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LSU to play Notre Dame in Music City Bowl

BY tyler nunez tnunez@lsureveille.com The No. 22 LSU football team will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, where it will play against Notre Dame in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 at 2 p.m., the Southeastern Conference announced Sunday.

The contest will mark the first appearance in the bowl for both the Tigers (8-4, 4-4 SEC) and the Fighting Irish (7-5).

“We’re thrilled to extend the streak for the University to 15 straight bowl games,” said LSU coach Les Miles by phone, while out of town recruiting. “We see this as a national matchup, a very attractive television game and we recognize that Notre Dame is a tremendously talented [team].”

The game will not be the first time the Tigers have met Notre Dame. LSU and the Fighting Irish have played each other 10 times in a series tied at five games apiece.

The last time LSU met Notre Dame, it ran away from the Irish

BY fernanda zamudio-suarez news@lsureveille.com The Burger King on Highland Road shut its doors Saturday night after an armed robbery.

Around 11 p.m., Baton Rouge Police spokesman Cpl. Don Coppola said two men entered the restaurant, hooded and wearing bandanas, and stole an undisclosed amount of money.

Coppola said one suspect was armed, but no one was injured as both suspects fled after stealing the money from the cash register.

Later, officers were called to the scene to begin investigations while employees left the restaurant.

“It sounds like once preliminary investigation was done, they [employees] went about their business,” Coppola said.

Coppola said BRPD will release photographs from the robbery to help identify the suspects.

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Bill Cassidy snubs Mary Landrieu to earn U.S. Senate seat BY savanah dickinson sdickinson@lsureveille.com Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., took the Senate seat from incumbent Mary Landrieu, D-La., in the runoff election Saturday, some say partly due to the increase in his share of the African-American vote.

Prior to the runoff election,

Cassidy earned 3 percent of the AfricanAmerican vote while Landrieu raked in 94 percent.

The Cassidy campaign and separate organizations, such as the Black Conservatives Fund, have fought in the last month to increase the number of African-American voters at the polls.

The BCF hired Fredrick Sargent and

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SEMESTER IN REVIEW

SG initiatives during semester aim to change student life

BY Jayce Genco jgenco@lsureveille.com

After Saturday’s runoff election, Louisiana now has a host of new public officials in office tasked with making important decisions around the state. With the last few months being about nothing but politics, campus leaders have continued to change student life.

Student Government has been busy passing resolutions and legislation that range from campus safety and sexual assault to voting and University policy.

The semester started off with student body president Clay Tufts and LSU Athletics making changes to the student gate at football games. The changes eliminated

the bottleneck effect and Tufts told The Daily Reveille in August he had received positive feedback from students.

“They’ve been running really well,” Tufts said. “We haven’t had a major issue.”

The first few weeks of school were busy for SG, and one of its first orders of business was student safety.

The Senate and LSUPD were in the opening stages of talks to install a license plate recognition system on the gates around campus.

The system will take a picture of every vehicle’s license entering and exiting campus, then send the information to a national database. If the plate has been used in a crime, it will

be flagged and law enforcement will be notified.

Some students weren’t in favor of this resolution.

Makaila Santiago, biological engineering sophomore, told The Daily Reveille in September she would feel uneasy about the system because the database would have all of her information.

“I’d feel a little creeped out,” Santiago said. “LSU needs to focus on keeping kids in school.”

Students also voiced their concerns about SG’s spending early in the semester.

SG passed legislation to spend $10,000 on a new logo in hopes of making SG more identifiable on campus, Tufts told The Daily

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EL PERICON, Mexico — A steady stream of neighbors, friends and classmates stepped into the half-light of Ezequiel Mora’s tworoom adobe home Sunday to offer their condolences for the death of his son Alexander, the first of 43 missing college students to be confirmed dead.

In grey slacks, a navy blue shirt and leather sandals, Mora received his visitors with red, sleepless eyes, accepting their words with a slight nod and a lingering degree of disbelief.

Alexander Mora Venancio, 19, the second-youngest of eight siblings, had dreamed of becoming a physical education teacher, an ambitious goal for a kid from this tiny agricultural community deep in the mountains of the Costa Chica region of Guerrero state.

“They took my son’s dream,” the 63-year-old Mora said.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam confirmed Sunday that the son had been identified from charred remains found several weeks ago near a garbage dump in Cocula, Guerrero. The DNA was matched from material extracted from a bone fragment and analyzed by forensics

experts at a laboratory in Innsbruck, Austria.

“He was a classmate who was very strong, very persevering in whatever he had as a goal,” student leader Omar Garcia said of Mora. “It’s a big loss.”

The attorney general said 80 people have been arrested so far, including 44 police officers from the cities of Iguala and Cocula and former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, who is under investigation for ordering the Sept. 26 attacks. The case also forced the governor of Guerrero to resign.

The identification confirmed what Murillo Karam told parents in November: that the students rounded up in a conflict with police had been killed and incinerated by the local drug gang, Guerreros Unidos. Horror, hope — and the lack of positively identified remains — led parents to discount the story, saying they would keep searching and expected to find their children alive.

In El Pericon, people say drug gangs ran the area until two years ago, killing, kidnapping and extorting at will. That changed when the people rose up and organized their own security forces, fed up with the

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Alexander Mora’s father, Ezequiel, watches as another unidentified person touches a photo of his son as he arranges an altar in the town of El Pericon, Mexico. ineffectual government police.

On Sunday, a young man with a rifle slung over his shoulder leaned against a pile of sandbags just behind Mora’s home. In a side yard, women from the town prepared pots of pozole, hominy soup, over open fires, while across the street boys practiced a folk dance to a steady drumbeat under a pavilion.

Mora said his son was not one to hang out in the streets. He devoted himself above all to soccer, and his yellow jersey lay at the center of an altar of candles and flowers in Mora’s home.

Alexander wanted to be a teacher to earn a living that could make life easier for his younger sister and his father. His mother died nearly five years ago.

Time makes proving Cosby allegations tough LOS ANGELES — Any case against Bill Cosby — who in recent weeks has seen a flurry of decades-old sexual assault allegations, a lawsuit and a police investigation into a molestation claim — would rely on conflicting testimony, and possibly jurors’ emotions, legal experts say.

In a civil trial, Cosby might have to face testimony from any of the more than 15 women who have accused him of various forms of sexual misconduct dating back at least 40 years, said Cynthia Bowman, a Cornell Law School professor who has specialized in how the law treats women. While any case dating back decades would hinge on memories that have faded with time, Bowman said she’s listened to some of Cosby’s accusers speak out — and they could be credible witnesses.

“A lot of these cases hinge on he-said, she-said, anyway,” Bowman said.

“It strikes me that memory for a traumatic event like this seems to be pretty stark,” Bowman said. “Most of these stories were relatively young and impressionable girls. There’s an element of shock and betrayal of trust.”

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Comedian Bill Cosby performs Nov. 21 in Melbourne, Fla. sexual assault by the comedian and actor bubbled to the surface again in early November, only one woman, Judy Huth, has sued, claiming Cosby molested her 40 years ago when she was 15. Huth also gave a statement to Los Angeles police, who opened an investigation Friday. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck also said his department would investigate any allegations against Cosby, regardless of whether a prosecution would be barred by the statute of limitations.

Cosby, 77, has never been charged with a crime.

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LSUPD focuses on mobile app during fall semester

BY Kaci Cazenave kcazenave@lsureveille.com When LSUPD officers were not busting students for destruction of property or possession of cigarette butts this semester, they were busy addressing the issue of sexual assault and promoting on-campus safety via their Shield smartphone app.

In September, Capt. Cory Lalonde and his team of officers launched the iOS, Android compatible emergency app and its “Safety Beacon” feature, an automated protocol option for users in emergency situations.

Lalonde, spokesperson for

LSUPD, previously told The Daily Reveille the app’s purpose was to provide students, faculty and staff members with another way of more quickly reporting crime. Before the app’s arrival, LSUPD officers were the only ones who could do any crime reporting via its e-text system.

Since the app’s installment, Lalonde said the University’s Auxiliary Services and students have widely promoted and supported the app and made it accessible to people in the surrounding areas of Baton Rouge.

“LSUPD does the best it can to send out information that is accurate and timely, and I

believe we have, so far, accomplished what the system is intended for,” Lalonde said.

LSUPD also made efforts to assist the University and SmokingWords adviser Judith Sylvester with enforcing the University’s tobacco-free policy, that went into effect Aug. 1. However, it was something the department was unable to accomplish since smoking is not, in technical terms, illegal.

“Law enforcement enforces law, not policy,” Lalonde told The Daily Reveille in August. “And as of now, there are no laws making smoking illegal or worthy of penalty.”

According to Lalonde, the types of crime officers combated on game days throughout the 2014 football season were similar to those in previous years.

Theft of items — like student football tickets and money — and battery were the dominant forms of crime.

Lalonde said LSUPD officers anticipated events like these.

However, because of the number of people who came to campus for each game, he said they were well prepared.

Since the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting in August and the installment of Middleton Library’s 24/5

operating hours, Lalonde said LSUPD has taken additional safety precautions that officers will carry out in the coming semesters at the University.

These precautions include more frequent training for emergency events that involve volunteer students and faculty members, as well as greater officer visibility on campus and in surrounding areas.

“We don’t have the luxury to train or plan for it if something happens,” Lalonde said. “We have to prepare as if it would be when something happens, and that’s what we are in the process of doing.”

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Graves trumps Edwards for 6th Congressional District seat

BY Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez news@lsureveille.com

After winning Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District seat, Republican candidate Garret Graves said the old Louisiana political scene made way for a new era of Louisiana politics.

Graves defeated Democratic candidate former Gov. Edwin Edwards Saturday in a runoff.

“The old Louisiana has yielded a new Louisiana,” Graves said to a crowd of supporters at his election night party.

Graves, confident to lead the shift in Louisiana politics, encouraged all voters to come together despite political differences.

The election night party drew in a varied crowd, from old supporters to spirited college interns, and all were eager to celebrate their new congressman.

A personal supporter of Graves, Student Government President Clay Tufts said he hopes Graves will use his policy plans wisely in Congress. Though he met with many 6th District candidates, Tufts hopes Graves is the candidate to prioritize the flagship University.

“I think he’s somebody who will prioritize LSU,” Tufts said. “And that’s really important not for only public officials in his position but for senators or state officials, they always need to be thinking about Louisiana’s flagship school.”

Once Graves takes office, Tufts aims to keep channels open between students and public officials, making higher education a priority in Congress and at the state level.

For Avery McMahon, international studies senior, and Anna Leger, international studies and political science senior, their work as Graves’ campaign interns paid off on election night.

McMahon said the grassroots campaign made the runoff portion of the campaign smoother.

Throughout the campaign and in the last few weeks, family members and volunteers flooded Graves’ office for the extra push.

Though the campaign started small, Graves also said his team was not shy of hard work. In his speech, Graves said the numbers were not always in his favor, citing he started at 2 percent in the polls.

However, Leger said Graves was always upbeat during the campaign, hopeful for a good outcome.

“I think it’s been a great experience because it’s just so positive,” Leger said. “Because a lot of the times [campaigns] might not always be that way.”

Now that the campaign is over, McMahon said she has her eyes on another race. She said she is looking forward to a successful two years and seeing Graves run again.

“I would love to see him run again,” McMahon said. “I think he’s going to do great things in the next two years, but for him to run again, I think that would really show how well this first campaign did.”

Leger said she think Graves’

work in Washington D.C. will give Louisiana voters a newfound sense of pride.

“I think people are really just going to be very proud of what he does once he gets up there,” Leger said. “I mean, he hasn’t been in Congress before, but he’s just so prepared for this.”

While Graves said he will pave the way for a new future of Louisiana, Edwards reflected on a campaign ending in a loss. Though the former governor closed another chapter of his work in Louisiana politics, he said he was content with the campaign.

“If you sit by the river long enough, sooner or later, you lose an election. I’m happy and I feel like I fulfilled my role in life,” Edwards said.

Edwards and his supporters acknowledged he was trailing behind in the runoff, but some supporters — nostalgic of his past — maintained their hope for years to come.

John Grace, interdisciplinary studies senior and Edwards intern, said he initially took the internship for class credit, and soon learned of a family connection with Edwards. His grandfather worked for Edwards while Edwards was governor.

“I didn’t find that out until once I started working for him, but I want to be involved with politics,” Grace said.

He said the connection with his grandfather grew stronger every week working on the campaign.

Campaign volunteer Paul Fountaine made phone calls and canvassed for the election, taking after his parents who supported Edwards in his years as governor.

“It’s just like a legacy, you

know, we want to see him get back into office and do well for the people,” Fountaine said. “I can still remember the things that he did and people just raving about him. I want to see him get back in.”

Fountaine said his age wasn’t ever a problem, and Edwards’ track records always stuck out.

“He got a little older but even wiser,” Fountaine said.

Richard Peter, Edwards’ friend, traveled from Dallas for the election night celebration.

Though Peter said he was realistic about the election, he still wants to see Edwards run again.

“I would like to see him run for president,” Peter said. “Anyone can run for president, even a convict.”

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University to receive reaccreditation BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com The University awaits an early Christmas present on Tuesday — a stamp of approval from its accrediting body affirming its qualification to grant degrees.

A panel of members Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges met this weekend and today in Nashville, Tennessee, to review documents about how the University operates and affirm the University’s accreditation, said Gil Reeve, University vice provost for academic programs, planning and review.

For more than two years, a team of administrators and professors at the University have systematically gone through each department of the institution and documented its functions and processes to send to SACSCOC for the review.

The University committee sent in the last document in September and has waited for four months to

sg, from page 1 Reveille. The aim is to have an image students can recognize around campus.

Psychology sophomore Alex Gregory told The Daily Reveille in September the money could be better spent.

“That’s just a waste of money,” he said. “If they’re the voice of the students, then the students should decide on what to spend the money on.”

SG passed a resolution to open up talks with the Student Health Center about their medical excuse policy in the opening weeks of October.

Senator Kat Latham, sponsor of the bill, told The Daily Reveille in October the Health Center’s current policy is not

senate, from page 1 Brother Adrian with Electronic Media Gulf Coast “to bring the advertising to life” at Cassidy’s Election Night Party, Sargent said. The two men walked through the event with large, light-up billboards strapped to their backs that read, “On December 6th vote for Bill Cassidy, he’ll stand up for us,” and “Mary Landrieu hasn’t delivered for us.”

Sargent advertised for the BCF’s campaign against Landrieu at other events such as the Bayou Classic Battle of the Bands and the most recent senate debate hosted by WAFB-TV. Sargent said the BCF sent them to the party because they expected Cassidy to win the seat.

Sargent said the BCF has been aggressively marketing to the black community since the runoff was announced.

“I believe he’s [Cassidy’s] been overlooked in the African-American community,”

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hear the final word this week.

Without the reaffirmation of accreditation from SACSCOC, the degrees from the University are just certificates of time and money spent.

The University’s funding and students’ ability to obtain grants and financial aid also depend partly on the outcome of this process, said Randy Duran, director of the University Office of Undergraduate Research earlier this year.

“SACSCOC doesn’t approve individual degree programs,” Reeve said. “They approve institutional programs. They accredit the institution to deliver degree programs.”

For example, Reeve said if the University is creating a new degree program, it does not have to be approved by the accrediting body, but the processes behind its creation does.

There are about 98 standards set by the SACSCOC to ensure the operations of an institution of higher education are the best for students. Every corner of the

University is covered, from the processes used to make decisions regarding classes and degrees to how administration works, according to its website.

The University completed a report showing its compliance with all of the standards in Sept.

2013. The report was then sent back with 17 recommendations for change, which were reevaluated during a campus visit by SACSCOC members in March.

After the March visit, the members had more recommendations for changes for the University to make to match all of the standards. The most important recommendation, Reeve said, was to develop a method to evaluate LSU President F. King Alexander.

Reeve compared the process of reaffirmation of accreditation to a hurdle race; the University had to leap over several obstacles to make it to this week.

Reeve said he is confident the University will be given the allclear to keep awarding degrees for another decade.

accommodating to students’ needs.

“They’re just going to give you a printout that says your name and what time you were supposed to be there, not if you were there or anything like that,” Latham said.

D’Ann Morris, executive director of the Student Health Center, told The Daily Reveille a student’s absence from class is an academic matter, not a medical matter.

Toward the end of the month, SG passed a resolution to prohibit coursework during times of University closure, which students stood behind.

Computer science sophomore Terrell Love told The Daily Reveille in October the resolution is a good idea.

“Breaks are supposed to be the

students’ time off,” Love said. “If you have to do homework over the break, you’re not really having a real break.”

To close out the semester, SG passed a resolution to make it easier for students to vote in Louisiana elections. The resolution is to open up talks with the Tiger Card Office in order to add a signature to the card, thus making it a valid form of identification to use at the polls.

Senator Jacques Petit, the bill’s sponsor, told The Daily Reveille in November he wants every University student to be a part of the Democratic process.

“I don’t really think, honestly, it’s going to affect that many people,” Petit said. “At the same time, I want as many people to be able to vote as possible.”

Sargent said.

He said the AfricanAmerican community was unaware of Cassidy’s campaign platform. Through his time advertising mainly to the AfricanAmerican community, Sargent said he has learned a lot about what Cassidy stands for.

BCF board member Anita MonCrief said she is overjoyed

by Cassidy’s win. She said this is a great victory for her organization, although many doubted the influence the BCF could have in the runoff election.

Although the numbers are not in, MonCrief said she expects the polls to show a significant increase in minority turnout.

She credited this success to the BCF’s efforts.

She said the BCF has been on the ground since November, knocking on doors in minority neighborhoods. BCF senior advisor Ali Akbar said the BCF made 64,000 robo-calls Saturday morning to black voters.

The BCF also deployed street teams in East Baton Rouge

Parish, targeting AfricanAmerican communities.

“The Black Conservatives Fund’s goal was to introduce Dr. Cassidy to the black community and highlight Sen. Landrieu’s failed record on issues important to them,” according to a press release from the BCF. MonCrief said the Black Conservatives Fund is not trying to self identify, but rather clarify that African-Americans can vote for Republicans, breaking the stereotype many people have of African-Americans voting Democrat.

“I think Louisiana is going to be ground zero for what’s next,” Akbar said.

Akbar echoed MonCrief’s sentiments when he said Cassidy’s win is a significant accomplishment for his organization.

Although he is excited by their achievement, he said both parties are wrong. Akbar said the Democrats cannot keep the black vote, and Republicans cannot gain it.

in a 41-14 blowout in the 2007 Allstate Sugar Bowl.

Notre Dame ranked as high as No. 5 this season, after winning its first six games, but finished 2014 unranked after losing five of its last six contests.

The Fighting Irish struggled defensively in the back half of the season, allowing opponents to score more than 41 points per game in their last six games.

LSU junior offensive lineman Vadal Alexander said the Tigers can’t afford to overlook a team that came within a single play of beating then-No. 2 Florida State on Oct. 18.

“They can beat anybody any given [day],” Alexander said. “We have to take the approach that they’re a highly touted team, which is very competitive and physically gifted. They get the top recruits just like us.”

The Fighting Irish are led by senior quarterback Everett Golson, who finished the regular season completing 250 of his 416 pass attempts for 60.1 percent and acquired 3,355 yards, 29 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.

Golson also provides a threat on the ground, and he has carried the ball for 277 yards and a

team-leading eight rushing touchdowns on 113 attempts.

Multiple players said they were excited to compete against a team with as much history and national recognition as Notre Dame.

“They’re a football power and one of the top five names in the country,” Alexander said. “You really can’t have a better opponent than Notre Dame because they have one of the richest histories of anybody. We look forward to it.”

Miles said he expects both LSU quarterbacks to compete for playing time in the bowl game.

Sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings started most of the season, accumulating 1,460 yards and 10 passing touchdowns.

“It’s that time that you continue to compete and press your quarterbacks to do the things we are going to ask them to do,” Miles said.

“If they have designs on being a leader on this team and being that quarterback, this would be a very competitive time, even before the game.”

Miles said the status of senior running back Kenny Hilliard, who injured in shoulder against Alabama on Nov. 8, is still unknown and senior center Elliott Porter is unlikely to play.

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Tigers hope to carry early season momentum into SEC play BY jack chascin jchascin@lsureveille.com

Back on Track

Cameron to blame for offensive struggles the gray area

The 2014-15 season has been full of ups and downs so far for the LSU men’s basketball team.

The Tigers’ 6-2 season began with high expectations, with junior transfer guards Josh Gray and Keith Hornsby joining the starting lineup alongside sophomore forwards Jarell Martin and Jordan Mickey.

LSU’s added size gave Tiger fans plenty to be excited about the regular season after the Tigers defeated Morehouse College in an exhibition game, 71-47, heading into its first regular season matchup against Gardner-Webb on Nov. 15.

The Tigers struggled with Gardner-Webb in their season opener at the PMAC, trailing by 1 at the half. But a 51-point second half outburst led by Mickey and Martin helped the Tigers get their first win of the season, 93-82.

LSU took the momentum into its game against Texas Tech, which was a defensive struggle on both sides. The Tigers and the Red Raiders both shot less than 40 percent during the game, with the Tigers eventually coming out on top in overtime, 69-64, behind Mickey’s 18 points.

After the game Martin said the lack of production shooting the basketball was tough to deal with for much of the night.

I was more skeptical than most when LSU coach Les Miles hired Cam Cameron as his offensive coordinator two seasons ago.

With 10 seasons of experience as an NFL play caller, Cameron’s immense knowledge and understanding of the game was unquestioned and should have been enough for LSU fans to believe things could change for the Tigers’ continuously plagued offense.

But I couldn’t erase the thought of the Baltimore Ravens firing Cameron in Week 14 of 2012 less than two months before winning Super Bowl XLVII. That’s more than coincidence, and for a program that claims no year is a rebuilding year, it should’ve also been a warning.

However, the initial doubts were momentarily put to rest with the Tigers’ offensive resurgence during Cameron’s first season in Baton Rouge, the season after he inked the second-highest contract for a coordinator in the nation.

Then 2014 happened, and LSU’s one-year golden era of offense was quickly forgotten as the usually anemic one returned with renewed strength. The Tigers finished last in passing yards and completion percentage in the Southeastern

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LSU sophomore forward Jordan Mickey (25) takes a shot during the Tigers’ 82- 60 victory against UMass on Dec. 2 at the PMAC. volleyball

Holman remains dominant during sophomore season

BY Tyler Nunez tnunez@lsureveille.com LSU sophomore middle blocker Briana Holman took Southeastern Conference volleyball by storm in 2013.

She finished her freshman season as the No. 5 blocker in the nation with 1.54 blocks per set and was among the top performers in the conference in hitting percentage, kills and points.

She earned a spot on the AllSEC team and was named the AVCA south region Freshman of the Year, the Louisiana Player of the Year and an AVCA All-American Honorable Mention.

“We knew she was a special player from the beginning,” said LSU coach Fran Flory. “We didn’t know how fast she would evolve in the collegiate game. Certainly she’s proved she can keep up with

the pace and play at that level and be a dominant, impacting player.”

Many freshmen phenoms across collegiate sports suffer a lack in production in their second seasons, commonly referred to as a “sophomore slump.”

That’s not the case with Holman.

She suffered a slight drop in her blocking to 1.47 blocks per set, but she still finished the regular season No. 10 in the nation and sits atop the SEC in the stat for her second consecutive season.

In addition to her blocking prowess, she’s improved in several facets of her game at an impressive rate. Between her freshman and sophomore seasons, Holman’s hitting percentage improved by 20 percent, her killing rate by almost 30 percent and her overall scoring rate rose by almost 27 percent.

As a result, she finished the

regular season in the SEC’s top five in all four of these statistics and played a major role in helping the Tigers win 13 of their last 14 games this season.

“She’s an amazing athlete, a superstar,” said junior outside hitter Cati Leak. “Opponents have to respect her so much. It allows [senior setter Malorie Pardo] to be more free with who she gives the ball to, knowing that there will be open shots to have.”

Holman refuses to rest on the laurels of her success thus far. She remains dissatisfied with her offensive improvements.

In fact, she views them as a sign of weakness.

“I want to get better at everything,” Holman said. “You can always improve at something.

I need to improve my blocking.

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LSU sophomore middle blocker Briana Holman (13) prepares to hit the ball during the Tigers’ 3-0 victory against Auburn on Nov. 23 at the PMAC.

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BY BRIAN PELLERIN bpellerin@lsureveille.com The LSU volleyball team saw its season come to an end last Friday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Tigers (20-9, 14-4 Southeastern Conference) defeated Oklahoma in straight sets Thursday, leading to a matchup with the No. 10 overall seed and host team Oregon for a chance to advance to the round of 16. But the Ducks were ultimately too much for the Tigers, defeating them in four sets: 25-22, 21-25, 25-20, 25-20.

“They played a great match.

Honestly, we didn’t have an answer for [junior outside hitter Martenne] Bettendorf,” LSU coach Fran Flory said in a news release following the match.

“We wish them the best of luck.

We are sorry for our kids, but we played with great heart.”

Heart was what LSU showed all season to even get to that point.

The Tigers lost junior middle blocker Khourtni Fears to a knee injury before the season started, which left a hole in Flory’s rotation and led to some early season struggles.

LSU lost four of its first six games and sat at 5-4 after

finishing its non conference schedule. The Tigers faced three of the SEC’s top four teams — Kentucky, Alabama and Florida — to open league play.

LSU dropped all three matches in four sets but was close in a number of sets that could have turned the matches.

The Tigers were 5-7 overall and 0-3 in the SEC following that stretch.

But with its season at a crossroads, LSU took down Arkansas in five sets and set off on its path to its second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth. The Tigers won 13 of their next 14 games, including an 11-match winning streak during which they upended then-No. 12 Kentucky on the road.

LSU finished third in the SEC behind Kentucky and Florida.

The Tigers will see much of their talent from this season return. Sophomore middle blocker Briana Holman is widely regarded as a top tier player in the conference, averaging five points per set. Holman along with junior outside hitter Cati Leak, who averaged over three points per set, were named to the All-SEC Team.

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hitter Katie Lindelow and freshmen outside hitters Mimi Eugene and Gina Tillis, all return next season as well. Tillis was named to the SEC AllFreshman Team.

Defensively, the Tigers bring back junior defensive specialist Haley Smith, who finished third in the SEC in digs per set and eclipsed the 1,000 career digs mark earlier this season.

But the biggest loss comes from the Tigers’ passing game.

LSU loses its four-year starting setter Malorie Pardo. The Tigers will likely turn to freshman Elly Ogle to replace Pardo.

With so much talent returning, Leak said this season is a building block for next year, and she expects LSU to advance even further in next year’s tournament.

“Last year, we were hoping to get to the second round, this year we expected it and next year we expect to go further because we have confidence and depth,” Leak said in a news release following the team’s loss to Oregon. “Our freshmen got a lot of chances this year. We are going to miss all the seniors, and it was an honor to play with them, but we are going to play for everyone who doesn’t get the chance to do this again.”

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Monday, December 8, 2014 SEASON, from page 5 “We got some good looks, and knowing we were not able to knock down some shots was very frustrating,” Martin said.

“We had to come up with another game plan and try to get the ball in the hole and also try to get to the free throw line.”

The new game plan didn’t do much for the Tigers throughout the next week of the season when they headed to the U.S. Virgin Islands to participate in the 2014 Paradise Jam, where they limped to a 1-2 showing.

LSU shot the ball more than 40 percent once during the trip, which was in a losers bracket win against Weber State on Nov. 22. The Tigers shot 49 percent from the field and defeated Weber State by 14.

LSU’s struggles in the Virgin Islands were a cause for concern when the team arrived back in the states for its next matchup against McNeese State on Nov. 29.

Since the debacle in the Virgin Islands, the Tigers have turned their offense around, blowing out both McNeese State and UMass by shooting more than 50 percent in both games.

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CAMERON, from page 5 Conference and tied with Florida for 11th in touchdowns.

Miles and LSU quarterbacks Anthony Jennings and Brandon Harris get the lion’s share of the blame, but Cameron is just as responsible for the Tigers’ offensive issues, and perhaps more.

As questions regarding LSU’s cloudy passing situation have resurfaced, questions should also be asked of Cameron’s ability to direct the Tigers to a championship — the team’s stated goal every season.

Should Cameron have become the second-highest-paid assistant in the country?

It looked like money well spent in the beginning. In Cameron’s first season, LSU enjoyed its most productive year since 2001, totaling 453.3 yards of offense a game while scoring 35.8 points per contest.

But look at who Cameron had at his disposal.

Quarterback Zach Mettenberger is arguably the top rookie signal caller in the NFL, Jeremy Hill leads all first-year backs in rushing, Jarvis Landry has become Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill’s go-to receiver, and Odell Beckham Jr. has exploded on the scene with his abundance of dazzling and acrobatic one-handed catches.

It would’ve been difficult for Cameron to hold back that type of talent.

The true test for the former NFL head coach was this season with Jennings and Harris — two very different quarterbacks than Mettenberger — and this is where Cameron must also now be questioned.

Can he guide an offense toward a championship?

There’s no question regarding Cameron’s level of insight into

from its two home wins helped the Tigers get their biggest win of the season when they upset No. 16 West Virginia, 74-73, on a last-second layup by Gray.

With part one of the Tigers’ season now complete, it seems the team is beginning to click with Southeastern Conference play on the horizon.

Gray and Hornsby have started to grow into their own after struggles to begin the year, with Gray scoring a career-high 25 points against UMass and Hornsby scoring 15 points against West Virginia while shooting perfectly from behind the arc.

Mixed with the All-SEC play of Mickey and Martin, who both average near double-doubles on the season, the Tigers have the potential to become a second-place finisher behind No. 1 Kentucky in the SEC. But the Tigers need more production out of their bench to make the NCAA Tournament run Tiger fans have been waiting for since coach Johnny Jones took over the team.

Sophomore guard Tim Quarterman has been the Tigers’ only bench player, averaging close to 31 minutes per game to go along with his 11.9 points per game. Quarterman’s increased the game. But the mark of a good coach is how he maximizes his players’ natural abilities, not how many stars have matured under his watch.

There wasn’t a noticeable improvement from either Jennings or Harris the entire season. As the 116th-ranked passing offense in the country, one could even argue they regressed, which is simply unacceptable for the nation’s second-highest paid offensive coordinator.

Cameron made no changes to his philosophy or approach from last season, even though his style of quarterback changed.

Whereas Mettenberger was in the traditional mold of undercenter, three-step drop pocket passers, Jennings and Harris were most known for making plays with their legs. Cameron never properly utilized these different abilities until the regular season finale against Texas A&M after the season was long over.

But when the games truly mattered, like against Mississippi State, Auburn, Alabama and Arkansas, both Jennings and Harris faltered. That goes back to Cameron’s questionable ability to put them in positions to succeed.

There’s no doubt Cameron is an above-average coach, but LSU didn’t shell out $1.3 million to be above-average. Directing the nation’s 76th-ranked scoring offense is too low of a return on such an expensive investment.

I’m not an offensive coordinator, but given the Tigers’ mountain of struggles on that side of the ball this past season, LSU may have needed a different one.

David Gray is a 25-year-old mass communication senior from Gastonia, North Carolina. You can reach him on Twitter @dgray_TDR.

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The Tigers’ bench is averaging only 10.1 points per game heading into the break.

Gray said it can be hard for players to produce off the bench when they’re not called on for much of the game, but he said they have to be ready when their names are called.

LSU returns to action on Dec. 13 against Sam Houston State with only five games remaining until SEC play.

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page 7 HOLMAN, from page 5 I’m a middle blocker and I think I make up for the lack of defense I have with my offense. I really want to do better on defense.”

That may seem odd coming from an athlete who has finished atop the SEC and among the top 10 in the nation in each of her first two seasons.

Holman’s high ceiling is a result of her immense focus on improvement and reaching her goals. She emits so much focus and intensity that she sometimes comes off as self-serving. But Flory said this perception is a vast misinterpretation.

Her attitude and demeanor stems from a deep desire to improve LSU more than herself, Flory said.

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“Bri’s dream is to win a national championship,” Flory said.

“She works very hard every day.

She brings a level of intensity that was previously mistaken by other people as selfish. Really, it’s deep thinking and trying to improve.”

Flory expects Holman to earn All-American honors this season, and maybe even earn the honor of SEC Player of the Year.

As far as Holman’s future, the sky’s the limit.

“She can be one of the best ever, there’s no question about it.”

Flory said. “I expect that she’s going to lead our program to the top and do everything she’s ever dreamed of wearing the purple and gold.”

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LSU students took on activist roles this semester OFF WITH HER HEAD JANA KING Columnist I learned a lot from the students of LSU this semester.

The events that took place less than 700 miles north of LSU in Ferguson, Missouri, had students talking about racism from the fi rst day we came back to campus. The upcoming election had students urging each other to vote, and many protested the lack of third party candidates in the U.S. Senate race.

Students came together in October’s Take Back the Night demonstration to lift up the voices of domestic and sexual assault victims.

This semester centered

on students standing up to discuss the real-world issues that affect the LSU community. Our generation has moved past reading about social movements in textbooks to forming our own civil rights groups and letting our frustration and ideas for change be known.

When we were taught about our nation in high school history classes, everything seemed wrapped up, nice and neat. Women could vote; black Americans could vote, and no one could be denied entrance to a public facility for any reason. But walking around LSU’s campus, it’s clear that many students have learned more realities that we weren’t taught.

History isn’t fi nished. It’s a class that is being taught to us as the textbook is still being written. One day our

children will open up their American History textbooks and see the events that sparked die-ins, protests and marches across the nation.

And we’ll be able to tell them our fi rst-hand accounts from the protests we planned and attended.

It is my hope that the LSU community will not let its newfound activist mindset fade.

We just elected several new politicians into office who are much, much older than us — people who do not understand what it is like to be a twentysomething in the digital age.

It’s more important now than it ever has been for us to use our voices. In 1978, the fi rst openly gay politician to be elected into public office in California, Harvey Milk, gave a speech on the importance of letting your stance be known to everyone around you:

“You must come out. I know that it is hard and will hurt them but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth! . . . Once and for all, break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared by the votes from Dade to Eugene.”

Milk was directing his speech toward the gay and lesbian Americans who were scared to come out as homosexuals to their homophobic and otherwise intolerant households. But he makes a valid point for all of us who are growing up in an America that was not made for us.

We cannot sit silently at the dinner table on Christmas Day and let our older family members make sexist, classist and racist statements as if they

are acceptable. We cannot let the fear that our families will disapprove of our opinions on the older generation’s choices for our nation.

When our older family members went into the voting booth over the weekend, do you think student debt crossed their minds? What about the rising cost of tuition because of cuts to public college funding? Of course not. We vote for our own individual interests.

Our thoughts will not be counted until we let our voices be heard. And we will never really be part of this country until we begin taking part in the uncomfortable conversations.

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

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How to survive Finals Week NO WAY JOSE JOSE BASTIDAS Columnist Six days.

That short period of time is all that stands between us and the precious hiatus we call winter break.

But in these six days, we also experience the terror that is finals week, and as students with suitcases and hundreds of pages of notes migrating to our temporary homes in Middleton Library, some of us have no idea how we will make it past these six grueling days.

To help guide you through this last week of examinations and projects, I have four useful suggestions for passing with flying colors, or at least surviving this week with no visible injuries.

1. Study in a new environment Locked up for days with nothing but chemistry notes and an endless supply of Snickers bars and coffee, you could very well end up hating the area you have chosen as your academic prison for a long time to come.

So get out of your room or the normal Starbucks table you usually commandeer when studying and explore a new area of campus.

Business majors can go to the journalism building. English majors can write short stories and term papers in the Business Education Complex. There are no classes in session, so you can basically go anywhere.

2. Practice your patience We are all a little on edge during these last six days of stress, and it’s important not to take things personally.

People will yell if you laugh too hard at the BuzzFeed list you’re perusing during a procrastination break in the library, and while it may seem obnoxious to them, you probably deserved it.

Everyone will be getting a coffee boost at the same time, so the lines at Community Coffee and Starbucks will be long and never ending. Also take into account the workers are probably stressed college students, too.

Yes, as college students in the 21st

century we think we are the centers of the universe, but keeping in mind that we’re all equally under pressure will at least keep us from getting angry when any of the aforementioned situations take place.

3. Drink responsibly If you’re writing a term paper, you can have a glass of wine. If you’re doing math, think twice.

College students spend their money on 5-hour energy drinks, coffee, Red Bull and other types of chemically altered drinks to keep them from passing out from exhaustion, yet they forget the ultimate source of life: Water.

Yeah, it’s nice to stay awake and keep working, but we are 75 percent water, not 75 percent cappuccino.

4. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

It’s 2 a.m.

You’re in your room, covered in highlighter ink, when you freak out and decide there is nothing that can get you through this terrible period.

This impulse is going to happen often, and the key to getting through these peaks of overwhelming emotion is to keep in mind that it’s almost over.

You’ve spent 15 weeks going to class, somewhat paying attention to the material and familiarizing yourself with the subject, so even if you only went to syllabus day in the beginning of the semester, you can still make it through testing day.

So get up, stretch, listen to an angry song and scream for a few minutes and then get back to work.

Hold on to the fact that you’re almost done.

In a few days you’ll be sitting in your house, drinking eggnog, and this terrible week will be a distant memory.

Hang in there people, it’s almost over.

Jose Bastidas is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Caracas, Venezuela. You can reach him on Twitter @jabastidas.

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Panthers pummel Saints, 41-10

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers apparently had enough of being pushed around this season.

Newton passed for three touchdowns and appeared to incite a scuffle with frustrated New Orleans after he went over the pile for another score, and the Panthers ended a six-game skid with a 41-10 rout of the Saints on Sunday.

Jonathan Stewart added a 69yard touchdown as the Panthers (4-8-1) pulled within a game of NFC South leader Atlanta (5-7), which plays at Green Bay on Monday night.

Newton’s jawing and “Superman” celebration of his 2-yard rushing touchdown in the first quarter drew a shove from linebacker Curtis Lofton, igniting a scrum that burst through a closed gate behind the goal post and into a tunnel.

Panthers tight end Brandon Williams was ejected for punching Cam Jordan, but Carolina kept rolling.

Newton’s scoring passes went to Kelvin Benjamin, Greg Olsen and Fozzy Whitaker.

New Orleans (5-8) lost its fourth straight home game to drop a half-game behind Atlanta.

The Saints turned the ball over on two of their first three offensive plays. Mark Ingram’s fumble on the New Orleans 25 led to a field goal, and Drew Brees’ interception led to Newton’s rushing touchdown.

The Panthers, who entered the

game with a league-low 30 firstquarter points all season, scored 17 points inside the first nine minutes, and New Orleans never recovered.

Brees was 29 of 49 for 235 yards and one late inconsequential touchdown to tight end Ben Watson.

Newton was 21 of 33 for 226 yards, was not sacked and was not intercepted. He also rushed for 83 yards. Steward finished with 155 yards rushing as the Panthers piled up 271 yards on the ground.

The Panthers’ point total was their highest of the season, surpassing the 37 they scored in an overtime tie at Cincinnati.

Carolina’s 497 total yards also was easily a season high, albeit against a Saints defense that entered the game ranked second-tolast in the NFL. Receiving the opening kickoff, Carolina scored on its opening possession for only the second time all season, driving 80 yards on seven plays, capped by Newton’s 9-yard pass to Benjamin.

New Orleans then gave the ball right back on its second offensive play when Ingram caught a short pass but was stripped by Josh Norman. Colin Cole recovered at the New Orleans 25, setting up Graham Gano’s 37-yard field goal.

Brees went deep on the first play of New Orleans’ next series, looking for Joseph Morgan, only to be intercepted by Bene Benwikere at the Carolina 40.

Newton drove Carolina 60 yards in only six plays, at which

point members of the Saints’ reeling defense lost their cool.

The scrum that ensued that score did little to change the tenor of the first half. The Saints continued to struggle offensively, while Carolina widened its lead to 24-3 on Olsen’s 16-yard touchdown catch.

Fans booed the Saints as they trotted to the locker room and again when they returned to start the second half by punting after three plays. More boos rained down after Stewart’s long run.

When Whittaker turned a screen pass into a touchdown to make it 38-3 with a little more than five minutes left in the third quarter, fans filed out in bunches.

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January

Office of the Dean of Students Olinde Career Center Orientation Parent & Family Programs Residential Life Student Advocacy & Accountability Student Health Center Undergraduate Admissions University Recreation Veteran & Military Student Services

Campus is so lonely without you! Hurry back in January and come see any of the Division of Student Life & Enrollment’s offices for your needs. First Year Experience and Campus Life have lots of great events planned for the spring for you!