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SAFETY

First Lady Fashion

Test sent to 29,489 in LSU community

By Lindsey Meaux Staff Writer

While Hollywood stars chose the perfect gowns to fashion on the red carpet for the Oscars, Michelle Obama dressed her best Sunday for the National Governors’ Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. The first lady glistened in a Peter Soronen gown with a dazzling costume jewelry necklace, and her husband sported a sleek black tuxedo at the White House. But aside from the ritzy garb, Michelle Obama has recently made an impact in the fashion world, wearing more stylish, affordable clothes.

“Since the inauguration, she was highly influential on the fact that she tends to want to purchase garments of all [price] ranges,” said Jessica Pattison, fashion apparel, textiles and design professor. “She tries to not look like a very powerful family through wealth.”

Students, faculty and staff across campus probably checked their cell phones in unison Thursday morning as Information Technology Services sent out a test emergency text message at about 9 a.m.

The text ‘[The message — “This is a test test] was of the LSU smooth. It E m e r g e n c y went the Text Messaging System. way it was No emergency supposed exists. This is to go.’ a test” — was sent to 29,489 Sheri Thompson members of IT Planning and the University Communications officer community through the emergency text messaging service provider, FirstCall, according to Sheri Thompson, IT Planning and Communications officer.

Nine recently registered numbers, which Thompson referred to as “invalid numbers” — numbers that are no longer working or were not correctly entered into the system — could not receive the text.

More information on the success rate of the test will be available in the coming week after an e-mail survey is conducted, Thompson said. The e-mail survey was sent at about 3 p.m. Thursday requesting University students who are registered but did not receive the text report the problem through a link provided in their PAWS account.

“It was smooth,” Thompson

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq took another step toward healing its rift with Kuwait on Thursday as government leaders welcomed the highest-ranking Kuwaiti envoy since Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion. The timing of the visit by Kuwait’s deputy prime minister, Sheik Mohammed Al Sabah, was symbolic — it came Kuwaitis celebrated the 18th anniversary of the U.S.-led military campaign that drove out Saddam’s forces. But much of tiny Persian Gulf nation was left looted and devastated by the Iraqi occupation, and Kuwait still claims billions of dollars in war reparations.

It has refused appeals by Iraq’s government to reduce its demands and forgive about $15 billion in Iraqi debt.

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Shantytown welcomes home its ‘Slumdog’ kids

MUMBAI, India (AP) — From the shantytown’s corrugated tin roofs to its squalid streets, proud relatives and neighbors cheered, celebrated and warmly embraced the two child stars of the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” who returned home Thursday. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, who portrays Salim, the hero’s brother, displayed some fancy Bollywood moves as he danced to the throbbing music from the movie, embodying the exuberant spirit of its popular song, “Jai Ho” — “Be Victorious.” Rubina Ali, 9, who plays the film’s heroine, Latika, as a child, was carried on her father’s shoulders, waving at people who gathered on the rickety roofs and on balconies draped with rugs and filthy plastic sheets. The pair and other child actors from the film traveled to Los Angeles for Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, where the rags-to-riches tale won eight Oscars, including best picture.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama laid out his first budget plan Thursday predicting a stunning federal deficit of $1.75 trillion this year — nearly four times last year’s record — and asking Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy to stem that flood of red ink while still moving the country toward guaranteed health care for all. Denouncing what he called the “dishonest accounting” of recent federal budgets, Obama unveiled his own $3.6 trillion blueprint for next year, a bold proposal that would transfer wealth from rich taxpayers to the middle class and the poor. As the nation digs out of the most serious economic crisis in decades, Obama said, “We will ... have to compromise on certain things we care about but which we simply cannot afford right now.”

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Colleges warn students FEMA to probe alleged misconduct at La. office about Mexico travel PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border. “We’re not necessarily telling students not to go, but we’re going to certainly alert them,” said Tom Dougan, vice president for student affairs at the University of Rhode Island. “There have been Americans kidnapped, and if you go you need to be very aware and very alert to this fact.”

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CULTURE

Event explores beauty standards Female stereotypes constantly change

By Victoria Yu Contributing Writer

Old adages such as “beauty is on the inside” may not hold true in today’s society.

“There is a perception of beauty for white women that having straight blonde hair, blue eyes- that is what women are supposed to look like,” said Robert Outland, history professor. “There’s this perception of the European look as the standard of beauty.”

However, Outland said this stereotype has steadily changed.

“The white standard of beauty BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille has changed . . . There is an arche- Chris Johnson, animal science junior, looks through magazines to find trends in type of female beauty for all races,” what society believes is beautiful as part of an excercise in the Image of Beauty he said. event held Thursday night in the African American Cultural Center.

The Image of Beauty event, However, not all girls feel like sponsored by several campus orga- ended it because “a segregated nizations, explored these stereotypes school system sent messages to black society is forgiving.

“I see somebody else that’s skinlast night at the African American children that there was something inferior about black people,” Outland nier or pretty,” said Alex Broussard, Cultural Center. biology freshman. “I always want to The opening video, “Dove Evo- said.

The type of dolls girls play with wear makeup.” lution,” showcased the extensive Poudel said the only pressure makeup and airbrushing models as children may shape our standard she feels is to stay physically fit. undergo before a photo shoot. The of beauty, Blair said.

“All races and all women exStereotypes of beauty have exvideo ended with the phrase “ No wonder our perception of beauty is isted for centuries. The 19th century perience some type of pressure of encouraged corset-induced cinched what their particular society or culdistorted.”

The next video, “A Girl Like waists, whereas the mid-20th centu- ture thinks is beautiful,” Blair said.

Me,” recreated the 1939 Kenneth B. ry pin-up girls were curvier, Outland “They buy into that.”

The pressures girls feel have not Clark Doll Test. The video showed said.

Now, Asian changed but have gotten worse, Thiyoung black chilwomen are even bodeaux said. dren presented with Blair said she hoped the event getting surgical a white baby doll procedures to make was an eye-opening experience. and a black baby “I think that there’s a sense or a their eyes appear doll. confidence in loving yourself . . . and more western.

When asked to “It’s really dif- being proud of that,” she said. choose which doll The event had an open floor ferent from culture was nice the kids to culture,” said discussion where attendees looked picked the white Poudel, mi- through magazines, noting the type doll specifically Dominique Dangerfield Rosina crobiology sopho- of women featured, then openly disbecause of its skin chemical engineering junior more from Nepal. cussed racial stereotypes. color.

Participants said the only time “What people in Likewise, the kids chose the black doll because of Nepal consider beautiful is different magazines featured larger women were in makeup ads that only reits skin color when asked to choose from what people achieve here.”

Women in Nepal prefer pale quired head shots. the bad doll.

Also, magazines rarely featured In Clark’s doll test young girls skin and will protect themselves with had to choose whether they preferred umbrellas, but American culture pre- black women with their natural hair.

“Black women wear weaves. fers tans, Poudel said. to play with black or white dolls.

Outland said women in Mada- They want that long, flowing, wavy “White girls preferred to play with white dolls,” Outland said. “It gascar are more attractive if they are hair type,” Blair said.

The event ended with posiseemed more familiar to them be- larger, though obtaining that amount tive solutions to stereotypes women of food and leisure time is hard. cause it looked like them.”

But one of the predominant ste- endure, and many participants enHowever, young black girls also chose the white dolls over the black reotypes in American culture is be- couraged women to focus on inner beauty, dolls, said Niya Blair, coordinator of ing thin, Blair said.

“My image of beauty is not on “People struggle and struggle to the African American Cultural Cenmeet a style of beauty and each cul- the outside,” said Dominique Danter.

The young black girls chose the ture chooses what’s hardest for that gerfield, chemical engineering junior. “Inner beauty is what reels you white dolls because they said they society to achieve,” Outland said.

Western culture has become in.” were prettier and dressed nicer; however, the only difference between the more lenient with its idea of beauty.

“Beyonce Knowles isn’t thin, white and black dolls was skin color, Contact Victoria Yu at but society welcomes and embraces Outland said. vyu@lsureveille.com Guest speaker Julie her,” Blair said.

Thibodeaux,Education and Outreach Coordinator of the American Civil Liberties Union, spoke on Clark’s Doll Test, which played a role in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. the Board of Education,which ended segregation in public schools.

Brown v. the Board of Education ended segregation in public schools.

With the help of this study, the Court noted segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and

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Campus Crime Briefs MAN ARRESTED FLASHING

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A man unaffiliated with the University was arrested Feb. 21 at about 1:30 p.m. for allegedly exposing himself to a female University student.

According to the LSU Police Department report, the man asked the student for the time as she was walking on the sidewalk near the Lod Cook Conference Center.

When she approached the man, he exposed his genitals, said Capt. Russell Rogé, LSUPD spokesman.

The student called LSUPD and later identified Javier Enrique Borgs Cunigan as the flasher.

Cunigan, a 36-year-old Mexican laborer, tried to escape officers when they found him on the same sidewalk near the Lod Cook Conference Center.

He was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one count each of obscenity and resisting arrest.

MAN ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION A man unaffiliated with the University was arrested Feb. 17 at about 12:45 a.m. for felony possession of marijuana.

Officers saw Charles Buckles, 38, of 325 West Grant Street,

Baton Rouge, speeding on Nicholson Drive.

Buckles was driving at 50 mph in a 35 mph zone when officers pulled him over, said Maj. Helen Haire, LSUPD spokeswoman.

After Buckles stepped out of the vehicle, officers asked if he had anything illegal in his car.

Buckles responded, saying he didn’t have any weapons, but that he did have marijuana in the car.

After the officers received consent to search the vehicle, they found a bag of marijuana under the passenger seat, Haire said.

The bag contained 77 grams of marijuana — a felony offense.

Buckles was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR SIMPLE BATTERY A woman unaffiliated with the University was arrested Feb. 16 for simple battery at about 11:20 a.m.

Temeka Shantel Watts, 26, of 788 North Don Moor Drive, Baton Rouge, was arrested on the corner of Highland Road and South Stadium Drive after she sprayed perfume on two people while on board a Capital Area Transit System bus.

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RELIGION

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

POLITICS

BR church site for indulgence Getting stimulus for Catholics embrace some states difficult controversial rites

By Shelia Byrd

By Adam Duvernay

The Associated Press

Staff Writer

Roman Catholic Church traditions and practices have evolved to fit a changing world in the past 2,000 years. Papal influence in government and the Latin mass are no longer Catholic standards, but some of the institutions’ most controversial practices remain.

Pope Benedict XVI devoted the year between July 28, 2008 and June 28, 2009 to the celebration of the 2,000th birthday of St. Paul, which historians place between seven and 10 A.D. A part of this celebration includes offering plenary indulgences to Catholics who meet certain conditions.

Indulgences offer the faithful either partial or full relief from time spent in purgatory, a spiritual place where Catholics believe sinners must go to be purified after death.

“Even if we have no sin on our souls when we die, there are temporal effects of sin we must account for,” ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille said Rev. Chris Decker, pastor of St. Arthur Dupre, mass communication senior, kneels in worship at Christ the King Jude Catholic Church. “When we Catholic Church. Catholic churches offer plenary indulgences for partial or full talk about indulgences, we say those relief from time spent in purgatory. temporal effects are wiped away.”

This year, after making a full in the Middle Ages,” said Deacon institution, it has become less releconfession to a priest, praying for the Ronald Guidry of the Archdiocese of vant because of the stigma lingering intentions of the pontiff and making New Orleans Worship department. from the split in the Church.

“There is a lot of confusion a pilgrimage to a site dedicated to St. “The Church has never had the right among Catholics and all Christians Paul, Catholics can receive a plenary or the power to sell God’s grace.”

During the about what an indulgence is,” said indulgence, which Council of Trent in Angela Miceli, a political science fully frees the re1563, the Catholic graduate student and University’s cipient from time in Church officially Parousian Catholic group member. purgatory. banned the sell- “People don’t really understand Initially, the ing of indulgences. where it comes from.” pope offered these The tradition of indulgences Though no money plenary indulneeds to change has lost its popularity with Catholics gences to pilgrims hands to receive a because the Church has not emphatraveling to the Rev. Chris Decker plenary indulgence, sized some of the older sacramentals Basilica of St. Paul on the Ostian Way St. Jude Catholic Church pastor the Catholic Church in recent years, according to Decker. has never denied a He said plenary indulgences offered in Rome. The offer during the Pauline year are a good was expanded to those who could donation.

“When it comes to money, if way to remind people of their oppornot travel to Rome when any church dedicated to St. Paul was decreed a people want to make an offering of tunities. thanksgiving, sometimes God moves place of pilgrimage.

Included in the decree was St. us to action,” Decker said.

Contact Adam Duvernay at Though the tradition of inPaul’s Catholic Church in downtown aduvernay@lsureveille.com dulgences has remained with the Baton Rouge.

Rev. Vincent Alexius, pastor of St. Paul’s, said he had not been officially contacted by the diocese about plenary indulgences. Alexius said because a priest is not required to confer indulgences associated with the Pauline year, the diocese had not given him any instruction.

“The Church wants to attract people to their spiritual opportunities,” said Rev. Paul Counce, judicial vicar of the Baton Rouge diocese.

“It’s not to have people discover new things, but the joy of faith that has been there all along.”

In the 1500s, the selling of indulgences was one of the abuses which lead Martin Luther to initiate the Protestant Reformation.

While some indulgences could be bought up front from a priest or bishop, in 1517 Pope Leo X offered indulgences to those who helped pay for the reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

“Selling indulgences was something that grew out of misconceptions

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‘Even if we have no sin ... there are ... effects of sin we must account for.’

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lawmakers in the South could be poised for a showdown with Republican governors who have said they may refuse some of the money available from a $787 billion federal stimulus package.

Govs. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana are among a handful of governors who have said they don’t want to accept portions of the stimulus money available under a bill signed earlier this month by President Obama.

The bill also includes a provision that gives state lawmakers the ability to accept the money even if their governors don’t want it.

The governors have questioned whether the money available for education, health care and infrastructure will help the economy.

Barbour said he’ll refuse about $56 million in unemployment compensation because it would require Mississippi to expand benefits to part-time workers. The state’s overall share of the package is $2.8 billion.

Democratic lawmakers in his state — the poorest in the nation — have balked at his stance.

“We need to keep Mississippi first and national politics second,” House Speaker Billy McCoy, a

Democrat from Rienzi, said Thursday.

McCoy said he would lead the effort to overrule Barbour. But Barbour has until April 3 to say whether he wants the total package, and by then, the 2009 legislative session will have ended. It is unlikely Barbour would force legislators to return. Only the governor can call lawmakers back for a special session.

Similar political maneuvering might be necessary in Louisiana, where Jindal has also opposed the unemployment provisions on the grounds that maintaining them after the federal money runs out will be costly for the state.

But Rep. Kevin Pearson, a Republican from Slidell, said Jindal’s position on unemployment puts $98 million at stake and that’s “a lot of money to turn away.”

The Louisiana Legislature, which convenes in April, could put the money in its budget and wait to see if Jindal makes good on his threat of a line-item veto, said Rep. Patricia Smith, a Democrat from Baton Rouge.

She said lawmakers would then have to decide whether to go into a veto session to override the governor. Both chambers have a Democratic majority.

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

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HEALTH

Study explains why sleep can increase memories Sleep proven to help recall information

By Joy Lukachick Staff Writer

Katie Wade used to gather her books and head to the library the night before a test to study until she was kicked out the building.

But when Wade, agriculture sophomore, received an economics test back she realized pulling an allnighter before a test was a mistake.

“I just was hoping to recognize something ... but I didn’t,” Wade said. “Cramming was just not effective.”

Sleeping is a well-known factor for helping students remember information, said Janet McDonald, psychology professor.

Marcos Frank, assistant professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, researched how sleep affects a person’s brain in a recent study.

While most behavioral studies show sleep has an impact on a person’s long-term memory, not many studies address how the process works, Frank said.

“If you really want to know what’s going on during sleep, you have to look at some brainwave change,” he said.

CRIME, from page 3 Watts struck one of the victims in the head and the other in the chin after a verbal altercation about the perfume, Haire said.

Watts was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

TWO STUDENTS ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA Two University students were arrested Feb. 11 for simple possession of marijuana and simple possession of drug paraphernalia at about 11:30 p.m.

Jonathan Brothers, 19, of 3708 Lake Winnipeg Drive, Harvey, and Andrew Prat, 19, of 3424 North Labarre Road, Metairie, were arrested shortly after LSUPD received a complaint about them selling marijuana out of their room in McVoy Hall, Haire said.

When officers arrived, they questioned Brothers and Prat about the complaint.

The two led officers to a suitcase that contained a jar filled with six grams of marijuana, three marijuana grinders and a glass pipe, Haire said.

Brothers and Prat were each issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

MAN ARRESTED TWICE FOR TRESPASSING A man unaffiliated with the University was arrested twice last week for remaining after being forbidden from campus.

Responding to a complaint about a suspicious person at St. Alban’s Church at about 8:30 a.m., officers saw David Zavala, 40, of 2600 Florida Blvd., Baton

The research pin-points a spe- a good reason to find time to sleep cific molecule, abbreviated as NM- before an important test, she said.

DAR, which is a receptor turning “Cramming is a bad way to reon the other functions in the brain tain information,” said Sean Lane, after a person is asleep, Frank said. psychology professor. “[It] might During the testing period, the help you to get over a test or quiz, animals had to be asleep for the re- but ... if you have a cumulative final, ceptor to send the signals through the you’re not going to remember.” brain and begin to connect the difA student needs about six ferent cells, Frank hours of sleep to said. The changes receive any benin the brain only efits to their memhappened when ory, Lane said. the animals were “It takes a asleep, he said. while to get to When a perthese deeper stages son goes to sleep, it of sleep,” Lane allows the brain to said. “You can’t Janet McDonald consolidate memojust [recall memopsychology professor ries, McDonald ries] by sleeping said. After a stua short amount of dent studies for a test, they should time.” go to sleep to retain the information When a person sleeps, the brain properly, she said. can return to a minimum level of Cullen Koppans, business activity, said Emily Elliot, psycholsophomore, said it is hard for him ogy professor. The study is trying to find time to study for a test until to explain how sleep can change the the night before. molecular functions, she said.

Koppans said he studies all The brain is active at night, night for his essay tests, but he can’t McDonald said. Not only can a perremember most of the information son recall facts, but learning a new the week after the test. skill is benefited by sleep, she said. “[Students] are really in school to remember things for their lifetime,” McDonald said.

Contact Joy Lukachick at The information from a test is jlukachick@lsureveille.com used in a student’s future, which is

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Rouge, sleeping on a pew in the chapel.

Zavala was issued a misdemeanor summons for trespassing and released.

He was arrested again on Feb. 17 for trespassing at about 5 p.m.

Officers arrived at the LSU Bookstore after receiving a complaint about a suspicious person begging for food and found Zavala.

Zavala was arrested and booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for being on campus after being forbidden.

LSUPD had two previous contacts with Zavala — the first resulting in a trespass warning, and the other being an arrest for trespassing.

MAN ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION A man unaffiliated with the University was arrested Feb. 16 for simple possession of marijuana at about 10:50 p.m.

Bradley K. Vincent, 28, of 515 West Grant Street, Baton Rouge, was stopped by officers after they saw him driving north on Nicholson Drive with no tail lights.

When Vincent opened his passenger door to get his registration, officers smelled what they believed to be marijuana.

After receiving consent to search the vehicle, officers found two burnt marijuana roaches in Vincent’s ashtray.

Vincent was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

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

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A University student sleeps in Middleton Library last semester. Studies show that sleeping can help people increase their ability to remember things.

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The Republican National Committee reportedly spent more than $150,000 on Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s wardrobe while she was campaigning, but Michelle Obama took a more modest approach on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno when she wore a J. Crew outfit that she bought for a much lower price in November.

“It’s well known that she felt that her family, especially in tough economic times, keeps pace with America instead of held up to public standards,” Pattison said. “She will be conscious for the economy and try to look just like any other American family.”

The first lady keeps a watchful eye on the economic crisis and portrays an overall image for Americans seeking to find a common ground. As a young woman who is fit and healthy, Michelle Obama will be looked up to as a fashion icon because she’s a minority female figure in the public eye, Pattison said.

“Michelle makes a statement for women as a very strong, poised and well-kept female,” she said.

Michelle Obama’s elegant single strap gown that she wore to the Inaugural Ball in January has set the trend for designers and retailers across the country, including Baton Rouge.

Erinn White, owner of Posh Unique Boutique on Highland Road, said the store houses similar dresses, and the Michelle Obama looks are gaining popularity among customers.

“People are always trying to be on trend, and they are going to model the popular trends of that time,” White said. “The oneshoulder look got more popular when Michelle Obama wore it to the ball, and people want to look like what famous people were wearing.”

Jackie Kennedy is history’s most well-known first lady for her fashion impact in the ‘60s, wearing pillbox hats and driving coats with maxed out accessories and a bob hairstyle.

“Her influence set the stage for first ladies thereafter,” Pattison said. “She was just a fashionable female and cared about her appearance. She was the cream of the crop for doing that for America.”

Pattison said the first ladies’ impact on the fashion world is nothing new, and they are automatically stigmatized to be somewhat fashionable. But Michelle Obama’s fashion statement brings forth a new American style similar to those of middle-class Americans.

“It’s a different face and a different color of skin,” she said. “She and her family are a very young presidential family, and it’s just not what we’re used to seeing.”

But being a political figure in the public spotlight brings along a lot of criticism. At President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening, Michelle Obama put the fashion critics in frenzy when she wore a sleeveless dress showing off her super-sculpted bare arms in the freezing weather.

“Anything she puts on is going to be something for Americans to critique — either negatively or positively,” she said. “They’re al-

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ways going to compare her to others.”

But Michelle Obama isn’t the only one in the White House who’s making an impact on the fashion scene. T-shirts bearing President Obama’s image have become an American sensation, and millions have been sold online since last year.

T-shirt designer Mike Martinez at Progressive Rags, a Miami-based company dedicated to selling only Obama merchandise including T-shirts, hats, key chains and watches, said the Web site sold more than 5,000 of its top five Tshirts since August.

“And that’s just scratching the surface,” Martinez said. “The T-shirts are very popular. People really want to express themselves and show their support for Obama.

It just reflects the amount of popularity the president has right now.”

Progressive Rags began selling Obama merchandise when he won the Democratic nomination.

The Web site saw a huge sale increase nearing the Nov. 4 election and an even bigger increase between Obama’s victory and the

inauguration.

“Standing for what you believe in is wearing and promoting something,” Pattison said. “Bush had [bumper] stickers, but I think [Obama’s T-shirts] just took it to another level.”

Presidents before Obama weren’t displayed on T-shirts like someone’s favorite sports team or

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player, Pattison said.

“It’s going to be interesting to see how these political figures are being portrayed,” she said. “They are being portrayed as a political figures and entertainment figures.”

Contact Leslie Presnall at lpresnall@lsureveille.com

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First lady Michelle Obama speaks Thursday during her visit to the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington.

TEST, from page 1

said of the test. “It went the way it was supposed to go.”

The FirstCall system was previously tested Sept. 26. The Daily Reveille reported 5 percent of those text messages went undelivered.

Thompson attributed the failure rate to people changing service providers.

“The machine that sends out the message has to know what carrier to send the message to,” Thompson said. “We need to make sure that you’re updating your number periodically.”

The University switched to FirstCall, a Baton Rouge-based firm, after the company, ClearTXT, stopped providing emergency communications, Thompson said.

To sign up for emergency text messages, students must log on to PAWS and select the “Campus Community” option and then the “Emergency Text Message” option.

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FOOTBALL

Tigers to play WVU in homeand-home

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THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

Former LSU assistant coaches Rooney, Godwin return with UCF Kinghts to face Tigers

By David Helman Sports Writer

Country roads won’t lead home to West Virginia in September 2010, but rather to Death Valley.

LSU and West Virginia agreed to a two-year contract for a homeand-home football series Thursday afternoon, the first ever meeting between the two teams.

The deal schedules the Mountaineers to visit Baton Rouge on Sept. 25, 2010. The Tigers will make the trip to Morgantown, W. Va., on Sept. 24, 2011.

“This is a series that is very attractive to fans of both LSU and West Virginia and at the same time, it’s a game that will have a great deal of national attention,” said LSU athletic director Joe Alleva in a news release.

LSU senior associate athletic director Verge Ausberry said the Tigers get the first home game because of the program’s need for seven games on the home schedule.

“We’ve been working on this for about a year and a half — pushing the dates and rearranging things,” he said. “We had to have the home game in 2010 because our future games are set and we had to have seven games.”

Ausberry said the Mountaineers will replace Colorado’s former place on the schedule. The Buffalos were originally slated to play LSU in coming seasons, but was postponed because of conflicts.

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[Above] Former LSU pitching coach Terry Rooney (left) and former LSU assistant coach Cliff Godwin (right) stand in the dugout during last season’s NCAA regional. [Right] Rooney coaches during UCF’s 12-6 victory against VCU on Sunday. Rooney and Godwin return to face the Tigers this weekend.

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

LSU’s baseball program welcomed nearly 200 former players to the opening of the new Alex Box Stadium last weekend prior to sweeping a three-game series with Villanova.

And this weekend will be another reunion, as the Tigers welcome back two former assistant coaches to Baton Rouge.

Central Florida coach and former LSU pitching coach Terry Rooney and Central Florida assistant coach and former LSU hitting coach Cliff Godwin will be in the

opposite dugout when Central Florida and LSU square off in the three-game series starting tonight.

But for Tigers’ coach Paul Mainieri, this reunion won’t be a pleasant one.

“Win or lose, it’s not a very enjoyable experience to play against a former assistant,” Mainieri said. “But I’ve got a job to do, and my loyalty is to my team and my university.”

Rooney served as the Tigers’ pitching coach and recruiting coordinator from 20072008, improving the Tigers’ ERA from 5.10 in ROONEY, see page 11

ROMEO T. GUZMAN / Central Florida Athletic Department

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers escape Lady Vols, 63-61

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

LSU sophomore guard Katherine Graham goes for a shot during the Lady Tigers’ 63-61 win Thursday night in the PMAC.

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JASON BORDELON / The Daily Reveille

There were 7.9 seconds on the clock.

Again, an LSU guard — this time sophomore Katherine Graham — was at the free throw line.

She made both free throws to give the Lady Tigers the lead.

But this matchup, the Lady Vols couldn’t make a play — or get off a shot — like they did in the 2008 Final Four, sealing a 63-61 win for LSU on Thursday in the PMAC. “I knew it was a one-and-one, Log on to so I knew I needed to make the first see one,” Graham said. “I just was given highlights an opportunity to help my team win from the with those free throws.”

Lady Tigers’ The Lady Tigers (16-9, 9-4) game jumped out to a 15-point halftime against the lead, but Tennessee (19-9, 8-5) Lady Vols.

LADY VOLS, see page 11

BILL FEIG / The Associated Press

Tennessee forward Angie Bjorklund (right) gets a hand on the ball to knock it away from LSU freshman forward LaSondra Barrett (left) during the Lady Tigers’ 63-61 win Thursday night in the PMAC.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers shoot for SEC crown against Kentucky UK’s Meeks holds SEC scoring lead

By David Helman Sports Writer

It’s only fitting that a game which features Southeastern Conference championship aspirations, NCAA tournament hopes and four of the SEC’s top 10 scorers will take place in Rupp Arena.

No. 18 LSU (24-4, 12-1) travels to the conference’s largest and most notorious venue Saturday to face the league’s most historic program, Kentucky (19-9, 8-5) on Saturday.

The Wildcats boast a home record of 415-54 with seven national titles, but this weekend it will be the Tigers hoping to secure an outright conference title.

“There is a sense in a little corner of my heart that this is neat,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson. “It’s one of the premier venues in the country, and it’s one place I haven’t been.

Haven’t had a chance to coach — haven’t had a chance to be in there period ... I’m looking forward to that.”

Johnson actually has coached in Rupp. His third Stanford team faced

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Louisville there in the first round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. The Cardinals blew the Cardinal off the court, 78-58.

“I was sitting there for every bit of those 10 seconds — that game was over in 10 seconds,” Johnson said. “I wasn’t lying when I said I wasn’t in Lexington because I wasn’t there.

That was a dream — a nightmare.”

The Tigers average 77 points per game behind the efforts of junior forward Tasmin Mitchell and senior guard Marcus Thornton, so their chances of topping 60 points in Johnson’s second go-around are much higher.

Thornton is the conference’s No. 2 scorer with 20.9 points per game, while Mitchell sits at No. 8 with 16.6.

“We’re a team — there is no Thornton and Mitchell,” Mitchell said. “We might be on top of the scoring lists ... but it’s not about us. We need our teammates to be

successful.”

Kentucky guard Jodie Meeks has led the SEC in scoring throughout the year with an average of 25.1 points per game. His teammate, sophomore forward Patrick Patterson, averages 18.3 points and 9.1 rebounds.

“I’m not keyed on [Meeks],” Thornton said. “He puts his pants on one leg at a time just like I do. He’s a great player and hats off to him, but I play for LSU, and we’re going to try to go in there and win.”

Thornton called his first trip to Rupp “a dream.”

“It’s a historic place to play and I’ve never played in there before,” he said. “Just to go and see what the atmosphere is like — I’m ready to get down there and wrap up the SEC.” Mitchell, on the other hand, doesn’t have such fond memories of his last trip to Lexington — although he hasn’t quite blocked them out.

“Last time I went to Rupp I was a sophomore,” he said. “I had a real good game, and we had a chance to beat them. But Kentucky is basketball. Rupp Arena is a very historic place, and it’s hard to play there.”

Kentucky coach Billy Gillespie would disagree with Mitchell.

“The best teams win on the road

TRACK AND FIELD

LSU heads to SEC Indoors Lady Tigers will try to defend title

By Rachel Whittaker Sports Writer

LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver predicts the men’s and women’s winners of the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships will be decided by the smallest of margins.

And Shaver said his teams will not only have to nail down their best events this weekend in Lexington, Ky., but they will also need help from other opposing teams.

“The reality of it is that all we can do is go in and control the things we have control over,” Shaver said. “A lot of it will come down to what the other SEC coaches do with their athletes in the distance races. We

are more than likely not going to score in anything above the 800 [meter dash]. Certainly seeing Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida get in there and split those points up and not one team getting them all, then all of a sudden we have a chance.”

The Lady Tigers are the defending SEC indoor champions after they won their first conference title in nine years in 2008.

The Tigers finished second to Arkansas, their best finish at the Indoor Championships since 2001.

“The men certainly are going to find it to be a real challenge,” Shaver said. “We’re not going in at all being considered the favorite — men or women.”

Shaver said the Lady Tigers are lacking the experience throughout the lineup they had last season.

“On the women’s team, we’re the defending champions,

but we just don’t have the quality depth,” he said. “We lost nine seniors from last year who were big contributors last year, and we just don’t have that right now ...

If we perform just a little bit better at this track meet, we will be happy.”

Shaver said LSU junior sprinter Trindon Holliday will TRACK, see page 11

and at home,” he said. “No matter how good your home court advantage is, the biggest challenge you face is the team itself.”

Gillespie’s Wildcats were mathematically eliminated from SEC championship contention Wednesday night, but Johnson’s Tigers have

a chance to make history of their own in the league’s most historic location.

And maybe Johnson will remember it this time.

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GYMNASTICS

Tigers eyeing fourth-straight victory in final home meet LSU to face No. 9 Arkansas in PMAC

By Andy Schwehm Sports Contributor

LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux and her team feel they are hitting their stride at just the right time in the season with only three weeks left until the Southeastern Conference Championship meet.

The Tigers have posted threestraight scores of 196.625 or higher, including last weekend’s

season-high 197.400, the secondhighest score in the nation so far this season.

“We really try to peak at the right time,” said LSU junior Sabrina Franceschelli. “Yes, we got off to a slow start, but we usually do.

D-D always says it’s the end result, not what happens at the beginning, so we are really starting to pick it up now, which is great.”

Along with that peak comes an air of confidence with a pair of recent victories against two top-10 teams – Florida and Alabama.

No. 6 LSU (10-2, 3-2) will try

EMMETT BROWN / The Daily Reveille

LSU Junior Sabrina Franceschelli performs her beam routine last Friday night during the Tigers’ victory in the PMAC against UIC and UNC.

to get its third-straight home victory and its fourth-straight victory overall tonight as the Tigers face No. 9 Arkansas (6-2, 3-2) in their last SEC home meet of the season.

“The win against Florida, and then to back that up with a win at Alabama, was huge,” Breaux said.

“But then to come back home and score a 197-plus was good.”

Arkansas is coming off their second highest score of the season in a 196.725-196.925 loss to thenNo. 2 Georgia.

“We performed pretty well,” said Arkansas co-head coach Mark Cook. “We had a few small mistakes here and there. We have to be able to stick our landings a little better and eliminate some of the little mistakes.”

While the Tigers will look to their one-two punch of senior Ashleigh Clare-Kearney and junior Susan Jackson to perform at a high level, Breaux acknowledged the first four performers of the LSU lineup will have to show up for a victory against Arkansas.

“The key for us is going to be having a nice, smooth start from the four people at the beginning of our lineup,” Breaux said. “Then Susan and Ashleigh have to be awesome.

If we do that, we will definitely have another great score.”

One of those four is twotime defending SEC Freshman of the Week Gloria Johnson, who is

coming off winning the first individual title of her career with a personal-best 9.90 on the vault last Friday.

“The fact that Gloria Johnson won SEC Freshman of the Week two weeks in a row was an outstanding accomplishment for her,” Breaux said. “She has begun to work harder every day she comes to the gym. She’s very talented, and sometimes she took that talent for granted.”

LSU junior Summer Hubbard said the team has also found stability and depth in its lineup outside of

the usual starting six in each event.

“Anything can happen injury-wise in this sport,” Hubbard said. “Depth is vital. At the beginning of the season we weren’t seeing a lot of depth, but now we are, and it’s great to see that at the end of the season.”

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Tigers break school records, head to Last Chance meet Team aims to lock in trips to NCAAs

By Amos Morale Sports Contributor

LSU senior swimmer Christoph Lubenau locked in his trip to the NCAA Swimming Championships in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 45.99 seconds at the Southeastern Conference championships.

“It felt good,” Lubenau said.

“It is good to have an ‘A’ cut to secure that position so you don’t have to wait if you get picked up or not.”

He was the only LSU swimmer to gain an automatic berth to NCAA championships with an ‘A’ cut. The rest of the LSU swimming and diving teams head to

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‘If we would have been in any other conference we would have placed a lot better.’

Christoph Lubenau senior swimmer

the Georgia Last Chance Meet in Athens, Ga. NCAA ‘A’ cuts guarantee a swimmer and automatic trip to the NCAAs. The Tigers and Lady Tigers placed sixth and eighth at the SEC championships but shattered a plethora of school records and picked up several NCAA ‘B’ cuts.

Swimmers who make a ‘B’

cut can participate in the NCAA championships if there are extra slots not taken by ‘A’ qualifiers.

“If we would have been in any other conference we would have placed a lot better,” Lubenau said.

Placing aside, the swimmers all recognized a step forward from last year.

“We did awesome,” said sophomore Jane Trepp. “It was so much better than last year. I would say 90 percent did their best times.”

Trepp earned ‘B’ cuts in her individual events but has to wait for other conferences to finish their championships to see if her times will carry her to NCAAs. “It just depends on how fast everyone’s going,” said LSU assistant coach Kevin Clements.

“And right now teams out there

SOFTBALL

Tigers face two ranked opponents

By David Helman Sports Writer

LSU softball coach Yvette Girouard wasn’t kidding when she said her team would see a step up in competition.

The No. 20 Tigers (11-4) face two ranked opponents this weekend in No. 13 DePaul (9-2) and No. 25 Florida State (12-3) at the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga. — their first ranked competition in two weeks.

“We’ve been coming out to practice and going hard every day,” said sophomore third baseman Jessica Mouse. “We’re ready for good competition, and that’s what we’re going to get. We’re excited to see how we do.”

LSU has played two top-25 teams in the early going of the season with mixed results. The Tigers swept a pair of games against No. 5 Texas A&M at the Easton Tiger Classic two weekends ago but fell, 8-0, to No. 10 Oklahoma on Feb. 6.

“You always say that with a young team your best players have to have very good years, and right now that’s not quite happening for us,” Girouard said. “The young players are seeing that this is another level.”

The Tigers also face Georgia Tech (9-5) and Illinois State (4-6) on the trip.

Girouard said she hopes the trip wakes up the Tigers’ bats. LSU’s last few games have been sporadic at the plate, with the Tigers winning games by scores of 11-0 and 8-3, but also failing to score in 1-0 and 2-0 defeats.

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are going really fast.”

Clements said his team will feel a lot safer after the weekend.

He said the teams are focusing on getting relay teams to NCAA championships.

Clements said many of the

LSU relay teams are close to NCAA ‘A’ cuts and are hoping to get those cuts this weekend.

“We have ‘B’ cuts in all of four relays,” he said. “But right now ‘B’ cuts really don’t mean a thing. The closer you can get to an ‘A’ cut, the better, so that is what we are going for.”

Lubenau is going to the last chance meet to swim the relays despite already earning an individual trip.

“So I don’t have to go by myself,” Lubenau joked.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009 LADY VOLS, from page 7 stormed out of the locker room and went on a 9-0 run in the first two minutes of the half to cut the lead to 35-29.

Tennessee freshman Kelley Cain took advantage of LSU senior forward Kristen Morris picking up her third foul 11 seconds into the second half and scored the first six points of the half for the Lady Vols.

Tennessee sophomore guard Angie Bjorklund and forward Shekinna Stricklen helped the Lady Vols continue their second-half surge and scored a combined 23 points in the first 12 minutes of the second half to tie the game at 51.

Bjorklund scored 21 points for the game, including 3-of-5 from behind the arc.

ROONEY, from page 7

2007 to 4.11 in 2008. Rooney also spent three seasons as pitching coach under Mainieri at Notre Dame from 2004-2006.

As LSU’s recruiting coordinator, Rooney also helped recruit most of the talent that has the Tigers ranked as the No. 1 team in the nation.

“We were there for two years, and the reality is coach Godwin and I either coached or recruited that entire team,” Rooney said. “I think being able to tell our kids that and tell our recruits that, it shows them that we know what it takes from a recruiting and a coaching standpoint.”

Rooney said he looks forward to spending another weekend in Baton Rouge despite the difficulty of facing his friend and former players.

“When you coach players, you’re with them every single day, so you build relationships,” Rooney said. “I am excited to see some of the

TRACK, from page 8

run in only the 60-meter dash this weekend. Shaver considered running him in the 200-meter dash as well, but decided against it.

“He’s only going to run the 60 meters because the risk is high for someone who has no more experience running the 200 than what he does,” Shaver said. “He hasn’t run it really since high school.”

Holliday, a 5-time All-American and All-SEC sprinter, qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships with a time of 6.56 seconds in the 60-meter dash at the SEC/Big 12 Challenge in January — No. 3 in the world this season.

Holliday placed second in the

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LSU was without junior guard Allison Hightower for most of the second half as the Arlington, Texas native battled cramps throughout the half.

The Lady Tigers also lost freshman LaSondra Barrett for a threeminute span late in the half to a wrist injury.

But without their two leading scorers, LSU stayed afloat and took

a 59-54 lead with 3:51 to play thanks to Graham’s offense.

Graham scored 10 of her 12 points in the second half to help keep LSU’s depleted offense afloat.

“We lost our best player with 12:09 to go, and we find a way to win,” said LSU coach Van Chancellor. “And we beat a really good team and a really good coach.”

The Lady Tigers’ defense stifled the Lady Vols early and limited them to just 1-of-8 shooting and six turnovers from the field in the first five minutes of the game to take an 8-2 lead.

LSU combined its swarming defense with efficient offense to stretch the lead to 12 with 12:38 to play in the opening half.

Tennessee cut the lead to 21-14 with five minutes in the half, but LSU

fired back with a 14-6 run to head into halftime with a 35-20 lead.

LSU junior guard Andrea Kelly found the gaps in Tennessee’s zone defense and hit consecutive 3-pointers to help the run.

The Lady Tigers limited the Lady Vols to just seven field goals in the first half while forcing 15 turnovers. Coming into the game, Tennessee averaged just 17 turnovers per game.

LSU took advantage of Tennessee’s turnovers and outscored the Lady Vols, 17-2, in points off turnovers in the first half.

“Turnovers hurt us,” said Tennessee coach Pat Summitt. “If you just look at the box for us and the box for them, they were just better.”

Thursday’s game marked the eighth time in the last 10 meetings

between LSU and Tennessee that the game was decided by 10 points or less.

Summitt said LSU’s win will not be the last time the two teams clash.

“It seems like everytime we play them and they play us, there’s always a prize,” she said. “And tonight they won the prize.”

Chancellor said with a fivegame winning streak, the Lady Tigers are playing the way he’d hoped they’d play all season.

“We’ve been trying to get them to buy into toughness,” he said. “And find a way to win. Just find a way to win. And we did it tonight.”

people who I had that bond with this weekend.”

One of the players Rooney built that bond with is LSU sophomore centerfielder Leon Landry.

Landry said it will be a different feeling seeing his former coach in a different dugout.

“It’s going to be a great honor to play against those guys for once,” he said. “We’re excited, and I’m pretty sure they are too.”

Like Rooney, Godwin he will enjoy seeing the players he helped guide to the College World Series last season.

“I’m looking forward to seeing coach Mainieri and all of the players, obviously,” he said. “It’s been a while, but we obviously have a lot of good memories there.”

But Rooney and Godwin’s task will be to lead the Knights against the No. 1 ranked team in the country, which has jumped out to a 4-0 start to the season.

LSU junior second baseman Ryan Schimpf and sophomore shortstop DJ LeMahieu have led LSU’s early season offensive output and have combined to go 17-for-28 on the season with 11 RBIs. Against Central Florida, the Tiger hitters will be facing a pitching staff that allowed 20 runs in a fourgame series last weekend against Virginia Commonwealth.

Rooney said Central Florida senior pitcher Kyle Sweat will start tonight’s game and junior Austin Hudson will pitch Saturday for the Knights. Sophomore pitcher Anthony Ranaudo will get the start on the mound for LSU. Sweat pitched five shutout innings in the Knights’ opening day win last Friday against VCU, and Hudson allowed four runs in four innings in UCF’s 10-9 loss on Saturday.

Despite the odds being stacked against him this weekend, Rooney

said the most important thing early in the season is instilling the same mentality into his team that Mainieri instilled into LSU when the Tigers were struggling two seasons ago.

“It’s about playing with passion and intensity and giving it everything you’ve got no matter what the

scoreboard says,” he said. “That’s a large part of what this weekend and the first half of this season will be for us.”

NCAA Indoor Championships last season with a personal best of 6.54 seconds in the 60-meter dash behind former teammate Richard Thompson. Shaver said he wants to give the junior every chance to be No. 1 in his prime event.

LSU sophomore thrower Walter Henning also qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in his first season as a Tiger.

He is No. 2 in the NCAA in the weight throw, and he set a personal best of 73 feet, 4 1/4 inches at the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.

Henning said he will throw the shot put Saturday and the weight throw Sunday.

“Every meet I’ve had over 72 feet so far this year,” Henning said. “If I throw what I’ve been throwing all year, I’ll win ...

I’m not looking to throw 78 feet or anything like that. This weekend, and then the NCAAs, are all about points.”

‘We lost our best player with 12:09 to go, and we find a way to win.’

Van Chancellor

LSU women’s basketball coach

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OUR VIEW

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Across-the-board cuts not a good move by Lombardi LSU System President John Lombardi and University Chancellor Michael Martin haven’t exactly seen eye-to-eye lately.

Lombardi wants to cut the LSU System’s budget by 30 percent across the board, meaning each institution in the System has to cut their budget by the same percentage.

But Martin wants the System to go further and cut institutions’ budgets based on their performance.

We side with Martin’s idea.

The simple truth is this campus

is the leader of the System. Just because this University has the largest budget doesn’t mean it should suffer the most. There’s no reason this campus should have to cut as much as other smaller campuses like LSU-Alexandria and LSU-Eunice.

We apologize to the little guys, but there’s no other way to paint it.

Lombardi tried to work a little bit of the performance-based idea into his proposal by creating the System Performance Support Fund.

That fund will be $1.7 million and would be composed of 1 percent of

state funds from each institution.

Someone please explain to us how $1.7 million will help anyone, specifically this campus, which had a $451 million operating budget for 2008-2009.

We don’t understand Lombardi’s rationale here.

Like Martin told Lombardi in an e-mail, this is the state’s only flagship university and the state’s only tier-one university.

The performance-based cut is more fair to the University. This campus has improved its academic

standing and its financial backing in the past 10 years. An across-theboard cut will cripple this campus and undo the progress it has made.

The Flagship Agenda will be gone. The top-tier ranking will be history. And huge lecture classes and fewer course offerings will be the norm.

Lombardi needs to re-think his plan and listen more closely to Martin and administrators on this campus.

Lombardi was brought here to further the System’s and — more

specifically — this University’s growth and development.

But his proposal doesn’t make any sense. And we don’t like it.

Lombardi must work harder to make this performance-based idea work. He came here as a fighter and an innovator — someone who had high hopes for this institution.

Make it happen, John.

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(BI)PARTISAN VIEW

Media encourages eating-disorder Barbie as ideal

From the delicate years of childhood on, images of what a woman should look like have been pumped into the public conscience.

With gorgeous faces, plump lips and legs that go on for miles, women like Angelina Jolie and Jessica Simpson have become famous for representing an ideal in the media.

Even Barbie has become the ideal image of a good-looking woman.

Barbie is one of the most popular toys sold in the U.S. today, and many girls dream of being like Barbie when they grow up.

And there is no reason not to want to imitate Barbie.

She can do just about everything — horseback riding, cooking, ballet dancing and portraying every Disney princess are just some of the weapons in her arsenal.

She also owns everything from houses, horses, cars, convertibles, jeeps and hot tubs to animal shelters and hair salons.

Not many girls could deny wanting to have a devoted boyfriend like Ken either. Ken gave Barbie everything she wanted while still giving her space to hang out with her friends Christie and Teresa as well.

But when Ken failed to give Barbie the blonde-haired, blueeyed female heir she so desperately desired, she ditched him for Blaine.

Barbie isn’t pregnant yet, but you can buy her “oldest friend Midge” who is pregnant with her second child. Hopefully, in-vitro Barbie will be released soon.

But Barbie’s life would not

be the life many young women should want to lead.

If Barbie was a real woman, her bust would measure out to be 39 inches — larger than DD’s — her waist would measure 18 inches and her hips 33 inches around.

With these Isabel Blum measurements, Columnist Barbie would be a mere 5 foot 9 inches and wear a size 3 shoe.

The only woman that can come close to these measurements is Jayne Mansfield. Mansfield was a Playboy model and actress in the 1950s and is also the mother of actress Mariska Hargitay of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

Unlike Mansfield, real life Barbie would have to use a wheelchair to get around because of her unrealistic proportions. Scientists estimate for Barbie to have these measurements in real life and be healthy, she would have to be more than 7 feet tall.

As much as the American media would like to say they have strayed away from this strict criticism of women’s bodies, they haven’t.

In the past few weeks, the media has gone wild over Jessica Simpson’s weight gain. The naturally curvy, beautiful southern singer and actress looked a little “heavy” in a pair of high waisted jeans at a concert recently.

The fact she put on a couple of pounds shouldn’t get this much attention from the media — and this

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column is part of the problem.

She’s healthy and allegedly happy. Many women in this country would kill for her figure, not to mention her beautiful voice and undeniable fame.

Truthfully, many women in this country should be thankful for the bodies they have. We’re each beautiful and different —

and the media shouldn’t affect our self-images as much as they do.

Jessica Simpson is beautiful. She’s talented. And nobody should think otherwise.

Take charge of how you see your body — and you might find you are a happier person for it.

If you or someone you know has an eating disorder, visit www.

lsu.edu/shc to take the on-line eating disorders screening.

Isabel Blum is a 21-year-old communication disorders major from New Orleans.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian novelist Nov. 11, 1821 — Feb. 9, 1881

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Prisons should be evaluated using Goldilocks philosophy Most of us know the children’s story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” Goldilocks, upon trying different extremes, finds the happy medium.

Prison centers need to be evaluated using the same philosophy.

Prisons, much like porridge for Goldilocks, can be either too hot and relaxing, too cold and unforgiving or just the right balance of the two.

Convicted British murderer Ashley Graham boasted “jail is just like being on a holiday” on Facebook from his prison cell. The killer enjoys social networking sites through a smuggled cell phone, the Mail Online [UK] News reported Feb. 16.

The British Prison Service promises to place more regulations on mobile phones after receiving complaints from friendly sites. “Prisoners are not allowed access to mobile phones or the Internet,” a British Prison Service spokesman told The Daily Telegraph on Feb. 18.

But phone use is not the only aspect that makes prison lenient. Earlier this year, some London penal institutions launched a scheme that allowed prisoners to visit pre-approved Web sites to take part in online learning and job hunting.

If one is found undeniably guilty, prisons then offer luxurious condolences.

The lax British system is contrasted with the “eye for an eye” philosophy employed in Iran.

An Iranian man, Majid Movahedi, poured acid on a woman’s face, permanently blinding her after she refused to marry him in 2004. The court ruled in favor of the woman, Ameneh Bahrami, demanding acid drops be poured into the perpetrator’s eyes, CNN reported Feb. 19.

It is almost unheard of to criticize victims for wanting harsh punishment, but most Internet bloggers have bashed Bahrami and the courts for inflicting cruelty upon the

aggressor.

Although justice for Bahrami may come through this method, such cold punishment is unnecessary and should not be allowed by any justice system.

The right temperature exists primarily in Dini Parayitam the U.S. Columnist Louis iana State Penitentiary in Angola — a maximum security prison — offers a cornucopia of programs for recreational rehabilitation. The programs include organizations ranging from a magazine published entirely by inmates to a drama club and religious brotherhoods.

To enjoy these amenities, the prisoners must work as agricultural farmers, training carpenters, field workers, etc.

Further, the detainees must undergo mandatory “re-entry classes” emphasizing communication, said Cathy Fontenot, assistant warden and public relations spokesperson at Angola Prison Center.

Classes include anger management, development of social skills and interview skills, among others.

Upon finishing a certain number of classes, prisoners may be allowed to plead for mercy or a pardon from the state.

Rehabilitation and recreation are only parts of being in prison. Fontenot furthers that prison, although it may seem comfortable, “is not a place one wants to be.” Some prisoners live in open-man dorm rooms where each room has 67 other men, the beds are spread 32 inches apart from one another, and there is no airconditioner.

The purpose of creating penitentiaries is not only to remove criminals from society but also to educate

and rehabilitate them.

In our current world, it is often difficult to choose sides. Justice systems sometimes chose to cater to the aggressor and other times the victim. A golden mean needs to be employed.

The average of the two extremes is a prison where criminals are reminded each and every day of their crime without physically enduring any pain.

The Goldilocks philosophy on prison conditions ought to be applied when evaluating what will provide the most effective justice.

Dini Parayitam is an 18-year-old biochemistry major from Lake Charles.

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SAVED BY THE BELLE

New forms of male contraceptives freaky, risky

Popping the pill everyday can be quite a chore.

And having the patch peek out from underpants and T-shirts can be quite unnerving and unattractive.

But taking birth control pills is a lot less painful than getting a hypodermic needle stuck in your penis.

And sporadic patch slippage is a lot less embarrassing than shoving your manhood inside a spray can that personally coats your member with a customized condom — talk about killing the mood.

Reproduction researchers have made several technological advancements in male birth control methods in the past decade. Apparently, condoms and female oral contraceptives are so five minutes ago — either women are finally fed with up with doing all the work, or maybe men are tired of being left out of the contraception circle.

Since the advent of the birth

control pill in the early 1960s, women have basically held the responsibility of preventing pregnancy.

Female birth control methods account for nearly 75 percent of contraception, according to the Male Contraception Coalition, an organization whose goal is to spread the development of male birth control.

Other than withdrawal, which accounts for 27 percent of unwanted pregnancies, men only have two contraception forms to choose from — condoms and vasectomies, according to the Male Contraception Information Project.

And condoms will probably remain man’s best friend because only about 6 percent of males undergo vasectomies, and reversals are not always a sure thing, according to the Male Contraception Coalition.

Some of the most recent male birth control methods include a dryorgasm pill, which basically makes

a man shoot blanks, and a spray-on condom, in which the man inserts his member into a can while interior nozzles spray latex, or the invisible Band-Aid of condoms, onto the penis.

Why men would want to wait an extra Drew Belle Zerby two minutes Columnist before sealing the deal with some hot chick is beyond reason.

And taking a pill that could eliminate a man’s sperm count seems pretty hard to swallow.

That old warning about not wearing those crotch-tight Wranglers may not be such a danger after all because researchers have come up with similar heat treatments to counteract spermatogenesis.

But as threatening as a remotecontrol sperm tap or sperm-diluting injections may sound, many men around the world are interested in male contraceptives and are more than willing to take a load off women’s shoulders.

Nearly 55 percent of men surveyed claimed they were interested in trying new forms of male birth control, according to a 2005 study conducted by the Schering-Plough Corp, a worldwide health care company. Around 40 percent of American men said they had the guts to have a birth control device implanted or injected into their penis.

That’s a shocker considering most men are usually too lazy to even wrap it up themselves.

But don’t toss your pill pack quite yet, ladies.

Although hormonal contraceptive treatments are 100 percent effective in clinical trials, 10 to 15

percent of men are unresponsive to the treatments, according to the August issue of Time Magazine. This failure may result from the fact that male birth control methods have the responsibility of fighting off millions of sperm, while the pill only has to deal with a single egg.

So it looks like women are just going to have to suck it up a while longer and continue wearing the pants in the pregnancy-preventing family because, as usual, men aren’t quite ready to make that kind of commitment.

Drew Belle Zerby is a 22-year-old mass communication major from Vidalia.

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VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

China’s imperialism challenges Tibetan culture, lifestyle

By Joe O. Masterman Harvard Crimson

(U-WIRE) — In 1950, the People’s Republic of China invaded and occupied the peaceful mountain nation of Tibet. For 58 years, the Communist regime in Beijing has waged a quiet war against the Tibetan people.

Their clandestine methods follow the guidelines established by their imperialist predecessors: hide Tibet’s holy relics, erode traditional Tibetan practices and fill the vacuum with Chinese culture.

The evil genius behind the Chinese plan — and perhaps the only reason the suppression of Tibet has

not garnered much attention in the Western world — is that the Chinese government has attacked under the guise of technology and progress.

First, to debase Tibetan culture and broadcast authority, the Chinese government has conspicuously placed signs of Chinese culture on top of Tibetan ones. The government has planted a television tower atop the Iron Mountain — a sacred landmass in the center of Lhasa, Tibet’s Holy City.

This eyesore casts its shadow on some of the most important relics of the Buddhist world, belittling Tibetan identity both physically and figuratively.

Signs of subjugation even infiltrate the intimate spaces of Tibetan life. The streets outside Lhasa are lined with brand new houses and schools built by the Chinese government, a definite improvement from the old clay huts that used to stand there.

However, each was built with a Chinese flag on the roof. At the same time, the display of the Tibetan flag has been banned at many of these new buildings, especially the schools.

There is a hidden motive behind the technology and development the Chinese government has brought to Tibet. Because of the television

tower, the Tibetans cannot rebuild the shrine that used to stand atop the Iron Mountain. Because of the Chinese flags on top of their roofs, Tibetans can no longer decorate their homes and schools with prayer flags — a tradition of Tibetan life. Television and new homes are in themselves beneficial to the Tibetans, but the Chinese have used them to inhibit traditional Tibetan practices and make Chinese culture more visible.

While slowly creating a cultural void in Tibet, the Chinese government has also laid the groundwork for filling it. Thousands of kilometers of railway have been built connecting Lhasa to many major Chinese

cities; the express train from Beijing was completed in 2006, and luxury cars will be running in 2009. Having erased Tibetan culture, China will pump in its own.

The world learned the terrible consequences of imperialism long ago, and we must stamp it out entirely wherever it rears its ugly head.

Tibet and its people are some of the world’s most beautiful remaining examples of piety, brotherhood and peacefulness.

But, if we wait much longer, Tibet will cease to exist.

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