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MEMORIAL

Service honors memory of retired French professor

Pennie Nichols, a friend of Ad-elaide “Dela” Stuart Frazier, said de-spite her 10-year struggle with leu-kemia, Frazier was always willing to help Nichols with the struggles in her life.

“I miss her graceful way of liv-ing through, above and in spite of any mess,” Nichols said.

A memorial service was held Saturday afternoon at the French House for Frazier, a retired Univer-sity French professor who died May 27 from complications of her leuke-mia.

Many of Frazier’s friends and

colleagues shared memories of her at the service in the Grand Salon.

“I may be a bit biased,” said Frazier’s brother Bill, “but Dela was the most beautiful person I’ve ever known.”

Those who did not know Fra-zier had leukemia would have never guessed, Nichols said, and she lived a joyful and giving life despite her dis-ease.

Frazier often traveled to France with French studies pro-fessor Kevin Bongiorni, who told stories at the service of how Fra-zier made the most of her trips to the country. His stories prompt-ed much laughter from those in attendance.

“She knew the most important places to be in Paris,” Bongiorni said.

Frazier was passionate and en-gaging in her teach-ing, said French studies professor Adelaide Russo. Frazier also played a role in introduc-ing business into the French pro-gram’s curriculum, Russo said.

Frazier retired only a year ago,

Nichols said, and remained a dedi-cated professor while fi ghting her disease and enduring painful treat-ments.

A business scholarship will be named after Frazier so future CHRISTOPHER LEH / The Daily Reveille

Adelaide Russo, French studies professor, speaks Saturday at the memorial service for retired French professor Adelaide Frazier at the French House.FRAZIER, see page 15

‘‘‘I miss her graceful

way of living through, above and in spite

of any mess.’

Pennie Nicholsfriend of Adelaide Frazier

Brian SibilleContributing Writer

Frazier died of leukemia in May

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About a dozen University students protest pro-life march

photos by CHRISTOPHER LEH / The Daily Reveille

Pro-life supporters march to the Capitol on Saturday, marking the 38th anniversary of abortion’s legalization.

While more than 3,000 anti-abortion advocates at-tended the fi rst Baton Rouge Life March to the Capitol on Saturday morning, a small group of University students with opposing views dedicated themselves to forming a counter protest.

Wanda Kaiser , anthropology freshman , and Nathan Anderson , political science freshman , said they fi rst

noticed the advertisement for the Life March on a bill-board while driving on the interstate.

They decided they wanted to voice their opposing views, and Kaiser said she created a Facebook event Jan. 4 to let their friends and family know about the event.

Soon after, Alicia Ridout , liberal arts sophomore

Kate MabryContributing Writer

PROTEST, see page 15A protestor expresses his disapproval of La. Sen. David Vitter on Saturday.

Pro-choice supporters respond to the pro-life advocates with opposing signs.

Read opposing columns on abortion, p. 13

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UN scolds nations for deporting Iraqis back into danger zone

BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency scolded nations Sunday for deporting Iraq-is back into danger, delivering his criticism on a day when insurgents rattled the Baghdad area with a series of bombings that killed 10 people.

Antonio Guterres, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, said an estimated 2,000 Iraqis have been fl eeing their homeland every month, including a “signifi cant number of Christians.”Israeli panel clears military and government of wrongdoing in raid

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli panel on Sunday cleared the military and government of any wrongdoing during last year’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound international fl otilla, but the fi nding appeared unlikely to repair damage to Israel’s standing.

Nine pro-Palestinian activists, eight Turkish citizens and a Turk-ish American, were killed as Israeli commandos boarded one of the ships in the fl otilla, the Mavi Marmara, last May 31. The report said the armed defense of Israel’s maritime block-ade of the Hamas-ruled coastal strip was justifi ed under international law.

California nonprofi ts vying to host decomissioned USS Iowa

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The USS Iowa supported U.S. forces fi ghting the Japanese during World War II and helped tankers safely navigate the Persian Gulf in the Iran-Iraq War.

Though the ship has long since been out of service, its fi nal battle is still being waged. Two California nonprofi ts — one in the San Francis-co Bay area, the other in Los Ange-les — are vying to host the decom-missioned ship as a tourist attraction. The Navy is expected to make a de-cision within a few months.

FBI: Woman who raised stolen NY baby held after parole violation

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped from a New York hospital two decades ago was taken into custody Sunday on a parole vio-lation charge, the FBI said.

Ann Pettway surrendered Sun-day morning to the FBI and Bridge-port, Conn., police on a warrant from North Carolina, FBI superviso-ry special agent William Reiner said.

Pettway, who has family in Bridgeport, was on probation be-cause of a conviction for attempted embezzlement.

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board looks to trim travel costs

(AP) — The East Baton Rouge Par-ish School Board is discussing ways to cut back on the cost of profession-al travel.

The Advocate said expense reports showed 167 different trips costing more than $240,000 that 17 different board took since January 2005.

The issue was brought up along with other topics Saturday during an all-day retreat, the fi rst since the 11-member board was sworn into of-fi ce Jan. 2.

Tarvald Smith, who spent al-most $23,000 on 15 trips during a six-year period, suggested that board members have individual budgets.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authori-ties say a massive narcotics investi-gation has led to the arrest of dozens of people and put a major dent in the cocaine trade.

Law enforcement said during a news conference at FBI headquar-ters in New Orleans that as many as 60 people could face charges and 38 were arrested during a sweep Friday.

Most of the arrests were made without incident.

Albainian Parliament holds special session to investigate protests

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s parliament held a special session late Sunday to discuss the investigation of the violent opposition protest that the governing Democratic Party called an attempted overthrow of the govern-ment.

Prime Minister Sali Berisha said at a Cabinet meeting the parliament would convene “to create an investiga-tive parliamentary commission on the putsch.”

Opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama urged people to come to a peaceful demonstration Friday.

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The University libraries aren’t full of just stacked books and CC’s coffee.

They’re full of people — li-brarians and faculty — who are constantly looking for new ways to attract students to the facili-ties.

These attractions include tech-savvy alternatives to tradi-tional referencing, social media outlets to keep students informed and a mobile website to change the way people access library re-sources.

Middleton Library opened a service Aug. 23 to answer li-brary-related questions through text messaging.

Messages sent from cell phones go through Google Voice

and are answered by librarians via computers at the reference desk.

Incoming texts have been steady since the service started in August, with September and November tied for the biggest month with 21 texts each, said assistant li-brarian Jenna Ryan.

As of mid-January, 78 texts total have been answered.

“We’re hop-ing it’ll pick up,” Ryan said. “The texting service takes so little effort, we consider it worth doing, even though the numbers are small.”

In addition to directly ask-ing questions by text, students are encouraged to follow the University libraries on Twitter, Facebook and the libraries’ blog.

The blog is used to promote

resources and events and to help students become familiar with the names, faces and accomplish-ments of librarians, said Sigrid Kelsey, librarian and blogger.

Students read the blog and leave comments show-ing their interest in what the library has to say, Kelsey said.

“The stu-dents are using all kinds of media to communicate with each other,” Kelsey said. “If we fall behind and

are not keeping up with all the new ways to communicate, the students won’t see us as being up to date. I think it’s important to keep up with all the advances.”

For smart phone users, the libraries developed a mobile website, released Aug. 5. The site can be used to fi nd the avail-ability of books or computers,

make a reservation, fi nd hours and access mobile databases.

Because it’s a mobile ver-sion of the website and not an iPhone app, any phone that has web browsing capabilities can use it, Ryan said.

“I take objection to the ste-reotype that libraries are old and smelly,” Ryan said. “We’re try-ing to keep up and be where the patrons are. The more avenues we use to get the word out that we have cool stuff, the better.”

Taylor Parks , psychology

freshman knew the libraries have a Facebook, but not a texting service, Twitter or blog.

“I think it would make it eas-ier and simpler to text instead of asking someone who might not know what’s going on,” Parks said. “It’s convenient, maybe not 100 percent necessary, but a useful tool for students to use.”

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Social media, texts among new methods

A new poll indicates almost half of voters would support Gov. Bobby Jindal for re-election regardless of his opponent, according to news re-ports.

The telephone poll of 600 like-ly voters says 49 percent of voters would vote for Jindal, 40 percent would prefer someone else and 11 percent are uncertain.

Market Research Insight con-ducted the poll on behalf of a group of business leaders.

Jindal performs even better in the poll’s hypothetical election bal-lot, featuring State Treasurer and fellow Republican John Kennedy and Mitch Landrieu , New Orleans’ Democratic mayor.

The poll indicates Jindal would take 51 percent of the vote, with Landrieu taking 25 percent, Kenne-dy taking 10 percent and 14 percent undecided.

Neither Kennedy nor Landrieu have indicated they will challenge Jindal .

From whom — or even whether — Jindal will face a challenger for his re-election is a matter of specula-tion among political observers.

Although Jindal’s popularity has lagged slightly in the past few months, it remains high at more than 55 percent, according to a poll by Southern Media and Opinion Re-search.

Jindal also has $7 million set up

in campaign funds, according to his last campaign report from February.

POLITICS

Matthew AlbrightStaff Writter

49 percent of voters favor the governor

Contact Morgan Searles at [email protected]

Poll shows Gov. Bobby Jindal has promising re-election prospects

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The outlook may get a little sunnier after Feb. 1 for compa-nies negatively impacted by Hur-ricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike . That’s when the Louisiana Business and Technology Center will begin working with the com-panies to improve their business practices after the LBTC earned

two awards to help the com-panies out.

C h a r l e s D ’ A g o s t i n o , executive di-rector of the LBTC, which is part of the E.J. Ourso Col-lege of Busi-ness, said the Offi ce of Com-munity De-velopment of Louisiana ap-

proached several organizations and requested proposals for busi-ness assistance plans.

Matthew Wiggins, LBTC

counselor, said the LBTC sub-mitted two different proposals — one for $265,000 and another for $235,000 — to be spent in a pe-riod of two years. Both proposals were among the 15 selected to re-ceive the award.

D’Agostino said the money will go to 150 to 300 individual companies. He said LBTC offi cials involved with the project will travel across the state to provide businesses with plans and assistance.

“We have to travel from Lake Charles to New Orleans,” he said. “Gustav went all the way up to Alexandria.”

D’Agostino said teams of counselors visited business sites to see how they’ve been coping with the aftermath of hurricanes to choose which businesses will be involved with the project.

Wiggins said the $265,000 will be used to make local com-panies more prominent in inter-national markets and increase trade.

Consultants from the Uni-versity will work with business owners to translate their websites

from English to other languages and to teach them to use search engines popular in other coun-

tries, Wiggins said.

“They’re go-ing from being passive to being active, to actively seeking out peo-ple in other coun-tries,” he said.

Wiggins said the $235,000 award will go to

developing business technology with companies that work with alternative energies and digital media, among other things.

“These are the companies in Louisiana that are really trying to mold and shape the economy,” he said.

D’Agostino said counselors will also help businesses create contingency plans to deal with the aftermath of future hurri-canes.

“It’s tougher to get back in business if you don’t have a plan,” he said.

Middlebury College econom-ics professor and author David Colander spoke to LSU students Friday afternoon about the gritty details of the nation’s fi nancial crisis. A group of about 30 to 40 students, professors and teaching assistants heard Colander give a lecture titled “The Policy Dilem-ma Facing the U.S. Economy.”

Colander wrote the textbooks used by LSU students in Econom-ics 2030.

“I’m here to depress you,” he said. “I mean really depress you.”

Colander prefaced his speech by saying it’s far less likely the current generation of college stu-dents will be able to get as good and high-paying jobs as their par-ents did.

Colander described the 2008 fi nancial crisis as a “heart attack.”

“The good news is the econ-omy didn’t die,” he said. “The bad news is the reason we had the heart attack has not been dealt with, and we are creating the con-ditions for an even worse heart at-tack in the future.”

Colander related the econ-omy to a heart attack patient in recovery.

A heart attack patient needs exercise to get better, Colander said, but Americans force fed money to the economy without exercising it.

In a nutshell, banks gave large mortgages to people who could not afford them by allowing them not to pay interest for several years, according to Colander . When the people could not pay back the mortgage in a few years, the house had to be foreclosed .

“We kept living beyond our means and believing that we were different — more productive sim-ply because we were the Ameri-can,” read a slide on Colander ’s PowerPoint.

After World War II, Europe was destroyed and the U.S. was the commander in the global economy because the U.S. was the global low-cost producer, Colander said.

“This was a temporary phe-nomenon, not a permanent phe-nomenon,” he said.

Americans started to believe

they were different from the rest of the world, they were more pro-ductive and they deserved a high-er standard of living than the rest of the world, Colander said.

Europe , Japan and Korea re-covered, but the U.S. continued to be a competitor.

India and China have plen-tiful low-cost la-bor and began to be huge competi-tors for the U.S. in the 1990s, Col-ander said.

C o l a n d e r ’s speech reinforced the idea that Americans are not

any different than the rest of the world, but are most likely lazier. He said it is ridiculous to believe America can stay ahead in the world economy and have a higher standard of living than the rest of the world if the nation does not also work harder than the rest of the world.

Colander received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and teaching awards from Princeton University . He has authored, co-authored or edited more than 35 books .

GUEST LECTURE

RELIEF

Colleagues, students attend presentationParker CramerContributing Writer

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Money to go to 150 to 300 businessess Rachel WarrenStaff Writer

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David Colander, distinguished professor of economics at Middlebury College, discusses the current and future state of the economy Friday in Howe-Russell.

‘It’s tough-er to get back in

business if you don’t

have a plan.’

Charles D’AgostinoLBTC executive

director

Distinguished economics professor advises freshmen

LBTC receives two awards to help companies impacted by hurricanes

‘‘‘I’m here to depress you. I mean really

depress you.’

David Colandereconomics professor and author

‘‘‘These are the com-panies in Louisiana that are really trying

to mold and shape the economy.’

Charles D’AgostinoLBTC executive director


After 18 months , Gaines Foster has been named dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton .

The LSU System Board of Supervisors will vote to approve the appointment at its next meet-ing , which was scheduled for January but has been postponed to March .

Foster , who was already serv-ing as interim dean of the col-lege , said the postponement will not have an effect on his current job.

“I come in to work every morning, and it’s just the same thing,” Foster said. “I’m perfect-

ly happy to be interim dean as long as neces-sary.”

F o s t e r said he is most interested in helping stu-dents advance, and he also said initiatives should come from the stu-dents them-selves to pro-

vide a better college experience.“What makes this University

great is the faculty and students,” Foster said.

Students in the college said Foster’s personable demeanor makes him pleasant to be around.

“He makes it more welcom-ing here and interacts with us,” said Anna McPherson , childhood education junior .

Bill Demastes , English pro-fessor and director of English undergraduate studies , said most of the faculty members appreci-ate the process Hamilton used to appoint Foster from interim dean to dean.

“He’s a great dean,” De-mastes said. “There’s no doubt about it.”

Demastes said an e-mail was broadcast to faculty members in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences asking them to nominate members from the fac-ulty. Two fi nalists made public presentations, and the faculty gave feedback individually and through a faculty committee.

“Even through these trying times that we’ve experienced, most people remained very happy with the choice,” Demastes said.

Foster said he hopes to keep the academic quality as high as possible even in the face of bud-get cuts.

“My goal all along was to protect the students and fac-ulty and rebuild when the time comes,” he said.

Budget cuts to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences have been made by the Budget Crisis Committee , Foster said.

The recruitment of graduate students has dropped because of budget cuts, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences has not made new hires in any positions for two years, Foster

said. Vacant po-sitions have been fi lled by people who are not on the budget.

“The most dramatic cut in budget cuts is the cut to languages,” Foster said. “This is a personal trag-edy and a tragedy to the Univer-sity.”

Though he was born in Alexandria , Foster grew up in South Carolina and attended Wofford College , a small Christian college of about 1,500 students . He specialized in Southern history .

Foster said he became a pro-fessor at LSU on Aug. 18, 1982 . He later became the chair of the History Department before be-coming interim dean.

“I feel fortunate for the years I have spent at LSU,” Foster said.

Foster said he wants to bring the “small-college” experience to the University through increased personal attention to the students.

ADMINISTRATION

Appointment to be fi nalized in March

Foster named Humanities and Social Sciences dean

Meredith WillContributing Writer

ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille

Gaines Foster’s appointment as dean will be fi nalized when it is put to a vote at the next Board of Supervisors meeting in March.

Contact Meredith Will at [email protected]

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‘He makes it more

welcoming here and interacts with us.’

Anna McPherson childhood education

junior

‘‘‘My goal all along was to protect the

students and faculty and rebuild when the

time comes.’Gaines Foster

interim dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences


STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SEC exchange allows student leaders to share ideas

LSU Student Government representatives attended a South-eastern Conference exchange at Mississippi State University this weekend where they listened to speakers, swapped ideas and met SG representatives from other SEC universities.

From LSU, SG members President J Hudson , Vice Presi-dent Dani Borel , Chief of Staff Phoebe Hathorn , Speaker Pro Tempore Aaron Caffarel , Chief Justice Danielle Rushing , Assis-tant Director of Academics Thom-as Rodgers and Sens. David Jones and Cody Wells attended the conference .

“My expectations were ex-ceeded,” Jones said. “We ex-changed ideas, stories, concerns and successes. I believe it’s going drive all of us to keep doing what we’re doing and drive all of us to a higher level.”

Many of the LSU representa-tives discovered an aspect of an-other SEC school’s student gov-ernment that they would like to incorporate at the University.

Hudson would like to implement an idea from the Uni-versity of South Carolina where SG members ask students during the fi rst week of school what push-card initiatives they would like to see enforced.

“It sets a precedent that you want to work with students,” Hudson said.

Hudson was also interested in ideas to better utilize Groovin’ on the Grounds funding and ways to raise SG presidents’ and vice presidents’ salaries for the amount of work they put forth.

Hathorn said she enjoyed net-working and would like to explore a University of Alabama program where incoming freshmen are matched by their interests to or-ganizations before they arrive at school.

“Knowing that there’s a place for you to fi t in right before you get on campus — that’s a great learning initiative,” Hathorn said.

Caffarel was interested in the University of Kentucky’s equiva-lent to LSU’s Priority Points called “tally cats,” which are used at smaller sporting competitions and social events with incentives

to earn them, like winning iPads. He was also im-pressed that Ken-tucky’s SG started a scholarship en-dowment.

Jones was in-spired by the Mis-sissippi Commis-sioner of Higher Education , who discussed with SG representa t ives

how to fi ght budget cuts at their

respective schools.“He inspired me more than

anyone,” Jones said. “I really felt he understood the rigor and chal-lenge that we’re facing with high-er education.”

Jones is also hopeful this ex-change will inspire SG representa-tives to advocate LSU in the fi ght against budget cuts.

“It’s just a feeling that I be-lieve in my heart and mind: We’re going to be OK,” he said. “We’re going to fi nd the ways to make

sure that the fl agship is fl ying and fl ying high. We’re all working to-ward the same thing — to protect our universities to create a place where students want to make memories.”

LSU hosted the SG SEC ex-change last year, and the Univer-sity of Arkansas will host it next year.

photo courtesy of DANI BOREL

Members of Student Government discuss the SG website at this past weekend’s SEC exchange. The exchange allowed the students to explore other student governments.

Other schools impress LSU representatives Andrea GalloStaff Writer ‘‘‘I believe it’s going

to drive all of us ... to a higher level.’

David JonesLSU SG senator

Contact Andrea Gallo at [email protected]

Coming off one of its best of-fensive performances of the season, the LSU women’s basketball team kept its hot hand Sunday afternoon.

The Lady Tigers (14-7, 4-3) came out of the gates fi ring, hitting 6-of-13 from 3-point range in the fi rst half en route to a 72-58 victory against Florida (12-9, 2-5) in the PMAC.

“It’s just fi nding the open spot,” said sophomore guard Adri-enne Webb, who sunk three of her fi rst four treys in the game. “If I’m

open and have a shot, I’m going to take it.”

Webb had 18 points in the game.

And while the Lady Tiger de-fense led the way in the fi rst half of the season, the offense maintained control of the paint throughout the entire contest in what LSU coach Van Chancellor called “the most dominant rebounding we have seen since I’ve been here, even with Syl-via [Fowles].”

LSU outrebounded Florida 41-24 in the game and outscored the Gators 30-10 in the paint.

“They were switching ev-erything and we had a lot of mis-matches, so we got the ball inside,” said Chancellor, referring to one the team’s go-to plays that opened up shots down low for the Lady Tigers.

Junior forward LaSondra Bar-rett was the catalyst for the Lady Tigers with 14 points and 12 re-bounds , marking her third double-double of the season and eighth in her career.

Barrett, who went down in the second half with a left ankle injury, returned later in the half to complete the performance and was just two assists away from a triple double.

Barrett said despite the domi-nant stat line, the Gators didn’t go down without a fi ght.

“At the end of the game, whatever team had the best de-fense and the most rebounds were going to come out with the win,” said Barrett, who is just seven

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Tiger Feed: Read blogger Ryan Ginn’s take on former LSU track coach Pat Henry’s success at Texas A&M.

FOOTBALL

Toliver fails to shine in Shrine game

False Start

TOLIVER, see page 11

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers crush Lady GatorsLSU out-rebounds Florida, 41-24Mark ClementsSports Contributor

FLORIDA see page 11


LSU junior forward LaSondra Barrett (55) attempts a jump shot during the Lady Tigers’ 72-58 win against Florida on Sunday in the PMAC.

LSU suffers second blowout in a row after starting 2-0 in SEC play

Matt DerenbeckerLSU freshman guard‘‘‘The last two games have been

embarrassing. We’ve been dominated in all aspects of the

game.’

EMILY SLACK / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior forward Storm Warren attempts a shot against the Ole Miss Rebels during the Tigers’ 78-51 loss Saturday. LSU has suffered two straight blowout losses.

Only two and a half weeks removed from winning the Cotton Bowl Offensive MVP, former LSU wide receiver Terrence Toliver laid a goose egg in his fi nal collegiate game.

Toliver, who hauled in three touchdowns Jan. 7 in the Cotton Bowl, failed to record a catch Sat-urday in the 86th annual East-West Shrine Game in Orlando, Fla. Toli-ver’s lack of production, however, wasn’t a factor as the East won without him, 25-8.

But all may not be lost as To-liver fl ashed signs of his talent dur-ing East’s practice sessions.

ESPN draft analyst Todd Mc-Shay highlighted Toliver last week during a Shrine game segment as one of the players who proved the most to NFL scouts.

“Terrence Toliver of LSU has had a big week,” said McShay, who projects Toliver as a third -round draft pick. “This week ... he’s really showed he could be a playmaker and get down the fi eld and catch the ball over his head.”

Toliver entered his career at LSU as a freshman with high ex-pectations. The 6-foot-5-inch, 203-pound Toliver was the No. 1 receiver and a fi ve-star prospect out of Hempstead High School in Texas but never quite lived up to the billing.

After being used sparingly

Staff Reports

Michael LambertSports Writer

Saturday’s men’s basketball game began with cheers of “Geaux to Hell, Ole Miss” from

a relatively full LSU student section.It ended with eerie silence and

empty seats.Ole Miss (13-7, 1-4) mauled

LSU, 78-51, to hand the Tigers their sec-ond-straight blowout Southeastern Confer-ence loss of the season.

The most recent one has been harder to swallow than the fi rst.

Kentucky gave LSU (10-9, 2-2 SEC) its fi rst blemish on the confer-ence record Jan. 15, 82-44, but the Wildcats were a top-25 team playing

in historic Rupp Arena.Losing to Ole Miss was a differ-

ent story.This scar came at the hands of a

winless SEC West team in front of the 1981 and 1986 Final Four teams and 8,060 fans.

“The last two games have been embarrassing,” said freshman guard Matt

Derenbecker . “We’ve been dominat-ed in all aspects of the game.”

The Tigers roared into confer-ence play with wins against Auburn and Arkansas, but since then LSU has

BLOWOUT, see page 11


The LSU track and fi eld team ran into an impressive Texas A&M squad in an early-season indoor dual meet Saturday between the two pres-tigious track powers.

Despite an outstanding day for Tiger senior Walter Henning , the Ag-gies bested the LSU men’s squad by a tight 84-75 margin, and junior Semoy Hackett’s strong sprints couldn’t prevent a 91-67 defeat for the LSU women’s team.

LSU and Tex-as A&M both en-tered the meet with high preseason ex-pectations, as the Tigers enjoyed a No. 2 ranking and the Lady Tigers held the No. 3 spot , and vice versa for Texas A&M.

Legendary former Tiger coach Pat Henry , who won 27 total nation-al championships in his time at LSU, now serves as head coach for the Ag-gies, guiding them to back-to-back sweeps of the men’s and women’s outdoor national titles in the past two years.

For the Lady Tigers, it was the sprint events that provided some ear-ly season highlights.

Hackett defeated Texas A&M All-American Jeneba Tarmoh by just 0.03 in the 60-meter dash fi nal heat with a time of 7.24 seconds, match-ing her personal best and assuring Hackett an automatic berth at the Indoor Track and Field Champion-ships.

This year’s Indoor Track and Field Championships will also be held at the Gilliam Indoor Track Sta-dium at Texas A&M in March .

“Competing against a team like Texas A&M allowed our athletes

an opportunity to compete against a premier program on the very track we’re going to see again when we do come back for the NCAA Champi-onships,” coach Dennis Shaver said in a news release. “Running on the bank for the fi rst time was important for us.”

Along with her victory in the 60-meter, Hackett , the nation’s No. 3 -ranked sprinter, also took third place in a tightly contested 200-me-ter dash fi nal, losing by just three one-hundredths of a second to Ag-

gie sprinter Jessica Beard .

Also winning individual events for the Lady Tigers were senior Brit-tany Hall in the 800 meters, senior Brit-tani Carter in the high jump, senior Melissa Ogbourne in the triple jump and junior Samia Stokes in the weight throw.

On the men’s side, the fi eld and jumping events were bright spots in a close meet with

the No. 3 Aggies.Henning threw an NCAA-

leading 72-3 3/4 feet in the weight throw, earning him an automatic bid to March’s Indoor Championship, where he will defend his national crown from last season.

He then continued his impres-sive afternoon with a dominant vic-tory in the shot put just minutes later, earning the Tigers fi ve more points.

Sophomore Damar Forbes maintained his spectacular early-sea-son form by winning the long jump one week after setting a personal-best mark in the event during last weekend’s Purple Tiger Invitational .

Other men’s individual winners included junior All-American Bar-rett Nugent in the 60-meter hurdles, senior Josh Dominguez in the pole vault and junior Kyron Blaise in the triple jump.

In a highly competitive dual meet Saturday , the Texas A&M men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams edged out LSU’s squads.

The No. 8 Texas A&M women nipped the No. 23 Lady Tigers (10-4) , 163-120 , while the No. 22 LSU men’s team (6-5) fell to No. 20 Texas A&M by a count of 166-134 .

“I knew it would be a tight battle,” said co-head coach David Geyer . “It always is with Texas A&M.”

The meet, however, wasn’t lacking strong performances by LSU swimmers.

After breaking a pool record in the 50-yard freestyle at the LSU Natatorium last weekend, senior swimmer Jane Trepp fi n-ished fi rst in two races for the Lady Tigers.

“Texas A&M has a strong and deep team,” Geyer said. “I’m proud of how our ladies did against them.”

Trepp won the 50-yard free-style as well as the 100-yard but-terfl y .

Senior swimmer Hannes Heyl had an outstanding day to lead the men’s efforts. Heyl re-corded a victory in the 50-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 20.36 seconds and earned fi rst place in the 100-yard butterfl y .

Senior swimmers James Meyers , Lamar Weeks and Clint Hallum all joined Heyl in posting fi rst-place fi nishes for the Tigers in College Station .

Meyers won the 100-yard backstroke , while Weeks earned fi rst in the 200-yard butterfl y , and Hallum won the individual med-ley .

The young Tigers and Lady Tigers earned points for

LSU, as well. Sophomore Chris Mericas

fi nished with two personal-best times in his backstroke events, one of them coming just behind the fi rst-place Meyers in the 100-yard backstroke. Mericas also won the 200-yard backstroke .

“He’s had a great attitude all year, I’m excited for him,” Geyer said. “He deserved the win.”

Freshman Torrey Bussey fi nished second in the 200-yard b r e a s t s t r o k e and sophomore Jana Ruimer-man earned third place in the 200-yard backstroke , showing promise for the future of the Lady Tigers.

The divers had a few standout performances of their own, with junior Matt Vieke earning second place in the 3-meter competition . The score of 388.20 was a career best

for Vieke , who came within fi ve points of setting a school record.

In the 1-meter competi-tion , freshman Sean McKinney and sophomore Elle Schmidt led LSU. McKinney fi nished third for the men, while Schmidt earned fourth for the Lady Tigers.

The LSU men’s team fi n-ished its regular season, and now will look ahead to the Southeast-ern Conference championships, which will be hosted at Florida next month.

“The results have been more consistent,” Geyer said of the team’s preparedness for SEC championships. “We’re in a great spot for the championships.”

The Lady Tigers still have one meet left. They will face Tu-lane, Rice and Houston in a two-day meet next weekend hosted at the LSU Natatorium.

TRACK AND FIELD

Men, women gain individual titlesChris AbshireSports Contributor

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Women prepare for fi nal meet of seasonAlbert BurfordSports Contributor

Aggies trounce Tigers in early indoor meet

Contact Chris Abshire at [email protected]

Contact Albert Burford at [email protected]

LSU falls short to Big 12 powerhouse

‘‘‘I knew it would be a tight battle. ... It always is with Texas

A&M.’David Geyer

LSU swimming and diving co-head coach

Individual titles won Saturday at Gilliam Indoor

Track Stadium:

Walter Henning, 35-pound weightthrowSemoy Hackett, 60-meter dashDamar Forbes, long jumpBarrett Nugent, 60-meter hurdlesJosh Dominguez, pole vaultKyron Blaise, triple jump crownBrittany Hall, 800-meter dashBrittani Carter, high jumpMelissa Ogbourne, triple jumpSamia Stokes, weight throw


GYMNASTICS

Tigers snap 10-meet home winning streak Friday

Consistency.LSU gymnastics coach D-D

Breaux preached the word through-out the week, but it was No. 1 Florida who had it Friday at No. 24 LSU’s home opening meet.

The Tigers (0-3, 0-2) led af-ter the first rotation but fell behind soon thereafter and couldn’t regain any rhythm, as the Gators (3-0, 2-0) won decisively, 196.425-194.000.

“We gave away a point and a half in immature mistakes and foolish things that should not have taken place,” Breaux said.

The loss snapped LSU’s 10-meet home win streak. The Tigers won every home meet last season.

“We’ve got some upperclass-men that right now they’re still try-ing to find their fitness, they’re still trying to be stronger off the floor, and I can’t explain that,” Breaux said. “It’s kind of frustrating.”

LSU began the night prom-isingly on vault, posting a

season-high score of 49.125, and freshman Sarie Morrison posted a career-high individual score of 9.875 in the rotation. Junior Ashley Lee finished with the same score, and each LSU gymnast scored above a 9.700.

The Tigers couldn’t carry the same luck to the uneven bars, posting a season-low 48.100. LSU struggled on bars in its opening

meet against Oregon State, as well, posting a 48.200.

“Tonight on bars we saw extra swings and uncharacteristic things that shouldn’t be happening,” Breaux said.

Two of the Tigers’ first three scores on bars were under 9.500. Senior Samantha Engle and Mor-rison rounded out the scores with a respectable 9.725 and 9.800,

respectively. Morrison’s 9.800 tied for the

title in the event. It marked the only event a Tiger shared an individual title.

It was also Engle’s only event after persevering through an ankle injury that kept her out last week-end against Auburn.

“We need [Engle] in three events,” Breaux said. “We need the experience. She’s a senior that’s ca-pable of giving us 9.80s and 9.90s. We need to see that come around, and I don’t know how long that’s going to take.”

Morrison competed in every rotation and finished with an all-around score of 39.100.

“I tell the kids what I want is a little bit of improvement each week, and Sarie’s done that,” Breaux said. “She works hard at her fitness. She looks good for a very tall gymnast.”

The Tigers lost the lead

after the bars, 98.275-97.225, and couldn’t keep up with the nation’s best team.

LSU didn’t post a single indi-vidual score higher than 9.800 after the bars, while the Gators remained consistent with six scores of at least 9.800 in the final two events. Florida outscored LSU by .575 on the beam and .800 on the floor to seal the win.

Morrison and sophomore Janelle Garcia led the Tigers on beam, each posting a 9.725. A trio of Tigers paced LSU on floor with a 9.725.

A crowd of 3,590 was on hand to witness the defeat.

“We want to come back and please the crowd,” Lee said. “We need to go in the gym and work harder and get better.”

CHRISTOPHER LEH / The Daily Reveille

Freshman Kaleigh Dickson earns a 9.275 during the floor event Friday. She notched a 38.500 all around during the meet, ending the Tigers’ home winning streak.

No. 24 LSU falls to No. 1 Florida

Rowan KavnerSports Writer

Contact Rowan Kavner at [email protected]

Miles has long admired KragthorpeLSU coach Les Miles was

familiar with new offensive co-ordinator Steve Kragthorpe long before Miles interviewed him.

Kragthorpe was the head coach at Tulsa when Miles piloted Oklahoma State.

“I watched him at Tulsa, and he threw the ball so stinking well,” Miles told a group of re-porters. “I mar-veled at how good Tulsa could move the football against O k l a h o m a . O k l a h o m a State had less

talent than Oklahoma, and Tulsa had less talent than Oklahoma State.”

Miles thinks Kragthorpe will help simplify the thought process of the offense from this past sea-son. It’s no secret LSU’s quarter-backs struggled throughout the season, posting a cumulative 57 percent completion rate and 155.6 yards per game.

“I just felt like [Kraghthorpe] could shortcut some of the elabo-rate thought process that was go-ing on,” Miles said. “And that would make our guys quicker de-cision makers.”

MURPHY NOT RETURNINGMiles also announced senior

running back Richard Murphy

will not attempt to gain a sixth year of eligibility.

Murphy, who played mini-mally this season, ends his LSU career with 524 rushing yards with two touchdowns. He also caught 29 passes for 214 yards.

Murphy was expected to be the main secondary back behind then junior Stevan Ridley. He was

supplanted by freshmen Michael Ford and Spencer Ware, though.

Murphy was named to the Doak Walker Award watchlist be-fore the season, which honors col-lege football’s top running back.

FOOTBALL

Staff Reports

‘I watched [Kragthorpe] at Tulsa, and he threw the

ball so stinking

well.’

Les MilesLSU football coach

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

NFC CHAMPIONSHIPCHICAGO (AP) — It was the

182nd meeting in the league’s most historic rivalry, and the stakes had never been bigger.

Now the Green Bay Packers (13-6) are headed to Dallas. And no matter what happens in the Su-per Bowl, the Packers and their fans hold ultimate bragging rights over their rivals to the South. The Packers will play the winner of Sunday night’s AFC title game be-tween the New York Jets and Pitts-burgh Steelers.

Aaron Rodgers ran for a touch-down. He made a touchdown-sav-ing tackle. And he was better than three Bears quarterbacks in leading Green Bay to the Super Bowl with an ugly-but-beautiful 21-14 vic-tory Sunday against Chicago.

“It’s a dream come true,” Rod-gers said. “It’s an incredible feel-ing. I’m at a loss for words.”

Rodgers kept the Bears’ de-fense off balance all afternoon, Green Bay punter Tim Masthay kept Devin Hester under wraps and the Packers’ superb defense took care of the rest in knocking the ri-val Bears out of the playoffs.

All Jay Cutler could do was

watch, having left the game with a knee injury early in the third quar-ter. And with Cutler sitting, little-known backup Caleb Hanie actu-ally made it a game.

Chicago’s third-string quar-terback rallied the Bears for a touchdown drive to cut the lead to 14-7 after Chester Taylor’s 1-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter.

Hanie and the Bears had a chance to tie the game after the Bears’ defense finally got a few stops, but Hanie threw a ball straight to Packers defensive line-man B.J. Raji, who lumbered 18 yards into the end zone for a touch-down to give the Packers a 21-7 lead.

Rodgers threw for 244 yards with two interceptions, but his play in the first half put the Bears in a hole as their defense seemed to fall for every play-action fake.

The Bears couldn’t make any-thing happen with primary backup Todd Collins in for Cutler, and ap-peared to be headed for a blowout until Hanie took over.

But the Bears were in a hole, and even Hanie’s unlikely rallies couldn’t bring them back.

“Just disappointment,” Bears coach Lovie Smith said. “We got into a hole but the guys fought back.”

AFC CHAMPIONSHIP PITTSBURGH — For the

third time in six seasons, Terrible Towels will twirl at the Super Bowl. The Steelers silenced Rex Ryan’s wild bunch with a fumble return for a touchdown and a goal-line stand in a 24-19 victory for the AFC championship Sunday.

Look out Big D, here comes another Big D — in black and gold, and with an unmatched his-tory of carrying off the Lombardi Trophy.

You can bet that the unit led by James Harrison, which shut down the Jets’ comeback in the fourth quarter, will test Aaron Rodgers. That overwhelming defense set the tone for most of a frigid night at Heinz Field to end the Jets’ stun-ning postseason run.

The Steelers ended the Jets’ season with a dominant first half for a 24-3 edge. Mendenhall had 95 of his 121 yards and a touch-down.

Roethlisberger has moved on from a four-game suspension at the beginning of the season to take Pittsburgh to its eighth Super Bowl. The Steelers own the most titles at six.

The Steelers are regulars, in-cluding titles for the 2005 and 2008 teams, both led by Roethlisberger and a fierce defense sparked by playmaking safety Troy Polamalu.

New York (13-6) failed for the fourth time in the AFC title game since 1969, when the Jets won perhaps the most significant of all

Super Bowls. It was a devastating finish, particularly after the Jets beat Peyton Manning and the In-dianapolis Colts, then Tom Brady and the New England Patriots on

the road to get to Pittsburgh.


NFL

Packers win NFC, Steelers take AFC for trip to Super Bowl XLVPittsburgh holds the most titles with sixThe Associated Press


JIM PRISCHING / The Associated Press

Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji (90) celebrates with Sam Shields (37) after Raji returned a pick for a touchdown during Green Bay’s 21-14 win in Chicago on Sunday.


points away from the 1,000 mark. “It’s just a hunger to want the bas-ketball.”

The Gators put up a fight for most of the first half, but seemed to slowly fizzle in the tail end of the game.

“I’m a little baffled because we came out ready to play, and it’s disappointing,” said Florida coach Amanda Butler. “I thought LSU made big shots and plays to set the tones for the game. You have to give them a lot of credit.”

The Lady Tigers also got a sol-id showing from senior guard Kath-erine Graham, who had 11 points and nine rebounds in the contest.

“When I talked to [Chancel-lor] he said that I need to play hard every possession,” Graham said. “There are only a few more games

at LSU for me wearing this jer-sey. Just to go out every play and do what I’ve been doing since I’ve been here.”

LSU continues its four-game homestand with a matchup Thurs-day night against No. 23 Arkansas before taking on Georgia on Sun-day in the annual Pink Game.

“We got two tough games. We have two challenges, two opportu-nities,” Chancellor said. “Arkansas and Georgia both have great RPIs, and this time of year you need to win some games against RPIs.”

Tip-off against Arkansas is set for 7 p.m. in the PMAC. After Sunday’s game, the Lady Tigers hit the road for five of their last seven games.

been outscored 160-95.“We’re not talented enough to

come into league play and just try to rely on our talent and not rely on hustle and out-rebound like we did the first two games,” said Deren-becker, who led the team with 14 points.

The team’s best shooter, fresh-man guard Ralston Turner, missed his fourth-straight game from a stress reaction in his foot.

LSU Coach Trent Johnson re-iterated his plan to air on the side of caution with Turner’s injury, but the Johnson said the guard could return Jan. 29 against Alabama.

LSU’s other injured player, ju-nior forward Storm Warren, saw 12 minutes of playing time but contin-ued to run gingerly on a sensitive right Achilles tendon.

“If you can go, you can go,” Johnson said. “If somebody tells me you can play, play.”

Junior forward Malcolm White spoiled an opportunity to impress his former teammates. White, a member of the Rebels team from 2007 to 2009, scored six points but committed five turnovers.

“It was good seeing those guys again, but we didn’t come out with the win,” White said. “My expec-tations were to come out with the win.”

The schedule doesn’t ease up for LSU. The Tigers travel to Ten-nessee for a Wednesday night tip-off against the Volunteers.

LSU started the game 4 of 5 from the 3-point line. Derenbecker drained a three from the right side of the court about a foot behind the

arc and then sunk another from the left side a few possessions later to go up, 10-9.

But the Tigers went on to only make two more 3-pointers the en-tire game.

“We’ve been scouted well,” said freshman point guard Andre Stringer. “Our perimeter can’t find good open shots so now we have to create our own, and that’s what has been the difference from now and early on in the season.”

The Rebels came out strong in the second half with a 16-4 run, beginning with a jumper by Ole Miss senior guard Chris Warren. They kept the pressure, outscor-ing the Tigers, 40-19, in the last 20 minutes.

Warren entered the game as the fourth-leading scorer in the SEC, and he didn’t disappoint, fin-ishing with 18 points. The Orlando, Fla., native helped Ole Miss shoot 70 percent in the second half.

Johnson echoed Derenbeck-er’s sentiments about hustle and toughness.

“The thing that bothers me is our inability to get the loose balls, being beat 33-19 on the glass,” Johnson said. “There’s a level of frustration there. For me it’s about mental accountability.”

Johnson expressed frustration in the hesitancy of the offense to take risks.

“You can’t be afraid to make a play,” Johnson said. “You can’t be afraid to shoot an open shot when you’re open.”

BLOWOUT, from page 7

TOLIVER, from page 7

FLORIDA, from page 7

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Contact Mark Clements at [email protected]

in his first two seasons, Toliver hauled in 53 catches for 735 yards as a junior and was expected to be one of the top receivers in the country in 2010.

“Last year, I did all right,” said a frustrated Toliver in September. “But my career here hasn’t been like I thought it was going to be.”

Even with the dominating Cot-ton Bowl performance, Toliver still only had 41 catches for 579 yards and five touchdowns this season.

“You watch him during the season, not always getting the ball consistently in the passing game the way other big time wide

receivers do,” McShay said of why Toliver has gone under the radar.

Toliver’s tall frame should warrant him a look by NFL teams and could prove to be a mid-round steal.

Former offensive tackle Jo-seph Barksdale also participated in the Shrine game, though for the West squad. Barksdale is expected to be a late-round pick and could switch from the left tackle position he played at LSU to right tackle in the NFL.


EMILY SLACK / The Daily Reveille

Freshman forward Matt Derenbecker tries to shake off an Ole Miss defender in Saturday’s game against the Ole Miss Rebels.

It’s been overly publicized, overly discussed and overly criti-cized but it hasn’t been solved.

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill had everybody talking about the catastrophe that hit the Gulf Coast for a few moments, shaking their fists at an irresponsible overseas company but hardly doing a thing to solve the underlying problem — a problem that could be slowly killing not only our coastal ecosystems but its people, as well.

Water pollution was the first is-sue that came with the spill, but it wasn’t the last. The health of endan-gered species, and more importantly the safety of the seafood supply, all relied on the proper cleanup of the Gulf Coast.

And while the fault of the initial spill lies with BP, the plans for the cleanup remained heavily on the fed-

eral government, and more spe-cifically, Gov. Bobby Jindal. The U.S. Coast Guard continu-ally asked for locations that needed to be cleaned up and relied on our

lovely representative to do the deed.If only they realized sooner

that at the heart of every governor is a politician trying more than any-thing to protect not the state but his own namesake. Reporters claim that

while Jindal often spoke to the Coast Guard in a timely manner, he usu-ally referred them to areas that com-plained of the spill rather than areas that truly needed it. He was even ac-cused of “showboating,” according to the New York Times.

It’s not surprising, but it’s most certainly not helpful.

Crude oil, like what leaked from the BP oil spill, is extremely toxic to wildlife and is best handled if cleaned up in the first 24 hours. Of course, this miniscule time frame was impossible to come by consid-ering the government hadn’t even heard about the leak until after this window had passed.

As time became more and more critical, Jindal should have thought

of the environment more than his po-tential voters.

After all, if the livelihood of the land is ultimately damaged beyond the point of no return, no matter how happy the people are now, it will eventually come back to bite them in their butts.

Reports from an Environmen-tal Protection Agency whistleblower have already talked about the Gulf Coast’s seafood being unsafe, and it’s only a matter of time before other people begin to agree.

Ultimately, another decline in seafood sales will only continue the devastating blow of unemployment. It would throw the fishermen back into the ocean of dismay, longing for a time when seafood was not only

safe but when politicians could see the larger picture.

As the state’s most visible rep-resentative during the crisis, it was Jindal’s responsibility to look past his own face in the mirror, to what really matters , the environment. While his obligations lie largely with his people, they lie even more with the land on which they live — the land on which they’ve built their livelihood.

Parishes may not have fully un-derstood the danger as their people looked over a sea of black, that their land wasn’t the most endangered part of the infected Gulf.

Their complaints to Jindal were valid, as they were only trying to protect their own land — and in the end, themselves.

But because the parishes aren’t the ones able to utilize the booms, their opinions should be better stud-ied by higher legislative power.

Representatives are set to help the state by utilizing their knowledge to the best of their abilities. Either Jindal was experiencing an off cou-ple of months, or he just doesn’t have any ability.

Regardless, Jindal has made it clear that he has yet to understand that with every action comes a con-sequence.

And while his only feedback right now may be the reward of help-ing his people, the consequence will come when he finally acknowledges that he hasn’t done any such thing.

Priyanka Bhatia is a 19-year-old pre-veterinary medicine major with a minor in environmental manage-ment systems. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_Pbhatia.

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Opinionpage 12 Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

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Editorial Policies & Procedures Quote of the Day“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered

the value of life.”

Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist

Feb. 12, 1809 — April 19, 1882

Editorial BoardSarah Lawson

Robert StewartStephanie Giglio

Steven PowellDevin Graham

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WALKING ON THIN ICE

Politics come in second during an environmental crisis

I read with interest Devin Gra-ham’s Thursday column, in which he accused religion in general and Christianity in particular of racism and prejudice. Citing the historical slaying of Canaanites by the Isra-elites and Jesus’s analogy compar-ing Gentiles to dogs, Mr. Graham

asserts that religion encourages an “us-them, tribalistic mentality.”

Look, it’s one thing to say that there are racist, religious people in the world — no one’s going to argue with that. To say that they are racist because they are reli-gious is quite another matter. It would come as a great surprise to the countless religious people who spent their lives combating racism and prejudice: William Wilber-force, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., and Benazir Bhutto, to name a few.

Just as surprising was Mr.

Graham’s example of supposed bigotry: Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s comment that he shares a unique sense of community with fellow Christians. Excuse me? The real question is, who wouldn’t share a unique sense of community with people who hold the same beliefs and values as they do? Are fraternities and sororities rac-ist because their members share a special bond among themselves? I don’t think so!

God never commanded the Israelites to wipe out other nations because they were not his chosen

people, but rather because those nations were totally perverted with gross immorality, child sacrifice and the like. There was far more going on than people holding dif-ferent religions. As for the case of the Gentile woman, Jesus did not say Gentiles were dogs. He was making an analogy, not an equal-ity. Mr. Graham left out the fact that Jesus did grant the woman’s request and heal her daughter.

As someone who has read the whole Bible, I can say that God’s justice is more than balanced with His love. Take the story of Naaman

the Syrian, a Gentile general whom God healed of leprosy, at the time an incurable disease. God is so full of love that he gives each person an opportunity to receive forgiveness of their sin through his son Jesus Christ.

Philip GoppeltCivil engineering junior

Priyanka BhatiaColumnist

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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God’s justice is more than balanced with his love

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OpinionMonday, Jan. 24, 2011 page 13

HEAD TO HEAD

Columnists disagree about abortion’s moralityThe protest against the Life March at the State Capitol on Saturday has once again raised the issue of abortion. With this in mind, two of our columnists debate the legality and morality of the issue.

Macy: First, let me say abor-tion is not logistically a prevent-able phenom-enon. Long before the modern era pushed the is-sue into the public forum, premeditated abortions were conducted in secret without any medical knowledge. Herbs and violence were the main means to an end, endangering the lives of the women who attempted them. And yet people still utilized these options. To take away the right to get a safe hospital procedure is to endanger women’s lives and force an entire culture to regress to something almost primitive. That was the past. Does it really need to be the future?

Chris: You say abortion is not preventable and therefore retro-gressive to ille-galize. I agree to a certain point that abor-tion can never be eradicated. Whether some-thing is illegal or not, demand exists and will always be met. However, I feel this argument is used in a lofty sense and does not allow us to realize that the number of abortions needs to be curbed. In saying that abortion is unprevent-able, we falsely believe that the number of abortions cannot be re-duced as well.

Macy: But not to the point of zero. Lofty? Really? No. I think we can both agree that prevention is preferable, that people need to be educated and the stigma against contraception needs to be lifted. As you already know, the number of abortions in the last 30 years has decreased and now has leveled off, which I think can be attributed to greater awareness of other op-tions. And hopefully the trend will continue, because it is fantastic. However, prevention doesn’t ne-gate the necessity for abortion. The procedure remains just as im-portant for situations when using birth control either fails or isn’t applicable, such as in the case of a broken condom or rape.

Chris: Yes, the Centers for Disease Control report that 58 percent of abortions stem from the misguided or inconsistent use of contraceptives. A reduction of the

abortion rate, by half obviously not zero, but it has the potential to avert the termination of hundreds of thousands of lives. Do you feel that in the case of rape or a con-dom breaking, a woman’s preg-nancy becomes a punishment if she is not allowed abortion as an option?

Macy: I would say forbid-ding the abortion would be termed “reckless” rather than “punish-ing.” By way of rape, an unintend-ed pregnancy can surely be trau-matic, and any state that doesn’t recognize that is careless. The hy-pothetical woman in this situation would have already gone through so much that to force her to go unwillingly through more would be cruel. In the case of a broken condom, the person’s engaging in coitus obviously wasn’t meant to produce, and to bring a child into a world that either doesn’t want it or isn’t prepared for it is cruel, as well.

Chris: No doubt unplanned pregnancy can be traumatic. The act of bearing a child for nine months is physically stressful. However, to automatically crimi-nalize the unborn child as merely a product of sexual defilement can be considered reckless, as well. Although you claim that such a child is intrinsically unwanted, measures to place the child in an adoptive family can bring light into a terrible situation.

I do understand that life inside the womb inhabits a gray area that is not universally understood to be human life at all. Laci Peterson’s murder in 2002 probed important questions about the confusion be-tween what is living and not liv-ing, as her death was considered a

double homicide. She was almost eight months pregnant.

To my understanding, this confusion provides the framework for the legitimization of abortion in situations where the mother’s health is not in danger. If we are allowed to say that some unborn children are not alive and others are, then the act of abortion be-comes merely prevention of life rather than cancellation. I propose that all unborn life is in fact hu-man life, and needs to be afforded legal protection — just as a new-born would be protected.

Macy: By traumatic, I meant that rape is more than “physically stressful.” It’s incredibly men-tally stressful, as I’m sure you know, and the impact it leaves is often only healed by years of in-trospection and coming to terms with what happened. As for the adoption proposition, you place too much hope in an imperfect system. The adoption system in the world is undoubtedly flawed. There is significantly more supply than demand, which is exempli-fied by the number of children that remain unadopted. This situation is incredibly irresponsible of to-day’s population, and I hope more people start adopting to rectify this. It’s unethical to bring a child into the world when there are so many without parents.

As for your proposition, I dis-agree. Abortion should be legal up until the second trimester and into the third trimester in extenu-ating circumstances (as in health reasons). A fetus, or “unborn life,” as you put it, isn’t subject to pain until at least the 20th week and possibly up until the 24th, which is reason enough for me to believe

abortion up until that point isn’t cruel.

Chris: I never tried to miti-gate the significance of rape. I was merely conceding that even without the addition of rape, un-planned pregnancy is hard to deal with. The process of adopting a child — at the moment — is in-deed incredibly inefficient. This is actually one of my main points. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released in-formation from a comprehensive study that found only 31 percent of women who begin the process of adoption actually adopt.

The study also explains this low percentage comes from a lack of satisfaction most adoption seekers have with the foster care system. Many children in foster care are either too old or unsta-ble. Reformations are desperately needed to efficiently pair adoptive parents with expecting women who are unable to provide care for their child. Hopefully, this will downsize the number of abortions because of poor financial back-ground.

The problem with trying to pinpoint the exact moment human life begins is using tools that are too subjective. You say aborting a fetus while it can feel pain is cruel. I could just as easily say aborting a fetus after it gains the ability to hear — week 18 — is cruel.

Who can really say either one of us is truly wrong? We must abandon such subjective tools in favor of more objective ones. The magical number in this case is 46. This is the number of chro-mosomes in the human genome. When the egg and sperm fuse, a completely new set of genes is

formed, independent of the fa-ther’s and mother’s genes. In only this sense can we truly say a new human entity has been formed. Whether it is the cut of the umbili-cal cord or the first beat of a heart, generating a universal consensus of what is more or less human is tricky.

Macy: Unfortunately, while I see your point, in the world of the living we can’t always free ourselves from the weight of deci-sion because of moral ambiguity. Choices must be made eventually, and the legalization of abortion 38 years ago was the right decision. Abortion can be and often is an ethical decision, and the law pro-tects reproductive rights, women and family.

Chris: We absolutely cannot escape such decisions and ques-tions, and our decision making is limited by our human imperfec-tion. This does not excuse us from seriously examining the issue of abortion and its widespread avail-ability and practice.

Macy Linton is a 19-year-old in-ternational studies freshman from Memphis, Tenn. Follow her at @TDR_Mlinton.

Chris Freyder is a 21-year-old biological sciences junior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twit-ter @TDR_Cfreyder.

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Brager said Frazier helped him get his cur-rent position by introducing him to University staff when a job in the French Department be-came available.

Eric Horent, a friend of Fra-zier, said Fra-zier’s disease brought out the best in her, and the kindness she showed to his children was her biggest impact on him.

“Dela had many best friends,” Horent said. “She was so much to so many people.”

The service ended when those in attendance filled the room with their singing of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in memory of Frazier and her favorite sport, baseball.

FRAZIER, from page 1

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and friend to Kaiser and Anderson, joined the effort and agreed to help form the counter protest.

“We wanted to show that there is a pro-choice voice in Louisiana,” Ridout said.

Saturday’s protest was staged in honor of the 38th anni-versary of abor-tion’s legaliza-tion.

The coun-ter protest was planned to begin across the street from the Gover-nor’s Mansion and end at the new Capitol. As

of Friday night, at least 50 protesters were predicted to attend, Anderson said.

In all, about 12 people showed at the Governor’s Mansion on Satur-day to protest the Life March. Many of the counter protesters had been misinformed and arrived at the old Capitol where the pro-lifers had been gathering, Anderson said.

“There were a few hiccups, but it was an important first step for those of us here in Baton Rouge,” Anderson said. “Since it was the first time we ever organized a protest, I’d say it was a job well done.”

While the group protested on the street, Anderson said the ma-jority of marchers remained silent, but some shouted obscenities while passing them.

“We didn’t want to interfere, but we wanted to make our presence known,” Anderson said.

Once the pro-lifers arrived at the Capitol, the counter protestors followed but were quickly met by police, Anderson said.

“We were told the Life March had been given permission to be at the Capitol and that we could not be present on the Capitol grounds,” An-derson said.

Instead, the counter protestors stayed outside the Capitol Annex building, Anderson said.

Anderson said the point of the counter protest was to connect the issue of a woman’s right to choose with other working-class issues.

“We believe that working-class women are the demographic that are hurt the most by restricting access to abortion because it’s working-class women who could not afford to pay for the abortion on their own,” An-derson said. “While wealthy women have the money and resources to re-ceive this medical procedure, Medic-aid does not cover abortions.”

Gregory Esteven, a former Southeastern Louisiana University student and Amite resident, was one of a small minority not originally from Baton Rouge who attended the counter protest.

“We saw the counter protest as an opportunity to stand up for wom-en’s rights, and despite the confu-sion, we felt good about representing the opposing view,” Esteven said. “It was definitely worth the drive.”

Despite the differing views, the Life March received a massive turn-out.

The pro-life speakers included Sen. David Vitter, Michelle Durnad of the Tears to Treasures Ministry and Gene Mills of the Louisiana Family Forum. Gov. Bobby Jindal was also invited to speak, but he was unable to make the event, said Ben-jamin Clapper, executive director for the Louisiana Right to Life.

The point of the Life March is to create a movement to end abortion in Louisiana. The Ultrasound Before Abortion Act, which was passed this past summer, is only one way the pro-life movement has made prog-ress, Clapper said.

“The act saves lives because it empowers women with more criti-cal information about pregnancy and their unborn child,” Clapper said. “So many women who had abortions and regretted them said if they would have seen the ultrasound, they would have chosen to keep their baby.”

According to Leo Segalla,

legislative chairman of the Knights of Columbus, the Knights have worked on several pro-life projects, and the St. George and St. Patrick units contributed several ultrasound machines to pregnancy centers in the state.

Marissa Ledet, communication disorders freshman, said she consid-ers herself a strong pro-life supporter and has participated in three recent pro-life marches in Washington, D.C.

“You can tell by the size of the group that Louisiana is a pro-life state,” Ledet said.

Ledet and Sean Bramley, mu-sic education freshman, said they learned about the Life March from a Facebook event they were invited to by LARTL.

“We’re involved with the Loui-siana Right to Life, which keeps us pretty up to date on pro-life events going on in the state,” Bramley said.

PROTEST, from page 1

Contact Kate Mabry at [email protected]

‘Dela had many best friends. She was so much

to so many people.’

Eric Horent friend of

Adelaide Frazier

See a video and more photos from the protest

at lsureveille.com

‘We wanted to show

that there is a

pro-choice voice in

Louisiana.’Alicia Ridout

liberal arts sophomore


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