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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Study suggests some people’s party habits could be a result of genetics ‘I prefer conversations to body impact ... and sweat.’

Laura Rachal French and biology senior

Suicide prevention to get more exposure

By Adam Duvernay Staff Writer

I get my [outgoing personality] from my dad.’

Jordan Neldare biology senior

‘I love drinking with strangers.’

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Students toast at the Abita Pub Crawl on Saturday in the Northgate area. A recent study suggests party habits could be a result of genetics.

By Joy Lukachick Staff Writer

Beer cups littered the sidewalks as a line wrapped around the porch of Serrano’s on Highland Road on Saturday evening.

And the crowd of pub-crawling patrons packing Northgate-area bars may have shared more common bonds than multicolored wristbands and intoxication.

The more than 2,000 people — mostly students — who participated in the Abita Pub Crawl could share similar genes. A new Harvard-

based study found genetic makeup influences a person’s popularity, social skills and even the willingness to go out partying.

Harvard professor Nicholas Christakis and two University of San Diego professors, James Fowler and Christopher Dawes, published the study Jan. 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“These results allow us to reject the hypothesis that genes have no effect on human social networks,” the study said. “Genes give

Charlie Ho political science senior

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Following the tragic suicides of six University students in 1970, including Student Government President Art Ensminger, the student body voted to establish a suicide prevention hotline with the Baton Rouge Crisis Prevention Center. Now, 39 years later, some dissatisfaction with the center almost ended this longstanding relationship.

Despite a few weeks of shaky relations with the BRCIC, the University decided to maintain its relationship with the center after BRCIC officials promised to increase the center’s presence on campus.

During a telephone conference with SG President Colorado Robertson and University officials Thursday afternoon, the BRCIC vowed to institute new training programs for University faculty and students and to make BRCIC, see page 5

GENETICS, see page 5

HOLIDAY

Cajun groundhog predicts lengthy spring for the South

By Lindsey Meaux Staff Writer

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At 123 years old, the oldest living meteorologist, Punxsutawney Phil — “Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators” — emerged from his stump Monday and saw his shadow, declaring six more weeks of winter.

But closer to home, Pierre C. Shadeaux made a much different forecast. In New Iberia, Shadeaux’s prediction pertains the length

of spring rather than winter.

Shadeaux, a nutria who leads festivities entitled “Cajun Groundhog Day” in New Iberia, emerged before a crowd of about 40 people and did not see his shadow Monday, which means a longer spring for Southerners dreading summer’s humid weather.

“If he sees his shadow, it’s bad news. If he doesn’t see his shadow, it’s good news,” said Will Chapman, publisher of The Daily Iberian who began the yearly festivity in 1997. “Good news is putting off summer’s heat and humidity.”

Punxsutawney Phil made his forecast to a crowd of about 13,000 who gathered in GROUNDHOG, see page 5 7:20 a.m.

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The Rev. Scott Bullock makes his declaration Monday in New Iberia. He announced that Pierre C. Shadeaux, the weatherpredicting nutria, said residents should expect a long spring.

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Ben Hughes, handler for Punxsutawney Phil, holds the groundhog aloft on Monday in Punxsutawney, Pa.

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Protester hurls shoe at Chinese prime minister during UK visit

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — A protester hurled abuse and then a shoe at China’s prime minister Monday while he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University at the end of his trip to Britain. The protester leapt up from his seat near the back of a crowded auditorium, blew a whistle and yelled that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was a “dictator” before throwing the shoe toward the stage. “How can this university prostitute itself with this dictator here? How can you listen ... to him unchallenged,” the man shouted.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen seized an American U.N. worker as he rode to work Monday, shooting and killing his driver, U.N. and Pakistani authorities said. His Land Cruiser was found rammed against a wall, punctured by at least one bullet hole. The United Nations expressed “extreme shock and dismay” at the rare attack in a region that has largely been spared the al-Qaida and Taliban insurgency wracking much of northwestern Pakistan. The government called the abduction of John Solecki, head of the U.N. refugee office in the southwestern city of Quetta, a “dastardly terrorist act.”

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting to salvage his Cabinet nomination, Tom Daschle pleaded his case Monday evening in a closed meeting with former Senate colleagues after publicly apologizing for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes. President Barack Obama said he was “absolutely” sticking with his nominee for health secretary, and a key senator added an important endorsement.

The White House both underscored the magnitude of the problem and tried to downplay it in the space of seven words. “Nobody’s perfect,” said press secretary Robert Gibbs. “It was a serious mistake ...” On the bright side for Daschle, he got warm words of support from the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the panel that will have the first say on his fate.

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Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gestures during the daily press briefing at the White House on Monday in Washington.

Marijuana use, nights out Gov. Jindal ‘concerned’ about stimulus bill decrease among teens CHICAGO (AP) — Kids on both sides of the Atlantic are smoking less pot and going out less often with friends at night, a study of 15-year-olds in 30 countries found.

The double declines occurred in the United States, Canada and mostly European countries from 2002 to 2006.

The trends are likely related, because other research has found that kids who spend many evenings out are more likely to smoke dope than homebodies. Teens are most likely to use the drug secretly away from home, said lead author Emmanuel Kuntsche.

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

In Monday’s article, “Proposal for new bus system nearing completion,” it was misidentified that the new transportation plan would be implemented in fall 2010. The plans should be put in place by fall 2009.

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But he said he will review the final version of the bill for federal money for Louisiana projects. Jindal told reporters if he were still in the U.S. House, he would have joined fellow Republicans in voting against the bill. Jindal served in Congress before his election to governor, a post he assumed in January 2008.

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ACADEMICS

New University deans scheduled to start this summer Each to make at least $200K a year

By Steven Powell Contributing Writer

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Three University colleges will answer to a new leader starting this summer.

The College of Engineering, the College of Music and Dramatic Arts and the School of the Coast and Environment have each hired Log on to see a new dean.

The LSU copies of Board of Su- the new pervisors con- deans’ firmed and contracts. approved the contracts for Richard Koubek, College of Engineering; Laurence

Kaptain, College of Music and Dramatic Arts; and Christopher D’elia, School of the Coast and Environment at its January 22 meeting.

“Each [new hire] have been in places where they know how to build strong programs and take us on the road to excellence,” said Chancellor Michael Martin. Christopher D’elia of the Coast “Each one is School and Environment desirable because they have ‘played in the big leagues’ before.”

Koubek is the head of Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. His appointment is effective March 1, 2009, with a June 1, 2009 start date and has an initial salary of $275,000 on a fiscal year basis,

according to his contract obtained

by The Daily Reveille.

Kaptain is the dean and professor at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Va. According to his contract, his appointment takes effect July 1, 2009 and he will receive $200,000 on a fiscal year basis.

Kaptain said he wants Laurence Kaptain of Music and to be a “power College Dramatic Arts listener,” learning the college’s strengths and gaining a feel for the faculty and students before making decisions in any direction.

“The LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts has a big leadership role for a wide geographic range,” he said.

“People are looking to LSU for leadership ... CMDA has a big

responsibility, and I want to lead the college through this responsibility.”

Christopher D’elia is the regional vice chancellor for academic affairs, research and graduate studies, director of the International Ocean Institute-USA. He is also an environmental science and policy and ma- Richard Koubek rine sciences College of Engineering professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. According to his contract, his appointment, effective July 1, 2009, has an initial salary of $200,000 per fiscal year and will not lead to tenure.

“I want to see more of an identity built with the school,” D’elia said. “It’s critical that people start to recognize the name and

the enormous power of LSU’s potential.”

Provost Astrid Merget said since the School of the Coast and Environment is the youngest on campus, she would like to see its academic program enhanced and capitalize on its critical location on the Gulf Coast.

The deans were chosen after undergoing a selection process that included a two-day on-campus interview process and multiple meetings with the chancellor and provost, Merget said.

“We are just elated to have deans of that academic caliber,” she said. “Each one has proven himself in leading institutions and at the same time, excelling as scholars and teachers in their fields.”

Contact Steven Powell at spowell@lsureveille.com

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Volunteer LSU achieving goals of innovation Community service projects successful

By Mary Walker Baus Contributing Writer

Knocking door-to-door to recruit volunteers during and after Hurricane Gustav was just a walk in the park for Michael Rhea.

“Volunteer LSU is part of the Campus Life department,” said Rhea, Volunteer LSU director.

“That department’s mission is to come up with innovative projects that enhance student learning and get students involved in the community.”

After Gustav hit, Volunteer LSU leaders, including Rhea, recruited volunteers to help at the University during the hard days after the storm.

Volunteer LSU was founded in the spring of 2006, just after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Rhea, international studies and political science senior, said disasters like Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav really drove him to serve the community.

“After Katrina, we noticed that there wasn’t a real service organization on this campus that served as the central location for all things service,” said Campus Life Assistant Director Mallory Trochesset. “Volunteer LSU’s mission is to bring together the LSU community of students, faculty and staff, to alert them to service opportunities in the community, to get them engaged in what’s happening and make a difference in Baton Rouge.”

Trochesset said Volunteer LSU membership is open to all students, faculty and staff. Volunteer LSU does not have official membership requirements and therefore, keeps track of their

membership numbers through their e-mail list, which currently has around 1,300 people. However, Trochesset said Volunteer LSU has seen a higher volume of traffic in the e-mail list each year.

“The unique thing about Volunteer LSU is that it’s open to anyone and everyone in the LSU community,” said Trochesset.

“Once you decide that you want to participate in a program, you are a member of Volunteer LSU.” From pressure washing public school buildings to cleaning up after Ike in Galveston, Texas, Volunteer LSU is successfully achieving its mission to have innovative community service projects this year.

One of the biggest service events Volunteer LSU has taken the leadership of in its short existence is Community Bound, which takes place the Saturday before the fall semester begins.

Community Bound focuses on serving the needs of East Baton Rouge Parish Schools. In 2008, Community Bound’s 300 volunteers helped clean, paint and beautify 10 East Baton Rouge public schools. Within the program, a team of faculty and staff serve as site supervisors, and a team of upperclassmen serves as leaders for the day while first years and other incoming students participate as the volunteers.

“All the schools were very satisfied with what we did, and we made major improvements for the schools that really needed help,” said Rhea. “That being my first experience with Volunteer LSU as a leader was really rewarding and set a great tone for the year.”

The 2008 fall service project sponsored by Volunteer LSU teamed up with BREC, the Recreation and Park Commission for the East Baton Rouge Parish, and took 80 volunteers to help clean up

Baton Rouge parks after Gustav, said Trochesset.

“We painted one mile of fence,” Trochesset said. “BREC had been so focused on restoring parks after the hurricane, and we helped with the small things they couldn’t get to. It’s always good to walk away from a project, see the result and feel good about it, knowing we made a difference.”

Volunteer LSU is split two ways, said Trochesset. One half, the executive board, oversees the big picture and plans the big events like Community Bound.

The other half is made up of the five focus areas. These focus areas were picked by the founders and are based on where the most help was needed in the community.

This spring, Volunteer LSU has two more major projects in addition to the smaller projects headed by the five different focus areas. The first is called Service on the Shore: Galveston, which will take 40 to 50 volunteers to Galveston, Texas, from March 6 to 8 to help clean up the debris and devastation left by Hurricane Ike. “Louisiana has received so much help from other states and citizens from around the country during its hurricane troubles that it will be nice to give back,” said Rhea. “Texas has helped us a lot.

We’re going to take vans and do some rebuilding and some gutting.”

Through this project, Rhea and Trochesset plan to shed light on the troubles people are still facing from Hurricane Ike. The second major service event this spring will be a project with the Mid-City Redevelopment Alliance in which volunteers go to a part of Mid-City Baton Rouge to help renovate homes and “make them more livable,” according to Rhea.

“You don’t have to be a

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Katherine Coco helps a resident of Ollie Steele Nursing Home pick out gifts on Nov. 30 during VLSU’s Civic and Social Awareness Project.

member of a specific service organization to volunteer,” said Michelle Lowery Eldredge, associate director of Campus Life.

Applications to apply for Service on the Shore: Galveston are on the Volunteer LSU Web site and in room 304 of the Student Union.

Contact Mary Walker Baus at mwbaus@lsureveille.com

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NATION

Senate confirms Holder as first black attorney general Former judge elected by a vote of 75-21

By Larry Margasak The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder won Senate confirmation Monday as the nation’s first African-American attorney general, after supporters from both parties touted his dream resumé and easily overcame Republican concerns over his commitment to fight terrorism and his willingness to back the right to keep and bear arms.

The vote was 75-21.

Holder’s chief supporter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, said the confirmation was a fulfillment of civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character.

“Come on the right side of history,” said Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Holder becomes the only black in President Obama’s Cabinet.

Three other African-Americans were named to top administration positions but are not Cabinet secretaries.

Holder was a federal prosecutor, judge and the No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration. Even his critics

agreed that Holder was well-qualified, but they questioned his positions and independence.

The debate turned partisan in its first moments, when Leahy expressed anger that a few Republicans demanded a pledge from Holder that he wouldn’t prosecute intelligence agents who participated in harsh interrogations.

Leahy singled out Texas Republican John Cornyn as one who wanted to “turn a blind eye to possible lawbreaking before investigating whether it occurred.”

“No one should be seeking to trade a vote for such a pledge,” Leahy said.

When Cornyn rose to announce his vote against Holder, he did not make such a demand. However, he accused the nominee of changing his once-supportive position — on the need to detain terrorism suspects without all the rights of the Geneva Convention — to one of harshly criticizing Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies.

“His contrasting positions from 2002 to 2008 make me wonder if this is the same person,” Cornyn said. “It makes me wonder what he truly believes.”

Cornyn and Sen. Tom Coburn said Holder was hostile to the right of individuals to own guns, despite a Supreme Court ruling last June

affirming the right to have weapons for self-defense in the home.

Holder said at his confirmation hearings: “I understand that the Supreme Court has spoken.”

But he added that some restrictions on guns could still be legal.

Holder’s confirmation will trigger reviews — and changes — to the most controversial Bush administration policies, from interrogation tactics to terrorism trials and warrantless surveillance.

Those are some of the known issues. Even Holder doesn’t know what he’ll find when he looks at secret memos in the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel.

Holder also will have to rehabilitate a department that under President George W. Bush was criticized for injecting politics in hiring career officials and firings of U.S. attorneys. He’ll have to decide whether to prosecute Justice Department officials who may have violated the law in some of those policies and tactics.

Holder also could reverse Bush’s orders to former aides not to testify before Congress on their private advise discussions on the U.S. attorney firings.

To the satisfaction of Democrats and consternation of some Republicans, Holder told his confirmation hearing, “Waterboarding

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Sen. Chuck Schumer pats Attorney General-designate Eric Holder on the back on Jan. 15 in Washington. Holder is the nation’s first black attorney general.

is torture.” The statement about an interrogation technique that simulates drowning was an important signal of a policy change from Bush’s view that the tactic was legal and not torture.

Obama issued an executive order to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. He also created a special task force, co-chaired by the attorney general and the

secretary of defense, to review detainee policy going forward. The group will consider policy options for apprehension, detention, trial, transfer or release of detainees and report to the president within 180 days.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com

GREEK AFFAIRS

State’s first Latina sorority in interest-group stage Lambda Theta Alpha founded in ‘75

By Victoria Yu Contributing Writer

The Office of Multicultural Affairs is working to start a chapter of the first Latina sorority on campus, said Cross Cultural Affairs Coordinator Cerise Edmonds.

The sorority, Lambda Theta Alpha, will also be the first Latina sorority in the state, said Ashley Suazo, public relations freshman and founding member.

Suazo, along with three other members of the Hispanic Cultural Society, researched LTA after Edmonds encouraged them to find a student organization they could identify with, Edmonds said in an e-mail.

“It’s our opportunity to basically stand up,” Suazo said. “Our mission for this is so girls can identify even more with a deeper bond as a sisterhood.”

The four founding members have since recruited four more participants.

The University will recognize LTA as a student interest group for one year, before becoming nationally recognized as a chapter, said Angela Guillory, director of Greek life.

Though LTA has Latin roots, the sorority is multicultural, Edmonds said.

“Of course we respect the roots and that it’s Latin, but we’re

trying to be more multicultural,” Suazo said.

LTA’s goals include scholarly excellence and the empowerment of Latina women, according to lambdalady.org, LTA’s official Web site.

“Where I come from, there’s a lot of poverty,” said Suazo, who is Honduran. “It’s not that common for people to go to a really good college. It’s not that common for a woman to be

[anything] other than a housewife.

It’s different when you come to America and when you become part of an organization like this.”

The interest group is known as the Interested Ladies of Lambda Theta Alpha, Edmonds said.

As an interest group, the members must perform community service and hold socials.

“Unfortunately, going through the one-year process does not guarantee expansion,” Edmonds said.

Thomas Gonzales founded LTA at Kean University in New Jersey in December 1975.

Since then, LTA has increased cultural and political awareness and community activism among the Latin community.

LTA is open to all female students, as long as they meet specific requirements, which include 12 hours of college credit, enrollment as a full-time student and at least a 2.5 GPA, Edmonds said.

“Other members have put as much effort into it as the founding girls,” Suazo said. “In all truth, if we didn’t have those other girls following behind us, it would be 10 times harder to push for something like this.”

Contact Victoria Yu at vyu@lsureveille.com

tuesday, february 3, 2009 BRCIC, from page 1

services more visible to target audiences.

“The things they have been doing, they’ll be doing more often,” Robertson said. “And they’ll also be advertising more to the students.”

Every semester, students pay two dollars in fees to fund the partnership with the BRCIC. The $100,000 annual program provides students with a 24-hour suicide hotline and suicide prevention training programs.

Though the crisis center has continually provided these ser-

GROUNDHOG, from page 1

Gobbler’s Knob, about two miles out of Punxsutawney, Pa., for his yearly Groundhog’s Day appearance.

According to legend, Phil seeing his shadow means another six weeks of winter while a lack of shadow means an early spring.

But that forecast may mean little to Louisianians, as the state typically begins to see warm temperatures around 70 in the end of February, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Phil Grigsby.

“Spring is very close,” Grigsby said in response to Phil’s forecast. “On average, we actually already are starting to see the normal highs warm up ... We don’t get the extreme cold that they normally get up in the Northeast and Great Lakes.”

Andy Reaux, veterinarian for Reaux Animal Hospital, said he and a friend in wildlife management are responsible for locating a nutria rat in the South Louisiana

GENETICS, from page 1

people individuality.” Christakis declined an interview with The Daily Reveille, but his Web site says his studies focused on exploring two aspects of social networks — “The process by which they form and the way they operate to influence behavior.”

The idea of genes affecting your behavior is not surprising, said Steven Pomarico, LSU biology professor. Some of a person’s behavior is determined by their physical appearance, which is determined primarily by genes, he said.

“Genes seem to somehow have an effect on if you are seen as more or less likable,” Pomarico said.

The research studied 1,110 identical and fraternal twins to compare genetically similar or identical people.

The results show a genetic link to likability and popularity, which make some people more apt to be considered a friend by others.

“Your genes may in fact influence more what you project than what you perceive,” Pomarico said, based on the study.

For example, Pomarico said if someone is a warm, outgoing person, they will be seen more easily as a friend.

The genes could affect a person’s behavior, and in many cases it applies to physical features, he said.

Many studies have shown people want to view good-looking people as their friends.

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vices to students, Robertson said he didn’t feel students were getting a full range of services for the amount of money paid to the institute. Robertson suggested a nationally-based organization to replace BRCIC if they were unable to be more active on campus.

Because of its proximity to campus, the BRCIC has the power to act more effectively than a national service, which would only be able to provide suicide hotline services.

“The BRCIC can offer a wider variety of services in terms of training, the hotline phone and

being available to people from residential life if they have a potential suicide situation,” said Drayton Vincent, Student Health Center director.

When SG presented their complaints to BRCIC, the crisis institute said it was eager to maintain its relationship with the University because of a long-standing history of service to the students and the importance of those services to an at-risk group.

“Personally, I am very passionate about it because I was a student there, and Art Ensminger was a friend of mine,” said Norma Rutledge, BRCIC executive

marshland in the two weeks leading up to Groundhog Day. “He’s already back in the wild,” Reaux said. “I thought it was something that I could do, and I kind of wanted to do. It’s kind of a fun thing.”

But the more famous mammal meteorologist has an established relationship with his community.

Michael Chapaloney, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, said Phil has open communication established with Groundhog club members.

“The president [of the Groundhog Club] is the only one who speaks ‘Groundhogese,’ and he gets down and Phil tells him whether or not he saw his shadow,” Chapaloney said. “[Phil] was a little feisty this morning, but he was very well behaved.”

Crowds of fans and media begin to gather Feb. 2 of each year at about 3 a.m., Chapaloney said. In the finals hours before Phil emerges from his stump, the sounds of live music and lights from fireworks fill the amphitheater.

Chapaloney said Phil stays perpetually young with the help of the yearly doses of ‘elixir’ he receives at the summer Punxsutawney Groundhog Festival held annually in July.

Marlene Lellock, director of the Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce, said Phil can become a grumpy critter despite the help of the elixir.

“They’re wild animals. If they feel threatened, then they will react,” Lellock said. “And they do bite.”

While Phil is considered a tame groundhog, Lellock said he tends to nip at his handlers whenever he tires. Nipping can often mean a blood loss for the handlers because of Phi’s sharp teeth, according to Lellock.

“The [handlers] that don’t handle him quite often will wear their steel gloves,” Lellock said.

Jordan Neldare, biology senior, said he gets his outgoing personality from his dad.

“He makes everybody laugh,” he said with a smile, explaining he can do the same.

On the other hand, Charlie Ho, political science senior, said he likes to party three times a week, is the exact opposite of his introverted parents.

“I love drinking with strangers,” Ho said, explaining his favorite reason for going out is meeting new people.

While a person’s genes have something to do with their personality, Graham Bodie, LSU communications studies professor, said how a person was taught is a big factor.

“A lot of it has to do with the training we receive,” Bodie said.

Bodie said his research on people’s behavior is concerned with observing the environmental factors. “[We] can’t do anything about our genes,” Bodie said. “But we can do things about our environment.”

The family where a person was raised and even courses taken in college are environmental factors that can impact behavior and the ability to be social, he said.

Bodie said another problem with the research is the study assumes identical twins share 100 percent of their genes. The problem is identical twins can have potential differences, he said.

Loretta Pecchioni, communication studies professor, said some people are inherently extroverted

and others are introverted.

But the idea of nature and nurture both go together, Pecchioni said.

“Is there a gene trait that makes us more social? Or was this what was modeled for us?” she said. “The simple answer is both.”

People are born sociable because babies have a primitive drive to get attention in order to be fed, Pecchioni said.

Since babies develop at such a young age, it’s hard to identify at that age how much of their behavior is hereditary and how much is learned by the parents, she said.

A person’s environment can enhance a genetic behavior, Pecchioni said. If a person is depressed and people ignore them, they can become more depressed.

The good news for more introverted people is they can still have their social needs met from a closer group of friends, Pecchioni said.

“Maybe you don’t need a 100 [friends],” she said.

Laura Rachal, French and biology senior, said she only likes going out about every other week. Instead of a noisy bar with people blocking her in, she prefers to talk with her close group of friends “I prefer conversations to body impact ... and sweat,” Rachal said.

director. “University students are part of a higher-risk population and are certainly a group who can feel alone in a crowd.”

To better serve the University, the BRCIC proposed adding new suicide prevention and intervention training programs for administrators and students.

Annual two-day assistance training courses for residential counsellors, a one-day training program for campus police called “Suicide 101,” and training for student organizations and student leadership are included in the new programs. BRCIC will also begin an active e-mail campaign

PAGE 5 to inform students about available services during stressful times like finals week.

Robertson said the need for the BRCIC to spend more on advertising and communicating to students is especially important.

“They haven’t had a presence in print on campus in several years, and its important that students know about all the services provided for them, especially ones as serious as suicide prevention,” Robertson said.

Contact Adam Duvernay at aduvernay@lsureveille.com

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John Griffiths, center, holds the weather-predictiong groundhog Punxsutawney Phil as Phil is interviewed by media at Gobbler’s Knob on Groundhog’s Day on Monday.

The Groundhog Club said Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter.

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Sports

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Positively Uncertain

High schoolers likely to shock, surprise on National Signing Day

By Tyler Harvey

THE 6th MAN

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SEC blowing Tigers’ chances

There’s nothing I love more than instant results.

That’s why I own two microwaves.

LSU coach Trent Johnson has brought that kind of instant success to LSU’s men’s basketball program in his first season.

This time last season, the Tigers were 1-5 in Southeastern Conference play and couldn’t even dream of making the big dance.

The Tigers right now are Johanathan Brooks 5-1 in the SEC Sports Columnist — the top in the conference — and have begun to spur talk of being a tournament “bubble team.”

That’s change I can believe in.

After starting conference play with a 6-point loss to Alabama, the Tigers bounced back and trounced South Carolina, Ole Miss and Mississippi State in three-straight games.

After a non-conference loss to Xavier, LSU held on to beat Tennessee and won the 100th Anniversary game against Arkansas on Saturday.

This team is pretty good against the teams in SEC, but is that good enough to make the NCAA tournament?

No. No, it isn’t.

The Tigers haven’t played that great outside of the conference, and that’s going to hurt.

TOURNAMENT, see page 10

RECRUITING, see page 10

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Chancellor hopes new rotation sparks success Morris, Kelly seeing more playing time

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

JERIT ROSER / The Daily Reveille

Senior forward Kristen Morris looks for an open teammate in the first half of the Lady Tigers’ 65-40 win against Southeastern Louisiana on Dec. 18.

LSU senior forward Kristen Morris made a couple of dribbles in the post before spinning past an Auburn defender and putting the ball in the hoop in Sunday’s 66-55 loss.

The field goal was one of six Morris had for the game, as the Lathrup Village, Mich., native scored 14 points and pulled down seven rebounds — both team-highs for LSU. Playing time hasn’t always come so frequently for LSU’s lone senior. Morris only played in 14 of

LSU’s 19 games this season, averaging only 11 minutes per game — which ranks 10th on the team.

“It looks like the coach should have been playing Kristen more,” said LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor. “But that’s the way it goes.”

Morris is one of a few Lady Tigers who has seen increased playing time since Chancellor shuffled the team’s rotation following LSU’s 38-36 loss Jan. 22 against Mississippi State.

Morris played 21 minutes per game and averaged 8 points and more than six rebounds per game since.

Sophomore guard Katherine Graham said Morris’ biggest contribution to the team has been her experience.

“She’s a great leader, and she really knows the game,” Graham said. “She is able to tell us what we need to do better, because she sees the game from a different perspective than we see it.”

Another notable switch has been at point guard, where junior guard Andrea Kelly now handles the Lady Tigers’ offense. Sophomore guard Latear Eason and freshman Destini Hughes previously started at that position.

LSU has won two of three games since Chancellor made the move — one he called the riskiest of his career.

The Lady Tigers have also been more efficient on the offensive end of the floor and average ROTATION, see page 9

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VOLLEYBALL

Last season’s injuries push back spring training Bensend has surgery, Reuther leaves team

By Andy Schwehm Sports Contributor

Daily Reveille file photo

LSU outside hitter Marina Skender [right] cheers on her teammates during a match last season. LSU coach Fran Flory said injuries to Skender and others have forced her to push back the start of spring training.

Last season’s injuries are still affecting LSU’s volleyball team nearly two months after the end of the season.

LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory said the team will begin its team spring practice March 11 and not end until late April due to injuries sustained by a few Tigers during last season.

“A lot of the local schools are [starting practice] on an ear-

lier schedule because of Mardi Gras and spring break, so they will be done with their allotment of [spring practice] days in midMarch,” Flory said.

A team is allowed 144 days to train as a team through the whole academic calendar, according to Flory. If a team does not use all 144 in the fall, the days can rollover to the spring.

Flory said the team has about six weeks of training left to use and will participate in four tournaments — March 28 at Rice, April 4 in Houston, the Southeastern Conference Coaches Beach Championship April 18 in Siesta Key, Fla., and April 25 in the PMAC.

Flory said senior outside hitter Marina Skender and junior middle blocker Lauren DeGirolamo are doing fine in their rehabs, but sophomore outside hitter Angela Bensend had surgery on her swinging arm.

“She was loose, and [the doctors] thought there may be some damage in there, but there wasn’t,” Flory said. “They just went in and tightened her up a little bit.”

Flory said the normal recovery for the surgery is around six months, but Bensend’s recovery may be faster because she went into the surgery “really strong.”

INJURIES, see page 11

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Johnson hopes to avoid letdown in upcoming games LSU moves into ESPN’s bracketology

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

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With LSU’s men’s basketball team having won five of its first six Southeastern Conference games, many analysts are beginning to take note of the Tigers’ on-court success.

The Tigers have risen all the way to No. 30 in the Associated Press’s Top 25 poll after having not received any votes last week.

LSU has also moved into the NCAA tournament as a No. 10 seed, according to ESPN.com bracketologist Joe Lunardi, who has accurately predicted 64 of the NCAA tournament’s 65 teams each of the past three years.

“We’ve got a long way to go,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson. “I’ll Log on to worry about Sesee Trent lection Sunday Johnson when it haptalk pens.” about the Johnson is upcoming focused on his Georgia team’s meeting game with Georgia this Thursday despite the new-found recognition.

“Obviously, we’re excited about the position we’re in right now,” he said. “But we also understand that we need to continue to be ready to play.”

Georgia enters the game as the SEC’s lone winless team, but Johnson said LSU will be beaten if they overlook their 9-12 opponent.

“When you start to feel good about yourself, you’re going to get knocked in the face,” he said. “We need to try to stay on an even keel like we’ve done for the most part all year.

BYE BYE FELTON, HELLO KNIGHT? The Bulldogs will face LSU on Wednesday without coach Dennis Felton, who was fired last week

after a 9-11 start and five straight Southeastern Conference losses.

Felton was on the hot seat last season, but those rumors subsided after the Bulldogs won the SEC tournament and advanced to the NCAA tournament.

Former Indiana and Texas Tech coach Bob Knight is one of the names who will be considered for the Bulldogs’ vacancy, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

University of Georgia president Michael Adams told the Journal Constitution he would not comment on specific candidates until the season ended, but said the Bulldogs will be interested in an experienced coach.

“We’re looking for a proven entity — and I think a proven entity at this level,” he said. “I mean somebody who has some experience at a major place.”

Knight resigned Feb. 4, 2008 after nearly seven seasons as the Red Raiders’ coach.

WILDCATS DROP BACK TO THE PACK

After climbing into the Top 25 for the first time this season, Kentucky took a pair of steps backward this week with losses to Mississippi and South Carolina.

The Wildcats (16-6, 5-2) will be tested again tonight when they take on Mississippi State (14-7, 4-2) in Lexington, Ky. Junior guard Jodie Meeks continued to thrive last week and had a pair of 20-point games despite Kentucky’s struggles. Meeks now has nine straight games surpassing the 20-point plateau.

He will be facing a Mississippi State defense that has struggled defending the perimeter recently, allowing 31 points to LSU senior guard Marcus Thornton on Jan. 21 and 18 points to Mississippi freshman guard Terrico White last Saturday.

But Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie said, despite his team’s expected advantage on the perimeter, the key to Tuesday’s game is containing Mississippi State’s post players.

That’s something the Wildcats did not do last week when they

were outrebounded, 32-19, on the offensive glass in their two games.

“If we don’t find some toughness somewhere in our defensive rebounding, then it is going to be a long rest of conference season,”

he said. “We are getting whipped in the lane, big time.”

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SOFTBALL

Tigers’ pitching staff facing early problems Team practicing in old, new ballparks

By Jarred LeBlanc Sports Contributor

The LSU softball team’s season kicks off Thursday, and the Tigers’ opening weekend pitching rotation is still up in the air.

LSU softball coach Yvette Girouard said Monday senior pitcher Dani Hofer’s wrist injury hasn’t gotten better, and now the Tigers’ ace is having back problems.

Hofer injured her wrist last April and had surgery last summer.

She had a 19-8 record last season but was only 3-6 in her final 11 appearances.

“Hofer is not pitching right now,” Girouard said. “There have been complications, and she’s not healthy. I’m not quite sure when she will throw.”

Girouard also said junior pitcher Cody Trahan is injured but should still see playing time.

“Cody Trahan, over the Christmas break, had a little back surgery,” Girouard said. “She is coming back from that. She has thrown some.”

Girouard said junior Baylor transfer Kirsten Shortridge also has an injury but is expected to start in the outfield in this weekend’s Paradise Classic in Hawaii.

“Kirsten Shortridge, who is a

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The LSU softball team runs laps around the warning track at Tiger Park on Friday.

The Tigers’ season begins Thursday in Hawaii.

pitcher, lead-off hitter and centerfielder for us, also had a little arm surgery before she came in here,” she said.

LACK OF HOMEFIELD ADVANTAGE Practice, preparation and homefield advantage play major roles in how any team will perform during the season.

The Tigers have had plenty of practice and preparation, but they still don’t feel that home-field advantage.

The team has been going back and forth between practicing in the old Tiger Park and the new Tiger Park, because the new stadium is not yet finished.

“We spend an hour out here [in old Tiger Park] at a time, usually scrimmaging,” said sophomore Jessica Mouse. “Then we have to pack our bags up and get mentally prepared for the second practice.”

Plenty of distractions still bother the team once players finally make it to the new field each day.

“They’re still doing construc-

tion, so it’s hard to hear each other,” said freshman Juliana Santos. “It’s hard to communicate because there are people sanding and machines going.”

The Lady Tigers are only allowed to do defensive drills because of the construction.

“All we can do is take defense,” Girouard said. “We can’t even do pop-ups to the catchers or down the sidelines. We can do no hitting.”

The women are eager to practice on the new field because there are many differences between the two ballparks.

“The field orientation is totally different,” Girouard said. “The sun is in the leftfielder’s eyes there; the sun is in the rightfielder’s eyes [in the old Tiger Park].”

Girouard said she isn’t sure when her team will finally be able to hit and have full practices on the new field. “[The date we move in] has switched a million times,” Girouard said. “The facility was supposed to be finished in November. Now they are saying hopefully Feb. 5 for the whole thing.”

Eddie Nunez, associate athletic director of Operations and Project Development, did not answer or return phone calls about the park’s posContact Jarred LeBlanc at jleblanc@lsureveille.com

ROTATION, from page 7 less than 11 turnovers per game with Kelly at the point — down from the nearly 15 per game the team averages on the season.

Graham also helped polish LSU’s rotation since returning from a knee injury she sustained Jan. 14 against the University of New Orleans.

The Birmingham, Ala., native, who started the ‘I’m feeling first 14 games of the season, great. I just has been eased don’t want back into the lineup but to overdo it ... just should return to the starting trying to lineup in the take it coming weeks.

“I’m feelslow.’ ing great,” GraKatherine Graham ham said. “I just don’t want to sophomore guard overdo it. That’s the main thing for me — just trying to take it slow . . .

But there’s no pain or anything.”

With the second half of conference play looming, Morris said she’s confident LSU will be able to have success with its new-look rotation.

“I think we’re getting better as a team altogether,” she said. “We just have to keep working and get ready for the rest of the teams that we have.”

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Twelve of the 15 non-conference opponents LSU has played are at a level comparable to Bruce Springsteen during halftime at the Super Bowl this weekend — not very good.

They’ve pounded on three Southwestern Athletic Conference teams in Grambling, Alcorn State and Jackson State, who are a combined 16-45.

They’ve also played six more instate teams who don’t have a chance of making it to the tournament unless they win their conference — plus Troy from Alabama.

Two teams from the West Coast were supposed to be legit challenges for the Tigers. They weren’t.

Cal State Fullerton and Washington State were both tournament teams last season, and LSU beat both fairly soundly. The Cougars actually held a second-half lead in that contest before losing by 12.

And neither of those teams are

RECRUITING, from page 7

The nation’s eyes are on Randle, the top uncommitted prospect in the country. The consensus fivestar wide receiver will choose between LSU, Alabama and Oklahoma. Four-star linebacker Mingo is widely considered an LSU lock and will shock everyone if he signs with someone else.

While it seems Tiger fans have become more confident about Randle’s decision in recent months, Shipp still believes there’s the po-

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on pace to make it back to the NCAA tournament — Washington State has a 12-9 record, and Cal State Fullerton is 11-10.

The three other non-conference teams the Tigers played have owned LSU. Utah blasted LSU by 30, Texas A&M pulled away to win by 11 and Xavier beat a streaking LSU team by 10 in the PMAC two weekends ago.

The Tigers’ lack of quality wins will be what keeps them out of the tournament.

LSU has the No. 55 best rating percentage index in the country out of 343 teams, according to RPIratings.com. The SEC has the No. 6-best rating out of 32 conferences.

That’s not very good for a team that’s most likely going to have to rely on an at-large bid to the dance.

This isn’t a slight on the Tigers, since they have no say in who their conference mates play and how bad they play against them. LSU is literally doing all they can to push toward the tournament.

The Tigers are at or near the top of the SEC in many statistical categories.

The team ranks No. 1 in 3-point percentage at more than 38 percent.

They’re No. 2 in scoring defense, No. 3 in rebounds and blocks and No. 4 in assists and field goal percentage.

The league’s No. 3 scorer and No. 2 stealer both suit up for the Tigers.

Senior guard Marcus Thornton has been playing lights out almost all season and is averaging 19.4 points a game, and senior guard Garrett Temple averages almost 2.2 steals a game.

When LSU’s name isn’t called on Selection Sunday, don’t blame Johnson and his boys because they’ve done pretty much all they can.

Blame the rest of the SEC for not being that good.

tential for fans to be broken-hearted Wednesday.

“I still give LSU a slight edge right now [with Randle],” Shipp said. “If I had to bet on it, I’d say LSU, but I wouldn’t bet much.”

If Randle commits elsewhere — like Alabama — it could remind Tiger fans of Joe McKnight’s disappointing commitment to USC. Shipp said the way Randle’s recruitment was handled with such respect wouldn’t make it feel as personal.

Tiger fans have been sweating bullets worrying about how solid

some commits are, including LSU’s top cornerback commit Janzen Jackson and, more recently, fourstar wide receiver commit Kenny Bell (Rayville).

Jackson’s recruitment took a turn when his father, Lance Guidry, was scheduled to interview for a position on the Tennessee coaching staff.

“We just talked to [Jackson], and he’ll sign with LSU on signing day,” Scarborough said. “I don’t think there’s any issue there. Kenny Bell is one to watch. There’s been a

tuesday, february 3, 2009

EMMET BROWN / The Daily Reveille

Contact Johanathan Brooks at jbrooks@lsureveille.com

Senior guard Garrett Temple, spins past a defender in the Tigers’ 80-70 loss to Xavier in the PMAC.

lot of smoke there, and we’ll see if there’s some fire on signing day.”

Darrington Sentimore is another name LSU fans will keep an eye on Wednesday. The four-star defensive tackle from Destrehan has been committed to Alabama since Oct. 5.

But with LSU offering Sentimore a late scholarship, the 6-foot-2-inch defensive force could possibly make a signing day switch to LSU. As letters of intent are faxed Wednesday and the 2009 recruiting class is sealed and delivered, a question will arise in the minds of LSU

fans: Is this LSU’s best recruiting class ever?

“That 2001 class is the best they’ve ever had, and three years later proved it,” Scarborough said.

“This one on paper is going to look as good as that one did when it was signed, and then we’ll find out in a couple of years if it actually measure up as good as that class.”

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NFL

Another fantastic Super Bowl favors Pittsburgh

By Dave Goldberg The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Super Super Bowls are becoming a habit.

The Steelers’ 27-23 win Sunday night over Arizona was another classic in an era of great games — “a game for the ages,” commissioner Roger Goodell called it.

Indeed, with a few of exceptions (notably Ravens 34, Giants 7 in 2001) fans have been treated to a decade’s worth of rousing NFL championships.

Consider that the typical Super Bowl score from 1980-99 was 35-17.

But starting in 2000, when Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled a yard short of the goalline with what would have been the tying touchdown in a 23-16 loss to St. Louis, the games have generally been what they were always supposed to be — worthy of their immense hype.

Six of the last 10 Super Bowls have been decided by a touchdown or less. Whatever the reason — luck, greater parity, never-say-die teams — the NFL

INJURIES, from page 8

has reason to smile.

The Rams’ winning score against the Titans came on a 73yard TD pass with 1:53 to Isaac Bruce from Kurt Warner, who brought the Cardinals back from a 13-point deficit Sunday before the Steelers’ final drive.

Warner also had to watch from sidelines in 2002, as Tom Brady drove the Patriots to the winning field goal against the Rams.

It wasn’t the only similarity Sunday to Super Bowls past.

In some ways, this year’s edition mirrored last season’s.

The winning TD game came on a pass from Ben Roethlisberger to Santonio Holmes with 35 seconds left in the game, the same time remaining a year ago when the Giants scored to beat New England 17-14. The Steelers’ game-winning drive started from their own 22 with 2:42 left in the game; the Giants’ drive began from their 17 with 2:39 remaining.

Holmes was voted the game’s MVP with 9 catches for 131 yards.

It was for him redemption in two

2007 All-SEC First Team and the 2006 SEC All-Freshmen Team.

The Plano, Texas, native had 151 kills in 95 sets, along with 30 ADDITIONS AND DEPARblocks last season.

TURES Flory also said Skender — who tore her ACL and MCL durFlory said she doesn’t think ing an April practice — is doing either of the incoming freshmen well in her rehab.

— Allyson Judkins and Madie “She is actually stronger Jones — will arrive on campus now than she was pre-surgery,” until the fall semester.

Flory said. “She’s back to full “I would love to have both of strength. Her workouts are going them here [for summer], but the really well, and Junior Olympic she’s well ahead Championships of where I hoped for their club she would be at teams run into this point.”

July, which is past The Zagreb, the start of sumCroatia, native mer school,” Floranked fifth in the ry said. “Maddie’s SEC in aces team lost in the per game in 2007 finals last year, so Fran Flory at .42. She also I would anticipate LSU volleyball coach ranked second on they would have the team in digs the chance to be per set (3.15) and third on the there again. Ally may have a little team with 378 kills. bit of a better chance because her Flory said DeGirolamo — team is not ranked as highly nawho went down with a similar tionally.” injury against Ole Miss on Oct. 3 But with the additions comes — is anxious to get back on the a departure. Flory said sophocourt and is doing fine with her more libero Haley Reuther has rehab, which has had no setbacks decided to leave the program. so far.

“She’s been a great addi“[Lauren’s] range of motion tion to our program,” Flory said. came back really fast,” Flory “We’re pretty sad about that, but said. “The key for her is strength for Haley, it is something she did training. It’s going to take her a a lot of thinking about, and it’s while to regain her muscle mass the right decision in her mind. because she is such a physical But I did leave the door open for player. her to come back if she changes Flory said the coaching staff her mind later.” is taking things slow with DeGiThe New Orleans native rolamo’s injury. walked-on to LSU from Domini“We aren’t pushing her real can High School. hard because we are letting her Reuther played in 54 sets last heal,” Flory said. “She’s real anx- season, averaging 1.17 digs per ious to get back out there.” set.

DeGirolamo ranked third on the team with 2.40 kills per set and second on the team with .98 Contact Andy Schwhem at blocks per set before the injury. aschwehm@lsureveille.com She was also a member of the

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‘We aren’t pushing [DeGirolamo] real hard because we are letting her heal.’

ways.

The play before his gamewinning touchdown on tiptoes, he had missed what seemed to be an easier throw on the opposite side of the end zone. And in midseason, he was suspended one game

by Steelers coach Mike Tomlin after being found with marijuana after a traffic stop by Pittsburgh police.

“I learned a lot from that,” Holmes said. “I’ve grown a lot.”

Goodell added: “Santonio grabbed me as we were coming off the podium and said ‘thank you for believing in me.’”

Holmes’ acrobatics made a winner of Tomlin in only his second year as Pittsburgh’s coach.

The 36-year-old Tomlin guided the Steelers to an unprecedented sixth Super Bowl title.

After a short night, he told reporters Monday, he’s appreciating the Steelers and their fans more all the time.

“It’s generational,” he said.

“It’s passed down from father to son. The more I’m in the organization, the more I understand it.

It’s part of the fabric of peoples’

JULIE JACOBSON / The Associated Press

Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, coach Mike Tomlin and team owner Dan Rooney celebrate the Steelers defeat of the Arizona Cardinals, 27-23, in Super Bowl XLIII on Sunday in Tampa, Fla.

lives.”

It’s a game Pittsburghers certainly will remember for a long time. It might even have been the best in the recent run of title-game dramas, played out before an estimated TV audience

of 95.4 million — second only to last year’s Super Bowl for U.S. ratings.

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THE SIXTH MAN

Tuesday, february 3, 2009

Firing represents nasty turn toward political correctness It’s finally happened.

Sports have fallen victim to the politically correct masses.

Roughly three weeks ago, the Covenant School — a Dallas area high school — defeated the Dallas Academy in a women’s basketball game 100-0.

The Dallas Academy is a small school that caters to students with “learning differences” including attention deficit disorder and dyslexia.

The school only has 20 girls total, with eight of them on the basketball team.

It’s sad the academy got beat so bad, but that’s not what concerns me.

Micah Grimes, the coach of the Covenant School’s team, was fired as a result of the victory.

His termination came on the same day he replied to an e-mail from reporters saying he would

not apologize “for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity,” according to Fox News.

Good for him.

There is no reason this man should have to apologize for having a better team than his opponents.

But his former employer feels differently.

It seems the school has been willing to apologize to anyone who will listen.

A statement was posted on the school’s Web site calling the win “shameful” and an “embarrassment” and was signed by the school’s headmaster and board chair.

The Covenant School should not be giving in to the whims of the politically correct public in apologizing for its remarkable win.

Let’s be real here: everybody likes a blowout — it’s good for the ego.

The Covenant School’s girls probably have a level of swagger unmatched by any of their opponents, and they’re probably playing some pretty good ball right now.

They were jacking 3-pointers in the fourth Johanathan brooksquarter of the game against Columnist Dallas Academy while fans and coaches cheered them on.

These are telltale signs of having a high level of confidence in their abilities, and they can thank their dominating performance in the first three quarters of the game.

When you’re on, you’re on.

Nobody gave Kobe Bryant any lip when he went out and scored 81 points three years ago against the

Toronto Raptors.

We crowned it as one of the greatest performances of all time and heralded the Mamba as a beast among men in the NBA. These politically correct apologists didn’t give two bits about Toronto, their feelings or how it affected their psyche — and they shouldn’t have.

The same should apply here.

Lopsided outcomes are a part of life and sports.

It’s a lesson we’ve all had to learn, so why does a man have to lose his job because he taught these girls a valuable lesson they won’t soon forget?

They’ll forever know they have no future in basketball, and they’ll adjust life plans accordingly.

It would have been a shame if one of these kids thought she had a future in the WNBA, only to realize all too late that she was awful and

no one wanted her talents on their team.

Athletes have always prided themselves on being better, stronger and faster than their opponents, and this team just proved that — even in sports — survival of the fittest still applies.

If you can’t play basketball, you can’t play basketball.

There is no reason Covenant Academy should have been expected to call off the dogs and coast to victory.

If Dallas Academy didn’t want to get beat so bad, maybe they could have spent extra time in the gym taking jump shots.

This PC junk has gotten out of hand, and now it’s tainting one of the few things I love: sports.

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U.S. should look to Britain for music piracy solution

Music is easy.

In its most basic sense, it is easy to make: just whistle. It is easy to hear: just listen. It is easy to find: just go anywhere. It is easy to steal: just download.

In fact, it is so easy to steal that people argue whether stealing it is even stealing. Ridiculous commercials appear before movies reminding us that stealing cars and stealing music is the same because some people still claim that downloading music without permission of the artist is not stealing at all but actually good for the artist.

Making the debate even more difficult is the seemingly random sentences that have been passed down for those who have stolen songs, regardless of whether it was Crazy Town’s “Butterfly” or Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees.”

In October of 2007, a Minnesota

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

On truth and the Bible The moment you challenge that the Bible is not divinely inspired, word for prophetic word, you step into a dangerous realm.

First, to say no one believes the Bible is 100 percent literally true,

woman was fined $220, 000 for sharing 24 particular songs through the Kazaa peer-to-peer client on which she claimed not to have an account, according to CNET. That’s $9,166 per song.

The $9,166 could buy a car.

It could buy a pony (or two).

It could buy six MacBooks.

Or one song.

This past June, British police arrested the founder and five users of the extremely popular private torrent server Oink.cd. Three of these users were just given their sentences: between 50 and 180 hours of community services and court fees paid in full, according to PitchforkMedia.

Without trying to claim America and Britain should hold the same stands insofar as the legal system is concerned, there does seem to be a major discrepancy here.

Paying $9,166 per song, 24

times over, for accidentally seeding music on a peer-to-peer program does not compare to community service for belonging to a private server whose only purpose was to share music.

It’s like a sun is to a light bulb.

It’s the Travis Andrews Columnist same concept, but the two have almost nothing in common.

And one obviously makes more sense.

Of course downloading music from the Internet and not paying for it is stealing, but at what point do we seriously start comparing it to Grand Theft Auto as our pre-preview commercials in movie theaters across the

country do so often?

I guess about 16 months ago.

If a crime is committed by millions upon millions of people on a daily basis, does it cease to be a crime?

Of course not.

But it does become far harder to track and stop, and randomly plucking people out of Minnesota and sticking them with bills higher than a Porsche 911’s price tag is senseless and pathetic and will not deter anyone. While it’s terrifying to think you could be next, it’s far too removed from the reality of a normal twentysomething or teenager sitting in his or her room, desperate to hear Kanye West’s “Heartless” or Taylor Swift’s “Love Story.”

There doesn’t seem to be a real reason for fear.

But if community service was the penalty, and if it started being

handed out like candy on Halloween, we might think twice about grabbing free tunes. And it makes sense — doing work for a few hours for taking something that someone else spent a few hours working on.

But, as it stands now, it’s a twisted form of utilitarianism. One person gets punished for all our sins, and we all live on, downloading away with reckless abandon. Because we have no reason not to.

Frankly, the way it is doesn’t bother me too much.

But I sure as hell bet it bothers the Minnesota woman who may be working the rest of her natural life just to pay off a CD and a half worth of songs.

isn’t true.

You claim no one believes this because they don’t follow its commands. Belief doesn’t require action. Many people believe the Bible is true, but no one does everything it says to do. You’re right when you say no one follows every commandment.

Romans 3:23 reads, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” We have all sinned,

or “missed the mark,” and fall short, or “come behind,” the glory, or “dignity,” of God (Strong’s Greek Dictionary). The Bible tells us we won’t measure up, and lets us know that’s a normal diagnosis.

The Bible says when we believe this, we will be saved just by believing, not by our actions, our good deeds or how well we follow the rules (Romans 10:9).

Second, the Bible is not a list of

guidelines.

Lastly, scripture is not to be taken out of context. We believe the letters are true in the environment in which they were written, and we base our lives off the attitudes and passions displayed in the Word of God. I’m not saying we all do it right. I’m not justifying anyone who screams words of hatred to the innocent. I’m not verifying the actions of

those who use the power of religious regimes to gain personal benefit. I’m saying thank God the Bible is true, because it’s saying the innocent will be freed, the hurt will be healed, the broken will be put back together, and if I need to be rescued, there’s someone who will stand in the gap for me.

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Pope embraces Internet, social progress with Facebook The Catholic Church is taking advantage of the latest — and perhaps most effective — proselytizing method in modern communication.

At the World Day of Communications annual celebration, Pope Benedict XVI recognized the “shifts in patterns of communication and human relationships” brought on by instant global communication through modern technologies.

The pope cited the new media’s ability to foster communities and networks, spread information and ideas and advocate learning.

In its latest image makeover, the Catholic Church is modernizing its reputation by promoting social networking sites “to promote human understanding and solidarity.”

Recognizing the fundamental human desire for relationships, the pope even claims these online services reflect the Almighty’s desire to unite humanity into one family. The innate outreach of man carries with it a sort of righteousness, Benedict

XVI said.

But short of outright praise, the pope offered stern cautions for his flock.

He attacked the “fleeting, shallow relationships” often cultivated by social outlets like Facebook.

Benedict XVI praised not the capacity to encourage contact between people but the quality of the content circulated through new media.

The theme of the papal speech was to espouse respect for the dignity and worth of new media users; open and tolerant dialogue between different cultures, countries and religions; and friendship — the most elusive concept in the discussion.

Networking sites such as Facebook have done much to alter the modern understanding of the term “friendship.” The pope rightfully raises awareness about the potential toll taken by sustaining and developing online relationships at the expense of real social interaction among actual members of society.

The desire for virtual connectedness could have a perverse effect by isolating individuals from reality and “disrupting the patterns of rest, silence and reflection that are necessary for healthy human development.”

Benedict XVI says friendDaniel Lumetta ship should be a Columnist means of community service, not an end in itself.

And the money quote: “We must not allow ourselves to be deceived by those who see us merely as consumers in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.”

In other words, don’t whore yourself out to advertisers or online peers.

But short of raining on

everyone’s Facebook parade, the pope offers encouragement and initiative to new media users.

To achieve moral justification for its existence, the pope says, new media users must strive to make this technology available to the whole world so as not to “increase the gap separating the poor from the new networks that are developing at the service of human socialization and information.”

Users must also be responsible enough to post and view only appropriate content.

Benedict felt compelled to address today’s youth through a means it understands and appreciates because he recognizes the task of evangelization falls squarely on the shoulders of those who will pioneer the expansion of the “digital continent.”

Since his papacy began, Pope Benedict XVI has taken heat for his traditional approach to Catholicism.

Succeeding John Paul II — or the

Great Communicator, a pope known for his liberal outlook — Benedict has cast himself as a staunch opponent of modern, liberal approaches to faith and world events.

Since then, the Church has gone so far as to launch its own YouTube channel.

The pope’s recognition of the dangers and benefits of new media in general — and social networking sites in particular — is a further step toward social progress.

Benedict XVI acknowledged humans naturally seek to manipulate their environment through various tools, and the Internet provides the latest instrument with which to foster modern human growth.

No matter how quickly the medium grows or changes, the message must be carried on as effectively as possible.

Contact Daniel Lumetta at dlumetta@lsureveille.com

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To make roadways safer, legalize drunken driving

By Joey Labuz

Badger Herald, University of Wisconsin

Wisconsin is notorious for lenient drunken driving laws. It’s the only state in which the first offense for operating while intoxicated is not even a misdemeanor.

In response to this perceived need to stiffen the penalties for repeat offenders, several members of the state Legislature introduced a proposal that would increase the penalties for some third- and all fourth-time offenders to a felony conviction instead of waiting until the fifth offense to make OWI a felony crime.

While this proposal clearly has good intentions, it is misguided. I not only oppose this new proposal, I would fully support decriminalizing drunken driving all together. Not only would the first offense not be a criminal one, neither would the thirteenth.

Before you fire off a letter

of outrage to this paper or call Mothers Against Drunk Driving to help organize a rally, hear me out. While it might be true that more stringent drunken driving laws save lives and make people safer, that alone is no justification for enacting a law. If that were the case, then people should support banning all cars, as that would prevent any kind of car accident.

There is obviously some middle ground between complete disregard for the safety of others and the totalitarian state that would ensue from attempting to make everyone safe from everything.

Also, this isn’t to say the sobriety level of a driver could not be taken into account as an aggravating circumstance in another crime.

I’m sure that most of my opponents will rush to cite some study or other argument as to how severe penalties for drunken drivers lower drunken driving rates and save lives. However, these

studies fail to refute my argument because I don’t advocate for any level of penalties for drunken driving laws as these studies compare. No one can be sure how safe our roads would be if OWI laws were repealed completely.

The main argument in favor of OWI laws in the first place is they deter drunken driving and therefore keep people safe. However, as an innocent driver or passenger on the road, you are endangered by all sorts of bad drivers.

Those drivers who are talking on cell phones, texting, tired or simply not paying attention also pose increased risks. Even though being intoxicated might make one a worse driver than other sorts of impediments, the same accident causes the same damage regardless of cause.

Instead of enforcing a myriad of laws to stop people from driving in these conditions, why not penalize people for being unsafe

drivers regardless of the cause?

Wouldn’t we all be safer if we just penalized those who swerved out of their lane, blew by traffic lights or engaged in other traffic law violations that increased the risk of an accident? Is causing an accident because you choose to drive after drinking any worse than causing a similar accident because you were texting? If a driver is over the legal limit but could still obey all traffic laws, are they really an unsafe driver?

Even with more stringent OWI laws, there will inevitably be those who choose to break them for whatever reason. Currently, those who know they are intoxicated but still choose to drive probably have one thing on their mind: not getting caught. To them, this usually means emulating as close to “normal” driving as they can.

In a world where drunken driving were legalized, inebriated

drivers could account for their lower reaction times by slowing down or even flashing their warning lights as a signal to others.

Enforcing traffic violations as opposed to bloodstream contents also gives a greater flexibility than the current system. There are some people who can drive safely with BACs above the legal limits and others who shouldn’t be driving after consuming alcohol.

While those in favor of harsher penalties for repeat OWI offenders might be right when they claim it will make our roads safer, that ought not be the sole criteria for evaluating public policy. The real question ought to be, “Should drunken driving even be prohibited in the first place?”

In the zenith of her enthusiasm, Dini Parayitam forgot to mention an obvious flaw with the brilliant solution she proposed a few days ago: India cannot secure itself against terrorism simply by projecting Pakistan as the culprit and threatening, or even taking, military action against it.

Though presently shying away from acknowledgment, India also faces homegrown terrorism and insurgency. And state terrorism is rampant in India. The demolition of the Babri Mosque led by the BJP’s L. K. Advani, the burning alive of nearly 70 Pakistanis in

the misnamed ‘Friendship Express,’ the series of bomb blasts in the predominantly Muslim town of Malegaon, the killing of some 600 Christians, the rape of their nuns and the burning down of their churches with state complicity are just a few examples that come to mind. In the last six months, the government of India was directly threatened by a number of groups including VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, RSS, Tamils and other extremists so much so that Christians who became prey to the violence a few months back openly announced

the establishment of their own private army. If India cannot eradicate homegrown terrorism, how can India be ready to attack a nuclear neighbor?

India’s handling of the Mumbai terrorist attack shows it is more interested in pursuing its broader domestic and foreign policy agendas than focusing directly on elimination of terrorism. In the domestic context, India wants to cover up the administrative, intelligence and security failures in coping with the Mumbai attacks.

The Indian government is unable and unwilling to explain how 10

people could come to Mumbai in a small boat and undertake carefully planned massive operations at several different places without local support.

It will not be long before India realizes the U.S. and other western countries have strategic interests in Pakistan with reference to Afghanistan and that they would neither endorse India’s war jingoism nor declare Pakistan a terrorist state.

Contact the Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at opinion@lsureveille.com

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India should wage war on India Everyone certainly has a right to conjugate his own opinion, but it is when absurd and inarticulate ideas leak out into the mainstream, ideas that impede the sovereignty of independent nations and promote hatred and violence, that we as Americans must draw the line; and if anything, PSA and MSA were merely trying to fulfill this duty.

Hasnain Mujahid biological sciences sophomore

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