The Daily Reveille - September 5, 2012

Three weeks after being dis-missed from the LSU football program, embattled cornerback Tyrann Mathieu was back on cam-pus Tuesday, enrolled in classes for the fall semester.

Speaking for the fi rst time since his untimely exit, Mathieu said his focus has shifted from football to his personal journey as a man.

“I’m just focusing on academ-ics right now and really myself,” Mathieu said. “I’m not worried too much about football.”

The St. Augustine product an-chored the vaunted Tiger defense last season, leading the Southeast-ern Conference with six forced fumbles and fi ve recoveries, all the while igniting the struggling

Tigers with punt returns for touch-downs in late-season wins over Arkansas and Georgia.

While never confi rmed by the LSU Athletics Department, Mathieu’s recent decision to en-ter drug rehabilitation points to a failed drug test as the impetus to his Aug. 10 dismissal.

LSU coach Les Miles , who has fi rmly stated Mathieu will not play for the Tigers this season, ac-knowledged Mathieu’s return in his weekly press luncheon Tues-day.

“I believe that he has really made some diffi cult decisions for himself that will better him as he goes forward,” Miles said. “We certainly wish him the very best.”

LSU Senior Associate Athlet-ics Director Herb Vincent said in a text message that “LSU is not speculating on Tyrann’s football future at this time.”

Miles , who has repeatedly wished Mathieu luck in his future

endeavors but defl ected any oth-er questions about his dismissal maintained the same demeanor Tuesday.

“My focus is about my team and preparing game week,” Miles said.

Rebutting, swirling rumors that he would transfer to Mc-Neese State, Ma-thieu , the 2011 Heisman Trophy fi nalist and Bed-narik Award win-ner said he’s sim-ply enjoying being back under the stately oaks.

“It feels great [to be back],” Mathieu said. “I’m just enjoying the weather and it feels great to be back.”

Mathieu’s former Tiger

teammates were also happy to be reunited with their friend and former teammate.

Sophomore wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. said he’s been texting Mathieu “every other day” and lauded his friend’s decision- making in the recent weeks.

“Overcoming adversity is some-thing you have to deal with all your life,” Beckham said. “I think he’s doing a good job with that.”

Fresh off a stint at the Right

Step recovery center in Houston, where he was mentored by former NBA star and recovered drug ad-dict John Lucas , Mathieu credited

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Tyrann Mathieu, back on campus, enrolled in classes Tuesday.

Hidden TreasureConcealed murals uncovered in Allen Hall

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Elise Grenier, conservation artist, works to restore murals Friday on the stairs in Allen Hall.

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Murals on the walls of Allen Hall were once plastered over, but have now been revealed through restoration efforts.

Honey Badger speaks for � rst time since dismissal

Ben WallaceSenior Contributing Writer

Hidden behind layers of plain white paint for decades, Allen Hall’s best-kept secret is fi nally coming to light.

Former University art student and Lou-isiana native Cheryl Elise Grenier , who has decades of experience restoring true fresco paintings in the heart of Italy’s Renaissance culture , uncovered a small portion of the shrouded treasure about 10 years ago while running some tests as she worked to restore other Allen Hall murals.

Finally, everyone is getting a peak at the previously veiled jewels.

The product of graduate art student Roy Henderson’s thesis in 1939 , a pair of two-story fresco paintings, drape the walls of the western stairwell in the former Arts and Sci-ences Building , with each painting’s subject matter mirroring that of the building’s for-mer label.

Colorful images of students distilling sugar, mixing chemicals and staring out of the University’s astronomical observatory fl ank one wall, representing the sciences.

The arts-heavy side shows painting stu-dents encircling a nearly nude male, a ren-dering of an abstract sculpture, and fi gures of Henderson and his teacher, the University’s fi rst art professor and renowned fresco paint-er Conrad Albrizio , painting a fresco within the fresco.

“It’s a pun,” Grenier said matter-of-factly. “That’s him literally producing graduates of the art school.”

Albrizio has his back turned to the viewer, with his brush painting the faces of what looks to be multi-ethnic art students

— an oddity in itself since the University did not admit its fi rst black student un-til A.P. Tureaud in 1953 , about 15 years later.

A thin waterfall fl ows from his brush down to a depiction of Henderson him-self, which fades into silhouettes of

people and a seemingly unfi nished black and white painting near the bottom. But it’s all part of an elaborate tribute to Al-brizio , Grenier said.

Grenier earned two degrees from

MURALS, see page 11

MATHIEU, see page 4

‘I’m just focusing on academics right now

and really myself.’ Tyrann Mathieu

former LSU cornerback

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Portugal gets help from Spain and France battling spread of wild�res

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Wa-ter-dumping aircraft from Spain and France on Tuesday joined Portugal’s battle to halt the spread of wildfires through thick wood-lands in the country’s north left tinder-dry by months of drought.

Spain and France sent two aircraft each, Portugal’s Civil Pro-tection Service said, a day after authorities appealed for help for fire crews struggling to contain blazes amid high temperatures and strong winds.

More than 350 vehicles and 19 aircraft were on duty.Colombia’s ‘Queen of Cocaine’ shot to death Tuesday, killer unidenti�ed

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Griselda Blanco, a convicted drug trafficker who was once known as the “Godmother” and the “Queen of Cocaine,” has been shot to death by an unidentified gunman, police in Colombia said Tuesday.

Col. Mauricio Cartagena of Medellin’s metropolitan police said Tuesday that the 69-year-old was killed at a butcher shop in the city on Monday.

Cartagena said a man ap-proached Blanco at the shop and fired before escaping on a motor-cycle driven by another man.

Federal judge rules Mass. must pay for killer’s gender reassignment

BOSTON (AP) — State prison officials must provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder, because it is the only way to treat her “se-rious medical need,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Michelle Kosilek was born male but has received hormone treatments and now lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Kosilek was named Robert when married to Cheryl Kosilek and was convicted of murdering her in 1990.Corn harvest continues to speed ahead of schedule, according to USDA

DES MOINES (AP) — The U.S. corn harvest continues ahead of schedule with some states nearly half-finished at a time when they usually are just getting started.

The USDA said Tuesday in its weekly crop update that little has changed in the condition of drought-damaged corn and soy-beans. That’s because the plants are too far along for recent rain to make a difference.

Tennessee has 49 percent of its corn in, compared to the usual 21 percent. Missouri is at 44 percent, ahead of the average 8 percent.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Weathered oil in the form of tar balls has washed ashore on some Louisiana beaches from Gulf wa-ters churned by Hurricane Isaac and a state coastal official says it is likely from the 2010 Deepwa-ter Horizon Disaster.

Garret Graves, a coastal ad-viser to Gov. Bobby Jindal, said the tar washed ashore in an area that was heavily oiled after the BP well accident.

Officials Tuesday evening restricted fishing in waters ex-tending a mile off a roughly 13-mile stretch of coastline from Port Fourchon eastward to just west of Caminada Pass.

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Trial for Alabama fan delayed in post-BCS Championship video case

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A trial in New Orleans has been delayed for an Alabama football fan ar-rested after a video was posted on the Internet that showed what prosecutors say was sexual bat-tery committed on an uncon-scious LSU fan.

Hurricane Isaac last week left defense attorneys unable to prepare for the trial of 33-year-old Brian Downing of Smith’s Station, Ala.

Youth unemployment rate will rise to 12.9 percent by 2017, says U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — The U.N.’s labor office says youth unemployment is likely to rise globally to 12.9 percent by 2017 as more young people leave the work force and the euro crisis spreads to emerging economies.

The current rate of unem-ployment among youths aged 15 to 24 is 12.7 percent globally.

An International Labor Of-fice report Tuesday said the high-est regional rate — above 25 percent — is expected to remain in North Africa and the Middle East.

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Hurricane Isaac may spark swarms of mosquitoes in South Louisiana

HOUMA (AP) — South Louisi-ana residents may be dealing with swarms of mosquitoes breeding in the waters left behind by Hur-ricane Isaac.

And with Louisiana experi-encing the highest rate of West Nile virus infections in several years, state officials are warn-ing residents to take precautions against mosquitoes.

The Courier reports that at least 145 West Nile cases and nine deaths were reported in Lou-isiana from the disease.

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LSU MUSEUM OF ART

Director looks to build connections with UniversityJordana Pomeroy’s third-floor

office sits still and quiet on a Friday afternoon, yet the feeling of fresh-ness and originality lingers as the museum director finishes her work for the day.

Pomeroy began work as the new executive director of the LSU Mu-seum of Art at the Shaw Center for the Arts in July— 50 years after the museum opened its doors.

While she has played the role of a chief curator before, Pomeroy said her new position involves man-agement and setting a vision for the institution.

“I like to think of myself as a good backboard for [the chief

curator’s] ideas,” she said.Pomeroy was born in San Anto-

nio, Texas, but grew up in New York City. She said her mother, a classi-cist, and her father, an architect, took her to many museums.

“Our trips were focused on buildings and ruins,” she said.

Pomeroy said the LSU Muse-um of Art attracted her because she wanted to direct a University muse-um, and LSU had a good reputation.

“My sense was that if they spent so much time creating a venue for the museum, there was enough people who cared about its future,” she said.

Pomeroy earned a bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr College and graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree and Ph.D. in history of art.

Having attended a women’s col-lege and published a book, “Intrepid Women,” containing essays about Victorian artists who were travel-ers, Pomeroy said her consciousness has been shaped to feature and focus on women.

Pomeroy said she wants to con-tinue this trend at the LSU MOA, but she wants the exhibits to be part of a larger vision of ethnic diversity, as well.

She said the curatorial profes-sion has changed over the years, and she developed and taught the first cu-ratorial practice class at Georgetown University.

Pomeroy said the class covered the history of the profession and the role of museum curators. She said when she teaches at the University

in spring 2014, there will be a class offered involving curatorial practice and museum ethics.

Pomeroy came to the LSU MOA from her 16-year position as chief curator at the National Muse-um of Women in the Arts in Wash-ington, D.C.

She said she wants students and faculty to see the museum as a des-tination.

“Overall, I would love to raise the numbers,” Pomeroy said.

Pomeroy added that people in Baton Rouge are starting to think of downtown as a place to go to have fun and spend time.

She said the museum can attract more traffic with increased adver-tising, public awareness and by of-fering diverse exhibits to appeal to

different audiences.Pomeroy said she would like to

see more students come to the mu-seum and she plans to build more bridges to campus with the museum.

“My vision for the museum is to become closer to LSU and work with different departments,” she said.

Pomeroy said her other vision is to polish the profile of the museum with more members and visitors. She said she wants the University and the community to get to know the mu-seum better.

“I want LSU to be really proud of this museum,” Pomeroy said.

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Crime Briefs

Following struggle, man arrested in Quad on outstanding warrants charge

After fleeing to the Quad, LSUPD arrested 19-year-old Dar-ren G. Gonsoulin for outstanding warrants Tuesday.

Around 12:50 p.m., a woman said she saw Gonsoulin, her ex-boyfriend, in a car near Lockett Hall, according to LSUPD spokes-man Capt. Corey Lalonde.

Consoulin, of 21106 Brigh-ton Cove in Ponchatoula, had an outstanding warrant with Baton Rouge Parish Sherriff’s Office.

When officers approached the vehicle, Gonsoulin ran toward the Quad. Officers caught up and ar-rested him after a short struggle.

On the way to the LSUPD of-fice, Gonsoulin banged his head against the window of the police car.

He was arrested for having an outstanding warrant, resisting a police officer and simple criminal damage to property and booked in EBR Parish Prison.

Student jokes about armed robbery, arrested for criminal mischief

Sociology student Ryan J. Bailey was arrested Tuesday and issued a summons for criminal mischief after he admitted to lying to LSUPD officers, Lalonde said.

On Aug. 28, Bailey reported to LSUPD he was robbed at knife point near the Enchanted Forest. During further investigation, of-ficers noticed discrepancies in his story, Lalonde said.

Bailey admitted Tuesday he lied to officers and was trying to play a prank on friends.

Faculty member arrested for DWI, two outstanding felony warrants

Derrick D. Gray was arrested Aug. 26 for hit and run, DWI, reck-less operation and two outstanding felony warrants.

Gray, 29, of 4554 Alvin Dark Ave. Apt. 9, rear-ended a vehicle near the French House on Highland Road and fled, Lalonde said. Officers observed Gray’s vehicle on Cypress Street, and Gray fled near Take 5. Of-ficers located Gray and arrested him.

He submitted to a breath alcohol test and blew .148 BAC.

He was booked in EBR Parish Prison.

University High students arrested for hijacking beer on gameday

Two 17-year-old LSU Laboratory School students were arrested Sept. 1 for stealing beer out of the back of a truck.

Officers working in the Hart Lot observed Luke Wagner of 1979 Saf-ford Blvd. in Port Allen and Jacob Carruth of 14726 Villa Court in Ba-ton Rouge taking beer out of an ice chest in the back of a truck, Lalonde said.

Wagner was arrested for theft and resisting an officer and was re-leased. Carruth was arrested for theft

and released.Man arrested after grabbing of�cer escorting woman out of stadium

Police arrested 23-year-old Derek Alexander O’Reilly on Sept. 1 after he grabbed the arm of an officer trying to escort a woman out of Tiger Stadium near the student gates.

O’Reilly, of 3319 Greystone Court, was arrested for battery of a police officer and booked into EBR Parish Prison, Lalonde said.

Man blows four times legal alcohol limit, arrested for DWI

Delton J. Joseph, 38, of 7463 Glen Oaks Drive, was arrested Aug. 18 for DWI and flight from a police officer.

Officers attempted to pull Jo-seph over around 8:45 a.m. on Nich-olson Drive near Ben Hur Road for swerving across the centerline, eventually getting him to pull over at Nicholson Drive and South Stadium Road.

He submitted to a breath alcohol test and blew .319 BAC.

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his stay with steering his life in the right direction.

“I’m fi nished with that treat-ment phase and it went well,” Ma-thieu said. “A lot of issues that I was dealing with, I felt like I got those things handled.”

Beckham said Mathieu is the same person he was before his dismissal, but added he is simply “trying to get his head on right.”

The decision made by both Mathieu and his family to return to school and not seek other foot-ball opportunities was something Beckham expected from the start.

“[His decision] doesn’t sur-prise me,” Beckham said. “It was a decision that him and his family had to make and they made the right one.”

Junior defensive end Barkevi-ous Mingo had high hopes for Mathieu beyond the classroom, claiming he “should be all right” and he’d welcome Mathieu back with open arms.

“He’s a guy that’s going to come around,” Mingo said. “Hopefully he’ll be on the team, we’ll see how that goes.”

While he’s come to the real-ization that football is not in store for the upcoming season, Mathieu said he will continue to train for whatever his future may hold.

First up, according to Ma-thieu : graduation.

“I’m just kind of working on the self more than the athlete,” Mathieu said. “As of right now,

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Former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (7) tackles a ball-carrier Nov. 25, 2011, during a game between LSU and Arkansas.

MATHIEU, from page 1

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For the second time in as many matches, freshmen paced the LSU women’s soccer team as a weary Tiger squad squeaked out a 2-1 home victory Tuesday evening against Stephen F. Austin .

Freshman midfi elder Fernan-da Piña buried a 78-minute game winner off an assist from fellow freshmen Heather Magee and Vic-toria Sample , and the Tigers (3-1-1 ) overcame an early defi cit in

a match postponed by Hurricane Isaac .

“I thought we were happy to get the result,” said LSU coach Brian Lee . “Stephen F. Austin came in with a good gameplan and their kids were dedicated enough to stick to it. We were in trouble.”

That trouble began in the ninth minute, as Ladyjacks for-ward Chelsea Raymond struck from 11 yards out for her fi fth goal in six matches.

SFA forward Zuri Prince col-lected a towering free kick just in-side the penalty box, drawing three Tiger defenders to her.

Prince nimbly defl ected the ball to Raymond , who sent a lofted strike to the far left post past LSU

goalkeeper Megan Kinneman .“It was another soft goal we

allowed on a set kick,” Lee said. “It was just like one we gave up to N.C. State last week. Our back line is young but they have to grow up fast.”

The Tigers controlled the run of play for the remainder of the half, fi nally evening the sheet on sophomore forward Kaley Blades’ cross-turned-goal in the 33rd min-ute.

Running up the right fl ank, Blades played a lofty cross toward senior forward Carlie Banks , who was in position just nine yards from the net.

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FOOTBALL

SEC to allow frequent replays New rules in e� ect for next game Tyler NunezSports Contributor

REPLAYS, see page 7

SOCCER

Piña’s late goal clinches 2-1 win for the Tigers LSU holds o� SFA at home Chris AbshireSports Writer

RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior forward Carlie Banks (27) splits the SFA freshman defender Chantal Curry (5) and junior goalkeeper Lacey Leem (1) for a goal in Tuesday’s match at LSU’s Soccer Complex. WIN, see page 6

The Southeastern Confer-ence is seeking to improve the experience of fans attending live football games by allowing more action to be shown on the video boards.

The SEC announced Aug. 27 that, beginning this season, sta-diums within the conference are much less limited in their use of replays. This will replace their previous policy, which allowed only one real-time replay for each play in a game.

With the exception of stop-pages occurring for an offi cial review, institutions are now al-lowed to show as many replays as they want in the time between the end of a play and the beginning of the next play.

Though the video boards can-not display regular replays during offi cial reviews, they are able to show a live video feed from the television network broadcasting the game, allowing fans to view the play in question.

This is allowed in the time between the referee’s announce-ment to stop play for the review and his communication of the re-view’s outcome.

The change in policy was

London Calling Baton Rouge

Tiger gymnast attends Olympics as alternate

CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille

The Olympic Games are the Holy Grail of gymnastics.

There is no national gymnastics league. Seri-ous gymnasts strive their whole adolescent lives, breaking their bodies and wearing their wills for that quadrennial championship.

Despite two knee surgeries before age 18, new LSU gymnast Jessica Savona is one of few who can say they’ve been to the highest level of their sport.

“Being able to say I overcame [my injury] has made me a better gymnast,” Savona said. “It made me realize I’m capable of doing what I re-ally want to do.”

As an alternate for the Canadian artistic gym-nastics squad in this summer’s London Olympics, Savona did not compete. But the experience was

Alex CassaraSports Writer

OLYMPICS, see page 7

Banks and two Ladyjacks de-fenders each whiffed on the ball, but the commotion was enough to distract SFA goalkeeper Lacey Lee and earn Blades her second goal this season.

“I was just crossing it into Carlie, who was making a great run,” Blades said. “She just kind of dummied it. That fooled the keeper

and it was lucky to roll in.”Stephen F. Austin came out

fi ring in the second half, though, as LSU — playing its second match in three days — struggled to fend off the feisty Ladyjacks’ offensive push.

On a sweltering night, Lee at-tempted to counteract his team’s tired legs by rotating 16 different Tigers on and off the pitch.

“It was a conscious effort to

switch them out like that, espe-cially how much we were chasing them,” Lee said. “We have a lot of different kids who could be effec-tive. Our bench goes deep without losing quality.”

The strategy paid off, as LSU kept SFA off the board and even-tually cashed in on its fi rst scoring chance in nearly 30 minutes.

Magee earned possession near midfi eld before maneuvering down

to the goal line, where she sent a curling cross inside the keeper’s six-yard box.

Sample headed it down to Piña , who found the net with a two -yard, left-footed fi nish for her fi rst career goal.

The LSU men’s golf program needs a new captain.

Former Tiger Sang Yi’s talent and positive approach was invalu-able for the LSU golf team starting from his arrival in 2008.

“Sang and I were really close,” said junior Andrew Presley. “He had a huge infl uence on me. He had a re-ally good attitude and he was a huge deal for us. He was always positive, he was a really good player with a great short game and he had a posi-tive infl uence on all of us.”

Yi was the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Freshman of the Year and a two-time LSWA First-Team All-Louisiana member and a one-time LSWA Second-Team All-Louisiana member .

Yi capped off his career at LSU by being named the LSWA Louisi-ana Player of the Year and by being named to the 2012 First-Team All-Southeastern conference squad be-fore graduating in May .

“Sang was part of the

winningest class since I’ve been a coach here,” said head coach Chuck Winstead . “It was something like 13 tournament titles that we won while [he] was here.”

The time is now for a new leader on the 2012-2013 squad to emerge.

Winstead said his team is fi lled with talent, but he was sure to men-tion one name in particular.

“If I had to pick one, I’d have to pick Presley ,” Winstead said. “He’s been our most competitive golfer, and he has played the most this year. He’s an All-Conference, All-SEC performer, and he’s someone we expect to do very well this year.”

During his freshman campaign, Presley posted a 74.1 scoring aver-age in 24 rounds and earned a top-10 fi nish and three top-20 fi nishes.

He also shined during his soph-omore year.

“When you look at his scoring average from his freshman year to

his sophomore year, he made a huge jump,” Winstead said. “He was an All-Conference player in the strongest confer-ence in the coun-try last year. His production last year was terrifi c.”

Presley low-ered his aver-age to 72.5 in 34 rounds, and he claimed his fi rst col-legiate victory at the Louisiana Clas-sics . He was named a Second-Team All-SEC member and a 2012 LSWA First-Team All-Louisiana player .

“I defi nitely want to be an All-American this year,” Presley said. “I had a really good chance last year, but I didn’t quite get it done. I’m the oldest guy on the team, so I have some pretty big shoes to fi ll. I’m looking forward to it.”

Although Presley is the prima-ry candidate to slide into the role as captain of the program, a new star could emerge from any of the nine golfers on the roster.

No one on the team appears to

be worried by the plethora of youth in 2012-2013 .

“We don’t have a senior, but we do have three juniors who have played and have had success for us,” Winstead said. “We have very strong sophomores. We’re confi -dent with the group of guys we have moving forward.”

The loss of Yi’s veteran pres-ence could put a dent into any team, but LSU feels confi dent with the tal-ent taking the course this season.

Accompanied by fellow juniors Smylie Kaufman and Landon Ly-ons , Presley will be looking to bring a squad overwhelmed by youth into a new era in LSU men’s golf. A core group of talented players has been set by the organization.

“If you’ve got the fi repower, then you can accomplish whatever you want,” Winstead said, “We be-lieve we have the fi repower.”


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Lawrence BarrecaSports Contributor

Leader looking to emerge in Yi’s absence AP Poll released

YI PRESLEY

WIN, from page 5

1. Alabama 1 -0 (2)

2. USC 1-0 (1)

3. LSU 1-0 (3)

4. Oregon 1-0 (5)

5. Oklahoma 1-0 (4)

6. Florida St. 1-0 (7)

7. Georgia 1-0 (6)

8. Arkansas 1-0 (10)

9. South Carolina 1-0 (9)

10. West Virginia 1-0 (11)

11. Michigan St. 1-0 (13)

12. Clemson 1-0 (14)

13. Wisconsin 1-0 (12)

14. Ohio State 1-0 (18)

15. Virginia Tech 1-0 (16)

16. Nebraska 1-0 (17)

17. Texas 1-0 (15)

18. Oklahoma St. 1-0 (19)

19. Michigan 0-1 (8)

20. TCU 0-0 (20)

21. Kansas St. 1-0 (22)

22. Not re Dame 1-0 (NR)

23. Louisville 1-0 (25)

24. Florida 1-0 (23)

25. Stanford 1-0 (21)

Rank Record (Last Week)

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still invaluable as she prepares to transition from the rigors of elite gymnastics to the team dynamic of collegiate competition.

“She’s in the one percentile,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux . “Very, very few kids in any sport get to enjoy it.”

As a child, Savona loved to run and jump, climbing on and over family members. Her parents put her in gymnastics, swimming and soccer so she could expend her excessive energy.

She excelled at both gymnastics and soccer, and by age 10, when both were becom-ing serious, she had to choose. Her love for the gym, where she spent enough time to qualify for a part-time job, won out.

“By that time, we were doing 20 to 25 hours in the gym,” Savo-na said. “We really had to put a lot of effort into it.”

She moved on to the provin-cial level, then national. Then, in February 2008 , she tore her right ACL. She had surgery, then pu-berty threw whatever gracefulness she retained through her injuries into distress.

It took nearly two years to get back into the swing of things.

“Once I did have the ability to come back ... that’s when I was placing top in Canada and realiz-ing my potential,” Savona said.

She was one of the best senior elite gymnasts Canada had to of-fer. She placed second in the all-around and fi rst on beam and fl oor

at the 2011 Canadian Champion-ships. She then began competing internationally for her country.

But gymnastics is not kind to the body.

Savona’s left ACL gave out in July of last year at a practice meet. It made her once-realistic Olympic hopes distant. Phone calls from collegiate programs that had been recruiting her quit coming.

She didn’t. Savona said it took around nine months to fully re-cover after surgeons grafted a ca-

daver’s ligament into her knee. She recovered quickly enough to make an Olympic push, one that proved fruitful.

Through sev-eral trial events, Savona placed

sixth among Canadian Olympic hopefuls. That was good enough for fi rst alternate — had a team member gone down leading up to the Games, Savona would have been the fi rst in line to step in.

Making the team as an al-ternate was bittersweet, but she was still excited. And she doesn’t blame her knee surgery.

“Maybe if that second knee didn’t go, I wouldn’t be as deter-mined,” Savona said.

She and the other alternate fl ew into Basildon to meet with the team and train. From there, they went to London, taking in sights, riding trains and soaking up the festivities. Just going to the city itself had always been a dream for Savona .

No, she didn’t get to stay in the famed Athlete’s Village. Yes, she sat in the stands while her

teammates competed. But when Canada fi nished fi fth , its highest place ever in team competition, she felt every bit a part of the cel-ebration.

“Even as the alternate, we were still part of it and they made sure that was clear,” Savona said. “I defi nitely felt it.”

As she transitions to LSU, Sa-vona is in uncharted territory once again. It didn’t take long for her to realize how different Baton Rouge and Mississauga were.

She said LSU was an easy choice when they showed faith and kept with her after the injuries.

“Everyone just loves hearing about gymnastics and LSU and athletics,” Savona said.

Savona said she’s excited to compete for a team, rather than just trying to advance herself through the ranks of national competition, which is physically and emotion-ally taxing.

“Hopefully, it’ll relieve a little stress, make me a happier gymnast like I was,” Savona said.

Breaux has coached two other Canadian Olympians in her 35 years at LSU and said the confi -dence and experience gained in just the qualifying process elevates a gymnast’s skills. She expects Sa-vona to have an immediate impact.

“She’s a very good student and of course, she’s an outstand-ing athlete,” Breaux said. “I think she’s going to truly embrace the LSU experience.”

recommended to the SEC Athlet-ics Directors by the conference’s Working Group on Fan Expe-rience , chaired by Mississippi State University Athletics Direc-tor Scott Stricklin. Based on this recommendation, the new policy was approved by the athletics di-rectors in August.

This policy change is an ef-fort to encourage fan attendance in venues across the conference by attempting to simulate the ac-tion seen in television broadcasts.

“The change in policy will allow our fans to see more of the action, including great plays and close calls,” said SEC Commis-sioner Mike Slive in a statement regarding the policy change. “Fans in the stadium now can see many of the same views of a play seen by fans watching on television. This should add to the overall game experience for fans inside our stadiums.”

Due to the speed of the game and some technical issues, the new policy was not implemented in Tiger Stadium in LSU’s game against North Texas.

“We show as many replays as were are capable of,” said LSU Director of Television and Media Kevin Wagner. “When you run an offense as fast-paced as [LSU’s], we don’t have enough time to show more than one replay.”

Wagner cited the ability to show a live feed of the television broadcast as the biggest and most noticeable change to come out of the announcement.

“Unfortunately we were un-able to do that last week because the equipment we need to install to do so was held up by Hurricane Isaac and lost somewhere in New Orleans, ” Wagner said.

Hurricane Isaac also caused problems with the video board on the south end of the stadium, putting it out of commission Sat-urday.

Wagner said he is not sure when technical issues in the stadi-um will be fi xed, but he hopes to have everything up and running by this Saturday for LSU’s bout against Washington.

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Hurricanes are not holidays.Holidays consist of planned

vacations, hotels and maybe a fl ight. People plan to leave home during holidays.

Hurricanes, on the contrary, force people out of their homes — or perhaps even worse, trap them inside.

The main difference between hurricanes and holidays is that one reduces stress and the other cre-ates it. With stress comes anxiety, depression and in extreme cases, suicide.

The recent cancellation of Fall Break and addition of Saturday school has, quite frankly, pissed a lot of people off.

According to a study by American Medical News , 11 per-cent of medical students reported considering suicide in the past year due to burnout and stress from

their studies. Undergraduates at LSU are

not under the same stress as medi-cal students, but it would naive to assume undergraduates are stress-free.

According to a study by the Education Resource Informa-tion Center , breaks are essential to healthy cognitive development and can reduce or eliminate stress which can lead to depression, obesity, suicide and overall poor mental health.

Hurricanes are not planned ahead of time, like holidays. They thrust themselves onto the stage and demand we play ball.

On holidays, we treat our-selves by eating a little bit better than normal. Going out to eat for most meals.

During hurricanes, everything is closed and curfews are imposed, making an evening out impossible. Meals consist of cold Vienna Sau-sage and vodka, and life begins to feel a bit gray and Soviet.

In fact, the only thing hur-ricanes and holidays have in

common is excessive substance abuse.

Apparently, it only takes one similarity to make two things identical.

Why? Because hurricanes are not vacations. Nowhere in the South is there a vacation without air conditioning.

According to CBS , more than 600,000 Louisiana homes and businesses lost power for some du-ration of the storm.

That’s more than 600,000 peo-ple who were not on vacation. The 90-degree heat and 100 percent hu-midity sounds a lot like Haiti post-earthquake.

Hurricanes are hard work. Without power, everything takes for-goddamn-ever. Heating up a can of ravioli over a charcoal fi re pit is a task.

Hurricanes make men feel like men. All beards grow a little thick-er and our voices drop an octave until power is restored. Then we all go back to watching “How I Met Your Mother .”

Regular breaks are necessary

to the mental health of college students, and should not be taken lightly.

Think about the timing of Fall Break. Is it a coincidence that it’s immediately following midterms?

Of course not, because mid-terms week creates signifi cant amounts of stress among the stu-dent body. Fall Break alleviates that stress.

We need Fall Break . Stress is a killer, and planned drunken beach vacations are our weapon.

Without it, we’ll all become fat, depressed and suicidal. And what did we do to deserve this?

We sat in dark, powerless apartments and lived off beer and Cheetos for three days.

Hell of a vacation.

Parker Cramer is a 21-year-old political science senior from Houston.

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“If the libertarians don’t jump ship and abandon Romney, then there is zero reason why the Rs would not treat them every year the way they were treated this year. And, that has zero to do with what libertar-ian Rs do in the primary next year. Sure, vote for a Ron Paul in the pri-mary, but if he can’t win, you have to stick with principles. “If not now, when; if now us, who?” Wasn’t it a famous Republican who said that?”

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“Speaking on behalf of a mid 40’s former Perot Supporter, I think this whole ideal that Romney will

somehow be better than Obama is absurd. First off, Mitt has all of the banking elite giving him more money this year than they all gave Obama last year (bailout). Not to mention reports that the Koch broth-ers and ALEC have pledged to raise as much as $400M. Why Americans think for one minute that both sides are not corrupted by big banks and big corporations is beyond me. H.R. 459 is a great fi rst step by Ron Paul. Dimensioning the Fed is another. I think Ron Paul is the uber conserva-tive, and the scares the heck out of the big money funding both Dems and Republicans.”

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Over the past 10 years, our govern-ment has used national security concerns to justify a series of transgressions of civil liberties.

Wiretaps, warrantless searches and even torture have all been justifi ed by our leaders, so long as they were carried out on targets that put the national security at risk.

Against these faceless enemies, it was easy enough to wave our hands and plug our ears, but the Pentagon has decided that the newest threat to our precious security is someone who, by all rights, should be a national hero.

Mark Owen , the pseudonym of the ex-Navy SEAL who wrote a book about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout , was told that he violated secrecy agreements , and that the Pentagon will pursue “all rem-edies legally available” in his prosecution, according to Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Charles Johnson .

What ever happened to supporting the troops?

The mantra “Support Our Troops” has been heard in political speeches and bran-dished on bumper stickers for so long it has become little more than a slogan signi-fying a proper patriotic attitude.

Saying you “support the troops” is now just another catchphrase that can mean you support the Bush administration, a certain political party or the United States’ general policy of military intervention.

But too often we forget the human fac-es behind the buzzword, and it’s in these cases that the words of support ring hol-low.

After his military retirement, what would Owen have to look forward to? A fat pension, to be sure, some medals to hang on his dress uniform and war stories to tell his grandchildren.

But, if the Pentagon had its way, he’d never get the recognition he deserves as a man who took part in one of our nation’s most signifi cant single military operations.

For too long, the Pentagon has fol-lowed this fence-riding party line, paying lip service to the troops while consistently ignoring their best interests.

Support the troops, but don’t recog-nize them. Buy a yellow ribbon, but not body armor or ammunition.

This Machiavellian attitude of politi-cians and military higher-ups undermines the interests of soldiers, and has been steadily growing since the attacks on 9/11 — fi ttingly, the date Owen’s book is to be published.

Of course, Sept. 11 is a day that brings patriotic stirrings to the hearts of every American. It reminds us of our tragic loss-es and the brave sacrifi ces of thousands of men and women.

But 9/11 was also a turning point. It marked the beginning of a new age in the American character, an age of fear and un-checked military power.

Before we had a concrete threat of

terrorism from which to cower, the Ameri-can people would never submit to strip searches at the airport or monitoring citi-zens based on religious and ethnic profi l-ing.

We certainly would never accept a military threat to freedom of the press.

Sure, government has always been stereotypically bureaucratic and gummed up with red tape. But there was a time, before 9/11, when we weren’t content to stick our fi ngers in our ears and actually wanted to know what was going on.

With the wars in the Middle East scal-ing back and preparations being made to bring troops home, it’s time to turn off our wartime tunnel vision. That means demanding more transparency in govern-ment and especially in the military.

National security is no longer at risk. There are no more justifi cations for in-fringing on civil liberties, and it’s safe to let one of our bravest soldiers reap the benefi ts of his work.

Gordon Brillon is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Lincoln, R.I .

As reads the motto of the United States Navy SEALs , the only easy day was yester-day — especially if your name is not Mark Owen .

Matt Bissonnette ’s name is not Mark Owen.

Yet yesterday was the release date of the book “No Easy Day ,” which was written by Bissonnette under the pseudonym Mark Owen and detailed the raid that killed Osa-ma bin Laden . Surely the publicity Bisson-nette’s book garnered made the fi rst day of sales an easy one, even though the Pentagon has threatened to fi le suit — as it should — because the narrative was not submitted to them for review beforehand.

Bissonnette has stated in interviews with CBS that the book is not meant to be political, but from the contradictions with the offi cial reports to the initially planned release date of Sept. 11 , all signs point in the opposite direction.

Simply put, either the man is a fool or he actively crossed his orders for gain or out of resentment.

While at fi rst a pseudonym may appear to be a sincere effort to maintain secrecy, Bissonnette was ignorant to suspect it would help whatsoever. He wrote about the most

crucial military act in recent history before his sworn secrecy would allow him to. For this reason, a pseudonym more closely re-sembles a tail between the legs, an admis-sion of guilt and an empty gesture to prove that he at least tried.

It must be noted that it took only a day for Fox News to uncover the author’s iden-tity .

Even the charge that the book is not po-litical has been contradicted by Bissonnette himself, and from the get-go at that.

Bissonnette has repeatedly voiced con-tempt for his Commander in Chief and even expressed jealousy for President Obama be-cause “he would take all the political credit for this,” as he told the Huffi ngton Post .

Sad as it may seem, fame and glory are not exactly in Bissonnette’s job description. Orders, however, are in the job description — orders that change the course of history and protect the lives of millions.

It’s saddening to hear one of these men is so embittered and unsatisfi ed with his life’s work that he would disobey orders with the intent of belittling the leader of the United States he swore to protect.

And this brings us to another case: All members of the SEAL Team 6 were ordered to lay low to avoid attention. Given one’s disposition, this could either be interpreted as a safety measure to keep these men off of international hit lists or an attempt to make sure they don’t get credit for their work.

Use your head on this one.Then, look into the Malaysian jihadist

forum al-Fidaa, who recently put out a hit on Bissonnette.

The recently published e-book “No Easy Op ,” written by other Special Opera-tions veterans , bolsters the case that Bis-sonnette’s account was driven by dishonest motives.

According to “No Easy Op,” Bisson-nette had been pushed out of SEAL Team 6 after voicing his intentions to leave and start a business, leaving him estranged from his former crew .

Brandon Webb, the founder of the site publishing the e-book, mentioned in an in-terview with the New York Times that he also had published books without prior Pen-tagon review. The difference, however, was that the material he previously wrote had al-ready been made public.

There is no nonpolitical reason Bis-sonnette needed to publish this book so soon. There’s no reason he could not follow Webb’s example.

Every action reeks of political motiva-tion and contempt, and Bissonnette deserves to be punished because, at the end of the day, he disobeyed the orders he swore to uphold.

Clayton Crockett is a 20-year-old international studies junior from Lafayette.

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“She was always artistic, al-ways drawing,” said her mother, Virginia Grenier, who speaks nine languages and works at the University’s International Hos-pitality Foundation. “We always encouraged anything she was in-terested in.”

Some of Grenier’s local work includes a restoration of the historic Whitney Plantation about 40 miles west of New Orleans, in addition to the Allen Hall proj-ects.

“We’re just very proud of her work and what she’s been able to contribute here in Louisiana,” her mother said.

A specialist in fresco mural conservation, Grenier originally worked to uncover and restore some of Allen Hall’s other murals in 2001. But in her research, she uncovered clues to other paint-ings around LSU.

Some had vanished. But oth-ers, like Henderson’s stairwell thesis, had only been buried. It took 10 years to gather funding for the project, which involved first tearing apart the wall-to-wall staircase before carefully expos-ing the 70 year-old murals.

“Fresco” means “fresh” in Italian, and the millennia-old technique involves painting di-rectly onto wet plaster, so that the painting actually dries into the wall.

Grenier uncovers, touches up and restores mostly century-old murals using uniquely blended chemicals to beautify the works without damaging them.

“All these frescos in Allen Hall represent a time when we paid more attention to public art,” said Interim Art and Design Dean Ken Carpenter, who has helped keep the project moving since former Dean David Conrath left the school several years ago.

“We kept pushing to make sure it didn’t slip through the cracks,” Carpenter said.

Grenier lives in the rural town of Vinci, named after Leon-ardo da Vinci, who was born there about 650 years before the now well-established conservationist helped to restore Florence’s most iconic cathedral — the marble gilded Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, otherwise known as Il Duomo, or The Dome.

“Her livelihood is in conser-vation and she’s in the right place of the world,” said Michael Rob-inson, senior development direc-tor of LSU’s College of Art and Design, who helped organize and recruit funds for the project.

“She’s very ‘simpatico,’” Robinson said, using the Italian word for “nice” to allude to her generous work helping both peo-ple and animals in need in Italy.

After moving to Italy, Gre-nier earned several additional de-grees in the field of conservation and began working as a conserva-tion specialist.

Today, she owns her own company, which allows her to travel from Italy to Loui-siana about once a year to restore homegrown art. But her

passion lies in Italy, where she also teaches conservation and does some fresco painting of her own.

“I really like that the young people bring enthusiasm with them,” Grenier said. “They even

teach me.”She speaks fluent Italian and

has permanent residency in the fresco capital of the world.

“The art, the architecture, the food, and the wine of course ... are superior to anything else,”

she said, with a small Buddha pendant dangling around her neck that she wears for safe trav-els during her many trans-Atlan-tic flights.

And although her family’s purple and gold connections run

deep, her heart has melted into the rolling Tuscany hills, like a fresco into a wall.

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