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NEWS Students customize ringtones to show off personalities, page 3.

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Tigers try to regain momentum tonight after weekend series loss, page 7.

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A LONG WAY FROM HOME 1. After point guard Erica White’s team, the Houston Comets, folded, she was picked up by the Indiana Fever.

2. In the WNBA offseason, guard Quianna Chaney competes on the Energa Torun team in Poland.

Admin. salaries up for debate Chief Staff Writer

Former Lady Tigers find perks overseas as WNBA sees trouble

By Amy Brittain Contributing Writer

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photos courtesy of Quianna Chaney

FACULTY

By Kyle Bove

The team names Galatasaray, Spartak Moscow and Energa Torun are a far cry from the familiarity of the 3. In the WNBA LSU Lady Tigers’ moniker. offseason, guard It would take a voyage across the Atlantic to find Seimone these teams and watch former LSU stars Seimone AuAugustus plays for gustus, Sylvia Fowles and Quianna Chaney compete in the Galatasaray in their new homes.

Istanbul, Turkey.

Citing greater job opportunities, higher salaries and more playing time, the exporta4. In the WNBA tion of U.S. players offseason, center abroad during the Log on to view WNBA offseason is Sylvia Fowles an interactive now commonplace. plays for the map of where Turkey, Russia and Spartak former LSU Moscow in players are now. Poland are just a few of the popular Moscow, Russia.

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Former LSU guard Quianna Chaney talks to Elmedin Omanic, head coach of the Energa Torun. Chaney competes for the team in Poland during the WNBA offseason.

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Chancellor Michael Martin said University salaries at every level will need to be examined as budget cuts of about $219 million are expected to hit state higher education next fiscal year.

Some — including members of the Faculty Senate — deem administrative salaries as “unreasonable” and “extravagant.”

“I think it’s a fair question to ask about any- Log on to one if the public see an is getting their interactive money’s worth,” salary database of Martin said.

A d m i n i s - University trative salaries faculty and staff. at the University are generally below those at peer institutions, he said. Martin makes a base salary of $400,000 a year, while LSU System President John Lombardi makes $550,000 annually.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Holden speaks at Unity ’09 rally

By Adam Duvernay Staff Writer

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It isn’t often public officials get involved with Student Government, but Monday night was different.

East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden spoke in front of a crowd of

about 60 students Monday night before an organizational meeting for the Unity ’09 Student Government ticket.

Holden was invited to speak by Ari Krupkin, SG presidential candidate.

Krupkin worked with Holden while the mayor-president was still in the state legislature, where Krupkin was a page.

Krupkin contacted Holden through his son, Brian Holden, who is running for College of Engineering Council president on the Unity ‘09 ticket.

Kip Holden spoke to the group about

his history of public office campaigns and the importance of having a unified electorate when seeking office. He also stressed the necessity of remembering the voters following an election.

“When you talk about campaigns, it’s good to say ‘I,I,I,’” Kip Holden said.

“But if you don’t have the ‘we,’ then you’re going to fail.”

Though he was familiar with Krupkin and hopeful for his son’s success, HOLDEN, see page 4

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Mayor-President Kip Holden gives a speech Monday night in Williams Hall to supporters of the Krupkin-Oubre SG ticket.

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CAIRO (AP) — A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not her close relatives, drawing new criticism for the kingdom’s ultraconservative religious police and judiciary. The woman’s lawyer told The Associated Press on Monday that he would appeal the verdict against Khamisa Sawadi, who is Syrian but was married to a Saudi. The attorney, Abdel Rahman al-Lahem, said the verdict issued March 3 also demands that Sawadi be deported after serving her sentence.

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Possible portrait of Shakespeare unveiled

LONDON (AP) — The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday’s unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a darkeyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery.

Experts say it is the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime — in effect, the sole source of our knowledge of what the great man looked like. But they can’t be certain. In the shifting sands of Shakespeare scholarship, where even the authorship of the plays is sometimes disputed, nothing is written in stone. “We’re 90 percent sure that it’s Shakespeare,” said Paul Edmondson, director of learning at the Shakespeare Learning Trust.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

Obama opens stem cell work, science inquiries

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WASHINGTON (AP) — From tiny embryonic cells to the large-scale physics of global warming, President Barack Obama urged researchers on Monday to follow science and not ideology as he abolished contentious Bush-era restraints on stem cell research. ”Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values,” Obama declared as he signed documents changing U.S. science policy and removing what some researchers have said were shackles on their work. ”It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda — and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,” Obama said.

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President Barack Obama signs an executive order on stem cells and a presidential memorandum on scientific integrity Monday.

Blacks, Hispanics have Jindal disagrees with steeper end-of-life costs Obama on stem cells CHICAGO (AP) — Striking new research shows dying blacks and Hispanics have much steeper treatment costs than whites, sobering evidence that racial health-care differences continue right up until death. It’s not that minorities are being charged more than whites. It’s that they tend to get more costly, intensive treatments including feeding tubes and other invasive medical procedures near death. That’s in sharp contrast with what often happens throughout their lives, when minorities are less likely than whites to get aggressive medical care.

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(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal says he disagrees with President Obama on stem cell research. The president Monday cleared the way for increases in federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, arguing in the interests of scientific and medical advances. Obama lifted funding restrictions on the research imposed by former President George W. Bush. Jindal told reporters he saw it as an issue akin to abortion and he supported the Bush administration’s restrictions, which blocked some funding because embryos are destroyed to create the cell lines.

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TECHNOLOGY

Customized ringtones exhibit individual expression Not everyone involved in trend

By Steven Powell Contributing Writer

Allison Rivera’s basic GoPhone doesn’t support downloaded ringtones, forcing her to revert to a factory setting ring. However, with her old phone, Rivera was riding the ringtone bandwagon, having her favorite song as her main ringtone and different songs assigned to callers in her contact list.

“I had different ringtones for different people to let me know who is calling and whether I would want to answer it,” said Rivera, elementary education sophomore. “I had ‘I’m a Bitch’ for my mom and a Corey Smith song for my sister.”

Walking through a crowded Quad, students’ favorite songs can be heard playing on their phones as they rush to see who is calling. Renee Edwards, communication studies professor, said humans have a need for individual expression.

“According to the self-verification theory, [humans] have a fundamental need for others to recognize us and see us the way we see ourselves,” she said.

Edwards said identities are very important to the human race, using things such as friends, clothing, cars and music to reflect a personal identity.

Bridgette Mouton, psychology freshman, said her main ringtone is “All for You,” by Sister Hazel because of the rhythm and beat.

“A customized ringtone is less boring and makes you excited when someone calls you,” Mouton said.

Mouton said she has different ringtones for different people, such as Ferras’ “Hollywood’s Not America,” which plays when her best friend calls and serves as an inside joke between the two.

“I have ‘Heads and Shoulders’

by Lil’ Wayne as my ringtone because I like the fast-paced way it sounds,” said Daniel Enger, accounting sophomore. “I don’t like anything slow.”

Enger said he changes ringtones between country and rap every few months, depending on his mood and which new songs are released.

Students aren’t the only one’s listening to their personalized ringtones. Though the University does not have a policy against cell phone use in class, individual professors often find them distracting, creating their own class policy for cell phones.

“When a crazy ringtone goes off in class, it tends to be funny,” said David Brown, geography and anthropology professor. “It’s even more distracting and harder to refocus on what we’re doing in class, the more bizarre or crazy the ringtone is.”

He said cell phones disrupting class have become less of a problem in recent semesters because students are usually cooperative and put the phones on silent. However, crazy ringtones in class still

cause a disturbance, he said.

Roxanne Dill, mass communication instructor, said her class has few problems with cell phones because of her “if it goes off in class, I get to answer it” policy. However, she doesn’t mind personalized or crazy ringtones, she said.

“Cell phones going off in class are distracting to the students and to me because you lose your train of thought,” she said. “If you’re gonna let it ring in class, it might as well have an interesting ringtone.”

Apple Inc. launched their ringtone downloads in September 2007.

Though Apple does not archive actual download numbers, according to the iTunes store, the top downloads as of Wednesday are “Right Round,” by Flo Rida, “Blame It” by Jamie Foxx and “Dead and Gone,” by T.I. Though downloaded and customized ringtones have become popular, not all students are on board with the ringtone trend.

The average price in 2008 for

Allison Rivera education sophomore

“I had different ringtones for different people... I had ‘I’m a Bitch’ for my mom.”

a ringtone was $2, according to a 2008 Ipsos MediaCT study.

“I usually just keep my phone on vibrate because it’s kind of annoying when people’s phones go off,” said Kasey Gillun, biology freshman.

Gillun said she had downloaded ringtones on her previous phone, but decided not to add custom ringtones to her current phone because they cost too much.

Some students download ringtones that bring back good memories and remind them of certain people.

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Joe Rhodes (left), public speaking doctoral student, asks Caleb Green (right), from Faithful Soldiers School of Evangelism, to leave the Quad on Monday afternoon because it, unlike Free Speech Plaza, is not a public forum.

Brad Morgan general studies senior

“I like this ringtone because of the electronic music.

It reminds me of the turntables.”

Edwards said certain ringtones can create different moods and feelings based on the mental association of the song.

“It makes sense that we choose ringtones because of their positive effects,” she said. “It could remind us of happy times, experiences, hobbies or our identity.”

Brad Morgan, general studies senior, used to be a disk jockey, and he said his ringtone, “Smack My Pony,” by Ltzenkirchen, reminds him of his days spinning records.

“I like this ringtone because of the electronic music,” he said. “It reminds me of the turntables.”

Morgan prefers downloaded ringtones because standard, factory ringtones are “too annoying.”

“When my mom calls, my phone just plays a standard ringtone so I can avoid the call,” he said.

Gillun said her old phone played a ringtone made by her best friend when her friend would call.

Rivera said she misses not having downloaded ringtones and plans to add them in the future once her current phone stops working.

“Downloaded ringtones are more exciting,” she said. “It brings excitement to my boring life.”

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SCHEDULING

Holds to stop thousands of students from adding classes Class registration opens March 29

By Lindsey Meaux Staff Writer

Come the end of March and early April, thousands of students will log on to their PAWS account for scheduling only to find a hold preventing courses from being added.

Paul Ivey, University College associate dean, said about 3,000

University College Center for Freshman Year and University College Center for Advising & Counseling students have holds that will prevent them from scheduling until they have sought counseling.

University College has been sending students e-mails regarding their status since Feb. 5, after the 14th day of classes.

“We try to give them a two-week span of time to respond,” Ivey said.

“Human nature is that they’ll attend to that when it really impacts them ... That doesn’t impact them until

the time it comes to [schedule].”

Robert Doolos, University registrar, said holds can be placed on students’ scheduling options either before the option is available or during scheduling.

“Normally, the reason for that is that the department or that college require advising,” Doolos said. “Normally, it is a method for ensuring a student contact someone about an issue that needs to be addressed.”

Holds can be placed on students in UCFY and UCAC because

HEALTH

Beer pong herpes article a hoax

By Peter Hubbs Contributing Writer

University students have shared laughs, memories and alcoholism through playing beer pong, but after recent reports, some students feared they shared herpes through this game, too.

A false rumor spread across the Internet in the last three weeks, claiming that sharing unsanitary cups during beer pong can transmit the herpes simplex I virus.

The University of Massachusetts’ Daily Collegian helped create this rumor by posting a news story Feb. 22 citing a fake Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report about beer pong-related herpes outbreaks and a fake quote by Michael Crow, Arizona State University president.

The article claimed Crow said, “We’re aware that we cannot outright prevent [beer pong], so we have

HOLDEN, from page 1

Kip Holden said he wouldn’t endorse a particular party in the University’s SG election.

“I will not get involved with party politics,” Holden said. “But I have my son and a great friend here, and I wish them the best of luck.”

Kip Holden related stories of his past experiences in the Baton Rouge political scene and said the ideals of the Unity ’09 ticket mirrored the way he ran his campaigns.

Krupkin said after years of knowing Holden, he looked to him as an example of what good politics can be and hopes to emulate the mayorpresident’s political qualities.

“I want to show the students how uniting as a body, whether Baton Rouge or LSU, is fundamentally beneficial to the community,” Krupkin said.

Both Krupkin and Holden spoke

provided new red cups available to all students in the dorms.”

Major news outlets such as the Los Angeles NBC news affiliate KNBC and Fox News Network’s “Fox and Friends” later discovered this story and sourced these false articles in their own coverage.

This media attention led to both the CDC and ASU publicly denying their involvement as sources for the article.

“President Crow has never heard of this and did not make the statement that is attributed to him in the article,” said Terri Shafer, an ASU spokeswoman, during an interview with Ryan Gabrielson of the East Valley Tribune of Phoenix.

KNBC later removed the story and posted a short, 50-word correction when the East Valley Tribune inquired about the article.

The Daily Collegian revealed it had taken its sources from a Feb. 11 article in Ohio State University’s

student newspaper, The Lantern.

After already publishing the article, William McGuinness, the Daily Collegian news editor, discovered the CDC did not employ anyone by the source’s name.

Many University students already expressed concern for cleanliness during games of beer pong.

“I always think about how many people have drank out of those cups,” said Stacy Simmons, biology freshman.

Some students said the ability to spread herpes would raise concerns even more.

“I at least always wash the ball and use clean cups,” said Morgan Schmidt, anthropology sophomore.

“I’d play less, though, if I could catch herpes.”

about the excitement of having a diverse ticket. They discussed the importance of having a group of diverse supporters — both racially and politically.

Campus political groups have already taken notice of the Unity ’09 campaign. Members of both the College Democrats and the College Republicans attended the meeting.

Kevin Guillory, College Democrats president, said the executive board of the College Democrats had officially endorsed the Unity ’09 ticket.

Though members of the organization are working on other campaigns as well, the officers have decided to back Krupkin and Melanie Oubre based on previous encounters with the pair.

Before the campaign season began, Oubre was the vice-president of the College Democrats, and the organization worked with Krupkin

when he was president of Tigers for Israel.

Though the College Republicans have chosen not to officially endorse any particular SG ticket, Chuck Fontenot, College Republicans president, was there to show his support for Unity ’09.

Fontenot said while his organization was not supporting the ticket, he chose to personally back Krupkin and Oubre because he agreed with their budget-trimming policies.

“Unifying the campus is something that needs to be done,” Fontenot said. “This is a nonpartisian race, it’s about who has the best ideas.”

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of low grade point averages, undecided majors, failure to make it into their senior college of choice and to require freshmen to sign an enrollment agreement declaring their intent to enter a senior college, Ivey said.

“They’ll eventually have to come in to see us,” Ivey said of the students who have not yet met with counselors. “Whenever they show up for this during those times when the scheduling priorities are opening, the wait is going to be a long time.”

Representatives from the College of Art and Design said the number of students scheduled to be placed on hold is far lower — a mere 30 students of the 1,200 enrolled.

Representatives from the College of Education said the number of students to be placed on hold will be determined in the coming weeks.

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PAGE 6 SALARIES, from page 1 salary,” Martin said. “That’s for those who assess productivity and the market.”

Martin said he has been on both sides of the issue — as a faculty member and later as an administrator — and knows there’s always debate.

Physics professor A.R.P. Rau, former Faculty Senate member and active member of the American Association of University Professors, wrote a letter to The Chronicle of Higher Education in February, expressing why he thinks a salary cap is needed at all universities, especially public institutions like LSU. “When secretaries of state and defense, four-star generals and governors — all of whom handle weightier responsibilities and budgets — earn under $200,000, there is no call for any ‘public servant’ to be placed much higher,” Rau said in the letter printed Feb. 27.

According to a study released

by The Chronicle of Higher Education in November, more than onethird of public research university presidents earn more than $500,000, and 15 earned at least $700,000 between 2007 and 2008.

Following national trends, LSU administrative salaries have increased in past years. Even before former chancellor Mark Emmert received a pay increase from $205,000 to $490,000 a year in 2002, Rau argued for more “reasonable” pay at LSU. Emmert’s pay increase was financed by private foundations that supported the University.

Emmert is now the second highest-paid public university president, according to the Chronicle study. He makes nearly $900,000 at the University of Washington. E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State University president, takes the No. 1 spot with an annual salary of $1,346,225.

The mean salary for public university presidents is $427,400, greater than Martin’s annual salary, according to the Chronicle study.

Bob Kuhn, associate vice chancellor of Budget and Planning, said it’s difficult to compare LSU salaries to other institutions because each campus has a different role, scope and mission.

Kuhn said faculty salaries at the University vary between disciplines.

For example, an accounting professor makes less than an art professor because there’s a larger, more lucrative private market the University has to compete with.

Faculty salaries are purely market-driven, he said. The same goes for University administrators.

“We know [the administrative market] is competitive and they do too,” Kuhn said. “Hopefully, that’s how we get great leadership to move the campus forward.”

Rau said there are too many administrators — chancellors, vice chancellors, deans, presidents, provosts — making too much money at the top. He said this paints the University as a wealthy business corporation rather than a place of teaching and research, severely impacting public perception.

But the University actually employs fewer administrators than its peers, according to a 2009 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System report released by the National Center for Education Statistics.

According to the study, LSU has 114 executive, administrative

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and managerial employees — compared to an average of 326 at peer institutions. The study, comparing LSU to 12 peer institutions, used data from fall 2007.

Kuhn said hiring and retaining top-notch administrators and faculty is key in fostering excellence at any university. And the market for administrators is extremely competitive.

“We’re trying to move the University forward,” Kuhn said. “Why wouldn’t we want to hire the best?”

Kuhn said the University has offered faculty an average pay increase of 3.8 percent during the last nine years, a number comparable to universities around the country. The main focus of the University’s Flagship Agenda is the recruitment and retention of quality faculty, he said.

A recent Faculty Senate resolution “For a Rational Pay Scale at LSU,” outlines the Faculty Senate’s plan for the University’s upper administrators to be “brought in line with other public salaries in the state and nation and be tied to a particular ratio of the salaries of the faculty and staff.”

The resolution cites the eco-

nomic recession and inevitable budget-tightening as additional reasoning for the measure, although some college boards argue retaining talented administrators is even more critical during a financial crisis.

“In my view, the real problem is not the excessive salaries per se — it’s rather a matter of proportions,” said Kevin Cope, English professor and Faculty Senate president.

Faculty Sen. Dominique Homberger, a sponsor for the resolution, said she likes Martin, and the resolution is nothing personal.

Homberger said she is confident the chancellor will consider the resolution when making budget cut decisions.

“The University should reevaluate excessive salaries on their own and not wait for the public to demand it,” Homberger said.

The Faculty Senate, which regularly makes recommendations to the chancellor, will vote on the resolution at their next meeting on March 17.

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Sports

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‘That’s just baseball’ After inconsistent offensive play last weekend, Tigers looking to find rhythm again

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

Don’t expect LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri to look ahead to LSU’s Southeastern Conference-opening series with Kentucky this weekend.

SEC play is the last thing on Mainieri’s mind as the Tigers face Southeastern Louisiana tonight at 6 p.m., following last weekend’s series loss to Illinois.

“Right now, I’m not even thinking about Kentucky,” Mainieri said. “We have two very difficult midweek games this

week beginning with Southeastern, and we’ve got to focus on playing better.”

The Tigers had a hit-or-miss weekend at the plate against Illinois. LSU scored 22 runs Saturday but had a combined three runs on Friday and Sunday.

One of Mainieri’s specific concerns is 2008 All-American outfielder Blake Dean.

Dean comes into today’s game hitting just .268, down .085 points from his .353 average last season.

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[Left] Junior Blake Dean swings at a pitch Feb. 27 in LSU’s 13-4 win against Central Florida. [Right] Sophomore shortstop DJ LeMahieu attempts to tag a Central Florida base runner in the first game of the Tigers’ series against the Knights. LSU faces Southeastern Louisiana in Hammond tonight.

TRACK AND FIELD

Violations may affect LSU’s ‘07 season Florida State may have to vacate victories

By David Helman Sports Writer

Florida State’s plan to appeal NCAA sanctions against its athletic department could affect LSU athletics as well — specifically ‘Arkansas men’s outdoor had to track.

The Semi- vacate a noles’ men’s title, and track and field team may be it wasn’t forced to vacate awarded to its 2007 national championship, anyone ...’ in addition to nine other FSU Herb Vincent teams that may LSU Senior Associate Athletic Director have to vacate victories as a result of academic ineligibility, according to an NCAA ruling made Friday.

“It’s our contention that we never played any ineligible players that we knew were ineligible,” Florida State Associate Athletic Director Rob Wilson told The Daily Reveille on Monday.

The Tigers finished as runnerup to the Seminoles for the national VIOLATIONS, see page 10

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Johnson says five SEC teams deserve NCAA bid Tigers drop eight spots in AP poll

By David Helman Sports Writer

Don’t tell LSU coach Trent Johnson the Southeastern Conference is down.

The league is in the throes of what is widely considered a down year by college basketball prognosticators.

Its one team ranked in the top 25 — Johnson’s LSU squad — is the lowest ranked team among BCS conferences leaders.

ESPN college basketball analyst Joe Lunardi listed only three SEC schools in his most recent Bracketology report — LSU, Tennessee and South Carolina — released Monday.

But Johnson doesn’t necessarily agree with the predictions about his new conference.

“My feeling is five [teams] easy,” he said during Monday’s SEC coaches’ teleconference. “Everybody talks about the bubble, but nobody talks about Auburn. They handled us as well as anybody has all year long. You look at what Arkansas did to teams like Texas and Oklahoma early on — how can you not have five teams?”

The SEC’s perceived weakness could be reason for LSU’s sizeable drop in this week’s polls, despite Johnson’s objections.

The latest batch of college basketball rankings, released Monday, have the Tigers ranked at No. 16 in the USA Today Top 25 and No. 20 in the AP Top 25, just two days after the Tiger’s second-consecutive conference loss, 69-53, to Auburn.

The Tigers (25-6, 13-3) dropped their last two games of conference play after clinching the SEC regular season championship with a 13game conference win streak and a

73-70 win at Kentucky on Feb. 28.

“We were winning games, but it wasn’t like we were blowing anyone out,” Johnson said. “You need to give credit to Vanderbilt and give credit to Auburn. Both of those teams were playing better at this time of the year than we were.”

Johnson’s team holds the SEC Western division No. 1 seed entering Thursday’s SEC tournament despite the bad stretch. The Tigers’ reward for locking up the division and conference titles is a game against either Kentucky or Ole Miss on Friday.

Both of LSU’s possible opponents nearly upended the Tigers in regular season matchups.

“It’s a new season, and we’re looking forward to the SEC tournament,” Johnson said. “We’ve had two days off, and we’ll start practice [today] around 3 p.m., and we’ll have three days of hard practice.”

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LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson speaks to the PMAC crowd March 4 after the Tigers’ 75-67 loss to Vanderbilt. Johnson said Monday that five Southeastern Conference teams should get NCAA tournament bids.

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THE 6th MAN

Recession-proof athletics is difficult to believe Last month, I wrote about what I saw as wasteful spending by the LSU Athletic Department potentially leading to financial woes.

A few days later, senior associate athletic director Herb Vincent wrote a letter to the editor basically to tell me I had no clue what I was talking about.

Maybe LSU’s Athletic Department won’t be noticeably affected by the economy.

But I find this hard to believe since nearly everyone else is.

Almost nothing is “recession-proof” — even one of the most successful franchises in the WNBA. The Houston Comets announced in December they would be disbanding after failing to find new ownership.

It is the fifth team in the league’s history to fold, but it is also the most successful of the five.

LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor won four of the league’s 12 total championships as the Comets’ first coach.

But even this marketable program that averaged more than 6,500 fans per game was not seen as a wise investment among those with the means to save it.

There’s no more Comets, but what does this mean for the rest of the league?

It’s no secret women’s basketball isn’t widely popular in the states, and female basketball players Johanathan Brooks can make much more money on Sports Columnist average overseas.

That’s why the WNBA’s most marketable players like Diana Turasi, Sue Bird and Candace Parker all play in Russia during the offseason to supplement their incomes.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, in 10 years, no one remembered the mostly-failed experiment that was the WNBA. Does anyone remember the American Basketball League

from the ‘90s or have heard of the Women’s Professional Basketball League from the ‘70s and ‘80s?

Didn’t think so.

The women aren’t the only ones feeling the effects of the economic downturn.

It’s affected the NBA and NFL, too.

The NBA remains as financially strong as ever as a whole, but teams are still losing money.

Many of the trades made before last month’s trade deadline were made for purely economic reasons in order to get rid of overpaid, underperforming athletes and gain expiring contracts.

The Portland Trail Blazers were even involved in a situation earlier this season in which they threatened to sue other teams not to sign forward Darius Miles because if he played 10 games, his $18 million contract would appear on the Portland payroll.

League-wide, official attendance numbers are stagnant, but season ticket renewal rates dropped by 4 percent from last season, according to

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Hawks snap Hornets’ winning streak

By Charles Odum The Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Johnson showed he’s willing to step up if the Atlanta Hawks will be without Marvin Williams for a significant period of time.

Johnson scored 30 points and the Hawks beat New Orleans 89-79 on Monday night, ending the Hornets’ season-best seven-game winning streak.

Williams, who averages 14 points per game, was held out with an undisclosed lower back injury.

He was examined by Hawks doctors Monday and will see another doctor Tuesday.

The Hawks, who had lost six of nine games, were told before the game by coach Mike Woodson they had to pull together to make up for the loss of Williams for an indefinite period.

“If he’s out for the rest of the season, we can’t worry about that,” Johnson said. “We have to move forward with what we’ve got.

“It’s a tough loss for us, but we’ve got to be strong and everybody has to step their play up.”

The rest of the season? Did Johnson know more about Williams’ status than the Hawks were saying?

“I’m just saying, worst-case

scenario,” Johnson said.

Hawks general manager Rick Sund said it was too early to discuss Williams’ status.

“Once we go through the whole process, we’ll know more,” Sund said.

Woodson called Williams’ status “day to day” after the game.

The Hornets pulled no closer than five points in the fourth quarter. After a basket by Chris Paul cut Atlanta’s lead to 82-75, Johnson set up a powerful alley-oop jam by Josh Smith with 2:22 remaining. Mike Bibby followed with a 3-pointer to push the lead to 10 points for the first time at 87-77.

“What we talked about doing to Joe we just didn’t do,” Hornets coach Byron Scott said.

Smith had 13 points and 13 rebounds for Atlanta, while Flip Murray had 14 points and Bibby added 10.

Paul had 24 points and 10

assists and David West also had a double-double with 16 points and 20 rebounds for New Orleans. Rasual Butler added 18 points for the Hornets.

Johnson had only 12 points in back-to-back games and was held under 20 points in four straight before re-emerging against the Hornets.

He had 10 points in the third quarter.

“We know Joe Johnson is the guy, we weren’t able to put the clamps on him,” West said.

Hawks center Al Horford said he could see a difference in Johnson early in the game.

“I don’t know what he did or what happened, but he really picked it up for us tonight and really set the tone early,” Horford said.

Johnson’s big game helped Atlanta hand New Orleans its first loss since Feb. 21.

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And one can see just by watching the games there is an abundance of empty seats in every arena across the league.

Three weeks ago, $200 million was given to the league to be distributed among teams interested in having the additional cash for “any purpose, including helping teams deal with operating losses incurred because of the economy,” according to ESPN. NBA commissioner David Stern said the teams that would receive the money weren’t necessarily the ones in the worst shape, but simply the ones that wanted the money.

But this doesn’t mean there aren’t teams out there losing money like me at a slot machine.

Bob Johnson, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, told ESPN he lost tens of millions of dollars since the team’s inception in 2003.

ESPN also reported the Orlando Magic lost between $15 million and $20 million.

The NBA as a whole also cut

around 9 percent of its domestic workforce.

In the NFL, commissioner Roger Goodell voluntarily agreed to take an up to 25 percent pay cut to save money.

The league also had to cut 169 jobs and freeze the salaries of executives.

These are just a few cases in what could turn out to be a much larger problem for sports and leagues across the country and the world at large.

I just hope my favorite teams don’t have to cut corners and make bad trades just to save a few bucks.

I’ve already had to go more than a decade since one of my favorite teams last won a championship.

Unless you count Manchester United winning the Champions and Premier Leagues last year.

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RECRUITING

Reid entertains several offers Safety son of former LSU All-American

By Tyler Harvey Sports Contributor

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College coaches from across the country are already drooling over 6-foot-3-inch, 200-pound Dutchtown safety Eric Reid.

Already holding offers from LSU, Stanford, Tulane, Tennessee and NC State, the 2010 prospect said he is enjoying the recruiting process.

“It’s fun,” Reid said. “It’s always exciting when a college coach calls wanting to talk to me.

I take it as a compliment.”

Reid attended LSU’s junior day last weekend, visiting the campus that is already familiar to him because of family ties.

Reid’s father, Eric Reid Sr., was a former track champion and All-American at LSU and is now an assistant director at the LSU Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation. As a former athlete, the elder Reid has plenty of advice to give his son.

“I tell Eric you have to look at it like a business, because that’s what it is,” Eric Reid Sr. said. “You need to weigh your options, see what’s best for you for what Log on you want to do. to see That’s one of The Daily the reasons he Reveille’s hasn’t comrecruiting page. mitted to anybody yet. Even though LSU is on top of his list, we’ve still got to look at all the options he has and see what’s best for him. If he commits, that’s a commitment that he makes that he has to follow through on. So we’re not going to go there as of yet.”

Though the elder Reid is letting his son make his own decision, he admitted Eric Jr. probably feels pressure from his surroundings.

“Down here in Louisiana, it’s Tiger country,” Eric Reid Sr. said.

“Of course everyone wants to see him come here. He knows LSU real well — that’s one thing LSU has up on everybody else. He’s getting to know the coaches very well, so he’s getting a good feel for what LSU has to offer more than he did any other school at this time.”

Reid said he enjoyed the time he spent at junior day talking with other players while finding out how much the LSU coaches want him.

“It was cool,” the safety said.

“I got to spend a lot more one-onone time with coach [Les] Miles and coach [Ron] Cooper than I did the first time. They just told me I was one of the guys they want on the team for this class.”

With several other prospects committing at junior day, including Tharold Simon of Eunice and Nick Jacobs of Many, Reid said he almost got caught up in the moment.

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“I hung out with Tharold Simon the most, and I hung out with Craig Loston for a while,” he said. “[With other prospects committing] you kind of want to hop on board just to be a part of it, but I didn’t.”

Reid doesn’t plan on committing to anywhere anytime soon. He plans to commit during a high school All-American game by selecting a hat like many other recruits.

He said his favorites so far are LSU, Alabama and Florida State.

While coaches continue to make their play for the safety, the rising prospect will continue to rehabilitate his shoulder after a recent surgery.

“The doctor said I was born

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JOHNSON GETS EARLY TWO COMMITMENTS Provine High School’s Jalen Courtney, a 6-foot-7-inch, 210-pound power forward, became Johnson’s first member of LSU’s class of 2010 when the Jackson, Miss. native verbally committed on Saturday.

Courtney helped Provine to the Mississippi Class 5A state championship game last weekend. The Scout.com three-star prospect posted

MAINIERI, from page 7

“That’s just baseball,” Dean said. “It’s not to the point to where you change up the things that have brought you success in the past. I’ve hit some balls hard, and they’ll start to drop.”

But Mainieri appears to be more concerned with the play of his junior outfielder and said getting Dean on track is vital for the Tigers.

“Somehow I’ve got to get him to relax and enjoy the game again,” Mainieri said. “He’s way too good of a hitter to be having these kinds of problems.”

Dean and the LSU hitters should have plenty of good pitches to hit against Southeastern Louisiana.

The Lions have given up eight or more runs in six of their 12 games this season.

But Southeastern has won seven of those 12 games, thanks to a powerful offense that has scored more than nine runs per game on the season.

LSU freshman pitcher Chris Matulis will try to combat that offense in his third start of the season for the Tigers.

Matulis may be making his first of two starts this week, as the Lake Worth, Fla., native is a candidate to replace sophomore Daniel Bradshaw in the weekend rotation for LSU against Kentucky.

Mainieri said Bradshaw would be replaced from his role as the Saturday starter after not advancing past the fourth inning in each of his first two starts.

“He’s been up in the zone with everything,” Mainieri said.

“We’re going to turn him around and have him pitch in the middle of the week to try to get him straightened out and then figure

with some loose tendons [in my shoulder],” Reid said. “It was mainly a preventative thing to make sure it doesn’t happen again. I’ll [be ready] for [next] season though.”

In addition to playing safety, Reid said he may also play wide receiver for Dutchtown next season to help his team, giving him plenty of work in the offseason. He wants to improve his footwork and work with a jug machine, which fires balls at receivers to hone their ballcatching skills.

Reid’s coach at Dutchtown, Benny Saia, said Reid is just as good off the field as he is on it.

“He’s one of those kids who’s really conscious about everything he does,” Saia said. “He balances athletics, school and a job. That’s pretty impressive in this day and 22 points and 14 boards in a losing effort.

Johnson also began work on his 2011 class Monday with the commitment of Pickering High School guard John Isaac. At 6-foot-4 and 215 pounds, Isaac averaged 18.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, 8.5 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals per game in his sophomore season of high school.

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com out what we’re going to do about the weekend rotation for the series, but he’s probably not going to be in it.”

Sophomore shortstop DJ LeMahieu said a refined pitching rotation is one of many things the Tigers have to work on if the team hopes to make another run at the College World Series.

“We have to be more patient at the plate,” he said. “We have to not make so many costly fielding errors and really just work on all the little things that have been giving us problems.”

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time to be able to do all three. I don’t know how you describe a kid who’s mature beyond his years. He tries to be the best at everything.”

Saia said Reid was one of the most talented defensive backs in the state as a junior.

“Well, I haven’t seen everybody in the state, but I haven’t seen anybody better,” Saia said. “I thought that he was very comparable to [Janzen Jackson] at Barbe, but he’s bigger. Eric has the ideal size to be a free safety.

He reminds me of [LSU safety] Chad Jones a little bit. He’s very physical and very smart. He’s like a coach on the field.”

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championship in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and it’s possible LSU could profit from FSU’s vacated 2007 championship.

LSU Senior Associate Athletic Director Herb Vincent said LSU has not heard from the NCAA regarding the situation.

“We won’t hear anything until we hear if another school had to vacate a championship,” Vincent said. “We don’t know what to expect.”

The NCAA may have set a precedent for similar situations when it forced Arkansas to vacate its 2004 and 2005 track championships after a final ruling in January.

The Razorbacks’ championships were not given to another program.

“Arkansas had to vacate a

tuesday, march 10, 2009 title, and it wasn’t awarded to anyone — it was just vacated,” Vincent said. “I don’t know if that’s a precedent.”

Wilson said the NCAA did not specify what would happen to championships won during a competition like a meet. “[The NCAA] said it’s not a forfeit if it’s a head-to-head competition like a football game or a basketball game — it’s vacated.

We can’t claim it as a victory, and they can’t claim it as a loss,” Wilson said. “What’s unclear is if it’s not cut and dry, where it’s not one team against another — like a track meet or a tennis tournament.”

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tuesday, march 10, 2009 OVERSEAS, from page 1 overseas destinations for America’s most prominent female basketball players.

A personal driver escorts Fowles around the streets of Moscow, and her only expenses come when it’s time to restock the pantry shelves.

“They are treating me very well here,” she said. “No worries at all.”

Bob Starkey, LSU associate head coach, keeps close tabs on his former Lady Tigers who are overseas.

“That’s where they make their money,” he said. “There’s not one of our players who doesn’t make more overseas than in the WNBA.” Recent WNBA roster cuts and the Houston Comets’ folding have prompted discussion that the league may be on a rocky foundation, which makes the overseas option even more enticing for some young players.

“Money is good,” said Kristen Morris, LSU’s sole senior this season. “It’s even better than you would earn on a league team if you’re not Lisa Leslie or the great Candace Parker or Sylvia Fowles.”

GROWING PAINS Former LSU point guard Erica White’s collegiate career ended in heartbreak during the final seven seconds against Tennessee in the 2008 Final Four.

But the future seemed quite bright just days later when the Houston Comets selected White with their second-round pick. The Comets won four league championships from 1997-2000 under current LSU coach Van Chancellor.

The owners put the franchise up for sale in late 2008 after the team struggled through a 17-17 season.

“I knew something was going on, but I thought we were going to make it through,” White said.

But the Comets couldn’t survive, and the team officially folded in early December. The Indiana Fever selected White with the sixth pick of the dispersal draft.

In addition to the 13 spots lost from the Houston Comets, the league announced in early February that all teams must cut active rosters from 13 to 11. The combination of the folding and cutting will account for about 39 fewer roster spots available this upcoming season.

WNBA president Donna Orender calls it a “little bit of a step sideways” to adjust the league’s business model.

Chancellor said the move was necessary, although he hurts for the players who lost their jobs.

“Sometimes in these tough economic times, you have to make decisions that are good for some of the group and not all of the group,” he said. “I had been thinking that they would do this. I don’t think it will hurt the quality of play, but it will cost some kids their jobs.”

LONG WAY FROM HOME Former LSU player DeTrina White lost her WNBA job long before the roster size restrictions took effect. She played for the New York Liberty in 2004 and 2005 and explored overseas options soon after she was cut from the WNBA. Her journey led to Poland, where she plays for the Duda Leszno for about six months of the year.

“As for salaries, all I can say

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about that is that it is better than the WNBA,” she said. “But at the same time, not all players make the money that people think.”

Fans may think the overseas job is a lifestyle of riches, fame, free travel and six-figure salaries.

And it may well be for the WNBA’s top players, who can reportedly triple their WNBA salaries overseas.

WNBA salaries, which average around $40,000, are pocket change compared to the $5 million average NBA player’s salary.

Fowles earned about $44,000 as the No. 2 WNBA draft pick in 2008.

A second-round pick, such as Erica White, earned approximately $35,000 during her WNBA rookie season. Even the league’s seasoned veterans make no more than $95,000 a season.

DeTrina White said the Polish team covers her housing and transportation, leaving food and apartment upkeep as her only expenses.

Just last week she played against Chaney’s team, Energa Torun, which is about a four-hour drive away.

“Poland is definitely not a vacation spot,” Chaney said. “It’s nice ... don’t get me wrong. But it’s just

something that I am not used to.”

Chaney has dealt with constant negative temperatures and an influx of snow. She brought her Nintendo Wii to Poland and stays connected to home through Facebook chats and viewing humorous YouTube. com clips.

Starkey said Chaney’s comments are similar to what he hears from many of his former players.

Upon arrival, they expect to get a free, luxurious ride while seeing the world.

“They all say that until they get over there,” he said. “It’s not what the normal fan thinks. It’s very, very difficult.”

Erica White is one player who decided the overseas lifestyle wasn’t a good fit. After a brief stint this fall with the Natanya team in Israel, she decided to return to LSU and finish her remaining three hours.

Former point guard Temeka Johnson is also playing in Israel for the Raanana team.

Erica White said she made a “personal decision” not to return after violence escalated in the Gaza Strip.

“Erica came home for Christmas and decided not to go back,” Starkey said. “Temeka thought long and hard before going back.”

STABLE FOR NOW WNBA officials choose to keep a positive stance on the league’s direction, despite the roster cuts and Houston Comets’ collapse.

Statistics from 2008 show national TV ratings improved 19 percent and merchandise sales rose 36 percent.

The league, which is entering its 13th season, also recorded an alltime record 46 sellouts.

The WNBA recently agreed to a six-year collective bargaining agreement, and officials are using the agreement as proof for longterm financial stability.

Chaney expressed serious concerns about the Comets’ folding but said she hopes the “loyal fan base” will pull through for the league.

“When you lose one of the teams that set the foundation for what a dynasty is in the WNBA, to monetary reasons, I think thats an obvious red flag that there are serious financial issues that need to be dealt with,” she said.

Starkey said he thinks salary cuts in the near future may be necessary for the league to survive.

“Somewhere down the road, USA basketball players are going to have to make some sacrifices,” he said.

PAGE 11 PASSPORT NEEDED Morris, the sole senior for the Lady Tigers, isn’t sure how her professional hopes will develop.

She’s worked her way into the LSU starting lineup near the end of the regular season, but she knows her WNBA chances have been hurt by limited playing time.

“My opportunity to play [in the WNBA] is a bit on the edgy side, so I’ll probably look for overseas opportunities more because that job market is a lot bigger than what it is here,” she said.

Despite Starkey’s cautions that the overseas lifestyle may be difficult, Morris seems unfazed by the potential hardships.

“I’m hearing everything is paid for as long as you don’t have any bills or anything,” Morris said.

“They give you housing. You don’t really need a vehicle.”

The lure of a lavish lifestyle is only intesified when players like Fowles speak about personal drivers and glamorous perks.

“I make good money,” Fowles said. “That’s about all I have to say about that.”

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BURNS AFTER READING

Limbaugh’s hypocrisy reveals nature of GOP disconnect In his keynote address at last week’s Conservative Political Action Committee, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh reiterated his contentious desire to see President Barack Obama “fail.”

“I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching big government that would stop your success, I want that organization — that element or that person — to fail,” Limbaugh said.

But for the Republican Party to truly succeed, it isn’t Obama who must fail — it’s Limbaugh.

In many ways, Limbaugh epitomizes the ideological regression detrimental to the GOP’s revival.

Limbaugh claimed conservatives could regain political prominence by staunchly opposing the socialistic agenda outlined by the Obama administration.

While many Americans can acquiesce Limbaugh’s concern over increased nationalization and inflationary spending, they also realize conservative outcry for federal transparency and fiscal responsibility were noticeably absent the past eight years.

For conservatives to re-emerge, they must first acknowledge their disharmony stems from a deterioration of principle.

Many Republicans lost voter confidence because they invariably discredited the conservative brand of limited and efficient government.

Rather than hold “phony conservatives” accountable, Limbaugh instead opted to stigmatize dissenters while ignoring the impetuous spending he now decries.

This polarization manifested itself in last year’s elections as swing

voters defaulted to the left. Republican attempts to reel in moderate voters by sidling to the center merely belied their insincerity and lack of direction.

Ergo, the more authentic brand prevailed.

Rather than use the defeat as Scott Burns an opportunity Columnist to reconnect to their principles, many Republicans have regurgitated the medicine necessary for recovery.

Limbaugh extolled congressional Republicans for uniting against Obama’s spending package. But until they can rectify their principles and identify a practical course of action, they’re nothing more than rebels without a cause.

The CPAC’s headlining ensemble did not include the clairvoyant thinkers who portray a seminal shift in party philosophy. Instead, they embodied the true chasm that has unearthed many Americans from their conservative roots.

And no one characterizes conservative hypocrisy more than Limbaugh.

Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others have used their clout to discredit genuine conservative doctrine instead of eschewing the misguided direction Republicans embarked on during the past eight years.

Ironically, the most divisive voices are the ones now calling for Reaganesque conciliation.

At a time when their congressional ranks have been decimated, conservative crusaders don’t need a

haphazard voice of dissent.

They need a voice of reason whose actions uphold their principles.

Limbaugh showed in the early ‘90s he has the ability to galvanize people. But he shouldn’t be the standard for today’s transformation.

He’s the quintessential used car salesman of the Republican Party, selling the same defective product with the same broken parts and pithy warranty voters shirked this past November.

Contrary to recent economic tendencies, most people know a raw deal when they see one.

They don’t want more of the same doublespeak and doctrinal

infidelity emblematic of both Republicans and Democrats.

They want a new product customized with pragmatic solutions to modern crises.

Instead of berating the “driveby media” and “liberal activist,” as Limbaugh does frequently, conservatives need to examine themselves and remove the beam from their own eyes.

The way to do this isn’t by orbiting around the dark abyss that is Limbaugh.

Real change radiates from the inside out.

If conservatives want to reign in support, their actions must match their rhetoric.

Limbaugh might still be able to rally the extreme right with his dynamic delivery and his adulturated brand of conservatism. But conservatives will merely wander in the political wilderness as long as they sheepishly espouse neoconservative ad hominem.

Limbaugh might look like an elephant, but he’s really a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Scott Burns is a 19-year-old political science and business major from Baton Rouge.

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Changing name of Columbus Day is just a start By the Editorial Board

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(U-WIRE)­ ­— Anyone who’s studied history, especially at a mostly liberal institution like Brown, knows that Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas.

Not only are many of his accomplishments falsified or overstated — Columbus was not the first Westerner to explore the Americas, and he never set foot in the United States — but the claim that Columbus or other explorers “discovered” America ignores the civilizations built and sustained by

Native Americans for hundreds of years.

To celebrate Columbus Day is to celebrate a colonizer’s holiday.

It is the celebration of European powers claiming land on this and other continents, and a celebration of violence toward and oppression of indigenous people and culture.

White people, ranging from European colonizers to the government of the United States, have committed innumerable brutal offenses against Native Americans over the past 500 years. Honoring Columbus with a holiday glosses over a racist, blood-stained facet of

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our history and glamorizes the past as victorious manifest destiny.

We would like to urge faculty members to attend next month’s faculty meeting — 100 members are necessary to achieve a quorum — and vote for the proposal to change the name of the day off in October from “Columbus Day” to “Fall Weekend.”

However, we also want to urge Native Americans at Brown, the student group behind this campaign, not to stop with simply renaming Brown’s vacation days.

Most Brown students understand the racist and violent history

of colonization, and while changing our calendar is an important symbolic step, it does hardly any work toward altering the way most people understand American history. If Native Americans at Brown is really serious about changing the common understanding of the founding of this country, the group needs a wider scope.

It should begin by lobbying the local school boards to change the curriculum, teaching about Native American culture and the way tribes were driven out of New England. It should hold panels and talks on campus to further educate

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students about the effects of colonization in this country and about the status of Native American tribes and land today. It should lobby the state legislature to change the name, and even the date, of Columbus Day. We should consider any celebration of Christopher Columbus an affront not just to Native Americans, but to the causes of diversity and cross-cultural understanding.

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FREEMAN OF SPEECH

Science convention ditches La. for ‘Mormon country’ “Viewing present-day organisms as products of evolution provides the most productive framework for investigating and understanding their structure and function. As such, evolution is a unifying concept for science and provides the foundation for understanding nature.”

If only these words were found in Louisiana’s school board policy.

Instead, a product of anti-scientific religious orthodoxy inadvertently caused the snubbing of New Orleans in favor of Mormon country.

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology moved its 2011 annual meeting from New Orleans to Salt Lake City, citing the Louisiana Science Education Act as the reason for the diversion.

New Orleans hosted the meeting twice before Hurricane Katrina, but the group, in a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal, “could not support New Orleans as our meeting venue

because of the official position of the state in weakening science education and specifically attacking evolution in science curricula.”

“Utah, in contrast, passed a resolution that states that evolution is central to any science curriculum,” Richard Satterlie, president of the SICB, said in the letter.

As Trojan Horse legislation paves the way for the teaching of creationism and intelligent design, the Science and Education Act permits the use of external materials to supplant students’ science textbooks to promote, as it claims, an open and objective discussion of scientific studies including — but not limited to — evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning.

Among those who clamored for Jindal to veto the act — one of many across the country written under the false guise of “academic freedom,” but the only one actually signed into law — was the

American Association for the Advancement of Science, claiming the bill “disingenuously implies that particular theories, including evolution, are controversial among scientists,” as well as the Editorial Board of The New York Eric Freeman Jr. Times, which Columnist said the bill would “have the pernicious effect of implying that evolution is only weakly supported and that there are valid competing scientific theories when there are not.”

The most notable dissenter, though, was Jindal’s own teacher when he was pre-med at Brown University.

Arthur Landry sent the governor a message through the Louisiana Coalition for Science, saying, “Gov. Jindal was a good student

in my class when he was thinking about becoming a doctor, and I hope he doesn’t do anything that would hold back the next generation of Louisiana’s doctors.”

Sorry, Professor Landry. He did.

Louisiana should have passed this lesson in science more than 20 years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court, deciding Edwards v. Aguillard, struck down the Creationism Act, which banned the teaching of evolution in Louisiana unless creationism was also taught.

In its ruling, the Court correctly held “a law intended to maximize the comprehensiveness and effectiveness of science instruction would encourage the teaching of all scientific theories about human origins. Instead, this act has the distinctly different purpose of discrediting evolution by counterbalancing its teaching at every turn with the teaching of creationism.”

There is a section in this bill

preventing discrimination or promotion of any religion or non-religion, making this the crucial language that helped the bill become law. But creationism and intelligent design only come from belief systems, lacking the trial, error and analysis found in scientific studies.

By rehashing the “it’s just a theory” defense, Jindal and our legislature have codified a false controversy. Our state government has now, at the same time, betrayed the economic interests of New Orleans by perpetuating the myth of a dilemma among scientists.

But at least we don’t believe Jesus was American.

Eric Freeman, Jr. is a 22-year-old political science junior from New Orleans.

Contact Eric Freeman Jr. at efreeman@lsureveille.com

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Public ignorance enables human trafficking rings

“We thought slavery ended in the 19th century. We couldn’t be more wrong. Slavery still exists.”

Such is the slogan of the new group on campus, Tigers Against Trafficking, an organization dedicated to fighting modern-day slavery.

Natalie LaBorde, an LSU grad student and founder of the group, was inspired to create the organization after attending a trafficking awareness event in Sydney, Australia, then travelling on a research trip to Cambodia, Greece, Holland and the UK. While visiting Phnom Pen, Cambodia, LaBorde met several victims of human trafficking, including a 12-year-old mother authorities found working in a brothel.

“When I met her, she was carrying the baby on her hip, as if he was her sibling,” LaBorde said. “I saw many things I would almost rather forget exist.”

Upon her return to the

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‘The next level’ of irresponsible spending The race for the next SG president is only hours old, yet we already have a clear idea of which tickets would cost our student body more money than they would be worth. Taking into account the current state of the

University to complete law school, LaBorde founded Tigers Against Trafficking to combat the horrors she found overseas and in the U.S. Such activism is vital — especially considering the American public is fond of turning a blind eye to the trade, whether from willful ignorance or a desire to exploit the victims of the system.

In the world of trafficking, the U.S. is primarily a transit and destination country and occasionally a source. The majority of trafficked sex workers in the U.S. are natives of varied demographics.

The public is largely ignorant because they have believed the greatest myth of human trafficking — that it does not exist.

“People don’t understand the magnitude of the trafficking industry and how their daily economic transactions contribute to it,” LaBorde said. “The modern slave trade is a business fueled by demand. We contribute to demand

by turning a blind eye to pornography, sex tourism, and forced prostitution or by purchasing products from companies who use slave labor.

Consequently, to some degree we are all part of the problem or part of the solution.”

The U.S. Linnie Leavines tends to be vicColumnist tim-centered when considering trafficking related legislation. The federal government has implemented legislation to counteract human trafficking, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, which enforces stricter penalties for those guilty of trafficking and provides financial aid to victims.

“Prosecution with the new stiffer penalties will make this a higher-risk endeavor and will

reduce its profitability,” LaBorde said.

This is admirable but only effective to a limited degree. Legislation is only useful if a trafficking ring is found and brought to justice. As long as rings remain unexposed, however, the system obviously cannot execute the law.

Therefore, additional preemptive measures must be taken not just by the government, but by Americans.

As citizens, we have three choices: actively support trafficking by soliciting sex workers, passively contribute to it by remaining ignorant or determinedly fight it by campaigning for awareness.

In many ways, civilians are often better equipped for exposing trafficking rings than the authorities are, as a trafficker cannot tell if a civilian is a patron or a vigilante until it’s too late.

Given the number of victims range from 10,000 to 30,000 in the U.S. alone, according to the

economy, we cannot afford to elect fiscally reckless candidates.

Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn’s ticket has promised to take SG to the next level, and they’re absolutely capable of doing it if that next level means an increase in wasteful spending.

For instance, they pledge, according to their campaign Web site, to decrease the amount of computer-based testing.

This would mean LSU students would lose 100 percent of the thousands of dollars invested

in computer-based testing, and the wasting of time and energy spent on building the system. It is also interesting to note how this would contradict their plan to make our campus more environmentally friendly by encouraging professors to accept assignments online, thus saving paper.

They also propose to create a “house of representatives” in SG that would be made up of members representing each student organization. With the hundreds of student organizations on campus,

the proposed house of representatives would end up being one of the largest and most expensive organizations on campus. Also, it is important to mention that Palermo and Hathorn may be opening a can of worms for future SG administrations considering how easy it is to create a student organization on our campus. What’s to stop someone from creating a large number of organizations simply in the interest of increasing their sway within SG. This proposal would mean bigger, less

Task Force for Human Trafficking, the chances of knowing a victim or someone who solicits them is much greater for an average civilian than it is for a member of law enforcement. For this reason, human trafficking awareness is an effective preventive measure.

For the U.S., this type of counterattack is vital, as the U.S. has done much concerning legislation but little concerning prevention.

Trafficking has latched on to the underbelly of our economy and culture, and as long as we do business without discretion and remain passively ignorant, we inadvertently promote human slavery.

Linnie Leavines is an 18-year-old mass communication freshman from Central City.

Contact Linnie Leavines at lleavines@lsureveille.com

efficient, more expensive, more intrusive government, and that’s the last thing this university needs with looming budget cuts.

Third, they plan to make TigerCash balances accessible on PAWS, meaning the current Tiger Card Web site would fall by the wayside, while the money spent on a redundant program falls down the drain.

Jasper Holland sociology sophomore

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