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days since oil spill began.

Read the latest oil spill briefs, page 2.

WEATHER

New tropical storm may threaten Gulf this week, page 3.

CRIME

Former LSU footballer Russell arrested for drugs, page 5.

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Local pizzerias provide varied, tasty products

The Perfect

Nicholas Persac Staff Writer

Slice

Whether thick or thin, saucy or dry, plain or decked out, cooked on stone or tossed by hand, Red Stick residents have ample options when picking the perfect pizza, leaving old pizzerias and a string of new ones to stake out territory and lure customers with unique twists on one of America’s favorite foods.

“Pretty much everyone loves pizza, and people will eat it two to three times a week,” said George Kilpatrick, who owns Oscar’s Ice Cream and Pizza Joint on Perkins Road. “There’s always a demand for pizza.”

This passion for pizza spurred at least four new restaurants catering to that demand to open within the last nine months, with more on the way.

PIZZA, see page 7

photos by ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille

[Top] A pizza from Hungry Howie’s Pizza, located at 5201 Nicholson Drive, is covered with pepperoni, mushrooms, onions and green peppers. [Bottom, from left] Schlittz & Giggles is a pizza restaurant located at 2355 Ferndale Drive. Mellow Mushroom, 4250 Burbank Drive, offers a variety of beers as seen by these taps. A worker at Oscar’s Ice Cream and Pizza Joint, 6251 Perkins Road, gets ready to serve a pizza. The large liquor collection of Red Zeppelin Pizza, 4395 Perkins Road, is on display.

BUDGET CUTS

Electronic resources, databases at risk Ryan Buxton Staff Writer

University libraries across the state are bracing for the elimination of the Board of Regents’ contribution to the budget for LOUIS, the Louisiana Library Network.

The Board of Regents, which supplies two-thirds of the LOUIS budget, announced June 30 it would provide $500,000 to the library consortium to last for two months.

After that, the funding will stop.

LOUIS, which is housed on campus but is not an LSU department, is a group of higher education libraries across the state, according to Sara Zimmerman, LOUIS executive director.

The consortium has 47 members that come together to share resources like online databases and electronic titles. Dues paid by LOUIS members account for one-third of the organization’s budget and have been supplemented until now by the Board of Regents’ contribution.

Zimmerman said the cut to the LOUIS budget will be hard to absorb because of how much is done with the money.

“The cut of two-thirds of our funding has a massive impact since IMPACTS, see page 7

RENOVATIONS

Improved Union Theater to open in time for fall Lighting, sound equipment updated Chris Abshire Contributing Writer

Ask Student Union Director Shirley Plakidas about the ongoing renovations to the building, and it is clear that the she is most excited about the upcoming opening of the renovated Union Theater.

According to Plakidas, the theater will be complete enough to occupy by the beginning of the fall semester and should be

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‘The blueprints for [the theater] just don’t do it justice.’

Shirley Plakidas

LSU Student Union director

completely finished following minor touches during the winter intersession.

The theater, which has been closed since 2008, has undergone a complete overhaul from the poor acoustics and antiquated

technology that marked the structure’s previous existence.

“We found out as we were planning the changes to the place that we had a reputation among the touring show companies for our outdated lighting and sound equipment,” Plakidas said.

Plakidas said the first concern in the renovation process was to dramatically enhance the experience for anybody attending an event in the theater.

“So, as a staff, we made sure that the building would have state-of-the-art sound and completely up-to-date lighting,” IMPROVEMENTS, see page 7

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Construction on the Union Theater as part of the Union renovations continues Monday.

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Nation & World

INTERNATIONAL

NATIONAL

2 Yemeni security guards killed in shootout with al-Qaida

Kobayashi released from jail after arrest at hot dog-eating contest

SAN’A, Yemen (AP) — Yemen says two security officers have been killed and three injured in a shootout with suspected al-Qaida militants in a southern town.

An official statement Monday said two suspects were arrested after the clashes in Mukalla, in southern Hadramwat province.

NEW YORK (AP) — Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, arrested at a July Fourth hot dog-eating contest, was freed Monday after a night in jail, looking a little weary and saying he was hungry.

Kobayashi, wearing a black T-shirt bearing the message “Free Kobi” in green letters, was freed by a Brooklyn judge after he pleaded not guilty. The slim, boyish 32-year-old said he consumed only a sandwich and some milk in jail.

Serb lawmaker shot in Kosovo; injuries not life-threatening PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A gunman wounded a Serb member of Kosovo’s parliament Monday, police said, in an attack that could further stoke ethnic tensions in the unstable region.

Four shots were fired at legislator Petar Miletic, 35, as he walked out of his apartment in the northern town of Mitrovica, said police spokesman Besim Hoti. Miletic was hit once in the knee, Hoti said. His injuries were not life-threatening.

Manson follower Van Houten faces parole board for 19th time LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing with a new lawyer and new case law which

may give her the best chance yet for release.

Even if there is a finding of suitability for parole at Tuesday’s hearing, freedom would not be immediate. The entire state parole board would review the decision within 120 days and it would then be submitted to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for a final ruling.

11 injured in fireworks accident in central Pennsylvania town PALMYRA, Pa. (AP) — A fireworks accident injured 11 people gathered to celebrate Independence Day and the long-planned 250th anniversary of the borough of Palmyra in central Pennsylvania.

Two people, including a child, remained hospitalized Monday afternoon with injuries that did not appear life-threatening, Palmyra police said.

The victims injured Sunday night suffered burns, contusions and abrasions. They included four minors between 11 and 17 and an employee of Schaefer Pyrotechnics.

LATEST OIL SPILL NEWS BRIEFS

— Until Monday, New Orleans had escaped direct effects from the oil disaster spreading across the Gulf Coast.

That delicate balance changed when balls of tar were found in the Rigolets, one of two passes that connect Lake Pontchartrain with the Gulf of Mexico.

Pausina said he expected the oil to clear the passes and move directly into the lake, taking a backdoor route to New Orleans.

— Documents show federal regulators concluded offshore oil drilling posed a low risk to endangered wildlife. The conclusion is at odds with scenes of pelicans fighting to survive the massive Gulf oil spill.

A September 2007 memo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said large oil spills from Gulf drilling projects are “low-probability events” that weren’t likely to affect brown pelicans, sea turtles and other endangered species at the time.

—As BP PLC’s costs for the di-

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TODAY

sastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill climb to just over $3 billion, the British oil giant is billing partners Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Japan’s Mitsui for their shares of the cleanup.

BP has billed Anadarko, a 25-percent stakeholder in the blownout well, for more than a quarter billion dollars so far. It also has reportedly billed Mitsui, a 10-percent partner, for $111 million.

“They are partners in the field, and as responsible partners we would expect them to bear some of the costs,” BP spokeswoman Sheila Williams said Monday.

— A Texas official said Monday tar balls from the Gulf oil spill were found on a pair of state beaches, becoming the first known evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has reached all the Gulf states.

The amount of tar balls is tiny in comparison to what has coated beaches so far in the hardest-hit parts of the Gulf coast.

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TECHNOLOGY

VLAB allows program access from personal computers

Improvements planned for fall Ryan Buxton Staff Writer

Information Technology Services is hard at work on improvements to the University’s Virtual Lab, and students can expect to begin seeing the enhancements in the fall.

The Virtual Lab, or VLAB, is a service that allows students to use a personal computer to access programs normally only available on public University computers, like Adobe Photoshop, Final Draft and SolidWorks.

“The basic mission of it is to give you access to the lab from your

personal or home machine,” said Mike Smith, director of technical services. “For a lot of the software licenses, you have access to those in the computer labs. This gives you the ability to get to it from your own personal laptop.”

Because some software is not licensed for student download, the goal of the VLAB is to expand the locations where students can access certain programs, said Sheri Thompson, IT planning and communications officer.

“We make reference to the ‘tyranny of place,’” Thompson said.

“We don’t want people to be unable to do what they need to do if they aren’t in a certain location.”

The VLAB, which is funded by the student technology fee, adds value and convenience to students’

technology use, according to Thomp- the reason some programs available son. on the VLAB aren’t available for “If it’s a beaustudent download tiful day and you and some programs want to be out on on public computthe Parade Ground ers aren’t on the and you want to use VLAB. the software offered “We pay liin the VLAB, you censes [on the should be able to,” VLAB] the same she said. as if we offered the Because the program in comstudent technolputer labs,” Smith ogy fee funds the said. “Sometimes Sheri Thompson VLAB, the service [software compais mostly available IT planning and communications nies] are fine with officer to students only, it; other times they which a few excepask us not to intions of faculty who need access for clude it in that environment.” the purpose of creating assignments, One VLAB change students can Smith said. look for in the fall is the ability to Smith said software licenses are access a local hard drive while using

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‘We don’t want people to be unable to do what they need to do if they aren’t in a certain place.’

the lab, Smith said.

Presently, students cannot open files from their computers’ hard drives to the VLAB, and files can only be saved to TigerBytes II rather than to the computer’s hard drive.

But Smith said students will soon be able to access files from their local hard drives and use them in their work on the VLAB. Another update coming in the fall is an improved user interface.

“It will look and feel different,” Smith said. “It will be more responsive and more stable.”

Students can access the VLAB at vlab.lsu.edu.

Contact Ryan Buxton at rbuxton@lsureveille.com

ENVIRONMENT

Weather in western Caribbean may pose threat Storm may head for Texas coast Matthew Jacobs Senior Staff Writer

A low-pressure weather system brewing Monday in the Gulf of Mexico ceased to pose the threat of becoming a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Another disturbed-weather threat looming in the western Caribbean, however, could transform into a tropical storm by the end of the week, according to Jay Grymes, chief meteorologist for WAFB. Grymes said the disturbance — which would become Tropical Storm Bonnie — may work its way into the Gulf within 48 to 72 hours.

“If it gets its act together, it could become a tropical storm,”

Grymes said. “Once it gets into setting cleanup back three to five the Gulf, it has a whole new op- days. portunity to get better organized.”

Grymes said a hurricane Grymes said despite the im- would be “somewhere between pending threat, devastating and the potential unthinkable” for weather is not yet continued restoraa direct threat for tion efforts in the Louisiana.

Gulf.

The storm “Any storm will most likethat comes close ly head toward to the coast, esTexas, similar to pecially a storm last week’s Tropithat comes into cal Storm Alex, Louisiana … will according to probably drive Grymes. oil deeper into the “Normally marshes,” he said.

Jay Grymes we wouldn’t The potential WAFB chief meteorologist spend a lot of enthreat of Tropical ergy on this storm,” he said. “But Storm Bonnie comes just more the Gulf oil mess is changing that. than a month into the Atlantic Anything in the Gulf will hinder hurricane season, which began cleanup.”

June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30.

Grymes said any form of a major storm — not just a hurricane — will hamper oil spill Contact Matthew Jacobs at cleanup, with Hurricane Alex mjacobs@lsureveille.com

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‘Normally we wouldn’t spend a lot of energy on this storm ... but the Gulf oil mess is changing that.’

ERIC GAY / The Associated Press

A beachgoer walks through a debris covered beach Thursday as the lingering effects of Tropical Storm Alex are felt along the Texas coast in South Padre Island, Texas.

MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ARTS

Department of Theatre chair to become dean at Kentucky Sosnowsky to become interim chair Matthew Jacobs Senior Staff Writer

On the heels of Tiger Band director Linda Moorhouse’s resignation announcement, the College of Music & Dramatic Arts will lose another prominent faculty member this month.

Department of Theatre Chair Michael Tick has accepted a position as dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of

Kentucky, according to a press release from LSU Media Relations.

Kristin Sosnowsky, managing director of Swine Palace, will assume the position of interim department chair upon Tick’s leave, according to the press MICHAEL TICK release Department of Tick — Theatre chair who first came to the University in 1999 — saw the Department of Theatre earn

accreditation in 2006 and had his production of “The Heidi Chronicles” featured at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and the Beijing Central Academy of Drama in 2007.

“I’m thrilled that my colleague Kristin Sosnowsky … is taking over, especially since the department is in a period of unprecedented vitality and accomplishment,” Tick said in the press release.

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ADMINISTRATION

Ralph Izard named interim Manship dean for two years New provost Hamilton replaced Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer

The University’s administration is no exception to the substantial changes happening lately.

Manship faculty member Ralph Izard has accepted the position of interim dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication for two years.

“Ralph Izard is a long-time faculty member and one of the most respected academic leaders in mass communication,” said former Manship Dean Jack Hamilton in a press release. “There is no one better equipped to lead the Manship School.”

Izard comes from a lifetime of

journalism experience, including 32 years at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and 12 as director. He has been a part of the Manship faculty since 2001 and has made advances with the Forum on Media Diversity.

The change in administration came about when Hamilton accepted the position of provost in June. He stepped down as Manship dean June 30 and began his tenure as provost July 1.

“I’m looking forward to working with the great faculty of the Manship School and continuing to work with Jack Hamilton as the provost,” Izard said in a press release. “I’m proud of the progress the school has made in recent years, and I hope that during my brief tenure, we can continue that development and help make the LSU community proud of our program.”

Chancellor Michael Martin said he thinks Hamilton will convert his commitment from the Manship program to the whole institution.

“I figure if I went outside for a provost now, it would cost 10 instructor positions,” Martin said at the June Staff Senate meeting.

Speaking about the provost position and several dean positions to be filled, Martin said picking faculty from within the University is a better choice in most cases.

“Going inside right now is more prudent,” Martin said. “Anyone who would join this game right now is someone we don’t want.”

Martin said Hamilton has agreed to serve “two years and not a minute more” as provost.

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com

NATION

Horses dragged buggy driver as he tried to stop rampage The Associated Press BELLEVUE, Iowa — The buggy driver whose horses trampled spectators at this town’s Fourth of July parade had tried desperately to stop the rampage, clinging to the reins as the animals dragged him down the street, his family said Monday.

Mardell Steines was in the buggy with his wife, Janet, his daughter-in-law, his 7-year-old grandson and his 5-year-old granddaughter Sunday when the horses bolted toward the end of the parade, injuring 24 people and killing Janet Steines.

Police said the horses were spooked after they rubbed heads and the bridle fell off one of them.

The animals went on a rampage over six blocks, plowing through spectators and children stooping to snatch up candy that had been tossed along the parade route.

“If he ever envisioned a situation would happen that would cause harm to others, it would have destroyed him,” said Ken Walsh, whose daughter was in the buggy.

“He was trying his damnedest to get those horses under control.”

The buggy struck a combine in the parade and a road sign, Walsh said. Janet Steines was thrown out and struck a concrete driveway. She died at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City.

The hitch came undone and the carriage separated from the horses, running over Steines as he held onto the reins, said Walsh, 61, whose daughter, Jenny Steines, is married to Steines’ son.

Steines’ shirt was shredded as the horses dragged him down the street, Walsh said.

Meanwhile, Jenny Steines clutched her children as the

carriage rolled over. The roof protected them and they emerged with only bumps and bruises, Walsh said. He wasn’t sure when Mardell Steines let go of the reins, but said he refused medical treatment.

The horses finally rammed into the Maquoketa State Bank float at an intersection. The horses went down, and people leaped on them to hold them down, witnesses said.

Melissa Schmidt, 40, of rural Bellevue, said was watching the parade with her 6-year-old son Adam and 4-year-old son Aden when she heard the horses running and their chains rattling. She jumped up and, next thing she knew, Aden was lying on his back with his hands in the air. She turned and saw Adam covered in blood.

Schmidt said she screamed, then dropped to her knees and cradled one son in each arm until paramedics arrived.

“I don’t think I’ve ever prayed so hard in my life,” she said.

Adam remained hospitalized Monday with a compound fracture of his right leg, bruises on his kidney, liver and right lung, and extensive road rash. He had a carriage tire mark on his right arm. Aden was treated for a concussion at a hospital Sunday and released.

Schmidt said she planned to attend the Friday funeral for Janet Steines, who she knew from church.

Along with Steines and Schmidt’s two children, 22 others were injured, police said. About 15 were children, according to information provided by police, who said two victims still hadn’t been identified.

Most victims had been released

by Monday afternoon, but at least three remained hospitalized. More

information on their conditions wasn’t available.

John Sawicki of Mount Prospect, Ill., watched the horses from his hotel’s balcony and said he tried to scream at people to move, but no sound came out because he was so shocked.

“They were flying right down the sidewalk,” said the 42-year-old, was in town to visit his mother. “I felt so helpless.”

Jim Evilsizer, a former paramedic who ran a food cart on the parade route, said he helped put a 10-or-12-year-old boy who apparently took a hoof to the head on a backboard and carry him to a triage area on the Mississippi’s shore.

“It looked like a war zone,” the 61-year-old said. “Backboards everywhere, kids strapped to them.”

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FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH

ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille

Fireworks explode Sunday over the Mississippi River for Baton Rouge’s Independence Day celebration.

2010 FIFA World Cup

Netherlands v. Uruguay — Today at 1:30 p.m.

Sports

TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010

JaMarcus Russell arrested for drugs The Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. (AP) Ñ Former Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell has been charged with possession of a controlled substance Ñ codeine syrup Ñ after being arrested Monday at his home in Alabama, authorities said.

The 24-year-old former LSU star and the No. 1 draft choice in 2007 was arrested as part of an undercover narcotics investigation, said Mobile County SheriffÕ s spokeswoman Lori Myles. She would not say what led to his arrest. She said he did not have a prescription for the codeine.

Russell, who graduated from high school in Mobile, was booked into the city jail and released soon afterward on $2,500 bond, online records show.

The Raiders released Russell, considered one of the NFLÕ s biggest draft busts, in May after he won only seven of his 25 starts and was benched. He completed just 52.1 percent of his passes in his career with 18 touchdowns, 23 interceptions, 15 lost fumbles and a passer rating of 65.2.

Russell and his agent did not immediately return calls for comment.

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Gaudet competing in Home Run Derby

WORLD CUP photos by ANDRE PENNER, BERNAT ARMANGUE, and MARTIN MEISSNER / The Associated Press

[Top left] Netherlands players celebrate Friday after teammate Wesley Sneijder scored the winning goal during their match with Brazil.

[Top right] Uruguay’s Diego Forlan, left, and Maximilano Pereira, right, celebrate Friday following penalty shootouts at the end of the quarterfinal soccer match between Uruguay and Ghana.

[Bottom left] Germany’s Miroslav Klose, right, celebrates after scoring a goal with Thomas Mueller, left, on Saturday during their match against Argentina.

[Bottom right] David Villa celebrates with Spain players after scoring a goal Saturday during the quarterfinal match in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Nola, Mahtook on USA trials roster Michael Lambert Contributing Writer

As the End Draws Near...

Final four teams prepare for championship’s anticipated semifinals

Mark Clements Contributing Writer

As the 2010 FIFA World Cup reaches its final stages, it continues to supply the globe with thrilling soccer matches.

Four teams are left standing, and only one will be crowned soccer champion of the world.

The path to glory has been a daunting one for the remaining countries.

While Germany has made it look easy, talent-loaded Spain

squeaked into the semis with a lackluster victory against Paraguay, and the Netherlands had to pull off a come-from-behind victory over top-ranked Brazil to advance.

And in what will undoubtedly go down as one of the most chaotic finishes in World Cup history, Uruguay defeated Ghana in penalty kicks to advance to the semifinals.

Many people are calling the Uruguay win undeserved and illegitimate. New Orleans

Jesters head coach Kenny Farrell agreed and said Ghana deserved to win the game. Ò Uruguay is very lucky,Ó Farrell said. Ò There is nothing you can do about it now, but Ghana won the game. If they wouldnÕ t have missed the penalty, Ghana would have won it, and I donÕ t think Uruguay deserve to make it any further based on that. It really is a disgrace.Ó SEMIFINALS, see page 6

South CarolinaÕ s 2-1 victory against UCLA last week signaled the final College World Series in Rosenblatt Stadium.

But a few select college baseball players, including LSU senior designated hitter Matt Gaudet, will get another chance to enter the hallowed grounds of Rosenblatt in its final days for the inaugural TD Ameritrade Home Run Derby.

Gaudet is one of eight collegiate sluggers competing in the home run derby Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m.

Gaudet didnÕ t get to experience Rosenblatt for the TigersÕ 2009 national championship run.

He was left off the team because of new roster limits. Ò This will be a great experience for Matt,Ó said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. Ò He wasnÕ t able to be with us on the national championship team.Ó The Metairie native made the most out of his senior campaign and led the Tigers with 19 blasts in 2010, the fourth highest in the GAUDET, see page 6

GYMNASTICS

Jackson named SEC Female Athlete of the Year Gymnast to try out for Cirque du Soleil Katherine Terrell Contributing Writer

The Southeastern Conference named former LSU gymnast Susan Jackson and Alabama sophomore football player Mark Ingram as its Athletes of the Year for 2009-10. Ò Mark and Susan are true examples of outstanding studentathletes,Ó said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive in a news release. Ò They have competed at the highest level of collegiate athletics and through their hard work, dedication and commitment to excellence have been successful in their endeavors. They are fine

representatives for their universities and this conference. The SEC is proud to honor them for their accomplishments.Ó Jackson joins former basketball player Seimone Augustus as the second LSU woman to win the award.

“This is a significant award that truly puts her performance and accomplishments in very elite company,Ó said LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux in a news release. Ò I am extremely proud for Susan, for LSU and for our gymnastics program.Ó Jackson said she felt honored to receive the prestigious award to cap off her 20-year career in gymnastics. Ò ThereÕ s so many wonderful women in the SEC,Ó Jackson said. Ò To be thought of as one of the top athletes, itÕ s a really cool

feeling. ItÕ s really humbling.Ó The Spring, Texas, native said the awards she felt she earned meant the most to her, not the awards voted on by other people. Ò ItÕ s a huge honor,Ó Jackson said. Ò But the ones that you are fighting for and trying for the most, those are the awards that mean more. You can actually see the work happening.Ó Winning a national title in the all-around as a senior was one of those awards. Ò That was one I knew I had to work for,Ó Jackson said.

Now that JacksonÕ s collegiate career has ended, she hopes to perform in Cirque du Soleil. Ò I think it would be a good transition from 20 years of JACKSON, see page 6

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Former LSU gymnastics star Susan Jackson competes Jan. 8 against Maryland in the PMAC. Jackson was recently named the SEC Female Athlete of the Year.

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BASEBALL

Tigers look to Louisiana schools for fresh faces Rhymes to join team from LSU-E Michael Lambert Contributing Writer

Infielder Raph Rhymes is the latest athlete to continue the exchange of baseball players between LSU and LSU-Eunice.

LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri said Rhymes will join the Tigers this fall and compete for a spot on LSUÕ s lineup.

Rhymes, the Division II Player of the Year last season for the Bengals, auditioned for LSU in 2009 as a walk-on, but he was cut by the same roster limitations that forced Mainieri to let go senior designated hitter Matt Gaudet. Ò We just didnÕ t have any room,Ó Mainieri said. Ò It was hard for me to justify keeping a walk-on and cutting a guy that played for us before.Ó Rhymes moved to LSUEunice for the 2010 season and

SEMIFINALS, from page 5

With the large number of close games thus far in the World Cup, Farrell said all the teams have impressed him in their abilities to overcome challenges.

“Management on the field is extremely important, and all of the teams have shown great management,Ó Farrell said. Ò All of these teams have shown that they are able to stay level-headed and keep playing the game despite adversity.Ó Although the old Ò defense wins championshipsÓ adage normally applies to American football, Farrell believes it describes this World Cup perfectly. Ò [Uruguay] have not had a

GAUDET, from page 5

Southeastern Conference.

Gaudet was on the team in 2008 after playing at Delgado Community College in New Orleans for two seasons.

The Archbishop Rummel High School alumnus started 17 games in 2008. One of GaudetÕ s most memorable moments in 2008 was a walk-off home run March 21 in the bottom of the 11th inning against Arkansas to give LSU an 8-7 victory.

JACKSON, from page 5

gymnastics to the real world,Ó Jackson said.

Jackson said she will try out for Cirque du Soleil in September, and if she is hired, sheÕ ll go to Canada for a three-month training period. During the training period, the performers learn the ins and outs of the show along with how to put on the costume and makeup.

During the summer, Jackson

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LSU sophomore pitcher Joey Bourgeois is one of several recent products of LSU-Eunice. Infielder Raph Rhymes is the latest athlete to join the list.

LSU-Eunice but could also play at third base or in the outfield, could impact the team next season. Ò Where he plays depends on what skills he has,Ó Mainieri said. Ò The most important thing is that he needs to show he can hit.Ó The former Neville High School star also considered Alabama, Ole Miss and Southeastern. Ò Rhymes could potentially step in there,Ó Mainieri said. Ò ItÕ s going to be a lot of good competition in the fall.Ó LSU and LSU-Eunice are no strangers to sharing players.

Sophomore outfielder Trey Watkins and sophomore pitcher Joey Bourgeois transferred to LSU from the junior college.

Freshman infielder Wet Delatte will attend LSU-Eunice next year after seeing limited time on the field for the Tigers’ last season.

Mandeville High School slugger Jamie Bruno will transfer to LSU, according to The Associated Press.

Bruno, who will have to sit out a season due to NCAA transfer rules, batted .229 with four home runs for the Green Wave last season.

Bruno was a former Class 5A All-State first baseman. He is currently playing for the Wisconsin Woodchucks in the Northwoods Summer League.

Former UNO pitcher Kevin Berry will also join the Tigers.

Mainieri couldnÕ t comment on Berry per NCAA rule.

Berry batted .281 with 13 RBIs and went 2-5 on the mound in 44 2/3 innings of work for the Privateers.

The former Brother Martin High School star will be immediately eligible at LSU since UNO is dropping to NCAA Division III.

TWO MORE PLAYERS TO JOIN TIGERS Former Tulane and

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hit .483 with 82 runs, 98 RBIs and 12 home runs en route to the teamÕ s third national championship in five seasons. Ò He had a great year at LSUEunice,Ó Mainieri said. Ò He can really hit. He had a lot of offensive production.Ó

Now Rhymes is back with the Tigers and will have three years of eligibility remaining. Ò I wanted him to come back out for us,Ó Mainieri said. Ò We have a lot of guys to replace.Ó Mainieri said Rhymes, who played second base at

lot of goals scored on them. That seems to be a trend with the teams that have made it this far,Ó Farrell said. “The flare teams like Brazil and Argentina have been beaten, and it seems to be an indicator in this World Cup that organized, disciplined defenses are putting teams through.Ó Some of the best defense in the tournament has been played

by Germany. Many students, like computer science junior Michael Kline, believe the Germans have been the most impressive team thus far. Ò Their speed and their youth has been surprising,Ó Kline said. Ò I donÕ t think many people thought they would come out and perform the way they are. It will be tough

for them to reach the finals, but I the strongest, Farrell said SpainÕ s think they can do it.Ó high talent level may be too much Farrell agreed and said the for the Germans. team has meshed Ò This is a and plays well as a very tough one to whole unit. call, but I would Ò Germany give the edge has been extremeto Spain,Ó Farly good on the rell said. Ò I think counterattack,Ó he man-to-man said. Ò They get the across the field first goal, and they theyÕ re more exKenny Farrell play very com- New Orleans Jesters head coach perienced. They fortably and very have more World organized, and the Class players than chemistry is excellent.Ó any of the teams left in the tournaThe consensus seems to have ment, and I think theyÕ ll go on to the Netherlands advancing to the win the World Cup.Ó finals, but there are discrepancies Some University students, when arguing who the Dutch may like Kline, agree that Spain play. While Germany has looked will advance but see a different

outcome in the final. Ò The Netherlands will get past Uruguay and Spain will beat the Germans,Ó Kline said. Ò In the finals I think the Netherlands will beat Spain, 2-1.Ó Others disagree. Jamie Dismukes, physics junior, believes history will repeat itself and the Germans will once again take home the honors. Ò I think Germany is going to win it all,Ó Dismukes said. Ò They have looked the strongest so far, and letÕ s face it É theyÕ re Germany.Ó

Mainieri said Gaudet is bringing former LSU infielder and current undergraduate assistant coach Buzzy Haydel with him to Omaha. Ò He has a chance to do something great in Rosenblatt,Ó Mainieri said.

Fresno State first baseman Jordan Ribera and Siena second baseman Dan Paolini highlight the other derby participants.

Ribera led the nation with 27 blasts, while Paolini nailed 26 home runs this season.

Ò IÕ m real happy for Matt to have this experience,Ó Mainieri said. Ò He deserves it.Ó NOLA, MAHTOOK ON USA TRIALS ROSTER LSU shortstop Austin Nola and outfielder Mikie Mahtook were two of 36 players named to the 2010 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Trials roster.

The LSU sophomores will being competing for a spot on the 22-man roster from July 6-11 in Cary, N.C.

Ò What greater thrill can a kid have then to play for their country,Ó said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

The U.S. team will open against Korea in a five-game series and will close the season at the FISU World University Championships in Tokyo, Japan, from July 30 to Aug. 7.

The U.S. has claimed the last three FISU World Championships.

Mahtook averaged .335 for the Tigers this season, hitting 19

doubles with 14 home runs. The Lafayette native was MVP of the 2009 Southeastern Conference Tournament.

Nola, a hometown product from Baton Rouge, was a secondteam All-SEC selection this season. He had 52 RBIs with a .320 batting average.

works for Harris County Houston up and do a handstand.Ó Sports Authority.

Jackson said She said it was a she doesnÕ t see weird feeling to herself working be wearing busia nine-to-five ofness clothes and fice job in the fuworking in an ofture, but there is fice after years of one job she would being physically love to have. active. Ò IÕ d love to Susan Jackson Ò I get so have Coach Dformer LSU gymnast bored sitting in DÕ s job,Ó she said, a desk,Ó Jackson laughing. said. Ò Sometimes I just like to get Even if she doesnÕ t get back

into gymnastics on the coaching side, Jackson said the 20 years she put into the sport have helped her grow as a person and will help in finding future jobs.

“You definitely make so many contacts,Ó Jackson said. Ò And Coach D-D will help you out if you need a job, even though youÕ re off the team. She wonÕ t stop until you have your job or what youÕ re looking for.Ó As for the ending of her career, Jackson said going out with

two national titles and a few awards was a pretty good way to go out.

“It was definitely a great ending,Ó Jackson said. Ò I couldnÕ t have asked for anything better.Ó

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‘All of the teams have shown great management.’

“To be thought of as one of the top athletes, it’s a really cool feeling.

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she said.

A major part of the renovation has involved restructuring the dimensions of the theater to further enhance sight lines and sound quality.

“We’ve pulled the walls in a bit and reconfigured the terrace level so that the place looks smaller without losing any available

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“If you have something that makes you special and unique, you can set yourself apart from the competition,” said Ray Williams, area franchisee of Hungry Howie’s Flavored Crust Pizza.

Judy Myhand, an instructor in the School of Human Ecology who teaches nutrition in heath and cultural food patterns courses, said what Americans have come to know as pizza is an adapted version of the traditional dish brought to the states by Italian immigrants.

The “Americanized pizza,” Myhand said, can be healthy when eaten properly, but it’s often stacked with fatty toppings and encourages overeating because it isn’t typically sold by the slice.

“There is something very acceptable about the flavor combination of the tomato with cheese and herbs and olive oil. It’s just yummy,” Myhand said. “And you can make it just how you want it to be — it’s adaptable. It’s also fun to eat because you don’t have to use a fork and a knife.”

THE NEW Several new pizzerias are bringing new flavors to Baton Rouge, the most recent of which to open is Schlittz & Giggles’ second location on Ferndale Avenue near the Perkins Road overpass.

“You can get a house draft and a slice of pizza here for about five bucks, so that’s a big draw on the college crowd,” said Andrew Shivers, general manager.

There are only two Schlittz & Giggles restaurants, the original being in downtown Baton Rouge on Third Street. The newest location has “a sports-bar atmosphere” with a 16 feet by 10 feet projector screen and other TVs scattered throughout the two-story dining area that seats about 100 people.

Shivers said the New York-style thin crust pizza is sold whole or by the slice, and a case of Schlitz beer is used in each batch of hand-tossed

IMPACTS, from page 1

that is the total budget for electronic resources,” Zimmerman said in an email to The Daily Reveille.

Electronic databases like LexisNexis, PsycINFO and Louisiana Historic Newspapers are all funded

by LOUIS and available to students and faculty at the libraries of each LOUIS member.

By sharing services among many universities, Zimmerman said LOUIS’ $4 million budget is able to purchase $19 million worth of resources.

Resources are acquired through careful consideration by committees of the Louisiana Academic Library Information Network Consortium.

The committees include experts from member libraries who know

seating,” Plakidas said. “That’s something that we worked very hard to make happen, and I think it adds a great level of intimacy to the shows there, not only for the audience but also the performers as well.”

Plakidas also said the entire theater was basically gutted with only some wall frames remaining as part of the original structure.

“It’s essentially an entirely dough made there.

Competition looms about one mile south on Perkins Road where Red Zeppelin Pizza opened nearly three months ago.

“It’s all classic rock with a mix of Southern and Chicago blues,” said bar manager Toby Hoshman of the restaurant’s music and decorations, which include a color-changing bar and a guitar signed by B.B. King.

Red Zeppelin serves thin-crust pizza, and patrons can dine in, drive through or pick up an uncooked pizza to bake at home. Drink specials rotate daily, and Hoshman said while there’s a family atmosphere during the day, “we definitely see the college crowd at night.”

Oscar’s Ice Cream and Pizza Joint opened in October about another mile south on Perkins Road and set itself apart from the pack with Louisiana flare and cooling ice creams.

“We’re just a local place trying to make locals happy,” Kilpatrick said.

The menu reflects south Louisiana flavor and includes creations like the “D&A Gumbo” pizza that uses a roux base with smoked duck and alligator and andouille sausages.

Kilpatrick said he and employees try to be creative with the menu, often making new ice cream flavors to switch into rotation with their nearly 30 flavors on hand. He said they create seasonal pizzas to celebrate holidays, like the “Fourth of July Firecracker” on sale this month.

Hungry Howie’s Flavored Crust Pizza opened on Nicholson Drive south of campus in January. Williams, who owns the right to open 60 of these restaurants in Louisiana in six years, said he opened his first Hungry Howie’s in Gonzales in September, and he plans to open a Coursey Boulevard location within a week. He said he hopes to open a fourth location on Perkins Road by the end of the year.

Hungry Howie’s does not have eat-in dining, but patrons can call ahead, walk in or order online.

The national chain is “home of the what resources their institutions need most, Zimmerman said.

“There is no waste,” Zimmerman said. “We are very frugal, and I think purchasing $19 million for $4 million is a pretty good return on the investment.”

Specifically for LSU Libraries, the funding cut could mean the loss of 72 databases and 63,795 titles, according to Dean of Libraries Jennifer Cargill.

The cuts to the LOUIS budget bring additional stress to University libraries across the state, which are facing their own financial hardships, Cargill said.

“It’s coming at a bad time, when the LOUIS members are all looking at cuts from their budgets at their home institutions,” Cargill said. “We’re looking at local cuts,

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new theater inside of parts of the old structure,” Plakidas said.

One of the theater’s major problems was the orchestra pit and its often fickle nature.

“There were so many problems with that area,” Plakidas said. “You would try to lower it when the production didn’t require its use, and it would get stuck halfway down.”

Also, the number of

bathrooms in the theater has been nearly tripled, said Plakidas.

“Bathrooms don’t sound like a big deal to anybody until you remember that when you have shows, everybody’s trying to go to the bathroom in a 15-minute stretch,” Plakidas pointed out.

A decision to change the infamous orange seats in the Union was made mostly on the basis of aesthetic appeal despite the seats’

nostalgic value, Plakidas said.

As the theater nears completion, Plakidas is optimistic it will be one of the highlights of the new Student Union.

“The theater has turned out better than we imagined,” Plakidas said. “The blueprints for the place just don’t do it justice.”

original flavored crust pizza,” and offers patrons eight different flavors — such as cajun, butter cheese and ranch — with which to season crust at no extra charge.

“It’s a far better product [than other chains], and it’s reasonably priced,” Williams said. “We can give you the quality they can’t but in the same [amount of] time they can.”

Johnny’s Pizza House, a North Louisiana favorite known for the “Sweep the Kitchen” pizza, will open doors near the intersection of Highland Road and Staring Lane in the coming months.

THE OLD The two oldest pizza places in town — The Pastime Restaurant and Fleur de Lis Cocktail Lounge — became staples of the city during the ’40s.

The Pastime opened as such during 1945 in its location under the Mississippi River Bridge on South Boulevard and is known for cooking pizzas in stone deck ovens.

The fading pink building that houses Fleur de Lis has been a Government Street landmark since becoming family owned in 1946. Fleur de Lis uses a simple menu and sells thin-crust, greasy pizzas that are a local favorite from the walk-up window.

But ask LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri where he grabs a slice, and the answer will be Louis DeAngelo’s Casual Italian Dining in the shopping center at the intersection of Lee and Burbank drives.

Mainieri struck a two-year endorsement deal with DeAngelo to promote the six restaurants in the Baton Rouge area. DeAngelo then added the “Mamma Mainieri” to the menu, and the restaurant is known for the two-feet pizza.

Closer to campus, pizza places offer college-friendly specials.

Mellow Mushroom on Burbank Drive is a national chain that opened here nine years ago, according to manager Ryan Piske. Their “puffy crust,” quality ingredients and

interesting combinations attract families during the day while trivia, karaoke and live music pull in students at night.

Reginelli’s Pizzeria on West Chimes Street opened in November 2007, bringing the New Orleans classic to Baton Rouge. District manager Mike Hansel said Reginelli’s offers more vegetarian dishes than most, and students tend to enjoy the $2 pitchers of Bud Light or Abita Amber on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Rotolo’s Pizzeria on Nicholson Drive near Bob Pettit Boulevard first opened in Tigerland during 1996 and has since expanded to 12 stores across the state. Rotolo’s is also a bar and is known for selling $5 calzones on Wednesdays.

“Pizza is certainly part of American culture at this point,” Myhand said. “It’s a food we made our own and have come to really enjoy.”

and now we’re looking at losing a resource that has been shared.”

The Board of Regents’ decision to cut LOUIS funding came as a surprise, said Nancy Colyar, assistant dean of libraries. “[LOUIS members] have gotten complacent because though we haven’t gotten increases in funding, the funding has been pretty steady,” Colyar said.

One reason for the success of LOUIS since its inception in the early ’90s is how effectively member libraries work together, Zimmerman said. There is no mandate for University libraries to join the consortium, so any library’s participation is by choice.

“Libraries join because it makes good business sense,” she said. “The project should be a poster child for

how to do it right in the state. Collaboration, cooperation, efficiency — add satisfied students and faculty, and you have something the state should be very proud of.”

LOUIS makes it easier for higher education libraries in Louisiana to work together, Colyar said.

“LOUIS provides an interlibrary loan system we all share,” she said. “That is important, particularly as you have to cut your budget.”

Colyar said the loan system may become increasingly important to library users as resources are lost because of this budget cut.

Though loans used to be conducted by mail, Colyar said the system has advanced and LSU Libraries can sometimes fulfill loan requests by providing a PDF file within 24 hours.

LOUIS members will be communicating intensively with each other for the next two months to determine what resources can be saved, Cargill said.

“All of us are trying to figure out how to function and what our priorities are during this economic period,” Cargill said.

Colyar said LOUIS members will focus on how to best serve their users with a reduced budget and will make the best decisions they can on the current timetable.

“The good news is we have two months to talk about it a lot with each other. The bad news is it’s only two months,” Colyar said.

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July Fourth is the latest holiday to lose its meaning We celebrated the 234th birthday of the United States of America on Sunday. Many Americans commemorated this event by eating hot dogs, swimming or enjoying cold alcoholic beverages while watching fireworks glow in the background. Even President Obama hosted a barbeque in the backyard of the White House.

But during all these celebrations, did Americans really celebrate independence, or is this holiday just an excuse to drink and enjoy an extra day off?

Independence Day is the anniversary of our Founding Fathers adopting and signing the Declaration of Independence, which announced our intention to escape the rule of Great Britain.

In the beginning, annual readings of the Declaration were a common way to commemorate the holiday in all states. In 1785, the first

parade was held in Bristol, Rhode Island, and it still continues each year.

Fireworks were first used in celebration of the holiday in 1863.

But as the years passed, celebrations of Independence Day changed with the times.

In 1917, the world famous Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest started between four immigrants and the winner was said to be the most patriotic. As time passed, the contest grew into a Fourth of July staple. People from all over the world come to Coney Island each year on July 4 weekend to compete in the contest. As the popularity of the contest grew, the reason for the contest became who could eat the most hot dogs, not who was the most patriotic.

Some contestants aren’t even American, like Takeru Kobayashi, who won consecutively from 2001

to 2006 and was arrested at this year’s competition.

In order to revive the American spirit behind the contest, I think they should only allow Americans to enter the contest. This will boost American morale and restore the patrioBrittany Davis tism that was most imporColumnist tant in the first place.

Fireworks are another important part of the holiday. Most states hold firework displays, even though they are illegal in some states. The most famous display is over the Hudson River in New York City.

However, this year, many cities eliminated firework displays because of the economy. On average,

a 20-minute firework display could easily cost up to $20,000. Because of the recession, many states could not budget that much money for one celebration, and I agree with their decision.

Blowing up thousands of dollars is another example of how the celebration has grown out of hand.

Traditions aside, let’s remember the situation of our economy and put things into perspective.

Millions of dollars could have been saved this year alone had every state halted the firework displays. I like pretty lights in the sky just as much as the next person, but that’s not the point of the holiday.

The Fourth of July has also become a shopping holiday. Many retail stores like Sears and Macy’s, have huge “blowout sales” to persuade customers to come into the stores over the extended weekend. Car dealerships also use the

holiday to increase sales before the new model cars come out for the next year. Just like with Christmas and Easter, the Fourth of July has grown into a consumer holiday. I don’t think the Founding Fathers were worried about sales when they were signing the Declaration of Independence.

It’s clear Independence Day has lost its meaning. These days, it seems like it’s only good for sales, food and a good show. Most holidays have suffered the same fate and I don’t see that changing any time soon. You can blame it on American selfishness or just a change in the times, but I can tell you one thing, if you take away their day off, you’ll see Americans arm up like its 1776.

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Hardcore gamers should embrace the casual crowd It’s no secret the Nintendo Wii has been somewhat successful during its first four years on the market.

OK, I can’t even type that sarcasm and have it come off correctly — the Wii has been ridiculously super successful in its first four years of life.

It doesn’t help that in addition to the purists who have been with Nintendo all the way back to the original Nintendo Entertainment System and have been blowing into cartridges their entire life, the majority of Wii owners are soccer moms and grandparents trying to stay hip with the kiddies and their technology.

This gaming generation has brought on the biggest division of hardcore and casual gamers (with most of it being brought on

by Nintendo’s little white box).

In this corner, we have the hardcore gamers.

Those who grew up rescuing every princess from every tower and can recite to you every level of every Mario, Zelda or Metroid game if you offered them another extra life.

In the opposite corner, we have the casual gamers.

These soccer moms, grandparents and keeping-up-withthe-Joneses who have never

even thought of owning a console but saw their friend’s brother’s neighbor’s cat’s owner’s Wii and decided they wanted one too.

They waggle their Wiimotes around and scour the “bargain bin” and their local retailer for the aDam arinDer latest knock-off game to surprise Columnist their kids.

Unfortunately, this new influx of console owners have brought every wannabe developer out of the woodwork to quickly produce as many cheap, gimmicky games as possible to cash-in on uniformed purchasers.

And with this “shovelware” being so cheap and quality games having the normal, higher price tag, it’s easy for the few hidden gems to be lost in the muck.

This has brought many a core gamer to cry out, blaming and belittling this group of new-time gamers because of this invasion of crappy games causing developers to cater to these cash-in titles rather than support those who have followed them for years.

However, what the quest taking, experience hoarding, base-

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ment dwelling, Mountain Dew drinking group of gamers have forgotten is, at one point in time or another, they were part of this group of newbie, casual crowd.

Hardly anyone can say they immediately picked up a controller and instantly beat Mario Bros. without once using an extra life.

Not one person can say the first time they played Sonic the Hedgehog every chaos emerald was in their grasp.

Things aren’t like that.

Just as this group of core gamers took their Pokemon and evolved from their once newbie state, there is hope for this new class of gamers.

Instead of looking down upon this new crowd of stick waggling players, core gamers should embrace them.

Instead of belittling them over the Dora Saves the Ice Princess game they’re playing, use that as a gateway to introduce them to the vast history of video game greatness they’re obviously unaware of existing – because why else would someone be playing Dora Saves the Ice Princess?

If I’ve learned anything from my time at Best Buy is that the general public is naïve and ignorant and it’s my job to point them

in the right direction.

Just like I do my job to point people away from the sea of shovelware titles and toward games that are worth it, veteran gamers should help out the new recruits because it’s only a matter of time before they start shooting your head off in Call of Duty.

And as they watch their head explode, they should smile

and be proud they saved someone from falling into the “Just Dance” crowd.

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National morale crashes with Brazil’s soccer team

As I said here a couple of weeks ago, there are few things more exciting than the World Cup if you are a Brazilian. It’s amazing to realize how the meaning of soccer for my people takes such astounding proportions.

Brazil in a World Cup game day is like Baton Rouge when the Tigers are about to go into Death Valley.

Many of us make the deepest emotional investment in the team, many times in an exaggerated way, and hope for a victory that will redeem us from boring lives.

Nonetheless, it’s this same heated, emotional approach to the game that makes our magnificent players lose their cool and eventually the game, leaving hundreds of thousands of Brazilians disappointed, depressed and even desperate.

Let me tell you my personal tragic experience.

I was at a music festival in Columbus, Ohio, this last week, where I met people from all over the world. During the week I was constantly inviting them to watch the game with me on Friday morning — Brazil vs. Netherlands in the World Cup quarterfinals.

I couldn’t help it. I wanted to show them the pride and excitement of a Brazilian victory in a World Cup game, stamped on my face. They would cheer with me, tightening our recent friendship bonds.

It all sounded very hip and fantastic.

We woke up to watch the game after a late night of playing and jamming at our dorm’s lobby.

The game started, and we were all smiles.

Brazil scored the first goal. I jumped and screamed — everyone around me laughed and enjoyed the atmosphere.

Then, disaster struck.

After halftime, the Netherlands score an accidental goal.

Our defense failed laughably.

The game grew tenser and more violent. Fouls and injuries folMarcelo Vieira lowed.

One of our Columnist players got a red card and went “to the shower,” as we say in Brazil.

The Netherlands score a second goal.

It’s not looking good. Brazil creates lots of chances for beautiful goals, but the ball insists on not hitting the net.

The picture was done. It was a quarterfinal game, and we were out of the World Cup! Unfortunately, quantity is better than quality in most sports,

and in soccer this truth can have unfair and sad consequences.

Both Brazil and the Netherlands gave us an interesting and exciting spectacle.

But as the minutes after the defeat unfold, a bitter feeling started to rise in the heart of my nation.

A strange certainty of a new world championship (this one would have been the sixth for Brazil) that was carefully built inside our hearts suddenly imploded.

My new friends said words of consolation. Some Brazilian friends called me, almost crying.

It’s almost funny.

I know many of my countrymen are not only sad. They are angry, trying to blame whoever suits: the coach, the players, their horoscope.

Our neighbor and biggest rival, Argentina, applauded and commemorated the occasion.

Their party was shown on national television. It hurt.

The defender who accidentally helped the Netherlands score its first goal arrived in Brazil and was strongly criticized.

Our coach, a hero one week ago, is now seen as a kind of shameful figure.

Everyone has a supposedly important and different opinion about the match. We have a famous saying that states that every Brazilian is a soccer referee.

If only that one call, that one kick was slightly different from what it was.

Now, we’ll just have to wait.

Wait four long years until the next World Cup, or until our nation relies on more than just the performance of the soccer team to feed its self-esteem.

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Righteous BP boycott is an ambiguous measure at best I hope I have not exhausted the scope of my commentary on the Gulf oil spill yet, because it is a subject of heartfelt interest for me — and a wellspring of personal vitriol. It solaces me in a way that could never be put in print to know BP’s quarterly earnings have spiked from $2.6 to $6.1 billion — all in a year’s work of despoiling some of our nation’s last wetlands and toxifying the coastal wildlife habitat far worse than anything the architects of Exxon Valdez ever dreamed up.

And there is a filthy lucre still to be made from the disaster. But not for BP. This loot is for temporary spill-response workers, with the red “MC 252” stickers slapped on their masts. On Fourth of July weekend, a fleet of small motor boats filled with idling BP contractors sat docked in the wet slips of the Cypress Cove Marina, in Venice. The men aboard were fattening their pockets while waiting for the opportune weather conditions to begin their “controlled-burning” operations — this is pendent on caprices of nature like the strength of the west wind, and whether or not it will storm heavily on a given day.

The fitful raining might die down later today or sometime tomorrow or never, for that matter.

None of that is important with $20 per hour pay and a bulky government “per diem” check to take to the bank.

So it is hard to dismiss anti-BP sentiments as the ravings of “fringe liberals” and all manner of other bleeding hearts too squeamish to cope with the harsh realities of what foulness is brewing in our Gulf of Mexico. Many individual petroleum consumers now believe that the best

policy is to avoid fueling up outright at any place unlucky enough to bear the loathsome BP insignia.

The advocacy group Public Citizen has gone so far as to call for a national boycott of BP — with the aim of crippling service TreVor Fanning stations across Columnist the country and dealing heavy financial damage to the oil giant.

While their zeal is admirable, the folks at Public Citizen envision a boycott measure that would probably do little except put a damper on revenue for locally-owned gas stations — and result in only a paltry amount of lost earnings for BP — what basically amounts to “a round off error” in lost revenue for a multibillion dollar oil conglomerate.

This is in part due to the bizarre marketing process for commercially sold gasoline — Ron Lieber of the New York Times explains that “the gas in [BP’s] pumps may not be extracted, refined, or stored by the company and may just get a spritz of BP additives right before it ends up at the service station.”

This peppering of additives contributes a few nickels to CEO Tony Hayward’s coffer and probably not much else.

Conversely, every unmarked or independent convenience store is potentially a BP station in lurking, since they may purchase directly from BP-supplying wholesalers, but with no ominous skull and crossbones hazard label to ward away leery customers.

This could mean, given the

apparently incestuous relationship between major oil companies in the U.S., that you’re liable to get a medley of different petrol derivatives for any particular “brand” of gasoline you buy.

BP-extracted and refined crude could be ever-present, in some latent form or another, in every gasahol purchase inside the continental United States. It is a horrifying prospect with murky undertones of a corporate takeover.

It is also a real tangle of thorns — especially confusing for protesters who are now unsure whether to sling an opened can of brown Sherwin Williams paint at the conspicuous BP station off the interstate or

their own now-suspect neighborhood Kwik-E-Mart.

As for myself, I have slowly come to grips with the fact that it is fruitless and probably mentally unhealthy to be laden with such a deep and long-stewing despondency about our country’s ultimate fate and the meaning of life — all because of some freak accident of a rig explosion 40 miles off Louisiana’s coast that no one but the Oracle of Delphi could have predicted.

A spokesperson for the Petroleum Marketers Association of America confirmed the labeling process for the refined petroleum products: “It doesn’t become a brand of gasoline until it gets those

additives.” And maybe that is a metaphor, in some jangled sense, for the kind of interwoven and complicit guilt that belongs to everyone with a stake in the oil industry.

In this case, a crew of unwitting petroleum engineers aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig served as the “spruce of additives” that branded the catastrophe with the emblem of BP. And perhaps in some dark sewer of the human subconscious, there is a little bit of BP-refined crude trickling through us all.

Contact Trevor Fanning at tfanning@lsureveille.com

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On your mark...

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Kristen Morrison, ‘09

former Print Sales Manager currently: Part Owner/Account Manager at Red Six Media

NOW HIRING!

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Starting my career with LSU Student Media was one of the best decisions I could have made. Not only did I get real world experience, but I also developed many relationships with clients and brands that continue to help me today.

Student Media also taught me a valuable lesson in time management skills. If you succeed in having a job like this while also being a full-time student, the real world will be much easier for you to dive into.

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Halley Holdsworth, ‘07

former Broadcast Sales Manager currently: Jewelry & Watch Manager, Town&Country magazine

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My 3 years in Student Media Advertising were priceless.

School taught me a great deal, but the experience I got at LSU Student Media was the most valuable piece of my portfolio and college career. I can honestly say it got me where I am today. I gained 3 years of real world experience and a client base that I was able to carry along with me after graduation.

It was challenging, but also fun and rewarding and well-worth my time. I will always be grateful for the experience.

John David Robbins, ‘07

former Print Sales Representative currently: Creative Director for RunningWithHeels.com

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Working at Student Media gave me the tools and experience I needed to be successful and well prepared for my current job. Having hands-on experience with all facets of the media industry has allowed me to have a competitive advantage over most colleagues my age in the industry. My involvement with student media has been one of the best investments I have made for my future.

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The skills I developed while serving as the Broadcast Sales Manager set me apart from all the other applicants while applying for jobs after graduation. While at LSU Student Media, I was trained to build and maintain local and national client relationships through weekly client meetings, media pitch presentations and by developing various integrated marketing packages.

My time at LSU Student Media definitely provided the foundation for my future in the media industry and played a huge part while applying for my current position at Town&Country magazine!

Get the fast track to an awesome career with Student Media Advertising.

Donna Weber, ‘08

former Print Sales Manager currently: Multimedia Account Executive at The Tennessean

Applications available in B34 Hodges Hall.