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Volume 114, Issue 43
Monday, October 26, 2009
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Watkins to attend Tucker Commission
By Xerxes A. Wilson Staff Writer
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Freshman quarterback Russell Shepard runs for a 69-yard touchdown Saturday night during LSU’s 31-10 win against Auburn. It was Shepard’s first TD as a Tiger.
No. 9 knocks off Auburn with victory sparked by Shepard’s first touchdown By Rachel Whittaker Chief Sports Writer
LSU football coach Les Miles had been fielding questions for the last two weeks about where the LSU offense was hiding. Many of those questions were answered Saturday night, as sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson accounted for three touchdowns and freshman Russell Shepard ran for a 69-yard score to propel LSU (6-1, 4-1) to a convincing 31-10 win against Auburn (5-3, 2-3).
LSU remained at No. 9 in the Associated Press Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Top 25 polls and the BCS ranking after the victory. “We still want to run the football with balance and have the ability to do both,” Miles said. “We always want to be 50-50. If the opponent wants to stop our run, we want to have the opportunity to throw the football.” Jefferson threw a 14-yard fade route pass to junior wide receiver Terrance Toliver to open up the scoring after a 3-minute, 9-second drive aided by three Auburn penalties — LSU’s first
touchdown on an opening drive this season. Shepard woke up the LSU running game Saturday night with his burst between the tackles with 1:09 left in the third quarter. His 69-yard run was LSU’s longest offensive play of the season and the longest by an LSU running back since an 87-yard run by Jacob Hester against Louisiana Tech on Nov. 10, 2007. “Tonight I was really a running back,” Shepard said. “When I was running I was like, SHEPARD, see page 11
Possible fee increases will be on the mind of Student Government President Stuart Watkins as he attends the Postsecondary Education Review Commission Meeting — also known as the Tucker Commission — on Monday and Tuesday. The Tucker Commission is tasked with reviewing the governance, facilities, funding, operations and number and alignment of degree programs at Louisiana public colleges. “The Tucker Commission deals with a variety of issues higher education is facing,” Watkins said. “It’s going to have a huge impact on higher education, so it will affect every student on LSU’s campus.” Watkins said he does not have any formal role in the meeting, but he would attend on behalf of the students in case anyone had any questions about the student body. Watkins said he is most interested in the possibility of fee increases in the future. Watkins said he is not in favor of fee increases unless it is completely necessary to save the academic core of the University and keep the University’s top-tier status. Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at xwilson@lsureveille.com
FACULTY
Memorial gathering held for professor Friends, students remember Hausey By Kyle Bove Senior Staff Writer
When Jim Hausey and his younger brother Bobby were children, Bobby once got more attention from a kind stranger in a waiting room, prompting Jim to jealously exclaim, “There are two of we!” “I just always thought there would be two of us,” Jim Hausey said. “I’m still in
shock.” Bobby Hausey, renowned local artist and professor at the University for 32 years, died Oct. 16 because of complications with diabetes. He was 59. The LSU School of Art held a memorial gathering Friday in the sculpture garden, where about 100 of Hausey’s friends, students, family, fans and colleagues listened to and shared stories about the painter who inspired them and made them laugh. “He was well-loved everywhere he went,” said Ruth Price O’Connor, who grew up just two houses down from Hausey in Central, La.
Hausey studied painting and drawing at LSU before receiving a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He started teaching at LSU in 1977. Melody Guichet, close friend and former LSU painting and drawing professor, spoke at the gathering. She studied with Hausey and lovingly recalled their “fierce but friendly rivalry” during their undergraduate careers. When Guichet’s painting won first place at their senior art show, she called HAUSEY, see page 11
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Professor Ed Pramuk shares memories at Friday’s memorial service for Bobby Hausey, professor and artist who died last week.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009
Nation & World
INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL
Twin suicide car bombs kill 136 near Iraqi government buildings
Man ordering food approached, called a zombie, punched
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Two powerful suicide car bombs blew up outside the Justice Ministry and city government offices in downtown Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 136 people in the deadliest attack in more than two years. Iraqi leaders said the attacks aimed to disrupt political progress in the months leading up to January’s crucial elections.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa City police are investigating an early morning assault in which a man accused another of being a zombie, then punched him twice. Police said the assault occurred at 1:17 a.m. Sunday at an Iowa City restaurant south of the University of Iowa campus.
that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October. Health authorities say more than 1,000 people in the United States, including almost 100 children, have died from the strain of flu known as H1N1, and 46 states have widespread flu activity. So far only 11 million doses have gone out to es and other providers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Obama declares H1N1 flu a national emergency Friday
Woman, 88, walks 10,000 miles around lake in husband’s memory
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients. The declaration, signed Friday and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — An 88-year-old woman in Colorado Springs who walks laps around a nursing home in memory of her deceased husband has hit a major milestone: 10,000 miles. Martha Michel walks laps daily around the lake at Namaste Alzheimer Center. Michel started walking the lake with her husband, Lester, who was a patient at the center. After Lester Michel’s death in 1998, Martha kept walking.
Violent clashes erupt at Al-Aqsa, no serious injuries reported JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land’s most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict. A wall of Israeli riot police behind plexiglass shields marched toward young men covering their faces with T-shirts and scarves.
STATE/LOCAL
Hurricane veterans, nonprofits help with tsunami relief in Samoa (AP) — American Samoa has put on a look familiar to a relief worker from Louisiana. Blue tarps and tents dot the island territory’s landscape and provide shelter to survivors of last month’s earthquake and tsunami. “When I visited the village of Leone, I had a visceral reaction — the sights brought back a lot of unresolved feelings from Katrina,” noted Carol Spruell, of Baton Rouge, in recent e-mails from the island. “The damage was very reminiscent of that in New Orleans. Furniture upturned. Vehicles jammed into homes and trees. Buildings torn away from their foundations. Personal belongings are scattered throughout the area. Ferry disaster site memorialized on river near Luling, Destrehan DESTREHAN (AP) — By the end, 77 balloons were drifting slowly over the Mississippi River
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near the spot between Destrehan and Luling where 33 years ago the ferry George Prince collided with the massive Norwegian tanker S.S. Frosta. More than 300 people attended last weekend’s dedication of a memorial to the victims and survivors of the Oct. 20, 1976, disaster. The Destrehan monument is not the first to commemorate the disaster. State police begin enforcing new left lane law, fines up to $100 (AP) — Louisiana state troopers have begun enforcing a new law requiring drivers on multi-lane highways to remain in the right lane. The state Highway Safety Commission says state police began enforcing it earlier this month. There are several exceptions to the law. Drivers can use the left lane while passing; while preparing for a left turn; when the right lane is congested; or when emergency vehicles are on the right shoulder with emergency lights on.
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Tailgating overshadow ECO’s goals of recycling Club pushes for student awareness
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By Mary Walker Baus Staff Writer
Mother Nature lost to the tailgaters Saturday. Even though the Environmental Conservation Organization at LSU handed out 200 blue recycling bags to tailgaters during the day as a part of 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action, the organization’s volunteers only gathered 20 to 25 bags by the end of the day. “It’s not our job to sort [recyclables from] the trash [of other tailgaters],” said Matt Wyatt, ECO at LSU co-vice president and natural resource ecology and management sophomore. “We need to focus more on education.” Wyatt said the teams of ECO volunteers were handing out the bags, and the other tailgaters seemed receptive to the idea of recycling their gameday garbage. He said the older tailgating popu-
wants to expand on educating the bag of recyclables in hand. student body about helping the en“Any effort to bring awarevironment. ness and get tailgaters to be more “Students have an out-of-sight, environmentally friendly is a out-of-mind mentality,” Bantuelle plus,” Harris said. “Sometimes said. “They throw something away, [tailgaters] forget about recycling. and they don’t think It depends on the about it sitting in a maturity of the landfill forever.” tailgating age.” Bantuelle said Harris said putting the word the city parish do“landfill” next to or nated 2,200 green on trash cans could buckets to the make people think University’s recytwice about throwcling efforts. Jordan Bantuelle ing certain products Claire BerECO member away. nard and Lynette “We can’t conDarbonne tailgattinue to throw things away like we ed next to ECO. They said the Unido,” he said. versity does a great job with trash Even though most student control on game days. tailgaters were receptive but not Bernard said they saw “a sea responsible with recycling on Sat- of trash” covering the University urday, AJ Sylvia, petroleum engi- of Georgia’s campus when they neering senior, said he appreciated went to the LSU-Georgia game. ECO’s cause and wanted to help. She said recycling is easy as long Sylvia said once he learned what as the University takes the recycould be recycled, the process was cling where it needs to go. easy. Andres Harris, Facility SerContact Mary Walker Baus at vices solid waste recycling manager, arrived at the tailgate with a mwbaus@lsureveille.com
‘Students have an out-of-sight, out of mind mentality.’
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Matt Wyatt, natural resource ecology and management sophomore and ECO at LSU co-vice president, juggles between helping out with the green tailgate Saturday.
lation was more responsible with recycling than the younger student population. “Sometimes [the students] wouldn’t really talk to us and throw a can in the trash right next to us,” Wyatt said. “There are some apathy issues.”
Katherine Boy Skipsey, ECO at LSU co-vice president and mass communication sophomore, said it is difficult to compliment the lifestyles of college students with sustainable living. Jordan Bantuelle, biology senior and ECO member, said he
STATE
La. economic report projects improvement for 2010-11 Migration continues out of state By Nate Monroe Contributing Writer
A Louisiana Economic Outlook report forecasts a sunnier job market in 2010 and 2011 than the current year — but one author of the report doesn’t expect that to change Louisiana’s poor migration pattern. Louisiana gained 301,000 residents from other states and lost 572,000 to other states from 2005 to 2007, the second worst ratio in the country, according to a Pew Research survey. The state with the lowest ratio of gained residents to lost residents is Alaska. Additionally, a report authored by sociology professor Troy Blanchard and Karen Paterson, state demographer, shows Louisiana had a net loss of people 25 and older with bachelor’s, graduate and professional degrees between 2007 and 2008. The findings aren’t Earthshattering to political and economic observers in Louisiana — many of whom expect Louisiana to lose
a Congressional seat and federal cessions in its history,” Scott said. funding after results from the 2010 “When your economy is in a recesCensus show a net population loss sion like that, people are going to since 2000. leave.” “Generally speaking, migraEven the slightly optimistic tion flows go with the economy,” job outlook in the LEO expects an said Loren Scott, professor emeritus employment rate lower than Louisiof economics ana’s 1980 level. and one of the “New Orleans is authors of the just not coming back 2010-11 LEO. the way we would When state hope,” Scott said. economies are He said uncerstrong, residents tainty about future tend to move hurricanes and the in from other levees — combined Loren Scott states and fewer professor emeritus of economics with a relatively poor residents want public education systo leave. The tem — is keeping migration pattern will reverse when large businesses from moving headthe Louisiana economy improves, quarters to the city. he said. Lafayette and Houma — part And while Louisiana has per- of the “oil patch” — have two formed better than most states tough years ahead, the LEO said. during the recession — not experi- Scott said some of President Baencing a job loss until last April — rack Obama’s proposed taxes on oil many areas are still reeling from the companies have “chilled” oil comeffects of Hurricanes Katrina and panies in these areas, prohibiting Rita. future growth. This isn’t the first time LouisiAdditionally, Louisiana’s close ana has experienced a net-migration proximity to Texas hinders populaloss. tion growth to some degree because “In the early ’80s, Louisiana many are attracted to the number of went through one of the worst re- Fortune 500 companies headquar-
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‘New Orleans is just not coming back the way we would hope.’
tered in Texas. “That’s a non-trivial attraction to young people,” he said. While the LEO had grim projections for some areas in Louisiana, others, including Baton Rouge, are expected to fare much better. Billions in construction and expanding firms will contribute to Baton Rouge’s economy, the LEO said. “BR is looking pretty good right now,” Scott said. Scott said he doesn’t expect Louisiana’s migration trend to reverse despite the more optimistic projection for 2010 and 2011. Kathleen Napolitano, anthro-
pology senior, said she plans to move to Scotland after she graduates. She said Louisiana simply doesn’t offer the field she’s interested in studying — Scottish archeology. “Archeology here is boring,” she said. Erin Smith, elementary education sophomore, said she wants to stay in Louisiana after graduation to “stay close to family,” but the state’s poor education system bothers her. “I would want to be in a better system,” she said. Contact Nate Monroe at nmonroe@lsureveille.com
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009
EDUCATION
University works on developing four new degree programs Doctorals to focus on sciences, engineering By Ryan Buxton Staff Writer
The University is creating four new interdisciplinary programs organizers say will raise the University’s profile as a leading research school. The programs — doctoral programs in materials science and engineering, environmental sciences and coastal engineering sciences and a master’s program in coastal and ecological engineering — were approved by the Board of Supervisors on Oct. 9 and now await final approval from the Board of Regents. If they are approved, they will be “priority programs,” meaning they will receive full funding even in the case of continued University budget uncertainty, said Carolyn Hargrave, Academic Affairs vice president. “The University has made a commitment that these programs are important, and they will not be cutting out the key components of the commitments,” Hargrave said. One reason these programs are able to be created is their interdisciplinary nature, which allows
existing resources to be pulled to- type of particle accelerator. gether, said Astrid Merget, execu“CAMD is a crown jewel ... tive vice chancellor and provost. and has stimulated my interest in “[The programs] capitalize on developing this Ph.D. program,” our talent, expertise and location,” Kurtz said. “It puts us in a league Merget said. with universiThe proties like Stanford, grams in coastal Berkeley and Corengineering scinell.” ences and coastal The materials and ecological science and engiengineering are neering program combined efforts will encompass between the dephysics, chemisAstrid Merget partments of civil try and mechaniand environmental executive vice chancellor, provost cal engineering engineering and and will be a coloceanography and coastal scienc- laboration with the University of es, said John Pardue, engineering New Orleans and Southern Uniprofessor who wrote the proposal versity. for those programs. Courses will include lectures Pardue said a Louisiana loca- by faculty from all three schools, tion brings a unique aspect to the which will be achieved by broadprograms. casting presentations. Speakers “Most other coastal engi- will give lectures from their home neering programs are focused on problems like beach restoration,” he said. “That is much different than being in a delta and rebuilding vast wetlands.” The doctoral program in materials science and engineering also has an advantage because of location, said Richard Kurtz, associate dean of the College of Basic Sciences. The University’s Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices is one of eight locations in the nation with a synchrotron, a
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institution and broadcast to the other two, Kurtz said. The environmental sciences program was largely based on the University’s strong master’s program in that area, which provides an existing curriculum and infrastructure, said Nina Lam, chair of the department of environmental science. The program will include input from chemists, microbiologists and toxicologists and will cover topics like water and air pollution and environmental law, Lam said. The proposed programs were modeled on programs at other
universities. The materials science and engineering program, for example, will be based on a similar program at Princeton University. The Board of Regents will organize external review teams to evaluate plans and the quality of the proposed programs before making a decision on program approval. The evaluation process could take a while, meaning these programs won’t be implemented for at least a year, Hargrave said.
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VOLLEYBALL
Tigers fall, 3-2, to Ky., prepare for Tenn. By Rob Landry Sports Contributor
Junior linebacker Kelvin Sheppard, who had 13 tackles in the game, said that desire to keep Auburn out of the endzone defined how the defense has played all year. “That should show you the type of team we have that the [defensive starters] want back on like that,” Sheppard said. “For us to want to get
The No. 20 LSU volleyball team, who had lost three straight matches to No. 7 Kentucky, seemed poised to get redemption Saturday afternoon in Lexington, Ky. The Tigers (15-5, 9-2) led two sets to one before the Wildcats (20-2, 10-1) caught fire and rallied to capture a five-set, 3-2, victory. “Our team played well, and it was a great match,” said LSU coach Fran Flory in a news release. “We fought extremely hard and played with great desire. We couldn’t finish in the end, and I thought we played safe when the match was on the line. Kentucky played with a lot of confidence and made plays when they have the opportunity where we didn’t.” The victory gives Kentucky a one-game lead on LSU for first place in the Southeastern Conference standings, as well as control of the tie-breaker with LSU as a result of sweeping the season series. “I am just very proud of our team,” said Kentucky coach Craig Skinner following the match. “LSU was great tonight and put us in a big hole, but for us to be able to respond and be aggressive like that is a huge credit to our team.” Kentucky dominated the fourth set, 25-15. LSU’s team hitting percentage in the set was .000.
DEFENSE, see page 7
VOLLEYBALL, see page 7
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LSU senior linebacker Harry Coleman (24) and junior defensive tackle Drake Nevis (92) strip Auburn quarterback Chris Todd (12) of the ball during LSU’s 31-10 victory Saturday.
Effective defense leads LSU to 31-10 home victory against SEC rival Auburn By Andy Schwehm Sports Writer
Right when it looked like LSU’s offense was going to get things going after amassing 14 quick first-half points, the Tigers hit an offensive brick wall. On the other side of the ball stood LSU’s defense, which was coming off a game in which it held
the Southeastern Conference’s most productive offense, Florida, to 13 points. That defense came out firing Saturday night in Tiger Stadium and didn’t put the guns away until No. 9 LSU (6-1, 4-1) walked off the field with a 31-10 victory against Auburn (5-3, 2-3). The starters even came back into the game with eight seconds
left on the clock in a vain attempt to keep Auburn from scoring its lone touchdown of the game. “They wanted to go back on the field. Can you stop them? I couldn’t stop them,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “I love that effort and that want and scrappiness late in the game with nothing really to prove other than a yard. They said, ‘I’ll play for a yard.’”
SOCCER
Tigers strike early, hold off South Carolina, 1-0 Conference title race still wide open By David Helman Sports Writer
It took all of 57 seconds for the LSU soccer team to move back into the Southeastern Conference title race Sunday at the LSU Soccer Complex. Fresh off a 4-0 thumping at the hands of No. 17 Florida, the No. 14 Tigers (11-4-3, 7-2-1) raced to a first-minute lead against No. 9 South
Carolina in a 1-0 win that re-established their hopes of winning SEC hardware. “South Carolina is a great character team. You don’t go 15-1 without character, and they were going to fight to the end,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. The Gamecocks (15-2-1, 7-2-1) entered Sunday’s game leading the SEC but now find themselves in a three-way battle for the conference championship. Florida could win the conference outright with a win against the Gamecocks on Friday, while LSU
could split or win the SEC with a season. Rutledge raced down the win against Arkansas and a Florida left sideline and crossed to freshdraw or loss. man forward Carlie “We’ll cerBanks, who laid tainly be rooting off to Clarke for an [for South Caroopen score before lina], but we have the Gamecocks had to take care of our even settled into own business,” Lee position. said. “The goal there Senior midwas something we fielders Melissa do almost every Melissa Clarke Clarke and Malorie day in practice ... senior midfielder Rutledge combined and for Malorie to create the Tigers’ early advantage, and [Clarke] it’s every day for four which has often been the case this years,” Lee said. “That’s just good
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soccer — creating chances, moving the ball and getting to the end line.” South Carolina, which entered the game allowing the fewest goals in the conference, recovered to allow just eight total shots in the game, but the damage had been done in LSU’s first attack of the afternoon. “The first five minutes and the last five are always the most important in a game,” Clarke said. “If you start putting a lot of pressure on a team you might get lucky, and we got really lucky.” SOCCER, see page 7
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Monday, October 26, 2009
NFL
Saints come back to beat Miami and remain undefeated By The Associated Press
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Martin Jungfleisch, sophomore, swims butterfly Friday afternoon at the LSU vs. Auburn meet at the Natatorium. The freshmen swimmers made stand-out times.
Tigers fall to Auburn during weekend meet Freshmen continue to impress coach By Amos Morale Sports Contributor
This weekend was a good one to be an LSU freshman. Fans who attended the LSU football game watched as true freshman Russell Shepard contributed to the LSU football team’s dominating 31-10 win against Auburn. The LSU swimming and diving team’s freshmen also had dominant performances against Auburn. “Across the board our freshmen are really stepping up,” said LSU swimming coach Adam Schmitt. The Tigers and Lady Tigers fell to Auburn, 167-133 and 177122, respectively, despite the strong showing by the freshmen. “I’m really proud of our teams,” Schmitt said. “We had some people out today, particularly on the women’s side, and we had some young athletes really step up. We had some great swims, and we’re going to continue to build on that. I think a lot of our athletes realized today that they can compete against anyone in the country.” LSU freshman Sara Haley took first in the 200-yard butterfly, and freshman Jana Ruimerman took first in the 200-yard backstroke. Freshman Craig Hamilton and teammate junior Luis Gonzalez took first and second in the 1000 yard and 500-yard freestyle. LSU junior Clint Hallum took third in the 500 freestyle. “I was so excited when I saw Clint touched the wall third,” Gonzalez said. “We needed those points, and it’s always good when your teammates go one-two-three,
not matter who gets first.” The Auburn men are the defending national champions, but the LSU men weren’t flustered and started the meet off with a win in the 200-yard medley relay. LSU senior Sean LeNeave outtouched Auburn’s Gideon Louw to give the Tigers a victory by three hundredths of a second. “I knew I had to get a good relay start,” LeNeave said. “I kind of pride myself on having a good relay start, and I was pumped up. I was ready to go.” The Lady Tigers also earned a victory in the 200 medley. LSU freshman Amanda Kendall won the 200 yard and 50-yard freestyle. “I went a best time in my 200 free, so that was exciting,” Kendall said. “I just wanted to go out there and get some points for the team.” Schmitt said he saw room for improvement despite the performances turned in by his athletes. “We did a lot of good but a lot of things wrong,” Schmitt said. “We have to work on those things, but in a positive light, we can be that much better.” Contact Amos Morale at amorale@lsureveille.com
MIAMI (AP) — Drew Brees emerged from the locker room with a fresh cut under his chin and another between his eyebrows. He made the Miami Dolphins look worse. Brees and the unbeaten New Orleans Saints fell behind for the first time all season, then overcame a 21-point deficit Sunday to beat Miami 46-34. The NFL’s highest-scoring team topped 40 points for the fourth time and outscored the Dolphins 22-0 in the fourth quarter. “There was no doubt on our sideline we would come back and win,” said Brees, who threw for 298 yards. “They had given us their best shot, and we had played about as bad as we could play. All SAINTS, see page 12
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Saints quarterback Drew Brees dives into the endzone in the second quarter of the Saints’ 46-34 victory against the Miami Dolphins.
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Monday, October 26, 2009 SOCCER, from page 5 The Gamecocks started the second half with a flurry of their own, creating several chances of their own, but South Carolina sophomore defender Ellen Fahey marred the comeback bid in the 58th minute when she earned a red card after bringing down Banks in the Gamecocks’ penalty area. LSU struggled to hold off a Gamecocks’ rally even with a oneplayer advantage. It seemed South Carolina senior midfielder Lindsay Small had equalized after 70 minutes of play when LSU senior forward Amanda Carreno cleared a certain goal off the Tigers’ line. The close call was one of just four shots on goal the Tigers allowed all afternoon. “The back line has been together, besides me, for all four years,” said junior midfielder Courtney Alexander. “They’re finally senior. They know how to play, and they know where to go for each other.” The drama continued until the very end, as the Tigers held off neargoals in the 83rd, 87th and 90th minutes, holding off frantic South Carolina attacks up until the final whistle. “They were putting the pressure on,” Clarke said. “With the way they were playing, it was just smarter for us to put more people behind the ball, and it worked.”
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to shut down LSU senior middle blocker Brittnee Cooper. Cooper The Tigers had a chance to finished the match with 17 kills. Sophomore libero Lauren close the match, holding an 11-10 advantage in the fifth set before Waclawczyk also tallied 16 digs. Sophomore middle blocker the Wildcats went on a 5-1 tear to close the match with a 15-12 Michele Williams was the only Tiger to end the match with a hitvictory. The loss is the first for LSU ting percentage above .300, finishing with a .333 since Sept. 20 mark. when Kentucky LSU now defeated LSU moves on to prepare in three sets in for a road match the PMAC. tonight against Kentucky red-hot Tennesjunior outside see (15-5, 8-2) in hitter Sarah Knoxville. Mendoza led Fran Flory The Volunteers all players with have won nine of 21 kills. Two LSU volleyball coach their last 10 matchother Wildcats recorded double-digit kills as es, including a four-set victory well. Junior outside hitter Blair against Kentucky on Wednesday. Junior outside hitter Nikki Hiler had 13, and sophomore middle blocker Gretchen Giesler Folwer led Tennessee in the matched her career-high with 11. match against Kentucky. Fowler LSU senior outside hitter recorded 20 kills and 17 digs, the Marina Skender led the Tigers 25th double-double of her career with a double-double, matching and her fourth in as many matchher season high in kills with 19 es. Flory said the Tigers must be and adding 10 digs. “Marina [Skender] mixed ready for a tough battle against a up shots, and [senior setter] Sam solid Tennessee squad. “I don’t know that Tennessee [Dabbs] used her well,” Flory said. “She served tough and is getting the credit that maybe played excellent defense to allow they deserve,” Flory said. “Tenher to contribute to an all-around nessee produces a completely different set of problems for us.” solid performance.” LSU tallied 17 blocks as a team, including three solo blocks from senior middle blocker Lauren DeGirolamo. DeGirolamo also added 16 Contact Rob Landry at digs and nine blocks. rlandry@lsureveille.com The Wildcats also struggled
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back in there and try to make a goal line stop is awesome.” The LSU defense entered into the game as the No. 4 scoring defense in the SEC, giving up 14.5 points per game, but No. 7 in total defense, allowing 322.5 yards per game. LSU held its ground, allowing 193 total yards, against the secondbest offensive attack in the SEC. The defense also kept the Auburn offense to 112 yards on the ground after it came into the game averaging 247.3 rushing yards per contest. Auburn amassed 42 total offensive yards in the first half. “They beat us in every phase of the football game,” said Auburn coach Gene Chizik. “They are a very, very good football team.” Part of the reason for LSU’s choke hold on the Auburn offense was the ability to force turnovers. The LSU defense got an interception for the ninth straight game dating back to the end of last season. The sole interception of the game came when senior cornerback Chris Hawkins made a one-handed interception on a pass by Auburn senior quarterback Chris Todd. The interception was Hawkins’ fifth career pick, three of which have come against Auburn. On the previous offensive drive for Auburn, the LSU defense forced the first turnover of the game with about three minutes left in the first quarter when senior linebacker Harry Coleman sacked and stripped Todd, and senior safety Danny McCray recovered the ball.
PAGE 7 The sack was the first for the Tigers since amassing three in a week two victory against Vanderbilt in Tiger Stadium. The Tigers would finish the night with four sacks. Coleman would add another strip in the second quarter, but Auburn recovered it. “We tried to make them one dimensional and take away the run first, and that forced them to start to pass,” said Coleman, who got his first career sack in the game. “After that, it was the ball game.” LSU’s offense was also helped by the turnovers, converting two of the three turnovers into a total of 10 points, including a 14-yard touchdown scamper by sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson after Coleman’s first strip. “Our defense has been playing superb all year,” said junior wide receiver Terrance Toliver. “That was their best game this season, and them getting the ball back to the offense helped us out a lot.” Contact Andy Schwehm at aschwehm@lsureveille.com
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NIETZSCHE IS DEAD
Monday, October 26, 2009
Business involvement in Facebook useless, harmful My father returned home from a very important business trip a few weeks ago. It was the kind of trip that involves meticulously packing several suits and ties — the kind of trip on which business executives fly in on expensive planes to have critical high-level meetings between exorbitant company-funded meals and rounds of golf. It was the kind of trip on which men with briefcases sit in ballrooms of expensive hotels and make crucial strategic decisions about the future of their businesses. My dad, a state executive of the independent insurance agents’ association — don’t worry, he doesn’t work for those evil, evil insurance companies — was meeting with his counterparts from all 50 states to discuss a matter that would revolutionize the way his company did business, pushing its interests into the information age, where it could reach new demographics and communicate with unparalleled efficiency. What my dad and his suit-clad
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Abortion column relies on flawed facts, arguments Sigh. It seems once again the topic of pro-abortion versus anti-
colleagues were actually discussing was, of course, Facebook. We were eating lunch a few days after his return when he told me this. If I remember correctly, I actually started coughing up Dr. Pepper. My dad’s organization is certainly not a pioneer in this field. Businesses of all stripes and colors are turning to the Web for innovative new ways of communicating with both their customers and their employees. And because Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites are online giants — and because they are mostly inhabited by the “young people” demographic, which is the holy grail of advertising — it was only inevitable companies would start creeping into them as well. As most college students will tell you, this is, like, totally lame. The basic premise of corporate America’s forays into social networking is fundamentally flawed. Businesspeople love the word “networking” almost as much as they love the word
“profit,” and they may think connecting on a “social” level would be useful, but they simply don’t get what sites like Facebook are about. Of course young people like Facebook. We like it because we can chat with our Matthew friends and Albright Opinion Editor post goofy pictures on their walls. We like it because we can compare music tastes and post pictures of our friends making fools of themselves. But, most importantly, we like it because it isn’t work. In fact, anybody who has ever set foot on a college campus knows Facebook is pretty much the anti-work. Besides, have you ever seen a grown-up’s Facebook page? It’s like Andy Griffith found himself a computer-box. To be fair, the “old people”
wouldn’t be making the pages. They would hire young, hip kids barely out of college to carefully construct their pages, paying a salary to make sure their social networking apparatus is fully immersed in the lingo, the cool stuff, whatever those crazy kids are into these days. Which is really the fundamental problem with a corporate invasion of online social networks — it’s a waste of time and money. There’s already a perfect system to contact people about business-related matters. It’s faster and easier to navigate than Facebook. It allows you as many characters as you need to say something rational and informational, unlike Twitter. It’s called e-mail. Yes, e-mail is impersonal. Yes, e-mail is boring. It’s supposed to be. Businessmen have a kind of twisted Midas touch — everything they lay their hands on turns to lame. If they begin to insinuate themselves any deeper into
social networks, it will begin, as it always does, to mutate them into the same advertising-saturated, cautiously soulless world of corporate America, where individuality is forsaken in the name of more demographics to be shuffled through the corporate machinery as quickly and efficiently as possible. And once that process happens, Facebook will die. Maybe it won’t disappear, but it will become another faceless wasteland of cautious wording and impersonal communication. Businesses will have no use for it at that point. And they’ll have killed all of our fun in the process.
abortion has reared its ugly head. It makes its rounds every year as a good fallback for opinion columnists who have no more pressing, relevant topics to rabble on about to the student body, like the police state that controls the dorms on campus or the fact that as a “flagship institution of learning,” our library is closed during
midterms for a football game. But I digress. Matt Lousteau’s column Friday is not the first of its kind, and, like it says in its tag line, it doesn’t use fear to try to dissuade you from aborting an unwanted pregnancy. This method is overdone, anyway. Instead, he uses the tried and true, “Nuff said,” approach, which tries to bash you over the head with “obvious” facts that would support the notion that getting an abortion is the same as killing your whole family in a fit of insanity. How you feel about this, in the light of this letter, is irrelevant. The facts that he presents, however, are not. Firstly, how is it, that “Scientists can attest to the humanity of a fetus.” Apparently humanity itself must be redefined, because the criteria for humanity given by Lousteau — 23 chromosomes — does not apply to human zygotes. Last time I checked — and as a biological sciences senior, it was recently — humans have 46 chromosomes upon fertilization. The organism Lousteau described as most human is closest to something that resembles a
Chinese hamster. After only just gracing his readers with his scientific prowess, Lousteau immediately jumps in the next sentence to the fact that the term, “fetus” is just more liberal rhetoric to make you feel better about abortion. Actually, “fetus” itself is the accurate scientific term used to describe the stage of any developing mammal before birth and after its “ball of cells” stage. I guess science just has a liberal bias when it’s convenient. Beside the fact that Lousteau should do some actual research before sitting down to write a column that has been written a million times, this article also brings to light a fatal flaw in this type of rhetoric that I see not only in this paper, but in this debate everywhere else as well. We get it, you hate abortions. But what other options has Lousteau presented? What grand, life-saving, murder-stopping proposal has he given that would stop unwanted pregnancies from happening, make pregnancies in young, frightened women easier, or find money and homes to provide for the huge onslaught of unwanted children that would result if everyone put their newborn up
for adoption? The answer is zero. Like most people in the antiabortion/pro-abortion debate, Mr. Lousteau can’t see past his hatred of the other side to do anything positive to stop it. Though he may not see it, everyone, including pro-abortion activists, really wants the same thing: fewer abortions. But instead of the constant focus on outlawing them, why do we not focus on the reasons people feel they need them? This may be a more complex and difficult set of questions to answer and may actually involve evaluating ourselves as a people and a nation, which can be hard, especially for people steeped in “values” like Lousteau. Only then can we move on from this tired old debate and actually get something done to help both the women of the U.S., and all their unborn “fetuses.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
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School a measure of work ethic, not intelligence Success in our society is numerically quantified. Whether it’s your GPA or the size of your bonus check, we’re all measured according to our performance. A student with a 4.0 GPA is immediately perceived to be intelligent. The process begins in childhood with wall measurements to record your height. Perhaps my interest in this subject may be attributed to the fact I always fell “short” in this regard. Our perception of intelligence is a fallacy that stifles natural creativity and free thought. The tendency to reward our performers discounts the creative minds that don’t conform to a predetermined notion of intelligence. Our obsession with measuring performance in the traditional manner must change, as it severely limits our ability to progress as a society. School, as we know it, is a
measure of work ethic and photographic memory. Are you lacking in these particular attributes? If you are, then your grades are likely suffering. This doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent than the girl who sits three rows in front of you and answers every question. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb. On the average, when adjusted for individual strengths, intelligence is equally distributed throughout the population (with the exception of a few outliers), which means there is no such thing as smart and stupid. These notions are merely a way to persuade a population to conform to a set of standards believed to provide the greatest benefit to society (at least the society our forefathers envisioned). The multiple-choice test is a tool often used to measure our performance. These tests can be difficult because of how an
instructor words — or mis-words — a question, but they often do not measure understanding; and they completely negate any creative thought regarding a subject matter. Students are conditioned Nathan Shull to prepare for a test by memoColumnist rizing information without truly understanding it. The majority of students are capable of earning an A if they invest the time required to memorize these pertinent facts. Thus, work ethic — not intelligence — is measured. Some might argue this is what employers need: employees who can work hard at a task without their mind wandering distractedly through tangles of creative thought. But I disagree.
Work ethic, memory retention and analytical abilities do have merit. A creative thought can’t be remembered without memory retention. But it needs to recognized that creative individuals lacking in theses other qualities are often discounted in the modern educational machine, whereas those who primarily possess one of the other three qualities are rewarded. Those who easily memorize facts for recitation on multiple choice tests have only proven their minds are efficient catalogs. Ask them for their opinion pertaining to a scenario involving those same facts, and the blank stare is alarming. This is because those facts were not actually processed but merely filed for quick retrieval. What employers need, and what an institute of higher education should develop, are employees who can think outside the box
— who can approach a situation from unique angles. So, as we all sit down with our No. 2 pencils to color skinny sheets of paper with little green circles, remember that though you may think it’s an art project in which you can make designs with the little bubbles, it is actually a measurement of your willingness to put forth an effort to play a game society has created for us. And your relative success or failure in this game will determine your job opportunities upon graduation. Nathan Shull is a 35-year-old finance junior from Seattle. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ nshull.
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Pastors, politics are like oil and water: They don’t mix After seeing first-hand what happens when religion and government become bedfellows, our founding fathers made sure government was used to neither support nor suppress any religion. Our government has done a decent job in doing so since then. But our religious establishments seem to enjoy flouting this truly American ideal. We look no further back than 2004 when the Archdiocese of St. Louis barred Sen. Kerry from partaking in communion in St. Louis. Archbishop Raymond Burke cited Kerry’s support of abortion rights as the reason behind his judgment. The archbishop seems to have forgotten not everyone feels as ecstatic as he does with the idea of an organization as pure and pedophile-free as the U.S. Catholic Church dictating public policy. To be clear, I really don’t give a damn about communion. In my opinion, that stale little wafer is a horrible way to waste calories — although I do support the idea of using wine as a means to sit through church. But to Sen. Kerry and many of the nation’s Catholics, the archbishop’s move was denying a devout follower participation in a Catholic rite. The purpose of Christian pastors and leaders is to help everyday Christians strengthen their bond with a spiritual being, not pass judgment on elections or policy issues. And while it is the duty of every citizen (including church leaders) to vote, helping choose whom
to support is not in the job description of these leaders last I checked — which is why the third-quarter federal campaign finance reports, released in the last few days, are so unsettling. Proposition 1, which would overturn the state’s gay marriage law, is on the ballot in Maine this November. T h e proposition’s Stephen Schmitz primary supColumnist porter, Stand for Marriage Maine, raised about $2.6 million this quarter to fund efforts to overturn gay marriage. On the surface, nothing appears to be amiss. The group is well within its rights to fight for a proposition. The problem lies with one of the group’s major supporters. Not surprisingly, the group’s biggest supporter is the National Organization of Marriage, who donated roughly $1.6 million, or about 60 percent of the group’s total fundraising. They are well within their rights as an organization to do so. The blatant violation of our Constitution comes as we turn to the second biggest donor to the campaign, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. The Maine-based diocese gave $529,666 to the organization. Church leaders there clearly thought their resources were better used to politick rather than feed the hungry and help the sick.
It’s as if the Catholic Church is forgetting, unlike the Vatican City or the Islamic Republic of Iran, the U.S. is not a theocracy. Maybe the IRS should remind them of this and move to immediately revoke any tax-exemption status the diocese was given. Tax-exemption is by no means entitled. The purpose is to aide private organizations to do work that in turn helps the community. To digress, I don’t personally love the idea of gay marriage. I support civil unions, but it is my personal belief marriage is an
institution best used by religious organizations. Yet organizations who receive such privileges need to understand it is exactly that — a privilege. Churches who decide to politick should absolutely see this privilege revoked. The same idea goes for major labor unions who decide to tie themselves to candidates and parties. Religious organizations should speak out about issues important to them, but their taxexempt status should be revoked when they decide to politicize issues.
This act is not an attack on free speech, rather it is one of the best means our government has for enforcing the separation of church and state our founding fathers died for. Stephen Schmitz is a 19-yearold mass communication sophomore from The Woodlands, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @ TDR_sschmitz.
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Hausey to make sure he heard the news. That’s when Hausey happily told her he won “Best in Show.” Hausey’s specialty was painting the human form. Several of his realist pieces were at the memorial gathering, lined up like an exhibit for people to see, discuss and remember. Hausey’s work has been displayed at many famous venues throughout the country, including the Alternative Museum and the Artist’s Choice Museum in New
SHEPARD, from page 1
‘This cannot be true.’ I experienced the positives of college football tonight, and I look forward to helping my team out some more.” LSU junior offensive tackle Joseph Barksdale said Shepard’s touchdown was crucial for the offense to put more points on the board quickly. “[Shepard’s run] was amazing,”
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York, the Mint Museum and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, the Birmingham Museum, the Alexandria Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art, according to the LSU School of Art’s Web site. His grants and fellowships include a visiting artist position at the American Academy in Rome, National Endowment for the Arts/ SECCA and the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Guichet also talked about her many trips to The Chimes and Chelsea’s Cafe with Hausey. She said he
got to know the people who worked there and truly cared about them, as he did everybody he loved. “He knew their dreams, and he hoped they’d make it,” Guichet said. “I knew these weren’t just words — it was his prayer for them.” Rick Ortner, long-time friend and fellow painting professor, reminisced about Christmas dinners spent with Hausey every year. And while Hausey joked often, Ortner said he was “deeply self-aware and deeply sensitive,” as evidenced by his paintings. “The one person I’ve always
been able to count on was Bobby,” Ortner said. Hausey was teaching two courses this semester. Ortner will teach the remainder of Hausey’s advanced painting class, while longtime friend and fellow artist Laurie Williamson will teach the rest of his foundations course, said Rod Parker, director of the LSU School of Art. O’Connor said she loved the memorial gathering Friday. “It was beautiful,” she said. “You could tell people thought so much of him.” A formal memorial service was
held Saturday at the Blackwater United Methodist Church. A Facebook fan page was also created for students, friends and colleagues to post stories, pictures and thoughts about Hausey. Hausey is survived by his 22year-old son Neil Gopalan-Hausey, brother Jim, paternal aunt Olive and nephews Ryan and Eric.
Barksdale said. “That’s what we expect Russell to do. It was a relief that he scored because that would have been a long drive.” Toliver was Jefferson’s favorite target throughout the night, catching a career-high nine passes for 86 yards and his third receiving touchdown of the season and seventh of his career. Toliver said it “felt good” to complete long pass plays, something Miles emphasized the importance of
during the bye week. “We executed the deep ball well today and made plays,” Toliver said. “I feel like we could’ve been doing this all year.” Jefferson finished 21-of-31 for 242 yards and rushed for his first touchdown of the season. He was the first LSU quarterback to throw and rush for a touchdown in the same quarter since Marcus Randall against Arkansas on Nov. 26, 2004.
The sophomore set a career high in passing yards, and although he was sacked three times, he said the offensive line stepped up in protecting him. Before Saturday, the offensive line had allowed 18 sacks, No. 11 in the Southeastern Conference. “We focused on our protection during the bye week, and [the offensive line] really made sure they gave me time to throw,” Jefferson said. “The offensive line is working
hard, and you have to respect all our linemen. I expected them to block for me, and they had a great game tonight.” LSU won the turnover battle Saturday night. Senior safety Danny McCray recovered two fumbles, one by Auburn senior quarterback Chris Todd and another on a muffed punt by Auburn redshirt freshman wide receiver Philip Pierre-Louis. LSU senior cornerback Chris Hawkins also made a one-handed interception of Todd after LSU had opened up a 14-0 lead in the second quarter. The Auburn rushing attack was held to 112 yards, an average of 2.7 yards per carry. Miles said LSU made a visible improvement from its loss to Florida, and the team knows more needs to be done down the stretch. “You’d have been proud of this team if you watched them in the open week, coming off a tough loss to a nationally ranked team,” Miles said. “This is a nice win … one we’ll choose to improve on ambitiously.”
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THE DAILY REVEILLE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009
With the Saints trailing by 21, coach Sean Payton sent his we had to do was string together ďŹ eld goal unit into the game. Dura few drives and gain the momen- ing the timeout, Brees lobbied for tum back. We knew it was going a shot at a touchdown. to happen, and it did.â€? “I just told him I’d get it,â€? NFL passBrees said. “I ing leader Brees said, ‘I’ll get had his worst day the touchdown. of the season, I know exactly with three interwhat to do.’â€? ceptions, a lost The Saints’ fumble and ďŹ ve offense returned sacks. But he led to the ďŹ eld, and touchdown drives Brees plunged Vontae Davis of 82, 79 and 60 across the goal Miami cornerback yards on succesline to make the sive possessions score 24-10. in the second half to put New OrNew Orleans struck again leans ahead. barely a minute into the second Tracy Porter’s 54-yard inter- half when Darren Sharper scored ception return then sealed the win on an interception return for the for the Saints (6-0), who are off third time this season. The 42-yard to their best start since 1991 and runback came after he snatched a are the only unbeaten team in the pass that deected off the hands NFC. of receiver Ted Ginn Jr. “It can be a season-deďŹ ning The pace of scoring soon win,â€? linebacker Scott Shanle became frantic, with three touchsaid. “This was a test we hadn’t downs in less than three minutes. faced yet, and we couldn’t be hap- The Saints drove 82 yards for a pier with the way we responded.â€? score to pull within 27-24, but Brees threw for one touch- Miami’s Brian Hartline turned a down and scored twice. After his short pass into a 67-yard gain to 2-yard keeper with 8:35 left gave set up Williams’ third score. the Saints their ďŹ rst lead, he celebrated by dunking the ball over the crossbar. “There are times in the game when a team just needs an emotional lift,â€? he said. “I felt like I had to do something to get everybody hyped. The ďŹ rst thing that came to mind was to dunk it.â€? Fading at the ďŹ nish, the Dolphins (2-4) fell 2½ games behind AFC East leader New England. “This was our game to win,â€? Miami’s Ricky Williams said. “We fought and we fought. They just fought harder at the end.â€? Williams carried only nine times but tied a career high with three touchdowns rushing, including a 68-yard run, the longest of his career. At that point, the Dolphins appeared en route to a stunning blowout. By the time the Saints picked up their second ďŹ rst down 22 minutes into the game, Miami led 24-3. Against New Orleans, that wasn’t enough of a cushion. “With Drew Brees, it’s like the score is 0-0,â€? Miami cornerback Vontae Davis said. “We knew they would come back and that it would be a tough game.â€? Two Dolphins turnovers and an ill-advised timeout helped New Orleans back into the game. After Davone Bess lost a fumble at midďŹ eld late in the ďŹ rst half, Marques Colston caught a 21-yard pass that was initially ruled a touchdown. When a replay review with 5 seconds left determined the ball should instead be placed at the half-yard line, the Dolphins called timeout.
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Jeremy Shockey then broke two tackles on a 66-yard reception for New Orleans, and two plays later Reggie Bush scored from 10 yards out on a reverse, capping his run with a balletic leap near the pylon. The Saints forced a punt and mounted the go-ahead drive capped by Brees’ score, which made it 37-34. John Carney hooked the extra-point try wide, but he hit a 20-yard ďŹ eld goal with 3:23 left. Trying to mount their own comeback, the Dolphins dropped two passes and committed two penalties before Chad Henne was intercepted by Porter on fourthand-13. Saints defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis left the game with a sprained right knee, and fullback Heath Evans hurt his right leg. Dolphins cornerback Will Allen was sidelined by a knee injury. Miami’s wildcat netted 30 yards in 14 plays. Saints kicker John Carney became the fourth NFL player to score 2,000 points. J. PAT CARTER / The Daily Reveille
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Saints wide receiver Courtney Roby (15) is tackled by Dolphins safety Jason Allen on a kickoff return during the second quarter Sunday in Miami.
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