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Petroleum engineering senior Ryan Gibson came to LSU after eight years in the U.S. Marines.

Former Marine adjusts to University life BY quint forgey qforgey@lsureveille.com Petroleum engineering senior Ryan Gibson said his most stressful episode at college came when he scored his first “D” on an exam — a sinking feeling many University students can relate to.

But the 31-year-old former Marine, like hundreds of other student veterans on campus, brought with him many wartime experiences most of his classmates could not identify with.

The most nerve-wracking chapter of Gibson’s eight years in the military began on a rainy hilltop outside of Pakistan.

Gibson and his fellow Marines spent three days and nights on a hill in the middle

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University Veteran Center working to ease veterans’ transitions back into civilian world

of January. Their sleeping bags were water resistant, but after a few hours, Gibson said he and his group were lying in puddles.

The sky cleared and the sun finally emerged when the Marines hiked downhill on the fourth morning.

“All we can think about is going back and getting hot breakfast,” Gibson said.

As a group of Humvees transported the soldiers back to base camp, Gibson said he heard a small “pop” in the ground, signaling the initiation of an improvised explosive device. The convoy came to a stop.

“In order to blow the main charge, you have to blow a smaller, less stable charge to detonate,” Gibson said. “The best I could

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BY Kaci Cazenave kcazenave@lsureveille.com For military veterans, the return to college after war is now more common and a less difficult transition thanks to the University’s Veteran and Military Student Services.

VMSS was established in February 2013 after Kurt Keppler, Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Enrollment Services, recognized the University’s need to better serve the veteran and military student population.

VMSS coordinator Adam Jennings said he worked closely with Keppler to establish the office in Johnston Hall to recruit potential students and provide

services for those already at the University.

The VMSS office has since moved to the third floor of Hatcher Hall, which Keppler said is a transition space for all new offices on campus.

Jennings said now that the office has been established, his role is recruitment.

“A lot of what I do involves going to the military, looking for people getting out of the military and trying to get them to come to LSU,” Jennings said. “I also work with dependents of veterans whose parents may be on the GI Bill — and I sometimes recruit them, but mostly I just

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Academics

Professor uses literature to teach film

BY Carrie Grace Henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com English professor Carl Freedman, known for his signature tweed suit and even more signature courses, teaches on everything from masculinity in John Wayne movies to world-building techniques by weird fiction author China Miéville.

A perpetual student, Freedman began kindergarten 58 years ago and has been in school ever since.

“Academics are people who like school so much that they never want to leave,” Freedman said.

He teaches courses on Marxist theory as well as film noir, frequently changing subjects as his interests outside the classroom develop.

“I like to teach a course a few times,” Freedman said. “You get to know the material better and get a sense of what works and what doesn’t, but then on the other hand, you don’t want to teach a course too many times. You’ll get stale.”

Though he decided on an English major with the intention of becoming a poet or short-story writer, Freedman has had broad success in the nonfiction genre,

with several of his books’ topics mirroring those he teaches at the University.

“There’s often a lot of overlap between what I’m teaching and what I’m writing about,” Freedman said. “Although the relationship can go both ways.”

Freedman’s recently completed book on China Miéville prompted the return of on a course on the author. Class preparation and discussion during his John Wayne’s America course inspired chapters in his book about film.

“I’m not sure what I’m going

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University English professor Carl Freedman’s courses focus on literature but have made their way into the honors and film and media arts departments.

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Journal details FSU shooter’s suspicion of gov’t.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida State University alumnus and attorney who shot three people at the school’s library early Thursday believed the government was targeting him for persecution, detailing his thoughts in a journal and in videos detectives obtained, authorities said.

Officers fatally shot Myron May, 31, during an exchange outside the library about 12:30 a.m.

May reloaded at least once and tried to enter the library, where about 450 students were studying for midterm exams, but was blocked by lobby security barriers that permit only students and staff inside, Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo said.

“Based on our initial review of the documents and his videos and his postings, it’s clear that Mr. May’s sense of being and place in our community was not what most people would refer to as a normal,” DeLeo said. “He had a sense of crisis and he was searching for something.”

The shooting sent students scrambling for cover in the book aisles and barricading themselves in with desks amid screams from classmates.

“I ran for my life,” said Allison Kope, a freshman from Cocoa Beach, who was on the library’s first floor. “I ran right out the backdoor. My laptop and everything is still in there. It was shock. It was just instinct.

You don’t think about anything else, you just go.”

One person is in critical condition and one is in good condition at a local hospital, while the third was released.

May’s Facebook page shows he posted mostly Bible verses and links to conspiracy theories about the government reading people’s minds.

Records show May was licensed to practice law in Texas and New Mexico.

According to a Las Cruces, New Mexico, police report last month, May was a subject of a harassment complaint after a former girlfriend called to report he came to her home uninvited and claimed police were bugging his house and car.

Danielle Nixon told police May recently developed “a severe mental disorder.”

“Myron began to ramble and handed her a piece to a car and asked her to keep it because this was a camera that police had put

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The report also said May recently quit his job and was on medication.

No charges were filed.

Abigail Taunton, who runs a foster home in the Florida Panhandle, told AP that May was staying at a guest house she owns.

“He’s just a boy our kids

grew up with that we let stay in one of our guest houses for a while,” she said. “He’s moving back home from Texas and we were trying to help him get on his feet.”

“We’re just all astounded.

We had no idea that he would do something like this,” Taunton said. “Obviously, he was not in his right mind.”

Protest plan derails Thai showings of Hunger Games THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK — A cinema chain in Thailand’s capital has canceled all screenings of the latest “The Hunger Games” movie after a student group planned a protest at a theater against the country’s military coup. Activists said Wednesday that police pressured the theaters to halt the showings.

Opponents of the May military coup have adopted a three-finger salute from the movie series as a sign of defiance. The militaryimposed government has banned the gesture, which symbolizes rebellion against totalitarian rule in the film series.

Protest against unjust rule runs throughout the “Hunger Games” franchise. The latest installment in the popular series focuses on the mechanics of rallying support for imminent revolution.

A group of anti-coup students from Bangkok’s Thammasat University purchased about 100 tickets for an opening-day showing Thursday of the “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1” at the Scala cinema and planned to attend together.

Ratthapol Supasopon, an organizer, said the group was informed by the theater management that the film’s showings had been canceled.

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“The theater told us they were uncomfortable and wanted to avoid any problems that may arise. They said they did not want to be involved in any politics,” he said. “The police contacted them and pressured them not to let us hold the event.”

An employee answering the phone at the Scala who declined to identify himself said the movie had been canceled at all theaters belonging to Bangkok’s Apex chain. The film is still scheduled by some other cinema chains.

Lionsgate, “Mockingjay’s” Hollywood production company, had no comment on the situation.

Initial protests against the May coup largely died out because of crackdowns on dissent by the army and police, but there has been a small upsurge in recent days.

On Wednesday, five university students were arrested in northeastern Thailand after giving the three-fingered salute during a speech by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the coup as army commander.

The students, wearing T-shirts saying “Don’t Want a Coup,” stood in front of Prayuth as he spoke on a stage in Khon Kaen, a stronghold of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in an earlier 2006 military coup.

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Dec. 6 runoff election, but Petit hopes to have a signature added to the card in time for the gubernatorial race next

BY JAYCE GENCO year. jgenco@lsureveille.com Voter ID laws have been a hot topic of discussion among American citizens have politicians and other lawmakthe right to vote, but in some ers. Some argue that without states it can be more compli- citizens presenting proper idencated than just being 18 and a tification at the polls, it opens the door for fraudulent votes citizen.

Student Government sena- to be casted. Ballotpedia.org’s tor Jacques Petit is hoping to research shows 17 states require simplify the U.S. voting pro- photo identification to vote in an election. cess for University students.

Bob Mann, political histoAccording to Louisiana law R.S. 18:562, “Each applicant rian and Manship Chair at the shall identify himself, in the Manship School of Mass Compresence and view of the by- munication, said there is very standers, and present to the little evidence of voter fraud commissioners a Louisiana and almost no instance of driver’s license, a Louisiana people committing voter fraud special identification card is- in person at the polls.

“It tends to be not really sued pursuant to R.S. 40:1321, or other generally recognized about stopping voter fraud, picture identification card but by stopping certain a kind that contains the name and of people from voting,” Mann said. signature of the applicant.”

Mann said there are many Under the current law, if people in the a University United States student does don’t not produce a ‘I want every LSU student to who have the monLouisiana be able to participate in the driver’s li- democratic process. This is one ey and are so that they cense or other of the ways I’m hoping I can poor RAEGAN LABAT / The Daily Reveille have no need form of idendo that.’

LSU Student Government senator Jaques Petit has passed a resolution requesting LSU Auxillary Services to redesign the LSU for an ID in tification with their daily Tiger Card to include the student’s signature. a picture and lives. signature, JACQUES PETIT, “ T h e y ’ r e to make it harder for people to they cannot Student Government senator never pre- vote who usually vote for the vote. Students v e n t i n g other party.” are unable Both the Tiger Card wealthy white to use their state issued Tiger Card as an people from voting. It’s always Office and Heather Bilodeau, alternate form of identification poor people and students,” coordinator of communicaMann said. “It’s curious that tions and marketing for the while at the polls.

Petit said he recognized the people who want to make it Student Union, did not return this issue and decided to take harder to vote always find ways requests for comment. action. He said he was working at a polling place for extra credit in one of his classes and NOVEMBER during training, officials specifically said citizens cannot use a University-issued form of identification because it lacks a signature.

Petit wrote a resolution to request a signature to be added to the Tiger Card to combat the issue. The resolution passed with 100 percent of the vote.

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ARTS AND SCIENCES

Hill Memorial brings Cornell professor unlocks art mysteries in antique epic poem THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY QUINT FORGEY qforgey@lsureveille.com Special Collections at Hill Memorial Library has acquired an early edition of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” from an antique book dealer last month, and students will now have the chance to explore the rare text free of charge.

Michael Taylor, assistant curator of books in Special Collections, said the book provides insight for those studying art, religion and Italian history.

The “Divine Comedy,” written

by Dante between 1308 and 1321, is an epic poem detailing the afterlife’s stages of Hell, purgatory and paradise.

The first of the poem’s three canticas is the popular “Inferno,” in which the poet Virgil guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell.

Special Collections’ edition of the “Divine Comedy” was published in 1578 following the advent of the printing press. It is the first edition with a bird’s-eye illustration of Dante’s Hell.

Because the library’s printed edition is not one of the original, handwritten manuscripts of the “Divine Comedy,” Taylor said the text also is important in understanding the transfer of knowledge over time.

The “Divine Comedy” is now one of 120,000 books the library stores in a

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Hill Memorial Library recently has obtained a new copy of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’ climate-controlled environment.

“We don’t keep stuff here to keep you away,” Taylor said. “We keep it here to make sure the stuff is available for, in theory, 100 years from now.”

Taylor said texts with historical significance that require special care can be found in Special Collections rather than Middleton Library.

Hill Memorial Library’s extensive collection of manuscripts requires extra maintenance, Taylor said.

“They’re individual letters, but there’s only one in the world. So if that was ever lost or damaged, we wouldn’t be able to replace it,” Taylor said. “There’s no other copy out there to get.”

ITHACA, N.Y. — Richard Johnson can see right through the masterpieces of Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

The Cornell University electrical and computer engineering professor is a digital art detective, able to unlock the mysteries of a work’s age and authenticity by analyzing its underlying canvas or paper.

Using high-resolution X-ray images, the 64-year-old academic can actually determine if paintings came from the same bolt of hand-loomed canvas, each of which has a varying thread density pattern that can be as unique as a fingerprint. Linking multiple pieces of canvas to the same bolt can shore up arguments for authenticity and even put works in chronological order.

It’s a valuable service to world-class museums that comes through the unlikely cross-pollinating of traditional art history and contemporary computer science.

“By mixing the two groups we’ve been able to do more than either group had been able to do separately studying the paintings,” Johnson said in a room full of Dutch paintings at Cornell’s Johnson Museum. “We’re not trying to replace the art historian, we’re trying to extend their reach.”

Johnson is a tech whiz and an art lover — the rare person able to speak with authority about Rembrandt’s brush strokes and adaptive feedback systems theory.

Although he didn’t make his

first visit to an art museum until he was a student on fellowship in Germany, the rooms full of Rembrandts left him thunderstruck.

Johnson melded the two worlds in 2007 with a stint as an adjunct research fellow at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. He began examining high-resolution X-ray images of the canvases used by the 19th century master.

Eventually, Johnson and Rice University professor Don Johnson (no relation) developed digital “weave density maps” of canvases that added computational power to what had been a painstaking process that required scholars to study small samples with magnifying glasses.

“It turns out with the eye, you make mistakes,” said Louis van Tilborgh, senior researcher at the Van Gogh museum.

Van Tilborgh sees the weave maps as an important tool in the ongoing work of precisely dating and ordering all of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings.

The technique has also provided evidence to date Diego Velazquez’s “Sebastian de Morra.”

A separate analysis of 24 Johannes Vermeer canvases supported the sometimes doubted attribution of one painting and provided fresh evidence to link two paintings at the National Gallery in London as complementary works.

“It’s one more technical tool in the box of studying pictures,” said Walter Liedtke, curator of European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, who worked with Johnson on the Vermeers.

“You take this added evidence and you join it with — in the case of the two Vermeers in London — pigment analysis, the iconography of the pictures, whether they were together in their history at earlier dates. “ Researchers have been conducting science-based analyses of artworks for some time. But it has become more common to use computers to analyze large amounts of digital data. It’s sometimes called computational art history and also includes assessing brushstrokes for distinctive patterns.

Johnson in recent years has left the canvas to other researchers as he focuses on paper. He’s been analyzing the old-fashioned paper used by Rembrandt for his prints, which was made by laying pulp on screens. Scholars know the dates when Rembrandt etched the copper plates to make the prints, but they are often less sure when an individual print was made. Was it one of the initial prints or did it come years later after the artist’s death?

Johnson is using high-resolution digital images of Rembrandt prints owned by Cornell’s museum to try to discern patterns that the screens impressed on the back of the prints. Separate prints cut from the same larger sheet of paper could be matched to provide the same sort of contextual information revealed by studying canvas.

The details are different, but the idea of searching for useful patterns is the same, as is the idea of bridging the gap between art and tech.

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Tigers face Monarchs in Paradise Jam

finding balance

BY JACK CHASCIN jchascin@lsureveille.com

LSU gymnastics I find a way to make it happen.”

On her way to a school-record 114 individual titles, Clare-Kearney excelled in the classroom as a Scholastic All-American in her junior and senior years. Her mother is an educator, but Clare-Kearney didn’t conquer this academic challenge in college until she sat out a year with a foot injury before her sophomore campaign.

A career in law, though, was always the goal for Clare-Kearney.

After receiving her master’s degree in sports management from LSU, the Manchester, Connecticut, native received a law degree from Southern University. While she acknowledges that she is a good arguer, she doesn’t see herself as a future litigator.

“I still don’t necessarily want to be in the courtroom, but I’ve never heard anyone saying they regret going to law school,” Clare-Kearney said.

With an undefeated record still intact after an overtime victory against Texas Tech, the LSU men’s basketball team is set to tip off against Old Dominion in its first game of the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam. The Tigers (2-0) traveled to the island of St. Thomas, where they will take on Old Dominion (2-0) in the first-round starting tonight at 5:30 p.m. The winner will play the winner of Illinois State and Weber State match on Sunday.

“This tournament we’re going to, we’re certainly going to be challenged,” Jones said. “Old Dominion is a very good basketball team and you have a great group of teams that are there as well. We look forward to those challenges. The thing is we’re a young team, we’re inexperienced and we have a lot of new pieces.”

St. Thomas has plenty to offer the team outside the University of the Virgin Islands’ Sports and Fitness Center, but junior guard Keith Hornsby said he isn’t worried about the team getting distracted.

“I’m used to that. My freshman and sophomore years of college I went to the Bahamas, Atlantis and Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Tip Off so I know how to manage my time

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Ashleigh Clare-Kearney shows Lloimincia Hall new choreography for a floor routine.

Ex-LSU gymnast Clare-Kearney continues to volunteer despite budding law career

BY JAMES BEWERS • jbewers@lsureveille.com As an LSU gymnast from 2005 to 2009, Ashleigh Clare-Kearney contorted her body in front of the glaring eyes of nit-picking judges.

Now, the two-time national champion and five-time All-American works behind the scenes with a single judge, the Hon. Lisa WoodruffWhite, who frequently makes rulings on the custody or support of a child.

As a full-time staff attorney in the Family Court of East Baton Rouge Parish, Clare-Kearney’s position may be a role reversal from her college days. But her love for LSU gymnastics remains constant.

In fact, she’s entering her fifth year as a volunteer coach, focusing on beam and floor.

While Clare-Kearney’s current entry-level job allows her some flexibility, she said LSU gymnastics is a sacrifice worth making at least twice a week.

“I am firm believer in ‘you make time for what you want to make time for,’” Clare-Kearney said. “I think because I love being a part of MEN’S BASKETBALL

Winding journey leads Antonio Robinson to walk on at LSU

BY MICHAEL HAARALA mhaarala@lsureveille.com When he began playing college basketball, LSU senior guard Antonio Robinson was an 18-year-old freshman at McPherson College in Kansas.

Today, Robinson is almost 23 and finishing up his architecture and graphic design classes before graduation in May 2015. He’s also one of two walk-ons on LSU’s 2014-15 basketball roster.

“It’s kind of weird being so old and it being my first year on the team,” Robinson said. “But I have a place on the team of bringing a maturity factor.”

Robinson was born and raised in Louisiana and graduated from Parkway High School in Bossier City in 2010.

After getting offers from multiple schools throughout the

central United States, he decided to continue his basketball career at McPherson College, an NAIA school in McPherson, Kansas.

“It was quite a while ago that I was getting recruited,” Robinson said. “I had schools like Grambling, Southern and some NAIA schools in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. But the coaching staff at McPherson really stood out.”

McPherson head coach Tim Swartzendruber recruited Robinson and got him to sign with the Bulldogs. Robinson was the only player from Louisiana who Swartzendruber both recruited and brought to the team in 2010.

Robinson said he felt comfortable as soon as he stepped on campus, and that McPherson was where he belonged. Swartzendruber took Robinson under his wing and helped him get accustomed to a new school as well as life on

the court.

“Out of high school, the great coaching staff is what really drew me to McPherson,” Robinson said. “But it was also the opportunity to be in a new environment. I just wanted to get away.

I’m a Louisiana native, and it was just a different opportunity for me to get to go out there and play basketball with new people and join a new team.”

Robinson fit in with the team right away. He became close friends with everyone on the roster, immersed himself in campus life and made the most of his first year at college.

“I got really close with all the guys I was playing with. A couple guys like D’Onte Woods and Trent Severs, we really got accustomed to each other and I

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Senior guard Antonio Robinson [left] gets a second chance at playing basketball this season. He was one of two walk-ons to join the Tigers this year.

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Tigers look to rebound from last week’s loss

BY BRIAN PELLERIN bpellerin@lsureveille.com

added time for teaching as well.”

After a poor shooting performance against Texas Tech on Tuesday, teaching will most likely be in effect leading up to the Tigers’ meeting with the Monarchs.

The Tigers shot under 40 percent from the field on Tuesday while making only two of their 19 attempts from behind the arc.

LSU struggled throughout regulation and the overtime period to get its offense going, but a physical defense helped save the day for the Tigers, who came back and ousted the Red Raiders in overtime.

The grind-it-out win against

PARADISE JAM, from page 5 in the Tropics,” Hornsby said.

“It’s tough, but we know what we have to do. We probably won’t get too distracted by the sand and clear water and palm trees.”

Jones said he sees the tournament as a good opportunity for his team to become a closer unit and build more chemistry while in unfamiliar territory.

“Our guys are a close-knit group,” Jones said. “They are always around each other but this is going to be a great opportunity for us as a team to bond. We always feel like we are family-oriented group, and this is going to give us an

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a Big 12 opponent sends LSU off to the islands with momentum, and Jones said bottling that momentum and taking it with them will be a key to the tournament on its weekend excursion.

“I think it’s going to be really important [to carry the momentum]. I think these two games we’ve had served us a great purpose regardless of what’s going on there,” Jones said. “We know that we can fight back from a deficit and we’ve got to make sure that we’re cognizant and really understand, and I think that’s important for our team.”

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When the LSU volleyball team takes on Missouri tonight, it will be playing its first game after a loss since Oct. 5.

The Tigers saw their 11game winning streak snapped in five sets last Sunday at Mississippi State. LSU (16-8, 11-4 Southeastern Conference) had already beaten Mississippi State during the streak.

Junior defensive specialist Haley Smith said the Tigers weren’t mentally ready to play against the Bulldogs. LSU also beat Missouri (16-14, 7-8 SEC) during the streak, but Smith said after last weekend’s loss, the Tigers won’t be overlooking anybody.

“Last Sunday was a big mental statement,” Smith said. “We weren’t where we wanted to be [mentally], obviously with that loss to Mississippi State. So this week, we’re just preparing to be mentally ready and not overlook anybody.”

Smith said instead of dwelling on the loss, the Tigers moved on quickly and hope the ‘hiccup’ will push them to be better going forward.

LSU coach Fran Flory attributed part of the loss to LSU’s many injuries during the weekend. Multiple Tigers suffered minor injuries, but Flory said they’re all ready to go for this weekend and attrition is typical at this point in the season.

“Everybody’s back and we should all be good to go,” Flory said. “I think every team is like that right now. We’ve just got to toughen it out mentally and physically gut it out to the end.”

Four Tigers will also have to be emotionally strong this weekend.

Friday’s match against Missouri is senior night, and Sunday’s match against Auburn (12-15, 4-10 SEC) will be their last career home game.

Outside hitter Helen Boyle, middle blocker Madi Mahaffey, setter Malorie Pardo and defensive specialist Laura Whalen have helped the Tigers to 66 wins, an SEC Western Division championship and NCAA Tournament Regional win during their careers.

Mahaffey said she and her fellow seniors will play with extra motivation this weekend.

“It’s exciting, but it is bittersweet,” Mahaffey said. “I think it’s going to be really emotional ... You’ve got to play especially hard on your senior night. Also, it’s our home court and you always want to defend your home-court, and I always want to go out with a win.”

LSU’s matchup against Missouri is an important one for Boyle because she is a native of Eureka, Missouri. But Flory said she’s sure her seniors are more focused on getting into the NCAA tournament than securing a win on senior night.

“I think this team has a bigger vision, and now that we’ve had this stumbling block, they know we have to win out to advance and that’s the goal,” Flory said. “I think if you ask the seniors on the importance of winning on senior night versus winning to have a chance to continue playing a couple of matches longer, I think they would prefer to play a couple matches longer because they aren’t ready for it to be over.”

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Friday, November 21, 2014 ROBINSON, from page 5 really liked it,” Robinson said. “It was a real family environment.

I still talk to those guys. We still stay in contact. Some of them are starting to do other things like get married and have a family and everything.”

Although Robinson had a close bond with the players and coaching staff, he said the classroom setting at McPherson wasn’t what he had hoped for. He decided he needed to transfer to a school that could help him achieve his dream of working for an architecture or graphic design firm.

Robinson said the decision was tough, but it was one that will help him immensely in the long run.

“The education is what brought me to LSU,” Robinson said. “I really saw that I couldn’t do what I wanted to do in the classroom at McPherson, and I just wanted to come back home.

LSU really fit me the best because I want to go further in architecture and graphic design.”

Because Robinson wanted his education to come first, he had to put basketball on the backburner.

He had played basketball his entire life, and when he hung up his shoes, he was able to experience a whole new world.

“The three-year span of not playing basketball was weird,” Robinson said. “I took that time to just live a regular student life. I attended games, did different student activities and just experienced college. I was able to do things with my time that I wouldn’t be able to do as a collegiate athlete.”

Robinson couldn’t stay away from basketball for long, however.

He decided to help out with the LSU women’s basketball team as a practice player, and Robinson instantly began to bond with everyone around him.

“I joined to help with the women’s team to make me feel involved in basketball again,” Robinson said. “I really started to grow relationships with the managers and coaching staff, and every year I got to meet new players. I built relationships with everyone.”

Being around a collegiate basketball environment made his desire to play again even stronger.

Robinson said his friends always encouraged him to try out for the men’s team, but he didn’t heed the suggestions until this year. He said he didn’t expect to play at the collegiate level again, so when the opportunity arose, he took it.

“They told me that when I went to the UREC, I was better than most of the players there,” Robinson said. “So I took the opportunity to try to walk on to the team, and coach Johnny Jones and the coaching staff blessed me with the opportunity.”

Just like he immersed himself in McPherson basketball in 2010, Robinson has fully engaged with the Tigers’ program. Through his hard work, he has earned his teammates’ respect and has bonded with them.

“It’s just playing basketball,” Robinson said. “That’s how you

relate with everyone. If you can play, you can play. They saw I could play a little bit, and they respect that. If you come out and work out every day, the recruited guys respect that and bring you in. They saw I could actually play and wasn’t just out there to be out there.”

Robinson’s hard work and journey to join the Tigers hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Junior guard Keith Hornsby said since day one, Robinson has made a statement to the recruited players.

“He’s just one of those guys who is always good to have out there with us,” Hornsby said.

“Every time he plays in practice, he plays tremendously hard. He gives it his all. He knows what this opportunity means, so he’s not going to mess around or take it for granted. Even if he might not get many minutes, it doesn’t matter to him.”

Robinson said he’s always keeping busy with his homework or his job when he’s not playing basketball.

He works at Yvette Marie’s Cafe, a small restaurant in Mid City Baton Rouge. He’s worked there since summer 2014 and said going to work is something he truly enjoys.

“It’s hard and time consuming to have a job and play [Division I] basketball, but at the same time, it’s what I have to do to support myself as a student as well as an athlete,” Robinson said. “All the employees I work with love me and I love them, and we make everything fun. It’s never like, ‘I have to go to work.’ It’s always, ‘I can’t wait to go to work.’ I enjoy what I do.”

Not only does he have a good time at his job, but his coworkers enjoy Robinson and the positive presence he brings to the staff.

Brett Sollberger is a manager at Yvette Marie’s, and he said Robinson is always fun to have around.

“We have eight employees who work here, so it’s very tight-knit. When you work here it’s kind of congested. We’re really good friends, it’s like a little family,” Sollberger said. “He’s diligent. He’s also great with the ladies. They love Antonio. He can be quiet, but when he needs to say something, he’s pretty eloquent.”

Robinson’s journey has led him from Louisiana to Kansas and back with many twists and turns he never expected.

But Robinson hasn’t let that faze him. He has approached all of his challenges head-on and said he appreciates the opportunities he has been given, taking none of them for granted.

“I just want to become a better basketball player. I want to build my basketball IQ and take everything in from the coaching staff,” Robinson said. “Maybe I’ll continue playing basketball as a career overseas, or maybe I’ll work as an architect in a firm or in graphic design. No matter what I end up doing, I just want to work hard and make myself better.”

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The Daily Reveille CLARE-KEARNEY, from page 5 In a sport requiring complete concentration, excellence in academics is something Clare-Kearney sees in many gymnasts. One of her prized pupils, senior AllAmerican Lloimincia Hall, also is stellar in the classroom.

Hall, a three-time Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll member, has dazzled judges and the public with creative and powerful floor routines, creating a viral splash last spring. While the four-time All-American and three-time SEC floor champion brings her own flair to the execution, Clare-Kearney is the one tirelessly choreographing the routine.

The perfectionist volunteer coach frequently alters the routine or music for a floor exercise months before Hall or another gymnast goes to competition.

“I do my best work when I’m laying in my bed,” ClareKearney said. “When they get

page 7 their music done and I’m laying in bed, I play their music. That’s where I can think and see them doing certain things. So I type all in my phone. I come here, and, sometimes, I don’t know what I typed because I described it in words.”

While Clare-Kearney has been crucial to her success, she and Hall have a special relationship outside of the sport. Hall acknowledged that she can be difficult to deal with, but she considers Clare-Kearney to be a family member who motivates her to be her best.

“We’ve cried together, laughed together [and] prayed together,” Hall said. “We’ve done a whole bunch of things together to say that I know I wouldn’t be where I was if it wasn’t for her.”

Clare-Kearney acts as an older sibling for all the Tiger gymnasts. She said she considers herself to be a “mediator” in situations that may arise between the athletes or between the athletes

and coach D-D Breaux.

It’s a level of respect Breaux gives to her former standout gymnast that developed over 10 years of being around each other.

Breaux sees Clare-Kearney as a peer whose opinion is equally as valid on decisions that range from the routines to what leotard the gymnasts should wear.

“We really understand each other tremendously,” Breaux said “I have just so much respect for her, what she does and what she’s accomplished.”

In the subjective sport of gymnastics, which requires mind-numbing repetition in practice, Clare-Kearney is the harshest judge of her own choreography. She doesn’t know how long she will continue to volunteer, but LSU gymnastics runs through her veins and keeps her coming back to shepherd new gymnasts.

“I love to serve as a mentor to [the gymnasts], so they can be that much better than [my teams] were,” Clare-Kearney said.

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CHOCOLATE CRAZE Your guide to coping with the upcoming chocolate shortage

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no way jose jose bastidas Columnist By 2020, the world as we know it might come to an end.

Chocolate giants Mars, Inc. and Barry Callebaut have announced that, while candy bars will still be present in our lives, the taste of the chocolate may be completely different.

Why? Experts say climate change is decreasing the world’s supply of cocoa beans as more and more people discover the goodness of chocolate every day.

To address the unsustainable chocolate production model, scientists are working to create a tree that produces more cocoa beans. Unfortunately the synthesized product from these trees is expected to produce less

flavorful chocolate.

To prepare us and future generations for this imminent change, I have developed a list of ways to cope with the decline of chocolate.

1. Don’t wait until tomorrow to buy the chocolate you could eat today.

In 2013, the demand for cocoa exceeded the amount of cocoa produced by 70,000 metric tons and, according to The Washington Post, this number is expected to increase to 1 million metric tons by 2020.

Instead of worrying about it now, why not just enjoy real chocolate while it lasts?

Go to Winn-Dixie and buy that Snickers bar you always see at the checkout line but normally refuse to purchase because your grandmother told you to watch your weight last time she came to visit.

Chocolate will be gross in a few years anyway, so eat as much as you can while you can.

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2. Replace chocolate with another addictive food product.

Although chocolate is the most beloved product of the candy variety, the spectrum has never been more diverse than it is now.

Gummies, taffies, sour candies and more options are all available at the On The Geaux establishment in the Student Union.

Right next to the candy is the salad bar, where you can stand in line and play a game of “make your own salad,” if you want to use chocolate’s decline as an excuse to turn your life around and start eating healthy.

But I’d just buy some French fries and get addicted. Cocoa beans may disappear over time, but potatoes aren’t going anywhere.

3. Deal with your feelings with exercise rather than by eating chocolate.

How many times have you

resorted to eating chocolate or chocolate-based products to feel better?

When we’re upset, we like to drown our sorrows in candy because it makes us happy.

Chocolate increases our endorphins — hormones that cheer us up — but exercise has been proven to release more endorphins than the sweet snack.

Because chocolate is about to change in front of our eyes why not let it go and save us the heartache in a few years while getting in shape in the process?

4. Buy as much chocolate as you can.

Angus Kennedy, the editor of Kennedy’s Confection magazine, said with the upcoming shortage of cocoa beans, “Cocoa could be the new gold!”

So wouldn’t it be a smart business endeavor to buy as much of the chocolate products as you can and then have all the power?

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Obviously you would keep some of the supply for yourself, but you could sell the rest to the unfortunate people who didn’t get to Wal-Mart in time before the fake chocolate-covered pretzels hit the stocks.

Not only will you have the chocolate you desire, but also you will have what will most likely become the new form of currency in this new post-cocoa civilization.

At least until the chocolate expires.

All great eras must come to an end.

Our greatest challenge is to move forward and embrace whatever comes next. So enjoy your chocolate while you can, because everything is about to change.

Jose Bastidas is a 21-yearold mass communication senior from Caracas, Venezuela.

You can reach him on twitter @jabastidas.

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‘Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.’

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Continued protests in Ferguson inappropriate, needless brace yourself ryan mcgehee Columnist The grand jury in the Michael Brown slaying is expected to make a decision sometime this month on whether Officer Darren Wilson should be charged for the killing.

Most expect there to be substantial unrest if there is no trial, so much so that Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has already declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard.

However the grand jury rules, there is absolutely no excuse for violence or destruction of property, and the threat of said violence should not in any way sway the decision.

There is quite a bit of mystery surrounding the circumstances of Brown’s death, even now, months after the fact. The investigation has produced two narratives of the shooting. The first, which is argued by the Brown family, is Wilson pursued Brown and shot him needlessly as his hands were raised.

The second, which paints Wilson as a cop just doing his job and trying to stay alive, is the officer confronted Brown, who attempted to grab Wilson’s gun. In the struggle that ensued, Wilson fired his pistol several times, killing Brown.

Both sides have autopsies to back up their claims, but the official autopsy indicates a gunshot wound to Brown’s hand, which gives credence to Wilson’s account.

In short, either Wilson brutally killed Brown for potentially racially motivated reasons or Brown made the very unwise decision to try to take a cop’s gun from him. All this has made for a highly charged environment in Ferguson,

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A message on an open but boarded-up business thanks people for their support in Ferguson, Mo., in response to prolonged police conflict. intensified by race-baiters such as the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Sharpton, a former civil rights leader, said he and his activists are on “high alert” for a ruling in the case and has indicated there would be demonstrations if he does not get his pound of flesh. Since the case made national headlines, Sharpton has added nothing of substance to the proceedings other than his constant, shrill cry of “racism!”

It’s this sort of talk that inspires people to go out and needlessly riot, loot and destroy property when all that’s

needed is a simple, nonviolent protest. Even then, protest of any sort are inappropriate in this setting. Yes, we all have our First Amendment rights, but this is not a political debate; it is simple criminal proceeding where decisions have to be made on empirical evidence, not public opinion or emotion.

Our judicial system is designed to be insulated against a mob rule, which the Founders referred to as “the tyranny of the majority.” To stand outside of the grand jury proceedings and insist that a case

be taken to court just because you are angry about it is nonsensical and definitely not how we do things in this country.

We must either abide by the rule of law all of the time, or we won’t have a rule of law at all.

How would we feel if we were in Wilson’s position? We would want the evidence to be the only thing considered, not the desires of people who threaten unrest when things don’t go their way. The fact that a state of emergency had to be declared for the rest of the proceedings is ridiculous.

The protestors need to be on their very best behavior once a decision comes down, regardless of what it is, if not go home altogether. It is a criminal proceeding outside of their control. The only reason we are talking about it is because a few people decided to inject the topic of race into the discussion.

(there are exemptions allowed, including some religious ones).

Since most Americans already have insurance through their employers, they don’t have to do anything. Those folks are still free to consult the Act’s Health Care Exchange to see if they can get a better deal.

The exchanges are intended to help those without insurance find affordable coverage, though use of the exchange is not mandatory. There’s no “Obamacare” that one signs up for – when a politician says that, you know immediately they’re not to be trusted. The exchange is a website to purchase insurance from the same

private companies that everyone else buys from. The difference is that it explains the tax credits that lower income folks may qualify for to help pay for coverage.

For students, the options are several. University health plans are already considered coverage under the ACA, though students can still purchase coverage on the exchange. The ACA exempts from the coverage requirement those whose income is so low that they don’t file a tax return. But the Act also allows young people to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26, if the plan is one that covers children.

Many young people don’t see

the need for insurance, since we’re generally healthy and on average won’t ever utilize it.

That’s true – but when we do need it, we really need it, because of a serious accident (automobile, skiing, etc.) or medical problem. The ACA provides people under 30 (and “hardship cases”) the option of purchasing a catastrophic policy – one that protects you from the high medical costs of a serious accident. It costs less per month, but doesn’t provide the benefits that a regular plan does until the higher cost threshold is met for medical expenses.

Republicans have tried to sabotage the ACA by encouraging young people not to sign

up, selling it as if they’re protecting them from something.

The opposite is true – you’re not helping yourself by not getting coverage, especially with the numerous options for finding affordable (and for some, essentially no-cost) health insurance. Not having care when you need it is a high price to pay for supporting the Republican agenda.

For more information, go to https://www.healthcare.gov/ifi-m-a-college-student-what-doi-need-to-know-about-the-marketplace/.

Ryan McGehee is a 21-year-old political science, interdisciplinary studies and history senior from Zachary, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @JRyanMcGehee.

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Signing up for health care a good idea for students The next period for purchasing health insurance through the Affordable Care Act started November 15 – and it’s a good idea for students. It’s also the law – and it’s still a good idea.

Despite all the misinformation that Republicans and the media have spread about “Obamacare”, the real facts are not that complicated. The Act requires most Americans to purchase health insurance

Karla Frias Member LSU College Democrats

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Friday, November 21, 2014 veterans, from page 1 tell, the smaller charge wasn’t connected to the main charge, and so when it detonated, it just kicked a little dirt off.”

Gibson, the engineer on the patrol, was called to investigate and dispose of the explosive.

“I had to walk up and look at this hole in the ground, not knowing what was underneath it and not knowing if it was going to blow up again,” Gibson said.

Though an Explosive Ordinance Disposal team was eventually called in to dig up the mine, Gibson still vividly remembers approaching the bomb.

“That was probably the most stress I had in the military. Either that or the Air Force shooting in our direction one time,” Gibson said. “One or the other.”

Gibson is originally from Sunset, a small town outside of Lafayette, Louisiana.

“I wanted to be close enough to home so I could go home,” Gibson said. “I wanted to be far enough away so I can be away.”

Gibson works as a supplemental instruction leader for a physics course. He has an office of his own,

center, from page 1 answer questions they may have.”

In addition, Jennings speaks with veterans about their experiences, giving them advice about what to do if their classes get purged and puts them in contact with Veterans Affairs.

“Adam has done a great job getting this program going,” Keppler said. “He holds meetings, creates study hours and even organizes tailgates for the vets. Overall, he’s getting people to get more involved and is giving the vets a place to call their own.”

Jennings said he and Keppler are not the only University resources that have helped make VMSS successful. A number of National Guard members, reservists and staff members from First Year Experience, the Center for Academic Success and Career Services have also worked to provide academic support for the veterans.

“The scariest part is coming out of the military and facing the ‘Now what?’ question,” Jennings said. “Our work study students are really good at providing an answer to this question for incoming veterans because they have their own personal experience and have been at LSU ... and some of them are even still in the [National] Guard and other reserves.”

Statistics prove the positive effect the presence of the VMSS center has had on students, Jennings said. Every semester, veteran enrollment and participation in the services program increases.

“We also get a good bit of feedback from veterans who have graduated from LSU,” Jennings said. “They keep saying they wish [the Veterans Center] would have been here while they still were.”

Jennings said an estimated 500 people between the ages of 22 and 30 are enrolled in VMSS. After

but occasionally visits the Office of Veterans Affairs to interact with other former soldiers.

“I find a lot of my classmates are a lot younger,” Gibson said. “I don’t share enough experiences with them.”

Talking to past soldiers in the Office of Veterans Affairs allows veterans to vent frustrations average college students would not understand, Gibson said.

He takes particular offense to peers talking over professors in class — a practice unheard of in the military.

“If I’m going on a rant and a rave about it with one of these guys, they’ll laugh it off and understand where I’m coming from on that one,” Gibson said.

Gibson explained the divide between veterans and traditional students as both groups having a different definition of “extreme.”

What veterans consider pressure is vastly different from the struggles of everyday college life, Gibson said.

The former soldier gets annoyed at the idea of students being stressed out over having two tests in one week.

“Oh, is that the end of the legislation was passed in 2013 to allow veterans who have been out of the military for one year to go to school in Louisiana for instate prices, Keppler thinks this number will increase.

Most students receiving the office’s services now are engineering and business administration majors.

Nick Trapani, who came to the University in 2013, is one of the program’s business management veterans. He is also the student veteran president.

Trapani said having a designated location to go to each day, like the center’s recreational room, lounge and education center, has benefited many of the veterans and military students and allowed the program

The Daily Reveille world? I mean really? Is that the extent of your problems?” Gibson said. “That kind of stress doesn’t affect us as much. But on the other hand, whenever we’re in class and you can’t hear the professor, that in turn will stress us out while other people might think that’s negligible.”

Gibson described college as a lonelier lifestyle than his time in the Marines and said he had to adjust to not having a responsibility to others.

“The only time you’re really held accountable is at the end of the semester when you get your grades,” Gibson said. “You’re just in this kind of on your own, as opposed to being constantly in the group with a similar drive, similar motivation.”

When he meets younger veterans on campus, Gibson advises them to take their education at the University as seriously as he has.

“You’ve got to get your ducks in a row beforehand. When you’re doing it, you’ve got to make sure you’ve checked every box that needs to be checked and do it like you’re presenting it to your superiors,” Gibson said. “Treat school like a mission.”

to grow.

“The Veteran Center gives people like us a place to come to besides the library,” Trapani said.

“It connects us to other veterans, which is probably the greatest benefit of all, because being older, you don’t really relate to 18-year-olds all that much.”

Keppler said the University faculty currently is looking at options for constructing a larger VMSS center between the Women’s Center and the African American Cultural Center. The space was initially intended to a restaurant or retail center, but it has not been completed.

“The prospect of having a new Veteran Center in that space is something [LSU] President [F. King] Alexander is very excited

page 11 to do next. I’m thinking maybe a course on the films of Alfred Hitchcock, maybe a course on the films of Oliver Stone,” Freedman said.

Freedman is an English professor, but his courses appear in other departments. His film courses are in the film and media arts department and John Wayne’s America will return in the spring as an honors course.

“I try to be conscious of the fact that films are not literature; the two forms are very different,” he said. “Still, inevitably, I have a somewhat literary approach to it.”

Though his background is literary, Freedman has inspired students with his film courses.

University graduate and screenwriter Sarah Masson said Freedman’s class was the first time she realized she could be more than an audience member.

Among many others, Masson took the John Wayne course and an independent study on crime film with Freedman.

“I think taking classes with Carl that dealt with film was the

first time I started to think about film in the same way I thought about literature,” Masson said.

As an English literature major, Masson said she knew she would be introduced the classics like Shakespeare and Dickens but was drawn to Freedman’s classes because the subjects were more relevant to her life.

“He both had really great lectures and because of the material he was presenting and his enthusiasm, we got great discussions,” she said. “He’s a really great combination of being ridiculously brilliant, but when actually talking to him, he’s so passionate about it and excited.”

Another former student, Rich Cooper, is now an English lecturer at Texas A&M and said Freedman was in many ways responsible for the direction his life took.

As his graduate student, Cooper said he and the professor had a shared interest in China Miéville.

“The highest praise I can give to that is when I teach now,” Cooper said, “I find myself speaking sometimes and realize that I’m saying the exact same thing Carl would say.”

about,” Keppler said. “The Office of Student Life and Enrollment has already begun fundraising for the new center.”

Keppler said completion of the new facility will not be as costly because of a $10,000 grant VMSS received from the Home Depot

Foundation, but it will depend on how long the fundraising takes.

Jennings said the goal is to raise $7.5 million to cover the cost of the facility and renovate the clock tower to build a war museum there for the public and cadets of the Old War Skule.

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Forward Ann Jones gives Lady Tigers much-needed paint presence BY david gray dgray@lsureveille.com LSU junior forward Ann Jones had one goal for the Lady Tigers’ contest against Jackson State University on Monday.

On a team that plays four guards in its starting five, the 6-foot-3 Jones’ agenda was simple: Crash the boards.

“I just wanted to step up and do the things the team needed me to do, which was rebound,” Jones said. “That’s what was my focus for [Monday], to clean the boards for the team.”

But Jones did more than gobble up rebounds.

In a game that was much tighter than expected, the University of Memphis transfer turned in the most well-rounded performance of her short LSU career and was the key ingredient in the Lady Tigers’ 52-44 overtime victory.

On a night when LSU shot a season-low 32.6 percent from the field, Jones provided the team with its only semblance of efficient basketball. The Tennessee native led the Lady Tigers with a season-high 12 points on 6-of-12 shooting from the field.

The rest of LSU’s starters shot a combined 10-for-31.

But the majority of Jones’ buckets resulted from her domination on the boards. Nine

of her career-high 14 rebounds came on the offensive board, and those extra possessions led to Jones pouring in 10 of the Lady Tigers’ 19 second-chance points.

Though Jones’ career night was an outcome of her crashing the glass, LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said she’s seen her new starting forward evolve into a more complete basketball player.

“I’ve seen [Jones] step outside her comfort zone and really try to extend her offensive skills,” Caldwell said. “Whether it’s handling 20 feet from the basket, something she wasn’t accustomed to, or starting our break, something that she’s becoming better at, she brings a different versatility to our team that really complements our guard play.”

Sitting out all of the 2013-14 season gave Jones ample time to hone those new-found skills.

Due to NCAA rules, Jones was required to sit out her first year with LSU after she transferred from the University of Memphis following the 2012-13 season, but Jones said she was grateful for the extra time to develop her game.

“Of course sitting out was challenging at times,” Jones said. “But it gave me an opportunity to practice a whole year and get better and learn the system here at LSU.” Jones also got a heavy dose of

Theresa Plaisance and Shanece McKinney, the Lady Tigers’ starting frontcourt players last season who have since moved on to the WNBA. Jones said banging bodies down low against the likes of Plaisance and McKinney — who stand at 6-foot-5 and 6-foot-4, respectively — everyday in practice forced her to develop other areas of her game.

“The fact that both [Plaisance and McKinney] are huge and tall players, I had to kind of finesse my play a little bit,” Jones said.

“I learned to do a little hook shot to pull them out of their comfort zone on defense. It was challenging, but it was a great challenge.”

But Caldwell said Jones can be utilized in the same way as the two players she squared off against each day in practice last season.

Jones didn’t need her extra finesse against Jackson State as all 12 of her points came in the paint.

As well as she performed Monday night, Jones said she must continue to produce.

“I can’t just come in and turn it on when I want to,” Jones said.

“It has to be a consistent thing.

With the help of my teammates, I believe we all can do it together.”

You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.

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LSU junior forward Ann Jones (31) snags a rebound in LSU’s 52-44 victory against Jackson State on Monday at the PMAC.

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