Today in Print - September 1, 2010

Latino enrollment increasing at the University, new frat reflects trend, p. 3 Columnist Cody Worsham tells what he would cut from LSU’s budget, p. 8

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BUDGET CUTS

University to cut 4 language programs

Team hopes to achieve top defense under Chavis, p. 5

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Hole Lotta Love

Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences will have to cut $700,000, 14 full-time instructors and one part-time instructor to accommodate next year’s budget cuts, according to department chair Emily Batinski.

The instructors’ employment will end as of January 2011, Batinski said.

Programs being cut entirely include Japanese, Swahili, Portuguese and Russian. Instructors will also be terminated from German, Italian and Classics, which includes Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

Batinski said she was informed in June that the cuts would come from the foreign language department, and she spent the summer deciding whom to retain.

Batinski and Gaines Foster, College of Arts and Sciences interim dean, decided whom to cut based on student enrollment in each language program.

The Japanese program had 105 students, Portuguese had 36 students, Russian had 113 students and Swahili had 161 students, LANGUAGES, see page 11

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Anonymous hook-up hot spots still active on campus despite efforts to close them Parker Cramer Contributing Writer

Despite efforts to rid the University of glory holes, the anonymous sex hot spots continue to pop up on campus.

“Glory holes,” which are carved in the partitions of bathroom stalls, are typically used for anonymous oral sex between men who insert their genitals into the hole. On-campus holes were active as recently as this summer, according to anonymous sex website

CruisingForSex.com.

One of the men’s restrooms on the first floor of Coates Hall had a 2- to 3-inch hole cut out of a toilet stall partition, but it was patched Tuesday with a metal plate.

Paul Favaloro, director of Facility Services, said Monday that Facility Services was not aware of a glory hole in Coates Hall.

Favaloro said blocking holes with steel plates is the main way Facility Services combats glory holes,

GLORY HOLE GPS Middleton Library

Coates Hall

HOLES, see page 11

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Student Recreation Complex

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RESLIFE

Kirby-Smith Hall to reopen in 2011 Meredith Will Contributing Writer

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Plans for renovating Kirby-Smith Hall include removing all existing furnishings and replacing them with newer ones to match the other newly renovated dorms.

Kirby-Smith Hall is scheduled to reopen as a dormitory Aug. 1, 2011, after a year of renovations.

Steve Waller, director of Residential Life, said this will help alleviate next year’s standby list of students waiting for housing. As of Monday, 391 students were on the standby list for this year.

The first through seventh floors of Kirby-Smith will be renovated and refurbished, providing 360 beds for incoming students for the 201112 school year.

Instead of the usual five-year

process to renovate or construct buildings, ResLife requested an Act 959, which will reduce the process to a year. The Act 959 was approved on Tuesday.

The estimated total project cost is $1.7 million, according to Act 959 Construction Project for Renovations to Kirby-Smith Hall for the LSU Department of Residential Life.

“The Act 959 allows urgency for space to bypass the five-year cycle with funds that we have already,” Waller said.

Because the project is only planned to use the $1.7 million ResLife already has, the process was

shortened to roughly one year. The Act 959 allows projects to be reduced in time if they are using less than $5 million without loans.

Renovation costs include $400,000 for furniture and $900,000 to $1 million for maintenance. Kirby-Smith is also going to change to co-ed instead of all male to accommodate the females who need housing, as well.

DORM, see page 11

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INTERNATIONAL Mexico captures reported drug lord, savage assassin ‘the Barbie’ MEXICO CITY (AP) — A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico’s most savage assassins became the third major drug lord brought down by Mexico in less than a year, and could provide intelligence on even bigger kingpins.

Three Russians kidnapped in Darfur freed by security forces KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Three Russians abducted by gunmen in Sudan’s restive Darfur region were freed by security forces after a clash with their kidnappers, a Sudanese news website reported Tuesday.

Security forces fought with the kidnappers Monday night before freeing the men, who worked for a company transporting food for the U.N.African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the Sudan Media Center reported, quoting provincial Governor

Abdel-Hameed Moussa Kasha.

The three Russians — two pilots and an engineer — were kidnapped Sunday after leaving an airfield in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, and soon afterward the military said they had identified where they were being held.

German bishops expand sex abuse rules in response to many allegations BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Roman Catholic church introduced new guidelines Tuesday on handling reports of sexual abuse that require prosecutors to be informed of any suspected case unless the victim objects.

The expanded guidelines come in response to hundreds of allegations of abuse at the hands of clergy that emerged earlier this year and rocked the church in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI’s homeland.

Most cases date back years, if not decades, and the statute of limitations has passed on the majority of them.

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Farmer Franklin Brito holds a hunger strike Sept. 27, 2009, in Caracas, Venezuela. Brito, who held repeated strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela’s government, died in a military hospital Tuesday, igniting critics of the country’s government.

NATIONAL

Obama ends Iraq combat effort: ‘It is time to turn the page’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring no victory after seven years of bloodshed, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, telling millions who were divided over the war in his country and around the world: “It is time to turn the page.”

From the Oval Office, where President George W. Bush first announced the invasion that would come to define his time in office, Obama said bluntly: “Our most urgent task is to restore our economy.”

It was a telling sign of the domestic troubles weighing on Obama’s nation and his own presidency that he would put such emphasis on the dire state of U.S. joblessness in a major war address. Even in turning control of the war over to Iraqis — and trying to cap one of the most divisive chapters in recent American history — Obama is escalating the conflict in Afghanistan. He pledged anew that the United States would keep

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up the fight in that war, the longest one since Vietnam. And in Iraq, for all the finality, the war is not over.

More Americans are likely to die.

The country is plagued by violence and political instability, and Iraqis struggle with constant shortages of electricity and water.

Obama is keeping up to 50,000 troops in Iraq for support and counterterrorism training, and the last forces are not due to leave until the end of 2011 at the latest.

Texas man slits throat in court after sentenced to 40 years, lives DALLAS (AP) — A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 years in prison.

Marcial Anguiano, 47, of Duncanville, was taken from the Dallas County courthouse on a stretcher with his neck covered in bandages, state District Judge Larry Mitchell said.

STATE/LOCAL Melancon pushes for TV debates in Senate race with Vitter (AP) — Democratic Senate candidate Charlie Melancon pressed Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter on Tuesday to face off in a series of five TV debates around Louisiana before the November election.

Vitter appeared unlikely to agree to Melancon’s request for a series of town hall-style match-ups without pre-screened questions and held in five locations around the state.

Luke Bolar, a spokesman for the senator, said Vitter has agreed to several types of forums and debates, though only one on the list he provided was slated to be televised, on WWL-TV in New Orleans.

Melancon, a congressman from Napoleonville, and 10 other candidates are challenging Vitter in the Nov. 2 general election. Vitter is seeking a second term and holds a double-digit lead in most polls.

He’s in his first election since a 2007 prostitution scandal.

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

University students to beautify I-10 exit and other plants, which will help preserve the quality of the LSU Lakes by minimizing storm runoff.

“As an added bonus, we are able to make these two projects into hands-on learning experiences for students from LSU and Southern University who plan to pursue careers in fields like urban forestry and landscape architecture,” Holden said.

The project was the winning entry in an interdepartmental competition.

University students have also planned a project that would install colored lights underneath the I-10 bridge on Dalrymple to display water quality in the lakes. Water-quality sensors in the lake would be tied to the lights, which would change as the dissolved oxygen levels changed.

That project is currently unfunded.

Meanwhile, urban forestry students from Southern University will plant native trees on the median of

North Acadian Thruway in front of the Capital Area Technical College.

That project will include a line of live oaks sandwiched between rows of bald cypress and red maple trees.

The total cost of both projects is about $100,000.

The Green Light Plan is a program established by the mayor’s office aimed at repairing roads and intersections to alleviate traffic congestion.

The program is funded by a half-cent sales tax increase approved

by Baton Rouge voters in 2005.

The Green Light Plan funds the ongoing construction on Brightside Drive. It also funded the renovation of the South Acadian Thruway and Perkins Road intersection, among many others throughout East Baton Rouge Parish.

Facility Services employee arrested for marijuana, warrants

Student arrested for marijuana, psychedelic pipe, speeding

LSUPD officers arrested a Facility Services employee Aug. 20 for possession of marijuana and two outstanding warrants.

Officers were tipped that Henry Williams Jr., 28, of 8535 Leake Ave., Apartment B, could be responsible for the theft of books totaling $133.73 from classrooms in Coates Hall, said Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman. Officers found 1.6 grams of marijuana while searching Williams’ vehicle for the books.

He was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Police arrested student Hall Clark III, 19, of 88 South Creekside Villas, Houston, on Aug. 25 for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and for speeding.

LSUPD stopped Clark around noon for traveling 40 mph in a 20mph zone, Tabor said.

Officers found 0.7 grams of marijuana and a multi-colored, glass marijuana smoking pipe, Tabor said.

Clark was issued a misdemeanor summons for simple possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and speeding.

the bookstore saw Jeffrey Livingston, 22, of 3634 South Bahin Court, leave the store without paying for a pack of Motrin IB tablets, priced at $5.69, Tabor said. Livingston was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

19-year-old University student arrested for DWI

Student arrested for stealing pain relievers from LSU Bookstore

An underage student was arrested Aug. 26 for DWI with a blood alcohol content four times the legal limit. LSUPD stopped 19-year-old Kenneth Stanley, of 5225 Fairview Ave., Alexandria, at about 1:35 a.m. near Highland Road and South Stadium Drive after he was crossing the center line. He tested with a BAC of 0.083 grams percent, Tabor said, and was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

LSUPD arrested a student Aug. 24 for trying to steal pain relievers from the LSU Bookstore.

An undercover officer patrolling

Project to provide hands-on learning Matthew Albright Staff Writer

University students in the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture will participate in a city beautification project funded

by Mayor-President Kip Holden’s Green Light Plan.

Students will construct a contour-planted rain garden near the Dalrymple Drive exit off Interstate 10.

“Although the primary purpose of the Green Light program is to improve traffic flow on major roads, we’ve also set aside a portion of the money to plant trees, construct sidewalks and generally beautify East Baton Rouge Parish,” Holden said Tuesday at a news conference.

The garden will use native trees

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University alumnae Andrea Galinsky, center, and Mary Martinich, right, speak Tuesday at a press conference about their design to beautify the I-10 Dalrymple Drive exit area.

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CAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS

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Student arrested for stealing earphones from LSU Bookstore LSUPD arrested a student Aug. 25 for stealing $30 earphones from the LSU Bookstore.

An undercover officer saw Joseph Peed, 20, of 138 Tchefuncte Parc, Madisonville, open a pack of earphones and put them in his pocket before leaving the store around noon.

Peed was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

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GREEK LIFE

Latino population increase leads to reopening of Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity returns after 35-year absence

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‘We are very proud to be a part of such a great history. It really touches me to be able to celebrate my culture.’

Kayla DuBos Contributing Writer

The Latino population on campus has been growing steadily since 1994, according to data from the Office of Budget and Planning.

In 2009, 898 Latino students attended the University, an increase from the 773 Latino students in 2005.

Oscar Melendez, biology junior and secretary of Phi Iota Alpha, a Latino-based fraternity, said the Latino population is small, but its growth is important.

“I feel like it’s still small, but there is definitely more involvement from Latinos on campus,” said Melendez, who’s of Honduran descent.

Phi Iota Alpha was re-established at the University in March after an absence of 35 years. Marlon Boutin, psychology senior and vice president of Phi Iota Alpha, attributed the return to the rise in the number of Latino students during the past few years.

“The increase in Latino population may have something to do with [the re-establishment] because there have been many attempts to re-establish Phiota before,” said Boutin, who is of Dominican heritage. “We just happened to be the first successful attempt.”

He said the Latino community is underrepresented at the University, but it’s still comfortable and easy for people of Hispanic descent to make friends.

“I believe the Latino community has grown mainly because of LSU’s initiative to recruit more

Boutin said the fraternity foBoutin said Phi Iota Alpha cuses on getting to know each pro- was prestigious when it was first spective member brought to the as a person and University, and he deciding what that hopes to keep that person can bring momentum going. to the fraternity, “We are very rather than his or proud to be a part her ethnicity. of such a great hisMelendez and tory,” said Boutin.

Boutin explained “It really touches that Campus Life me to be able to and Greek Life celebrate my culcontacted men on ture.”

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minority students,” said Daniel Toro, finance junior of Honduran heritage and president of Phi Iota Alpha.

“Phiota” — as it is commonly called — was founded at the University in 1858 under the name Sociedad Hispano-Americano.

Sigma Iota was founded at the University in 1904 in place of Sociedad and led to the first Latinobased fraternity in America, Boutin said.

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He said Phi Iota Alpha took the place of Sigma Iota in 1931 and remained on campus until 1975 when the fraternity withdrew because of a strong decrease in Latino admissions.

“Things were a lot different back then,” Boutin said. “Now we accept persons of all nationalities as long as they fit our requirements, but when it first began, Phi Iota Alpha only accepted men that were directly from Latino countries.”

Sports

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SCHWEHMMING AROUND

LSU still robust, but they won’t win it all

year is 70 percent.

Chavis also brought up the point that the Tigers had more than their fair shares of thirddown opportunities.

“When you start looking at it, we had 205 opportunities on third down,” Chavis said. “Nobody else in the league put their opponents in third down situations that often, so we want to improve.”

More specifically than that,

If there’s one thing I’m not fond of about being a college football fan at LSU, it’s the amount of whining that goes on about everything that deals with Les Miles’ football team.

Now that comes with the territory, and in no way am I complaining.

In fact, I love hearing the “Les Miles is ANDY SCHWEHM on the proverSports Columnist bial hot seat” talk. It makes my days go by smoother.

But sometimes you people (and by you people I mean LSU football enthusiasts) have got to look in the mirror, take a deep breath and calm down.

Be realistic. It’s not hard, I promise. Then you won’t be let down.

My friends and family have been asking me recently what LSU is going to do this year, what they have up their sleeve, etc., as if I have an inner connection with Les or some type of prophetic tongue.

I don’t have either of those.

In fact, I bet Les couldn’t tell me apart from a timeout.

CHAVIS, see page 7

PREDICTION, see page 7

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LSU lines up four inches from the goal line to keep Mississippi State from scoring during the Tigers’ 30-26 win Sept. 26 in Starkville, Miss., at Davis Wade Stadium.

Third Down’s the Charm Tigers look to shore up third-down defense in upcoming season

LSU junior cornerback Patrick Peterson had a goal written plainly on his eye black during the 2009 season.

The message simply read, “Number 1 Defense.”

Peterson will be unable to write that goal on his face this season because a new NCAA rule prevents players from writing messages on their eye black strips, but that doesn’t mean the objective has changed.

According to LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis,

the 2010 squad has the potential “Third and Chavis.” to attain the top defense moniker.

Chavis resents the criticism.

“We certain“There was Rob Landry ly have talent,” someone several Chavis said. “We years ago, and Sports Contributor have a lot of he couldn’t find work to do, but I like our posi- a lot to [criticize],” Chavis said. tion right now.”

“So he wanted to be critical of The key to conquering the our third-down production.” defensive mountain, though, is In 2009, LSU stopped opgetting stops on third down — posing offenses 63.2 percent of a facet of the game Chavis has the time on third down, ranking been criticized for dating back to eighth in the Southeastern Conhis days at Tennessee when his ference. Chavis said the goal third down defense was dubbed percentage for the team this

FOOTBALL

Offensive line looks to combine youth and experience Position changes fill tight end void Mark Clements Sports Contributor

It’s no secret the LSU football team’s offense ranked 112th in the nation last season, and many would argue the problems began with the big men up front.

The LSU offensive line allowed 37 sacks in 13 games last season, which tied the Tigers with South Carolina for the most in the Southeastern Conference.

LSU coach Les Miles said he believes this year’s O-line has the perfect blend of older leadership and young talent to mesh as one strong unit.

“The group is a great mix be- could soon become one of the best tween the veterans that know what in the business. to expect and the very talented “[Barksdale] has really started young men that allow some of the fast. I think he has really worked leadership from hard to operate these veterans to and recognizes take place,” Miles that the chemistry said. “I think the is a significant ischemistry is really sue,” Miles said. good.”

“I think he’s going The anchor of to be a postseason the offensive line honors guy.” comes in the form Barksdale Josh Dworaczyk of a 6-foot-3-inch, said he was junior left guard 318-pound Joseph very open to the Barksdale. change, and it The senior left tackle made came fairly easily to him. the switch from right side of the “It wasn’t difficult at all,” he ball, where he has played the last said. “It took a little bit extra after three years. practice and a little more work in Miles said Barksdale has the weightlifting sections and off adjusted to the position switch quickly and smoothly, and he LINEMEN, see page 7

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‘If ... you’re able to be coached, you will go so much further.’

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LSU sophomore center T-Bob Hebert (53) and sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson (9) gear up for a play Nov. 7 during the Tigers’ 24-15 loss to Alabama.

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FOOTBALL

Secondary eyes return to elite level Emphasis put on more physical play Ryan Ginn Sports Contributor

There are plenty of familiar names in LSU’s 2010 secondary, but don’t expect to see a familiar style of play this season.

The Tigers’ secondary ranks as one of the most experienced units on this year’s team. Three of the secondary’s projected starters played extensively in 2009, with several players boasting experience at multiple positions.

“I feel we’re the best secondary in the country across the board,” said senior safety Jai Eugene, who spent most of his career at cornerback. “We’ve got guys who can play everywhere.”

The secondary will no doubt benefit from the stability that comes with returning the same defensive coordinator, a first since the 2007 season.

Having perhaps the best cornerback in the country certainly doesn’t hurt, either.

Junior cornerback Patrick Peterson, a consensus preseason All-America selection, arrived at fall camp looking more like a safety than cornerback, weighing in at 222 pounds.

“I want to be the most physical guy out there,” he said. “I want to show that corners don’t have to weigh 180 [pounds]. This is the best I’ve ever felt playing football.”

More physical play will be needed from the secondary in order to get to the elite level expected from a school that has produced standouts such as Corey Webster and LaRon Landry.

The Tigers grabbed 13 interceptions in 2009, a welcome improvement from the desultory 2008 unit that finished 11th in the Southeastern Conference in pass defense and routinely gave up big plays through the air. However, the 2009 season total was just the seventh-best of the past decade and nowhere near the 23 picks hauled in by the 2007 team.

Additionally, the defense struggled to get off the field. Opponents averaged 70 plays per game against LSU, the highest amount since 2000.

The Tigers’ bend-but-don’tbreak mentality resulted in an impressive scoring defense that ranked No. 11 in the NCAA, but also left the Tigers dominated in the time of possession category, finishing at No. 107.

“We definitely have to get the ball out of opposing offenses’ hands and get our offense back on the field so they can score points, and that’s the way we’re going to win games,” Peterson said.

While Peterson will spend this season under the national spotlight afforded to the game’s best players, he’ll probably receive far less attention from opposing quarterbacks.

His counterpart, sophomore cornerback Morris Claiborne,

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LSU junior safety Brandon Taylor (15), left, and sophomore cornerback Morris Claiborne (17), right, go through a tackling drill March 9 at the indoor practice facility.

Peterson and Taylor appear to will likely face more throws as a result of the respect shown to have starting spots locked down at cornerback and strong safety, Peterson.

“We feel very, very confi- respectively. Although Claiborne dent that [Claiborne] is talented and Eugene are expected to fill the holes vacated enough because at cornerback by quite frankly, he’s Chris Hawkins shown us that in and free safety practice,” said

by Chad Jones, defensive coordiLSU coach Les nator John ChaMiles left open vis. “He’s shown the possibility of that he can be a younger players, lockdown corJai Eugene including redshirt ner.”

LSU senior safety freshman safety Both PeterCraig Loston and son and Claiborne received the Toby Caston true freshman safety Eric Reid, Performance Award in April for seeing the field early.

“This has to be the most taloutstanding defensive perforent I’ve ever been around since mance in spring drills.

Their contributions haven’t playing football,” Peterson said.

“Although we’re young, guys are gone unnoticed by teammates.

“I really don’t worry about so confident and so ready.” looking over their way — either side, Mo’s side or Patrick’s side — because I know they’re going Contact Ryan Ginn at to do what they have to do,” said rginn@lsureveille.com junior safety Brandon Taylor.

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‘I feel we’re the best secondary in the country across the board.’

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Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 CHAVIS, from page 5

Chavis said third and short was the unit’s biggest obstacle.

“We need to improve our third and short and then our third and medium, three to six yards,” Chavis said. “We were not very good in that area, and that’s an area we are going to focus on.”

So far in 2010, Chavis has the defense working hard to make strides in third-down efficiency.

“We’ve put a lot of emphasis on [getting stops on third downs],” said sophomore cornerback Morris Claiborne. “Obviously, that’s the down we want to get off the field. We want to go three and out

LINEMEN, from page 5

days, but it wasn’t that difficult.”

Along with Barksdale, junior left guard Josh Dworaczyk has established himself as a leader on the offensive line. A starter at left guard in all 13 games last season, Dworaczyk’s presence next to Barksdale solidifies the left side of the offensive line.

Dworaczyk said the offensive line has been working hard to perfect the small fundamentals to make themselves a better unit as a whole.

“One of the things we’re trying to do as an offensive line is to focus on the little things — taking the proper steps and using the proper technique,” Dworaczyk said. “If you use the right technique and you’re able to be coached, you will go so much further.”

Joining the two veterans on the offensive line are a few younger yet familiar faces.

The competition for the starting position at center continues, with sophomore P.J. Lonergan and junior T-Bob Hebert both returning.

Miles said Lonergan has the slight advantage at the moment, but the competition is occurring daily.

On the right side of the ball, junior Will Blackwell is preparing to make his first start on the O-line.

After two years playing in 25 games as a backup, Blackwell is stepping in as starting right guard, replacing graduated senior Lyle Hitt.

Redshirt sophomore Alex Hurst takes over where Barksdale left off at right tackle.

The 6-foot-6-inch, 329-pounder played in 12 games last season with no starts. Offensive Coordinator Gary Crowton said Hurst is developing and maturing every day, and he has confidence in the way the offensive line is shaping up. “[Hurst] has shown a lot of promise, a lot of athleticism and a lot of size and intelligence,” Crowton said. “I feel like he’s going to be a real good one for a long time. It’s been very positive, and I’m pretty optimistic about the front right now.”

Another position that needed some tweaking in the offseason was the tight ends.

The Tigers return juniors Mitch Joseph and Deangelo Peterson, both of whom saw significant action last season.

With the departure of senior

every time, and that’s what mostly we’ve been working on.”

Redshirt freshman defensive end Sam Montgomery said stops on third downs are crucial to the team’s success.

“It’s all about field position,” Montgomery said. “If we dominate and stop them on third down, it can set up our offense to have a better chance of scoring.”

Montgomery said the defensive line is working on executing the pass rush to dominate on third downs.

Claiborne agrees the defensive line is crucial to third-down stops. “[The defensive linemen] tight end Richard Dickson to the NFL, LSU turned to former defensive end Chase Clement to help fill the void.

Clement played in all 13 games last season as a defensive end and was asked to make the switch to tight end this offseason.

“I was kind of bummed out in the beginning because I had always played defensive end,” Clement said. “I really had no sayso in it. I just had to go out there and try a new position and do my best to get good at it.”

Clement said he enjoys playing on the offensive side of the ball now, and the change was good, both for himself and for the team.

Peterson was another player asked to transform himself into a tight end upon entering LSU. Recruited as a wide receiver, Peterson said the toughest thing for him to pick up was the blocking techniques.

“The switch to tight end was pretty hard in the beginning,” Peterson said. “You have to learn the run plays and the tight end techniques as a run blocker. My hardest thing was learning how to be a run blocker. I had to get the footwork down and learn the difference from blocking a 210-pound cornerback to a 270-pound defensive end.”

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are the guys who are bringing the Mingo,” Montgomery said. “He’s pressure,” Claiborne said. “[The a speed guy. He’s a good player defensive backs] are just holding and is fast with his moves. And he up. So if they can has a nose for the get to the quarterfootball on third back, it makes it downs.” much easier on the Claiborne corners and the said the defensive safeties.” backs are looking On the defento play more mansive line, Montto-man coverage gomery said proon third downs, duction hinges which will lead to Morris Claiborne on the perforedgier play callmance of redshirt ing. sophomore cornerback freshman defen“We’re trying sive end Barkevious Mingo. to bring the pressure,” Claiborne “The most key stopper on said. “We feel like we can hold up third downs would be Barkevious on the ends, so we want to bring

the pressure. We’re going to be more aggressive this year.”

But Chavis knows for his defense to drop the “Third and Chavis” name and fulfill Peterson’s eye black prophecy, getting the defensive line off the field is essential.

“Three downs and out or turnovers is what we’re looking for, and we’re trying to make that our emphasis with our players,” Chavis said. “Great defenses are going to do that.”

26-8, in Blacksburg, Va. My question: Will LSU keep the streak alive?

Now let’s dance around that question, starting with a fast forward to the future.

When I look at the schedule, here is what I see: Victories against Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Tennessee, McNeese State, Louisiana-Monroe and Ole Miss are all but guaranteed.

That leaves six games.

I don’t see victories against Florida or Alabama, to be honest.

LSU will likely keep both games close, especially at home against the Crimson Tide, but both of those teams have had LSU’s number the past few seasons.

The games that are up in the air are North Carolina, West Virginia, Auburn and Arkansas.

West Virginia is a night game, and it’s at home, so that’s a victory for LSU. Looking forward to Alabama, LSU will overlook Auburn and lose. LSU will use a last minute touchdown against Arkansas to get a win.

That leaves only one team: the Tar Heels. So let’s do a big reverse and jump back to the present.

To be honest, I can see this game going to four overtimes.

North Carolina looks to have a beast of a defense this year with at least two players who could be taken in the first round of the

NFL draft, and LSU could possibly have a good offense this year (there is a certain want for such things to happen).

LSU looks to have a young but solid defense this year, while North Carolina will have a mediocre-at-best offense, and mediocre may be an overstatement.

If LSU’s offense can show up the way it is capable of doing with an outstanding group of wide receivers and bruising running backs, then LSU should be able to win this game without bringing it to overtime.

In addition, UNC has the cloud of potential violations hanging over its head that could be a distraction.

But not so fast, my Tiger faithful.

Defense wins games, and UNC has a very good one.

I’m putting on the Tar Heel cap for this one. LSU loses its season opener for the first time under Miles, and the hot seat talk starts to get hot.

I promise it will all be OK in the end, though. There’s always the Chick-fil-A Bowl.

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‘We’ve put a lot of emphasis on [getting stops on third downs].’

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Too soon?

So when I answer these questions, I give realistic answers.

I’m sorry, but LSU won’t win a national championship this year.

That’s just how it is. In fact, they won’t even win the Southeastern Conference Western Division.

They will go 8-4.

Get over it.

But Saturday is the start of a new season, and that’s exciting.

ESPN’s College GameDay is going to make its first trip of the season to LSU’s game against North Carolina, which is good news.

Why? We here at LSU have grown accustomed to excellence. With excellence comes GameDay. You just don’t see the orange Home Depot bus with Chris Fowler’s, Kirk Herbstreit’s, Lee Corso’s and Desmond Howard’s faces pulling up to the big Tulane-Houston game every season, do you?

The GameDay bus is a sign that LSU is still a top national powerhouse. So you LSU fans, be happy with that. Not many other universities can say GameDay makes annual trips to their games.

So let’s take a look at a few things about this game and this season.

The last time LSU lost its opening game of the season was back in 2002, when the No. 14 Tigers lost to No. 16 Virginia Tech,

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CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE

Opinion

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010

War of - ‘war on’ - terror ends with Operation Iraqi Failure U.S. military forces, minus 50,000 “non-combat” troops, will have completely withdrawn from Iraq today.

The battle’s over, for now.

But where’s the victory party located? Is it in Times Square again?

Will the boys in uniform be parading in the streets while ladies swoon on the sidelines and confetti falls like rain? Will today be given a memorable name like V-I (Victory in Iraq) Day? Simply put, no.

The only parties will be held in the White House and on Wall Street, with the men who truly run this country as its only attendees, celebrating the privatized wealth generated by this whole atrocity.

Since the war of — I mean “war on” — terror started, many Americans have asked, “Why are we fighting in Iraq?”

And as public opinion came to mirror the negativity expressed during the Vietnam War, it’s an honest question that warrants an

honest answer. its weapons of mass destruction, We lost 4,500 soldiers in Iraq, none were ever found. And once with another 32,000 wounded in that ship had sailed, the focus was action. put on Hussein’s supposed harIf those boring of al-Qaida, much like the numbers don’t Taliban in Afghanistan. But this shock you, was never found to be true in Iraq, then perhaps most notably by the Pentagon’s the more than Institute for Defense Analyses.

1 million Iraqi Essentially, our governdeaths will. ment thought it proper to invade Still not a Middle Eastern country with upset over the Andrew Robertson “shock and awe” to eliminate war our govthe threat of terrorism — which Opinion Editor ernment has never existed there. In actualunjustly imposed on the world? ity, jihad-based terrorist attacks Consider this: The cost of the have increased sevenfold since Iraqi war will total around $1 tril- the 2003 invasion. Furthermore, lion. The American economy is the supposed connection between out about $3 trillion.

Iraq’s Ba’athist government and The significance of these fig- the Sept. 11 attacks turned out to ures is quite real. Many people be — you guessed it — erroneous died, and loads of money were on all accounts. wasted — perhaps for no reason.

And the only observable afSaddam Hussein, the great termath, aside from Iraqi and enemy of the Bush family, was American graves, is a country in removed from office and quickly ruins, imposed with an unstable executed. And while the impetus democratic government and 94 for invading Iraq was to seize U.S. military bases. Of these 94,

12 are considered large scale — and all of them are going to remain operative.

Does this sound like imperialism to anyone else?

But how could the government gain support for such a plan?

It’s not so different from the events that spurred world wars I and II. The sinking of the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin incident each have elements of “something doesn’t feel right here” — as if our own government had a hand in them.

And, as expected, gaining support for the post-Sept. 11 wars wasn’t too difficult for our leaders. I’ll admit, after the Sept. 11 attacks, even I was ready to put a boot in someone’s ass, as Toby Keith said.

But, now that I’ve come out of my Sept. 11 fit of rage, I realize most of our actions attempting to bring retribution for the Sept.

11 attacks had little to no effect.

If anything, our own government had more to do with Sept. 11 than

Iraq.

Now that the dust created by the fear of terrorism has settled, can we continue look at this debacle of a war, much like our role in Afghanistan, and see it as a positive thing? I think not.

The U.S. has now closed a chapter in its infamous book of “the war on (insert here),” with success ratings paralleling the war on drugs, the war on poverty and others — which have all failed.

I suppose, for now, all we can hope for is a better turnout when we invade Iran in the near future.

Andrew Robertson is a 23-year-old English writing and culture senior from Baton Rouge.

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SPORTSMAN’S PARADISE LOST

Budget cut troubles can be solved by “de-scheduling”

Whether we like it or not, budget cuts are coming, and your college could be in jeopardy.

Based on recent projections from the state’s Board of Regents, about $74 million from this year’s budget will not be available next year.

Something must go.

What exactly should be cut?

More than $48 million could come straight from the academic core, which comprises the bulk of University spending.

How can we possibly decide what to axe? No one wants their department to take hits, so it’s hard to see the forest through the finger pointing.

Some say statistics can shine light on the situation. Departments turning over the most revenue, graduating the most students or operating most efficiently should stay while the rest should go.

However, as the saying goes, statistics are like bikinis: What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

The solution, then, is to use good old-fashioned common sense to work our way through the distress.

Think of it like scheduling.

Each semester, we all get out the degree audits and start signing up for classes. This column is just like that, but in reverse.

Call it de-scheduling, if you will, and your degree audit is logic you’ve attained in spite of the University’s attempts to compress your mind into ideological boxes.

Let’s trim some fat, shall we?

You’re up first, College of Agriculture. USA Today reported in 2009 that 60 percent of adults can’t digest milk. My solution: cut the Dairy Sciences program by 60 percent — or throw it out entirely with the curds and whey.

Also in the Ag College is the School of Human Resource Education and Workforce Development, or “SHREWD.” Cut this without hesitation for its annoying acronym and, if nothing else, because the world really doesn’t need more Toby Flendersons.

Now to the College of Education, which loses points automatically for its redundantly redundant name. It houses the Kinesiology Department, which offers some of the most intellectually stimulating courses on campus — tennis, archery, ballroom dancing and jogging,

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among others.

I’ll mix it up and vote to keep these. Clearly, we are preparing our students well for a post-work retirement sustained on the guarantees of Social Security. Leave it untouched, and sign me up for beginning rugby next spring.

There’s fat to be trimmed within the College of Science, though.

Forget the $18.8 million in grants won in 200910 through Cody Worsham b i o m e d i c a l and health Columnist research.

So what if the University is home to one of only 19 medical-health physics programs in the nation?

Chlorophyll? More like bore-ophyll. Freshman biology is a joke anyway. I hear if you fail, you can get the teacher removed and start over (right, Dominique Homberger?)

On a personal note, I must address mass communication, the Great Manship, which hath carried me o’er the sea of schooling to the brink of graduation and passage into the real world.

I want to defend you, but hell, anything Katie Couric or Sean Hannity can do, any drunken toddler could, too. Cut it, and cash in the savings.

Finally, let’s look to humanities, where undeclared juniors get their placebo degrees to buy time before graduate school.

Women’s and gender studies? Unless you’re studying a way to cook my dinner, clean my dishes and do my laundry faster, it’s time to plug this bleeding program.

Religious studies and philosophy — I’ll default to Friedrich Nietzsche: God is dead.

Unless He can, like, resurrect or something, you might as well nail your degree program to a tree and place it in a tomb, preferably guarded by Roman soldiers.

Speaking of death, Latin has been extinct for hundreds of years but somehow manages to kill thousands of GPAs every semester. Let’s send Latin to the mystical beyond with Eurydice and bid the department a kind valete.

While we’re on foreign languages, say sianara to Japanese, arrivederci to Italian and a respectful kwaheri to Swahili,

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that most universal of all languages.

In fact, let’s just throw out languages altogether. We know English good enough by the time we get into college, so there ain’t no need for fancy linguistics.

And as far as literature goes, University students obviously know enough about interpreting critical texts making use of rhetorical strategies like irony and sarcasm.

They don’t need a professor — or a columnist — to point it out for them.

Ultimately, when it comes to budget cuts, there are no sacred cows. All departments are on the chopping block.

If anyone tells you otherwise, take your wallet, and your degree audit, and run like hell — see, I told you that jogging class would come in handy.

Cody Worsham is a 21-yearold mass communication senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_cworsham.

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Quote of the Day “Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.”

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BURNS AFTER READING

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Looking for the land of opportunity? Start digging for China As I mentioned last week, I had the unique opportunity this summer to study abroad as a part of the University’s Business in China program.

It’s impossible for Americans to truly grasp the People’s Republic of China’s sheer size and remarkable progress. The country’s rapid transition from a virtual Third World nation in the 20th century to one of the 21st century’s largest and most dynamic economies is entirely unprecedented.

One of our first stops, Shenzhen, was a remote fishing village only 30 years ago. Today it’s a manufacturing hub with a population nearly six times that of Houston.

Stories like this can be found all over China’s ever-evolving landscape.

Since economic liberalization began in 1978, China has been the world’s fastest-growing economy and largest net exporter. Poverty has fallen from 55 percent to 8 percent in 2001, according to the BBC.

Much like the economic liberalization that led to the economic miracle in postwar Europe — and again following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 — China has taken giant steps away from Sovietstyle central planning and toward a more voluntary, free market system.

Today, China is home to many incredible technological innovations, including the world’s fastest high-speed railways, most highly advanced military technology and — most notably for China’s 15 million college students — high-definition 3D porn.

Somewhere in the world, James Cameron just got a pulsating erection.

It has also been ahead of the curve on curbing illegal immigration. While American politicians are still debating whether to construct a wall along the Mexican border, China’s ancestors had the foresight to erect their own “Great Wall” about 2,500 years ago. Mongolians be damned.

For sure, China has a fair share of problems: a totalitarian system of government, binding censorship, heavy pollution, an aging population, Godzilla and an inexplicable surplus of KFCs. Yet in spite of these obstacles, China continues to grow Scott Burns and gain international promiColumnist nence.

China has eclipsed Japan as the world’s second largest economy, according to the New York Times.

Witnessing this rapid progress firsthand strengthened my view.

China is quickly becoming the business world’s next great frontier. It offers an increasingly welcoming business environment chock-full of smart, gracious, hard working people desperate to learn from and interact with a global audience.

Which brings us home to our

once-glorious land of opportunity.

Far removed from its days as the world’s freest, most dynamic economy, the U.S. is steadily deteriorating into one of the world’s most indebted nations.

After decades of undermining the free market system and promising far beyond its means, the American government is broke. Budget shortfalls are springing up left and right, and every major Ponzi — I mean “entitlement” scheme — is rapidly circling the drain toward insolvency.

And while the domestic economy stagnates, the most powerful military in world history is stuck in a figurative Chinese finger trap — trying to simultaneously dislodge itself from two drawn-out quagmires in Mesopotamia.

Anyone who has studied the collapse of virtually every major empire knows how this ugly formula invariably turns out.

The fortune in America’s cookie might keep getting bleaker.

But luckily for ambitious young students, one of the most magnificent transformations in history is taking place just across the Pacific Ocean.

As America’s ship slowly sinks, China may well become the world’s next economic superpower.

There is, however, one category Americans often reference to confirm our innate superiority: On average, American men have a larger endowment than their Chinese counterparts.

Unfortunately, even that tasteless title is in jeopardy: China is now the world’s largest manufacturer of male enhancement drugs.

Yep. We’re screwed.

Scott Burns is a 21-year-old economics and history junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_sburns.

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VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

Tea Partiers ride the wave of anti-Obama sentiment Preston Mui The Hoya

GEORGETOWN UNIV - (UWIRE) The Tea Party Movement is an extremely vocal and powerful force of opposition against big government.

But how much does it actually care about individual liberty?

To be sure, the cause of liberty in the U.S. has seen many benefits from the Tea Party movement.

Glenn Beck famously catapulted Friedrich Hayek’s economic and political treatise “The Road to Serfdom,” a favorite of classical liberals, to the Amazon best-seller list and even called for a non-interventionist foreign policy and cuts in military spending.

Although there are strong voices in the Tea Party movement, no person or group seems to have emerged as its definitive leader. This suggests it’s a bottomup movement driven by ideas and beliefs rather than loyalty to politicians or parties.

Most importantly, the Tea Party is one of the major forces pushing back on recent health care legislation, financial and automobile company bailouts and ill-conceived environmental regulations.

To the extent that the Tea Party can delay or stop increases in the size and scope of government, the movement is a potential ally for freedom.

Anyone who believes in a free society, however, should be skeptical of the notion that Tea Partiers truly care about individual liberty.

According to a New York Times poll, 42 percent of Tea Party supporters believe we should decrease legal immigration, while

14 percent favor increasing it.

Four in 10 believe the government shouldn’t recognize the right of same-sex couples to enter into marriage contracts. The Tea Party is largely focused on economic issues, but if popularity increases it may have to deal with social issues — potentially leading to a fracture in the movement.

I’m also suspicious of the Tea Party’s opposition to government spending and deficits. Tea Partiers overwhelmingly report wanting to reduce the size of government, but remember that arguments against the recent health care reform law often came with a plea not to touch Medicare. The Tea Party is adopting an odd “keep the government away from Medicare” attitude in which they claim to oppose government spending but are surprisingly protective of the entitlement programs that are most likely to lead us to fiscal ruin.

The Tea Party’s strong stance on opposing increases in the size and scope of government resonates with me. But I haven’t heard much to suggest that the Tea Party would be in favor of taking limited-government principles to their logical conclusion, which is to oppose intrusive government.

A true limited-government world view would scrutinize government regulations not only of businesses and the environment, but also marriage and immigration. Economically speaking, if Tea Partiers want to be serious about government spending, they have to be willing to put the sacred cows of Medicare, Social Security and defense spending on the chopping block.

Going into November, Republicans will inevitably court the Tea Party vote, hoping to ride the wave of anti-Obama sentiment. If Tea Partiers want to remain principled small-government activists, they should be suspicious.

Republicans would love to use the Tea Party for their own political ends, but an honest look at the GOP track record shows they’re not serious about limited

government — remember Medicare expansions and exploding deficits under Bush? If Bush showed us anything, he proved that the Republican Party is not the party of small government. The Tea Party should (to borrow from Sarah Palin) “refudiate” the GOP if it wants to be serious about government spending.

As of now, I’m willing to work with — and have worked

with — Tea Partiers on opposing big government. But until they can show me that they are serious about principles of small government and individual freedom, I can’t count myself one of them.

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Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 HOLES, from page 1 which he called a “recurring” problem.

“We got them out of Coates, and they went to Middleton. Now it seems they have been chased back into Coates,” Favaloro said.

The custodial staff in the area is aware of the restroom misconduct but would not comment on the situation.

Postings on CruisingForSex. com indicate the glory hole in Coates has been in operation since July.

“The glory hole in Coates Hall is up and running again. Traffic has been steady,” July postings on the website said. “[Middleton] is completely shut down, but Coates Hall is once again like it was back in the day.”

This is not the first time Coates has had trouble with glory holes, said Cpt. Russell Rogé, LSU Police Department spokesman. Police responding to complaints from students made a series of arrests in 2001 involving the same restroom in Coates.

The University Student Recreation Complex saunas and showers, the Paul M. Hebert Law Center’s second floor men’s restroom and DORM, from page 1

Waller said Kirby-Smith will only stay open until the construction on East Laville Hall and the new Residential College North are finished and renovations on Acadian Hall are done. These projects are all scheduled to finish by 2015, meaning Kirby-Smith will close again as a dorm after five years.

Waller said Kirby-Smith suffers from the “sardine mentality” of architects who designed buildings in the 1960s.

“They built it so they could cram in as many people as they could to account for the rise in the number of students because of the baby boom,” Waller said. “We’d never build something like that today.”

The Daily Reveille Middleton Library are the three other places on campus listed as sex hotspots, according to CruisingForSex.com and CruisingGays. com.

CruisingGays.com also lists certain “tips and tricks” for hooking up in various locations.

The tips section on how to initiate sexual activity in the second floor bathroom of the Hebert Law Center instructs users to “go into one of the stalls and give a subtle signal to the person next to you ... If they touch your foot back, you [are] in luck.” The website also lists this hookup location as being “wheelchair accessible.”

Older users tend to visit the UREC SRC bathroom for sex before 9 a.m., and the younger crowd visits from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the semester, according to CruisingGays.com.

“I have gotten lots of action here and never found any risk of being caught,” said one commenter on CruisingGays.com.

The UREC SRC is also listed as a wheelchair-friendly hotspot.

UREC Interim Assistant Director for Marketing and Promotions Scott Belanger said he was unaware of any recent happenings at the UREC SRC.

Baton Rouge Beach, the park area at Stanford Avenue and West Lakeshore Drive, is also listed on the website as being a popular area for early morning joggers to engage in anonymous fellatio either in the park’s restroom or in the parking lot.

In the past few years, Facility Services spent nearly $40,000 repairing the damaged wood partitions in Middleton Library bathrooms, according to an Oct. 1, 2008, story by The Daily Reveille.

There are undercover LSUPD officers patrolling the library area during the evenings, and there are also uniformed officers on patrol at night, said Nancy Colyar, assistant dean of libraries.

However, there have been no obscenity complaints in reference to this type of act on campus since the start of 2008, according to Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman.

Penalties for drilling a glory hole and exposing oneself would result not only in a property damage charge, but also a felony charge of obscenity, Tabor said.

If students are approached, they should notify police, Tabor added.

Since floors one through seven are going to reopen, only half of the building will be available to students. The rest of the floors will be office space, Waller said.

“It will be a quality facility,” Waller said. “We can make it work.”

Kirby-Smith originally closed in 2006 because the previous administration did not support students living there, and a $24.6 million project on the building was canceled at that time, according to Waller.

Kirby-Smith Hall was built in 1967 at a cost of $3.5 million, according to Barry Cowan, assistant archivist at the University Archives.

It was named for Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and at 154 feet tall, consists of 13 stories with possible space for 734 students.

Kirby-Smith has not been completely out of commission from 2006 to 2010. Waller said conference groups, youth groups and visiting faculty sometimes stay in rooms there. From fall 2008 to spring 2009, interns and medical students stayed in Kirby-Smith while working at Earl K. Long Medical Center.

The hall also provided housing for those affected by Hurricane Gustav in 2008.

The Department of Health and Human Services also has offices on the upper floors of Kirby-Smith, Waller said. The department’s lease is scheduled to expire in a couple years.

Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com

Contact Meredith Will at mwill@lsureveille.com

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LANGUAGES, from page 1 according to student enrollment for spring 2010. In comparison, Spanish had 2,810 students, and Latin had 1,675 students, according to Batinski.

Cutting language programs in the middle of the academic year raises the question of how students will finish their language requirements if their program is no longer available, Batinski said.

Foster said each college will have to determine its own language requirements, but the College of Arts and Sciences will accept students’ current language credits, and students will be able to finish their language credit requirements in another language.

The College of Arts and Sciences requires four semesters of language. If a student is currently taking Portuguese, they can finish their language requirements in a different language, beginning with the basic level.

“Loss of these languages makes our ability to meet student needs much more difficult,” Foster said.

Of the 14 instructors the department is laying off, seven are from the classical languages, two

are from Italian, two are from German, and one each is from Japanese, Swahili and Russian. The part-time instructor is from Japanese.

“Aside from personal feelings, we are losing some really good instructors — very gifted, very hardworking [instructors],” Batinski said.

The 14 instructors join the roughly 400 who received notice of nonrenewal last semester.

“I think one thing that impressed the hell out of me as I was telling those people, is they spent the first 15 minutes asking me what happened to their students,” Foster said.

Batinski said she knows most of the professors well, and it will be painful to let them go.

“The department and students are losing a great deal,” Batinski said. “The students will not have the opportunity to study some languages.”

Batinski said some students have said they will leave the University to finish their language degree program.

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com

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The Daily Reveille

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010