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For biological engineering freshman Beatriz Garcia, new relations with Cuba make the 90 miles between Key West and Cuba a bit closer.

In an unprecedented example of communism and democracy working together, Cuba released 53 political prisoners Jan. 12 as part of a deal struck between the island country and the United States.

President Obama restored full diplomatic relations Dec. 17 between the U.S. and Cuba.

Obama announced the opening of an embassy in Havana, as

well as the easing of travel restrictions, according to The New York Times.

Garcia said she thinks the opening of an embassy in Havana is a good idea.

“When students and church groups go to Cuba, it is good that they will have a link back to the United States,” Garcia said.

Garcia was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and moved to the U.S. when she was 5 years old.

Although Garcia still feels some resentment towards the Castro brothers, she said she harbors fond memories

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Chinese Combo King to keep name

The property owner of Chinese Combo King and the area’s surrounding lots said Tuesday that the West Chimes Street restaurant will remain open under new management.

James Hall of Cole, Cole & Hall Properties, L.L.C., the property owner, said Chinese Combo King managers Alice and Morris Lo legally are bound by a lease extending into 2017.

Though the Los have come to an agreement with Little Saigon owners Lan and Vu Nguyen, Hall said the restaurant name will not be changed to Little Saigon II as the Nguyens previously told The Daily Reveille.

“The Nguyens are going to manage Combo King in the absence of the Los, which they’re telling me might be a couple of

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University Researchers link climate study as potential cause of Mayan disappearance

BY Jose Alejandro Bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com A scientist’s research is often overlooked by the general public, but a connection to an ancient civilization’s downfall brought national attention to a University student’s study.

Geology and geophysics Ph.D student Kathryn Denommee, along with professor and director of the University’s Coastal Studies Institute Sam Bentley and André Droxler, a profes-

sor at Rice University, made headlines after their study’s findings linked climate records to the possible cause of the Mayan civilization’s disappearance.

The team’s research analyzed core sediments taken from the famous “Great Blue Hole” — a popular scuba diving location at the Lighthouse Reef in Belize.

“This research is part of a much larger project led by Kam-Biu Liu [chair and professor of the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sci-

ences],” Denommee said. “[Liu] has been looking at what is driving hurricane landfalls for some time now.”

Denommee and the team analyzed how the layers of sediments compiled within the Blue Hole keep a natural record of climate events, like hurricanes and droughts, from hundreds or thousands of years ago.

“We wanted to essentially develop a history of hurricane strikes in the Caribbean Basin,”

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Sam Bentley explains his studies in ocean sediment subtraction on Friday inside the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex.

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Theater shooting defendant quiet as jury selection nears THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Theater shooting defendant James Holmes sat quietly and leaned back in his chair in court on Tuesday just hours before the start of the arduous process of choosing a jury to decide whether he was sane when he opened fire in a packed Colorado movie theater.

It was the first time Holmes has been seen by the public in civilian clothes since the 2012 shooting. He had no visible restraints, though the judge had ordered him to be tethered to the floor in a way the public couldn’t see for the trial.

His dark hair was neatly trimmed, and he had a mediumlength curly beard and wore ovalshaped reddish glasses.

His appearance was in contrast to earlier court hearings where he wore jail uniforms and occasionally had wild orange hair and wide eyes.

An unprecedented jury pool of 9,000 people was initially summoned but later fell to 7,000 after some summons could not be delivered and some people were excused.

The pool will be winnowed to a handful in the weeks ahead to

hear the death penalty trial that could last until October.

Jury selection was set to begin later in the day with the first group of several hundred people filling out questionnaires.

During a morning hearing, Judge Carlos Samour suggested that attorneys might not have to screen all the prospective jurors before beginning to select panelists. He said the process could stop after a few thousand people are screened if he and both sides agree they have a large enough pool from which to choose a jury.

The defense also objected to the use of a video during the trial, saying prosecutors gave it to them too late. The video is apparently from the jail where Holmes is being held, but its contents have not been made public.

The judge also spent about 25 minutes going over ground rules for jury selection and the trial, urging attorneys on both sides to be professional and respectful.

“We’re going to be spending a lot of time together,” Samour said.

The scope of jury selection and the trial are testaments to the logistical hurdles of trying the rare case of a mass shooter who survives his attack.

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plea deal that would save his life while many survivors and family members of victims have demanded that he be put to death.

Twelve people died and 70 were injured in the attack during a midnight showing of a new Batman movie. Holmes, 27, was arrested as he stripped off his combat gear in the parking lot of the Century 16 movie theater.

CAIRO — The Islamic State group threatened Tuesday to kill two Japanese hostages within 72 hours, demanding a $200 million ransom for their lives from Japan’s prime minister as he visited the Middle East.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to save captives Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, telling journalists in Jerusalem: “Their lives are the top priority.” But with his military generally only operating in a self-defense capacity at home, Abe faced a hard choice of rewarding extremists now targeted by a U.S.-led coalition or asking an ally like America, which has tried a previous hostage rescue in Syria, to launch a risky operation on its behalf.

The video, released via militant websites associated with the Islamic State group and apparently made by its al-Furqan media arm, mirrored other hostage threats it has made. Japanese officials said they would analyze the video to verify its authenticity, though Abe offered no hesitation as he pledged to free the men.

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Abe as he wrapped up a sixday visit to the Middle East.

He added: “Extremism and Islam are completely different things.”

In the video, Goto and Yukawa in orange jumpsuits with a rocky hill in the background, a masked militant dressed in black standing between them.

The scene resembles others featuring the five hostages previously beheaded by the Islamic State group, which controls a third of Iraq and Syria.

“To the prime minister of Japan: Although you are more than 8,000 and 500 kilometers (5,280 miles) from the Islamic State, you willingly have volunteered to take part in this crusade,” says the knife-brandishing militant, who resembles and sounds like a British militant involved in other filmed beheadings. “You have proudly donated $100 million to kill our women and children, to destroy the homes of the Muslims ... and in an attempt to stop the expansion of the Islamic State, you have also donated another $100 million to train the” apostates.

The militant’s comments likely refer to money Abe pledged while in Egypt to help Iraq’s government and aid Syrian refugees.

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Students design solutions for Haitian hospital, school BY emilie hebert ehebert@lsureveille.com Eight landscape architecture students, led by Associate Professor Wesley Michaels, traveled to Haiti during the winter intersession and submitted design solutions for the new University Hospital and the Zanmi Agrikol school.

Now, some of their suggestions are being pursued.

Nonprofit organization Zanmi Lasante requested the ideas of students to accommodate the masses congregating around the $17 million hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, which provides free health care. The around-the-clock crowd brings with it problems like security and sanitation issues, families of the patients and street vendors blocking the ambulance entrance.

Three students also designed a master plan for Zanmi Agrikol, an agricultural and mechanical school minutes from the hospital. Students suggested ways the school could strategically expand in various phases.

The projects are part of the LSU/Haiti Task Force, created in 2013 to make the University a helpful player in post-earthquake Haiti. The University works with organizations like the Cine Institute, FOSAJ and Partners In Health, which operates the hospital.

The task force, which involves a collaboration of various disciplines across the University, aims to aid in Haiti’s recovery and provide students

exchange opportunities.

Brooke Morris, a third-year graduate student, was one of the five students who worked on the hospital project. She said there were two main solutions the students presented: an open-air building across the street with showers and bathrooms and the creation of a new town square down the road.

“Basically, we were trying to shift that urban phenomenon away from right in front of the hospital so that we’re not messing with hospital functions,” Morris said.

Although she admitted to not having a “travel bug,” Morris said the experience shocked her and shaped her as a person.

“I was impressed really about how happy they were, and I just felt so at peace there,” Morris said. “It was an incredible opportunity, incredible projects, real clients we don’t frequently get in school.”

Michaels said it was good for his students to experience a different way of working than in the U.S. and to see how different parts of the world function.

“I think it was interesting for them to see a different way of doing things that was more hands on,” Michaels said. “There’s a lot of different ways of living out there, and I think firsthand experience of that is so valuable for students and for young people as they’re developing their ideas of the world.”

Landscape architecture associate professor Austin Allen said the goal is to send groups

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LSU landscape architecture students suggested design plans for the area around the new University hospital in Haiti. to Haiti as often as possible, despite much organized funding.

Allen said the effort from the University to assist in Haiti’s recovery is tied to similarities between Haiti and Louisiana, especially New Orleans, seen in parts of the culture like architecture.

“We want to have a presence there,” Allen said. “We’re hoping we get more and more disciplines within the University active. The recovery there is still a long way to go and could use that kind of collaborative effort.”

Future trips to Haiti are planned for April with Allen’s “Uncovering Haiti” course and May with Joyce Jackson’s spring intersession course.

LSU aims to improve special education BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com The Louisiana Department of Education is joining forces with the LSU Human Development Center in New Orleans to train educators and develop more efficient ways for teaching students in special education programs.

The partnership is part of the implementation of Act 833, signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal last year. Act 833, written in part by state Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, serves to increase the pathways of grade promotion for students with disabilities and make the process easier on students and teachers.

The LSU HDC is part of the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and works to offer education and support to people with disabilities. LSU HDC will develop programs to train and support teachers, families and school administrators in the process of developing Individualized Education Plans, according to the state Department of Education.

Paul Mooney, associate professor of education, said the program

could provide more resources for educators and students with disabilities. A team of teachers and administrators of students with disabilities or special needs meets to determine an education plan for the student to follow, and the plan developed is the student’s IEP. “It could mean aides coming into the general education classroom for some parts of the day, like reading or math,” Mooney said. “Or some work done outside of the general education classroom — whatever it is that the team of people has decided is needed for the student.”

According to the Department of Education, there are more than 100,000 meetings conducted across the state each year to develop education plans for students with special needs.

Mooney said students in the College of Education at the University are trained to create and structure IEPs for students with disabilities, but the additional support from the partnership can be helpful.

Elementary education sophomore Jessica Breaux said she believes the development of these

materials will be helpful for teachers.

“I think that this is much needed,” Breaux said. “I actually just took a special education class last semester, and we went over IEPs.” The program in the Department of Education will have training courses for special education teachers across the state and make online materials available for families and teachers by the 2015-16 school year, according to the Department of Education’s website.

“We are committed to developing materials that enhance the knowledge and skill of IEP teams, including families and students with disabilities,” said Director of Program Area for LSU HDC Alan Coulter in a press release.

LSU HDC’s training materials for teachers and families will give an overview of the IEP team process, how to create measurable goals for students with special needs, classroom accommodations and support and how to create the least restrictive environment for the student.

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FEATURED EVENTS LSU 2015 MLK & BHM Commemorative Celebration Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:30 p.m.

LSU Student Union Theater Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marc Lamont Hill 2015 MLK Performing Arts Night Wednesday, January 21, 2015 6:00 p.m., LSU Student Union Theater

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015 7:00 PM 7:30 PM

Comedy Night - The Station Sports Bar and Grill

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Band Karaoke - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's Blitz Blingo - L'Auberge Casino Hotel Baton Rouge

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Rebelution - The Varsity Theatre-Baton Rouge

Drag Bingo - George's Place Karaoke with Mohawk Mike - The Spanish Moon Cat's Ass Karaoke - George's Place Accalia and the Swamp Monster - LSU Museum of Art Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn - Capitol Park Museum LeRoy Neiman: Action! - Shaw Center for the Arts Cooperative Extension - Hill Memorial Library Surreal Salon 7 - Baton Rouge Gallery for Contemporary Art A World of Dreams - Louisiana Art and Science Museum and Planetarium

For more information on LSU events or to place your own event you can visit www.lsureveille.com/calendar

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CAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS Man arrested for theft of football equipment LSUPD arrested Fletcher Sanders, 25, for theft-principle two and illegal possession of stolen things. Sanders is not a University student.

LSUPD Spokesperson Capt.

Cory Lalonde said the department received a complaint from the LSU football personnel staff on Dec. 22, 2014, which stated a pair of alleged game worn cleats and gloves belonging to the University were being sold on eBay. LSUPD officers were able to contact and question the seller, Lalonde said.

Sanders said the equipment was given to him by an LSU football player but would not give the player’s name, Lalonde said.

Based on this information, investigators were able to obtain an arrest warrant for Sanders.

Sanders was arrested Jan. 12 and refused to cooperate with investigators, Lalonde said.

Sanders was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Students arrested for drug possession Police arrested and charged Marc Gudeau, 18, Lucas Rhodes, 19, and Cormac Cassidy, 19, with possession of a Schedule II narcotic, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting arrest.

An LSUPD officer observed three suspects in the gravel lot near a residential college on the morning of Jan. 16.

Lalonde said the suspects were standing behind a vehicle with the trunk open, and as the officer approached them, they began to act nervously, threw something in the trunk and walked away.

The officer gave several verbal commands to stop, and the suspects ran from the area, Lalonde said.

Officers searched for the suspects but were not able to find them.

An LSUPD narcotics detection canine confirmed the vehicle contained illegal narcotics, Lalonde said.

The vehicle was towed and secured at LSUPD until a search warrant was obtained.

Officers searched the vehicle and found a plastic bottle containing one gram of marijuana, a small amount of cocaine and a glass pipe.

The three suspects were located later that afternoon and were arrested and booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Man arrested for DWI On Jan. 15, LSUPD arrested Matthew Harrison, 26, for DWI and driving with a suspended license. Harrison is not a University student.

LSUPD officers stopped a man for speeding on Highland Road near South Stadium Drive, Lalonde said.

Lalonde said LSUPD officers noticed many signs of intoxication, including a strong odor of alcohol coming from Harrison.

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Harrison was given a field sobriety test and he performed poorly, Lalonde said.

Officers arrested Harrison and brought him to LSUPD, where he was given the opportunity to give a breath sample.

Harrison complied and blew a .17.

Harrison was transferred and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Man arrested for criminal damage to property LSUPD arrested Samuel Rayburn, 18, of Madison, Mississippi, for criminal damage to property. Rayburn is not a University student.

The arrest stems from an ongoing investigation beginning Oct. 25, 2014, when LSUPD received a complaint from Herget Hall about an exit sign being damaged, Lalonde said.

One suspect was identified and arrested that day. Rayburn was identified as the second suspect by surveillance footage later that day.

Lalonde said officers made contact with Rayburn, and he came to the University on Jan. 15.

When questioned about the incident, Rayburn said he did not remember committing the act.

Rayburn was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

Man arrested for simple battery On Jan. 16, LSUPD received a complaint from a women who said she and her ex-boyfriend had gotten into an argument.

Lalonde said the victim identified the suspect as Errol Williams, 19, of Slidell, Louisiana.

Williams is not a University student.

Lalonde said the victim told LSUPD that Williams grabbed her as she was walking away, causing her to fall to the ground.

LSUPD officers contacted Williams and he agreed to meet with investigators.

Williams admitted to pulling the victim to the ground.

Williams was arrested, issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

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Student to show talent at ‘Drop the Needle’ BY emilie hebert ehebert@lsureveille.com Long before Emily Kaye Miller could read a college textbook, she was busy sharpening her music skills.

Her work will be displayed when she performs during the sold-out “Drop the Needle” show at the Manship Theatre on Friday.

“I started playing music my first grade year in piano,” Miller said. “I’ve always sang. My whole family plays music and sings. We were these crazy Cajun people just rocking out.”

But it wasn’t until about a year and a half ago when the fine arts junior started exploring gigs in Baton Rouge. She started playing at local restaurants like La Carreta and Caliente, eventually getting the opportunity to showcase her original music at Spanish Moon.

That’s when she caught the eyes, and ears, of Rob Chidester, who organizes shows at venues like Chelsea’s Cafe and the Red Dragon Listening Room. He said his goal is to give local groups, especially those formed by students from LSU and Southern, a stage to perform on.

“A lot of people have been telling me about her. I was very happy to find that she’s incredibly talented,” Chidester said.

Chidester booked Miller for the latest installment of the Manship Theatre’s “Drop the Needle” series, where local artists perform a different classic album every month. The show will feature Carole King’s award-winning album “Tapestry.”

“I’ve listened to Carole King

growing up so much, so when he said her name I was like, let’s do it,” Miller said.

She will be singing King’s “Beautiful” with a piano accompaniment.

Although she spends much of her time performing music, which she posts on her YouTube channel, Miller’s major is concentrated on painting and drawing. She said she goes back and forth between her love of art and passion for music.

“Most people say you have to pick, like you can’t be pursuing music and pursuing art at the same time,” Miller said. “But I’m equally passionate about both.”

But what always brings Miller back to the stage and confirms her love for performing is the raw emotion she gets to display.

“I like being able to say whatever I want, and everyone accepts it automatically,” Miller said. “It’s so weird that I couldn’t tell you

my whole heart right now, but if I was at a concert or a gig, I would tell you every bad relationship I’ve ever been in and just sing it all.”

Though Miller is also a singer, songwriter and guitarist, Miller said playing piano is her most challenging, but favorite, musical skill.

“It’s like reading a language and trying to speak it with your fingers,” Miller said.

Miller said she isn’t sure of her future career plans, but since she has an art history minor and plans to continue her education, she might be interested in teaching.

She is sure of one thing, though — music will always be an integral part of her life.

“I don’t have huge aspirations of becoming famous,” Miller said. “I want to play more music because it’s what I love to do. I’m never going to stop playing.”

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Student Emily Miller rehearses Sunday for the ‘Drop The Needle’ performance of ‘Tapestry’ from Carole King.

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Tigers rout Florida in 79-61 road victory

BY David gray dgray@lsureveille.com

game,” said Gray, who coughed up the ball with eight seconds left during LSU’s 67-64 loss to the Aggies. “I’m going to take responsibility for it. I’m going to learn from it and get better for it.”

The LSU men’s basketball team has had little trouble building late leads in Southeastern Conference play, but maintaining them has been an entirely different story.

But that wasn’t the case Tuesday against a now-reeling Florida squad.

LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin led the way with a game-high 22 points, and the Tigers (14-4, 3-2 SEC) avoided another late-game collapse by closing out the Gators, 79-61, in the O’Connell Center.

The victory snapped LSU’s six-game losing streak to Florida and was also the Tigers’ first win in the O’Connell Center since Feb. 13, 2008. The Gators (10-8, 3-2 SEC), who lost to Georgia on Saturday, have dropped consecutive SEC games for the first time since the 2011-12 season.

The Tigers’ victory against Florida was the first in four tries for LSU coach Johnny Jones.

During his postgame radio show, Jones said he was proud of his team’s performance, particularly in the second half, against a club that reached the Final Four last season.

“We knew we were in for a tough task [Tuesday], but I thought our guys really stepped up and played well,” Jones said.

“It was going to be important

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LSU junior guard Josh Gray looks to his teammates as he dribbles down the court Jan. 10 during the Tigers’ 87-84 win against Georgia at the PMAC.

Junior guard Josh Gray overcomes obstacles on and off the court BY david gray dgray@lsureveille.com Staring directly at the flashing cameras and throng of inquisitive reporters inches from his face, LSU junior guard Josh Gray shouldered the blame.

Gray wasn’t concerned that his Tigers let a 13-point second half lead turn into a one-point deficit with 23 seconds remaining against Texas A&M on Saturday. When the game was on the line, the ball was in Gray’s hands, and then it wasn’t.

“It was my turnover that cost the

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers remain faithful to Caldwell’s game plan

BY morgan prewitt kmprewitt@lsureveille.com

The little details are what make the difference between good teams and great ones.

At times during the early Southeastern Conference schedule, the LSU women’s basketball team would deviate from the game plan with frustrating results, such as its 55-48 loss to then-No. 9 Texas A&M on Jan. 11 after blowing a seven-point halftime lead.

But in their back-to-back wins against ranked opponents, the Lady Tigers’ trust in their coaches and their own abilities have created a different dynamic around the program.

“This team is believing,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell.

“They’re believing in one another and that’s been the turning point

for our team. … We’re understanding the way LSU basketball is to be played, and that’s defending the basketball 94 feet and really getting after you with hustle plays.”

Caldwell said the Lady Tigers weren’t playing cohesively as a unit throughout their early SEC schedule. LSU didn’t keep up its defensive pressure for a full 40 minutes.

In its last loss against Texas A&M, LSU held the Aggies to only 18 points in the first half before collapsing in the second half and allowing 37 points.

Despite scoring 25 points in the first half, the Lady Tigers were not able to compete in the second half and committed 11 turnovers after tallying only seven in the first half.

“It’s when we detour from the

coaches’ plays [that bad things happen],” said sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief. “When we start doing our own thing and not trusting the coaches’ plays, that’s when we have those bad possessions. It’s really not listening to your coach, or not being disciplined and running the play the way it’s supposed to be run.”

A major spark for the Lady Tigers’ surge was junior guard Danielle Ballard’s return to last year’s postseason form against then-No. 15 Mississippi State last Thursday.

In LSU’s three NCAA tournament games last season, Ballard averaged 23.3 points per game and 14 rebounds.

Despite being suspended for the Lady Tigers’ first 15 games of the season, Ballard has averaged

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LSU freshman guard Jenna Deemer (right) dribbles the ball Dec. 3, 2014, during the Lady Tigers’ 73-59 win against Louisiana Tech at the PMAC.

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Freshmen contribute on multiple events

BY christian boutwell cboutwell@lsureveille.com The No. 3 LSU gymnastics team seems to have things going its way in the preliminary stages of this season.

The Tigers (3-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) recently collected their first road win of the season by putting together another solid performance to defeat Kentucky and Arizona State.

Senior Jessie Jordan gathered her all-around second consecutive title, but she didn’t earn the win for the Tigers by herself. She had help from many, but Jordan praised the contribution of freshmen allarounders Myia Hambrick and Erin Macadaeg.

“Erin and Myia have done an incredible job of coming in and working hard to improve,” Jordan said. “All of them are great additions to the team. They are all going to help push this team to the national championship.”

Macadaeg ended her club career by earning a spot on the Junior Olympics National Team and capturing beam and floor titles at the 2014 Level 10 Junior Olympics National Championships. Hambrick finished in the 2014 JONC as the national runner-up on beam.

She also earned the floor title and second place on beam at the Junior Olympic Nationals in 2013. “[The freshmen] are very competitive. They have a tremendous amount of desire,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “They want to get in the lineup and want to compete.

Sometimes you get freshmen that kind of stand back and are a little bit afraid to get out there and are knocking at the door, but these kids are kicking the door. They want to get out there.”

Both Hambrick and Macadaeg turned in strong performances on vault and beam in the Tigers’ most recent meet against Kentucky and Arizona State.

Hambrick tied for first place on vault with score of 9.85 and added a score of 9.725 on beam.

Macadaeg finished the day with a third-place finish on beam with a 9.85.

Having reliable freshmen in the lineup gives the Tigers an edge.

“We have a lot of depth on every event,” Jordan said. “That’s why six people go up, and the pressure isn’t as high as it would be if we are competing as an individual because one score can drop. We really practice on being able to count on our teammates and trust them with their routines, and that’s why we run inter-squads in here to practice that.”

Though the freshmen have only two meets under their belts, they are adjusting quickly to the pressure of college gymnastics.

“Myia and I bring something new to the team, even though we are not as experienced as everyone else,” Macadaeg said. “We are always learning and adapting to everything.”

You can reach Christian Boutwell on Twitter @CBoutwell_TDR.

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LSU freshman all-arounder Erin Macadaeg performs her beam routine Jan. 9 during the Tigers’ 197.125-193.300 victory against Iowa at the PMAC.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015 gray, from page 5 On the game-altering play, Gray drove past a screen and tried to hit LSU junior guard Keith Hornsby outside for a potential game-winning bucket, but Texas A&M junior guard Danuel House stripped Gray midair.

Moments later, Gray and his Tiger teammates watched as the Aggies rushed the PMAC hardwood to celebrate their first-ever victory inside the 43-year-old building.

It was a bitter and disappointing end for Gray, especially given the turnaround the 21-year-old Lake Charles native experienced in Southeastern Conference action prior to Saturday’s contest.

But the steel-minded Gray — who played at three different high schools and two colleges in a five-year span before becoming the ignition behind LSU’s potent offense this season — has encountered numerous

rout, from page 5 for us in the second half to make sure that we rebounded and defended extremely hard, and I thought we were able to do that down the stretch.”

Sophomore forward Jordan Mickey picked up his 10th double-double of the season with 14 points and 14 rebounds for the Tigers, who shot 62 percent from beyond the arc and a near-perfect 17-for-18 (94 percent) from the foul line.

With LSU junior guard Josh Gray struggling to run the offense, sophomore guard Tim Quarterman assumed most

game plan, from page 5 14.3 points and 5.5 rebounds in the four games since her return.

Against Mississippi State, Ballard carried the team in overtime to push the game to double overtime and eventually to LSU’s first win against a ranked opponent this season.

Ballard led the Lady Tigers with 25 points against then-No. 10 Kentucky on Sunday, and the confidence Ballard brings to the court inspires her teammates.

“I guess we’re all a little more confident,” said sophomore guard Jasmine Rhodes. “[Ballard] adds a big spark to the game, and she definitely boosts everybody up. Even if we are doing something bad, she’s like, ‘Keep your head up.’”

With Ballard back, the Lady Tigers bring confidence and determination to the court that

setbacks during his playing career, so a costly turnover isn’t much to overcome.

When SEC play began Jan. 8, Gray wasn’t feeling like himself. Though he tallied 11 assists in consecutive games against Savannah State and Missouri, Gray committed nine turnovers and totaled just four points.

The self-proclaimed “gym rat” couldn’t determine why the long hours he was logging in the gym and putting into his craft weren’t culminating in game success. But a chat with LSU coach Johnny Jones quickly cleared Gray’s mind.

“I went to Coach Jones and told him, ‘Coach, I’m killing myself in the gym, but I’m not producing on the court,’” Gray said. “He was just telling me I had to clean up my personal life and get my personal life back together so it could translate to the court.”

Gray politely declined to reveal the specifics of what of the point guard duties and responded with 15 points and eight assists. Junior guard Keith Hornsby chipped in another 15 while going 3-for-6 from 3-point range.

Florida junior forwards Dorian Finney-Smith and Alex Murphy led the Gators with 10 points apiece, but Finney-Smith shot a cold 4-for-13 from the field.

Florida held the advantage in paint points (34-30), bench scoring (30-21) and had three fewer turnovers than the Tigers. But a 3-for-16 mark from 3-point range and 38-percent display from the field doomed the was missing before their current two-game winning streak. LSU averaged 77.5 points per game in its last two wins, including a season-high 84 points against Kentucky.

The Lady Tigers were able to create turnovers, forcing 26 turnovers against Kentucky.

Despite the last two wins, the Lady Tigers are focused on taking on No. 5 Tennessee on Thursday.

“What was interesting was after the Kentucky win, the locker room was, ‘yes, we’re thrilled and happy that we won,’ but they also had this temperament about themselves as though they belonged,” Caldwell said. “That was something I hadn’t seen from this group. I recognized it from last year, but we hadn’t had that this year.”

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bothered him mid-season but said that it “didn’t have anything to do with basketball.”

“It took my mind off the game and my focus off the game plan,” Gray said. “I just wasn’t ready. I wasn’t prepared mentally for the game.

The game is more mental than physical.”

Any athlete can mindlessly rattle off that cliche. But for Gray, who lost his grandmother at 16 and was arrested in 2013 for shoplifting in Sulphur, it’s a motto he lives by.

“I deal with a lot of deep cases of depression, and the only way for me to vent is to be in the gym and live in it all day,” Gray said. “That’s the only way I can be myself and be at peace.”

When Gray is himself on the court, LSU scores in bunches.

Gray is the floor general of a Tigers team that averaged 75.1 points per game, the third-highest mark in the SEC, before the Tigers’ 79-61 win against Florida on Tuesday night.

This is unlike Gray’s previous stop at Odessa Community College, where he led the junior college ranks in scoring with 34.7 points per game. With equally talented and capable teammates surrounding him, the brash point guard has taken a step out of the spotlight and let it shine on his teammates.

Gray tallied 24 assists against 13 turnovers in LSU’s first four SEC games, and was second in the conference with 5.2 assists a night during that span. As a team, the Tigers average 16.6 assists, trailing only Arkansas in the conference.

“It took a little bit of an adjustment for [Gray],” Hornsby said. “He had to do so much for his [junior college] team for them to be successful. [At LSU], he’s surrounded by other guys who are talented. It took him a little while to find that middle ground between scoring and distributing, but I think he’s found that.”

All it took was a bit of advice

from the cornerstone of Gray’s beloved Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan.

“In [Jordan’s] book, he talks about the gym being a sanctuary,” Jones said. “It’s a chance to get away from everything and block everything out.

That’s what those players have to do. A lot of times, it’s their getaway.”

Though Gray’s safe haven has been a nightmare at times this season, he still wants the ball when the game’s on the line.

“I’m a grown man, and I’ve done a lot of things in my life that I’m not proud of,” Gray said. “But I’m going to own up to my mistake. I made the turnover and cost the game, but I will learn from it, and it won’t happen again. I’m going to make a lot of mistakes, but I won’t make the same ones tomorrow.”

Gators, who suffered their largest defeat to LSU since a 34-point rout in 1993.

“I thought we did a great job of staying connected [on defense],” Jones said. “We had to make sure that there was attention to detail, especially on [Florida’s] shooters, and make sure that we stayed down on their drivers.”

But the Tigers’ performance on defense was slightly overshadowed by their offensive efficiency, especially given the team’s recent second-half struggles.

After going 1-for-13 from 3-point range in the second half

during Saturday’s loss to Texas A&M, the Tigers stuck to their strengths against Florida.

LSU didn’t attempt a 3-pointer in the second half until 11:45 remained on the clock and had only five such shots after the break. In the second half, the Tigers continuously attacked the rim, racking up 16 inside and getting to the free throw line 14 times.

Quarterman’s 3-pointer gave LSU a 71-56 lead with 4:31 remaining in the contest. Florida responded with a 5-0 spurt to trim its deficit to 10 with just more than three minutes remaining.

But unlike their previous four SEC matches, the Tigers were able to close out the Gators by scoring eight straight points to close the game. Over the final 2:28, LSU hit all four of its free throws while Hornsby and Mickey each hit a jumper to secure the much-needed road win. “[Florida] did a great job of continuing to fight and competing,” Jones said. “They cut the lead back to 10, but I thought our guys did a great job of closing it out.”

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Keystone XL pipeline could have serious environmental impact ENTITLED MILLENIAL Cody Sibley Columnist Climate change is destroying our planet, but our government only cares about pleasing oil corporations.

The Senate voted 63-37 to begin debating the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is more than the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster.

However, it’s not enough to override a guaranteed veto from the Obama administration.

Majority leader Mitch McConnell is trying to get more Democrat supporters by allowing an open-amendment process. This allows senators to vote on and add certain provisions to bills.

I’m glad McConnell is trying to work with everyone in Congress, but he’s ignoring the big issue. The pipeline will damage our environment while providing virtually no benefits to the American people.

We are at a time in our lives where we need to turn away from environmentally destructive fossil fuels.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration both concluded 2014 was the warmest year since they began recording yearly temperature 134 years ago.

In fact, the 10 warmest years all occurred after 1998, and nine of them occurred after 2002.

People rejecting the concept of man-made climate change are rejecting the consensus of 97 percent of scientists. When climatechange deniers rejecting this near-unanimous theory, they allow oil companies to destroy our planet for a profit.

The Keystone XL Pipeline also poses a threat to contaminate one of the largest aquifers in America.

If the pipeline were built, it would cut through the Ogallala Aquifer in Nebraska.

This aquifer has enough water to cover the 48 contiguous states, and 2 million Americans rely on it for drinking water.

If the Keystone XL Pipeline were to leak, 2 million people wouldn’t have drinking water.

Farmers wouldn’t have water for their crops. Essentially, famine could occur throughout the entire country if this pipeline

leaks in the aquifer.

Aside from the environmental impact, oil isn’t a reliable source of energy. We’re using Earth’s resources faster than it can replen-

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accustomed to?

We need to invest less in oil and more in renewable natural resources such as solar and wind power.

We have windmills that generate power. We have solar panels that can produce energy. We even have the money to give every house in America solar panels, but we’d rather spend it on two losing wars.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have already cost us $1.5 trillion, and they’re projected to cost us $4 to 6 trillion total. Putting solar panels on every home in America would cost us $2.33 trillion.

Maybe that’s too much money for us to spend, and maybe it’s too late to redirect money from the wars to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. But when politicians are willing to spend more money on war than on making Americans energy independent, it’s time to rethink our votes and priorities.

ish itself. What’s going to happen when we use all of our oil? How are we going to survive without our cars and electricity and the smart phones we’ve grown

Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Opelousas, Louisiana.

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Nostalgic TV shows don’t leave room for new ideas OUR LADY OF ANGST

SIDNEYROSE REYNEN Opinion Editor Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and like most drugs, it will kill us all. If you don’t believe me, just check out the roster of scheduled television programs for the next two years.

In 2013, Netflix released a fourth season of the beloved (and prematurely cancelled) show, “Arrested Development” 10 years after it originally premiered. Then FX aired the first season of its film-to-miniseries project, “Fargo,” based on the Coen brothers’ 1996 film of the same name, in April 2014.

More recently, fans of surrealist director David Lynch rejoiced when it was announced that his cult TV show, “Twin Peaks” would be airing new episodes in 2016. And just this weekend, Fox CEO Gary Newman said the company was “in talks” to reboot the long-running science-fiction

series “The X-Files.”

As a film and media arts major, all these releases (and even just the announcements) made me jump for joy. It also lead me to debate whether or not I’d cave in and buy TiVo. And while I have a special place in my heart for new, original programming (shout out to Comedy Central’s “Broad City” and Fox’s soon-to-be-classic “Bob’s Burgers”), there’s an undoubtedly euphoric feeling when a TV show from the past comes back to deliver even more tears, laughs and surprises after a long and seemingly permanent hiatus.

But even if you’re planning on tuning in to see more Laura Palmer or Agent Fox Mulder in the years to come, it’s time that we, as a TV-viewing society, evaluate what it means to have so many reboots in so little time.

First, we’re going to have to get rid of these arguments about “originality.” Characters and stories have been recycled since the beginning of written word, and I’m OK with that.

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Honestly, is it really that big of a deal to have eight feature-length, live-action Batman films?

I’m not worried about there “not being any more original stories.” I’m more concerned with our nostalgia pangs getting in the way of good entertainment.

For instance, do you think there could have been a “Twin Peaks” revival before every alternative teen girl was reblogging screenshots from the show on Tumblr? Is David Lynch, the man who declared he would never return to the television medium, really basing his career trajectory on activity from a microblogging website?

The same goes with Fox’s “Arrested Development” and “The X-Files.” Both are highly popular on the Internet, being endlessly posted on people’s “quirky” Pinterest boards and binge-watched on Netflix.

But what does it mean when audiences can just reblog their way into a major television studio’s program schedule?

Media consumers are getting restless. In this new world of

streaming seven consecutive seasons of “The West Wing” on our laptops, we’ve grown a collective sense of entitlement.

Television shows now seem to run our lives, and we panic upon realizing we’re only three episodes until the finale. Our entitlement has caused us to make sure that the constant stream of entertainment will never end.

Didn’t like the “Lost” finale?

Just beg Damon Lindelof for a reboot in two decades!

We can see this happening before our very eyes with AMC’s new “Better Call Saul” show. Fans were obviously restless as Walter White’s story came to an end, and they desperately needed more episodes to get their “Breaking Bad” fix.

“Never fear!” AMC said, “What about an entire show about that wisecracking lawyer? That’ll surely win us some Emmys!”

So what do the critics have to say about these nostalgia-driven reboots?

Last week at the Golden Globes, FX’s “Fargo” won Best Miniseries or Television Film and the always-

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The show won similar accolades at other award shows, like the Emmys and the Critics’ Choice Television Awards, leading me to believe that these reboots have deeply resonated with their audiences.

But this doesn’t mean everything is deserving of a revival.

Even though I consider myself an “X-Phile,” I don’t know what I think about seeing Mulder and Scully back on the small screen again.

Believe me, there are new stories out there looking to be told.

Sometimes they’re hiding on various shady streaming websites, but they are there!

Instead of angrily tweeting at Ryan Murphy for a seventh and eighth season of “Glee,” try letting dead things die and move onto newer (and better) entertainment.

SidneyRose Reynen is a 19-yearold film and media arts sophomore from New Orleans. You can reach her on Twitter @sidneyrose_TDR.

Quote of the Day ‘A revolution is not a bed of roses.’

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U.S. must treat Cuba as a nation, not a political tool THE CUBAN CANNON

Tommy Romanach Deputy Sports Editor More than 50 years ago, my uncle was arrested by the Cuban government for handing out church pamphlets encouraging citizens to visit the chapel. He was just a kid, but a simple act of democracy still warranted arrest in his home country.

He was one of the lucky ones.

My father and most of his family fled Cuba in 1962, avoiding poverty, imprisonment or possible execution under Fidel Castro’s rule. They each took what they could fit in one bag, and most of them have never returned to the Communist state.

A month ago, friends began congratulating me on news of Obama’s new U.S.-Cuba policies, convinced I would be overjoyed.

But like most Cuban-Americans, I’m aware it’s still far from the end.

It may not even be the beginning.

Opening talks with Cuba, reopening an embassy in Havana and beginning the process of

normalization is all smart, but Raul Castro, Fidel’s brother, is still in charge. Making a change like this is a gamble for the Cuban dictator, so there has to be something he can gain.

Raul’s ultimate goal is probably tourism, something the new policy does not completely allow but has made more lenient.

There’s money to be made in Americans visiting the island’s many beaches and engulfing themselves in “Cuban culture”, and Raul knows it. It’s money that will pass over the 11 million citizens and go directly to the government.

Cuba is not the new toy U.S. citizens can use for spring breaks and honeymoons in a few years. It’s a Communist state that will pamper its tourists without revealing the constant fear of its citizens.

Hotel, cruise line and airline companies probably are most excited for the potential tourism. For them, Cuba is the lost jewel of the Caribbean, a pile of money suddenly within their grasps for the first time.

If you don’t think those companies will lobby politicians for even more lenient rules on tourism, you don’t know the first

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U.S.-Cuba legislation will produce many unclear issues that will not be alleviated if U.S. politicians continue to use it as a tool to gain votes. thing about U.S. politics.

For every Cuban-American who fled because they were wealthy, there is one who fled because he or she believed in freedom. Unfortunately, the new policy mostly attacks the economic side of relations, not the embargo on democracy.

An optimistic historical comparison would be Mikhail Gorbachev’s actions in the late ’80s while leader of the Soviet Union.

His effort to decrease tensions between the Soviets and the West contributed to the dissolution of the country in 1991.

But Cuban-Americans have

seen attempts to change relations in Cuba before, and nothing has come of it. Most will be patiently waiting to see how this latest development plays out, but this is no time to celebrate.

The more likely and more recent historical example is the Arab Spring, which brought radical governmental change but had its share of negative outcomes too. If something similar happens in Cuba, it will bring as many detractors of aiding the country as supporters.

Meanwhile, Obama is getting enough heat for sending troops back to the Middle East.

It seems unlikely that he or a future president will act if a revolution begins in Cuba.

What’s most frightening is what may happen in the 2016 presidential elections, when “the Cuba issue” may be used as a tool to grab votes, especially in a swing state like Florida.

U.S. politicians have used Cuba as a gambling chip rather than a country for more than a century, and it’s a little sickening to watch it happen again.

I can’t fathom the plight my father experienced leaving his home, moving to various places in the Caribbean and U.S. and never returning to Havana.

What I can comprehend is the disappointment he and others will feel if all the recent decisions turn out to be mere political power plays.

It’s been more than 50 years since my uncle attempted to hand out those pamphlets. Those years haven’t destroyed hopes of returning; they’ve merely clouded the way to a solution.

Tommy Romanach is a 22-yearold mass communication senior from Dallas, Texas. You can reach him on Twitter @troman_TDR.

43 missing college students highlights need for student protest SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist With only one body identified, nearly 100 suspects arrested and hope for a safe return all but gone, the chances of serving justice for the students missing from Iguala, Mexico, is looking bleaker every day.

In late September 2014, police and other gunmen shot protesting students from Ayotzinapa teacher training college, resulting in six dead and 17 injured.

Fifty-eight students managed to escape, but those 43 who have not returned in the past 3 ½ months are suspected to be dead.

Sadly, the lack of bodies isn’t the most shocking part of the tale. Officials said Iguala police, in cooperation with the city’s Mayor José Luis Abarca, rounded up the students and handed them off to a Guerreros Unidos gang member who killed them, burned their bodies at a nearby dump and disposed of the charred remains in a river.

Last Tuesday, the head of the criminal-investigations unit of the attorney general’s office said all lines of investigation are exhausted. Despite this, family members of the missing students and other activists continue to call for more investigations, re-

cently demanding access to a nearby army base to see whether it houses a crematorium.

Protests, both violent and peaceful, have erupted across Mexico as a response. Teachers and masked individuals stormed and set fire to the Guerrero statehouse on more than one occasion.

Later, tens of thousands marched in Mexico City.

When I first heard the official narrative involves the government contracting hitmen to murder students, it made me wonder if it was possible for Mexican government officials to harm their reputation any further. And if the government isn’t covering up something this corrupt, then what are they covering up?

It turns out there may be answers to these questions. Two scientists, a physicist and a materials scientist, called the government’s story on the burnt bodies into question in a paper published about a month ago. They said the alleged funeral pyre would have been too large for the location and needed thousands of gallons of diesel, which suggests a much grander cover up.

Unfortunately, the systemic government corruption that lead to this atrocity is widespread throughout Mexico.

Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index ranks public perception of corruption in every country. Their 2014 report ranks Mexico in the bottom half of the world and the

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Relatives of missing students protest in front of the entrance to the 27th Infantry Battalion base in Iguala, Mexico on Dec. 18th, 2014. bottom third of the Americas for governmental corruption.

The situation in Mexico is so surreal it might be hard for University students to find a common thread. Imagine if GeauxTeach hijacked a few city buses to protest Louisiana native-favored biases in teacher hiring.

Then, imagine if Baton Rouge Police Department and the FBI intercepted them on I-10, shot up the buses and burnt their bodies in a dump near Donaldsonville.

If there’s one thing University students can take away from the

story, it’s that we need to protest more often. I’m not advocating a hostile takeover of Tiger Trails or setting fire to the Louisiana State Capitol, but protest shows government administrators and politicians we still care about how they rule us.

It shows we won’t sit around and be trampled. These students died because they chose to stand up to inequality and discrimination. They shouldn’t die in vain.

If and when the Jindal administration guts higher education spending in the coming months,

students must do more than complain about it over Twitter and Yik Yak before going back to rewatching the “Susie Underpants” episode of “Friends” for the fifth time. The only time Bobby Jindal will care about college students is when they’re blocking his path into the State Capitol with their picket line.

James Richards is a 20-yearold mass communication sophomore from New Orleans.

You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015 hurricanes, from page 1 Bentley said. “This is important because the same climate systems that push hurricanes to North America are present in the Caribbean.”

The link between Denommee’s research and the Mayan civilization came when Droxler, presenting the study’s findings at the 2014 American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco, claimed the climate records support the theory that a period of drought is what caused the decline of the Mayans.

Denommee was in Canada visiting family at the time of the December conference, unaware the media was linking her findings to the ancient civilization.

cuba, from page 1 of her time in Cienfuegos, like when her grandmother pulled her out of class to go to the beach a block from their home.

Garcia said her family relocated to the U.S. because of economic reasons and because her father wanted to make a better life for his family. Her family did not encounter any trouble leaving the country partly due to then-President Bill Clinton’s visa program, which was in place during the ’90s.

Last year was the last time Garcia visited her native country, and she said Cubans still are struggling as

“I was confused because reporters started calling me trying to talk about the Mayans, but I’m not an archaeologist,” Denommee said.

According to Denommee, the study’s focus was to analyze the cores taken from the Blue Hole to provide past climate information on the region. Connecting the climate information to the Mayans was discussed, but it was never addressed in the paper the team wrote on the findings.

Bentley joined Liu’s project in 2005 while working at the University. He continued on the team after moving to Canada in 2006 and returned to the University in 2011.

While getting her master’s degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, a whole.

“Compared to the American standard of living, it is very low,” Garcia said. “My aunt just had a baby, and she told my mother that there was a shortage of milk formula.”

The situation in Cuba has improved in recent years as the government has become more lenient toward privately owned businesses, Garcia said.

“My family had a clothing store in the ’60s, and the government shut it down,” Garcia said.

Garcia became a U.S. citizen when she was in the sixth grade and now holds dual citizenship, but said she does not plan on moving back to

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Denommee joined Bentley, who was working in Canada at the time, and Droxler for the trip to Belize in 2009.

Denommee submitted the study’s findings in June 2013 to Scientific Reports. The paper was published in January 2014.

“Over intervening decades it’s become really obvious that the rise and fall of the Mayan empire is a cautionary tale for us,” Bentley said. “We are using resources, perhaps, in a nonsustainable way, and we’re subject to the same patterns of weather improvement and deterioration that would have affected them, so it’s very relevant.”

Denommee joined Bentley at the University and is currently finishing her Ph.D with a focus on sediment transport, the study of how

sediment moves around, and paleoclimatology, the study of ancient climate patterns. “[The University] has one of the top programs in oceanography and coastal sciences in the nation,” Bentley said. “It’s important that the state legislature, the governor and even Mike the Tiger knows about this as we move forward. The stronger we can make the case for the value and international prestige of the University, the better off we’re all going to be in the long term.”

Denommee said she believes the public’s attention to her work benefits her career and research done by higher education in general.

“It’s nice to feel like people care about what you’re doing,” Denommee said. “The fact

that people are understanding the link between civilizations and climate — and the fact that we can use sedimentary records to solve these types of puzzles — makes our work have implications people can relate to.”

Moving forward, the team plans to study the records found in Belize to extract as much information as possible.

“Don’t be afraid to contact researchers at [the University] and ask them if you can help them out,” Bentley said. “Getting good support going into graduate research programs is very competitive. The more research background [an undergraduate student] can show in the ability to conduct research and get it published is very important.”

Cuba permanently.

“I am already making a life for myself here,” she said.

The state of Louisiana may see some benefits from the newly formed relationship between the U.S. and Cuba.

The National Treasury Department is expected to create statutes that would ease the restrictions on agricultural exports, according to The New York Times.

In 2005, then-Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco sealed a deal with Cuba that allowed $15 million in agricultural exports to the communist state.

Businesses were able to conduct transactions involving food and agriculture products as long as they were

cash only.

Economics professor Stephen Barnes said the easier embargo will create positive opportunities for Louisiana.

“The fact that we have been able to establish even this limited level of trade already with the embargo does mean that we might be in a little bit better position than other parts of the nation to expand that trade and benefit from it,” Barnes said.

The reduction of travel restrictions will make it possible for people to travel to Cuba without permission from the government. These measures became effective on Jan. 16, according to The New York Times.

The University’s Honors

in Cuba program was started in 2014, and seven participants traveled to Cuba for the first time in summer 2014.

Although students of accredited colleges already were able to travel to Cuba under a general license, Jeremy Joiner, coordinator of academic advising in the University’s Ogden Honors College and coordinator of the program, believes the newly revamped relations will encourage more students to participate.

“I am hopeful that the U.S. government’s desire to lighten some of the restrictions on travel will make more students curious about what Cuba is like,” Joiner said.

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restaurant, from page 1 months,” Hall said.

The Los first approached the company to discuss getting out of their lease because of the status of their oldest child’s law school tuition, Hall said.

“It was said, we’ve got an agreement,” Hall said. “We spent three quarters of a million dollars fixing that place up for you. You can’t just duck out on us, or we’re going to get you for default on the lease, so they said they wanted to sell their business to somebody.”

Recently, Hall said the couple has been looking to sell because they have personal business to handle.

As previously reported by The Daily Reveille, Alice said she and her husband needed to travel to Taiwan to care for Morris’ ailing mother.

“She was trying to sell it, and we said you can sell your pieces of equipment that actually belong to you, but we’re going to have to approve of whoever goes into there to lease it,” Hall said.

The company does not allow their lessors to sub-lease property, but the Los were informed the company’s realtor may be able to find someone to take over the lease, Hall said. However, there is no guarantee a replacement tenant would be willing to purchase their equipment or reimburse the Los for their investment.

While Hall said he was unable to provide the names of any

interested parties at this time, there are some businesses who may be looking to take over the lease in the future.

While the doors to Chinese Combo King currently are closed, Hall said the restaurant is expected to reopen soon under the

Nguyens’ management.

Hall said he thinks the new management will add some Vietnamese items to the menu.

The Los are expected to return from Taiwan in the next few months to continue managing the restaurant, Hall said.

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51 __ out; died down gradually 54 Usually dry streambed 55 Worshipped 56 Live together no longer 60 “Que Sera, __” 61 Facts & figures 63 Leg bone 64 Air pollution 65 Dishonest one 66 Vote into office 67 At __; relaxed 68 Nervous 69 Classroom furnishings

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Senior powerlifter looks toward final semester

BY Mario Jerez mjerez@lsureveille.com Tim Johnson was new to powerlifting when he joined the LSU men’s team his freshman year, but in his four years with the team, he has flourished into one of the best lifters in program history.

Johnson holds school records for several lifts, including the squat record of 755 pounds and the bench press record of 507 pounds. The team captain also broke his own record of 688 pounds for the deadlift by hitting 705 pounds at the state meet in Lafayette earlier this month.

“We did great. We got everyone qualified for nationals, and everybody had a lot of fun,” Johnson said. “I think we can do well this year because everyone is becoming more cohesive and friendlier with each other,” Johnson finished in third place at the Powerlifting Collegiate Nationals last year in Orlando, Florida. He is looking to bring home first place and another national championship for LSU at nationals in Atlanta this April.

“I want to win that national championship not only for myself but also for the team,” Johnson said. “I want to do the best I can to give back to these guys that have helped me out since I got here.

He has done just that, putting up big numbers for the Tigers and contributing to their success since he joined the team. He credits the team’s head coach and former LSU powerlifting great Ariel Parker for helping him reach

his accomplishments.

“She’s a world-class lifter so anything she says, I take seriously,” Johnson said. “I always go to her to ask her how I can make myself better so I can be at my prime and perform my best.”

Johnson said he always has been a hardworking person, and joining the team has been a great experience for him. He said he took up powerlifting to compete in something beyond high school sports.

He originally planned on going to college out of state but ultimately decided to stay closer to home.

“I don’t regret coming here at all,” Johnson said. “Being on the powerlifting team at LSU has defined my college experience.”

Johnson is trying to earn his kinesiology degree this spring and plans to compete in open powerlifting after college. He said he wants to be a strength and conditioning coach to give back to up-and-coming athletes.

Johnson has formed a close bond with his teammates in and out of the gym. Members of the powerlifting team spend time together, organize team social events and have tutoring sessions with each other.

Johnson has had a memorable career at LSU, and he is looking to close it out with a solid senior year.

“This team has taken care of me, and I want to do my best to give back,” Johnson said.

“That’s why I’m still on the team.”

You can reach Mario Jerez on Twitter @MJerezIII_TDR.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

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