LSU junior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall had a weekend she’ll never forget.

In the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional on Saturday , Hall earned her third perfect 10 of the season on fl oor to help the LSU gymnastics team capture the title , assuring it a spot in the NCAA

championships on April 18 . Yet as Hall scrolled through

her Facebook page Sunday night, she saw that another of her fl oor performances from earlier in the season was receiving an

abundance of attention, but it wasn’t the type she hoped for.

TotalSororityMove.com up-loaded a TigerTV video featuring

On July 19, 1984, Capt. Bob Bell of the United States Navy died.

Today, he is running for Congress in Louisi-ana’s 6th Congressio-nal District.

Bell was in a car with his wife and 2-year-old daughter when the family was struck by a drunk driver’s pickup truck 30 years ago.

Bell’s wife was instant-ly killed, and his daughter was pronounced dead shortly after she

arrived at the hospital. Immediately after the colli-

sion, Bell crawled out of the car and tried to run to the other side of the vehicle to help his wife and child.

He collapsed on the pavement.

“The next thing I know, I’m on the other side of the barrier,” Bell said. “The barrier be-tween life and death.”

He said he fol-lowed an angel up a

ladder of light, but the angel told him to go back.

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SPORTS: Quidditch team looks to become club sport, p. 5

OPINION: Quality of life in Baton Rouge affected by urban sprawl problems, p. 8

DINING

Prices won’t increase next yearFernanda Zamudio-SuarezSenior Reporter

Students looking to satisfy their hunger off campus have many options, but next year’s University dining services prices might encourage students to stay on campus for meals.

Executive director of Auxil-iary Services Margot Carroll said next year, for the fi rst time in sev-eral years, residential meal plan prices will not increase.

Meal plans cost from $1,923 to $2,09 3 per semester for stu-dents living on campus. Com-muter students can choose plans ranging from $462 to $1,814.

Students wanted more fl ex-ibility and value with their meal plans, Carroll said, so LSU Din-ing and Auxiliary Services came

POLITICS

DINING, see page 4

Navy captain runs for Congress

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

LSU School of Art & Design students and supporters protest Tuesday against the poor conditions in the Studio Arts Building in front of the Louisiana State Capitol.

SCHOOL OF DECAY

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United States Navy Capt. Bob Bell is running for Congress in Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District.

Quint ForgeyStaff Writer

Today, he is running for Congress in Louisi-ana’s 6th Congressio-

by a drunk driver’s pickup truck 30 years

He collapsed on the pavement.

lowed an angel up a ladder of light, but the

BELL, see page 4

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall ends her � oor routine with a pose March 7 during the Tigers’ 197.500-195.525 victory against NC State at the PMAC.

Hall concerned website’s original headline misrepresented herDavid GraySports Contributor

HALL, see page 11

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DETROIT (AP) — A teenager and two men were charged Tues-day in the brutal beating of a sub-urban Detroit man after he acci-dentally hit a child who stepped off the curb into the path of his truck.

Police, meanwhile, credited a nurse with saving the life of driver Steve Utash by stepping between him and the half-dozen or more men who punched and kicked him after the April 2 accident on the northeast side of Detroit.

The incident left the 54-year-old Utash, a tree-trimmer from Macomb County’s Clinton Township, with severe head inju-ries. He is in a medically induced coma.

Bruce Wimbush Jr., 17, Wonzey Saffold, 30, and James Davis, 24, were arraigned Tues-day on charges of assault with in-tent to murder and assault with in-tent to commit great bodily harm. Wimbush and a 16-year-old boy were arrested Saturday.

Utash could have been killed if not for Deborah Hughes, a 56-year-old nurse who put herself between the mob and the downed man, according to Detroit police

Sgt. Michael Woody.“She is nothing less than a

hero,” Woody told The Associat-ed Press. “She basically kneeled and laid down with this guy to get them to stop hitting him. She essentially saved this guy’s life. They wouldn’t have stopped.”

Police Chief James Craig vis-ited Hughes on Tuesday to thank her, Woody said. The AP left a voicemail Tuesday at Hughes’ home.

Hughes told The Detroit News Tuesday she was watch-ing from a window in her home when David Harris, 10, was hit by Utash’s truck. She ran outside to

tend to the boy, and that’s when the mob descended.

“[Utash] was screaming, and they were beating him and kick-ing him,” Hughes said. “I said, ‘Please don’t hit him anymore,’ and they backed up. Everybody cleared the way and gave me room to work on him.”

David Harris was treated for leg and other injuries.

Not-guilty pleas were entered Tuesday for Wimbush, Saffold and Davis during video arraign-ments in 36th District Court. Magistrate Millicent Sherman set bond at $500,000 for each of them.

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(AP) — The Louisiana Senate has supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to shutter the LSU public hospital in Pineville and shift its services to two nearby private hospitals.

Backing came in a 26-11 vote Tuesday. The legislation by Re-publican Sen. Gerald Long moves to the House for consideration.

Jindal wants to close Huey P. Long Medical Center and move its services to CHRISTUS St. Fran-ces Cabrini Hospital and Rapides Regional Medical Center.

Long says the privatization deal would provide better care for uninsured people in the region.

But Sen. Rick Gallot says the Jindal administration is mov-ing too quickly, with questions about whether outpatient clin-ics will be open when the LSU hospital closes.

photo courtesy of DETROIT POLICE DEPARTMENT

From left, Wonzey Saffold, 30; James Davis, 24; and Bruce Wimbush Jr., 17, were charged Tuesday in the beating of a 54-year-old man.

Three charged in mob beating of motoristThe Associated Press

Senate backs LSU hospital’s closureThe Associated Press

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Health workers teach people about the Ebola virus and how to prevent infection, in Conakry, Guinea, on March 31. The Ebola death toll in Guinea is now 78.

INTERNATIONAL

Ebola outbreak could last monthsCONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ebola could continue to spread in West Af-rica for months in one of the most challenging outbreaks of the disease the international community has ever faced, health experts said Tuesday.

Dr. Keiji Fukuda of the World Health Organization said that while other outbreaks have seen more cases, the current one is remark-able for the wide area over which it has spread — from Guinea’s re-mote tropical forests to the coun-try’s capital and over the border to Liberia. The fact that it has touched the

teeming Guinean capital, Conakry, is also a concern.

More than 100 deaths in Guin-ea and Liberia have been linked to the current outbreak, which may have begun in January, said Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the World Health Organization. Because those who died early on in the outbreak will never be tested, the precise start of the outbreak will never be known, he said.

Offi cials got some good news this week when tests showed sus-pected cases in Ghana and Sierra Leone were not Ebola, the World Health Organization said.

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In an effort to ensure a safer campus, Facility Services and Stu-dent Government are collaborat-ing to improve exterior lighting on campus.

Facility Services works system-atically to address lighting issues where needed, said Jim Mayne, as-sociate director of utility services for Facility Services. Two issues are live oaks making campus appear darker and lights burning out.

Mayne said streetlights above live oak trees fail to illuminate their surrounding area effectively. Trim-ming the tree or lowering the light can correct this issue.

Lights that have gone out are simpler to deal with, requiring a standard replacement, Mayne said.

Many of these problems are discovered through a lighting survey done in collaboration with SG, said Tammy Millican, assistant direc-tor of Facility Services. Held twice a year, the survey consists of walks through campus at night to spot dark areas and needed repairs.

Outside of these surveys, maintenance of exterior lighting is handled on a “case-by-case” basis, Mayne said. When a student or fac-ulty member notifi es Facility Servic-es of an area they feel needs atten-tion, workers are sent to determine what needs to be done, if anything.

Millican said areas are also looked at when crime occurs.

“If there is ever an incident, we’ll take a look at where the inci-dent took place,” Millican said.

Mayne said it is important to re-alize the problems with lighting are

location and effect, not the amount of lights. The key to making a safer campus is to illuminate paths from parking areas to buildings.

“We cannot light the entire cam-pus. It is not realistic and wouldn’t help the situation,” Mayne said.

LED lighting serves as the most effective way to accomplish safe lighting, Mayne said. Beyond be-ing 40 to 50 percent more energy effi cient, LED bulbs illuminate more area.

The LED-illuminated Barnes and Noble courtyard could be the start of a “campus standard for lighting,” said John Woodard, SG president.

Woodard said SG will continue to work with Facility Services, hop-ing for more LED bulbs around campus.

Capt. Cory Lalonde, LSU Po-lice Department spokesman, ac-knowledged there are areas on cam-pus that “could be better-lit” and said students and faculty should follow well-lit areas on campus at night.

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LSUPD, BRPD investigation into suspicious packages ongoing

The LSU Police Department is investigating the two suspi-cious packages left outside of Thomas D. Boyd Hall Monday afternoon.

LSUPD is leading the inves-tigation. Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said the investigation is ongoing, and he couldn’t provide any new information at this time.

After a controlled detona-tion Monday, Baton Rouge po-lice learned that the boxes, one of which was labeled bomb, con-tained coffee.

Thomas D. Boyd Hall re-opened around 6 p.m. Monday and fully resumed operations Tuesday.

SG, Facility Services to improve lighting

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LED lights illuminate the courtyard Tuesday outside the Barnes & Noble at LSU. Student Government and Facility Services are attempting to improve lighting on campus.

University student issued misdemeanor summons for shoplifting

On March 2, LSUPD offi cers arrested Guillaume Goodrich , 19 , of 2126 Pine Valley , Houston, Texas , for theft of goods, said LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde .

Goodrich was spotted remov-ing the tag from a $40 shirt by a Barnes & Noble employee, who contacted LSUPD shortly after witnessing the crime, Lalonde said

Offi cers arrested Goodrich as he exited the store with the stolen shirt.

Goodrich admitted to steal-ing items in the past and try-ing to return them for a refund, which were denied because he did not have a receipt for the items, Lalonde said.

Goodrich was issued a mis-demeanor summons for theft of goods.

After awaking in his body, Bell underwent extensive medical treatment, including facial recon-struction.

He later re-married and cur-rently has three children attending college in Louisi-ana.

Bell acknowl-edged that his sto-ry sounds hard to believe.

“Even though I was a Christian believer from an early age, I didn’t put a lot of stock in a lot of the supernatural sto-ries that you hear,” Bell said. “If something like that had happened to someone else, I would’ve actu-ally been skeptical because of my legal training. As a lawyer, you want evidence; you want proof.”

Bell served 30 years as a Navy Reserve JAG legal officer, handling international claims in 31 countries.

Another requirement of Bell’s job was to write bipartisan legis-lation on behalf of the Navy. Bell said he knows how to get bills passed and stressed the impor-tance of good communication on both sides of the aisle.

Bell said he believes there are two classes of conservatives — static and dynamic. He identifies himself as the latter.

“A static conservative is one who basically takes up a defen-sive position when a more liberal proposal is put forward,” Bell said. “But a dynamic conservative would be one who would look

deeper below the surface and say, ‘Now what can we do here that we could actually get passed, where we could work with some of these people who are against some of

what we’re do-ing?’”

Though Bell is a guest colum-nist for the Tea Party of Louisi-ana’s website, he said he does not identify himself as a Tea Party mem-ber and writes his columns with the

intent of better educating the Tea Party community.

One of Bell’s major opposi-tions to the Affordable Care Act is the way it affects America’s homeless.

Under Obamacare, Bell said emergency rooms will stop re-ceiving reimbursement for treat-ing uninsured walk-in patients, encouraging hospitals to turn away the homeless.

Bell said the Affordable Care Act, which requires all Americans to obtain health insurance, is fun-damentally flawed because there will always be an uninsured seg-ment of the population.

“It’s not realistic when it comes to homeless people espe-cially, because they don’t have an address where an insurance bill can be mailed to, they don’t have a computer where they can go to an online marketplace and they don’t have a bank account where they can pay a premium,” Bell said.

Though Bell acknowledged he is in favor of Obamacare’s re-peal, the “dynamic conservative”

said he would never call for the elimination of a program without a replacement in mind.

“I would never take some-thing away without constructing an alternative that’s better,” Bell said.

Bell’s plan to replace the Af-fordable Care Act is a three-step proposal that includes restoring the tax deduction for paying indi-vidual insurance premiums.

Bell also said he supports giv-ing those on Medicaid a tax credit to buy private health insurance.

“You get rid of Obamacare and you put people back to work, and all of a sudden we have a positive cash flow for the federal government. You could probably even cut taxes in some areas,” Bell said.

Bell said there are some tax cuts that could be made without sacrificing federal revenue but warned of the consequences of an excess of tax cuts.

“Tax cuts don’t necessarily work unless you’re aiming at the right target and you hit the right target,” Bell said.

Bell criticized the tax reduc-tions of the previous administra-tion, saying there were better al-ternatives than George W. Bush’s across-the-board cuts.

“That does help, but it’s not as effective as taking a more de-tailed approach,” Bell said. “It’s kind of like a surgeon who is very careful compared to one who says amputate.”

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up with a plan to satisfy more students.

Carroll said LSU Dining will carefully manage next year’s expenses to make plans more attractive.

While residential dining rates will not change, commuter plans will be restructured to encourage students to purchase voluntary meal plans.

“You’re getting more money than you are paying for and the additional discount at the door,” Carroll said.

Next year, commuter stu-dents will be able to purchase 1,100 Paw Points for $1,000 with the new voluntary meal plan. Stu-dents paying with Paw Points in the Magnolia Room, the two resi-dential dining halls and The Club

at Union Square will also receive a 10 percent discount, Carroll said.

Although there are restau-rants near campus and the option of eating at home, Carroll said dining on campus gives students convenience and, with the new meal plans, affordable options.

Compared with other public colleges in the state, the Univer-sity’s meal plan prices are on the high end.

At Southeastern Louisiana University, meal plans range from $300 to $600 per semester.

For some students, the un-changing meal prices bring relief.

Mechanical engineering freshman Maurice Coleman said when his family purchased his meal plan, they thought the prices were reasonable.

He thinks the plans are af-fordable, considering the variety of food choices in the buffet-style dining halls.

Coleman said keeping the prices the same would benefit students.

“It’s definitely a good thing. You don’t want to pay more for food,” Coleman said.

Jessica Traina, business ju-nior, has never purchased a meal plan because she did not want to spend the extra money.

Traina said keeping the pric-es the same is a good idea, given rising college costs.

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would’ve actually been skeptical...’ Capt. Bob Bell

6th District Congressional candidate

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When your sport is based on a series of young adult fan-tasy novels, its hard to be taken seriously.

But that is exactly the challenge a group of LSU stu-dents faces in the coming weeks.

This semester, the LSU Quidditch team is attempting to go from student organization to club sport, and current mem-bers Chris Rank and Rachel Ortego are key parts in mak-ing the transition happen. The team just came back from the Quidditch World Cup and has now moved its focus to club sport approval.

SportsWednesday, April 9, 2014 page 5

Tigers look to carry offensivemomentum

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LSU senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger (8) looks down� eld for a receiver Sept. 7, 2013, during the Tigers’ 56-17 victory against UAB in Tiger Stadium.

Several Tigers look to prove their worth at Pro DayFOOTBALL

Hoards of NFL coaches and scouts will fl ock to Baton Rouge today for the annual LSU Pro Day, where several Tigers will vie to show they have what it takes to reach the next level.

The event includes six juniors who declared early for the draft and the handful of graduating seniors, none more prominent than quar-terback Zach Mettenberger, who makes his highly anticipated return from ACL surgery at the end of last season.

Mettenberger is expected to do all drills, including throwing, at

Pro Day.“This is a giant day for Metten-

berger,” said Larry Holder, Times Picayune | Nola.com New Orleans Saints beat reporter . “That’s the one guy a lot of teams are really intrigued by. … I think people are ready to see if he’s as advertised and if he’s going to throw and do all the drills.”

Mettenberger tore his ACL in the Tigers’ fi nal regular-season game of the year against Arkansas, but not before completing 64.9 per-cent of his passes for 3,082 yards and 22 touchdowns through 12 prior games.

ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski recently listed Mettenberger as the No. 2 quarterback in the draft class behind only UCF quarterback Blake Bortles . Fellow ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper has the former LSU passer at No. 8 in his list of QBs.

Holder said Mettenberger’s injury sets him as an early second round pick at best, but he could fall as far as the third round with a poor showing at Pro Day — a reality sev-eral players have already come to realize.

Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was considered by many to be the top quarterback pros-pect in the upcoming draft, coming in at No. 8 on ESPN analyst Todd McShay’s list of the top 32 players just prior to his Pro Day. But follow-ing a disappointing showing, Bridge-water slipped to No. 13 .

“You’re supposed to have good pro days,” Holder said. “It’s designed for players to be show-cased. That’s the way pro day is. … If you perform well on a pro day, that’s expected.”

Mike GegenheimerSports Writer

PRO DAY, see page 7

Quidditch team seeking approval

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BASEBALL

As the calendar turns to April, Alex Bregman already has summer plans.

For the second consecu-tive season, the LSU sophomore shortstop was invited to play with the U.S. Collegiate Na-tional Team on Tuesday morn-ing. He said he was the fi rst position player contacted about the team, which will be coached by Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn .

“It’s such an honor to be able to represent my country again,” Bregman said. “Representing your country and being able to play against Cuba, Japan and China and represent the United States of America is huge. It’s a different feeling playing for your country than playing for someone else.”

In last season’s tour with the team, Bregman played both shortstop and second base, hitting .361 through 18 games with seven doubles and 12 RBIs.

But now, Bregman’s focus

BASEBALL, see page 7

Chandler RomeSports Writer

TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

History sophomore Chris Rank throws the quaf� e through a hoop Tuesday on the Parade Ground. LSU’s quidditch team is trying to become a recognized club sport on campus.

Tommy RomanachSports Contributor

QUIDDITCH, see page 7

Bregman chosen for national team

Mettenberger to participate in all drills

BroomsticksBeyond the

After winning its fi rst confer-ence series of the season, the LSU softball team will continue a seven-game homestand against McNeese State (27-10, 11-3 Southland) to-night in Tiger Park.

Last weekend, the Tigers (22-16, 4-8 Southeastern Conference), led by SEC Player of the Week se-nior infi elder Allison Falcon , over-came the consistency issues that plagued the fi rst two games of the series against No. 2 Tennessee (32-5, 9-3 SEC) .

Tennessee took revenge against the Tigers in the third game of the se-ries, winning 9-0 in six innings . But Falcon said the Tigers’ impressive play in the fi rst two games is all that matters to the team.

“We won the series against a great team, so we aren’t going to dwell on this last game,” Falcon said.

LSU will not see the same level of competition on the Cowgirls’ ros-ter, but from this point on, every win matters, as they stand 10th in the conference rankings.

Midweek games like the match-up against McNeese provide an ex-cellent opportunity to fi ne-tune ros-ter changes that LSU tried against Tennessee .

After sophomore shortstop Bi-anka Bell was benched for commit-ting two errors in game one against Tennessee , two different players started at shortstop in the following two games .

Freshman Constance Quinn started at short in game two while freshman Sahvanna Jaquish , who

usually starts at catcher or designated hitter , started at short in game three when Quinn moved to third base .

“I wish we could fi nd a spot for [Quinn ] to play more often because she deserves to play regularly,” LSU coach Beth Torina said. “She’s ex-tremely talented and so athletic. … The future of the program is bright knowing that she will be a starter here for the next three years.”

Torina has an advantage of hav-ing another game to evaluate the play of Bell , Quinn and Jaquish at short-stop before she chooses the starter for Georgia on Friday.

While Torina has not announced the Tigers’ starting pitcher for to-night’s game, freshman Baylee Cor-bello has started most of the Tigers’ midweek games this season and fi g-ures to get the start tonight.

McNeese is led offensively by junior catcher Ashley Modzelewski , who has a team-leading 11 home runs and 38 RBIs this season , and senior outfi elder Alanna DiVittorio , who is batting .407 and leading in on-base percentage with .542 .

The Cowgirls’ rotation is led by sophomore Jamie Allred , who has recorded a 1.71 ERA in 139.1 in-nings pitched this season , including 13 complete games .

Regaining the consistency that the Tigers played with in the fi rst two games of the Tennessee series is cru-cial to continuing to build the team’s confi dence and momentum to fi nish

their tough SEC schedule.“They have done a great job of

answering back,” Torina said. “That is something you love to see about your team. You know they are tal-ented and that they can hit and they can pitch and all those things, but it is way more important as a coach to see that they have fi ght.”

“Selfi sh” is not a word that exists in the 2014 LSU baseball lineup’s vocabulary.

The term “small-ball” is of-ten tossed around when players, coaches and the media chatter be-fore practice or af-ter games in Alex Box Stadium . The concept is simple: get a runner to fi rst base, then use ei-ther a hit-and-run or a bunt to me-thodically move him around the dia-mond to manufac-ture runs.

It was a formu-la that his squad ran into a season ago when the Tigers battled UCLA in the opening round of the 2013 College World Series . The Bru-ins’ favored the small-ball style — UCLA had 76 sacrifi ce hits last season, the seventh most in the nation — and it catered well to the dimensions of TD Ameri-trade Park in Omaha, Neb.

UCLA went on to win the College World Series .

Though he won’t admit it, it seems as though LSU coach Paul Mainieri learned from his postseason adversary.

Mainieri said the Tigers have bunted at a consistent rate in the past, but without players like Mason Katz and Raph Rhymes , the small ball game is likely more noticeable.

With that said, the numbers go against Mainieri’s claim.

The Tigers had 42 sacrifi ce hits last season, tied for 139th in the country. In 2014 , LSU al-ready has 31 sacrifi ce hits, and it’s only April 9 .

“We work every day on bun-ting,” said junior catcher Kade Scivicque . “It’s something that we all take pride in, and we all try to help our team move up the runner and help the next guy.”

The strategy is one the squad has needed through the fi rst four weekends of Southeastern Conference play.

LSU has scored more than four runs in a conference game only twice this season.

The Tigers have had to man-ufacture runs any way they can. LSU has scored a total 36 runs in SEC play, excluding its 17-4 blowout victory against Missis-sippi State last Sunday .

“Every time out, you can put your money on it that it’s going to be a one-run game,” said sopho-more shortstop Alex Bregman . “We have to fi nd ways as an of-fense to scratch a few across. We have to be able to bunt, we have

to be able to hit-and-run and we have to able to hit in the clutch with two outs.”

Bregman said the squad works on specifi c bunting drills before every contest.

The only LSU starter who hasn’t recorded a sacrifi ce hit is senior outfi elder Sean McMul-len , who has had limited oppor-tunities to move runners from the leadoff spot in the lineup.

LSU hitting coach Javi Sanchez , who helps the hitters with their daily bunting drills, said he doesn’t think the Ti-gers’ offense is built around the small-ball men-tality, though.

“It’s more situational hit-ting, like being able to advance a hitter, get a bunt down or ex-ecute a hit-and-

run,” Sanchez said. “That’s what we’re kind of seeing more out of our offense. It’s not so much a small-ball brand of baseball. It’s just being able to execute timely hitting in critical situations.”

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a few across. We have to be able to bunt, we have

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LSU freshman pitcher Baylee Corbello (19) throws the ball Sunday during the Tigers’ 9-0 loss to Tennessee at Tiger Park. She’s expected to start today’s game.

“Quidditch is played by 800 schools nationwide, and it is becoming something that you cannot ignore,” Rank said. “It’s only growing bigger and bigger, and it will be too diffi cult to play this sport down for too much longer.”

The team will be turning in the proper paperwork this week to Zach Wood , the Sport and Camp Program coordinator at the UREC . It will then set a date for a fi nal presentation for its possible admission.

Rank and Ortego under-stand what fi rst comes to mind for most when they think about quid-ditch, and that is exactly what they are trying to change. Neither of them have read any Harry Potter novels.

As a freshman, Rank took up a friend’s offer to attend quid-ditch tryouts, not really knowing what to expect. Despite coming in with 14 years of experience playing soccer, he found himself vomiting after practice because of the work the sport demanded of him.

Rank knew then he had found a physical sport he could relish.

The brute nature of the sport is real, as evidenced by from the six stitches Rank received above his left eye when an op-ponent head-butted him during a game. Other injuries team-mates have suffered include bro-ken collarbones, broken ribs and concussions.

“It’s full contact with one-arm tackles. You know the

injuries are coming,” Rank said. “While that’s not the safest thing in the world, it is what they have in the rule book, so you have to deal with it.”

Ortego , who’s only a part of the organization and doesn’t play for the team, fi rst heard about the team in high school. On her fi rst day attending LSU, she went to a practice to take pictures and view the sport as a spectator.

Ortego was contacted later that week from members of the team, asking her if she wanted to

become a part of the team and trav-el with them. She soon learned what a close bond they possessed, going to dinner with teammates and hanging out dur-ing road trips for tournaments.

“I just felt like I really be-longed somewhere for probably the fi rst time in my life,” Ortego said.

Another major appeal has been the team’s success through the years, and this season was no exception.

The team reached the round of 16 last weekend in the World Cup, a tournament featuring more than 75 teams from around the world. Its run included a win against Lost Boys Quidditch Club , one of the favorites head-ing into the tournament.

But four of LSU’s seven starters will be departing, leav-ing a hole that may be too big to fi ll for the remaining members of the team. Rank and Ortego said they think club sport ap-proval could help the team gain more relevance within the Uni-versity and bring in new team members.

The team currently has to pay its own way to com-pete in weekend tournaments, many of which are out of state. With UREC approval, the team could receive funding for the trips.

Although the team has used fundraisers to help make trips, many members still struggle to come up with suffi cient funds. As a club sport, the UREC would be able to fund a set amount of money that can pay for travel fees and housing.

“By being a club sport, it’ll help a lot of players, especially for myself,” Rank said. “Be-cause I’m always in a struggle for money, it’s a part of being in college.”

All Rank and Ortego have now is hope for approval of their presentation. Then, perhaps, more students can fi nd the al-lure to quidditch they found in years past.

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Mettenberger most likely won’t be on the Saints’ radar come draft day, according to Holder, but he does see considerable interest directed at the other end of Mettenberger’s throws with LSU wide receiv-ers Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry .

In his latest Saints mock draft, Holder put Landry going to New Orleans in the second round, as-suming he can bounce back from a disappointing NFL Combine per-formance where he ran the slowest time of any wide receiver and left early because of an injury believed to be a hamstring pull. Holder also put Landry as the LSU player with the most to lose on Wednesday if he doesn’t show the combine was just a fl uke.

“I think he might need to run a little faster than he did at the com-bine,” Holder said. “Before that, there were people viewing him as a better prospect than Beckham. At the combine, Beckham’s stock rose and Landry’s stock kind of fell, and a lot of that had to do with their 40 times.”

Beckham’s stock has been skyrocketing this offsea-son. On the off chance he falls to the Saints at the No. 27 pick, they’ll take him in the fi rst round, Holder said, but more likely he’ll go to the New York Jets at No. 18 or the Kansas City Chiefs at No. 23 .

“I don’t really think this Pro Day is going to help [Beckham] or hurt him,” Holder said. “I think a lot of teams already view him pretty highly.”

Beckham and Landry became the fi rst LSU wide receiving tandem to record a pair of 1,000-yard sea-sons, with Landry leading the way at 1,193 yards and 10 touchdowns. Beckham hauled in 1,152 yards and

eight touchdowns.Several other NFL hopefuls will

be in attendance Wednesday, includ-ing linebacker Lamin Barrow , run-ning back Jeremy Hill , fullback J.C. Copeland and defensive tackles An-thony Johnson and Ego Ferguson .

Hill and Copeland are Kiper’s fourth ranked running back and fullback, respectively, but Holder specifi cally said LSU offensive guard Trai Turner is someone who could see considerable rise in stock today.

“If some team gets him in the mid rounds and he performs well, lifts well, does all the drills well, I think he’s a guy that maybe comes in and wins a job in his rookie year,” Holder said. “I think he’s kind of had a steady pattern as far as what teams are looking for.”

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remains on the purple and gold instead of the red, white and blue, starting with LSU’s midweek tilt against Lamar at 6:30 p.m. tonight.

Bregman broke out of his midseason slump last Wednes-day, belting a wind-aided three-run home run in the sixth inning of a 10-3 win against Mc-Neese State to kickstart what had been a woeful LSU offense.

Then, the entire offense erupted on Sunday, cranking out 20 hits in a 17-4 romp against Mississippi State to fi nish off the series sweep.

“It was great for our offense as a whole to fi nally get out of the slump,” Bregman said. “We defi -nitely knew we were a lot better than what we were doing to begin the year.”

Junior southpaw Henri Fau-cheux will make his fi rst ca-reer start as a Tiger, though it is a familiar role for the Shel-ton State Community College transfer.

Faucheux said he started 12 games at the Tuscaloosa, Ala., community college last sea-

son and even started one game when he began his col-lege career at UL-Lafayette.

“ P r e p a -ration from coming out of the bull-pen and be-ing a starter

is basically the same,” Fau-cheux said. “It’s the same role, you’re going out and throwing strikes. Now, you’re just try-ing to get the team off to a good start instead of bridging the gap.”

Mainieri said he hopes Fau-cheux can give the Tigers (24-8-1, 6-5-1 Southeastern Con-ference) three good innings before the coach employs his usual midweek tactic of get-ting all available pitchers in the game.

Mainieri likened Lamar to Southland Conference com-rade McNeese State, which led the Tigers after fi ve innings last Wednesday before LSU erupted for eight runs in the fi nal four innings.

“They beat Houston, lost to Rice, 3-2, and played some really good teams,” Mainieri said. “They have some good of-fensive numbers, good pitch-ing numbers. I know better than to [look past their record]. It’s a program that’s produced some really good players over the years.”

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QUIDDITCH, from page 5

‘It’s full contact with one-arm tackles. You

know the injuries are coming.’

Chris RankLSU quidditch player

‘It was great for our o� ense as a whole to � nally get out of the slump.’

Alex BregmanLSU sophomore

shortstop

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LSU junior wide receiver Jarvis Landry (80) runs with the ball Nov. 29, 2013, during the Tigers’ 31-27 victory against the Arkansas Razorbacks in Tiger Stadium.

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It’s official: Baton Rouge sucks. At least when compared to almost every other urban area in the United States.

You may have already come to this conclusion by driving off campus and into the rest of the city.

Long lines of traffic, seas of park-ing spaces and counter-intuitive road systems have all combined to make Louisiana’s capital city among the worst-functioning in the country.

The urban planning organization Smart Growth America conducted a recent study called Measuring Sprawl 2014. It measured the Sprawl Index of 221 cities based on four criteria: development density, land use mix, activity centering and street accessibility.

One only has to look at No. 4 to realize that Baton Rouge is doomed for failure. In-deed, our college home ranks 216, just five spots from the bottom of the list.

However, among mid-sized urban ar-eas, we come in dead last.

This should not come as a surprise. It seems as though Walmarts easily outnum-ber traffic-free roads at any given moment.

There is a larger problem, though, be-cause as a city falls down the list, so do its chances of social mobility and economic opportunity.

More sprawling cities also tend to have higher rates of fatal car accidents and

obesity. Once again, just look around.The study claims people who live in

areas with lower Sprawl Indexes generally experienced higher quality of life because of cheaper housing and fuel, more trans-portation options and their tendency to lead safer, healthier lives.

In everyone’s favorite category, eco-nomic mobility, the research showed that Baton Rouge residents had a 7.2 percent chance of moving from the bottom to the top of the income ladder, while residents in a low index area like Madison, Wis. had a 10.2 percent chance.

This just goes to show that as we abandon the older, more organized and well-planned neighborhoods, we lose eco-nomic opportunities those who live in denser, more efficient areas are apt to take advantage of.

If we compare Baton Rouge to another Louisiana urban center, New Orleans, we see drastic differences.

The former capital blows the current one right out of the water. In all four cat-egories, New Orleans easily outranks Baton Rouge mostly because of its greater density and better street connectivity. The Crescent City comes in a full 174 places ahead of Ba-ton Rouge, ranking 42nd.

When separated from Kenner and Me-tairie, however, Orleans Parish only falls behind the densest counties in places like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

While the prospects for Baton Rouge’s future may seem bleak as strip malls and suburban thoroughfares expand with the traffic around them, officials have a plan.

The Metro Council approved the

FutureBR plan in 2011 to help curtail the effects of the city’s rampant sprawl.

It promised to focus “on land use, ur-ban design, neighborhood revitalization, transit and transportation goals, parks and recreation, environment and conservation, housing and infrastructure and economic development,” according to The Advocate.

Not vague at all.Perhaps Baton Rouge could take some

lessons from its older, more compact coun-terpart downriver. After all, people don’t come from all over the country to stroll up and down Perkins Road; they come to see Magazine Street, even if there is nowhere to park.

In a city where new restaurants and shopping chain outlets spring up like weeds, it could be time for officials to take note of New Orleans’ focus on creating bigger jobs in small businesses than smaller jobs in big businesses.

While it could be years, or even de-cades, until Baton Rouge has done enough soul searching to discover that there is more to life than dinner at Outback Steakhouse and a walk through Perkins Rowe, it is nev-er too early for something lacking in this city: originality.

Eli Haddow is a 21-year-old English and history junior from New Orleans.

Contact Eli Haddow at ehaddow@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @Haddow_TDR

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Baton Rouge’s plethora of strip malls contributes to its sore lack of municipal originality.

Baton Rouge sprawl stymies economy, quality of life

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Let’s talk guns. Or more specifi cally, let’s talk about the Southern misinterpreta-tion of gun needs.

I know Louisiana and the general southern portion of the United States tend to believe guns should be attached to the hip. But somewhere between mass shoot-ings in schools and armed robberies near campus, I missed the logic in this.

We don’t need to carry guns with us everywhere we go. Some new laws in discussion would allow concealed weap-ons in restaurants. My question is why? There is no dire matter that would call for gun use in the lobby of a Chili’s — unless you really want your server to be quick about bringing those lemons for your water.

Restrictions on concealed carrying should not be lifted because they protect the general public. When we bring guns into the picture, the carrier is not the only person who should be discussed.

Everyone in shooting range is at risk when weapons are brought into public places, concealed or not.

If guns are allowed in Class A res-taurants, which are restaurants that serve alcohol, we have to worry about what kind of events can occur under impaired circumstances.

It sounds extreme, but bar arguments can turn into bar fi ghts just a quickly as bar fi ghts can turn into bar shootouts. It’s not only the mentally unstable we have to watch out for.

Louisiana already has some pretty pitiful regulations regarding gun purchas-es and permits. If I wanted to buy a gun, I could go into Walmart right now and walk out a few dollars poorer. No matter that I haven’t handled guns more than one day in my life and couldn’t tell you how to put the safety switch on.

And to obtain a permit so I can carry my new concealed weapon, the only thing that would hold me back is my age and Louisiana residency. In a few years I could be a proud owner and carrier of a handgun. Scratch the “proud.”

Supporters of guns will say it is our right as citizens to bear arms, and restrict-ing these rights is unconstitutional.

Congratulations! You quoted the Bill of Rights and took its literal meaning to heart. Good thing the majority of Ameri-cans don’t follow that same tactic or else this column might contain some distaste-ful slang and claim freedom of the press to justify blatant vulgarity.

Just like how we, as Americans, can-not yell “fi re!” in a crowded movie theater, we should not be able to bring our deadly weapons into a family restaurant.

On that note, permit holders shouldn’t be allowed to take guns anywhere that it isn’t necessary for their safety. Exclud-ing law enforcement offi cers, most people

obtain gun permits for hunting or for pro-tection at home in case of an intruder.

If those are the real reasons people purchase guns, then this obsession with concealed carrying shouldn’t be an obses-sion at all. The people who want to carry their guns around are welcome to do so in the comfort of their own home.

Southerners have a mentality that gun restrictions mean the government wants to strip away our defense and start a dictator-ship. Fortunately, we are not North Korea, and I would like everyone with said men-tality to take a look at their rights before scrutinizing our gun laws.

Go ahead and take your guns hunting and even take them on a walk around the block concealed under your shirt if you want. But please don’t take them to dinner.

There’s a time and place for every-thing. Lawmakers should take note of that when voting on the proposed gun law regulations.

Annette Sommers is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dublin, Calif.

A few weeks ago, our state legislature kicked off another round of lawmaking, with a few gun rights bills coming up for debate.

Probably the most interesting is House Bill 494, sponsored by state Rep. Barry Ivey. The bill would, in effect, amend the state constitution to say that the right to keep and bear arms includes the right to concealed carry without a permit — a much-needed change to existing law.

In Louisiana, a constitutional amend-ment requires a two-thirds majority in the state House and Senate for passage. In 2012, the state adopted an amendment that makes it clear that any restrictions on the Second Amendment would be “subject to strict scrutiny.”

At the moment, a citizen of Louisi-ana can legally obtain a permit to carry concealed weapons after fi lling out pa-perwork with the state police and pay-ing a fee. The passage of this law would bring the Louisiana state constitution more in line with the U.S. Constitution, which states that gun rights “shall not be infringed.”

I’d say having to fi ll out paper work and paying a fee to the state is infringement.

Louisiana already has the loosest gun laws in the union, with citizens able to easily obtain concealed carry permits, and to openly carry fi rearms without a permit.

That’s right, guys. Provided that you are not in a designated government space, church or one of the fi sh-in-barrel areas known as “gun-free zones,” you can strap your Colt M1911 to your hip and walk about freely, and no one can do a thing about it. However, open carriers are often subject to harassment by police unaware of the law, which can make exercising this right very risky at times.

What this bill would do is allow you to simply wear a coat or have your shirt untucked over your fi rearm with-out being in danger of committing a se-rious crime. It aims to decriminalize carrying-while-chilly.

It is nonsensical to keep a system in place that restricts the ability to carry a fi rearm concealed, when there is no such paperwork or fee system involved with carrying one openly.

In addition to Ivey’s bill, there is a bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Lopinto that would allow off-duty cops to carry into bars and civilians to bring their concealed guns into restaurants that serve alcohol, but make most of their sales from food. wThink Chili’s.

There is nothing wrong with a law enforcement offi cer carrying his or her fi rearm anywhere. And for civilians that concealed carry, it is already illegal for them to have a weapon on their person while even marginally tipsy anywhere — .05 percent BAC being their legal limit.

Opposition to Ivey’s bill will likely raise the question as to why it is neces-sary for someone to carry fi rearm at all. The answer is simple: there is not always a law enforcement offi cer around to save the day. And last time I checked, I do not need a reason to exercise a right.

There also seems to be a statist obses-sion with knowing which citizens are gun owners, especially which ones carry their fi rearms regularly. In a free society where inalienable, natural and human rights are constitutionally protected, it is absolutely no one’s, much less the state’s, business to keep tabs on who is exercising their liberty as an American citizen.

In addition to not having your rights restricted, a side effect of not having to obtain a permit is that people would more often be on their best behavior. Noth-ing deters crime like not knowing who is packing.

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

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OpinionWednesday, April 9, 2014 page 9

HEAD to HEAD

Should restrictions on concealed guns be lifted?No, the restrictions protect the general public. Yes, carrying a gun is an American right.

600 WORDS OF SOMMERSANNETTE SOMMERSColumnist

Contact Annette Sommers at asommers@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @AnnetteSommers

Contact Ryan McGehee at rmcgehee@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @JRyanMcGehee

BRACE YOURSELFRYAN MCGEHEEColumnist

MIKE ORAZZI / The Associated Press

A man open carries a handgun during a gun rights rally at the Connecticut state capitol in Hartford on Saturday. The state passed a gun control law one year ago on April 4, 2013, in response to the Newtown school shooting.

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Hall’s Jan. 31 fl oor performance against Alabama , which also re-ceived a perfect score , to its web-site Sunday , and Hall became an online sensation overnight.

“My phone kept blinking. I was getting tagged on Facebook and there were about 15 emails on this one video,” Hall said.

By Tuesday night , the video had more than 370,000 views on YouTube . But Hall’s disdain for the website’s original head-line of the video, which referred to her as the “bad-dest bitch alive,” quickly overcame her initial fl attery from people’s responses.

“I didn’t mind people post-ing the video and letting it go vi-ral, but I did not like how the title used the B-word to describe me,” Hall said. “What I believe in is Christ, and I didn’t want to dam-age His name by being connected to language of that nature.”

Having grown up in a pas-tor’s household, Hall was con-cerned the video’s title would misrepresent her religious be-liefs. When she realized how rapidly the video was spread-ing, Hall said she posted on her Facebook account expressing her frustration over the title and ask-ing that it be changed.

“I think they meant to use it in a positive way, but that word has such derogatory and negative meaning to it,” Hall said. “I’m not a negative person, and I’m also not someone who looks at that word in a positive way.”

LSU coach D-D Breaux said she wasn’t aware of the headline until her sister called to inform her.

“I immediately went looking for it, but it had already been tak-en care of,” Breaux said. “I think [Hall] handled the situation in a very mature way.”

Though the title was changed to the “baddest athlete of all time,” Hall’s notoriety continued to escalate as national media out-lets like USA Today and People

Magazine put Hall’s video on their websites. Hall also fi lmed an interview Tuesday scheduled for today’s broadcast of Good Morning America on ABC.

But with the NCAA champi-onships set to take place in less than two weeks , Hall’s sole fo-cus is on what she can do to help her team claim its fi rst title, not on the tsunami of attention that

fl ooded her way. “It’s not about

all the distrac-tions; it’s about a national cham-pionship for this team,” Hall said. “That’s some-thing I stood my ground on when I chose to not look at the publicity. I chose to turn it off and not deal with

it because it didn’t have anything to do with LSU gymnastics win-ning a national championship.”

But the demanding task of winning a championship will

require more than Hall’s fl oor routine, no matter how impres-sive, because one gymnast’s per-fect score won’t stack up against a complete lineup.

Fortunately for Breaux , the Tigers do have a complete lineup, evidenced by their school-record and nation-best score of 198.325 at the Baton Rouge Regional last weekend that brought them back to the No. 1 ranking.

“As great as [Hall’s] rou-tine is, it’s only 1/24 of what we have to do to be success-ful, and we have to make sure we keep that in perspective,” Breaux said.

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beeper18 To become stuck19 Look for20 Last day of

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Jungle”24 Foot digit26 Respect highly29 Ajax or Comet34 Small flies35 Large

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exercise

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5 Sad expression6 Movement of

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‘I didn’t mind people posting the video and letting it go viral, but I did not like how the

title used the B-word to describe me.’ Lloimincia Hall

LSU junior all-arounder

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LSU junior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall dances during her � oor routine Feb. 28 during the Tigers’ 198.050-194.825 victory against Missouri at the PMAC.

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