The Daily Reveille - January 22, 2014

On Tuesday former NASA astronaut and current executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sandra Magnus visited the Uni-versity in an effort to kickstart the University’s AIAA chapter.

While the University does not offer an aerospace engineer-ing major, students can join the professional organization, the AIAA .

“We want to get back on

people’s minds,” said mechani-cal engineering senior Anthony Thompson . “A lot of people think about the American Soci-ety of Mechanical Engineers for networking, but nobody thinks about AIAA .”

Thompson developed an in-terest in aerospace engineering in college, but found relevant net-working diffi cult.

According to Thompson , major corporations associ-ated with aerospace engineer-ing do not attend career fairs at the University.

“It makes it diffi cult as a student to contact them,” Thompson said. “I had to go to a career fair in New Orleans .”

Magnus , having graduated with an undergraduate degree in physics and a master’s degree in electrical engineering, said she encourages students with an in-terest in an aerospace engineer-ing career to get involved with experience-intensive projects be-cause that is what the industry is

Gov. Bobby Jindal an-nounced a $141.5 million pro-posed increase in higher educa-tion funding from state general funds Tuesday, standing along-side state legislators and leaders in the state’s higher education institutions at the Business Edu-cation Complex Rotunda.

This 6.6 percent increase in total higher education funds comes in stark contrast to the trend of budget cuts to the Uni-versity and the rest of Louisi-ana’s higher education systems. Tuesday’s announcement also comes on the heels of specula-tion that the University wouldn’t see a midyear budget cut for the current year.

Since 2008, LSU has seen midyear budget cuts totaling more than $40 million.

Past midyear cuts have stagnated improvements at the University and made higher ed-ucation more expensive for stu-dents. The midyear budget cut in 2010 cut short plans to reduce class sizes, increase classroom support and provide more coun-seling for students, the Reveille

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BASEBALL: Freshman pitcher’s dream intact despite elbow injury, p. 5

OPINION: Student textbook prices unnecessarily high, p. 8

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Executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sandra Magnus speaks to engineering students Tuesday in the Engineering Annex Building.

Former NASA astronaut advises students about aerospace industryRenee BarrowContributing Writer

ASTRONAUT, see page 11

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College of Science names new deanDeanna NarvesonStaff Writer

DEAN, see page 11

Cynthia Peterson was an-nounced as the new dean of the College of Science on Tuesday, after a yearlong search.

Beginning Aug. 1, Peterson , who is currently the associate dean of academic personnel in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee , will be the fi rst female dean of the College of Science, ac-cording to a news release.

Executive Vice Chancel-lor and Provost Stuart Bell said the search for a new dean of the college started in January 2013 when the previous dean, Kevin Carman, left the University for a position at the University of Nevada, Reno .

Guillermo Ferreyra , the in-terim dean of the College of Sci-ence , led the college for the last

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CHARLES CHAMPAGNE / The Daily Reveille

Gov. Bobby Jindal joins leaders from the state’s higher education systems Tuesday to announce increased funding for higher education at the University’s E. J. Ourso College of Business.

Jindal announces funding increase for higher educationJames RichardsStaff Writer

FUNDING, see page 11

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Listen to part of Jindal’s announcement at 4:20 and 5:20 p.m. on 91.1

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Read our editorial board’s view, p. 9

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Nation & World Wednesday, January 22, 2014page 2

Sochi forces hunt for 3 potential suicide bombers, all three female

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Rus-sian security officials are hunt-ing down three potential female suicide bombers, one of whom is believed to be in Sochi, where the Winter Olympics will begin next month.

Police leaflets seen by an Associated Press reporter at a central Sochi hotel on Tuesday contain warnings about three po-tential suicide bombers. A police letter said that one of them, Ru-zanna Ibragimova, a 22-year-old widow of an Islamic militant, was at large in Sochi.France to broaden African military presence to fight terror threat

PARIS (AP) — France will broad-en its military presence in Africa’s turbulent Sahel region with spe-cialized new outposts to better fight the terror threat from extrem-ist groups such as al-Qaida, de-fense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday.

The minister expects to detail the initiative to U.S. officials in-cluding Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and national security ad-viser Susan Rice during a trip to Washington this week. France has worked closely with U.S. forces to try to fight extremism in Africa.

Purdue University says 1 dead in campus shooting, suspect in custody

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Officials at Purdue University in Indiana say one person was killed in a shooting at a campus classroom building.

Purdue Provost Tim Sands says he didn’t immediately know the identity of the person killed or the person’s connection to the university.

Campus police chief John Cox says the suspect is in cus-tody after surrendering outside the Electrical Engineering Build-ing following the shooting about noon Tuesday.Psych screening for two Md. women held in kids’ ‘exorcism’ deaths

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Two women who police say killed two children while performing what they thought was an exorcism will remain held without bond and have psychiatric evaluations to determine if they are competent to stand trial, a judge said Tuesday.

The women, 28-year-old Za-kieya Latrice Avery and 21-year-old Monifa Denise Sanford, iden-tified themselves as members of a group called “Demon Assassins,” and police are looking to inter-view other people who might be part of the same organization.

(AP) — Supporters of legalized marijuana made their long-shot pitch to Louisiana lawmakers Tues-day, saying it could generate dollars for the state treasury, provide a new cash crop for farmers, shrink the jail population and lessen pain for people with medical ailments.

No legislation to legalize mari-juana in Louisiana has been pro-posed so far for the upcoming regu-lar session that begins March 10, and lawmakers say they don’t think such a proposal could win passage.

“I don’t believe we’re going to turn around and legalize marijuana next year,” said Rep. Joe Lopin-to, R-Metairie, chairman of the House committee.

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Fire Marshal says no burn ban, but urges caution with outdoor fires

(AP) — The State Fire Marshal’s Office stops short of ordering a statewide burn ban, but is urging all residents to exercise caution when setting outdoor fires.

In a statement Tuesday, State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning recommends resi-dents delay burning debris until there’s been “significant pre-cipitation” and even then, ex-tra precaution is urged during windy conditions.

NSA leaker Snowden nominated for rector post at University of Glasgow

LONDON (AP) — The Univer-sity of Glasgow says Edward Snowden is among those run-ning for the position of rector, the students’ representative to university management.

The former National Secu-rity Agency contractor leaked documents disclosing details of U.S. spies’ surveillance of the Internet and telephone commu-nications. Variously hailed as a hero and condemned as a trai-tor, he has been granted asylum in Russia.

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Russian security officials are searching for three potential female suicide bombers in Sochi, Russia. Police leaflets contain warnings about the women.

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Family of Sea World trainer killed by whale thought whales treated OK

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The family of a SeaWorld trainer who died in 2010 when a killer whale pulled her into the water is com-menting about a documentary critical of animal captivity at the marine parks.

Trainer Dawn Brancheau’s family members said Tuesday on the website for The Dawn Bran-cheau Foundation that they’ve been repeatedly asked about how they feel about the documen-tary “Blackfish” since its release last year.

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Police evacuate students from the Electrical Engineering building after shots were fired Tuesday at Purdue University. Officials say one person has been killed.

Lawmakers hear support for legalizing marijuana, no legislation proposed

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The fatal disease of palms known as Texas Phoenix palm de-cline — or TPPD — was positively confirmed in Louisiana last month, according to LSU AgCenter plant doctor Raj Singh.

The disease was confirmed in Canary Island date palm trees in New Orleans, Singh said. Until re-cently, the disease was only detect-ed in the United States in Texas and Florida, he added.

TPPD is a progressive disease that rapidly kills various types of palm trees, including Canary Island date palm, edible date palm, silver date palm, wild date palm, cabbage palm and queen palm, he said.

“Trees that appeared healthy this time last year are now dead, and we are talking about almost 100 year old trees…it’s pretty quick- acting,” LSU AgCenter horticultur-ist Andrew Loyd said.

Details surrounding the ques-tion of how TPPD ended up in Louisiana and its origin are still un-known, Singh said.

“The disease could be present in other parts of the state, but we would have to go and survey the whole state and see if symptoms are present and confirm it,” he said.

Singh said as of now, only two Canary Island date palms have test-ed positive for the disease in New Orleans.

TPPD is caused by a Phyto-plasma called Candidatus Phyto-plasma palmae, an unculturable bacterium with no cell wall , though phytoplasma is transmitted by phlo-em (vascular channels that transport photosynthates) feeder insects with piercing-sucking mouth parts, he said.

Singh said the exact species of the insect vector is not confirmed yet, but insects such as tree hoppers, plant hoppers and psyllids are the potential vectors of this disease.

These insects pick up the phy-toplasma while feeding on infected palms, and then transfer it to healthy susceptible palms, he explained.

Once introduced, the phyto-plasma colonizes in the phloem channels and becomes systemic in the host, he said. However, the phy-toplasma can’t live outside the host or the insect, he added.

“One doctor said finding the infected trees is like putting on a blindfold and looking for one white marble in 100 red marbles,” Loyd said.

The progressive symptoms of TPPD include the discoloration or browning of fronds in the low-er canopy. The lower leaves will quickly turn brown, and the flow-ers, if produced, will die and fall off the tree prematurely. Once the spear leaf dies, the entire palm tree is dead, Loyd explained.

Singh said symptoms of TPPD are similar to those of other diseas-es, thus making it more difficult to positively identify the disease.

Additionally, he said self- diagnosis of the TPPD is almost impossible, given the need to confirm the disease by molecu-lar detection of the pathogen from symptomatic tissue.

Infected or symptomatic palms, especially where the spear leaf has died, must be removed immediately because they may act as a source for insects to transmit the patho-gen to healthy susceptible palms, Loyd said.

“The two diseased palms have not been removed, but I think one is in the process,” Singh said. “There are several palms showing symp-toms in the same area.”

Singh doesn’t recommend re-placing another palm in the same location as a diseased palm, unless the palm is different than one of the six susceptible palms.

Anyone who believes their trees might be infected by TPPD can send samples into the LSU Ag-Center Plant Diagnostic Center for positive identification. However, individuals are encouraged to call the AgCenter before collecting any samples, Singh said.

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Disease found in La. palm trees

courtesy of LSU AGCenter

Texas Phoenix palm decline, or TPPD, is a progressive disease that rapidly kills palm trees. TPPD was positively confirmed in Louisiana last month.

Crime

Student group works to end human trafficking

The issue of human traffick-ing is back on Baton Rouge’s radar following the Jan. 14 arrests of two women accused of prostituting a 16-year-old girl out of the Callo-way Inn on Mead Road. The grim news follows other arrests made last month of a man and woman accused of trafficking another 16-year-old girl in the area.

Baton Rouge’s recent uptick in human trafficking arrests presents an alarming trend for the city, de-spite the vigilant eyes of many local organizations.

Human trafficking, as defined by Spanish senior Bridget Savoie, refers to the recruitment, transpor-tation and trading of people for the purposes of labor and prostitution.

Savoie is the president of Ti-gers Against Trafficking, a group of University students who aim to mobilize the student body and the local community to combat human trafficking on a global scale.

“We’re a lot better off than we were when we first got started,” Savoie said. “But there’s still a long way to go.”

Emily Morrow Chenevert, na-tional awareness director for Traf-ficking Hope, also acknowledged the strides Louisiana has made in prevention efforts.

Chenevert said Trafficking Hope’s many services include pro-viding support for trafficking vic-tims and educating various organi-zations on the issue.

“We’re definitely moving in

the right direction,” Chenevert said.In September, Trafficking

Hope opened the first full-service, longterm home for trafficking vic-tims in Louisiana. The facility, known as “Hope House,” helps its inhabitants deal with psychological trauma and provides medical care for victims.

“At Hope House, we help vic-tims of trafficking become fully restored at every level,” Chenevert said.

Louisiana is one of only three states in the nation that received an “A” grade from Shared Hope International, a non-profit anti-traf-ficking organization. According to the group’s website, the grades are based on 41 key legislative compo-nents that must be addressed in a state’s laws in order to effectively respond to the crime of domestic minor sex trafficking.

Additionally, the Joint Human Trafficking Study Commission is currently working on an array of bills aimed at fighting trafficking to introduce in Louisiana’s upcoming legislative session.

Despite these efforts, both Savoie and Chenevert acknowl-edge that the most important step in preventing human trafficking in Louisiana is awareness.

“As students, we have a large voice,” Savoie said. “It’s not enough until every student knows and until every person is aware of what’s going on.”

Quint ForgeyStaff Writer

Contact Quint Forgey at [email protected]

Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter will be a candidate in Loui-siana’s 2015 governor’s race, an-nouncing his decision Tuesday in an email to supporters and imme-diately becoming the front-runner for the election.

“I believe that as our next Governor, I can have a bigger im-pact addressing the unique chal-lenges and opportunities we face in Louisiana,” the senator said in an email, fi rst obtained by The As-sociated Press from a member of Vitter’s staff.

Vitter’s announcement ends months of speculation about the conservative senator’s intentions, and his decision is expected to in-fl uence which other potential can-didates enter the race.

Gov. Bobby Jindal is term-limited, so the race is wide open. Vitter can run without forfeiting his current position in the U.S. Senate, which isn’t up for re-elec-tion until 2016.

If he becomes governor, Vit-ter said he’ll push for excellence in education, budget stability, tax and spending reform and govern-ment accountability.

“This will be my last political job, elected or appointed, period. So my only agenda will be to do what’s best for all Louisianians, from our best and brightest to our most vulnerable,” he said in the email and an accompanying web video posted on his new campaign website.

Others who have said they will run for governor include Re-publican Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and state Rep. John Bel Edwards, chairman of the House Democrat-ic Caucus. State GOP Treasurer John Kennedy also has said he is considering entering the race.

Edwards said he wasn’t sur-prised by Vitter’s decision and that he welcomed his opponent. He then attacked Vitter’s job per-formance as an elected offi cial.

“In his two decades of being a politician in Louisiana and Wash-ington, he’s clearly only excelled in obstruction or division, and those are not qualities that are go-ing to move Louisiana forward,” Edwards said. “The do-nothing Congress that he’s been a member of so long is not a model that we should follow here.”

Pearson Cross, head of the Department of Politics, Law and International Relations at the Uni-versity of Louisiana at Lafayette, said Vitter “poses a major prob-lem for the other Republican con-tenders in this race.”

“David Vitter has incredible name recognition and just won his last statewide election with near-ly 60 percent of the vote,” Cross said.

Dardenne, a moderate Repub-lican, said he’s not changing any-thing in the way he’s campaign-ing for offi ce and plans to focus on his vision for moving the state forward. He said he expected mul-tiple GOP contenders to be in the race.

“I have a broad-based appeal

beyond the Republican Party, I think,” he said.

Vitter’s approval ratings are high in Louisiana, and his ability to rake in campaign donations is strong. The leader of a pro-Vitter super PAC said the organization has already raised $1.5 million to support a gubernatorial run for the senator.

Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise applauded Vitter’s an-nouncement, calling it “encourag-ing news for Louisiana’s future” and describing Vitter as a strong conservative leader.

Jindal, who often has had a frosty relationship with Vitter, praised the senator’s work on edu-cation and his steadfast opposition to the federal health care overhaul. But Jindal said it’s far too early to make any endorsements in the race to replace him.

Several polls taken before Vitter’s announcement showed the senator as the front-runner in the gubernatorial race if he chose to run.

Vitter said an “active cam-paign” is still a year away.

He has proved to be a resil-ient politician, holding elected of-fi ce for more than two decades as a state and federal lawmaker and easily winning re-election to a second U.S. Senate term in 2010, despite ties to a prostitution scan-dal.

Vitter admitted to a “serious sin” after phone records linked him to Washington’s “D.C. Mad-am” prostitution case in 2007. He hasn’t commented further on whether he broke the law, instead saying his family had forgiven him and moved past it.

Voters don’t appear to hold the scandal against Vitter, with

more than 58 percent giving him good marks in a recent Southern Media and Opinion Research poll about his job performance.

“I think he’s far enough re-moved from that. Eight years is an eternity in voters’ minds,” Cross said of the scandal.

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A new tool is making its way around campus, helping students make choices on appropriate apartment prices and the necessity of roommates.

The Average Rent Calculator is a function of Splitwise, a Rhode Island-based company that offers its services through an app and a website. The calculator shows the average prices of apartments in a specifi ed area.

Users can enter a ZIP code and the website compiles graphs of data covering most U.S. ZIP codes, but not as many in rural areas, said Zoe Chaves, one of the makers of the Average Rent Calculator. The data comes from a company in San Francisco that sells residential real estate wholesale to realtors and contains around 2 million listings across

the U.S.For each ZIP code, the web-

site offers the average rent per bedroom, the average rent per square foot, the number of apart-ments of different sizes in the area and the amount of money saved if the user has roommates.

Splitwise is like “cloud book-keeping,” Chaves said, an online way for students and their room-mates to manage their fi nances.

The service can be used to track the money the user owes, the money the user is owed and the total balance. It also sends out reminders of “IOUs.” The app can track bills and will split them automatically among the room-mates. Users can electronically pay their roommates back and electronically accept payments.

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LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux prefers quality to quantity.

But in the early weeks of the season, the No. 2 Tigers have given her both. Twelve LSU gym-nasts have competed through the fi rst two meets this year , proving Breaux is not afraid to tinker with her lineups.

In recent years, juniors Rhea-gan Courville and Jessie Jordan and senior Sarie Morrison carried the Tigers, but LSU’s depth gives Breaux multiple options to take the pressure off her superstars.

“We’ve got to back down on

[the veterans] and put some pres-sure on those kids that have not made the lineup to get better and challenge so we can rest some-body if we have to be able to put them in,” Breaux said. “It’s nice to have depth, but it’s not the depth that’s going to win the competi-tions — it’s our best kids being their very best.”

Other than Courville , Jordan and Morrison , the best performers have yet to total-ly separate themselves from the pack. Breaux utilized the same vault and fl oor rotations against Centenary and Georgia , but spots in the uneven bars and balance

beam lineup appear to be up for grabs.

On beam, freshman Sydney Ewing and sophomore Michelle

Gauthier recorded a 9.75 and a 9.70, respectively . On bars, freshman Shae Zamardi picked up a 9.225 against Centenary before senior Ka-leigh Dickson stepped back into the lineup and earned a 9.525 at Georgia .

Breaux sat Dickson out of every event ex-cept vault in the season-opener for lack of performance during practice the week before the meet.

SportsWednesday, January 22, 2014 page 5

THE SMARTEST MORANJAMES MORANSports Columnist


LSU junior all-arounder Rheagan Courville smirks during her � oor routine Jan. 10 during the Tigers’ win against Centenary in the PMAC.

LSU receives quality, quantity from new depth

Marcus RodrigueSports Contributor

DEPTH, see page 7

SPORTS THUGS, see page 6

GYMNASTICS

Underclassmen’s talent boosts team

‘It’s nice to have depth, but it’s not the depth

that’s going to win the competitions — it’s our

best kids being their very best.’ D-D Breaux

LSU gymnastics coach

While seemingly the en-tire universe was busy debating whether Seattle cornerback Rich-ard Sherman’s postgame interview was the best or worst thing to ever happen on earth , a black eye on the world of sports went unnoticed.

Sherman’s trash talk isn’t how most athletes respond to the stan-dard “How’s it feel to help your team advance to the Super Bowl” ques-tion, but it was business as usual for Sherman .

He’s an emotional player who proclaims himself the best cornerback in the league, and backs up his claim every time he takes the fi eld. People who love his style or hate it are both correct, it’s simply a matter of personal taste.

But like most discussion of opinions today, it hit Twitter and was blown way out of proportion. It morphed from a discussion about Sherman as a player to a referen-dum on Sherman as a person.

Inevitably the argument reached one of two extreme conclusions. One half reached the conclusion that Sherman , a Stan-ford graduate, is a great person

It was September 2012 and Grant High School senior-to-be Jesse Stallings took the mound during a Perfect Game tournament in Houston for the most important audition of his young career.

LSU pitching coach Alan Dunn was in attendance and scouting out the next wave of po-tential Tigers to make their pres-ences felt in Alex Box Stadium . Dunn’s eyes were on the 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pound Stallings , and the prospect was well aware of what was on the line.

The Colfax, La. , native felt

a pop in his elbow on his second pitch; another followed on his third.

He fi nished the inning with 12 pitches thrown, recording a strikeout and allowing one hit. But Stallings said he knew im-mediately something was wrong.

It wouldn’t be until March that he would get the offi cial

diagnosis: Stallings needed Tommy John surgery on his el-bow, a procedure many pitchers go through that requires a year-long recovery process. A piece of Stallings’ hamstring was tak-en to replace his injured ulnar collateral ligament.

Lawrence BarrecaSports Writer


Freshman pitcher Jesse Stallings’ debut as a Tiger has been delayed since Tommy John surgery sidelined him in April. But with the year recovery time almost over, Stallings should be ready to pitch in the summer.

STALLINGS, see page 7

Stalling the DreamJesse Stallings ful� lling LSU dream despite elbow injury

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and an even better football player, while the other half declared him the poster child for ignorance and “thug culture” in sports.

Different accounts of Sher-man could be used to support each caricature, and without knowing the man, it’s shortsighted to make assumptions about what type of person he is away from the football fi eld.

Frankly, I have no idea what kind of person Sherman is. But Merriam-Webster defi nes a “thug” as a violent criminal or a brutal ruffi an or assassin, and Sherman verbally blasting a ri-val after making the biggest play of his career does not make him one.

However, there was a grand display of “thuggery” in sports this weekend, and nobody noticed.

Probably because it didn’t take place in Seattle or Denver on Sunday but rather during a hockey game in Vancouver on Saturday night.

At the beginning of Satur-day’s Calgary -Vancouver game, Calgary Flames coach Bob Hart-ley sent his fourth line, which is typically comprised of more tough guys than hockey play-ers, to start the game. Vancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella responded in kind, sending out fi ve heavy hitters of his own to match up.

The rink was effectively a powder keg with a lit fuse, and it

didn’t take long to ignite. The in-stant the puck was dropped, the gloves followed, and the game de-volved into an all-out, fi ve-on-fi ve line brawl.

When offi cials regained con-trol of the game, the penalty box-es were standing room only and looked more like transparent clown cars.

Fighting is a normal and even celebrated part of hockey culture, but it’s not supposed to be this planned or widespread. And more importantly, hockey fi ghts should never leave the ice.

After the fi rst period, Tor-torella attempted to rush into the opposing locker room and had to be restrained by players and assis-tant coaches. The ugly scene was caught on video as Tortorella was seen fl ailing and screaming among a sea of players outside the locker room.

The NHL suspended Tortorel-la for 15 days without pay for his actions, but beyond that, the fallout has been minimal. There was no public outcry, no calls for his job and no Twitter referendum on the problem of thugs in sports.

Obviously hockey isn’t as popular as football, espe-cially in Louisiana . My dad told me years ago that the only ice people care about here is in their drinks.

But the fact that the words of one excited athlete can cause so much controversy while the actions of a coach, a man who is supposed to conduct himself with

dignity and remain above the emo-tional fray, is ignored is laughable.

It’s just another example of America being a society of sheep, with social media in-creasingly playing the role of shepherd.

Just take a second and imagine what the headlines would look like if such an incident happened in any of the other three major sports.

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LSU can still improve recruiting class

Just because LSU landed the nation’s No. 1 recruit in Leonard Fournette doesn’t mean the Tigers are ready to call it a day on the recruiting front.

The Tigers are still in the hunt for several big-name recruits, and with a few last-minute pickups, could wrangle one of the nation’s best recruiting classes.

“[LSU is] trying to make a late run at a lot of these guys,” said TigerSportsDigest.com and Scout.com recruiting expert Hunter Pa-niagua . “[They’re] kind of kicking the tires on a lot of them and see-ing who they have a chance with and see who they can really build relationships with.”

LSU’s recruiting scheme is widely thought to be focused on scoring John Curtis wide receiver and the country’s top-ranked pass catcher, Malachi Dupre .

Paniagua said the Tigers are vying for Dupre the most because he can make an immediate impact on an inexperienced receiving corps.

The battle for Dupre is all the more enticing to LSU, considering the team already lost out on several key recruits from Louisiana.

“They probably feel better about [Dupre] than some of the other in-state guys going else-where,” Paniagua said. “[LSU has] been recruiting him for a year, so they have a good relationship with him. He has a lot of respect for [LSU offensive coordinator] Cam Cameron and his system and wants to follow in [LSU draft prospect, wide receiver] Odell Beckham’s shoes maybe.”

Dupre took an offi cial visit to Baton Rouge last weekend along with several other potential Tigers.

But potentially more crucial than fi nding a receiver, LSU coach Les Miles has yet to land a defen-sive tackle in 2014, which could put the Tiger defense in a sticky situation with Anthony Johnson and Ego Ferguson declaring for the NFL draft.

“The biggest [need] is prob-ably defensive tackle,” Paniagua said. “That’s defi nitely a big push there with about three or four defensive tackles they’re looking at.”

LSU has a few defensive tack-les on its radar for now, including Trey Lealaimatafao from Texas and Travonte Valentine out of Florida.

Both weigh more than 300 pounds and could be useful in get-ting back to the dominant days of old for the LSU defensive front.

Valentine is a bit of a wild card, having committed and de-comitted to three separate schools since spring of 2012, but Paniagua said LSU likes the way it’s trend-ing with Lealaimatafao, who has several family members in the Baton Rouge area.

“[LSU] still has the poten-tial to fi nish with a top three class based off some of the guys they’re still going after,” Paniagua said. “They have three guys, at least on our rankings, that are No. 1 in their positions and they’re one of only two schools in the country to have that.”

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Malachi Dupre

No. 1 Wide Receiver

Lorenzo Carter

No. 3 Defensive End

Adoree’ Jackson

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Norcross, Ga.


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Gardena, Calif.


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Hialeah, Fla.


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Jackson, Miss.


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Dickson competed in the all-around for most of her LSU ca-reer, and Breaux said she benched Dickson to send a message to her squad.

“[Dickson] is an All-Amer-ican in the all-around,” Breaux said. “But if you don’t get the work done in practice and beat out your teammates and then turn around and support your teammates in that effort, you’re not going to make the lineup. It’s critically important that they develop consistency in practice so that we have consistency in performance.”

Breaux said her rotations will fluctuate on a week-to-week basis throughout the season and be de-termined by how well each gym-nast competes at practice. The spots belonging to whoever posts the two lowest scores throughout the week are at risk, Breaux said.

“We’re at a point right now where we’re trying to find what works for us, no matter how many meets that takes,” Courville said. “We’re trying to get the exact lineup we want for the end of the season, and D-D does an awe-some job of making us compete for our spots in the gym and push-ing each other to get to where we want to be.”

Jordan said the increased competition has created a height-ened level of intensity at practice. Courville said the variation in the lineups doesn’t bother her and her teammates because they don’t feel entitled to their spots in the rotation.

Though LSU’s lineups will become more consistent as the season progresses, Breaux was clear about what she wants the Ti-gers to be capable of by the time the national tournament comes around.

“We’ve got to be able to de-velop twelve 9.9’s throughout our lineup, and the one’s that aren’t a 9.9 have to be a 9.85,” Breaux said. “It’s not the number; it’s the quality of the number and kids rising to the occasion.”

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“When I felt it, I knew it was bad,” Stallings said. “I continued to pitch [in the inning] because coach Dunn was there and a cou-ple of other colleges were there watching me, and I was like, ‘If they came all the way to Houston to see me, then I’m not going to get off the mound.’”

Stallings said his first thought was to immediately get the surgery because he wanted to return to the mound as quickly as possible.

He broke the news to LSU coach Paul Mainieri following the Tigers’ March 13, 2013, game against Nicholls State.

“My first reaction was that I felt so sorry for the kid,” Mainieri said. “He worked hard to put him-self into a position to be a good prospect for college, then he has to deal with such a tremendous disappointment in his life. We told him that this did not deter us from our interest in him.”

The Grant High senior went through with the procedure in April, and he eventually had to attend rehab for both his arm and his leg. Though he will join the Tigers for the 2014 campaign, he will have to redshirt for his true freshman season.

His recovery timetable has him slated to return to the mound competitively this summer after the 2014 season, and he is cur-rently working bullpen sessions. He said he expects to be pitch-ing in simulated games in a few weeks, and he hasn’t felt any elbow pain since the surgery.

Prior to the injury, Stallings’ fastball velocity hovered in the high 80s, with it occasionally hit-ting 92 mph. He said he thinks his velocity could increase when he returns to full strength on the mound.

Stallings said he can’t imag-ine what his emotions will be like when he takes the mound for the first time in Alex Box in 2015.

“LSU baseball fans are the biggest and best in college base-ball,” Stallings said. “We’ll have our times when we aren’t playing our best, but they’re still there and they’ll have our backs. Even the fact that one of these days I’ll be on the mound and they’ll be

cheering me on really brightens my day.”

For now, Stallings, a wild-life biology major, said his main focus is in the classroom. Once spring practices begin, he said he wants to be there to help the team in any way that he can.

Before LSU ever approached Stallings, he said he always want-ed to be a Tiger. He wanted to play in Alex Box no matter how many other colleges contacted him, and he would only go to another university if LSU felt he wasn’t good enough.

His dream of becoming a

Tiger recently came to fruition as he stared down at his new uni-form.

“The other day, we had to take head shots, and they had our actual names on the jerseys, and I just kind of went wild,” he said. “It really sunk in.”

Mainieri said he expects Stallings to continue to work hard both on and off the field. Though Stallings won’t be on the mound this season, Mainieri said the freshman will still be a valuable asset to the program.

“One thing that has struck me about Jesse is what a pleasure

he is to have around,” Mainieri said. “He’s very reliable, very dependable and a very hard- working young man. I think the world of him, and I’m just really proud of how he’s handled this.”

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Freshman pitcher Jesse Stallings will redshirt his freshman season to continue rehabbing his surgically repaired elbow. LSU coach Paul Mainieri said he continued to recruit Stallings despite his injury because he expects Stallings to make an impact after his recovery.

Here’s a message to the sick and

injured across the country complaining about the skyrocketing cost of health care in the United States, or simply to those who are still swimming in the ocean of self-pity over the loss of the Obamacare debate:

At least you don’t have to pay for college textbooks.

Many out in the real world believe that health care is the fastest rising cost to Americans; however, these people are adults and, for the most part, do not have to foot the bill for massive tomes that are only useful two to four days a year – depending on the number of exams one has.

When students are shelling out more than $1,000 annually, according to the College Board, they should be expecting more than just 1,200 pages on thermodynamics.

Since 1978, textbook costs have blown through the roof, the atmo-sphere and whatever else there is af-ter that – I never took geography, or is that astrology?

Prices have risen an astonishing 812 percent over the 36-year period, dwarfing the meager 575 percent rise in medical service costs over the same span, according to The Huffington Post.

Since 2001 alone, the cost of our textbooks has doubled while prices of recreational books have fallen, accord-ing to Bloomberg.

Publishers, of course, have their own reasons to why it has become eight times more expensive to print books since the ’70s. They argue that three to five years of work goes into the current volumes, and, in some cases, the pro-cess can take more than a decade.

In 2008, the National Associa-tion of Collegiate Stores released data that showed for every dollar spent on a textbook, 77.4 cents go straight to the publisher. Conveniently for them, this

data has not been released in the past six years.

At 77 cents on the dollar, the real investment students are making is to the companies that produce the text-books, not the actual writers, who make 11.7 cents for every dollar.

Does this sound like a bit of a racket? No. It sounds like the largest, unrecognized and unchallenged racket that currently exists.

That is, again, where the publish-ers come in. They claim that in this modern era – I remind the reader that we’re talking about books – teachers are opting for more expensive options like companion compact discs and in-ternet codes meant to supplement stu-dents’ reading with a technology-based component.

That’s correct. The reason we are paying exorbitant prices for our books is for those God-awful on-line subscriptions we get that are practically the bane of every math and science student’s existence. I once took a chemistry course and never will again because of two words: Mastering Chemistry.

But, at least from the perspective

of many faculty members, this is a price worth paying. After all, if you actually sat down and read that textbook, there’s probably a lot you could learn from it.

This is not Harvard, though. Our students do not come to the bayou to seek educational enlightenment nearly as much as they do to seek a 13-win football season.

Many of us would be happy to shun the technology and pick up cheap, black and white books to learn from.

Maybe in next year’s edition.

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

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“Ms. Reynen,My name is Trey Schwartzenburg, and I’m the Senator that is authoring the Student Government Resolution on the Tobacco Ban tomorrow night.First off, I would like to say that these are very valid points and points that I person-ally agree with.I just wanted to clarify one thing though: SG is not instigating the discussion on a tobacco ban. The option of a tobacco free campus is explicitly mentioned in Act No. 211 (the state law that is mandating a smoke-free policy linked here: http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=857224). Therefore the discus-sion of the possibilities of a tobacco ban, in addition to the state mandated smoking ban, was first brought up last semester by the LSU Smoke Free Campus Policy Committee which is the commit-tee responsible for actually writing the Policy Statement on this issue. This is a LSU campus committee, NOT a Student Government committee - though there is Student Government representation on this committee, myself being one of the members.Last semester, Student Government polled students to obtain some quantitative data reflecting student opinion on this issue. After receiving some negative feedback regarding a tobacco ban, we felt it appro-priate for SG to take an official stance on this topic. Therefore tomorrow night, the Student Senate will debate this topic and pass a resolution reflecting the official opinion of the Student Body. We would like to encourage all students to contact their Senator with their opinion on this topic before tomorrow night. A complete roster of Senators can be found at http://sg.lsu.edu/senate/roster.We would also encourage everyone to stay posted for the results of this debate on Thursday and the implementation of this policy over the coming semester.Anyone is also welcome to contact me personally on the topic - [email protected] you for your story.”

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Textbook prices have increased 812 percent since 1978 according to The Huffington Post.

At Tuesday’s announcement of a proposed $141.5 million increase in state higher education funding for the state’s upcoming fiscal year bud-get, Gov. Bobby Jindal spent much of his time lauding the state’s econ-omy and talking about what’s “best” for students.

His announcement follows years of cuts that have forced profes-sors to go without pay raises, tuition to increase, programs seen as non-essential to be merged or disappear completely and buildings to literally crumble on top of students as the University awaits funding.

So although the proposed in-crease for higher education funding can definitely be seen as a positive step, there’s still a long way to go.

Almost a third of the money will be available only to those rated by an algorithm as the most employable for today’s “workforce demands,” Jindal said, meaning that this money would only go toward majors that have the highest payoff in terms of state investment.

For the nearly 75 percent of University students not enrolled in a STEM — science, technology, engi-neering and mathematics — major, that’s a slap in the face.

And while this WISE — Work-force and Innovation for a Stronger Economy — plan sounds great in a news conference, it’s somewhat disappointing that it took a letter from the collective heads of higher

education on Thursday asking for Jindal’s support to get the governor to start thinking about investment in Louisiana students.

And while other leaders took their chance in the spotlight Tuesday to argue no one present was responsi-ble for the state’s economic climate, University President F. King Alexan-der summed up his sentiments about the dismal situation into which Loui-siana has allowed its higher educa-tion institutions to fall, calling this

move to place higher education in the spotlight “a first for us in Louisi-ana, apparently.”

He also made his intentions for progress clear, saying funding for higher education has a direct, impor-tant impact on the state’s economic and social future.

We need to hold Alexander to these ideals and the promises he made when he came to Louisiana. Now that Jindal has blinked, it is up to Alexander — with his highly

touted political connections — and the state’s other university leaders, to continue to stand up to the governor for higher education.

While Jindal’s speech made us wonder about the future of fund-ing and college educations that don’t directly affect a bottom line somewhere, Alexander and the other heads of higher education from around the state give us hope.

They realize the WISE plan is a step forward, but let’s just hope they

know it isn’t an acceptable endgame for anyone involved. As for Jindal, we’ll see if his newfound enthusiasm for higher education will continue on Friday when the full proposed state budget is released.

One room in the state Capitol was buzzing Tuesday and could’ve led to an old-fashioned stoning, and maybe it did for some. The Louisiana House Criminal Justice Committee held a public meeting to discuss a study requested by state Rep. Dalton Honore regard-ing the feasibility and effectiveness of legalizing marijuana possession and use. Pardon the pun, but with a large public turnout, tensions were high.

Medical professionals, law enforcement officers and Loui-siana residents from college-aged to much older filled up the seats. The public was able to give prepared testimonials; most of those cases were in support of legalization.

The request covered a range of factors like the health, safety and welfare of the citi-zens and the impact legaliza-tion would have on drug-free workplace policies.

“I don’t want to see Louisi-ana last. Put it [legalization] to the people to vote” Honore said, which

was followed by applause all over the room.

With the clapping and random shouts of opposition, state Rep. Jo-seph Lopinto urged those seated to “keep disturbances down.” How-ever, those in support continued with momentary celebrations or verbal accusations to their oppo-sition as the meeting progressed, much like a high school graduation ceremony.

It seemed no one could keep from championing their chosen side, and to join them, I’d like to add my thoughts.

Marijuana should be legal. Much like alcohol and cigarettes, there are some detrimental ef-fects, and if we could return to the Prohibition that would work for me.

However, that’s not possible. The next best thing is for us to le-galize a drug that’s less dangerous in some ways than those already available.

The medical field has found medicinal use of marijuana to treat and lighten symptoms of more than 100 ailments. A law was passed in 1991 that allowed Louisiana phar-macists to prescribe medical mari-juana, but the problem is that the prescription can’t be filled.

If more addictive and abuse-prone drugs like Adderall,

according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s classification sys-tem, can be prescribed and filled, why shouldn’t marijuana, ranked on the lowest level, be legal? It seems that outlandish fears of soar-ing crime rates and delinquency are still the logic behind it. How-ever, evidence involving the corre-lation of crime and sole marijuana use is significantly lacking solidity.

The rate of incarcerations due to marijuana possession in Loui-siana seems to be pretty solid and growing. In this state, it is quite possible for someone to receive a life sentence because of repeated arrests for marijuana possession. These cells should be used for those who commit violent acts, not some good people that like to unwind after work.

Some people prefer to grab a beer in the evening and watch sports, why can’t this be the same with marijuana? White collars, blue collars and even the all-natu-ral “no collars” know at least one person who has been in possession of marijuana.

It’s clear the practice is wide-spread on many platforms of American society.

Stephen Simpson, a pro- legalization attendee, said that there would be an increase in marijuana users at first if it was

legalized, but the numbers will go down in time.

“If nudity becomes legal, then everybody will get naked and run in the streets,” Simpson said. “Pretty soon though, not so many people will be naked once the new-ness of it wears off.”

It seems marijuana legaliza-tion has a good shot in Louisiana. Washington and Colorado, both states with legal marijuana, are at-tending the Super Bowl. Perhaps if Louisiana jumps on board, the

Saints might have a chance in the future. If anything, I hear Popeye’s chicken helps with the munchies.

Justin Stafford is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Walker, La.

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reported at the time. The Reveille also reported the University had to offset 2012 budget cuts with in-creases in tuition and fees.

Although the offi cial budget won’t be released until Friday and would still need to be approved by the state legislature, Jindal pro-vided some statistics on how the newly announced funding increase will be distributed. He said $6 mil-lion would be used to deal with the “equity issue” where some schools, because of their substantial growth, aren’t getting enough money.

Most of Jindal’s speech intro-duced and explained a new initia-tive called the Workforce and In-novation for a Stronger Economy (WISE) Plan to align higher educa-tion in Louisiana with workforce needs.

University President F. King Alexander said that the WISE Plan was the result of months of meet-ings with system leaders, the Loui-siana Workforce Commission , the Board of Regents and the Offi ce of Louisiana Economic Development .

Alexander said he and the rest of the plan collaborators had a “fl oor” for the WISE Plan consist-ing of two major concerns from the leaders of higher education in Loui-siana , who sent a letter to Jindal on Thursday propositioning the plan.

He said they wanted the trend of budget cuts to cease and to al-low state universities to keep tuition

revenue for reinvestment within the universities themselves. Previously, if a University received increased revenue from increasing tuition or an infl ux of students, the state took the extra money.

The WISE Plan allots $40 mil-lion to state research institutions that “produce nationally recognized commercial research” and “partner with private industry to produce graduates with high demand de-grees,” Jindal said.

Jindal said that these funds will be available to state institutions that get private companies to match 20 percent of the cost of programs in funds or the equivalent in research materials.

The rapid growth of Louisi-ana’s economy, especially in indus-trial sectors, has made apparent the lack of workers necessary for these skill-intensive jobs, Jindal said. He added that “Louisiana has become a victim of its own success” in that regard.

The integration of workforce demands with higher education has already begun, Jindal said. He cited the University’s commitment to tripling the amount of computer science degrees awarded over the next fi ve years because of IBM’s planned Services Center in down-town Baton Rouge .

Student Government President John Woodard said he’s pleased with the announcement, calling the funding increases “much needed.” Woodard said that he is happy to see “positive momentum” with the state’s relationship to the Univer-sity.

Stephen Moret , Secretary of the Offi ce of Louisiana Economic Development , said the collabora-tion that produced the WISE Plan was “refreshing” and he hopes that spirit of cooperation will continue throughout the rest of the legislative session and into the future.

year and will pass his duties on to Peterson.

Peterson was chosen for the position out of three fi nal candi-dates who visited the University in December , including Mark Farmer , who serves as the direc-tor of the University of Georgia’s Center for Advanced Ultrastruc-tural Research, and W. Brent Lindquist , who has served as as-sociate provost of Stony Brook University.

Peterson received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport , and has served as the director of the graduate program in genome science at the University of Tennessee .

Peterson was named a

Fellow of the American Asso-ciation of the Advancement of Science in 2009, and has done research in protein biochemistry, focusing on the family of pro-teins called sering protein inhibi-tors, a University news release reported.

“My goal is to continue with the strong tradition of re-search and academic excel-lence that is the signature of the college,” Peterson said in a release.

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looking for. “Some think you have to

have an aerospace engineer-ing degree to work in the in-dustry, but that is not the case,” Magnus said.

Several students were able to speak to Magnus about their un-dergraduate senior design proj-ects, often funded by LaSPACE and NASA , where she empha-sized the importance of com-munication and work between different disciplines.

One such project, also em-ploying electrical engineer-ing, examines bacteria’s abil-ity to survive in high altitude environments.

“We’re developing an air sampling tool for the biol-ogy department,” said mechani-cal engineering senior Nathan Bergquist .

Using a remote control de-vice, the group will be able to gather data related to high altitude temperature, humid-ity, pressure and fl ow rate said electrical engineering senior Matthew Loupe .

Bergquist said their proj-ect could potentially help scientists discover where life is sustainable in the universe.

“When you do student de-sign projects like this, you can show that you worked in groups with the practical side of engineering,” Magnus said.

Johnny Jones’ team, littered with both freshmen phenoms and seasoned veterans, has taken gut punches in the last month.

The punches began with a drub-bing to open Southeastern Confer-ence play against Tennessee in the PMAC, followed by a Marshall Henderson assault at Ole Miss that stole a road victory that at one point seemed assured for Jones’ Tigers.

But Tuesday when Missouri stormed out of the locker room after halftime on a 12-5 run to take a four point lead, Jones sensed calm.

He called for a timeout and in-structed his team to concentrate on low post touches instead of settling for 3-pointers as LSU did 17 times in the fi rst half.

The result was a bullish in-side display to the tune of a plus-fi ve margin on the glass and eight blocks, leading to a 77-71 victory for LSU in the PMAC.

“[Missouri] was really trying to clamp down inside,” Jones said. “I thought we did a much better job [in the second half] of being aggressive at the basket. … Guys were able to relax when they did catch it out on the perimeter.”

Senior guard Shavon Coleman poured in 19 points to pace a bal-anced LSU offense that had four

players score in double fi gures.Coleman, who has shuffl ed

around in the lineup and doesn’t have an explicit role on the fl oor, buried three corner 3-pointers in the fi rst half after glaring inconsisten-cies behind the arc plagued him in SEC play.

“Coach tells me to keep shoot-ing, don’t stop shooting just because I miss,” Coleman said. “Whatever my team needs from me, I’m go-ing to do. Whether it’s scoring, de-fending or rebounding, I’m a team player.”

Forwards Johnny O’Bryant III and Jordan Mickey combined for 30 points inside, while Mickey tied his career high with 13 rebounds — 10 of which came in the fi rst half.

LSU trailed only once in the fi rst 20 minutes after Missouri guard Jabari Brown knocked down one of his fi ve 3-pointers to give his team a 29-26 lead with 5:25 to go.

From there, Mickey scored six of the next 12 LSU points as it rattled off a 12-4 run to close the half and bring a 38-33 lead into the locker room.

When Missouri responded with the run to open the second half, O’Bryant said the huddle focused on tempo and rhythm.

“We just wanted to attack them,” O’Bryant said. “Hopefully get to the free throw line, get some and-one’s, just execute whatever

coach called.”With LSU up three at the 13:22

mark, the Tigers heeded the attack mantra. Mickey swatted away con-secutive shots from Missouri guards Jordan Clarkson and Tony Criswell in a frenzied exchange under the basket to the delight of the 8,411 fans in the building.

After LSU took a one point lead with 3:17 left thanks to two Mickey free throws, it was he and Coleman who effectively sealed the contest.

O’Bryant passed out of a dou-ble team to fi nd Mickey for an easy layup on LSU’s next possession.

Freshman guard Tim Quar-terman then poked the ball away from Criswell on the ensuing Mis-souri possession and Coleman drew the contact for a layup and a foul,

giving LSU a fi ve point lead with 1:18 to go.

Junior guard Anthony Hickey knocked down four free throws in the fi nal minute to thwart any come-back from Missouri.

Almost fi tting, it was a night when a noticeably more mature freshman meshed with a journeyman senior to ensure victory. Something Jones said has been brewing within Mickey and Coleman and through-out the team after the failures.

“I told them in the locker room that this is a great sign of our team really growing right before our eyes,” Jones said. “All they’ve got to do is keep grinding, playing hard and some great things can happened for us.”

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Jones senses growth in Tigers’ 77-71 triumphChandler RomeSports Writer


LSU senior forward Shavon Coleman (5) blocks a shot by Missouri’s Jonathan Williams (3) during LSU’s win against Missouri on Tuesday in the PMAC.

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LSU: Jordan Mickey — 14 pts, 13 reboundsMizzou: Jabari Brown — 28 pts

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