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Nora Lagneaux biological sciences junior
Say that you love me
Aaron Sievers mass communication sophomore
‘There are just a lot better ways to meet people. [Online dating] is ridiculous.’ ‘There’s just a big enough pool of people that I don’t have to online date.’
New forms of dating not best for forming long-term relationships By Lindsey Meaux Staff Writer
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Ogechi Maduka, biological sciences freshman, laughs with Derek Stout, natural resources and environmental freshman, Tuesday evening during the Student Activities Board Speed Dating night in the Magnolia Room.
Candlelit dinners, deep red roses and gold-ribboned boxes of chocolate are hallmarks of a wellspent Valentine’s Day. And — for some — abrupt heartbreak and last-ditch efforts to find a sweetheart are staples of the holiday. James Honeycutt, communication studies professor and author of next year’s “Scripts and Communication For Relationships,” said the anticipation of Valentine’s Day can
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be the straw that breaks cupid’s arrow for some couples. “Lots of relationships end two weeks preceding Valentine’s Day,” Log on to see Honeycutt said of what students the holiday he re- think about ferred to as Hall- online dating. mark Corporation driven. “They’re forced by the nature of the day to make a commitment, and if they don’t want to, they end it.” Melissa Doss, animal sciences sophomore, said she has
experienced the horrors of a Valentine’s Day date gone awry — the dreaded Valentine’s Day breakup. Any dreams of red roses and chocolate came to an abrupt end — Doss said she discovered on Valentine’s Day that her sweetheart had been unfaithful. He broke up with her that day, Doss said.
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BRPD license scanners a success University among Police use device most popular colleges to track stolen cars
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With a quick scan, Baton Rouge Police Department officers can tell if a car has been reported stolen — thanks to their new license plate reader. Since its deployment in August, the license plate reader has performed 156,945 scans, resulting in the recovery of 23 stolen
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vehicles as of Feb. 3. The reader takes pictures of license plates on stationary or moving vehicles, sending the information to a centralized database. Within seconds, the reader can determine if the vehicle has been reported stolen. “This technology allows us to do something in seconds that would take us hours — if not days — to figure out on our own,” said Sgt. Don Kelly, BRPD spokesman. The $25,000 reader was awarded to the BRPD by the Louisiana Automobile Theft and
Fla. only SEC school ranked above LSU By Leslie Presnall Staff Writer
LSU is listed as the 16th most popular university in the country among high school students, according to a U.S. News & World Report released in late January. “We’re pleased that U.S. News has once again recognized LSU on a national level,” Chancellor Michael Martin said in a news release. “From moving into the top tier in the last rankings to now being named one
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High school students think being an LSU Tiger is more popular than being a Texas Longhorn, a Georgia Bulldog or part of Alabama’s Crimson Tide.
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MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. and Russian officials traded shots Thursday over who was to blame for a huge satellite collision this week that spewed speeding clouds of debris into space, threatening other unmanned spacecraft in nearby orbits. The smashup 500 miles (800 kilometers) over Siberia on Tuesday involved a derelict Russian spacecraft designed for military communications and a working satellite owned by U.S.-based Iridium, which served commercial customers as well as the U.S. Department of Defense.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI told American Jewish leaders Thursday that he plans to visit Israel in May, coupling the long-awaited announcement with his strongest condemnation of Holocaust denial. The 81-year-old pope assured the group that the Catholic Church was “profoundly and irrevocably committed to reject all anti-Semitism,” helping to ease Jewish furor that followed the pope’s reinstatement of an ultraconservative bishop who questioned the extent of the Holocaust. “Such warmth, with an outstretched hand,” said New York Rabbi Arthur Schneier, a Holocaust survivor, after the audience in the frescoed Consistory Hall. “The visit is on, no hesitation, reservations.”
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(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal wants more of Louisiana’s budget to be vulnerable to spending cuts when the state has financial problems so public colleges and health care services won’t have to bear the brunt of budget reductions. Jindal said Thursday he will push legislation that would allow deeper cuts to dedicated and protected state funds during an economic downturn. Over the years, lawmakers have locked more than half the state’s income into specific programs — everything from elementary and secondary education dollars to wildlife and fisheries funds — making the money largely protected from budget cuts. When the state faces a deficit, the governor and lawmakers have little discretion to cut those shielded programs.
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Lincoln 1864 manuscript Texas recalls all items from plant over salmonella sets record at NYC auction AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has ordered a recall of all products ever shipped from a now-closed Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview amid a nationwide salmonella outbreak. The order came Thursday evening from the Department of State Health Services. The agency says “dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers” were discovered Wednesday in a crawl space above a production area. A state inspection also found that the unit’s air handling system was pulling debris from the infested crawl space into production areas.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech sold for $3.44 million on the bicentennial of his birthday Thursday, setting a new auction record for any American historical document. The manuscript was sold to an anonymous phone bidder after spirited bidding in a crowded Christie’s auction house room. Proceeds from the sale will go toward a new wing for a library in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where the document has been since 1926.
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Midnight kiss tradition at Memorial Tower is back Event scheduled for Friday By Leslie Presnall Staff Writer
A common University Valentine’s Day practice will be held at its traditional time this year. Students will head to the Memorial Tower for their special midnight kiss this Valentine’s Day morning. The event was moved from midnight to 8 p.m. last year because of safety concerns when a string of armed robberies occurred on campus. But the event has been scheduled for its traditional time this year. The tradition holds that students aren’t true LSU co-eds until they share a kiss when the clock strikes midnight and the bells begin to chime love songs.
“The tradition is not as wellknown or practiced as it was years ago,” said Katie Cicardo, Student Government director of student involvement. “But this is still a unique and treasured event for LSU students.” Cicardo said it’s important for SG to continue these traditions and encourage students to participate in them. About 30 to 40 students partake in the event each year, she said. “The LSU experience is about more than just attending classes or tailgating at football games,” she said. “It is about the amazing people you meet and the experiences you share with them.” SG made arrangements to provide increased security at the event to ensure the safety of all the students, Cicardo said. Cicardo said the last few SG
administrations have sponsored this event, and the event will be even more memorable with the renovations to the Memorial Tower’s chimes. The Memorial Tower is programmed to play a list of 15 songs, and SG is still in the process of finding the perfect love songs instead of the traditional chimes. SG paid to revamp the bell system last year through its surplus fund. The songs selected will remain a secret until the stroke of midnight. “This tradition is a representation of those special college experiences that only happen once in your life.” Cicardo said.
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Danny Rick and Kathryn Edwards kiss at Memorial Tower on Valentine’s Day night last year. The celebration will take place at midnight this year.
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Students get acclimated with American tradition Gifts range from chocolate to clocks
By Victoria Yu Contributing Writer
Jemma Robbins never thought an alarm clock would act as a Valentine’s Day Gift. Robbins also didn’t realize how widespread Valentine’s Day celebrations are in America. “Everything’s advertised for Valentine’s Day,” said Robbins, political science junior from London. “I saw an [alarm clock] radio advertised as a great Valentine’s Day gift, and I thought ‘No, it isn’t.’” For some of the University’s international students, this Saturday will be their first year to partake in America’s Valentine’s Day festivities. “This year is going to be good because I’m single, and me
and my other single friend are going to go on a day trip,” said Freya Hirst, history junior from York, England. Some students, like Rocio Peneda, international trade and finance freshman from Mexico, prefer their home countries’ Valentine’s Day celebrations. “Guys will hire a Mariachi band and go to a girl’s house and play a song for her,” Peneda said. “It means the boy likes you.” In Japan, women buy chocolate for men instead of the other way around, said Yoshinori Kamo, sociology professor. Japanese Valentine’s Day is based on chocolate and has little to do with love and sex, he said. “In this country, you see funny looking underwear and something relating to sex,” Kamo said. “In Japan, it’s obligation chocolate.” Chocolate companies trying to sell more of their product pro-
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posed women buy men chocolate. “In Japan, it’s relatively male chauvinistic,” Kamo said. “There’s no gender equality. So this was a way for women to speak up.” In France, the holiday is reserved for the romantically involved, said Farida NganduTshiebue, French junior. “My friend who’s a girl sent me a valentine, and I was surprised,” she said. “In France, we don’t do that unless we love somebody.” However, most celebrants don’t know the origin of the holiday. “Wasn’t St. Valentine Italian?” Robbins asked. While Valentine was Italian, the holiday is named after one of two men named Valentine. One was a bishop, and the other was a priest. However, Valentine’s martyr date, which falls on Feb. 14, had nothing to do with love or fertility until the 1300s. “Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century wrote a poem called “The Parliament of Fowles”,” said Maribel Dietz, history professor. “In the poem, he talks about birds that gather and make love and find their mates on a particular day. And that day is on St. Valentine’s Day.” The Roman Emperor Claudius arrested Valentine, a Christian priest, in the third century. He was beheaded and made a martyr. Yet, St. Valentine’s holiday “got demoted into a lesser status in terms of religions commemorations at Vatican II Council,” Dietz said. Dietz said Valentine was not an important martyr even during his time period. “Chaucer chose him and promoted him in this way,” she said.
Valentine’s Day has no cultural basis in Japan, Kamo said. “No one in Japan even knows who St. Valentine is because they’re not even Christian,” he said. Robbins thinks of Valentine’s Day as way to appreciate friends and loved ones, similar to Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. “You can show those few people around you who you’re closest to how much you care about them,” she said.
However, some singles think the day is ironic. “It’s funny how single people feel good about themselves on a daily basis, then on Valentine’s day they feel really bad for one day, then feel better the next,” Hirst said.
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HEALTH
Study says couples gain more weight than single peers ‘Dietary convergence’ cause for ‘love lard’ By Natalie Roy Contributing Writer
While hopeless romantics look forward to Valentine’s Day and the adorably tacky stuffed animals, candy hearts and chocolate overload that accompany it, the dateless have one thing to feel good about — all those lovebirds will probably get fat. People in serious relationships put on more pounds over the years than their single peers, according to a 2008 study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With scientific proof now supporting the age old anecdote of being “fat and happy,” couples may find themselves wondering if those three little words are worth the weight.
The UNC-Chapel Hill study shows women, on average, gain about nine pounds after settling in with a significant other, while men gain around six pounds. The cause for this “love lard,” as it has been fittingly branded, is something Newcastle University researchers call “dietary convergence.” As people spend a great deal of time with each other, they often start to acquire their significant other’s habits, gestures and, according to Newcastle’s study on co-habitating couples, even their eating habits. “When in ... a relationship, a woman might find that she’s eating foods she’s never eaten before,” said Elizabeth Reames, professor and extension specialist at the LSU School of Human Ecology. “But now since [her] significant other eats it, [she’ll] just jump in and eat it too, without asking any questions
or realizing that she wouldn’t have eaten [the food] otherwise.” Many women, without thinking, develop “plate envy” in a long-term relationship — they try and match what their other half eats, bite for bite. This, along with the regular dinner dates and innate comfort and lethargy that come with a happy relationship, is the perfect equation for “love lard,” the Newcastle study said. But not all cases of dietary convergence are negative, according to Newcastle’s studies. Serious relationships are often beneficial for men because they tend to adopt some of their girlfriend or wife’s healthier eating habits. Women, however, usually start eating more junk, and as a result, develop poor eating habits that cause unwanted weight gain. “In a way, women may think it’s OK [to gain weight] because the pressure of being single and
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La. nurse shortage increasing
Hospitals barely meeting requirements By Joy Lukachick Staff Writer
With a growing shortage of nurses in Louisiana, looming budget cuts only threaten to compound the problem. The Louisiana nursing shortage has reached an all-time high with more than 4,000 unfilled positions, according to the Louisiana Hospital Association. “We are barely meeting our annual replacement each year,” said Karen Zoeller, vice president of workforce development for the Louisiana Hospital Association. “[Louisiana schools] are graduating about 1,800 nurses a year.” Hospitals in the state are facing a growing problem of empty positions for nurses, and the nursing schools are turning away qualified students, Zoeller said. Nursing schools in Louisiana turned away about 1,600 qualified students because they didn’t have enough nursing faculty, said Norann Planchock, president of the Louisiana Organization of Nurse Executives. The Louisiana State Board of Nursing most recent annual report, released in 2007, showed Louisiana nursing schools received 4,489 qualified applicants but only admitted 3,030 students. The Health Science Center New Orleans is currently accepting about 100 students per semester in the bachelor of science in nursing, which is the maximum the school has room for, said Catherine Lopez, LSU Health Science Center New Orleans assistant dean. About 300 students apply in the fall and about 180 students in January, and the school has to turn away qualified students because of limited faculty, Lopez said. “Physical building space is a
limiting factor as well,” Lopez said. The amount of faculty teaching the nursing programs is the main factor in enrollment into nursing schools, Planchock said. Because the state is cutting the budget for higher education, Louisiana could experience more shortages in the nursing faculty, Zoeller said. “Nursing is a very expensive program to run,” Zoeller said. “[Schools] may be forced to say ‘We have to cut back on the number of students we have.’” LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans has a current operating budget of more than $200 million, said Charles Zewe, LSU System spokesman. LSU HSC-NO will have to cut $36.1 million of the nursing school’s budget according to the 30 percent budget cuts System President John Lombardi projected for the
University, The worst-case scenario projection means eliminating a total of 286 faculty and staff, according to the report. Lopez said the school plans to find creative ways to cut the budget without cutting faculty members. Travel expenses and educational leaves are the first expenses cut from the budget, she said. “I think some good things may come of this,” Planchock said. “I feel fairly confident it will work out.” Planchock said she is meeting with the Louisiana Nursing Association to discuss how the educational budget cuts can help change Louisiana’s nursing education and make the program more efficient. Contact Joy Lukachick at jlukachick@lsureveille.com
... extremely attractive is off,” Reames said. “They become more relaxed and ... sedentary. This only means that fewer daily calories are needed but instead of intaking [less calories], they’re eating more.” Sima Trambadia, elementary education junior, agrees with Reames’ analysis. Upon recalling past experiences, she said a major part of serious relationships involves constantly going out to eat and spending countless lazy hours with each other. However, Trambadia said it would take more than a change in physique to discourage her from dating altogether. “I’ve seen the weight-related consequences that come from being in love,” Trambadia said. “Now I know what to look out for. I’ll definitely be more aware of ... my eating habits and ... stay active. I’ll be better prepared.” But less “prepared” couples
shouldn’t lose all hope — there are many ways to put an end to bad habits and lose the relationship weight that don’t involve the loss of appetite brought on by a messy breakup. And even though Valentine’s Day may seem like the perfect excuse to gorge yourself on caramel-filled chocolates, Reames said couples should think about the long-term effects of their relationship and start taking steps toward a healthy lifestyle together. “The support of that other person is essential and usually all you need,” Reames said. “There have been extensive studies that show that if you can get your ... significant other to adopt healthy habits, it can lead to happiness and good health for the both of you.” Contact Natalie Roy at nroy@lsureveille.com
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POLITICS
Obama honors Lincoln’s legacy at ‘hallowed space’ By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama stood beneath the flag-draped box where Abraham Lincoln was shot inside Ford’s Theatre, honoring the “hallowed space” on the eve of the 16th president’s 200th birthday. Hollywood stars and Washington power brokers celebrated the theater’s reopening Wednesday night, hearing Obama praise one of his favorite presidents for Lincoln’s conviction that a divided nation could be made whole. “For despite all that divided us — North and South, black and white — he had an unyielding belief that we were, at heart, one nation, and one people,” Obama said. “And because of Abraham Lincoln, and all who’ve carried on his work in the generations since, that is what we remain today.” Surrounded by actors and artists, Obama said Lincoln’s passion for education and the arts will thrive at the famous theater after its recent $25 million renovation. The theater is reopening after 18 months of installing more comfortable seats, a modern lobby and new dressing rooms. Those in the audience stood and turned to applaud Obama and
first lady Michelle Obama as they made their way down the aisle to the tune of “Hail to the Chief.” Violinist Joshua Bell opened the show with a traditional spiritual on a violin that hadn’t been played since the night Lincoln was shot in 1865. Later, a video was played of former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush reading the Gettysburg Address. The film will be added to the theater’s museum. Before the event, guests ranging from Cabinet members and congressional leaders to movie producers strode down a red carpet in sharply cut tuxedos and colorful gowns. Talk included primetime television plotlines and the economic stimulus package being hammered out in Congress. Many reflected on how Obama and his Civil War-era predecessor inspired them, including Lincoln Medal honoree Sidney Poitier. The 81-year-old actor broke down racial barriers with movies like “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and was the first black man to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1963. “Now, finally, we have lived to see the election of an
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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a visit to Ford’s Theater to mark the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial Wednesday in Washington. The box where Lincoln was assassinated is in the background.
African-American to the highest office,” he said, calling Obama a man of “simple origins” inspired by Lincoln. Poitier said Lincoln’s values live on “in our homes, in our streets ... and in every one of these United States.” Actor Kelsey Grammer also spoke of his inspiration. “I still get a tear in my eye every time
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Same-sex couples protest By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of same-sex couples seeking to wed were turned away from marriage license counters around the nation Thursday, part of an annual protest that took on renewed urgency in light of recent setbacks in the gay marriage movement. Activists in Manhattan wearing signs that said “Just Not Married” were part of a wave of demonstrations expected throughout the day at marriage bureaus or county clerks’ offices from New York City to California, in communities large and small. Matt Flanders, 37, of Brooklyn, participated with his 29-yearold partner, Will Jennings. Both wore gold engagement rings. When he was denied a marriage license, Flanders said he told officials: “’I should be able to marry the person I love.’ And they said, ‘We can only offer you a domestic partnership.’” Micah Stanek, 23, stood outside in a floor-length wedding veil after he and his partner were rejected. He said he moved to New York from San Francisco after gay marriage was outlawed in California on the November ballot. “New York is especially important because the rest of the country follows what happens here,” he said. Outside the bureau, protesters sang “Love and Marriage” and chanted, “What do we want? Marriage! When do we want it?
Now!” One man held a sign that read: “Love your husband? Let me love mine!” The Valentine’s week protests, part of the 12th annual Freedom to Marry Week, were considered especially important this year because they come in the wake of California’s Proposition 8 vote that overturned gay marriage and just as New Yorkers look to their state Senate to pass legislation that could lead to le-
galized gay marriage. In Augusta, Maine, on Thursday, dozens of proponents of gay marriage gathered outside the Maine House and Senate to distribute Valentine’s Day cards while urging support for a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com
I see him on television,” Grammer said, adding that he doesn’t always agree with Obama’s politics. “Star Wars” creator George Lucas, who was honored with the Lincoln Medal for his movies and efforts to improve schools with multimedia tools, challenged Obama to make education his top priority.
“I will say the most important thing the human race has for our survival is our brain,” he said. If knowledge is not passed down to the next generation, Lucas said, “we will become extinct.”
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In today’s modern world, Honeycutt said those left alone on the holiday of love might turn to unconventional methods such as the Internet, speed dating or the practice of taking out personal advertisements as ways to meet that special someone. “Because of the fast-paced society, people don’t have as much time to invest in the relationship — they’re investing time in their career,” Honeycutt said. “I would say it’s harder because of the fastpaced society to find the time to invest in an exclusive other. [On] the Internet, you can always meet acquaintances.” New technologies for dating have aided the demand for instant gratification in relationships, Honeycutt said. “Fifty years ago, happiness was the result of the relationship,” Honeycutt said of the former “work-it-out” mentality employed by couples. “Today ... they’re really looking for a person who is sort of a soulmate ... We’re a disposable society, so persons are just chunked.” Andrew Niemen, human resources junior, said in an e-mail he took out a personal advertisement in The Daily Reveille in January as a means to broaden his dating options, and then let potential dates come to him. “I took an ad out in the Reveille because I’m fairly shy and have a small circle of friends to meet people, so my network is small,” Niemen said. “I’ve gotten about a
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dozen responses, and I’ve met two people. They unfortunately didn’t work out, but it was an interesting adventure.” Nieman said he chose to take an ad out in the paper rather than investing time in an Internet dating profile to streamline the responses. “The campus personals gave me a chance to see who’s on campus and around my age group without wading through 45-year-olds or married folk just interested in sex,” Nieman said. Research has shown the personal ad approach to dating may be less productive than online or speed dating, Honeycutt said. “People are basically putting positive information out there,” Honeycutt said. “Historically, men describe themselves as success objects ... Women describe themselves basically as sex objects.” Students looking for a special match turned out in the hundreds for the University Student Activities Board’s fourth annual speed dating event Tuesday. The event was offered in two sessions, with 43 students attending the first session and 76 attending the second, said Mallory Trochesset, assistance director of Campus Life. “Most of the feedback says they were just interested in the process and in meeting other people in general,” Trochesset said. “Maybe two or three had written down that they were really serious about finding a date ... I think people were just excited about the opportunity to meet other people and to see what was going to happen from
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Tara Stauder, accounting sophomore, listens to Shane Valure, math freshman, Tuesday evening during the Student Activities Board Speed Dating night in the Magnolia Room in the Union.
there.” Kristian Lewis, international studies freshman, said he went to speed dating primarily for social interaction. “[I came] just to have fun,” Lewis said. “Most of the people who were talking about coming, I already knew.” While speed dating is a viable option for meeting people — it allows attendees to meet several potential mates within about an hour — it is not the best option for forming long-term relationships, Honeycutt said. “It won’t tell you anything about particular interests [or] values, it’s also highly reliant on visual cues,” Honeycutt said. “There’s an old saying that you can’t judge a book by its cover. However, you
can tell if the book is an encyclopedia, if it’s a comic book, if it’s a drama. In speed dating, you can get a general indication of what the person will be like.” Aaron Sievers, mass communication sophomore, said he was unlikely to attend a future speed dating event — unless it’s only for laughs. “There’s just a big enough pool of people that I don’t have to online date,” Sievers said. Honeycutt said Internet dating is essentially the anti-thesis of speed dating. “It’s sort of the opposite of speed dating too because you’re reading, you’re text messaging, things like that,” Honeycutt said. “But the research on the long-term viability ... It’s not very [viable].”
According to a news release from eHarmony.com, 236 members marry on average each day. “Many eHarmony members find long-term, satisfying relationships that lead to marriage,” said eHarmony CEO Greg Waldorf said in the release. Eric Resnick, owner and lead consultant with profilehelper. com, said there has been about a 400-percent increase in the number of college students and recent college graduates who seek consulting with profilehelper.com within the last year. Online dating is a way to broaden someone’s options in the dating world, said Resnick, whose company works to helps people navigate the world of Internet dating. “All online dating is one more avenue to meet people who aren’t currently in your regular social circle,” Resnick said. “It broadens your options at your convenience. Dating sites are open all night long.” Nora Lagneaux, biology junior, said — no matter how desperate — she would never try online dating. “There are just a lot better ways to meet people,” Lagneaux said. “That’s ridiculous. I think it probably hurts their chances.”
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they need to admit each year. “This is a great accomplishment of the country’s most popular col- for our university,” said Executive leges, LSU’s reputation continues Vice Chancellor and Provost Astrid to rise and reflect the greatness tak- Merget in the release. “I applaud the ing place on our campus daily.” efforts of our recruiting and admisLSU was rated, along with sions staff for working to facilitate other universities, the enrollment based on its yield, process for high or the percentage of school seniors and applicants accepted for attracting stuby a university who dents of high abilend up enrolling at ity and talent who that institution in are fervent about the fall. LSU. This ranking The figures shows that their Michael Martin show the admit hard work and enyield and overall thusiasm over the Chancellor acceptance rate past few years is from the fall 2007 entering class. being noticed around the country.” LSU had a 55 percent yield rate Florida is ranked No. 10 — with a 73 percent acceptance rate. If the only Southeastern Conference a school has a high yield, or a large school ranked higher than LSU. proportion of those admitted enThe University of Texas at rolling, it means the school is most Austin fell one spot behind LSU at likely very popular with a top repu- No. 17. Georgia is ranked No. 20 tation, and the students are highly and Alabama is ranked No. 22. motivated to go there, according to the report. A very low yield means the school could be a “safety” school or a student’s second choice university. Colleges use yield as a key factor Contact Leslie Presnall at in determining how many students lpresnall@lsureveille.com
HANGIN’ AROUND
RANKING, from page 7
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‘We’re pleased that U.S. News has once again recognized LSU on a national level.’
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A man rappels down Tiger Stadium Wednesday. Information about the man was not available by press time.
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one reader now, but they are hopeful to add more in the future. He said other new technologies, like the “bait car” — a remotecontrolled mock-pedestrian vehicle parked in high-crime areas — help keep BRPD a step ahead of criminals. The “bait car,” donated by the Department of Insurance last year, alerts officers if someone is trying to break into the car. Edward Shihadeh, criminology professor, said these new law enforcement technologies are positive improvements for Baton Rouge. Recently receiving a ticket for not stopping fully before turning right at a red light, Shihadeh knows the effects of the technology first-hand. He said he’s extra careful to make a full stop before turning right on red now. “These are life-and-death issues at intersections, and these are protection of property [issues],” Shihadeh said. “These [technologies] are all things that I believe will improve our lives.” BRPD issued about 23,000 citations since the Red Light Safety Program went into effect. The Traffic Engineering Division of the Department of Public Works put 21 red light cameras at 14 intersections in Baton Rouge. Shihadeh said while some people look at the red light cameras as if “Big Brother” is watching them, the reality is very different. “What’s the downside?” Shihadeh said. “If you’re in a public place, you don’t have any expectations of privacy.” People should expect privacy in their own homes and offices, but when they are at an intersec-
tion, they are in public, Shihadeh said. The LATIFPA License Plate Recognition Program is designed to increase recovery of stolen vehicles and reduce auto theft and insurance fraud. “[The reader] is another tool we can use in our tool box,” Kelly said. “It’s not the answer to everything, but it allows us to be ahead of the criminal element.”
Contact Kyle Bove at kbove@lsureveille.com
BRPD LICENSE PLATE SCANNER
(Aug. 2008 - Feb. 3, 2009):
156,945 cars scanned 9 stolen license plates recovered
23 stolen cars recovered 12 individuals arrested in connection with stolen vehicles
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FOOTBALL
Tigers hire new assistant coach
Sports
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Changing of the Guard Tigers lose Spencer to injury before rematch against tougher Ole Miss team By Amos Morale Sports Contributor
By Rachel Whittaker Sports Writer
LSU has welcomed a new addition to its football coaching staff, the LSU Athletic Department announced Thursday. Dan Yanowsky will take over as tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator in place of Josh Henson, who left to be the co-offensive line coach at Missouri. Yanowsky has been a coach COACH, see page 15
NFL
Patten dropped from Saints
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[Top] LSU senior guard Marcus Thornton drives the ball between two Miss. State defenders in the Tigers’ 97-94 doubleovertime win Wednesday. [Bottom] Vanderbilt freshman center Festus Ezeli fights for the ball Feb. 7 against Ole Miss junior forward DeAundre Cranston and freshman forward Murphy Holloway during the Rebels’ 71-61 loss to the Commodores.
By The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Saints spokesman Greg Bensel says the team has dropped 34-yearold wide receiver David Patten after two seasons. It was the Saints’ first major roster move of the offseason. This past season, Patten made 11 receptions in five games for 162 yards and a touchdown. In 2007, he had 54 catches for 792 yards and three touchdowns. Injuries were part of the reason he played less last year. Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at sports@lsureveille.com
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LSU sophomore guard Bo Spencer is out for the Tigers’ game Saturday against the Ole Miss Rebels. “You can’t replace Bo Spencer,” said LSU junior forward Tasmin Mitchell. “He’s been our point guard and a leader on the floor.” Spencer sustained an ankle sprain during the Tigers’ 97-94 double-overtime victory against Mississippi State, and LSU coach Trent Johnson said he is day-to-day. The Tigers (20-4, 8-1) will have to face the Rebels (13-10, 4-5) without their third-leading scorer and No. 2 player in minutes played. LSU senior Garrett Temple slide into ‘The [Ole will the point guard Miss] position, and sefreshman nior guard Terry will start [Terrico] Martin in Temple’s White — my place. LSU segoodness nior center Chris Johnson, senior is he guard Marcus talented.’ Thornton and will Trent Johnson Mitchell start in their regmen’s basketball coach ular positions. Temple leads the Tigers with four assists per game and two steals per game. But Temple’s offense has been sporadic — he was 1-for-8 from the floor against Mississippi State. Martin is coming off one of his best offensive performances of the year. He scored 11 points and was a perfect 2-for-2 from long range. The Tigers played both overtimes without Spencer, and the offensive style shifted. “I had to handle the ball a little more,” Martin said. “We all had to handle the ball — the one, two and three.” Trent Johnson said he favored the defensive look the Tigers will have against the Rebels. “Their perimeters are big — REBELS, see page 15
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Pack the PMAC set for Sun. Lady Tigers take on No. 9 Florida By Rachel Whittaker Sports Writer
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The 2008 Lady Tigers team wears pink uniforms Feb. 10, 2008 during the 12th annual Pack the PMAC. The event helps raise breast cancer awareness.
The LSU women’s basketball game Sunday against Florida will feature more than just the Lady Tigers facing the No. 9 team in the country in front of a nationally-televised audience. Sunday also marks the 13th
annual Pack the PMAC showdown to raise breast cancer awareness at LSU. This year’s event will include the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Pink Zone Challenge and a pregame parade of 60 breast cancer survivors. “The Pink Zone Challenge is a friendly competition among 15 schools to see who can donate the most money to help the fight against breast cancer,” said LSU assistant marketing director Tom Harlukowicz. “Donation tables and donation
cards will be throughout the concourse during Sunday’s game. We’ll have volunteers from the Susan G. Komen Foundation taking donations, and 100 percent of the money will go to the foundation.” Tickets for the public are just $1, and LSU students, faculty and staff get in free. The LSU women’s basketball program announced it will donate $2 to a Baton Rouge cancer research center for every LSU PMAC, see page 12
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GYMNASTICS
Tigers set to face fourth top-10 team in five weeks LSU hits road to face No. 5 Alabama By Rob Landry Sports Contributor
Posting a season high may seem like a reason to celebrate, but it wasn’t for the LSU gymnastics team. The Tigers scored a 196.800 in their victory last week against thenNo. 8 Florida. But the team knows there is still work to do with another top-10 adversary looming. No. 11 LSU moves from the Florida meet to face No. 5 Alabama, the fourth time in five weeks LSU will face a top-10 opponent. Preparing for meets against highly ranked opponents has become a regular occurrence for the Tigers. “[Preparing for a top-10 team] is routine for us now,” said LSU junior Susan Jackson said. “We’ve figured out what works for us, and
BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille
LSU freshman Gloria Johnson performs on the beam during the Tigers’ 196.800195.825 victory against Florida. LSU will face No. 5 Alabama tonight.
that’s what we’re going to stick with every week.” The Tigers face the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Ala., tonight at 7:30 p.m.
LSU senior Ashleigh ClareKearney said an area of concern is finishing off routines as well as floor exercise, where the Tigers posted a 48.925 against the Gators, more than
GOLF
Men to play at Gator Invitational Women to start spring season Monday By Sean Isabella Sports Contributor
LSU men’s golf coach Chuck Winstead said this weekend will be a good time for his golfers to get back into the swing of things. The Tigers open their spring season Saturday with the SunTrust Gator Invitational in Gainesville, Fla. “We’ve got some talented guys that need to get back into the flow of playing tournaments, and this is a good time to do it,” Winstead said. This weekend marks the first tournament LSU will ‘We’ve compete in since Oct. 28, played a lot but Winstead of rounds, said the nearly we’ve gotthree-month hiatus will not ten a lot of affect his team. golf in and “I don’t look for that the guys to be a factor,” are playing he said. “We pretty well.’ haven’t played in any tourna- Chuck Winstead LSU men’s golf ments, but very few teams at coach this time of the year have as well. We’ve played a lot of rounds, we’ve gotten a lot of golf in and the guys are playing pretty well.” The 14-team tournament will tee off on the 6,701-yard, par 70 course tomorrow at 7 a.m. No. 14 Florida enters their home tournament as the fivetime defending Gator Invitational champions. Other notable competition for the Tigers include No. 20 Tennessee-Chattanooga, No. 24 Central Florida and No. 25 Duke.
LSU tied for sixth place in last year’s Gator Invitational and have not won the tournament since 2002. The Tigers dropped out of the most recent Golfweek/Sagarin rankings after spending some of the fall season ranked No. 24. The Tigers finished the fall season with a 31-20-3 record. Winstead said he is not concerned with the rankings. “I feel pretty comfortable with the fact that with the talent we have,” he said. “If we [the coaches] take care of our part and they take care of working hard and we all get after it together and get better everyday, then the rankings will take care of themselves.” Meanwhile, the No. 14 LSU women’s golf team will start their spring season Monday at
the Central District Invitational in Parrish, Fla. No. 19 Michigan State will host the 15-team tournament. The Lady Tigers will compete against No. 8 Duke, No. 17 Purdue and No. 21 Kent State, among others. The Lady Tigers last competed in the tournament in 2007, when they placed seventh. LSU sophomore Megan McChrystal enters the spring as the No. 22 women’s golfer in the NCAA with a 71.06 average. The Lady Tigers finished the fall season with a 43-11-0 record.
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.300 below their season high. “We counted a 9.475 [individual score] on floor, which is something we’re not going to do in the future,” Clare-Kearney said. “And there are still a lot of little things, like sticking landings, that we want to make sure we get down by postseason.” LSU junior Kayla Rogers was one of the Tigers’ standout performers last weekend, scoring a 9.700 on the vault and a 9.900 on the floor exercise. “[Rogers’ 9.900 on floor] was personally the highlight of the meet,” said LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux. Another pleasant surprise for LSU was the performance of sophomore Samantha Engle on the uneven bars and the beam. Engle scored a 9.875 on the bars and a 9.850 on the beam. “[Engle’s] two events — bars and balance beam — were very, very good,” Breaux said. “It was really just a team effort.”
Clare-Kearney walked away from the Florida meet as the individual all-around champion, posting a 39.625. The individual title helped earn Clare-Kearney the title of Southeastern Conference Gymnast of the Week. Jackson finished second with a 39.450 and Florida’s Corey Hartung came in third, scoring a 39.325. “[Clare-Kearney and Jackson] at the end of the lineup are crucial,” Breaux said. The Tigers also posted a team score of 49.425 on the uneven bars — a season high. Breaux said the high score on the bars was not because of any changes in practice or routine but simply fine-tuning the minor details. “We just stayed in the process,” Breaux said. “We hit more handstands and stuck more dismounts.” Contact Rob Landry at rlandry@lsureveille.com
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TRACK AND FIELD
LSU travels to Ark. to prepare for Tyson Invitational Friday’s action to be broadcast nationally By Rowan Kavner Sports Contributor
LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver wants his teams to take a big leap this weekend with the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships starting in two weeks. After returning home Sunday from New York’s New Balance Collegiate Invitational, the Tigers and Lady Tigers traveled Thursday to Fayetteville, Ark., to prepare for the Tyson Invitational. “This is another one of those high-quality meets in an excellent facility where the NCAA meet has been for the last 6 or 7 years indoors,” Shaver said. But Shaver wants to make sure his athletes aren’t burned out for the championships. “The difficult task is trying to get them to improve to try to reach performances that are going to help us in the championship meet, and at the same time, when you get to the championship meet ... they’re not so exhausted from the travel and the competition that they can’t produce their best performances of the season,” Shaver said. The No. 8 Tigers enter Arkansas with the same ranking they started the season. The No. 5 Lady Tigers have fallen three spots back from their No. 2 preseason ranking. “We, as a team, particularly on the women’s side, I just think they’ve got to show more heart from top to bottom,” Shaver said. “They’ve got to be better competitors. That’s what I’m going to be looking for at Arkansas.” Shaver said he has been pleased with LSU junior Samantha Henry’s recent performances. Henry set NCAA provisional qualifying times in the 200 meters (23.61 seconds) and the 60 meters (7.33 seconds) at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational last weekend.
“I was really happy with her focus and her effort [in New York]. That was good because I thought she really struggled in the first meet here at home, and when we went to [Texas] A&M it just didn’t look much better, so I was happy to see that.” Henry will be run the 60-meter dash, where she finished third at the Tyson Invitational last year with a time of 7.25 seconds. Joining her will be former LSU star Muna Lee and U.S. Olympian Marshevet Hooker. “As we move on now to Arkansas we’re going to look for some other people to try and step up,” Shaver said. LSU senior long jumper Andrea Linton looks to improve on her standout performance at last year’s Tyson Invitational. She set an automatic qualifying mark for the NCAA Championships at the meet with a personal best 44-foot triple jump and an indoor personal best in the long jump at 20 feet, 5 1/4 inches.
LSU junior sprinter Trindon Holliday has dominated the 60-meter dash to this point, running the fastest SEC time (6.56 seconds) twice this season. He faces fierce competition this weekend in U.S. Olympians Shawn Crawford, Travis Padgett, Darvis Patton, Terrence Trammell and Michael Rodgers, who enters with the fastest time in the world (6.51). However, Holliday remains confident. “I feel great,” Holliday said. “I feel better than I felt my first three years here.” Friday night’s action is scheduled to broadcast nationally Sunday on ESPN from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on a tape-delay basis. “They’ve been training hard,” Shaver said. “We’re excited. It’s going to be a good meet.”
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Sophomore Kyle Rose competes in the pole vault Jan. 23 during the track and field meet held in Carl Maddox Fieldhouse.
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MLB
Selig: Rodriguez’ steroid use ‘shamed the game’ By Ronald Blum The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Bud Selig says Alex Rodriguez has “shamed the game,” though the baseball commissioner indicated no plans to punish the three-time AL MVP. “I am saddened by the revelations,” Selig said in a statement issued Thursday, four days after Rodriguez admitted he used unspecified drugs from 2001-03 while playing for the Texas Rangers. “What Alex did was wrong, and he will have to live with the damage he has done to his name and reputation.” Players and owners didn’t agree to a joint drug program until August 2002, and testing with punishment didn’t start until 2004. “It is important to remember that these recent revelations relate to pre-program activity,” Selig said. “Under our current drug pro-
gram, if you are caught using steroids and/or amphetamines, you will be punished. Since 2005, every player who has tested positive for steroids has been suspended for as much as 50 games.” Rodriguez’s admission came two days after Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site that he was among 104 names on a list of players who tested positive for steroids in 2003, when testing was intended to determine the extent of steroid use in baseball. The results weren’t subject to discipline and were supposed to remain anonymous, but were seized by the government in 2004 and remain under seal. “When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day,” Rodriguez said in an ESPN interview.
Though Rodriguez said he experimented with a number of substances, he has not provided details. “It was such a loosey-goosey era. I’m guilty for a lot of things. I’m guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions,” Rodriguez told ESPN. “And to be quite honest, I don’t know exactly what substance I was guilty of using.” Much of Selig’s statement Thursday was a recitation of his efforts to get a drug agreement with the union and then toughen it. With baseball officials under pressure from Congress, negotiators from management and the union strengthened the program in January 2005, November 2005 and April 2008, toughening the penalties and tightening the rules.
MATT YORK / The Associated Press
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MLB commissioner Bud Selig addresses the media Jan. 17, 2008, during a news conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Selig said Alex Rodriguez has “shamed the game,” though he has not indicated plans to punish the three-time American League MVP.
PMAC, from page 9 student in attendance. Harlukowicz said fans should print their tickets before the game to avoid long lines, and he encouraged them to wear pink to the game. “We want to show the nation LSU cares about this cause,” Harlukowicz said. “There’s going to be pink everywhere — pink shakers and pink beads at the entrances. As much as we love seeing purple and gold, on Sunday it’s going to be all about pink.” Another Pack the PMAC tradition is the airplane toss. The grand prize for the toss is a new Chevy Malibu Hybrid, and other prizes include tickets to the first- and second-round games of the NCAA tournament and gift certificates to LSUshop.net. “Upon entrance to the PMAC, the first 5,000 fans will get an official pink entry form, construct an airplane and give it their best shot to win that car,” Harlukowicz said. LSU associate head coach Bob Starkey said he and his wife, who is a breast cancer survivor, are thrilled at how Pack the PMAC has progressed since it began. “It’s become a really special event,” Starkey said. “It’s incredible this is year 13. I think other than signing Seimone Augustus, this event has done more to increase attendance in women’s basketball than anything we’ve done. We were doing it before anybody else in the country, and it’s become so successful to us that now other teams are doing [similar promotions].” Starkey and his wife, Sherie, are donating 50 cents to the Kay Yow Foundation for each student at the game. Yow is the former women’s basketball coach at North Carolina State who passed away in January after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. “I’ve known Kay Yow for a long time,” Starkey said. “When we were in Fresno for the NCAA tournament two years ago, my wife and I saw ESPN running a piece with Kay Yow receiving a chemotherapy treatment on the charter plane to California. Two months later, my wife was diagnosed [with breast cancer]. Kay Yow was somebody she could gravitate
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The LSU Bengal Brass Basketball Band and fans wore pink during the 12th annual Pack the PMAC on Feb. 10, 2008, to help support awareness for breast cancer.
toward for inspiration. We’re looking forward to [Sunday] for a variety of reasons.” LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor said the Lady Tigers will need to pull out all the stops to defend a Florida team who is 22-2 this season. “We need to play with more reckless abandonment,” Chancellor said. “Let’s play and quit worrying about so many different things during the game. Just shoot the ball, and make shots. Our defense has pretty good throughout the year. That’s the hardest thing freshmen have to
learn.” Chancellor said the Lady Tigers need a win they can claim against a premiere team on their schedule. “We need a victory they can put on the wall and say it’s a great win for LSU,” he said. “Right now I don’t believe we have a bad loss, but I don’t think we have a signature win either. This would be a great time for us to step up and have a tremendous crowd and just play.” Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com
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SOFTBALL
Tigers host first tournament LSU softball coach Yvette Girouard said Wednesday night’s opening game in Tiger Park was a moment the whole team will treasure. “It was the script that nobody could have ever written,” she said. “The place was packed, the weather was gorgeous, we got the stadium done on time, and it was everything we could have ever envisioned. The whole atmosphere was incredible.” But Girouard said it was good the team got all the jitters out of their system before this weekend’s Easton Tiger Classic, as the Tigers had only four hits in the 6-0 victory against McNeese State. “I’m not sure that we played particularly well,” Girouard said. “We’re going to have to step up our game considerably because all three teams that are coming in here are much better teams than McNeese. So we need to wake up real quick.” LSU sophomore third baseman Jessica Mouse said despite the lack
of offense, she was happy with the team’s play Wednesday night. “This weekend, we’re going to come out stronger than we did [Wednesday] night,” she said. “A lot of people were a little nervous and excited at the same time. But last night was definitely a good start.” LSU junior outfielder Rachel Mitchell said the team needs to improve its discipline at the plate, hitting the ball with runners in scoring position and being more relaxed. She also said she thinks the team is ready to move on from the first-game excitement. “Everybody feels a lot better and more relaxed now that we have finally played on it in a game,” Mitchell said. No. 21 LSU (4-2) will open play in the tournament at 6:00 p.m. tonight against Ohio State (4-1). The Buckeyes finished the fall season undefeated (7-0), and Girouard expects them to be tough competition. “They’re a Big Ten team that has gotten progressively better,” Girouard said. “They will bring some big girls who can hit the ball.” No. 5 Texas A&M (4-1) and Sam Houston State (4-1) will also
be in the weekend tournament. The Bearcats lost to the Aggies, 2-1, in 14 innings Wednesday night. Mouse said the team is looking forward to facing some quality opponents. “We’re pumped. We have some good competition coming in,” she said. “We’re excited to draw another big crowd in and compete with some good teams.” Mitchell agreed with Mouse. “We have a lot of good competition, so we really need this to make sure that we see better pitching and work even more on getting more time before [Southeastern Conference] play starts,” she said. Girouard said the pitching rotation will be “pitching by committee” for a while. She also said the lineup may change from day-to-day during the weekend. “There’s going to be some adjustments for a while,” she said. “We’ve got a young team that is talented and so we will be trying to find answers.”
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6-foot-5, 6-foot-6 — so the match up, naturally, is pretty good,” Johnson said. The Tigers said they are expecting the best from the Rebels. “We just got through beating a team in double overtime,” Johnson said. “They beat them in regulation.” LSU beat Ole Miss, 83-51, on Jan. 17 in Oxford, Miss., but Trent Johnson is not looking in the past. “That wasn’t Ole Miss,” Trent Johnson said. “There are games like that, where for whatever reason, you’re not right and the other team is playing well, and boom it’s 20, it’s 30.” The Rebels have been decimated by injuries this season. Ole Miss sophomore guard Chris Warren, junior guard Eniel Polynice and Trevor Gaskins are all out for the season. The Rebels struggled early in conference play, but they’ve picked up a signature 85-80 win against Kentucky since their loss to LSU. “They’re more confident with their new roles and new guys they’ve got playing,” Mitchell said. The new guys include true freshman point guard Terrico White. “The freshman White — my goodness is he talented,” Trent Johnson said. White averaged 16.8 points and 5.0 rebounds in his last six games. “They’re a better basketball team,” Trent Johnson said. “We’re going to have to play well.” Trent Johnson said the Tigers needed to cut down their turnovers. “I don’t wanna say it has as much to do with fatigue as it has to do with taking care of the ball and not trying to make a home run play, so to speak, as opposed to a basketball play,” Trent Johnson said.
in the collegiate ranks for more than 20 years. His most recent stint was at Boston College, where he spent two seasons as the Eagles’ tight ends and special teams coach. He held the same position at East Carolina in 2006 and was the Pirates’ defensive line coach from 2001-02. Other recent stops for Yanowksy include Duke and Arkansas State. LSU coach Les Miles said Yanowsky’s background in college football will be an asset to the team. “We are thrilled to have a coach of this caliber join our staff,” Miles said in a news release. “Don brings a great deal of experience on both sides of the
ball as well as having experience in the area of special teams.” One of Yanowsky’s best tight ends was Ryan Purvis, a two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection at Boston College, who is rated as one of the top five tight ends in the 2009 NFL Draft. Miles is also excited about what Yanowsky will bring to the team as recruiting coordinator. Yanowsky held that post at Utah and Memphis early in his coaching career. “He’s a veteran in terms of recruiting battles, and he’ll bring tremendous energy and innovation to the position of recruiting coordinator for us,” Miles said.
Team prepares for tough competition By Andy Schwehm Sports Contributor
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Opinion
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OUR VIEW
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Renting is the best option available to college students One of the biggest problems college students face is where they are going to live. For many students, the first choice is the residence halls. But for others, the answer isn’t so simple. Should students rent an apartment, or buy a condominium? With recent economic news getting more and more grim, it seems renting is becoming a better and
better option. Unless students’ parents will be providing the money for a living space, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to obtain money for a condo. Without a parent to co-sign the loan, it’s very unlikely students have enough credit to obtain a sufficient mortgage. And, as the housing market tightens with the recession, the
requirements for obtaining these vital economic resources are only getting tougher to meet. In addition, some buyers are having to pay as much as 15-20 percent on a down payment. Although it’s true that rent payments never bear returns, investing in a condominium is a risky prospect. Whereas an apartment renter is not responsible for repair and maintenance costs, a condo owner must
account for these costs themselves — and collectively, these costs are often underestimated. Depending on housing prices rising in the future seems a risky proposition, considering the short time students will be residing on the property. With only a few years of residency, there is little time to wait for an opportune shift in the market, so the chances of being stuck with
minimal return — or even loss — are greater. And there seems to be no evidence that prices will be rising in the future. We think, until economic conditions improve, renting is the best course of action for students. Buying a condo is too great a risk. Contact the Editorial Board at editor@lsureveille.com
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Students should be shielded from budget cuts The late English author Geoffrey Chaucer once observed, “There is an end to everything, and good things as well.” Or, as modern generations have adapted, all good things must come to an end. Regrettably, our academic prosperity might soon follow this axiom. The University ranked in the first tier of the “Best National Universities” for the first time in the school’s 150-year history, according to the 2009 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges. Much credit has been given to LSU’s Flagship Agenda, a public sponsorship program devised in 2002 to place LSU in a position to compete on all levels with the finest public universities in the country. Aspects highlighted in the agenda include increasing the number of faculty, raising admission standards, improving campus facilities and technology and promoting endowments for academic expansion.
The University has seen notable progress because of direct funding from the initiative. But these progressive steps could be jeopardized by state-issued budget cuts. The adverse consequences of major cuts are indisputable. System President John Lombardi said in an e-mail interview with The Daily Reveille if budget cuts are indeed authorized, they could yield detrimental results: “[The LSU System] will no longer be capable of competing among America’s significant public university systems, its flagship will lose its place in the competition among American flagship institutions, and its campuses and medical enterprises will find themselves dramatically behind the rest of the South.” Similar effects have been felt throughout the nation because of recent economic anxiety. The University, much like the rest of the
nation, must prepare to tighten its belt to help plow through this financial strain. The problem with the cuts is they do not only place budgetary constraints on the U n i v e r s i t y. They are a direct Scott Burns threat to faculty members and Columnist students. The worst-case scenario projects nearly 2,000 LSU System employees could be terminated because of the cutbacks. Also, future cuts could inhibit future course offerings and lead to larger class sizes and regressed student-faculty relations. Because of the significant role the University plays — both for the students who rely on a quality education and the citizens who benefit from academic advancements —
authorities must make it their priority to ensure these cuts stave as far from endangering student as possible. To obstruct the monumental progress the university has made in the past few years would be a tragic mistake. Future generations should not be encumbered by the mistakes of those prior. It’s impractical to argue that because of the illogical fiscal practices of our forerunners, we, too, should endure restrictive consequences. It’s essential for the well-being of our state — as well as our nation — that our youth be mobilized with whatever resources that can be made available. The first major step toward suppressing our future is asphyxiating the next generations’ access to academic necessities. Our officials must always remember the rights of the student should ultimately be considered, not
what is best for the University’s balance sheet. While fiscal responsibility is an admirable objective, a university is only as strong as its students. To allow them the best opportunity for unbridled success, there should be as few hindrances as possible. College students are often considered little fish in a big pond. But the truth is, until we leave campus, we are still small critters living in a relatively sheltered environment. To make that environment optimal for growth, our leaders should avoid toxic cuts at all cost. By doing that, the University gives its students the best opportunity for long-lasting success. And that’s what we should be striving for.
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University should offer ASL as foreign language
Many prominent colleges and universities across the country are accepting American Sign Language in fulfillment of foreign language requirements. As a top-tier university, LSU should implement ASL courses into its curriculum as an accredited foreign language. Hopefully, you are asking yourself why the University doesn’t already have an ASL program. Your question is more likely whether ASL is its own language or just a signed form of English. In fact, it is its own language, separate and different from English. “American sign language is a complete and natural language,” according to William Vicars, professor of ASL and deaf studies at California State University. When discussing signing, it is important to realize there are many different sign communication
systems. Signed English and American Sign Language are not the same thing. “Signed English is a visual communication system based on spoken English — it’s not a language but a communication system intended to visually represent English. ASL has its own grammar separate and distinct from English,” Vicars said. Vicars also runs the Web site Lifeprint, where he is more commonly known as Dr. Bill. Lifeprint is a guild to signing and even offers ASL courses. So ASL is its own language. The next thing one might think is a requirement for a foreign language is that it has to be foreign. Wrong again. Many universities teach Native American languages for foreign language credits. For this reason, many scholars now refer to the foreign
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language requirement a second language requirement instead of “foreign.” Even so, ASL is not rooted mainly in English. “Spoken English and signed English have their roots in England [whereas] ASL has its roots in Isabel Blum France,” Vicars Columnist said. ASL is vastly more similar to French Sign Language than it is to British Sign Language. This is because a French professor, Laurent Clerc, was first to teach deaf American children sign language. Your next question should be about how ASL can be brought to the University. “It would require additional
faculty fluent in the language [ASL] in order to provide the 3-5 course sequence needed,” said Wendy A. Jumonville, M.S., instructor in the Communication Disorders and Sciences Department. The University should not have a problem with this since the Louisiana School for the Deaf is right down the street. Jumonville is the manual communication instructor. She teaches the only class even remotely close to ASL that LSU offers. Manual communication, COMD 2051, is a survey class that reviews all forms of manual communication, rather than focusing solely on ASL. Students are taught sign vocabulary but use it in English word order. “As the instructor [of the manual communication class], I am not fluent in ASL. The history of the class began to introduce students to all forms of manual communication and also
introduce information regarding the Deaf Culture” Jumonville said. “The Deaf population in Baton Rouge is large. Knowing ASL would be beneficial for communication with this culture. Any language offered ... would be beneficial for the students who attend,” Jumonville said. For budget reasons, the University may be cutting some classes out of the current curriculum, but it should still offer a language used all around us every day. More than 150 other colleges and universities nationwide offer ASL as a second language. Not counting ASL as its own language is offensive and ignorant to the language and the population that uses it. The University should consider adding it to its course offerings. Contact Isabel Blum at iblum@lsureveille.com
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Let’s slow down Valentine’s Day, smell the roses
Growing up kind of sucks. The day that has inspired — all over the globe for hundreds of years — everything from cheesy poems to pink chocolates, from mythological flying men with archery sets to 3-D horror movies, from passionate nights between the sheets to miserably lonely acts of bleakness, will again arrive Saturday. And I can’t help but think back to when things were easier. Maybe I’m beating the nostalgia horse to death here, but days like these can break the floodgate since this is the first age we can truly look back on how things have changed. And it leads us to remember that growing up kind of sucks. Think about grammar school — making the little boxes or pouches with small paper hearts glued all over them. We’d set them out on the end of the desk, and everyone would have a pack of 24 cards with images from their favorite pop culture icons. Sometimes even the teacher would have picked out cool ones with stickers and whatnot.
In one box, Scooby-Doo and Sammy Sosa wished me “Happy Valentine’s Day.” Even the classroom would change, the blackboard border changing from the arbitrary letters and numbers with colorful balloons throughout to a more romantic border, boasting full red hearts and mini-Cupids. That classroom border dictated how we felt — full of red and yellow leaves in autumn and grinning Jack-o’-Lanterns for Halloween. Things were just easier. Everyone reaches the point where it finally hits that as we grow older, we lose our innocence. I realize it’s a painfully overused cliché, but just because it’s cliché doesn’t mean the moment is any easier. We go from having Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” played at our kindergarten graduations to learning in a college course it’s a song about marijuana. We go from reading the subtext in our Carebears Valentine to dropping a couple hundred on
dinner. The term “sleep-over” has certainly changed for us since Valentine’s day in ‘90s. All of which is great, but I worry we lose a bit of our innate innocent sensiTravis Andrews bility in a mad dash for someColumnist thing more. But I don’t think so. Everyone is so busy drinking until the room spins, then hoping to collide with someone else, we don’t even stop to worry about what’s being lost. This is all getting a bit melodramatic. I don’t need to be told that. But this Valentine’s Day, let’s take it back a moment. Because it doesn’t seem to me anyone is having any fun with all of this. Everyone just seems annoyed, hung-over, stressed out and sick all the time. Once, I wrote we love Lil’ Wayne because we grew up with
him. Another reason is Lil’ Wayne still acts like a child. He understands that everything is easy, so long as we remember it is. So slow down. Anti-Valentine’s Day parties already seem to be popping up everywhere on Facebook. All of these are of course peppered with “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” quotes. And why not? It’s one of the best movies made in the past 10 years, and it’s a good view of what our apathetic generation feels about a day that, on the surface, seems too stupid and vapid to waste our time on. And so long as the parties remain jokey, there’s obviously no harm done. We are a generation that enjoys mocking anything and everything around us so we can hold it steady. Perhaps, though, we should take our tongues from our cheeks and try to enjoy the little pleasures that a day like Valentine’s Day — however insipid they may seem — bring to us.
Because, one way or another, whether you think it’s stupid or wonderful, Valentine’s Day is a celebration. There’s never a good reason to pass up a celebration. Of anything. If you’re with somebody, celebrate that fact. Take a trip to the top of the Shaw Center, drink some $3 champagne and enjoy your city. If you’re not with somebody, enjoy your freedom. Drink $3 champagne anyway because who cares so long as you’re having fun? It just seems, especially with everyone babbling about how we won’t have any money or jobs or, you know, economy left in a few years, we’re all beginning to forget why we do most things we do in the first place. There is no need to disparage. Just have fun. Growing up kind of sucks. But it probably doesn’t have to. Contact Travis Andrews at tandrews@lsureveille.com
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Dildo, doll makers capitalize on Obama’s celebrity President Barack Obama is no longer just the face of America. He’s now the face of a sex toy, literally, and it looks like he’s not just stimulating the economy anymore. The Obama-inspired dildo, which measures seven-and-ahalf by two inches and weighs 14 ounces, is a pretty accurate depiction of our president’s head. And no, I’m not talking about that type of head, so get your minds out of the gutter. The “Head O State” dildo, courtesy of the Ozam Group LLC, a company who manufactures politically erect novelties, hit the scene in November just in time for the election. And get this. You can have your very own, very personal and water-friendly Obama for only $34.95 and can choose between two patriotic colors: Democratic Blue or Presidential Gold. You can’t beat that. As amazing as this sounds, some people out there don’t find this phallus so pleasing. Comments on blogs dedicated to the dildo range from how appalling and disrespectful it is to how lawsuit-worthy it is. While it is a little
disrespectful, it’s not that offensive — and it’s certainly not eligible for a lawsuit. I mean, come on — there’s a cartoon show mocking our former president and a soon-to-bereleased porno named after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. And before you know it, there will probably be a Joe Biden butt plug. Unlike “Nailin’ Palin,” I doubt many people will actually put this novelty to its intended use because no Democrat loves Obama that much. Or at least I hope not. And for all you Republicans out there contemplating purchasing this pleasure toy, you will now be able to say you’ve literally been screwed by the president. But as flattering as it may be to inspire his own sex toy, I doubt Obama is too pleased about the image of his face floating around on a phallus for all the world to see. He really doesn’t have the time to explain the birds and the bees to his little girls. And speaking of his little girls, they’ve also inspired toys of their own — ones that don’t require AA batteries or detailed instructions, of course. Ty Inc., the creator of
Beanie Babies, released the “Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia” dolls for its TyGirlz collection in January. Not only is this creepy — especially because the supposed pre-teen dolls have well-developed breasts — it’s exploitative. H o w ever, Ty Inc. claims these dolls are in no way, shape or form inspired by the first daughters. “ T h e Drew Belle Zerby names were Columnist chosen simply because they’re beautiful names,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “There’s nothing on the dolls that refers to the Obama girls. It would not be fair to say they are exact replications of these girls. They are not.” So these dolls, whose names probably aren’t even in the top-100 baby names list, just happen to be black and just happened to be released as a duo the same month Obama was inaugurated. Coincidence? Michelle Obama was
anything but amused and did not hesitate to rip Ty Inc. a new one. “We feel it is inappropriate to use young, private citizens for marketing purposes,” the first lady’s press secretary said in a statement in January. As of this past Tuesday, “Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia” are retired and have been renamed “Sweet Sydney” and “Marvelous Mariah.” But dildo and doll makers aren’t the only ones jumping on Obama’s brand-wagon. J.Crew has officially become the go-to-store for Michelle Obama and Michelle Obama wannabes. After she sported a J. Crew ensemble on an October episode of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and endorsed the store by announcing to the audience, “Ladies, we know J. Crew. You can get some good stuff online,” J.Crew began advertising the outfit as “Michelle Obama’s Look” on its Web site. J. Crew said “it was pleased with sales but declined to say how many of the items had been sold,” in a Nov. 16 The New York Times article. And after Michelle, Malia and Sasha wore custom-made
J.Crew outfits to the inauguration ceremonies, J.Crew got some instant gratification. PepsiCo is also a full-blown supporter of the Obama name. Some of its most recent slogans are “Yes You Can,” after Obama’s campaign catchphrase, and “Refresh Everything,” alluding to Obama’s plan to “refresh America,” according to Pepsi’s Web site. Pepsi employees donated $39,700 to Obama’s campaign, while Coca-Cola only gave $6,000, according to slate.com. And I think Pepsi’s founders foresaw Obama’s coming over a century ago because their red, white and blue logos sure are similar. So while these Obamainspired dildos, dolls and pretty much everything under the American flag may be offensive, inappropriate or even infringement, it’s just part of being in the public eye. And after all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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