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Laying Down the Law 3+3 PROGRAM

The Paul M. Hebert Law Center and College of Humanities and Social Sciences are collaborating on three initiatives to revamp the University’s pre-law program.

BY rose velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com The University’s pre-law program is stepping up its game, working to make University students’ undergraduate and graduate experiences faster and more effective.

As the LSU System and University continue to work toward a unified structural organization, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Paul M. Hebert Law Center are collaborating to produce an improved pre-law program.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences dean Stacia Haynie said she was approached by LSU President F. King Alexander to serve as liaison between the Law Center and main University campus shortly after her appointment as dean.

“I think it was that initiative to really try to coordinate better our campus and leverage the relationship that we should have that really prompted this,” Haynie said.

University alumna Alison Benda will teach a speciality course in belly dancing at the UREC. Classes will be on Mondays and Wednesday.

Registration for the class closes Friday. courtesy of ALISON BENDA

Three initiatives will be introduced, Haynie said. The first is the reintroduction of the 3+3 PreLaw Program for the fall 2015 semester.

“3+3 is just simply a program that will structure the undergraduate curriculum for students in many of our majors so that they can complete all of the required coursework in the first three years,” Haynie said.

In their junior year, participating students will apply to the Law Center. If accepted, students will complete 30 hours of coursework through the Law Center, which will transfer back to the main campus to complete the undergraduate degree.

Students will then have two years of law school left to attend, allowing them to achieve their undergraduate and law degrees in six years rather than seven.

“I think for students who have limited financial means, the ability to move more quickly through

• Allows undergraduates to complete required pre-law coursework in first three years • Allows students to earn undergraduate and law degrees in six years total PRE-LAW ADVISORY

• Advisers work with admission counselors and faculty to help pre-law students succeed.

HONORS ADMISSION

• University students who meet certain academic requirements can apply to the Law Center without taking the LSAT. • This program is still in development.

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Volume 119 · No. 79 university

New energy initiative prepares to launch

BY Rose Velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com University studies in energyrelated fields sparked the creation of LSU Power Players — a new campaign set to kick off this semester.

The initiative will focus on conveying the University’s energy resources and understanding how to use those resources to meet the needs of the state, said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell. The campaign also will connect students and faculty in energy-related fields to industry.

From engineering to science to business, Bell said LSU Power Players will highlight the resources each academic discipline can offer to the energy field.

The new campaign follows the University’s 2013 Committed to the Coast initiative, which created an online landing page to spread information about Louisiana’s wetlands and the University’s coastal research.

“When I first came in as provost, I said, ‘You know, we do a lot

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UREC offers new belly dancing specialty course

BY Caitie Burkes cburkes@lsureveille.com “Egyptian Figure Eights” and “Mayan Hips” will become a part of the UREC’s vocabulary as the facility delves into belly dancing culture.

“Shake Your Belly Off,” the new UREC specialty course, offers its first paid class Feb. 2.

“I decided to try to give belly dancing some more exposure,” said class instructor Alison Benda.

Benda, a 2007 University alumna,

works at St. James Place retirement community as a move-in coordinator.

She said she picked up her hobby as a creative outlet to balance out the tedium of nine-to-five life.

She took her first class at Fleur de Leaf Dance Studio in Baton Rouge and has worked to promote belly dancing in the community since.

“It’s a form of dance that a lot of women have a desire to try but don’t always know that classes are available,” Benda said.

Benda reached out to one of her

former coworkers who was interested in belly dancing. The contact, Jennifer Mills, worked at the UREC. When Benda expressed interest in teaching a belly dancing class, the UREC staff jumped on board with the idea. This is the first time the facility will offer the specialty course.

“It’s such a different type of exercise class,” Benda said. “It pushes [students] a little further, takes them out of their comfort zones.”

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Nation & World

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

On Auschwitz anniversary, leader warns Jews of terrorism THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRZEZINKA, Poland — A Jewish leader stood before 300 survivors of the Nazis’ most notorious death camp on Tuesday and asked world leaders to prevent another Auschwitz, warning of a rise of anti-Semitism that has made many Jews fearful of walking the streets, and is causing many to flee Europe.

Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, made his bleak assessment on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, speaking next to the gate and the railroad tracks that marked the last journey for more than a million people murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

He said his speech was shaped by the recent terrorist attacks in France that targeted Jews and newspaper satirists.

“For a time, we thought that the hatred of Jews had finally been eradicated. But slowly the demonization of Jews started to come back,” Lauder said. “Once again, young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes on the streets of Paris and Budapest and London.

Once again, Jewish businesses are targeted. And once again, Jewish families are fleeing Europe.”

The recent attack in Paris, in

which four Jews were killed in a kosher supermarket, is not the first deadly attack on Jews in recent years. Last May a shooting killed four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and in 2012 a rabbi and three children were murdered in the French city of Toulouse.

Europe also saw a spasm of anti-Semitism last summer during the war in Gaza, with protests in Paris turning violent and other hostility across the continent.

“This vilification of Israel, the only Jewish state on earth, quickly became an opportunity to attack Jews,” Lauder said. “Much of this came from the Middle East, but it has found fertile ground throughout the world.”

One Holocaust survivor, Roman Kent, became emotional as he issued a plea to world leaders to remember the atrocities and fight for tolerance.

“We do not want our past to be our children’s future,” the 85-year-old said to applause, fighting back tears and repeating those words a second time.

U.S. President Barack Obama, who was in Saudi Arabia to pay respects after the death of King Abdullah, issued a statement paying tribute to the 6 million Jews

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Holocaust survivors watch suspended screens in a tent raised at the entrance of the Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Tuesday, during the official remembrance ceremony. and millions of others murdered by the Nazis.

“The recent terrorist attacks in Paris serve as a painful reminder of our obligation to condemn and combat rising anti-Semitism in all its forms, including the denial or trivialization of the Holocaust,” Obama said. A U.S. delegation to the ceremony was led by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.

In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, where he said: “My job as prime minister of Israel is to make sure that there won’t be any more threats of destruction against the state of Israel. My job is to ensure that there won’t be any reasons to establish any more memorial sites like Yad Vashem.”

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Prosecutors promise in-depth probe of police killing of teen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Prosecutors on Tuesday promised a thorough investigation and asked angry protesters for patience after police shot and killed a 17-year-old girl who authorities said struck an officer with a stolen car.

The request came after about 20 people rallied outside the office of District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate the Monday death of Jessica Hernandez.

Morrissey was out of the office and chief deputy district attorneys Doug Jackson and Lamar Sims spoke over shouts and obscenities from some of the protesters.

Jackson said he could not discuss the facts of the case but assured the protesters that the findings of the investigation will be made public.

“You can decide whether we made the right decision or not,” Jackson said.

The girl’s cousin, Jose Castaneda, was frustrated and said he didn’t want to wait months to find out what happened.

Protesters said they don’t trust Morrissey’s office to handle the case because the last time a Denver police officer

faced such charges was 1992.

“We are sick and tired of these kinds of things happening and there seems to be no true objective investigation,” said the Rev. Patrick Demmer of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance.

The mother of another girl in the car previously criticized the way police handled Hernandez after the shooting, saying she was dragged from the car and handcuffed.

Few details were immediately released about the shooting in a middle-class residential neighborhood. Police say Hernandez was one of five people in the stolen car and drove at a police officer.

The four other people in the car were not injured by the gunfire, and all were questioned as part of the investigation.

However, none were charged, Jackson said.

Early Monday morning, an officer was called to check on a suspicious vehicle, and a colleague arrived after it was determined the car had been reported stolen, Police Chief Robert White has said.

In a statement, police said the two officers then “approached the vehicle on foot when the driver drove the car into one of the officers.”

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Crime writer teaches from experience in writing course

BY Caitie Burkes cburkes@lsureveille.com New Orleans mafia accounts and turn-of-the-century serial killer profiles clutter the desk of Chuck Hustmyre.

The old newspaper clippings may seem outdated to some, but for Hustmyre, they serve as the platform for a great story.

Hustmyre, a crime writer and author of five books and a screenplay, currently teaches the University’s Fiction Writing 101 leisure class.

“I wanted to take everything I had learned over several years and compress it so that people who were interested in writing professionally would not make the same mistakes I made at first,” Hustmyre said.

Hustmyre formerly worked in law enforcement as a federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He took up writing when he left the Bureau after 20 years.

“I had to do something to take up my time and needed a little extra money,” Hustmyre said.

He started with newspaper articles, freelancing for The Advocate and 225 Magazine. After a stint writing features for Court TV and Crime Library, Hustmyre shifted his focus to books.

Four awards, two professional memberships and a handful of television appearances later, Hustmyre decided to transfer his expertise to the classroom.

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Chuck Hustmyre teaches a leisure fiction writing course that focuses on the skills necessary for writing books and screenplays.

He began teaching leisure writing classes at the University 10 years ago.

Hustmyre’s new class teaches both fiction and screenplay writing techniques.

“I gear [the class] toward people who have the ambition to write a book or screenplay,” Hustmyre said.

Fiction Writing 101 teaches basic story structure and character development. Hustmyre plans on drawing from his experiences with both mediums to educate his students.

Assistant director of the Leisure and Arts program Lynne Maxwell said she thinks students will get a lot out of the class.

“He’s a good instructor,” Maxwell said. “He gets good reviews.”

One of Hustmyre’s goals for the new class is to attract more undergraduates to leisure classes.

Maxwell said of the 277 students enrolled in leisure classes, 57 are undergraduates. Hustmyre’s class has none.

“Most of my students are

middle-aged and beyond,” Hustmyre said.

Hustmyre and Maxwell agree leisure classes like Fiction Writing 101 have more to offer undergraduates than students might think.

“They give you ways to test out your interests without the pressure of tests,” Maxwell said.

Hustmyre said taking his class for six weeks is shorter and cheaper than taking a traditional English class.

English education sophomore

Addie Owens expressed an interest in the course.

“There’s not that many creative writing classes,” Owens said. “It would be cool to take more. I think [the class] would be a great thing for them to offer.”

Hustmyre said his door in Tureaud Hall is open to anyone serious about writing a good story.

“If they’re interested in learning the craft of writing fiction, they should come to this class,” said Hustmyre.

JANUARY

CAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS Teen arrested for burglary, possession of heroin, Xanax Rodney Hamilton, 17, was charged with two counts of burglary, possession of heroin with intent to distribute, possession of Xanax with intent to distribute and possession of a legend drug — possession of antibiotics without a prescription.

LSUPD spokesperson Capt.

Cory Lalonde said LSUPD officers were dispatched to Tiger Stadium on Jan. 22 in reference to a complaint of a suspicious person inside the building.

Lalonde said the complainant was able to give a physical description and officers located the suspect inside the football locker room, where he was eating food he had taken from the weight room.

Hamilton told officers he worked at the PMAC and was allowed to use the weight room, but Lalonde said officers were able to disprove his alibi.

Lalonde said Hamilton had a pill bottle in his position containing five antibiotic pills and one Xanax pill.

The pill bottle holding the drugs contained the name of a

different individual, Lalonde said, and Hamilton told police he had found the bottle.

Lalonde said Hamilton was arrested and brought to LSUPD headquarters where he was thoroughly searched.

Officers discovered two small bags of heroin totaling .6 grams, Lalonde said.

Lalonde said Hamilton told investigators he was trying to sell the drugs.

Hamilton was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

On Jan. 23, LSUPD investigators contacted Hamilton at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and questioned him in regard to a separate incident, Lalonde said.

Lalonde said LSUPD received a report Jan. 16 stating multiple pairs of shoes and an iPad were stolen from the men’s locker room at the PMAC. Hamilton admitted to stealing the shoes but denied taking the iPad, Lalonde said.

Hamilton told investigators they would be able to find the shoes at his home, 675 West McKinley Street, Lalonde said.

LSUPD located the shoes and charged Hamilton with a second

count of burglary.

Student arrested for criminal damage to property at Herget Hall LSUPD received a report Nov. 25 of a damaged exit sign in Herget Hall.

Lalonde said investigators reviewed surveillance footage and identified a suspect.

Following the distribution of a help identify flyer, University student Grant Garrison, 19, contacted LSUPD and identified himself as the suspect, Lalonde said.

Lalonde said Garrison visited LSUPD on Jan. 19 and admitted to damaging the sign.

Garrison was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

Man arrested for outstanding warrants for marijuana possession, traffic Jason Jenkins, 32, was stopped Jan. 19 for speeding on Nicholson Drive.

Lalonde said officers discovered Jenkins had an outstanding warrant for possession of marijuana and an outstanding traffic warrant.

Jenkins was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

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Louisiana State Men's Basketball - Pete Maravich Assembly Center Baton Rouge Women's Basketball - Bonne Sant Wellness Center

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

9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM 11:00 PM ALL DAY

Smoking Cessation Program - Greater St. Mary Baptist Church Comedy Night - The Station Sports Bar and Grill The Nacirema Society - UpStage Theatre

Drag Bingo - George's Place Snarky Puppy Projects - Chelsea's Cafe Karaoke with Mohawk Mike - The Spanish Moon Cat's Ass Karaoke - George's Place Survey of Vulnerability - LSU Student Union Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn - Capitol Park Museum LeRoy Neiman: Action! - Shaw Center for the Arts 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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FBI, University warn Research associate’s work on students of job scams crystals shines despite budget cuts BY jayce genco jgenco@lsureveille.com The Federal Bureau of Investigation and University Information Technology Services are warning students to be aware of potential “workfrom-home” scams. The cyber criminals are targeting college students all across the nation in hopes of gaining personal information and money.

The FBI’s public service announcement, prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, said the criminals will offer the student a work from home “position” in a fake company.

The criminals will then tell the student the only job requirement is to provide bank account information in order to receive a direct deposit then have the victim transfer money to another account involved in the scam.

“Unbeknownst to the student, the other account is involved in the scam that the student has now helped perpetrate. The funds the student receives, and is directed elsewhere have been stolen by cyber criminals,” the FBI announcement said.

LSUPD spokesman Capt.

Cory Lalonde said students should always be wary of potential schemes.

“If it looks too good to be true, there’s a good chance it might be,” Lalonde said.

Lalonde warned that if someone is claiming exaggerated profits, it should raise an eyebrow. He said students should be careful about these claims, especially if it comes from an unsolicited or foreign email address.

“Anything that requires you to

put money up front ... or personal identification up front as in like a social security number, something of that nature ... are kind of red flags that you maybe need to be concerned with,” Lalonde said.

If students see an email that could be a possible scam, they should do a quick Internet search and find out the legitimacy of the company, Lalonde said. He urged for students to research the history of the company or organization to see if it is established in the business world.

Lalonde said no scams of this nature have been reported to LSUPD, but it has investigated instances of fraudulent job listings in the past.

Since many of the scam artists are often overseas, LSUPD is only able to investigate, but cannot prosecute the scheme because it is out of the department’s jurisdiction. Lalonde said students should still contact LSUPD and depending on the circumstances, it will refer the case to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

University IT Security and Policy Officer Craig Callender said the work-from-home scams have affected many different areas over time, and universities are the latest target.

Callender said it’s common for the criminals to play on someone’s emotions while trying to obtain information, at times researching students or upcoming events.

“It really depends on the sophistication of the attackers or the group of attackers,” Callender said.

Callender urged students to utilize their best logic and think before they click.

HOW THE SCAM WORKS •

The student is asked to provide their bank account credentials under the guise of setting up direct deposit for their pay.

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The scammers will add the student’s bank account to a victim employee’s direct deposit information to redirect the victim’s payroll deposit to the student’s account.

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The student will receive the payroll deposit from the victim’s employer in the victim’s name.

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The student will be directed to withdraw funds from the account and send a portion of the deposit, via wire transfer, to other individuals involved in the scam. courtesy of Internet Crime Complaint Center

BY Jose Alejandro bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com

Though students and faculty often proclaim their love of purple and gold, research associate Frank Fronczek’s extensive work at the University makes his dedication crystal clear.

Fronczek, who has worked for the University’s chemistry department for almost 40 years, specializes in crystallography — the method scientists use to identify compounds by using X-rays to look at the molecular structure of a crystal.

He also runs the department’s X-ray facility, and his expertise has become a valuable tool for research teams around the world.

“We can calculate the densities of all the atoms in a molecule and we come up with a mathematical model, which we can display on a computer screen or maybe build a physical model out of plastic balls,” Fronczek said. “This allows us to use crystallography as a supermicroscope to see what the individual molecule in the crystal looks like, as well as identify the elements that make up that molecule.”

Fronczek co-authored a third of the department’s recent science journal entries.

Chemistry professor Graça Vicente considers Fronczek an asset in her research developing molecules for medicinal and biological applications.

“Based on the structure provided by [Fronczek] we can redesign other molecules that are more effective in the applications we want to use them for,” Vicente said. “It’s always wonderful for a scientist to work with another that just loves the science. [Fronczek], not only gives us the beautiful structure of molecules but also determines the direction the research goes.”

Outside of the University, Fronczek has collaborated with scientists at other Louisiana institutions like the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He also has worked with researchers in other parts of the U.S., India and Turkey by analyzing samples in the X-ray laboratory.

“When we wrote the proposal to buy [X-ray facility instruments], we told the Board of Regents that we wanted to provide this service for the University, as well as for other institutions,” Fronczek said. “We offer our expertise and the instruments to provide this service to as many institutions as we can in order to prove this lab is

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University research associate Frank Fronczek has become a valuable asset in the chemistry department through his dedication to the department’s X-ray facility. money well spent.”

As Louisiana legislators discuss the budget for the upcoming academic year, Fronczek said substantial cuts to higher education funding could have an effect on research projects done by the University.

“I think it is very unlikely that [the University will] fire [Fronczek]” said Andrew Maverick, acting associate dean in the College of Science. “What might happen, however, is that we might give up the service contract we have to keep the machines in the X-ray lab functional, which would be a huge gamble.”

The service contract ensures the repair of the instruments in the X-ray lab when they are in need of maintenance.

Cutting the service contract would save money in the short term, but would have long-term consequences, as the repairs could become more expensive and keep the lab out of commission for long periods of time, Maverick said.

“We have definitely weathered some budgetary disasters and crises like these in past years,” Fronczek said. “However, it keeps happening, and it seems like every time it gets worse, which is not good for research.”

Fronczek graduated the University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1970. He earned a Ph.D in chemistry with a specialty in crystallography at the California Institute of Technology and did his postdoctoral research in Berkeley, California, before accepting what was supposed to be a one-year teaching

position at the University in 1976.

“I’ve learned a lot from him over the years,” Maverick said. “What a lot of people don’t know is that a lot of the faculty aren’t experts in some areas like crystallography. Having someone like [Fronczek] at the University to share his expertise, not only with students but with professors, as well as having the resources to teach students how to use this equipment keeps [the University] in people’s minds.”

Although Fronczek could retire whenever he pleases, he is not planning on giving up his lab or his work for many years to come.

“I never left [the University; I] had an offer or two, but I bleed purple and gold and this is home.

I’m very happy with the work I do here,” Fronczek said.

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Tigers ready for SEC foe South Carolina

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Savona improves bars routine to grab spot in lineup

scoring ability by eliminating some of the handstands that were necessary to perform an Ezhova, a skill judges score strictly on.

Savona’s new routine takes her to the high bar and right back to the low bar, a change that, if done correctly and consistently, would enable her to compete for a starting spot

This season has been anything but easy for the LSU men’s basketball team — overtime nail-biters, game-changing moments and high-pressure situations have been the norm.

But as much as the Tigers (15-4, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) would like to cushion themselves from the opposition, junior guard Keith Hornsby said the close calls will do for now.

“Of course, we’d like to have some easier wins,” Hornsby said. “But we are playing tough opponents, and you never know what can happen.”

After claiming its third overtime victory in four tries Saturday, LSU squares off against another one-win SEC team when it hosts a slumping, yet competitive, South Carolina squad (10-8, 1-5 SEC) at 6 p.m. Wednesday night at the PMAC. LSU has won the previous two meetings against the Gamecocks and three of the last four.

On first glance, the matchup appears to overwhelmingly favor the Tigers, who moved into a tie for second place in the SEC following Saturday’s win at Vanderbilt. Since losing to Missouri on Jan. 8, LSU has won four of its last five games

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Sophomore all-arounder Jessica Savona swings around the bars Jan. 31, 2014, during the Tigers’ 197.650-196.825 victory against Alabama at the PMAC.

BY jacob hamilton • jhamilton@lsureveille.com LSU junior gymnast Jessica Savona has been listed as an all-arounder for the entirety of her college career, but through her sophomore season, she made her way into the starting lineup in only one event.

Savona was a mainstay in LSU’s floor lineup, collecting a Southeastern Conference Floor Championship and First Team All-America

honors, while providing depth and sporadically appearing in the other three events when needed.

But the Mississauga, Ontario, Canada native returned to Baton Rouge from summer break without the kink in her bar routine that kept her out of the lineup.

Now Savona is key in the No. 2 bar lineup in the nation.

“She had a very difficult skill that she had competed at the Elite level, and it was something she was proud of, but she had some leg separations that are inherent to doing that skill,” said LSU associate coach Jay Clark. “I knew it was going to prevent her from getting into the lineup, so we learned a new release.”

The new release, called a bail, increases her

women’s basketball

Ballard’s return brings steady improvement for teammates

BY Morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com Whether she is changing momentum with a strong drive to the basket or nailing a 3-pointer as time expires to push a game into double-overtime, junior guard Danielle Ballard is the unquestioned star of the LSU women’s basketball team.

Despite sitting out the Lady Tigers’ first 14 games with an indefinite suspension due to a violation of team rules, Ballard has led LSU to a 2-2 record

against ranked teams, including victories against then-No. 15 Mississippi State on Jan. 15 and then-No. 10 Kentucky on Jan. 18.

As crucial as Ballard is to the Lady Tigers’ success, the improvement of the supporting cast around her is essential for LSU to make the postseason and compete against some of the top teams in the country remaining on LSU’s Southeastern Conference schedule.

“Ballard is an All-American.

She’s one of the best guards in

the country,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell. “She has the ability to make other people around here very good. When she does that, and when she’s up there with five, six, seven assists, other people are going to shine. We talk about that, and we talk about the fact that there are times when Danielle does need to take over.”

Although Ballard’s ability to take over games has won the Lady Tigers two games against ranked opponents, LSU needs players to step up in other

offensive roles to take pressure off Ballard and create a multifaceted attack.

On the perimeter, senior guard DaShawn Harden and freshman guard Jenna Deemer have to re-establish the 3-point threat.

Before Ballard’s return, Harden led LSU with 24 3-pointers made, and Deemer led the Lady Tigers by shooting 42.9 percent from behind the arc.

In the last five games with Ballard back, the rest of the Lady Tigers have struggled

from 3-point land, shooting a combined 19.5 percent.

Deemer leads the Lady Tigers with five 3-pointers made since Ballard’s return.

Even with its recent troubles shooting from 3-point range, LSU ranks fourth in the conference in 3-point percentage.

Senior forward Sheila Boykin has become LSU’s workhorse in the paint by establishing a constant presence on the glass and developing into a

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GYMNASTICS

Lacrosse team hopes Hambrick, Jordan pair up at practice to continue success

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL cboutwell@lsureveille.com

BY MARIO JEREZ mjerez@lsureveille.com The LSU lacrosse team is coming off its best season in program history — a year where the team achieved the highest national ranking in team history and was recognized with a national award from U.S. Lacrosse.

In 2015, the Tigers could be even better.

“This year, we’re coming out blazing because we want to show the other teams they got off easy last year,” said team president and senior attacker Drew Campbell. “We want to show that we’re a team that’s not to be taken lightly.”

The Tigers finished last season with an 8-5 record in the first year under coach Jeff Echols. They qualified for the national playoffs but were ruled ineligible and did not participate due to academic issues.

Echols enters his second season with the team and is already the most successful coach in LSU lacrosse history.

“Through the discipline and dedication that the new staff brought in, I think the guys responded to it,” Echols said. “It created a winning environment, and therefore, we had the best season that LSU’s ever had,” said Echols.

The Tigers bring back several players from last season, including Campbell. He is one of the captains of the team this year and is looking for a chance to lead his team to the playoffs now that they can participate.

The team’s success last year wasn’t limited to its win-loss record. LSU was one of 11 schools recognized nationally with The James “Ace” Adams award for sportsmanship by U.S. Lacrosse.

The award was presented to the team after being voted on by coaches and referees across the country.

“It’s a tribute to our players and how they handle themselves on the field,” Echols said.

“We’re very honored to have the award.”

The Tigers will kick off the season with a weekend of Southeastern Conference action. The season opener is Friday night against Texas A&M at Olympia Stadium, a 2,000-seat facility about five miles off campus.

It will be followed by a game against Auburn on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The team’s first four games of the season will be home games against SEC opponents. Campbell sees this as an opportunity for the team to build early momentum and pick up where it left off last year.

“We feed off of the crowd’s

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“It gets rowdy to the point where it messes with the other team, but we definitely want more people to come out here.”

Echols said he notices the lacrosse program at LSU is growing, achieving bigger goals and drawing the interest of multiple recruits across the country. He looks to build on that with another successful season for his team in 2015.

“Lacrosse is an exciting sport. There’s no doubt about that,” Echols said. “It’s the fastest growing sport in the nation, and we believe we represent LSU. And we appreciate being able to do that.”

You can reach Mario Jerez on Twitter @MJerezIII_TDR.

Freshman all-arounder Myia Hambrick has the chance to see what life is like in the eyes of one of the most decorated gymnasts in LSU history.

LSU coach D-D Breaux has paired Hambrick with senior allarounder Jessie Jordan in practice. Their similar styles, leadership and work ethic will be tested, which will benefit the duo in many ways.

“I want Myia to experience what it is like to train with Jessie Jordan,” Breaux said. “To see how Jessie trains, how Jessie is focused and to see how Jessie manages herself during practice.”

Jordan is one of the most accomplished athletes in collegiate gymnastics — a six-time All-American and a two-time All-Southeastern Conference performer, who is also ranked as a one of the nation’s top all-around gymnasts early this season.

Breaux had requested that Jordan mentor Hambrick for the remainder of this season, Jordan’s last for LSU. “I know Jessie has asked me why we are doing this again,” Breaux said. “I tell her we are doing this because I want [Hambrick] to approach practice with the same kind of maturity and methodical repetition that you have.”

Hambrick said she believes that the two were paired because she sees herself as a younger version of Jordan.

“Jessie and I have similar gymnastic styles,” Hambrick said. “We also want to be leaders for the team. We both have expressed that need and want. Our personalities are kind of alike too. I think it was just a match. It was a no-brainer.”

Jordan is currently shaking up the national rankings, where she stands third in the all-around, No. 11 in uneven bars, second in beam and first on floor.

She also excels in the classroom as a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

“She is very focused in

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LSU freshman all-arounder Myia Hambrick performs her floor routine Jan. 9 during the Tigers’ 197.125-193.300 win against Iowa State at the PMAC. everything that she does, which I think is a very good [quality] for anyone to have,” Hambrick said.

“She is just a really cool person to be around. She creates a really calm environment. She is not worried about a whole lot. She gives me advice if I am having trouble with something, or just a better way to do it. [Her focus] is something that training with her has definitely rubbed off on me already.”

Breaux said she knows if all else fails, Hambrick will learn one

thing for sure just by being around Jordan.

“Jessie is this person who puts on blinders, that goes on and handles her business,” Breaux said.

“What you are seeing is a maturity that can factor any sort of distraction out of her practice, and she does that in competition as well.

That is what I am hoping Myia can take away from this.”

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consistent offensive threat.

Coming into her senior season, Boykin averaged 1.8 points per game and 2.2 rebounds per game. Since Ballard has returned, Boykin has flourished, averaging 6.2 points and six boards per game.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to be better at,” Boykin said. “If I have a shot that they are giving me, I’m going to take it. If I can take someone off the dribble, I’m going to go for it, and if they take it away from me, I know that my teammate is going to be open. It’s just reading what the defense gives you.”

Although sophomore guards Raigyne Moncrief and Rina Hill struggled at times during Ballard’s suspension, the two have stepped up to support Ballard in key games.

Ballard paced LSU with 24 points against Mississippi State, but Moncrief led the remaining Lady Tigers with 18 points and a team-leading three assists.

Hill’s performance against then-No. 5 Tennessee shows the importance of having offensive options beside Ballard.

The Lady Volunteers held Ballard scoreless until she hit a layup with 4:30 remaining in the half. While Ballard struggled to find her rhythm, Hill stepped up and tallied a season-high 12 points.

Although Ballard and Moncrief finished with 15 points each against Tennessee, the

on bars.

But Savona had a difficult time accruing a good enough rhythm to perform the skill comfortably.

“With every skill, it takes a lot of repetition to get used to,” Savona said. “Some people say it takes 1,000 repetitions, but the number is infinite because with different people it will take more or less repetitions.

I had more trouble with it, but there will be issues with changing any skill a person has performed since they were 12 or 13.”

After a year and a half of practicing the new move, Clark and LSU coach D-D Breaux challenged Savona to come back from summer, with the ability to live up to her all-around position title.

“She took exactly what [Clark] said to do [at] home with her this summer and she came back with a will to compete and a will to have that spot on bars,” said senior all-arounder Rheagan Courville. “She worked so hard to get there, and I think it shows because she has gotten so consistent.”

Savona’s improved routine landed her the leadoff spot in LSU’s bars lineup and catapulted her to the No. 15 ranking in the SEC. In the first three meets, Savona averaged 9.833 on bars, including a

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LSU women’s basketball senior forward Shelia Boykin (42) participates in Bayou Madness at the PMAC on October 17, 2014. surge was too late, and the Lady Tigers fell to 4-3 in SEC play.

“Rina Hill did a nice job of really being steady for us and being aggressive,” Caldwell said after the loss to Tennessee loss. “I thought she didn’t play scared at all. She was in there

helping with the post game. She did a nice job of rotating over whenever they did try to go inside, and she got some steals and deflections.”

games were decided by four points or less, and one of the and is off to the best conference their signature nonconference start of coach Johnny Jones’ wins was a 23-point beatdown tenure. of Clemson, to whom LSU lost Things haven’t been quite as during the Paradise Jam in late nice for South Carolina coach November.

Frank Martin and his squad.

Jones made sure his team After getting off to a promising was aware of that.

9-3 mark, the Gamecocks have “I think you can point to dropped five of their last six the success that the teams games, including have had in our a 58-43 loss to conference, and ‘You can’t take a night that’s what we No. 1 Kentucky off. You never know who’s really rely on,” on Saturday.

But Jones has going to come in and play Jones said. preached the unWhat LSU has well.’ derdog role to his relied on lately team all season, has been sophoKIETH HORNSBY, and this won’t more forwards LSU junior guard change, despite Jarell Martin and facing a team Jordan Mickey, currently riding a three-game who have accounted for more losing skid. than half of the Tigers’ total “We know [South Caro- points (80-of-158) and rebounds lina] will be physical, they’ll (45-of-77) from their last two be tough, they’ll play with a outings. sense of urgency, and they But Martin doesn’t expect certainly have a core group of South Carolina’s frontcourt tanveterans that have some expe- dem of junior Laimonas Chatrience under their belts,” Jones kevicius (6 feet 11 inches) and said. “We have to be up for the challenge.”

Part of the challenge for Jones will be gearing up his team for a second consecutive game against a seemingly overmatched opponent.

Entering Tuesday, South Carolina sat in a three-way tie for last place in the SEC with Missouri and Vanderbilt, which LSU beat in overtime Saturday.

However, four of the Gamecocks’ six conference

sophomore Demetrius Henry (6 feet nine inches) to nudge a bit.

The duo led the Gamecocks to a plus-12 margin on the boards against Kentucky, the nation’s 10th-best rebounding team.

“We can’t overlook any team in this conference,” Martin said. “The SEC is a very tough conference, very competitive, and teams are going to come out giving it their all every night.”

After playing four of its first six SEC games on the road, LSU has four of its next five in the PMAC, including a matchup against Kentucky on Feb. 10.

But Hornsby, who’s shot 6-for11 from downtown in his last two games, said the Tigers can’t afford to take anyone lightly in the deeper-than-expected SEC. “It’s been a crazy year so far,” Hornsby said. “We’re just trying to separate [ourselves]. You can’t take a night off. You never know who’s going to come in and play well.”

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In the shadow of the Campanile Since 1941

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LSU junior Jessica Savona performs a floor routine on Friday during the Lady TIger’s 197.350-192.725 victory against Missouri at the PMAC. personal-best of 9.875 in the season opener.

“I feel really accomplished, but I don’t want to say that in the sense that I’m finished with what I’m working on,” Savona said. “I really tried hard to make it into the bar lineup this year. Not only to be a part of the team by competing in the lineup, but to be an example for the upcoming freshmen and sophomores.”

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SOCIAL SECURITY STRIKES BACK

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Social Security reform is a must for our generation’s retirement safety THE CERULEAN CONCILIATOR JUSTIN DICHARiA Columnist Paying for dinner is a constant concern for University students.

Retirement doesn’t even cross our minds.

It’s hard to find enough money to pay for our Cane’s addictions with pocket change and low debit card balances. But affording lunch and dinner may still be a daily issue post-retirement if Congress does not reform Social Security.

In 2033, Social Security’s trust funds will deplete, leaving millions of Americans in financial crisis as benefits decrease substantially. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the retirement program currently keeps 21 million Americans out of poverty.

If Congress fails to keep the funds from depleting by 2033,

benefits will drop by 23 percent, which. Assuming maximum annual benefits, this equates to an annual loss of $7,291 and monthly loss of $607 for recipients.

Without retirement funds, middle class retirees will eventually dip into their savings accounts, and lower-income retirees may become dependent on Social Security benefits.

Louisiana citizens who live under the poverty line will be more dependent on Social Security benefits if current retirement savings trends continue by 2033. For the elderly under the poverty line, $607 may be the difference between making rent and living with their adult children.

Former Louisiana Sen. John Breaux said the program is not politically popular enough for Congress to reform before the 2033 depletion date, but it’s highly unlikely Republicans and Democrats will allow Social Security funds to run dry.

“It is a very difficult subject to

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offer solutions to without getting your head handed to you politically,” Breaux said. “There have been many people who are now former members of Congress who tried to talk about Social Security and got beat as a result of it.”

The program is running out of money as baby boomers retire, decreasing the worker-to-retiree ratio. According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, in 1955, there were 8.6 workers for every retiree. In 2030, there will be approximately two workers for every retiree — a ratio that cannot sustain full benefits.

Congress needs to fix the depleting funds now rather than later, as the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees have warned for years. With today’s political climate, college students need to start placing money in retirement funds. There is no guarantee our elected leaders will come together and make a comprehensive reform before it’s too late.

If they do nothing and we

do nothing, retirement will be daunting.

Belinda Davis, associate professor of political science and deputy director of the Public Policy Research Lab at the University, said Americans from ages 18 to 40 are most at risk if Social Security isn’t reformed. Only 50 percent of that demographic participates in 401(k) retirement programs, and without Social Security benefits, retirement may not be affordable.

“We are going to have an entire generation of Americans who are not equipped to be able to handle their daily needs when they are no longer working,” Davis said. “You will see a large number of the elderly on food stamps. They will lose their homes. They will have to do reverse mortgages. We will see more elderly having to live with their grown children. It’s not a good scenario at all.”

Social Security must become a genuine talking point in 2016, not a fear tactic. Too often our politicians scare senior citizens with

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lies about how the government will cut their benefits. Fear mongering stops discussions on reforming the program.

We need Congress to know they cannot play around with our future. Spark conversation on reform and our bickering politicians will be forced to stop lying to senior citizens and talk about securing our generation’s retirement.

Washington needs to decide on a reform sooner than later. Maybe if they start talking reform now, they will have agreed on something by 2033.

Let’s get politicians to start serious discussions on reform. If we don’t, retirement may not be filled with long, lazy days on golf courses. Retirement may resemble me prior to yesterday’s dinner — frantically searching for loose change and dollar bills.

Justin DiCharia is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Slidell, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @JDiCharia.

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‘Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.’

Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the U.S. Oct. 14, 1890 — March 28, 1969

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Students should know retirement options before graduation JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD Columnist The most important financial event anyone will face is retirement. Second to buying a house, retirement takes the most money and planning. Luckily for us, the more time you have until retirement, the less money you have to save for retirement.

I’m not saying you need to start saving for retirement today, although that would be a great idea. However, when you get your first job out of college, it’s important to know the different ways to save for retirement.

The retirement plan you have most likely heard of is a 401(k).

A 401(k) is a plan set up by your employer. You can tell them how much of your paycheck you would like them to put into your 401(k), and they will automatically deposit that money every paycheck.

The money in your 401(k) can be invested in stocks, bonds, mutual funds and any combination thereof. You don’t have to worry about investing the money — most 401(k) plans are managed by investment companies who help you with every step of the process. You can also tell them what you want to invest in if you want more control over your money.

The most valuable part of a 401(k) is employer matches.

Most employers encourage you to save in their 401(k) by matching your contributions. Commonly, companies will match up

to 3 percent of your salary.

This means if you contribute 5 percent of your salary, your company could contribute an additional 3 percent of your salary, out of their pocket. They are giving you free retirement money, and you would be wise to take advantage of it.

The second-most common retirement plan is an IRA, or individual retirement account. An IRA is not much different from a 401(k) — it’s not an investment itself, but an account you save money for retirement with.

Think of an IRA as a savings account with special tax rules.

Unlike a 401(k), an IRA is not associated with your employer. You will have to set up your IRA with an investment company like Fidelity or Vanguard. IRAs are for people who are self-employed or whose

employers don’t offer a 401(k).

There are restrictions on who can set up an IRA based on income or employment.

You may have also heard of a Roth IRA. This is practically the same as an IRA, but the tax rules are a bit different. With an IRA, the money you contribute is taxed when you withdraw that money later. In a Roth IRA, you are taxed when you contribute the money but not when you withdraw it.

You may also have heard about something called a pension. Pensions are quickly becoming outdated. Only 10 percent of private employers offered pension plans in 2011. Still, it’s possible that some of you will be offered jobs at a company, or with the government, that have pension plans.

Pensions are the easiest

retirement plan you could have.

Your employer will give you money when you retire — simple as that. Based on your salary and how many years your worked with your employer, they will pay you a fixed amount every month until you die. It’s a sweet gig.

This is just a simplified explanation of a few retirement planning options. If you are still interested, go to irs.gov to read about the different types of retirement planning and the different restrictions that go with them. If you do this, you will know how to talk about retirement plans when you interview for your jobs in the future.

Jay Cranford is a 20-year-old finance junior from St. Simons Island, Georgia. You can reach him on Twitter @hjcranford.

Downtown grocery store highlights need for healthy, local food COLLEGE CANDY JEN BLATE Columnist The aisles were crowded last week as locals filled downtown’s new full-service grocery store, Matherne’s Market.

The people have been patiently waiting for a full-service grocery store to open, and now the day has finally come.

Every morning when I wake up, I find myself frantically looking for food to throw together so I can have some type of “lunch” for the day. On average, it is poorly planned and far from a substantial meal. I know I’m not the only one who struggles with this — students without any sort of meal plan do as well.

This exact scenario is one that many students face daily.

But with that in mind, there has been one small step made in the right direction.

Downtown Baton Rouge hosts a plethora of students who work or have internships — it’s the hub for all state-governed businesses, financial institutions and law enforcement. And because many of us go to school full-time and work, it can be difficult to think ahead for the day and bring a healthy, wellbalanced meal with us.

Fortunately, Matherne’s Market has come to the rescue. It’s a serious game changer because downtown Baton Rouge has been without a full-service grocery store for nearly 50 years. Matherne’s is not just an average grocery store like Albertsons or the processed food capital of the world, commonly referred to as Wal-Mart.

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The new Matherne’s Market in downtown Baton Rouge stocks many healthy, local and affordable items.

At Matherne’s you can find a variety of food items varying from signature meats, gourmet cheese, fresh produce and even domestic and imported beer, wine and spirits.

But the single best feature I would have to comment on is that it’s a local, familyowned business that has been

serving River Parish and the Baton Rouge community exclusively for more than 20 years.

Considering the atmosphere of hospitality at Matherne’s, I may find myself venturing out more often to get my shopping done there rather than at Albertsons or Winn-Dixie.

As a whole, I think we need to take it upon ourselves as students to shop at more local stores that put an incredible amount of time into making sure the shopping experience is a pleasant and simple one.

This is something that may not be the easiest for us as students, but it is definitely

worth it.

But some of you will probably ask, “Why does it matter what I eat? Everyone else is eating junk and they are doing fine.

Why should I change where I do my grocery shopping when it is already so easy?”

Sorry for the cliché, but it’s true that you are what you eat. Considering what we put into our bodies can affect our thought process, mood and ability to focus.

But shopping at places like Wal-Mart leaves almost no healthy options for us to pick from, and they are certainly not nutritious. Nearly everything there is so genetically modified and processed that you might as well resort to eating ramen noodles every day.

And these large, corporate companies don’t always have the best interest of their employees in mind. Wal-Mart pays its employees the bare minimum, which means the company operates under the assumption that its workers only need to eat once a week. So I guess it makes sense why the service at Wal-Mart sucks — no one there has motivation to do anything, so our experience as consumers falls incredibly short of enjoyable.

Here’s a thought. Most humans need to eat more than once a week, unless you are from some type of space-age supernova that has yet to be released to the world.

The next time you walk into a large corporate chain, just ask yourself, “Do I really want to support these heartless, money-hungry corporations?”

Jen Blate is a 24-year-old sociology junior from Miami, Florida. You can reach her on Twitter @Jblate_TDR.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 power players, from page 1 of stuff for the coast,’” Bell said.

“We ought to pull together some sort of a communication package in a way that we can do exactly the same thing, and we called it Committed to the Coast.”

Bell said the success of Committed to the Coast prompted him to begin working on a University energy campaign.

“Energy is another area that we just have deep expertise and already great partners,” Bell said.

“So we began planning this probably about six or eight months ago for us to do something similar in the area of energy.”

According to the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center, the oil and gas industry has $73.8 billion in direct and indirect effects on Louisiana.

Due to the recent drop in oil prices, Louisiana could be facing major budget cuts for the 2015-16 fiscal year. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration recently announced the possibility of higher

pre-law, from page 1 your graduate program and into the workforce is a phenomenal opportunity,” Haynie said.

In addition, TOPS will still be available to participating Louisiana students during their first year at the Law Center, Haynie said.

“They had this in the ’70s, and I think at that point, LSU did not have admissions standards, so I think some students who came in and were participating in that 3+3 program did not have the level of success that I think the law school anticipated, but of course now with our mean ACT of 25.6, it’s an entirely different category of students,” Haynie said.

Haynie said the 3+3 Pre-Law Program will only be available to University students who choose to pursue their law degree through the Law Center.

The second initiative being introduced is a pre-law advisory program available through the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to students in the 3+3 PreLaw Program as well as University students of all majors interested in attending the Law Center or other law programs.

Haynie said collaborators met with University faculty who teach law-related coursework as well as Law Center faculty to identify critical thinking, analytical and writing skills to be developed through the pre-law advisory program and ways to do so. “[The adviser] will be working very closely with their admissions counselors and with their law faculty to determine how our students can best succeed both at LSU Law School but also for students who are interested in going to law school in other places,” Haynie said.

The third initiative, which is still in the early stages of development and does not yet have a date for implementation, is an honors admission process for University students who meet certain academic requirements to apply to the Law Center without having to take the LSAT. “This year, just a couple of

education budget cuts as high as $300 million.

“With energy prices coming down, I think there’s going to be a lot more competitiveness in terms of how do we produce these resources at a lower price,” Bell said. “We can play a role with our companies and our constituents to help come up with those solutions.”

In the Committed to the Coast campaign, the University had more than 200 faculty members involved in coastal research and more than 450 grants totaling $73 million invested in research linked to the coast.

Bell said he believes the University’s energy-related research efforts will meet, if not exceed, those numbers.

“Everything that you do from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep involves energy, so the more efficient, the cleaner that energy is, the better we all are,” said chemical engineering professor James Spivey. “The technology that we’re trying to develop months ago [the American Bar Association] amended the standards of accreditation to allow law schools to admit up to a certain percentage of the entering class without taking the LSAT test,” said Law Center chancellor Jack Weiss.

While faculty have not yet received or acted on a formal proposal for this initiative, Weiss said such a proposal likely includes requirements such as an undergraduate GPA of 3.7 to 3.9, an ACT or SAT test in the 85th percentile or higher and six semesters of completed coursework.

“I would expect our faculty to take this up in ... no later than the next 30 days and hopefully sooner,” Weiss said.

Under the provisions of the ABA’s recent amendment to the accreditation standards, the honors admissions process would only be available to University students, Weiss said.

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here at LSU is a good example of that.”

Spivey, a University researcher, said he and his group are working on understanding how to convert natural gas into liquid fuels.

He said his group works with developing, synthesizing and analyzing catalysts — materials which speed up chemical reactions.

“There’s far less research taking place in companies than there were decades ago,” Spivey said.

“In a way, that has been a good thing for LSU because a lot of the companies that might have otherwise carried out research in their own labs, they can now come and work with us.”

Spivey said he has been personally involved with research projects for multiple companies in the energy industry, including Chevron and Albemarle.

Another way the University serves as a resource for industry is by training students to become professionals, Spivey said.

Both undergraduate and gradu-

ate students are encouraged to participate in research.

Bell said one of the major goals of LSU Power Players is to connect students with industry through internships and job opportunities.

“I think the idea is that the students are going to be a beneficiary of everything we do because we’re going to be uncovering new job opportunities, new internships, linking students with the companies,” Bell said.

In fall 2014, several University representatives, including the deans of the College of Science and the College of Engineering, traveled to Houston, where they gathered more than 100 alumni and supporters in the energy field, Bell said.

Each representative took time to present and discuss the impact of their work.

“It was an opportunity for them to hear about what was going on at LSU, and it was really part of this effort,” Bell said.

It also was a chance for those gathered to ask questions and

provide information about challenges in industry and workforce development, Bell said.

Much like the Committed to the Coast initiative, Bell said an LSU Power Players landing page, scheduled to go live Feb. 18, will use op-ed pieces to discuss industry, how to meet the needs of potential partners and University research.

In 2014, the LSU System received about $14 million through the Workforce and Innovation for a Stronger Economy Fund — higher education funding allocated to meet workforce needs and address economic development.

“Certainly, our WISE plan was to position us and is to position us to better meet the needs of industry and of the state, and so if you look at what we’re doing there, it is focused a lot on the energy field,” Bell said.

According to the Energy Law Center, each new job created by the state’s petroleum industry supports 3.4 additional jobs in other sectors of Louisiana employment.

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with the art.

“It teaches you to move your body in ways that you never realized you could,” she said.

Pre-nursing sophomore Lauren Perret expressed interest in the program.

“I think it’s a great opportunity to learn about other cultures,” Perret said.

Pre-nursing sophomore Abigail Ponthi has participated in past UREC dance classes and plans to sign up for belly dancing, as well.

“I’ve done the Street

Beats class and the other dancing classes,” Ponthi said.

“I think that this class would definitely attract a lot of people.”

Benda said she hopes to increase her students’ confidence by encouraging them to try something different.

She will teach classes Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. Registration closes Friday.

“I think this class will help them learn something about themselves,” she said.

Belly dancing focuses on isolating various muscles, Benda said, and it also serves as a cardio workout.

“When you’re in the moment, you forget that you’re exercising,” she said.

Benda has performed in a wide array of venues, ranging from restaurants to weddings.

She said her most interesting performance was at a Palestinian bridal party.

“It was a venue full of only women who had to keep belly dance private in their own homes,” Benda said.

“I felt so enmeshed in their culture.”

Benda also has performed at several Baton Rouge belly dancing festivals, which she said motivated her to continue

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Tigers make most of practice despite shifting schedule

BY jack woods jwoods@lsureveille.com

“Sometimes, we’ll have the whole team doing the same thing,” Brown said. “Then there’s Senior tennis player Chris other days where, because of the Simpson sits down on a bench schedule, some guys will come between two courts at W.T. ‘Dub’ out earlier. … We’ll kind of go in Robinson Stadium on Tuesday af- shifts to meet their schedules for ternoon. Within a minute, he has school.”

On days when the entire team a microphone in hand and is answering questions about this sea- is together, Brown said the Tison and his career for LSU Sports gers will work on specific parts of the game and transition to TV. Behind Simpson, his team- competitive play. On other days, mates sweat profusely as they Brown said the team will work on work on their groundstrokes. one specific type of play for the Sophomore Justin Butsch hits ball entirety of practice.

When only a few after ball deep players are there, on the opposite ‘Sometimes, we’re it can provide side of the court forced to break it up, tal opportunitya vito as if he’s trying to paint the base- which is okay because get more personal coaching. line. with there only “Sometimes, When Simpbeing two coaches, we’re forced to son finishes his sometimes it’s better break it up, which is interview, it’s juto get them in shifts.’ okay because with nior Boris Arias’ there only being turn to get in Jeff brown, two coaches somefront of the camLSU tennis coach times it’s better to era.

Simpson get them in shifts,” returns to his teammates to continue working Brown said.

When a player is struggling on his game.

The interruption of the day’s with certain components of the routine could have been a dis- game, Brown said the coaches traction for the LSU men’s ten- will set up times throughout the nis team. But it didn’t disrupt week to work on those shots in the flow of practice because LSU smaller groups.

Each day may look carries a “business as usual” demeanor every time it takes the different, but there is a common thread that runs through every court.

LSU coach Jeff Brown practice — hard work.

The energy level is always high said practice looks different on the courts with players pushing depending on the day.

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LSU sophomore tennis player Jordan Daigle plays a doubles match Jan. 18 during LSU’s win 6-1 against Lamar at W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Stadium. each other to improve. The team knows there is a time and place to have fun but takes a practice seriously.

“We know when we have to be serious and practice hard,” Arias said.

However, the team does find moments to enjoy during breaks and warmups.

Often, the team will warm up by kicking a soccer ball or by playing short court tennis games. Brown said it’s important for the team to have some fun.

“You certainly don’t want them to dread coming to practice,” Brown said. “You want there to be something

exciting even it’s a little ritual of how they start practice with a little game of soccer, tennis or whatever it is. If that’s the thing they like the most, you want to make sure you don’t eliminate that.”

You can reach Jack Woods on Twitter @Jack_TDR.

Tiger Woods’ return will make golf popular once again LIFE OF BRIAN Brian Pellerin Sports Columnist Raise your hand if you know who won the Humana Challenge this past weekend.

If your hand is up, you are a liar. Odds are, you’re probably scrambling to find out what the Humana Challenge is.

I’ll save you the trouble. It’s not a blood drive at a local elementary school. It’s a PGA Tour Tournament nobody cares about.

To avoid being that guy, the answer to the trivia question is Bill Haas. He edged out Charley Hoffman, Brendan Steele, Sung Joon Park, Steve Wheatcroft and Matt Kuchar by one stroke. Those could be made up golfers, and no one would know.

But this week, golf gets its Michael Jordan back.

Tiger Woods will be making his 2014-15 PGA Tour debut at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Whether you love him, hate him or did love him and now hate him, he makes golf popular, which isn’t an easy task.

Woods has become a

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Tiger Woods talks to the media after playing a practice round at the Phoenix Open golf tournament on Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz. polarizing figure in American sports since the ole golf clubthrough-the-back-window-ofhis-Escalade incident.

Last week, Woods lost a tooth — something so easy children do it daily — and it was worth national media coverage. LSU can’t get that kind of coverage unless a football player gets kicked off campus.

Everything this guy does is worthy of attention, and why not? He out played his dad, who was considered one of the best amateur golfers in the country at the time, at the age of 11 and won The Masters Tournament in his ninth month as a professional.

Since his sex scandal in 2009, Woods’ body has been as fragile as the Spongebob

character who was born with paper skin and glass bones.

Every morning, he breaks his legs, and every afternoon, he breaks his arms.

Woods withdrew from two tournaments last year, but now he’s back and should be close to full strength after resting for five months. He’s making his first appearance since missing the cut in the PGA

Championship in August, and golf is already making its way back into the national spotlight.

Hell, Tiger’s presence on Tour got me to write this.

But knowing Woods’ recent injury history and the countless failed comeback attempts he’s made over the last year or so, how can I honestly tell you to believe in him this time?

It’s because Tiger is serious about getting back on the course to compete for the No. 1 world ranking.

This is the first time Woods has played in the Phoenix Open since 2001, when he won five tournaments, including the Masters. He probably won’t have that level of success this year, but at least he’s willing to play for it.

He’s not the same golfer many of you hate. He may not ever be the same golfer as in the past. But if Woods can get back to playing in 15 or more tournaments a year, golf will be making a comeback of its own.

Brian Pellerin is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from Kenner, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @Pellerin_TDR.