The Daily Reveille — October 30, 2009

CANNON’S RUN

NEWS Security increases in sorority row after robbery, page 3.

Billy Cannon to celebrate 50th anniversary of famed run, page 9.

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The Mars Volta performs Oct. 26, 2008, at Voodoo fest. This year’s lineup includes Eminem, The Flaming Lips and KISS.

Voodoo fans to flock to N.O. for 11th festival JASON BORDELON / The Daily Reveille

Students dress in costumes to attend last year’s Carlotta Street block party, which has been around more than 25 years.

Annual block party starts Halloween on Friday

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he Carlotta Street block party has gone on year after year despite increasing costs and law enforcement’s attempts to shut it down. For more than 25 years, vampires, pirates and athletes have taken over Carlotta, State and Ivanhoe streets for the annual event.

Hosted by the North Gate Merchants Association for the second year, the annual block party is scheduled to begin festivities Friday. But the Carlotta Street block party, with recently added beer trucks and a stage, is a one-of-akind LSU experience. See Page 5.

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ore than 150,000 people will rock out in New Orleans’ City Park for three days of music, art and experiences at the 11th ritual of The Voodoo Experience. Good food and loud music will be shared by music lovers looking to get a taste of New Orleans and see local and national acts. The entire city will be one big party — zombies included — as the gates of Voodoo close and the city comes to life. Oct. 30 through Nov. 1 will be one giant musical party in the Big Easy. See Page 6.

TREAT

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LSU senior defensive end Rahim Alem sacks Tulane quarterback Joe Kemp to force a fumble Nov. 1, 2008, in Tiger Stadium.

LSU looking for 69th win Sat. against Tulane

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he LSU-Tulane series used to be a heated contest for several decades. But the series took a four-year hiatus after 1996, and the two teams only faced each other once in 2001 before signing a 10-year contract in May 2005, which was terminated in September. But for at least one more meeting, the two teams — separated by a little less than an hour drive down I-10 — will face off in Baton Rouge, with roughly 116 years of rivalry history traveling behind them on the anniversary of Billy Cannon’s Halloween touchdown run. See Page 9.

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INTERNATIONAL

NATIONAL

German camps out for 13 days in Brazil airport

Texas law on children seeing porn being challenged

CAMPINAS, Brazil (AP) — A German man reportedly dumped by a Brazilian woman he met on the Internet camped out in an airport for 13 days before being taken Thursday to a hospital for a psychological evaluation. The man, Heinz Muller, was out of money and wouldn’t say when he planned to leave.

DALLAS (AP) — A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show “harmful material” to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn’t file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography.

Randall County District Attorney James Farren has asked the Texas attorney general’s office to review his decision not to pursue charges in the case, which has prompted at least one lawmaker to vow to change the state’s public indecency law.

Biker gang members found guilty of mass slayings LONDON, Ontario (AP) — Six members of the Bandidos biker gang were found guilty Thursday of murdering eight men associated with the gang in the worst mass slayings in Ontario history.

Wayne Kellestine, along with five co-accused, were found guilty of 44 counts of murder and four manslaughter convictions. The bloodied bodies of eight men linked to the Toronto chapter of the Bandidos biker gang were found on April 8, 2006.

College enrollment up, mostly at two-year schools (AP) — Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college — especially community college, according to a new report.

A record high of about 11.5

million Americans age 18 to 24, or nearly 40 percent, attended college in October 2008, according to a study of Census data released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Virtually all the increase of 300,000 students over the previous year came at two-year schools, while attendance at four-year schools remained flat.

Ariz. court rules software for DUI test off-limits TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Defense attorneys are neither entitled to the source code for the breath-testing machine commonly used in drunk driving cases nor to its software, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

For more than a year, defense attorneys throughout Pima County have been arguing they should be given the “source code” and software used in the Intoxilyzer 8000.

On Tuesday, the appeals court ruled prosecutors don’t have to hand over either the source code or the software.

STATE/LOCAL

Health secretary says Medicaid deficit tops $250 million

La. man charged with endangering military aircraft

(AP) — Louisiana’s Medicaid program is more than $250 million over budget this year, as swine flu made costs rise and Medicaid rolls grew amid the national recession, the state health secretary said Thursday.

Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine said he’ll give lawmakers on Monday a formal estimate of the midyear deficit for the $6.5 billion program that cares for the poor, elderly and disabled, but said it is “well in excess of $250 million.”

The shortfall will have to be closed before the 2009-10 fiscal year ends on June 30.

Levine said swine flu cases have caused more than $100 million of the deficit, driving up emergency room visits, trips to the doctor’s office and medication needs — and, therefore, billing costs in the Medicaid program.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man accused of shining a flood light at several military aircraft has been charged with endangering the safety of the pilots and crew. Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Charles Clausen, of Hammond, aimed the light at six Army National Guard helicopters and a plane that were returning to an air base near his home.

TODAY ON

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans lawyer has been nominated to serve on the federal court for Louisiana’s Middle District.

President Obama announced Brian Jackson’s nomination Thursday.

Jackson is a partner in the law firm Liskow & Lewis, where he specializes in commercial litigation, government investigations and white collar criminal defense.

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CRIME

Sorority Row seeks additional security after armed robbery Added patrols to be implemented in spring

By Lance Frank Special to The Daily Reveille

The Panhellenic Council will pay the LSU Police Department more for increased security along Sorority Row after two members of Delta Gamma sorority were robbed at gunpoint in early September.

The robbery, which was not generally publicized by LSUPD or the University, happened Sept. 6 on a bridge near an area with 11 sorority houses to which 2,300 members have access.

Captain Russell Rogé, LSUPD spokesman, said the robbery was not publicized because it is “normal procedure” to post the incident only as a crime alert on LSUPD’s Web site.

The University did not send a safety

alert to students.

Kelly Huff, president of the LSU Panhellenic Council, said the council unanimously voted to increase the $6 fee per sorority member by $2 to help pay for the additional patrol officer along Sorority Row. An LSU police officer is already on duty along West Lakeshore Drive seven days a week from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m., Huff said.

“LSU Police upped the price they were charging us, and this was the only way for us to pay for this,” he said. “It was either have each member pay more or cut back on the patrols. We wanted the added security.”

The added patrols will not go into effect until the spring semester, she said.

Angela Guillory, director of Greek Life, said her office did not release any information about the robbery in order “to maintain the privacy of the students.”

Three sorority women were returning to the Delta Gamma house from nearby Serranos restaurant around 1 a.m., according to a member of Delta Gamma, a senior who requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak for the sorority.

Rogé said two of the women were held at gunpoint and had purses, cell phones and credit cards stolen.

LSUPD arrested a man and a woman who were carrying guns and riding bicycles on the University campus Sept. 13 during the LSUUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette football game, Sergeant Jason Bettencourtt of LSUPD said. Both were charged with the robbery.

Police officers identified the woman after she was seen in surveillance footage using the stolen credit card at a Baton Rouge ATM. The man matched the description the sorority women gave police after the

ADMINISTRATION

Commission says University must increase graduation rate Chancellor: increase to 75 percent is ‘doable’

By Kyle Bove Senior Staff Writer

Chancellor Michael Martin said the Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission’s recommendation the University must increase its graduation rate to 75 percent by 2018 will be “a large leap” but is “doable.”

The Commission, charged with analyzing higher education in the state, made the recommendation Tuesday.

“You’ll see our [graduation] rate rise from about 62 percent to about 68 percent based on the recent trend improvement in retention, but it will still be a stretch to 75 percent,” Martin said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille.

Martin said the University will be able to achieve a graduation rate of 75 percent if it can continue to raise admission standards, which currently require incoming freshmen to have earned a 3.0 GPA in high school and a composite ACT score of at least 22. Undergraduate admission standards are determined by the LSU Board of Supervisors and University faculty.

Martin said the University must also improve its retention rate to 90 percent or more. The University’s retention rate was 58.4 percent in 2007.

If students continue to carry as close to full loads of course work as possible, the 75 percent graduation rate is possible, Martin said. He said University students carry an average of 14.2 credit hours per semester, while the average for other four-year institutions in the state is 11.7.

Retention rates have increased steadily since 1988 when the University began implementing stricter admission requirements, but the administration is still working to improve the percentage of graduating students, Bob Kuhn, associate vice chancellor for the Office of Budget and Planning, told The Daily Reveille on Sept. 24.

But the Commission’s recommendation for increased graduation rates is not just for LSU. The Commission recommended all other public colleges and universities reach 50 percent by 2018 as well. The average in the state is about 40 percent.

The Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission will

present a report to the Board of Regents in February that will include the graduation rate recommendation — the Commission’s first — along with others. That report, after being analyzed by the Regents, will go to the Legislature in the spring.

Lawmakers will have to decide how to deal with a $146 million cut in state funding for Louisiana’s public colleges and universities for the next fiscal year.

The Commission’s next meetings are Nov. 16-17.

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robbery, Rogé said.

Megan Bilichka, 23, of Baton Rouge, is accused of using the stolen credit card. She is charged with carrying a gun in a firearm-free zone and unauthorized use of an access card. Wilfredo Martinez, 32, of Baton Rouge, is accused of holding up the sorority women. He is charged with armed robbery, carrying a gun in a firearm-free zone, possession of a gun by a convicted felon and resisting an officer.

Bilichka and Martinez led LSU police to an off-campus apartment where Royce Hall, 33, was found babysitting the couple’s infant, Bettencourtt said. Hall is the second suspect accused of holding up the sorority women and faces charges of armed robbery, possession of stolen things and possession of marijuana.

Guillory said LSU police charge $42 an hour for each officer on duty.

Rogé said it is not unusual

for LSU police to provide security for on-campus organizations and events.

“We work many sporting events as well as sorority and fraternity parties and late night events in the Union,” he said. “It’s a service we provide when they ask for our officers to provide security.”

Huff said many of the council members felt the sororities would feel uncomfortable without the patrols at night.

“Anything can happen, especially after this,” she said. “It’s a shame that [the robbery] happened on that bridge.”

The fee increase will be added to the Panhellenic Council’s constitution at the next business meeting, and delegates will have to approve the measure, Huff said.

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CRIME

Double homicide trial set for May More DNA test results still pending

By Xerxes A. Wilson Staff Writer

Clad in black and white stripes, Devin Parker — the only man indicted for the murder of University graduate students Chandrasekhar Komma and Kiran Allam — appeared before Judge Richard “Chip” Moore on Thursday.

His trial on two counts of second-degree murder was scheduled for May 24, 2010.

Parker’s defense attorney Jim Holt protested setting the court date because he wanted adequate time to have outside experts

review DNA results that were not available for the court date.

Prosecutors were scheduled to present the last portion of DNA test results to Parker’s defense today.

But the test results had not come in from the state forensics lab in time for the hearing.

Prosecutor Steven Danielson said he didn’t know why the results were not ready but expects them soon.

Holt told Moore the defense would need more than a year to review the results because the prosecution has had that much time to present the evidence.

But Moore entertained Danielson’s motion to set the trial date saying he would be understanding if the defense needed more time to review the evidence as the trial

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date nears.

Moore set another court date Dec. 17 to update the status of the defense and prosecution.

Though a date for a trial has been set, Danielson said typically either the defense or prosecution usually asks for a continuance, and it would not surprise him if the trial was postponed given its nature.

“We are going to do everything we can to get it going,” Danielson said. “A lot of time, especially with complex cases like a murder, it is hard to get it off the ground the first time for any number of reasons.”

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About 30 costumed participants take off after the sound of the starting gun at the Gary Gibbens Ghost Chase — a 3K Halloween fun run honoring late University student and University Recreation employee Gary Gibbens.

ADMINISTRATION

University focuses on ‘big’ performance initiatives

By Ryan Buxton Staff Writer

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Astrid Merget described the University as a large, architecturally sound monument, flanked by elaborate Corinthian columns representing the different branches of the school’s new “big” initiative — splitting the University into three main areas of academic focus with the intention of pushing these programs to national acclaim.

Merget shared this image Thursday to an audience of about 75 at a roundtable discussion, sponsored by Faculty Senate and Office of Academic Affairs, on such initiatives.

University officials’ plans to think big are not about scale, but performance, Merget said.

Coastal studies professor Robert Twilley said the focus is on interdisciplinary studies that allow members of the LSU community to look at the University in a new way.

“When we think big, it’s not in any one vertical structure of the University,” Twilley said. “It’s thinking big by combining our talents across the horizontal structure of the University.”

Twilley spoke about the goals of the “big coast and community” — combining concerns of buildings, nature and people. He said the program must examine risks, resiliency and restoration, while focusing on the Louisiana environment.

“Protecting our delta is protecting one of the largest domestic supplies of energy production,” he said.

The big coast and community initiative will rethink the marriage between infrastructure designs and natural resources, manage coastal risks “in the context of people” and look at coastal development from a business standpoint, Twilley said.

When people think of big science and technology, they typically think of “big budgets, big machines and big laboratories,” said Brooks Keel, vice chancellor for research and economic development.

And though big science and technology are more about impact

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Graduate student Tony Guarisco comments Thursday on changes in the College of Arts and Sciences at a roundtable discussion in Coates Hall.

than size, Keel said the University already has its hands in some significant projects.

Keel cited the University’s Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, the AVATAR — arts, visualization, advanced technologies and research — program and the Center

for Computation and Technology as the University’s ongoing big projects. But he said more programs like these will not be possible without some additional resources.

To continue making a big impact in science and technology, the University needs more faculty,

graduate students and buildings such as laboratories.

“The only cranes you see on campus are the ones landing in the lakes,” Keel said regarding the lack of new building construction on campus.

But a significant new building may be in the not-so-distant future, Keel said.

The University is getting closer to creating a Center for Digital Innovation, he said, which would include a center for EA Sports testing, AVATAR work and academic space for engineering and computer science.

With the new facility, the University can allow students to “take classes in the academic part and right across the hall do an internship in industry and graduate with a job making six figures,” he said.

David Cronrath, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said big arts and humanities are the FedEx of the University — they develop a package and provide a vehicle

by which it is delivered.

Cronrath said the arts and humanities will work on creating “cultural products” to raise the University’s profile.

“The only reason people from around the country come to Louisiana is to see our cultural products,” he said. “The University contributes to that by making cultural capital.”

Cronrath said the most important cultural commodity is knowledge, and it must be pushed to members outside the campus community.

“Think of arts and sciences like a big, digital megaphone,” he said.

By increasing the University’s ability to create and broadcast educational content, Cronrath said the big arts and humanities will make the University “more democratic and less elitist.”

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HALLOWEEN

Party popularity continues to grow

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NGMA hosts event for second year

By Lindsey Meaux Contributing Writer

Before the Green Wave rolls into Baton Rouge on Saturday night, Michael Jackson impersonators, vampires, pirates and athletes will come together on Carlotta Street for the annual block party as they have for more than 25 years.

Organized by the North Gate Merchants Association for the second consecutive year, residents will close the street and eventually close the adjacent streets of State and Ivanhoe, said NGMA President Jared Loftus.

Baton Rouge Police Department has worked with the NGMA to plan the block party both in 2008 and this year, said BRPD Sergeant Don Kelly.

“Last year’s event was very mild, and that was the first time they did it the right way,” Kelly said. “We’re going to be there to make sure it’s a safe and orderly event ... We have a big plan that goes on with the Carlotta Street party and some of the other permit- Log on to see ted parties” a slideshow of The com- what students bined cost of are wearing for city permits and Halloween. the insurance required to attain a permit is about $2,000, Loftus said. Additionally, security costs will increase each year.

Loftus said the party could cost upward of $20,000 in the future, and NGMA could possibly look for sponsors to help bear the sum.

A smaller-scale block party on Harwich Drive will also be Friday night.

Tori, a Harwich Drive resident who declined to give her full name for fear of repercussions because the party is not permitted, has taken part in the annual Harwich Halloween for five years. She said this will be the seventh or eighth party.

“Everybody just kind of hangs out underneath each other’s carports and stuff like that,” Tori said. “We each organize our own houses.”

Tori said about 300 people attended the 2008 Harwich event throughout the night.

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A musician performs at the Carlotta Street block party in October 2008. The block party has been sponsored by the North Gate Merchants Association since last year.

because [pedestrians were rushing the car].”

Law enforcement officers could not provide security for the party in 2007 and in previous years because Carlotta Street residents did not have a permit to close the streets, Kelly said.

The Daily Reveille reported in October 2007, as per a BRPD announcement, Carlotta Street party attendees would not be

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CARLOTTA STREET, 2007 The Carlotta Street party was closed by law enforcement officials in 2007 because the streets were overrun with pedestrians, which made it difficult for vehicles to travel on Carlotta, State and Ivanhoe streets.

“The party sort of took over some of the streets around there,” Kelly said. “You had a large amount of pedestrians [that started to mix with traffic]. The straw that broke the camel’s back was a young lady that was driving that nearly got her car flipped over

allowed to loiter in the streets or interrupt the flow of traffic. Residents were also told they were not allowed to gather in the streets or play music loud enough to hear from the street.

Once the event was permitted in 2008, Carlotta Street residents were allowed to close the street, and police officers were able to do some things to ensure “vehicles and pedestrians don’t mix.”

“Two years ago, the party CARLOTTA, see page 19

220 Campus Ministries director Jordan Joblin performed a dramatic presentation Thursday afternoon in Free Speech Alley of a man who had died and spoke to God. Log on lsureveille.com for a photo slideshow of the faux funeral procession.

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MUSIC

ADVOCACY

By Jake Clapp

TAT aimed to raise $10K for rescues

Voodoo fest in N.O. for 11th ritual Human trafficking at Gates open 10 a.m. forefront of concert today through Sun. Entertainment Writer

The voodoo’s got a hold of students again this year as many begin to head to New Orleans for the 11th ritual of The Voodoo Experience during Halloween weekend.

Some students will be partying on Carlotta Street on Friday and some will be watching the Tigers play the Green Wave on Saturday night, but others will be rocking out at City Park until Sunday.

Gates open at 10 a.m. today and close at 10 p.m. on Nov. 1.

The three-day music festival features national and local acts coming together to celebrate music and arts in “The Big Easy.”

Voodoo’s 11th concert, or “ritual,” showcases more than 100 acts including headliner KISS, Jane’s Addiction, Lenny Kravitz, DJ Justice, Widespread Panic, The Flaming Lips, Ween, Silversun Pickups and Wolfmother, as well as Eminem headlining Friday night, reunited with his band D12 for his only full concert of 2009.

“You will see a lot of different festivals featuring the same acts throughout the year,” said Steve Rehage, LSU alumnus and founder and producer of The Voodoo Experience. “So, what I try to do is put up a more eclectic main stage and bypass the normal festival-circuit acts. This year, especially with KISS and Eminem, it is a little more extreme.”

Rehage said the variety has always been a goal since the concert started in 1999, with a one-day festival, featuring Wyclef Jean, Third Eye Blind and George Clinton. The first ritual only drew roughly 8,000 people, a tiny amount compared to this year’s festival which has ticket sales charting ahead of last year’s 143,000 attendees.

“A good festival is organic, and Voodoo is really an entirecity festival,” Rehage said. “New Orleans is the main attraction of Voodoo — has been since the beginning. New Orleans is known for its music, and Voodoo is really only a part of an all-night party.”

Rehage designed Voodoo to integrate New Orleans’ distinct culture and sound, so the festival is divided into three parts — Le Ritual for the main stage national acts, Le Flambeau for local acts and Le Carnival for indie bands and performance acts.

“New Orleans is more than Bourbon Street,” Rehage said.

“So Voodoo is set up to give musicians a chance to play alongside these bigger national acts. It is all like one musical gumbo.”

Rehage said the ecletic nature of Voodoo gives local and lesserknown bands a big opening to play in front of crowds that would not have normally heard them — a feature other festivals don’t

By Adam Duvernay Senior Staff Writer

Millions of people are transported each year across international borderlines against their will and forced into a life of prostitution, and one campus organization is trying to raise awareness of the issue both at home and abroad.

Tigers Against Trafficking, a campus organization dedicated to raising awareness of international human trafficking, sponsored a benefit concert Thursday night to raise awareness and funds to end illegal slavery.

“Be Their Freedom,” was hosted by the Varsity, which TAT rented to house the benefit. By charging $12 at the door, the organization aimed to raise between

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Awareness is key...

A lot of people don’t [understand] human trafficking.’

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$8,000 and $10,000 to benefit rescued sex slaves.

Natalie LaBorde, secondyear law student and co-founder of TAT, said raising money was a tangible way to make a difference but was not the most important goal of the show.

“Awareness is key because a lot of people don’t have even the baseline understanding of human trafficking,” LaBorde said.

“Awareness is the first step, but it doesn’t stop there.”

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Stone Temple Pilots perform Oct. 24, 2008, at The Voodoo Experience in New Orleans. This year’s festival will be Friday to Sunday at New Orleans City Park.

offer.

“Where else can you find Rage Against the Machine on the main stage with Preservation Hall Jazz Band on another, playing right across from each other?” said Rehage, pointing to 2007’s

festival.

This year is the second The Vettes will play the main stage, and lead singer Rachel Vette knows she will play to a lot of VOODOO, see page 19

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Volunteers assist local schools Former state Gov. Dave Treen dead at 81 Students mentor

By Emily Holden Contributing Writer

A grinning sixth-grader dashed through the school stage curtains and begged a college-student volunteer to let the class repeat a dance routine for visitors.

Brittany Burns, political science junior, hurried the child up the steps and told the giggling girls to take their places.

Burns assists with the dance class at the Math, Science and Arts Academy in St. Gabriel as a mentor for the You Can Succeed Program for Student Excellence. She and 12 other University students volunteer in the southwest region of the program.

Ari Krupkin, external affairs coordinator and political science senior, said the program is run almost completely by college students. He said mentors aid in the classroom, provide after-school tutoring and coordinate supplemental classes in the arts.

Krupkin said You Can Succeed is also active at East Iberville High School and Crestworth Elementary in Baton Rouge. About 10 students from Southern University participate in the program in North Baton Rouge, said Montrell McCaleb, president of the organization’s national chapter.

McCaleb said the three-yearold program is headquartered in St. Gabriel mainly because the mayor offered free office space in exchange for volunteer services.

Krupkin said the privately funded program focuses on schools with a large population of students from lower-income families.

“We are offering opportunities to students who may not have certain opportunities,” he said.

Krupkin said You Can Succeed mentors work to show students how to obtain their goals with the resources available.

“You can be successful here in Louisiana where we are notoriously on the bottom of the list in education and other areas,”

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Alyssa Stewart, psychology senior and southwest regional director of You Can Succeed, helps students Wednesday at the Math, Science and Arts Academy in St. Gabriel.

Krupkin said.

Alyssa Stewart, southwest regional director and LSU psychology senior, said volunteers at MSAA are still getting acquainted with students and observing teaching styles.

Cheryl Russell, sixth-grade reading teacher at MSAA, said she appreciates volunteer involvement.

“It’s always just nice to have an extra pair of hands that the kids can relate to,” she said.

Toni Zubowski, MSAA physical education teacher and LSU alumna, said the mentors are role models for students.

“If they see people who have finished [grade school] and are on to the next level, then they’ll understand the importance of it,” she said.

Krupkin said the program encourages students to pursue education beyond high school. He said mentors help with SAT and ACT preparation and counsel students

about how to apply to college. He said You Can Succeed is recruiting student volunteers who can commit at least three hours per week to the program. Stewart said volunteer schedules are flexible.

“You don’t have to be a math whiz to be a mentor,” Krupkin said.

The program needs volunteers for a variety of subjects, he said.

McCaleb said he would like to improve You Can Succeed by involving more male mentors and increasing volunteer participation on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He said it’s important the students have both male and female role models.

Krupkin said the organization has progressed greatly in the last year. He said You Can Succeed was recently recognized by the National Council of Nonprofits.

Contact Emily Holden at eholden@lsureveille.com

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, who became the state’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1979 but lost a reelection bid to the flamboyant Democrat Edwin Edwards four years later, has died. He was 81.

Treen’s son, David C. Treen Jr., said Treen died early Thursday of complications from a respiratory illness at East Jefferson General Hospital in a New Orleans suburb.

Funeral arrangements were not complete. Treen had been in the hospital about two days, his son said.

“He was a worthy adversary and an absolute honorable man. In spite of the different roads we traveled, we had become very good friends. I truly regret his passing and send condolences and sympathies to his family,” Edwards, currently serving federal prison time, said in a statement released to The Associated Press by Mary Jane Marcantel, an Edwards family friend.

Edwards had served two terms as governor and could not run for a third consecutive term in the 1979 race. Treen’s victory over Democrat Louis Lambert was a watershed for the state’s Republican Party in a state that had long been dominated

by Democrats. It was a precursor to Republican growth in the state that would coincide with the two terms of President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and continue through today.

“He was one of the leaders of building the Republican Party in Louisiana,” said current state Republican Party chairman Roger Villere.

Treen, however, was destined not to benefit from the rising Republican tide. Edwards, who was still wildly popular when he left office, would come roaring back in a 1983 landslide — despite Treen’s unassailed reputation for integrity and Edwards’ penchant for scandal that would later see him indicted in three criminal cases and convicted in one.

Treen’s term was marked by frustration, highlighted by a downturn in Louisiana’s boom-and-bust, oil-based economy. Oil prices and production fell during his tenure, cutting sharply into state revenues.

He tried to make up for it, taking on oil with a proposal to tax production, but business interests shot it down.

Meanwhile, Treen’s critics, Edwards chief among them, lambasted him as too methodical.

“Treen was very open. He wasn’t super-fast, but I think he was super-honest,” former Gov. Buddy Roemer recalled Thursday in an interview.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com

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STATE

Prof. speaks on beauty benefits Two La. soldiers Men are affected among 18 honored more because of looks

by Obama in Del.

By Olga Kourilova Contributing Writer

A tall, modest-looking man in his 60s, whose face is filled with a gray, whitened beard and oval-rimmed glasses atop a shiny bald head, told about 300 students in Lockett Hall a high dollar will always be paid for beauty so long as there’s an agreement on what is good-looking.

Daniel Hamermesh, economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, addressed students Thursday as part of a lecture series sponsored by the E.J. Ourso School of Business.

Hamermesh said he began looking into the correlation between beauty and earnings during the 1970s while looking at other research during which interviewees’ looks were rated.

Women’s looks were rated much more extremely than men, with more women getting ratings at the far ends of the beauty spectrum than average ratings, Hamermesh said.

But men are rewarded more and penalized more based on their good looks, he said. The difference in earnings for handsome versus homely men is 14 percent, while the difference for women is 9 percent.

It becomes interesting when it becomes a policy question, he said.

“Should we start having affirmative action for ugly people?”

Hamermesh asked.

For example, French law dictates people can’t be discriminated against because of their looks, Hamermesh said.

But trying to improve one’s looks doesn’t help in wage earnings, Hamermesh said.

“If you’re ugly, suck it up,”

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he said.

Rachel Gimenez, psychology freshman, attended the lecture for bonus points in PSYC 2001. She said improving looks should increase a person’s salary if there is a correlation between beauty and earnings.

But Jacques Metevier, economics graduate student who attended the lecture, said it’s better to spend money on your education than spending on your looks.

Metevier said he found Hamermesh’s argument convincing.

Beauty is not correlated with other abilities, Hamermesh said, and he urged ugly students to take advantage of talents and skills they have.

Robert Newman, economics department chair, said his department brought Hamermesh in to show people economists don’t just do boring research.

In terms of job success, the interview is the first time a

potential employer sees the applicant, Sara Crow, assistant director of communications, said Wednesday in an interview with The Daily Reveille.

“We always tell students to make their best first impression,” Crow said.

Coming from Career Services, this means looking clean, tidy and professional, she said.

Contact Olga Kourilova at okourilova@lsureveille.com

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Two Louisiana soldiers killed in Afghanistan were among 18 fallen service members honored Thursday by President Barack Obama at the Delaware air force base where their bodies were returned home to the U.S. The bodies of Sgt. Patrick Williamson, 24, of Broussard, and Pfc. Brian Bates, 20, of Gretna in suburban New Orleans, were on the plane met early Thursday by the president at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

“Brian met the president. And that‘s all that matters. I know he would like that,“ his wife, Enjolie Bates, said in a telephone interview from Lakewood, Wash. She said Bates loved his job and the Army.

“He liked the idea of fighting for his country. He thought that‘s worth it. He believed in it,“ she said.

He planned to make the Army his career, said his grandmother, Marlene O‘Briant Tully of Gretna.

Both Bates and Williamson were in the Army‘s 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry division and were killed Tuesday in Afghanistan, relatives said. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Bates drove a Stryker

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[Brian Bates] liked the idea of fighting for his country. He thought that’s worth it. He believed in it.’

Enjolie Bates

Pfc. Brian Bates’ wife

light-armored vehicle, “which he told me was the safest job they had. They hit a bomb. That‘s all I know. All seven of them were killed,“ Tully said.

Williamson‘s father, Leon “Buddy“ Williamson, said Thursday that his son recently was promoted to sergeant and was among soldiers in the brigade killed this week in Afghanistan‘s Kandahar province.

Williamson said his son was the first member of his family to enlist.

“At the end of the day, he was doing what he wanted,“ Williamson said. “He‘s wanted to join the Army and be in the infantry since fifth grade.“

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Halloween History

Cannon to celebrate 50th anniversary of Halloween run at Tulane game

By David Helman Sports Writer

told.

The story has been told and re-

On a muggy Halloween night in 1959, Billy Cannon fields a punt against an undefeated Ole Miss team in Tiger Stadium. He shakes off a seemingly endless array of tacklers in an 89-yard romp to the end zone — the only touchdown scored in a 7-3 LSU win.

It’s the definitive play of the halfback’s illustrious career, marking his number 20 as BILLY CANNON 1959 Heisman the first retired Trophy Winner number in LSU football history, netting him the prestigious Heisman Trophy and eventually helping him to a successful stint in the American Football League.

But exactly 50 years later, it’s the Halloween run people remember.

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it was a game that had tradition, so I had no idea they were going to do that.”

The Tigers enter this weekend’s contest against the Green Wave averaging less than 124 yards rushing, although Scott, who leads the team with 347 yards rushing, has seen fewer carries with the emergence of sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson.

Jefferson spread the ball around to eight different receivers last weekend against Auburn, who put seven and eight defenders in the box to stop the run out of the I-formation.

With matchups against Alabama, Ole Miss and Arkansas lurking, LSU offensive line coach Greg Studrawa expects Scott to have a breakout game.

“This time of the year, those big, strong backs like him start to go,” Studrawa said.

“In those physical football games, that’s where Chuck shines.”

LSU currently holds the nation’s longest non-conference winning streak at 21 games and hasn’t lost to its in-state rival Tulane since 1982, when the Green Wave staved off the Tigers for a 31-28 decision.

With Halloween only a day away and the Carlotta Street party tonight, LSU’s volleyball team decided to make noise and start its own block party a weekend early.

The Tigers’ block party consisted of 17 and 16 rejections, respectively, of Southeastern Conference Eastern Division foes Kentucky and Tennessee, two of the more potent offenses in the Southeastern Conference. In comparison, the Tigers’ opponents combined to collect 16.5 blocks in last weekend’s matches.

The No. 20 Tigers (16-5, 10-2) hope to keep their block party going in the PMAC during the Hal- ‘When your loween weekend first line of in a pair of home matches against defense is Georgia (14-9, good ... it 5-7) and Auburn makes your (14-8, 6-5).

“We have second line the potential to that much be a very great better.’ blocking team Fran Flory because we have a lot of height LSU coach across the net,” said senior outside hitter Lauren DeGirolamo. “[Last] weekend was the first time we showed it, and we need to keep it up this weekend.”

LSU now leads the SEC with 2.77 blocks per set. In addition, the team’s back row defense has been performing well and averages 14.79 digs per set, fourth in the conference.

“When your first line of defense is good, which is your blocking, it makes your second line that much better, and that’s the defensive digs,” said LSU coach Fran Flory.

LSU swept both Auburn and Georgia, 3-0, on the road earlier in the season in what were the start of a then-eight-match winning streak.

But junior outside hitter Angela Bensend said the Tigers won’t be overlooking their opponents in the team’s second meeting.

“Recently, both of those teams have been playing well,” Bensend said. “We have to make sure we come in mentally prepared, and even though we beat them last time doesn’t mean it’s a sure bet this time.”

First up this weekend for the Tigers will be Georgia, who is coming off a five-set victory Wednesday night against Auburn.When the teams met earlier in the season in Athens, Ga., LSU took the match, 3-0 (25-13, 30-28, 25-22).

TULANE, see page 18

VOLLEYBALL, see page 18

It’s the highlight of a College Football Hall of Fame career and the reason he will make a rare appearance Saturday at Tiger Stadium.

On a muggy Halloween night in 1959, Billy Cannon cemented himself in the psyche of Louisiana by racing 89 yards to a touchdown and a newfound status as a living legend.

CANNON, see page 18

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Then-Vice President Richard Nixon presents the 1959 Heisman Trophy to Billy Cannon.

Cannon will visit Tiger Stadium on Saturday to celebrate the famed Halloween run.

The Last Installment

Scott, LSU try to stay focused against Tulane with Alabama game looming next week

By Sean Isabella Sports Contributor

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LSU senior running back Charles Scott runs the ball Nov. 1, 2008 during the Tigers’ game against Tulane. LSU will pay $700,000 to cancel the rest of their 10-year contract.

Team to face UGA, Auburn in PMAC

By Andy Schwehm

Log on to see a slideshow of news clippings about Cannon from The Daily Reveille and The Advocate.

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Dr. Cannon sits alone in a booth at Sonny’s Pizza in St. Francisville.

He made the 22-mile drive from the Louisiana State Penitentiary,

VOLLEYBALL

Halloween is less than 24 hours away, but playing Tulane is more like Christmas for Charles Scott.

The senior running back has totaled 268 yards and five touchdowns in three career games against the Green Wave.

Scott hopes to continue his success Saturday when No. 9 LSU (6-1, 4-1 SEC) hosts Tulane (2-5, 0-4 Conference USA) at 7 p.m. in Tiger Stadium in the last scheduled installment of an in-state rivalry dating back to 1893.

LSU and Tulane mutually agreed Sept.

16 for LSU to pay $700,000 to cancel the remaining six games after this year’s matchup of a 10-year deal signed in May 2005. LSU and Tulane will meet again at a future date which has yet to be announced.

The cancellation opened a spot on LSU’s 2010 schedule to pencil in North Carolina at the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff in Atlanta.

“I had nothing to do with that decision,” Scott joked, referring to his annual success against Tulane. “I always thought

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SOCCER

Tigers head to Arkansas with eye on first-ever SEC crown LSU sits second in conference standings

By David Helman Sports Writer

The LSU soccer team will try to make history Halloween night.

The No. 18 Tigers (11-4-3, 7-2-1) enter tonight’s regular season finale in a tie for second place in the Southeastern Conference after beating South Carolina on Sunday, and they could finish with their first-ever SEC championship provided the right things happen.

“As much as anything we want to continue to be playing really well,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “Other than the Florida game, we feel like late in the season we keep getting better.”

The Tigers will likely have an eye on the score of tonight’s South Carolina-Florida game when they take the field against Arkansas (8-6-4, 2-6-2) tonight in Fayetteville, Ark. If LSU defeats the Razorbacks and South Carolina either draws or defeats Florida, the Tigers will take home at least a share of the SEC championship.

A South Carolina win and an LSU win would result in a split

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LSU senior midfielder Katherine Lagow kicks the ball on Oct. 18 against Mississippi State. The Tigers head to Fayetteville, Ark., tonight to face the Razorbacks.

title, as both teams would finish the season with 25 points in the team standings. An LSU win and a draw would give the Tigers the

title outright, while a Gator win would give Florida its 10th SEC title regardless of what the Tigers accomplish.

“We just worry about ourselves and what we can control,” Lee said. “All we can control is do we beat Arkansas or not on Friday night, and then the game will end, and we’ll try to add everything up.”

LSU can still finish the regular season with some hardware, regardless of what happens in Gainesville, Fla. A win tonight would give LSU its third-straight SEC West title and clinch at least the No. 2 seed in next weekend’s SEC tournament. LSU can also improve its chances at a good seed in the NCAA tournament with good performances to close out the SEC campaign.

“Obviously it’s a big deal, but it’s not the last game,” said senior midfielder Katherine Lagow. “It’s a huge game for all of us, especially the seniors because we have the potential to win the SEC.” Arkansas has endured a tough SEC slate after a strong start to the season. The Razorbacks didn’t get an SEC win until the fifth game of the conference season, and their two SEC wins came against Mississippi State and Vanderbilt, the No. 12 and No. 8 ranked teams in the conference, respectively.

“Hopefully it goes our way, but you never know,” said senior

forward Amanda Carreno. “You can’t count on anybody else to do it for you. You’ve got to go out and do it yourself.”

LSU is Arkansas’ fourthstraight game against ranked competition. The Razorbacks have pushed Florida, South Carolina and Ole Miss to close finishes.

The Gators took the lead in the conference Sunday by grinding out a 1-0 victory despite being outshot, 15-14.

“We played awesome,” said Arkansas coach Erin Aubry in a news release. “It’s flattering when a team like Florida wants to kill the clock against you. That shows we’re dangerous when we’re confident.”

The Razorbacks have failed to score in seven of 10 conference games this season, which should come as welcome news for an LSU back line which has allowed just three of their conference opponents to score.

“We know what we’re capable of — we know that the person next to us is going to get the job done,” Lagow said. “It helps a lot that we have a really good midfield that helps us defend.”

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TENNIS

Tigers, Lady Tigers set LSU to travel to Tampa, Fla. for SEC championships

By Rowan Kavner Sports Contributor

By Jonathan Schexnayder Sports Contributor

While victory is the ultimate goal in athletics, the LSU cross country teams aim to post a respectable finish tomorrow in a place they have not fared well in recently — the postseason.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers will compete in the Southeastern Conference Championships at the Ole Miss Golf Course in Oxford, Miss.

The meet marks the first time Ole Miss has hosted the championships since 1996.

The men’s 8K race begins at 10 a.m., and the women’s 6K race will start at 11 a.m.

In last season’s conference championships, the men placed 10th. The women finished last in the SEC. The Tigers’ best finish at the SEC Championships this decade came in 2000 with a fourth-place finish. The Lady Tigers’ best showing is ninth place, most recently in 2007.

“Our individual goal is for everyone to run their best time on this course,” LSU coach Mark Elliott said. “If they do that, I think that will translate to a top-five finish [for the men] and a top-eight finish on the women’s side.”

Both LSU teams head into the conference championships on the heels of a lackluster performance at the Chile Pepper Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., two weeks ago.

The men finished No. 25, while the women placed 27th.

Elliott said the teams practiced the best they have all season in preparation for the SEC meet.

“The conference championship is the meet you look forward to,” he said. “These two weeks were designed to train and go into the conference meet and give the best effort possible.”

On the men’s side, the Tigers will face No. 6 Alabama, No. 24 Auburn and No. 28 Arkansas, according to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association poll.

The Lady Tigers will face No. 5 Florida and No. 29 Arkansas in addition to the rest of the conference.

“We are going to have to run with each other,” said junior Ken Ehrhardt. “Leave no man behind pretty much.”

Sophomore Cullen Doody has paced the Tigers all season. In each of their three meets, Doody crossed the finish line first among the Tigers with his best 8K finish in 26 minutes, 52 seconds.

Several runners finished within a minute of Doody at the Chile Pepper Invitational. Juniors Tim Landry, Kyle Hecker, Sean Swanner and sophomore Frank Bohn finished within 10 seconds of one another.

“It seems like we’re all running at a pretty good clip,” Ehrhardt said.

“I would not be surprised if a bunch of us could keep up with [Doody].

He can help pace us.”

The Lady Tigers were more inconsistent in their finishes. Three different runners — senior Katie Hamel, sophomore Jenna Henssler and freshman Charlene Lipsey — all paced the Lady Tigers so far.

Hamel, who missed the team’s past two meets with an illness, will rejoin the Lady Tigers for the first time since the season opener in midSeptember.

“Everyone is working together,” said junior Lauren Ybarzabal.

“It’s a very competitive thing.”

Ybarzabal clocked in a time of 24 minutes, 57 seconds in the Chile Pepper 6K, nearly two minutes faster than her 2008 time in the event.

Contact Jonathan Schexnayder at jschexnayder@lsureveille.com

As the rain falls down in Baton Rouge, the LSU men’s tennis team travels to Tampa, Fla., for the South Florida Fall Invitational in what is expected to be a dry weekend.

LSU men’s coach Jeff Brown said the weather shouldn’t be too wet. There is a 20 percent chance of rain Friday and Saturday and a slight chance of thunderstorms Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Last season, the Central Florida Fall Invitational was cut short because of rain.

“It looks good,” Brown said.

“Hopefully that holds.”

The Tigers will battle South Florida, Miami and Central Florida this weekend. Action begins Friday and ends Sunday.

“South Florida’s a very strong team this year,” Brown said. “We’ll see them later in the year here in a dual match. Central Florida’s a very solid team, and Miami’s a very good team as well. It will be the last chance for these guys in the fall to see where they are.”

The player who earns the most singles points throughout the weekend will be named the singles winner, and the player to win the most doubles points will be named the doubles winner.

“When it’s a dual match in the spring, there’s six singles and three doubles,” Brown said. “In this event, each day there’s eight singles matches and four doubles matches. There’s no team scoring being kept.”

Every team will play each other this weekend, but no two players from the same team will face off.

“We’ll see where we stack up against a couple teams that will probably be in the top 25 in Miami and South Florida,” Brown said.

A new player has risen to the

top for LSU in each tournament this year. Junior Julien Gauthier won the singles title at Rice, sophomore Neal Skupski made it to the third round of the All-American Championships and last weekend, junior Sebastian Carlsson made it to the semifinals at the ITA Southern Regionals.

Assistant coach Danny Bryan said versatility and depth are essential for the team to succeed going forward.

“It’s better that we’re getting more guys who are stepping up,” Bryan said. “We’re excited about what’s happened in the fall with Julien and Neal and Sebastian having breakthrough tournaments.”

Bryan said he wouldn’t be surprised if a new face leads the Tigers this weekend.

“We’re really looking for someone else to step up and for the guys who already have [stepped up] to continue their success,” Bryan said.

Freshman James Turbervill could be next to shine. He said he’s felt like he’s continuously progressed since the beginning of the season. Turbervill still has a long way to go to win a tournament. He made it to the round of 32 at the ITA Southern Regionals.

“The first tournament in Rice, I didn’t start off great,” Turbervill said. “Since then, I’ve seemed to get a little bit better, and hopefully I can push forward again at USF.” Contact Rowan Kavner at rkavner@lsureveille.com

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FOOTBALL

1949 LSU team to be honored at Tulane game Saturday Tigers earned Sugar Bowl berth

By Rachel Whittaker Chief Sports Writer

The 1949 LSU football team had a tough schedule to play.

The Tigers were slated to face several conference champions of recent years, including 1946 Southwest Conference champion Rice, 1946 Southern Conference winner North Carolina and Tulane — the eventual 1949 champion of the Southeastern Conference and one of LSU’s biggest rivals of the era.

While LSU vs. Tulane no longer has the prestige surrounding the matchup that it did then, 1949 senior running back Al Heroman said defeating Tulane was a huge accomplishment that propelled LSU to the Sugar Bowl that season. The team will be honored Saturday in celebration of its 60-year anniversary.

“If you beat Tulane, you made the season,” Heroman said. “Tulane was tough. That was a major team to beat.”

photo courtesy of TERRI LANDRY

[From left] Former LSU Tigers Wren Worley, Dale Gray, Jim Lyle, Raymond Bullock and Melvin “Sam” Lyle pose for a photo in Tiger Stadium during the 1949 season.

Tulane had shut out LSU, 46-0, in the game between the teams in 1948 in Baton Rouge.

But in 1949, a different destiny laid ahead for the Tigers.

Jim Lyle was a junior defensive end for the 1949 LSU squad, and his brother, the late Melvin “Sam” Lyle, was an offensive end for the 1949 LSU squad, which got revenge in New Orleans against the Green Wave, 21-0, in the final regular season game. The team subsequently earned a bid to the Sugar Bowl, an invitation Lyle said was a big reward for the whole team.

“We were very excited — a lot because it was right after [World War II],” Lyle said.

Lyle said many players’ families could not attend the game, which meant more money was available for the players in the aftermath of the war.

“We knew a lot of our families weren’t going to come to the game because they lived too far away,” Lyle said. “So we were going to get that money to put in our pockets. We were excited about that.”

The outcome of the 1950 Sugar Bowl was not so sweet for the Tigers,

as they were shut out by Oklahoma, 35-0, to finish the year at 8-3.

“When we beat [Oklahoma] in the national championship [in 2004], that was my revenge,” Lyle said.

Lyle said the team had special players to keep it together despite losing the opening game to Kentucky, 19-0.

“We were a pretty good football team, but not outstanding,” Lyle said. “We had some good games and ... a lot of good guys and veterans on the team just getting back from the service.”

Lyle said he was on the football team with about five people from his hometown of El Dorado, Ark. The players referred to Lyle by his highschool nickname “Egg,” which his brother gave him one breakfast when he would not share seven eggs with Melvin.

“I told him, ‘I didn’t fix your breakfast,’” Jim Lyle said. “He went to school and told all the guys my name was Egg. Now if somebody calls here and wants to talk to Egg, I know it’s somebody from our

football team.”

Lyle said though the 1949 team achieved great success, the LSU football program did not have nearly the recognition it does 60 years later.

“The athletes today are so much bigger, stronger and faster than the athletes when we were playing ball,” Lyle said. “With the weight rooms they work out in, they take a totally different attitude toward training. When we were in school, if the coaches caught you lifting weights or in the swimming pool, you could be dismissed from the team.”

While LSU did not go undefeated in 1949, Lyle said accumulating key victories such as Tulane got the team the attention for a bowl game.

“We weren’t really Sugar Bowl material,” Lyle said. “But having won those games, the newspaper picked up on it and kind of railroaded us in. We really had a Cinderella team.”

Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Tigers host Tulane swim team

By Katherine Terrell Sports Contributor

It’s all about the girls today when the LSU women’s swimming and diving team hosts Tulane in the LSU Natatorium at 3 p.m.

The men’s team will take a break from competition this week but not from the pool. Coach Adam Schmitt said the men will practice this afternoon while the women take on the Green Wave.

Schmitt said everyone has practiced at the same level this week, regardless of whether they are swimming today. Both the men and women hold normal practices all during the regular season to keep themselves conditioned for the postseason meets.

While the LSU women (0-2) are looking for their first win this season, Tulane (0-2) is looking for its first win in four years. The Green Wave swim team is in its first season back since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

Tulane brings in a team consisting of one junior, one sophomore and 16 freshmen. Tulane does not have a men’s swim team.

“It’s going to be really good to establish that Tulane-LSU rivalry,” Schmitt said. “Since they’ve reinstated their program, it’s really nice to be able to have another team to swim within the state.”

Schmitt said the team goal for the weekend is to continue building on progress made early in the season.

“Hopefully, the girls can step up and perform where they can be and hopefully get their first win,” Schmitt said.

Junior Jane Trepp said this meet is different because it is so much smaller and has only one heat per event, giving swimmers less time to

recover between events. She said she prefers meets with both teams but thinks this meet is an opportunity for the girls to swim events they don’t normally swim and see how well they do.

Trepp said she is probably going to swim the 50-yard freestyle because she hasn’t swam the event in a meet yet.

“I’m sure some girls are going to have some really good times in their off events,” Trepp said.

Freshman diver Elle Schmidt said the pressure this week isn’t as high after the team held its own against Auburn.

“They’re such a good team,” Schmidt said. “I mean, they were national champions. I think we did really well, especially for our second

dual meet.”

Schmidt said the team will try to come into the meet more confident than last week.

“Last week we did really well as a team, but we overestimated our competition and underestimated ourselves a little bit,” Schmidt said.

“This weekend, we’re just going to go in and try to be confident, dive well and do our best.”

The LSU men and women will hit the road next week following the Tulane meet. The Tigers and Lady Tigers will go to Alabama on Friday, Nov. 6, and then travel to Florida State on Saturday, Nov. 7.

Contact Katherine Terrell at kterrell@lsureveille.com

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HOCKEY

Tulane’s Green Wave freezes out Tigers, 5-4, Wednesday Penalties hamper LSU’s chances

By Katherine Terrell Sports Contributor

Leo’s Iceland, a building slightly reminiscent of a warehouse, is home to one of LSU’s best kept secrets: the ice hockey team.

The Tiger players, suited up in purple and gold jerseys, waited for the 9 p.m.

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Leonard Alsfeld The Tigers LSU hockey coach took the ice a few minutes before 9 p.m. to warm up. After a few minutes, LSU fans began to whisper Tulane, LSU’s opponent, wouldn’t show.

The Green Wave appeared a few minutes later from the back of the arena, wearing various greenand-white jerseys — some blank, some with Tulane on them.

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LSU senior forward Christopher Philippon faces off with a Tulane player Wednesday night at Leo’s Iceland during the Tigers’ 5-4 loss to the Green Wave.

The teams pushed, shoved and traded blocked shots for most of the first period. Fans standing at the wall banged on the glass, cheered and yelled insults at Tulane.

LSU scored its first goal in a

power play with 52 seconds left in the opening period. They took the lead into the second period.

LSU was up, 3-1, in the second period before the Green Wave scored to come within 3-2 with eight minutes left in the

period. LSU then scored on a break-away play to bring the score to 4-2 to end the second.

Tulane tied the score at 4 with 10 minutes left in the game.

A fight broke out between Tulane and LSU that left the referees sorting out penalties for the next 15 minutes.

“It shouldn’t have happened,” LSU coach Leonard Alsfeld said.

“We started it. We chopped a guy who was down on the ground, who was out of the play. It made someone really frustrated.”

Alsfeld said the fight was the mistake of a young player.

“It addresses the issue of people playing for themselves, rather than for the team,” Alsfeld said. “It cost us a few times this year. We lost a terrible game in Lafayette two weeks ago that we should not have lost. It was an issue of discipline creating penalties that allowed the other team to get back in the game.”

When play resumed, Tulane had five players to LSU’s three because of misconduct penalties.

Tulane took advantage of the extra men and scored the final shot with three minutes left in the game to win, 5-4.

“Tulane sports are not in the habit of beating LSU in much,” Alsfeld said. “Wherever they can cop out a little revenge for the glory of the Green Wave, you

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‘The penalities killed us. It’s hard to win the game when you’re down a guy.’

Michael Tymchak

LSU junior hockey player

know they’re going to play with a little more aggressiveness. We didn’t create the same passion for our jerseys as they did for theirs.”

Junior Michael Tymchak said he thought penalties were the main problem.

“The penalties killed us,” Tymchak said. “It’s hard to win the game when you’re down a guy.”

Freshman Kaleb Price said LSU was confident going into the game, but wasn’t able to execute.

“When it came to the third period, we got lazy,” Price said.

“They took it to us and scored three goals.”

LSU and Tulane face off again at 10:30 p.m. tonight.

“We’ve gotta seek some revenge,” said Alsfeld.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Kansas tops preseason AP poll

By Jim O’Connell The Associated Press

For the second time in its storied basketball history, Kansas is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ preseason Top 25.

The Jayhawks were a runaway choice Thursday, receiving 55 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel to easily outdistance Michigan State, which was No. 1 on five ballots.

There was little suspense as to which team would top the preseason poll. Kansas has all five starters and the top nine scorers back from last season’s team that went 27-8 and reached the third round of the NCAA tournament.

The Jayhawks also feature a recruiting class considered among the nation’s best.

“I’m not surprised,” said Bill Self, who was also the coach the other time Kansas was the preseason No. 1 in 2004-05. “But I know this — we aren’t practicing like a team that’s preseason No. 1 in the country. It has been a very few good days of practice but we do have good players. ... There’s a lot of excitement surrounding these guys.”

The Jayhawks received great news when guard Sherron Collins and center Cole Aldrich, last season’s leading scorers, decided to return to school rather than test the NBA draft. Then brothers Xavier and C.J. Henry decided to enroll in Lawrence, making the Jayhawks the early national favorite as well as the choice to win a sixth straight Big 12 title.

“My goal for this team isn’t to play to that ranking early in the season,” Self said. “My goal is to play to that ranking when it counts the most. I hope it happens soon.”

Michigan State has seven of the top nine scorers back from the team that lost to North Carolina in the national championship game.

Texas, Kentucky and Villanova rounded out the top five, while North Carolina, a unanimous preseason No. 1 last season, was sixth. Kentucky received three first-place votes and Texas and North Carolina got one each.

Purdue, West Virginia, Duke and Tennessee completed the top 10.

While Kansas’ showing this preseason many not have been as impressive as North Carolina’s a year earlier, when it became the first ever unanimous preseason pick, both had plenty of reasons to claim No. 1.

“There are some similarities, but that North Carolina team had been through a lot more experiences than our guys have,” Self said. “The North Carolina team had been through Final Fours, had been to Elite Eights, had had some heartache, been through some tough times. I don’t know that this group has been through tough times like they had. The fact we return nine guys and a good recruiting class is the reason people are so optimistic about us.”

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‘I know this — we aren’t practicing like a team that’s a preseason No.1 in the country.’

Bill Self

Kansas coach

Butler was 11th in the poll followed by Connecticut, California, Washington, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Mississippi State, Louisville and Georgetown.

The last five ranked teams were Dayton, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Clemson and Minnesota.

Kentucky, under new coach John Calipari and with a loaded freshman class, Georgetown and Georgia Tech were the only

teams in the preseason poll not to play in the NCAA tournament last season.

Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee lead the 13 teams in the preseason poll who were not ranked in the final poll of last season. Louisville and North Carolina were Nos. 1 and 2 in that final poll. In addition to those two, Pittsburgh, Wake Forest, Duke and Connecticut all were ranked No. 1 at some point in the season.

The Big Ten has six teams in the preseason poll, one more than the Big East. The Atlantic Coast Conference had four and the Big 12 and Southeastern Conference three each.

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somebody out of state,” Toledo said. “But again … that’s not my But the Tigers aren’t taking decision. That comes from the Tulane lightly. higher ups of both schools.”

“I can tell you that the series Even though Miles and Toreally takes a feel on game day,” ledo expressed interest in continusaid LSU coach Les Miles. “When ing the rivalry, some LSU players that opponent steps onto the field thought the move to drop the seand wants very clearly to play ries made more sense. their best football against you, we “They should play out of understand that and look forward state,” said senior defensive lineto playing those types of games.” man Al Woods. “They should go Tulane coach Bob Toledo said around and play different teams at his weekly news conference he and get a feel for everyone.” is sad to see the rivalry go, and he Sophomore cornerback Patwould continue the series between rick Peterson agreed with Woods. the two teams, if it was up to him.

“I don’t care who we play as “I’d rather be playing [LSU] long as we win,” Peterson said. than Ole Miss or Alabama or “But I’d rather play a bigger non-

conference game because of better competition.”

The theme of this week’s practice was “staying focused,” making sure a repeat of 2007 wouldn’t be part of the agenda Saturday.

The Green Wave has put up respectable outings in the first half against LSU in the last two years, before being outscored, 38-7, in the second half of both games.

LSU only led, 10-9, at halftime two years ago at the Superdome and scrapped its way to an ugly 34-9 victory.

The Tigers needed a 24-yard fumble return by defensive back Chris Hawkins before halftime during last year’s meeting to pro-

pel themselves to a 35-10 win.

“Everybody’s already talking about the Alabama game, and you can’t do that,” said junior linebacker Kelvin Sheppard.

Sheppard, who leads the team with 57 tackles, said he would be lying if Alabama wasn’t in the back of his or the team’s mind.

“But that’s something we have to keep in the back of our mind and keep Tulane in the front,” he said.

Despite a 2-5 record and a new starting quarterback, freshman Ryan Griffin, the Tulane offense is far from limited at the skill positions.

Tulane senior running back

Andre Anderson, former high school teammate of Sheppard and senior linebacker Perry Riley, has compiled 646 yards and six touchdowns, while Tulane senior wide receiver Jeremy Williams has 44 catches for 662 yards and three scores.

Anderson and Williams account for more than half of Tulane’s total offense, as the two accumulated 1,726 of the team’s 3,170 total yards.

McCartney added he feels LSU has improved since the last time the teams met.

“LSU is a bona fide top-25 team, and we have our hands full playing them down on their home court,” McCartney said. “On our side of the net, we’ve got to get a better start to the match.”

LSU enters the match on a short

week’s rest, as the Tigers played Monday night and didn’t arrive back in Baton Rouge until Thursday.

The Tigers were forced to play a non-traditional Saturday-Monday pair of matches last weekend because of a circus happening in Tennessee’s home court.

“When the elephants are in the building, we don’t want to be there,”

Flory joked.

That change in schedule forced Flory to switch up the team’s routine in the middle of this week to get the Tigers prepared for their matches this weekend.

“The beginning of the week is usually individual stuff, and we chose to have that day [Wednesday],” Flory said. “Then we usually

have a medium, balance day between individual skill work and team work, so we just took out that middle day.

We’ll be ready.”

Meet the Cannons Billy married his high school girlfriend, Dorothy, or Dot, after his freshman season at LSU. He had three of his five children — daughters Terry, Gina and Dara — before he left school.

Billy worked nights in carpentry and construction, a violation of NCAA rules, to help make ends meet.

“If they found out about it, they never said anything to me, and it wouldn’t have mattered if they did,” Billy said. “It’s one of those subjects that’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’”

Billy’s college accolades and professional contracts didn’t permeate the household. He took his children out for pizza every Friday after their softball and baseball games.

“I look at him as Billy, and the kids looked at him as Daddy,” Dorothy Cannon said. “Those girls had him wrapped around their fingers, just like all little girls do.”

To Bunnie Cannon, her father had an enigmatic profile, the same one that survives today in a restaurant booth in St. Francisville.

“His presence was huge,” she said. “If he walked into a room, you knew it … There’s just something about him that mesmerizes people.”

from the afternoon rain.

The Rebels charge downfield.

The ball lands gingerly at LSU’s 16yard line, and Billy Cannon snatches it off the bounce from his own 11.

Then, he runs.

He zigzags between two defenders at the 20-yard line; he breaks an arm tackle at the 25, and he’s cut his way out to the opposing sideline where he’s picked up a convoy of blockers.

“It’s funny — you remember looks in guys’ eyes,” Cannon said.

“You remember fine details that there’s no way in hell you’re supposed to remember that. But you do.”

He sidesteps a lunging Rebel at his own 35, and suddenly it’s just Gibbs between him and pay dirt.

“He just shook me off,” Gibbs said. “I had tried to kick the ball out of bounds, but the field was soft in spots, and Billy decided to give it a chance.”

Gibbs concedes he may have tried to tackle too high, but Cannon can’t let him off that easy.

“I want people to know it was

the only tackle he ever missed in his four-year career at Ole Miss,” Cannon said. “But the bad news is it’s the only one he attempted.”

Billy Cannon trots into the end zone as Tiger Stadium explodes.

“He ran through and around and over everyone. He put it into second gear,” Dietzel said. “Billy was a track star in addition to a football player, and there’s not another athlete in America that could’ve made that run.”

Dorothy Cannon watches her husband become an LSU legend from the stands with Billy’s parents.

His father, Harvey, had recently had a heart attack, and the excitement was almost too much to take.

“All I could do was watch the run and look back at his daddy, and watch the run and look back at his daddy,” she said. “He got very quiet and pale, and I remember thinking, ‘God, don’t let him have a heart attack.’ But everything turned out all right.”

TULANE, from page 9

VOLLEYBALL, from page 9

“The last time around, we started very slowly against LSU, then competed very well in the second and third set,” said Georgia coach Joel McCartney. “We didn’t stack up with them athletically on that day, so we lost in three, and they deserve credit for that.”

CANNON, from page 9

He made the 22-mile drive from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is the head of the dental clinic.

It’s been nearly 40 years since Cannon retired from football, though it hardly shows. Beneath his collared shirt sit the same broad shoulders and powerful biceps that helped him to a Heisman Trophy and a professional contract.

Shaking his hand is like squeezing a block of wood.

At 72 years old, Cannon looks quite capable of running over an opposing linebacker, and his eyes glint with countless stories of when he did just that for a living.

“He has a farm up in St. Francisville where he raises thoroughbred horses,” said his daughter Bunnie, who works in the University Chancellor’s office. “If you ever see him with those horses, you can see he’s still so strong.”

Cannon’s life began on a cotton farm near Tucker, Miss., though his birth certificate says Philadelphia, Miss., because it had the nearest courthouse.

“They taught us the three R’s in Philadelphia — reading, writing and the road to Baton Rouge,” Cannon said.

The old college try Paul Dietzel sat in Billy Cannon’s living room in the spring of 1956. He was one year into a rebuilding job at an LSU football program that had just three winning seasons in its last eight.

Cannon was the prize of a class of seniors that would eventually lead LSU to its first national title.

He scored 39 touchdowns as a senior at Istrouma High School in Baton Rouge, earning the team a state championship.

Billy made the decision to attend LSU just weeks before he graduated.

“I think the people of North Baton Rouge helped Billy make that decision,” Dietzel said. “People used to pack stadiums to see him play in high school, and they wanted to see him play in Baton Rouge.”

See Billy run Billy Cannon relives the play countless times: In videos, eye-witness accounts and in his own mind.

It’s been 50 years, but the details never fade. It’s almost like the moment happens every night, and maybe to some degree it does, in the empty vastness of Tiger Stadium.

It was the first sell out since LSU had expanded the stadium’s capacity by enclosing the south end zone in 1953. A total of 67,500 people watched the drama unfold, though as Cannon and Dietzel often quip, apparently everyone in the state of Louisiana managed to find a ticket.

The No. 3 Rebels and No. 1 Tigers have slugged their way to a 3-0 score in favor of Ole Miss.

Ole Miss quarterback Jake Gibbs punts the ball high into the night sky. It’s Halloween, but it is hot and humid, and the field is soggy

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permit and doing a beer truck and making it an official event, was shut down by the city just it’s kind of lame that it’s turned because it was too many people into a commercialized event bein one area. They didn’t have a cause the city’s required them to street closure, and it was unsafe,” have permits,” Struck said. “I’m Loftus said. “The next year, the a fan of the old tradition ... It’s city approached us and said, ‘It’s always been people who live on got to be made into a legitimate their street having parties at their party with permits and insur- houses.” ance.’”

Carlotta has always been about residents opening their POST-PERMIT CARLOTTA homes for Halloween parties, but Rachelle David, communica- Struck said the neighborhood’s tion studies senior, said she will year-to-year turnover changes the go to the Carlotta Street block mood of the party each year. party this year for the third time “This neighborhood is al— once during ways in flux with her freshman people moving year and again in in and out every 2008. semester,” Struck “It was a lot said.

“There’s more fun last a different vibe year, and there that changes over were a lot more the years. There people ... because seems to be a Rachelle David of the anticipation larger swing of communication studies senior sort of personalfrom the year before,” David said. ity that changes “Whenever we got it back, every- every few years.” one was so excited, and they had Struck said the main probto go out and show what we were lem residents face each year is really missing. I just remember cleanup. walking through it last year, and The NGMA pays to clean there were so many people in cra- up the area the day following the zy costumes.” party, Loftus said.

Steve Struck, who has lived “A lot of people would tell on the nearby Ivanhoe Street you that it looked better last year since 1996, said two notable after than before,” Loftus said. changes have occurred in the last 13 years — the overall “vibe” of the neighborhood and the block party’s slow move toward comContact Lindsey Meaux at mercialization. lmeaux@lsureveille.com “Now that they’re doing a

CARLOTTA, from page 5

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‘[Carlotta] was a lot more fun last year, and there were a lot more people.’

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VOODOO, from page 6

new people who have never heard of her band or its music, she said.

“We are going to be exposed to a lot of new people,” Vette said.

“We are on the same stage as all of these huge artists, playing to a sea of people.”

The Vettes will take the Voodoo Stage at 3 p.m. today.

But some students believe this year’s festival won’t be as good as past year’s.

“The lineup is just all right,” said Kyle Evans, engineering sophomore. “There aren’t as many people as everyone likes.

Not everyone likes Eminem or Justice. It seems like other years they have had more people that everyone could get into.”

Jim Soule, general studies sophomore, said he is going for all three days and looks forward to the headliners’ big shows.

“The lineup looks good, but it’s not so much about everyone knowing the artist,” said Soule, who has attended the last two years. “It always looks to me like Voodoo makes sure to get the headliners who can put on the biggest shows, so it has always been fun.”

This year’s festival has a lot of new features to look for, including a new children’s area called VooBoo, two new iPhone applications, which will act as a GPS and give concert-goers the schedule, the world’s largest picnic table set up in City Park and an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the largest gathering of zom-

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Fans crowd the stage waiting for rapper Lil’ Wayne to perform Oct. 25, 2008, at The Voodoo Experience music festival in New Orleans City Park.

bies on Halloween night.

Voodoo experience has also partnered with Life is Art Foundations–KK Projects to present a series of large-scale, interactive art installations by 24 artists, including a 108-rung ladder and a giant “OK” sign illuminating City Park.

The Benjy Davis Project is one of the newest acts to be included in the 2009 festival. The band will take the stage at 3 p.m. today on the SoCo stage, playing right across from The Vettes.

“This is a big honor for us,” said lead singer Benjy Davis.

“We have been trying to get into Voodoo for five years, and it’s a big honor. I’m excited. We have to come in there and really push ourselves for the high energy

needed.”

Every year is unique and has a little backstory to it, and this year is no different, Rehage said. He is looking forward to the weekend and recommends people get there today after getting a lot of sleep — they will need the energy.

“If you are a music lover of any type or just love the New Orleans vibe, Voodoo is the place to be,” Rehage said. “Voodoo really is an experience.”

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EAT LESS LEARN MORE

Virginity is a safe, intelligent choice, not a witty insult

The Tigers’ unfortunate loss to the No. 1 Gators apparently isn’t so bad or detrimental to the season.

Is it because we are emerging as a possible contender for the BCS title because of a suddenly manifested offense?

No, our loss to Florida is OK because Tim Tebow is still a virgin ... or at least that’s what I heard leaving the Florida game from a silly girl of questionable sobriety.

Raucous laughter followed the comment, but I was perplexed and a little put down. I felt as though any victory or accomplishment I had earned was worthless and inadequate. Oh wait. No, I didn’t.

My sexual status in life has the importance I would associate with what I leave in the toilet from time to time.

I assume masses of college students would say I’m “weird,” “missing out” or “denying human

nature.” Missing out — maybe.

Weird — I like that. Denying human nature — I disagree.

I would say human nature is distinguished from the instincts of other animals by our ability to choose whether to follow hormonal suggestions granted by evolution.

We are human because we don’t act like non-homo sapiens. When our hormones fluctuate in excess, we don’t respond by trawling through Fred’s for a hot piece of ... yeah. So avoiding sex is more human than not.

My intentions in life don’t include dying without having sex.

That’s silly. I’m sure it’s a terrifically pleasurable experience. Then again, so is being really good at sports, succeeding in school or just the companionship of someone about whom you care dearly.

No, for these accomplishments, the instantaneous concentration of

euphoria is not proportional to that of sex, but consider some of their long-term benefits.

Job availability and financial security?

The presence of someone who actually cares for you?

Are the one to 10 (corMatthew Lousteau rect me if I’m Columnist wrong) seconds of carnal “Aaaaah” equal?

If your answer is yes, I would say you’re short-sighted, superficial and destined for a later-in-life realization of emptiness.

After the instant of euphoria, what do you have to show for it? A used condom? An STD? An unplanned pregnancy? Well, maybe, but it felt really good, right? Sex seems like a weak investment after

analyzing its benefits.

I don’t mean to over-emphasize the risks of having sex. That’s the job of over-zealous parents and religious clerics and leads to uneducated sexual experiences and a higher percentage of the unwanted risks. I want to focus on the lack of gains.

No, I don’t have any experience on this topic, but I don’t see the appeal of something so shortlived.

The gain of sex is feeling good, and it can be a unifying experience in relationships. But in choosing to postpone sex, you can avoid pregnancy and STDs! Beat that, Nuva Ring! Doesn’t that sound like a major problem our generation is encountering?

Obviously, I’m a proponent of abstinence. The only criticism of abstinence I can think of is its ineffectiveness, but a strategy can’t work

if you don’t execute it. Crudely, the success of abstinence hinges on the ability of our generation to keep the proverbial “it” in our pants.

The same is true for other means of birth control. Couples’ chances of pregnancy and STDs are significantly higher if they don’t use condoms or the pill, but sex still has absolutely possible repercussions.

Virginity doesn’t. You be the judge.

So in response to the silly girl from the game, Tebow has two on you — his team won, and he’s not at risk for herpes.

Matthew Lousteau is a 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior from LaPlace. Follow him on Twitter@ TDR_mlousteau.

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Global warming cannot become forgotten issue

By Avni Nijhawan University of California - Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) ­­— If we leave things as they are, in 21 years, the glaciers in Montana’s Glacier National Park will be gone.

In 41 years, up to 37 percent of current species will be extinct and in fewer than 100 years, parts of California will be underwater.

Despite these dire warnings, recent Gallup polls show that

Americans are now less concerned about global warming than they were just last year.

Now 41 percent of Americans think global warming is exaggerated compared with last year’s 35 percent, according to one study. In 2006, only 30 percent of Americans thought global warming was exaggerated.

These statistics characterize U.S. citizens in a way that is almost as disturbing as global warming itself. Because the U.S. is the second

largest greenhouse gas contributor in the world, Americans, of all people, should be more concerned about the threat of rising sea levels, hotter weather and the increased strength and duration of hurricanes that global warming has caused.

On the plus side, as one of the primary perpetrators, we have the privilege to make a significant difference as a collective whole.

Though it seems that our generation is better educated and more aware

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about the decline of our environment (indeed, the same Gallup poll showed there was no change in the group of 18- to 29-year-olds in their attitudes toward global warming), we often feel powerless to make a dent in an issue as massively intimidating as global warming.

However, stopping global warming doesn’t mean attacking all aspects of it at once. At UCLA, we are fortunate to have many options when it comes to bettering the environment. There are more than two dozen environmental centers at UCLA and student organizations that undergraduates can take advantage of to help stave off warming, as well as classes on the environment students can take to become better informed.

Our country and our school are certainly making positive changes; the Senate is currently pushing the Global Warming Bill, which aims to drastically reduce emissions by 2050, and UCLA is ranked as one of the top-10 greenest schools in the nation.

That said, we still can’t just ignore the fact that global warming is one of the most — if not the most — critical and pressing issues of our time.

Maybe people think the effects of global warming are too abstract, that they’re going to impact only the vague, distant environment and that

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they’re never going to personally hurt them.

But global warming is a burning issue right here in Los Angeles. The California Climate Action Team predicts up to a 128 percent increase in wildfires by the end of this century due to increased temperatures.

In a recent report titled “Global Warming: Impacts to Public Health and Air Quality,” the American Lung Association foretells an additional 30 days a year of dangerously high levels of ozone — the main ingredient of smog and an “extremely reactive gas that attacks lung tissue by reacting chemically with it, causing inflammation and increased respiratory symptoms.”

The fiscal impact of global warming is undeniable as well. California’s wildfires alone cost the state $800 million a year, a number we can expect to see go up.

A report issued by the British government even predicts the damage caused by global warming could cost 5 percent to 20 percent of the world’s GDP, which was $61.07 trillion in 2008.

The notion that global warming is somehow disappearing is frighteningly backward given we have less and less time to ensure a safe future for coming generations.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”

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WEB COMMENTS

Those commenting on our Web site, lsureveille.com, have had a lot to say about the columns appearing in The Daily Reveille this week.

They had this to say about Opinion Editor Matthew Albright’s column, “Business involvement in Facebook useless, harmful,” which ran in Monday’s edition: “Struggle or defeat are our only choices. Evil capitalists will always be with us.”

-Hilary “Companies like Facebook create these social environments solely for the purpose of generating profit. Making a profit is a good thing. There is nothing evil about it.

That is how they can afford to operate the massive server farms it takes to manage the influx of millions of visitors. If you are under the opinion its sole purpose is to provide the world with a virtual social place, you are greatly mistaken.

Oh, and Hilary ... you meant evil extreme-liberals didn’t you?

They are the ones that say; “let’s rely on big government (tax payers) to do everything for us” instead of taking responsibility for their own lives. That’s kind of vampiric in nature, isn’t it? To suck the life out of someone else. I don’t know about you, but that sounds like evil to me.”

-Matt

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‘Flagship Fee’ will hurt grad students

Opinion “Fun read! But rather childish view on social media. It’s a good thing you are growing up, because being young is getting out of fashion anyway. I know ‘old people’ that ‘post goofy pictures’ so I think it’s more related to intelligence than to being young. Facebook is being designed to make detailed profiles of their users by analyzing there posts. Because the user-generated content is being used by businesses to precision target the users, it is Facebook who is getting the money, not any cool kid making a fan-page.

Corporate invasion of online social networks? If you think Facebook is free and made for you, you got it all wrong. It’s not free and it’s made by ‘corporate America.’”

-René Schmalschläger They had this to say about columnist Steven Schmitz’s column, “Pastors, politics are like oil and water: They don’t mix,” which also ran in Monday’s edition: “I would just like to add a little history to the mix.

1) Read your quote: “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 now think about every prophet in the Old Testament who condemned the actions of a political leader (aka Jehu or Nathan).

Should the actions of God’s choice voices on earth be replicated today?

Maybe (Elijah killing Baal’s prophets, maybe not.

2) How money is best used for the “greater good” is always a tricky problem, and I won’t voice any opinion on what the right balance is. Just remember that million or so dollars currently in question pales in comparison to the cost of the numerous cathedrals built by the Catholic diocese there. Did the house of God really need to be so gigantically huge and suck up funds (that could have been used to ease the squalor of the poor) for the 300 years it took to build it? Hmm, maybe, maybe not.”

But it isn’t just the columns that are stirring controversy; they had this to say about Olga Kourilova’s article, “Grade inflation may be a rising problem at LSU,” which ran in Monday’s edition: “Bravo!!! Well done TDR!!!!

An extremely well written and interesting piece ... I think it would be interesting if you posted the percentage of A’s for all colleges” -Well Done “I was an A student in high school but, coming to LSU, I definitely had to work for my A’s, and still do! Don’t believe everything you read.”

-I wish “Yeah well, notice where all the A’s are coming from. Then look at the basic sciences, engineering

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and business. If y’all really want to do a study for once, next semester, make every student take differential equations, electricity/magnetism, physical chemistry, a biology, statics and an economics course. Then we can see how many ‘A’s’ there will be, hahahha.”

-P They had this to say about Kyle Bove’s article, “Lombardi suggests tuition raise, TOPS reform,” which ran in the Monday edition: “I’m not saying the state should pay for tuition, but if the state is going to have a program like TOPS, which has the goal to keep students in Louisiana, then the program should do its job and try to keep all students in Louisiana, not based on income. Why should half the students take the burden of the entire student body even though both halves have worked equally hard?”

-Student “Hey, I have this crazy idea, make your kid work his way through college like I and many others have. Since when do we whine about every little thing the government won’t give us. Your kid now has the chance to grow some hair on his back and become an adult while getting a great education. Be thankful instead of lowering yourself.

That’s my opinion.”

-correct In related news, they had this

to say about Xerxes A. Wilson’s article, “Possible flagship fee may be instituted next semester,” which ran in Tuesday’s edition: “I understand the increase, but calling it a fee really screws those on GI bill and other funding over.

The GI Bill won’t cover anything but tuition and if this is how LSU wants to make their money, then maybe I should go to UT where I can get more for my money.”

-no FEE “Most graduate students also have financial hardships (considering what they pay us), but we do not qualify for pell grants. Are we going to be paying this fee for a feature of the school (flagship agenda) that we help to make possible with our research, assistance with grants and publications?

What about those students that already applied for financial aid for the year and only took enough to cover what they thought they would be paying in fees? Will we somehow get the opportunity to get more financial aid before we have to pay this fee?”

-Sharon What do you think? Let your thoughts be known by logging on to lsureveille.com and posting on the comments section. Every article and column you see in The Daily Reveille is open for comments. Who knows? You might see your comments here.

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I am a graduate student who is lucky enough to have a Graduate Research Assistantship. This means I get paid for working in the lab and also receive a tuition waiver. Pay for assistantships frequently ranges from $14,000-$18,000 per year. I am still responsible for any and all fees LSU assesses. Currently, I pay fees totaling more than $2,300 per year. If this “Flagship Fee” is instituted, graduate students with assistantships could see a 5 to 7 percent cut in their gross pay.

In your article, Robert Kuhn, the associate vice chancellor of budget and planning, said that cutting faculty and staff salaries by the necessary 10 percent is not an efficient method for recouping funds. I ask that LSU consider its graduate students, because a 5 to 7 percent cut in our relatively low pay is a huge cut. This additional fee would mean 18 to 24 percent of graduate assistants’ paycheck would go back to LSU for fees. As part of our assistantship, we cannot work a second job to make up this difference (nor would we have the time to). Instead of nickel and diming their students with fees, LSU needs to raise tuition if they need more funds.

April Bryan-Mason graduate student renewable natural resources

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LaBorde said manpower and community participation are more important to solving the problem of human trafficking than money.

She said she was more interested in the strength of numbers for the cause because college students generally don’t have much money to donate.

“This is something I’ve always been kind of interested in,” said Alex Klein, religious studies senior. “I was just kind of curious about the issue, especially on a local level.”

Many people see human trafficking as an international issue, but Allice Cole, director for the Louisiana chapter of Rescue and Restore, which tries to help trafficking victims, said the problem exists across the state.

Cole said thousands of run aways and children across the state fall victim to drugs and pimps. She said her organiza- ‘I was just tion is helping kind of to equip people curious to save these victims. about the LaBorde issue, said the musical guests — especially including Winon a local bourne, Leaving level.’

Brightside and Jake Smith — Alex Klein all came freely religious studies senior after TAT contacted them.

She said 100 percent of the money raised Thursday went to the A-21 Campaign, an international group dedicated to rehabilitating abused women and children and prosecuting human traffickers.

Annie Dollahaid, marketing and communications manager for the A-21 Campaign, said the money raised by this and similar fundraisers around the world fund expansion of a facility in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The facility is used to shelter escaped women and children and to train people on how to combat trafficking worldwide, Dollahaid said.

Dollahaid said events such as “Be Their Freedom” are essential to raising awareness for a world which is largely blind to such a serious issue.

“When people know more, the more they can do about it,” Dollahaid said. “It’s happening everywhere, so when people start traveling they can see it. Stuff you would normally just pass by starts to stand out.”

Roughly 2 to 4 million people are trafficked across international borders every year, according to the A-21 Web site.

Human trafficking is at least a $9.5 billion worldwide industry, according to the U.S. State Department.

Most of the victims are women and children. The average age of victims is 14 years old.

The C.I.A. estimated one trafficked woman alone can make an average of $250,000 a year, servicing an average of 20 men each day.

Contact Adam Duvernay at aduvernay@lsureveille.com

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