The Daily Reveille - Sept. 27, 2011

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Living healthy

If you are unable to attend the various fitness classes on campus, follow these tips for a healthy lifestyle:

Park in the farthest spot in the lot on campus and walk the distance.

Exit the bus one stop before your destination and walk the extra distance.

Take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Dance while listening to music.

While housecleaning, exercise at the same time.

Form a workout group to stay motivated.

If looking to lose weight, a diet containing 1,300 to 1,500 calories per day will result in weight loss.

Source: Pennington Biomedical Research Center

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 • Volume 116, Issue 26

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COMMENCEMENT

December ET S GET PHYSICAL grads to New student programs provide incentives to get active don new gowns Students looking to adopt a healthier lifeStudents earn points for participating in style now have an incentive to do so with two the program. One point is awarded to students new campus programs offering each time they attend a difClaire Caillier students rewards for their efferent GroupX class, and two Contributing Writer fort. points are given for attending The first, the TigerFIT a TigerFIT session.

Warrior Challenge, gives students a chance Students who accumulate 24 points will to earn points and win prizes as they improve receive a TigerFIT Warrior Challenge T-shirt, their fitness.

Breeden said. Those who acquire 30 points or The program, sponsored by the University more will obtain a mystery prize, which will Recreation Center, is designed to educate and be revealed Nov. 18, the last day points can be motivate students to participate in the GroupX earned. workout classes offered at the UREC, accordThe TigerFIT sessions, which differ ing to Lacee Breeden, program creator and from the GroupX classes, include workshops UREC coordinator of Healthy Lifestyles. titled “Fitness & Nutrition” and “Beyond Ra“We want to get students to try a variety men Noodles.” The sessions also include two of classes and learn something new in the proFITNESS, see page 4 cess,” Breeden said.

Josh Naquin Staff Writer

The University’s redesigned commencement gowns may be purple or black depending on the degree earned, but they’re also “green.”

Students graduating in December will be required to purchase one of the new garments made of recycled materials.

“Everyone has to buy a new gown. You can’t borrow an old black one,” said University GOWNS, see page 4

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PHILANTHROPY

Komen for the Cure founder advocates personal strength Talk kicks off awareness month Juliann Allen Contributing Writer

A sea of pink shirts filled the PMAC on Monday night as students flocked to hear World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker ’s message of strength, determination and the “Power of One.” Brinker, the founder and CEO of the Komen for the Cure Foundation, gave students, faculty and community members advice on making a difference in the world.

“Don’t ever let anyone tell you what’s impossible,” Brinker said.

Komen for the Cure Foundation is a global breast cancer movement committed to educating and raising awareness about breast cancer and leading fundraising events for cancer science research.

Brinker said she started her mission after her sister, Susan G. Komen, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Before Komen passed away, she told Brinker to work to find an end to cancer.

“That promise between us became the passion of my life,” she said.

But the success of the foundation did not happen overnight.

Brinker recounted the original small group of advocates that repeatedly encountered hang-ups and door slams when they sought help.

They kept on pushing and eventually developed the foundation into what it is today — the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists.

Brinker said she thought of holding a Race for the Cure after having a dream in which she saw groups of women running in pink.

Nobody thought anyone would come to a Race for the Cure, but through hard work and persistence, the group accomplished its goal, she KOMEN, see page 4

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Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, told University students Monday about breast cancer and her sister’s fight against the disease.

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INTERNATIONAL

Nation & World

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online, launched by Google

Activists say they set fire to Idaho fur and firework retailer

Tournament participants say Atchafalaya Spillway alive, active

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the worldfamous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel’s national museum and web giant Google.

The appearance of five of the most important Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet is part of a broader attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts to make them available to anyone with a computer.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Animal rights activists said they pumped fuel into an Idaho fur and fireworks seller before setting the place ablaze early Monday, and federal agents said they were taking the claim seriously.

Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office in Los Angeles, said he received a message from activists shortly after the fire began at the Rocky Mountain Fireworks & Fur Co. on Monday morning.

(AP) — While the debate continues about the Atchafalaya Spillway’s 14-inch minimum-size bass limit, fishermen at the recent Anglers Against Autism tournament talked about abundance — and the action.

“Man, I’m excited. We caught lots of fish,” tournament veteran Don Hutchinson said, “And we caught them most all day. The spillway is alive and well.”

Hutchinson teamed with rising-tournament angler Corey Wheat to win the 42-boat event (five bass, 15.04 pounds), and Wheat’s near 5-pound largemouth was the tournament’s big fish.

LSU scientists studying oil spill with bugs, sparrows, oysters

Chile suffers third and worst major blackout in as many days SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile is suffering its third major electricity blackout in as many days, prompting the energy minister to call for strong new investments in the country’s energy network.

Saturday’s blackout was the worst, affecting more than half of the country’s 17 million people.

That was followed Sunday by a blackout around Chile’s port city of Valparaiso.

On Monday, much of northern Chile lost power. The reasons remain unclear, but failures in the transmission grid are suspected.

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Dr. Adolfo Roitman presents a part of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, inside the vault of the Shrine of the Book building at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Monday.

Few talking after shoving match at United Nations assembly UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This much is agreed: Last Friday at the United Nations, as all eyes were on the Palestinian president’s speech asking for statehood recognition, U.N. guards and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail were in the hallway in a shoving match.

It is still not clear exactly what turned an apparent disagreement over security rules into a physical confrontation.

Bomb squad makes odd find in unclaimed luggage at airport ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a bomb squad called to the world’s busiest airport found something fishy about the unclaimed luggage at Atlanta’s international airport — spicy fish wrapped up in aluminum foil.

Baggage handlers going through unclaimed luggage Monday thought something was amiss and called police. Broadcaster WSB-TV reports that the Atlanta Police Department shut down about half of the baggage claim area for an hour and ordered passengers to stand back 200 feet.

(AP) — Pelicans and other birds drenched in oil got lots of attention during last year’s BP oil spill. But bugs?

LSU Agricultural Center scientists will compare bugs and spiders from areas hit by oil last summer to those in oil-free areas to learn more about the spill’s effects.

The study is one of three for which the AgCenter got $2 million through the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.

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THEATRE

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LOOP brings opera to EBR schools Tour of area schools begins Nov. 8 Catherine Parsiola Contributing Writer

Pigs are probably the last thing to come to mind when one thinks of opera.

But the curly-tailed creatures are getting a little more musical as University students prepare to perform “Three Little Pigs” to an unconventional soundtrack — Mozart.

Twelve music students are preparing the classic children’s story for performances in East Baton Rouge elementary and middle schools through a service-learning class as part of the Louisiana Opera Outreach Program.

Michael Borowitz, co-director of LOOP, said the rendition of “Three Little Pigs” is arranged by John Davies and uses Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart scores to tell the story.

Dugg McDonough, artistic director of University Opera, said the program serves a dual purpose of allowing University students performance exposure and bringing opera to young students at a time when financial hardships often require reductions or entire cuts in schools’ arts programs.

Borowitz and assistant professor of voice Dennis Jesse serve as music director and stage director of the program, respectively. McDonough said students in the program work with Borowitz early in the semester to master the musical elements of the opera and later take staging directions from Jesse.

Jesse said he thinks the program serves an important purpose for the Baton Rouge community. “[The University’s] music program is nationally acclaimed, but we don’t have music in our schools,” Jesse said.

McDonough said opera is especially effective for younger audiences because it involves “telling a story to music.” He said opera interests young students because it includes acting, singing, movement, scenery, costumes and props.

Students are selected for enrollment in the service-learning class each semester through an audition process. Jesse said this semester’s opera has only four parts, but the class is split into three casts that take turns performing.

Borowitz said his favorite part of the program is “watching the kids’ faces” at the elementary and middle schools during performances.

Jesse said he is always excited by the students’ engagement during performances.

“Who doesn’t want what they love to be fun for people?” he laughed.

Jesse said he is inspired to work for the program because of the live theatre exposure it provides to young students. He recalled his own childhood experience with a live production of “Hansel and Gretel” in school.

“Kids have to have some enjoyment,” he said.

photos by LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

Haley Summerlin [left] and Cameron Carnley and Meroe Adeeb [right] rehearse Sept.

20 for Louisiana Opera Outreach Program’s production of “The Three Little Pigs.”

The costumes and sets for the LOOP shows are typically less elaborate than those of mainstage productions because of a lower budget and the fact that they must be easily transportable, McDonough said.

The host schools vary in the fall and spring semesters and audience sizes range from 25 to 250, Borowitz said. The group will perform at a minimum of six different schools beginning Nov. 8 and will also perform once on campus to create a video to be streamed live to schools across Louisiana.

Borowitz said the program serves as many students’ first exposure to live theatre and University participants have enjoyed interacting with younger students and making a difference in their lives.

University students who have previously participated in the program were also grateful for the performance experience, especially those students interested in education, McDonough said.

Richard Coleman, a music sophomore who participated in LOOP in the spring, said his performance skills improved tremendously as he learned the level of expectation the opera program sets for its students. He said he even earned the lead role in this semester’s mainstage production of “La Bohème.”

The audience of schoolchildren gives students good experience in keeping an audience engaged.

“Kids are less forgiving than adults,” Borowitz said. “If they’re bored, they’ll let you know.”

Jesse said the program is proof that students can appreciate opera.

“It doesn’t all have to be Lady Gaga. There are other ways to get into a child’s mind,” he said.

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page 4 FITNESS, from page 1 fitness challenges and a weightroom orientation. The class schedule is available on the UREC web site, and the final course is scheduled for Nov. 7.

Breeden said two classes have taken place as of Monday, both yielding great results. She said 195 students have signed up for the program overall.

Erika Blanchard, nutrition senior and GroupX instructor, has been teaching classes at the UREC for almost three years, and said she is excited about the program.

“I’ve wanted some kind of promotional program to involve more people at the UREC,” Blanchard said. “Once we got the TigerFIT Challenge, I have seen an increase in class sizes.”

Laura Pimentel, first year music graduate student, said she enjoys the program.

“It’s encouraging me to work out and see that there are other classes offered besides Zumba,” Pimentel said.

Scott Belanger, UREC assistant director of marketing and promotions, said since TigerFIT

is a first time initiative, the UREC cause, said Garrett Collins, eduwill monitor its success to deter- cation and kinesiology junior and mine future programming. one of the founders of Genesis.

“We’ll see what participants Collins said the ultimate purliked and didn’t like, and we’ll pose of the organization is to make tweak it from there,” he said. a difference in the Baton Rouge “That way we can do something community by promoting more similar in the future.” community gardens and farms, Students and delivering are encouraged food thrown out to sign up for by local restauthe program at rants and grocerthe UREC Opies to those in erations Desk, need.

Breeden said. If The fitness a student is unclasses, which are able to attend the led by Collins, class, videos of are intended to the TigerFIT sesinform students Lacee Breeden sions are avail- UREC coordinator of Healthy Lifestyles of the organizaable on-demand tion’s purpose through the UREC web site. and to gain support, he said.

But students looking to get fit “We do not want to be just in an alternate environment may [two] people, but to have the turn to Genesis, a student-driven school behind us and eventually fitness program with a philan- the community behind us,” Colthropic element. lins said.

Genesis, which was started The date of the next Genesis by two University students this class has not yet been confirmed. semester, will offer free workout sessions for students. Participants Contact Claire Caillier at are encouraged to bring canned goods as a donation to Genesis’ ccaillier@lsureveille.com

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‘We want to get students to try a variety of classes and learn something new in the process.’

with a purple dye specially made for the University.

Registrar Robert Doolos.

“The University has transiThe gown purchase require- tioned from a generic gown to a ment was put in place to make sure custom one,” said Denise Plessala, all graduates are matching at com- regional manager for Balfour colmencement ceremonies, Doolos lege division. said.

The redesigned undergraduThe Faculty ate gown is now Senate’s Executive purple and features Gown changes include Committee created • Undergraduate: Purple with two two gold LSU the initiative to gold LSU logo tabs logo tabs while the give the old gowns graduate gown rea fresh look ap- • Graduate: Black with two gold LSU mained black and proximately a year logo tabs added the tabs. The • Doctoral: Purple with gold accents doctoral gown also and a half ago.

“We were • All gowns: Made with a fabric of transitioned from determined to de- recycled plastic bottles black to purple sign gowns which with gold accents. would reflect well upon the flag- The graduate gown remained black ship university,” said Faculty Sen- in accordance with an old Ameriate President Kevin Cope. can tradition, said Cope.

According to Cope, the comThe new gowns are made with mittee was presented an array of GreenWeaver, an environmentally options by the gown supplier, Bal- friendly fabric comprised wholly four – in cooperation with Oak Hall of recycled plastic bottles. The – and crafted an original design bag and box in which the gown is

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shipped are made of recycled material as well, Plessala said.

“Each gown is made of 23 recycled bottles,” Plessala said. “We have reused 9 million bottles so far.”

The new gowns have been met with positive reviews.

“I like that they have added in some local color, especially with the doctoral gown,” said Aleca Armentor, philosophy sophomore.

Psychology sophomore Ashleigh Waters said she doesn’t mind not being able to borrow a gown from a friend.

“Graduating college is a big step, and I think it’s worth it to buy a new gown for the occasion,” said Waters.

Commencement caps and gowns are available for purchase from the LSU Bookstore.

Contact Josh Naquin at jnaquin@lsureveille.com

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 KOMEN, from page 1 said.

“Anything in life that is truly successful is a marathon, not a sprint,” she said.

And though the foundation was seen as a success, Brinker said complacency has set in, causing some to think there is nothing left to do to work for a cure.

“There’s not enough pink when breast cancer is the No. 1 cause of death in women age 40 to 59,” she said.

Foundation branches have been established throughout the U.S., gaining 75 cents of every dollar that is raised in that particular community.

Brinker said the foundation is striving to increase the breast cancer survival rate by 2 percent each year.

She said she now finds women who have been living five to seven years with a serious case of breast cancer.

She said society has been programmed to think that there will never be a cure for cancer, but lots of people have been told that things are impossible before achieving what nobody thought they could.

People can work together for

a common cause and make a difference with what Brinker calls the “Power of One” — the power within each person to change others’ lives.

“Don’t listen to people who tell you what you can’t do, listen to people who tell you what you can do,” she said.

Kinesiology sophomore Emily Vidrine said Brinker taught her someone has to be willing to fail in order to succeed. She said it was good to see someone fighting for a cure.

The Student Activities Board hosted the event. Maurice Kirksey, SAB Trending Topics Chair and political science junior, said the board organized the event to go along with the other breast cancer events scheduled for the upcoming weeks, as October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “[Speakers have] had a dream and vision…they used it as a medium to express ideas of service to the fellow man, leadership and making a difference in the world,” Kirksey said.

Contact Juliann Allen at jallen@lsureveille.com

It was announced Monday that kickoff for the Oct. 8 game against Florida will be at 2:30 p.m.

Sports

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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All in the Family

FOOTBALL

Miles: Top-ranked Tigers can improve

Hunter Paniagua Sports Writer

photo courtesy of PATRICK MALONE

Sports administration sophomore Patrick Malone, left, and communication studies senior Kara Malone, right, enjoy a moment on the sidelines with their father, Saints tight ends coach Terry Malone, Sept. 18 during the Saints’ 30-13 home opener against the Chicago Bears.

Saints coach Malone and family part of two Louisiana sporting institutions

Chris Abshire Sports Writer

The New Orleans Saints and LSU football are linked by more than just a common sport — each is an important part of modern Louisiana culture, inspiring passion and pride equally.

Saints tight ends coach Terry Malone and his family have been able to experience both from a unique perspective for the last several years.

Two of Malone’s children, Kara and Patrick, are enrolled and in class at LSU while he spends his weeks around some of the most visible athletes in professional sports.

“It’s great to share the work and accomplishments of your job so closely with the fans of

south Louisiana,” said the elder Malone, who has coached for the Saints since 2006. “Whether it’s LSU or the Saints, the people are so passionate and loyal to both.”

And those accomplishments have come in major ways for Malone so far in his NFL stint.

Along with a Super Bowl championship in 2009, the Saints were the only team in the league to have three tight ends catch at least 30 passes last season. Under Malone’s tutelage, secondyear tight end Jimmy Graham has become one of the NFL’s most feared at the position, catching four passes for 100 yards with a touchdown in Sunday’s 40-33 victory against the Houston Texans.

But with that success comes a different kind

of pressure.

“It’s different and a little weird to have people talking about the games and what happened, good or bad, around campus on Monday,” said Kara, a communication studies senior. “People you don’t know, hearing their conversations about your dad’s team. It’s not real common to see such a public reaction to your parent’s job.”

Before joining the Saints, Terry spent nine seasons as an offensive line coach and coordinator at the University of Michigan from 1997 to 2005.

“All my kids had ever known was that university [before moving to Louisiana],” he said.

MALONES, see page 8

LSU football coach Les Miles said the Tigers’ new No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press poll shouldn’t draw any extra attention from opponents.

“To be honest, we take it as a compliment to the program and a compliment to this team,” Miles said. “We don’t feel like it’s any extra burden. We don’t feel like it’s an extra target on our back. Every time LSU comes to play, somebody’s trying to beat you.”

Despite cruising through the first month of the season and defeating three ranked opponents away from Tiger Stadium, Miles said his team still has room to improve.

“I know we haven’t arrived,” Miles said. “Our team understands that we’re imperfect in a number of ways, but we’re going to enjoy preparing with the idea that maybe we can get there.”

RASCO WON’T REDSHIRT Freshman defensive end Jermauria Rasco saw the field for the first time against West Virginia, notching two tackles in his debut.

Miles said the coaching staff wanted to lift Rasco’s redshirt despite the depth on the defensive line.

“We wanted to watch him play and grow in this year,” Miles said.

MILES, see page 8

FOOTBALL

Turnovers, special teams leading Tigers this season Chris Abshire Sports Writer

Football coaches constantly emphasize the game-changing importance of turnovers and the need for sound special teams.

Following another dominating turnover margin and a special teams score against West Virginia, few teams are capitalizing on the two facets quite like LSU this season.

Junior cornerback Morris Claiborne’s 99-yard kickoff return late in the third quarter put the final separation between the Tigers and the Mountaineers, while sophomore defensive back Tyrann Mathieu’s blitzing deflection and interception just before halftime set up LSU for a 1-yard touchdown.

The Claiborne scamper marked the second special teams touchdown of the season for LSU — Mathieu’s

forced fumble and score on an Oregon punt return was the first — and the Mathieu pick was his second forced turnover in the first half of Saturday’s contest.

Through four games, LSU is now plus-9 in turnover margin and has forced four turnovers against both West Virginia and Oregon.

Mathieu, whose first-quarter forced fumble put him in a tie for the LSU career record for the statistic, said the defense’s penchant for finding the ball developed from an enhanced focus in practice.

“Every day out there, we’re running strip drills,” the second-year nickelback said. “From that, every time a running back breaks the line, we’re hawking them down. When the ball is up in the air, the defensive guys look at it like a receiver.”

LSU coach Les Miles said the defense’s swarming attitude comes

from its extreme athleticism.

“I think we have great speed, get to the ball violent, understand that the ball is the issue,” he said.

Though the defense continued to create turnovers, it didn’t exhibit the usual dominance Saturday night that it established throughout the first three games, allowing more than 500 yards of total offense.

Enter the LSU special teams.

Redshirt freshman punter Brad Wing pinned the Mountaineers inside their own 11-yard line on each of his six punts, with three being downed inside the West Virginia 5-yard line.

The long field likely aided some of opposing junior quarterback Geno Smith’s 463 yards and prevented LSU’s secondary lapses from translating into more Mountaineer points.

MOMENTUM, see page 8

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LSU junior quarterback Morris Claiborne returns a kickoff for a touchdown Saturday during the Tigers’ 47-21 victory against West Virginia in Morgantown, W.Va.

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FOOTBALL

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Players indifferent with early kickoff against Wildcats Tigers say they will be prepared

Scott Branson Sports Contributor

No. 1-ranked LSU football team will storm the field before lunch time Saturday for its 11:20 a.m. match up with the Kentucky Wildcats.

The Southeastern Conference announced the early kickoff time last Monday because of a scheduling conflict with CBS’s Saturday time slots.

CBS chose not to televise the LSU-Kentucky game, turning it

over to the SEC Network, which is operated by ESPN, though the game will be broadcast on the local CBS affiliate. The early start time is so that the game will not compete with Mathieu CBS’s other televised games.

While LSU players are mostly unfamiliar with playing so early, they said that the game will be business as usual.

Sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu said he played around 10 or 11 a.m. routinely as a kid.

“Everybody’s excited because it’s like pee-wee football again,”

Mathieu said. “We all used to wake up early and go straight to the park, and this is a lot like that.”

Sophomore defensive end Sam Montgomery said that it matter Montgomery doesn’t where or when the Tigers play but later revealed that he was unaware of the 11:20 a.m. time.

Montgomery said he had never played that early in the day, except for one game in high school.

“I guess you got to go to bed early then,” he said.

Montgomery said that of everyone on the team, he

will probably have the hardest time getting moving the morning of the game.

“I’m lazy when it comes to getting out there, but when I get out there I know it’s time to go,” he Wing said.

Freshman punter Brad Wing, a Melbourne, Australia, native, said in his 15 years of Australian Rules Football in Melbourne, he played at 8 a.m. on Sunday mornings a few times.

“Every game that I have been involved in [at LSU] has been either an afternoon or a night game,” Wing said. “I’m sure there will be a

few differences, but nothing major.”

Sept. 30, 2006, was the last time LSU hosted a conference opponent in the pre-noon time slot.

The Tigers beat Mississippi State, 48-17.

As a member of the SEC, LSU is bound to the contracts the SEC has with television networks.

For tradition’s sake, all LSU home games are originally scheduled as night games, but television contracts often result in rescheduled kickoffs.

Instead of LSU and Kentucky, CBS will broadcast Auburn bout against at No. 10 South Carolina at 2:30 p.m.

Contact Scott Branson at sbranson@lsureveille.com

TRACK AND FIELD

Coaches predict LSU advantage with Aggies’ move into SEC Andrew Chapple Sports Contributor

The addition of Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference will not only bring a storied football program to the conference, but also a men’s and women’s track team that won the last three outdoor national championships.

Aggies coach Pat Henry coached LSU’s track team from 1988 to 2004, winning 27 NCAA titles. LSU boasted 37 Olympians and three Olympic gold medalists during Henry’s tenure.

LSU coach Dennis Shaver was an assistant coach during 12 of those championships and coached the Lady Tigers to the 2008 Outdoor National Championship. Shaver coached seven runner-up teams since taking over as head coach in 2005.

“I worked with Coach Henry as an assistant for nine years and had the opportunity to continue to compete against him while he’s been at Texas A&M,” Shaver said. “They bring a lot, at least in our sport, to the conference.”

The Aggies enter a historically strong SEC, which has accumulated 14 men’s national

titles and 10 women’s titles since 2000. The combined 24 titles for the SEC make up more than half of all of the championships during that time.

“They’re going to have to compete at the level in the conference championships that we’re accustomed to competing at before going to the national meet,” said assistant coach Mark Elliott. “Basically, the same guys they have to run against at the national championship, they have to run against at the conference meet first.”

Elliott said the addition could give LSU an advantage in the national championship because the Aggies will be tired from competing in the grueling SEC championships.

“Now all their good guys and girls are really going to have to run hard to win the conference here and then also come back two or three weeks later to try and vie for the national championship,” Elliott said. “We all are traditionally going into the national meet somewhat banged up because the conference meet is so difficult for us, I don’t think they had as hard of a time with it.”

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LSU coach Dennis Shaver instructs the track team during a 2009 practice. Shaver thinks the addition of Texas A&M will be beneficial to the SEC.

The Lady Aggies won nine Big 12 championships under Henry while the men swept both the indoor and outdoor titles in 2011, scoring a conference record of 175 points in the outdoor meet and winning by more than 85 points.

Shaver said Texas A&M will have to adjust to the SEC, which has different strengths than the Big 12.

“It’s a little bit different conference makeup in the SEC, where it’s a lot more sprint- and hurdle-oriented,” Shaver said. “It creates new challenges for all of us in the conference, but I think it creates new challenges for Texas

A&M, too, in trying to win conference championships.”

The Lady Tigers enter the 2012 season defending indoor and outdoor SEC champions and finished third in both the indoor and outdoor national championships. The Tigers finished fourth in the indoor and outdoor titles.

Shaver said he’s excited to have them in the SEC and hopes that Texas A&M’s focus on track will be contagious in the SEC. “They’ve made a real significant commitment to that sport there, and maybe that will encourage other universities in our conference to make more of a commitment to our sport

here, too,” Shaver said.

Contact Andrew Chapple at achapple@lsureveille.com

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West Virginia’s not far from heaven BODY SHOTS Rob Landry Sports columnist Wild and wonderful.

There isn’t a state in the union that has more of an appropriate state motto as West Virginia or a town that encompasses said motto as well as Morgantown.

From the moment my friend and I arrived on campus, we knew we were in for a brand-new experience.

We parked at a church a little more than a mile from the stadium.

Armed with nothing but a fifth of Seagrams 7 and a large Sierra Mist from a gas station, we soon began our trek to meet up with friends.

We reached their tailgate in the parking lot of an AT&T store with the campus perched atop a mountain on the horizon. The tailgating scene was pretty simplistic, mostly just beer and finger foods with some lawn chairs all held together by a truck bed or two.

While at the tailgate, we did see a man among men. This man rebelled against everything his own school stood for simply because, well, I think he just felt like it.

Despite numerous advertisements, e-mails and even a refund offer from West Virginia officials about not wearing shirts that were profane, our new friend separated himself from the crowd.

He was perched at the tailgate next to us in a navy blue T-shirt that stated simply, in three words on three lines, “West Fuckin Virginia.”

So of course we had to take photos with this trend-bucker.

Within the first hour of tailgating, the Seagrams was gone. We were now reliant of the kindness of West Virginian strangers to fulfill our beverage requests.

Before we were allowed to have a beer from our new friends, we were told we needed to be initiated into the tailgate. The owner of the truck we were near went into the cab and pulled out a plastic pink flamingo.

The flamingo’s beak had been cut off, and a hole was strategically placed in its stomach.

We all chugged beer out of a plastic pink flamingo.

Soon after our avian alcoholic adventure, we moved on to the big leagues of West Virginia tailgating — the RV lots.

It was just down a hill from the stadium — and by hill I really mean

mountain, but the people in Morgantown laughed at me for calling anything around the campus a mountain — and were flooded with blue and yellow. It was a smaller scale than those that frequent Baton Rouge on a Saturday home game, but the setups were similar.

Our group had expanded to six by then, but we had no one in particular to meet up with in the RV lot.

We wandered around and ended up being invited to a tailgate. We were treated with as much hospitality as we could have asked for. They shoveled beer, chips and even hot dogs with homemade chili at us.

Then they gave us the greatest gift of all — moonshine.

This was the real deal. Brewed at home with all the aromas of gasoline fumes that anyone could ask for. But its taste was eerily similar to apple pie. I’m glad I didn’t have more than one pull, though, because it was potent.

While in the RV lot, many Mountaineers wanted to talk conference realignment. They all desperately wanted to be in the Southeastern Conference. And after giving away free moonshine, it would be pretty difficult for me to argue against their inclusion. Seriously, though, their

brand of tailgating would fit in well with the SEC. Their fans get out there early, stay late and are passionate to a fault for their team.

We then began making our way up the mountainous terrain and into Milan Puskar Stadium. We were prepared for battle after being told all afternoon that despite its less than intimidating size, this would be the loudest stadium we’d ever been to.

There were moments where the stadium was rocking, but as a whole the entire experience was very reminiscent of an Ole Miss game where they could legally serve beer.

Flamingo funnels and homemade booze made for a wild afternoon, and the homemade chili and friendly locals made for an overall wonderful experience in Morgantown.

But once the game was over, it was time for the country roads to take me home.

Rob Landry is a 23-year old mass communication senior from Mandeville. Follow him on Twitter @RobLandry85.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Wing named Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday Freshman punter Brad Wing was named the Southeastern Conference Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday.

After missing the last two games due to injury, Wing returned against West Virginia, punting six times for an average of 48.7 yards.

None of Wing’s six punts were returned, and all of them were downed inside the Mountaineers’ 11-yard line.

Wing has recorded 12 punts this season for an average of 45 yards per punt. Half of his punts have traveled more than 50 yards, with his longest sailing 60 yards.

Mathieu named Defensive Player of the Week for the second week For the second week in a row, a member of the LSU secondary has been named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week, as sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu’s six tackles, forced fumble and interception earned him this week’s honors.

Mathieu’s performance in the Tigers 47-21 victory also earned

him a spot in the record books, as he tied former Tiger linebacker Ali Highsmith’s career mark of seven forced fumbles just 17 games into his collegiate career.

Mathieu, who leads all Tigers with 30 tackles, has now been honored in two of the first four weeks after he was named SEC Defensive Player of the Week in week one.

Boudreau named Co-Offensive Player of the Week for soccer Senior midfielder Taryne Boudreau was named the Southeastern Conference’s Co-Offensive Player of the Week, marking the third straight week an LSU soccer player received an SEC Conference Player of the Week award.

Boudreau scored an SEC-leading four goals during the opening weekend of conference play, scoring two goals in each match against Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

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page 8 MOMENTUM, from page 5 Wing, who has averaged 45 yards per kick on 12 punts this season, said he understands his role as a field-position changer.

“You can have a great punt or a terrible one, but the most important is always the next one,” said Wing, who was named the Southeastern Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance.

“People talk about momentum, and it’s good that I can help out the team with consistency.”

Mathieu, who downed two of Wing’s six punts, said the whole team accepts the challenge to make big plays, not just the offense.

“Yeah, we take it as a defense, as a special teams unit,” he said. “We don’t want to put our offense at a disadvantage. ... We want to put them in a position of power.”

Miles said Claiborne’s special teams’ heroics swung the atmosphere in the stadium right after a West Virginia score closed LSU’s lead to six.

“Morris scored on a return at a time when the momentum of the game was in question,” Miles said.

“It extinguished any hope that the opponent had at victory.”

With LSU’s offense protecting the ball better this season — the unit has just three turnovers — more Tiger takeaways and quality special teams could make those momentum changes the norm for LSU. Sophomore defensive end Sam Montgomery said no one is surprised by this season’s barrage of big plays.

“It’s expected of us,” he said.

“None of us are surprised. Whether it’s the picks or the returns, we know our guys are going to play big. It’s really just about who is on, which night, what the play is. We will be consistent there.”

Contact Chris Abshire at cabshire@lsureveille.com

MALONES, from page 5

“When we came here, it was a real eye-opening experience. I always thought when it was time for them to go to college, they’d go back to UM. But when Kara decided to go to LSU, she asked, ‘Why would I leave home?’ It’s a great feeling to know that your kids adjusted well and feel at home.”

Malone said the two schools share more than just large athletic programs.

“A real advantage of being a college coach is your kids get to grow up in a college atmosphere,” said Malone, who also coached at Boston College and Bowling Green. “My kids were drawn to LSU because it has the same feel and passion on campus that is very much present at a place like Michigan, which is also a big school with a large support network in a state that’s been through some tough times.”

Patrick, who played wide receiver at St. Paul’s in Covington prior to enrolling at LSU, said his father usually leaves the coaching demeanor on the field.

“He’s a coach in the way that he’s always looking out for us,” he said. “He brings that concern, but I don’t think we really feel like he’s too intense when he’s around us. That’s kind of his time to relax.”

Patrick said the notoriously long hours an NFL coaching gig requires can be tough on the family, but was quick to point out that his family remains close.

Terry acknowledged that the rigorous schedule limits the time he has with his children, but said he enjoys the little moments he gets to spend with them during his hectic fall.

“The season’s always pretty tough,” he said. “One of my sons

The Daily Reveille plays high school ball, so I get to see that on Friday nights since we have that evening off. The bye week is where I get to go up to Baton Rouge for a visit. My kids made it down for our home opener against the Bears, which was fantastic. But it’s not easy on any family.”

While Patrick said he doesn’t consider his family to be a “major” part of anything LSU football related, he said it’s still “an honor” to experience the football traditions of his adopted home state.

“It’s definitely pretty cool to go from being in Tiger Stadium and watching LSU to the next day, pulling up ESPN or whatever and catching my dad on the sidelines,” he said.

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determine a redshirt at this point.”

MILES, from page 5

“There’s a lot of football in front of LSU INJURY REPORT this team, and certainly Jermauria Miles listed senior offensive Rasco, and we’re looking forward lineman T-Bob Hebert as day-toto seeing him day after he left the develop this West Virginia game year. We feel with a leg injury. like we wanted Miles also listed juhim to start his nior offensive tackle career.”

Alex Hurst and sophMiles said omore safety Craig the redshirt staLoston as likely to tus of another play against KenLes Miles freshman, oftucky. Miles also said LSU football coach fensive lineman sophomore defenLa’El Collins, sive tackle Michael has yet to be determined. Collins Brockers missed practice Monday played 21 snaps Sept. 10 against but should return by the end of the Northwestern State. week.

“Right now we’re still looking at La’El as a guy that might well Contact Hunter Paniagua at play a lot of football in this season,” Miles said. “So we’re not ready to hpaniagua@lsureveille.com

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‘I know we haven’t arrived. Our team understands that we’re imperfect.’

Entertainment

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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Joey Groner

Being

Brian Posehn Comedian to perform tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Manship Theatre

Entertainment Writer

Comedian Brian Posehn, best known for roles in sitcoms “Just Shoot Me!” and “The Sarah Silverman Program,” performed Monday night at the Manship Theatre and has another show slated for tonight at 7:30 p.m. Student tickets are available for $15 with a valid ID for tonight’s show.

Before stepping on stage Monday night, Posehn sat down with The Daily Reveille to discuss his standup, acting and how having a child influenced his infamously raunchy comedy.

TDR: What was the first thing that made you pursue a career as a comedian?

Posehn: I was a fan since I was a kid ... but it was really when I was in college. I was going to school for journalism and kind of didn’t know what I was going to do, and a buddy of mine at this crappy day job was the first POSEHN, see page 11

‘Twilight’ stars need to stay in ‘Twilight’ What film saga has made $1.8 billion since its debut in 2008?

If you read the title of this column, you already know the answer.

Who’s starred in a film that hasn’t made anywhere near that amount?

All the stars of “Twilight” combined.

We r e w o l f Taylor Lautner’s “Abduction” opened this weekend to unremarkable box TAYLOR BALKOM office results, Entertainment Writer nabbing fourth place behind “The Lion King,” “Moneyball” and “Dolphin Tale.”

You heard me right. The movie about a boy befriending a tailless dolphin made more money than Lautner’s solo debut.

Hey, pretty boy, starring in a successful franchise clearly doesn’t guarantee you can act.

But this shouldn’t come as a surprise. “Abduction” is just the latest movie that proves how terrible the “Twilight” actors are.

“Abduction” currently holds a 3-percent “freshness” rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, with critics like ReelView’s James Berardinelli saying, “The only way to approach ‘Abduction’ that will not result in a 105-minute LAUTNER, see page 11

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Festival Latino celebrates 25 years Annual fundraiser sees large turnout Haylie Navarre Entertainment Writer

Locals had the chance to eat traditional Hispanic food, sing along to mariachi crowd pleasers and dance the merengue Sunday as the Hispanic Apostolate celebrated its 25th Annual Festival Latino at the Catholic Deaf Center.

The first Baton Rouge Hispanic Festival, called Feria Hispana, was held in 1986 as a Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge Youth Ministry project to bring together the different

Hispanic cultures of the area, according to festivallatinobr.com. Because of the festival’s success, it continued with a new purpose — raising funds for various ministries of the Apostolate.

Festival Director José Toral has worked with the festival for the past four years. He said the proceeds are used to fund programs that introduce Hispanic people to English culture through medical and educational services.

The event crew is made entirely of volunteers, and everything at the festival was provided by volunteers or donated, Toral said.

He said the average attendance at the festival is 3,000 people, but this year the crew aimed for 5,000 —

a goal they reached within six hours.

A large attraction at the festival was the variety of traditional food offered from various countries, including El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Honduras, Peru and Cuba.

There was also a “Latin flavor” booth as well as a Dulcelandia, a specialty booth for pastries. Patricia Charcap, a worker in the Peruvian food booth, said she and her husband have been helping prepare food for the festival for about five or six years. She said they got involved through a friend who is a part of the Hispanic Apostolate.

Charcap helped prepare FESTIVAL, see page 11

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Festival Latino celebrated its 25th anniversary Sunday. Food stands offered a variety of Latin cuisine, including dishes from Colombia, Cuba, El Savador and Mexico.

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MUSIC

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

World-renowned DJ Tiësto talks new projects and life on tour Kittu Pannu Entertainment Writer

Dutch DJ and prolific electronic music producer Tijs Verwest, known to the music community as Tiësto, was scheduled to perform at the Baton Rouge River Center tomorrow night on his College Invasion Tour. Unfortunately, the show was canceled, but The Daily Reveille was still able to snag an interview.

TDR: Have you been to Louisiana before?

Tiësto: I have been to Louisiana. It’s a nice, wild sort of party [state], and people are really nice.

It’s like from the movies.

TDR: Why is the tour called “College Invasion Tour?”

Tiësto: In general, I love to play at the colleges to give them the experience because I don’t think many of them ever saw me live.

TDR: What can students

expect at your show?

Tiësto: We didn’t hold back on this tour. I bring the whole production with me, special effects.

It’s going to be a mind-blowing experience.

TDR: Do you have any preshow rituals?

Tiësto: Not really, but on this tour, I decided to play beer pong every night.

TDR: Well it makes sense for the college tour.

Tiësto: Yes, I picked it up on tour. Someone a couple of weeks back taught me, and I really like it.

TDR: I see that you recently released a single called “Work Hard, Play Hard.” With this in mind, how is the process of creating music now versus back in the day?

Tiësto: Nowadays, it’s not so long anymore, you can even make music on the road. I can log into my studio in Holland and see what’s happening on the screen

there. It’s really easy now.

TDR: So when can we expect another full-length follow-up to “Kaleidoscope?” (“Kaleidoscope” was Tiësto’s last studio album released in Oct. 2009) Tiësto: I have no plans for this year. I’m going to finish touring and wait a couple of months and work on new tracks, have a nice holiday and then hopefully in the summer I’ll have a new album ready. It will be a normal studio album.

TDR: You’ve worked with a lot of people in your career. Who would you say was your favorite collaborator?

Tiësto: I like Tegan and Sara a lot. I like to work with people who are fast. They have the ideas and creativity and certain things.

I don’t like to be sitting around working on the same thing for days. Everything needs to go fast.

TDR: Are there any more people you wish you could collaborate with or even a song you wish

STUDY

Young adults send 109.5 texts daily Adults still prefer phone calls

Emily Herrington Entertainment Writer

A study from the Pew Research Center has quantified what anyone who walks through the Quad likely already knows — young people use text messaging more than twice as frequently as older adults.

Young adults send and receive an average of 109.5 messages each day, while the entire adult population exchanges an average of only 41.5 messages per day according to a study released last week.

Chris Brady, mechanical engineering sophomore, said while he thought that number sounded high, he probably sends about 110 or more messages, depending on the day.

According to the study, 83 percent of American adults own cell phones, and 73 percent of those utilize text messaging.

Though the use of texting continues to increase, the study found that 53 percent of adults who text still prefer to be contacted by phone call rather than an SMS message.

Taylor Erickson, nursing sophomore, said she believes the trend is because voice calls are more personal and make it easier to maintain a back-and-forth conversation.

But kinesiology senior Ndia Hall disagreed.

“I just don’t like talking on the phone. I never have,” she said.

“Texting saved my life.”

According to the study, young adults ages 18-24 take the most advantage of texting. Ninety-five percent of them own cell phones,

and 97 percent of owners use text messaging.

Hall said she thinks texting is a hit with today’s generation of young adults because they lack communication skills and prefer to be impersonal.

Joyce Wakefield, University Center for Freshman Year counselor, said she was surprised young adults don’t send and receive more than 110 texts a day.

She said she prefers texting over speaking on the phone.

“It’s easier than having a conversation, and human beings tend to do what’s easiest,” she said.

Young adults send more than double the amount of texts than adults slightly older than them, the study showed. The 25- to 34-yearold age group reportedly sends an average of 41.8 texts per day.

Brady said he likes texting because he can respond to messages at his convenience.

“You can delay responding a text, and it’s not like you’re ignoring the person,” he said.

Contact Emily Herrington at eherrington@lsureveille.com

photo courtesy of JUSTIN KLEINFIELD

World famous DJ Tiësto is currently on his College Invasion Tour. He said the shows will have special effects and described the experience as “mind-blowing.”

you produced?

Tiësto: There’s so much good music out there. I’d love to work with Adele or Kanye West. When you hear great tracks, and you wish you made that one — like the

Martin Solveig track “Hello,” that’s a great track.

Contact Kittu Pannu at kpannu@lsureveille.com

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 FESTIVAL, from page 9

anticuchos de pollo, a popular street food from Peru made of chicken marinated in spices and grilled on a skewer. She also made arroz chaufa, which she compared to chicken fried rice. The booth also served chicha morada, a drink Charcap said is made of purple corn.

Charcap said many of the spices used to prepare the food were brought back from Peru.

The most popular treat among festival-goers seemed to be the El

POSEHN, from page 9 guy to say, “You could actually do that.” ... And that was it. If it wasn’t for this guy, I don’t know if I would have come up with it on my own.

TDR: You’ve always taken the supporting character part in TV shows. Do you prefer taking those roles, or would you like to have your own sitcom?

Posehn: Well, it’s funny, I actually am working on that right now. I just hooked up with a production company and we’re going to try and pitch a show this year.

But for the longest time, I didn’t want to do that. ... I just sort of fell into sitcom acting. I started booking those kind of parts, the really easy roles where I would just be the goofy guy, come in and say something completely dumb, get the laughs and walk out. I was never one of the people that had to carry it, which was great.

TDR: What’s been your favorite role of your own?

Posehn: For sure Brian on “The Sarah Silverman Program.”

Just because it was the role that’s closest to myself so far, other than being married to a dude. But everything about that character was

LAUTNER, from page 9

boredom-induced coma is to think of it as a comedy, preferably with a drinking game attached.”

For those who thought the movie would be OK, all I can ask is: Really?

It’s Taylor Lautner. The only thing appealing about him, other than his abdominal region, was his short-lived romance with Taylor Swift, and simply because the idea of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Lautner — literally — is hilarious.

I’m not saying “Twilight” is dumb. But I am saying the actors and actresses starring in the movie are terrible.

Kristen Stewart starred as an emotionless blob in “The Runaways.”

Robert Pattinson showed the world that he actually is really, really pale in “Remember Me.” (Spoiler: Dealing with Sept. 11 doesn’t even make this movie interesting.)

And now, Lautner puts the “ab” in “Abduction.”

I understand all actors and actresses have to start somewhere.

They can’t all be Brad Pitt or George Clooney, blah blah blah.

But Pitt’s and Clooney’s breakout performances weren’t in billion-dollar franchises.

Salvadorian pupusas. Patrons waited in line for nearly two hours for the stuffed pancake-like morsels.

Visitors enjoyed a day of karaoke, performances by the Latin Ballet of Virginia, live music from Mariachi Jalisco and songs by Milly Quezada, known as “the Queen of Merengue.”

Cultural crafts were sold, and there were also activities for children including face-painting, an inflatable bounce house and a train ride around the grounds.

East Baton Rouge Parish based on me because my friends wrote it for me, so that was a lot of fun to play.

TDR: How do you find your comedy evolving between your first and second albums?

Posehn: I’ve definitely become more real and more personal, that was the big thing. ... I have a two-year-old now, so there’s a big chunk about him, but it’s always super important to me that it comes from my perspective on it and not just a generic thing like, “Hey, kids poop a lot, right?” I’m really hard on myself to make sure that it’s still my twist and something I haven’t heard.

TDR: Do you find that you have to tone down some of your raunchier material now that you have a kid?

Posehn: No, I don’t care about that. He’s going to see some horrible things on the Internet when he’s able to. You can’t get rid of some things I did years ago, and that stuff still makes me laugh. If anything, there’s stuff in this new set that’s even dirtier than the last record. ... I’m still going to get dirty and silly because that’s the stuff that makes me laugh.

TDR: You mentioned your Maybe times have changed and I’m getting old, but I always assumed you had to be a good actor to star in successful movies.

Regrettably, several thousand 13-year-old girls have proven my point invalid.

The sad thing is that it’s becoming a trend in Hollywood.

Talentless actor stars in a successful movie? Quick! Get a no-name director and some bad writers to throw together a poor excuse for entertainment.

It’s not just the stars’ fault.

Whatever idiot looked at Lautner and said, “This young man is a talented actor and should star in my movie” was either stoned, drunk or seriously jonesing for some eight-pack action.

“Twilight” stars need to stay in their cookie-cutter franchise roles for as long as they can. Because unless they take some serious acting lessons, they don’t have a very bright future.

Taylor Balkon is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Baton Rouge.

Contact Taylor Balkom at tbalkom@lsureveille.com

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Mayor-President Kip Holden, who was dressed in a traditional Latin American guayabera shirt, said he has been coming to the festival for the past six or seven years. Holden said the festival is important because the whole community must pull together for common causes and look out for jobs and education.

“Poverty does not have a racial line,” Holden said.

Food science graduate student Reynaldo Moreno said he heard about the festival through word of mouth. He said he felt the festival

was a good representation of the Hispanic community in Baton Rouge, but he wished a few more countries would have been represented with traditional food booths.

Alejandro Leyton, mechanical engineering and Spanish junior, heard about the festival through Phi Iota Alpha, the University’s Latinobased fraternity.

“I didn’t realize there would be this big of a turnout,” Leyton said.

Yagini Joshi, biology senior, heard about the festival through the University’s Spanish Club. She said

she enjoyed eating the “amazing tostadas” and watching the ballet performance.

Eric Capina, international studies freshman, also heard about the event through Spanish Club. Capina, who is from Connecticut, said he decided to check out the festival because he hadn’t really seen festivals geared toward the Hispanic community in Louisiana.

sitcom. Do you have anything else in the works?

Posehn: Yeah, a lot. I’m always trying to stay busy. I did a comic book a couple of years ago, and I’m working on a follow up

to that. ... I’m working on the new record. I’m close to having enough standup for a whole new album. That’s something I’m going to do in the spring, probably shoot a special and a new record.

Just staying busy and trying to stay funny.

Contact Haylie Navarre at hnavarre@lsureveille.com

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Revolution Calling - 2012” -Sevin Paul Dugas

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Sony’s next handheld gives Nintendo real competition

When it comes to portable gaming, Nintendo is clearly the king.

From the Game Boy to the DS, people associate portable gaming with the house Mario built.

Many other companies have tried to compete with Nintendo’s handhelds, but almost all have failed.

Sony introduced the PlayStation Portable (PSP) in 2004 as a direct competitor to Nintendo’s DS. While the PSP was far superior in hardware and graphical capabilities, a lack of games and a horrible initial ad campaign put the PSP behind the DS. Even today, the DS is virtually untouchable from any competition.

Nintendo has sold 146 million DS units worldwide as of last March, while the PSP has only moved 71 million units.

Not a bad number for Sony.

Just nowhere close to Nintendo.

However, Nintendo has moved on from its DS line with the introduction of its successor, the 3DS. With a rough start thanks to the lack of games and high price, Nintendo has had some problems with the launch of the 3DS, which may leave room for Sony to make a move with its newest console. The PlayStation Vita is set for release later this year in Japan, and sometime in 2012 for North America.

Sony claims to have listened to its customers and packed the Vita with more bells and whistles than Freddie Mercury’s bicycle.

The Vita is set to have dual analog sticks, front and back multitouch capabilities, a 5-inch OLED display, front and rear-facing

cameras and more processing power than both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, according to Sony’s website.

Spec-for-spec, the Vita blows the 3DS out of the water.

However, many people said the same thing seven years ago comparing the PSP launch to the original DS. Adam Arinder My iniColumnist tial hands-on with the new Sony handheld came in June at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t impressed.

Sure, the screen was gorgeous, but the gameplay didn’t look on par with PlayStation 3 graphics as Sony suggested. I also felt there were almost too many features packed into the handheld and I was starting to get overwhelmed.

Another big concern I have for the Vita’s success is the hidden costs.

Many were shocked at E3 when Sony announced that the feature-packed Vita would start at $249. But $249 isn’t the final price gamers will be paying to enjoy the handheld.

Aside from Apple, Sony is the king of overpriced proprietary accessories, and the Vita is no different.

Many games will allow users to save their data on the gamecard itself, but some people will want a bit of extra memory for saves or full game downloads.

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While the 3DS supports — and includes with every purchase — an SD card, the Vita uses another one of Sony’s proprietary memory cards. The Vita memory cards will be sold separately in 4, 8, 16 and 32GB flavors and will range anywhere between $29 to $124.

For comparison, you could easily find a 32GB SD card for less than $50.

Another major concern of the Vita is the battery life. Many people ragged on the 3DS for its poor battery, yet the Vita’s battery only holds approximately three to five hours for games, according to

a Sony news release.

That’s also with almost every feature, such as Bluetooth and WiFi, turned off — meaning many gamers should expect even less battery life.

Nintendo provides users with a charging cradle to more easily charge the battery for the 3DS, while Sony sells one separately for around $36 — another hidden cost.

With all of the great games already announced for the Vita — and more on the way — the packed amount of features and the shortcomings of Nintendo’s 3DS, it seems like the Vita will be nothing

but a success.

The Vita has a much better chance to topple Nintendo than the PSP did. Unfortunately for Sony, history isn’t on its side when it comes to handheld gaming.

Adam Arinder is a 22-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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Ron Paul has devoted supporters, troubling policy

As I exited the Union Theater on Friday evening after Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul opened his youth tour with a rousing campaign speech, I couldn’t help but be a bit impressed.

For many in attendance, a renegade hero of modern American politics stood on the stage before them. Paul outlined the platform he had stumped so many times before: essentially, government limits freedoms, and less government means more freedom for everyone.

The fervor of Paul’s supporters is unquestionable. Though they may be small in number, they make up for it with their total investment in Paul’s policy positions.

Some chanted “End the Fed!” and a collective roar rose up when Paul made his entrance onto the stage.

Three weeks ago, I wrote a column about Paul’s difficulties with the theory of evolution, and the response it elicited brought to my attention the doggedness of his supporters. That being said, any time a political rally looks this much like a rock concert, the

candidate must be doing something right.

Paul is an effusive and skilled speaker. He hasn’t lost a step, so to speak, which is doubly impressive considering he’s only four years — a presidential term, incidentally — away from being 80 years old.

I found myself nodding in agreement with Chris Seemann Paul’s take on the wars in AfghaniColumnist stan and Iraq and the dismal failure colloquially termed the “Drug War.” But at a point, it became clear to me that Paul’s recitation of the libertarian policy platform did not provide sufficient answers for real problems the United States has faced or will in the future.

Paul’s belief that the United States government should not tell its citizens what food and drugs are safe to consume is, aside from lacking in nuance, quite troubling to me.

Paul asked the crowd, rhetorically of course, why Americans should not be able to make their own choices about the products they consume.

Of course, choice is important for consumers. But let’s take a look at these seemingly burdensome regulations that Paul is railing against.

In 1938, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act passed through Congress before being signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The bill authorized factory inspections, set forth standards for hazardous materials included in products and sought to ensure that drugs were safe before hitting the market.

The stimulus for the bill was the public outcry that followed the deaths of more than 100 Americans, many of them children, due to ingestion of the poisonous drug elixir sulfanilamide, which was distributed by a pharmaceutical company.

Paul’s insistence that citizens should be able to choose what is safe to consume must exist outside

of an understanding of what the consequences are when regulation is dissolved or nonexistent in the first place.

A cursory Google search is not going to yield the kind of information we need about the food and drugs we consume every day of our lives. Even textbooks have conflicting or outdated information.

The Food and Drug Administration no doubt makes mistakes in judgment from time to time and has to constantly update its information to remain relevant.

At the same time, we can thank federal regulatory agencies for creating an environment where the food we eat conforms to the safety standards required by NASA for its astronauts. The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points management system was developed in 1959 when NASA asked Pillsbury to develop food that would be safe for space travel, where the margin of error, in every sense, is terribly small.

This is not an issue of class.

How could even the super rich

be expected to have an intricate understanding of what is in the food they eat, unless they were to build their own research laboratory and hire scientists to find out for them?

Big government is far from perfect, but there are certain tasks it performs more completely and efficiently than scores of competing businesses could.

Our federal regulatory agencies that deal with food and drugs, primarily the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, do important work. For Ron Paul to posit that these agencies are unnecessary is, like many other policy positions he espouses, a 19th-century answer to 21st-century problems.

Chris Seemann is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Metairie. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_cseemann.

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Landry acts childish in Congress, makes Louisiana look stupid We are taught from an early age not to be disrespectful.

This is a trait most exemplified in the South, where phrases such as “yes ma’am” and “no sir” are commonplace. We’re also taught to chew with our mouth closed and to shut up when the President of the United States is giving a speech.

Well, maybe not the last one. Parker Cramer RepresentaColumnist tive Jeff Landry, R-La., recently forgot his manners.

Let me set the stage. President Obama was delivering a speech to Congress, which is, if you haven’t heard, typically a group of welldressed and well-mannered adults.

Not on Sept. 8.

During the President’s speech, Congressman Landry, who’s from New Iberia, held up a piece of paper that simply said, “DRILLING = JOBS.” There’s a time and place for everything, and I am fully confident the president was aware prior to Congressman Landry’s art project that offshore drilling does in fact produce jobs in the state of Louisiana.

To me, this seems to be the congressional equivalent of coughing to cover up a smartass remark, then looking around to see who heard you. Landry did this purely for attention. He seems to think a snapshot of him holding up a “DRILLING = JOBS” sign will

make him look like a hardliner to his constituents, many of whom work in the oil and gas industry.

Congressman Landry also proceeded to take a drive down to New Orleans to investigate why the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), the branch of government that issues offshore drilling permits, was taking so long to do so. After arriving unannounced Landry was made to wait 20 minutes and was then turned away.

Landry proceeded to compare the workers at that particular government office to the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, only to later find out the head of BOEMRE, Michael Bromwich, is Jewish.

He probably didn’t mean it. But the civil thing to do would have been to apologize to BOEMRE and its employees and explain that he was angry and did not mean to compare them to a group of mass murderers.

He didn’t. In fact, he’s asking BOEMRE to apologize to him for making him wait and subsequently turning him away after arriving unannounced.

Regardless of whether one is visiting a doctor’s office or an escort, one needs to make an appointment. It’s impolite to arrive anywhere unannounced, start demanding things and then call everyone who works there a Nazi if one is not satisfied.

Being an elected official from Louisiana, Landry not only represents his constituents’ interests

in Washington, but his actions reflect on them. There is a difference between being a hardliner and fighting for what his constituents want and acting like a pubescent teenager when things don’t go his way.

I agree with Landry — offshore drilling is crucial to the economy of this state. As long as we can cleanly and safely acquire oil while simultaneously

researching other cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy, I see no problem. But don’t act like a child to make sure drilling stays operational.

Remember, Congressman Landry, your actions reflect on us.

Regardless of politics, when the President talks, you sit on your hands and listen until you are called upon to respond. Manners and proper legislation go much

further than a flippant remarks and a piece of paper.

Parker Cramer is a 20-year-old political science junior from Houston, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_pcramer.

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