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Wildcats turn around in part because of turn-over based defense BY Jack Chascin • jchascin@lsureveille.com Much has changed since the last time the LSU football team and Kentucky faced off in what was ultimately a 35-7 blowout victory by the Tigers in 2011. That will be evident when the two teams face off at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Tiger Stadium.
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Discounts offered with Shield app
BY Kaci Cazenave kcazenave@lsureveille.com LSUPD is pulling out all the stops encouraging students to download its Shield emergency app. Penny-pinching students can save money on items at the University Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Union CC’s and Jamba Juice this week if they download LSUPD’s new Shield app. Auxiliary Services partnered with LSUPD to offer 25 percent discounts on bookstore merchandise, free coffee and smoothie upgrades at the latter locations until today. Heather Bilodeau, marketing communications coordinator for Auxiliary Services, said Auxiliary Services was happy to announce its promotion in the early stages of LSU Shield. Bilodeau said it was not hard to get other vendors like the bookstore and LSU Dining on board because the app is a month old.
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Cane Land rum distillery to open in Baton Rouge next year BY Deanna Narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com Students will have a new favorite ‘Cane’s’ in town when Cane Land Distilling Company comes to Baton Rouge next year. The rum distillery will break ground on its new distilling plant off River Road later this year, producing rum from fresh Louisiana sugar cane and molasses grown on the Alma Sugar Cane Plantation located just 17 miles northwest of the city. Cane Land co-founder and Baton Rouge native Walter Tharp said the distillery will stand out in the midst of many craft spirit distillers emerging on the market because it will use only local raw products. “I think one of the things that is unique about what we’re doing
is that we’ll be one of the only true farm-to-label entities in the spirits world,” Tharp said. “You have people out there that are taking spirits from a major plant, putting a cool label on it and calling it hand crafted. We will be the real deal.” Tharp said the distillery’s proximity to the sugar mill is key to producing rhum agricole, a rum spirit made from sugar cane juice, instead of molasses. “Fresh pressed cane juice starts to ferment immediately so that’s the reason we chose Baton Rouge to be close to the mill,” Tharp said. “Once [the sugar cane] pressed or it’s crushed you have about a two hour window to distill it.” The only other producer of rhum agricole in the country is the California-based St. George
Spirits, Tharp said. “They’re only able to produce about 500 bottles annually, but we’ll be able to produce more in 30 minutes than they can in an entire year,” Tharp said. Tharp said the Alma Sugar Cane Plantation has been owned by his family for years, and produced more than 400 million pounds of sugar last year and 10 million gallons of molasses. In rum distilling, the cane juice or molasses is fermented using yeast that changes the sugar into alcohol, then distilled, or purified. Then the rum is aged from a few months to several years. However, aging rum does not take as long as other spirits like whiskey. “One of the barriers to entry
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Cane Land Distillery Company will open in Baton Rouge next year, and will produce rum from sugar cane grown on Alma Sugar Cane Plantation in Alma, La.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled a thinner iPad Thursday with a faster processor and a better camera as it tries to drive excitement for tablets amid slowing demand. The company also released an update to its Mac operating system and introduced a high-resolution iMac model that might appeal to heavy watchers of television over the Internet. The new iPad Air 2, at a quarter of an inch “thin,” also adds many of the features previously available on iPhones. That includes the ability to take burst shots and slow-motion video, and unlock the device with a fingerprint ID sensor instead of a passcode. Meanwhile, Apple made its new Mac operating system, Yosemite, available as a free download starting Thursday. The new 27-inch iMac — which Apple is dubbing the “Retina 5K” model — went on sale Thursday as well. The company also said Apple Pay, its new system for using iPhones to make credit and debit card payments at retail stores, will launch on Monday. Much of the emphasis at Thursday’s product-launch event
centered on how Apple’s devices work well together because the company makes both its hardware and software. “They’re designed to be incredible products individually but they’re also designed to work together seamlessly,” CEO Tim Cook said. “This is our vision of personal technology, and we are just getting started.” NEW IPADS It’s been a year since Apple came out with a lighter, thinner full-size model called the iPad Air. Apple refreshed that with a device that is skinnier by 18 percent at 6.1 millimeters. The rear camera is boosted to 8 megapixels, matching what’s found in iPhones. Previous iPads had a 5 megapixel camera. The iPad Air 2 will start at $499. Apple also updated its iPad Mini device, with a starting price of $399. The new devices will begin shipping next week, with advance orders starting Friday. Thursday’s event comes as sales of Apple’s iPads have dropped. Through the first half of this year, Apple had shipped 29.6 million iPads, a 13 percent drop from the same time last year. Apple plans to issue results
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First Dallas nurse with Ebola to be sent to Md. DALLAS — The first Dallas nurse to have contracted Ebola after treating an infected Liberian man is scheduled to be moved Thursday to a specialized medical facility in Maryland. The National Institutes of Health said in a statement that Nina Pham, 26, will be taken from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas to the NIH center in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIH facility has one of four biocontainment units in the United States. Texas Health Presbyterian officials said Wednesday that Pham was in good condition. Hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said Thursday the move is necessary because numerous employees are being monitored for symptoms of the virus and aren’t available to work. “With so many of the medical professionals who normally staff our intensive care unit sidelined for the continuous monitoring, we felt it was in the best interest of the hospital’s employees, the nurses, the physicians, the community, to give the hospital an opportunity to prepare for tomorrow ... for whatever comes next,”
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Watson said. Pham will receive care from an NIH staff that specializes in infectious disease and critical care, according to the NIH statement. A second nurse who tested positive, 29-year-old Amber Joy Vinson, has been transferred to a biohazard infectious disease center at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Pham and Vinson were involved in providing care to Thomas Duncan, who died of Ebola last week at Texas Health Presbyterian. They wore protective gear including face shields, hazardous materials suits and protective footwear as they inserted catheters, drew blood and dealt with his body fluids. Still, the two somehow contracted Ebola. Federal health officials said Thursday they still don’t know how the nurses caught the virus from Duncan. Pham will be flown to Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Maryland, a small airport about 35 miles northwest of the NIH. State police, the city and the county are coordinating to ensure she has a quick trip to the hospital, Frederick City Police Lt. Clark Pennington said Thursday.
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Zatarain’s food truck to start serving Cajun food on campus New on-campus dining option could open in as soon as two weeks
BY Jayce genco jgenco@lsureveille.com University students will soon see a new food truck driving around campus and cooking up Cajun cuisine with a South Louisiana touch. Both Zatarain’s and the already established Taco Churro’s are owned and operated by Triple B’s Cajun Corner, based out of New Orleans. Triple B’s also serves Cajun cuisine in Tiger Stadium, The Mercedes-Benz Superdome and the Smoothie King Center. To meet the needs of
students, both food trucks will start to accept Tiger Cash and Paw Points. Jimmy Saldana, partner with Triple B’s, said that should be finalized Monday. Saldana said LSU is currently programming the registers and that they should be set up by Monday. He said the Zatarain’s food truck is finalizing the menu this week and should open in two weeks. It will have several options, including jambalaya and crawfish pies along with hamburgers and hot dogs, “but with a Cajun flair to it,” he said. Trevon Williams, biological engineering senior, said he thinks adding another food truck to expand dining options is “interesting.” “It’s good to have
somewhere to pass by and “I like how it gives the stuget a little something to eat if dents another alternative to you’re going to class,” Williams eating in the Union or at the said. Northgate,” Goodman said. “I Joseph Goodknow that peo‘It’s good to have man, chemistry ple kind of get somewhere to pass by tired of eating junior, said he likes the idea and get a little something the same stuff in of having food to eat if you’re going to the Union every trucks on camday.” class,’ pus but wants Though Taco to see more Churro’s origiTrevon Williams, variety. nally parked biological engineering senior “It doesn’t renear the Indian ally seem like the Mounds, it has one we have right now has all since moved and is currentthat much to offer. Zatarain’s ly set up in front of the Life would definitely be a hit here,” Sciences Building. Goodman said. Saldana wants to park Both Goodman and Wil- both food trucks on the closed liams agree the food trucks section of Tower Drive in will ease traffic in the front of the Life Sciences Union and bring more va- Building. riety to the food options on “We’re going to try and campus. park them both here and try
to make this like a food truck destination,” he said. “Possibly what we might do is put some tables and chairs out and just make it a little food truck area.” Student Government Senator Kat Latham said a new food truck will be a great addition to the food options on campus. “Myself and a previous senator, Hannah Knight, wrote legislation last year to have food trucks on campus, so I am glad to see it happening,” Latham said. The Daily Reveille reached out to LSU Dining about the Zatarain’s food truck, but they were not immediately available for comment.
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Wait times at student gate improving
BY jayce genco jgenco@lsureveille.com As reported by The Daily Reveille at the beginning of the semester, Student Government, LSU Student Advocacy and Accountability Office, LSU Athletics Event Management and law enforcement worked during the summer to improve the student gate at home football games. Students seem to have mixed opinions on the improvements of expanding of the gate that is supposed to reduce bottlenecking. David Lee, construction management sophomore, said the busier the gate is, the better the game will be. “I wish it was shorter, but other than that, I like having a big line,” Lee said. Lee said the aggressive pat downs of students entering the gate is the part that makes him mad and it only adds more time to the students’ wait. “They check the students more so than anyone else,” Lee said. “The students aren’t the only ones sneaking in alcohol to the games.” SG President Clay Tufts said the gate is running smoothly. “They’ve been running really well. We haven’t had a major issue,” Tufts said. He added he has received positive feedback from students. “I think this current system is really good, it’s just going to take practice,” Tufts said. Jeff Pisto, biological sciences junior, called the process “annoying.” “It usually takes 30 to 40 minutes just for me to get in the game.” Pisto said. “That’s if I don’t cut.” Pisto said he feels the main
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The Myrtles Plantation Halloween Experience - The Myrtles Plantation Iron Man 3 - Norwood Thompson Playground Mysterious Wisterias - The Stage Door Canteen at The National WWII Museum Party @ The Grove - The Grove Church Oktoberfest at The Pelican House - The Pelican House
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El DeOrazio - Cafe Negril Blair Crimmins And The Hookers - The Maison YMCA Masquerade Ball - English Turn Golf and Country Club
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Theresa Caputo LIVE! The Experience - Saenger Theatre The Real Inspector Hound - Cite des Arts Waiting Around: The Restaurant Musical - Teatro Wego! Dinner Theatre
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St Cecilia - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant Brother Ali - House of Blues New Orleans World Fight Championship 30 - Belle of Baton Rouge Taylor Nauta Duo - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's Loreauville Tailgating Cook-off - Loreauville Park The Revivalists - Varsity Theatre - Baton Rouge St. Practice Day - Happy's Irish Pub A Clockwork Orange - Mid-City Theatre Broomstick - Ashe Cultural Arts Center Buena Vista Social Latin Night - Dragon's Den Clint Black - L'Auberge Casino Hotel Erasure - House of Blues New Orleans House of Shock - House of Shock
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The Anteeks - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's GitLo Lee - Paragon Casino Resort Brand New - The Civic Theatre-New Orleans Hazy Ray - The Roux House Borgeous New Orleans - The Metropolitan New Orleans M.J. and the Redeemers - Phil Brady's Bar & Grill Generationals - One Eyed Jacks
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Krewe of Hermes: The Diamond Jubilee - Louisiana State Museum/Capitol Museum Accalia and the Swamp Monster - LSU Museum of Art LeRoy Neiman: Action! - LSU Museum of Art Art of the Cup Exhibition - The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Associated Women in the Arts - Louisiana State Archives LSU Leisure Classes - LSU Student Union
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Students continue to see long wait times at the student ticket gate prior to LSU football home games. problem at the student gate is that it’s unorganized, but added there’s not much else athletics could do. He said expanding the gate may help, but there will still be a problem with congestion. Pisto called for the opening of some general admission lines to students to take pressure off the student gate. David Taylor, director of game and event management for athletics, feels the gate has seen an improvement and it has been functioning well. Taylor said they have stuck with SG’s idea of opening the gates in a funnel shape to help with the flow of students coming in. “From watching our video recordings of the gate to access what was going on, it looked like it helped quite a bit,” Taylor said. “From what I’ve been able to see,
it looks like it’s a free flowing process.” Taylor said athletics will use this method for the remainder of the season. The Tigers will play Kentucky, Ole Miss and Alabama to close out their home schedule. Taylor said they added four more Festival and Event Staffing and Security Services workers to help expedite the pat down process. He urges students to arrive to the gates at least 30 minutes to an hour early and minimize items that need to be carried. Pisto said he could not see himself getting to the game 30 minutes early, but rather five to ten minutes before kickoff — or whenever tailgating stops. “I went to LSU for tailgating,” he said. “Tailgating is just too much fun.”
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STD prevention budget University students attempt to learn more about Islamic State in seminar lowest in three years Department of Health and Hospitals budget lowest since 2011
also help. “We don’t want to fall back on the services that we provide students because we want to make sure we are providBY Jazmine Foxworth ing students with the services jfoxworth@lsureveille.com they need, but of course, if we could get more money, we The Louisiana Department could provide maybe some of Health and Hospitals bud- additional services,” Saichuk get for STD prevention has said. reached its lowest since 2011. The Student Health Center Total spending decreased provides students with several from $11 million to $8.6 services for STD prevention, million in 2013. including counseling about The National Coalition of STDs, STD testing, women’s STD Directors reported other health classes and condoms states also experienced budget for sale at the pharmacy. Repcuts, with 69 percent of STD resentatives also speak to stuprograms across the country dents in classes, residence slashing budgets in 2009. halls and student organizations According to the Center about STD prevention and for Disease Control and Pre- treatment. vention, other states that sufSaichuk said educating stufered budget cuts reported dents about STDs is an impordecreases in staff, clinic tant part of prevention. hours and morale as well as “We can provide a great increases in workload and deal of education to students, responsibilities among staff but we just have to have that members. conversation with students,” Student Health Center Saichuk said. health promotion coordiSeveral students, including nator Kathryn Saichuk de- undecided freshman Beau Lescribed the cuts in spending as maire, feel these services are disappointing. beneficial. “We do have a high rate of “If kids are really wantSTDs in Louisiana, so it is a lit- ing to get involved in that tle disheartening to hear about type of thing, it’s good that those kinds of budget cuts,” they have an option to do it Saichuk said. properly and safely,” Lemaire According to the Louisiana said. 2012 Annual Report, LouisiLemaire said despite the ana ranked fourth for cases services being useful, students of chlamydia, can only get out second for gon- ‘We can provide a great of it what they orrhea and third put in. deal of education to for primary and “It is what secondary syphi- students, but we just have you make it,” Lelis. From 2008 to have that conversation maire said. “If with students.’ to 2011, Louiyou listen to what siana ranked they have to tell Kathryn Saichuk, first in new casyou, you can take Student Health Center health es of primary what you can get promotion coordinator and secondary out of it which is syphilis. education.” The cuts could affect clinics Erin Marsh, a history gradand hospitals across the state, uate student, said being inbut Saichuk said they would formed is an important part of not affect the Student Health prevention. Center. “I think people need to be “Our monetary funding informed and be able to get here at the Student Health whatever services they need,” Center is student based, so Marsh said. all full-time students auMarsh said she learned tomatically pay a Student about several Student Health Health Center fee,” Saichuk Center services as an unsaid. dergraduate at the UniverSaichuk said the proper sity but more promotion about precautions are taken to en- what’s available would be sure the Student Health Cen- helpful. ter does not go beyond its “I think it could be promotbudget. ed more. You can never really “We’ve been very lucky promote it too much,” Marsh to have some very good ex- said. “A lot of students probecutive directors that have ably don’t realize that it exists made sure that we’ve stayed because it’s not something that within our budget and didn’t they necessarily think about get into the red,” Saichuk everyday.” said. Marsh said the more stuShe said it’s important the dents are exposed to informaStudent Health Center stays tion about prevention, the more within budget so it can con- knowledgeable they will be tinue to provide students with about STD’s, which could afresources for STD prevention fect their choices. but additional funding would
BY quint forgey qforgey@lsureveille.com The University and Louisiana politicians took steps this week to better understand and respond to the Islamic State, the religious extremist group that attained infamy in the U.S. two months ago after beheading American journalist James Foley. The Islamic State is a militant group comprised of fundamentalist Sunni Muslims. Spawned from Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Islamic State seeks to establish a radical Islamic state throughout parts of Iraq and Syria. Peter von Sivers, an associate professor of history at the University of Utah, said 200 to 400 Americans are suspected to be members of the Islamic State, with even greater numbers in Europe. Sivers was on campus Wednesday to lecture on the Islamic State in front of a packed room of students in Hill Memorial Library. “The number of Middle Easterners with a Sunni background is much larger in Europe than the United States,” Sivers said. Sivers said the Islamic State terrorists are paid the equivalent of $300 to $600 a month in American wages – much more than the Iraqi or Syrian armies pay their troops. Candidates running in Louisiana’s Nov. 4 U.S. Senate election condemned the Islamic State in a televised debate Tuesday, with incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy and Republican Robert Maness denouncing the extremist group. The Islamic State was the focus of one of the 13 questions asked throughout the broadcast and both Landrieu and Cassidy addressed the issue in recent campaign stops. Hafsah Mohammed, a child and family studies junior, said University students are uninformed about the Islamic State and the true nature of Islam. Mohammed is the president of the Muslim Student Association at LSU. “I think they know what’s being said through the news,” Mohammed said. “When things happen in the media, they always want to group it with everybody else. They want to group all of us together.” Mohammed said students watching news coverage about the Islamic State may be led to believe Islam condones the actions of the extremists. “We’re always looked at in a bad light,” Mohammed said. “We have absolutely nothing to do with what’s going on over there. It’s completely different from what mainstream Muslims believe in.” Mechanical engineering sophomore Louis Derose agreed University students were not well-informed on the issue. Derose is the vice president of Young Americans for Liberty, a political student organization.
“They’ve probably all seen the headlines,” Derose said. “I’m sure not everyone’s looked into it. There’s no reason. It doesn’t affect us over here.” He said the greatest source of conflict in the Middle East was a hatred of Americans that will fuel terrorism for years to come. “Until the hatred subsides, this is going to be a contentious issue, regardless of whether it’s ISIS [the Islamic State] or some other group. It’s not going away,” Derose said. In his lecture, Sivers displayed data from Pew Research Center polls conducted in 2002 and 2014. The data revealed an uptick
in Americans’ negative perceptions of Muslims in 2014, similar to the 2002 increase in negativity towards Islam following the Sept. 11 attacks. The polls asked respondents if they thought Muslims were violent by nature. Mohammed said she was not surprised by the negative perceptions Americans hold. “We’ve been through it a lot of times. Every time something happens in the media, it’s like ‘well we hope its not a Muslim’ because it’s going to start all over again,” Mohammed said. “There’s no break. Nobody’s getting a break from this.”
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University of Utah history professor Peter Von Sivers lectures to the public about the Islamic State on Wednesday in Hill Memorial Library.
Sports
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TALKIN’ TIGERS
KNOW THE FOE University of Kentucky
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Communication improves defensive performance
BY morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com The last time Kentucky beat the LSU football team in Tiger Stadium, Bill Clinton was president. After finishing winless in the Southeastern Conference last season, Kentucky has completely turned it around in 2014 and is behind only No. 10 Georgia in the Eastern Division. Sophomore middle linebacker Kendell Beckwith said the Tigers (5-2, 1-2 SEC) look forward to returning home and improving soccer
Passing · Patrick Towles: 120-192, 1541 yards, 10 TD
Rushing · Jojo Kemp: 297 yards, 56 carries, 4 TD · Braylon Heard: 282 yards, 38 carries, 3 TD
Receiving · Ryan Timmons: 315 yards, 27 catches, 2 TD
Team Stat Comparison 2014 STATS Total and Scoring Offense UK: 219 points, 36.5 points per game LSU: 244 points, 34.9 points per game
Rushing offense UK: 1105 yards, 184.2 YPG, 13 TD LSU: 1464 yards, 209.1 YPG, 19 TD
Passing offense UK: 1586 yards, 264.3 YPG, 10 TD LSU: 1435 yards, 205 YPG, 12 TD
Total and Scoring Defense UK: 112 points, 18.7 points per game LSU: 133 points, 19 points per game
Rushing defense UK: 907 yards, 151.2 YPG, 6 TD LSU: 1229 yards, 175.6 YPG, 10 TD
Passing defense UK: 1149 yards, 191.5 YPG, 7 TD LSU: 1104 yards, 157.7 YPG, 5 TD BRIAN PELLERIN / The Daily Reveille
the defense’s performance with better communication. Playing in Tiger Stadium will be a welcome relief after playing in two hostile conference environments the last two weeks. “Going into Tiger Stadium, [you have to] defend it,” SAID junior linebacker Lamar Louis. “Anybody we play in Tiger Stadium we have to win at home. We have to defend our home territory.” Improved communication has been a focus for Beckwith, who made his first start in the place of senior linebacker D.J. Welter
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Tigers looking for much-needed win
LSU in midst of longest conference road stretch
If the Southeastern Conference tournament started today, the LSU soccer team would be on the outside looking in. But with five games remaining in the regular season, the 11th-place Tigers (5-8-2, 1-4-1 SEC) control their postseason destiny. LSU will look to improve its postseason resume and collect its second conference win of the season when the Tigers take on SEC East opponent Tennessee (6-7-1, 1-4-1 SEC) at 6 p.m. tonight at Regal Stadium. LSU and the Volunteers are currently tied for 11th place in the SEC standings with four points each. But a win for either club, coupled with an Auburn loss to SEC juggernaut Texas A&M on Friday, would bump the victor into sole possession of 10th place with four games remaining. Only 10 teams can earn spots in
the conference tournament at season’s end, which means Friday’s match will likely have a postseason vibe between two very similar teams. “It’s absolutely a must-win for both clubs, 100 percent,” said LSU soccer coach Brian Lee. “Both of us are in a real similar situation. The last couple of years, [Tennessee’s] recruiting has been outstanding. But they would like to speed up the aging process the same way we would.” Both the Tigers and Volunteers have sent many youngsters on the pitch. A combined 18 freshmen and sophomores have started matches for LSU and Tennessee this season, and both squads have experienced growing pains along the way. The Volunteers are coming off a 1-0 overtime loss to Arkansas on Oct. 10, their fourth winless overtime match this season. The Tigers allowed a gametying goal with less than two
The LSU volleyball team heads into the weekend with a threegame win streak that it hopes to extend to five after road contests against Missouri on Friday and No. 12 Kentucky on Sunday. The contests mark the middle half of a four-game road stretch for LSU, its longest conference road swing of the season. LSU (8-7, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) will open this weekend Friday against reigning conference champion Missouri (12-8, 3-2 SEC) in the Hearnes Center — a venue where Missouri has won 12 consecutive conference games, causing many to consider it one of the toughest places to play in the country. “Everybody goes into Missouri thinking it’s a tough place to play, and honestly I don’t think it’s that tough of a place to play,” said LSU coach Fran Flory. “It’s another
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LSU sophomore middle blocker Briana Holman (13) spikes the ball Sunday during Tiger’s victory 3-2 against Arkansas.
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LSU looks for three straight wins BY joe mallette jmallette@lsureveille.com Coming off of two back-toback team wins, the No. 7 LSU men’s golf team is going back to Georgia for the second time this season. The Tigers will look for a third straight win at the United States Collegiate Championship in Alpharetta, Georgia. The three-day event will take place this weekend at the Golf Club of Georgia’s Lakeside Course. The slightly longer of the club’s two courses is a par-72 round that will require careful navigation of its 7,017 yards. Senior All-American Ben Taylor, who is coming off his first individual win, said he is pleased with the program’s direction after playing its first three tournaments. “It’s great.” Taylor said, “Since I’ve transferred [to LSU] we haven’t had two wins in a row. It has certainly given us good momentum going into [the United States Collegiate Championship].” LSU will face the highestranked field since Georgia Tech hosted the Carpet Capital Collegiate. A total of nine teams ranked in Golfweek’s top 25 team standings will compete, including the third-ranked Bruins of UCLA, the fourth-ranked Cardinal of Stanford University and No. 7 LSU. “We know that it is going to be a very strong field, and it’s going to be a big tournament to end the fall with,” Taylor said. “So having two wins is great. We’re pumped and ready to get the third one in a row.” Taylor’s fellow senior and All-American Stewart Jolly followed his win in Iowa at the Golfweek Conference
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LSU senior Stewart Jolly stares at the green Oct. 4 during David Toms Intercollegiate at University Club golf field. Challenge with a tie for the 30th position in LSU’s own David Toms Intercollegiate and said he is determined to improve on what he considered a below average performance. “I just have to tighten everything up,” Jolly said. “[My game] wasn’t far off. My score was worse than I actually felt my game really was. I’m just trying to get better each day.” Despite Jolly’s poor individual performance, he was pleased with his teammates’ performances. “It was awesome,” Jolly said. “Ben [Taylor] has been playing really well for a while now. It’s good to see him finally get the job done. I was just trying to hang in there and get the team win and we did it. It’s pretty exciting.” Taylor and Jolly will be joined in Georgia by junior
Zach Wright, sophomore Eric Ricard and senior Myles Lewis. Each will have the opportunity to join Jolly and Taylor in the winner’s circle as the third Tiger to win an individual crown. The Tigers tee off on hole No. 1 at 9 a.m. on Friday and will be in the first grouping alongside the University of Texas Longhorns and the University of Virginia Cavaliers.
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Tigers set sights on SMU Classic With the men on a hiatus, nine Lady Tigers will represent LSU swimming and diving at the SMU Classic in Dallas, Texas, this weekend. The event runs Oct. 17 to 18, with both meets starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Perkins Natatorium. The eight swimmers for LSU (1-1, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) are junior Caley Oquist, senior Amber Carter, sophomore Leah Troskot, junior Sophie Weber, sophomore Kara Kopsco, junior Megan Cox, junior Danielle Stirrat and sophomore Colleen O’Neil. Senior Alex Bettridge is the lone diver for the Lady Tigers. Weber said she is eager to make the trip and compete against schools that the team usually doesn’t race. Weber
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said the team’s training has remained consistent, and she is confident the team will have a successful outing. Kopcso and O’Neil each had a pair of victories during the Florida dual meet on Oct. 10. Kopsco won the 200 butterfly and the 200 individual medley, while O’Neil claimed first place in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke races. Carter, Weber and Oquist all garnered top-three finishes during last week’s meet. Troskot, Cox and Stirrat will look to build off their respective top-three placings in the Lady Tigers’ victory against Tulane on Oct. 3. Despite losing to the Gators, Bettridge said the Lady Tigers had solid outputs and added she expects them to be ready to travel to Texas and give their best performance. Personally, Bettridge wants
to maintain her focus and not grow complacent. “For me, practice has been going really well,” Bettridge said. “The key thing [moving forward] is consistency, and that’s what I’m going [into the SMU Classic] looking to do.” The LSU swimming and diving team has made annual trips to various destinations in Texas like to Houston, Dallas, College Station and Austin over the past two seasons. Bettridge said she enjoys traveling to the state because Texas, like Florida, provides intense competitors for her and the team. “The best thing about going to Texas is that I always know that there’s going to be competition there,” Bettridge said. “Texas is a really big [swimming and diving] state, so when you go to Texas, you know it’s going to be a fight.”
renewing a long-standing rivalry with Texas.” It was also announced that the Tigers will open the 2018 staff reports season in the Cowboys Classic sports@lsureveille.com against Miami (FL) in AT&T Stadium. LSU has participated in two LSU confirmed a home-andhome football series with Texas of the last four Cowboys Classic on Thursday, set to take place in games, winning each contest. The Tigers took down then-No. 2019 and 2020. 4 Oregon, 40-27, in In a news and followed release, the ‘This is going to be a great 2011 that up with a 37-27 school announced the two-game series for both win against then-No. programs.’ 20 TCU in 2013. Tigers would “The Cowboys travel to AusClassic is a great tin to take on joe alleva, event and gives the Longhorns LSU athletic director us an opportunity on Sept. 7, to showcase LSU 2019, and Texas would play LSU in Tiger Sta- football in the premier NFL venue in an area that is one dium on Sept. 12, 2020. LSU (5-2, 1-2) is 7-9-1 all-time of our biggest alumni bases Louisiana,” Alleva against Texas (2-4, 1-2 Big 12) outside with its last win coming in 1963, said. LSU is 9-3 all-time against when the Tigers beat the Longthe Hurricanes (4-3, 1-2 Atlanhorns 13-0 in the Cotton Bowl. The last game between the tic Coast Conference). The two two teams came in 2003, when teams last squared off in the the Tigers fell to Texas 35-20 in 2005 Peach Bowl when the Tigers dominated Miami for a the Cotton Bowl. “This is going to be a great 40-3 victory. “These are three very attwo-game series for both programs,” LSU athletic director tractive games against two of Joe Alleva said of the LSU-Tex- the traditional powers in colas matchup in a news release. lege football,” Alleva said. “The national attention and the “These are the types of games excitement that will come with that our fans want to see, a game of this magnitude that and they will be a huge benearly in the season will be un- efit to our football program and matched. We look forward to our University.”
Friday, October 17, 2014 defense, from page 5 against Florida. “Really just making sure we echo the calls or the check,” Beckwith said. “Make sure everyone has it.” Against Florida, LSU’s defense improved communication which helped them hold the Gators to 123 yards on the ground. The Tigers come into Saturday’s game last in the SEC in run defense, allowing 241 yards per game. Part of LSU’s struggles stopping the run comes from the offense’s inability to control possession. LSU dominated time of possession against Florida by more than 13 minutes, giving the defense time to rest. In the fourth quarter against Florida, the Tigers’ offense held the ball for more than nine minutes. Being rested gave the Tigers an advantage in their goal line stand in the last few minutes against the Gators. “It just showed the strength of our defense,” Beckwith said. “When the game is on the line, we’ve just got to man up.” The defense’s ability to make key plays late in close games may be needed against Kentucky (5-1, 2-1 SEC). Both of the Wildcats’ conference wins have been by 10 points or less, and their only loss came in a three overtime game against Florida. Coming through in tight games is a staple of LSU teams since Les Miles took over in 2005. “We don’t plan it,” Louis said. “We definitely want to score as many points as possible and deny our opponents
road, from page 5 gym, it’s a great environment, it’s a great venue, but as soon as our team embraces the fact that we can control everything that happens to us, we’ll put ourselves in a position to be successful.” But LSU rolls into the weekend on a hot streak after winning three consecutive conference matches and earning back-to-back, three-set sweeps against Mississippi State and Tennessee. Freshman outside hitter Mimi Eugene and sophomore middle blocker Briana Holman have led the charge for LSU, combining for 70.5 points, 31 digs and 56 kills during the three-match win streak. Missouri is led by 2013 SEC Freshman of the Year sophomore outside hitter Carly Kan, who currently sits in the top 15 of the SEC in kills (3.5 per set), digs (3.1 per set) and points (3.8 per set). “Both teams are in a similar position — a little bit of a rebuild, but a lot of good pieces coming back,” Flory said. “It’s going to be a matter of how those pieces fit together for each of us, and that will probably determine the outcome.” Looming behind LSU’s contest with Missouri is a rematch against No. 12 Kentucky (16-2, 6-0 SEC), which opened conference play with a four-set victory against
from scoring, but we’ll take a win any way we can get it.” According to senior running back Terrence Magee, the Tigers daily preparation allows them to play at a high level in these situations. Offensively, Kentucky comes in as balanced attack, averaging 184.2 yards on the ground and 264.3 yards in the air per game. The Wildcats are led by sophomore quarterback Patrick Towles, who has recorded only four interceptions to 10 touchdowns in 2014. Like LSU, Kentucky depends on a rotation of running backs, including junior Braylon Heard and sophomore Jojo Kemp. Heard has tossed three touchdowns, and Kemp leads the rotation with four touchdowns. “I see some similarities to Kentucky with them having three backs that I’ve seen that can really run the ball,” Louis said. Practicing against the Tigers’ own talented rotation of seniors Magee and Kenny Hilliard and freshmen Darrel Williams and Leonard Fournette gives LSU’s defense an advantage against such a rotation. Coming off the Florida win, the Tigers aim to earn their first conference win at home after losing their only SEC home game against Mississippi State on Sept. 20. “It’s feels great [to get the first SEC win],” Louis said. “We lost a couple, and that is out of character for us. Being back on track and getting our first SEC win will hopefully start the steam to our train and we will keep on rolling.” LSU in the PMAC less than a month ago. Flory said her squad looks forward to another chance at the Wildcats after growing a lot through conference play. She cited senior outside hitter Lauren O’Conner as the threat LSU needs to improve against in the rematch. O’Conner thrashed LSU with 17 kills and a .314 hitting clip in the first meeting between the two programs. “The defining factor in the last match was Lauren O’Conner on the outside,” Flory said. “A 6-foot-5 athlete on the outside is a defining person. If we can create more opportunities for our defining people like Briana Holman in the middle and maybe [senior setter Malorie Pardo] with more offense, maybe we can balance that out.” Junior defensive specialist Haley Smith said LSU can’t wait for another chance against Kentucky but must stay focused on Missouri until after Friday’s contest “It’s very exciting, but we’re going to take it one game at a time,” Smith said. “We’re going to take it Friday, then worry about Sunday. But yes, it’s a great opportunity to get back at a team that we should have had the first time.” You can reach Tyler Nunez on Twitter @Nunez_TDR.
The Daily Reveille improvement, from page 5 minutes in regulation against conference opponent Alabama on Oct. 9, and LSU ultimately lost a little more than three minutes into the overtime session. LSU sophomore forward Summer Clarke said the young Tigers must clean up their lategame miscues if they hope to be among the 10 clubs in the SEC tournament, which begins Nov. 3. “If we look back on the season, when set pieces are scored, it’s usually near the end on us,” Clarke said. “We’ll be up a
page 7 goal, and they’ll score in the last minute. I don’t know if it’s something to do with where we think we’ve won the game before it’s over, but we need to make sure we keep our heads in it for the whole 90 minutes.” Both youthful squads have had difficulties in tight games this season. Tennessee is 1-6 in games decided by one goal while LSU is a half game better at 1-5. Tigers’ junior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco, who’s scored two goals in the past three games, said better management on the field in tight matches could help the squad get some much-needed
victories in the last five matches of the regular season. “If you think at the scores, there’s not really more than one or two goals difference,” GomezJunco said. “We have to manage better in those end-of-game situations and stay focused and don’t think we’ve won the game with five minutes left. It’s never won until the buzzer goes off. So we have to learn to manage better and play the next game to win. We have to win now.” You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.
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WEB COMMENTS In response to Rose Velazquez’s article, “University professor holds national championship title in croquet,” a reader had this to say:
“As founding editor of CROQUETWORLD. COM and a graduate of the LSU school of journalism, I was amazed to see George Cochran’s story in the online version of the Daily Reveille. George and I have much in common, as I was at one time a mathematics editors in Manhattan and one of the books on my list was a calculus book by Joshua Chover that used probability as the entry point. My main distinction at LSU turned out to be an amazing resolution passed by the Louisiana State Legislature threatening to cut off 22 million dollars of funding if I wrote ONE MORE WORD in the Daily Reveille--because I had lampooned the legislature and governor Jimmy Davis for cynically passing laws they knew would eventually be struck down but in the short term would succeed in delaying school integration in New Orlean. The story was picked up on the wire services, I got death threats, I was hidden out--not in my dorm room--for a couple of weeks, and really enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame as well as the rest of my school career at LSU as a minor celebrity. It was the early 60’s. Times have changed much! I never belonged in daily journalism, but I did find my niche in corporate communication and magazine editing. And like George, I love croquet . I was the first manager of the National Croquet Center in West Palm Beach in the first years of this century, and I see George there often, in the course of reporting on the major national and international events played there. The next time I see you George....let’s talk!”
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Primaries need to be more restrained BRACE YOURSELF Ryan McGehee Columnist Every election cycle, anyone willing or crazy enough thinks they have a shot at getting elected to political office. For Republicans, this thinking usually ends with a dozen or so angry Christian/constitutional/ libertarian/neo/paleo/insert-modifier-here conservatives not speaking to each other and a Democrat in office. If the GOP wants to get back into the business of winning national elections, it should start by narrowing the field of realistic candidates in primaries. In the 2008 and 2012 presidential cycles, there were 12 and 11 candidates leading up to the primaries, respectively. Instead of talking it out rationally behind closed doors about who really had the best shot of winning, they chose to rip each other’s guts out in a series of debates on live television. Anything and everything that could have made a candidate look bad was put forward by fellow party members for the world to see, from Newt Gingrich’s marital drama in 2012 to questions about Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith. It was appalling. All the while, the Democrats had it figured out pretty quickly in 2008. It was either going to be
Sen. Hillary Clinton or freshman Sen. Barack Obama on their ticket. They had the advantage of not needing a primary in 2012, which only highlighted the need for Republicans to get their act together quickly. To maintain this gut-wrenching tradition, there are currently six Republicans on the ballot for this area’s congressional seat, the 6th district, down from the nine that originally declared for the seat. Attorney Cassie Felder’s name may still appear on the ballot, but she has since dropped out. As you’d expect, the race has become a veritable pissing contest to see who is the most conservative. Bonus points are awarded to the candidate that parts their hair most like President Ronald Reagan and makes the most embarrassing public statements. Now don’t mistake me, I’m a dyedin-the-wool conservative, but what I really like are conservatives with a chance of winning. While we’re engaged in a costly free-for-all, the opposition is sitting back and laughing hysterically at all the money they don’t have to spend to get into the runoff. While no one seriously expects former governor Edwin Edwards to win the seat, the fact that the convicted felon even has a chance at getting anywhere near a position of power is unsettling. It also begs the question: what if the Democrats were to put forward a legitimately viable candidate? It wasn’t too long ago that Democrat Don
Cazayoux defeated Republican Woody Jenkins when former congressman Richard Baker resigned. That shows that it’s not beyond the realm of possibility for a Democrat to win this district, despite it being highly conservative. Unfortunately, it’s the same story for our senate race. Congressman Bill Cassidy would likely have the election tied up by this point, negating the need for a runoff, were it not for retired Col. Rob Maness. The undoubtedly more conservative Republican refuses to drop out, despite the LAGOP endorsing Cassidy at the Republican Leadership Conference in late May. Albeit a more extreme case, this is precisely the behavior I’m talking about. Instead of erring on the side of pragmatism, letting Cassidy take the easy win and ending Sen. Mary Landrieu’s three-term reign, Maness is making it far more difficult than it needs to be for what he sees as Cassidy’s ideological shortcomings. We can pontificate about who is more like Reagan all we want, but the cold hard truth is that the more we spend, tear each other apart in primaries and squabble about ideological purity, the more likely it is that we’ll continue to see liberal Democrats in office. Ryan McGehee is a 21-year-old political science and history senior from Zachary, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @JRyanMcGehee.
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U.S. needs to require guaranteed paid vacation leave by law SAY IT OUT LOUD Taylor Simien Columnist Picture this: warm sand between your toes, the sun’s rays kissing your skin, the calming sound of waves crashing against the shore and the sound of families having fun. Now, compare it to this: the sound of horns in bumper-to-bumper traffic, the frustration of a coworker trying to fix a paper jam and a dull, awkward light flickering from the fluorescent bulbs above your cubicle. It’s obvious which one sounds better. But for many Americans, the luxury of the beach remains only
a scene on their television screens, unless they live within driving distance from one. The U.S. is the only advanced country in the world without laws guaranteeing paid vacation days for workers. While a number of employers do offer it, a measly five-day paid vacation, it doesn’t add up to European countries that guarantee 20 days minimum. When you add guaranteed paid holidays to the mix, the gap becomes bigger. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, of advanced countries, Austria has the highest number of guaranteed paid off days with 25 paid vacation days and 13 paid holidays. And when you sit down and really think about it, America sucks for failing to get with the program. According to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, 23 percent of Americans who work in the private sector have jobs that do not offer paid vacation days. While that may not seem like a lot, that’s about one in four working Americans, or about 26 million people, according to the Boston Globe. People with low paying jobs are the least likely to be guaranteed paid leave, and from personal experience, employers like McDonald’s don’t even give employees the option of requesting holidays off. The lack of laws ensuring the workers’ happiness is what makes graduating and joining the workforce seem a little daunting. Now, of course, not all jobs suck, but what if you work for a company that really doesn’t care? How many Americans can afford to take a week or two off of work un-
paid just so they can go on vacation? I would assume not many, especially if they have a household and children to take care of. My mother’s job gives her five paid vacation days and three paid sick days per year. A single mother of three children, her sick days sometimes turn into “motherly duty days.” So, when she really is sick, she turns to her paid vacation days as a cushion. When she’s finally ready for a vacation, depending on how much time she already took off, she may be left with a short-lived break. I believe in working hard to get where you need to be, but regardless of the job you have or the amount of money you make, everyone deserves a break. Corporate America has a robotic mindset stuck in work mode: work, eat, sleep, repeat. If
you’re not making money, then you’re not making sense. But it’s cycles like these that drive people up a wall. I would be a more productive and happier worker if I had great benefits to look forward to. If I had 30 paid vacation days, I could easily enjoy a break during the summer and winter. I wouldn’t even need to go anywhere. Just the thought of a vacation that I know is guaranteed is enough to make Monday mornings seem less dreary. America needs to hop on this guaranteed paid vacation because the idea of a “No-Vacation Nation” is more than a little disheartening. Taylor Simien is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Lafayette. You can reach her on Twitter @TSimien_TDR.
LIFE AFTER MIDTERMS DO:
If you’re reading this, you just survived the second-worst week of the semester: midterms. While you should congratulate yourself for this accomplishment, there are some things to keep in mind, both as you celebrate the end of the week and prepare for the rest of the semester.
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DON’T:
1.Try something new.
1. Make fun of those with tests next week.
After spending all week memorizing law terms and writing papers in the basement of Middleton Library, why not spend your weekend discovering the hidden treasures of Baton Rouge? If you have $30 to spare on Friday, check out a boxing match at 8 p.m. at the Belle of Baton Rouge. If money is an issue, the city of Baton Rouge hosts the “Live After Five” concert series for free on North Boulevard downtown. Don’t worry; Tigerland will still be there when the concert is over.
Even though most professors signed the secret oath to make tests and assignments due on weeks like this, there are those with rebel mentalities who wait until the week after to test their students. I have a test next week, and it’s both a blessing and a curse. My workload won’t be as unevenly distributed as my peers’, but I’ll be one of a select group of lonely souls studying while everyone else enjoys the fresh fall weather on the Parade Ground. So if all your midterms are over, good for you but don’t gloat.
2. Give up.
2. Celebrate Responsibly.
Some students have more difficult classes or had multiple tests in a row, leading to a less-thandesirable performance during midterms week. The key is to remember there will be other tests. Making jokes about quitting school to become street artists are funny, but actually considering it is unrealistic. If Erykah Badu — wearing a disguise — can only make $3.60 singing in Times Square, you have no chance in front of the Capitol. Study more for the next test, work harder on the next assignment or change your major. But please, stay in school.
As college students, our first instinct after a long week of testing will be to play beer pong, wobble our way to bars and paint the town purple and gold. But as recent LSUPD emails showed, there are those on campus who will take advantage of or hurt us if we’re not alert. Never allow people to tell you to stay home if you don’t want to, but make sure you are safe. Travel in pairs at night. If you have to walk alone, install the LSU Shield app or let someone know where you are. Gaelan Harrington / The Daily Reveille
3. Catch up on the things you love.
3. Slack off until finals.
If you’re anything like me, the worst part of midterms week is not the mountains of homework and studying. It’s temporarily neglecting our hobbies. Now that the week is over, go back to the things you love. Buy the book you always say you’re going to read but never have time to. Catch up on all the shows that aired this week while you were locked in your room. Or simply shut off your computer and phone at a reasonable hour and catch up on all the sleep you missed. You deserve it.
When you’re done with midterms week, a voice in your head is going to tell you that you don’t have to worry about classes until the next big assignments week hits. Suddenly, you find yourself going through mountains of notes, hiding away from society to get ready for an even worse week in the semester: finals. Do yourself a favor and learn from the anxiety you felt this week. Break the college student trend and stay on top of your work throughout the year. It feels amazing to live past midterms week. It feels even better not stressing about it at all.
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Friday, October 17, 2014 shield, from page 1
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Bilodeau said so far app promotion is working. “The promotions have been a great success so far, and we would love to double or even triple that number [25 percent of students] by the end of the week,” Bilodeau said. Shield promotion distributes on- and off-campus safety tips and encourages an increase in sales for the participating vendors. Bilodeau said this is something students should expect to continue. “Auxiliary Services works in partnerships with many departments around campus, including the LSU Police Department, year round,” she said. The joint effort between the two on-campus departments, Bilodeau said, has benefitted the University by giving students and faculty members another form of contact with LSUPD and other entities in case of emergency. “We are proud to be the ones to support LSUPD and its Shield app in any way possible to help spread awareness and, at the same time, let people save a little cash through the promotions with Barnes and Noble Bookstore and LSU Dining,” Bilodeau said. Mechanical engineering sophomore Connor Lorio said he did not know about the promotion until he saw one of his friends presenting the download to a bookstore worker. He said he plans to take advantage of the app before Friday. “I think this is a great promotion because it is offered at three retailers that students visit frequently,” Lorio said. “Barnes and Noble can get quite pricey, and students love any discount they can get.”
in the whiskey business is that it takes three to eight years to age whisky. Rum is much different in that once you distill it, you can take the edge off of it for about three months, and you can have a white spirit that is ready to be bottled,” Tharp said. “You can have a spirit much faster than you can in most other spirits endeavors.” Tharp said he and his cofounder, Jim Massey, are hoping to make the distillery a part of the Baton Rouge and University community. They are even working on a possible internship program for students as well allow people to visit the distillery and bottle rum. “People can come to the distillery and do a 30 minute tutorial on how to bottle spirits, and we’ll let them work in the distillery for about five hours and then they’ll leave with a bottle of rum and a T-shirt,” Tharp said. “We think its going to be a pretty cool program, and it will build brand ambassadors. It will give students at LSU and Baton Rouge citizens a sense of ownership of the distillery.” Tharp said Cane Land has a distribution agreement already in place to get the spirits out to stores once production gets underway. Cane Land will produce a few types of rum and rhum agricole, with different aging and production processes for each. He said Cane Land was originally thinking of using a celebrity to help sell and propel the brand, but chose not to. “We decided that the actual product is the star, and that it is unique to have the ability to walk out on the fields and say this is where your spirit came from,” Tharp said. “Even massive distilleries are trucking their grain and raw product from other farms around the country. This going to be a totally local Louisiana product.”
Dating back to 2002, Kentucky had a total of 23 SEC wins in 96 conference games played coming into 2014, which equates to a .240 winning percentage. Over the 12 year span, the Wildcats have reached only .500 in the conference once, in 2006 when they finished 4-4 in the SEC and 8-5 overall. The Wildcats were struggling, and it was only getting worse after LSU (5-2, 1-2 SEC) and Kentucky’s latest game in 2011. Kentucky finished the 2011 season 2-6 in the SEC and went winless in the conference in 2012, prompting the program to make a head coaching change, electing to bring in former Florida State defensive coordinator Mark Stoops. Stoops’ first year with the program was like the one before it — Kentucky finished the year 2-10 and 0-8 in the SEC. However, Stoops and his Wildcats have never looked back since the bumpy start to the new era. In fact, Kentucky has completely turned around. The Wildcats come into Tiger Stadium on Saturday with the program’s best start since 2007. This year is only the seventh time since 1950 that Kentucky has won five of its first six games. The turnaround comes as a surprise to many, but junior offensive lineman Vadal Alexander said there’s a reason why Kentucky had a successful start to its season. “I see [the game] as another SEC opponent. I see it as not Kentucky, but another great team,” Alexander said. “They’re in the SEC for a reason. They’re winning games. We’re ready to play a great team.” Kentucky’s ball-hawking defensive unit is one reason for its improvement. Under Stoops’ guidance, the group ranks in the top 20 or higher nationally in passing yards allowed, scoring defense and team passing efficiency defense. The Wildcats are ranked eighth nationally in turnovers gained.
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page 11 Kentucky has forced opponents to turn the ball over 16 times this season, 11 of those by way of interceptions. Kentucky’s 11 picks of the year ranks fourth in the nation and second in the SEC, which is a considerable jump for the Wildcats, who only had three interceptions all of last season. During his weekly press conference, Stoops said his defense has stepped up with hard work and a hunger to get better day-in and day-out. “The harder you work, the luckier you become,” Stoops said. “I think our guys have really bought into that and we’re working hard to put ourselves in position, and you have to have great structure and great position on the football to make plays.” LSU coach Les Miles said Kentucky has a capable defense, and the Tigers will have to play well to win. “They’re a zone concept in the secondary, and they play their safeties deep and they have nice adjustments to the ball,” Miles said. “They have a quality linebacking core that handles the underneath coverage well, and some talented corners. It’s a quality defensive concept.” While turning the ball over only eight times this season, the Tigers have struggled, at times, holding on to the ball. Against New Mexico State, LSU turned the ball over four times in the 63-7 victory
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with two interceptions and two fumbles. LSU senior running back Terrence Magee said ball security is the number one point the team emphasizes each week, and it’s important the Tigers keep at it against a fast-moving defense like Kentucky. “They’ve got some big physical guys up front, and they do a good job of running to the ball on defense,” Magee said. “Ball security and protecting the quarterback and things of that nature is something we emphasis heavily every week, so we’re just going to continue the same things we’ve been doing and just try to eliminate turnovers and fumbles on offense.” The recent struggles in ball security, especially against a team like New Mexico State, is a cause for concern for the Tigers’ offense. But after committing no turnovers against SEC opponents Auburn and Florida, LSU senior center Elliott Porter said the ball security will continue to be there when the team takes the field Saturday night. “Ball security is the first on any kind of list on offense, so we have to make sure the ball security is there and it will be there,” Porter said. “Trust me, and we’re going to leave it at that. We’re going to fight our butts off just to drive the ball down field and score as many points as we can score.”
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