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Pepitone dies of cancer Thursday By Grace Montgomery Staff Writer
University official Staci Pepitone succumbed to her battle with cancer Thursday morning at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. Pepitone served as assistant to the vice chancellor in Finance and Administrative Services since 2003. She worked with student groups, fundraising and issues with trademark licensing and Internet domain names. She began work at the University in 1998 as assistant director to the Union Program Department. Pepitone was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2007. She was an active member of the American Cancer Society and spoke about her experiences with cancer at ACS events in New York City. “This is a sad day for LSU,” said Executive Assistant to the Chancellor D’Ann Morris. “The University lost a dedicated, valuable employee and a trusted friend.” No one is currently assigned to fill her position, but Morris said she thinks Pepitone’s job will be split among her co-workers.
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End of Story By Chris Branch Sports Writer
The Tigers fell short on two objectives Thursday. The LSU men’s basketball team and senior forward Tasmin Mitchell suffered a double dose of disappointment Thursday in a 59-49 loss to Tennessee in the first round of the Southeastern Conference tournament. The defeat ends the Tigers’ season. “I thought for the most part we were in a position where we could have came out with a win,” LSU coach Trent Johnson said in his postgame radio interview. “I thought, for the most part, like I said, we had an opportunity
Mitchell falls short of 2,000-point mark
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LSU forward Storm Warren (24) takes a swipe at the ball held by Tennessee guard Melvin Goins (21) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday at the Southeastern Conference tournament in Nashville, Tenn.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Martin considers equipment rentals By Xerxes A. Wilson Senior Staff Writer
Chancellor Michael Martin is considering renting out expensive University equipment to private companies as an additional form of revenue. Martin wants to better utilize equipment and facilities the University already has to generate revenues and promote relationships with private companies to augment learning. He said an agreement in which the University provides use of its expensive equipment — like a spectrometer — to private companies after 5 p.m. could be profitable for the University. Research Associate Azeem Hasan works with the mass spectrometers — an expensive and highly specialized piece of equipment — on campus. Hasan said it would be possible in some cases for the University’s equipment to be used by outside interests, but most equipment is too specialized just to be used by one group part of the day. The University’s specialized equipment often becomes obsolete four times faster than the University can wear it out, so renting it out would make better use of the equipment’s lifespan, Martin said. Martin said the University needs to make greater use of its EQUIPMENT, see page 11
UNION
Officials: Construction continues as planned Tiger Lair expected to open in August By Rachel Warren Contributing Writer
Student Union construction is progressing on schedule, according to Union officials. Ken Bueche, associate director for operations, said there haven’t been significant delays in construction except for the theater.
“It’s probably about 30 days behind the original schedule, which really isn’t bad for a construction job,” Bueche said. The theater is projected to open in time for freshman orientation this summer, and the Tiger Lair food court is expected to open in August as scheduled. The Cotillion Ballroom has been open since mid-January. The north lobby on the second floor of the Union will open soon, and temporary food service will be housed there once the area is cleaned. Bueche said they are waiting
for approval from the fire marshal and plan to open grab-and-go food kiosks March 15. Bueche said once more parts of the Union are opened, students might find it difficult to maneuver around construction. He said he plans to put signs up directing people, as well as having at least one person at the information desk at all times to give directions. Shirley Plakidas, Union director, said she has seen a definite CONSTRUCTION, see page 11
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Construction continues in the LSU Student Union, as seen here in the Tiger Lair food court seating area. The construction is estimated to finish in August.
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Nation & World
INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL
Sweden labels 1915 mass killing of Armenians genocide
Ga. man who called for Elton John’s death arrested
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, prompting the Turkish government to recall its ambassador in protest. The measure passed with a one-vote margin in a surprise decision.
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who posted a video on YouTube of himself calling for Elton John’s death has been arrested for making terroristic threats. Atlanta Police Sgt. Curtis Davenport said Neal Horsley was arrested for making terroristic threats early Wednesday in Carrollton, about 50 miles west of Atlanta. Davenport would not say who Horsley is accused of threatening. Horsley’s son, Nathan Horsley, said he believes the arrest is connected to the video about the musician.
Forty-three Somalis die in capital after two days of warfare MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack, officials said Thursday. Militants attacking from the north on Wednesday reached to within a mile (2 kilometers) of the presidential place in the heart of the capital, Mogadishu.
Civil liberties group sues private prison company over violence BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union sued state prison officials and a private company Thursday, claiming violence is so rampant at the Idaho Correctional Center that it’s known as “gladiator school” among inmates.
The ACLU filed the lawsuit against Nashville, Tennessee-based Corrections Corp. of America in U.S. District Court in Boise. The lawsuit says Idaho’s only private prison is extraordinarily violent, with guards deliberately exposing inmates to brutal beatings from other prisoners as a management tool. Blagojevich asks judge to delay June 3corruption trial CHICAGO (AP) — Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s attorneys asked a federal judge Thursday to postpone his corruption trial, saying so many uncertainties surround the charges it would be “playing Russian Roulette” with his future if the court went ahead with the June 3 start date. Blagojevich’s attorneys also said that despite working seven days a week, they can’t be ready by that date because it’s not enough time to adequately prepare for the complex case and possible six-month trial.
STATE/LOCAL
Firm accused of overbilling, hurting New Orlean’s recovery
La. man arrested, faces child prostitution charges
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ watchdog has found serious problems with the work of an engineering company hired to oversee the rebuilding of city buildings and infrastructure damaged in Hurricane Katrina, including overbilling, billing the city for theater tickets and Christmas gifts and questionable contract arrangements. The report by New Orleans Inspector General E.R. Quatrevaux took aim at both city officials and Broomfield, Colo.-based MWH Americas Inc. The report, first made public Thursday by The Times-Picayune, said the recovery from the catastrophic 2005 hurricane had been hurt by the flawed contract. MWH was hired in December 2007 to manage the massive rebuilding of city infrastructure after Katrina. As of February, MWH had been paid $29 million for its work, the report said.
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — Federal agents have arrested a Louisiana man accused of taking two minors from Atlanta to Birmingham for prostitution. Authorities indicted 25-year-old Dmarcus Antwain Ward, of Minden, last week, on charges of sex trafficking of minors and transporting them for the purposes of prostitution.
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TECHNOLOGY
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TECHNOLOGY
Applications take over Student input sought for myLSU could soon profiles, become ‘bots’ Portal host student links Infected accounts send spam to others By Ryan Buxton Senior Staff Writer
Malicious Facebook applications are turning users into bots. Applications like “Who has checked your profile?” and “Who is reading your information?” can turn the profiles of unsuspecting Facebook users into spam bots, said Sheri Thompson, IT planning and communications officer. “It makes your Facebook identity a bot,” Thompson said. “It makes it so you’re now spamming people, ‘You should but you don’t be using know it.” The ap[security plications use programs] the “attractive of to keep proposition” allowing users your to see who has computer looked at their profile to trick safe.’ them into givSheri Thompson ing up control of their acIT planning and count, accordcommunications ing to Webofficer sense.com, a Web security site. “Facebook policy and the [application programming interface] itself prevent this capability, which means that all applications that promise this feature are bogus,” according to Websense. Roben West, political science sophomore, said she received invitations to applications like “Who has checked your profile?” from her friends, but she always ignores them. West said she uses Facebook’s application rating system to decide whether an application is credible and safe to download. “Facebook has star ratings, so if it only has one star, I won’t download it,” West said. There is no sure-fire way to tell if an application is malicious, but there are signs, Thompson said. “There’s no hard-and-fast rule, but look for things like spelling errors and grammar er-
rors,” Thompson said. “You can also Google them and see if they’re legitimate or not.” These malicious applications can take over and make posts on friends’ walls not written by users once they allow the applications access to their profiles. The applications can then take over and make posts on friends’ walls not written by the user. West said she has received spam posts saying things like “Check out this photo — is this you?” and finds it irritating. “It’s annoying, but it’s not their fault,” West said. Andrew Davis, history sophomore, said he stays away from all Facebook applications because he thinks most of them are not worth downloading. Spam posts caused by users with hacked accounts are bad for both those users and the friends whose walls they post on, Davis said. “It’s irritating, and I’m sure it’s embarrassing for the other person, too,” he said. But Davis said he doesn’t let the spam posts bother him. “I just ignore it and laugh at them behind their back,” Davis said. Thompson said ITS offers computer security programs to students for free on TigerWare, like antivirus and spybot destroyer software. “If you’re using Facebook or Internet resources on a regular basis, you should be using those to keep your computer safe,” she said.
To see how students are dealing with scams online, go to lsureveille.com. Contact Ryan Buxton at rbuxton@lsureveille.com
By Mallory Logan Contributing Writer
Student input is wanted to design a more student-friendly replacement for PAWS. Students gathered in Frey Computing Services Center on Thursday to give opinions on a future program that could replace PAWS called myLSU. “We want an environment where you don’t have to go through PAWS for everything,” said Sherri Thompson, IT Communications & Planning Officer. Before replacing PAWS, myLSU will serve as a portal featuring links that student use every day from Moodle to Twitter, Thompson said. “Besides PAWS, Moodle and mail buttons, there could also be customizable widgets such as weather and games,” Thompson said. The largest agreed-on suggestion was the flexibility of a new portal that would allow students to customize every section of the site. Students also suggested creating a new, clearer campus map, similar to Google Maps, with links on myLSU. Brett Lemoine, computer engineering junior, attended the meeting after being informed about the session on Facebook. “I mainly want mobile applications so I can keep checking them,” Lemoine said. Thompson ran the focus group meetings, which were held twice Thursday from 1:40 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 3:10 p.m. to 4 p.m. “We are trying to better utilize various technology available to us because PAWS was created in 1999 and is not an expanding technology,” Thompson said. The focus groups are kept small, consisting of about six to seven people, to ensure everyone is
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Sheri Thompson, IT communications planning officer, asks Brett Lemoine, computer engineering junior, and Robert Helou, biological engineering sophomore, what they would like to see on the new online portal, myLSU.
heard, Thompson said. Thompson has held focus groups in the past, but without much student involvement. “I contacted Student Government this time and created a Facebook event because it’s important to get student input since they will be prominent users,” Thompson said. Two sessions run today from 9:40 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. to 11:30 a.m, and students are encouraged to participate. “There is no set date to release
myLSU because we are still collecting input on how it should be designed,” Thompson said. There will be more focus groups meeting throughout March, and times can be viewed on Information Technology’s Web site.
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Revelry
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Friday’s Fashion File with
Brittney McZeal, fashion merchandising sophomore
On the Town “I like the semistructured, thrown together but not-too-mucheffort look.” McZeal combined a black blazer jacket, a casual graphic T-shirt and a charcoal peg skirt with a tan scarf and pointed ballet flats. She used the skirt and blazer for structure and the whimsical T-shirt and scarf for softness. McZeal said the look works best for a weekend night out, but for day she suggests replacing the jacket with a cardigan.
On the Street Q: What influences your style? A: “Not having any money, to be honest. I shop on a budget. I shop at Old Navy and I go to a lot of thrift stores – that’s where I found this shirt. I’m inspired by Nicole Richie.”
Q: What are you wearing right now? A: “I’m wearing skinny jeans with sandals from Urban Outfitters and a white v-neck with a men’s plaid shirt with a belt and a necklace from Forever 21.”
Q: What’s your favorite fashion trend right now? A: “I’m really feeling floral prints – those are nice. Also, I really like skinny jeans and v-neck shirts a lot.” Q: What’s your least favorite fashion trend right now? A: “Don’t get me started! The Northface, UGG boots, leggings, and shorts combo – burn it all right now. Cargo, camo – just stop. Crocs are irrelevant; they’re hideous. I wish I was the fashion police.”
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TRACK AND FIELD
LSU sends 20 athletes to NCAA nationals
By Luke Johnson Sports Contributor
national championship last year. They have our attention.” Mainieri said he preaches to his players to take the same approach to every game, so they will not have to try anything special to “get more geared up” for the weekend series. Kansas coach Ritch Price said he feels his team is also facing its toughest game this season. The Jayhawks’ other game against an SEC team was a 15-3 loss to Arkansas on March 2. “We’re looking forward to the level of play picking up significantly over what we’ve played so far,” Price said. “We’re trying to get prepared for the opening of the Big 12, and LSU is looking forward to the start of
The LSU track and field team will send 20 athletes to compete in the 2010 NCAA Indoor National Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark., March 12-13. The Tigers and Lady Tigers are nearly evenly represented at the event: Nine men and 11 women are traveling to Fayetteville for the competition. The No. 5 men and No. 3 women will have plenty of opportunities to score. The Tigers have one near-lock to win a national title in his event. Junior thrower Walter Henning owns the nation’s best mark in the 35-pound weight throw by more than 3 feet. But Henning isn’t resting on his laurels heading into the championship meet. Henning finished fourth at the NCAA championships last season. “I was second in the nation going into the [championship] meet last year by a half inch,“ Henning said. “The next guy was 2 1/2 feet behind us, and that guy ended up winning the meet, so you can’t underestimate anybody. It’s the national championship — everyone’s gonna show up.” His two years at LSU have been filled with one falling record after another. He set a new LSU record in three meets this year alone. “Henning has been Mr. Consistent all year long,” said LSU track coach Dennis Shaver. “With Walter, you think about a 35-pound weight throw, it’s probably some great big guy that’s throwing the weight, but
BASEBALL, see page 7
CHAMPIONSHIPS, see page 7
A Tough Test
Tigers to face Kansas in most difficult game yet this season By Johanathan Brooks Sports Writer
photos by HILARY SCHEINUK and BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille
[Top] LSU sophomore Tyler Hanover (11) bats Sunday against Brown in Alex Box Stadium. [Above] LSU junior infielder Austin Nola (36) throws the ball to first base Sunday during the Tigers’ 9-2 victory against Brown.
This weekend will be a Southeastern Conference weekend for LSU baseball, for all intents and purposes. The Tigers (12-0) will face what many players consider their toughest test to date, Kansas (9-3), in the final non-conference series of the season before SEC play starts. LSU coach Paul Mainieri said he believes his team’s schedule thus far has been underrated, but the Jayhawks pose the toughest test yet. “There’s no question in my mind that we’re not ratcheting it up a notch with Kansas,” he said. “If you look as recent as last year, they swept a three-game series from Texas, and of course we played Texas in the
GYMNASTICS
Four Tiger seniors to have last night in PMAC Breaux: ‘They are a tremendous group’ By Andy Schwehm Sports Contributor
Numerous LSU alumnae will attend tonight’s gymnastics meet against Iowa, ranging from LSU coach D-D Breaux’s first season as a coach in 1978 to last year’s seniors. But this meet won’t be about those former gymnasts. It will be about the four seniors competing in their final home meet of the regular season.
Sabrina Franceschelli, Summer Hubbard, Susan Jackson and Kayla Rogers will exit the PMAC as one of the most decorated classes in LSU history, having already combined for two Super Six appearances, an individual national title, 12 All-American honors and countless event and all-around titles. More than all the accolades stand out from Rogers’ nearly four years of being a Tiger. “One of the biggest things about our senior class is that all four of us are giving everything we’ve got to this team, especially now more than ever,” Rogers said. “And that’s really made a difference in team dynamics,
and that’s one of the biggest things when you go into a competition.” Jackson said the realization of the impending senior night came before last Friday night’s meet. She added she is proud of the seniors for how far they have come in their time at LSU. “It’s a surreal feeling because I’ve been doing gymnastics for 20 years, and now it’s finally coming to an end,” Jackson said. “You will see a few tears, I’m sure. The four of us started off not so great. Living together we didn’t get along, but we have grown to be like sisters now.” GYMNASTICS, see page 7
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LSU senior Summer Hubbard tries to grab the bar March 5 against Oregon State. Hubbard and three other seniors will compete in the PMAC for the last time tonight.
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SOFTBALL
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Tigers play Gamecocks Tigers head to Championship divers compete first in SEC road series Four in NCAA Regionals LSU has played last 17 games at home By Jarred LeBlanc Sports Contributor
The 2009 LSU softball team finished with the fourth-best conference record in the Southeastern Conference last season, and the three teams who finished ahead of the Tigers played their way into the College World Series. This season’s No. 14 Tigers begin Southeastern Conference play Saturday in Columbia, S.C., against South Carolina. LSU (18-4) enters the weekend series with a 13-game winning streak — the longest since the Tiger’s 17‘[We need game winning 2008. to] have a streakThein Tigers fast start have played last 17 because their games at home the SEC is and haven’t tough.’ been on the road since Feb. Yvette Girouard 14, in Austin, LSU softball coach Texas. “It’s absolutely imperative that we have a fast start, because the SEC is so tough,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “Even our best teams managed to drop a game here or there to [South Carolina] on the road.” The Gamecocks have struggled lately, losing seven of their last eight games. South Carolina (9-11) suffered defeats in its first conference games Wednesday against Ole Miss, 3-0 and 6-3, respectively. The Tigers have been solid from the plate and from the circle, outscoring opponents 85-11 during their current streak. “We’ve been working really hard at swinging at good pitches,” said junior designated player Ashley Applegate. “Now we’re doing it consistently when there are runners on bases.” LSU has been led offensively by senior center fielder Kirsten Shortridge, who is fourth in the SEC with 29 hits and tied for first in the SEC with 20 stolen bases. The most reliable part of the team has possibly been its pitching staff. The Tigers lead the SEC with a 0.91 team ERA. “We have a lot of depth,” said Shortridge, who has earned two wins from the circle this season. “It’s important as a pitching staff
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to know that someone can pick you up and not feel like the whole thing is your shoulders.” South Carolina sophomore pitcher Audrey Broyles has one of the lowest ERAs in the SEC with a 0.99 ERA and has given up only 24 hits as opposed to her 45 strikeouts. But the Gamecock starter has only posted a 3-3 record and has given up 12 runs this season, six of which were earned. Broyles earned losses last season as a freshman against LSU in all three games between the two teams.
Contact Jarred LeBlanc at jleblanc@lsureveille.com
By Katherine Terrell Sports Contributor
The NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships are a chance for some of LSU’s young swimmers to showcase their talents on a big stage. For others, it is the last hurrah before the end of a long career. Senior Sean LeNeave will swim in his last championship, while freshmen Andrei Tuomola and Craig Hamilton are participating in their first. The NCAA announced the five Tiger qualifiers Wednesday night. LeNeave, junior James Meyers and Tuomola already knew their times would get them
in the championship meet, but Hamilton had to wait until the last minute to learn his fate. Twenty-three ended up being the magic number for Hamilton, who grabbed the last spot in his event. “He was either going to be the last one in or the first one out,” LeNeave said. “It’s awesome that he got in as a freshman.” LeNeave, a three-time AllAmerican this season, will take part in four relays and the 50yard freestyle in his last competitive meet. “It’s nice to go out like this,” LeNeave said. “It would have felt like I cut the rope short if I didn’t make it to NCAAs.” The women’s team won’t have to say their goodbyes, as the Lady Tigers didn’t qualify any seniors in the meet. Junior AllAmerican Jane Trepp, sophomore Mary Beck, sophomore Morgan
McGee, sophomore Samantha Goates and freshman Amanda Kendall will swim for LSU in the women’s NCAA championships. The Tigers and Lady Tigers hope to add members of the diving teams to the qualifying roster. Freshmen Rebecca St. Germain, Elle Schmidt and Jesse Lyman and sophomore Brian Gemberling will compete for spots at the NCAA Championship via the NCAA Zone ‘D’ Diving Championship today. Goates said the Lady Tigers think they can place well in some of their relays.
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Friday, March 12, 2010 BASEBALL, from page 5
the SEC, so we feel it’s a series ... that will help get us ready for Texas and Baylor and [Texas] A&M as we open Big 12 next week.” The Tigers are off to their best start under Mainieri. They haven’t started a season with 12 consecutive wins since 1997, when they started with 19 wins. LSU junior catcher Micah Gibbs said the team doesn’t put a lot of emphasis on the winning
CHAMPIONSHIPS, from page 5
Walter’s not a very big guy. But I’ve never seen anybody accelerate the ball in three turns better than what he can.” The contributions of junior Zedric Thomas and sophomore Barrett Nugent have not been overshadowed by Henning’s dominance. Both athletes have enjoyed breakout seasons after struggling through injury-plagued 2009 seasons. Nugent ran the third-fastest 60-meter hurdle time in the country this season when he ran a 7.35
GYMNASTICS, from page 5
Franceschelli agreed, saying it will be an emotional meet, especially because her mom and grandmother are flying from Boston for the meet. But she said the team is focusing on the goals that lie ahead — getting to another Super Six. “I just want us to have another great home meet,” Franceschelli
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streak. “We just kind of look at what the next opportunity is for us,” he said. “The only thing we ever look at record-wise is [sophomore second baseman Tyler] Hanover, and I do claps for whatever our streak is and how many wins in a row.” The Tigers will still be without the services of junior pitcher Anthony Ranaudo, who is still experiencing discomfort in his throwing elbow. Ranaudo (0-0), the usual
Friday night starter, has missed two scheduled starts and is not expected to pitch until next weekend against Arkansas. “I feel good,” Ranaudo said. “It really only bothers me when I throw a little bit. There’s a little discomfort still in my elbow when I throw. When I do everything else, I’m fine.” Sophomore pitcher Joey Bourgeois will assume the Friday night starter role in place of Ranaudo. Bourgeois (2-0) started the
season as the Sunday starter but has moved his way up in the rotation. He has earned a 2.08 ERA with 16 strikeouts and seven walks in his three starts. “I’m pretty excited,” Bourgeois said. “Friday is obviously pretty important in setting the tone for the weekend. I plan on coming out and doing what I did last week — getting ahead of my hitters, work with my off-speed [pitch] and going after them and challenging them.”
The Jayhawks will start junior pitcher T.J. Walz (2-1). Saturday’s starters will be freshman Jordan Rittiner (2-0) for LSU and senior Cameron Selick (30) for Kansas, and Sunday’s starters will be junior Austin Ross (2-0) for LSU and redshirt senior Brett Bollman (1-1) for the Jayhawks.
second heat at the Southeastern Conference Championships. His season ended prematurely in Fayetteville last season, but the sophomore is primed to contend for the national title this year. “Nugent has just made an incredible turnaround from last year’s indoor season where things didn’t go very well at all,” Shaver said. “He’s been very consistent all year long.” Thomas is competing in two events at the championships. His 26foot, 3-inch long jump is the No. 3 mark in the country, and his 53-foot, 3.5-inch triple jump is at the No. 8
mark. Thomas’ potential has started to surface this season. “Thomas, who last year had a knee surgery, who kind of struggled in the latter part of the outdoor season trying to make a comeback, has had an outstanding indoor season for us so far,” Shaver said. Senior sprinter Jamaal James, sophomore thrower Michael Lauro and freshman sprinter Caleb Williams will also be participating in the individual events this weekend. Both the Tigers and the Lady Tigers will send their 4x400-meter relay teams to the event. Both
relay teams ran their seasonal-best qualifying time in Fayetteville. The Tigers’ 3:06.11 came in the SEC championships, and the Lady Tigers’ 3:34.11 came in the Tyson Invitational. Senior All-American LaTavia Thomas will run the anchor leg for the 4x400 relay and compete in the 800-meter run. Thomas holds the No. 3 time in the nation this season and won the national championship in the event in 2008. The Lady Tigers have three sprinters vying for the national title in the 60-meter run. All-Americans
senior Samantha Henry and junior Kenyanna Wilson will be joined by freshman Takeia Pinckney, whose seasonal-best time of 7.24 seconds ranks No. 4 in the nation. Pole Vaulter Rachel Laurent, high-jumper Brittani Carter, triplejumper Melissa Ogbourne and 200-meter runners Cassandra Tate and Kimberlyn Duncan will all vie for individual titles.
said. “Last weekend was a great experience in front of such a big home crowd.” She isn’t alone in looking for another good home crowd and performance to follow up the team’s season-high 196.925 against thenNo. 6 Oregon State last Friday. Hubbard said posting a 197.000 or above would be a big lift to the team’s Regional Qualifying Score
and seeding in NCAA regional competition. The No. 10 Tigers’ RQS currently stands at a 196.110. The three home scores the Tigers are counting in the RQS are a pair of 196.475 scores and the 196.925 from last weekend, which is dropped because it’s the team’s highest score. The Tigers are also counting
road scores of 195.350 (at the Lady Luck Invitational), 196.050 (at Georgia) and 196.200 (at Arkansas). Should LSU improve to around a 197.000 this weekend at home, it would see a more than half-point increase in a home score it is counting, which would lead to a noticeable increase in the team’s RQS average. “It’s vital that we get another high score because we would like to
drop our new high score and count the score from last week,” said Hubbard, who will have her family from Florida in attendance for senior night. “We’ve been building on our score every week, so it’s not out of our range.”
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FREKE FRIDAY
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Carroll’s ‘Alice’ lacks magic in Burton’s hands Director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter reunite in the latest adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic “Alice in Wonderland.” Working with his staple cast — all three have collaborated in three previous films — Burton pulls off an enticingly shot, but otherwise limp, adventure. We have Alice (Mia Wasikowska) as a 19-year-old girl and an aspiring feminist about to be betrothed to a lord. She skips out on the onlookers during the ceremony and runs through a well-manicured garden maze chasing the White Rabbit before falling through a hole. Voilà, we are now transported to the beautifully unsettling Wonderland, where Absolem the Caterpillar (voiced by the superb Alan Rickman) puffs his hookah, the Red Queen (Carter) and White Queen (Anne Hathaway) fight to rule the kingdom and the Mad Hatter (Depp) is plain mad.
It is necessary before proceeding to confess I have not read the book, and I watched the movie’s 2-D version. To the first, I maintain film adaptations of other forms of art must be able to stand on their own. Any comparison between source material and film version is salutary, but not crucial to the enjoyment or even understanding of film. If most films have screenplays, why should some of them be judged to a higher or lower standard simply because the source is popular? What is needed to judge a film is found only within the screen. To the second point, watching 2-D is a protest against the gradual infantilization of cinema, a resistance to the idea one should not watch a film, but rather “experience” it. Real life is all the experience one needs. But I digress. Burton vividly captures the otherworldliness, the strangeness and intrigue of Wonderland.
The colors are riveting: the film features a walk in the forest like in “Avatar,” and even though it might look superb on 3-D, the golden mushrooms and the lavender flowers jutting out of the grey envelFreke Ette oped verdant forest remain Columnist eye-catching even minus one dimension. There nevertheless exists only emptiness when the audience has to look beyond the beauty of scenery — we’ve fallen through the donut hole. The characters struggle to acquire meaning from the script’s stolid straitjacket. The 19-year-old Alice has clearly outgrown the childlike wonder necessary to appreciate Wonderland, so the trip seems more about her trying to escape from the hole back to the real
world. But Burton’s Alice can be appreciated even on this level as an example of Platonic anamnesis — learning as remembering. Alice is potentially or hardly Alice. She will have to learn to be herself. The major characters thrive on their eccentricity, delivering one-note performances disguised as unconventional and hip. Depp is praised for his versatility in balancing both smaller films (“Sweeney Todd”) and blockbusters (“Pirates of the Caribbean”), but it’s more likely both roles roll into each other: He simply imagines what the typical interpretation of a performance will be, then goes and does the contrary. This is why almost all Depp’s roles could be predicted even before the credits begin. He plays a lobotomized, serialkiller kind of mad in this film, exchanging pastoral ingenuity for unctuous listlessness. Meanwhile, Carter, a character actress
with occasional depth, is left with over-the-top mannerisms, bellowing, “Off with his head.” It seems Hathaway stumbled on the wrong set — possibly she was originally to star in a high school version of “The Princess Diaries.” Does Burton need to skip popular adaptation and focus on original scripts? Should he jettison his familiar players and seek actors a tad more edgy and hungry? Or has the director of “Beetlejuice” lost his juice? “Alice in Wonderland” is by no means a fiasco, yet the joy of innocence is missing — the thrill of the unfamiliar noticeably absent. Freke Ette is a political theory graduate student from Uyo, Nigeria. You can follow him on Twitter @TDR_fette. Contact Freke Ette at fette@lsureveille.com
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Nuclear power may be Gore’s inconvenient answer Al Gore has made hundreds of millions of dollars during the last eight years scolding the human race and warning of imminent climate catastrophe, according to Fast Company Magazine. Carbon dioxide is Satan, and we’re damned if we don’t stop making it — don’t hold your breath, literally. His dream world is the one in which we completely stop energy sources that release CO2 into the atmosphere. Sounds great, but it would require every one of the 6.8 billion people on earth change his or her way of life Realistic, I know. Instead of dissent to the utterly necessary means of our existence, he might consider promoting an excellent source of environmental relief: hamster generators. I mean nuclear power plants. No, power plants aren’t as cute as a warehouse full of furry, scurrying rodents, but they’re realistically efficient at producing energy. A piece of uranium the size of the last joint on your index finger contains the same amount of energy contained in Mike the Tiger’s cage. Releasing that energy produces 0.00 percent of the CO2 emissions released by that coal. All that energy with none of the atmospheric devastation? There has to be a catch. There’s always a catch, right? Of course there is. Well, if you ask Al, there’s a catch. He claims nuclear energy is too dirty, too expensive, too unsafe, and it poses a security threat to the world. I call shenanigans on Mr. Gore. Dirty — I don’t even know what he could mean by that. The
radioactive water that comes in contact with the reactor is never released into the environment. The emissions are virtually nothing. The only thing that gets released into the atmosphere is steam, which is water just like Matthew Lousteau that stuff that falls out of Columnist the sky sometimes. The steam is made from water that is circulated independent of the radioactive water. Al says nuclear is expensive — he’s almost as funny as his imposter on “SNL.” But he’s being serious, so he’s just lying. The World Nuclear Association provides data stating nuclear energy is not only cost-competitive. It is in several cases cheaper than coal, fossil fuel, natural gas and renewable sources. Safety is, has and always will be a concern when considering nuclear energy. Fear seems to be an appropriate emotion with incidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Chernobyl is the only nuclear accident to have caused fatalities on site of a nuclear reactor. Three Mile Island happened before technology and science could understand exactly what was happening. Science has come a long way in the last 20 years — Mr. Gore even invented the Internet since then. As for the waste, you should consider looking at how they store the nuclear “waste” — waste that still has 95 percent of its original energy. Uranium is considered waste after using 5 percent of its
energy. It’s then stored in casks. The design of the casks is pretty hush-hush, but it has a lot of cement and metal shaped in a cylinder around the waste. You can fly an F4 fighter jet into these things, and they’re just peachy — it’s awesome and on YouTube. If we can keep our nuclear warheads safe, I think the nuclear waste is pretty safe — not to mention the power plants have plenty of armed security guards tested yearly
by Army Special Forces. The waste is nowhere close to ready to be used as a nuclear weapon. Not even George Clooney could steal nuclear waste and use it as a weapon. Everything aside, I don’t blame Mr. Gore for criticizing nuclear energy. As long as there is no perfect source of energy — something the second law of thermodynamics prohibits — he has a hefty paycheck with his name on it.
If you could make hundreds of millions criticizing solutions, would you ever promote a good one? Matt Lousteau is a 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior from Laplace. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_mlousteau. Contact Matthew Lousteau at mlousteau@lsureveille.com
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FREKE FRIDAY
Opinion
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Carroll’s ‘Alice’ lacks magic in Burton’s hands Director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter reunite in the latest adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic “Alice in Wonderland.” Working with his staple cast — all three have collaborated in three previous films — Burton pulls off an enticingly shot, but otherwise limp, adventure. We have Alice (Mia Wasikowska) as a 19-year-old girl and an aspiring feminist about to be betrothed to a lord. She skips out on the onlookers during the ceremony and runs through a well-manicured garden maze chasing the White Rabbit before falling through a hole. Voilà, we are now transported to the beautifully unsettling Wonderland, where Absolem the Caterpillar (voiced by the superb Alan Rickman) puffs his hookah, the Red Queen (Carter) and White Queen (Anne Hathaway) fight to rule the kingdom and the Mad Hatter (Depp) is plain mad.
It is necessary before proceeding to confess I have not read the book, and I watched the movie’s 2-D version. To the first, I maintain film adaptations of other forms of art must be able to stand on their own. Any comparison between source material and film version is salutary, but not crucial to the enjoyment or even understanding of film. If most films have screenplays, why should some of them be judged to a higher or lower standard simply because the source is popular? What is needed to judge a film is found only within the screen. To the second point, watching 2-D is a protest against the gradual infantilization of cinema, a resistance to the idea one should not watch a film, but rather “experience” it. Real life is all the experience one needs. But I digress. Burton vividly captures the otherworldliness, the strangeness and intrigue of Wonderland.
The colors are riveting: the film features a walk in the forest like in “Avatar,” and even though it might look superb on 3-D, the golden mushrooms and the lavender flowers jutting out of the grey envelFreke Ette oped verdant forest remain Columnist eye-catching even minus one dimension. There nevertheless exists only emptiness when the audience has to look beyond the beauty of scenery — we’ve fallen through the donut hole. The characters struggle to acquire meaning from the script’s stolid straitjacket. The 19-year-old Alice has clearly outgrown the childlike wonder necessary to appreciate Wonderland, so the trip seems more about her trying to escape from the hole back to the real
world. But Burton’s Alice can be appreciated even on this level as an example of Platonic anamnesis — learning as remembering. Alice is potentially or hardly Alice. She will have to learn to be herself. The major characters thrive on their eccentricity, delivering one-note performances disguised as unconventional and hip. Depp is praised for his versatility in balancing both smaller films (“Sweeney Todd”) and blockbusters (“Pirates of the Caribbean”), but it’s more likely both roles roll into each other: He simply imagines what the typical interpretation of a performance will be, then goes and does the contrary. This is why almost all Depp’s roles could be predicted even before the credits begin. He plays a lobotomized, serialkiller kind of mad in this film, exchanging pastoral ingenuity for unctuous listlessness. Meanwhile, Carter, a character actress
with occasional depth, is left with over-the-top mannerisms, bellowing, “Off with his head.” It seems Hathaway stumbled on the wrong set — possibly she was originally to star in a high school version of “The Princess Diaries.” Does Burton need to skip popular adaptation and focus on original scripts? Should he jettison his familiar players and seek actors a tad more edgy and hungry? Or has the director of “Beetlejuice” lost his juice? “Alice in Wonderland” is by no means a fiasco, yet the joy of innocence is missing — the thrill of the unfamiliar noticeably absent. Freke Ette is a political theory graduate student from Uyo, Nigeria. You can follow him on Twitter @TDR_fette. Contact Freke Ette at fette@lsureveille.com
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Nuclear power may be Gore’s inconvenient answer Al Gore has made hundreds of millions of dollars during the last eight years scolding the human race and warning of imminent climate catastrophe, according to Fast Company Magazine. Carbon dioxide is Satan, and we’re damned if we don’t stop making it — don’t hold your breath, literally. His dream world is the one in which we completely stop energy sources that release CO2 into the atmosphere. Sounds great, but it would require every one of the 6.8 billion people on earth change his or her way of life Realistic, I know. Instead of dissent to the utterly necessary means of our existence, he might consider promoting an excellent source of environmental relief: hamster generators. I mean nuclear power plants. No, power plants aren’t as cute as a warehouse full of furry, scurrying rodents, but they’re realistically efficient at producing energy. A piece of uranium the size of the last joint on your index finger contains the same amount of energy contained in Mike the Tiger’s cage. Releasing that energy produces 0.00 percent of the CO2 emissions released by that coal. All that energy with none of the atmospheric devastation? There has to be a catch. There’s always a catch, right? Of course there is. Well, if you ask Al, there’s a catch. He claims nuclear energy is too dirty, too expensive, too unsafe, and it poses a security threat to the world. I call shenanigans on Mr. Gore. Dirty — I don’t even know what he could mean by that. The
radioactive water that comes in contact with the reactor is never released into the environment. The emissions are virtually nothing. The only thing that gets released into the atmosphere is steam, which is water just like Matthew Lousteau that stuff that falls out of Columnist the sky sometimes. The steam is made from water that is circulated independent of the radioactive water. Al says nuclear is expensive — he’s almost as funny as his imposter on “SNL.” But he’s being serious, so he’s just lying. The World Nuclear Association provides data stating nuclear energy is not only cost-competitive. It is in several cases cheaper than coal, fossil fuel, natural gas and renewable sources. Safety is, has and always will be a concern when considering nuclear energy. Fear seems to be an appropriate emotion with incidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Chernobyl is the only nuclear accident to have caused fatalities on site of a nuclear reactor. Three Mile Island happened before technology and science could understand exactly what was happening. Science has come a long way in the last 20 years — Mr. Gore even invented the Internet since then. As for the waste, you should consider looking at how they store the nuclear “waste” — waste that still has 95 percent of its original energy. Uranium is considered waste after using 5 percent of its
energy. It’s then stored in casks. The design of the casks is pretty hush-hush, but it has a lot of cement and metal shaped in a cylinder around the waste. You can fly an F4 fighter jet into these things, and they’re just peachy — it’s awesome and on YouTube. If we can keep our nuclear warheads safe, I think the nuclear waste is pretty safe — not to mention the power plants have plenty of armed security guards tested yearly
by Army Special Forces. The waste is nowhere close to ready to be used as a nuclear weapon. Not even George Clooney could steal nuclear waste and use it as a weapon. Everything aside, I don’t blame Mr. Gore for criticizing nuclear energy. As long as there is no perfect source of energy — something the second law of thermodynamics prohibits — he has a hefty paycheck with his name on it.
If you could make hundreds of millions criticizing solutions, would you ever promote a good one? Matt Lousteau is a 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior from Laplace. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_mlousteau. Contact Matthew Lousteau at mlousteau@lsureveille.com
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if we make a basket here or there, we’re in a position that we can go down the stretch and probably pull this thing out.” Mitchell also fell short in the game. The Denham Springs native needed 21 points to become the third Tiger in school history to eclipse the 2,000 point mark. He only managed 10 points and eight rebounds. “His career has been unbelievable,” LSU assistant coach Keith Richard said in his postgame radio interview. “We wish that he didn’t have to endure so many losses this year. But this year can also be a great experience for Tasmin showing the cards aren’t always dealt your way. He’ll grow from this. He played a lot of minutes.” Mitchell said after the game he has no qualms about returning to LSU for his senior season. “I don’t regret at all coming back,” Mitchell said. “I wouldn’t
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change the decision for the world. I think I grew as a man and a player. I wear my purple and gold proud.” LSU sophomore forward Storm Warren was the only bright spot for the Tigers. Warren scored 18 points on 9-of-13 field goal attempts with six rebounds. Junior guard Bo Spencer, the Tigers’ second leading scorer behind Mitchell, could only put up five points. Freshman forward Eddie Ludwig also contributed eight points. Volunteer senior forward Wayne Chism led Tennessee with 17 points and 10 rebounds, junior guard Bobby Maze scored 14 points, and senior forward J.P. Prince contributed 11 points in the win. “I don’t want to take anything away from Tennessee,” Johnson said. “They’re long and athletic, a good basketball team. Very similar type game to the one we played them in Baton Rouge.” LSU had its chances. The Tigers had a lead as big as seven
in a back and forth first half. The teams went to a 21-all tie at the break. But the Tigers couldn’t keep up. A Volunteer 8-0 run essentially iced the game for Tennessee. The run gave Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl’s squad a 38-30 lead. LSU wouldn’t lead again. “We can run up and down with any team in this league, but we sort of lost momentum and we couldn’t get it back,” Johnson said. “So when that happened, it took the wind out of our sails.” LSU’s defense was stellar for the second straight contest. The Tigers have allowed fewer than 60 points three times in their last five games. The Volunteers shot a meager 36.5 percent from the field and 4-of-23 from distance, good for 17.4 percent. “You know, Tennessee is not a great shooting team,” Mitchell said. “The zone was working. I feel like
we played it OK, but we just didn’t grasp it at the end of the game when we could have captured the game.” Both Johnson and Richard were proud of the Tigers’ effort. “There were a couple of key possessions where they hurt us on the glass, but I can’t fault our effort,” Johnson said. “I can’t fault our execution.” The Tigers can now look ahead to next season, with a top-15 recruiting class coming to Baton Rouge. Junior forward Malcolm White will also be eligible to play next fall. “Well, the future’s bright,” Johnson said. “Make no mistake about it. Everything has happened this year was — I don’t want to say it was expected to the degree it was, but the responsibility sits up here. My history dictates I’ll get it correct. Believe me.”
according to a letter of agreement that is subject to change when the final contract is signed. “Its just a matter of taking a different perspective and asking ourselves the question, ‘What are the things that we already own for which we have relatively low cost of operations that can generate
positive revenue,’” Martin said. Following the successful integration of Electronic Arts on campus, Martin wants to invite more private companies onto campus to augment student learning. “I don’t want to just be a place of business,” Martin said. “There are hundreds of parks like that. I want to be an attraction where we can bring in business that augments our research and education.” He said a company is considering bringing nuclear engineering and nuclear training facilities to the University. That company would build a nuclear power plant control room simulator to train and certify people.
emerging nuclear engineering program, Martin said. Martin also said EA is considering bringing its creative wing here but hasn’t commited yet. Martin said the state is willing to fund a new facility for EA, of which which the University could use half. “We get a chance for students to be involved in the cutting edge of computer entertainment,” Martin said. “We get a chance for our faculty to collaborate with the people on the cutting edge of the industry. We get more space. We get a lot of attention and the community will love it.”
The company would bring attention to the University’s
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decrease in the amount of people visiting the Union. She said on a typical day before construction started the Union received as many as 15,000 visits per day. Now the number typically peaks at 2,500. Aphrah Erwin, elementary education sophomore, said she is content to deal with construction because she knows the newly renovated areas will be worth it. This is her first semester at the University, so she said she is eager to see the lounge areas on the second floor and is most excited about the Tiger Lair. “I live on campus, so it would be nice to have a new cafeteria,” she said. Plakidas said she hopes the Union’s former customers will come back once construction nears completion, as well as many new patrons. But she said attracting them might present a challenge. “We recognize that we’re going to have to do some serious marketing,” Plakidas said. Plakidas said all revenue operations were disrupted by construction and said the barbershop has been seriously affected, partly because of its new, temporary location. Plakidas said while Union officials prepared for loss in revenue, they are experiencing more interruptions in income than they planned for because construction was delayed. Bueche said the newly renovated parts of the Union include space for two retail areas, but officials have not decided what they will be used for. He said the new stores will be announced once negotiations are finished. Contact Rachel Warren at rwarren@lsureveille.com
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