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Volume 119 · No. 111 ADMINISTRATION

Resolution may move spring holiday

Deaf local photographer focuses on intimacy

BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON chenderson@lsureveille.com

BY GERALD DUCOTE gducote@lsureveille.com

Students could see an earlier spring break beginning in 2017, pending approval of University administration.

A divided Senate approved Resolution 15-02, “Rationalization of the Spring Holiday” 19-to-11, which recommends spring break be scheduled in March and not dependent on the Easter holiday.

Because of the Mardi Gras holiday, spring break sometimes falls within a week of finals, which causes problems for students and professors closing lab work and cracking open textbooks for finals, said William Daly, chemistry professor and sponsor of the resolution.

“We have more holidays than any other university I looked at,” Daly said. “I would prefer a better distribution of the holidays.”

The new calendar would have breaks for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January, Mardi Gras in February, spring break in March and Good Friday in April.

it comes to photography, Tate Tullier has W hen always been able to turn a blind eye to his

deafness.

For Tullier, Louisiana, known for its scenic rural areas and ghostly swamps, was the perfect place for an aspiring photographer to grow up. Living a silent life, his eyes were able to take in more than those of his hearing companions.

However, Tullier’s inspiration for his career came not from his home state’s beauty, but from magazines. After coming across a copy of “Vogue Paris” as a child, Tullier became enthralled with the glossy glamour shots of entertainment and fashion publications.

He describes his knowledge as “self-taught,” having worked on his school’s yearbook staff as an opportunity to take his own pictures. By the time Tullier headed off to college, he was sure of his future. After attending LSU, Baton Rouge Community College and Southeastern Louisiana University over several years, Tullier decided to enroll at Gallaudet University, the only American university for the Deaf and hard of hearing, located in Washington, D.C. Since graduating in 2003, Tullier has found his place as a successful artist and photographer, working out of his studio in Gonzales, Louisiana.

Being deaf does have its difficulties when communicating with hearing subjects and clients, he said.

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see FOCUS, page 11

Tate Tullier uses professional photography to support his in-the-works collection, ‘Tub Time with Tate.’

see SPRING BREAK, page 4

POLITICS

Students disapprove of University guest speaker choice

BY JAYCE GENCO jgenco@lsureveille.com As campus cooled from a warm spring Tuesday evening, tempers flared.

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research fellow Heather Mac Donald joined Bob Mann, mass communication professor and moderator for a discussion titled “A Conversation on the Media, the Police, and the Culture.” The discussion focused on Mac Donald’s research in policing and race-related issues.

Even though the Journalism Building was not filled

to capacity, some students did not hold back their concerns about Mac Donald’s research and questioned her authority to talk about certain issues.

Mac Donald presented information about black-onblack crime and expressed concern about the reaction it gets from the community versus that of when a police officer uses force against a black person.

History junior and Baton Rouge Organizing cofounder Blair Elizabeth Brown said it would have been more productive for the

University to invite another guest to talk about the sensitive issues.

“It is very different than the reality that say a young black male goes through, than that of a middle-aged white woman who’s talking about what they go through, ” Brown said.

Brown said it isn’t productive for the University to bring guests like Mac Donald to campus because her talk doesn’t “humanize” the real issues that affect minority communities.

see MAC DONALD, page 4

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Heather Mac Donald participates in a discussion titled ‘A Conversation on the Media, the Police, and the Culture’ March 17 in the Holliday Forum.

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Government responds to BP Oil Spill Assessment The Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees released a statement Monday responding to BP’s claim the Gulf of Mexico is returning to pre-spill conditions.

In the statement, NRDA Trustees said they are still assessing the injury to the area after the spill, and for BP to reach conclusions before those assessments are completed is “inappropriate as well as premature.”

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the group works to restore the natural resources and to compensate the public for the services that were injured or lost by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The group said they are still analyzing the data, conducting studies and evaluating the effects of the spill.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill released over 100 million gallons of oil to the Gulf of Mexico, the group claims, based on their experience, the environmental effects of this spill will most likely have long-term effects.

Softball team moves up to No. 1 spot in nation The LSU softball team is No. 1 in the nation for the first time in program history after moving up to the top spot in both the NFCA Poll and USA Softball Poll on Tuesday.

The Tigers (27-1, 5-1 Southeastern Conference) received 23 of 32 first place votes in the NFCA Poll following their series win against previously undefeated then-No.1 Florida.

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Oregon checked in at No. 2 with six first place votes, and Florida dropped from first place to No. 3, collecting three first place votes.

A lone first place vote for Florida prevented LSU from being a unanimous No. 1 in the USA Softball Poll, but the Tigers took the top spot with 19 of 20 voters giving them the nod as the nation’s best team.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 ENVIRONMENT

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Environmental activists redefine women’s role in grassroots movement STAFF REPORTS news@lsureveille.com Peggy Frankland, Wilma Subra, Theresa Robert and Marylee Orr discarded their aprons and donned briefcases.

Originally dubbed “hysterical housewives” by critics, these four women became pioneers on the environmental protection frontier. They visited campus Tuesday for LSU Libraries’ “Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement” in Hill Memorial Library.

Frankland is the author of a book of the same name, which “provides a window into the passion and significance of 38 committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially conservative state,” according to her website.

Frankland, who serves as president of the Calcasieu League for Environmental Action Now, has been an environmental activist since 1982. She worked closely with the University’s T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, interviewing female pioneers of the Louisiana environmental movement for her book.

She established three points for deciding who she interviewed.

“They had to have been active between 1976-1996, they had to have improved environmental laws and the process had to take place without institutional support,” Frankland said.

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A panel on women-led activism and the environmental movement in Louisiana met to celebrate Women’s History Month at LSU’s Hill Library on Tuesday.

Thirty-eight women fit the mold, including the five other panelists at the event — Subra, Orr, Florence Robinson, Theresa Robert and Les Ann Kirkland.

Subra founded her own environmental consulting firm in 1981, where she serves as president. She also worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in various positions.

Subra said women are ideal environmental activists because of their connection to

their respective communities. son suffered from lung cancer.

“Women can always find She had reason to be scared time and make time and get ev- — the Conserve Energy Fuerything done,” ture also reports Subra said. outdoor pollution ‘We all had a certain I n h a l i n g kinship with the land, and ranks in the top 10 air pollution we all had a certain sense killers of humans. shaves one to “The environof community.’ two years off mental commua human’s life nity didn’t have a FLORENCE ROBINSON, expectancy, acvoice,” Orr said. environmental activist cording to ConOrr became serve Energy that voice when Future. she founded Mothers Against This frightened Orr, whose Air Pollution, an organization

dedicated to raising awareness about air pollutants and their causes and effects.

Robinson joined Orr in her efforts after realizing how air pollution affected the Baton Rouge community when an infant relative became ill from air pollution.

“We all had a certain kinship with the land, and we all had a sense of community,” Robinson said of the women at the panel.

Robert said it was the women’s sense of community combined with their devotion to their families that inspired them.

“We have a bond with children that is indescribable,” Robert said. “That is probably our motivation.”

An Argonne National Laboratory report also said 9 billion liters of contaminated water are pumped annually by the nation’s oil and gas wells. The women said they have worked tirelessly against the water waste.

Kirkland went so far as to run for a state representative seat to stimulate conversations about the environment in each political debate.

Though she lost the battle, Kirkland said she thinks they are winning the war. Her whole campaign cost a total of $50.

She said even though it cost her little, she learned a lot.

“There is a victory in simply the effort — win, lose or draw,” Kirkland said.

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page 4 MAC DONALD, from page 1 “We hear the narrative so often of the white scholar versus that of the minority scholar — not that one has the same opinion, but I think that it speaks volumes that she didn’t have a lot of the questions flushed out, the responses,” Brown said. “For her to be brought to the flagship university I think is a little questionable, when we have so many scholars of all different ethnicities who maybe could have provided a more substantive discourse.”

Baton Rouge Organizing, an organization that works for

SPRING BREAK, from page 1 However, an established March holiday may not be as streamlined as expected.

Many senators did not support the resolution. Some voiced concerns that separating spring break from Good Friday would disenfranchise students and professors with school-aged children, make travel arrangements difficult for out-of-state students and keep the University from meeting its required minimum 42 Monday, Wednesday, Friday class periods.

Though LSU President F. King Alexander has been serving as president of the University and chancellor of the LSU System since 2013, other parts of campus are still adjusting to the realignment.

The Faculty Senate approved potential revisions to PS 36, the policy governing promotions and tenures, outlined by Vice

social justice and advocacy, heard,” Brown said. planned to protest Mac Donald’s Mac Donald answered questalk at the Univertions from sity.

The FaceMann about ‘We have so many book created event her research scholars of all different and aimed to “stand earlier ethnicities who maybe p r e s e n t a t i o n against racist ideology.” of “Are Cops could have provided Even though Racist?” After a more substantive there was no pickshe answered discourse.’ eting outside the several of his Journalism Buildquestions, it ing, the students was the forum’s BLAIR ELIZABETH BROWN, still expressed turn to ask the Baton Rouge Organizing co-founder their opinions questions. and views about Mac Donald her talk with Mac said the United Donald.

States has a divided culture “We wanted there to be voic- when discussing race issues. es in the room that may not get “I think it’s not the case that Provost for Human Resources and facilities management Jane Cassidy.

Under the old policy, final approval for promotions and tenures rests with the LSU Board of Supervisors.

Approval moved to Alexander on January 1 under PM 69, but the University requested an extension to July 1 to make sufficient policy.

“Starting July 1, we need to have a new policy in place that does not conflict with the PM 69,” Cassidy said. “We’re asking to make just some very minor revisions right now.”

Cassidy said the revision would be the first step to a permanent change to PS 36 and would include a change to the language of “chancellor” to “president,” leaving the authority to approve promotions and tenures in the office.

The revision also would

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 we don’t have conversations about race as Eric Holder has criticized us for doing,” Mac Donald said. “We have a conversation all the time, but I am trying to talk about another issue, which is the problem of very elevated rates of black crime that is harming black lives.”

Mac Donald said it’s easy for people to accuse her of racism whenever they try to suppress a set of facts or different perspectives they refuse to acknowledge.

“It’s obviously important to have several different points of view,” Mac Donald said.

change the process by which Stephen Moret, given his recent promotions are approved. Cur- appointment to the position. rently, an employee’s dean will The Daily Reveille reportrecommend them for the posi- ed Monday that Moret, Louition, and it is common practice siana Secretary of Economic for employees to read those Development, will replace recommendations.

Lee Griffin as head of the However, the practice is not Foundation. formally in the cur“This is rent policy, and the perhaps one of revision will put The new calendar would the more unpermission for emartifacts have breaks for Martin usual ployees to review of the privatiLuther King, Jr. Day in zation process and respond to the January, Mardi Gras in that has beset recommendation of their deans in writ- February, spring break in higher educaing.

Cope March and Good Friday in tion,” The appeals prosaid. “Indeed, April. cess will remain the it was somesame under the new thing of a revision, but the surprise that group responsible for the per- someone instrumental to the manent change will look into regime that made life difficult clarifying its murky language, for higher education emerge as Cassidy said. one of LSU’s leading patrons.

Faculty Senate President At the same time, of course, Kevin Cope said the Executive it is our duty in faculty goverCommittee reached out to the nance to work with the hand new LSU Foundation President that is dealt.”

CAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS Nine caught trespassing in Tiger Stadium Nine individuals, both University students and non-students, were arrested after being caught for criminal trespassing in Tiger Stadium on Saturday evening, said LSUPD spokesperson Capt. Cory Lalonde. Five were University students.

One of the non-students was also arrested for resisting an officer by running away, Lalonde said.

Students who were arrested include Colton Tucker, 21; Abby Lindsey, 21; Brooke Winner, 21; Caroline Couvillion, 21; and Lennon Coon, 20. Non-students were Justin Caballero, 20; Ryan Snow, 20; Anderson Miskelly, 19; and Richard Malone, 20.

The individuals jumped the fence to Tiger Stadium before authorities were called around 7:15 p.m. to investigate. Malone tried to escape and was consequently charged with resisting an officer.

Authorities issued all of the individuals misdemeanor summons.

Man arrested for damage to property Baton Rouge Police arrested University student Jim Foster, 20, for criminal damage to property Sunday.

Foster was arrested for DWI and given a misdemeanor summons for damaging the wooden barricades along Burbank Drive

by Walk-On’s.

Officers found a vehicle stuck in a ditch and determined it belonged to the same person who damaged the property.

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OUTLOOK Lone senior Sagstrom leads women’s golf

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL cboutwell@lsureveille.com Madelene Sagstrom has propelled herself into a category among some of the best women’s golfers in LSU history.

The senior has led the Tigers by finishing in the top-15 scoring positions in all but one tournament this season, and her understanding of a foundational part of the game has accentuated her success.

“Madelene [Sagstrom] has an unbelievable, great knowledge of the golf swing,” said LSU coach Karen Bahnsen. “She helps her teammates with

fundamentals and mechanics when [coaches] are not around.”

Bahnsen said Sagstrom has influenced junior Elise Bradley and her performance this season.

Sagstrom is consistently sharing her knowledge of the golf swing with her teammates, helping them however she can.

Sagstrom has competed in three tournaments during the spring campaign, shooting an overall score of 1-under par, 4-under par and 6-under par, respectively.

see SAGSTROM, page 6

LSU defeats Southern, 4-2, in extra innings

BY JACK CHASCIN jchascin@lsureveille.com The No. 1 LSU baseball team escaped its showdown with in-state foe Southern, 4-2, in 10 innings Tuesday night.

After routing Ole Miss on Sunday, the Tigers (19-2) were shut down by Jaguar starting pitcher Tyler Robinson, but they dug deep to escape Lee-Hines Field with a victory.

The Tigers struggled hitting in the clutch in the early going.

In the first two innings, LSU stranded three runners in scoring position, including starting the second inning with runners on second and third with no outs.

LSU went 3-for-18 with runners on base, including 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position in the game. The Tigers had a runner on base in each of the first six innings and couldn’t plate any of them home.

But in the eighth, things began to click. LSU sophomore left fielder Jake Fraley began the inning with a walk, advancing to third on a hitand-run single by junior right fielder Mark Laird the next at bat.

LSU junior shortstop Alex Bregman delivered with runners on the corners,

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LSU senior Madelene Sagstrom swings her club during practice on Monday at the University Club Golf Center.

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NCAA tournament full of potential Cinderella runs LIFE OF BRIAN BRIAN PELLERIN Sports Columnist If you care way too much about the NCAA Tournament (like I do), then you already know there’s no better feeling than watching one of your underdog picks pull off a run.

Last season, my big Cinderella first round pick was Mercer, who knocked off Duke in the round of 64. Tennessee sent them packing in the next game, but it was fun while it lasted. Two years ago, I picked South Dakota State to knock off Michigan — that one didn’t go as well.

Despite the not-so-subtle brag of my Mercer pick, my point is I care way too much about the Cinderellas of the tournament. Instead of working on school

work last night, I spent hours putting together research on some double-digit seeds in each region likely to pull off an upset.

You’re welcome.

MIDWEST REGION No. 12 Buffalo v. No. 5 West Virginia Call me cliché to go for a 12-5 upset, but this is a perfect matchup for Buffalo. West Virginia has been called “Press Virginia” throughout the season because it’s all coach Bob Huggins does, but the Bulls like to run the floor, too.

Buffalo also is 24th in points per game and 13th in rebounds per game.

In November, the Bulls led Kentucky — yes, that Kentucky — at halftime. They ended up losing by 19 but proved they can hang with the big boys.

No. 15 New Mexico State v.

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Buffalo’s Xavier Ford (35) and Jarryn Skeete (10) celebrate after Buffalo defeated Central Michigan, 8984, in an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Mid-American Conference tournament Saturday in Cleveland.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

No. 1 Tigers defeat Nicholls State, 6-1, after slow start

BY MORGAN PREWITT mprewitt@lsureveille.com In its program debut as the No. 1 team in the nation, the LSU softball team took care of business against in-state opponent Nicholls State with a 6-1 victory in Tiger Park on Tuesday night.

Despite scoring 27 runs in three games against then-No. 1 Florida last weekend, the Tigers (28-1, 5-1 SEC) started off slow against the Colonels (16-9) before breaking the game open in the fifth and sixth innings.

“We have to play better than we did tonight,” said LSU coach

Beth Torina. “Nicholls is a much improved program. They have some athletes on their team, but we need to perform better than we did tonight, honestly.”

Sophomore pitcher Baylee Corbello (7-0) shut down Nicholls early, retiring the first six batters she faced.

But in the third, Nicholls sophomore shortstop Brooke Morris drove in a run to break the deadlock. Despite the miscues, Corbello said she wasn’t worried because of the talent in the lineup.

“Because our offense is so good, I don’t have to worry about it,” Corbello said. “I know it’s just a slow start, but I know just as soon

as we adjust and see the pitcher a few more times, our team is able to make in-game adjustments.”

After Morris drove in the Colonels’ only run, junior shortstop Bianka Bell changed the momentum of the game with a single swing.

After the Tigers started the third inning with two ground outs, sophomore right fielder Bailey Landry drew the first walk of the game from Nicholls junior pitcher Hannah Haydel. Bell drove in Landry with a double to left center, evening the score at 1-1.

“We are always thinking, ‘Two outs, so what?’” Bell said. “Anything can happen with two outs.

We’ve been scoring a lot of runs with two outs and getting runners on-base with two outs. Might as well get on base and see what can happen.”

In the fifth inning, Bell broke the game open after Andrews earned a leadoff walk and Landry doubled, extending her hit streak to 21 games.

Bell ripped a single down the left field line and drove in Andrews and Landry, breaking the tie and giving LSU its first lead of the night.

Bell has been the Tigers’ most explosive and consistent hitter, hitting .583 on the season and .551 with runners in scoring position.

“Bell has been our leader,” Torina said. “She has carried us and continues to carry us. She’s just such a special hitter. It seems like wherever they’re throwing her in

the zone, she’s able to handle the pitches.”

The Tigers continued to roll in the sixth inning, scoring three runs on two hits.

Andrews drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, and freshman left fielder Emily Griggs scored on a wild pitch. Bell closed the scoring with a single up the middle that drove in Landry.

Despite the rough start, the Tigers were able to pull out a win and turn their focus toward their weekend nonconference series with No. 6 Oklahoma.

“It gives you a reality check,” Corbello said. “You need games like this to see what we really need to work on. It really does help you with in-game adjustments.”

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LSU sophomore outfielder Bailey Landry (26) slides toward home plate on Tuesday during the Tigers’ 6-1 victory against Nicholls State at Tiger Park.

SAGSTROM, from page 5 The Enkoping, Sweden, native and a three-time AllSoutheastern Conference First Team member has continued to improve throughout her career, but Bahnsen said her intensity outside of tournaments makes her special.

“She leads by example,” Bahnsen said. “She works really, really hard. She finishes her workouts by 6 a.m. at least five times a week. She stays after practice to work on her game, staying very dedicated to her work ethic. The entire team sees this and follows through on this.”

Sagstrom has learned her work ethic from Bahnsen, and former LSU golfer and roommate Lindsay Gahm, who has been Sagstrom’s go-to friend for advice on golf, school and life in general.

“Madelene is very focused and dedicated to school and golf,” Gahm said. “I’ve tried to tell her not to be so hard on herself. I tell her that she doesn’t have to go ‘100 percent’ all the time, sometimes just take a break.

She just never quits, and that is what makes her great.”

Sagstrom has taken what she has learned from her advisers and said she sees herself like many other college students figuring out what to do for the rest of their lives.

“One of the things I have learned in college is to put everything into perspective,” Sagstrom said. “Golf is not the entire world. I am not going to die on a golf course. I want to show the team that there is more to being happy than just playing golf. I am always giving 100 percent, continuing to be happy playing the game.”

The senior said the shift in the way she looks at her own life has affected her teammates and her golf game.

“One thing that has improved is definitely my mental game,” Sagstrom said. “I am much more happier when I play. I don’t feel as much pressure anymore. My game is basically the same — I am hitting the same golf shots. Just now, I am not in the way of myself anymore.”

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 UNDERDOGS, from page 5 No. 2 Kansas Remember the Aggies from football season? They came to Baton Rouge and left with a 63-7 loss thanks to Brandon Harris and Leonard Fournette.

Unfortunately for Kansas, their basketball team is better than the football team.

New Mexico State is full of tournament experience, making its fourth straight appearance in the tournament. The Aggies suffered early-season injuries that cost them a seed or two. But since those players have returned, New Mexico State has reeled off 13 straight victories and look poised to stun the nation.

EAST REGION No. 12 Wyoming v. No. 5 Northern Iowa An injury to their star player cost the Cowboys a little down the stretch and knocked them down a few seeds, but Larry Nance Jr. returned for the conference tournament and Wyoming rolled to automatic bid. Wyoming’s defense is very strong, ranking top-10 in opponent points per game.

Northern Iowa is a mid-major power that tore through its conference and also plays great defense, holding its opponents to less than 60 points in 25 of 33 games.

Each team relies on its star to carry it offensively. For the Panthers, it’s senior Seth Tuttle, while the Cowboys rely on Nance.

With two similar styles and reliance on one player for offense, expect a close, low-scoring game, and nail-biters normally favor the underdogs in the Big Dance.

No. 13 UC - Irvine v. No. 4 Louisville Louisville is a perennial power, having won the cham-

pionship two years ago. But the Cardinals haven’t been the same since the dismissal of senior guard Chris Jones. They still have Montrezl Harrell, but struggle to score from the outside.

Enter UC-Irvine and its 7-foot-6 center Mamadou Ndiaye. The Anteaters aren’t prolific scorers or great defenders, but my gut says a team that struggles to score from the outside versus a team with a 7-foot-6 center is good news for UCI. SOUTH REGION No. 13 Eastern Washington v. No. 4 Georgetown Do you like scoring? Because Eastern Washington loves to score. The Eagles rank top five in the nation in points per game and have the nation’s leading scorer in junior guard Tyler Harvey, who averages nearly 23 points per game.

Any team with the nation’s leading scorer is dangerous. Add in Georgetown’s history of early NCAA exits since 2008 and anything is possible.

No. 15 North Dakota State v.

No. 2 Gonzaga Fargo, North Dakota, has become the talk of the midmajor sports world since College GameDay traveled to the small midwestern town in 2013. The Bison won the Division I Football Championship Series in football that year and followed up in the spring with an upset of Oklahoma in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Bison play solid defense and run a four-guard lineup that can present perimeter challenges. I doubt it’ll be enough to topple Gonzaga, but any team with recent upset experience has a chance to do it again.

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The Daily Reveille WEST REGION No. 14 Georgia State v. No. 3 Baylor Georgia State clinched its automatic bid with a 38-36 victory in the Sun Belt tournament final, so the potential to never score is there. But the Panthers have two stars — Kentucky transfer Ryan Horrow and the coach’s son R.J. Hunter. Add in Louisville transfer Kevin Ware, who broke his leg during Louisville’s 2013 Elite Eight game, and the Eagles are an upset waiting to happen.

Georgia State gets a tough first-round matchup with experienced, defensive minded Baylor, but the Panthers are top 25 in field goal percentage offense and top 10 in field goal percentage defense. Efficiency on both ends could be enough to spark the upset.

No. 16 Coastal Carolina v.

No. 1 Wisconsin I’ll leave you with an almost impossible 16 seed over 1 seed. If you’re feeling lucky, this could be a spot for the first ever victory for a 16 seed.

Coastal Carolina can shoot the lights out at times. Last season, the Chanticleers nearly pulled off the one-versus-16 upset, but ultimately fell to Virginia. Flash-forward one season, and Coastal Carolina has to be thinking about just how close they were a season ago.

Yeah, some of these picks are pretty crazy, but what’s the Big Dance without a few Cinderellas.

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page 7 Conner Hale, who’s hitting .378 and has reached base in 19 of the 20 games he has played this season, may have played a vital role in the Tigers’ lack of offensive success.

LSU sophomore starter Russell Reynolds began on fire, retiring the first six batters he faced. But with two errors by newly named infielder Foster in the third inning, the Jaguars began to jump on Reynolds.

Southern had a runner on second with a man down when Jaguars outfielder Lance Jones sent a ball Foster’s way.

He was unable to handle the play and allowed the Southern runner from second to score, giving the Jaguars a 1-0 lead.

Foster, who just recently moved to second base in an effort to strengthen the Tigers’ lineup, committed two errors in the game, both coming in the third inning. Since Foster’s debut at second against McNeese State on March 11th, he kept a clean slate at the bag until Tuesday.

The Tigers have a quick turnaround as they now set their sights on a three-game series against SEC West foe Arkansas in Fayetteville beginning Thursday night.

EXTRA INNINGS, from page 5 reaching on a fielder’s choice to help the Tigers tie the game at one after trailing for four innings.

Southern (3-11) bounced right back in the bottom half of the eighth, plating the go-ahead run on a two-out, bases loaded walk issued by LSU sophomore pitcher Parker Bugg, giving the Jaguars a 2-1 lead. Bugg came into the game in relief for sophomore pitcher Alden Cartwright, who loaded the bases on a single and two straight walks.

The Tigers wouldn’t let up, tying the game at two in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by senior outfielder Chris Sciambra, extending the game to extra innings where the Tigers scored two more runs on two hits to take the 4-2 lead.

Robinson pitched near shutdown baseball Tuesday night, going seven innings allowing three hits and one run with five strikeouts. He walked Fraley, who eventually scored on Southern pitcher Santos Saldivar, to exit the game after a gritty effort.

The Tigers’ inability to swing the bat efficiently comes as a surprise after tallying 19 hits in their blowout win Sunday and leading the SEC in batting with a .323 batting average. The absence of LSU senior infielder

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Logan Anderson’s column “SAE chant highlights racism in Greek community,” readers had this to say:

““So this is what happens when they’re alone”..... The focus of this article should be “so this is what happens when you propagate ignorance and instill it in your children”. This idiotic rant is garbage should not have been published. It detracts from the noble cause of racial equality and will do nothing more than drive a wedge between students of differing color, instead of bringing them together in a productive way around this awful event. What an ugly way to represent your community as well as your family. You silly little girl, leave this battle to those who fight not with anger and resentment but with logic and kindness. Your ignorance prevents you from writing with real perspective on this matter.

Grow up.”

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Edward Snowden a national hero, revolutionary SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist Depending on who you ask, June 2013 was either the beginning of the end of unethical U.S. government surveillance or the time a traitor jeopardized the future of U.S. intelligence. However, few people will deny the widespread impact former National Security Agency contractor and current international fugitive Edward Snowden had on the way people understand digital privacy.

According to the latest survey from Pew Research Center, nearly three out of five of people who heard about the revelations think spying on U.S. citizens is “unacceptable.”

The power of the findings cuts across party lines, with Republicans and Democrats equally skeptical of datamonitoring programs.

Before Snowden blew the lid off of NSA surveillance, you could make fun of people who thought the government was spying on them. It was socially acceptable to deride so-called “tin foil hat” conspiracy theorists as paranoid schizophrenics who probably also thought the Bush administration staged 9/11 as an excuse to go to war with Iraq.

The tin foil fedoras are everywhere now. The Pew poll found nearly 20 percent of respondents changed the way they email, search Google and use Twitter and Facebook. Presumably they’re worried about ending up on some government watch list for looking up Quran verses or reading the work of avowed anarchist Emma Goldman.

This chilling effect is the most terrifying consequence of the Snowden leaks. People are voluntarily limiting their intellectual curiosity and choosing to write emails in a way that makes them seem less threatening because they know they’re being watched.

Digital privacy can no longer claim to be a tech-hipster concern.

Journalists like Glenn Greenwald, who broke the initial stories from Snowden’s leaks, are invited to talk on CNN. That never would’ve happened if Edward Snowden hadn’t taken digital privacy mainstream.

This man — excuse me — this American hero is currently holed up somewhere in Russia attempting to secure a fair trial in the U.S. or asylum in Switzerland. He doesn’t deserve a fair trial. He deserves a presidential pardon, the Medal of Freedom and an apology for the allegations leveled at him.

Government overreach into our lives has become so widespread and accepted in post-9/11 America that

people have breezed over the fact that government officials have systematically mislead and outright lied to the American public about the existence of and scope of NSA programs.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden when he said the NSA does not collect any information on millions of Americans. The former Director of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, lied 14 times about whether the NSA had the technical capability to intercept emails in the U.S. At least Alexander had the decency to step down from his post after lying to Congress and the American people. Clapper is still in office, banning his employees from speaking with reporters without authorization.

Presumably, lying under oath leads you to be a bit cautious about keeping the rest of your lies from slipping out.

If you think the U.S. is justified in spying on the emails, calls, texts and nearly anything else digitally transmitted without any reasonable suspicion of a crime being committed, then I suggest you go to China.

Don’t worry, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.

James Richards is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from New Orleans. You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

“The columnist tries to set up this “harsh truth” of racism taught by her mother yet all she does is prove that her mother taught her to be racist as well. She pre-judges ever white person in the article when she says “they have all been inundated with racist ideals since their childhoods.”

Who lets this hypocritical garbage get published anyway?”

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Potential Opelousas, La., laws against sagging pants racist ENTITLED MILLENNIAL CODY SIBLEY Columnist Opelousas Chief of Police Donald Thompson asked the city council to ban sagging pants, showing that racism is still alive in Louisiana.

People who break the ordinance could pay up to $200 in fines and go to jail for up to 30 days.

“It’s something that I think that’s very disrespectful here in this city for citizens of Opelousas,” Thompson said to Lafayette’s broadcasting station, KATC. “It’s inappropriate, and it’s time that some city ordinance is put in place to enforce that.”

I find it more inappropriate to systemically force opinions

on people for no reason. Thompson doesn’t offer any substance to his proposal. He wants to ban sagging pants because he doesn’t like that fashion choice.

Thompson also said he feels so strongly about this ban he’d be willing to go to court over it.

The ironic part about this story is Thompson is an AfricanAmerican man, the obvious target for this sagging ban.

And yes, this ban is still a form of racism even if an African American proposed it.

It would be like if a gay man supported a bill to make gay marriage illegal just because he didn’t like marriage. It’s still homophobic even though a gay man supports it.

As long as we’re banning different clothing styles, let’s ban lamp shading (wearing an oversized shirt over short athletic shorts) and the use of leggings

as pants.

I find lamp shading and leggings to be disrespectful to Louisiana residents. It’s inappropriate, and it’s time that some ordinance is put in place to enforce that.

Now do you see why that wouldn’t work? Most of LSU’s sorority girls would be in jail.

Just like a ban on lamp shading would disproportionately incarcerate sorority girls, banning sagging pants would disproportionately target African Americans.

I know from personal experience that Opelousas has more to worry about than sagging pants.

I grew up there and graduated from Opelousas High School.

The textbooks hadn’t been updated since the ’90s, the lockers were wooden and falling apart and the graduation rate was extremely low. For the most

part, students learned outdated material.

My mom works at a school that can’t afford toilet paper for their students. Teachers have to stand outside the stalls and ration out toilet paper to students.

Outside of the schools, Opelousas was much worse. Rundown buildings dominated the city. Home Security Shield rated Opelousas as being the sixth most dangerous city in Louisiana, the crime rate being 90 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in 11 chance of being a victim of a crime in Opelousas.

According to City Data, the median household income for Opelousas residents is $20,741.

That’s less than half of Louisiana’s median income of $42,944 and below the federal poverty line for a family of four at $23,850.

But instead of worrying about these problems, Opelousas officials are trying to act as fashion police and make a clothing style illegal.

A ban on sagging pants won’t keep Opelousas residents from going hungry. It won’t educate the people in that city, and it won’t fix any of the economic problems for its residents.

This ban will just divert time and taxes away from dealing with real problems in the city and toward this ridiculous ban.

The people in Opelousas don’t need fashion police. They need better education and more revenue.

Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Opelousas, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter at @CodySibley.

David Vitter’s political agenda threatens constitutional rights LSYOU BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist Sen. David Vitter is attempting to use a bill intended to fight human trafficking to rob people born in the United States of their Constitutional right to citizenship.

In January, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn introduced “The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015,” a bill intended to “enhance protections and decrease restitution for victims of human trafficking.” The bill instantly garnered support from both Republicans and Democrats and was unanimously passed out of committee and placed on the Senate floor.

Then, Democrats began to look more closely at the language of the bill.

Hidden within the provisions meant to reduce human trafficking were anti-abortion amendments that would expand the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal dollars from financing abortion.

The Hyde Amendment is typically tacked onto government spending bills and is passed every year — but there is always the opportunity to stop the harmful amendment from passing. The amendments inserted into the new human trafficking bill would make the Hyde Amendment a permanent law and would block taxpayer money and private funds from financing abortions.

Specifically, these restrictions would apply to victims of sex slavery, who are often underage women. It would rob them of their reproductive autonomy,

taking away their opportunity to make choices for themselves.

This language was not originally in the bill when it was introduced last year and not included in the list of changes that was distributed. Democrats are claiming this is a “bait-and-switch”

by Republicans who are eager to pass abortion restrictions ahead of the 2016 election cycle so that they have strong anti-choice records to run on.

While Democratic senators were blocking the bill from heading to a vote on the floor, Vitter decided the bill was not restrictive enough as is and introduced his own amendment.

Vitter’s amendment would eliminate birthright citizenship, the Constitutional right to American citizenship that is granted to anyone born on U.S. soil. This right became a law through the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship to slaves that had previously been considered property. He believes only granting citizenship to babies whose parents are either citizens or legal permanent residents would put an end to “birth tourism.”

“There is a whole industry, an underworld, that is selling socalled birth tourism. This acts as a magnet — a potent, powerful magnet growing in power by the year to lure more and more folks to come across the border in specific cases to have their babies here, 300,000 to 400,000 per year,” Vitter said during his defense of the amendment.

Slate.com dispels the myth of birth tourism Vitter perpetuates, citing a Time Magazine article from 2010 that investigated the misconception. Time found 80 percent of noncitizens who gave birth in 2008 had been living in the U.S. for more than a year.

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Sen. David Vitter introduced an amendment to eliminate birthright citizenship, which violates the 14th amendment. women with this amendment.

He’s not trying to protect anyone.

He’s trying to build on his antiimmigration platform ahead of November’s gubernatorial election, in which he is rumored to be the frontrunner for the Republican candidacy.

He’s trying to gain the votes of Louisiana citizens by rewriting one of the most important Constitutional amendments in American history.

Democrats are not going to let Vitter’s amendment pass.

During a discussion about the anti-human trafficking bill, Senate Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid was asked if Democrats would try to introduce an amendment to the bill that would

strip all of its anti-abortion language.

Reid told the press he wouldn’t consider amendments to the bill until Republicans removed the language altogether. He also said Democrats would be “happy to debate all the amendments they want ... including Vitter’s stupid amendment.”

Vitter responded to this slight by saying that “Harry Reid calling my effort to end birthright citizenship abuse ‘Vitter’s stupid amendment’ is right up there with the highest of compliments, considering the source.”

This man — who would rewrite the Constitution to rob people of their American citizenship, is willing to sabotage

an important bill to fight human trafficking in favor of playing politics and revels in being called stupid by one of the highest political officers in the country — has a legitimate chance of being Louisiana’s next governor.

Over the next few months, all of Louisiana should pay close attention to Vitter’s political moves and ask themselves if this is the person they want representing the state.

Hopefully, the answer will be a resounding “no.”

Logan Anderson is a 21-yearold mass communication senior from Houston, Texas.

You can reach her on Twitter @LoganD_Anderson.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 FOCUS, from page 1 However, Tullier sees the biggest difficulty in actually starting the conversation.

“I’m so used to being the minority subject,” Tullier said. “I always have to keep in mind that so many people just pretty much have never met a Deaf person.

It’s crazy to see how so many people just kind of shut down or get nervous.”

Tullier has fewer problems working with hearing people now. A comfortable relationship is important to him. Ease before the picture equals ease in the picture, and Tullier can tell when things aren’t working.

Natasha Aymami, assistant director of Disability Services is a child of Deaf parents, which has allowed her to better relate to Tullier’s experience as a Deaf person working in the hearing world. A friend of Tullier since high school, Aymami turned to him for her wedding photos.

“I think that [Tullier] brings awareness to hearing people about the capabilities of deaf people,” Aymami said. “I think he’s broken down a lot of those barriers, those preconceived perceptions of people with disabilities in general. He really tries his hardest to communicate with people.”

Tullier makes a living photographing weddings, families and fashion magazines. When he isn’t out on the road snapping shots of brides or babies, he’s in his studio working on his own art. Tullier’s main work is a long-running project he calls “Tub Time With Tate,” and he said it’s his favorite thing to shoot.

The series consists of nude subjects, male and female, in

varying positions in bathtubs.

Tullier said he’s always loved the idea of bathing. Even as a deaf person who isn’t bombarded with all the noises of modern life, he still finds bathing a meditative escape. Fittingly, Tullier thought of the project while trying to get away from his long hours of work.

“I grew up in a bathtub,” Tullier said. “[I’ve] always loved the idea of bathtubs: You sit down, you escape your problems, you can let go and just think about everything. [I’ve] always loved bathtubs in photography too.

It’s so sexy. Even when it’s not intended to be.”

When it comes to his photography as a whole, Tullier enjoys shooting people most of all. His interests lie in the photographs’ lights and darknesses. Always the busy thinker, Tullier is constantly planning his shoots as they go, hoping to maintain a candid atmosphere, which suits the subject of “Tub Time.”

Through their personal relationship and Aymami’s work environment involving people with disabilities, she has been able to watch Tullier grow as a photographer. Aymami also has purchased some of Tullier’s work from his “Tub Time” series.

“The one [piece] I have is more abstract,” Aymami said. “I think that he captures people’s ... internal beauty. A lot of people are insecure because they’re naked, but he’s able to capture people in such beautiful ways.”

Tullier doesn’t focus on his deafness in his photography. If anyone ever sees elements relating to deafness or disabilities in general, he said it’s only by chance.

The Daily Reveille As a member of the deaf community, Tullier received great encouragement in his early years as a photographer. He acknowledged the small number of Deaf people in the art world, specifically photography.

“I think in everything I create, there’s me in it,” Tullier said. “Specifically my deafness, I’m not sure. I think … the Deaf community is happy to have a Deaf person break communication barriers and speak up for the community when I can.”

Tullier is a self-proclaimed “art whore.” His admiration for others’ art makes him a sponge for creativity. Citing director Ellen von Unwerth and photographer David LaChapelle as some of early influences, Tullier has long appreciated art, almost more than he enjoys creating it.

“It’s just all so euphoric,” Tullier said. “Being around so many people’s creative work. I always tell people I could easily give up doing my whole photography thing if someone hired me to buy art.”

With Tullier’s career gaining speed, he hopes to move his art forward. His search for progression has resulted in some significant personal developments, specifically buying an apartment in New York City to move his art and name across the country.

Since “Tub Time” is his own work, Tullier makes little income from it, hence his daytime job of shooting weddings and portraits.

Tullier has aspirations of tying the project back to a cause near and dear to him: charity.

“I love giving back to whatever when I can,” Tullier said.

“I think the more attention [‘Tub

page 11 Time’] gets, the more I can do with it. Make a living off of my fine art, and at the same time use it for a good cause.”

His future plans include both advancing his own art into threedimensional formats as well as opening various enterprises such as a hotel or bookstore. Tullier’s 20-year-long collection of tear sheets, pictures torn from magazines, lay in waiting for his

next big project.

“I have 100 million ideas,” Tullier said. “My main focus is ‘Tub Time’ right now. I’m always in dire need of subjects. I’m looking for various body types, personalities and anyone who will get naked for the sake of art.”

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