The Daily Reveille - Oct. 11, 2011

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FACULTY

Professor involved with Nobel research

Leaving the trash out

Andrea Gallo Staff Writer

State hiring freeze leaves Facility Services with $1.5 million worth of vacant positions Laura Furr Contributing Writer

The Office of Facility Services is short-staffed this semester, and some students are beginning to feel the impact.

Although many students said they haven’t noticed a difference in maintenance, some have complained about the campus’s restrooms, garbage cans and air conditioning.

“The bathrooms and the trash cans look to be a little dirtier than they were last year,” said Max Derrickson, sports administration sophomore, said. “It looks like they aren’t cleaning them daily like they used to.”

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As professors and researchers across the world await the announcement of this year’s Nobel laureates, professors at the University have not only responded with their thoughts, but also have been involved in Nobel research.

The Nobel winners, all of whom were announced by Monday, include six Americans, and University astronomy professor Bradley Schaefer was directly involved in this year’s Nobel prize in physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian G. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. Schaefer was part of Perlmutter’s research team in the 1970s that made the Nobelwinning discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.

Schaefer said he is proud to have contributed to the Nobel prize, but the three research team leaders deserve their honor.

“It’s a fantastically important result, and they well deserve their prizes,” Schaefer said.

Michael Cherry, physics department chair, agreed, saying this Nobel result has ignited research about the dark energy in the universe.

“The idea that there’s a whole NOBEL, see page 15

RESIDENTIAL LIFE

Annie Boyd Hall to close fall 2012 Building will see complete restoration Juliann Allen Contributing Writer

Annie Boyd Hall residents will enjoy new windows, updated vinyl wood-strip flooring and central air conditioning after its nearly $10 million renovation, set to begin in summer or fall of 2012.

The historic residence hall, which was built in 1937, will be closed for the fall and gutted, receiving new walls, utilities and roofing.

“The building is on the National Historic Register,” said Steve Waller, director of Residential Life.

“Our intent is not to make it ultrachic modern, but to maintain some of the historical characteristics of the building.”

While the terrazzo flooring of the lobby will remain, it will be expanded by taking out two large rooms on each side, Waller said.

Workers will build a wheelchair ramp leading into the basement where the disabled can access any floor from the elevator, which will be moved from its current spot.

“Every floor will have a minimum of [Americans with Disabilities Act] configured space,”

Waller said.

A kitchen and community space will be added to the basement, and there will be a study area for each floor — something Annie Boyd Hall has never had, he said.

The dorm will lose about 20 beds because of this configuration, Waller said.

Despite the building’s facelift, the dorm will still have suite bathrooms.

“It’s amazing how our forefathers were building suite bathrooms,” Waller said, as opposed to the community hall bathrooms built in the 1960s.

ANNIE BOYD, see page 4

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Annie Boyd Hall, located in the Horseshoe Community, will begin its $10 million rennovation in summer or fall 2012 and is expected to be finished by fall of 2013.

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INTERNATIONAL

Nation & World

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Christians under siege in postrevolution Egypt protest after riots

Seven survive 20 hours at sea clinging to capsized boat, cooler

Syphilis on the rise in northwest La., Caddo ranked fourth nationally

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Coptic Christians have long felt like secondclass citizens in their own country.

Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is giving Muslim extremists free rein to torch churches and attack Coptic homes in the worst violence against the community in decades.

An assault Sunday night on Christians protesting over a church attack set off riots that drew in Muslims, Christians and the police.

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Four hours into a family fishing trip, rough waves flipped a 22-foot boat off the Florida Keys, tossing eight people overboard. Seven of them, including a 4-year-old girl, survived by clinging to their capsized vessel and a small cooler for almost 20 hours, suffering from exhaustion, jellyfish stings and hypothermia.

A 79-year-old woman was missing and presumed drowned.

Those rescued were taken to a hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries.

SHREVEPORT (AP) — Health officials are looking at ways to stem the rising number of syphilis cases in northwest Louisiana.

There were 142 cases of primary and secondary syphilis in adults in Caddo Parish in 2010 and 141 in 2009. Statewide, syphilis cases more than doubled between 2005 and 2009, rising from 278 in 2005 to 741 in 2009.

Caddo Parish ranked fourth in the nation in 2009 for the statistical rate of syphilis cases, which is based on the number of cases per 100,000 people.

Officials expect a report from the CDC in three or four months.

Body found in trunk of burning car, police investigate possible homicide

Italian cargo ship attacked by five pirates off Somalia ROME (AP) — State TV in Italy says pirates have attacked an Italian cargo ship carrying 23 crew members in waters off Somalia.

The ship’s owner, D’Alessio Group, said five armed men conducted the attack Monday. But the company said it would not provide any other details. It was not known if the pirates had boarded the ship or taken hostages.

Pirates flourish off the coast of largely lawless Somalia by attacking passing ships, taking hostages and demanding ransoms to free them and the vessels.

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Angry Egyptian Christians protest against the military ruling council in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday, a day after Christians clashed with Muslims and security forces.

Big Ben clock tower slightly askew LONDON (AP) — Big Ben has a little bend.

Experts say the neogothic clock tower — one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks — is gently leaning to one side. Documents recently published by Britain’s Parliament show that the top of its gilded spire is nearly 18 inches out of line.

The 315-foot tower is leaning in the northwest direction at an angle of 0.26 degrees, according to a report from 2009 that was recently obtained by the Sunday Telegraph through a Freedom of Information request.

Ace hardware chain offers Halloween ‘zombie defense’ tools LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Hardware store manager Mike Dowling wants to be clear: His shovels might slow an attacking zombie, but you’ll need something else to put the final nail in the creature’s coffin.

“I wouldn’t say it’s for killing zombies,” the veteran Omaha store manager said.

In a pop-culture world of zombie marches, video games and television shows, one regional hardware chain has taken the novel approach of actively marketing power tools and garden implements as protection against the undead.

LAFAYETTE (AP) — Lafayette authorities are investigating a possible homicide after finding a body in the trunk of a burning car in a rural part of the parish.

Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Craig Stansbury tells The Advertiser officers went to the 100 block of Felix Road shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday in response to a vehicle fire.

Deputies and fire officials found the body upon opening the trunk.

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FACULTY SENATE

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Resolution considered to shift class times by 10 minutes Classes would start on hour, half hour Josh Naquin Staff Writer

The LSU Faculty Senate is considering a resolution that would move all spring and fall semester class start times ahead by 10 minutes.

Faculty Senate Resolution 11-18, “Scheduling Classes on the Hour and Half Past the Hour,” was introduced at the Faculty Senate’s October meeting at the request of former Senator Fereydoun Aghazadeh.

The industrial engineering professor said the University’s current class time schedule does not make sense when considering other colleges’ schedules.

“Basically, we are out of sync with the community and the rest of the world,” Aghazadeh said.

According to Aghazadeh, the University should reformat its class times to have uniformity and continuity in peoples’ schedules.

“Final exams start on the hour and half hour, as do meetings and courses during intersessions,” Aghazadeh said.

Amanda Eccles, history and Spanish senior, said she doesn’t consider the proposed schedule change negative.

“It’s not a problem from a commuter’s perspective,” Eccles said. “We already have to get here early to get spots.”

But the scheduling resolution is not new to the Faculty Senate.

Aghazadeh introduced a similar proposal to the senate two years ago, but the measure did not pass.

“I became ill in the succeeding Senate meetings and was unable to attend to voice my opinion,” Aghazadeh said.

The former senator said students upset with the resolution attended a Faculty Senate meeting and argued against the resolution.

Steve Alvarado, biology sophomore, said the current class time schedule serves a purpose.

“It gives people more time to make it to class,” Alvarado said.

Aghazadeh said the resolution may be confusing to students at first, but students will adjust after a semester. He said he had no idea why the class schedule times got warped into their current “weird state.”

“I have been teaching for 26 years and it was like that when I got here,” Aghazadeh said.

The class scheduling resolution will be read one final time and voted on at the Faculty Senate’s Nov. 1 meeting, according to Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope.

Check out a blog on the class time changes on lsureveille.com.

Contact Josh Naquin at jnaquin@lsureveille.com

What do you think about adjusting the time classes start?

“It wouldn’t be confusing, just annoying.”

Chantae Haliburton

business freshman

Jonathan Branton

“I would never get anywhere.

It would be confusing for a semester.”

political science sophomore

Alyssa Wans

“I’m neutral to the idea.

It may be confusing at first.”

interior design sophomore

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Annual light walk held Monday Volunteers locate dimly-lit areas Kate Mabry Staff Writer

Members of Student Government volunteered Monday night to conduct the annual light walk in order to locate areas on campus in need of more lighting.

The walk, designed to enhance security and deter crime on University grounds, surveyed the entire campus.

Meredith Westbrook, music junior and senator for the College of Music and Dramatic Arts, said the group divided into eight sections to search the campus for any broken lights or areas that need additional lighting.

Matt Wyatt, natural resource ecology senior and senator for the College of Agriculture, said his group inspected the north side of campus.

“The main problems we found were broken lights along the sides of the Pentagon buildings,” he said.

Wyatt also said the group noticed the main light in Foster Hall was out, as well as some lights along the streets near the Music and Dramatic Arts building and the Student Health Center.

Westbrook said she is scheduled to meet with James Mayne, associate director of Facility Services, in the upcoming weeks to discuss the walk’s results and see what can be done to increase campus safety at night.

“We want to make sure that

walkways where people will be walking are well-lit,” Mayne told The Daily Reveille on Aug. 30.

Mike Durham, University director of Environmental Health and Safety, said the light walks have been a joint effort between SG, LSU Police Department and Facility Services for the past 14 years.

“Students provide the manpower while staff provides knowledge of the campus and security for our volunteers,” he said. “We let staff familiar with each area lead the students in their walk, and it gives us a chance to look at the campus as a whole.”

Andrew Griffin, engineering freshman and senator for the University College Center for Freshman Year, said he chose to volunteer his time to the light walks to support the SG Campus Safety and Development committee, which is in charge of holding the walks.

“We want to find the dark areas on campus, compile them on a map and give the results to LSUPD and Facility Services,” he said. “While at spring orientation, several other incoming freshmen commented on the dark areas on campus.”

Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

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LAW SCHOOL

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Open house offers application advice Chancellor, student panel speak

Paul Braun Contributing Writer

The Paul M. Hebert Law Center hosted its biannual open house session Monday afternoon, offering prospective students advice on applications and insight into the daily life of a law student.

The three-hour session, which was held from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Law Center’s McKernan Auditorium, featured speakers ranging from Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss to a panel of current law students.

Speakers aimed to inform and reassure students unsure of their ability to handle the increased responsibility of law school while touting the reputation of the Law Center.

In his greeting, Weiss highlighted recent changes to Law Center requirements and policy. He said the elimination of the mandatory summer program, the recalibration of the grade point average system and the increased flexibility of upperclassmen’s curriculum make the Law Center a more attractive option for students seeking a law degree and future employment.

John Church, law professor and senior member of the Committee of Admissions, urged students completing their personal statement

ANNIE BOYD, from page 1

Waller said the actual rooms will be L-shaped, creating a private space for each resident.

“That way, it allows us to take advantage of all the windows in the building,” he said.

Waller said Annie Boyd, as well as the rest of the Horseshoe Community, has always been a popular living place. The dorms were commonly sought after in the ’ 90s, even when they did not have air conditioning.

Because the 74-year-old establishment has exceeded the expected lifespan of a building, the plumbing and electric lines need to be replaced, he said.

Though simply refurbishing the hall would cost about half the price of renovating it, Waller said the infrastructure needs serious work.

“It’s time,” Waller said. “It served us well for the last 60 years, but it’s time to be replaced.”

Waller said the architect for the project will work to preserve the historic charm of building.

“I saw one of the modern dorms. ... I didn’t like it as much as Annie Boyd,” said Russell Holmes, Annie Boyd resident and computer science sophomore. “It didn’t look as nice.”

Holmes said there are air circulation cutouts above the room doors, leaving a piece of history of how students lived before air conditioning.

Jessica Sprick, Annie Boyd resident and studio art freshman, said making the dorm modern would take away the “pizazz.”

and compiling letters of recommendation to focus on themselves rather than hollow achievements and associations.

Students also participated in a mock class conducted by law professor Gregory Smith. Students were provided with multiple cases involving injuries at summer camps, and they engaged in discourse with Smith as they would in a class setting.

“Law classes can be scary for students,” Smith said. “It helps them to have an experience. We want to have better informed consumers of a legal education.”

According to Director of Admissions Jake Henry, 65 percent of the first-year class of 2011 is made up of Louisiana residents.

Alex Baynham, psychology senior, said he also considered the Tulane University and Loyola University law schools and that LSU Law Center offers residents the best value in the state.

Yearly tuition for Tulane’s law school totals $43,684, and the total for Loyola is $28,856, according to those schools’ websites. LSU Law Center lists tuition and fees for residents at $8,737.

Henry said the most valuable part of the event was the question and answer session with a student panel of LSU Law Ambassadors.

“I am very impressed with the Ambassadors that gave insight into the everyday life of LSU Law students,” Henry said. “That window “It does feel homey, and it feels antique,” she said.

Economics freshman Madi McDonald, who also lives in Annie Boyd, said she appreciates the building’s ornate outside staircases and enjoys living there.

“The old stuff is pretty; it just needs to be cleaned up a bit,” she said.

By 2018 or 2019, Waller said Annie Boyd, Evangeline, Highland and Louise Garig halls will have undergone complete renovations.

ResLife is aiming to finish the construction on Annie Boyd by fall 2013. However, the closure is not detrimental to the availability of space for on-campus living, Waller said.

The opening of ResCollege North and East Laville Halls in fall 2012 will provide 700 beds, and Kirby-Smith Hall added 350 more beds this fall.

Collectively, these halls will give ResLife a boost of about 1,000 more beds than it had in fall 2010.

There will be 127 more beds after Annie Boyd Hall is completed, Waller said.

In addition to the Annie Boyd renovation, the project will include extending the water line from the Old President’s House to the Horseshoe Community to allow central air conditioning in all of the buildings of the Horseshoe, Waller said.

Contact Julliann Allen at jallen@lsureveille.com

of information is something that can only come from students.”

The open house program is offered once each semester and is open to all students, said Jenifer Finney, associate director of admissions.

According to Henry, 97 students responded to invitations to the event.

“The program is geared toward anyone interested in law school,” Finney said. “It is open to students of any age. We certainly won’t turn anyone away.”

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Contact Paul Braun at pbraun@lsureveille.com

LSU law professor Gregory Smith conducts a mock class Monday at the undergraduate open house in the Paul M. Hebert Law Center’s McKernan Auditorium.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Honey Badger for Heisman?

Sports

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FOOTBALL

Ford’s time on field not linked to fumble

Mathieu’s impressive season draws comparisons to Peterson, Woodson

Michael Gegenheimer Sports Contributor

As the lore of the Honey Badger grows, so does sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu’s Heisman hype.

Mathieu, who said he doesn’t hate the nickname, doesn’t like the sweet implication of the word “honey,” especially since his play is anything but sweet.

“I think of myself as tough,” Mathieu said.

Through six games he’s recorded seven turnovers, including two touchdowns, 41 tackles, five tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and four pass breakups.

“I won’t doubt myself. I

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definitely think I can win [the Heisman] whether it’s this year or next year,” Mathieu said. “It’s really just about me staying focused and playing hard and making the plays I’ve been making.”

Since the inception of the award in 1935, 38 running backs and 29 quarterbacks have won the Heisman. Only eight players at other positions have hoisted the trophy.

ESPN analyst Ivan Maisel said Mathieu faces an uphill battle in his hunt for the Heisman.

“It’ll be a very tall mountain for [Mathieu] to climb,” Maisel said. “In part because of the

Sports Writer

MATHIEU, see page 8

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[Top] LSU sophomore defensive back Tyrann Mathieu celebrates Oct. 1 after recovering a fumble for a touchdown during LSU’s 37-7 win against Kentucky.

[Left] Michigan’s Charles Woodson poses Dec. 13, 1997, with the Heisman Trophy after becoming the first primarily defensive player ever to receive the honor.

[Right] Former LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson strikes the Heisman pose after returning a punt for a touchdown Sept.

25, 2010, during LSU’s 20-14 win against West Virginia.

Sophomore running back Michael Ford recorded only one carry for two yards against Florida on Saturday after rushing for 322 yards in LSU’s first five games.

Ford fumbled in the first quarter against Kentucky and only carried the ball seven times after the drop. LSU football coach Les Miles said Ford’s decrease in carries is not linked to the fumble, but he did stress the importance of ball security.

“It’s awfully important to our team that the person we entrust the responsibility to carry the football return it to the team,” Miles said.

“That’s our ball. It’s a basic responsibility. We work on it every day. It’s not something that escapes us in any day, including game day.”

MILES AGREES WITH WING PENALTY CALL Miles said Monday he agreed with the officials’ decision to flag freshman punter Brad Wing for excessive celebration.

Wing was penalized after running for a 52-yard touchdown on a fake punt. Wing turned toward a pair of Florida defenders shortly before reaching the end zone and raised his arms.

Miles said he will not tolerate any taunting of opponents and said he understands the rule’s purpose.

MILES, see page 8

FOOTBALL

Taylor makes key plays; work ethic inspires teammates Team looks to senior safety for leadership Scott Branson Sports Contributor

Playing in the same defensive backfield as a certain 5-foot-9-inch Heisman contender, one could be understandably overlooked.

Senior safety Brandon Taylor praised the play of sophomore defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, but Taylor’s coaches and teammates recognize his performance as integral to the team’s success.

LSU coach Les Miles said Taylor is an important veteran who is rarely out of position and continually makes key plays.

“Nobody forgets about him in

our room, certainly in our building,” Miles said. “He’s not only a very fierce tackler, but he’s also a guy that understands how to cover a pass.”

Taylor started the first nine games last season but injured his foot against Alabama and missed the rest of the season. He returned this year at full strength.

Taylor led LSU against Florida with seven tackles and also had an interception and two pass breakups.

This season, Taylor’s 34 tackles are second most on the team, and his two interceptions tie him for the team lead with Mathieu and junior cornerback Morris Claiborne.

Despite missing the end of last season, Taylor said there was a silver lining to his injury.

“Me getting hurt actually benefited me this year because I got

to watch the game from more of a mental standpoint,” Taylor said.

Taylor said the extra time in the film room has helped him play smarter and remain “two steps ahead of the receiver running the route.”

Taylor injured his leg in the second quarter against Florida and had to come out of the game when he got tangled up with 6-foot-3, 310-pound freshman defensive tackle Anthony Johnson at the end of a play.

“That’s a lot of weight coming down on one leg,” Taylor said.

Taylor said it was just a bruise, and he was able to return to the game shortly after.

Taylor’s teammates said his performance against Florida was TAYLOR, see page 8

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LSU senior safety Brandon Taylor returns the ball Saturday during the Tigers’ 41-11 win against Florida. Taylor contributed seven tackles, an interception and two pass breakups.

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FOOTBALL

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

GOLF

Tigers recall ‘crazy’ 2010 Tenn. game Former Tigers place

top-25 in tournament

Mark Clements Sports Writer

As the final seconds ticked off the clock Oct. 2, 2010, the scoreboard in Tiger Stadium read 14-10 in favor of Tennessee.

Amid a field of chaotic frenzy, CBS displayed the upset on televisions across the country — No. 12 LSU had been defeated.

What the cameras didn’t show was the flag thrown in the corner of the end zone, penalizing the Volunteers for having 13 men on the field and giving the Tigers one last gasp.

The ensuing untimed play ended in former running back Stevan Ridley powering his way to pay dirt and one of the wildest finishes Tiger Stadium has seen.

“The motion swings from thinking you lost the game then winning it, that was a roller coaster there,” said senior offensive lineman T-Bob Hebert. “Winning on the last play like that at home, I don’t think I’ve ever done that. That was a pretty special memory.”

Hebert’s snap as time initially expired sailed by then-junior quarterback Jordan Jefferson, teasing the visiting Vols with the taste of victory.

Hebert said the feeling of deja vu set in as 2009’s game-ending clock management blunder at Ole Miss, which ended in an LSU loss, replayed in the back of his mind.

“The year before against Ole Miss, I didn’t snap the ball and the time ran off the clock and [senior] Will [Blackwell] made fun of me,” Hebert chuckled. “So I remembered when the time was running off I could just hear him saying, ‘You didn’t snap the ball.’ So I saw the clock and then I remember snapping it and then I remember being really

Morgan Wampold Sports Contributor

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LSU players celebrate after former running back Stevan Ridley (34) crosses the goal line and secures a 16-14 victory over Tennessee on Oct. 2, 2010 in Tiger Stadium.

mad because I saw it going past Jordan and I thought we lost.”

The Tigers’ only touchdowns of the contest came on the first play of the game, when Jefferson broke free for an 83-yard score, and the last snap of the game with Ridley’s rush.

Tennessee pulled ahead early in the fourth quarter on a threeyard scamper by quarterback Matt Simms, who will make his first start of this season against the Tigers on Saturday, Two drives later, with thenjunior quarterback Jarrett Lee at the helm, the Tigers marched 70 yards in 16 plays for the game-winning score.

“We worked so hard to drive down there and get a touchdown and something like that to happen is kind of crazy,” Lee said. “It helps you grow and mature as a team and as players. It’s something that we don’t want to happen again, it’s something we learned from and we understand

that during those situations, you’ve got to be smart and you’ve got to work it out.”

While the far-fetched finish may be a lasting memory in Baton Rouge, defensive end Sam Montgomery said the matchup has personal significance, as the redshirt sophomore will take on the same Tennessee offensive lineman who caused the knee injury that ended Montgomery’s season last year.

“This whole season, I’ve been looking forward to playing this game to reidentify myself,” said Montgomery, who earned 2010 Freshmen All-SEC honors despite playing in just four complete games last season.

“I feel like I’m just climbing up this mountain again and then here’s this big bad Tennessee team again.”

Contact Mark Clements at mclements@lsureveille.com

With money on the line comes more pressure.

Former LSU men’s golf standouts John Peterson and Andrew Loupe finished their first Nationwide Tour event Sunday at the Children’s Hospital Classic in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Loupe finished in a tie for 18th place with a 13-under par 275 total, and Peterson tied for 23rd with a 12-under par 276.

Loupe earned a $6,520 check for his performance, while Peterson bagged $4,520.

The tournament marks Peterson’s first professional competition. He came in second place as an amateur over the summer at Nationwide’s Children’s Hospital Invitational in Columbus, Ohio. Loupe’s appearance was his second as a pro.

He posted a second-place finish at the Victoria Texas Open on July 3.

Peterson said the difference in tournament atmosphere between the collegiate and professional levels of play became apparent early in the weekend.

“When you finish, you realize it’s a different feeling and different kind of pressure,” Peterson said.

“Nobody wants you to play well except for yourself.”

Loupe also cited the added stress of playing in a professional tournament field as a struggle rookie golfers must overcome.

“You’re going to feel the pressure,” Loupe said. “It’s just how you play and keep control of the situation that matters.”

The two posted their worst scores of the weekend in the last round Sunday, with Loupe notching an even-par 72 and Peterson scoring 2-over-par 74 for the day.

Saturday’s third round of play in the tournament resulted in the former Tigers’ best performances of the weekend.

Peterson scored a 10-under-par 62 with 10 birdies and no bogeys for the day. Loupe’s 8-under-par 64 in the third round resulted from an eagle on the sixth hole and six other birdies with no bogies.

Peterson said he enjoyed getting the chance to compete against Loupe and looks forward to facing off again in future tournaments.

“I think he played really well,” Peterson said. “He beat me by one, and I expect us to have a good rivalry for a long time.”

Contact Morgan Wampold at mwampold@lsureveille.com

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CROSS COUNTRY

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Primeaux returns to compete after taking a year off “I hadn’t been looked at too much by any college [for scholarships] and wasn’t considering it as Former high school standout a serious option for something to Philip Primeaux hadn’t run com- do [to pay for] school,” Primeaux petitively in over a year and a half, said. but picked up right where he left Primeaux was one of Louioff. siana’s most decorated runners in Primeaux finished 8,000 me- high school, winning the Louisiana ters in 28:43.6 at Gatorade Cross the LSU InvitaCountry Runner of tional at Highland the Year award in Road Park, fin2008 and 2009. ishing fourth on The Cathothe team and 16th lic High alumnus overall. won individual 5A The redshirt cross country state freshman won two championships high school Bain 2008 and 2009 ton Rouge Metro and won three inPhilip Primeaux Cross Country dividual track state redshirt freshman cross Championships championships in country runner at Highland Road the 3,200-meter Park and spent run, along with a most of his cross country career championship for his participation running on Baton Rouge’s popular on the 2009 four-by-800 meter rethree-mile course. lay team.

But Primeaux, who still has “I guess he took a year off four years of eligibility, decided because he wasn’t sure he wanted against running collegiately during to run in college,” said LSU coach his freshman year.

Mark Elliott. “Not every good high Andrew Chapple Sports Contributor

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‘I ... wasn’t considering it as a serious option for something to do [to pay for] school.’

school athlete decides to do it in college, but because running was a major part of his high school life, he missed it, and now he wants to do it again.”

Because its scholarships are shared with the track team, the cross country team doesn’t usually offer scholarships to runners, Elliott said. The coaches wanted Primeaux to walk on during his freshman year and kept tabs on him after he enrolled at LSU. “We knew he was a student here, and I knew how good he was in high school,” Elliott said.

Primeaux said he ran as a hobby during his freshman year but didn’t do any workouts.

“I had been getting back into shape over this last summer and was looking to do road races to have a reason to get back into shape,” Primeaux said. “Then I started thinking about the idea of running on the team. I talked to some guys that used to run [for LSU] or ran for other schools, and they recommended it.”

Elliott said Primeaux adjusted well to college running because

BLAIR LOCKHART/ The Daily Reveille

Freshman cross country runner Philip Primeaux competes in a cross country meet Sept. 24. Primeaux finished 16th overall and fourth on the team in the meet.

it was obvious he stayed in shape during his year off.

Primeaux was injured for the team’s last meet at the McNeese Stampede but said he’s healed and should run the 10,000-meters this

weekend in the Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival in Fayetteville, Ark. Contact Andrew Chapple at achapple@lsureveille.com

Slive, SEC need to stand up for tradition, not dollar signs BODY SHOTS ROB LANDRY Sports columnist Sadly, tradition is a thing of the past.

This season, LSU will not play a Southeastern Conference home game at night for the first time since 1935.

A streak of 76 consecutive seasons with at least one conference kickoff after dark is officially coming to an end with Monday’s announcement that LSU’s game against Auburn will start at 2:30 p.m., courtesy of CBS. The Tigers have no say-so in what happens; they just have to roll with the punches.

But SEC commissioner Mike Slive could go to bat for one of his programs.

No one that has any stake in the LSU football program — be it player, coach, staff, fan, or media — is happy about the announcement.

Night games are what give LSU football a magical lore. No team in the country is more associated with playing at a certain time of day than LSU and the evening.

The Earthquake Game, Halloween 1959, the night No. 1 went down, five fourth-down conversions against Florida and Byrd’s miracle catch against Auburn were all night games.

It’s more than the heart-stopping endings that seem to occur after sunset. Night games are a way of life for LSU fans.

But LSU has its hands bound this time.

The Tigers are the No. 1 team in the country and have been leaving opponents in dire straits with a takeno-prisoners mentality. They’re an easy sell to television executives.

Also, don’t forget to mention the 15-year, $55 million deal the SEC signed with CBS in 2008, according to sportsbusinessdaily. com. The contract gives CBS the right to pick one game of its choice every weekend, one primetime game during the season and two doubleheader weekends, one of which is Thanksgiving weekend.

This season, CBS chose to use its primetime game and other doubleheader weekend on Oct. 1, with Alabama facing Florida in the primetime and Auburn playing South Carolina that afternoon.

Slive certainly can’t force CBS to let LSU play its home games in peace — in the dark — but he can help.

Another game on the Oct. 22 docket is the matchup known simply as “Third Saturday in

October.” Though the rivalry between Alabama and Tennessee is now played on the fourth Saturday of the month, the moniker has stood the test of time.

Why not ask CBS to air that game?

The game dates back to 1901 and the fan bases have as much vitriol for each other as any game outside of the Iron Bowl.

Despite the fact Tennessee is having a down year, the game will still generate some interest, even if for no other reason than Georgia and Florida fans will tune in to watch the Volunteers get stomped.

If Slive steps in to allow LSU to have just one guaranteed night home conference game per year, CBS won’t bail on its deal with the SEC. SEC football is too competitive

and draws too big of a crowd for CBS to jump ship at such a minor request.

For LSU to have to fall back to mediocrity to get night games is ludicrous.

Even the most rabid Tiger fan knows better than to expect every home game to be at night. But at least one a year isn’t too much to ask for.

Lately, all we’ve heard from Slive is how he’s looking out for the best interests of the conference through the recent realignment that has run rampant through college

football.

Well, Commissioner Slive, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is and do all you can to preserve one of college football’s greatest traditions.

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

Contact Rob Landry at rlandry@lsureveille.com

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handicap of being a defensive player and in part because there are about eight offensive players who are having a Heisman candidate season as well. When Woodson won it, no one was playing as well as Woodson was.”

Former Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson became the first primarily defensive player to hold college football’s most prestigious award after his standout junior season in 1997.

Fourteen years later, Mathieu is attempting to make a run to become the second defender and the second LSU player to win the Heisman.

Mathieu has posted similar numbers to Woodson’s Heisman season. Woodson had eight interceptions during Michigan’s 12-0 national championship season, while Mathieu has recorded seven turnovers through only six games, a stat that has helped propel LSU to No. 1 in the nation.

The main difference between Woodson’s and Mathieu’s games is that Woodson was also a parttime receiver for the Wolverines while Mathieu is strictly a defensive player. In his Heisman season, Woodson caught 11 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns, as well as recording one rushing touchdown. “[Woodson] did a lot of things. He played offense and he caught touchdowns, and it’s really just about me finding my way in there whichever way I can,” Mathieu said. “If I keep making the plays I’ve been able to make, then hopefully our team can go to the national championship and I’m able to go to New York one day.”

With the strong bias toward offensive players in voting, strong numbers alone may not be enough for Mathieu.

“What [Mathieu] needs is a signature moment. He can’t just play the second half of the season like he’s been playing,” Maisel said. “Billy Cannon had the punt return, Desmond Howard had the pose, everyone you can name has a moment where everyone in the country says, ‘Yeah, that’s the guy.’”

This isn’t the first time an LSU player has received Heisman hype early in the season.

In 2007, former LSU defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey received more votes than any other defensive player that season, despite finishing ninth in the overall voting.

Last season, former LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson also received plenty of Heisman notoriety.

Peterson recorded 42 tackles, four interceptions, 1.5 tackles for loss and six pass breakups in 2010, numbers similar to Mathieu’s through six games. “[Peterson] was definitely a mentor to me last year and still is this year,” Mathieu said. “It’s really about me going out there and just believing in the things Patrick taught me and exceeding his expectations and just do things a little better then he did it.”

Contact Michael Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com

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MILES, from page 5

especially remarkable considering he came back and played after the injury.

“He wants to help this team the best he can, and he’ll sacrifice his body to do ‘Everyone it,” said sopholooks to more defensive Barkevious [Taylor] for end Mingo.

“I’m leadership.’ not sure how bad he got dingBarkevious ed up, but he Mingo battled through LSU sophomore it to help his defensive end team out.”

Sophomore safety Eric Reid said Taylor is a fighter and “when he’s banged up he’s trying to get back as soon as possible.”

Reid’s sentiment applied not only to Saturday’s game against Florida, but also to how Taylor recovered from his injury last season.

“His injury last year, I heard it was supposed to be like a yearand-a-half to two-year deal coming back from that, but he was able to recover in half the time,” Reid said.

Reid said Taylor’s impact on the team is evident in practice as much as in the game.

“You wouldn’t know it was practice if you watch Brandon,” Reid said. “When I see that I try to emulate him and make sure I practice that hard because I know it will pay off in the game.”

Mingo said Taylor’s work ethic makes him a leader on the defense.

“It’s a role that he’s come in to, and he’s proven time and time again that he can lead this team,” Mingo said. “Everybody looks to him for leadership.”

“If the rule’s in place, I’m going to coach it hard,” Miles said. “I don’t know if [what Wing did] was a little more joy than taunting, and I’m not certain that it was flagrant in any way, but I think [the official] threw the flag at the right time.”

Contact Scott Branson at sbranson@lsureveille.com

Contact Hunter Paniagua at hpaniagua@lsureveille.com

MATT SIMMS TO START FOR TENNESSEE When LSU faces Tennessee this weekend, the Tigers will go up against an offense lacking its starting quarterback for the second consecutive week.

Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray will miss at least four weeks with a broken thumb in his throwing hand, and senior Matt Simms will start. Simms, son of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Phil Simms, started eight games in 2010 before losing the starting job to Bray.

“They’re going to do the things they do best, and I think Simms runs the offense in a very similar way,” Miles said. “I don’t think he’ll have the most recent experience, but he’s very experienced and he’ll do a very quality job.”

LONERGAN HELD OUT OF PRACTICE MONDAY Miles said junior center P.J. Lonergan didn’t practice Monday but is expected to return today or Wednesday.

Lonergan left the game against Florida in the second quarter with a sprained ankle. Senior T-Bob Hebert moved from left guard to center to replace Lonergan, and sophomore Josh Williford came in for Hebert.

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‘Breaking Bad’ ends 4th season with a bang

How can I visit?

• WHERE: LSU Museum of Art - Fifth Floor Shaw Center for the Arts 100 Lafayette St. • WHEN: Open now through Dec. 4 • ADMISSION: Free for museum members, University students with ID and children under 12; $5 for everyone else

Warning: This column contains spoilers from the season four finale of “Breaking Bad.”

organized chronologically.”

The exhibit includes admired artists like Warhol, John Singleton Copley and Jacob Lawrence, but some lesser-known artists are featured as well.

“If I say the name ‘Thomas Sully’ to you, it might not mean anything,” Mault said. “But if I ask you to take out a $20 bill, you’d see his work.”

Sully painted the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the bill.

“Sometimes you just don’t know their names off the top of your head, but you’ll recognize it when you see the art,” she said.

“Breaking Bad” ended its explosive fourth season with a literal explosion, dropping millions of jaws across America.

The show has become known for its KEVIN slow build and THIBODEAUX shocking cliff- Entertainment hangers, but its Writer latest episode was certainly a surprise to many fans.

“Face Off,” named for the explosion that left one of the primary characters with half a face, felt more like an ending than any of the season finales before it.

The fourth season’s major plot wrapped up with Walter White killing drug kingpin Gustavo “Gus” Fring via an explosive taped to the bottom of a wheelchair.

The wheels on the chair go boom, boom, boom.

Why was this necessary?

Walt was indebted to Gus with

ART, see page 11

BREAKING BAD, see page 11

200 years of art

ZACH BREAUX / The Daily Reveille

‘Copley to Warhol’ exhibit comes to LSU, celebrates history of American art

Taylor Balkom

Entertainment Writer

The works of Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keefe and a slew of American masters are taking up residence in Baton Rouge for the next few weeks.

Their paintings are part of “Copley to Warhol: 200 Years of American Art,” the latest exhibit to come to the LSU Museum of Art. According to the museum’s website, the exhibit “commemorates the artistic contributions of some of the most well-known American artists.”

The exhibit was supposed to open Saturday, but unforeseen circumstances delayed

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the opening to Sunday.

“We offered free admission [on Sunday],” said Natalie Mault, LSU MOA curator.

“We had a fair turnout within the exhibit and throughout the museum.”

“Copley to Warhol” began in Shreveport, then visited Alexandria and Lafayette before coming to the capital city. “[Baton Rouge] is the last place the exhibit will be shown in Louisiana,” Mault said.

The exhibit is organized differently at the LSU museum than it was at previous stops.

“Before, it was just displayed in chronological order,” Mault said. “What we did was make historical chapters of the art, and within those chapters it’s

CLOTHING

Baton Rouge Little Theater holds public costume sale Prices range from 50 cents to $20 Haylie Navarre Entertainment Writer

Baton Rouge Little Theater isn’t just cleaning out its closet – it’s opening it up to the public.

The theater is selling old costumes at its location on Florida Boulevard on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. until Oct. 21.

BRLT Marketing associate and public relations senior Samantha Vicknair said the theater is cleaning up to make space for new costumes. She said some of the costumes have been used for several years and the theater doesn’t

have much use for them anymore.

Vicknair said the sale is happening now because there is a break between productions that allows space for the costumes to be displayed for sale. The timing also coincides with Halloween.

Vicknair said shoppers can create Halloween costumes by combining tops and bottoms.

She said about 90 percent of the costumes for sale were constructed in-house, specifically for a show.

“They’re handmade costumes,” Vicknair said. “There’s a story behind each one.”

Sequins, tutus and fringe are in large supply on the sale floor, but there are also classic vintage gems such as an indigo-colored sweater dress from Saks Fifth Avenue.

Prices range from 50 cents to $20, with the majority of items priced under $2.

“Fifty cents for a sequin top — you really can’t beat that,” Vicknair said.

The theater also had a full accessory table with a large number of military caps.

The most expensive item, at $20, was somewhat of a novelty. A white jacket with a fur collar and floor-grazing train, covered with red and silver beads and sequins.

The jacket was also topped with silver fleur-de-lis designs.

Seamstress and costume designer Kate Abraham redesigned the old Mardi Gras jacket when the theater first acquired it and COSTUMES, see page 11

Hear more about BRLT’s costume sale at noon on 91.1 KLSU.

MARIAH POSTLETHWAITE / The Daily Reveille

Costumes hang on a rack at the Baton Rouge Little Theater costume sale. The theater is selling its old handmade costumes on weekdays through Oct. 21.

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MUSIC

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

KLSU

Local musician returns to BR College Radio Day Lee graduated from LSU in 2000

hosted today on KLSU Emily Herrington

Joey Groner

Entertainment Writer

Entertainment Writer

KLSU radio listeners can tune in today for special programming content highlighting the importance of college radio for the first-ever College Radio Day. Jeff Martinez, KLSU station manager, said College Radio Day was started by Rob Quicke, the general station manager at William Paterson University in New York. In its first year, more than 300 high school and college stations have joined the movement.

The participating stations are changing their ‘There’s a programming to stress different today the important art form role college that you radio plays in the community. hear on KLSU will feaa college ture a 40-minute documenradio tary about the station.’ past, present Jeff Martinez and future of KLSU station manager college radio, Martinez said.

The event is especially relevant now because several college radio stations, including those at Vanderbilt University and the University of San Francisco, have sold their licenses to corporate entities in the past year due to tightening budgets, Martinez said.

Martinez said college radio is important because it provides an alternative to main-wave stations,

Daniel Lee likes to follow a different path than most musicians.

The local performer and University alumnus, who graduated in 2000 with an English degree, spent the better part of the last decade touring the country, playing in 40 different states. He’s focused his efforts on Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

Lee said he developed a solo act soon after graduating and was inspired to move around the counMARIAH POSTLETHWAITE / The Daily Reveille try to widen his fan base and make LSU alumnus and local Baton Rouge musician Daniel Lee talks about his new a career out of music. album and his journey through music Saturday at his house.

“There was this dude who came through town named Jason said. “But it felt invigorating in a future. Having gone through most Marcum, and he’s known for play- different way. I felt excited about of the U.S., he’s considering going ing gig after gig, no matter the the idea of jumping on a motorbike international for his next trip.

“During the whole early part number of people or how far he and getting my music into people’s of my life, I was really fascinated had to drive,” Lee said. “He took hands.” me under his wing, brought me While living in Washington, with [the U.S.],” Lee said. “But to Atlanta and showed me that I D.C., Lee won multiple local song- now I can feel my curiosity growcould make a living by selling my writing awards and cultivated a ing about the wider world. I’m tomusic.” following. But when the recession tally fascinated with Melbourne, Lee began playing shows at hit, he decided it was time to move [Australia], so I feel like I need to go there and see if that culture Eddie’s Attic, a popular club in At- home. lanta known for turning out stars “Once it got to be that every inundates me as much as I think it like John Mayer.

CD I sold got me might.”

But Lee insists on not tying But he soon felt only 60 miles in the need to move my [Honda] CR-V, himself down with a concrete plan.

“I don’t want to be able to north. it became a differ“The hub of ent kind of job,” imagine myself in two years,” Lee influence seemed Lee said. “I really said. “Right now, I really want to to be New Engfelt like I needed just sell most of my stuff and be toland, so as the to return home and tally uprooted.” years went on I spend time with Contact Joey Groner at moved more and my friends and my Daniel Lee more north,” Lee jgroner@lsureveille.com family.” musician said. “I went from For his new Atlanta to D.C., then to Philly, album, “fragments flickers findings threw in a little bit of Nashville, folly,” Lee didn’t want to record a back to Atlanta, and now I’m back standard audio-only CD. Instead, home again.” he got a video camera and recordLee made many of his trips via ed himself making the album. Lee motorcycle, bringing only the bare said it’s important to him that every essentials and borrowing what he song has accompanying visuals. could from friends and fellow mu“Every second of anything sicians in the areas he visited. He that went down to tape, there was said the experience was a liberat- always a video camera of some sort ing one, allowing him to spread his running,” Lee said. “Every sound music himself instead of relying on is accounted for on the screen, all the Internet to make him famous. the songs are in visual form.”

“There was a lot of crashing Now working his way around on couches, borrowing friends’ the local music scene, Lee is cerguitars and things like that,” Lee tain that he’ll travel again in the

‘‘

‘Right now, I really want to just sell most of my stuff and be totally uprooted.’

is broadcast to community members by locals and offers hands-on experience for student employees.

“College radio is a different avenue for things you wouldn’t necessarily see on commercial radio stations. There’s a different art form that you hear on a college radio station,” Martinez said. “It’s where a lot of bands that we drop on a day-by-day basis start from, like Kings of Leon, Kanye West and Arcade Fire. All those people started on college radio.”

David Benedetto, KLSU music director, said the station’s employees will be in Free Speech Plaza today to showcase KLSU’s programming and let students know the organization is on campus and ready to serve them.

“Our main goal is to be a mainstay in the LSU community as well as the Baton Rouge community,” Benedetto said.

The University was selected as the state headquarters for College Radio Day, and Martinez said he believes it was chosen because KLSU has the largest audience following of any college radio station in the state.

“We’re an alternative to what you hear on commercial radio,” Benedetto said. “[College radio] is about giving people a choice of what they listen to.”

Contact Emily Herrington at eherrington@lsureveille.com

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 ART, from page 9

Other artists include John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Lee Krasner, with Southern artists Richard Clague, Joseph Rusling Meeker and John McCrady.

“These artists are master artists in every facet of the word,” Mault said. “[The exhibit] helps you know who these artists were and the leaps and bounds that they took when influencing art over the last 200 years.”

The exhibit also celebrates

the centennial of the New Orleans Museum of Art. All 30 paintings showcased come from the NOMA. Mault said much of this past weekend’s visitors’ attention was on the well-known artists, but less popular paintings were also a hit.

“It’s the paintings that you don’t expect yourself to get drawn to,” Mault said. “A lot of people were drawn towards more simple landscape pictures.”

She said this was because it’s

The Daily Reveille different to see a painting on a computer screen than to see it in person.

“When you see them in real life, it has a different impact,” Mault said. “You can see the different strokes in the painting.”

“Copley to Warhol: 200 Years of American Art” will be open until Dec. 4. Admission is free with a student ID. Contact Taylor Balkom at tbalkom@lsureveille.com

BREAKING BAD, from page 9

his life.

In order to get Gus out of his hair for good, Walt had to first convince his partner Jesse to help him murder a boss Jesse had become increasingly fond of.

How does Walt plan on doing that? Simple. He’ll just poison Jesse’s surrogate son and pin it on Gus. Did that sentence just make you stop and quake in your boots?

It should.

It’s official. Walt has gone off the deep end.

Let’s break this down in terms of what it means for the show and the pillars it was founded on.

First, Walt has become something of a father figure to Jesse.

Second, it has become increasingly clear that Walt will bring about his own undoing.

This season, for example, he put his DEA brother-in-law back on the tail of his own drug manufacturing business. Stupid, right?

Third, Walt claims he is manufacturing meth to provide for his family.

Knowing the core principles the show was founded on and knowing “Breaking Bad” loves to have karma bite Walt in the ass, I have a few predictions for this show’s future.

Jesse is most definitely going to flip out when he has to deal with everything Walt has put him through: a dead girlfriend, forcing him to murder an innocent man and poisoning a child.

Their bad bromance has

photo courtesy of AMC

Jesse (Aaron Paul) and Walt (Bryan Cranston) exit their undercover meth lab during the season four finale of AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” which aired Sunday.

already resulted in two fist fights this season.

There’s no way the show ends any other way than with Jesse killing Walt.

And what about Walter, you ask?

I’m going out on a limb and predicting the first few episodes of the show’s return next year will focus on Walter trying to lead a normal life.

Sure, he’ll be working at the carwash. But this won’t satisfy Mr. White for long, and he’ll realize he’s grown used to his life of crime and will inevitably alienate his family to get his adrenaline fix.

There’s no other way for the show to end.

“Breaking Bad” is about the consequences of Walt’s morally

ambiguous actions.

It would be poetic justice.

For a show that started out with a man providing for his family due to his uncertain future in the face of cancer, it would be extremely fitting for him to die by anything but cancer.

And the greatest bit of irony will come when Walt leaves his family penniless.

Only then will ol’ Walt have completely broken bad.

Kevin Thibodeaux is a 19-yearold mass communication sophomore from Lafayette.

Contact Kevin Thibodeaux at kthibodeaux@lsureveille.com

COSTUMES, from page 9

suggested that anyone looking to dress as Liberace for Halloween snatch it.

Abraham said the costumes for sale are an assortment of items from various shows. Some of the costumes she pointed out were from productions of “The Music Man,” “The Secret Garden,” “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and the original production of “Main,” which she said took place when she was in college.

“They’re good-quality costumes at good prices,” Abraham said.

Managing Artistic Director Keith Dixon said the sale also functions as a fundraiser for the theater’s general operations. Dixon said BRLT has no monetary goal in mind. Rather, the main purpose is organizing and clearing out the costumes.

MARIAH POSTLETHWAITE / The Daily Reveille

A detailed former Mardi Gras costume, on sale for $20, is the most expensive item available at the Baton Rouge Little Theater’s costume sale.

Contact Haylie Navarre at hnavarre@lsureveille.com

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WEB COMMENTS

As usual, lsureveille.com has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

In reference to Parker Cramer’s column, “Prostitutes are nothing more than hoes and don’t force themselves on clients,” readers had this to say:

“You’re more than likely to contact AIDS or another disease from that one-night stand at the bar than with a lot of escorts, but yet buying drinks to lay her is perfectly legal. As far as STDs, drug abuse and violence go, that’s more common with street corner hookers.

So the next time you’re getting wasted at the bar and those bar flies sit next to you, say ‘ewwwww’ then.”

-Anonymous “Not all prostitutes have aids, and I just wonder how many people with HIV contacted it from a

one-night stand with someone they picked up at the local nightclub.

Most prostitutes know how to use a condom, and protect themselves from STDs. And prostitution is about money, so I’d rather get paid to get laid then a movie and a dinner anytime.

I’m a working girl, and I don’t have any STDs.” -Anonymous “People just keep allowing more and more perversion. Pretty soon, nothing will be sacred.”

-Anonymous “I stand among sex-postive feminists who support the respect of sex workers. There’s clear evidence in other countries such as the Netherlands where sex work is protected, legal, regulated and safe. Protecting sex workers is important. Like [Parker Cramer] said, it’s not going anywhere and neither is the demand

for it. Women who choose (that’s important) to work in the sex industry shouldn’t be treated as criminals. If prostitution were legalized, it would be easier to regulate. With rules, STDs wouldn’t be as much of a risk when the workers and clients would be tested regularly. As an illegal profession, it’s just going to be violent and unsafe for the workers. Sex workers need to be respected and protected, and that’s the only solution that will actually work.”

-E

“I respect the views of those who say prostitution is immoral. You’re entitled to that opinion, and your moral argument is sound enough.

However, there is an argument to be made about an excess of laws in this state (and other states, federally, etc.). I say legalize prostitution. It’s going to happen whether or not it’s legal. You might say, ‘Murder will happen whether or not it’s legal, too.’

The difference is that prostitution is a consensual act between two adults (underage prostitution, like statutory rape and molestation, are a different conversation). Sure, the John’s family may be hurt by it (but they’d be hurt by no-pay adultery too, and it’s legal). What good are laws if the crime or act continues despite them?

We waste taxpayer money locking up offenders, policing the service and medicating the infected. Let’s legalize it, and try to make it safe for those adults who would like to engage in the practice.”

-Leslie “Well, why not? Billy Nungesser and David Vitter are both customers of the oldest profession known to man and look how far they have come.

While Nungesser runs for Lt. Governor, maybe he can add this to his platform. Just think, legalize prostitution in Louisiana and

SCUM OF THE GIRTH

Occupy N.O. a hipster trend It finally happened — the recession hit “The Simpsons.”

We never thought it could happen. The recession, which has largely left the South at peace, has finally gotten its grips on one of America’s most cherished cartoon commodities.

Fox, which broadcasts the famed series, has recently experienced budget cuts and announced the show would not be able to continue unless the cast members accepted a significant pay decrease.

Fortunately, the issue was resolved, and each of the voice cast members agreed Parker Cramer to a massive 30 Columnist percent pay decrease. This really isn’t any skin off their backs though because the cast members each receive roughly $8 million per season. Since “The Simpsons” has been around longer than I have, it’s safe to say the cast is financially secure. The series is set to run for another two seasons.

I’m not worried about the woman who plays Bart — yes, Bart is played by a girl — being forced to downgrade from a Ferrari to a Mercedes. I’m concerned with the fact that if “The Simpsons” were cancelled, that’s the most many people would have been affected by the recession.

We’re fortunate enough to live

in a region of the country that has been relatively unaffected by the recession. Businesses here are still hiring, construction sites are active and massive layoffs by industries seem to be a growing trend. That being said, if “The Simpsons” were cancelled, that would be the biggest impact the recession had on this state.

We see in the news everyday about European austerity movements and huge, general strikes occurring around the world, including in the United States, but we don’t seem to take notice. In fact, Occupy New Orleans is the closest thing this area has to an organized complaint.

Our most notable effort at protesting financial inequality in this country is a bunch of hipsters driving down to New Orleans to walk the streets, banging djembe drums and chanting, “the revolution will not be privatized.”

Do they even know what that means?

Of course they don’t. The protestors skipped a day of school or work to commute to New Orleans, likely in a vehicle from mommy and daddy, to join an obscure movement just for the hell of it.

Our parents marched for civil rights, yet the best we can come up with is Occupy New Orleans? Come on, people.

I’m sure the movement had the best intentions when it began on Wall Street, but until the unions and other legitimate organizations joined the protest, it looked like a bunch

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increase our state’s revenues through all the tourism dollars Mr. Nungesser will be bringing to this state as Lt. Governor. It’s a win-win. Ask Nungesser about this as he travels the state — let’s see what this man has to say.”

-Anonymous “[Parker], I wish your parents had had that ‘birds and bee’s’ conversation with you. Thereafter, you might have asked your physician about VD. You seem to not have had Grandparents either, because you know not about ‘thinking things through’. Go back and get some of this wisdom, or be a professional, lifetime student.

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of unemployed kids dressing up as zombies just to say they fought “the man” at one point in their hipster lives.

Here’s a piece of advice: Don’t protest financial inequality when you are unemployed by choice. That means you, college activists. I’m as liberal as they come, and it’s hard for me to take you seriously.

Please, Louisiana, I’m begging you not to let the cancellation of a cartoon be the biggest hit this state has taken from the recession. There are hardworking individuals out there who actually have been victims of Wall Street greed. That being said, do not detract from their legitimate complaint against the financial giants of this country with your “paint my face like a zombie and piss off the suits” march.

If — and this is a big if — “The Simpsons” were eventually cancelled because of budget cuts, that should be the last of our concerns.

It has been on forever, and it’s not “South Park.”

We should seek out financial injustices in this state and protest against them, not bang a drum down Canal Street and hope it reaches the CEOs in their corner offices.

Parker Cramer is a 20-yearold political science junior from Houston. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_pcramer.

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Think before you wear pink during awareness month

In Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” the eponymous protagonist is obliged to whitewash a fence on a sumptuous summer day as punishment for playing hooky and fighting.

Tom “surveyed the fence” and “all gladness left him,” Twain wrote. Miraculously, it was at this “dark and hopeless moment” that clever Sawyer conceived “nothing less than a great, magnificent inspiration.”

Tom would take National Breast Cancer Awareness Month along with breast cancer symbolism and profit from his corporate assumption of breast cancer awareness imagery.

Wait. I’m sorry. I’m not thinking of Tom Sawyer’s whitewashing a fence, but Corporate America’s less innocent “pinkwashing.”

Breast Cancer Action (BCAction), a San Francisco-based national grassroots education and advocacy organization, coined the phrase to denote the practice of using pink ribbons and the color pink to indicate a company joining the search for a cure to breast cancer, even if the company uses chemicals linked to cancer.

Hence the organization’s dubbing the annual awareness campaign “Breast Cancer Industry Month.”

In turn, pinkwashing “reached a new low” last month, according to BCAction, which alleged that Promise Me, a promotional perfume commissioned by non-profit Susan G. Komen for the Cure, contained toxic Phil Sweeney and hazardous chemicals.

Columnist That stinks, and many corporations are recklessly “thinking pink” these days.

A Forbes article from July argued that breast cancer’s utility to incorporate cause marketing campaigns is its standing as a disease which has “few (if any) risks of alienating potential customers” with which “many people are intimately familiar.”

The article notes that women control between $0.70 and $0.85 of every household dollar spent, “so marketing in relation to women’s health is a logical business move.”

Be that as it may, it’s not an absolutely logical theory. Heart disease, for instance, is the greatest cause of preventable death in women, and skin cancer has higher incidences among women than breast cancer.

It’s curious that there aren’t similar campaigns for those diseases.

Samantha King’s 2006 book “Pink Ribbons, Inc.” — inspiration for the documentary of the same name — argued that the public’s perception of “the search for the cure” has been transformed from a grassroots campaign to a chi-chi “flavor of the month.”

King concluded that the shift has afforded corporate entities the capacity to dictate the public’s breast cancer discourse.

Basically, corporate America’s pinkwashing has rendered activism into “slacktivism” because funding for actual breast cancer research has been supplanted by wearing breast cancer ribbons as a goal of National Breast Cancer Month, which does not benefit the one in eight women who’ll be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives.

Pink ribbons don’t save lives.

Consumerism doesn’t, either.

BCAction has the right idea.

The organization’s “Think Before You Pink” campaign urges people to “do something besides shop” during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The project, launched in 2002, calls for “more transparency and accountability by companies that take part in breast cancer fundraising and encourages consumers to ask critical questions about pink ribbon promotions.”

For instance, how much money from a purchase actually goes toward breast cancer?

Fox Home Entertainment sold “DVDs for the Cure” for $14.95, actually donating only 50 cents from each sale to Komen, according to BCAction.

What is the maximum amount that will be donated?

BCAction reported that Give Hope Jeans donated net proceeds from each pair of jeans sold to Living Beyond Breast Cancer — capping their contributions, however, at $200,000.

And most importantly, what are companies doing to assure that its products are not actually

contributing to the breast cancer epidemic? BCAction mentions that BMW, for example, gave $1 to Komen every time one of their cars was test-driven — even though pollutants found in car exhaust are linked to breast cancer.

Which begs the question: Are we increasing breast cancer awareness or just corporate profitability?

My mother was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2007, and I’ve never adopted the pink ribbon and other forms of breast cancer symbolism to substantiate my support of her.

My support isn’t symbolic — it’s literal.

By all means, we ought to think pink this October. But we ought to be sure to think before we pink, too.

Phil Sweeney is a 25-yearold English senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_PhilSweeney.

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Consumers endangered by hazardous hygiene products

Covering up with the newest dismissed by the FDA. In fact, they exist in Herbal Esfoundation may protect women from unwanted criticism from their peers, sences shampoo, which is marked as but it won’t protect them from the being “natural” and “herbal.” These disgruntled glare of the environment clever selling points have been noted by National Geographic and the and their bodies.

The average American woman FDA as holding no legal value, as uses 12 personal care products daily, there’s no industry standard for what with men using an average of six. is or isn’t natural.

I’ve never heard of an herb The $50 billion industry, dissected by producer Annie Leonard in “The made out of petroleum.

Have you?

Story of Cosmetics,” has made a I’m not sure pretty penny off people’s insecuriwhich is worse — ties and a hot dime off consumers’ what people put in ignorance. their hair or what The glistening of toxins and anithey’re ingesting. mal fat makes cosmetics unsafe for Lip gloss and humans. On average, six toxic chemlipsticks contain icals are in each beauty product conmassive amounts sumed. The FDA is slowly coming to Priyanka Bhatia of lead. The Electhe realization that the impact of our Columnist tronic Library of skin care products may be more than Construction Safety and Health said, skin deep.

Despite having a regular history “The most recent evidence from epiof cruel animal testing, the cosmet- demiological and toxicological studics industry is still one of the least ies suggests that low levels of [lead] regulated by the FDA. The overly exposure can, over time, damage the respected FDA “puts the onus on heart, kidneys and brain.” manufacturers to ensure their prodCovergirl, L’Oreal and even ucts are safe, stepping in only when Revlon contain some of the highest consumers complain of adverse re- amounts of lead in its industry. actions,” according to National GeoWhile the FDA swears the levels of toxins in our makeup are low graphic’s Green Guide.

The sad reality is less than 20 enough to be harmless, it seems percent of the ingredients in our they’re forgetting how often people beauty products have been assessed use them.

Fortunately for consumers, by the industry’s safety panel.

The environmentally non-re- there are two bright lights at the newable petrochemicals made from end of this toxic, rosy-red tube — petroleum known to cause cancer the Safer Cosmetic Act of 2011 are not among the eight ingredients and the power to choose.

Brought out from layers of cover up, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics reported that The Safe Cosmetics Act introduced June 24 “is designed to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to ensure that personal care products are free of harmful ingredients and that ingredients are fully disclosed.”

This means the cancer-causing, neurotoxic ingredients in our baby

shampoo will be phased out.

This may sound ideal, but it hasn’t passed yet. All consumers can do is be responsible for what they put in and on their bodies.

It’s time for people to put down the tube of toxins, whether it be shampoo, soap or lipstick. The time has come to opt for healthier alternatives in order to save not only the planet, but also people’s health.

Priyanka Bhatia is a 19-year-old pre-veterinary medicine sophomore from San Jose, Calif. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_PBhatia.

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big piece of the universe that we can’t see, but we know is there, is just tremendously exciting and a challenge,” Cherry said.

The University’s chemistry department also features an X-ray crystallography lab, similar to the one this year’s Israeli Nobel laureate Dan Shechtman used for his discovery of crystals with aperiodic orders instead of typically repeating patterns.

“It made people think differently about how atoms could be arranged in solids,” said Andrew Maverick, Chemistry Department chair.

“It was revolutionary in the sense that some people said, ‘No, you must be wrong.’”

Frank Fronczek, University X-ray crystallographer, said Shechtman’s finding was controversial because Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel laureate, rebutted it.

“I wonder what [Pauling] would think about this Nobel Prize if he were around today,” Fronczek said.

The last prize was awarded Monday to New York University and Princeton University economists

Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims, who studied effects of individual economic principles within vast economies. Robert Newman, economics department chairman, said Sargent and Sims’ work developed refined techniques for economists to “extract valuable information from time series data,” such as giving central bankers resources to determine how economic policy changes affect the macroeconomy.

“Sargent and Sims truly deserve the Nobel Prize for their seminal work they began in the ’70s and ’80s,” Newman said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille. “The techniques they developed independently are some of the most essential tools used in macroeconomic analysis.”

Nobel Prizes were awarded to 14 people in six categories. The Nobel Prizes, awarded annually, are considered some of the most prestigious academic awards in the world, and this year’s include a medal, a diploma and $1.45 million, according to the Nobel Prize website.

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The Daily Reveille FACILITY SERVICES, from page 1 LeighAnna Kingvalsky said she has noticed a lack of maintenance in Lockett Hall.

“Lockett is kind of dirty,” the nutrition sophomore said. “It’s just always too crowded there.”

Math sophomore Joshua Smith said there’s not enough air conditioning in some buildings.

“Choppin is hot,” he said.

“They need air conditioning in there.

It’s always hot.”

Tony Lombardo, executive director of Facility Services, said a student recently contacted him and pointed out a lack of maintenance in Patrick F. Taylor Hall.

Lombardo said the office has not faced a budget cut since last January, but it has been short-staffed since Gov. Bobby Jindal issued a freeze that limits the hiring of state employees until June 2012, making it more difficult to keep campus as clean as students are accustomed to.

“Because of the additional approval processes to hire, because of the state hiring freeze over the past year, we are not getting people as

page 15 fast as we were in the past,” Lombardo said. “It’s a good check to make sure that we are keeping spending in order and in check. That can effectively be equated to a budget cut in that you’re not able to spend your funding on the personnel needed to do the work.”

Lombardo said the Facility Services office currently has a $1.5 million vacancy rate, meaning there’s $1.5 million worth of positions the office has approval to fill but hasn’t.

“The campus feels it the same as an actual cut versus a vacancy rate,” Lombardo said. “That’s a million and five resources not being given to the campus.”

The office is in the process of hiring, but Lombardo said the process takes much longer now that all hires must be approved by the Systems Office.

Lombardo also said the start of each semester brings changes in cleaning schedules, based on the number of students in various buildings and the timing of classes.

Regardless of understaffing issues, the office is still working around the clock to keep

students comfortable.

Lombardo and Tammy Millican, the manager of communication and grants at the office of Facility Services, said they rely on student feedback to keep the campus clean.

They said they encourage students to call the University’s workcontrol staff when they see a problem so the office can quickly review and improve the situation.

“Any time a classroom is too hot or too cold, if [students] notice a restroom hasn’t been cleaned properly, or there’s trash that’s overflowing, if they can just make that phone call, we can get someone in our system to go out and take a look at it,” Millican said. “There are definitely enough students to be our eyes and ears if there’s something that we don’t see that is going on.”

The phone number for University Work Control Staff is 225-5783186. Millican said operators are there 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

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