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Editor’s note: This story is the fi rst in a fi ve-part series profi ling each of the presidential and vice presidential Student Government tickets. The stories will run in alphabetical order based on the presidential candidate’s last name.

Student Government campaigns are usually dominated by tickets powered by current and former members of SG. But in the 2009 election season, at least one ticket is focusing on its role as an outsider to University politics.

Touting its ability to bridge the cul-tural divides of a diverse campus, the Unity 2009 campaign has claimed the platform of moving away from an SG run by SG.

The ticket is headed by SG presi-dential candidate Ari Krupkin , political science senior and SG vice presidential

candidate Melanie Oubre , mass commu-nication sophomore. Though both candi-dates have been involved in student or-ganizations and indirectly in SG, neither consider themselves a part of the Univer-sity establishment.

Campaigning under the banner of campus unity, the Krupkin/Oubre ticket has made its primary goal to consolidate different factions of campus life together under one organization.

“We feel like there are underrepresented

The spring reopening of the McDonald’s in the Student Union may help increase the University’s revenue from food sales, which has dropped more than 40 percent in the past few years.

Early calculations indicate the Union’s amount of commission from food sales will be about $264,000 for the current fi scal year, which ends June 30 — a number that has been steadily decreasing since the Union’s down-

stairs McDonald’s closed for renovations in early 2007. The 2008 amount was $340,000, down from $390,000 in 2007 and lower still than the 2006 amount of $446,000.

Chartwells — a facet of the $8.2 billion organization, Compass Group North Ameri-ca, responsible for providing the University’s food service — eagerly awaits the reopening of McDonald’s most of all.

Kristine Andrews, communications di-rector for Chartwells Higher Education Din-ing Services, said company policy prohibits the disclosure of fi nancial information.

Dave Besse, Union business manager, said McDonald’s sales comprise a huge chunk of food revenue.

“When McDonald’s is in full swing, their 2 percent [commission for the University] is probably as much as all the other percentages put together,” Besse said. “I think McDon-ald’s is about 25 percent generally of our rev-enue from Chartwells.”

Food revenue is down because of the construction, but Besse said they “anticipated

The College of Arts and Sci-ences will face two losses in the up-coming academic year: the loss of its dean of fi ve and a half years and the loss of the math department.

The College of Basic Sciences will absorb the math department at the end of the 2008-09 academic year, following a vote by the faculty of the department.

Kevin Carman, dean of the Col-lege of Basic Sciences, said math being bundled with sciences is not abnormal, and the two colleges will work together to ensure the change will be “revenue neutral” — the goal being for students not to notice any funding changes.

“We’ll be having discussions with the folks in budget and plan-ning in the next few weeks ... so that the integrity of the programs are preserved,” Carman said.

Administrators within Basic Sciences agreed with the math de-partment faculty that the transfer was a “good move” for the depart-ment, Carman said.

Math dept. to transfer to Basic SciencesBy Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

By Adam DuvernayStaff Writer

Unity ’09 focuses on organizations A FIVE-PART SERIES: STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Krupkin, Oubre come in as SG outsiders

ACADEMICS

UNITY, see page 6

ADAM DUVERNAY / The Daily Reveille

Student Government presidential candidate Ari Krupkin [left] and SG vice presidential candidate Melanie Oubre speak Monday night about their ticket, Unity ’09.

UNION, see page 8

MATH, see page 7

By Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

graphics by DELIA LUDU / The Daily Reveille

photo by GRANT GUTIERREZ / The Daily Reveille

LSU Student Union revenue down $126K since McDonald’s closure

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WORLD NEWS

TSUKUBA, Ja-pan (AP) — A new walking, talking ro-bot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn’t cleared safety standards required to share the cat-walk with human models. Developers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, a government-backed organization, said their “cybernetic human,” shown Monday, wasn’t ready to help with daily chores or work side by side with people — as many hope robots will be able to do in the future.

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Suicide attack near Pakistani capital kills nine, wounds 18ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew up at a busy bus terminal near the Pakistani capital Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding 18 more, offi cials said. The blast came as Pakistan’s leaders sought to end a political crisis that has raised doubts about their focus on fi ghting Islamist militants blamed for a string of similar bombings in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan. TV images from the city of Rawalpindi showed rescue workers helping the wounded to ambulances while gloved investigators picked debris from a darkened street.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFSObama blisters AIG, vows to try to block bonusesWASHINGTON (AP) — Joining a wave of public anger, President Barack Obama blistered insurance giant AIG for “recklessness and greed” Monday and pledged to try to block it from handing its executives $165 million in bonuses after taking billions in federal bailout money. “How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afl oat?” Obama asked. “This isn’t just a matter of dollars and cents. It’s about our fun-damental values.” Obama aggressively joined other of-fi cials in criticizing American International Group, the company that is fast becoming the poster boy for Ameri-cans’ bailout blues. The bonuses could contribute to a backlash against Washington that would make it tougher for Obama to ask Congress for more bailout help.

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Hearings on same-sex marriage bill begin

Jindal tells White House La. will use stimulus

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Nine years after it played host to a bitter fi ght over civil unions, Vermont’s State-house is again a gay rights battleground. More than 200 same-sex marriage opponents, cheering and wear-ing buttons that read “Marriage — A Mother & Father for Every Child,” converged Monday on Montpelier as lawmakers began a week’s worth of hearings on a bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. If approved, Vermont would join Massachusetts and Con-necticut as the only U.S. states that allow gay marriage.

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has sent formal notifi cation to the White House that Louisiana will tap into at least part of its share of the federal stimulus package. Jindal sent a letter to President Barack Obama certifying Louisiana will accept stimulus dollars and “use them to promote economic growth and create jobs in a fi scally responsible manner.” Jindal’s letter includes a caveat, saying his ad-ministration continues to look at the rules for each pot of money to determine what the state will use. Louisiana is estimated to be eligible for more than $3.5 billion.

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In response to Gov. Bobby Jin-dal’s proposed $219 million budget cut to higher education, members from the student-led campaign “Save Our Schools” spoke out Monday against the governor’s de-cision.

S.O.S. members spoke to students and local media outlets packed inside a conference room in the Student Union about the detri-mental effects the budget cuts will have on the University.

“We call on our governor and legislators to find alternatives to this budget crisis without sacrific-ing higher education,” said Whit-ney Breaux, speaker for S.O.S. and mass communication senior. “Our future and Louisiana’s future is dependent on a fully-funded, func-tional and adequate college educa-tion system.”

Breaux said in the past the governor was a strong advocate for higher education and spoke about the importance of expanding

higher education in Louisiana. “The heart, soul and essence

of higher education is not in a bunch of bricks,” said Parker Wi-shik, speaker for S.O.S. and mass communication senior. “It’s the students and the educators.”

Wishik compared the Univer-sity and budget cuts to a person functioning without a limb.

The group offered a few alter-natives to Jindal but mainly left the challenge open for him to deter-mine the correct route for cutting the University’s budget.

“We’re not here today to say Governor Jindal do this or that,” said Kate Cazayoux, S.O.S. speak-er and mass communication se-nior. “We’re here to say ... do your job.”

The community must not al-low the University’s progress to be reversed by the budget cuts, Cazayoux said. An investment in higher education is an excellent economic stimulus, she said.

The group suggested the gov-ernor could dip into the rainy day fund or encourage cutting wasteful

spending at the University. S.O.S. members are willing to

sit down and meet with any mem-bers of the Legislature to discuss alternatives, Breaux said. But the group of students feels other op-tions are not being explored at the state level, she said.

At the forum, Student Govern-ment President Colorado Robertson said SG supports students stepping up and challenging the cuts.

S.O.S. has 121 members in its Facebook group, and the group created a blog for members to ex-press ideas and solutions for the budget cuts.

Wishik said the group has not yet spoken with the legislators, but the group’s Web site has a link for members to write letters to legisla-tors.

“We’ll continue until the situ-ation is resolved,” Wishik said. “It’s not just an issue that will go away.”

Ongoing construction on the Student Union isn’t only an in-convenience for students. As the job drags on, workers are battling another problem: the building’s increasing rat troubles.

Openings in the building pro-vide new entrances for rats into the Union, forcing the staff to in-crease pest control to neutralize the problem.

Shirley Plakidas, Union di-rector, said the presence of rats is amplified because of construc-tion, but it is not a new issue.

“We have to put the problem into perspective,” Plakidas said. “It’s a problem all over campus, but the Union is especially vul-nerable because of construction.”

Plakidas said this trouble is inevitable because Louisiana is home to many pests.

Kim Gardiner, assistant di-rector of Facility Services, said there have been pest issues in the academic buildings he works with.

“We do get isolated incidents of reports of rats and mice every now and then, but we usually put out sticky traps, and that solves the problem,” Gardiner said.

To combat the in-creased activity in the Union,

housekeeping staff and an exter-minator are working together to get rid of the rats.

Plakidas said the extermina-tor visits the Union at least once weekly and responds quickly to arising problems.

“Our housekeeping staff [puts out traps] as well,” Plakidas said. “We don’t only rely on the exterminator.”

Rat traps are placed in parts of the building where problems are identified, Plakidas said. Traps are kept out of sight to avoid people seeing the “unappe-tizing” devices.

The Union’s southeast corner is heavily monitored. The con-centration of construction there makes it a high traffic area for rats.

“Sometimes we have as many as 200 contract workers doing construction who don’t dispose their lunch sacks in the way we would hope,” Plakidas said.

Plakidas said the rats have never compromised health stan-dards in the Union.

“We undergo regular health inspections,” she said. “We’ve never been shut down and have had no violations of health ordi-nances.”

The rats are generally found behind walls and at entrances to the building, and none have been

caught in food-related areas, Plakidas said.

“I’m not aware of [rats] in food areas, serving areas or cus-tomer seating areas,” Plakidas said.

David Heidke, LSU Dining director, said the food staff has continued the regular routine, which is enough to keep food safe.

“We continued our standard practices, storing everything properly in a cooler, freezer or in a closed container in a cabinet,” Heidke said.

Measures other than traps and exterminators are being tak-en to control the intruders.

“We keep our potted plants in the building treated for any kind of pests,” Plakidas said.

Heidke mentioned special care being given to high-risk ar-eas, such as loading docks.

“We are making sure [load-ing dock doors] are closed, and not remaining open for later de-liveries,” Heidke said.

Students can do their parts as well to keep rats away. Plakidas said proper disposal of all food is important when dealing with pest issues.

Heidke said other on-campus dining locations are also safe from rats and other pests.

“We are not seeing any

activity at Highland Dining Hall or the 459 Commons,” Heidke said. “That’s a real positive.”

As for the rats in the Union, Plakidas said they will continue to be controlled but will probably never be eliminated.

“It will never be completely solved — not in this building and not in any other on campus.”

ECONOMY

Student-led campaign speaks out against budget cutsBy Joy LukachickStaff Writer

Contact Joy Lukachick at [email protected]

SHELBY SANDLIN/ The Daily Reveille

Whitney Breaux speaks at the “Save Our Schools” press conference Monday afternoon in the Student Union. S.O.S. is a student-led campaign that is protesting Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed $219 million budget cut to higher education.

STUDENT UNION

Construction increases rat population in buildingBy Ryan BuxtonContributing Writer

Contact Ryan Buxton at [email protected]

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MONTAGUE, Texas (AP) — For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was “Ani-mal House“ meets Mayberry.

Inside the small brick build-ing across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girl-friends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities.

They also disabled some of the surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails.

The doors to two groups of cells didn‘t lock, but ap-parently no one tried to es-cape perhaps because they had everything they needed inside.

The jail-house esca-pades — some of which date to 2006, ac-cording to authorities — have rocked Montague, a farm-ing and ranching town of several hundred people near the Okla-homa line, about 65 miles north-west of Fort Worth.

There were whispers in the past year about an affair between a female jailer and male inmate, but folks dismissed the rumors as small-town gossip.

It was not until late last month, when a Texas grand jury returned a 106-count indictment against the former sheriff and 16 others, that the inmates-gone-wild scandal broke wide open.

The indictment charged Bill Keating, sheriff from 2004 until December, with official oppres-sion and having sex with female inmates.

The others indicted include nine guards — seven women and two men — who were charged with various offenses involv-ing sex or drugs and other con-traband. Four inmates were also charged.

Local, state and federal au-thorities are still trying to figure out how this small-town Texas jail was turned into something resembling a frat house.

The new sheriff, Paul Cun-ningham, said he was stunned while touring the jail for the first time just hours after being sworn into office Jan. 1. He saw parti-tions made of paper towels that blocked jailers‘ view into cells, and pills scattered about.

Cunningham, who had not worked for the county before his election in November, immedi-ately ordered the jail closed and moved the nearly 60 inmates to another institution.

“It literally scared me — not for myself but for the employees,“ Cunningham said. “How somebody kept from be-ing killed was beyond me.“

Cunningham, who defeated Keating in the Republican pri-mary last spring, suggested that Keating lost interest in the jail after that and turned his back on the place.

Separately from the indict-ment, Keating, 62, faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to charges he coerced a woman into having sex with him by threaten-ing to jail her on drug charges.

Keating‘s attorney, Mark Daniel, called the latest charges against the former sheriff “kind of silly in the face of the federal

investigation, like piling on.” He de-clined further com-ment.

The investiga-tion began with a tip last fall from inside the jail.

An official re-ceived a handwrit-ten letter on note-book paper from an inmate arrested on charges of kidnap-ping his girlfriend. The inmate, Luke C. Bolton, said they met in 2007 when

she was a jail guard and he was behind bars on another charge. He said their sexual relationship started in a jail shower and con-tinued during her late-night visits to his cell.

“I‘m just reaching out for help to show (the jailer) is a per-son who abused her power. She broke the law by having sex with me in cell while I was an inmate. ... Please help me. I am telling the

truth. Everybody knows I am,“ Bolton wrote, offering to take a polygraph.

The former jailer is among those indicted. Bolton remains in jail.

Current employees said they were shocked by the scandal.

“People say, ‘How could you not know?‘ Well, it didn‘t go on during our shift,” said Jerrie Reed, who works the day shift.

Reed said the then-sheriff sometimes asked to see female inmates privately in his office, but she assumed they were infor-mants. She said none ever seemed upset as she led them shackled to and from Keating‘s office.

Cunningham said it appears that most of the illegal activi-ties occurred in a certain section

of the 100-bed, one-story jail, which has several long corridors that make it difficult for anyone to hear what is going on beyond their immediate areas.

The jail will reopen this week following about $1 million in repairs, needed after years of damage by inmates, Cunningham said. Also, the entire department is getting new uniforms, badges and vehicles.

“I just think this office needs to change the image complete-ly,“ the new sheriff said. “I think we‘re well on our way to getting the public‘s confidence back.“

With budget cuts looming, the University is looking to save money by becoming more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

The University is sponsoring the UNPLUG challenge in residential halls throughout March in an effort to become more sustainable. The first week of the challenge, which is based on reduction in energy usage, saw an overall decline in energy consump-tion compared to March 2008, said Denise Scribner, manager of campus sustainability.

During the first week, Herget Hall saw the greatest decline in en-ergy consumption, using 17 percent less energy than the first week of March 2008. McVoy and Blake Halls followed with a 12 percent decrease. Miller Hall followed with a 10 per-cent decrease. West Campus Apart-ments also registered a decrease of 7 percent.

These results will be posted on the Department of Residential Life Web site along with results from other residential halls, which were unavailable by press time.

Eric Monday, interim vice chan-cellor of Student Life, called the re-sults a double-win for the University.

“It shows our students are taking an interest in the environment and taking an interest in trying to reduce the consumption of energy,” Mon-day said. “Secondly, there is a cash savings. A savings in the amount of money the institution is spending on energy. This is going to lead on to less pressures on rent when we talk about residential life. It’s also going reduce the operating cost of the energy.”

Scribner echoed the financial im-portance of becoming more sustain-able, saying if the University reduces the total energy consumption of the campus by 5 percent, it will save $1 million dollars in energy costs.

Jordan Bantuelle, co-president of the ECO student organization, said because of budget cuts, the UNPLUG competition should be important to every student at the University.

“Even for people who don’t care about environmental issues, budget cuts are going on all over the place and saving energy saves money too,” Bantuelle said.

The competition is trying to in-crease awareness about energy usage on campus and asks students to do small things like take shorter show-ers, use less lights and unplug their phone and computer chargers.

Those who are interested in pledging to the competition can visit the ResLife Web site for more infor-mation and weekly breakdowns on the competition.

ENVIRONMENT

Campus energy use declines in contestBy Xerxes A. WilsonContributing Writer

Contact Xerxes A. Wilson [email protected]

CRIME

Authorities say Texas jail was Animal House

By The Associated Press

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]

‘‘‘It literally scared me — not for myself, but for the employees.

How somebody kept from being killed was beyond me.’

Paul CunninghamMontague County sheriff

Escapades include sex and drugs


The names Jelly Belly, Blue Ribbon Gourmet Cookie Dough and Keebler bring the phrase “scrumptious culinary confec-tions” to mind.

But these products have an-other slightly less appetizing characteristic in common — they are recent victims of what many health experts are calling the big-gest food recall in history, cour-tesy of salmonella typhimurium.

The most recent salmonella outbreak began with the detec-tion of small salmonella cluster patterns in peanut butter and re-ported illnesses as early as Sep-tember 2008, according to the Center for Disease Con-trol.

The cul-prit and origin of the surge, Peanut Corpo-ration of Amer-ica, closed its plants in Texas and Geor-gia, where the outbreak was traced, and has since gone bankrupt.

“To date, more than 2,100 products in 17 categories have been voluntarily recalled by more than 200 companies, and the list continues to grow,” said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a statement.

Since the outbreak first ap-peared more than six months ago, a reported 683 people have ingested and become ill from the bacteria. Of those affected, 23 percent — or 157 people — have needed hospitalization, according

to the CDC.While only nine deaths have

resulted from the surge, the FDA indicates the number of people af-fected is still rising.

“The effects of salmonella can be severe,” said Elizabeth Reames, professor and extension specialist at the LSU School of Human Ecology. “But it is worst for the elderly or very young or immune-compromised people.”

The age of people affected ranges from 1 to 98, with the average age being 16, indicat-ing half of the victims are young adults and children, according to CDC.

The salmonella outbreak has managed to reach 46 states, and Louisiana isn’t one of them.

Although there are no solid reasons why Louisiana has managed to escape this surge, Reames said one explanation could be the haste with which Louisi-ana grocers removed recalled items from their shelves, or per-haps that the King Nut products did not reach the state until after knowledge of the outbreak.

While knowl-edge about Louisiana’s outbreak avoidance is obscure, national health officials are working dili-gently to find answers concerning the national problem.

The shortage of food inspec-tors is one answer, according to The Associated Press.

The AP reported state bud-get issues have led to a deficit of inspectors in larger facilities. With just as many facilities and less people to verify their sanita-tion, it’s no wonder such a huge

outbreak has evolved.“There is a shortage be-

cause they’re very overworked,” Reames said. “[King Nut’s] Geor-gia factory ... had been inspected and minor citations were issued, but this problem could have de-veloped between the inspections — it’s just impossible to catch everything.”

This shortage of inspectors is occurring in Louisiana as well, because of the immense workload and little resources, Reames said. However, the problem is beyond merely assigning workers to fill the positions because of the coun-try’s “tricky and difficult” eco-nomic situation.

But regardless of where food problems start, the key in avoid-ing food-born illnesses lies with the food’s destination, Reames said.

“Salmonella usually devel-ops from consumers not taking care of food properly,” Reames said. “Safety at home is the most important thing. Refrigerate food properly, cook food properly and make sure you don’t cross-con-taminate.”

As for peanut butter, Univer-sity students shouldn’t consider adding it to their list of Lenten sacrifices just yet.

“Students don’t have to avoid peanut butter,” Reames said. “If [students] have old peanut butter products like crackers and cookies on [their] shelves ... they should check the recall listings and make sure they get rid of those. But the jarred peanut butter is safe ... [and] the grocers have pulled all of the contaminated recalled products from their shelves. I don’t think there’s any major concern any-more.”

HEALTH

Salmonella surge on the riseBy Natalie RoyContributing Writer

Contact Natalie Roy at [email protected]

‘‘‘To date, more than 2,100 products in 17 categories have

been voluntarily recalled by more than 200 compa-nies, and the list

continues to grow.’U.S. Food and Drug

Administration

Temperature kills more peo-ple in the U.S. each year than all other natural events combined, according to a National Center for Health Statistics report.

Their findings showed tem-perature-related deaths make up 75 percent of all natural-event deaths in the U.S.

Their definition of natural-event deaths includes fatalities from acts of nature such as storms, earthquakes, lightning, tempera-ture or any other naturally occur-ring environmental disturbance.

Translating their statistics shows temperature-related deaths occurring just under six times as

often as deaths because of any type of storm, including hurri-canes and tornados.

The Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report con-firmed these findings, stating 274 heat-related deaths occur each year in the U.S.

But Jay Grymes, WAFB’s chief meteorologist, said Louisi-ana has a surprisingly low heat-related death statistic compared to

states farther north.“We’re better accustomed to

handling the heat,” Grymes said. “In Northern cities, you tend to see greater fatalities during heat waves because they’re not adapt-ed to the temperatures.”

Louisiana residents do not need to fear high, heat-wave tem-peratures during the day, Grymes said. Their main risks are pro-longed nights when temperatures don’t drop below 80 degrees Fahr-

enheit.“The current economic situ-

ation makes it very dangerous,” Grymes said. “There are probably going to be more people that put themselves under greater stress because they either don’t have ac-cess to or can’t afford air condi-tioning.”

Extreme heat also causes heat illnesses such as heat stress


groups on campus,” Krupkin said. “We cannot govern as students with only one voice. We need multiple voices which represent the entire community on a united front.”

The Unity ‘09 ticket has drawn a wide variety of supporters from the campus community, including members of both the College Re-publicans and College Democrats.

College Republicans President Chuck Fontenot and the executive board of the College Democrats have both officially endorsed the Unity ‘09 ticket.

PROGRAMSWhen developing programs

for their potential administra-tion, Krupkin and Oubre said they would focus on issues that would consolidate and streamline campus involvement.

To unify student organizations, Oubre said her ticket would create a Student Organization Committee, which would be an extension of SG vice president Shannon Bates’ Orgs2Geaux program.

“There are a lot of fresh ideas out there, and we really just have to take the time to listen to them all,” said Brian Holden, who is running for president of the Engineering College Council under the Unity ‘09 ticket.

Brian Holden is the son of East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden. Though Kip Holden spoke at one of the ticket’s organizational meetings, he did not officially endorse any candidate.

The committee, which would consist of about 20 students from different student organizations, would aid organizations with ad-vertising and event planning. The committee would also help stu-

dent organizations find the funding available to them through SG.

“By having a cross sectioning of people from all areas of campus, the committee shows these people can work together to elevate the image of campus,” Oubre said.

Krupkin also said he would work with Information Technology Services to make student counsel-ors available online to cut down on hours of waiting and angry stu-dents.

The Unity ‘09 ticket also plans to change the makeup of student orientations to include an activity fair, which would help incoming freshmen quickly discover how they can get involved on campus and with SG.

As part of their proposed class registration reforms, Krupkin and Oubre want to make teacher evalu-ations public, so students can re-view them before enrolling in a

class. Though Krupkin admitted they may only be able to use “lim-ited evaluations,” he said opening the evaluations would help stu-dents choose which classes best fit their learning style.

BUDGET CUTS AND FINANCEWith budget cuts looming

over whichever ticket is elected to office, potential SG officers have had to put their plans into a tight economic perspective.

“We’ll probably stay where we are, but with budget cuts, we’ll probably not be able to do every-thing we want to do,” Holden said.

Though they said they have not had a sufficient chance to study exactly what the proposed $45.1 million budget cuts facing the Uni-versity might do to their potential administration, Krupkin and Oubre said they would cut burdensome

SG programs and reincorporate them into more streamlined sys-tems.

Krupkin said he would cut the Organization Relief Funding pro-gram, which allocates revenue to student organizations, and leave its processes to the Student Organiza-tion Committee.

While SG has recently started a program which will allow stu-dents to vote on how best to spend $5,000 of their student fees, Ou-bre said she would rather see that money removed from fee bills if SG doesn’t have a plan for it.

“If there are fees we can cut, we’d love to,” said Krupkin. “But I’m not sure that will happen in light of the economic situation.”

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“It’s common for colleges of science in major research universi-ties,” Carman said. “I’m very con-fident that we’ll have a positive outcome. Math is an outstanding program.”

In a broadcast e-mail from Guillermo Ferreyra to the Arts and Sciences faculty, Ferreyra said he will be stepping down from his position as dean to work as a math professor sometime during the sum-mer.

Ferreyra declined to comment to The Daily Reveille about the rea-son for the switch.

“After five and a half years of serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, I will be return-ing to my position of mathematics to carry out research, teaching, ser-vice and outreach,” Ferreyra said in the e-mail. “I thank the faculty, the staff and the students of the College for allowing me to lead the College and for contributing to excellence with everything they have done.”

Stacia Haynie, vice provost for Academic Affairs, said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille in the search for a new dean, an interim dean is typically appointed while a national search is conducted.

While the actual grouping of

math departments varies at uni-versities throughout the country, Haynie said it’s not unusual for the math department to be grouped with departments such as chemistry, bi-ology and physics.

“Organizational structure should be driven by what works most ef-ficiently and effectively for a par-ticular university,” Haynie said. “It should not be set in stone and should be assessed and altered as necessary.”

and heat stroke, according to the CDC.

University students need to be aware of heat illness because they are at risk from prolonged sun ex-posure, Grymes said.

“Standing in direct sunlight can add 10 to 15 degrees of tem-perature stress above the ther-mometer reading to your body,” Grymes said.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration warns

that heat stress symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue and cramps of-ten occur suddenly.

OSHA recommends moving anyone suffering from heat stress to a cool area and removing all of that person’s outer clothes.

Alcohol also increases the chance of heat stress because it contributes to dehydration, Grymes said.

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it, and [they] have adequate funds to be able to cover it.”

Ken Bueche, Union associate director, said the Live Oak Lounge — the portion of the Union that will feature both McDonald’s and Ein-stein Bagel — should be open by the end of the spring semester.

The construction of the Lounge has experienced numerous setbacks, including delays from Hurricane Gustav, fire code laws and the effort to work around the existing Union structure.

“Sometimes utilities weren’t routed in actuality like the ones in the drawings we had,” Bueche said. “It was designed around the draw-ings.”

But the interior renovation ef-forts — which Bueche said are nearly finished — haven’t moved at the same rate because the size of the building requires three fire exits. Original plans for the renova-tion featured two exterior exits and an exit through the stairwell in the Union.

“There’s a fire door that sepa-rates the Live Oak Lounge,” Bueche said. “If the alarm went off, the door would automatically close. You can’t count it as a third exit even though it’s there.”

Architects for the Lounge, which will feature video screens, large-projection televisions and high-end finishes, designed it to function for 24 hours if the need should arise. Bueche said all-night operations will depend on demand.

“If students really want it 24 hours, and they’re using it 24 hours, then it’s designed to be open,” Bueche said.

The overall budget for Union renovations, which was originally planned as a six-phase renovation, started at $46 million.

LSU Dining made more than $13 million in sales during the last reporting period, the fiscal year that ran from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008.

The University receives 2 per-cent commission on branded food — food found at places like Chick-fil-A, Pizza Hut and Blimpie — and 12.5 percent for non-branded food sales made in Tiger Lair, the Mag-nolia Room and from catering. The contract gives the University be-tween $0.2 and $0.12 for every dol-lar spent.

The remaining portion of sales — between 87.5 percent and 98 per-cent — goes to Chartwells.

Chartwells uses that portion to pay for operations — food, utili-ties, gas and employee salaries. The University announced in July 2005 that Chartwells also invested $15.3 million in University dining, said University Auxiliary Services Di-rector Jason Tolliver. A portion of the $15.3 million, along with Uni-versity Auxiliary Service’s share of the commission, went to renovating the Laville Food Emporium into 459 Commons and renovations of the Pentagon Dining Unit, Tolliver said.

“[That] $15.3 million is one of the largest investments that Chartwells has ever made,” Tolliver said.

Meanwhile, the contract man-dates the University is responsible for everything surrounding the ac-tual leased premises. The portion of the money that does not pay for din-ing operations goes to the reserve —

money set aside to pay for repairs, renovations or in the event that Uni-versity dining should have to oper-ate free from the Chartwells contract that has been effective since 1997.

Of the commission percentage the University receives, 10 percent goes to University Auxiliary Ser-vices while the remaining 90 percent goes to the Union.

Dining Services also works to keep the prices competitive with off-campus eateries whenever possible, said David Heidke, Chartwells resi-dent district manager and LSU Din-ing director. For instance, Heidke said the combo option at Blimpie is the best combo Blimpie option in town.

“That’s what our staff has done a good job with every year is trying as much as possible to offset price increases,” Heidke said. “We can’t just pass everything onto the stu-dents.”

But while prices at some of the Union’s eateries are flexible, Heidke said prices at Chick-fil-A locations throughout the country are required to be the same.

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Students gather March 9 in the Student Union to get a drink. The Union has lost profit since McDonald’s closed in early 2007.

The selections are in, and LSU is back in familiar territory.

The Lady Tigers (18-10) are the No. 6 seed in the Raleigh Regional of the 2009 NCAA tournament and will face No. 11 Green Bay (29-3) at 6 p.m. Sunday in the PMAC.

LSU is in the NCAA tourna-ment for the 11th straight season and 19th overall season since the tour-naent’s founding in 1982.

Coach Van Chancellor said al-though these Lady Tigers lack the experience of past LSU teams who advanced to five straight Final Four appearances, he sees something spe-cial in this group.

“I don’t know if LSU has ever had a team that has accomplished any more than we have,” Chancellor

said. “When we were 2-2 [in South-eastern Conference play] and let Mississippi State beat us out here, I never dreamed we would be here to-night. Our team has been down. It’s young, and it had a shot to cave in. This team has done a great job to be seeded sixth in any region.”

Chancellor said Green Bay, the Horizon League champions, will be a difficult opponent for LSU.

“They’re a team that plays hard and will not beat them-selves,” Chancellor said. “It will be a great challenge for us because it will be different from any team we’ve played all year. They are well disci-plined, and they are not going to turn the ball over. This is a real challenge in my mind.”

LSU junior guard Allison High-tower said the team is simply happy to be back in the tournament.

“Just coming from where we came from, a No. 6 seed is re-ally good,” Hightower said. “We’ve come a long way, grown and ma-tured and kept fighting.”

LSU has won nine of its last 12 games, including a six-game win-ning streak against conference op-ponents. Two of those wins were at

home against Flor-ida and Tennessee, two other NCAA tournament teams.

C h a n c e l l o r said playing on their home court is defi-nitely an advantage for the young Lady

Tigers in their first-round game.“There’s no doubt playing at

home helps you,” he said. “The fans come here, you sleep in your own beds, you play on our own court and you practice on your own court. It doesn’t win games, but it gives you

LSU’s best pro football pros-pects enjoyed working out in the comforts of their own practice facil-ity on Monday at LSU’s annual Pro Day, just two weeks after competing against the best players in the coun-try at the NFL Scouting Combine.

“I think things went pretty good today for everyone,” said former de-fensive end Tyson Jackson. “Being back on your home turf, I think ev-eryone was more comfortable than they were at the combine.”

Jackson is the player projected

by many to be the first LSU player taken in the draft.

The Ed-gard native par-ticipated in only the bench press after perform-ing a full work-out at the NFL combine.

J a c k s o n is projected by most to be a mid-to-late first-round pick.

“I’ll be very pleased wherever I’ll be taken,” Jackson said. “I just got to thank God for the opportunity that I have.”

Scouts said former offensive

guard Herman Johnson and former defensive lineman Kirston Pittman are two players who improved their stock with their performances Mon-day.

Pittman ran a 4.68-second 40-yard dash and outperformed his former defensive line teammates Ricky Jean-Francois and Tremaine Johnson in the bench press and the shuttle run.

Pittman took part in defensive line and linebacker drills to show scouts his versatility as a defensive end in a 4-3 scheme or an outside linebacker in a 3-4.

Johnson also performed well and weighed in at 356 pounds, down 43 pounds from what he weighed Jan. 24 at the Senior Bowl.

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The LSU women’s basketball team and supporters cheer Monday evening as ESPN announces the Lady Tigers as a No. 6 seed in the Raleigh, N.C., bracket of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.

A Run for Their money


[Left to Right] Former LSU defensive end Tyson Jackson, wide receiver Demetrius Byrd and defensive tackle Ricky Jean-Fran-cois perform drills Monday to show off their abilities and versatility for scouts on Pro Day.


Former LSU defensive linemen Kirston Pittman runs a 4.68-second 40-yard dash Monday at the LSU indoor practice field.

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The 2008 LSU football team seemed like a drastically different team than the 2007 national cham-pionship squad, but little changed within the receiving corps.

The 2008 Tigers entered the

season after losing only one start-ing wide receiver, Early Doucet. The 2009 Tigers will follow a similar pattern after losing senior Demetrius Byrd, but they hope to see different results.

“We don’t want to end on a year like last year,” said senior tight end Richard Dickson. “We want to come out here and prove we can be the best team in the country.”

The 2008 receivers lacked

the production of the national championship team, catching 50 fewer passes for 537 fewer yards and eight fewer touchdowns.

The 2009 corps is full of vet-eran receivers who have made an impact in years past.

Senior wide receiver Bran-don LaFell almost decided to for-go his senior season to enter the NFL draft, but chose to remain a Tiger in the end.

“He’s basically like our gen-eral of the receivers,” said senior wide receiver Chris Mitchell. “When things aren’t going right, we turn to him. We look at him to make us better.”

LaFell led the Tigers last sea-son in most receiving categories. The 2008 First-Team All-SEC re-ceiver led the team in number of catches (63), total yards receiv-ing (929), yards per catch (14.7), touchdowns (8) and average yards per game (71.5).

“It’s a team thing. If he comes back to help the team, I’m in for it,” said redshirt freshman receiver Tim Molton. “Him com-ing back is not going to do noth-ing but teach me more things, so whenever he does leave, I’ll be a better person.”

Alongside LaFell will be ju-nior wide receiver Terrance To-liver, who hopes his two years of experience can propel him into a larger role in the offense.

“I just know it’s my time to step up and make some plays,” Toliver said. “All I want to do is get better and help my team win.”

Mitchell, Molton and redshirt freshman Chris Tolliver join La-Fell and Toliver at wide receiver.

Molton, who redshirted in 2008, has impressed his fellow receivers with his progressive tal-ent and ability.

“Molton has come along well,” Toliver said. “He’s catch-ing a lot of balls out here. He’s learning.”

Coach Les Miles said Molton runs great routes and has excellent

ball skills and he expects Molton to make an impact soon.

Molton said he’s glad his ef-forts haven’t gone unnoticed by his coaches and teammates.

“It feels real good to see that another player higher than you sees a lot of potential in you. Sees you doing the right things, fol-lowing the right steps,” Molton said.

Dickson should help as a re-ceiving threat at the tight end po-sition after catching more than 30 passes and tying an LSU record

for touchdown receptions by a tight end with fi ve touchdown receptions in each of the last two seasons.

Miles said rising sophomore receiver Deangelo Peterson might also play some at tight end.

“We want to see if he can go up there and be a playmaker as a receiver and a blocker,” Miles said. “He’s gained a little bit of weight, but he’s pointing in the right direction.”

Seniors Jared Mitchell and Trindon Holliday are not at spring practice with the team because of previous obligations to track and fi eld and baseball, respective-ly. The Tigers’ receiving corps should also get a boost when Rueben Randle, Rivals.com’s No. 1 receiver in the 2009 recruiting class, joins the team.

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Senior wide receiver Chris Mitchell runs routes Friday afternoon during spring prac-tice at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility.

LaFell expected to lead receiversBy Jarred LeBlancSports Contributor

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Veterans hope to help young receivers bloom in spring

‘‘‘We want to come out here and prove we can be the best

team in the country.’

Richard Dicksonsenior tight end

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FOOTBALL

New coaching staff bringing intensity to secondary

The LSU football team’s sec-ondary returns all but free safety Curtis Taylor from last year’s 8-5 team, and this year’s group hopes to return LSU’s defense to cham-pionship form with the help of a

new defensive coaching staff.Junior free safety Chad Jones

said new defensive coordinator John Chavis and defensive backs coach Ron Cooper have brought more intensity to the practice fi eld.

“There’s defi nitely a differ-ent intensity level,” Jones said. “Players don’t really know the coaches well or feel how the coaches think yet. It’s a great feeling out there. It’s time to play

ball.”Sophomore cornerback Pat-

rick Peterson said everyone is try-ing to impress the new coaches.

“It’s going to be a tight com-petition between all of us,” Peter-son said. “Every-body’s going to get a chance to go in there and show the coaches what they got. The transition’s pret-ty smooth right now.”

The Tigers return starting corners from last year’s defense in senior Chris Hawkins and sophomore Patrick Peterson, who became starter midway through last season. Ju-nior Jai Eugene, sophomore Ron Brooks and sophomore Brandon Taylor will provide depth.

“All of us are coming back for our second year together,” Peterson said. “The way we went into practicing, we are go-ing to be more aggressive, more of an in-your-face, smash-mouth defense.”

The Tigers also return a group of experienced safeties to help the cornerbacks. Jones and senior Danny McCray both re-turn at free safety. Jones moved to free safety during last season’s Chick-fi l-A Bowl. Senior Harry Coleman could likely come in as starting strong safety while soph-omore Karnell Hatcher will back him up.

“The scheme is a little different,” Jones said. “We’re jumping routes much quicker, more aggressive. I like fast-paced defenses, ripping and running around, everybody fl ying to the ball. That’s my type of play.”

While LSU coach Les Miles said Jones would likely remain at

free safety, he didn’t rule out the possibility of other players mov-ing down to linebacker.

“Chad Jones played a lot of free safety and looked pretty

strong to me,” Miles said. “He’ll play a lot of foot-ball for us. Danny McCray and Har-ry Coleman are both pretty strong physical guys. They’ll defi nitely be on the fi eld.”

Jones agreed he’s better suited for free safety.

“I feel [free safety] is my natural position,” Jones said. “Safeties get to roam around and take control of the whole fi eld. Last year at nickel and dime, I was thinking of so

many different things at one time, but now I can focus.”

Jones said his position isn’t the only thing that has changed, as he is working at being more of a leader.

“I’m defi nitely taking a dif-ferent mental approach,” Jones said. “I’ve got to step up to the plate this year and show how I play. With me being a big-time role player on the team, I like to lead by example and take care of what I need to do.”

Players enjoying new defensive styleBy Tyler HarveySports Contributor


Sophomore cornerback Patrick Peterson (7) covers sophomore cornerback Ron Brooks (13) on Friday afternoon during a spring practice at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility.

‘‘‘The way we went into

practicing, we are going to be more aggressive, more of an in-your-face, smash-mouth defense’

Patrick Petersonsophomore cornerback

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BASEBALL

Tigers switch attention to base paths to fix offensive woes

Things haven’t gone as ex-pected for LSU’s bats the last two weeks.

The Tigers have scored five runs or fewer in five of their last eight games after scoring more than five runs in each of their first nine.

Three of the team’s best slug-gers — junior outfielder Blake Dean, sophomore catcher Micah Gibbs and junior second baseman Ryan Schimpf — have all strug-gled recently and have averages far below their 2008 paces.

So with base hits coming less frequently than he would like, LSU coach Paul Mainieri has

turned his team’s attention to the base paths, where the Tigers lead the Southeastern Conference in stolen bases.

“You have to take a lot of gambles when you’re not hitting as well,” Mainieri said. “If you leave a guy at first, now you’re counting on two hits to score him. The way that we’ve been struggling because of some of the pitching we’ve been facing, I think that’d be wishful thinking. So we’ve been taking some chances.”

The Tigers hope to have plen-ty of runners on base tonight when they host Northwestern State at 6:30 p.m. in Alex Box Stadium.

Junior outfielder Jared Mitch-ell has been LSU’s most effective base stealer and is a SEC-best 17-for-17 on the season, including four stolen bases on Sunday’s 3-1 win against Kentucky.

As a team, the Tigers are

45-of-56 on the season and are well on pace to breaking the team record for stolen bases of 156 sto-len bases set in 1987.

“All of our guys have really made it a point to get better in the baserunning aspect of the game,” Mitchell said. “That’s helped us re-ally utilize our team speed, which makes the defense step up their game and makes them make outs, instead of standing at the plate and getting out ourself.”

Schimpf agreed with Mitchell and said stealing bases was a point of emphasis for the team before the start of the season.

“We really pride ourselves on stealing bags,” he said. “Coach Javy [Sanchez] really works with us on getting good jumps, and we really take pride in our baserun-ning.”

Against Northwestern State, the Tigers will be trying to manu-facture runs for freshman pitcher Chris Matulis, who will start his fourth game of the season.

Matulis has been the Tigers’ best midweek pitcher and has won each of his first three starts with a 2.70 ERA.

Matulis will be facing a De-mons offense that has scored eight or more runs in 10 of their 15 games this season, including 10 runs in the team’s 10-6 win against Tulane on March 4.

LSU defeated the Demons, 10-3, last season in the old Alex

Box Stadium.Junior first baseman Sean

Ochinko expects Northwestern State’s best shot tonight, despite last season’s large win.

“Anytime you play any of

the other state schools, you know you’re going to get their A-game,” he said.

Team on pace to break 1987 recordBy Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer


Junior outfielder Jared Mitchell steals second base Friday night in the bottom of the second inning in Alex Box Stadium against University of Kentucky.

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THE 6th MAN

UNC will cut down nets in Motown ... maybeGet your brackets ready be-

cause it’s going to be a show. The NCAA men’s basketball

tournament field is set, and it’s time for office workers, college students and gamblers across the country to fill out their brackets.

It’s time to throw the last three months of basketball out the win-dow and rely on hunches, trends and probability to make the winning bracket.

Let’s get to my picks — start-ing with the South bracket.

LSU plays the first game of the tournament against Butler. The Ti-gers will lose.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to the important games.

No real upsets will happen in this bracket besides Butler downing the Tigers and Michigan toppling Clemson.

There’s no bigger disappoint-ment in athletics than Clemson. Ev-eryone expects so much, and they do nothing worthwhile in any sport.

North Carolina, Gonzaga, Syracuse and Oklahoma are the Sweet 16 teams in this region on my bracket.

I have UNC and Syracuse play-ing in the Elite Eight with the Tar Heels advancing.

I had real fits choosing this bracket.

Oklahoma and Syracuse are both sexy teams, and the poten-tial for a Blake Griffin vs. Tyler

Hansbrough matchup was almost too good to pass up. But I stuck with the Orange. I hope they won’t let me down.

The next bracket is the East re-gion.

This is — without a doubt — the hardest bracket to pick.

About 10 teams in this region are good enough to be in the Sweet 16.

No. 1 seed Pittsburgh is

one DeJaun Blair foul-out away from being upset by anyone in the region.

Because of this, I don’t think Pittsburgh will make it to the Final Four.

I like Florida State, Texas and Duke to all get there before the Pan-thers.

Tennessee, as a No. 9 seed, is looking like the best bet to be a Cin-derella and knock off Pittsburgh. But I have commitment issues, so I’ll hold off on picking them.

For now, I’ll put the Panthers as an Elite Eight team losing to Vil-lanova.

Moving on to the Midwest re-gion — this one is pretty interesting as well.

Louisville is the team to beat. The Cardinals have cemented

themselves as the best team in the nation heading into the tournament.

They’ll pretty much skate into the Elite Eight to face defending na-tional champion Kansas.

The Jayhawks can sing Rock Chalk all they want, but it won’t be enough to keep the Cardinals out of Detroit.

An interesting team to look out for in this region is USC.

The Trojans haven’t done much this season, as they’re a middle of the road Pac-10 team. But Master P’s son, Lil’ Romeo, is on the team, and I can’t in good faith have them lose in the first round.

He’s a No Limit Soldier. I thought I told ‘ya.

Sometimes you just have to pick teams that make no sense.

The West region is the one I’ve caught the most scrutiny for.

Call me crazy, but I’m putting Missouri in the Final Four.

They’ve had a pretty good sea-son, and it’s another one of those hunches.

They won the Big 12 for Pete’s sake. They were better than Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, who everyone seems to be so high on.

The only team I can see knock-ing them off is Connecticut.

The Huskies aren’t a No. 1 seed for nothing, but they’re 4-3 since the season-ending injury to guard Jerome Dyson.

They could still win some

games, but I don’t think they can beat Mizzou.

As of right now, my Final Four will match Louisville against Mis-souri and Villanova against UNC with the Cardinals and Tar Heels advancing.

I have UNC winning its second national title in five seasons, but like

everyone else’s, my bracket will definitely change before the tourna-ment starts.

It’s changed three times since I started writing this.

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Columnist

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ron Artest scored all of his 18 points in the second half, and the Hous-ton Rockets overcame the absence of center Yao Ming in a 95-84 vic-tory over the New Orleans Hor-nets on Monday night.

Luis Scola and Aaron Brooks each scored 14 points, and Scola had 12 rebounds to help the Rock-ets end New Orleans’ five-game home winning streak.

Chris Paul had 29 points and 11 assists, while David West had 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Hornets, who’ve lost two straight.

Yao sat out with flu-like symptoms and Dikembe Mutom-bo started in his place.

Carl Landry and Von Wafer each scored 12 points and Shane Battier 11 as the Rockets, holding on to the third seed in the West-ern Conference, prevented the Hornets from passing them in the

standings.The Hornets appeared to be

taking control of the game early in the second half, when alley-oop dunks by Julian Wright and Ty-son Chandler highlighted an 8-0 Hornets run to give New Orleans a 55-44 lead. Houston coach Rick Adelman quickly called timeout, and the Rockets returned in far better form.

Artest, who’d missed his first 11 field goals, got his first points on free throws, then made his next four shots and added an assist on Scola’s driving scoop during a 16-2 spurt that put Houston ahead 62-59.

New Orleans got only five points the rest of the quarter, all from Paul, whose floater as he was fouled cut Houston’s lead to 67-64 heading into the final period.

James Posey’s 3 to open the fourth quarter tied the game, and the Hornets led 75-73 on Posey’s baseline drive with 7:01 to go.

Houston responded with an 8-0 run during which Landry swatted away Paul’s floater and later hit two free throws. Artest also scored during the surge.

After West’s jumper briefly stopped to run, Artest scored again on a driving layup and Landry dunked on a fast break to make it 85-77 with 3:47 left. The Hor-nets were stagnant after that, and Chandler fouled out while battling Landry for a rebound with 1:18 to go.

Despite the absence of Yao, Houston finished with a 38-37 edge in rebounding. Mutombo scored only one point but had six rebounds and blocked Wright three times on drives to the hoop, wagging his finger every time.

a better shot of winning games.”LSU freshman forward LaSon-

dra Barrett, SEC Co-Freshman of the Year, said being in the NCAA tournament for the first time is something special.

“You never experience this in high school,” Barrett said. “This is so important to this program, and it

is so important to continue that lega-cy. It’s something I will always look forward to every season, but this be-ing my first time, it’s great.”

If the Lady Tigers defeat Green Bay, they will face the winner of the matchup between No. 3 Louisville and No. 14 Liberty in the second round.

Chancellor said he is thrilled to be in the NCAA tournament with a

team who has come so far.“It’s amazing. We could have

just folded, but this team has had resiliency all year,” Chancellor said. “I’m just tickled to death to be in it.”

“It’s all about business right now,” Johnson said. “I have to think nothing but positive thoughts and make this my new lifestyle.”

Johnson’s slender frame helped him improve his bench press by five reps from his performance at the Combine.

“That’s been the big thing is my weight,” he said. “Can I lose the weight? Or can I maintain it? But it’s a whole different ballpark now because it’s all about business for me.”

Unlike Jackson and Johnson, former wide receiver Demetrius Byrd didn’t have a decorated senior season and only caught 37 passes for 513 yards and four touchdowns in 2008.

But Byrd ran the fastest 40-yard dash of the day with a 4.43.

Byrd said scouts told him they want to see a better attitude from him this season after being frustrat-ed with his role in LSU’s offense in

the 2008 season.“I have been having to show

off the last two weeks,” he said. “To show people that last season I didn’t have to get me the ball even when I was open ... I had to show them that I’m still in it and show more char-acter and maturity. People could see that I was getting frustrated a lot, and they say it showed on the field.”

Former Tigers Trev Faulk and Bennie Brazell also worked out be-fore scouts on Monday.

Faulk last played in the NFL in 2007 for the New Orleans Saints. Brazell was drafted in the seventh round of the 2006 draft by the Cin-cinnati Bengals and spent two sea-sons with the team before being released.

Brazell, a former track stand-out, had problems in the 40-yard dash and finished behind Byrd.

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Scouts gather at LSU’s indoor practice facility to interview former LSU playersas they demonstrate their abilities and try to increase their NFL draft stock.

One way our University could contribute toward solving the current economic and clima-tologic crises would be to stop using the sprinklers in front of

Tiger Stadium when it has been raining almost nonstop for four days straight.

I am no conservationist, but I do know waste — financial and environmental — when I see it.

Jeremy Wellspolitical science graduate student

If we want our voices to be heard, then we run for office. If we want someone else to relay our voice, then we support that person and vote for them. We can always criticize those who make laws and pass them. If we do not like what they are doing,

then we protest through media or run for office ourselves.

Even though he failed to men-tion it, Taylor Craft did the same. He ran for SG President, and after his failure in the elections, he eventually became the Commissioner of Elec-tions for LSU Student Government. Asking the students not to vote is an-other way of advocating not to use your right as a student.

I am not affiliated with any

campaign this year, but I urge my fel-low students to educate themselves about the candidates and their initia-tives. Hold them responsible for their promises. I do not care who you vote for. All I care is that you do. Do not vote blindly. Learn, and vote.

Doing Nothing is never the so-lution.

Iftekhar Roufaccounting sophomore

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EdITOrIAL POLIcIEs & PrOcEdurEs QuOTE OF ThE dAy“All governments are in equal

measure good and evil. The ideal is anarchy.”

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Sept. 9, 1828 — Nov. 20, 1910

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PERFECT DYSTOPIA

Lawmakers associating unfair punishments with ‘sexting’Ring ring ring ring ring ring

ring — Bananaphone.Not many can deny that Raffi

had the right idea to sing about a “cellular, modular, interactivodular” device for communication while other people sang about mundane topics like love.

The cell phone has become one of the most important inventions ever made because it has exceeded its purpose of simple cordless com-munication and has been modified with many different amenities in-cluding text messaging and GPS navigation.

But with the advent of technol-ogy, problems unpredicted by Raffi — or any fan of the cell phone — come.

One is called “sexting.”Imagine sending intimate pho-

tographs of yourself to your signifi-cant other while the relationship was favorable. When the relationship becomes sour, your worse-than-inappropriate photographs end up

in the sight of your concerned and disturbed parents’ eyes.

While most can sympathize with your victimhood, the sympa-thy should really be redirected to the perpetrator.

Two years ago, Phillip Alp-ert, then 18, was unable to stand his ex-girlfriend’s taunting. He re-membered some nude pictures she sent him, and electronically took revenge by sending those pictures to 70 other people — including her parents and grandparents — via cell phone.

Alpert thought he was simply taking revenge on the girl — he did not understand the full ramifications of his actions. He was convicted of spreading child pornography and la-beled as a sex offender until he is 43 years old.

The girl walked away free. In more recent cases, last month

a 15-year-old Pennsylvania girl was charged with creating child pornog-raphy when she sent nude images of

herself through MySpace, accord-ing to The Associated Press.

In Brevard County, Florida, Bryce Dixon, 18, was jailed after forward-ing his 16-year-old girlfriend’s naked breasts to another teen. Dixon’s bail was set at $140,000, the Boston Her-ald reported on

March 11. The common denominator was

justice — or the lack thereof.Most states do not have laws

that specifically deal with teens sending nude pictures of themselves or others via high-tech devices or the Internet.

Instead of creating laws more adherent to the gravity of the crime committed, states are grouping them in the same category as those who have molested or raped children. In

states like Florida, “it hasn’t been an issue debated by state lawmakers,” state Rep. Pat Patterson, said to the Sun Sentinel.

Grouping individuals into this division places them in undeniably austere conditions. Now, Alpert has to register as a sex offender, which prohibits him from moving away from Florida and automatically dis-qualifies him from attending many universities or receiving prestigious scholarships, among other regula-tions.

He is denied many opportuni-ties unfairly — all because he sent a picture.

Because Alpert’s 16-year-old ex-girlfriend also sent a picture, she should, by the same logic, be convicted for the same crime. But laws of many different states are as wholly ambiguous about the charged criminal as the terms defin-ing pornography.

Sometimes the girl who takes and sends the nude pictures is not

charged, but the boy — a secondary source — is imprisoned for sending the photos to others. Other times, the girl is charged, but the boy, who engaged in watching child pornog-raphy, is condoned.

The laws should either charge every individual who engages in child pornography or charge no one, provided the pictures were sent out of a teen’s free will.

In retrospect, Raffi may have been simply talking about a ba-nanaphone. But people, along with enjoying new technology, could use his advise and “call the White House, have a chat” to remind law-makers to mitigate vagueness and guarantee justice.

Dini Parayitam is an 18-year-old biochemistry freshman.

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METAIRIE’S FINEST

Economic recession creates gateway for rap musicSo I finally took my headphones

off, leaving behind the tales of riches and debauchery from Easy E, UGK, T.I. and Biggie Smalls, and I realized something: We are in an economic recession.

I also realized Easy E died from AIDS a while ago. One half of rap duo UGK (Pimp C) died from lean mixing with sleep apnea. T.I. is go-ing to jail for a year for buying au-tomatic weapons, and Biggie Smalls was murdered 12 years ago.

Yet listening to these men is one of the most fun and escapist things I have ever come across. I know it’s puerile and maybe even sort of pa-tronizing, but falling into this world when real life is getting too heavy can be a fantastic escape.

This is interesting, especially

considering that most of these rap-pers speak at least somewhat auto-biographically. That is what has kept rap alive for so long, as Lil’ Wayne points out on his mix tape “Dedica-tion 2.”

It makes the art and the music interesting, and very few rappers have been able to break away from autobiographical verses and still be successful.

Usually, these stories are ones of redemption and of climbing a per-sonal Everest. Rap, in most cases, is about swimming against the current and making it to the other side.

My father doesn’t understand rap. He always asks why I like to hear people boast and brag.

I like rap because it is just that — boasting and bragging.

It’s a celebration of self-em-powerment.

It’s pure escapism.I could lis-

ten to nothing but my older Death Cab for Cutie albums and my Modest Mouse or Wolf Parade or “fill in emotional indie band here,” and they have a time and a place.

But when times are crappy, throwing on some tight beats and some braggy lyrics can make the day seem that much brighter.

As I’ve quoted before, Eminem explains he raps for “anyone who’s

ever been through shit in their lives / ‘til they sit and the cry at night, wishin they’d die / ‘til they throw on a rap record, and they sit and they vibe.”

Because rap is about escapism, more so than other forms of music.

This is why it will flourish dur-ing these tumultuous times.

A prevailing train of thought exists, especially among pretentious college students, that escapism is worth less than “true art.”

Tolstoy gave three criteria for what makes art. One of them is that the work must be “important,” but he does not define what importance is.

In times like these, with every-thing crashing down around us with the velocity of a fallen 747, what is important is changing.

We need to escape from our lives sometimes, and rap is one perfect gateway.

And that is why it will flourish during the recession.

Even while I realize most of the MCs spitting and the DJs spin-ning probably don’t have it as good as they like to boast and brag about, that boasting and bragging brings them ever closer.

And it brings us ever closer.There really isn’t much more

one can ask for from art.

Travis Andrews is a 21-year-old English major from Metairie.

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Tiger Stadium sprinklers wasteful,unnecessary in rain

very definition of terrorist enti-ties.

Yes, the needy occasionally benefit from their actions, and we get a largely disregarded say in how our money is spent.

But this doesn’t change the fact that governments are, by defi-nition, terrorist organizations.

Terrorists run our courtrooms, direct our police, pay our teachers, subsidize our media and command the largest military in the world’s history.

Through price controls,

subsidies, legal tender laws and a myriad of regulations, these ter-rorists control our economy.

And because they can ex-port the costs of warfare onto the taxpayer, these terrorists have the means to wage any war they wish.

This is the result of giving a government a legal monopoly on the initiation of the use of force.

Initiating the use of force is never a moral choice. We should be able to agree on this.

The right-wing tries to reform

the government into an abusive father. The left-wing tries to re-form the government into a med-dling mother.

It is time we lose the illusion of control and grow up.

Daniel Morgan is a 21-year-old economics junior from Baton Rouge.

OpinionTUEsday, MaRCH 17, 2009 PaGE 17

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WALK HARD

Gerrymandering poses threat to individualismPresident Barack Obama has

been compared to former President Franklin Roosevelt. This causes conservatives to cringe.

Following FDR’s 12-year ten-ure, the country was changed for-ever. The federal government was bigger, and there were fewer per-sonal freedoms.

Since the days of the consti-tutional convention, a struggle has existed between those forces ad-vocating for greater centralization and more governmental control and those who favored greater lo-cal power.

Roosevelt signaled an end to the debate as the powers for cen-tralization won out in the 1930s. After Roosevelt, personal liberty and individual rights have taken a back seat to the preservation of group rights.

Politicians use rhetoric to seg-regate the American people into discernible groups and legislate according to the interests of the

groups who support them. The Democrats have minorities, unions and environmentalists while the Republicans have social conserva-tives, gun owners and capitalists.

There is no consideration given to those of us who don’t fit neatly into these recognizable cat-egories. “Moderates” are the per-petual outsiders.

Nowhere is this more evident than the method used to draw con-gressional districts.

Gerrymandering will play a critical role in Louisiana following next year’s census. Louisiana is expected to lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and the districts will — by necessity — be redrawn.

When a state gains or loses a seat in Congress, it is the duty of the state Legislature to draw new districts.

This is an inherently political process. Politicians are drawing political districts that will elect

other politicians. Undoubtedly, some of the legislators involved in redistricting will have their own

ideas about who should sit be-hind the desks in the Capitol.

Take for example Loui-siana’s 2nd Congressional district — Wil-liam Jefferson’s former district.

The seat was intended to be held by a Democrat. The Repub-lican who currently occupies it is expected to be defeated in the next election.

The Louisiana State Capitol Building has been heavily popu-lated by Democratic legislators for most of its history. When Con-gressional districts were drawn up in the past, they tended to favor Democrats.

But there is hope. The process

will always be political, but some are taking a stand.

Last Monday, the U.S. Su-preme Court upheld a North Caro-lina Supreme Court decision by a vote of 5-4 that declared a congres-sional district in violation of the law and decided it must be redrawn.

The district was drawn for mi-nority voters to constitute a major-ity in the district. But it cut across counties.

A North Carolina law called the “Whole County Provision” mandates a county cannot be split between two different congres-sional districts. Defenders of the congressional district claimed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 super-seded the law in North Carolina and the district was thus legal. The Supreme Court ruled the state law was not in violation of the Voting Rights Act and, thus, the district was improperly drawn.

As Louisiana legislators begin the process of remapping the state

congressional districts, they will inevitably look to gain a political advantage for their party and per-haps themselves.

But the recent Supreme Court ruling gives hope to those who be-lieve we’re not a conglomeration of distinct groups but a nation of individuals.

Instead of drawing districts favoring certain segments of the population, the legislators should strive for districts that represent the attitudes of Louisiana’s voters most appropriately.

But that may be too much to ask from term-limited politicians who may be looking for their next job.

Drew Walker is a 24-year-old philosophy senior from Walker.

COMMON CENTS

Imprecise definitions spark political disagreementThe U.S. government is tril-

lions of dollars large and continu-ously growing. Its every action sends shock waves of unintended consequences throughout our lives.

With more than 700 bases worldwide, the government has the military might to make explo-sions rain down on any location on Earth and has stockpiled enough weapons to destroy the planet sev-eral times over.

The political process — com-peting theories on how to tame this beast — is naturally a subject of much disagreement.

But it is rarely discussed how often we agree on other matters. Perhaps — with the clarity of good definitions — it will be pos-sible to achieve almost universal agreement in politics as well.

For instance, a charity can be defined as aid voluntarily given to those in need. Though we may criticize the means of certain char-itable organizations, virtually ev-eryone regards charity as a noble end in and of itself.

Almost all rightly condemn terrorism — the calculated use of violence against unarmed civil-ians to attain political or religious goals through intimidation and coercion.

Violence is only appropri-ate in self-defense, and it is never appropriate to initiate force. We knew this in kindergarten when we told the teacher the other kid hit us first.

Though some may occasion-ally sympathize with the ends of some terrorists, such as William Wallace or the Old Testament’s Joshua, terrorism is almost uni-versally condemned.

Even supporters of al-Qaida don’t argue that it’s moral to initi-ate force. They argue the U.S. at-

tacked first.Americans

rightly unite in criticizing them. The ends don’t justify the means.

By that same logic, al-most all would agree there

would be something dreadfully wrong with a charity using terror-ism to collect its money. If United Way’s solicitors went door-to-door wearing explosive vests, they might make more money — and thus be able to help more peo-ple — but no respectable person would endorse this strategy.

Even if the United Way pro-vided the “donators” with a few benefits and gave them some say on how their violently expropri-ated “donations” were to be used, this intimidation would still match the definition of terrorism and would still be strongly condemned by almost any observer.

And yet, when our theoretical United Way goes by “the govern-ment,” our moral certainty falls to pieces.

There is no reason for a moral judgment to change after the sub-ject is renamed.

This is not extremist lan-guage. This is simply applying the definition.

All government action is against unarmed civilians, en-forced with the threat of violence and done to achieve a political goal.

All governments match the

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