 15 abusing alcohol today? Why would it make a difference?

Bloomberg, Ted Turner, Stephen King and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Marijuana causes people to be unmotivated Coed Magazine created a list of the ten most successful potsmokers of all time.

The list included Sir Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Michael

Compiled and written by Mark Macmurdo.

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The Logical Fallacies The gateway theory Correlation does not prove causation. Similarly, as Austin, Texas criminal defense lawyer Jamie Spencer put it, lack of correlation does show lack of causation. On Spencer’s Web site, a Dallas lawyer explained why ineffective government programs like the DARE program don’t reduce drug use.

Legalizing marijuana is not a good investment for “the children” Legalizing and regulating marijuana might make it more difficult for young people to get their hands on it. But do we have a prob-

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