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use English translations of the dialogue, but students struggled with the Shakespearean style.

The cast sings the musical acts in the original French.

“Not only are our singers learning better and better how to sing in French, they’re also learning how to be Shakespearean actors at the same time,” McDonough said. “So everybody wins,

The LSU men’s basketball team recently concluded its best season in six years.

Now, the Tigers are losing key ingredients to their success.

LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin announced Wednesday that he will forgo his final two years of eligibility and enter the 2015 NBA Draft.

But Martin isn’t the only person leaving LSU on the heels of its best season since 2009.

Men’s basketball assistant coach Eric Musselman, who was hired last summer, accepted the head coaching job at the University of Nevada-Reno, the school announced Wednesday morning.

Musselman, who was brought on coach Johnny Jones’ staff in June 2014, will take over a Wolfpack program that went 9-22 last season and 5-13 in the Mountain West Conference.

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Opera students embrace Shakespeare and French in ‘Beatrice et Benedict’

BY EMILIE HEBERT emiliehebert@lsureveille.com For most students, performing opera is hard enough.

But performing opera in French, speaking Shakespearean dialogue and running around the stage all at once may seem impossible.

University opera students will embrace this challenge during their four showings of Hector Berlioz’s “Béatrice

et Bénédict” from March 26 to 29 at the Shaver Theatre.

The comedic opera, based on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” follows Béatrice and Bénédict as they deny their love for one other.

In the tradition of a French “opéra comique,” the characters speak between musical numbers instead of singing the entire script.

Director of Opera Dugg McDonough said the University’s performances

UNION

Student Government to sponsor 30 additional seats in Union

BY CAITIE BURKES cburkes@lsureveille.com Every weekday from 10:30 a.m. until noon, the Student Union resembles Grand Central Station during rush hour. With Tetris-like lines behind food vendors and not enough available seating, students are discouraged from making a lunchtime stop at the Union.

Newly elected Student Government President Andrew Mahtook and student senator Alex de Gravelle said this predicament will change next fall.

De Gravelle recently passed

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a $7,757.93 bill from SG’s contingency account to fund 30 additional seats in the Union.

The seats will be located on the third floor near the Magnolia Room, de Gravelle said. SG will remove the jagged benches and replace them with three round tables.

The two outer tables will each have four chairs. The middle table will have two chairs.

“If you just add a bunch of big tables, it ends up being one or two students per table,” Mahtook said.

Kinesiology freshman Colton Wilson said she agreed with

Mahtook.

“There’s a lot of students who go here, and it crowds up pretty easily,” Wilson said.

Mahtook also said SG will rework the space next to On the Geaux to provide more seating by adding more individualized and high-top tables.

De Gravelle started drafting a proposal for more seating in the Union in October 2014. She then passed a resolution urging students to take a closer look at the issue at the end of last semester.

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“By holding the market in Free Speech Plaza, we are giving the LSU community the opportunity to buy fresh produce in between their busy schedules,” said LSU Dining marketing manager Ellen Sturgill in the release. “Students, faculty and staff can stop by on their way to their dorms, classes or cars before the commute home.”

Ballard earns WBCA All-Region 3 selection LSU junior guard Danielle Ballard earned Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-Region 3 selection, announced the organization Wednesday.

The WBCA handed out All-Region status to 52 players representing 43 schools.

Ballard’s selection to the AllRegional team makes her eligible to become a member of the WBCA Coaches’ All-American Team.

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the first 14 games of the season, Ballard led the Tigers with 14.5 points, 7.2 boards, 3.1 steals and 2.9 assists per game.

She was the only Southeastern Conference player BALLARD to finish the season in the conference’s top-10 in four of the five major statistical categories.

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POLITICS

UPCOMING BILLS House Bill 60 Author: Thomas Carmody, R – Shreveport Impact: abolishes Board of Regents and higher education management boards to be replaced with the Louisiana Postsecondary Education Board of Trustees Status: referred to House Education Committee Background: New York introduced a state senate bill in January to abolish their Board of Regents. Power will be transferred to the New York commissioner of higher education upon its approval.

House Bill 61 Author: Thomas Carmody, R – Shreveport Impact: exempts higher education tuition and fee increases from two-thirds legislative approval Status: referred to House and Governmental Affairs Committee Background: The LSU Board of Supervisors approved two resolutions

at their March meeting in support of more tuition autonomy as a way to increase University funding.

House Bill 62 Author: Franklin Foil, R – Baton Rouge Impact: exempts higher education fee increases from necessary two-thirds legislative approval Status: referred to House and Governmental Affairs Committee Background: Louisiana is the only state where raising tuition by more

than 10 percent requires a two-thirds vote of approval from the state legislature, The Daily Reveille previously reported.

Board of Regents reviews higher education bills Bills could help offset budget cuts

tuition autonomy to abolishing higher education boards, all with the intent of remaining nationally competitive while still

BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON cutting costs. chenderson@lsureveille.com Some bills are being reintroduced after failing in a previIn the face of what could be ous session, with hopes that the the most impactful legislative new financial climate will sway session for higher education representatives. Others are enin recent years, Wednesday, tirely new, as legislators from the Board of Regents priori- all parts of the state try to think tized some upcoming bills for of any means to raise funds. the Louisiana State An increased tobacco Legislature. tax could help fund Several pieces of public universities, as well as uslegislation will determine the fate of ing non-allocated higher education funds from the within the next few Deep Water Horizon Economic years, as legislators Gov. Bobby Damages Col2015 LEGISLATIVE WATCH lection Fund, Jindal along contingent on the outcome with higher education leaders prepare to close a $1.6 bil- of this session. lion budget deficit.

LSU President F. King AlThe governor’s proposed exander has spoken out on his budget includes a $581 million commitment to mitigating the reduction to higher education, effects of budget reduction equaling an 81 percent de- with the help of legislation and crease, without passage of tax urged students and alumni adcredit changes, meant to offset vocate for the University by calling legislators. the cuts.

Currently, the University The Legislative session opens April 13 and will adjourn is 41 percent state supported, according to the Budget June 11.

During these months leg- Hub website. When the ecoislators will see over 100 bills. nomic recession began, the Those affecting higher educa- University was 74 percent tion address everything from state supported.

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Author: Thomas Carmody, R – Shreveport Impact: authorizes public institutions of higher education to establish tuition and fees independent of legislative action and GRAD Act standards Status: referred to House Education Committee Background: The GRAD Act was signed into law in 2010 giving

postsecondary institutions greater autonomies in exchange for better performance, but has come under criticism in recent years.

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Impact: creates a Better Highways and Higher Education Fund and

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dedicates a portion of sales tax from out-of-state vendors on Internet to the account

Development is manages a $1.7 billion annual budget, according to their website.

House Bill 81 Author: Thomas Carmody, R – Shreveport Impact: increases the amount of money needed to be raised from taxes on minerals before excess can be put in the “rainy day” Budget Stabilization Fund from $850 million to $940,715,000. The difference will be allocated to transportation and higher education Status: referred to House Appropriations Committee Background: Louisiana raised $1,273,445,710 in mineral revenue in 2014, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Concealed carry a reality for two Caribbean student SEC schools, possibly more to come club starts on campus

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER wpotter@lsureveille.com

Though only two Southeastern Conference schools currently allow concealed carry on campus, more may soon join the mix.

Most recently, the Texas state Senate passed a law allowing concealed carry on college campuses last week, but it has yet to go through the House and obtain Gov. Greg Abbott’s approval. In 2013, about 19 states proposed legislation to allow some type of concealed carry authorization on campus, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In the South, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina allow concealed weapons to be locked in cars, and Arkansas allows concealed handguns, though the University of Arkansas opted out. Alabama allows the universities to decide. Mississippi does not allow colleges to prohibit concealed carry, though they can limit who can carry.

After the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, several states passed laws allowing students with concealed carry permits to bring their handguns on campus.

Seven states allow concealed carry on campus, said agribusiness senior and College Republicans president

Destin Sensky. Idaho is the most recent, passing the law in March 2014, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

“From my understanding, if you’re 21 years old and you have a concealed carry permit, you’d be able to carry on campuses,” Sensky said. “A few of those, Wisconsin for example, that I know does not allow for the carry within college campus buildings.”

Arkansas passed a law in 2013 allowing faculty at colleges and universities to carry concealed handguns, though schools can opt out of the law annually, according to armedcampuses.org. For the past two years, every two- and four-year college has opted out.

Sensky said if the law makes its way to Louisiana, there are certain campus buildings where firearms should be banned.

“I think Middleton [Library] has numerous security guards at night now,” Sensky said.

“There’s always ample amount of security in Tiger Stadium and at the PMAC. I don’t see any real reason why you would need it.”

One of the arguments for the law is the use of a concealed weapon as a crime deterrent. According to procon. org, states with more restrictive concealed carry laws had 10 percent higher gun-related

murder rates.

The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus group released a study showing on-campus sexual assault in Colorado increased 25 percent in 2012 and 36 percent in 2013, despite the concealed carry on-campus law.

“I think it would cause more trouble than it would actually help, personally,” said electrical engineering junior Blake Coleman.

There isn’t a need for the concealed weapons, though the law could increase safety at night, said biology junior Lexi DeWitt.

“We have a pretty safe campus,” DeWitt said. “At night, obviously, that would be a different story. I don’t think you need them during the day.”

Sensky said the law could help lower the crime rate at the University, particularly in dark and secluded areas of campus.

According to concealedcampus.org, from 2005 to 2007, an average upward of nine sexual assaults per day were reported on college campuses across the nation.

“If you think that a young man or young girl is carrying, chances are you’re not going to mess with that person,” Sensky said. “Regardless of which side of the debate you stand on, I think everybody can agree with that.”

BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON chenderson@lsureveille.com Like most students at the University, Leah Wong, accounting senior and founder of the Caribbean Students Association, was looking for a place to fit in.

Wong said Louisiana does not have as many Caribbeanborn people as Georgia or Florida, so these students must stick together.

“The very few Caribbean people that were here, we just decided that we needed to start a platform so that new students and incoming freshman could have a support system to transition from life in the Caribbean to how it is here in Louisiana,” Wong said. “Just to have people to depend on, a social support group.”

The club held its first meeting March 19 and hosted members from many Caribbean islands, including Jamaica, Trinidad and Haiti.

Wong said there are many projects in the works from the budding organization. The first will take place at the International Fusion Festival on April 18.

“We have a dance troupe for that, and that’s probably the most fun part about it now,” Wong said. “Because, naturally, being from the Caribbean, you love to dance, and so we practice three times a week, and we’re putting a lot of effort into it.”

CSA also hopes to collaborate with fashion-minded students on campus to create elaborate Caribbean-inspired Carnival costumes.

Wong, who was a fashion major at Savannah College of Art and Design before coming to the University, said she loves fashion but needed a more “practical degree.”

“I know if I go back to the Caribbean, there’s not much you can do with an art degree,”

Wong said. “There’s so much more opportunity here in the US. So just to be safe, I did accounting.”

Wong said she also hopes Caribbean students can network and find new job opportunities through the newly founded organization.

The most ambitious of the team’s plans will begin to take shape next semester — the club’s own version of J’ouvert, a Caribbean street party during Carnival, is underway.

Wong said she thinks Louisiana residents will appreciate the colorful and wild party.

But Wong, who is from the Bahamas, is not the first person to start a club for Caribbean students. Wong said she first approached a student in the library with her proposal for the Caribbean club because of his Jamaican accent.

As it turned out, he tried to start a similar organization in 2003 and supported her idea.

“So he went and reached out to some of the Caribbean students he knew, and we kind of all came together,” Wong said.

CSA is open to all students with an interest in Caribbean culture. The club draws many of its members from the International Student Association.

“The Caribbean also has a really large Indian population, surprisingly,” Wong said.

“So, we have a lot of people who want to come out and support.”

The club meets every Thursday at 5:30, and like all new clubs on campus, Wong said they are going through the motions of founding a club.

Eventually, CSA hopes to raise enough money to attend the annual conference in Miami.

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Accounting senior Leah Wong is the founder of LSU Caribbean Student Association.

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Martin could have long NBA career

Wray’s Way

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Wray has had to adapt to everything being just a little bit different this season. Though she has been involved with the softball program for years, her coaching role has presented new responsibilities.

Wray said she’s had to back away from having a player’s mindset to be part of the coaching staff. She said it’s been tough forgoing things she used to look forward to as a player, like playing catch.

“That was kind of just the hardest thing for me, just understanding that ... I’m part of [Coach Beth Torina’s] staff now,” Wray said. “I’m not necessarily her player, so I don’t have to do the little things they do.”

Wray left sophomore Sahvanna Jaquish and junior

When Jarell Martin announced his decision to go to the NBA Draft, fans and analysts began criticizing how his game could translate into pro play.

Though Martin’s decision seemed like a foregone conclusion after the sophomore season he had, not many people are buying his draft stock — and with MARTIN good reason.

Martin mostly played small forward during his freshman season and frankly, he looked pretty bad. He injured his right leg on the first possession of his career, and the season didn’t improve much afterward.

After missing almost all of the first three games, Martin struggled. His jump shot wasn’t as reliable as it needed to be, and his feet weren’t quick enough to keep up with opposing small forwards on defense.

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LSU student coach Tammy Wray sits in the dugout Saturday during the Tigers’ 10-2 victory against Oklahoma at Tiger Park.

Former LSU third baseman adapting to role as student coach

BY JACK WOODS jwoods@lsureveille.com Tammy Wray stands at the end of the LSU dugout and looks on as the No. 1 college softball team in the nation wins, 10-2, on Saturday to sweep No. 6 Oklahoma in front of the crowd at Tiger Park.

Many fans remember Wray as the standout third baseman who anchored the position for four years. Now, Wray is steadily adapting to a new title with the LSU softball program — student coach.

“At first, it was a hard transition,” Wray said. “I still wanted to be out there with the team and ... be playing the game I loved. It’s all I knew for so long, but I’m very thankful for the opportunity to be able to stick around.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Caldwell expects strong start with veteran roster next season LSU will lose Harden, Boykin to graduation

BY JAMES BEWERS jbewers@lsureveille.com LSU women’s basketball coach Nikki Caldwell will say her team’s goal starting the 2014-15 season was “no man left behind.”

But Caldwell had to leave one man, or woman, behind to start the season — her best player, junior guard Danielle Ballard.

Ballard, who ended the season as LSU’s leading scorer, was suspended for the first 14 games as the Lady Tigers went 7-7 with losses to two 100-plus RPI teams.

Upon Ballard’s return, the Lady Tigers propelled themselves into the NCAA Tournament with a 10-7 record down the stretch, including a fourgame win streak and four top25 victories in Southeastern Conference play.

Even with a first-round exit to sixth-seeded South Florida on Saturday, Caldwell said she was proud of her team’s perseverance. She said Ballard’s presence allowed LSU to put all of the “pieces of the puzzle” together after a difficult start to the season.

“Obviously, when you lose great players in that previous class — Jeanne [Kenney], Theresa [Plaisance] and Shanece [McKinney] — you look at players who can come in and

really be contributors immediately,” Caldwell said. “We were obviously faced with the challenge of competing at a high level in our non-conference schedule without our best player, Danielle Ballard.”

Caldwell also said Ballard’s return took pressure off sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief, LSU’s second-leading scorer. After shooting troubles in her first two SEC games, Moncrief finished in double digits in all but three conference games once Ballard was inserted into the lineup.

“Moncrief played much more at ease [once Ballard returned],” Caldwell said.

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LSU women’s basketball coach Nikki Caldwell talks to sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief (11) during the Lady Tigers’ 80-63 victory against Texas A&M on March 1 at the PMAC.

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LSU hopes to recover from SEC Championship loss during bye-week

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL cboutwell@lsureveille.com Two weeks.

That’s the gap the No. 4 LSU gymnastics team has before it heads to Ames, Iowa, to compete as the top seed in the NCAA Ames Regional meet on April 4.

LSU (19-2, 7-0 Southeastern Conference) will use the upcoming bye week to recover from its SEC Championship disappointment and prepare itself for NCAA play.

“This is going to be great for us,” said senior all-arounder Rheagan Courville. “We are going to be able to rest our minds as well as our bodies.

We are going to bring a nice, fresh, new enthusiasm to the competition.”

This week marks the Tigers’ first bye week this season, giving the team a chance to recover physically and mentally after a strenuous SEC Championship. LSU finished runnerup at the meet with a score of 197.450.

“Obviously not the results we wanted at SECs,” said sophomore all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat. “We learned a lot. It is nice to be able to move on. Now, we have this bye-week, so we can get in the extra training that we need. Just the touch-ups that we can work on during this bye-week, so we can use it going into the next meet.”

The “touch-ups” on certain events will be key for the Tigers to capture a high

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LSU gymnastics head coach D-D Breaux applauds during the Tigers’ 198.075-196.850 victory against Georgia on Feb. 6 at the PMAC. regional score, and later if they make the NCAA Semifinals and Super Six. LSU plans to edit and improve its performance on beam, where the team struggled at the SECs for a score of 48.975. The Tigers were the top-ranked team in the nation on beam for

a period of time this season.

They don’t plan to make major changes but instead stick to what defined their regular season success on the event.

No. 2 seed Nebraska and No. 3 Denver are listed as the 15th and 16th on beam with LSU in fourth, according to

GymInfo. How each team performs on beam in the regional meet could determine which two squads will advance to Forth Worth, Texas, for the NCAA semifinals.

The Tigers look at their beam score in the conference championship meet and

realize the event was where the let the title slip away. But the team takes more good than bad away from the competition.

“We had a good performance on bars,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “We moved our feet a little bit on landings, which is something we are coaching and talking about all the time. We took that and went to beam and had momentum but didn’t take that momentum with us. That is the one thing we are going to take away from SECs going into regionals.”

Breaux said there were positives and negatives to take away from the conference championship, while maintaining a high level of enthusiasm and excitement. She said she doesn’t plan on altering the process leading up to Regionals even though the preparation is elongated.

“We are as good as anybody in the country,” Breaux said.

“We need to stay with the focus, stay with the program. Stay with what got us to SECs. We are going with the same kind of training regiment, same program, same diet and the same meal. Everything the same.”

Meanwhile, Gnat carries an ambitious attitude toward this bye week to get the team ready for whatever the future may hold.

“This week is important,” Gnat said. “It is important for us to get stronger, get better and work on the little details.”

You can reach Christian Boutwell on Twitter @CBoutwell_TDR.

TRACK AND FIELD

Tigers, Lady Tigers to compete in Texas Relays

BY MARIO JEREZ mjerez@lsureveille.com The LSU track and field teams will be in Austin, Texas, this weekend to compete in the 88th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at the University of Texas.

LSU enters the meet with the No. 4 men’s team and the 18th ranked women’s team in the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association preseason top 25 outdoor rankings.

The Texas Relays is a wellknown meet in the outdoor track and field season. LSU will face an early-season test with several of the nation’s best programs and NCAA qualifiers competing.

“We had a number of athletes who were able to compete for the first time outdoors in Lafayette [at the Louisiana Classics] last weekend, but for most of our team, the Texas Relays will be the true outdoor opener for this season,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver in a news release. “This will be a good opportunity for both our teams to see where they are right out of the gate up against many of the top teams in the country.”

LSU has experienced major success at past competitions, posting 73 relay titles since the event began in 1925. The Tigers have won 30 titles and the Lady Tigers have won 43, more than any women’s program in the event’s history.

LSU kicked off the outdoor season in winning fashion last weekend as both the men’s and women’s teams finished first in the 4x100 meter relay. They will look to carry the momentum into this week as they face stronger competition.

Senior Quincy Downing was set to compete in the 4x400 meter relay event last weekend, but it was canceled due to inclement weather. He will look for a strong start to the outdoor season as he competes in the 400-meter hurdles and possibly the 4x400 relays.

“I have high expectations for this meet,” Downing said “There will be a lot of NCAA qualifiers there that I’ll have to run against, so hopefully I can place in the top five.”

The meet will begin on Wednesday, but LSU will not compete until Thursday. The competition runs through Saturday with the first finals on the

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Shaver said he rested his athletes more than usual this week since the Texas Relays is a multiple-day competition, and some of them will have to run all three days.

“It’s a really positive experience for them to learn how to

compete day after day, like we have to do during championship season,” Shaver said. “It gives them a wake-up call as to what they need to do to get prepared for championship time.”

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Underclassmen compete for starting cornerback spot

BY JACOB HAMILTON jhamilton@lsureveille.com

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LSU sophomore defensive back Ed Paris (24) celebrates during the big cat drill in practice on March 19 at Charles McClendon Practice Facility.

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LSU football finished regular season play with one of the top-rated passing defenses in the Southeastern Conference, and junior cornerback Tre’Davious White said fans can expect the same shutdown secondary next year.

But it won’t contain the names that held opponents to 162.3 passing yards per game with an SECbest 50.4 completion percentage during the 2014 regular season.

The Tigers lost senior leader and two-year starter safety Ronald Martin to graduation and junior cornerback Jalen Collins to the NFL Draft. Most teams would suffer with the loss of two highcaliber players, but sophomore cornerback Ed Paris said the secondary won’t miss a beat.

“We are still going to be the same DBU [Defensive Back University],” Paris said. “It’s just different cats. Different people bring different things to the table. We are still going to do us.”

Senior safety Jalen Mills and sophomore safety Jamal Adams have most of the first-team safety repetitions this spring, while junior safety Rickey Jefferson is rotating in with the first team.

“We have a lot of safeties making plays,” said senior linebacker Lamar Louis. “Rickey Jefferson

is coming in making a lot of plays, which he did last year. We are pretty deep at that spot. Everybody is rolling. You might have a different person show out everyday, but for the most part its Jalen and Jamal.”

White, a two-year starter, is expected to be the No. 1 corner. But the other starting cornerback spot is open, and Louis said Paris has led a three-man competition for it.

Paris, a former four-star talent and the No. 4 safety in the class of 2014, converted to cornerback because of the surplus at safety.

White said he sees Paris improving his technique as a cornerback every day. “[Paris] is looking real good,” Louis said. “He has definitely turned it up this spring. He had a good freshman spring, but this spring he has turned it up even more.”

Teammates have been raving about sophomore cornerback Russell Gage, who spent last year on the squad team. Gage said sitting out during the season helped him learn the playbook, and he is itching to get back on the field after sitting out for the first time in his career.

Gage is making the most of his opportunity this season, jumping in the battle for the starting job with a strong work ethic in practice coupled with a shutout performance in the

first scrimmage.

“I was pretty shut down in the first scrimmage,” Gage said. “It helped a lot having sat out last year. I learned a lot. [Paris and I] both said this is our year. We have to step into that role of making plays.”

While Paris and Gage are making an impression in their second seasons, freshman cornerback Kevin Toliver II is impressing his teammates and coaches during his first spring. Toliver, once considered the No. 1 recruit in the nation, is inching toward the starting spot after just two scrimmages.

Toliver recorded an interception in the first scrimmage and is improving every practice as White and defensive backs coach Corey Raymond help improve his technique. White said Toliver still has a lot to improve on, but the 6-foot2-inch 192 pounder has all the intangibles of a starting cornerback on the best secondary in the SEC. “He’s a monster,” White said.

“He’s a competitive guy that is very physical at the line of scrimmage. He’s a huge guy that is willing to learn and willing to come in and accept his role. He is going to play a ton of football for us this year, and we are going to expect big things from him.”

You can reach Jacob Hamilton on Twitter @jhamilton_TDR.

page 8 MARTIN, from page 5 Tuesday, LSU men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones said Martin struggled on the wing his freshman year because of the lingering ankle injury.

The holes in his game brought Martin back for a second year with the Tigers, and it definitely helped.

Whether it was the injury or the shift in positions, he looked like a completely different player this season. Martin transitioned to power forward and thrived, collecting All-SEC First Team honors while averaging nearly a double-double with about 17 points and nine rebounds per game.

In the new role, Martin became the quick player defenders couldn’t stay in front of, ran the break well and developed a respectable jumper. He found his niche as a cornerman thanks to an improved shooting touch and quickness off the dribble.

Martin named LaMarcus Aldridge as the player he wants to emulate. While he isn’t currently the polished shooter Aldridge is, he can get to the rim more quickly off the dribble than Aldridge.

If he develops Aldridge’s shooting, he could be a superstar, but that’s a bit of wishful thinking. Martin will make his money getting to the rim like he did during his sophomore season.

The improved play helped his poise as well, and it started with the Texas Tech game Nov. 18. He posted 17 points and 12 rebounds against the Red Raiders, but the changing moment was his windmill jam in the second half.

His between-the-legs throwdown against Florida on Feb. 21

CALDWELL, from page 5 “If you had the combination of Scottie Pippen and [Michael] Jordan or Dwayne Wade and LeBron [James], she was able to play that way.”

Despite losing forward Sheila Boykin and guard DaShawn Harden to graduation, the Lady Tigers will return with an experienced roster led by Ballard. With junior forward Anne Pedersen also graduating but with one season of eligibility left, LSU could boast five seniors next season, including transfer forward Alexis Hyder.

After averaging 12.8 points and 7.4 rebounds in two seasons at North Texas, Hyder sat out this year due to NCAA rules. The 5-foot-11 Hyder, who Caldwell said plays bigger than her height, should provide a huge boost to a frontcourt that struggled to counteract the size of SEC teams and South Florida in the NCAA Tournament.

Along with incoming fourstar forward Ayanna Mitchell, Caldwell also will count on 6-foot-3 forwards Ann Jones and Alliyah Fareo, who both battled injuries throughout the year.

has long since overshadowed that dunk, but it must have given him a huge confidence boost in the second game of the season.

In the rest of the Tigers’ big games — West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and in postseason play — Martin averaged 20 points and 12 rebounds. He wasn’t afraid to play in the big lights, which will help him on the biggest stage in professional basketball.

Draftexpress.com has Martin going 27th overall in its mock draft, putting him just inside the first round. But he’ll go sooner than that. Martin has potential to blossom into an allstar, which should propel him to the mid-first round.

After the 10th pick in the Draft, teams start throwing spears in the ocean and hoping they hit something resembling a rotation player. With the NBA transitioning to a more up-tempo, run-and-gun style, forwards who can move their feet have become a hot commodity.

Martin is that type of big player and proved it this season with LSU. If a team that uses a faster pace (i.e. not the Grizzlies) takes the Baton Rouge native, he can immediately have at least a minor impact on a team.

I’m not saying Martin will contend for Rookie of the Year or ever be up for a Most Valuable Player award. But he could be a starter in a year or two, provided he puts in the work to grow as a shooter and a defender.

If Martin makes the same development in his game as he did this season, he should have a long career in the league.

Brian Pellerin is a 21-yearold mass communication junior from Kenner, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @Pellerin_TDR. “I’m very much aware of the size of the SEC, but I also understand that there’s players that play bigger than what they are,” Caldwell said. “We have players that are capable of giving us that. I like the fact that we’re a versatile team that can press more. We can extend our defense and put our post game at the top of our press.

That’s an advantage for us because we have the mobility.”

Caldwell also said the Lady Tigers will start a home-andhome series with Connecticut, which is currently the No. 1 team in the country, next season. The first game will be played at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut.

“Historically, with what [Connecticut is] doing and what they’ve meant to women’s game, it’s a great game for us to play in,” Caldwell said. “I’ve been able to be on the side where at Tennessee we played at Connecticut. It’s a great environment. You’re going to have 10,000 people screaming and yelling at you. Well, we had that at USF. So, to me, putting your team in that environment will also be beneficial.”

You can reach James Bewers on Twitter @JamesBewers_TDR.

The Daily Reveille WRAY, from page 5 Jenna Kreamer with a void to fill as they attempt to hold down the spot she commanded throughout her career.

Wray started 224 games in her four seasons with LSU, becoming known for her defensive prowess and leading the Tigers in assists in each of her four seasons with 442 total for her career. During her freshman and sophomore seasons, her assist totals ranked second and fourth in the Southeastern Conference, respectively.

Wray finished with a career fielding percentage of .948 and made just four errors during her senior campaign. She also raised her batting average from .199 her junior year to .308 in her final season.

Now, Wray has turned her experiences into valuable coaching advice to help ease Kreamer and Jaquish into her vacated position.

“She makes our whole infield

Thursday, March 26, 2015 better,” Kreamer said. “Her input is really important to us.”

Kreamer owns a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in the seven games she’s started. Jaquish has a .970 fielding percentage in her 31 starts split between catcher and third base.

Torina said Wray is committed to seeing Kreamer and Jaquish succeed. “[Wray’s] been so valuable over there,” Torina said. “She watches everything they do in practice.

She’s always right next to them, giving them advice, giving them tips. It’s so nice to have somebody young like that, that they can relate to, that they know. They have so much respect for her because she was so talented with what she did. She understands what they’re going through because she just did it, and they respect all the things she has to say to them.”

Knowledge and skill aren’t the only attributes Wray possesses as a coach. Kreamer and Jaquish

noted Wray is patient and caring.

In fact, Jaquish said she calls Wray “Mama Tammy” because of how encouraging she is.

“She just really is nurturing and really has genuine hopes for you and really helps you succeed,” Jaquish said. “She’s amazing.”

The crowd at Tiger Park goes crazy with every LSU win. But perhaps the Tigers’ greatest fan is at the end of dugout, supporting her friends and embracing her new role.

“I’m on the other side, but I’m still their biggest fan,” Wray said. “It’s awesome to see my best friends, my teammates and all the newcomers be doing so well and get recognized for things they deserve to be recognized for. I know ... how hard they work every single day and on their own. At first, the transition was weird, but now I’m just thankful for the opportunity.”

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Eventually, Biletnikoff found his own studio to work, but the space quickly became a hub for growing artists to meet and showcase their work. After a while, he started receiving inquiries from other artists about where they could find their own studio.

“It was born from the lack of studio space in Baton Rouge,” Biletnikoff said. “There was really nowhere to create. As an artist, I figured if I needed it, then so did other artists.”

Biletnikoff recognized the need for a space in Baton Rouge where local artists could focus on their new pieces and share their work. In 2009, the

Along with national favorites Lollapalooza, South by Southwest and Sasquatch!, Louisiana has made its presence known with music festivals like Festival International de Louisiane and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

A fairly new event to the festival scene born out of the desire to help those in need, Hogs For The Cause is a New Orleans concert and culinary festival staged to benefit patients of pediatric brain cancer.

The festival began as an informal gathering of friends, complete with a roasted pig and keg of beer. Upon meeting cancer patient Ben Sarrat Jr., Rene Louapre and Becker Hall saw the good that could come from food, drinks and entertainment. Thus, the first HFTC was dedicated as fundraising aid for Sarrat and his family.

Since Sarrat’s death before the event’s second year, Hall and Louapre have worked to develop HFTC into a legitimate public event to help cancer patients and their families. The festival will soon celebrate its fifth year as an official public event. Louapre said it is “first and foremast a cause.”

“Our first year was in 2009,” Louapre said. “We had one pig, three kegs of beer and maybe 200 people. Every year, we’re

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creating space Local artist opens studio complex for other artists to work

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Local artist Mark Biletnikoff created N the Art Space, a hub for artists to meet and cultivate their work.

The most fundamental necessity for every budding artist transitioning from student to professional is a place to work — a space where creativity can blossom.

Local artist Mark Biletnikoff said he, like many artists, struggled to find a comfortable place to work in Baton Rouge that would facilitate the necessary elements for a professional art studio. While these elements vary among artists and are dependent on the medium of art, he said every artist needs their own place away from home where they can work.

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Serengetee’s campus rep reflects on company’s expansion

BY MEG RYAN mryan@lsureveille.com When shopping profits go to a meaningful cause, buyer’s remorse is almost nonexistent.

This is how clothing and accessories brand Serengetee hopes customers sees its products, especially ones on college campuses, where select students represent and promote the brand.

Founders Ryan Westberg and Jeff Steitz met while studying abroad. The two bonded over their appreciation of fabrics from the countries they were visiting. They started collecting those fabrics, and upon their return back home, the two stayed in touch and started Serengetee.

“They wanted to figure out a way to help people and do it the

best way they can,” said computer science junior and lead campus representative Brian Tucker.

Westberg started selling shirts out of his University of Arizona dorm room. The shirts were made of black and white cotton with the different fabrics being used as pocket accents.

Steitz ran the website from New York for online orders. Each fabric the company uses supports a different cause, such as stopping human trafficking and providing clean water for children in Africa.

Five percent of each purchase goes to the fabric’s designated cause, and today, Serengetee supports 32 movements.

While Westberg and Steitz have graduated, Serengetee is still prominent on college

campuses — including LSU. Tucker said the company hit the University’s campus in 2013. Tucker found the company through YouTube star and actor Jimmy Tatro. He said he went on the website and saw the company was looking for campus reps and applied.

Now, Tucker has moved on to the lead campus rep position of the Southern region. He said there are seven lead reps in the country, each managing a different region. Tucker said he oversees about 227 reps in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. “[The lead reps] pretty much just teach [the campus reps] about Serengetee and

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LSU computer science junior Brian Tucker is the lead representative for Serengetee in the Southern region.

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INSURGENT Lionsgate There is a good movie inside of “Insurgent,” and with the right script, it could’ve gone from wasted potential to a good action flick. Instead, viewers are left with another mediocre entry in the young adult dystopian desert.

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SHORT MOVIE Laura Marling (Virgin Records) Upon first listen of the album and any of her work, the music can feel monotonous at times, but when listeners pay attention, it’s worth the effort.

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‘Battlefield Hardline’ tastefully well-made THE STYLIN’ PEACOCK MICHAEL TARVER Entertainment Writer Electronic Arts’ “Battlefield” franchise entered a new chapter in its history last week when the highly anticipated “Battlefield Hardline” finally released.

Unlike past “Battlefield” games, “Hardline” revolves around a cops vs. criminals motif, differing from the wartime theme the franchise has maintained over the past several releases.

While most “Battlefield” enthusiasts were rather skeptical with the change in aesthetic and questioned if the developers could pull it off, it’s undeniable that “Hardline” is a resounding success, and Visceral Games accomplished its wary goal of developing an innovative first-person shooter.

Though the game includes some of the same game modes “Battlefield” gamers have come to love like the multiplayer favorite Conquest, “Hardline” features five new game modes, each more exciting than the last.

In the new mode Heist, the criminals team must move cashfilled packages to an extraction point without the police team intervening. If the criminals transfer all of the money to the designated area, they win the game.

This is just one example of how the game transcends itself, taking similar elements of past games

and improving them to create a new and refreshing experience for old and new players.

The game mode Hotwire allows those who enjoy driving to reign supreme as vehicles become the traditional Conquest flags and capturing the cars, or bases, depends on a certain cruising speed.

New modes aside, “Hardline” provides a seamlessly exciting and invigorating shooter experience that rivals any of the great firstperson shooters like the “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” or “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” series.

Even some of the small changes in “Hardline” compared to “Battlefield 4,” such as new gadget and sidearm options, make the game that much more impressive and enjoyable to gaming veterans or anyone just breaking into a video game obsession.

A grappling hook gun, an adrenaline injection and a detection device that highlights enemies making them visible through buildings and other objects are just a few of the new additions in the mesmerizing gameplay. Criminals can even use baseball bats instead of a traditional knife.

The only drawback of “Hardline” is the absence of combat vehicle options, an integral part of the past “Battlefield” games.

Because of the cops vs. criminals style, there are no heavy artillery tanks that allow a different perspective in the combat experience.

Those who found comfort in the armored, combat vehicles of “Battlefield 4” may find

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difficulty in the highly gun-oriented “Hardline.”

Additionally, some uneducated shoppers may be deterred by the similarity that “Hardline” has to the popular “Grand Theft Auto 5.”

Because the new “Battlefield” addition contains similar elements and aesthetics to “GTA5,” gamers may not see the potential in “Hardline” when they could simply play a game they already have. However, anyone who plays the game will realize the distinct features and advantages to the franchise’s addition.

Overall, “Battlefield Hardline” is a tasteful and phenomenally well made video game that should replenish EA’s following and provide an overwhelmingly entertaining multiplayer experience.

You can reach Michael Tarver on Twitter @michael_T16.

Thursday, March 26, 2015 BILETNIKOFF, from page 9 first “N” space was created in a house leased in Mid-City with five studio spaces called “Studio 126.”

A year later, the group of artists outgrew its location, so he invested all of his savings to fund the acquisition of a 5,000 square-foot location on Jefferson Highway at the Settlement in Bocage. N the Art Space was born.

While many artists often work out of their houses or apartments, it can be difficult to separate home life and professional life, Biletnikoff said.

An artist can become uncomfortable in that kind of environment, and it can even stifle creativity.

“Having that separation in the ability to go somewhere to create your own little atmosphere instead of where you live can make a lot of difference,” Biletnikoff said.

When the building was first leased, N the Art Space had no budget to work with, so the funding came solely from Biletnikoff and the artists who were passionate about having their own area to grow

SERENGETEE, from page 9 try to get them to spread the word and let people know our mission,” Tucker said.

Tucker said his main responsibilities are to make sure reps receive a rep package to learn about the company. He’s also responsible for owning merchandise and promoting the brand positively.

Since the company has stepped onto the University’s campus, Tucker said he’s seen it expand on and off campus.

He said he’s seen students he knows and some he doesn’t wearing the brand to class. He’s also seen the company expand on what it sells. When Tucker started, he was only promoting

and expand.

However, the initial investment was an overwhelming success because the first building was full within two weeks.

“It’s basically built by the power of the artist group that it supports,” Biletnikoff said.

“When you get down to the nitty gritty, it’s about artists having the space to create.”

Painters, photographers, musicians and many other forums of art are represented in the complex, making it a mecca for creativity, he said. The price range of the studios in the complex range from about $150 to $800 a month, depending on the size and location. The ages of the artists currently occupying the space range from 20 to 77, he said.

N the Art Space functions similarly to a co-op, as Biletnikoff runs the entire complex as a normal business. But like a firm of artists, it is operated by a group for their own benefit.

And while the artists can come and go as they please in the 24/7 complex, Biletnikoff said he is deeply invested in the daily operations of N the Art Space.

Even the name of the complex is a play off his own

name, as he signs all of his work “Nikoff,” and the name of his study has transformed over the years so other artists can identify under the studio complex name, he said.

He said he gets daily inquiries from artists wanting to lease a studio, and there is an extensive waitlist because the complex is usually 100 percent occupied. Among the studios, now three buildings, there are 40 artists occupying the 12,000 square-foot space.

While several University graduates have come in and out of the studios in the complex, Biletnikoff said he has often offered undergraduate art students spaces for their senior showcases and only charged them about $20. He said this is consistent with his encompassing initiative of supplying an affordable place for artists to learn and grow.

N the Art Space also offers youth and adult art classes for those wanting to begin their education in any realm of art.

“We’re here to supply the need,” Biletnikoff said.

You can reach Michael Tarver on Twitter @michael_T16.

T-shirts, but he’s now promot- reps are part of the consumer ing hats, backpacks, button ups input that Westberg and Steitz and even iPhone look for and procases and head- ‘I know a lot of people who vide input about phones. The T- know me as the “shirt guy” products and rep shirts also have feedbecause it’s a big part of program back. expanded by ofmy life now.’ fering more than Tucker said black and white next year, a Mardi BRIAN TUCKER, cotton shirts for Gras fabric could Serengetee Southern region possibly be availbase colors. lead campus representative, able, and he’s sug“When I first LSU computer science junior gested a purple started, Facebook likes were at and gold tiger about 15,000, and now we’re ap- stripe pattern on a gold T-shirt. proaching 400,000 on Facebook “I know a lot of people right now. And they want to get who know me as the ‘shirt to a million before the end of guy’ because it’s a big part this year,” Tucker said. of my life now,” Tucker He said he hopes to see the said. brand keep expanding with social media and campus expo- You can reach Meg Ryan on sure. Tucker and the other lead Twitter @The_MegRyan.

said he hopes dispels any notion that Louisianans are selfbecoming more and more of a indulgent and aloof to grave problems. legitimate festival.”

“We are dealing with a very The festival’s two days consist of a large-scale barbecue serious issue,” Louapre said. cook-off and a roster of popu- “We want to raise money for lar bands. This that in a fun, HOGS FOR THE CAUSE year’s lineup enjoyable, kidboasts 15 acts, like atmosphere. including some When: March 27-28 That’s what well-known we want to get City Park Festival Grounds names like Where: through — that Drive-By Truckcaring nature of $20 online, $30 at the gate ers and the re- Price: New Orleans and cently booming Louisiana. We’re jazz trio Moon Hooch. an incredibly selfless group Louapre said he sees HFTC in south Louisiana, and that’s as an appropriate example of what we want to show.” what locals have to offer to visiFor Louapre, an essential eltors. The fun-filled atmosphere ement of HFTC is the cook-off. and philanthropic nature of As the main component of the the festival paints a picture of festival, the barbecue cooking Southern hospitality combined competition stands as a point of with a desire to help those in attraction for most attendants. need.

This year’s event is set to feaThe intention of raising ture 83 different teams from awareness of benefitting pa- around the country. tients is something Louapre Attendants are encour-

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aged to sample the teams’ wares while the day is highlighted by musical performances. Those in attendance also can vote for the winner of the competition, crowing that team the “Louisiana pork champion.”

Rather than the food itself, Louapre said he sees his relationship with these cooking teams as one of the most important parts of hosting HFTC. Over the last five years, Hall and Louapre have formed friendships “[The teams] look forward to it each year, and we look forward to them each year,” Louapre said. “We’ve come into the barbecue spirit. It’s just a huge, tremendous network that we love being part of. If it wasn’t for the teams, I don’t know where this charity would have gone.”

You can reach Gerald Ducote on Twitter @geraldducoteTDR.

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American Apparel distances itself from controversial history in all the wrong ways SMALL THINGS CONSIDERED ALEX MENDOZA Columnist Executives at controversial fashion brand American Apparel have decided to clean up the company’s image. In the process, they’ve decided that nipples and body hair on adult women are on par with child pornography in terms of inappropriate sexualization.

The company’s decision comes at the tail end of a long history of courting public attention through outrage.

Last year, the company posted and quickly removed an advertisement on its U.K. social media accounts featuring a picture shot from below of a woman dressed as a schoolgirl. Last week, another ad was banned in Britain because it featured a woman appearing younger than 16-years-old wearing a revealing body suit.

The public was justifiably upset over the ads. Unfortunately, this was likely a calculated attention-grabbing strategy on American Apparel’s part.

The brand went in the opposite direction in its New York store.

Rather than fetishizing children, the store’s window display featured three mannequins with nipples and pubic hair distinctly visible through sheer garments.

District Visual Manager Dee Myles claimed the display was meant to celebrate natural beauty. While there is

certainly nothing wrong with making mannequins more human, problems arise when it is done as a publicity stunt, as most of American Apparel’s actions are.

But since American Apparel CEO Dov Charney — who was seen as symbolic of the brand’s obsession with sex and underage girls — was fired in December, new CEO Paula Schneider has promised to distance the brand from its controversial history.

Part of that campaign involves making American Apparel models look more like mannequins by airbrushing their nipples and pubic hair on the company’s website.

But a move like this, far from a step in the right direction, sends all the wrong signals.

Airbrushing human features off of models in an attempt to desexualize the brand is to claim that the female body is inherently sexual. And with regard to the brand’s history of sexualizing children, American Apparel is doing itself no favors by removing all signs of puberty from its models.

The images in question are of lingerie models in sheer underwear. Ostensibly, this is what real women (the actual size of women’s bodies is another issue entirely) will look like in sheer underwear.

Granted, put an image of a semi-naked woman on the Internet, and there is no doubt that someone will sexualize it. But unlike the U.K. ads and the New York mannequins, these images were not flaunted in the public’s faces. They

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were there, as far as I can tell, as a legitimate reference for women looking to buy the lingerie.

American Apparel’s problem was not anatomically correct models and mannequins. It was the brand’s constant objectification of women, especially women who looked like children, to court controversy and turn a profit.

But since the ousting of its pervy CEO, the brand has a real opportunity to do an about-face. Keep the real models — body hair and all — but make sure that they look old enough to vote.

Schneider claims that American Apparel is a brand devoted to social commentary. Well, here is the chance to embrace it. Rather than baiting people with borderline child pornography, spark outrage by doing positive things like photographing plus-size models or women with leg hair or arm hair or mustaches.

Airbrushing the human features off of models is about as close to the literal definition of objectification as you can get. As sad as it is, the other choice is to let those with the desire to sexualize lingerie models do as they wish — they’ll do it no matter how much the models resemble mannequins.

But change what actually matters, and at least they’ll be sexualizing grown women rather than children.

Alex Mendoza is a 22-year-old political science and international studies senior from Baton Rouge. You can reach him on Twitter @alexmendoza_TDR.

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Time for a Change Opponents of climate change reform have no ground to stand on courtesy of CLIMATE.NASA.GOV

SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist On Monday, the resident pariah and Grandpa Munster look-alike of the Senate Ted Cruz announced he’s running for president in 2016.

Cruz built a reputation out of being irritating and supporting terrible political moves.

He’s most infamous for his stubborn insistence on repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, also known as the socialist coup d’etat of the American healthcare system.

What has me spiraling into a rage-induced coma about Cruz recently is his continued denial of the occurrence of anthropogenic, or human-caused climate change. On “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” Cruz peddled his misinformation about climate change, characterizing scientists as flip-flopping nincompoops.

If you haven’t hopped on the ‘climate change is happening’

bandwagon yet, I hope you’re enjoying all of the money big oil is paying you to live in their fracking fantasy land.

That’s because if you aren’t getting paid for opposing reform, there’s absolutely no reason to maintain such intense skepticism of a wellproven phenomena.

I’ve seen the climate change argument play out so many times that I sigh every time I encounter it, whether in the comments section of a news article or in real life.

Everything I’m saying in this column has been said before.

Regardless, the fight needs to continue if we’re going to respond effectively to the changing environment.

The evidence is incontrovertible: 2014 was the hottest year on record, last decade’s sea level rise is nearly double that of last century’s and square miles of Arctic ice sheets are melting at a rapid pace. These all have serious impacts, economic or otherwise, on the ability of future generations to live on this planet.

Typical denier responses to these facts try to explain

them away with fringe studies about how sunspots are so hot and powerful that they’re single handedly roasting all of the polar bears. Isn’t it convenient how the sun is something humans can’t control, and therefore is not worth making governmental policy about?

Let’s put aside for a moment the fact that even if sunspots magically disappeared, climate change would only be slowed down. It’s important to realize the arguments against the existence of climate change come from monied interests who only care about their bottom line, not the greater good of the human race.

If you’re not a hard facts type of person and like to rely on trustworthy sources to inform your politics, I understand. Some reliable sources who accept the fact that anthropogenic climate change is occurring include NASA, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Bill Nye the Science Guy and 99.8 percent of those who published research about it in peer-reviewed academic journals.

If you guessed there wouldn’t be many trustworthy sources for deniers, you’d be about as right as most deniers are on the political spectrum.

Most public intellectuals who deny climate change are benefiting in some way from people like the Koch brothers.

Last month a Harvard climate researcher often cited by climate deniers was recently outed as a fossil-fuel industry shill. Dr. Wei-Hock Soon received more than $1.2 million from the industry while failing to disclose that fact in most of his studies, according to The New York Times.

It’s at this point where many deniers who haven’t already left the conversation throw their hands up and concede that climate change might be real, but any solutions to the problem are going to be the biggest job killers since the EPA was created.

I hate to take away the argument of last resort, but cutting emissions does not mean a worse economy. China, who is the biggest user of dirty fuels, cut harmful emissions in 2014 while growing its economy by seven percent.

Investments in renewable energy created skilled jobs, which means politicians can stop acting like they’re helping the middle class and start actually helping them by supporting renewable energy subsidies.

If anybody is worried about where the money will come from, big oil could stand to give up some of the $2.5 billion in tax breaks they get from the U.S. government. That’s not counting the myriad of indirect subsidies and state breaks companies like Exxonmobil and Royal Dutch Shell get for setting up shop in states like Louisiana.

Needless to say, if you’re still thinking like Cruz after making it through this column, then I don’t think I’ll ever convince you. I just hope you can still look at yourself in the mirror in 50 years when New Orleans is underwater and people need a gas mask to walk around New York.

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

You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

4 KEY FINDINGS OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) 1. There is 95 percent certainty that human activities are responsible for global warming.

2. Carbon dioxide is at an “unprecedented” level not seen for at least the last 800,000 years.

3. Sea level is set to continue to rise at a faster rate than over the past 40 years.

4. Over the last two decades, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been melting, and glaciers have receded in most parts of the world.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015 MARTIN, from page 1 loss for LSU was Martin, a 2013 McDonald’s All-American out of Madison Prep who was perhaps the Tigers’ most vital player this season.

“This has not been an easy decision,” Martin read during his opening statement. “I want to thank my family, Coach Jones and all my great teammates.

My experience at LSU has been a great one, and I now look forward to the challenges that are ahead.”

Martin cited his family’s financial situation as a factor in his decision to leave LSU with two seasons of eligibility left, but he said there was also a personal reason.

“My dream has always been to play in the NBA, so it played hand-in-hand,” Martin said.

As a sophomore, Martin led the Tigers in scoring at 16.9 point per game, which ranked third in the Southeastern Conference. He was also the SEC’s third-leading rebounder with 9.2 boards per game, trailing teammate Jordan Mickey for the LSU lead.

Even after Jones moved

OPERA, from page 1 including the audience, because the English dialogue will help to follow the plot.”

The opera program puts on four shows a year in various languages such as French, Italian, German and even Czech in an upcoming performance.

McDonough said the ability to sing in foreign languages is an important skill for graduates to have in their search for jobs.

He also said performing in the original language of an opera preserves the beauty of the song.

“There is nothing as rewarding for a singer as singing in the original language because the music is set so much to the feelings, the sounds, the meter of the original language,” McDonough said.

He said because opera is very taxing on voices, shows are double-cast, which means students share certain major roles and alternate performances. Doublecasting provides more students the opportunity to perform and protects their singing voices.

Second-year graduate student Charles Moore, who plays Bénédict in the Thursday and Saturday cast, said Berlioz’s opera challenges him as a singer and as an actor.

“The music demands a lot,” Moore said. “The music itself is almost athletic, and it requires some endurance ... then there’s a dialogue which after that, you have to energize so much, and it’s hard for singers.”

Moore will pursue his graduate degree in vocal performance next year and hopes to continue performing, but he also wants to share what he has learned at the University with others.

Although he said the preparation for a show is demanding, the rush of being on stage makes it all worth it.

“The rehearsals and everything, that can be very

him closer to the paint midway through the season, Martin never abandoned his perimeter skills. Jones said Martin’s versatile skillset will benefit him on the professional level.

“When we moved him inside as a primary post guy, he did a great job of stretching the floor, which he’ll be doing in the NBA,” Jones said. “His ability to play on the perimeter helped him excel there at the four, and he was a tough matchup for anybody that we played.”

But Martin’s shift to the post paid dividends. In his last seven games, the 20-year-old averaged 21.1 points and 11 rebounds.

Martin said how he played near the end of the season convinced him he was ready for the professional ranks.

“I put in a lot of work during the offseason to get me to this stage, and it showed during the season,” Martin said. “I went out there and played my heart, and I became more mature and responsible.

After a one-year stint in Baton Rouge, Musselman agreed to take over head coaching duties at Nevada, a resident challenging. But then when you actually stand in front of the orchestra, and you sing, and then you get to express ... you get to experience it and let the audience in,” Moore said. “It’s a moment that’s rewarding — it’s sort of a priceless moment that you can’t put a price tag on. I think a lot of singers look forward to that moment.”

McDonough said the University’s opera program, one of the oldest in the country, has placed graduates in professional and academic positions.

The key for graduates to maintain successful opera careers, according to McDonough, is getting their names known in the relatively small but extremely competitive industry.

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Musselman’s name popped up in other coaching vacancies, most notably at his alma mater, the University of San Diego.

Jones said he was excited for his former assistant and added LSU’s resurgent season may have helped Musselman acquire his new coaching gig.

“For us to have enough success that he was attractive enough for someone to really buy into him, we’re excited about that,” Jones said. “Just like the young men we have that leave the program, we have to find someone else.”

But with his family and teammates at the press conference, the day belonged to Martin, and Jones said he has no doubt his former star is ready for the NBA. “We look forward to not only the challenges but the success that he will certainly have at the next level,” Jones said. “We know he is prepared, and he is ready for that next step.”

You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR. “The competition is very intense,” McDonough said. “A phrase I like to use is, ‘careers are not made by getting hired, careers are made by getting hired back. The trick is to win that audition that gets you a position with a company, be cast into a particular show ... and do well enough that the company likes you, and then word spreads very quickly.”

He said despite the challenges students faced with “Béatrice et Bénédict,” the show will be a success.

“They’ve worked so hard, they really have, not only on the music but on the dialogue, and they’ve come so far,” McDonough said. “I’m really proud of them.”

page 15 SEATING from page 1 After a walk-through of the Union, de Gravelle determined several locations could be improved. Due to financial constraints, however, she narrowed her focus to one spot: the third floor.

“We felt that 30 additional seats on the third floor would be the best bank for our buck,” she said.

De Gravelle and student senators Alex Matte, Abigail Holley, Christopher Dupre and Myles Sonnier authored a finance bill asking for SG’s approval to fund tables.

SG passed the bill and sponsored additional seating.

Mahtook said the new bill should help shorten lines outside lunchtime favorites like Chickfil-A, Panda Express and Papa John’s.

Mahtook attributed the lines to the fact that most students get out of class at the same time.

“There’s such a concentrated lunch rush,” Mahtook said.

The senators behind the bill said they hope to show students how SG directly supports them.

“I think it’ll satisfy students to a certain degree,” de Gravelle said. “I think it will better the flow of traffic, and students will be more willing to go to the Union, purchase food and hang out because they’ll know there will be more of an option for seating than before.”

Mahtook said while he thinks the lines and lack of seating discourage students from eating in the Union, he believes the bill will encourage students to feel more comfortable going there.

“I hope it increases as a place of revenue for the Union and as a place where people go to hang out in between classes,” Mahtook said.

Accounting sophomore Savannah Robert said she would be satisfied with the additional seating to offer more study space.

The Union is often overlooked as a place to study, she said.

“If you get here late, you probably won’t have a seat,” Robert said. “[More seats] would just be better for more people to study here.”

The 30 additional seats are expected to arrive at the beginning of the fall 2015 semester.

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