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Auburn to be LSU’s toughest test yet

Catherine ThrelkeldStaff Writer

A student broadsided a First Transit bus carrying 10 students Tuesday morning.

The student, driving a Mazda Tribute SUV, was at the traffi c light on Burbank Drive turning onto Nicholson Drive, said LSU Police Department Det. Jason Bettencourtt . She drove forward into the driver’s side of the bus, and her car was pushed into the grassy ditch alongside Nichol-son.

Bettencourtt said the student was on her cell phone and did not see the bus.

He said no one was hurt.First Transit General Man-

ager William Waters said the bus will be placed in a body shop on Wednesday. It will cost $5,000 to $6,000 to repair.

Waters said First Transit will take care of the bus fi rst, then fi le a claim to have the student’s in-surance pay for the damage.

Waters said there have been four crashes involving buses since last April, but this crash caused the most damage.

“I’m just glad nobody was hurt,” he said.

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The recent history between LSU and Auburn has been anything but bland.

Dating back to the 2004 sea-son, fi ve of the six games between Auburn and LSU have been decided in the fi nal 60 seconds, with LSU emerging victorious in three of the fi ve contests .

The battle between LSU and Auburn this season promises to be just as full of intrigue. Both

undefeated, No. 6 LSU and No. 4 Auburn will be vying for Southeast-ern Conference Western Division supremacy.

“This year, I think it’s as big as ever,” said junior running back Stevan Ridley . “We’re both top-10. We’re both undefeated. [This game is] going to decide the West, so there’s a lot of pressure riding on this game.”

LSU is 7-0 for the fi rst time since 1973 , though the way it has gotten to that record has left some-thing to be desired from some na-tional media pundits.

Some of that doubt could be erased if LSU emerges victorious from the top-10 clash.

“They are undefeated, and there is great history between the two schools,” said LSU coach Les Miles . “It always seems to come down to a very close and competi-tive game.”

From 2004 to 2008 , LSU and Auburn were separated by only nine points total on the scoreboard.

Three games were decided by touchdown passes that all occurred with less than 1:16 on the clock , one was decided by an overtime fi eld goal , and in 2006, former LSU receiver Craig Davis was tack-led on the Auburn 4-yard line as time expired . ED REINKE / The Associated Press

Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton eyes the end zone on his second touchdown run Oct. 9 during Auburn’s 37-34 win against Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.

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De Jarion “DJ” Neely, fi nance freshman, performs “Dougie in my Snuggie” on Monday in the Business Residential College. Neely is one of multiple University students whose videos have gained viral popularity.

Popular Internet videos fea-tured on sites like YouTube have dominated the online social scene for years and have spotlighted a variety of artists — including some University students.

Among other campus-related viral hits, students may remember a spring fi nals week favorite titled “LSU lil fi nals week BOUNCE.”

Two student rappers,

international studies junior Myles Laroux and general studies senior Logan Baudean, recorded the video sensation as a joke among friends.

“We had been circling around a video from Monster with Da Fade ,” Baudean said. “He raps about random stuff like roast beef and red beans and rice, so we de-cided to do one about fi nals.”

Laroux said he and Baudean sent it to fewer than 10 friends on Facebook . Those friends tagged their friends, and the domino effect

rippled to nearly 19,000 people. “At one point I walked into

the library and counted 17 people watching it on their computers,” he said. “The same day I got 20-some-thing friend requests and was a thread on TigerDroppings.com.”

The duo later saw a Face-book fan page dedicated to their video and had the title added to UrbanDictionary.com. YouTube later contacted them about posting

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VIRAL, see page 15

Gov. Bobby Jindal took a step toward acknowledging student con-cerns about higher education late Tuesday afternoon with a post on his Facebook page asking for stu-dent input.

“To Louisiana College Stu-dents: Our government is spending more than we can afford, and I be-lieve our universities are delivering less value than you deserve. Click below to join the discussion,” the post said.

The post asks students for feedback on how the state is cur-rently funding higher education.

“I am happy to hear your thoughts on that,” the post said. “But I would ask that you would also take the time to think more deeply about your college experience and share with me your thoughts on how we can save money and improve your educational experience.”

The post comes one day after Student Government President J Hudson made national headlines for his a letter to newspapers in states Jindal has visited in the past two weeks.

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French strikes: Gas stations run short, students clash with police

Military recruiters told to accept gay openly gay applicants

PARIS (AP) — Airlines fl ying into France were ordered to slash sched-ules — and to bring enough fuel for the trip out. Gas stations ran short or dry, while truckers jammed highway traffi c Monday by driving at a snail’s pace, a tactic known in French as “operation escargot.”

Strikes over the government’s plans to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60 disrupted daily life and a wide swath of industry — from oil refi ning to travel to shipping — as protesters fought a proposal they say tampers with the near-sacred French social contract.

Teens joined in the protests, with at least 261 high schools blocked or disrupted Monday. Some turned violent, and 290 youths were arrested, the Interior Ministry said. Students set cars and tires on fi re, toppled a telephone booth and hurled debris at police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, as well as in Lyon, France, and elsewhere.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the fi rst time in the nation’s history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

At least two service members discharged for being gay began the process to re-enlist after the Penta-gon’s Tuesday announcement.

Meanwhile, a federal judge in California who overturned the 17-year policy last week was likely to reject the government’s latest effort to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law. The Jus-tice Department will likely appeal if she does not suspend her order.

The Defense Department has said it would comply with U.S. Dis-trict Judge Virginia Phillips’ order and had frozen any discharge cases. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said recruiters had been giv-en top-level guidance to accept ap-plicants who say they are gay.

Groups oppose Governor Jindal administration’s Medicaid plan

(AP) — Hospitals, emergency re-sponders, physicians and other medical providers Monday stepped up their opposition to the Jindal administration’s planned restruc-turing of the state’s Medicaid pro-gram.

The Louisiana Ambulance Al-liance, Louisiana Hospital Associ-ation, Louisiana State Medical So-ciety and other groups announced the organization of the Coalition to Protect Louisiana’s Healthcare to challenge the state’s new health care approach.

At issue is the best way to reduce the state’s Medicaid costs by discouraging the poor and un-insured from making costly emer-gency room visits for routine health care.

State Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein said changes have to be made to en-sure that the health care program is more affordable for the state.

La. oyster harvesters task force seeks to cancel 2010-11 season

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A task force of Louisiana oyster harvesters and dealers wants the state to can-cel the 2010-2011 oyster harvesting season scheduled in public oyster waters east of the Mississippi River.

The proposed cancellation of a season currently set to open Nov. 15 would not affect private year-round oyster leases on either side of the river, some of which have been re-opening following the Gulf oil spill.

Escapee from Livingston Parish Courthouse caught

LIVINGSTON (AP) — A prisoner who fl ed the Livingston Parish Courthouse on Tuesday after be-ing sentenced to fi ve years on drug charges has been captured, the sher-iff’s offi ce said.

Deputies captured Dennis Ray Caruso Jr., 23, about two hours after he fl ed, said Perry Rushing, chief of operations for the sheriff’s offi ce.

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Lt. Col. Gadi Abudi said Tues-day that the idea was to prevent sen-sitive information from reaching its “enemies.”

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A U.S. soldier was taken into custody after an Afghan detainee was found dead in his cell, apparently from a gunshot wound, NATO said in a statement Tuesday night.

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Chancellor Michael Martin dis-cussed the possibility of a Universi-ty-run microbrewery Tuesday while riding on the Tiger Trails transit sys-tem during Student Government’s Chats with the Chancellor.

Students also asked Martin about budget cuts as they rode the Tigerland and Highland-Ben Hur bus routes.

Brandon Jones , microbiology senior and College of Science sena-tor, asked Martin about the progress of creating an on-campus micro-brewery, an idea Martin has champi-oned in the past.

Martin said the University has received a lot of interest in partner-ships with the project, and one of the possible locations for the brewery could be the University-owned land next to Walk-On’s on Burbank Drive .

Martin said he would like to see University-produced beer avail-able at the University Faculty Club , Walk-On’s , The Lod Cook Hotel and Conference Center and the private boxes in Tiger Stadium .

Martin said the interest is in the experience, not the beer.

“This is an experience for stu-dents that will pay for itself,” he said.

Martin said he would like to see the brewery run similarly to the Dairy Store , with business students running the store and microbiology students developing the beer.

The name of the beer is up in the air, Martin said. After discovering one of the names he favored, “Tiger Lager,” already existed, Martin has played with names including Pan-thera , the genus name for tiger , for the beer.

It would cost about $1 million in equipment to start the brewery, but Martin said he doesn’t want to spend any University money on the project.

Martin also talked to bus rid-ers about the midyear budget cut increasing from $2.2 million to $5.1 million .

LSU System administrators de-cided that non-teaching units, like the LSU AgCenter and Penning-ton Biomedical Research Center , couldn’t afford to take as big of a cut, so it was suggested the money come from the University’s budget, Martin said.

Martin said this allocation has not been approved, and students should speak out when the Board of Supervisors meets to make the deci-sion.

Before getting off the bus, one passenger asked Martin if budget cuts would affect University trans-portation.

“Transportation is self-funded,” Martin responded. “It will be OK.”

During the Tiger Trails ride, Martin reminisced about his days leading up to being chancellor of the University with Gary Graham , direc-tor of the Offi ce of Parking, Traffi c and Transportation, and Brian Nich-ols , executive director of the Offi ce of Risk Management.

SG handed out T-shirts and snacks to students riding the bus dur-ing the event.

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Celeste AnsleyStaff Writer

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Chancellor discusses microbrewery at Chats


Chancellor Michael Martin joins students Monday to discuss campus issues on one of the Highland-Ben Hur Tiger Trails buses as part of Chats with the Chancellor.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Planning and Zoning Commis-sion approved plans for a 320-unit student apartment complex on Ben Hur Road at its Monday meeting.

The Woodlands of Baton Rouge is part of a planned 200-acre “Master Planned Develop-ment” adjacent to The Cottages of Baton Rouge. The Woodlands would stretch from The Cottages to Burbank Drive.

“We’ll start leasing early next fall,” said Mike Swope , a spokes-man for Dovetail Companies , the developer.

Swope said students will be able to move into the complex in August 2012 .

The development will mirror the Woodlands of Tuscaloosa , a complex for students at the Uni-versity of Alabama , Swope said.

The Tuscaloosa complex has two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments that cost $620, $585 and $555 a month, respectively. Swope said the rates and con-struction in Baton Rouge would be similar.

The development was de-signed with college students in mind, Swope said.

The design plan for the fa-cility shows a central courtyard with a pool, garden and basket-ball court surrounded by rows of apartments. Other rows branch out from there.

The plan shows the whole facility surrounded by a line of trees.

The Cottages complex, next door to the planned development, opened this semester.

When The Cottages opened, some real estate analysts pre-dicted it would be the last student

apartment built in the area for some time because of the expira-tion of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act , which allowed companies to write off 50 percent of the cost of building.

While developers could take advantage of that program, sev-eral new buildings popped up near campus, including Sterling Northgate , Campus Crossings at Highland and the Regent Apart-ments on Millerville Road .

Vacancy rates jumped when the act expired, according to the

2010 Cook Moore Report. The Zoning Commission

also approved three other projects Monday , including an addition to The Greater King David Baptist Church on Blount Road , the 30-unit Willowbrook Townhomes at Jefferson Highway and Hoo Shoo Too Road and a new headquarters for the State Police Retirement System .



Woodlands to be ready by Aug. 2012

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New complex to go up on Ben Hur

Amid a budget cut crisis that faculty and administrators claim has seen a dearth of student in-volvement, student representa-tives from throughout the state’s higher education system have yet to put up a signifi cant unifi ed front on the issue.

LSU Student Government President J Hudson said structur-al issues and differences between schools have so far hamstrung efforts to communicate jointly, though he plans to fi x the prob-lem soon.

As SG President , Hudson sits on the Council of Student Body Presidents , which includes the ranking student representatives from the state’s 30 public higher education institutions.

That includes the eight four-year universities in the LSU Sys-tem, the four universities in the Southern University System, the eight universities and colleges in the University of Louisiana Sys-tem and the 10 colleges in the Louisiana Technical and Com-munity College System .

“Past administrations have told me it’s a waste of time,” Hudson said. “We saw an oppor-tunity to do some good there.”

Hudson said the number of people on the council and the differences in the types of

universities they represent have caused divisions that have pre-vented sending a single message.

“There’s a huge divide be-tween the four-year institutions and the commu-nity colleges,” Hudson said. “But the com-munity colleges are all lumped to-gether with ours.”

Hudson said community col-leges haven’t faced as many budget-related is-sues as the four-year universities.

“The univer-sities are suffer-ing at a much greater rate,” he said.

The board is scheduled to meet during fall break. Hudson said he plans to move forward without the community colleges’ support if necessary.

“We’re going to get those universities to get a single mes-sage out,” he said.

Hudson said he plans to get that message out even if it means excluding the community college representatives.

“That might piss them off,” he said. “But it needs to happen.”

Robert Rasmussen , faculty adviser for the LSU System stu-dent presidents on the council, said turnover is an issue.

“One of the problems we have is that the council chang-es every year, so there’s no

continuity,” he said.Rasmussen also acknowl-

edged some “natural rivalry be-tween schools,” but he said the

council can still do a lot of good.

“It’s always good when stu-dents get together and talk about the issues,” Rasmus-sen said.

R a s m u s s e n pointed to the defeat of a bill in the Legislature two years ago that would have al-lowed concealed fi rearms on col-lege campuses as evidence of the

council’s effectiveness.There is a precedent for or-

ganized student government involvement in budget cut af-fairs. Six student government presidents from schools in the University of Kansas System joined together earlier this month to demand answers from the state’s gubernatorial candidates about higher education.

In a letter signed by the six presidents, University of Kansas Student Government President Michael Wade Smith asked the candidates to support the “Kan-sas Commitment,” a $50 million initiative that would restore fund-ing to the state’s higher education system.

“We’ve been cut more than $100 million over the past three years,” Smith said. “We, as the

student body presidents, decided we needed to get involved.”

Smith said those students were connected via the Kansas Board of Regents.

Their meetings include only the six major four-year institu-tions in the Kansas system — not

including technical colleges.“Our issues are all similar,”

Smith said.

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Structural differences causing divisions

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Hudson tries to unify Louisiana SG presidents on budget cuts

‘‘‘There’s a huge

divide between the four-year institutions and the community colleges. But the

community colleges are all lumped

together with ours.’J Hudson

LSU SG president


Student helps officers arrest man for felony theft using computer GPS

Students arrested for stealing stop sign and overturning port-o-potty

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CAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS

Officers arrested a 17-year-old man unaffiliated with the Univer-sity on Oct. 11 for felony theft.

A student reported his back-pack, containing a computer and books, stolen from Middleton Li-brary, according to Det. Kevin Scott, LSU Police Department spokesman.

Scott said the student activated online tracking software on his sto-len laptop, which led officers to the suspect.

Officers arrested Chris Ben-nett, of 4523 Evangeline St., for fel-ony theft in the amount of $2,135, Scott said.

The majority of the stolen items were recovered, and Bennett was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, Scott said.

Officers arrested two Uni-versity students Oct. 15 for theft, criminal trespassing and criminal mischief.

Around 3:45 a.m., officers near Dalrymple Drive and West Lake-shore Drive saw two people hold-ing a stop sign, Scott said.

Officers later discovered the sign had been taken from a con-struction site east of University High School, where a van window was broken and a port-o-potty was overturned, Scott said.

John Sampognaro, 19, of 4002 Deborah Drive, Monroe, and John Loomis, 20, of 124 Crescent Drive, Ferriday, were issued misdemeanor summonses and released, Scott said.

Students received e-mails last week advising them to be on the lookout for a survey titled “What do you think of LSU?”

Holly Cullen, assistant vice chancellor of University Relations, said the survey was sent to around 1,000 people Monday. She said the University plans to send the rest in the next few days.

Cullen said the main purpose of the research is to improve both the general image of the University and recruiting techniques.

“Now, more than ever, we need to know our marketplace,” she said.

Cullen said the surveys are be-ing sent to students, staff, faculty, current and prospective graduate students, donors and alumni.

Cullen said surveys sent via e-mail are frequently used to collect student opinion.

“We’ve done surveys like this in the past,” Cullen said. “This is mainly to update our data.”

Cullen said the survey, con-ducted by Louisiana-based market research firm SCI Research, cost $23,948.

Cullen said the data collected from a previous survey helped the University bring in the second larg-est freshman class in history last year.

She said the University is also using the data to aid current students. The survey allows the University to see which programs students use most and which they don’t know about. The University

then knows what programs to ad-vertise, Cullen said.

“We want to know what people know and don’t know,” Cullen said.

University Relations encour-ages all students to respond so the data will be accurate, Cullen said.

“We want as many people to participate as possible,” she said.

Cullen said money was spe-cifically budgeted to conduct the research, and it will come from an existing research account.

Stephen Champagne, agricul-tural business senior, said he thinks it’s money well spent.

“It’s a good idea to try to re-cruit students,” Champagne said. “It highlights the attributes of the University.”

Champagne said he thinks at-tracting students from out of state could benefit the University during these financial hard times.

“The more students we can bring from out of state, the better,” he said. “Spread the wealth.”

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COMMUNICATION

Rachel WarrenContributing Writer

University Relations creates LSU surveyStudent, faculty poll costs nearly $24,000


Students at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center earned the highest pas-sage rate on the July 2010 Louisiana Bar Examination, according to the Committee on Bar Admissions for the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Of the 151 University law stu-dents who took the bar exam, 116, or 76.8 percent, of the students passed, ac-cording to the re-port.

The University traditionally earns fi rst place in pas-sage rates in the state, said Law Cen-ter Director of Communications and External Relations Karen Soniat.

Since 1989, the University has ranked second place in passage rates only once, in 2004 , Soniat said.

The Law Center primarily fo-cuses on how passage rates compare to the overall passage rate of the state because the rates vary from year to year, Law Center Chancellor Jack

Weiss said in a news release. “Our pass rate using this rela-

tive measure also remains the high-est in the state and is a tremendous credit to our students and faculty,” Weiss said in the release.

These results measure all stu-dents who took the bar exam in July and does not distinguish between fi rst-time and repeat test takers.

“The statistic that matters is the bar pas-sage rate of those who are taking the exam in July for the fi rst time relative to the over-all passage rate of all fi rst-time takers of that exam,” Weiss said. “Today’s preliminary results include repeat

takers and do not break out results for fi rst -time takers only. It’s only an estimate, but I would expect our rela-tive results among fi rst-time takers to be somewhat higher than the prelim-inary numbers released today.”

The Offi ce of Academic Af-fairs has implemented guidelines for broadcast e-mail requests to reduce the number of e-mails sent to stu-dents, faculty and staff.

The new rules, according to the GROK Knowledge Base, will limit the system to send only high-priority messages. The guidelines were offi -cially presented Sept. 28, said Stacia

Haynie, vice provost for Academic Affairs.

“The major change is that we did not really have any formal guide-lines before,” Haynie said. “One of the things we wanted to do is be able to provide guidance to guidelines.”

The criteria for submitting a re-quest says the content of broadcast e-mails must concern a majority of the targeted campus. Requests are limited to only University entities, and messages must have high impor-tance, according to GROK.

The guidelines prohibit requests for events with less than 500 people attending, messages geared toward specifi c colleges, messages from

individual professors or students, and advertisements and messages containing attach-ments. Broadcast e-mails from orga-nizations like Stu-dent Government are limited to one per week.

If a request is not acceptable, stu-dents and faculty have other options to broadcast their message like the LSU Calendar, student media out-lets, PAWS News and LSU Today, the GROK website said.

“This sort of electronic commu-nication can be easily facilitated,”

Haynie said. “We [have] seen an in-crease in requests to use broadcast e-mails.”

Haynie said the more e-mails students receive, the less attention they pay to them.

“We tried to fi nd balance be-tween accessibil-

ity and being sensitive to the need for the University to have access through broadcast e-mails to convey

extremely important messages,” she said.

Haynie said the Offi ce of Aca-demic Affairs receives about three requests daily, which often ties up the server. She said these new guide-lines are another way to protect the resource and benefi t students.

“Certainly, we preserve mecha-nisms to convey priority messages to students,” Haynie said. “And then we have an appropriate fi lter so stu-dents aren’t receiving dozens of e-mails during the day.”

Exam passage rates:•LSU: 116 of 151 (76.8%)•Tulane: 82 of 112 (73.2%)•Loyola: 147 of 214 (68.7%)•Southern: 64 of 116 (55.2%)•Other: 92 of 168 (54.8%)•Total: 501 of 761 (65.8%)

Grace MontgomeryContributing Writer

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Law students earn best passage rate on exam

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Sydni DunnStaff Writer

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Messages limited by relevance, priority

‘‘‘We have an

appropriate fi lter so students aren’t receiving dozens

of e-mails.’Stacia Haynie

vice provost for Academic Affairs

New guidelines to reduce number of broadcast e-mails

Football fans tuning into this weekend’s LSU-Auburn game may want to keep an eye on the line of scrimmage.

Two of the best defensive line-men in all of col-lege football will be on display Saturday when the No. 6 LSU Tigers (7-0, 4-0) travel to Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn , Ala., to face the No. 5 Auburn Tigers (7-0, 4-0) in a showdown be-tween undefeat-ed Southeastern Conference Western Division rivals.

LSU senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis and Auburn junior de-fensive tackle Nick Fairley have caused a lot of headaches for oppos-ing offenses this season and, at times, have been downright unblockable.

In a game surrounded by quar-terback storylines, whichever inte-rior lineman can wreak more havoc may ultimately hold the key to vic-tory.

“You can make a case that these two guys are the best defensive tack-les in college football right now,” said local NFL draft analyst Mike Detillier. “For the winning team, it’s

going to be which one of these guys is most disruptive. How are you go-ing to block either one?”

Both linemen have each earned the SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week award three times this season. Fairley and Nevis have each tallied at least 30 tackles and both are among

the SEC leaders in sacks and tackles for loss, statistics which Detillier believes have propelled both players into “All-American type performers.”

Nevis, a 6-foot-2-inch, 285-pound Mar-rero native has been the centerpiece of an LSU defense that leads the SEC in total de-fense, rushing defense,

passing defense and fi rst downs al-lowed. He has tallied 38 tackles on the season, ranks third in the SEC with 11.5 tackles for loss and is tied with Fairley for second in the confer-ence with fi ve sacks.

LSU coach Les Miles said Nevis is “having the kind of year that would lead to national awards.” Nevis fl ashed glimpses of brilliance as a top reserve during 13 games in 2009, but he has adopted a new at-titude that has taken his game to an-other level as a starter.

“He’s always played with a great motor. He realizes that this is

Cory BoudreauxSports Contributor

A 6-foot-2-inch, 285-pound monster has been dominating col-lege football from the middle of LSU’s defensive line this season — and he’s hungry for more.

Senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis has feasted on opponents, gorging himself on opposing play-ers to the tune of fi ve sacks and 11.5 tackles for loss, and he’s even chowed down on an interception against Mississippi State.

The Marrero native earned the

nickname “Cookie Monster” when he intercepted Bulldogs quarterback Tyler Russell and LSU coach Les Miles compared the pick to a cookie.

LSU’s version of the fuzzy blue character has increased his NFL ana-lyst stock this season and could be cashing in a large enough check to buy an unlimited amount of snacks.

“Of all the guys I’ve rated, he’s made the biggest run of anyone,” said local NFL draft expert Mike Detillier . “He was a fi fth, sixth round pick to start the season.”

Nevis has made a large impact through seven games, ranking sec-ond in the Southeastern Conference in sacks and third in tackles for loss.

“He’s been an inconsistent player in the past, riding a roller coaster up and down,” Detillier said.

“He’s rode it this year, but it’s all been up. He’s having an All-Amer-ican season.”

Detillier said Nevis, who has been honored with three SEC De-fensive Player of the Week awards, is projected as a second-round pick in April’s draft.

Middle linebacker Kelvin Sheppard is another Tiger making waves after returning for his senior season.

Sheppard said he couldn’t resist the chance to come back for another year with his teammates.

“It was hard to just leave like that,” Sheppard said. “[I] had so many leaders on the team calling and asking me to come back, it was

SportsWednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 page 7

RECRUITING

FOOTBALL

Defensive tackle Drake Nevis’ draft stock soars this season

O-line recruit may commit in November

MARTIN MCCALLISTER / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior cornerback Patrick Peterson stares intently into the opposing backfi eld Sept. 18 during the Tigers’ 29-7 win against Mississippi State in Tiger Stadium.

Patrick Peterson remains top-10 pickMichael LambertSports Contributor

Hunter PaniaguaSports Contributor

ROBINSON, see page 10

DRAFT, see page 11

Four-star offensive lineman Greg Robinson will be a Tiger next season.

But whether he will be an LSU Tiger or an Auburn Tiger still remains to be seen.

The 6-foot-5-inch, 285 pound Thibodaux native plans to announce his decision in mid-November but has not speci-fi ed an exact date. Shea Dixon, managing editor of TigerSports-Digest.com, said Robinson may wait and announce his decision at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in January .

Robinson will make an offi -cial visit to Auburn this weekend for the matchup between No. 4 Auburn and No. 6 LSU . He has already made two visits to Baton Rouge for the West Virginia and Tennessee games and will make one more Nov. 6 when LSU takes on Alabama .

But even as crunch time ap-proaches for Robinson , Derek Ponamsky, recruiting analyst for Bayou Bengals Insider, said LSU has taken both a hard and soft ap-proach with his recruitment.

“[Recruiting coordinator and running backs coach] Frank Wilson has done a fantastic job,” Ponamsky said. “He has allowed Greg the opportunity to see both places and make his decision. They’re willing to go all the way to the end with him.”

TRENCH WARFARE

LSU-Auburn matchup sets stage for 2 of nation’s best linemen: Nevis and Fairley

LINEMEN, see page 11

‘‘‘You can make a

case that these two guys are the best defensive tackles in college football

right now.’Mike Detillier

local NFL draft analyst

MARTIN MCCALLISTER / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis celebrates after his interception Sept. 18 in the Tigers’ 29-7 win against Mississippi State. Nevis has fi ve sacks in seven games.

ROGELIO V. SOLIS / The Associated Press

Auburn junior defensive tackle Nick Fairley sacks a Mississippi State quarterback Sept. 9 during Auburn’s 17-14 win against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss.


LSU women’s basketball se-nior point guard Andrea Kelly has endured a great degree of adversity both on and off the basketball court.

From the death of her father when she was in eighth grade to two injuries in her second season at LSU in 2009-10, Kelly has earned the respect of her coaches and team-mates through her ability to fi ght back.

Kelly got a medical redshirt for her senior season after she suf-fered a stress fracture in her foot last October that caused her to miss the entire season.

But the injuries did not stop there.

Kelly tore her right ACL in a game of pickup basketball during spring break and had surgery in April to repair the knee.

Now she’s back on the court and going strong, having improved in several aspects during her reha-bilitation.

“It was a learning experience getting to observe fi rsthand from a coach’s standpoint the mistakes and the good things we did,” Kelly said. “I was able to get a better un-derstanding of the game as a stu-dent.”

Kelly’s main strength on the court for the Lady Tigers is her 3-point shooting. In the 2008-09 season — her fi rst at LSU after transferring from Okaloosa-Wal-ton Community College in Florida — she converted 34-of-84 shots from beyond the arc.

The 40.5 percent clip ranked as the eighth-highest season total in school history.

“She brings instant offense. She is a zone buster,” said LSU coach Van Chancellor. “When you have her, you have a great team-mate that can shoot. ... We had some lulls last year. Now she gives us that opportunity to score.”

Kelly’s fi rst start came Jan. 25, 2009, against Kentucky, and she scored 15 points — all from behind the arc — including two 3-pointers in the last six minutes to clinch LSU’s 59-56 win on the road.

LSU women’s basketball as-sistant coach Joni Crenshaw said she can sense a distinct improve-ment in Kelly’s game since her injuries, a mark of a mature, dedi-

cated basketball player in Cren-shaw’s eyes.

“She’s back. She’s quicker and shooting it better than she was be-fore she was hurt,” Crenshaw said. “She got a sense of how much she was needed because we

didn’t have that 3-point threat last year.”

Former LSU guard Alli-son Hightower stepped up in the 3-point shooting department last season in Kelly’s absence and led the Lady Tigers with a 39.8 percent shooting performance behind the arc (45-of-113 attempts).

But now Hightower is gone to the WNBA, leaving Kelly as one

of four seniors to take the reins, and not just at the 3-point line.

Chancellor said he would de-scribe Kelly as “one of the most likable players on the team,” and junior forward LaSondra Barrett said Kelly’s return will make the team “more exciting to watch.”

Crenshaw highlighted Kelly’s glowing personality as one of her defi ning characteristics away from basketball.

“You just want to see her suc-ceed because she’s handled all her adversity so well,” Crenshaw said. “You want the best for her because

she’s got such a good heart, and you can depend on her to do the right thing all the time.”

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offense. She is a zone buster.’Van Chancellor

LSU women’s basketball coach

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Senior point guard Andrea Kelly (11) tries to pass the defender in a scrimmage during practice Oct. 17, 2009, in the PMAC.


Student-athletes don’t have the same luxury most students do during fall break.

While the typical student is va-cationing or spending time at home with family, the soccer and volley-ball teams are preparing for their next opponents.

“It’s kind of like a normal week-end for us,” said LSU soccer coach Brian Lee.

The LSU soccer team (6-6-4, 3-2-3) took possession of first place in the Southeastern Conference Western Division last weekend with a 6-2 win against Mississippi State.

Now is no time to rest as LSU battles No. 10 Florida (12-2-2, 6-1-1) on Thursday. Lee said he’ll see if his LSU squad with 12 freshmen is capable of taking on a top-10 team after gaining momentum last week-end.

Florida crushed LSU last sea-son, 4-0, despite the Tigers boasting a veteran squad with eight seniors.

“We had a mature team last sea-son, and last year we got hammered by Florida,” Lee said. “So being old-er and more mature last year didn’t really help us.”

Lee said college students al-ways have a lot going on, so fall break shouldn’t be too much of a distraction.

He said the plan is to practice Tuesday and Wednesday, play Flor-ida on Thursday, practice in Baton Rouge on Friday and fly Saturday to South Carolina in time for LSU’s Sunday matchup against the Game-cocks (12-3-2, 6-1-1).

“This year we play a different way, and we’re a totally different team,” Lee said. “So hopefully we’re getting better through the year and we can pull out a win on Thursday.”

The No. 17 LSU volleyball team (17-2, 8-2) is also going just as hard during fall break.

The Tigers played four matches in eight days starting Oct. 8, and coach Fran Flory said the break will give LSU a much-needed rest.

“We are mentally and physi-cally exhausted,” Flory said. “The schedule dictates what we do, but our team needs this break, and the added rest and the added relief from academic pressure is going to be a positive for us.”

Flory said the normal practice schedule has been slightly altered for the break.

“We typically take Monday off,” she said. “But because we have

Thursday and Friday with no school, we practiced Monday, we’ll practice Tuesday and Wednesday, and then Thursday we’re using as our second day off this week because we took Sunday off as well.”

Flory said the Tigers will travel Thursday in time to play at Georgia (11-10, 3-7) on Friday and Auburn (15-7, 6-4) on Sunday.

The Tigers won four straight matches before falling, 3-0, to Ole Miss last Friday. Flory said if the Tigers had kept the winning streak rolling, the break may have been a bad thing.

“Anything that breaks a team’s focus or breaks a team’s routine, if the team is in a good flow and a good point in their season, usually is a negative,” Flory said.

Flory said young teams and vet-eran teams handle fall break differ-ently.

“This year I think it’s going to be positive, because we’re younger and less experienced at handling this,” Flory said. “If you have a

senior team, a team that’s been there and done that, I think it’s actually more difficult because they get out of routine.”

Both student-athletes and stu-dents could use the time off, accord-ing to Flory.

“The grind is too long,” she said. “I think you need a couple of days to mentally recover.”

SMALL SPORTS

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Student-athletes have busy fall breakSoccer, volleyball to play two games eachRowan KavnerSports Writer


LSU sophomore forward Carlie Banks (27) prepares to kick the ball downfield Oct. 10.

The LSU men’s golf team was seeing double Tuesday at the Coun-try Club of Louisiana.

The No. 9 Tigers s wept the in-dividual and team titles at the David Toms Intercollegiate, securing their second win of the fall and the sec-ond consecutive win at the Intercol-legiate with a two-stroke victory.

Junior Austin Gutgsell earned his fi rst tournament win of the fall season as an individual participant, but LSU didn’t even need his score to defend its tournament title.

Three LSU golfers earned top-10 fi nishes and fueled the Tigers to a 54-hole score of 16-under-par 848 to fi nish ahead of a 14-team fi eld, which included runner-up and No. 8-ranked Arkansas.

“We had a great week as a team,” LSU golf coach Chuck Winstead said in a news release. “Playing here at the Country Club of Louisiana in our home event gave us a chance to play 10 guys, which is critical for our program. ... I’m encouraged with their play one through 10.”

Gutgsell took home the indi-vidual championship with three consecutive under-par rounds and a

54-hole score of 10-under-par 206. Seniors Ken Looper and John Peter-son fi nished in a tie for second place with scores of 6-under 210.

“I just made it easy on myself because I hit a lot of fairways and a lot of greens, and I made the putts when I needed to for momentum,” Gutgsell said. “It felt great to post my number and wait for the other guys to come in.”

Senior Andrew Loupe also managed a top-10 fi nish, tying for eighth place at 4-under 212.

LSU fi nished the fi rst round tied for the lead with Arkansas in the team standings after concluding the round with a 5-under-par 283.

But the Tigers took control of the tournament during the sec-ond round, building a comfortable lead with a season-low team score 12-under 276.

The Tigers fi nished the fi nal round with a 1-over 289 score that was good enough to hold off Arkan-sas , who turned in three consecutive team scores of 4-under or better.

“Certainly, we made it harder on ourselves today relative to the team title, but to have Austin Gutg-sell to play the way he did, and have the younger guys play the way they did this week are just some signs of where we are headed,” Winstead said.

Both LSU tennis teams travel to Alabama this weekend for the

Intercollegiate Tennis Asso-ciation South-ern Regional Tournament.

The men take the court Friday in Tus-caloosa, Ala., on the Univer-sity of Ala-bama’s varsity courts, while the women will play in Birmingham .

Junior Neal Skupski , fresh off a disappointing 0-2 performance at the ITA All-American Tourna-ment , will play for just the second time this season.

“[The All-American Tourna-ment] turned out to be just a chance for Neal to get started,” said LSU men’s coach Jeff Brown . “We were hoping for better results. It was kind of a wake-up call to get his work level up.”

Skupski , ranked No. 31 nationally, is the projected No. 3 seed in the fi eld, which

includes schools from Louisiana , Mississippi and Alabama .

Auburn’s Tim Puetz and Ole Miss’ Mar-cel Thiemann , both of whom hail from Germany , enter the weekend seeded No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.

Eight Tigers will compete in the single elimination fi eld.

Joining Skupski are senior Sebastian Carlsson, juniors Mark Bowtell and Tom Knights, and sophomores Stefan Szacinski , Ol-ivier Borsos , James Turbervill and Roger Anderson.

All eight Tigers will compete in the doubles draw, led by Carls-son and Skupski . The duo reached the semifi nals of the consolation bracket in the All-American Tour-nament in Tulsa, Okla., in their fi rst tournament of the season.

The bracket champions earn a spot in the National Intercol-legiate Tournament in Flushing, N.Y., the site of the U.S. Open.

“It’s a challenging event,” Brown said. “Any win you get

will be a good one.”Coach Tony Minnis’ wom-

en’s squad will look to continue the strong play that produced three Sunday wins, all by freshmen , in North-western’s Wildcat Fall Invitational on Oct. 10.

Yvette Vlaar , Ariel Morton and Hayley Everett all

notched victories on the tourna-ment’s fi nal day.

Both Southern Regionals run

through Monday.


Rivals.com ranks Robinson as the No. 4 offensive tackle in the 2011 class and the No. 3 over-all prospect in the state . Ponamsky said his size and athleticism set him apart from other elite of-fensive line-men.

“He has the potential to be one of the best offen-sive linemen in the coun-try,” Ponamsky said. “He has a demeanor that would lend itself very well to be-ing a very good run blocker. He has the talent, the footwork and the arm span to be a very good pass blocker, as well.”

Early playing time has played a key factor in Robinson’s deci-sion — something Dixon said both Auburn and LSU have been able to offer. But LSU’s proxim-ity to home may tip the scale in the Bayou Bengals’ favor.

“The family environment is going to be big,” Dixon said. “LSU has gotten his mom, dad and grandparents in their corner. They’d like for Greg to stay near them so they can watch him play. The value of family is oftentimes

greater than anything else.”Robinson marks the sec-

ond elite recruit to come out of Thibodaux High School in as many years. Last year, wide re-

ceiver Trovon Reed ranked as the No. 7 wide receiver in the class of 2010, ac-cording to Scout.com , and ultimately committed to Au-burn . Robinson’s current teammate Trey Granier , a line-backer in the class of 2012, has already re-ceived a scholarship offer from LSU.

Ponamsky said playing with former

high school teammates plays a signifi cant role in most recruits’ decisions.

“When you look at the big picture, having another guy on your team that you can potential-ly play with is always something these guys like to talk about,” Ponamsky said.

LSU would like Robinson to join a recruiting class that ESPN currently ranks No. 6 in the na-tion . Ponamsky said some of the Tigers’ commitments recognize the importance of signing Rob-inson and have done their part in bringing him to Baton Rouge.

“When you look at the players that LSU has in this class and the leaders that these guys

are, they work just as hard as the coaching staff at making sure this is the best class possible,” Ponamsky said.

Should Robinson choose LSU, he would join La’el Col-lins , the No. 4 overall recruit ac-cording to Rivals.com , on an of-fensive line that Dixon believes could be one of the best in the country.

“The anticipation is if you get both of those guys in, and eventu-ally they’re going to anchor your line for potentially three or may-be four years,” Dixon said.

Contact Hunter Paniagua at [email protected]

ROBINSON, from page 7

GOLF TENNIS

Tigers, Lady Tigers travel to ITA Southern Regionals in AlabamaSkupski ranked No. 31 nationallyHunt PalmerSports Contributor ‘‘

‘[The ITA] is a challenging event. Any win you get will

be a good one.’Jeff Brown

LSU men’s tennis coach

Contact Hunt Palmer at [email protected]

LSU defends Toms title with clean sweepGutgsell captures individual titleCory BoudreauxSports Contributor

Contact Cory Boudreaux at [email protected]

‘‘‘[Greg Robinson] has the potential to be one of the best offensive linemen in the

country.’Derek PonamskyBayou Bengal Insider

recruiting analyst

‘[The All-American

Tournament was] a chance for Neal

[Skupski] to get started.’

Jeff BrownLSU men’s tennis

coach

kind of hard to tell them no.”The Stone Mountain, Ga., na-

tive’s choice seemed to work out, as his 66 total tackles ranks second in the SEC.

“He’s probably a second- or third-round guy, but a lot is going to depend on the combine,” said Rene Nadeau, college football analyst for ESPN and TigerVision. “If he puts some good numbers up, that could elevate him a bit.”

The most talked about LSU defender, junior cornerback Patrick Peterson, is still a top-10 pick, ac-cording to Detillier.

“He’s the best cover cornerback in college football,” Detillier said. “He’s the type of guy that if you are in need for a cornerback, you would look at him in the top five, but he’s no doubt a top-10 pick.”

Peterson also averages 28.2 yards per kickoff return and 21.1 yards per punt return, which is the best in the SEC.

Detillier and Nadeau said the cornerback’s cramping issues shouldn’t hinder his stock come draft day.

Senior wide receiver Terrence Toliver doesn’t have the high ratings of Peterson, but Nadeau said the Hempstead, Texas, native has value at the next level.

“He was a first-round guy for a while, and he kind of dropped,” Nadeau said. “Because of his size and potential, he’s probably looking at the second or third round.”

The 6-foot-5-inch, 203-pound wide receiver has recorded 286 yards and two touchdowns this sea-son. His best performance came in an 111-yard, two-touchdown outing against Florida.

“He can giddy-up down field,” Detillier said. “He has the ability to step out of a tackle and make some-thing happen in the open field.”

Nadeau said senior left tackle Joseph Barksdale should be drafted around the fourth round.

“He’s the kind of guy that play-ing the SEC is going to help him,” Nadeau said.

Senior kicker Josh Jasper may even hear his name called come April, Detillier said.

“He’ll be more of a late round pick, sixth or seventh round,” Detil-lier said. “He’s also a good pooch punter.”

Jasper has been 13-for-16 on field goal attempts this season with a successful fake field goal and fake punt.

“I trust him to kick a field goal more than I do [New Orleans Saints kicker Garrett Hartley],” Detillier said.


Contact Michael Lambert at [email protected]

DRAFT, from page 7

the back end of a very good career, and he wants to make every game count,” Miles said. “To me, his ap-proach is what is making him a better player.”

Detillier said Nevis “has prob-ably helped himself out as much as anyone” in terms of draft stock as a result of the senior’s ability to make a big play on any given down.

“You’ve seen him consistently make one big play after the other. That’s part of being an upper-eche-lon player,” Detillier said.

Fairley has also attracted the at-tention of NFL scouts and postsea-son award voters.

A 6-foot-5-inch, 298-pound ju-nior college transfer from Mobile, Ala., Fairley ranks fifth nationally with an SEC-leading 13.5 tackles for loss to go along with his five sacks.

Like Nevis, Fairley earned his starting role after appearing in 13

games as a reserve in 2009 and has made the most of his opportunities in the starting lineup. He serves as a catalyst for an Auburn defense that ranks among the top five in the SEC in rushing defense, sacks and third down defense.

Kentucky coach Joker Phillips said Fairley “has been as disruptive as anybody in the league this year,”

and compared him to Tracy Rocker, a three-time All-American at Auburn and the 1988 Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award winner, who cur-rently serves as Auburn’s defensive line coach.

Rocker said the comparison isn’t fair.

Detillier said Rocker’s influence has shown in Fairley’s improved

technique and his arsenal of pass rushing moves.

“Fairley’s been a guy who’s been so disruptive, you spend a lot of time coming up with something to tie him up, just to slow him down,” Detillier said.

Contact Cory Boudreaux at [email protected]

LINEMEN, from page 7

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The Jindal Count

8

Days Bobby Jindal has ignored our concerns:

Will higher education hold any priority with the administration in the

coming budget crisis?

Would the governor support a consti-tutional amendment to protect higher education and allow for more “across

the board” cuts?

What message would the Governor’s Office have for students, faculty and administrators faced with this crisis?

Until recently, I had never paid much attention to politicians.

Elitists spending loads of mon-ey and drawing enough attention to get elected, then representing only themselves and their respec-tive “parties” — there are infinitely more important things in life.

But this apathy toward our elected “leaders,” both on campus and statewide, came into question when I learned of our own Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plight of indiffer-ence with regard to our campus.

He has ignored us time and again, aside from a post on his of-ficial Facebook page Tuesday ask-ing students about higher educa-tion — and we all know that post didn’t come directly from him. In all likelihood, it came from one of his press handlers.

Jindal’s recent acts of disen-franchisement with higher educa-tion came under fire in the media Monday, as LSU Student Govern-ment President J Hudson’s letter to the editor featured in The Keene Sentinel, a New Hampshire news-paper, went viral.

CNN, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and The Wash-ington Examiner all gave the letter attention — and those are just the major outlets. This spark from Hud-son could trigger an all-out political forest fire for Jindal on the national level, especially if he tries to run for higher office in the future.

We should all give credit to Hudson. His letter got Jindal’s

attention — something no one else has yet been able to accomplish.

But before we put away the life rafts and call the rescue mission for the flagship a success, let’s take a look at what has actually been ac-

c o m p l i s h e d here.

Simply put, not much.

Our legis-lators remain deaf to our SOS-like cries of “save our flagship,” The Daily Reveille’s Jindal Count

currently reads “day 8,” and the midyear cut projections keep grow-ing.

Might I suggest we fly the University flag upside down as a symbol of distress. Maybe Texas or Mississippi will heed our pleas for help.

Better yet, how about we de-clare, “All hands on deck!” as we brace ourselves for the impact of a crippling cut to our futures.

“Enough!” I say. No more nautical metaphors,

and no more tolerance of careless politicians.

So a letter from our SG presi-dent got national attention, and in return the governor’s press secre-tary, Kyle Plotkin, responded with an all-too-politically apathetic statement having nothing to do with Hudson’s concerns.

Nothing has actually changed. We’re still the victims of the politi-cal game, and we’re not even being allowed to play a hand.

I’m reminded of the Oct. 4 Faculty Senate meeting when two prominent local leaders — Chan-cellor Michael Martin and Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge — took to the microphone like ventriloquist dummies with god-knows-whose hands up their asses as they dished out the same political rhetoric we’ve grown all too weary of.

University administration has said repeatedly to look to state gov-ernment officials for answers.

News flash: Our government leaders don’t care about us, and their failure to act thus far only so-lidifies fears of their apathy toward higher education.

The Governor’s Office advised Monday that budget cuts should come from “administrative over-head, not teaching and research,” according to a statement from Plot-kin.

If our administration knew of this advice in past months, this would amount to the exact opposite of what they have done thus far.

With so many instructors now potentially on the chopping block, “administrative overhead” sounds like code for “attack all programs and eliminate all employees you can without cutting back on admin-istrative expenses” — if Plotkin’s statement is indeed accurate.

This would be actually be in

line with LSU System President John Lombardi’s answer to UNO freshman Paul Greagoff’s question, “Would you be willing to take a pay cut to save professors?”

The answer from the $600,000 drain on the University’s budget: You guessed it — more political prancing around the question with-out actually answering anything.

Students have grown weary of the run-around game.

Incompetent politicians: The

gloves are off.Weary students: Unite or die.

Andrew Robertson is a 23-year-old English writing and culture senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Arobertson.

CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE

We’ve had enough of ‘budget cuts’ and enough of gov. apathyMISS-SKETCHED

LACYE BEAUREGARD / The Daily Reveille

Andrewrobertson

Opinion Editor

Contact Andrew Robertson [email protected]

In the past weeks, The Daily Reveille has taken steps to criticize Gov. Bobby Jindal’s silence on the higher education financial crisis.

While Jindal deserves a major share of the responsibility for the peril, so do your local legislators.

Jindal does draft the state’s bud-get and approves the final version of it, but the Legislature is the govern-ing body that has the power to set in motion a constitutional amendment that would allow for more across-the-board cuts.

And it hasn’t done so yet.Us pointing out the Legisla-

ture’s lack of effort to help higher ed-ucation isn’t enough. So we’re going to help you make legislators realize how important higher education is.

As you head out for a much-an-ticipated fall break, the budget crisis

is probably the furthest thing from your mind.

So to make it easy for you, we’ve included list of contact infor-mation for a few prominent members of the State Legislature, as well as most of the Baton Rouge representa-tives — phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

Jindal’s official Facebook page put out a post Tuesday asking stu-dents about their thoughts on higher education. That’s a start — but it’s nowhere near enough of a response.

Fall break is a time for you to relax, but don’t forget about high-er education’s plight in this state. There’s no escaping it.

Send as many e-mails and angry phone calls to legislators as possible. They won’t listen to you otherwise, and every little bit counts.

SENATE• Sen. Ben Nevers, Chair of the Senate Education Committee: [email protected], (225)342-2040• Sen. Sharon Weston Broome, Presi-dent Pro Tempore: [email protected], (225)342-2040• Sen. Joel T. Chaisson II, Senate President: [email protected], (985)764-9911• Sen. Dan Claitor: [email protected], (225)342-2040• Sen. Yvonne Dorsey: [email protected], (225)342-2040

HOUSE• Rep. Austin Badon, Chair of the House Education Committee: [email protected], (504)243-7783• Rep. Regina Barrow: [email protected], (225)362-5837

• Rep. Stephen F. Carter: [email protected], (225)362-5305• Rep. Franklin J. Foil: [email protected], (225)342-6777• Rep. Hunter Greene: [email protected], (225)362-5900• Rep. Dalton Honoré: [email protected], (225)771-5674• Rep. Michael Jackson: [email protected], (225)342-0774• Rep. Erich E. Ponti: [email protected], (225)362-5301• Rep. Clifton R. Richardson: [email protected] (225)261-5739• Rep. Patricia Haynes Smith: [email protected], (225)342-7106

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Jindal not all to blame, contact your legislators

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Why does it seem like every time you open the pages of The Daily Reveille, one of us is writing something about Facebook?

The answer is easy. As col-lege students, Facebook is the main cause of distraction for me, you and everyone else.

It always humors me to see the increase of status updates and the amount of friends online during midterms — like last week — and during finals week.

If you’ve been on Facebook recently, you may have noticed cer-tain girls updating statuses about where they “like it.” So-and-so likes it on the couch, someone else likes it in the car and maybe another per-son likes in on the counter.

If you’re like me, you read these status updates and feel slightly confused because some of the girls posting these are not the type to share this sort of information with

the world.Because my mind usually lives

in the gutter, and I’m the type of person who likes to turn everything into a “that’s what she said” joke, I decided to use my amazing de-tective skills to figure out why people were sharing “where they liked it” with everyone on Facebook.

Come to find out, these seem-ingly promiscuous status updates are thanks to breast cancer aware-ness month.

Some girl (or dirty-minded guy) decided it would be cute to say on Facebook where she likes to place her purse or handbag. Howev-er, stating “it” in such a vague way

originally caused confusion and dirty thoughts to cross those naïve of the gag.

This trend is similar to last year’s breast cancer “awareness” status updates of girls simply stating a color on their wall. This, of course, was supposed to be the color of the bra they were wearing, which was somehow supposed to help raise awareness for breast cancer.

To a certain degree, these child-ish gags did make me aware of the cause simply because curiosity got the best of me, and I had to figure out why these updates were flood-ing my news feed.

However, if people honestly think they’re truly raising aware-ness and fighting a cause simply by typing a few words into a social net-work, they’re wrong.

Now, by no means am I op-posed to breast cancer awareness month or raising money for the

cause. Like many other full-blood-ed men, I’m a fan of what God has blessed women with — a big pair of brains and beauty, of course.

But instead of posting vague, double entendres hoping to get a rise out of the perverted guys you’re friends with on Facebook, find a way to get proactive with your in-volvement.

There are plenty of fundraising events, charity events and walks to get involved with around campus, as well as the city, that will help promote the cause.

For example, take a look at the NFL. It’s not every day you see huge, burly manly men run around for three hours on national televi-sion outfitted in pink.

Besides being decked out in the usually feminine color, the NFL plans to auction off the ap-parel worn by coaches and players, the commemorative coin and game

balls used with all proceeds benefit-ting the American Cancer Society and team charities, according to the NFL’s website.

Facebook friends, take note — follow the example of the NFL.

Not the deviant, underage girl-molesting, dog-fighting, thigh-shooting examples coming from the NFL, but the noble cause examples from the NFL.

Actions speak louder than words — unless, of course, the main place you like it is in the bedroom.

That’s what she said.

Adam Arinder is a 21-year-old com-munication studies senior from Ba-ton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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Why won’t the Reveille, the LSU administration, professors or Student Government ask the most obvious and important question when it comes to higher education funds in Louisiana? Why are so many dollars going to failing univer-sities around the state with what gen-erally amount to duplicate programs available at LSU and La. Tech, the two most successful at graduations?

Why are $8.4 million going to run LSU-Alexandria where the gradua-tion rate for four-year programs in six years is 12 percent? UNO gets $56 million and graduates 24 per-cent in six years. The two-year asso-ciates degree school, LSU-Eunice, gets $5.2 million and graduates 6 percent of students in three years! To list a few more of our higher education dollar incinerators, here are the names followed by the six-year grad rate for four-year pro-grams: SUNO 13 percent, Nicholls 32 percent, McNeese 35 percent, UL Monroe 32 percent, Southeastern 30 percent, Southern 31 percent. These six schools have an annual budget of $175.8 million. Are these really

places of learning and success wor-thy of this much money?

Six-year graduation rates and funding at these five most success-ful schools: La. Tech graduates 55 percent using $41.3 million, Gram-bling 38 percent with $27.1 million, ULL 43 percent with $52.3 million, Northwestern State 37 percent with $31.8 million and LSU 65 percent with $216 million. I would support the notion that these five schools de-serve more funding at the expense or even closing of a few of the, shall we say, less successful “universi-ties.” To be fair, admission stan-dards play a large part in graduation rates, but if a school determines to have low or no admission standards,

should students who are prepared to succeed suffer? Every time a Loui-siana college student drops out, tax-payers have just wasted $5,000+ on each year they attended school. Lou-isiana wastes upwards of $100 mil-lion every year just on freshman who don’t make it to year two.

Louisiana must set up a system of six to eight four-year universities with admission standards that of-fer unique areas of study which are fully funded. Students who are not prepared for admission should be directed to the technical and com-munity college system, where — if they are driven — they can become prepared for success in a four-year university or a trade.

LSU is the flagship university of this state and should be funded first. Other successful universities should also come to the trough of funding along with LSU. Schools that exist so parents can say their child is going to college next year, even though there is no chance of succeeding while providing jobs for political cronies, must go by the wayside. John RobertsTaxpayers Union of Louisiana

LSU deserves more money than other La. universities

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

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The 2010 version of the Auburn Tigers presents a different problem for LSU from previous Auburn teams. Junior quarterback Cameron Newton has entrenched himself in Heisman Trophy consideration with his all-around play this season.

Newton leads the SEC and is second in the NCAA in quarterback rating with a mark of 180.5 and is also tied for the second-most touchdown passes in the SEC with 13 .

But Newton has really hurt op-posing defenses with his legs. New-ton leads the SEC with 860 rushing yards — 174 more than Ridley, the conference’s sec-ond leading rusher. Newton also leads the conference with 12 rush-ing touchdowns .

“He runs hard. He gives a blow like a fullback,” Miles said about Newton . “He’s elusive like a tailback, and he has a great touch on the ball. As capable as he is running, he’s also that capable throwing. Legitimately, he’s a Heisman contender.”

Newton tallied seven rushing

touchdowns in his last two games against Arkansas and Kentucky . Auburn averaged 51 points in the wins .

The Auburn offense is aver-aging 40.7 points per game on the season , which leads the SEC and is good for sixth in the nation . Au-burn’s 481 yards of offense per game is also tops in the SEC .

But the only SEC defense on Auburn’s early schedule that is in the top half of the conference in yards allowed has been Mississippi State — and the Bull-dogs held Auburn to its lowest point total of the season in a 17-14 game .

The game will pit the SEC’s

top-ranked offense against its top-ranked defense. LSU’s defense is third in the nation in yards allowed at 242 per game , while only giving up 14 points per game .

“We’re winning ball games right now. We’ve just got to keep the train rolling and just keep being confi dent,” said junior quarterback Jarrett Lee . “We’ve got to keep our defense off the fi eld and keep them fresh because we have confi dence

in them.”Lee’s resurgence at the quar-

terback position is good news for the Tigers. Lee’s last-second touch-down pass to Brandon LaFell in his freshman year of 2008 marked LSU’s fi rst victory at Auburn’s Jor-dan-Hare Stadium in 10 years .

Lee is now the main ingredi-ent in a two-quarterback system that has recharged a Tiger offense that was stagnant in the fi rst fi ve games of the season.

LSU will need the quarterbacks to thrive against Auburn.

Auburn’s run defense is ranked third in the SEC , but its pass de-fense is ranked near the bottom of the NCAA at 108th .

Sophomore wide receiver Rus-sell Shepard said the LSU offense needs to take advantage of its op-portunities.

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AUBURN, from page 1

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‘‘‘[This game is] going to decide the West, so there’s a lot of pressure riding on

this game.’Stevan Ridley

LSU junior running back

advertisements on the video.“It was cool, but it kind of dis-

tracted me from fi nals,” Baudean said. “If I went to the library, people stared at me.”

The hype around the video lasted throughout the week, peaking during a live performance following the Flash Rave in Middleton Library.

“It was four days after the vid-eo released,” Baudean said. “There were people that knew it better than us.”

Baudean and Laroux said they never imagined their video would grow to the size it did.

“We just wanted to do some-thing funny for our friends,” Baudean said. “But it was cool that people liked it and had fun watching it during fi nals.”

Laroux agreed, saying people still remember the video and recog-nize them around campus.

“As a student at a huge univer-sity, everyone wants to leave and have a legacy,” he said. “We can tell the grandkids one day that we had a video that half the student population saw.”

A similar feeling is shared among a group of freshman students who have recently gone viral with “Dougie in my Snuggie.”

The video — a parody of Cali Swag District’s song “Teach Me How To Dougie” — was recorded during Labor Day weekend and has since gained more than 12,000 hits on YouTube.

The Dougie group consists of accounting freshman Jermaine Mathis, economics freshman Ko-rbin Law , international trade and fi nance freshman Rachel Sadberry and fi nance freshman De Jarion “DJ” Neely.

Neely , the mastermind behind the video and owner of the famous

LSU Snuggie used in the video, said the group was bored one weekend and decided to turn an idea into re-ality. The lyrics were written late Saturday night, and the video was recorded via iPhone on Sunday.

“We did it 12 times on Sunday,” Neely laughed. “It took us 12 times to get it right.”

After the fi nal attempt, the group uploaded the video to Facebook . Much like Laroux and Baudean , the group members simply tagged friends. Before they knew it, the vid-eo had expanded via their Facebook friend lists . After seeing the popular-ity on Facebook , they decided to cre-ate a YouTube account and post it.

“But we didn’t expect 11,000 views in three weeks,” Sadberry said. “It’s crazy.”

From students to professors and employers, the Dougie crew has been bombarded with responses.

“We even performed it on Cam-pus Transit,” Neely said.

Mathis said he has enjoyed the recognition and said many students have asked if they could join or help with the next video.

“Videos like this are cool be-cause you can show that you really have fun in school,” Mathis added.

Both video teams said they nev-er expected something so small to grow to such magnitude, which is the mentality behind most viral videos.

While these videos are harm-less, Brian Voss , vice chancellor of Information Technology and CIO , said students must be aware of the risks they are taking when posting material online.

“We must be more aware today that anything we say, record or do where it can be observed as fair game or spread via the Internet,” Voss said.

VIRAL, from page 1

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