Football: Rueben Randle serves as a distraction against Alabama, p. 5
Art: Music students, faculty provide soundtrack to silent films, p. 10
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LSUPD
On-campus altercation results in man’s arrest
Music: Radiohead, others travel to South, p. 9
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 • Volume 116, Issue 54
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Josh Naquin Staff Writer
A 45-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon at the Athletic Administration Building for disturbing the peace with vulgar language, simple battery and resisting arrest, according to Capt. Cory Lalonde, LSU Police Department spokesman. LSUPD officers arrived at the Athletic Administration Building, located off of North Stadium Drive, around 3:30 p.m. after reports of a disturbance, Lalonde said. Officers saw Brian J. Rigby, of 7245 Bayou Paul Road in St. Gabriel, in a verbal altercation with Buster Guzzaro. The officers separated both subjects in order to speak with them, and Rigby continued to publicly curse and call Guzzaro inappropriate names, according to a police report from LSUPD. Lalonde said LSUPD officers asked Rigby three times to compose himself, but Rigby remained “belligerent.” Rigby then physically resisted officers when he was put under arrest. Rigby, who is not affiliated with the University, was booked at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
Contact Josh Naquin at jnaquin@lsureveille.com
Students get colorful
photos by MARIAH POSTLETHWAITE / The Daily Reveille
Monday night while participating in Splatterbeat for the third straight year on the Parade Ground. Students were given free white T-shirts and were able to smother each other with 140 gallons of tempura paint propelled by tennis balls on sticks in overturned trashcan lids. See more Splatterbeat photos at lsureveille.com.
FACULTY SENATE
New grading system considered to reflect students’ work Pluses and minuses would affect GPA
Josh Naquin Staff Writer
The LSU Faculty Senate is considering introducing a new, campus-wide grading system, and students have mixed opinions on whether the change in grades would be a plus. Don Chance, professor of finance and business administration senator, introduced a resolution at the Senate meeting
Thursday that, if passed, would implement the use of pluses and minuses in determining class grades and grade point averages. Under the new system, a B- average would earn a student a 2.7 GPA, a B average would receive a 3.0 GPA and a B+ average would garner a 3.3 GPA. This differs from the current system, which assigns a 3.0 GPA to any type of B average, no matter where on the scale a student’s grade falls. Pluses and minuses would be considered with all letter grades under the new policy with the exceptions of an A+, F+ and F-.
Emily Berkey sociology senior
‘I like it because it gives you a chance to boost your GPA.’
Chance said a plus-and-minus system will ensure grades more accurately reflect students’ academic progress and effort. “There’s a big difference in performance between the
Erica Laroux English senior
‘I’m not in favor of it. It doesn’t seem fair that an A- doesn’t count as much as an A.’
highest B and the lowest B,” Chance said. Chance said he researched grading systems for 82 peer institutions to better understand where the University’s
Steve Alvarado biology sophomore
‘I think that new system would better reward hard work.’
current grading system stands. He found that 69 institutions used some variation of the plus-andminus grading system, while 13 GRADING, see page 4