The Daily Reveille - June 17, 2010

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59 days since oil spill began.

BUDGET CUTS

Lawmakers approve up to 5 percent tuition increase, page 3.

BASEBALL

Landry, Dishon sign MLB contracts, page 7.

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Hurricane season storms could stall oil response efforts, help oil disperse

Nicholas Persac Staff Writer

The 59th day of the Gulf oil spill catastrophe also marks the 17th day of this year’s hurricane season in the region, forcing government and BP officials to devise alternate response plans for a worst-case scenario and talking pundits to speculate about a storm’s effects on the oil.

Barry Keim, Louisiana state climatologist, said this year is on track to be the second-busiest hurricane season, with the HURRICANES, see page 11

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[Above] Allen Sreiy stands next to his oily booms on his shrimp boat Friday as he helps with cleanup operations for the oil spill. Efforts such as Sreiy’s may be slowed by storms during hurricane season. [Left] A patch of oil floats Monday on the water near the coast of Grand Isle.

photo by DERICK E. HINGLE / The Associated Press

Nicholas Persac

Staff Writer

Protesters will gather both Thursday and Friday on the State Capitol steps to show support for the coastal communities affected by the oil spewing into the Gulf and to urge state legislators to increase regulation of the industry.

“Everything about Louisiana that makes this a place people like is at risk right now,”said Devin Martin, an organizer of the protest.

“Love Your Coast,” a peaceful demonstration being held at noon both days, is a grassroots movement organized by five different groups — Coastal Rescue, Youth Alliance of Louisiana Leaders, Sierra Club Delta Chapter and the Student Coalition to Help the Oil Leak Relief.

Martin, who is also the conservation coordinator of Sierra Club’s Delta Chapter, said Thursday will focus on educating participants about how to contact their state and federal representatives while Friday will be the “bigger day.”

Protesters will march from the Old State Capitol to the new State Capitol steps at 11:30 a.m. on Friday while bicyclists ride from Memorial Tower at the same time to join the cause. The protests officially start at noon on both Thursday and Friday.

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PHILANTHROPY

Storyville selling shirt to support injured student Proceeds from sales go to victim’s family Ryan Buxton Staff Writer

Students looking to offer support to the LSU cyclist who was injured in a severe accident in May can help with fundraising by purchasing a T-shirt from Storyville.

The shirt is available now, and every dollar from sales will be donated to Michael Bitton, a geography graduate student and

member of the LSU Cycling Club who was struck May 15 by a vehicle on River Road.

Production of the shirt, which features a sketch of Bitton’s face and the slogan “Share the Road,” is being funded by Storyville and takes place in the store on West Chimes Street.

“We’re very much involved in the community, and when we heard about what had happened, we really just wanted to help out,” said Charlotte Cox, Storyville manager.

The idea for creating the shirts came from Dustin Drewes,

kinesiology junior and member of the Cycling Club, who approached Storyville for help with creating something to benefit Bitton, Cox said.

Drewes said the Cycling Club brainstormed about fundraising possibilities as they spent time in the hospital while Bitton was in intensive care.

In addition to selling shirts, other fundraisers like a blood drive and a benefit at Chelsea’s Cafe were held to aid with Bitton’s medical bills and his family’s costs T-SHIRT, see page 11

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This T-shirt was designed for Michael Bitton, a LSU geography graduate student who was struck by a car while cycling May 15. The proceeds will benefit his family.

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Nation & World

INTERNATIONAL

NATIONAL

Kyrgyz military tries to get control of country’s riot-hit, rural south

Calif. man gets 30 months in federal prison for false ‘mayday’ calls

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan’s weak military attempted Wednesday to regain control of the city of Osh, a major transit point for Afghan heroin and the epicenter of ethnic violence that has driven much of the Uzbek population from the country’s poor, rural south.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A California man accused of falsely claiming repeatedly to be stranded at sea has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.

Prosecutors say 53-year-old Kurtis Thorsted broadcast more than four dozen hoax distress signals over six months in 2008, costing the Coast Guard more than $102,000 for attempted searches.

He was sentenced to two years in prison for the same crime in 2004.

American stranded in Egypt for six weeks due to U.S. no-fly list CAIRO (AP) — A Virginia man, stuck in Egypt for the last six weeks, living in a cheap hotel and surviving on fast food, said Wednesday his name was placed on a U.S. no-fly list because of a trip to Yemen.

Yahya Wehelie, 26, who was born in Fairfax, Va., to Somali parents, was returning with his brother Yusuf from 18 months studying in Yemen when Egyptian authorities stopped him from boarding his flight to New York, saying the FBI wanted to speak with him.

Ala. professor charged in brother’s 1986 shooting death CANTON, Mass. (AP) — A biology professor charged with killing three of her colleagues at an Alabama university has been indicted in the 1986 shooting death of her brother in Massachusetts, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Authorities had originally ruled

that the shooting of Amy Bishop’s brother was an accident, but they reopened the case after Bishop was charged in February with gunning down six of her colleagues at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, killing three. Bishop, 45, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 18-year-old brother, Seth.

Ohio National Guard changes air buffer zone after near miss CINCINNATI (AP) — The Ohio Air National Guard is increasing the buffer zone between military and commercial air space after two F-16 fighter jets flew near the path of a commuter jet over southwest Ohio in April, a Guard official said Wednesday.

The executive officer of the guard’s Toledo-based 180th Fighter Wing said that the military pilots involved in the flight also have been assigned extra training. Safety procedures were re-emphasized to all pilots within the 180th wing, Maj. Gary Bentley said.

STATE/LOCAL

Ultrasounds to be required for abortions in La. under new bill

BP chairman’s comment about ‘the small people’ causes anger

(AP) — Women seeking abortions in Louisiana will be required to get an ultrasound first, even if they are a victim of rape or incest, under a bill that received final legislative passage Wednesday.

The bill by Sen. Sharon Broome, D-Baton Rouge, was sent to the governor’s desk with a 79-0 vote of the state House. Gov. Bobby Jindal supports the measure.

Supporters of the proposal said they hope the ultrasound dissuades some women from getting an abortion at the handful of abortion clinics in Louisiana.

“This is a bill that empowers women,” Broome said in committee testimony, adding that at least 15 other states have a similar requirement.

Opponents said requiring a procedure that might not be available at a free clinic nearby will make it more difficult and costly to get abortions.

No one spoke against the proposal on the House floor Wednesday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The BP chairman’s comment that the oil giant cares about “the small people” received an icy reception on Wednesday from residents along the Gulf Coast. BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg told reporters in Washington: “I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don’t care, but that is not the case with BP. We care about the small people.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama says BP has agreed to establish a $100 million fund to compensate unemployed oil rig workers affected by a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed in the wake of the Gulf oil spill.

Obama said the fund is in addition to $20 billion the company will set aside to pay victims of the spill.

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LEGISLATURE

Lawmakers approve higher education tuition increase 5 percent hike for 2010-2011 year The Associated Press (AP) — Students at public colleges around Louisiana will face higher costs this fall.

Lawmakers on the Legislature’s joint budget committee agreed Wednesday to allow tuition increases of up to 5 percent on campuses for the upcoming 2010-11 school year.

The tuition increases are

estimated to raise $31.5 million for the schools next year.

For students on LSU’s main campus, the annual tuition increase will be $262, bringing tuition to $5,495, according to data from the Board of Regents. Students at UNO will pay $219 more a year, raising tuition to $4,591.

Louisiana Tech University’s tuition will rise by $205, to $5,326 a year.

Other schools’ tuition hikes range from $74 to more than $200.

The governing boards for the LSU System, the University

of Louisiana System, the Southern University System and the Louisiana Community and Technical College System had approved the increases earlier this year and needed legislative approval for them to take effect.

College leaders, meanwhile, are asking lawmakers to give them authority to raise tuition even higher. That bill is pending in the state senate. photo courtesy of The Associated Press

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Speaker of the House Jim Tucker, R- Terrytown, speaks June 3 on his bill that would allow colleges to raise tuition if certain measures are met.

TRENDS

Interracial marriage at an all-time high in U.S. La. ranked low as rate increases Matthew Jacobs Senior Staff Writer

People say love is colorblind, and a recent study shows the country is echoing that sentiment.

A record 14.6 percent of newlyweds in 2008 married a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, according to findings by Pew Research Center, an organization that provides information about issues and trends affecting the United States.

The spike in interracial marriage is more than twice the number it was 30 years ago, when a 1980 study showed 6.8 percent of newlyweds had married interracially.

The figures further another study released in February by Pew saying about 85 percent of today’s 18 to 29-year-olds accept interracial marriage.

“It was different for our grandparents,” said Nicole Bower, a graduate student studying education. “They were conditioned to a different view of life.”

But Louisiana and other southern states are not as quick to catch up with the progressive national trends.

Louisiana saw 9 percent of newlyweds in 2008 marry interracially, while Mississippi ranked lowest in the nation with just 5 percent, according to the Pew study.

A Louisiana justice of the peace resigned in November 2009 after drawing criticism for refusing to grant a marriage license to an interracial couple.

Keith Bardwell stepped down from the post after a Hammond couple filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against him, according to a November report by CNN. The couple claimed Bardwell violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

“People want to keep everything the same,” said Ryan Moser, a University alumnus. “But with our generation, it’s pretty accepted.”

Some University students claimed the conventional nature of the southern U.S. plays a significant role in shaping the outlook on

progressive trends.

Tiffany Michel, communication studies junior, said she grew up in a religious household that generally did not accept alternative marriage styles as commonplace.

“People tend to keep the same ideals they’ve always had,” she said. “But love knows no boundaries or colors.”

Michel said the traditional viewpoints likely stem from the heavily conservative, Catholic population.

“It’s a touchy subject,” Michel said. “The South is in progress.

We’ll catch up eventually. Maybe in the next millennium.”

But media continue to set the precedent on what is considered standard, with interracial relationships becoming increasingly more frequent in pop culture.

A far advancement since interracial marriage was illegal in the 1950s, it’s ordinary to see celebrity couples like Heidi Klum and Seal, Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, and Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush stroll down the red carpet.

Entertainment has not turned a blind eye to the progressive attitudes either, with Halle Berry

earning the 2001 Oscar for Best Actress for her turn in “Monster’s Ball” as a struggling mother caught up in a shaky relationship with a white man.

“I’ve never really seen it portrayed negatively in Hollywood,” Michel said. “Except in one episode of ‘The Jeffersons’ when they kept saying ‘zebra couple.’ But

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it’s different nowadays.”

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HEALTH

Pharmacies required to track cold medicine purchases Database monitors sales, prevents crime Joy Lukachick Special to The Daily Reveille

When traveling from her home in Raceland, Sarah Thibodaux has to remember to throw another item in her overnight bag that she can’t leave without — her Claritin.

If she forgets her medicine when traveling to shoot pictures for work, Thibodaux worries that she may have to suffer through a cold.

“That’s the last thing I want to be dealing with,” she said.

Pharmacies are now electronically told when to turn away any customer who has surpassed the legal limit of over-the-counter cold medicine per month to be in compliance with a new state law. The law is to prohibit the sale of cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine in an effort to try and prevent manufacturing methamphetamine.

Lawmakers passed legislation last year, making Louisiana the third of 10 states to sign a contract allowing Appriss, a Kentucky-based company, to provide their tracking system known as National Precursor Log Exchange or NPLEx to the pharmacies.

The database allows the pharmacist to pull up the buyers’ information and see if they have exceeded the legal limit for the month before selling the cold medicine, said Anna

Vu, a pharmacist at Dutchtown Pharmacy.

Before when a questionable person would walk in wanting to buy pseudoephedrine, Vu said she would have to decide “do you sell or not sell based on appearance?”

A pharmacist doesn’t want anyone to not get their medicine, but at the same time Vu said she would be concerned about enabling a crime.

Now the tracking system will print out a slip of paper that says if the person is allowed or denied to buy the cold medicine, said Kelly Lambert, a pharmacist at Albany Drugs.

“It gives us an actual excuse not to sell it to them,” she said The database is designed to monitor the sale of cold medicine, said Jim Acquisto, an Appriss spokesman.

“We have the ability to prevent the crime from occurring,” Acquisto said. “We block a ton of pseudoephedrine that doesn’t go out the door.”

Since the cold medicine companies have agreed to pay for the service, states that pass legislation for NPLEx can use the database for free, he said.

All pharmacies are required to be on the system as of June 15, he said. In the state contract, a store without Internet access can apply for an exemption through the State Police Department.

Federal law required stores to keep a written log of such purchases, but Louisiana police say they didn’t

have a system that organized those sales before this year.

“There wasn’t a good system for the implementation of that law,” said Sgt. Markus Smith, State Police spokesman.

State police will play a major role in monitoring the database — called MethCheck on the law enforcement side — and will keep the information in the system for the record, Sgt. Smith said.

Since the database is uploaded in real time, police can be notified of cold medicine transactions as they occur, he said.

But some police say the system has flaws to the bigger picture of preventing the spread of meth.

When Detective Danny Perkins with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s office used the database, only a handful of one of his suspect’s record appeared in the system.

“We had information that he was purchasing pseudoephedrine every day from Gonzales, Mississippi and New Orleans,” he said. “This guy had been everywhere.”

While the database can be a useful tool to spot illegal purchases once all the pharmacies are online, it’s not the remedy for catching all the meth cooks, Detective Perkins said.

Most meth cooks buy their ingredients from smurfers — the people who purchase the pseudoephedrine and sell it to the cooks, he said.

Many smurfers have fake ID’s and know which stores use a database and which don’t.

Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office

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Dutchtown Pharmacist Anna Vu fills prescriptions for a customer. All pharmacies are required to be online using the NPLEx system to monitor the sale of cold medicine.

Lt. Michael Lacour said his division uses the database as an investigative tool after identifying a suspect.

“You need a suspect first,” he said. “If you don’t [have one,] you’re closing your eyes and throwing a dart.”

The tracking system’s main purpose isn’t to catch the smurfers in the act, but to keep them from purchasing the ingredients needed to make meth, Sgt. Smith said.

“It’s not so much designed to set someone up for arrest, but as a monitoring [tool],” he said.

Lt. Carl Townley with the

Caddo Parish Sherriff’s office said his department was one of the first in the state to begin using MethCheck.

The system has improved as more pharmacies are logging their sales in the database and does use the system to find the meth cooks, Lt. Townley said.

“Before [MethCheck] we could go look at the books,” he said.

“Nothing was computerized. It was all foot work.”

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com

ENTERTAINMENT

Led Zeppelin tribute band to play the Varsity Friday ZoSo brings live, authentic experience Chris Abshire Contributing Writer

Renowned Led Zeppelin tribute band ZoSo will bring its own form of an authentic live Zeppelin experience to the Varsity on Friday night.

While many tribute bands focus solely on replicating the sound of the band they are covering, ZoSo, which has been touring for over a decade, tries to nail every aspect of the Led Zeppelin live experience.

“I think we have taken the tribute band experience to a different level,” said lead singer Matt Jernigan, who plays the role of Robert Plant. “We did not throw this band together.”

Each of ZoSo’s members was picked to resemble Zeppelin’s legendary four members when the band formed in 1995.

Jernigan said it is both an honor and a challenge to channel the hard rock legends every night.

“In a way, you have to be an actor as well as a musician up there on stage,” Jernigan said.

“We’ve been doing it so long, at this point it’s almost like second nature, like a light switch going on.”

Despite the confidence Jernigan expressed, he still reiterated the difficulty of living up to the legend of Zeppelin.

“Even though we have been at it so long now, there’s always that one moment right before the show where we all get pretty nervous.”

While tribute and cover bands often face criticism from music fans and concert attendees, Jernigan acknowledged he understands people’s skepticism and also feels ZoSo transcends normal cover band shows.

“There are absolutely naysayers out there, but we let our shows and the precision of our music speak for itself,” Jernigan said. “We believe that ZoSo is the premiere Led Zeppelin live experience, so we definitely understand that the fans should have high expectations for our shows.”

Jernigan also said the band, which has played in Louisiana

nearly a dozen times, loves playing at the venues in the local area.

“Everybody who has come out to our shows in Louisiana has been very supportive,” Jernigan said. “It’s actually been pretty overwhelming to see the response we have received at some of our sets in south Louisiana.”

Jernigan said this crowd response has been especially satisfying since the most important goal for the band has always been to make sure the fans felt like they had experienced a true rock n’ roll show.

“You try to bring people an experience that they can no longer get from the band, since Led Zeppelin isn’t in existence anymore,” Jernigan said.

Jernigan said consistency may be the toughest part of covering Led Zeppelin.

“You’ve got to be consistently excellent to do Led Zeppelin’s music and their live show justice,” Jernigan said. “Anything less is just second-rate.”

Contact Chris Abshire at cabshire@lsureveille.com

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REVEILLE MUSIC Delorean, “Subiza”

Ranks True Panther Sounds

Barcelona-based electropop band Delorean styles sweet, summery dance tunes in their new album, Subiza. Their songs are based on lush melodies, which are layered with ethereal vocals, trilling keyboards, sultry synths and utterly danceable beats.

Tracks like “Endless Sunset” and “Warmer Places” invoke Delorean’s beachy, tropical aesthetic, but opening track “Stay Close” is the best of the album, carrying the listener to a Shangri-La of intricately crafted but purely delightful electropop. Some of Delorean’s tracks are repetitive and ultimately forgettable, but the overall effect is sparkling, poppy pleasure. Play this one on a road trip to the beach and have a dance party on the sand when you get there.

STEPHANIE GIGLIO

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Gulf Aid AllStars, “It Ain’t My Fault (Single)”

Preservation Hall Records

The Gulf Aid AllStars, comprised of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz and Trombone Shorty, released this week on iTunes a single and a video for their song “It Ain’t My Fault,” which benefits The Gulf Relief Foundation. This song is an updated version of Joseph Smokey Johnson’s 1960s Mardi Gras standard and has new lyrics from Mos Def and others to reflect the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf. The catchy mix of typical New Orleans sound with relevant hiphop lyrics makes not only for a good listen but also an emotional track reflecting the frustration of people living on the Gulf Coast.

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Hot Hot Heat, “Future Breeds”

[A] Danger Bird Records

Canadian rock band Hot Hot Heat returns to its indie home with their latest album Future Breeds – which may have many indie fans elating, “Thank God!” after their 2007 album Happiness LTD. While still not a must-have for many music fans, there are definitely a few lyrical jewels on the album that would be a shame to miss (See: “Goddess on the Prairie”). All in all, this is more of a track-by-track release than an actual album and should be handled as such; download a track and move on.

JULIAN TATE

Crystal Castles, “Crystal Castles”

[C] Fiction Records

While Crystal Castles’ self-titled debut was all muscular and abrasive dance music, their second — and also confusingly self-titled — LP features slightly more accessible tracks. Songs like “Celestica” and “Baptism” engulf the listener in a beautiful haze of shoegaze synths and lead singer Alice Glass’ ethereal vocals. As a whole, the album flows with much more fluidity because of the duo’s willingness to tone down the harsh bass and drum loops that caused their first album to wear on a listener quickly. Crystal Castles still have their moments of punishing noise, but this record feels like a giant leap forward for the band’s pop and dance sensibilities.

CHRIS ABSHIRE

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MOVIES “The Karate Kid”

Columbia Pictures

Will Smith has some competition in his son Jaden, who proves his skills as a dramatic actor and action star in the remake of 1984’s”The Karate Kid.” While this film is like most remakes in that it isn’t as strong as the original, the story is still appealing and engaging, and the visual aspects are even more enjoyable with the picturesque setting in China. “The Karate Kid” is a feel-good family film that restructures the coming-ofage story for a new generation but won’t ruin the childhood memories of those who adored the original.

ANNIE HUNDLEY

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TV “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List”

Bravo

Popular comedienne Kathy Griffin returns for the sixth season of her Bravo reality series, and already the show promises to offer the exact same pop culture debacles served up to fans since the series began in 2005. Die-hard fans will enjoy Griffin’s usual banter — which does provide several hearty laughs in the season opener — but her usual shtick grows old quickly as she continues to obsess over tracking down gay-friendly celebrities. The premiere doesn’t fail to entertain, but fans should watch Griffin’s recent stand-up special “Kathy Griffin Does the Bible Belt” to get a less overcooked set of laughs.

MATTHEW JACOBS

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FASHION

Eco-friendly clothing makes its way to Baton Rouge Conscious shops embody movement Annie Hundley Contributing Writer

The green movement has made its way into students’ closets.

The fashion industry is jumping on the eco-friendly bandwagon with recycled, vintage and sustainable clothing. And with consignment shops and eco-conscious boutiques popping up in Baton Rouge, going green has never been easier for University students.

“The fashion industry puts off a ton of waste,” said Mary Singleton, manager of conscious boutique Noelie Harmon. “I think green is not going to be an option in the next 20 to 25 years. I think everyone’s just going to go that way.”

The Baton Rouge shop aims to “provide our community with extraordinary, safe products that are uniquely designed and made with consciousness,” according to the Noelie Harmon website.

“Companies are seeing that people really care about these things,” said Amy Strother, owner of the boutique. “Making eco-friendly

shopping much easier.”

Young people have played an important role in promoting environmental awareness, and the fashion aspect of the trend is no different, Strother said.

“College students are more educated on the green movement and more open-minded,” she said. “They mostly come in to buy TOMS shoes, honestly. A lot of [college students] associate being eco-friendly with one purchase as opposed to a lifestyle. But they learn there’s a little more to it than that, and they start buying more things.”

But eco-friendly shopping can benefit more than just the environment, Strother said.

“Being green is probably the cheapest way to go,” she said. “You just go back to your basics. You can even go to garage sales and find valuable antiques for close to nothing. You just have to be resourceful.”

Helping the environment by recycling clothes can literally pay off, with consignment shops such as Plato’s Closet offering cash on the spot for gently used clothing and accessories.

“It’s different from a regular consignment [shop],” said Brooke Smith, district manager of Plato’s Closet. “You don’t have to wait for

it to sell. So people can bring in their clothes and get cash right there.”

While the shop doesn’t have many organic outfits, shopping and selling at the store still reduces waste, Smith said.

“Once you start shopping here and get hooked on it, you’re constantly recycling things,” she said.

“You can have a whole new wardrobe every six months, and instead of wasting and throwing your clothes away, you can get cash for them.”

Smith said the store also helps the environment in ways other than clothing.

“We’ve implemented a lot of procedures in our store to reduce waste. We don’t do a lot of reports; everything’s electronic,” she said.

“So even within the company, we’re trying to be more green with everything.”

Consignment shops are perfect for college students looking to be eco-friendly on a budget, Smith said.

“It’s kind of incredible,” she said. “We have designer jeans for like $35. You can reinvent yourself and not blow your wallet.”

Besides being friendly to your wallet and the environment, Strother said eco-friendly shopping also helps others.

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BRCC student Katy Cosby shops at Plato’s Closet on Siegen Lane Tuesday. Ecofriendly shopping benefits the environment and students’ budgets.

“It can be a very toxic process, when you’re speaking about manufacturing, both for the environment and the person making the clothes,” she said. “When you shop vintage or eco-friendly, not only are you making a purchase based on that the product didn’t pollute the environment, but also that it wasn’t harmful to another person.”

Singleton said the fashion industry is making a necessary move

in the direction of environmental consciousness.

“Fashion is something we all wear every single day. You don’t have a choice,” she said. “Fashion has to be a part of your life, making it that much more important to be aware of its environmental impact.”

Contact Annie Hundley at ahundley@lsureveille.com

STAFF SENATE

WHAT A CATCH

Chancellor Martin: LSU is a ‘huge ship with tiny rudder’ More cuts expected for University Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer

photo courtesy of PAUL CRAIN

Wade Martin of Port Allen caught a catfish June 13 after about 10 minutes of fishing on the LSU lakes. The catfish weighed about 50 pounds and was 44 inches long.

Chancellor Michael Martin said he anticipates even more budget cuts in the future as he spoke at the Staff Senate meeting Wednesday.

“Right now, the messages we’re getting from the system are the world will look worse before it looks better,” Martin said. “We need to make adjustments for another very large cut and prepare for that cut.”

Martin said he is preparing a plan to anticipate another cut to present to the Board of Supervisors at its July 16 meeting.

He also updated the Senate on two House bills being debated at the State Capitol. HB 1, next year’s budgetary outline, has another budget cut for higher education.

Martin said there could be major consequences, depending on how big that cut will be for the University.

He also spoke about the LA Grad Act and said it is in the University’s best interest.

“It ties performance to greater autonomy to set tuition and I think that’s a good thing,”

Martin said. “We’ve already demMartin also spoke briefly onstrated we are the best perform- about the new provost, former ing University in the state by far.” Manship School of Mass CommuMartin cited several numbers nication Dean Jack Hamilton. to prove it.

He said he thinks Hamilton “The average graduation rate will convert his commitment from for all four year institutions in the Manship program to the whole Louisiana is 48 percent. If you institution. took us out of the “I figure if I state average, it went outside for drops to 32 pera provost now, cent,” Martin said. it would cost 10 “Yet we get cast instructor posiwith everybody tions,” Martin else.” said. “Jack has He also said agreed to serve the University two years and not puts only 7 pera minute more.” cent of the budget The meeting into administraconcluded Chad Michael Martin tion, lower than Gothreaux’s term Chancellor the state average as staff senate of 11 percent. president and the beginning of The University will have the Lisa Verma’s term as president. ability to raise tuition 10 percent “It has been deeply rewardafter meeting several performance ing to represent the staff of the criteria, and Martin said it would University,” Gothreaux said. “Our cost students less. accomplishments this past year “If we can offer sections and have been a direct result of the courses so they don’t have to stay hard work of our members, and we an extra year, they know raising have addressed an unprecedented tuition can cost them less in the level of challenges.” long run,” Martin said.

Verma commended Gothreaux Martin cited several key as- for his high standards and “time, pects to surviving this budget cri- energy, dedication and enthusisis: maintaining a commitment to asm.” diversity, perfecting higher education policy before higher educaContact Catherine Threlkeld at tion governance and sticking to cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com the values of the Flagship Agenda.

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‘The messages we’re getting from the system are the world will look worse before it looks better.’

2010 FIFA World Cup

USA v. Slovenia — Friday at 9 a.m.

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BASEBALL

Landry, Dishon sign MLB contracts Michael Lambert Contributing Writer

Teaching the Trade

LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson teaches on 10-day mission trip to Africa Katherine Terrell Contributing Writer

LSU menÕ s basketball coach Trent Johnson said he thought he knew what giving and sharing were until he spent 10 days in Africa.

Working with Training to Reduce the Incidence of AIDS-Related Death Trust, Johnson spent June 4 to 14 teaching aspiring coaches and kids the game of basketball in the Nkomazi region of South Africa.

The program uses sports as a way to teach

children the importance of HIV and AIDS education.

Johnson, who stayed in a hand-built hut during his time in Africa, has spent years coaching basketball, but never in a situation quite so unique. Ò IÕ ve never been a part of something like this,Ó Johnson said.

Africa has been buzzing with excitement about the 2010 FIFA World Cup, leaving little focus on basketball. The children in JohnsonÕ s clinic didnÕ t have much prior experience with the sport. Ò It was like starting from scratch,Ó he said.

Establishing basketball in an area full of soccer fans wasnÕ t something Johnson said he viewed as a challenge. Ò I think basketball can take off anywhere,Ó Johnson said.

Some of the World Cup games coincided with the times of JohnsonÕ s clinics, but soccer played a distant second in JohnsonÕ s mind. He instead spent his days teaching on and off the court.

Johnson taught a group of 15 aspiring

Junior center fielder Leon Landry and redshirt sophomore outfielder Johnny Dishon have signed MLB contracts, according to LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

Landry was picked in the third round by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the 109th pick.

“I definitely feel like it’s time for me to take that next step,Ó Landry said during a postseason press conference.

The Baton Rouge native hit .338 with 45 RBIs this season. Ò I got to play in front of the best fans in college baseball,Ó Landry said. Ò [I] had two trips to Omaha Ñ one being a national championship.

ItÕ s pretty much like a dream come true already. Now itÕ s time to start another dream.Ó Landry will join senior first baseman Blake Dean, who was drafted by the Dodgers in the eighth round. Ò No matter where I go, Blake Dean will be with me because he got drafted to the same exact team,Ó Landry said. Ò IÕ m pretty sure weÕ ll be roommates wherever we go.Ó Landry finished his career batting .303 in 162 starts during three seasons.

Dishon was drafted in the 42nd round by the Milwaukee Brewers.

The outfielder started 14 games last season, batting .213 with four home runs.

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[Above] LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson teaches kids the game of basketball in the Nkomazi region of South Africa as part of his 10-day mission trip.

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com

BASEBALL

LSU players shift focus to various summer leagues Six Tigers playing in Cape Cod League Michael Lambert Contributing Writer

At this time last year, the LSU baseball team was in Omaha, Neb., preparing for a championship run at the College World Series.

This year, the Tigers are scattered across the country playing in various summer leagues instead.

Eighteen players from the 2010 season are participating in summer leagues, and six of them are playing in the Cape Cod League.

Several sophomores, including second baseman Tyler Hanover, shortstop Austin Nola and pitchers Chris Matulis, Joey Bourgeois and Matty Ott, are playing in the Cape Cod League.

Junior pitcher Anthony Ranaudo will also be a part of the league, even though he was drafted No. 39 by the Boston Red Sox on June 8 during the MLB draft. Ò Summer ball is really an important part of the year,Ó said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. Ò It gives them a chance to get more at-bats and innings pitched.Ó Ranaudo and Matulis are teammates on the Brewster Whitecaps, and Ott and Nola are playing for the

Harwich Mariners.

Mainieri said the Cape Cod League attracts the top college players. Ò Everyone would say they want to play in the Cape Cod Summer League,Ó Mainieri said. Ò Sometimes a kid is better off getting a chance to play more in another league.Ó Three freshman are spending their summer with the Prospect Leagueout of the Midwest Ñ left fielder Mason Katz, third baseman Alex Edward and pitcher Zach LaSuzzo.

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LSU sophomore second baseman Tyler Hanover (11) throws the ball to first base March 7 during the Tigers’ 9-2 victory against Brown at Alex Box Stadium.

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FOOTBALL

Former pro football players Tiger Stadium gets attend LSU-hosted workshop new turf after concert Michael Lambert

Athletes learn skills for business world

Contributing Writer

Katherine Terrell Contributing Writer

Super Bowls, touchdowns, screaming fans — it’s all part of the NFL the public sees.

But for the players, their careers are just a short part of their stories.

What happens after the fairytale is a little less clear.

Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway got his happy ending.

But as most players know, Elway is the exception, not the rule.

Former LSU players Trev Faulk and Eddie Kennison didn’t get Elway’s ending. Neither did 2002 firstround draft pick T.J. Duckett, Super Bowl XXXI champion Antonio Freeman or former Episcopal High School standout Jimmy Williams.

Eleven athletes, including the aforementioned players, attended an LSU workshop held June 10 to 13 to learn how to be successful in their post-NFL careers.

The workshop, called “Personal Branding for Athletes: Transitioning From the NFL to Your Next Career,” taught the participants skills to succeed in the current business world.

LSU Executive Education Director Robin Kistler described the vision of the workshop in an email.

The goal is “to help as many former NFL athletes make the transition into whatever endeavor they so choose with polish, professionalism, and being true to their core values.”

Marketing Professor Tommy Karam developed the idea last year and planned the event with Kistler.

They worked alongside Lamonte Winston, former Kansas City Chiefs executive director of player development.

“It was important to us that we had a wide variety of players by age, years of playing experience, and location,” Kistler said in an email.

“We wanted a diverse group of experiences in the room so they could learn from each other. We could not have asked for a better group of men

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Former LSU football players T.J. Duckett, left, and Trev Faulk participate in a LSU workshop for former NFL players last weekend. The workshop taught business skills.

... They participated in the program with the same level of intensity and commitment as their time in the NFL.” Duckett said the workshop taught invaluable lessons to men whose whole lives had revolved around football.

“I started playing football when I was 8 years old,” Duckett said. “To not do something that you’ve been doing for so many years on a regular basis ... it took some getting used to.

It was a scary process. I didn’t really know what was next for me.”

Duckett said he feels more confident in his ability to succeed in the business world after attending the program.

Faulk said the workshop was everything he thought it would be and more.

“We’ve gone over personally branding ourselves, marketing ourselves, online media, entrepreneurship, marketing and business — pretty much just a wide range of issues,” Faulk said. “Hopefully I’ll be able to come back in a few years and share some of the things I’ve learned from here that have worked for me and my business.”

Each player gave a 10-minute testimonial on the last night about themselves, their passions and their future plans.

The testimonials showed a side of the players rarely seen by the fans.

Von Hutchins said he didn’t want to be part of the 75 percent of players who went bankrupt two years out of the league. Freeman talked about his love of giving back to community.

Freeman said he gave a group of children a challenge to read 35 books over the course of a few months, something he proudly noted they accomplished.

Faulk mentioned how he left LSU early to pursue the NFL after he graduated in three years. As a result, he went undrafted and bounced from team to team.

Looking back, Faulk said he wouldn’t change a thing because he learned how to be a man and found God through his adversity.

Kennison got emotional as he spoke of past mistakes and his two sons.

“My biggest fear is not being a good father to my boys,” Kennison said.

The biggest thing the players said they got out of the workshop was the ability to define themselves as people outside football.

Contact Katherine Terrell at kterrell@lsureveille.com

Tiger Stadium may not have gotten the purple turf LSU promised on April Fool’s Day, but the field has received a fresh face lift last week after Bayou Country Superfest.

“After the concert, there were some areas in the field that didn’t quite make it,” said Ronnie Haliburton, assistant athletic director of facility services. “The festival production people agreed to replace a portion of the field for us.”

Haliburton said a new type of grass was planted on the field.

Instead of using bull’s eye bermuda grass, the field was lined with celebration grass.

“It’s the same type of grass on the soccer and softball field,” Haliburton said.

Bayou Country Superfest gave LSU an opportunity to redo the whole field.

Haliburton said LSU and the production company from the

concert agreed to hire a consultant to assess the grass before and after the concert.

“We brought in a gentleman who has been doing this for about 17 years, working with venues across the country,” Haliburton said. “He came in and wrote up a standard procedure for us.”

Haliburton said the damage from the concert wasn’t anything he didn’t expect.

“It was exactly what we agreed to,” Haliburton said. “They paid for any damage that was done to the field from the concert. It was a mutual agreement.”

The grass in Tiger Stadium is usually regrown at the end of every spring.

“We just grow the old grass back in,” Haliburton said. “We don’t re-sod Tiger Stadium. It all grows back in.”

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com

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But the joy and energy the children had for basketball affected Johnson. In this day and age, coaches have a tendency to want to nurture their athletes, he said.

If a 5 or 6-year-old kid can play in the heat for days and not complain, his athletes should be able to do the same, he added.

Ò If you think youÕ re tired, youÕ re not tired,Ó he said.

Johnson said he plans to continue to work with TRIAD Trust and the children he coached. He plans to stay in constant contact with some of the people and kids he met, and he hopes they might come visit one day. Ò IÕ m in it for the long haul,Ó

Johnson said.

Johnson emphasized that his trip wasnÕ t a big deal for him, but a way to try to do his part to help out.

He said he was a little surprised by the attention he received in Africa and at home.

Someone told Johnson he must be Ò famous and richÓ back home. Ò IÕ m rich off faith, family and friends,Ó Johnson responded.

Johnson said it was hard to say goodbye to the 150 children he met in Africa, but he is already looking forward to being able to work with his team.

Because of NCAA rules, the basketball team canÕ t have organized workouts until the second day of the fall semester, but Johnson had a meeting with them Tuesday.

He showed the team a video of the kids and emphasized the importance of bettering oneÕ s self right now.

they find out how good they have it here at LSU.Ó Four players are suiting up in the Valley League in the Virginia area Ñ junior pitcher Daniel Bradshaw, freshman pitcher Michael Reed, sophomore outfielder Johnny Dishon and junior pitcher Ben Alsup.

Mainieri said assistant coach Javi Sanchez helped pair the players with the right league and team for the summer. Ò HeÕ s kind of the liaison for the summer leagues,Ó Mainieri said. Ò The teams call us and say, Ô We would like players.Õ We canÕ t help everybody because we donÕ t have enough.Ó

Mainieri said fitting players with the right team is based on past experiences. Ò We have relationships with different leagues,Ó Mainieri said. Ò For example, we want to make sure our pitchers are getting used a certain way. ItÕ s part of a relationship that has developed over time.Ó The players arenÕ t paid for their time on the team, but Mainieri said each player is matched with a host family during his stay. Ò The family feeds them,Ó Mainieri said. Ò Sometimes the players get a summer job and that helps pay the host family.Ó Sophomore catcher Grant

Dozar and freshman third baseman Beau Didier are playing in the Northwoods League located around Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Incoming LSU baseball recruits also get the opportunity to play in the summer leagues.

The teams in each league play against each other, and eventually a champion is crowned.

Mainieri said there are a few practices to begin the season, but most teams spend most of their time playing games, which could be five games a week.

Sophomore right fielder Mikie Mahtook and Nola are trying out for the USA Collegiate Team on July 5.

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coaches in a classroom setting every day from 8 a.m. to noon. The conditions barely qualified it to be called a classroom, he said.

In the afternoons, Johnson and the coaches loaded up in a pickup truck and drove to an outdoor court to teach kids basketball.

The coaches set up stations on the courts devoted to passing, dribbling, defense, rebounding, shooting and footwork.

Johnson said he gained a new perspective from watching kids with no shoes toil away at their basketball skills in the hot sun.

The children had little in the way of possessions and lived in an area ripe with HIV and lack of proper nutrition. Ò Their living conditions ... you couldnÕ t even imagine,Ó Johnson said.

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players to brush up on their skills before returning to Baton Rouge. Ò Experience is huge, especially for the kids that didnÕ t get a lot of playing time with us,Ó Mainieri said.

Sophomore catcher Matt Fury and freshman pitcher Chris Cotton are playing in the Texas Collegiate League.

Freshman Jordan Rittiner is pitching for the Thomasville Hitoms of the Coastal Plain League. Ò Summer leagues give them a great experience to see a different part of the country and meet new people,Ó Mainieri said. Ò Sometimes

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LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson and the coaches he taught in the Nkomazi region of South Africa teach kids the game of basketball on an outdoor court.

Ò The most important time of the year to get better is now,Ó Johnson said.

Johnson showed the team a video of the kids in Africa and talked about working hard both academically and in athletics. Ò ThereÕ s an edge to them,Ó Johnson said.

He likened the team to Ò hungry sponges,Ó eager to soak everything in.

There may not be any organized workouts until August, but JohnsonÕ s expectations for his team havenÕ t changed. Ò TheyÕ re allowed to structure themselves,Ó Johnson said. Ò The good ones will work on the things theyÕ re supposed to work on.Ó

Mainieri said Nola will have a short stint with his summer league team before traveling to Cary, N.C., for the USA team trials. Ò What greater thrill can a kid have than to play for their country?Ó Mainieri said. Ò ItÕ s an incredible opportunity.Ó Ott decided to opt out of the national team to get more time pitching for the Harwich Mariners. Ò I was afraid he wouldnÕ t make the team and then not get to play much this summer,Ó Mainieri said.

Contact Katherine Terrell at kterrell@lsureveille.com

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com

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for coming to Baton Rouge from their home in Canada, Drewes said.

Bitton, who is now working toward recovery in Canada, said he appreciates everyone’s help and Storyville’s contribution of the Tshirts.

“I think the T-shirt is great for promoting bicycle awareness and safety in southern Louisiana,” Bitton said in an email.

Donations for Bitton and his family have been flowing in steadily. Drewes said about $9,000 to $10,000 had already been collected, not including the revenue from T-shirt sales, which retail for $20 each.

So far, Storyville has sold approximately 35 shirts, Cox said, but many more are available, as the shirt has gone into a second printing.

Bitton said the outpouring of support he and his family have received means a lot to him.

“I would also like to thank Baton Rouge and the LSU community for all of their support — especially the geography department and the Geography and Anthropology Society for their extensive support for me and my family while they were staying in Baton Rouge,” Bitton said.

Though Bitton still has several significant injuries, Drewes said the difference in his condition now compared to in May is “like night

foreseen circumstances,” such as a hurricane.

Keim said BP may have to National Weather Service predicting between 14 and 23 named stop efforts at the well site, like storms in the Atlantic Basin. drilling the relief wells, if storms The busiest season since 1851, come near the rigs. The booms the year records start, was 2005, being used to stop oil from spreading “just won’t be able to which had 28 named storms.

The National Weather Ser- work when you’re talking about vice predicts eight to 14 of those waves of 25, 50 and even 75 feet storms will develop into hurri- high that far out in the Gulf,” canes this season, with between Keim said. The sand berms being three and seven being “major hur- constructed across the Louisiana coast may also ricanes,” which fail if large waves are Category 3 or top the berms. greater.

Joseph SuThe Atlantic hayda, interim hurricane season, director of the which includes LSU Hurricane the Gulf of MexCenter, said ico, runs from warmer-than-avJune 1 to Nov. erage surface wa30, according to ter temperatures the National Hurand the La Nina ricane Center. The wind conditions Pacific hurricane contribute to this season starts May year’s busy sea15 but ends at the son. Last year, the same time as in El Nino weather the Atlantic.

Barry Keim pattern helped reKeim, who Louisiana state climatologist duce the potential also works in the of storms to form.

Department of Only nine named storms Geography and Anthropology, said oil creates warmer water formed during the below-average temperatures, which are condu- 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, cive to hurricane formation, but and three intensified into hurrithe spill will not “significantly af- canes, two of which were a Catfect the development of storms,” egory 3 or stronger, according to but rather the storms will greatly the National Weather Service.

“The booms are going to be impact the response efforts.

“A hurricane would distrib- just like any other debris floatute [the oil] further and wider ing around,” Suhayda said. “We across the Gulf and obviously could also see a lot more moveaffect more people,” Keim said, ment of that oil-laden water noting the effects could vary washing into the inland parishes widely depending on a hurri- and places like Lake Pontcharcane’s size and direction. “But train.”

Keim said July 3 is the averdispersing it, on the upside, may help it break down a bit more age date of the first named storm in the Atlantic basin. In 2005, the quickly.”

Chris D’Elia, dean of the busiest year on record, the first School of the Coast and Environ- named stormed developed June ment, echoed Keim’s sentiments. 8.

Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman He said a hurricane could be somewhat beneficial in helping for the National Hurricane Center the oil disperse and break down, in Miami, said a tropical wave in but it could also be harmful by the Atlantic that at the beginning pushing oil further inland into of the week was likely to develop into a storm “ran into some rivers and estuaries.

In a June 14 daily update, problems Tuesday,” and now has Federal On-Scene Coordina- only a 10 percent chance of detor Rear Admiral James Watson veloping further by Friday. Drysaid BP is following the federal air intrustion and a wind sheer government’s direction to “move from the south stalled the tropical more quickly” and outlined a plan wave’s ability to develop into a to contain more than 50,000 bpd storm.

Feltgen said the National by the end of June. This plan also better allows the response efforts Hurricane Center will continue to to deal with “bad weather or un- monitor the tropical wave despite

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and day.”

“Immediately following the accident, he was hanging on by a thread — one thread,” Drewes said.

Though Bitton is still recovering, Drewes said his progress is “truly remarkable,” and with limited mobility, Bitton is already anxious to be active again.

“He’s a full Ironman athlete,” Drewes said. “Usually people that can ride a bike, swim and run for 11 hours straight don’t like to sit around and do nothing.”

Bitton said he plans to return to the University as soon as he is physically able.

Contact Ryan Buxton at rbuxton@lsureveille.com

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Storyville, a local clothing store, is selling a T-shirt to benefit LSU geography graduate student Michael Bitton, who was injured in a cycling accident May 15.

HURRICANES, from page 1

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‘A hurricane would disturb [the oil] further and wider across the Gulf and obviously affect more people.’

HURRICANE QUICK FACTS • Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.

• The National Weather Service predicts 14 to 23 named storms i n t he Atlantic Basin during the 2010 season.

• Between three and seven of those storms are predicted to be “major hurricanes,” designated Catagory 3 or higher.

• This season is on track to be the second busiest season ever.

• 2005 marked the busiest season since 1851 with 28 named storms.

DAVE MARTIN / The Associated Press

An oil slick is seen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Sunday, contrasting with the water in the Gulf of Mexico.

its unlikely chance of further development, as well as closely following a tropical depression in the Eastern Pacific off the coast of Mexico. Suhayda said a storm could also move large portions of oil off the water’s surface and into the water column. This oil could then form tar balls, which are susceptible to wave movement and easily wash on shore.

Hurricanes coming to Louisiana from the south, he said, often push water to the west and to the

north, as Hurricane Katrina did.

“If we get the strong waves associated with a hurricane, it can reach down there, pick up that stuff that would otherwise be in a quiet area and move it ashore,” he said. “You could expect that the eastern side of Louisiana will get a lot of flooding, and the flood waters do penetrate into the estuaries.”

Keim encouraged students to be familiar with hurricane evacuation routes and to stock supplies

like batteries, candles, water and nonperishable foods.

“We’ve been hit here in Louisiana during some quiet seasons as well as during active seasons,” he said. “We always need to be on the ready, and we’ll just have to wait and see how a storm will actually impact the oil spill.”

Contact Nicholas Persac at npersac@lsureveille.com

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Bonnaroo provides great experiences apart from music

Waiting in line for nine hours and nearly running out of gas in my car? Check.

No rain, 90-plus degree temperatures and persistent sunshine for four days? Check.

Constant dehydration? Check.

Less than four hours of sleep in a tent for three straight nights?

Check.

Wait a minute, that sounds like a checklist for an awful experience on a road trip, right?

Not at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. These nuisances fall by the wayside when you have the kind of experience I have had for the last two years on a farm in the middle of rural Tennessee.

There are very few places on Earth where I would be willing to dress in only a diaper and Mardi Gras beads to attend a Flaming Lips concert with five of my best friends, let alone not be completely

laughed at for doing so.

And really, stories like that one form the appeal of a festival like Bonnaroo, for better or worse. It is easy to take a look at the music lineup with artists like Jay-Z, Dave Matthews Band, Conan O’Brien, Kings of Leon and the Flaming Lips or watch live video of the concerts at home and understand why people go through all the hassle to attend every year.

But the best aspect of the festival has almost nothing to do with the music, and that is remarkable considering I have seen two of the best concerts of my life at Bonnaroo — The Decemberists in 2009 and The National this year.

It is the people I have met at the festival, who are some of the most open and genuinely nice individuals I have ever encountered, that make Bonnaroo so special.

My camping neighbors made

us hot dogs one day. A girl gave me some orange juice when she saw that I looked dehydrated during the LCD Soundsystem show at 3 a.m. A complete stranger hugged me after standing next to me during The National’s Chris Abshire set. The list is Contributing endless, really.

The Bonnaroo Writer atmosphere is very much like a state fair. Booths of exotic and delicious food often tempted me into trying their delicacies. People dressed up in everything from a full-on Native American outfit — with rainbow colors for the headdress — to shorts made of only old Batman comic strips.

And, of course, there is the music.

Indie buzz band Local Natives replicated every song off their debut album, “Gorilla Manor,” to perfection, engaging the crowd and proving that awesomely bad mustaches have no bearing on the quality of a band’s live show, even in the sweltering Tennessee heat.

The Flaming Lips put on the most insanely giddy show I have ever experienced, complete with two tons of confetti, hundreds of balloons, a bear mascot, a midnight start time, naked dancers on stage and the Lips’ own psychadelic take on the classic Pink Floyd album, “Dark Side of the Moon.”

The Dead Weather — guitar virtuoso Jack White’s newest side project — rocked the crowd at the main stage with their own version of crunchy blues rock n’ roll and a rousing introduction from comedian Conan O’Brien.

LCD Soundsystem’s

metronomic dance music and triumphant swagger coalesced into a late night set for the ages as thousands of sweaty hipsters packed tightly into the tent to witness what could be the band’s last Bonnaroo set ever.

So, absolutely, the music remains a sizeable part of the experience. But, I might not put up with all the extracurricular hassles like money, heat or lack of sleep if it weren’t for the amazing atmosphere that the attendees of the festival create.

If you attend Bonnaroo, you will likely return from the festival with more sunburns than cash. Still, I doubt you will regret any of it.

The time of my life? For a second year in a row? Check.

Contact Chris Abshire at cabshire@lsureveille.com

COX COMMUNICATIONS

Help oil spill relief, just don’t take advantage of it I love the state of Louisiana.

I’ve lived here since the age of 7 and have grown to love the Pelican State.

The fact that 60,000 barrels of oil are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico each day is a little disconcerting to me.

All around campus, people are talking about oil spill recovery jobs and the high pay that accompanies them. I’ve heard rumors of all sorts for oil spill-related jobs. Apparently you can make $250 daily for shoveling dirt on beaches in Venice and Shell Beach for 12 hours. The highest pay-out I’ve heard of tops off at $500 a day, but ownership of a boat is required.

Students are certainly going to be enticed by this supposed luxurious pay. Some may even drop out of school just to get these full-time jobs. However, the magnitude of this disaster needs to be acknowledged.

Think about the jobs lost, the slick of the oil across the water, the animals killed. The environment is at stake here.

The tremendous damage the oil spill has done to the ecosystem thus far is shocking.

There are more than enough reasons for someone to want to do their part in expediting the recovery. It’s just the fact that some people seem to be doing it for pure profit with little to no care about what is actually happening.

Searching craigslist.com for oil spill jobs produced some interesting

results. Some descriptions seemed to be cash-ins. Take for example “As the BP oil spill continues the supply for Louisiana Shrimp is quickly fading away! Shrimpin’ Around is offering the largest and most select Shrimp you will find anywhere in Cory Cox louisiana [sic]!!”

Columnist I’ll be honest. You’re not going to catch me on ESPN2’s Masters of Bass or anything like that.

I’ve had very little experience fishing whatsoever. I’ve never owned a fishing pole, and I definitely don’t have a pair of Costa Del Mars. The one time I did go deep sea fishing in the Gulf, I spent the majority of the trip violently vomiting all over the boat.

But I still love my seafood.

Shrimp po-boys are a staple of my diet. I look forward to crawfish and Abita season as much as any Louisianan. Soft-shell crab stands as one of the greatest inventions ever. Oysters, catfish – the list could go on forever. I am thankful for the fishermen and restaurant owners that are responsible for such a delectable cuisine. Even the truck drivers and line cooks deserve credit for some of the South’s most legendary dishes.

That’s a major concern in this

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oil spill disaster. What are these fishermen going to do for a living?

Commercial fishermen and charter boat guides are in a serious bind. The most scrutinized party in this whole mess, BP, has agreed to use $20 billion to pay those directly affected by the oil spill. Hopefully that compensation will cover the losses endured by such victims.

If not, then these are the people

who deserve the high-paying jobs, not some college student trying to make a quick fortune. For years I’ve noticed the “Save Our Coast” and similar bumper stickers across the state. Similar to the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina, it’s an odd feeling that such a disaster has now actually occurred.

Recognize the problem and play your part in the recovery. Don’t

take advantage of the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States.

Instead take the time to give back to the coast that we have all enjoyed for so long.

Contact Cory Cox at ccox@lsureveille.com

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“Beer. It’s the best damn drink in the world.”

Jack Nicholson

American actor April 22, 1937 - present

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ThursdAy, junE 17, 2010

FANNING THE FLAMES

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Be a hero — donate blood as often as possible Well, it’s Monday afternoon now, and I just received my official “thank you” letter from the President of the United Blood Services organization for donating a pint of my own bodily fluid to the cause back in May. Back then, the big ominous blood truck was parked on campus outside Coates Hall like some white-trash RV trailer, and a group of us walking around by the Student Union spotted it.

It was a spontaneous decision. I decided we would hop aboard the blood bus and help the cause.

The shedding of blood has historically been a symbolic and important event — Jesus of Nazareth told his followers “this is my blood; it has been shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven” — which is some pretty heavy dope to lay on a bunch of fishermen and tax-collectors who were in Jerusalem to have supper and fraternize.

But this may be straying from the point I was going to make about the whole “giving blood” ordeal as containing both purposive, material and maybe solidary incentives, too.

We told the UBS people we were there to donate blood.

Two of my friends backed out for reasons that were never fully explained — one of them was supposedly ingesting a cocktail of pharmaceuticals every day, by her own admission — while my friend’s girlfriend and I stayed the course, and answered a litany of objective questions about our sexual history and international traveling record.

The answer to almost all of these is a resounding “no.”

“Have you used needles to take drugs intravenously in the past six months?” “Over the past six months have you engaged in unprotected sexual activity with a member of the same sex?”

Anything short of an

exclamatory “No!” and an accompanying look of visceral disgust during this round of preliminary questions is likely grounds for expulsion and permanent disbarment from the blood bus.

The surveyors will then ask some of the same questions in varied order or with longer time-spans Trevor Fanning involved (i.e. instead of just Columnist six months, now the buggers are prying back into your history seven years) to be 100 percent sure you were telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth all along.

Which shouldn’t be a problem if you just follow Mark Twain’s old truism about not lying if you’re unsure.

Once your track record is confirmed clean and it’s clear

that you’re not some kind of uncontrolled homosexual nymphomaniac or perennial heroin junkie, you’re free to move on into the hot-seat where the real deal goes down, and the transaction of fluids and philanthropic payoff occurs in real time.

I recall trying to talk with the really funny attendants but being too preoccupied with keeping my arm upright and squeezing some piece of sponge or foam at intervals.

When the IV bag is replete with dark red blood the workers just drained into a sack from your veins, it’s time to hit the road and collect on the material incentives component of your rewards.

For my donation I got the UBS gym satchel – basically a queer-looking red backpack with only one strap.

Since we were the last customers for the day, they stuffed our sacks to the seams with cookies and snack-treats.

The thing is slung over my computer chair right now, and I still reach in there from time to time to grab a pack of Chips Ahoy or Ritz crackers.

So in summation, I think there’s a major reason the Ol’ Galilean struck a nerve when he started divinely rhapsodizing on things like “the shedding of blood for you and for all” and the ultimate forgiveness of sins and it is due in large part to the powerful nature of the act.

Giving blood is sacrosanct on some deep and mystic level of the human consciousness.

UBS says to give blood about three times a year, but right now I am shooting for about a six or seven mean-average.

And I always carry in my wallet my United Blood Services “hero” card, for good or ill.

Contact Trevor Fanning at tfanning@lsureveille.com

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Apple, AT&T can’t handle demand for new iPhone There’s been a buzz going around in the tech world lately because of hopes and dreams of something “magical.”

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new iteration of the “Jesus Phone,” the iPhone 4, to the world last Monday at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.

Now, as The Daily Reveille’s tech columnist, I feel it’s my duty to inform my loyal readership of some of the fancy, new things iPhone 4 brings to the table. Features such as: a full HD display, HD video recording, application multitasking, a 5MP camera with flash, ridiculous battery life and, of course, face-to-face video calling.

I mean, you can even play Farmville on the new iPhone — what else do you want?

However, since a lot of you reading this column have an iPhone and have heard about the new one from your friends, family or simply from browsing the Internet like myself, I won’t bore you with my humble opinion of the new phone.

Instead, I have something more pertinent to those interested in buying Steve Jobs’ latest toy.

With the phone going on sale next Thursday and pre-orders starting two days ago, one would think with all the new features iPhone 4 brings over last year’s 3GS model, a company as big and mighty as AT&T would expect a large volume of customers ready to pre-order the new phone.

Expecting this mass traffic, it would make sense to do everything possible to prep the servers so nothing disastrous or fatal would happen, right?

Well, this is still AT&T we’re talking about — and, like their network in Baton Rouge last Friday, things crashed hard and heavy.

Numerous problems were reported during day one of iPhone’s preorder.

Many inadam arinder terested cusColumnist tomers claimed someone else’s information would show up when they logged into their AT&T accounts.

This causes huge concern because if someone else’s information were to show up when I log into my account, who gets to see all of my private information when he logs into his account?

This security breach follows shortly after AT&T leaked 114,000 iPad 3G user’s emails.

On top of users signing in to see someone else’s user information, some customers claimed they received confirmation emails providing a date when they would receive their new iPhone, when John Smith in Ohio was the one who ordered it.

This seems like a big problem with AT&T. Many stores also reported problems with pre-orders. Many customers waited upward of three hours for their order to go through after dealing with many error messages on AT&T’s system.

Soon thereafter, many AT&T stores actually closed their doors and halted pre-orders altogether.

It’s expected to have a slow server or even have it crash during the day

because of high volume, but to have this major of a security breach occur not only with the 3G iPads earlier this month, but now with iPhone 4 pre-orders — to reiterate, something everyone knew would be a huge event — is ridiculous.

While AT&T failed to address this issue Tuesday, the company issued a statement mere minutes before I started typing this column yesterday.

“Given this unprecedented demand and our current expectations for our iPhone 4 inventory levels when the device is available June 24, we’re suspending pre-ordering today

in order to fulfill the orders we’ve already received. The availability of additional inventory will determine if we can resume taking pre-orders.”

So, it sounds like if you were one of the lucky few to get in there and pre-order your phone before the servers blew up … congratulations.

Hopefully you’ll be enjoying your new phone next Thursday on launch day.

To those who didn’t, keep trying. Apple’s website (as of this writing) claims phones will begin shipping July 2.

However, to those whose pre-orders did go through, double -

and triple-check and make sure the information on your account is correct and your phone is being shipped to you, not some lonely guy in Albuquerque.

AT&T needs to get its act straight. I wouldn’t trust a carrier who has this many internal and cellular network problems, no matter how much ol’ Steve hyperbolizes about the iPhone.

Contact Adam Arinder at aarinder@lsureveille.com

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