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Wells declines to sign LGBT legislation

Senators ask for community support Kate Mabry Staff Writer

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[Top] Junior placekicker Drew Alleman (30) celebrates a score with redshirt freshman punter Brad Wing (38) during the Tigers’ 9-6 defeat of the Crimson Tide. [Bottom] Wing holds the ball as Alleman prepares to kick the game-tying fourth-quarter field goal.

Late field goal secures 9-6 victory in ‘Game of the Century’ Chris Abshire Sports Writer

LSU coach Les Miles didn’t need his notoriously quirky playcalling or gimmicky fakes to pull off his greatest hat trick yet.

In leading the No. 1 Tigers to a third victory against a Nick Saban-coached Alabama squad in five seasons, Miles just needed a gritty, opportunistic defense, an admirable performance from a maligned backup quarterback and a dose of sound special teams to turn back the No. 2 Tide, 9-6, on Saturday night in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Junior kicker Drew Alleman’s game-winning 25-yard field goal in the first overtime gave LSU its highest-ranked regular season win since the Tigers defeated No. 1 Florida in 1997.

It also marked the third road victory against a top-5 team for LSU under Miles.

LSU quieted a raucous sellout crowd of 101,821 that enhanced the game’s national title feel and created an unprecedented buzz for the first regular season matchup ever between top-ranked Southeastern Conference squads.

Alabama often threatened to break a tense, defensive slugfest open, but the Tiger defense stiffened in its half of the field to keep the Crimson

Tide out of the end zone.

Alabama ran 19 plays inside the LSU 35-yard line, losing six total yards and ALABAMA, see page 7

A series of heated discussions within Student Government followed SG President Cody Wells’ decision to decline signing legislation to urge the University’s administration to recognize October WELLS as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month.

The SG Senate passed the resolution Oct. 5 with 77 percent in favor. The resolution will automatically go into effect by default because Wells simply declined to sign it, rather than vetoing the bill.

Wells’ decision not to sign the LGBT History Month resolution is the first time this semester he has intentionally not signed legislation that passed through the Senate, according to SG Senate Speaker Aaron Caffarel.

“Usually, there’s some kind of an oversight [if the SG president doesn’t sign],” he said. “It’s almost never intentional.”

Wells said he had concerns that signing the legislation would set a bad precedent for other communities on campus who might want to have a month dedicated to their cause.

“If I sign a resolution, I’m signing it for 29,000 people,” Wells said. “However, if I chose to allow the resolution to take affect without my signature, I’m letting that resolution pass by the true vote of the student Senate as the representative voice of the student body.”

Wells said he decided not to veto the bill because he wanted to respect the voice of the Senate.

Caffarel said the president should veto a bill if he is not in LGBT, see page 7

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INTERNATIONAL

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Monday, November 7, 2011

STATE/LOCAL

Muslims in Moscow pray on the street to celebrate religious holiday

Christmas tree for U.S. Capitol lighting ceremony on way from Calif.

Costly infrastructure changes for plant that caused massive fish kill

MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thousands of Muslim men knelt in prayer on the freezing streets of Moscow on Sunday to celebrate the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Estimates of the number of Muslims in the Russian capital run from 2 million to 5 million, but the city only has a few mosques.

Police said 170,000 people celebrated the holiday in Moscow, including 80,000 who gathered on the street outside what was once the main mosque.

SONORA, Calif. (AP) — A 65-foot white fir tree selected as the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree was cut down and removed from a picturesque setting in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Saturday, then loaded on a truck for a 4,500-mile journey from northern California to Washington, D.C. The Stanislaus National Forest tree was selected based on its shape and fullness and color, officials said.

The tree is scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 28, with a lighting ceremony at the front of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 6.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Major, expensive improvements to the Bogalusa paper mill responsible for a massive August fish kill in the Pearl River will begin at the end of the year.

The state Department of Environmental Quality released a timeline last week detailing when the Temple-Inland mill must begin and complete construction of new infrastructure designed to prevent another fish kill.

The mill’s equipment malfunctioned and spilled an unauthorized by-product known as black liquor into the Pearl, depleting oxygen and killing hundreds of thousands of fish and mussels.

Liberian president asks voters to ignore boycott by opposition MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s president urged voters to go to the polls this week and to ignore a boycott by the opposition.

Campaigning for the Nov. 8 presidential runoff ends at midnight Sunday, and incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is likely to remain unopposed. Her supporters drove around Monrovia on Sunday calling for support over amplifiers mounted on pickups.

Leading opposition candidate Winston Tubman said he was boycotting the runoff because he was not convinced the process would be fair.

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A 65-foot white fir tree is loaded onto a truck for its 20-day journey to Washington on Saturday from the Stanislaus National Forest near Sonora, Calif.

Eyes of nation on Ohio vote on Republican union-limiting law COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A ballot battle in Ohio that pits the union rights of public workers against Republican efforts to shrink government and limit organized labor’s reach culminates Tuesday in a vote with many political consequences.

A question called Issue 2 asks voters to accept or reject a voluminous rewrite of Ohio’s collective bargaining law that GOP Gov. John Kasich signed in March, less than three months after his party regained power in the closely divided state.

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A number of merchandise vendors, clothing designers and others are making plans to market a wide variety of goods for a widevariety of reasons even as some protesters decry the business plans as directly counter to the demonstrations’ goals.

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Tiger Truck Stop may lose live tiger State district judge revoked permit Morgan Searles Staff Writer

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Tony, a Siberian-Bengal mix, paces in his play area at Tiger Truck Stop on Sunday.

The truck stop owners plan to appeal a judge’s decision to revoke their permit.

Tony’s habitat includes a 3,600 square-foot cage with a grassy area, toys, a water tank and an airconditioned enclosure. A 10-foot chain-link fence with barbed wire surrounds the cage.

Sandlin said the cost of keeping Tony is about $1,500 each month for feeding and veterinary care.

Sandlin said he and his brother inherited the tradition of keeping tigers at the truck stop from his father. The stop has hosted ten surviving tigers, with as many as five adult tigers in the exhibit at one time.

“We have a history of tigers living long and happy lives at the

truck stop,” Sandlin said. “It fits in real nice with Baton Rouge and LSU being Tiger country, and there’s so many people that have gotten so much enjoyment form the tigers being here over the years.

That’s something I wouldn’t trade for anything.”

Sandlin said he’s determined to find a way to keep the tiger.

“We’re going to do everything we can do to keep Tony at home where he belongs,” he said.

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After 24 years of hosting a live tiger at its business, Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete may lose its namesake, a Siberian-Bengal mix named Tony.

State District Judge Mike Caldwell ruled Nov. 2 to revoke the permit that allows Tiger Truck Stop to keep the exotic animal. Caldwell said the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, who issued the truck stop’s permit, violated its own rule by allowing a corporation to own the tiger.

Corporations are not allowed to own a big cat under state law. But individuals were able to own the exotic animals until 2006, when the Louisiana state legislature passed an act to control ownership. Today, no individual may own a big cat unless they owned it before 2006, in which case the ownership is grandfathered into the law.

This exemption isn’t extended to the Tiger Truck Stop, which has owned tigers for the past 24 years, because they have always been owned by the corporation, not an individual, according to the Associated Press.

Under Caldwell’s ruling, Tiger Truck Stop will not be allowed to receive another permit from Wildlife and Fisheries to keep Tony.

Michael Sandlin, owner of Tiger Truck Stop, said he plans to file an appeal with the First Circuit Court of Appeals in hopes of keeping Tony at the truck stop.

Sandlin said he also plans to file a discrimination lawsuit against the state because of laws forbidding individuals from owning big cats.

“We feel new state law banning private ownership discriminates against persons like myself,” he said. “It’s the same license LSU and the zoo has. Why are they allowed to keep animals and I’m not?”

According to Louisiana law, university mascots are exempt from the exotic big-cat ban, allowing LSU’s Mike VI to legally live without an individual owner, unlike Tony.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund in Cotati, Calif., filed a lawsuit April 11 against the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and its secretary Robert Barham to revoke the permit and remove the tiger from the truck stop.

The Louisiana Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in August to add Tiger Truck Stop and Sandlin as defendants.

According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund web site, with the Nov. 2 ruling, the organization intends to see Tony placed in an accredited sanctuary, but Sandlin said if he were forced to relocate Tony, the tiger would go to an exotic animal park in Oklahoma.

Sandlin is promoting a petition and several Tony-related web pages, including savetony.com and a Facebook paged called “Keep Tony Where He Is,” to gather support.

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Monday, November 7, 2011

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Project brings art to digital billboards Mealtime rush causes crowded Student Union Morgan Searles Staff Writer

Motorists in the Goodwood area may have noticed something unusual breaking through the din of travel and traffic Saturday.

A digital billboard rented by the Billboard Art Project, an organization turning the giant LED signs into temporary galleries, displayed 24 hours of artwork, rotating through 1,200 unique images submitted from all over the world.

Project founder David Morrison rented his first billboard about a year ago in Richmond, Va. Since then, the project has hosted larger-than-life art shows in eight cities, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Located near the intersection of Goodwood and Tara boulevards, Morrison said Saturday’s show had some of the most local artist participation the project has ever seen.

“That’s one of the interesting things about Baton Rouge and New Orleans,” Morrison said. “There have been grassroots efforts to get people to come out and see the billboards. It is a testament to the arts culture here in Louisiana. The involvement here has been fabulous.”

Artists can submit multiple original photographs, computer-generated images, paintings and other forms of art that can be digitized for the project, free of charge.

Morrison said the project accepts almost all submitted work.

“This is not about us curating

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A billboard on Goodwood Boulevard cycles through 1,200 works of art.

a particular breed of artwork,” he said. “In this day and age, you can’t find a person who doesn’t feel disenfranchised by large corporations or the government. People feel they aren’t being heard or they don’t have a voice. This is an opportunity for them to put what they want up there.”

Ron Stasko, an artist from Darrow, La., has participated in three different billboard shows.

Stasko said projects like this can help build artists’ confidence and gives them exposure they might not normally have.

“You’re up on a billboard,” he

said. “Your art is larger than life in the sky for people to see it up there.

It’s like, ‘Wow, that’s pretty impressive.’ That drew me to the project.”

To date, funding for the project has come entirely from Morrison’s personal savings. The Billboard Art Project has filed for federal nonprofit tax status and once approved, Morrison said funding will be able to come from private donors, grants and corporate sponsors to get more artwork on billboards for a longer period of time.

Morrison said the cost varies depending on the market, but the 24hour show in Richmond cost about $1,400. The Baton Rouge 24-hour show cost Morrison $2,000.

Morrison said the project works on many different levels, allowing people to express themselves in a big way and gives passersby something to think about. “[When] you’re on your way to work, instead of having some advertisement telling you what TV station to watch or what radio station to tune in to, it’s giving you something instead of telling you to do something,” he said. “It’s profound.”

Morrison said more shows are in the works for the future and the Billboard Art Project hopes to eventually incorporate sound with the images in a unique way.

Contact Morgan Searles at msearles@lsureveille.com

Claire Caillier

Contributing Writer

Trying to find seating during the lunchtime rush in the Student Union may be a headache for some, but it is not due to lack of spaces available, according to Jason Tolliver, executive director of University Auxiliary Services and the Student Union.

“Many students come to dine at one time, creating an increase of students looking for places to sit,” Tolliver said.

Many students sit alone or in groups of two at a four-person table, leaving empty chairs. It’s hard to design seating for individuals or two people, Tolliver said.

“It’s the way students are choosing to sit or not to sit,” he said.

Tolliver said because of societal barriers students do not approach fellow students sitting alone and ask to join them during lunch.

“I don’t think we’ll ever solve that issue until we encourage students to engage,” Tolliver said.

According to Ken Bueche, associate director for operations of the Student Union, the Tiger Lair has 540 seats, with most being four-person tables. The peak time of usage of the Union on a daily basis is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

On a busy day, the Union sees

about 15,000 people, not counting visitors to the LSU Bookstore, Bueche said.

“Seating has always been an issue in the Union,” he said. “With the renovation, we reduced table sizes to try to alleviate the problem.”

Bueche said Union officials added lobby furniture and benches to maximize seating, but said, “We are still looking for ways to add seating. We try to accommodate everyone as best we can.”

Tolliver said more lounge space will be created when the bookstore moves out of the Union upon the completion of the parking garage on Raphael Semmes Road. The garage is anticipated to be completed in June 2012.

While sitting on the floor of the Union, chemical engineering sophomore Cooper Daigle said seating should be increased.

“There could definitely be more seating, as well as improving table outlet access” Daigle said.

Biology freshman Kainyat Iqbal said she studies and eats in the Union and found the same problem.

“It’s way too crowded in here sometimes,” Iqbal said.

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Homecoming week Splatterbeat to take place tonight hosts variety of events First 500 students Josh Naquin Staff Writer

Homecoming week has descended upon the University, and with it comes a host of traditional events – a pep rally, homecoming parade, homecoming court and football game — and a few new activities for the campus community to enjoy.

This year marks the 85th annual celebration of homecoming week. Festivities started Sunday and will build up to the homecoming game against Western Kentucky University on Saturday at 6 p.m.

“Homecoming week allows us to celebrate our traditions and enjoy the culture here,” said Tanaya Yidin, biological sciences senior and chairperson of the Homecoming Student Committee. “Everyone should come out and show their Tiger spirit.”

MONDAY Students are encouraged to show their school spirit starting Monday by signing the Spirit Wall in Free Speech Plaza. Additionally, student organizations are welcome to participate in a banner competition.

Students may vote for homecoming king and queen starting Monday via their online PAWS accounts. Voting will last until Thursday at 11:59 p.m.

The homecoming court members will be presented to the public for the first time Monday at 6 p.m. during the homecoming comedy kickoff hosted by James Brown, University staff member and local comic, on the Parade Ground.

Splatterbeat, presented by the Residence Hall Association, will follow the kickoff. Participants are advised to bring white shirts and beat on trash can lids filled with paint to the accompaniment of music for a fun, messy time.

WEDNESDAY The University’s Black Male Leadership Initiative is hosting LSU Preview Day, an outreach event to recruit black males in seventh through ninth grades, for the first time on Wednesday.

THURSDAY A canned food model of Tiger Stadium will be built on the Parade Ground on Thursday and Friday between 4 and 7 p.m. The structure will be made with the cans collected during the weeklong CANapalooza event. The can creation will remain on display until Sunday at 1 p.m.

Yidin said a Homecoming pep rally will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. on the Parade Ground to celebrate Tiger spirit.

FRIDAY LSU Salutes will commemorate Veteran’s Day with a ceremony in the Memorial Oak Grove at 10:30 a.m. on Friday.

Retired Maj. Gen. John Basilica

of the Louisiana National Guard will be the guest speaker for the free event, which is open to the public.

National Remembrance Roll Call, presented by Campus Life and First Year Experience, will follow at 11 a.m. to honor America’s troops, according to Yidin.

The Homecoming Block Party, an event designed for families, will be held at the Parade Ground from 3 to 6 p.m.

The LSU Salutes events will continue at 7 p.m. with the presentation of the USO Show in the LSU Union Theater. The show will provide nostalgic entertainment as performances will be done in a similar manner to shows that have entertained U.S. troops for 70 years.

SATURDAY LSU Salutes will provide a morning of patriotic celebration beginning at 9 a.m. with its annual ceremony that will include a military parade, static displays and a wreath-laying ceremony with a 21-gun salute. Twelve LSU alumni who have distinguished themselves in their military, professional and personal endeavors will also be inducted into LSU’s military Hall of Honor, according to a news release.

The LSU Homecoming Parade will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Yidin said the event will include bands, floats and a presentation of the homecoming court. This year’s grand marshal of the homecoming parade will be former University football and baseball star Chad Jones.

The men’s basketball team will open its season at noon in the PMAC against Nicholls State.

The game will mark the secondever men’s football and basketball game double-header, according to a University news release.

The football team will then face Western Kentucky University for its annual homecoming game with kickoff at 6 p.m. in Tiger Stadium. During halftime, the homecoming king and queen will be crowned.

Further information on homecoming week events can be found at homecoming.lsu.edu.

Contact Josh Naquin at jnaquin@lsureveille.com

receive free T-shirt Kate Mabry Staff Writer

Students distressed that Halloween festivities are over can transform themselves once again using gallons of paint at one of the fall semester’s most anticipated events, returning to campus tonight.

The Residential Hall Association will host its annual Splatterbeat event, where students can enjoy loud music with their friends while covered in paint, on the Parade Ground tonight from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

At the event, which is open to the entire LSU community, students will be able to drum to music on trash can lids loaded with 140 gallons of paint provided by RHA. Students should wear white in preparation to be splattered with paint. The first 500 students will receive a 2011 Splatterbeat T-shirt.

RHA began collecting song requests last week from students for music to play tonight. Some of the requests included music by Skrillex, Deadmau5, Bassnectar and LMFAO. As of Sunday, 217 students have said they will attend on the event’s Facebook page.

The event attracted nearly 800 students when it was first held in 2009.

Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

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Students are covered in paint during last year’s Splatterbeat. Students can shower themselves in paint at 7:30 p.m. on the Parade Ground during this year’s event.

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CAMPUS LIFE

Monday, November 7, 2011

UTSAV gives locals a taste of traditional Indian culture Event draws more than 200 people

Juliann Allen Contributing Writer

Bright, colorful dresses and talented dancers livened up the Union Theater stage Saturday afternoon in front of more than 200 people at UTSAV, the Indian Student Association’s biggest event of the year.

Though the audience lacked students, the festivities thrilled those in attendance.

UTSAV, which means “celebration” in Hindi, featured songs, dances and short plays by University students and members of the

local Indian community.

“It’s a way to show the Indian culture,” said Abhishek Bharad, agricultural sciences doctorate student.

Several young girls decked in gold jewelry and headpieces began the show with the first Bollywood dance called “Ganeshaya Dhimahi,” expressing the dance through articulate hand motions.

A group of children dressed as princes and princesses performed an upbeat partner dance as the audience clapped along.

Audience members were invited to participate, and several people rushed onto the stage dance.

Family and friends cheered as one young girl stood at the edge of the stage swaying her hips.

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Dancers perform in UTSAV, a traditional Indian festival of lights. The Indian Student Association held the performance at the Union Theatre on Saturday.

ornate headpieces and crimson shawls performed a classical Indian dance pieces.

One act provided the crowd

with comic relief as children dressed as leopards, cats and dinosaurs put on a brief play enacting a fable about how animals

got their tails.

A band comprised of University students mellowed the mood with a few harmonious Hindi songs followed by more energetic music for the second half of the act.

After the show, attendees made their way to the International Cultural Center to enjoy a variety of Indian cuisine.

Bharad said UTSAV offers students more cultural knowledge and adds diversity to the University.

UTSAV has been held at the University for more than a decade and is celebrated at several other major universities.

Contact Juliann Allen at jallen@lsureveille.com

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Organizations to build stadium replica with canned goods Kate Mabry Staff Writer

The Homecoming Court Committee’s annual CANapalooza event, a canned good drive assisting the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, will follow tradition and shape the donated cans into a model of Tiger Stadium to be presented Homecoming day, Nov. 12.

Meredith Keating, Homecoming Committee Chair and communication disorders sophomore, said the Homecoming Committee hopes to receive at least 30,000 cans. The number of cans, which are measured

in pounds, is estimated based on the load’s weight.

Last year, the committee collected 23,000 pounds’ worth of cans, which they estimated to be about 26,000 cans.

This is the first year that the committee has officially asked for organizations to participate in CANapalooza. Keating said several organizations were involved last year, but this year is the first the committee has documented which groups join the effort. The organizations involved span from honors societies and service organizations to Greek Life, which she noted usually gives

the majority of cans.

“Usually, organizations will aim for about 100 cans, but we’ve had a few Greek organizations go as high as 1,000 cans,” she said.

Alexis Sarver, Student Government director of communications, said SG decided to become involved in CANapalooza to support the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, and all three SG branches will be collecting cans throughout the month.

Students, faculty and other community members are welcome to donate their cans as well.

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your can could feed a child. If every student brought one can, we’d have about 30,000 cans.”

Keating said the Homecoming committee and the Baton Rouge Food Bank have been in a partnership for almost 10 years. The food bank relies on donations and events like CANapalooza to fill its shelves.

Students can also drop off cans in the large, white barrels at various locations on campus, including the lobby in Middleton Library, the Office of Greek Life, The 5 and 459 dining halls and the first floor entrance and SG office entrance in the Student Union.

The barrels will be available for donation until Nov. 10.

Once all cans have been collected, the committee plans to construct the same Tiger Stadium structure as last year’s model, and a Baton Rouge architect will help students with the construction.

“It’s a successful design and relatively feasible to create,” she said.

“Tiger Stadium is an iconic part of LSU football. It’s all about spirit and tradition.”

Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

Monday, November 7, 2011 ALABAMA, from page 1

turning the ball over on Tiger sophomore safety Eric Reid’s leaping interception near the goal-line off a wildcat pass by Alabama senior receiver Marquis Maze — changing the fourth quarter momentum and nixing ’Bama’s best scoring chance in the process.

“That defense found ways to win that football game in spite of some things, some mistakes,” LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis said. “Any time you can keep a team of that caliber in the SEC from scoring a touchdown, that’s big-time special.”

The Crimson Tide never ran a play inside the LSU 17-yard line.

LSU also contained Heisman contender and Crimson Tide junior running back Trent Richardson, holding him to just 89 yards rushing on 23 carries. He did break a few long gains on five pass receptions, totaling 80 yards.

Alabama gained only 96 yards on the ground, its first game this season with fewer than 100 yards.

Senior starting quarterback Jarrett Lee struggled in his worst game of the season, throwing two interceptions and struggling to handle a brutal Alabama pass rush.

But it was fellow senior Jordan Jefferson — fresh from his

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agreement with the legislation.

He added that legislation passed through Senate should always be addressed by the president. In the case of his disapproval of a bill, the president should attempt to work out a resolution with the bill’s authors, he said.

“The president should support or not support legislation,” he said. “The veto is there for a reason if he disagrees. In turn, a veto could have addressed any issues the president had with the legislation and could have resulted in a compromise between the resolution authors and him.”

Some Senators saw the omission of Wells’ signature as a sign that the LGBT community on campus is not receiving the support it deserves.

“I decided to write this bill in response to student frustration that LGBT history is not recognized in any formal or institutionalized way,” said Rachel O’Pry, SG senator for the Graduate School and co-author of the resolution. “The entire month of October is designated by the National Education Association to highlight and showcase the unique and varied history of LGBT people. Yet students on our campus struggle to find any hint of this.”

Ashley Hebert, SG senator for the Graduate School and coauthor of the bill, agreed.

“We represent all students, regardless of sex, race or creed,” Hebert said. “One in 10 students at LSU are a part of the LGBT community, and I feel [Wells’] comments [at the Senate meeting about the omission of his signature] may have failed them.”

Despite differences in opinions, O’Pry said she is satisfied

past struggles and an early-season suspension — who took over the offensive reigns, taking care of the ball and leading LSU’s three field goal drives, while rushing for 48 yards and passing for 67.

“We felt like in this game, a couple scrambles might make a difference, and [Jefferson] had the ability to move the chains that way,” Miles said.

The win gave LSU the inside track to an SEC West championship and resulted in a nearly unanimous No. 1 ranking in the latest polls.

The game, so hyped for its national title implications and the teams’ stifling defenses, became the even, physical affair many expected as offensive statistics were low and relatively similar throughout.

“It was like running into a wall on every snap,” said senior offensive lineman Will Blackwell.

Outside of the stalemate in the trenches, LSU enjoyed a distinct advantage in the third phase of the game — special teams.

Redshirt freshman punter Brad Wing dropped three punts inside the LSU 11-yard line, including a clutch 73-yarder that swung field position late.

Alleman was 3-of-3 on field-goal tries, outpacing his two Crimson Tide counterparts, who made just two of their with the support she has received from her fellow Senate members.

“I’m pleased with the overwhelming support I received from student senate,” she said.

“My concern is having this discussion continue on with the institution. LGBT student services are not receiving adequate funding and programming support.

Our history, our needs and our voices need to be heard on this campus.”

The University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs LGBTQ Project Coordinator Bruce Parker said he believes it would not be

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“Coach Miles emphasizing special teams, that’s not an act,” Alleman said. “It’s the first thing we do every day in practice, and I think you saw why [Saturday]. It was the classic total team effort.”

LSU largely beat Alabama at its own game, limiting secondhalf mistakes and using an alltimer of a defense to bludgeon its way to victory.

The Tigers outgained the Crimson Tide rushing attack by 52 yards, flustered sophomore opposing quarterback A.J. McCarron into two interceptions and converted all three of its red-zone chances into points.

LSU senior linebacker Ryan Baker said he felt pride as a defender in winning the purported “Game of the Century” without some of the zany circumstances that have peppered past wins under Miles.

“It really just shows the kind of grind-out football we can play,” said Baker, who led LSU with eight tackles. “We’re known as a sort of unconventional team, but we proved for good that we can win like this straight-up. We brought [Miles’] magic a little ourselves this time. He didn’t need to.”

Contact Chris Abshire at cabshire@lsureveille.com necessary to host a LGBT history month if the University taught all history and literature, including those from the LGBT community.

“Students shouldn’t be learning about the contributions of gay people, black people and women only one month a year,” Parker said. “They should be learning about these contributions alongside the contributions of all other people in our history and who have written our literature.”

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REALIGNMENT

Missouri to join SEC in July 2012

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REIDICULOUS

FOOTBALL

Game sees 2nd-highest ratings in 24 years

Hunter Paniagua

Chris Abshire

Sports Writer

Sports Writer

The Southeastern Conference presidents and chancellors announced Sunday they unanimously accepted the University of Missouri into the conference effective July 1, 2012.

The addition of Missouri brings the SEC to 14 members after the conference added Texas A&M in September. The SEC has not said which division Missouri will join, but reports Sunday indicated the Tigers will join the East Division.

“I am pleased to officially welcome the University of Missouri to the SEC family on behalf of our presidents, chancellors, athletics directors, students and fans,” said SEC commissioner Mike Slive in a news release. “Missouri is an outstanding academic institution with a strong athletic program. We look forward to having the Tigers compete in our league starting in 2012.”

Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton expressed excitement for his school’s opportunity to join the SEC. “The Southeastern Conference is a highly successful, stable, premier athletic conference that offers exciting opportunities for the University of Missouri,” Deaton said in a news release. “In joining the SEC, Missouri partners with universities distinguished for their academic programs and their emphasis on student success.”

It turns out the “Game of the Century” label wasn’t far off.

No. 1 LSU’s primetime victory at No. 2 Alabama on Saturday night was the second-highest rated college football game on CBS in 24 years.

The Tigers’ 9-6 overtime triumph earned an average overnight rating of 11.9 and a share of 21 — a 170-percent increase from last November ’s CBS telecast of LSU’s 2:30 p.m. game versus the Crimson Tide in Tiger Stadium.

The rating trailed only CBS’ telecast of Notre Dame versus Miami on Nov. 25, 1989, which drew a 14.5/26. Saturday’s game peaked with a rating of 14.5/27.

That ‘89 clash was a rematch pitting the undefeated and defending national champion Irish against the unbeaten Hurricanes, who won, 2710, en route to their 1989 national title.

CBS took an unprecedented step two weeks ago by moving the first regular season matchup between top-ranked Southeastern Conference foes from its regular afternoon time slot to a primetime kickoff.

A 7 p.m. kickoff has reportedly been promised to LSU when it hosts Alabama next year in exchange for agreeing to the move.

LSU is now 20-1 in road night games dating back to 2002.

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BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore safety Eric Reid celebrates after winning a fight for the ball with an Alabama tight end in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Reid, LSU defense keep Alabama out of end zone Saturday Hunter Paniagua Sports Writer

Safety Eric Reid stood on the sideline, confident the call would stand as replay officials reviewed his fourth quarter interception.

Replays showed the 6-foot-2 sophomore and 6-foot-6 Alabama junior tight end Michael Williams both had a piece of the ball as they fell to the turf at LSU’s

one-yard line, but Reid knew he had the pick.

“I got my hands on it,” Reid said. “I think I had a stronger grip.

He just had one hand on it. I had both of mine on it, so I was able to come down with it.”

Replays and Tom Ritter – the lead official in No. 1 LSU’s 9-6 victory Saturday against No. 2 Alabama – haven’t provided a good combination for LSU in the past.

Ritter officiated the Tigers’ 2009 defeat in Bryant-Denny Stadium and upheld an incomplete pass call against former cornerback Patrick Peterson, even though replays showed Peterson landed in-bounds after intercepting former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy.

This time Ritter’s call went the Tigers’ way. He stood in REID, see page 19

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

Tigers, Lady Tigers take down the Tide in dual meet LSU outswims Alabama at home Michael Gegenheimer Sports Contributor

When the waves finally settled at the LSU Natatorium on Friday, the LSU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams proved victorious in their dual meet with Alabama.

The Tigers won a nail-biter with the entire meet coming down to the last event of the day — the 400-yard freestyle relay.

LSU had to either win the final race or have two of its three

relay teams come in second and third to secure the six points needed to clinch the victory.

“In hindsight, we got pretty lucky,” said LSU swimming coach Dave Geyer. “Any time you are ahead, you should go for the strongest relay up front and let Alabama split up and try to do something with their lineup. It worked out well with our depth to spread out to get that second and third.”

But the Tigers didn’t get the win without a little help from the Crimson Tide.

Alabama sophomore Alex Coci’s winning 100-backstroke finish was erased for an illegal start. The disqualification

created an 18-point swing in LSU’s favor.

The Lady Tigers had a little more breathing room in their victory, defeating Alabama, 175.5-124.5, behind a strong performance by junior Amanda Kendall.

This was Kendall’s first collegiate meet of the season after returning from competing in the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

She earned victories this weekend in the 100-yard freestyle, finishing with a time of with a 49.18, and the 200-yard freestyle, with a 1:47.56 winning SWIMMING, see page 19

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Junior Sara Haley comes up for air during the 200-meter fly in Friday’s meet against Alabama in the LSU Natatorium.

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CLUB SPORTS

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LSU Rugby Club falls to Florida State at home, 22-20

FSU scores in final seconds Alex Cassara Sports Contributor

The LSU Rugby Club let victory slip away Saturday, losing to Florida State, 22-20, in the last play of the game.

After junior fly half Allen Alongi made a penalty kick with one minute left to put the Tigers up, 20-17, LSU was called for a diving over penalty while trying to run out the clock. FSU moved the ball to the other side of the field, capitalizing on LSU’s poor field distribution, and streaked up the left sideline.

“They had an overload with numbers,” Alongi said. “We were expecting to retain it and kick it out and win, but that’s what happens in

rugby. Any split second, the game can change.”

Senior outside center and captain Jeff Levasseur said the penalty highlighted the team’s biggest weakness — inexperience. The club had to replace nine starters this season, Alongi said .

“The ruck is the biggest thing we need to work on with all the new kids, because they’re coming from football and other sports,” Levasseur said. “We need to be aggressive but we need to be controlled.”

A ruck occurs when players stand over a tackled player to protect the ball because the opponent cannot touch the ball underneath the body of offensive players. A diving over penalty is called when the player is not supporting his body weight in the ruck.

FSU also scored the first points of the game. An FSU center caught the defense off guard and broke

through a gap, running half the length of the field for the first try of the match, making the score 7-0 after a completed conversion.

“We came out flat,” Levasseur said. “We came out pretty dead. We didn’t practice defense enough of them skipping it out immediately.

We were expecting them to crash the ball, crash the ball. ... We need to start off strong, finish strong. We can’t just play in the middle 40 to 50 minutes.”

Alongi and Levasseur both scored tries for LSU, and Alongi kicked two penalties and two conversions.

The Tigers will regroup and try to defend their title this weekend at the 33rd Annual Battleship Rugby Tournament at USS Alabama Memorial Park in Mobile, Ala. Levasseur said that despite the loss, he is pleased with the team’s improvement since its last game, a

BLAIR LOCKHART / The Daily Reveille

LSU rugby player Cameron Falcon (center) tries to push past a Florida State player during the LSU-FSU rugby match Saturday at the SAC Fields. The Tigers lost, 22-20.

23-10 loss to Texas State.

“I am much more comfortable and confident going into the tournament after today’s game,” Levasseur said. “It sucks that we lost, but I am much more confident

than three weeks ago.”

Contact Alex Cassara at acassara@lsureveille.com

VOLLEYBALL

Tigers beat Auburn, Georgia in away games, finish road stretch Albert Burford Sports Contributor

The LSU volleyball team finished its four-match road stretch in fashion with two wins this weekend.

The Tigers got off to a slow start at Georgia on Sunday, falling 25-20 in the first set.

LSU stormed back to take the second and third sets behind the arms of senior middle blocker Michele Williams and junior outside hitter Madie Jones.

Jones ended the day with 21 kills, while Williams added 19.

“We’re not always starting off strong,” Williams said. “But we’re finishing strong and that’s helping us to start off the next game with more

confidence.”

The Bulldogs took the fourth set, 25-21, to force a fifth set that would decide the match.

Williams said the Tigers focused on staying calm and mentally strong during the fifth set.

“We’ve played this game for so long and we don’t have anything to lose anymore, so we’d rather give it our all,” she said.

In the fifth set, Georgia forced match point six times, but LSU came through to take an 18-16 victory.

Freshman setter Malorie Pardo racked up 60 assists during the match.

LSU players and coach Fran Flory agreed the win was the result of a team effort rather than any individual.

“We all stepped up to the plate,” said sophomore middle blocker Desiree Elliott. “We’re building up our confidence again.”

LSU’s victory against Auburn on Friday didn’t come down to a fifth set, but it did feature multiple tight sets.

LSU won, 3-1, but none of the four sets were decided by more than the minimum two points.

During the match, there were 51 ties and 26 lead changes.

The victory against Auburn marked a career night for freshman outside hitter Helen Boyle. Boyle helped on offense and defense, accounting for a career-high 18 kills and leading the team with 18 digs.

LSU also accumulated a seasonhigh 15 blocks Friday.

Flory put the nature of the close wins in perspective.

“Certainly winning is important,” she said. “It’s the only acceptable thing at this point in the season, but to be able to win in this manner is a new leap for this team.”

Flory said she’s noticed that each player on the team has done a better job recognizing her role and playing her part as the season has progressed.

“It’s everybody playing together, doing their jobs and trusting

not just each other, but trusting our system,” she said. “It took us a long time to form, and probably longer than it needed to, but the fact that we got there says that our best volleyball is in front of us.”

The Tigers will now turn their attention to this Friday’s opponent, Florida, for their first home match since Oct. 23.

Contact Albert Burford at aburford@lsureveille.com

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Brees, Saints run past division rival Buccaneers, 27-16 New Orleans holds lead in NFC South The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A little embarrassment provided a lot of motivation for Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints.

One week after a humbling loss at previously winless St. Louis, New Orleans maintained its hold on the NFC South lead with a balanced attack and hard-hitting defense in a 2716 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.

“Obviously, a disappointing loss last week — we wanted to right a lot of the wrongs from that game,” Brees said. “But really, you don’t need to say much more than, hey, divisional opponent, at home, a critical point in the season, a team that we just played a few weeks ago and lost to. ... A lot of reasons why we needed to win this game today.”

Brees passed for 258 yards and two touchdowns, and New Orleans (6-3) gained 195 yards on the ground after amassing only 56 yards rushing in its previous game.

Several Saints players applauded coach Sean Payton’s decision to distribute baseball bats as motivational props leading up to the game, a now recurring ritual Payton reserves for times when he wants to challenge

his team to play with a stronger physical presence.

“It felt like a playoff game going out in pregame warmups,” linebacker Scott Shanle said. “There was just a stone-cold look in everybody’s eyes that we weren’t messing around. We were going to take care of business today.”

Despite playing without linebacker Jonathan Vilma, sidelined by a sore left knee, and losing starting cornerback Tracy Porter to a neck injury early in the game, New Orleans held Tampa Bay (4-4) without a touchdown until Josh Freeman hit Kellen Winslow with 5:33 left.

The defense set a tone early by dropping LeGarrette Blount for a loss on fourth-and-short, gang tackling the running back while safety Roman Harper stripped the ball.

The play maintained a scoreless tie and the Saints took the lead for good soon after.

Brees’ scoring passes went for 3 yards to Lance Moore and 21 yards to Darren Sproles. Pierre Thomas added a tackle-breaking, 9-yard touchdown.

The Bucs struggled to contain Sproles, who finished with 57 yards receiving on five catches and 42 yards rushing on four carries. Chris Ivory added 67 yards rushing and Thomas 66.

Freeman had 256 yards passing, but was routinely pressured and plagued by untimely overthrows.

The Bucs hoped to get a boost from Blount’s return after he’d missed two games with a left knee sprain. He gained 72 yards on 13 carries, but also was called for a drive-stalling personal foul when he swatted his open hand across defensive end Will Smith’s face mask. The Bucs settled for a field goal on that drive.

Tampa Bay was penalized nine times for 80 yards, a statistic that irked coach Raheem Morris.

“Those things we cannot allow to happen,” Morris said. “It’s not good enough to come to the sideline and apologize to your teammates, coaches or whoever. It’s just selfish, undisciplined football.”

Brees’ first scoring strike to Moore in the first quarter gave him TD passes in 36 straight games, tying Brett Favre for the second-longest streak in NFL history. Brees will need to keep that streak going into next season to tie Johnny Unitas, who had scoring passes in 47 straight games.

Connecting on 27 of 36 throws, Brees also extended his NFL record of consecutive games with 20-plus completions to 29.

Bolstered by the return of starting right tackle Zach Strief, the Saints’ offensive line did not allow a sack on Brees, who was hauled down six times the week before.

“We just wanted Drew to be clean,” guard Carl Nicks said.

BILL HABER / The Associated Press

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) drops back to pass Sunday as offensive tackle Jermon Bushrod (74) blocks against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

“There shouldn’t be any turf marks, scratches on his helmet or anything.”

New Orleans led 24-6 after Thomas’ touchdown in the third quarter.

Tampa Bay then converted two fourth downs during a 15-play, 73-yard drive that took 7:03 off the clock, but had to settle for Connor Barth’s third field goal of the game to make it 24-9 after Freeman threw a pair of incompletions from inside the Saints 10.

Winslow’s 5-yard touchdown catch later pulled the Bucs to 24-16.

Brees then responded by marching

the Saints 63 yards in an 11-play drive that ate 4:16 off the clock. He converted a key third-and-4 play with a 20-yard scramble, setting up John Kasay’s 34-yard field goal with 1:17 left.

With the victory, New Orleans remained a half-game ahead of Atlanta (5-3) in the NFC South. The Saints visit the Falcons next week.

Tampa Bay dropped into third place with its third loss in four games.

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TENNIS

Monday, November 7, 2011

Lady Tigers end fall season with winning weekend in Utah

Adrian Wintz Sports Contributor

The LSU women’s tennis team churned out a winning weekend in Utah as the fall season drew to a close.

Six Lady Tigers roared into Salt Lake City for the Utah Fall Invitational this weekend for LSU’s final tournament of the fall 2011 season, and each won at least two matches.

“We played well across the board,” said LSU coach Tony Minnis. “We got a lot of matches in and

played some very solid tennis.”

Senior Whitney Wolf went wild in Utah, winning three doubles matches and three singles matches. She took home the doubles title and reached the final in singles.

The Pride, La., native blazed through the singles main draw all the way to the final but was denied a championship, losing to Utah’s Sarah Pham, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0. The loss was only the second in Wolf’s last 10 singles matches.

“Even though she lost, she’s doing things that she hasn’t done in

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the past that are just going to make her a better player,” Minnis said.

“She’s more consistent, she’s using her touch more. She’s doing some different things that have really impressed me.”

Junior Keri Frankenberger dropped her two singles matches in her fall 2011 debut after recovering from back surgery in late August.

But she and doubles partner Wolf flew through the doubles main draw all the way to the championship. The duo defeated the team of Danielle Flores and Natasha Smith from Utah in the final, 9-8 (7-5).

“[Frankenberger] had been out up until mid-October,” Minnis said. “She’s a very, very good doubles player, and was All-SEC in singles a couple years ago, so it was nice to have her back. She stepped up and played some solid tennis.”

Senior Olivia Howlett won her first two singles matches and played her way to the semifinals, where she fell to Pham, 7-5, 6-2.

The Lady Tigers, who competed against players from Utah, Idaho State, Boise State, Wyoming and BYU, finished the Utah

Invitational with overall records of 12-9 in singles and 7-2 in doubles, including their regularly-scheduled matches and added matches.

Now that the fall season is over, the Lady Tigers are facing the transition to the spring season.

Rankings will change, doubles teams will shift around and twoteam matches will replace weekend invitational tournaments.

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TRACK AND FIELD

WOMEN’S GOLF

Intl. recruiting produces success

Andrew Chapple Sports Contributor

File photo

LSU sophomore Austin Ernst lines up a shot at the LSU Golf Classic on March 13 at the University Golf Club. The Lady Tigers have NCAA championship aspirations for the spring.

Lady Tigers set strong precedent for spring Morgan Wampold Sports Contributor

The LSU women’s golf team completed its most successful fall season of the millennium this semester with two first place finishes out of four tournaments.

The Lady Tigers rank No. 2 in the Golf Digest/National Golf Coaches Associations women’s golf poll despite having their worst performance of the fall in the Mercedes Benz SEC/PAC12 Challenge on Oct. 24, placing 15th overall.

Coach Karen Bahnsen said the team isn’t focused on the rankings because bigger aspirations lie at the end of spring 2012.

“The polls and rankings mean absolutely nothing,” Bahnsen said. “Our goal is to win an SEC and NCAA Championship.”

The first tournament of the fall was the Cougar Classic in Charleston, S.C., which the Lady Tigers dominated. LSU finished in first place, winning by five strokes and shooting a combined 16-under-par 848.

Sophomore Austin Ernst placed first on the individual leaderboard at the Cougar Classic, marking her best performance of the fall. Ernst won the NCAA Championship as a freshman last spring.

The Lady Tigers also came in first overall in their third tournament of the fall at the Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C. Freshman Madelene Sagstrom pushed the team to victory with an impressive fifth place finish.

Sagstrom shined in her first semester on the team with top20 finishes in two of the four fall tournaments.

Both Sagstrom and Ernst will compete in the Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship this week, which starts Wednesday.

Sagstrom will be representing her home country of Sweden, while Ernst will compete on the fourplayer United States squad.

The end of the fall season means more down time for the

players, who practice mostly on an individual basis during breaks.

As winter break approaches, Bahnsen said the Lady Tigers will take the time to catch up on class work.

“School is the No. 1 priority,” Bahnsen said. “They all have things they need to work on now that they have time to do it.”

While the team will be focusing on school, it will still commit time to its play, according to Bahnsen.

Bahnsen said the end of the semester, particularly the last tournament, raised some issues that need to be worked out for the spring season.

“We struggled having some putts drop towards the end,” Bahnsen said. “I want us to be more consistent in our short game.”

Even though there is work to be done, Bahnsen praised the team’s successes and said she eagerly awaits the spring season.

Among the starters, Bahnsen said she looks for the two seniors, Jacqueline Hedwall and Tessa Teachman, to become leaders for the younger players on the team.

“I would love to see them both step forward,” Bahnsen said.

“They’re both very capable of winning more.”

Teachman said she also has high expectations for herself during her last semester as a Tiger.

“I’ve been looking for an individual win for four years,” Teachman said. “It’s my last year at LSU, and I want to go out with a bang.”

The Lady Tigers start their spring campaign abroad, as they travel to Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, for the Lady Puerto Rico Classic on Feb. 12.

Contact Morgan Wampold at mwampold@lsureveille.com

After competing for her home country of Trinidad and Tobago in the 2011 World Championships, senior sprinter Semoy Hackett returned to LSU to resume training for her final season as a Lady Tiger.

Hackett and teammate KellyAnn Baptiste, a 2008 LSU graduate and two-time NCAA champion, finished fourth in the 4x100-meter relay on the world level.

During the same meet, junior sprinter Riker Hylton earned a bronze medal for his role on Jamaica’s 4x400-meter relay team.

These are three of many international recruits who have enjoyed success at LSU. “Our track and field program is made up of less than 5 percent international athletes, it’s just so often that they’re the high-profile athletes on the team,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “You don’t bring somebody in from overseas that can’t help you.”

There are currently eight international athletes on the track team.

Five are All-Americans, and junior transfer hurdler Shanekia Hall won three junior college national championships.

“International recruiting is a little bit different than recruiting nationally,” said assistant coach and cross country coach Mark Elliott.

“You have to pick a can’t-miss athlete because 100 percent of the time, you’re going to have to put a full scholarship into them.”

Elliott was an international recruit from Jamaica and posted a prolific career at LSU. Elliott said he still keeps in touch with club and high school track coaches in Jamaica who inform him about track stars and help

File photo

Senior sprinter Semoy Hackett runs the 4x200 meter relay at the 2011 LSU Relays.

him contact the recruits.

Shaver said he’s done lots of networking with coaches worldwide.

“You make those coaching contacts throughout the world,” Shaver said. “They know what you’re looking for and what you’re good at coaching.”

Shaver said LSU’s reputation for having talented sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers help recruit elite caliber athletes of that type.

Shaver also said it’s easy to identify potential recruits because track has world lists that rank the top performances in each event, and coaches can watch these athletes perform at large international meets.

“We don’t have to go to all these places to evaluate them because they all come to the same meets, so you go there with your whole staff and you evaluate them and decide right then,” Shaver said.

Shaver compared evaluating international players to evaluating

American athletes at the Nike High School National Track and Field Championships.

“Then you go through that entire recruiting process of evaluating them not only from an athletic standpoint but also from an academic standpoint,” Shaver said. “Are they going to meet the criteria to be able to enroll at a major university in the United States?”

Elliott said most international students don’t take the ACT or SAT, which can cause problems with ensuring the athletes are academically eligible.

“It’s a lot more work recruiting an international athlete from an academic standpoint,” Elliott said.

“They have to fulfill the standard any American student would, even though they’re from another country.”

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WEB COMMENTS

As usual, the Opinion Section of our website, lsureveille.com, has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

Regarding sports columnist Rob Landry’s column, “‘Napoleonic complex’ brings big problems for Little Nick,” readers had this to say: “I think the author needs to dust off his dictionary and learn the definition of ‘ironic.’”

-Walking Thesaurus “Just the fact that you feel the need to bash Saban is telling. If he didn’t matter to you, you wouldn’t bother. Jealousy rears its ugly head!

I could understand such vitriol if he

had left LSU for Alabama. Maybe you need to examine your motive before writing such drivel.”

-Anonymous “Obviously y’all Elephant fans can’t take a little good-natured rubbing. How sad for you! Just a man making a few observations!! Geaux Tigers!!!”

-NOEgirl “And Saban’s stature is important because...? Evidently, in your small mind, he’d be a better coach if he were taller.”

-Anonymous “Little college boy sports ‘journalist.’

BIG sour grapes that little Nick

left you school for greener pastures.”

-Anonymous

“Meh I’ll take the lil debbie eater, you can keep the grass eater.”

-Anonymous “Psych major huh?”

-Anonymous “I don’t blame you for writing this drivel. I do blame the website for printing it. Your writing shows the level of education that you would expect from the state school of the most corrupt state in the nation.”

-Anonymous “Seriously, get over Saban. He left for the NFL just like he’ll leave

Bama for the NFL. Saban set the course for the way things are at LSU and fortunately Miles has finally learned game management. Saban’s still one of the best coaches around and to deny that is pathetic. Making fun of his ‘stature’ is sophomoric at best. I’d expect more from a 23 year old senior.”

-Ernesto Bowkerman Regarding the entertainment article, “Sci-fi and anime fandom gets ‘furry’,” readers had this to say: “Yay! It’s about time someone put out a good article on us! My thanks to Zephyr and Darkmayne for talking to the reporter! And to the reporter for actually reporting what was SAID and not modifying the

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THE PHILIBUSTER

Shakespeare is bard to the bone, but it doesn’t matter Shakespeare or not Shakespeare: that’s the question.

It’s the question posited by director Roland Emmerich’s latest offering, “Anonymous” — who really authored the 38 plays and 154 sonnets historically attributed to player/poem-slinger William Shakespeare of Stratford-uponAvon?

Or as the film’s theatrical poster inquires, “Was Shakespeare a fraud?”

E m m e r i c h Phil Sweeney — whose direcColumnist torial qualifications as a Shakespearean critic include the tragedies “Stargate,” “Godzilla” and “10,000 BC” — denies Shakespeare’s authorship, contending that Elizabethan aristocrat Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the works ascribed to the “Bard of Avon.”

As such, “Anonymous” is the latest advancement of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship. But the question Emmerich poses isn’t a novel one. Anti-Stratfordians, the collective term for adherents to various alternative authorship theories, have disputed the authorship of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Julius Caesar” since the 19th century.

Emmerich’s film goes further, however, adorning the Shakespearean authorship question with historically fictitious political turmoil.

Literary prodigy De Vere (played by Rhys Ifans), the “real” Shakespeare, is depicted as a lover of Elizabeth I (Vanessa Redgrave),

with whom he has a son. De Vere’s works are suppressed by Queen Elizabeth as rebellious propaganda supporting Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (Sebastian Reid).

William Shakespeare (Rafe Spall), an illiterate simpleton, agrees to “author” and perform de Vere’s plays, and after Devereux’s insurrection fails, at Queen Elizabeth’s behest, de Vere agrees to remain anonymous as the “true” author of Shakespeare’s works. Notwithstanding, like most Oxfordians, Emmerich’s film overlooks the historical fact that de Vere died in 1604 — long before a number of Shakespeare’s best and most famous plays were written.

Moreover, “Anonymous” suggests that Queen Elizabeth birthed many bastard sons in addition to de Vere’s. One of these sons, in quite the Oedipal turn, was de Vere himself.

Really? I mean, everyone knows that the “Virgin Queen” was an ironic monicker for Elizabeth I, but incest?

Fie off, Hollywood! This, as Columbia University English professor James Shapiro relates, is “a new low” — even for you.

“It’s completely grotesque,” says Stanley Wells, whose charity, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, is actively refuting the film’s allegations. In addition to its online advocacy campaign, which features the publication “Shakespeare Bites Back,” the Trust has blackened the bard’s name on signs and covered his famous statue in Shakespeare’s Warwickshire county.

For The New York Times critic A. O. Scott, “Anonymous” is a

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“vulgar prank on the English literary tradition, a travesty of British history and a brutal insult to the human imagination.”

I think “Anonymous” is just dumb, and it’s much ado about nothing.

I’m somewhat of a Shakespearean authorship agnostic. I don’t feel Shakespeare’s authorship is indisputable. But “Anonymous” is Shakespeare-mongering at its finest, amounting to little more than ill-informed Elizabethan gossip. It’s just less “The Merchant of Venice” and more “The Merchants of Hollywood.”

As you like it, I suppose.

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who wrote the works of Shakespeare.

“What is important,” William Faulkner, Southern Shakespeare, once said in an interview, “is ‘Hamlet’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important.”

From there, to the extent that Emmerich’s film focuses attention on the most significant body of work in the English language, I’m fine with “anonymous” Shakespearean authorship.

Shakespeare, de Vere or

Marlowe — it doesn’t matter. Hell, you could say Tucker Max wrote them for all I care.

What’s in a name, after all?

As Juliet says, “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.”

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

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THE G-SPOT

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Oral sex more likely to give you throat cancer than smoking Men, are you ready for a Pap smear?

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the leading cause of cervical cancer among young women, in case you haven’t heard. This virus, however, is also responsible for anal cancer and oral cancer in the throat and head. Oral sex has led to an increase in oral cancer which has now surpassed the rate of smokers. I swear I didn’t make this up.

With increased awareness and preventatives, cervical cancer rates are declining, but HPVrelated oral cancers continue to rise. Unlike cervical cancer, however, oral cancer caused by this virus is most common in men. This raises new concern for HPV prevention in males, which was previously overlooked by the widespread cervical cancer cases.

Strains HPV-16 and HPV-18 of the virus are known to cause

95 percent of cervical cancers.

HPV vaccines, such as Gardisil, protect against these but do not protect against all strains.

Research at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Research Center found that H P V- r e l a t e d oral cancer rates have risen 225 percent since the Gabie Bacques 1980s. As more research surColumnist faced about this virus and its relation to cervical cancer, vaccinations for young women became almost protocol in the United States, and mandatory in countries like Mexico.

Young women are urged to get vaccinated, but these preventatives are also approved for young men to protect against harmful strains, particularly for

anal cancers.

Although the vaccinations have not been proven to protect against oral cancer, it wouldn’t hurt. If you’re sexually active, these precautions should be taken for both you and your partner’s health and safety. This virus often shows few or no signs as it continues to spread. You or your partner, whether committed or not, may have this potentially deadly virus and not even know it.

I’m not trying to scare you with STD statistics. It’s just common sense. If you’re sexually active, you’re putting yourself and others at risk whether you want to admit it or not. Unfortunately, some adults don’t realize the responsibility this entails.

Many guys tend not to worry about curable sexually transmitted infections, but many more probably aren’t even aware they

have one.

Yes, guys get HPV. Yes, both men and women spread it. And yes, guys can develop cancer from this virus.

I obviously don’t know all there is to know about HPV, but I encourage you to further explore the world of STDs not by experience, but by educating yourself.

If you are sexually active, male or female, look into HPV preventatives. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer information and statistics and your health provider can answer any crazy questions you could possibly ask. The Student Health Center on campus can also provides information and medical assistance for students interested in such.

Clearly both men and women are responsible for spreading this virus, as is the case for all STDs. Although most HPV strains are

cleared by the body naturally, it typically takes two years and often goes unnoticed. During this time it is spread from partner to partner, and if it happens to be one of the high-risk strains, this can become life-threatening.

Even if you aren’t having intercourse, oral sex can spread these infections, whether you’re giving or receiving. Condoms can be used to protect against HPV, but honestly, how often are they used for oral sex?

If you thought smokers were the only ones at risk, think again.

Gabie Bacques is a 21-year-old animal science senior from Mandeville. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_Gbacques.

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FAILURE OF DIPLOMACY

Militia plots show domestic terrorists on a misguided crusade Unfortunately, it seems when today’s Americans think of terrorism, images of foreigners – Middle Eastern or otherwise – come to mind. While this may be part of the scars our country still bears from 9/11, it is nonetheless misguided.

The recent arrest of four men from Georgia is a perfect example of this.

After seven months of surveillance, federal investigators finally had sufficient evidence to arrest these men for conspiring to attack government officials with both explosives and biological agents. Beyond being domestic terrorists, what makes these men even more special is their age.

None of them were younger than 65, with the oldest of the group aged 73.

That certainly doesn’t fit the young-to-middle-aged Islamic terrorists whom we have been told to fear. If these men did not subscribe to the beliefs that terrorists are supposed to have, then what, exactly, was their goal?

According to these militiamen, their aim was simply to protect the Constitution, and in their words, to do so meant “some people gotta die.”

Let’s take a look at just why and how they planned on doing this.

The four elderly militiamen aimed to extract ricin – an extremely lethal biological agent – from castor beans and spread it throughout major U.S. cities by releasing it from either a plane or a car on the highway. More specific targets also included federal buildings, such as ATF and IRS offices. One of the Georgian men is reported to have said, “We’d

have to blow the whole building like Timothy McVeigh.”

These are not your typical retirees.

Following this arrest, many are pointing fingers at the online novel, “Absolved,” written by former Alabama militia leader Mike Zachary Davis Va n d e r b o e g h , Columnist which told the tale of similar militia uprisings.

Vanderboegh is the same man who pushed people around the country to throw bricks into the local offices of the Democratic Party as an attempt to protest President Obama’s healthcare plan.

With some people being the mindless sheep they are, obviously there were some who heeded his call. While Vanderboegh may not be completely responsible for the domestic terrorists’ actions from his book, the same cannot be said about his call to action.

Yet, many of the grievances against the government shared by both Vanderboegh and the McVeigh wannabes was the issue of gun control and the belief the government would try to take away their guns. This is the root of the problem.

I can understand fighting for a cause and believing some people might have to die for such a cause to succeed. If it’s for the greater good, and ultimately beneficial to society, then I don’t see dying for your country as such a horrible thing.

But their goal is flawed. The Constitution is more than 200

years old and was made during a much different time. Some of the rights these men were championing for, such as the right to bear arms, weren’t even included in the original document.

While our country may have been founded on the Constitution, that does not mean we have to stick strictly to it for the rest of our existence. Just look at the 27 amendments we’ve added since its creation and it’s obvious there were things which the Founding Fathers simply couldn’t plan for.

How could they have ever foreseen any of the societal issues which we have going on

today, or even the way many of us go about our lives?

Thus, any ideas about defending the Constitution as it is simply don’t seem very reasonable. It may have indeed been a great thing when it was created, but even the most splendid masterpieces fade with time. To stubbornly stick with what we have currently will only hinder us in the long run, and, if anything, seems like an idea the founding fathers would be against.

Obviously our country is not without problems. Plans to murder not only government officials but also citizens, however, is not

the solution we need. Hopefully militiamen like Vanderboegh and these Georgia men realize this before anyone really gets harmed.

Zachary Davis is a 20-yearold history junior from Warsaw, Poland. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_zdavis.

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LSU sophomore safety Eric Reid (1) fights with Alabama tight end Michael Williams (89) for the ball during the Tigers’ 9-6 overtime victory against the Crimson Tide.

REID, from page 9

front of 101,821 rabid fans and said the phrase that sent the LSU contingent into a craze – “the ruling on the field is confirmed.”

“I was happy,” said Reid, who called this game the best performance of his college career. “I knew it was a turn in momentum for us, and we needed it.”

Reid’s interception came at a time when the LSU defense was desperate for a stop. LSU had allowed Alabama into its territory six times prior to the interception, but after three failed field goal attempts, the teams were still tied, 6-6, in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter.

Had Williams come down with the ball, the Tide would have been in prime position to punch in a score and pull away. Instead, Reid gave possession back to his offense.

“He made a lot of big plays for us, none bigger than that interception,” said LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis. “I wish he’d gotten there a little quicker. I saw the tight end get behind us, but he made a great play.”

The interception swung momentum back in LSU’s favor and allowed the Tigers to take the game into overtime as neither team mounted much of an offensive attack for the remainder of regulation.

Reid noticed that the defense’s intensity picked up in overtime.

“They had a lot of momentum in the fourth quarter,” Reid said.

“We made it out there, and when we got into overtime, we knew we had our chance, and we took

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time. Her finish in the 200-free was more than five seconds faster than her nearest competitor.

She was also part of the first place 200-yard medley relay (1:47.72) and the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:24), winning by more than three seconds. Kendall was involved in 40 points on the day for the Lady Tigers.

“Having Amanda Kendall back in the lineup, she doesn’t necessarily define our team, but to put our athletes in their normal events that they are racing is key for that women’s team,” Geyer said. “It was great to have the whole team together and to put a solid lineup together.”

On the men’s diving team, redshirt freshman Kevin Leong posted an LSU season-high three-meter score, finishing with

advantage of it.”

A dropped pass on the first play of Alabama’s first overtime possession plus a five-yard illegal substitution penalty left the Tide in a difficult situation. Another incomplete pass on second down and a third-down sack by sophomore defensive end Sam Montgomery – his second of the game – set up a 52-yard field goal attempt by Alabama sophomore kicker Cade Foster, which he missed.

“It feels like I made it a little bit,” Montgomery said of his sack.

“It shows that I have a lot of stamina, a lot of heart, and I showed the kind of man that I am to myself and to a lot of people around the world.”

Montgomery and Reid, who had six tackles and returned a blocked field goal 26 yards in the second quarter, formed part of an LSU defense that held Alabama out of the end zone for the first time since the Tide beat Tennessee 12-10 in 2009. LSU forced two turnovers and held the Crimson Tide offense to just 96 rushing yards, 133 yards below its season average.

Chavis received the game ball from LSU coach Les Miles and called it one of the most emotional and physical victories of his 32year coaching career.

“That ball will mean a lot once it gets everybody’s name on it that was out there on the battlefield,” Chavis said. “I really appreciate Coach Miles doing that, but those kids played their rear end off.”

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The women’s diving team of freshman Alex Bettridge and junior Elle Schmidt took both the three-meter and one-meter events.

“As you build a team you want to build teammates that will push, compliment and challenge each other,” said LSU diving coach Doug Shaffer. “Elle is busting good out of Alex, and Alex is busting good out of Elle, and that was an example of them splitting the events.”

Contact Michael Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com

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