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BY Rose Velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com For the women of Jess’ Bra Closet, a Baton Rouge based nonprofit organization, community service is all about providing a little extra support to women in need. As Women’s History Month ramps up, the LSU Women’s Center is partnering with Jess’ Bra Closet to provide an often-overlooked basic female necessity — bras. “To us, spending $15, $20,
$30 on a good bra, it might not be a lot, but if you’re in a situation where you don’t have access to funds, it might not make your priority list,” said Summer Steib, director of the Women’s Center. The Women’s Center began collecting donations of new and gently used bras for Jess’ Bra Closet in late February and will continue until the end of March. Steib said the bra drive is a chance for women to clean out their closets or drawers and give a bra that no longer fits or
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was never worn to someone who needs it. “It’s a great opportunity to give back in a way that’s something meaningful,” Steib said. “It’s not a big financial commitment.” Jess’ Bra Closet collects and distributes new and gently used bras and provides bra fittings free of charge. Founder and CEO Jessica Johnson said the idea for Jess’ Bra Closet came to her in 2010,
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Mickey, Martin named First-Team All-SEC selections LSU sophomore forwards Jarell Martin and Jordan Mickey have been named First-Team All-Southeastern Conference selections by league coaches, the league office announced Tuesday. It marks the first time since 2009 coaches voted two Tigers on the first team and 13th overall in program history. After leading the nation in blocks, Mickey was also named to the SEC’s All-Defensive team for the second consecutive season. Martin and Mickey have been the main pillars this season for LSU (22-9, 11-7 SEC), which finished with the fourth-best record in the SEC and earned a double bye for this weekend’s conference tournament in Nashville, Tennessee. Martin, a Baton Rouge native,
was the SEC’s third-best scorer with a team-high 16.9 points per game. Martin scored at least 20 points 10 times and averaged 19.6 points on 61.9 percent shooting in the final eight games of the regular season. Mickey was an SEC Player of the Year candidate for much of the season before battling injuries down the stretch, but the Dallas native still enjoyed one of the most impressive seasons for a Tiger in recent memory. Martin and Mickey were All-Freshmen selections last year for the Tigers, who were knocked out in the second round of the National Invitation Tournament. Mickey also earned a Second-Team All-SEC nod to go with his All-Defensive selection last season.
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Professor invited to give talk in China BY DEANNA NARVESON dnarveson@lsureveille.com University geography Professor Craig Colten has been selected as one of 15 geographers from around the world to speak at an international symposium in Beijing, China, on the effect of city development and manufacturing on the water supply. Colten said the industry once believed toxic waste would be eliminated by the environment the same way biological waste is purified over time, but that wasn’t the case. He worked for years with government and businesses to advise and guide on how to navigate contamination issues. Colten said groundwater contamination hits close to home in Louisiana because of issues like a pit dug for construction in North Baton Rouge a few years ago, later used as an industrial waste dumping ground, or the contamination problems in Plaquemines Parish at The Dow Chemical Company’s plant. The conference, hosted by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, aims to facilitate conversation about the environment, science and the ecological impact of industry for two days in China’s capital in May. Based in Germany, The Rachel Carson Center was founded in 2009 with the mission of promoting humanities in current political and scientific debates about the environment. Academics from around the world gather and discuss problems plaguing the Earth and critique one another’s writing on industry and environment. “I hope that this information will make its way out into the
University geography and anthropology professor Craig E. Colten lectures Tuesday in the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex. Colten has been invited to speak at an international symposium in Beijing, China, on the effects of city development and manufacturing on the water supply.
general industry,” Colten said. “I’m going to go back and revisit some of my work from earlier in my career, specifically what did industry know about the potential for groundwater contamination. They used to dump in rivers, but then laws changed and they had to start dumping into land.” For the next two months, Colten will prepare and update his research for his talk. It must be submitted before the conference for the other speakers’ critique. Colten said information about how human activity and industry affects the water supply have been around for years, but it took a while for new practices to come about. “Industries, they consume resources, cut down trees — they extract things from the ground to make things, and they then make waste products and that somehow enters into the environment,” Colten said. “But research has shown since the ‘20s and on, the environment is not treating the wastes, it stays in the ground and the water.” Colten said while the conference is an academic event, the research in prep work has an effect on managing ecological impact. At the moment, Colten’s paper is in a rough state, but he said he is also preparing for a trip to a country where he has never been. Colten plans to arrive in China early to see some other cities and meet some of his former students, who are native Chinese speakers, to help him get around. “I’ve been to Europe on speaking engagements before and can get around okay, but this is a whole different set of characters,” Colten said. “I’m very excited.”
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Veritas Forum discusses faith, facts BY CAITIE BURKES cburkes@lsureveille.com In recent years, theologians and scientists have debated whether the world started with the booming voice of God or with a big bang from the cosmos. People often view science and religion as adversaries rather than allies in the search for truth. Historically, however, this is not the case. Many of the first natural scientists — Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Francis Bacon and Johannes Kepler — were Christians. Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, was a monk. Physician S. Joshua Swamidass said the cultural divide should not be so defined. “I would hope that we would all want to pursue truth, and there’s truth in both science and faith,” Swamidass said. Swamidass, assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, spoke on behalf of the Veritas Forum in Dodson Auditorium on Tuesday evening. His lecture, “Is Science Enough? Facts, Faith and Fundamentals,” reached a wide collegiate audience. The Veritas Forum is an international nonprofit that reaches out to Christian college students and hosts lectures focusing on the search for truth. It was sponsored by CRU, The Refuge, CFSN, Istrouma and First Presbyterian. Swamidass’ research involves computational methods to discover new medicines and innovative uses for known medicines. “It seems like such a luxury to get paid to do what I love,” he said. Swamidass was on a premed track in his undergraduate career at University of California, Irvine. He then spent nine years in a graduate M.D./Ph.D program. After serving as a pathology resident for a year, Swamidass started to research reactivity, metabolism and toxicity. A self-proclaimed scientistChristian, Swamidass said though he believes science and faith are two distinct concepts, he thinks they are dependent on
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Physician S. Joshua Swamidass discusses science and religion Tuesday during the Veritas Forum in Dodson Auditorium. and religion conflict “methodically, factually and politically.” In the U.S., 46 percent of people hold the creationist view of human origins as explained in Genesis from the Bible, according to Gallup. About 15 percent believe in evolution without a god. One-third of those surveyed believe evolution happened with God’s guidance. Swamidass said he is “really comfortable” with the idea of evolution, citing his own interpretation of the Bible as his reasoning. “When I read the Bible, I see the primary purpose is not how He made the universe ... but how He chose to save the universe,” Swamidass said.
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University team develops Space Station instrument BY JOSE ALEJANDRO BASTIDAS jbastidas@lsureveille.com Researchers push scientific boundaries daily, and for a University research team, highenergy astrophysics is the next frontier. John P. Wefel, physics professor and Louisiana Space Consortium director, along with physics professors Gregory Guzik and Michael Cherry and physics doctoral candidate Nick Cannady, comprise the University’s team in the United States’ division of the International CALorimetric Electron Telescope project, developed as part of the International Space Station utilization. The CALET project, led by Japanese researchers from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, also has research teams at the Washington University in St. Louis, the Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Denver and in Italy. Scientists believe cosmic rays are formed when stars blow up in what is known as a supernova explosion, Wefel said. Wefel said the supernova remnants work as natural particle accelerators pushing elements of the periodic table through space, often hitting Earth’s atmosphere. “We are bombarded constantly by very high-energy particles that come from outside our solar system — those are called cosmic rays,” Wefel said. “What we’re trying to do is answer some age-old questions that people have been wondering about. One of these is ‘Where do these cosmic rays come from?’ Because we know they have been around for at least 4 billion years, we can go back to old meteorites and find traces of them. They’re part of our environment and have been for a very long time.”
With the CALET instrument, scientists will capture the cosmic rays, separate the particles and study their composition at higher energy levels to test astrophysics theories. “[The CALET instrument] is pushing us into a new energy regime for these observations and helping to uncover and verify our understanding of fundamental physics,” Cannady said. Scientists in Japan built the instrument itself, while the U.S. team advised and helped develop the instrument’s software, tested the software before launch by running simulations and algorithm programs and will contribute with analyzing and processing data collected in space once the instrument is launched. The University will house what Wefel calls the U.S. CALET data center, a 120-node computer system storing data collected from the instrument, which is delivered to the U.S. by the Japanese research team, for processing and analysis done by all teams in the American division. “This instrument will give us much better data at much higher energies that any of the current instruments that ever have recorded this type of data,” Wefel said. “The whole idea of CALET is to push measurements of electrons, in particular, protons and [elements] to higher energies than we’ve seen before to see if there is something new. Why is that interesting? It will be in this high energy region that we’re going to be able to see where these rays came from.” Wefel said CALET is expected to launch from Japan late summer or early fall 2015 to the International Space Station. The team hopes the instrument will collect data for five years.
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Former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial to deliver commencement Marc Morial son of Ernest Morial, first African-American graduate of LSU Law School
Former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial will deliver the 2015 commencement address to graduates of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
BY JAYCE GENCO jgenco@lsureveille.com More than 10 years before civil rights activists and protesters marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to fight for voting rights, Ernest Morial was working on his law degree to protect and fight for those rights. Morial was the first black law student to graduate from what was then called the LSU Law School. Marc Morial will deliver the 2015 comencement MARC MORIAL m address to the graduates of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center some 61 years after his father, Ernest Morial, earned his law degree. Marc was elected mayor of New Orleans in 1994 and held the office until 2002. According to the Urban League’s website, he left the office with a 70 percent approval rating. Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss said in a news release that he was delighted to announce Marc Morial as the commencement speaker. “He’s a passionate and dynamic
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speaker,” Weiss said in an email to The Daily Reveille. “I fully expect his speech to inspire students, faculty, family and friends.” Weiss said the idea to invite Marc came from the leaders of the 2015 graduating class, and they were excited he accepted their invitation. Weiss said Marc will be able to tell graduates about the challenges they will face as young lawyers. Along with being a lawyer himself, Marc is the president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League — one of the nation’s largest civil rights institutions. As president of the National Urban League, Marc has been the driving force for change within the organization. He revamped the organization’s work with empowerment programs by working to close the economic gap between white and black Americans. “Mr. Morial is a national leader
of the movement for racial equality, so he is a very appropriate choice in this anniversary year of 2015,” Weiss said in an email. “I think it will be informative and inspirational for our graduates and everyone else in attendance to be able to connect through Mr. Morial with the past, present and future of the movement for racial equality, in our state and in our country as a whole.” Along with serving the people of Louisiana as a state senator, Marc has been appointed by Barack Obama to the Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission and the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability. He was also appointed to the Twenty-First Century Workforce Commission by President Bill Clinton. Marc is also credited with being recognized as one of the top 100 most influential black Americans by Ebony magazine.
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both slugging percentage at .778 and on-base percentage at .452. “He has been one of our best players. He’s a leader of the team,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said after the Tigers’ 7-1 victory over Grambling State, where Scivicque went 2-for-3 with an RBI. “He threw that guy out stealing [against Grambling State], handles his staff great. Everybody wants to point right away at his hitting, and rightfully so, it was a big hit he got against [Grambling State]. “We were down a run, and the guy was throwing so slow it was kind of baffling our guys. But he stayed back after being way out in front of the first pitch and
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Scivicque, Hale are constants in a list of hot Tigers One hit. For a collegiate baseball player, a hit may be taken for granted. But for LSU senior third baseman Conner Hale, a hit brings him one game away from history. With a hit tonight against McNeese State, Hale would tie the LSU record for most consecutive games with a hit to start a season at 17. “At the beginning of the season, I kind of had my bat wrapped around my head,” Hale said. “[Hitting coach Andy Cannizaro] helped me straighten my bat out more to be more straight to the ball, and he wants me to be more aggressive. I feel like I’ve been pretty aggressive.”
Hale has been a constant for the No. 1 Tigers (15-1) during the hit streak, batting .338 with eight extra base hits and 15 RBIs to go along with a .508 slugging percentage. Hale’s six doubles on the season are tied for the team lead with junior shortstop Alex Bregman. Hale was named Southeastern Conference Player of the Week this week after his performance in the Houston College Classic. The New Port Richey, Florida, native batted .400 and registered a double, a two-run home run and five RBIs during the Tigers’ three-game sweep. Hale also tallied a double, a triple and two RBIs in wins against Stephen F. Austin and Grambling State. The last player to go on a
17-game hit streak for the Tigers was junior center fielder Andrew Stevenson, who went for 17 straight in 2014. “I’m not trying to think of that when I’m up there,” Hale said. “I’m just trying to think about putting the barrel on the ball and drive it. It would be awesome, but like I said, I’m not really focused on that. I’m just trying to go up there with every at bat.” While Hale has been a constant for the Tigers, senior catcher Kade Scivicque has been just as productive in his 11 games played this season. Scivicque leads the team in batting average at .417 and in home runs with three. Scivicque also leads all starters in
BY JACK CHASCIN jchascin@lsureveille.com The LSU football team started spring practice on Saturday, with its second practice on Tuesday as the team begins its long journey to September. After a 2014 season left the Tigers in a cloud of doubt, sophomore running back Leonard Fournette became a bright patch for Tiger fans moving forward. Fournette finished 2014 with 1,034 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns, averaging just under 80 yards per game in the hardhitting Southeastern Conference. Fournette has plenty to be proud about, but instead he’s choosing to stay humble only a year after beaming with confidence and setting goals to become a Heisman winner in his freshman season. The New Orleans native has matured, and with a season under his belt, he has learned what it takes to be the ultimate team player. “I’m not really focused on [a Heisman Trophy] right now,” Fournette said. “I’m just focusing on getting better with the team and winning a championship.” Fournette said he has no set goals for himself this year, electing to set his sights on a championship. Fournette is over the Heisman hype of last year, including when he struck a Heisman pose in the end zone against Sam Houston State after scoring his first touchdown of the season. Fournette said he has learned from past mistakes and is choosing to embrace the role as a team
LSU senior catcher Kade Scivicque (22) scores a home run on Feb. 13 during the Tigers’ 4-1 victory against Kansas at Alex Box Stadium.
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Tigers look to continue streak against McNeese State BY DAVID GRAY dgray@lsureveille.com After a three-game sweep at the Houston College Classic this weekend, the LSU baseball team overtook defendingchampion Vanderbilt as the No. 1 club in the nation. Add in a 12-game winning streak, and the Tigers are riding a wave of momentum with Southeastern Conference play beginning this weekend. But before starting a series against SEC foe Ole Miss on Friday, LSU (15-1) has a date with McNeese State (11-5) at 4
p.m. today in Alex Box Stadium. With a loss to an in-state foe already on his team’s résumé, LSU coach Paul Mainieri said his club won’t take the Cowboys lightly. “All the games count on your record and your résumé, so we want to try to win the game,” Mainieri said. “You have a responsibility when you wear an LSU jersey to go out there and play as hard as you can for the fans that are paying good money to come to the games.” Wednesday’s game was originally slated for 6:30 p.m., but the National Weather Service
predicts a 70 percent chance of showers in the Baton Rouge area, forcing Mainieri to alter his schedule for the fourth time this season. But rain may be the only thing that can stop the Tigers lately. It’s been three weeks since LSU’s last loss, a 6-3 defeat at the hands of Nicholls State. Since then, the Tigers have reeled off 12 consecutive wins and outscored opponents by 59 runs (90-31). The recent win streak helped the Tigers overtake Vanderbilt, which lost twice
last weekend, as the No. 1 team in the nation. The top ranking is something Mainieri said he always likes. “Obviously, No. 1 at the end of the year is much more important than No. 1 during the year,” Mainieri said. “But given a choice between being ranked No. 1 or not being ranked No. 1, I’ll take it anytime.” LSU redshirt sophomore pitcher Russell Reynolds (7.71 ERA) gets the starting nod against McNeese, which is batting .287 as a team with 61 runs on 160 hits this season. “I was pretty pumped just
to get in the routine as a starter again,” Reynolds. “I like coming out of the [bullpen], but as a starter, you can get in the groove. It was easier on me because I’m used to starting, so I was happy when [Mainieri] told me.” Reynolds has made four appearances this season and given up five runs on five hits and four walks. He’s also struck out four batters in 4 and 2/3 innings of work. But the Tigers’ bats should be able to help Reynolds,
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Tigers fuel big innings, productivity with ‘pass the bat’ mantra
BY morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com The LSU softball team, which is tied for No. 3 in the nation, boasts one of the most explosive and dynamic lineups in the country. During the best start for any team in LSU history, the Tigers’ (25-0) lineup has consistently broken games open with a single inning by focusing on the selfless mantra “pass the bat.” “Basically, ‘passing the bat’ means that we’re just trying to do anything possible in order to get the bat into the person behind us hands,” said senior center fielder A.J. Andrews. “The more times people get an at-bat, the more they see the pitcher and the better they get [against the pitcher].” This approach has fueled obvious success. The Tigers have scored five or more runs in 15 innings this season. In 21 of its 25 games, LSU has scored at least six runs. The lineup’s productivity begins with Andrews in the leadoff spot and sophomore right fielder Bailey Landry at No. 2. Andrews and Landry attack defenses with arsenal an of weapons, like their bunting, slapping and speed. The duo has scored a combined 61 runs this season. Andrews’ ability to get on base
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LSU sophomore right fielder Bailey Landry (26) prepares to run home during the Tigers’ 14-0 victory against Stephen F. Austin on March 1 at Tiger Park. has allowed her to set up the rest of the lineup. She leads the Tigers with a .633 on-base percentage and 24 walks while hitting .508 this season. Andrews’ speed and aggressive base running allows her to get into scoring position and take advantage of every trip around the bases. She leads LSU with a perfect 13-13 on stolen base attempts this season after tallying a 38-40 mark in 2014.
“I’m just trying to get on base in order for Bailey Landry to get an at-bat,” Andrews said. Landry has been a rock for LSU, earning at least one hit in a program-record 17-straight games. Landry shows versatility at the plate by switching between slapping and regular hitting, throwing off opposing defenses. Landry leads LSU’s slappers with six doubles and trails only junior shortstop Bianka Bell in
hits. Her consistency at the plate is key to the Tigers’ ability to string together hits in a single inning. “Most of the time, they’ve really shown some selfless at-bats,” said LSU assistant coach Howard Dobson. “They’re taking some pitches, and they are really understanding and passing along what the information is. You have Bailey feeding off of A.J.” The combination of Andrews and Landry has sparked the
Tigers’ two most productive innings of the season, when LSU scored 10 runs in the first innings against Nebraska on Feb. 21 and Northwestern State on March 3. Against Northwestern State, Andrews led off with a single to right field and stole second. Landry drove her in with a bunt single to third for the Tigers’ first run. LSU tallied nine more runs on six hits in the frame, including doubles by Landry and sophomore infielder Sahvanna Jaquish. Although Andrews and Landry are sparks for LSU, the rest of the lineup is deep with marquee power hitters, like Bell and Jaquish. Bell is now the LSU career home run leader with 34 in three seasons, while Jaquish leads the SEC with 11 homers and 45 RBIs. The “pass the bat” mantra has allowed LSU to dominate innings with individual Tigers shining in the best role for the team overall. “It’s very contagious it seems like,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “Once somebody starts hitting, it gives the next hitter confidence that they can do it as well. We have shown to have a really potent offense, and they’re a tough out No. 1 through No. 9 … Once they get the ball rolling, they’re tough to stop.” You can reach Morgan Prewitt on Twitter @kmprewitt_TDR.
Multiple MVP candidates make NBA interesting again LIFE OF BRIAN BRIAN PELLERIN Sports Columnist For what may be the first time in NBA history, the MVP hasn’t already been decided. In other seasons, any regular NBA fan can pick out who is going to win the MVP, or narrow it down to two players, and then vote depending on whose team finishes with a better record. Not this year. In the words of one of the remaining contenders, the NBA has “not two, not three, not four,” but five top-notch candidates. The quote comes from LeBron James, who’s sitting pretty to be in the MVP discussion at season’s end for the millionth year in a row. And rightfully so. He is the best player in the league, and if you disagree, I recommend watching more basketball. At the All-Star break, James was an afterthought for the award after missing eight games in late December and early January. But he has flipped a switch and put up some of his best games against some of his biggest competition, including 42 points against the Warriors on Feb. 26 and 37 against the Rockets on March 1.
Anyone who watched the game against Houston will probably only remember his 3-for-11 performance at the free-throw line, not the 37 points he put on the board. This “choke” will undoubtedly injure James’ attempt to reclaim the MVP trophy and his throne as best player in the league. The guy who didn’t choke was Houston’s own “King James,” guard James Harden, as he was so ridiculously called following the Rockets’ victory against the Cavs. While one game wasn’t enough to push Harden to the top of the NBA hierarchy, it moved him closer to his first MVP title. He leads the league in points, which helped Kevin Durant win the trophy last season, but he also leads the league in trips to the free throw line by almost 150 attempts. Going to the line that often puts an asterisk on the point total and his case to win the award. The second-highest point total in the league belongs to another top contender, Golden State’s Stephen Curry. Curry was the leader at the All-Star break, but he hasn’t done anything to wow the voters since. Well, that’s not entirely true. He did shoot a three, turn around and stare down the player who tried to block it all before the ball even went in. That’s some style.
Speaking of style, nobody has worse style in the NBA than the Thunder’s Russell Westbrook. The UCLA product comes to his postgame press conferences dressed like a mix of Pee-wee Herman and Steve Urkel. But his basketball skills are like a mix of LeBron and Harden. He’s a shooter, a dunker and a nuisance on defense. He possess unique skill set and it showed during his run of five triple-doubles in six games, including four straight, without Durant. The last person to reel off a run like that was Michael Jordan, who put up seven straight triple-doubles in 1989. Jordan finished second that season in the MVP voting to Magic Johnson, so Westbrook’s streak doesn’t make him a guarantee. The biggest deciding factor for him is if his team gets into the playoffs, which he might not get to decide. That might be Anthony Davis’ decision. Similar to LeBron, Davis missed 12 games this season, but the rest of the Pelicans have managed to stay within striking distance of Oklahoma City for the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference. He returned from his most recent injury on March 4 poised to toss his hat in the ring, averaging 33.5 points, 11.8 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 4.5 blocks per game entering Tuesday. If the Pelicans eventually
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New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis (23) celebrates after a 95-89 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in an NBA basketball game Saturday in New Orleans. pass the Thunder, it’ll be on the shoulders of Davis’ incredible play, and it could be enough to get him the trophy. Regardless of who wins, the NBA needs diversity. The league needs multiple teams with this level of talent to increase viewership. When the Heat was a superpower, the league was fun but wasn’t diverse. There was little reason to watch other teams. After the first few weeks of amazement that the Globetrotters had joined the NBA, every
game meant nothing because no one else compared to their greatness. But now as the talent pool begins thinning out across the league again, the NBA has become better to watch, and this last month will be even more enjoyable with these five players battling for the MVP. Brian Pellerin is a 21-yearold mass communication junior from Kenner, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @Pellerin_TDR.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 BASEBALL, from page 5 who will be making his first start since 2013. LSU is batting .325 as a team, ranking second in the SEC, with seven players batting better than .320. LSU senior infielder Conner Hale, the reigning SEC Player of the Week, is tied for the club lead with 22 hits and has at least one in all 16 games this season, though he said he’s not focused on his hitting streak. “I’m not trying to think of that when I’m up there,” Hale said. “I’m just trying to think about putting a barrel on the ball and trying to drive it.” Hale and the Tigers will face a McNeese club that has dramatically improved under second-year coach Justin Hill.
McNeese finished 3028 in Hill’s first season last year — its first winning record since 2009 and the program’s second in the last 10 seasons. The Cowboys have won seven of their previous eight games entering tonight’s contest against LSU and took two out of three from Southland Conference foe Houston Baptist in their conference-opening series. Despite the distraction of his team’s upcoming SEC slate, Mainieri said his club will be ready. “There’s no question they’ve got talented players, and they’re well-coached,” Mainieri said. “It’s going to be a great ball game.”
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player — a player whose mind is focused on an ultimate goal, not a personal achievement. “[The Heisman hype] didn’t affect me at all,” Fournette said. “That’s everyone’s goal to win it, but after the Notre Dame loss, I wasn’t worried about it anymore.” NEW YEAR, NEW COACHES The 2015 season brings change in LSU’s defense with the additions of defensive coordinator Kevin Steele and defensive line coach Ed Orgeron. The changes come after the abrupt departure of former defensive coordinator John Chavis. Chavis’ departure forced the defense to embrace and adapt to change, and so far, it has been smooth. “It has been pretty good,” said sophomore defensive lineman Davon Godchaux. “The intensity is so high. Practice is so much different. We’re running through a lot faster. A lot more hard work. It’s just so high, so enthusiastic. It’s kind of like the NFL.” Both Steele and Orgeron take over their positions with years of experience under their belts, from minor graduate roles to head coaching stints. Godchaux said both Steele and Orgeron have brought a new intensity to the practice field that has excited
HIT MEN, from page 5 rifled the ball out to right center. It was a nice piece of hitting by him.” Scivicque joins Hale as the only two Tigers to receiver Player of the Week honors so far this season, with Scivicque receiving SEC Co-Player of the Week on Feb. 23 after batting .545 during the week. He also hit .667 in the Tigers’ weekend sweep against Boston College. Scivicque said what has helped him get off to a hot start is his patience at the plate. “[I’m] just trying to see a
page 7 good pitch to hit and hit it hard through the infield,” Scivicque said. “I’m just trying to be patient and look for a pitch that I can drive and try to put a good swing on it. Just coming out here everyday. We come out here and work everyday and just trying to get a pitch that I can hit hard and just try to hit it hard and not miss my chance.” Scivicque’s consistency has been hard to ignore even with Hale’s lasting success in the batters box along with the hot bats in the rest of the Tigers’ lineup. Bregman said the team is beginning to click, and Scivicque has been a big part of
its success. “He has been great,” Bregman said. “He has been going up there having competitive at bats every time he steps up there. If you come watch him play for a game, if he gets four at-bats, he’s probably going to barrel the ball four times. A lot of the outs he has made have been hard-hit outs as well, so you know what you’re going to get from him. You know you’re going to get a guy who’s going to go in there and compete and barrel the ball up. He’s really playing well.” You can reach Jack Chascin on Twitter @Chascin_TDR.
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LSU senior infielder Connor Hale (20) celebrates a safe run to second during a game against Stephen F. Austin on March 3 at Alex Box Stadium.
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both him and his teammates. “Coach Orgeron, he’s an intense guy, but we love that,” said junior defensive lineman Christian LaCouture. “We take that on the field with us. He’ll go out there and do the drills like we do. Fiery guy. He has put so many people in the league. Awesome coach, fiery guy and we love that. We’ll take that and bring it on the field.” You can reach Jack Chascin on Twitter @Chascin_TDR.
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LSU junior quarterback Anthony Jennings (10) passes the ball Saturday during the first spring practice at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility.
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LSU then-junior catcher Kade Scivicque (22) rounds second base May 30, 2014, during the Tigers’ 8-4 victory against Southeastern at Alex Box Stadium.
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WEB COMMENTS In response to Logan Anderson’s column, “SAE chants highlight racism in Greek community,” one reader had this to say:
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Fantastic article. I honestly feel like Greeks are largely worthless organizations. That being said, don’t be too eager to inundate al whites with some sort of underlying ethnicity-binding subconscious racist strand. Bigots come in all shapes, sizes, and colors and it would be a gross misjudgment to presume that this vile form of stupidity is exclusive to one group of society. Hate like this is bred out of the fear, apathy, and ignorance of not wanting to get to know what that other person. A tragic flaw of the human species. – LSUalum2014
In response to Logan Anderson’s column, “Ben Carson’s comments on homosexuality offensive,” one reader had this to say: Do you think it would have been more complete reporting if his apology was mentioned? I understand this is an opinion piece but it should not have excluded even the mention of his apology. Leave it to the reader perhaps to decide if it was sincere or full of crap. “I realized that my choice of language does not reflect fully my heart on gay issues. I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended,” On another note: you do not advance your position by name calling. He couyld be viewed as ignorant of homosexuality but to say he is an idiot crosses the line. – fratcastlepioneer
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GREEN CARD APPLICANT MARKUS HÜFNER Columnist About a week ago, a video showing five LAPD officers tasering and shooting a homeless man leaked. Once again, I looked to European news and couldn’t find anything similar. The day after the video leaked, The Guardian reported that American police officers have killed on average 928 people every year for the past eight years. As an international student, I can’t help but compare the number to the one in my home country. According to Norway’s police department website, two people have been killed and 18 have been injured by the police from 2002 to 2013. Obviously, the United States is way bigger than Norway, but it’s easy to see that we have a problem in this country. There is no way that 7,424 people deserved to be killed by police since 2007. The most significant difference between the police here in the United States and those in Norway is the way they are trained and use lethal weapons. American police are among the best trained in the world, but what
they are trained to do is part of the problem. According to an article in The Atlantic by Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and current scholar who researches policing, the police academy emphasizes their own safety more than anything else. Those future police officers are constantly told they should be afraid because every individual is a potential threat. They have to watch painful videos of other officers being shot after a moment of inattention or hesitation. Tactics like these increase the general level of paranoia and fear among future officers. If we look back at the video footage from the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, it’s clear how the training is impacting some officers’ actions. The officer who killed Rice did not see a 12-yearold playing with a BB gun. He saw a potential threat, irresponsibly playing with a deadly weapon. He saw what he was taught to see and did what he was taught to do. If American officers really view people as potential threats, they have to distinguish it from a real threat and think about the consequences of pulling the trigger when it’s not necessary. Because the culture is different, things would have gone differently in Norway. Guns are illegal everywhere
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in Europe except Switzerland. Because guns are only associated with violence and death, they are terrifying to many Europeans. This is one of the main reasons officers in Norway wear handguns around their waists, to show authority and frighten criminals. They rarely pull the trigger. In most cases, other non-lethal weapons like tasers or batons are enough. Norweigan police also do not treat citizens like potential threats. In my experience, they love to talk to anyone as long as their job is not interfered with. They have even given me a ride home a couple times on a Saturday night because it was raining or I had been drinking a little too much. When an underage male gets to ride in a police car from Tigerland, it’s usually not because of weather conditions. This being said, it is important not to generalize American police too much. Some officers are not as impacted by training as others and know when to pull the trigger. The problem is that there are too many that are, and the result is too many unnecessary shots fired and too many innocent lives taken. Markus Hüfner is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Kristiansand, Norway. You can reach him on Twitter @MHufner_TDR.
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‘We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls’ rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.’
Malala Yousafzai Pakistani education activist July 12, 1997 — present
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Louisiana citizens must stand up and fight for themselves The news from the Governor’s office and the State Legislature has attainted a level of buffoonery and comedy before unseen in a state with a long history of both. Our beloved university is being systematically dismantled and as a result
Opinion of our Governor and a significant portion of our Legislature (twenty-six) pledging allegiance to a Washington lobbyist with the long history of shady dealings. Your future earnings and the quality of your education is being adversely affected by the fact that a pledge was signed to a Washington operator by the name of Grover Norquist that under no conditions could taxes be raised. Three things you need to know about Grover Norquist: 1. The anti-tax fanatic
founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 and his shady dealings was linked by a congressional committee to Abramoff. fellow traveler, 2. Norquist was described by fellow conservative Tucker Carlson as a, “cash-addled, morally malleable lobbyist.” Norquist is the human equivalent of pond scum. He was a fellow traveler of pond scumite Jack Abramoff, and according to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Norquist’s organization served as a “conduit”
for funds from Abramoff’s clients and conservative lobbying campaigns. 3. Our elected officials have allowed him to become the most powerful person in our state. Proposed legislation is routinely sent to him by the Governor to seek his approval. Trust me its true. Now for the comedy part, the Governor and Legislature constantly refer to how can they maintain their purity, or as it is sometimes referred to, their “tax virginity.” You have to be
page 9 kidding me. This reminds me of two over-sexed teenagers dry humping in a backseat of car parked behind a levee wondering how far they can go while maintaining their purity or virginity. We are literally at the mercy of buffoons and comedians. While they’re humping, our university burns. Our only recourse is to stand up and fight for ourselves. Geaux Tigers. James Carville Political consultant, political science professor of practice Tulane University
Inequality of pay despite education levels unacceptable MY BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
CLARKE PERKINS Columnist “Girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.” That childhood rhyme could be true today, but even with college knowledge, women are still undervalued in the work field. Until the ’60s, males went further in their education and were more likely to graduate from college, but the tables have been turning. According to an analysis published by the American Psychological Association, females on average have made better grades than boys in school for over a century. The same study suggests males are twice as likely as females to find school to be a waste of time, to miss class and to be less motivated when it comes to school work and career decisions. This is such a sad 21st century we live in. Women have worked extremely hard in school and many have furthered their
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Despite their education, women still earn 78 cents per dollar a man makes, and women of color earn even less. education past their undergraduate degree. Yet despite all the hard work, women still only make 78 cents per dollar a man makes doing the exact same job, according to the Census Bureau. With the exception of Montana, it’s even worse for AfricanAmerican women. They only make 63 cents per every dollar a man makes. And this inequality isn’t in just some career paths. According to
the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, women on average earn less than men in virtually every occupation. It’s clearly not valued that girls do better than boys in school — to society, it’s not about education and how well you do. If that were the case, millions more women would be CEO’s. The status quo is a problem. The fact that America has been and is run by men — and that
people have accepted that — is a huge problem. As many of us know from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech, “We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.’” Women are encouraged to go to school, but once they marry and have a family, they are expected to halt everything they have go-
ing for them. Now it’s time to play Legos with the kids, cook stew and water the tulips outside while the man acts as the “provider.” Women can provide, too. Single mothers do it every day. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, if the change in the gender wage gap continues to move this slowly, equality of pay won’t come for another 43 years. We need to ditch the status quo, and quickly. And then once we do that, women need to stop seeing each other as competitors. If a female peer gets a wellpaying job, put the jealousy aside and give her a pat on the back. We are all on the same team here. We need to build one another other up, not knock each other down. Throughout this all, we must remain optimistic. Soon enough more of our voices will be heard. We already have the brains — now we just need to keep up the willpower, and one day our dollar will be equal to men’s. Clarke Perkins is a 19-year-old political science freshman from New Orleans. You can reach her on Twitter @ClarkePerkins.
Students should know about on-campus financial resources JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD Columnist In 2009, the Cale P. & Katherine Smith Student Financial Management Center opened at the University. Six years later, during my third year here, I heard about it for the first time. I assume most of you have never heard of it, either. The SFMC, located in the Union’s new Olinde Career Center, is a great on-campus resource that more students should know about. Most students on campus fail to take full advantage of the resources included in our tuition. The majority of students have an opinion on how the new UREC construction is affecting their workouts. But ask them about
the new state-of-the-art career center facilities, and they will be indifferent. This is why more students should make resources like the Career Center and the SFMC part of the student culture of the University. “The SFMC endeavors to educate and empower each LSU student in making positive financial decisions and fostering healthy financial management behaviors,” according to their website. To accomplish this goal; the SFMC has created an impressive list of student services. The most useful service they provide is helping you make a budget. If you go see them and bring in a list of your expenses, they can help you make sense of it all. Even if you don’t know your expenses, they can help you figure those out. Making a budget is the most important way to get control of
your finances. With a budget, you can know exactly how much how much money you will have you have to spend on rent, food and money left over for fun stuff. Having a budget also makes your life easier by making you stress less about having enough money between paychecks. If you only take one thing from this column, it should be to go make a budget. You can also learn about credit cards and how to manage them, and how to get free credit reports and how to read them. The SFMC will also teach you about investing for the future, including planning for your retirement. It’s never too early to start thinking about that. The service the SFMC provides that I found most interesting was salary negotiation. They will teach you how to get higher salary at your first job out of college, and
they will teach you for free. The SFMC will also give you some help on special issues like identity theft, gambling and legal issues. However, there are several services that the SFMC will not provide. This includes giving specific advice in what to invest in, tax preparation and setting up retirement accounts. Also, don’t ask them to suggest a specific financial service, like a bank or an accountant. I strongly encourage you to go to the website, where you will find an impressive list of tools and resources for most financial questions you may have. Some useful tools you can use are the financial calculators they have. There are calculators to compare buying versus leasing a car, calculating loan repayments and how much money you will have to save to become a millionaire.
Be sure to check out some of the downloadable worksheets they have. Using their premade spreadsheets, you can make your own budget. The SFMC has made it very easy for you to take control of your finances with these free tools, and you should take advantage of them. When you finish reading this article you should go to the SFMC website and take their Transit LSU financial literacy challenge. This will show you how much you already know about personal finances and teach what you don’t know. Then stop by when you’re in the Union one day and learn some valuable skills you’ll use for the rest of your life, maybe between belly dancing classes at the UREC. Jay is a 20-year-old finance junior from St. Simons Island, Georgia. You can reach him on Twitter @hjcranford.
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Why do you think the out-of-state tuition break is important? ‘I apply for a scholarship every year and [the LSU Alumni Association in Dallas, TX, gives] me a scholarship every year.’
‘I only applied to LSU. Had I not gotten the scholarships I did, I would have been out of luck. I wouldn’t have had a school to go to.’
Katie Cahalan
Sarah Couch
math sophomore
political science junior
‘There’s a bunch of people in my neighborhood back home whose parents are alumni, and so they couldn’t come to LSU because they couldn’t afford it.’
page 11 bras, from page 1 but it took her a year to get the organization off the ground and running. While working with the Capital Area CASA Association, the local branch of Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, she realized there were girls in the community who were failing physical education classes because they weren’t dressing out. Johnson said she wondered if girls were discouraged from dressing out because they didn’t own the proper undergarments or owned a single bra that might be dirty or ill-fitting. “To keep from having a confrontation, a female wouldn’t dress out because of that undergarment, and I just felt like it was necessary to do something,” Johnson said. Jess’ Bra Closet began working out of the McKinley Alumni Center, but it recently moved into an office building on Government Street where all bras are stored and organized in a walk-in closet where women can view the available sizes. Since the organization’s
Rachael Skinner
In the shadow of the Campanile Since 1941
marketing sophomore
tuition, from page 1 Feb. 25 to support the Alumni Association in reinstating tuition breaks for out-of-state students. Sarah Couch, political science junior and an author of the resolution, said SG senators will reach out to students in ways the Alumni Association can’t. “We will do anything that they need us to do to reach out to students to give it the boost it needs, to put it on social media and to reach out to our constituents so they know this is something that could happen,” Couch said. If the break is reinstated, Couch said there will be a new application for students whose parents are University alumni. “We want to make sure that we’re not trying to give it to everybody, but that it’s still available,” Couch said. With upcoming budget cuts, University officials are wary to accept a program that requires more funds, Couch said. The tuition break will not use any University dollars, Couch said. “They’re looking to get a grant to do it,” Couch said. “It’d be coming from grants and from donations from the Alumni Association. So it wouldn’t even be through LSU, it’d be from LSU’s Alumni Association.” At her high school in Colorado, Couch said other Southeastern Conference schools had tables at college fairs — but not LSU. She only applied to the University because her parents were alumni and, at the time, thought she would receive a
tuition break. The scholarship is important for a more diverse university, Couch said. “It would be nice to be able to say that about LSU, to be able to say we have outreach and diversity because we just really don’t,” Couch said. The Daily Reveille previously reported that Vannoy said he was working with Alexander to reinstate the tuition break by the end of the academic year. Vannoy also said he hoped to partner with the Tiger Athletic Foundation and the LSU
launch in 2011, it has helped women in both the Baton Rouge community and across the country, Johnson said. Bras ship everywhere from Texas to Georgia, and the organization works daily to respond to the needs of women who reach out online. In addition to working with the Cinderella Project, a nonprofit organization that provides formal wear to high school girls, and hosting bra drives, Jess’ Bra Closet also hosts events like its back-to-school giveaway to provide bras and basic feminine hygiene products. Johnson said the June event alone serves 150 to 200 females in the community. Steib first encountered Jess’ Bra Closet two years ago when the Women’s Center partnered with the Cinderella Project for a dress giveaway. Jess’ Bra Closet participated by contributing a properly sized bra for each girl. “The fact that somebody’s talking about something and providing this service around something that we take for granted is really important,” Steib said.
Foundation to fund the multimillion dollar endowment. Although alumni chapters in different states have created other legacy scholarships, Vannoy said he had no details on when the Alumni Association could bring back the scholarship. “We would love to see a way that we could collaborate together with the University, our future alumni and our chapters so we can find a way to bring that program back in some form or fashion,” Vannoy said.
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THE Daily Commuter Puzzle ACROSS 1 Afternoon social 4 __ for; selected 9 Golfer __ Mickelson 13 Dumbo’s “wings” 15 Measuring device 16 Houston school 17 Carve on glass 18 Saturn’s features 19 Singles 20 Brazen 22 Probability 23 Face, slangily 24 Tiny fellow with pointy ears 26 __ up; divides 29 Revolt 34 Contaminate 35 Run-ins 36 Neither’s partner 37 Ladder step 38 SAT and others 39 Intl. military alliance 40 Suffix for treat or expert 41 Liberates 42 Evergreens 43 Most annoying 45 Break in a kid’s school day 46 Org. for Bulls and Bucks 47 Unpleasantly moist 48 None 51 Take the place of; force out 56 Leave a room 57 Come together 58 At a __ for words; stunned 60 Circus shelter 61 Makes angry 62 Tenth-grader, for short 63 __ for; requests 64 Chris of tennis 65 Deli loaf DOWN 1 Peg for Tiger
2 Dines 3 Curved beam overhead 4 Mean woman in a fairy tale 5 Buckets 6 Melody 7 Breakfast order 8 Baked Alaska and apple pie 9 Checks text for errors, for short 10 Female red deer 11 Frosted 12 Not as much 14 Molding 21 Mongrel dog 25 Fleur-de-__ 26 Undress 27 TV remote button 28 Queues 29 Rattled 30 Nixon & Sajak 31 Ridiculous 32 Short letters 33 Disgusting 35 Observes
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38 __ chest; pirate’s find 39 Five-cent coins 41 Small lie 42 Bic products 44 Late actor Don 45 Most unusual 47 Talk out of 48 Sorority letter
49 Alimony recipients 50 Skater’s oval 52 Yale or Harvard: abbr. 53 Stack 54 Room entrance 55 Catch sight of 59 That woman
The Daily Reveille
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Tell Big Tobacco that you are not a replacement! Please join Fresh Campus/SmokingWords to celebrate Kick Butts Day on March 18 on the Parade Ground. We will have food and plenty of information about LSU 100% tobacco-free policy and smoking cessation tips. Also, learn more about tobacco litter problem on campus and how you can participate in the Litterati campus project. And, tell Big Tobacco by your commitment to be a non-smoker that you will not be a replacement for the 7,200 people who die in Louisiana each year from tobacco-related diseases.
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