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Volume 119 · No. 51 campus life

‘It’s On Us’ aims to change campus culture

BY chandler rome editor@lsureveille.com

BY Jayce Genco jgenco@lsureveille.com

I have one of my favorite quotes scribbled in green marker on my office whiteboard.

“The only thing you deserve is what you earn,” Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands once told his team after a tough meet.

His words are how I try to live my life, run my newspaper and project my career. In managing The Daily Reveille, my mantra is the same as Brands’ — work as hard as I can to earn your trust.

But I made some missteps last week.

In the Oct. 28 issue of The Daily Reveille, we published a story detailing the formation of a diversity task force at the LSU Law Center. A week later, we published a story regarding a 2012 incident where Kenneth Barnes — a member of the task force and current president of the Student Bar Association — experienced a racially motivated verbal attack by a fellow law student, who was white, at an off-campus function.

Barnes is black.

In both instances, The Daily Reveille failed in a cardinal tenet of journalism — providing both sides of a story. Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss, or anyone else affiliated with the Law Center’s administration, was not contacted for the Nov. 4 story concerning Barnes’ incident, an egregious fault that I am still incredulous I did not catch before going to print.

Both stories fundamentally misrepresented the Law Center’s efforts to increase its diversity, failed to adequately and clearly state the Law Center’s actual diversity numbers when compared to other schools, and the final story neglected to highlight fully the Law Center’s response to Barnes’ allegations. For these journalistic shortcomings, I fully apologize.

The type of well-reported, thorough story I expect for my newspaper would have

Sexual assault awareness and prevention initiatives are sweeping the nation and seem to be centered around college campuses nationwide, including the University. Student Government’s “It’s On Us” initiative is trying to change the University’s culture regarding sexual assault.

In September, the White House launched its own “It’s On Us,” campaign, geared to “engage college students and all members of campus communities in preventing sexual assault in the first place,” according to a White House news release.

The White House’s efforts have included reaching out to student governments of universities and colleges around the country.

In light of University track athlete Nethaneel MitchellBlake’s forcible rape accusation on Oct. 20 and a lewd sexual phrase decorating Kappa Sigma Fraternity’s Halloween party that read “No means yes and yes means anal,” Alexis Wilson, communication studies senior and organizer of Survivor Speak Out, said she has not seen a change in the culture around campus.

K.C. White, dean of students, said the University is still trying to gather information from Kappa Sigma about the sign, pictures of which circulated online on Halloween.

“I don’t think we have all of the facts, I’m not even sure if we have half of the facts,” she said.

White said the only information the University currently has is a copy of what was posted and information from the Kappa Sigma National Fraternity not condoning the action. From what she understands, Kappa Sigma is starting its own disciplinary process to hold the individual who wrote the sign

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LSU senior safety Ronald Martin (26) celebrates during the Tigers’ 10-7 victory against Ole Miss on Oct. 25 in Tiger Stadium.

Defense looks to carry hot streak into pivotal showdown

BY Jack Chascin jchascin@lsureveille.com It’s do or die for the No. 14 LSU football team this Saturday night.

When the Tigers (7-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) face off against No. 4 Alabama, all eyes will be on LSU’s stingy defense to see if it can continue its string of dominant performances to help keep the Tigers in the tight SEC West race.

“We have something to prove,” said junior linebacker Kwon Alexander. “We want to win, so we’re going to go out there and we’re going to win. That’s the plan.”

There’s a rebirthed confidence in the Tigers’ defense heading into its biggest game of the year, and rightfully so.

The Tigers are coming off arguably their greatest defensive performance of the season against then-No. 3 Ole Miss. LSU shut down the Rebels’ potent offense, holding it to 313 yards while forcing seven straight punts,

four of which resulted from three and outs.

LSU has held its opponents to a total of 10 points in its past two games, and LSU coach Les Miles said he believes the defense is improving both physically and mentally with each week.

“There’s some technical things that have taken place since we played those guys that have allowed us to play better,” Miles said.

“Our guys are recognizing that they can’t be washed out of a gap, and there’s some very important technical pieces that have come to play, and I think we’re better.”

The Tigers are one of the best defenses in the country in opponent third down conversions. LSU has held opponents to a petty 28.79 conversion percentage on third down, which ranks first in the SEC and eighth nationally.

LSU’s defense has been suffocating, but it hasn’t yet faced anything quite like Alabama’s (7-1, 4-1 SEC) offense this year.

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School shelling deaths in Ukraine hurt peace hopes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK, Ukraine — The shelling of a high school in Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk has chilled even the battle-hardened in this weary nation.

The killing of two teenagers as they were playing soccer after lunch Wednesday is a stark reminder that the cease-fire agreed upon in September has only really ever existed on paper. Four other students were wounded, according to Dr. Vladimir Voropayev, chief of the children’s trauma unit at the regional hospital in Donetsk.

The warring sides — government troops on one side and proRussian separatists on the other — now look as far from any lasting settlement as they ever were.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki condemned the shelling of the school.

In the soccer field at Donetsk’s school No. 63, two bloodied coats still lay out in the open Thursday as relatives and staff gathered at the scene.

Alexander Yeliseyev, the father of one victim, 18-year-old Andrei, walked by in shock as he gathered belongings left behind

when his son’s body was removed — a dark brown coat and a pair of sneakers.

“They went to play football at about 2 p.m., while I was at work.

And then the shelling began. Here you see the result,” Yeliseyev said, gulping back sobs.

He said 14-year-old Danya, another student, was also killed.

Authorities in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev said the security services will investigate the shelling of a school, but officials already appear to have made their mind up. Security spokesman Andriy Lysenko said preliminary information indicated the shells flew into the school from a location controlled by separatist forces.

The rebels, however, swiftly blamed Ukrainian forces for the deadly attack, saying government troops often indiscriminately target residential areas in eastern Ukraine.

All that is certain so far is that the school where the shells landed is at least 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the nearest government position but close to rebel posts. That would appear to lend weight to claims of Ukrainian culpability — government troops shelling the rebels — but Lysenko said the shelling was planned in

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Teenagers pass by a hole in the ground from shelling in the Kuybishevskiy district on Thursday where children were injured in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine. advance by the rebels to discredit government forces.

Government officials have failed to produce cast-iron evidence of such claims in the past, and independent rights groups say there’s evidence that government artillery has hit homes in eastern Ukraine. Residents of stricken areas have frequently complained that rebels deploy

artillery near homes, invariably drawing return fire.

The UN estimates more than 4,000 people have been killed over six months of fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. That includes several hundred who have died since a much-violated cease-fire was signed in early September.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s biggest test flight in years remains on track for next month, despite last week’s space-related accidents.

Officials said Thursday everything looks good for the Dec. 4 launch of NASA’s new Orion capsule. This one will not carry a crew. Future Orions are meant to carry astronauts on missions of deep-space exploration, including, one day, trips to Mars.

The spacecraft will blast off atop a Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The fourhour flight will send it on two laps around Earth — and as far as 3,600 miles into space — before parachuting into the Pacific, Apollo style.

William Hill, who helps run exploration systems development for NASA, said the test flight systems have nothing in common with either the Orbital Sciences rocket that blew up at liftoff on Oct. 28 or the Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two destroyed in flight last Friday. So no reviews were needed, and no plans have been changed.

“Space operations is hard, and they proved that last week,” Hill told reporters. “It was a tough week. It’s a tough business we’re in.”

Mark Geyer, Orion’s program manager for NASA, said even before the back-to-back accidents, everyone involved with the upcoming test flight recognized just how difficult it is to send up spacecraft, especially those designed for humans. The two events serve as an important reminder more than anything, he said.

The whole idea of the test flight, Geyer said, is “to learn about where the challenges are so we can minimize the risk when we actually put people on board.”

The capsule will be equipped with 1,200 sensors to measure vibration, heat and noise, among other things.

The flight test readiness review a couple weeks ago already was “very thorough,” Geyer noted, and the NASA-Lockheed Martin Corp. team is going into it with “our eyes wide open and making sure that we all understand the risks.”

NASA is paying Lockheed Martin to carry out this mission, which is valued at $370 million, excluding the Orion capsule itself.

The space agency plans to reuse the capsule in a practice launch abort around 2019, a year after the second Orion flight. That second unmanned flight will be with NASA’s new megarocket that’s still under development, called SLS for Space Launch System.

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Louie’s to move to new location after Alabama game weekend

BY Deanna Narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com What used to be a run-down fast food restaurant now resembles a diner with a “Louie’s Cafe” sign. The famous fluorescent sign is mounted on an outer wall of the restaurant, and the building’s former brown color has been replaced with new paint.

A sign above the door of the current Louie’s Cafe informs customers it won’t be at the location for long. The diner plans to move at some point after the Alabama game on Saturday.

Though Louie’s Cafe announced in March it would be moving into new digs, there is still no official date set for when the 24-hour diner will move from its location on West State Street, where it resided for 27 years, to the former Wendy’s on Lake Street.

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office manager, said the restaurant will not release information about when it will move into its new location to prevent being slammed business-wise and possibly upsetting customers, but a member of the staff said the move will happen sometime after this weekend.

The Daily Reveille reported in October that the diner’s old building on State Street will be home to a new bar and eatery created by partners Shane Courrege and Luis Macedo. Courrege is the owner of Duvic’s Bar and Spanish Moon, and Macedo is head chef at Pinetta’s European Restaurant.

Courrege, who signed the lease with Louie’s owner Jimmy Wetherford and Frank Duvic on Sept. 25, said he plans to change the layout of the restaurant, moving the kitchen to the back of the building and adding a bar to the right of the entrance. The menu will consist of sandwiches

and an assortment of salads and entrees.

Courrege said he hopes to have the bar and eatery open by late January 2015.

The bar and eatery moving into the building will be a stark contrast to Louie’s Cafe, which serves a variety of foods to an open kitchen. However, Wetherford told The Daily Reveille earlier this year that Louie’s new location will include the iconic open kitchen, counter and stools.

Louie’s Cafe opened near the University campus in 1941 and moved to its location on State Street in 1986. It is the secondoldest restaurant in Baton Rouge.

Wetherford initially said the restaurant was going to move last summer.

Courrege said he thinks the popularity of Louie’s Cafe will help the bar and eatery because people will be curious of the business. He hopes to serve people in

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Louie’s Cafe has been in its current residence for the past 27 years. the Northgate area, as there are fewer bars on the north side of campus.

Louie’s will be able to serve

more people in its new building and provide customers with more parking space, Wetherford said in March.

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Cowboy Mouth to play outside Tiger Stadium before game

BY Meg ryan mryan@lsureveille.com Before LSU and Alabama hit the field Saturday, Cowboy Mouth will bring its loud, rock sound to a performance outside of Tiger Stadium.

The band will perform at the Zatarain’s Tiger One Village in the Tiger Stadium parking lot at 2:45 p.m. Saturday. The game is set to kick off at 7 p.m.

Twenty-five years ago in New Orleans, Cowboy Mouth stepped onto the music scene.

Fred LeBlanc started Cowboy Mouth after leaving the group, Dash Rip Rock, because he wanted to begin his own band in his hometown.

Even with 25 years under its belt, Cowboy Mouth continues to produce new music.

The band released the album, “Go!” this June. LeBlanc said the band plans to play songs from the new record along with older songs before the Tigers and Tide face off to keep fans happy.

LeBlanc prides himself on the band’s live performance. It’s a

focal point for LeBlanc, who wants to give an experience more than just a concert — he wants to provide an escape for fans.

“It’s about the need to escape, and realizing that you don’t have to go outside of yourself to find everything you’re looking for in life,” LeBlanc said.

LeBlanc believes everything is on the inside and it’s the person’s responsibility of bringing it out — the theme for every Cowboy Mouth show.

Today, the band is comprised of LeBlanc on vocals and drums,

Casandra Faulconer on bass and Matt Jones and John Thomas Griffith on guitar. LeBlanc said the simplest way to describe the band’s sound is through a description a fan has given him. “‘You guys are just like a Southern gospel revival,’”

LeBlanc mimicked.

LeBlanc said Cowboy Mouth is “a lot of fun with heavy guitar and drums.” The band creates a sound spanning several genres. Its sound ranges from electric blues, rockabilly, punky pop and guitar-focused rock ‘n’ roll.

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page 4 campaign, from page 1 accountable.

Survivor Speak Out is an open forum where students are able to talk about their experiences of sexual assault and violence to other students.

“I’m hoping with more people coming out with it and saying that is a problem that we can change the culture,” Wilson said. “With the ‘It’s On Us’ [campaign] it kind of shows … it’s on us to help victims.”

Wilson said “It’s On Us” gives victims a sense of support during tough times. She said SG has not reached out about her program, but she would like to have their support.

SG participated in the Student Health Center and Women’s Center’s “Take Back the Night” on Oct. 19 and recently held a competition with the Ole Miss SG to see which could get

alabama, from page 1 Alabama is ranked second nationally in third down conversion percentage, moving the chains 55.7 percent of the time, which is only two percent less than the national leader, Georgia Tech.

Miles said the Crimson Tide’s balanced attack plays a huge role in its ability to stay on the field.

“They’re a talented offense,” Miles said. “The opportunity to throw the football to [junior wide receiver Amari] Cooper certainly is an advantage. I think they’ve got a very talented quarterback, and again, any time you put a [junior running back T.J.] Yeldon and a talented group and nice offensive line together, there’s an opportunity to convert on third downs.”

The matchup seemingly pits an immovable object versus an unstoppable force.

The Crimson Tide comes to Baton Rouge ranked second in the SEC in total offense with 508.9 yards per game, most notably posting 602 yards against Texas A&M on Oct. 18. The showdown against the Aggies marked the third time this season Alabama has eclipsed the 600-yard mark.

Alabama is off to a record start under offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin. The Crimson Tide has gained a total of 4,071 yards of total offense in its first eight games, which is the second most yards in program history through eight games.

“I’d say they’re more balanced now. They’re more pass efficient,” said senior safety Ronald Martin. “They’re more run efficient.

They’re still able to run the ball because they’ve got that great offensive line and running backs.”

The Crimson Tide boasts one of the most balanced offenses in the nation, passing for 2,233 yards this season while rushing for 1,749.

Alabama’s balanced attack is thanks to its one-two punch at running back with Yeldon and sophomore Derrick Henry, along with its deep-threat passing game led by Heisman

the most of its members to take the “It’s On Us” pledge. Ole Miss was victorious in the competition by less than 1 percent.

Helen Frink, “It’s On Us” committee member, said SG’s initial focus for the campaign was to get people within SG to take the pledge.

“The first step to stopping sexual assault is education and awareness, and that’s the purpose that the pledge serves,” Frink said.

Frink attributes the changing atmosphere on campus to the rise of sexual assault attention in the media.

“The issue is at the forefront of people’s minds, which changes the way they think and act,” Frink said. “It will take a lot more time and effort to change the culture, though.”

SG’s “It’s On Us” campaign will launch its “big events” next semester, said Robert Lancon, SG attorney general. hopeful Cooper.

Cooper leads the SEC with 8.9 receptions per game and currently is ranked second nationally in receiving yards per game with 141.5 and in receiving yards with 1,132. Cooper has accounted for 19 plays of 20 or more yards and has 49 first down receptions, 19 of those coming on third down.

“He’s good in space and he’s able to make big plays,” said sophomore cornerback Tre’Davious White. “So with him, you’ve got to watch a lot of film and try to grasp some things he’s doing and what he’s going to give you in certain situations and how he’s lined up.

We’ll just go with that. We’ve been watching a lot of film on him and we’ve been coming up with some things.”

White said Cooper reminds him of former teammate Odell Beckham Jr. because of his explosiveness and big-play ability.

The Tigers are preparing for Cooper by having junior wide receiver Chris LaBorde emulate the Heisman contender.

Martin said he believes the secondary will be ready for Alabama’s heavily balanced attack come Saturday night.

“Cooper, he’s a great receiver, but I think our corners are going to be prepared for him this weekend,” Martin said. “The secondary as a whole we’re going to be prepared to come and play.”

With the College Football Playoff still within reach for the Tigers, the concept is simple — win and survive. While players said they don’t pay attention to projections, they know what’s at stake when LSU and Alabama take the field.

“We always look at [Alabama] because that’s one of our big games,” Martin said. “We don’t look past any opponent but there’s just something about Alabama with us at LSU. They have always been great battles in the past and we’re trying to keep the legacy alive.”

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The Daily Reveille law center, from page 1 cluded that, in fall 2007, about 4 percent of the Law Center’s students were African-American.

That tripled to 12 percent this fall.

Twenty-one percent of the current student body is not Caucasian, according to a memo Weiss penned when he appointed the task force. The figure was 13 percent in 2007.

Furthermore, 12 of the 36 current Law Center tenured or tenuretrack faculty members are either women (8 faculty members) or minorities (4 faculty members).

Southeastern Conference law schools’ average non-Caucasian enrollment is 21 percent. LSU Law Center had 23 percent in 2013, representing the most recent date that has comparative data for use.

Those aforementioned statistics and facts, when coupled with our original story that reported and quoted Robert Alagood’s

Friday, November 7, 2014 letter sent to Weiss asking to address diversity, make a thorough, well-reported story.

Unfortunately, this did not occur.

Readers were left not fully informed, and the Law Center was characterized as the “white people law school” in a statement

by Alagood. Statistics and facts do not fully back Alagood’s statement, and the Law Center was mischaracterized.

Perhaps my worst error came in the Nov. 4 story detailing Barnes’ incident at an off-campus Halloween party. While Barnes told his version of the story and the ensuing actions of the Student Ethics Committee, The Daily Reveille did not reach out to the Law Center or any other Law Center student — aside from Barnes — for comment.

Weiss wrote an email to Law Center students on Nov. 20, 2012, which said, in part, “I condemn unequivocally the use of this

hateful word in the circumstance of the Halloween party incident.”

Without comment from Weiss, anyone else within the administration of the Law Center or other students who were present during the time of the incident, the story does not meet my standards and mischaracterizes the Law Center’s response to the incident.

My standards, and the standards of The Daily Reveille, call for balanced, thorough, fact-filled reporting that tells both sides of a story, no matter the gravity of the situation. There is no excuse for this lapse in journalistic ethics, and I take full responsibility for the error of letting these stories print without balance.

It was a momentary lack of control in my newsroom and an error I will work diligently to make sure never happens again.

I hold myself and my staff at The Daily Reveille to the highest standard, and it’s clear these standards were not met.

academics

Class focuses on Mandela’s legacy

BY Jazmine Foxworth jfoxworth@lsureveille.com In spring 2015, the African and African American Studies department is offering students a chance to learn about the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

“The Philosophy and Thoughts of Nelson Mandela” will be led by adjunct professor Dr. Herman O. Kelly Jr., who has been teaching at the University since 2000.

Kelly first taught the course in spring 2013 and began teaching it again this year after taking a break for the University to verify his credentials.

Kelly also has taught courses in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Manship School of Mass Communication.

During his time at the Manship School, Kelly taught “Martin, Malcolm and Mandela in the Media,” and he said the Mandela course is an offshoot of the class.

This will be Kelly’s first semester teaching the class since Mandela’s passing, and he now plans to focus on helping students understand his legacy as a leader.

“I want people to really understand his legacy because when he was alive, we kind of took him for granted,” Kelly said.

Kelly also will teach Mandela’s role in ending apartheid in South Africa and show students the similarities between apartheid and the Jim Crow era.

He credits a lot of Mandela’s success in leading to his “Shepard Leadership” style.

“He lets the people go out in front as if they are leading, but he’s really leading from behind which is totally different from this culture where the leader is out front,” Kelly said.

He hopes students can learn you don’t have to lead from the front in order to be successful from this course.

“You need to nurture and

mentor people, and you can lead as long as you are there to help develop the policies and strategies,” Kelly said.

Theatre senior Tyler Ales said it’s important the University offers this course and will consider taking it because of his interest in politics and history.

“It’s a good thing to have classes like this at LSU because it creates a more diverse community through learning about other cultures and different histories,” Ales said.

Apparel design senior Maddie Louviere said it’s great the University is offering the specific and original course so students now can benefit by learning about another culture’s struggles.

“It’s cool that they have courses like that, and I feel like the University has been trying to spread their course load out by offering new and exciting courses,” Louviere said.

Kelly said one student signed up for the class next semester is promoting the class through flyers around campus. For the course to remain offered, there must be at least 10 students enrolled.

Kelly said he hopes to reach 10 students and that Mandela’s ideas and philosophies could be beneficial to students.

“It’s a good class for young students because you really need to know about his heritage and some of the struggles he went through,” Kelly said.

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LSU philosophy professor Dr. Herman O. Kelly Jr. gives his thoughts of human rights activist Nelson Mandela.

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Breaking the Curse LSU looks to overcome Alabama for the first time in three years

BY TYLER NUNEZ • tnunez@lsureveille.com For the fourth time this season, the No. 14 LSU football team will go toe-to-toe with a team that has spent a significant amount of time in the top 5.

The Tigers hosted Mississippi State in a game that kick started the Bulldogs’ historic run to the top spot in the nation. They went to Auburn where they got destroyed by quarterback Nick Marshall before flipping the script and winning three straight, the last against then-No. 3 Ole Miss.

But while playing top-tier opponents is nothing new for LSU, there’s nothing ordinary about this week.

This week is different. This week is special. This week, the Tigers take on No. 4 Alabama at 7 p.m. Saturday in Tiger Stadium.

“This is what you come to LSU for,” said junior cornerback Jalen Mills. “That’s why those guys went

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CRIMSON TIDE’S STATISTICS 2014 STATS PASSING · Blake Sims: 131 comp, 2034 yards, 15 TD

RUSHING · T.J. Yeldon: 120 att, 644 yards, 5 TD · Derrick Henry: 103 att, 550 yards, 4 TD

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LSU junior safety Jalen Mills (28) and junior cornerback Jalen Collins celebrate a play during the Tigers’ win against Ole Miss, 10-7, in Tiger Stadium on Oct. 25.

RECEIVING · DeAndrew White: 23 receptions, 243 yards, 1 TD

TEAM STAT COMPARISON 2014 STATS TOTAL AND SCORING OFFENSE ALA: 292 points, 36.5 points per game LSU: 295 points, 32.8 points per game

Rushing offense ALA: 1749 yards, 218.6 YPG, 19 TD LSU: 2031 yards, 225.7 YPG, 22 TD

Passing offense ALA: 2322 yards, 290.2 YPG, 18 TD LSU: 1697 yards, 188.6 YPG, 14 TD

TOTAL AND SCORING DEFENSE ALA: 112 points, 14 points per game LSU: 143 points, 15.9 points per game

Rushing defense ALA: 621 yards, 77.6 YPG, 2 TD LSU: 1437 yards, 159.7 YPG, 10 TD

Passing defense ALA: 1593 yards, 199.1 YPG, 8 TD LSU: 1426 yards, 158.4 YPG, 6 TD compiled by TREY LABAT / The Daily Reveille

Miles different, more eccentric than Saban THE CUBAN CANNON

TOMMY ROMANACH Sports Columnist During his weekly radio show Wednesday night, LSU football coach Les Miles interrupted co-host Jim Hawthorne midsentence when Hawthorne was talking about how close the last games against Alabama were.

“You know, those last two were just a pain in the tail,” Miles said.

It was small, but it was the only time Miles slipped up his act the last two weeks. Since beating Ole Miss on Oct. 25, Miles has talked about Alabama but never revealed disdain for the Tide, like so many fans in Baton Rouge.

But the radio slip-up conveys

the truth — this game is different, and no one wants to win it more than Miles.

Hating Alabama is a bodily function for LSU fans, stemming from a long line of trials against the Tide. The dominance of former Alabama coach Bear Bryant, Nick Saban’s betrayal in 2005 and the controversy in 2011 all are reasons for Tiger fans to feel bitter.

But Miles has a stronger reason to hate Alabama, a reason exclusive to him. Saban’s stern leadership has affected the way people perceive Miles since he arrived here, and all Miles wants is to prove his prowess is equal to Saban’s.

By statistics alone, Saban has been only slightly better than Miles. Saban has won only six more games in more than seven

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Jose Bastidas’s column, “Physician-assisted suicide should be regulated but more accessible,” a reader had this to say: I think that you’ve made some very dangerous distinctions in your article and I can’t keep quiet about it. You contrast an “average” suicide with “dying with dignity”, setting the two apart as “giving up” and “taking control of the inevitable”. In the eyes of a person with suicide ideation they ARE taking control of the inevitable.

The only difference with Brittany Maynard is that she’s been put on a pedestal. She decided that the rest of her life would be too painful to both herself and loved ones.

Many people with suicide ideation feel the same. It doesn’t matter if you’re in “the right state of mind” or not; when has wanting to die by your own hands ever been considered “the right state of mind”? If you want an example of someone dying with dignity, look up Lauren Hill, the terminally ill student who fulfilled her dream of playing in a college basketball game a month before she is supposed to die.

Despite the diagnosis, she plans on continuing classes and basketball until her body doesn’t let her.

She’s relentlessly fighting despite the inevitable. Make no mistake, Brittany Maynard committed suicide. She may have been intelligent and devoid of mental disease that typically characterizes suicide victims, but she still put limits on herself. In other words, she gave up, and that’s not something to be lauded.

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OFF the MARK Polsters, pundits appallingly off-target in recent election

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Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., great each other in the last U.S. Senate candidate debate Oct. 29 in the Holliday Forum.

brace yourself ryan mcgehee Columnist Election night has come and gone, and the Republican Party stands as the victor with its shiny new Senate majority. Democrats didn’t just get beaten; in the words of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., it was “a real ass-whuppin,” which is totally on the mark. It was a bloodbath of epic proportions.

Despite the tremendous losses for Democrats, the biggest losers on election night were the pollsters and pundits who tried predicting the results.

In the days leading up to the vote, there was a debate as to whether or not it would be a “wave election” in favor of the Republicans, or an ideological shift in the electorate toward what Republicans were offering.

A large number of the talking heads concluded that it would be a Republican victory, but certainly not a wave. If they were to gain the majority it would be by the skin of their teeth. There were even those predicting the Democrats would retain control of the Senate, but you can hardly expect Debbie Wasserman Schultz or Chris Matthews to be

objective when it comes to predicting elections.

The GOP surpassed all expectations and captured seven seats in the senate, with a probable eighth if Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., can pull off a win in the runoff. If he can bring in even a fraction of Col. Rob Maness’ voters, he’ll do just that. The question will be whether they are angry enough at the results to abstain from turning out on Dec. 6.

The pundits were so keen on handicapping the GOP’s chances on Tuesday because they, like the rest of us, were looking at polls that were appallingly off the mark.

As reported by Politico, most poll averages greatly underestimated Republican candidates, often by a factor of five or more points. In Louisiana’s Senate race, average polling showed Cassidy earning roughly 34.5 percent of the vote. What he actually got was around 40.9 percent — that’s 6.4 points off.

Even at the Paul Dietzel campaign, it pains me to say that most polls pointed to a much closer race between Dietzel and Garret Graves, in some cases within one or two points. However, after a monthlong media blitz and a late-game attack ad, Graves ended up with roughly double Dietzel’s votes.

Being a few points off is

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forgivable — even more so as the margin of error increases from poll to poll. This, however, was damn near flooring.

If any other person performed as poorly at their job as the pollsters did, they would be fired immediately and ostracized from their fields. One can’t help but think of the nearly overnight disappearance of pollster and former Clinton advisor Dick Morris, who inaccurately predicted a 325 electoral vote landslide for Mitt Romney in 2012.

The only prediction that any of the talking heads or pollsters got on the mark was former Sen. Scott Brown losing to Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, which surprised no one because Brown isn’t even a New Hampshire native.

When the 2016 election cycle comes around, we need to take anything the pundits and pollsters have to say with a grain — or in some cases, a pile — of salt. The last two cycles have shown that they are not as adept at gauging public mood and voter turnout as they would like us to think.

Ryan McGehee is a 21-year-old political science, international studies and history senior from Zachary, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @JRyanMcGehee.

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Taking birth control isn’t just for preventing pregnancy taming of the shirin shirin chowdhury Columnist I got my first period on my first day of seventh grade. It was on that day my 12-year-old self decided to hate uteruses.

If hearing about “girl stuff” makes you uncomfortable, stop reading now — although if that’s the case, you should also take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself why you’re such a chump.

Anyway, back to pubescence. Periods are a natural part of a female’s life. We hear about cramps, headaches and PMS in all their glory. But for some girls, periods are more than minor cramps and mood swings. They’re hell.

For a solid seven years, my periods wreaked havoc on me month after month. Until I started taking birth control, half of each month revolved around me dealing with my uterus, hindering my ability to live life.

While a lot of people might see this as an exaggeration, it really isn’t.

I got tired of waking up in the morning in such crippling pain I couldn’t get out of bed. I can’t even tell you how many times I missed class because of how severely my periods incapacitated me.

My periods essentially made me sick for a few days every month. Mentally and physically drained, I could hardly function. My doctor recommended I go on birth control, and since then, my periods haven’t negatively interfered with my health.

Unfortunately, too many

people hold the notion that anyone on birth control pills is taking them only to prevent pregnancy.

My doctor told me a more accurate way to refer to birth control pills would be “hormone therapy.” If preventing the fertilization of an egg isn’t the only thing birth control does, it’s certainly not the only reason a woman might start taking the pill.

When you hear about a young female taking birth control, the first assumption you’re likely to make is, “Oh, she’s having sex.”

There are a lot of reasons why making that assumption is not OK. Here are a few: 1) You have no idea why she’s taking birth control, nor is it your business. For all you know, she could be asexual.

2) Even if she is having sex, it’s her life and that’s her choice. You have no right to make harsh judgments or even guess at what (or who) she might be doing in her free time.

3) You aren’t her doctor, and you have no idea what’s best for her.

Taking birth control isn’t synonymous with being sexually active. This might come as a surprise to some of you, but I’m not taking birth control so I can have frequent and indiscriminate sex with strangers without the burden of raising a human child.

Even if I were having frequent and indiscriminate sex, it’d be none of your business.

Last time I checked, you don’t have a Ph.D in telling me how to live my life.

There are plenty of reasons

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Despite stigmas that birth control is only used to prevent pregnancy, it actually offers a number of health benefits to females. why a woman might start taking birth control. If an unwanted pregnancy just so happens to be prevented, cool. But if it also helps prevent periods from interfering with a woman’s ability to function without collapsing over in pain, that’s pretty cool too.

As a message to my uterus: I’m sorry I hated you for so many years. You’re really not that bad after all, and maybe we can even be friends some day. If I seem distant, it’s only because I’ve been hurt before.

Speaking for myself and many of my female friends,

birth control pills have far more benefits than just preventing pregnancy. It’s time for more people to recognize that.

Shirin Chowdhury is a 20-yearold English junior from Manhattan, Kansas. You can reach her on Twitter @TDR_schowd.

Oppression abroad used to avoid gendered violence in the U.S. off with her head jana king Columnist When I pulled up CNN’s website on my computer last week, I noticed two things.

First, a headline in big, bold letters describing the sale, rape and enslavement of females by the Islamic State.

The second was the absence of a story of several Ohio women and their rape by police officers.

I heard the second by reading the blog of a young woman in Ohio who was pulled over by a police officer because of a traffic violation and then raped.

When an officer in Ohio was asked about this, he said Ohio females could avoid rape of this

nature by following all of the traffic laws.

Using sexual violence as a means to get citizens to follow laws? That sounds like something a terrorist organization would do.

The media has a tendency to sensationalize. I’ll admit that I’ve used tactics to get readers’ attention so I could talk about my perspective on an issue.

But what I don’t understand is why the American website for CNN chooses to focus on an issue overseas but not on the rape that happens in our own country.

I don’t think the suffering of the American women and the Middle Eastern women is comparable, and we certainly don’t benefit from starting a battle of who has been the most oppressed. But we do need to start talking about how we view the

plight of Middle Eastern women as tragic but glaze over the suffering of American women.

While CNN reported on the steps America has to disband the Islamic State group and return order to the Middle East, the personal narratives of the events taking place in Ohio and around our country are left for survivors of sexual assault to tell.

Perhaps the most tragic part of this is that, regardless of media coverage, neither America nor the countries of the Middle East are making much headway with these issues or others affecting the minority voices in their countries.

People love to boycott companies that use outsourced, underpaid child labor. But in America, while it’s not legal for children to work until the age

of 16, we don’t do much to help the families who would benefit from sending their young children to work. I can’t even count the number of times I asked my mom for something, whether it be something I merely wanted to play with or something I needed for school, only to be told that if I wanted it, I would have to wait until I could pay for it.

But boycotting companies who underpay the parents of children who would be child laborers isn’t trendy, because it doesn’t make us look good as a nation. Our credibility would be lost if we gave more attention to the human rights violations in our own country, and admitted to our faults.

Think back to the classes you had in elementary and high school where the teacher had

strict rules for the students, never allowing them to use the bathroom or eat in class. I’m sure there were a couple of times you saw your teacher step out to pee or snack on something at their desk. Did it take away from the seriousness of their rules?

Of course it did. This “do as I say, not as I do” method might help America keep its savior complex in check, but it’s not helping American women. It’s time to admit that we aren’t the top nation in the world when it comes to treatment of our citizens, especially the marginalized voices.

Jana King is a 20-year-old communication studies junior from Ponchatoula, Louisiana.

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Friday, November 7, 2014 streak, from page 5 to Alabama, the LSU-Alabama game. You know it’s coming around this time every year, and it’s something you build yourself up to.”

The Tigers (7-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) have been unable to defeat Alabama (7-1, 4-1 SEC) in their last three meetings with the Tide — a streak they want ended this Saturday in their last home game of the season.

“We’re going to try to beat this team to the best of our abilities,” said senior center Elliott Porter.

“This is why we work hard. It’s why we run in the summer time.

It’s why we lift in the summer time. We do it all for games like this. That’s why you sign here at LSU. Everybody came to play at LSU for games like this.”

For LSU’s seniors, Saturday night marks their last game in Tiger Stadium and a final chance to defeat Alabama since the first time they faced the Crimson Tide in a game monikered “The Game of the Century” in 2011.

The Tigers were only able to celebrate the victory for two months before Alabama delivered a crushing 21-0 defeat in a rematch for the BCS National Championship.

Since then, the Crimson Tide has had LSU’s number. Alabama defeated the Tigers, 21-17, with a last minute touchdown the last time the two programs played at Tiger Stadium in 2012, and won a 38-17 contest last season in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

“We know that they took something from us, and we know that we haven’t beaten these guys in our last three meetings,” said se-

nior safety Ronald Martin. “We’re going to have a chip on our shoulder. We’re going to have to come to play. We’re going to have come to practice ready to practice, and we’re going to have to be prepared because those guys are going to give their all. We just have to do the same thing.”

For LSU to finally overcome Alabama, every player at every position will have to leave it all on the field, Martin said. Few Tigers personify this attitude better than senior linebacker D.J. Welter.

Welter began the season as LSU’s starting middle linebacker, but he’s seen limited minutes on defense because of the emergence of sophomore linebacker Kendell Beckwith. As a result, Welter spends most of his time on the field playing on special teams.

But that’s not going to keep him from doing what he can to bookend his LSU career with wins against Alabama on his senior night.

“I’m just enjoying it every day. It’s my last year here being an LSU Tiger,” Welter said. “It’s my last couple games I’ll get to do that. I’ll always be a Tiger, but people always say they wish they could go back, so I definitely want to leave it all out there.”

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“A game like this, you really want to win it,” Dural said. “The way our season’s gone, we need this win. It’s a big pride thing.

Nobody ever really wants to lose, but especially to Alabama ... This week everyone is tuned in and locked in. There wasn’t as much joking in practice. Everyone was a lot more serious.”

Saturday’s contest is about more than senior night, it’s about more than post-season implications, and it’s even about more than the numbers in the wins and losses columns after it’s all said and done. For LSU, this Saturday is about beating Alabama.

“Last one in Tiger Stadium, it’s special to me,” Porter said.

“It’s special for the the rest of the seniors. It’s special for the rest of the team and it’s special for the state. We want to fight hard that day.”

You can reach Tyler Nunez on Twitter @Nunez_TDR.

miles, from page 5 seasons, and that is counting the five wins taken away because of a NCAA violation in 2007. But fans put Saban on a different pedestal than Miles and all other college coaches, as if the Tide’s coach could do no wrong.

The difference between the two is that Miles acts like a human being. While Saban maintains the image of the worst dinner party guest of all time, Miles doesn’t hide his zany behavior.

For some reason, people hold that against him.

Coaches are allowed to have different styles and personalities, but Miles is so far from the norm that he loses respect from some. Meanwhile, Saban is a carbon copy of old college coaches like Woody Hayes and Bryant, a stern coach who wins games based on discipline and repetition.

Miles is eccentric and passionate, and like most in society, he is seen as a misfit for those qualities. The coach who has produced seven 10-win seasons in nine years is “allegedly” bad at his job because he goofs around at press conferences and eats grass on the sidelines.

In reality, only half of the weird things Miles does are unintentional and the other half is to please the fans. He’s accepted

his role as a character, and he only wishes his detractors could feel the same way.

Those detractors include the LSU fans with a Nick Saban complex. Since coming to Baton Rouge, these fans have judged Miles’ accomplishments, fairly or unfairly, based on what Saban does at Alabama. They still haven’t moved on from Saban leaving, and Miles is punished for it.

There’s no proof Saban would win more games with Miles’ players or vice versa. There have been games Miles lost that he could have won with conservative coaching, but there are also games he won because of his uncommon play-calling.

Calling Saban the better coach is a reasonable opinion, but calling Miles an idiot or a bad coach because he isn’t Saban is maddening. Almost any school in the country would die to have Miles and his all his quirkiness lead the team.

Miles’ quip on the radio wasn’t just a release of frustration about losses the last two seasons. It’s also a small outburst at fans who judge his personality instead of his record.

Tommy Romanach is a 22-yearold mass communication senior from Dallas, Texas.

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about FAQ s EBOLA WHAT IS EBOLA? Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains. Ebola can cause disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees).

Should you be concerned about an outbreak?

How long does Ebola live outside the body?

It is very unlikely that an outbreak, similar

Ebola on dry surfaces, such as doorknobs

to the one in Africa, would occur in North

and countertops can survive for several

America. A person is not infectious with the

hours. However, virus in body fluids can

virus until they are showing symptoms.

survive up to several days at room

They would not be walking around, feeling

temperature. Household bleach kills Ebola.

fine and able to transmit Ebola to other

How is Ebola transmitted?

people. To be infectious, they would have

Ebola is spread person to person by direct

symptoms. This allows time to identify

contact with body fluids from an infected

cases early and isolate them. This is not

What are the symptoms of Ebola?

person. Direct contact means that body

happening in Africa. People are not getting

Symptoms of Ebola typically include fever,

fluids (saliva, sweat, tears, mucus, vomit,

in to the hospital. They are staying home

severe headaches, muscle pain, weakness,

feces, urine, semen, and breast milk) from

with their symptoms and spreading it to

diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, and

an infected person (alive or dead) have

their community and family members,

unexplained bleeding or bruising.

touched someone’s eyes, nose, mouth, or

which is why the outbreak is

Typically, symptoms appear 8-10 days after

an open cut, wound, or abrasion.

continuing there.

exposure to the virus, but the incubation

fever and perhaps some more advanced

period can span three to 21 days.

What are my chances of contracting Ebola?

Can Ebola be spread by coughing or sneezing?

As of October 2014, there have only been

Ebola is extremely infectious, because a

two persons in the United States who have

minute amount can cause illness. However,

What if I traveled to an infected region recently?

contracted Ebola outside of Africa. Both

it is considered moderately contagious,

If you have been to an Ebola infected

of these individuals spent hours taking

because the virus is not transmitted

region in the last 28 days, contact the

care of a terminally ill patient with Ebola

through the air. With the most contagious

Student Health Center for important health

who had a very high viral load. There have

diseases, such as measles or influenza, virus

information by calling 225-578-5084 or

been no cases of Ebola in casual contacts

particles are airborne and remain

225-324-8594 after hours. Infected regions

of any of the patients who have had Ebola

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in the United States .

person coughs or sneezes. Although

and Sierra Leone.

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