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Volume 114, Issue 66
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
FOOTBALL
Alleva: LSU investigating possible football violations By Rachel Whittaker Chief Sports Writer
LSU is investigating possible violations involving the football team, Athletic Director Joe Alleva confirmed Monday in a prepared statement.
“Compliance issues are routinely monitored by our compliance staff and LSU is currently researching possible violations involving one assistant coach and one student-athlete in the sport of football,” Alleva said. “The involved student-athlete has not
participated in competition for LSU. By procedure, the Southeastern Conference Office has been made aware of this circumstance by LSU. Privacy concerns for the University employee and the student-athlete preclude further comment at this time.”
An LSU official told The Advocate the assistant coach involved in the investigation is wide receivers coach D.J. McCarthy. Herb Vincent, associate vice chancellor for University Relations and senior associate athletic
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director, would not confirm the name of the coach or the player. “This is an ongoing matter,” Vincent said. “I’m not at liberty to say anything more than what’s in the statement.” VIOLATIONS, see page 15
HEALTH
About 200 students vaccinated for H1N1
By Adam Duvernay Senior Staff Writer photos by BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille
Gallery. Parker said the Union Art Gallery is moving its operations from the Union to Foster Hall during the renovations, which will last until the summer. “The merger gives us a year to reorganize and plan how to run the gallery next year,” he said. Judi Stahl, Union Art Gallery director, said the gallery didn’t have any problems with the transition but is seeing fewer visitors than in the
The Student Health Center reported a steady stream of students lining up for the first day of H1N1 inoculations Monday. The Health Center distributed about 200 H1N1 vaccines to students and faculty yesterday, according to Julie Hupperich, associate director of the Health Center. “It was just a slow and steady line of people throughout the morning and afternoon,” Hupperich said. Hupperich said the first day of the vaccination process went about as smoothly as possible thanks to strong preparation and the experience of October’s seasonal flu inoculations. The Health Center called in two additional nurses to help administering the shots, Hupperich said. She said the process was even more streamlined than the seasonal flu vaccinations because the federal government provided the H1N1 shots for free. Brian O’Donnell, music senior, said he signed up for a vaccination because it was free and he had free time Monday. O’Donnell said it was mostly a precautionary measure for him, but he wasn’t too concerned about getting sick or the possible side effects. The Health Center’s doors opened at 7:30 a.m., and inoculations began at 9 a.m. Hupperich said there were a few students who came early and finished paperwork before vaccinations began.
GALLERY, see page 14
VACCINES, see page 14
[Left] Richard Kurtz, interim director of CAMD, gives a tour Friday. [Above] The University’s synchrotron, a type of particle accelerator, is one of only eight in the nation.
CAMD offers unique research opportunities By Ryan Buxton Staff Writer
The way online extras at lsureveille.com Log on to see Kurtz explain the synchrotron at CAMD and see photos of the accelerator.
Trillions of electrons are injected into a ring 150 feet in circumference, accelerating to an energy of 1.3 trillion volts and emitting radiation strong enough to produce a CT Scan with 1,000 times more resolution than a hospital’s. This hub of scientific research can be found at only eight locations throughout the nation, and one of them is LSU. The University’s synchrotron, a type of particle accelerator, can be found at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, or CAMD. Located off campus on Jefferson Highway, CAMD puts the University on par
with other schools with synchrotrons, like Stanford and Cornell universities. “Without CAMD, [LSU] is like a ‘me too’ university,” said Challa Kumar, head of the nanotechnology group at CAMD. “Everyone has a physics department, a materials department and a biology department. But who has a synchrotron? CAMD gives a niche to Louisiana and LSU.” Construction on CAMD began in 1989, and the first data was collected from it in 1992, said Richard Kurtz, interim director of CAMD. The original investment was $25 million, but new equipment for the facility has built the CAMD, see page 15
School of Art struggles with budget cuts Union gallery merges with Foster Hall gallery By Steven Powell Contributing Writer
As the University deals with budget cuts, the LSU School of Art joins a list of departments struggling to keep up services. Though the School of Art has operated the
gallery in Foster Hall for a couple decades, last summer’s budget cuts are forcing the school to find other options to keep up with the facility. Rod Parker, School of Art director, said the school no longer has a full-time staff member to run the Foster Hall gallery and is relying on graduate students to run the facility. “We’ve been able to do it with string, ceiling wax, goodwill and careful organization,” he said. But, the budget cuts coincided with the Student Union renovations, leading to a perfect merger between the School of Art and the Union Art