Today in Print - September 14, 2010
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As the University struggles to deal with budget cuts, laying off fac- ulty and cutting services, new con- struction throughout campus may have some students scratching their heads. The construction may seem in- appropriate, but administrators say there are reasons the construction continues despite cutbacks. “The fact is these projects come from a different pot of money,” said Paul Favaloro, director of resources at Facility Services. Favaloro says the most expen- sive construction projects on campus — those costing more than $500,000 — are funded through capital out- lay, money flowing directly from the state. Political realities and legislative structural hurdles mean the money that goes to capital outlay will al- ways go to capital outlay, according to Jason Droddy, director of External Affairs. “Could the Legislature use some capital funds for the operat- ing budget? There are some signifi- cant obstacles that would have to be overcome before capital funds could be used for operating, and in the end, it’s not much to speak of,” Droddy said. Droddy also said the University has to use capital outlay money for the specific projects for which the money is dedicated by law, or the money will go elsewhere. “It’s like a coupon. It counts as real money, but it isn’t really because you have to spend it for something specific,” he said. Droddy cited construction on the Student Union as an example. “If we wanted to stop Students will start seeing less day-to-day maintenance and slower response times as budget cuts to Fa- cility Services, the campus organiza- tion responsible for the University’s upkeep, manifest. “So far, the impacts have been horizontal — taken a little bit ev- erywhere,” said Tony Lombardo, interim assistant vice chancellor for Facility Services. “You start seeing the aging process accelerating.” Lombardo says the department has faced about $3 million in cuts since Hurricane Katrina. That translates into about 70 lost positions – while most of those lost are vacant positions left unfilled, the department had to let nine em- ployees go in January. Those mostly included field staff, but some lower administrative personnel were let go, as well. As Facility Services continues to lose money and staff, projects ad- ministrators would like to complete remain unfunded. As those projects remain unfunded, they fall further into disrepair, making them more expensive. Lombardo said continued fund- ing losses could mean students will start seeing problems. While students may not be able to point to specific buildings on cam- pus that are falling into disrepair, Lombardo says future cuts could conceivably mean increasingly obvi- ous decay. That could happen as ear- ly as next year when the University will have to deal with cuts as high as $73.5 million. “That’s when you’ll really start to see problems,” Lombardo said. Paul Favaloro, director of Re- source Services, said students will start to see daily sustainability ef- forts, like custodial and landscaping work, start to dwindle. “[The University] is a big city, and it’s going to get harder to take care of it,” he said. Buildings and restrooms will be cleaned less frequently. The trees, bushes, and grass will be trimmed less regularly. “We’re not going to let the Parade Ground turn into a jungle — although other parts of campus may,” Favaloro said. Favaloro also said his depart- ment will be able to respond less quickly to breakdowns in equipment. For example, if the air conditioning in a classroom is defunct, workers may take longer to fix the problem. Deferred maintenance is part of the growing list of construction and repair projects the University has put off for lack of funds. The list current- ly stands at $375 million, according to Emmett David, director of Facility Development. The state gives the University funds annually to do some of the work on the list, but David says those funds are woefully inadequate. For example — the Legislature most recently allotted $8 million, which doesn’t even make up for inflation Reveille www.lsureveille.com Former Chancellor O’Keefe elected to Loyola Board of Trustees, p. 3 e Daily Defense leads the nation with 10 sacks in 2 games, p. 7 Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 Volume 115, Issue 16 Students flock to Halo video game midnight release, p. 4 Matthew Albright Staff Writer Matthew Albright Staff Writer MELANIE CASCIO / The Daily Reveille [Left] Grass is overrun by weeds outside Allen Hall. [Right] A neglected window along the side of the Art Building is peeling and cracked. Because of budget cuts, Facility Services won’t be able to continue timely upkeep of areas like these. Construction continues despite cuts CONSTRUCTION, see page 15 Facility Services struggling with cuts graphic by STEPHANIE GIGLIO / The Daily Reveille UPKEEP, see page 15 HILARY SCHEINUK / The Daily Reveille
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As the University struggles to deal with budget cuts, laying off fac-ulty and cutting services, new con-struction throughout campus may have some students scratching their heads.
The construction may seem in-appropriate, but administrators say there are reasons the construction continues despite cutbacks.
“The fact is these projects come from a different pot of money,” said Paul Favaloro , director of resources at Facility Services .
Favaloro says the most expen-sive construction projects on campus — those costing more than $500,000 — are funded through capital out-lay, money fl owing directly from the state.
Political realities and legislative structural hurdles mean the money that goes to capital outlay will al-ways go to capital outlay, according to Jason Droddy , director of External Affairs .
“Could the Legislature use some capital funds for the operat-ing budget? There are some signifi -cant obstacles that would have to be overcome before capital funds could
be used for operating, and in the end, it’s not much to speak of,” Droddy said.
Droddy also said the University has to use capital outlay money for the specifi c projects for which the money is dedicated by law, or the money will go elsewhere.
“It’s like a coupon. It counts as real money, but it isn’t really because you have to spend it for something specifi c,” he said.
Droddy cited construction on the Student Union as an example.
“If we wanted to stop
Students will start seeing less day-to-day maintenance and slower response times as budget cuts to Fa-cility Services, the campus organiza-tion responsible for the University’s upkeep, manifest.
“So far, the impacts have been horizontal — taken a little bit ev-erywhere,” said Tony Lombardo , interim assistant vice chancellor for Facility Services. “You start seeing the aging process accelerating.”
Lombardo says the department has faced about $3 million in cuts since Hurricane Katrina .
That translates into about 70 lost positions – while most of those lost are vacant positions left unfi lled, the department had to let nine em-ployees go in January. Those mostly included fi eld staff, but some lower administrative personnel were let go, as well.
As Facility Services continues to lose money and staff, projects ad-ministrators would like to complete remain unfunded. As those projects remain unfunded, they fall further into disrepair, making them more expensive.
Lombardo said continued fund-ing losses could mean students will start seeing problems.
While students may not be able
to point to specifi c buildings on cam-pus that are falling into disrepair, Lombardo says future cuts could conceivably mean increasingly obvi-ous decay. That could happen as ear-ly as next year when the University will have to deal with cuts as high as $73.5 million.
“That’s when you’ll really start to see problems,” Lombardo said.
Paul Favaloro , director of Re-source Services , said students will start to see daily sustainability ef-forts, like custodial and landscaping work, start to dwindle.
“[The University] is a big city, and it’s going to get harder to take care of it,” he said.
Buildings and restrooms will be cleaned less frequently. The trees, bushes, and grass will be trimmed less regularly.
“We’re not going to let the Parade Ground turn into a jungle
— although other parts of campus may,” Favaloro said.
Favaloro also said his depart-ment will be able to respond less quickly to breakdowns in equipment. For example, if the air conditioning in a classroom is defunct, workers may take longer to fi x the problem.
Deferred maintenance is part of the growing list of construction and repair projects the University has put off for lack of funds. The list current-ly stands at $375 million , according to Emmett David , director of Facility Development.
The state gives the University funds annually to do some of the work on the list, but David says those funds are woefully inadequate. For example — the Legislature most recently allotted $8 million , which doesn’t even make up for infl ation
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Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010Volume 115, Issue 16
Students fl ock to Halo video game midnight release, p. 4
Matthew AlbrightStaff Writer
Matthew AlbrightStaff Writer
MELANIE CASCIO / The Daily Reveille
[Left] Grass is overrun by weeds outside Allen Hall. [Right] A neglected window along the side of the Art Building is peeling and cracked. Because of budget cuts, Facility Services won’t be able to continue timely upkeep of areas like these.
Construction continues despite cuts
CONSTRUCTION, see page 15
Facility Services struggling with cutsgraphic by STEPHANIE GIGLIO / The Daily Reveille
UPKEEP, see page 15
HILARY SCHEINUK / The Daily Reveille
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Plane carrying 51 crashes in Venezuela, at least 14 dead
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A plane carrying 51 people crashed Monday in eastern Venezuela, and offi cials said 33 survived while at least 14 were killed. The French-built ATR 42 from the state airline Conviasa slammed into a lot used by the state-run Sidor steel found-ry.
UN nuclear chief chides Iran, defends watchdog monitors
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nu-clear agency cannot confi rm that all of Iran’s atomic activities are peaceful because of Tehran’s se-lective cooperation with nuclear inspectors, the agency’s chief said Monday.
Yukiya Amano also chided Iran for barring some of those in-spectors, warning that move ham-pered his watchdog agency’s at-tempts to monitor Iran’s nuclear program.
Senate Republicans trying to block Obama’s tax hike on wealthy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama claims it’s still a “wrestling match,” but with Senate Republicans in uniform opposition, his plan to raise taxes on wealthier people while preserving cuts for ev-eryone else appears increasingly like-ly to founder before Election Day.
Both Republicans and Demo-crats are already using the looming expiration of Bush-era tax cuts as a defi ning battle in elections to deter-mine control of Congress that are just seven weeks away.
Gridlock appears to be an in-creasingly likely result in the Senate. Republicans said they had the votes to block legislation to extend the middle-class tax relief if Democrats follow through on their plan to deny tax breaks for the wealthiest Ameri-cans. The issue is more likely to be decided in a postelection session.
Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the GOP whip, said Monday that his party was united in opposing
Cat. 4 Igor far out in Atlantic, tropical storm Julia moving west
MIAMI (AP) — Powerful Hurricane Igor is roaring far out in the Atlantic and forecasters expect it to remain over open water at least through the end of the week.
Igor is a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 150 mph (240 kph). The forecast track Monday showed it staying well south of Bermuda for the next fi ve days. It’s too early to tell if it might threaten land beyond that.
Also in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Julia is moving west, away from the southern Cape Verde Is-lands. Julia’s maximum sustained winds were near 50 mph.
Obama endorses Democratic Rep. Richmond in 2nd district race
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Repub-lican U.S. Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao has broken with his party on occa-sion in key congressional votes, but that didn’t keep his Democratic op-ponent from gaining the president’s endorsement.
President Barack Obama en-dorsed state Rep. Cedric Richmond in the Nov. 2 race, over Cao and three other-party or independent candidates in the New Orleans-based 2nd Congressional District. Rich-mond’s campaign announced the en-dorsement late Sunday.
Cao has voted with the president at times, including for an expansion of children’s health insurance and for new fi nancial institution regulations. Obama has praised Cao for his will-ingness to cross party lines.
Richmond, who won the Demo-cratic nomination for Cao’s seat, has criticized Cao for being out of touch with voters on other issues, including the 2009 economic stimulus bill.
Hospital shooting suspect turns himself in to authorities
(AP) — The man suspected of shooting two people inside a Ba-ton Rouge hospital has surrendered to authorities.
Police say 36-year-old Darrell Garner turned himself in to author-ities at the East Baton Rouge Par-ish Prison early Monday morning.
Dead shrimp, oil from BP rig found one mile below Gulf’s surface
NEW ORLEANS — Far beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, deeper than divers can go, scientists say they are fi nding oil from the busted BP well on the sea’s muddy and mysterious bottom. Oil at least two inches thick was found Sunday night and Monday morning about a mile beneath the surface. Under it was a layer of dead shrimp and other small animals, said Universi-ty of Georgia researcher Samantha Joye, speaking from the helm of a research vessel in the Gulf.
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“Just before the recess we had a meeting and we discussed this, and every Republican was absolutely supportive of the idea that there shouldn’t be any increases in taxes,” Kyl said.
Thousands of miles away from dorm rooms and air-conditioned classrooms, some students’ fami-lies are displaced from their homes from last month’s monsoon fl ood-ing in Pakistan.
Louisiana students are no strangers to fl oods, but now Pakistani students are ask-ing local students to give aid for damage caused by a fl ood that left more than 20 mil-lion displaced and more than 2,000 dead.
Chemical en-gineering sopho-more Adnan Bashar said he has a large family, and all of them have been badly affected by the fl oods.
Some of the problems his fam-ily has faced are lack of clean water and food, displacement and lack of telephone contact. The fl oodwaters have also washed away millions of acres of crops and destroyed vil-lages, roads and bridges.
In the village where Bashar was raised, about 50 homes have been destroyed. Bashar said Paki-stan does not receive enough atten-tion because of the image of terror-ism associated with the country.
“The media doesn’t give too much attention because they think we’re the worst people in the world,” Bashar said.
The United States has pro-vided $261 million in support, but petroleum engineering junior Hasnain Mujahid said the media and national support haven’t been enough.
Mujahid said his grandparents had never seen fl ooding this bad.
Born and raised in Lahore,
Pakistan, Mujahid is familiar with the common monsoon fl oods, but the river banks broke and caused displacement larger than Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsu-nami combined.
Mujahid said his grandmoth-er’s home only had a foot of water — much less damage than most of the poorer homes in the low-lying areas of the country.
“Before we rebuild in those places, we have to clean up. It’s more or less like [Hurricane] Ka-trina,” he said.
Mujahid and other students through the Mus-lim Student Asso-ciation have been selling bracelets in Free Speech Plaza to raise money and awareness for Pak-istan.
The bracelets are $2, and the MSA will continue
to sell them tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Mujahid said they have earned $569 since they started selling them Friday.
“We really, really appreci-ate the turn out and the generosity showed by the students and facul-ty,” Mujahid said.
Former LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe has been elected to the Loyola University Board of Trust-ees , according to a news release.
O’Keefe, who graduated from Loyola in 1977 , joins the 2010-11 board, which started its term Aug. 1. The Board elected O’Keefe in May ,
but Loyola offi -cials did not an-nounce his new position until Monday.
The Board of Trustees is responsible for “policy making and responsibil-ity for sound
management. The Board shall for-mulate and determine the general, educational and fi nancial policies,” according to board’s website.
O’Keefe served as LSU chan-cellor from 2005 to 2008 before re-signing Jan. 16, 2008. Before that, he served as chief administrator of NASA.
He currently serves as CEO of aerospace giant EADS North Amer-ica.
O’Keefe and his son Kevin were among the fi ve survivors of an Aug. 9 plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness that killed four people, including long-time Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.
That crash elicited national headlines as rescuers struggled against harsh weather conditions to locate and evacuate the survivors.
O’Keefe has since returned to his Washington, D.C., home to re-cover, according to the latest news reports.
O’Keefe led the University through Hurricane Katrina and was a chief architect of the Forever LSU Campaign, the University’s primary fundraising effort. He abruptly re-signed amid rumors that his job was in jeopardy, rumors System Presi-dent John Lombardi and other sys-tem offi cials vehemently denied.
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Mass communication senior Sikandar Mehr, left, sells a bracelet to religious studies senior Colin Ryan on Monday during a fundraiser for Pakistani fl ood victims.
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showed by the students and faculty.’
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University students, Baton Rouge residents and a man in a Mas-ter Chief costume were so excited about the new Halo: Reach that they lined up hours before the game’s midnight release at electronic stores across the city Monday night.
More than 150 were lined up at the GameStop store on College Drive before 11 p.m. to pick up the $60 game or the latest version of Xbox 360, both of which were re-leased at midnight Monday.
David McGaw, computer engi-neering freshman, said he spent the week playing through the Halo fran-chise in preparation for the release of the game.
Michael Lacombe, petroleum engineering freshman, said the Halo franchise has made him a few friends both at home and at the University.
“I try to get in five to 15 hours a week playing video games if I can,” Lacombe said.
Evan Boyette, chemistry fresh-man, said he planned to play Halo: Reach up to a few hours before his morning class.
“I play a lot of video games. I need to spend more time doing homework,” Boyette said.
University Center for Academic Success Director Melissa Brocato said students need to find a bal-ance between playing games and
accomplishing their goals.“Use time management, use a
weekly planner to schedule time to play games,” Brocato said.
She said a good strategy for stu-dents who want to play video games and complete their work is to use the game as a reward after studying.
“After a 30 to 50 minute intense study session, play video games for 10 or 15 minutes,” Brocato said.
Carter said he was worried that when he got to college he would play
games too much, but he is staying on top of his work so far.
“Work comes first. When you’re bored, play video games,” Carter said.
Brocato said all students are vulnerable to distraction, whether it be from video games, television or Facebook.
“Try to balance your life,” Bro-cato said.
The Daily Reveillepage 4 Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
People often associate budget cuts with the University, but admin-istrators are looking to create a new, hopeful image to brand the Univer-sity: “Love purple, live gold.”
Herb Vincent, University asso-ciate vice chancellor for University Relations and senior associate ath-letic director, said the campaign was focused on the color gold, which represents excellence, achievement and prestige.
“Purple, passion — we love what we do, and we’re excited about
research. Band is excited about sporting events,” said Jewel Hamp-ton, University art director, who co-ordinated task force efforts for the campaign. “Gold is about hitting the gold standard of excellence. It’s more focused on presenting who we are to prospective students.”
In such a difficult economic time, Vincent said it’s difficult but necessary to brand the University with a new image now.
“The campaign is mostly about who LSU is and trying to define LSU based on the community that makes up this University,” Hampton said. “In that sense, the challenge we have in communicating for LSU every day is this private market of 16- to 20-year-old prospective students.”
Chancellor Michael Martin said it’s an ideal time to brand the
University with a new message. “People are trapped with old im-
ages and old phrases,” Martin said. “[The new campaign] is to recognize the place is always changing.”
Martin said once people mull over “love purple, live gold,” they’ll reflect on what it means to them.
“To me, if you embrace and in-vest yourself here, you’ll live better as a result of it,” Martin said. “Invest in a great education experience, and every part of life will be enriched.”
The process to create the new idea started last fall with a team from various University departments. Hampton said they started with three basic sketches of new campaigns, in-cluding one focused on gold, which is closest to the final product.
The task force surveyed, used focus groups and questioned high
school students, University students, faculty and staff, alumni and donors about possibilities for new slogans.
“Over the last couple of years, we’ve been looking towards having something that would be more uni-versity-wide,” Hampton said.
The new slogan has already made some appearances — on two billboards in downtown Atlanta for the football opener against the Uni-versity of North Carolina and in the 30-second TV spot that appears during University-televised football games.
“Our audience is very wide,” Vincent said. “We’re trying to show LSU is a high-achieving institution.”
The slogan will also appear on the T-shirts for this Saturday’s foot-ball “gold game” against Mississippi State. Vincent said “love purple, live
gold” billboards will start appearing throughout the state in October.
Vincent said it’s unclear how much money the University will spend on the new campaign because the funds will come from various budgets.
Hampton said they’re trying to use the University’s dollars to the ut-most efficiency.
Though the University does an ad campaign every year, Vincent said the new campaign will encom-pass all University message efforts, including recruiting and advertising in publications.
Contact Catherine Threlkeld at [email protected]
Catherine ThrelkeldStaff Writer
New slogan: ‘Love purple, live gold’
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University launches new ad campaign, aims to rebrand image
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Frederick HollStaff Writer
More than 150 at store before 11 p.m.
ENTERTAINMENT
Gamers line up to get Halo: Reach
ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille
About 150 Halo fans waited Monday night at GameStop on College Drive for the midnight release of the newest addition to the video game series, Halo: Reach.
Some students attend college expecting freedom and new ex-periences, but many are unaware of the risk of sexual assault be-fore graduating.
It’s estimated 25 percent of college women have been victims of rape or attempted rape before they graduate in a four-year pe-riod, according to a recent report by the Department of Justice.
College-aged women are four times more likely to be sexu-ally assaulted than women in the general public, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network .
“We defi nitely do not fi t that mold,” said Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSU Police Department spokes-man. “Our percentage would be much less.”
Rape is not typically some-thing LSUPD encounters, Tabor said.
The last reported incident of alleged rape on campus occurred Nov. 1 when a University stu-dent from the United Kingdom was arrested for allegedly raping a woman on campus and for the unlawful purchase of alcohol.
The accused was eventually charged with simple battery and unlawful purchase of alcohol for a person under 21 years.
But the Student Health Cen-ter received 11 reported cases in the last year. Cases can range from stalking to domestic abuse to sexual assault, said Ashley Granger, health center Wellness Education coordinator.
A 2009 study by the Center
for Public Integrity found vic-tims of sexual assault often do not report incidents because they either blame themselves for what happened, don’t understand what happened to them was a crime or fear retribution from their at-tacker.
“Many survivors do not re-port because of embarrassment, shame, fear of social isolation from friends or trying to forget the assault and put their life back together the best way they can rather than report-ing,” said Grang-er, who’s also a Sexual Assault Victims Advocate (SAVA).
Alcohol is often a factor in rape or sexual assault cases and was found to be a contributing factor in 97,000 cases in 2009 , according to a report by the Na-tional Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
It’s important for women and men to understand no means no, regardless of mental state, Tabor said.
Victims of rape are encour-aged to report the crime to au-thorities, whether to LSUPD or
to support services like the SAVA
program, he said.SAVAs are University fac-
ulty and staff who provide con-fi dential assistance to victims of rape, sexual assault or relation-ship violence.
There are currently 70 SA-VAs in various departments on campus like Greek Life, College
of Education and Center for Fresh-man Year.
“ S A V A s ensure that no survivor or stu-dent at risk has to navigate the medical, legal, mental health or University system alone,”
Granger said. Sexual Assault Nurse Exam-
iners work closely with the SAVA program to provide medical and forensic exams for survivors, Granger said.
For after-hours assistance, students can call the Rape Crisis Center at 225-383-7273.
The Daily Reveille page 5Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
CRIME
Large number of cases go unreportedGrace MontgomeryContributing Writer
Study fi nds 25 percent of college women will be victims of rape, sexual assault
‘‘‘Many survivors do not report because of embarassment
[or] shame.’Ashley Granger
Wellness Education coordinator
Contact Grace Montgomery at [email protected]
From Budapest to Baton Rouge, students have found an innovative, inexpensive way of traveling.
CouchSurfi ng.com is the world’s largest home exchange program, which people can use to fi nd a place to stay anywhere in the world. Travelers can use someone’s space for a limited time or offer their own available space to others.
CouchSurfi ng allows travel-ers to come together for hospital-ity, friendships and cultural expe-riences, with users in more than 230 countries around the world in more than 77,900 cities, accord-ing to the service’s website.
The international network has generated more than 2 million members worldwide and more than 200 in Baton Rouge since it launched in 2004.
Chris Norwood, marketing senior, learned about the program in April while he was studying abroad in Spain.
“I fi rst thought it would be scary,” Norwood joked. “I didn’t
want to leave [with] missing or-gans.”
Norwood said he was calmed by the safety precautions the web-site takes.
“There is a registry for all people with their information, their profi les, their photos, their address,” he said.
“[CouchSurfi ng] takes great security measures, and I have nev-er heard of anyone being harmed.”
Norwood “couch surfed” his way to Paris and Munich earlier this year and said both of his hosts were hospitable.
In Paris, the man Norwood stayed with was out of town but left his home completely open to his guests. Norwood’s host in Mu-nich, an energetic elderly woman, took Norwood out for a pub crawl and told him about local culture.
Harrison Norman, electrical engineering junior, CouchSurfed abroad two years ago in a last-minute circumstance when he was studying in Germany.
“The fi rst time I Couch-Surfed, it was out of necessity,” Norman said. “It was my fi rst night in Germany, and I was fl y-ing in.”
Norman said he could not reach the professor who was sup-posed to pick him up from the air-port. In a panic, he logged on to CouchSurfi ng and began sending
frantic messages to nearby hosts until someone replied.
Norman has CouchSurfed in nine cities ranging from Berlin to Florence since that fi rst time.
“There’s no way to afford traveling for that long otherwise,” he said.
“That’s 31 or so nights in a hotel. That’s impossible for a student like me.”
Norman said he has had an array of hosts.
“From girls my age to men in their 40s and 50s, from all walks of life and in all in different apartments and houses,” Norman explained.
“People can be so differ-ent but have a common thread of openness and wanting to help oth-ers.”
But surfi ng on a stranger’s couch isn’t a members-only op-tion.
William Verrett, chemical engineering junior, heard about hosting CouchSurfers through a friend and decided to try it.
“It seemed like a cool way to meet people from other countries and improve foreign relations,” Verrett said.
Verrett and his three
roommates have hosted fi ve peo-ple — one from Iowa, two from Texas and two from France.
“When you visit a place, you don’t know the hot spots,” he said. “We thought it would be neat to
learn about the city from local eyes, get a foot in on what is cool to do and have someone who can guide you.”
Verrett said he and his room-mates checked their guests’ pro-
fi les thoroughly before they ar-rived.
“There are lots of ways to check out people through refer-ences,” he said. “We made sure they were verifi ed.”
Verrett said he has not had a bad experience yet and will con-tinue hosting for as long as he can.
“So far it’s been great,” he said. “I’ve learned a lot about other places, and I’ve been able to teach and show other people things they haven’t experienced before.”
If members do not feel com-fortable surfi ng or hosting, they can arrange to meet with guests, said Peyton Eastman, internation-al studies and French junior and
two-year CouchSurfi ng member.“You can make a profi le with-
out letting someone sleep on your couch,” Eastman said.
“You can list yourself as not having a couch, but as willing to meet people for coffee and show them around town.”
Eastman said she has not surfed yet but plans to meet with a man from Germany in the next few weeks. She also hosted a woman from Israel last summer in her RV at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival .
“It’s a cultural experience without having to leave where you are,” she said. “And you know if you ever go to that person’s home-town, you have a place to stay.”
CouchSurfi ng is not only a free place to stay, but you get to meet someone interesting who knows the lay of land, Norwood said.
“It saves you from the tourist area. You get to see the feel of the city itself and not something that’s in a postcard,” he said.
“It’s not just ‘Let’s go to the Eiffel tower!’ It’s ‘Hey, let’s go check out this pub that my great grandfather opened in 1850, and we’ll have a pint on the house.’”
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TRAVEL
Program said to be safe, cheapSydni DunnStaff Writer
‘‘‘You get to see the
feel of the city itself and not something
that’s in a postcard.’Chris Norwood
LSU marketing senior
Contact Sydni Dunn at [email protected]
Students connect through travel website, CouchSurfi ng
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FOOTBALL
Defense leading the nation in sacks with 10 in 2 games
The sack attack is back.The 2009 LSU defense was
ranked near the top of the country in yards allowed, but one key compo-nent was missing — pressure on the quarterback.
The LSU defense is leading the nation with 10 sacks in two games this season —notching nearly half the sack total it had in 2009 .
The defensive system remains the same, but a signifi cant increase
in athleticism has been an obvious boon for a defensive line that only managed 14 sacks last season .
“Our defensive linemen are probably fast enough to play safety or maybe corner at a lot of schools in the country, if not here,” said senior linebacker Kelvin Sheppard .
Through two games, the defen-sive line has accrued 7.5 sacks, led by senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis with 3.5.
Nevis has been a disruptive force in the middle of LSU’s defen-sive front this season. In addition to leading the team in sacks, he has been a key contributor to LSU, hold-ing the opposition to a 1.4 yard aver-age per rush this season.
Nevis credits defensive line
coach Brick Haley with the unit’s improvement this season.
“Coach Brick, he’s on us ev-eryday,” Nevis said. “He never lets us have a bad day at practice. He’s always on us making sure our tech-nique’s right. It’s about discipline and all four guys working together.”
Nevis fi nished 2009 with four sacks , tied for second on the team . But Nevis played like a man po-sessed against Vanderbilt, fi nishing with 2.5 sacks .
“Nevis has improved. He’s al-ways played with a great motor,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “I think he realizes that this is the back end of a very good career. He wants to BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille
LSU senior linebacker Kelvin Sheppard (11) and freshman defensive back Sam Montgomery (99) take down Vanderbilt quarterback Larry Smith (10) on Saturday.
BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior running back Stevan Ridley (34) is brought down Saturday by Vanderbilt’s defense during the Tigers’ 27-3 victory against the Commodores in Nashville, Tenn.
REDEMPTIONRidley carries offense after costly fumbles in season opener
A dejected Stevan Ridley stood in a dimly lit hallway at the Georgia Dome just 10 days ago with several television cameras glaring in his face following LSU’s season-opening win against North Carolina.
The junior running back had nearly cost the Tigers a win with two fumbles in the second half, including one with 1:08 remaining.
There stood Ridley after the game, discouraged yet poised as ever, accepting the blame for
the near loss.Ridley took his miscues, put
them behind him and said he must grow from them.
And that’s pre-cisely what he did.
Ridley rushed for a career-high 159 yards on 17 carries Saturday in LSU’s 27-3 vic-tory against Vanderbilt, including a 65-yard touchdown run that sealed the win.
He didn’t fumble, either.
“Last week was not me at all,” he said. “I knew that my performance wasn’t my greatest, and this week I
really came in and focused on holding the football.”
Ridley an-chored an LSU offense that sputtered without him. Junior quarterback Jor-dan Jefferson struggled mightily, fi nishing the game 8-for-20 with 96 yards and an interception.
Despite Ridley’s outburst, he
only rushed the ball four times for 16 yards in the fi rst half — largely be-cause of his two fumbles last week.
“[LSU coach Les Miles] pulled a few carries from me in the begin-ning, and that’s hard, but it’s part of the price you pay when you put two on the ground,” Ridley said.
There was no discouraging Ridley, though. He came out with a vengeance and put LSU on his
Sean IsabellaSports Writer
RIDLEY, see page 11
Miles keeps faith in Jefferson
Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer
SACKS, see page 11
Senior defensive tackle leads lineLuke JohnsonSports Contributor
LSU junior quarterback Jordan Jefferson put on a less-than-stellar performance against Vanderbilt on Saturday , but LSU coach Les Miles said he is committed to giving Jef-ferson the reins for at least a little longer.
Jefferson fi nished 8-for-20 for 96 yards and one interception, as LSU scored all three of its touch-downs by way of the running game.
Junior Jarrett Lee entered the game on the fi nal two series against Vanderbilt and attempted one pass, a 16-yard completion to sophomore wide receiver Rueben Randle.
“I have no problem putting [Lee] in the game, and I look for-ward to those opportunities,” Miles said. “It is a game feel and not something that we are envisioning at this point. He is a very strong consideration, but we want to see if we can get Jordan on track. I enjoy [Jefferson], and I enjoy his leader-ship.”
Miles said the goal is to get Jef-ferson to play more aggressively, including running the option.
“I just want [Jefferson] to play and have some fun,” Miles said. “He does have the ability to run the option. It gives him the opportunity to play aggressively.”
True freshman running back Alfred Blue turned heads in his
PLAYERS, see page 10
FOOTBALL
Baker returns after broken jaw
And cue the quarterback debate.Jordan Jefferson exited late in
the fourth quarter. Jarrett Lee en-tered. Three plays and 82 yards later, LSU had six points on the board and a 27-3 lead.
Who should start at quarterback for LSU now?
Let’s start off this heated discus-sion by breaking down that epic drive.
S t e v a n Ridley rushed for a yard. Lee passed to Rue-ben Randle right up the middle of the field for 16 yards. Ridley
got the ball again and took it 65 yards up the right sideline for a touchdown.
Not too shabby for Lee’s first drive of the season.
For one, it ended in a touch-down for LSU and not the opponent.
Secondly and more importantly, it was the most efficient the offense looked all night. Lee’s one pass was right on the money, and Ridley looked as fast as anyone on either team.
Thirdly and most importantly, Lee did look pretty good handing that ball off to Ridley. You have to give the kid that much. Did you see how well he rolled away af-ter he placed the ball in Ridley’s chest? Picture perfect. I don’t know
if Drew Brees could have done it better.
Now let’s move on to Jefferson’s night.
The junior threw for a whop-ping 96 yards on 8-for-20 passing with an interception.
He once again couldn’t hit his open targets. He also has got to learn when to throw the ball away. He has had trouble with that throughout his career, and it hasn’t stopped this sea-son. He is now a veteran quarterback in the Southeastern Conference, and there is no excuse for those kinds of mistakes.
However, Jefferson did con-tribute to that rushing attack with 13 yards. The problem is that it took him 13 rushes to get those yards.
With all of that in mind, here comes my final assessment.
Draw!Wait, what?Remember that time when Lee
was a freshman and threw more pick-sixes than you could count on one hand? Remember how everyone wanted him to leave campus and never come back? Good times.
Remember that time when Lee started off last season 2-for-2 for 11 yards and a touchdown before fin-ishing the season 14-for-38 for 197 yards, a touchdown and an intercep-tion? Good times.
Now you are all going to start praising him, aren’t you?
Yes, he’s now a junior and two
years removed from all those inter-ceptions. But the same could be said for Jefferson, who should by now have learned from past mistakes and still hasn’t.
I’m not trying to bash Lee in any way. I like the guy. He’s a lot better than everyone gives him credit for, and I think that if Les Miles would stick with him, he could be a pretty decent SEC quarterback. Honestly, if I had to choose between him and
Jefferson, I would probably say give Lee a chance to prove he can lead LSU.
If the move is going to be made to Lee, it needs to be made now. Les Miles doesn’t need to start this whole two quarterback system thing again. It doesn’t work.
But I’m also not going to even begin yelling blatantly for either guy to start. I’ll leave it to the Tiger Rant message board on
Tigerdroppings.com to start 50 new discussions on that, none of which will go anywhere.
Actually, maybe Les should hop on the Rant, get a head count of who wants Lee to start and who wants Jefferson to start.
Then, logically, whoever has the most shouldn’t start.
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SCHWEHMMING AROUND
Quarterback debate will heat up between Lee and Jefferson
Contact Andy Schwehm at [email protected]
Andy SchwehmSports Columnist
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Junior quarterback Jordan Jefferson (9) navigates through Vanderbilt defenders in LSU’s 27-3 win Saturday.
The No. 15 LSU men’s golf team capitalized on a late-round surge on its way to securing its first win of the 2010-11 season at the Gopher Invitational at Spring Hill Golf Course in Wayzata, Minn.
The Tigers captured the team title with a 54-hole team score of 5-over par 869, finishing 11 strokes better than the field of 11 teams at the tournament.
“We were able to mix and match good scores and come out with a pretty good win,” LSU golf head coach Chuck Winstead said in a press release. “But as we go forward, we’re going to need some more consistent play in the lineup. We’re talented enough to be more consistent as a team in each round.”
The Tigers’ season-opening victory didn’t come easy. A first-round team score of 13-over par 301 left the team in ninth place at the end of the first round. But the Tigers surged through the final 36 holes of the tournament, logging consecutive rounds of 7-under 281
in the second and third rounds be-fore firing a final round score of 1-under par 287.
Five LSU golfers finished in the top 21 in the individual stand-ings, including three in the top 10. Senior Clayton Rotz lead all LSU golfers in individual scores who tied for third place at 1-under 215. Seniors Ken Looper and John Pe-terson finished in a tie for seventh place with individual scores of 4-over 220.
“After the first round, I chal-lenged John Peterson and Clayton Rotz to step it up and play like they should play,” Winstead said. “We can’t be a very good team if they shoot 78s. That was the difference from the first round to the second and third rounds. They were out-standing.”
Junior Sang Yi finished tied for 13th place with a total score of 5-over 221, while fellow junior Austin Gutgsell tied for 21st place with a three-round score of 9-over 225.
The Tigers will return to com-petition Oct. 11-12 when the team travels to the Jack Nicklaus Invi-tational at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio.
Most student athletes have the same problems as any other LSU student with a full-time job.
LSU senior associate athletic trainer Shelly Mullenix said be-tween classes, weights and prac-tice, it’s often difficult to practice good nutrition.
“Much like the general stu-dent population, they’re also handcuffed by finances,” Mulle-nix said. “Some get scholarships, some don’t. For a lot of the sports they only get partial scholarships, so there’s not a lot of money ei-ther.”
Mullenix said students with-out much money usually turn to fast food. So she’s been enlisted by LSU’s coaches to counsel them away from Burger King and McDonald’s.
Mullenix squeezes in talks to the athletic teams in between teaching classes and her job as the football team’s athletic train-er. The time and tone of the talks depends on the season and the schedule of the teams.
“I handle the talks for all the teams,” Mullenix said. “Some
coaches want them more fre-quently. Some do it once a year.”
Nutrition is an often over-looked part of athletics, but also one of the most important, Mul-lenix said.
When Mullenix speaks to an athletic team, she emphasizes the importance of planning out the day to get time to eat proper food. Time is the biggest challenge, she said.
“We want to make sure they get 400 or 500 calories at least four to six times a day,” Mullenix said. “We want to keep their en-ergy up so they can perform well on the field and help keep their immune system strong.”
Sometimes it’s tough to get through to athletes who think they don’t need help, Mullenix said. In cases like that, the coach-es often refer them to her for one-on-one talks.
“There’s a lot of athletes here that don’t consider nutrition ter-ribly important,” Mullenix said. “They think if they look good, maybe they don’t need the help. But the truth is that everyone needs the nutrition.”
Mullenix also has athletes keep a food diary. She asks them to do a three-day recall of the foods they’ve eaten and what time they ate the food.
The nutrition aspect of being an athlete usually goes
unnoticed until something nega-tive happens, like junior offensive lineman Will Blackwell vomiting during in the Georgia game last season, or junior cornerback Pat-rick Peterson sitting out part of the game against North Carolina with cramps.
Then the training team gets inundated with phone calls.
“We laugh about it, but it’s more annoying than it is funny,” Mullenix said. “All these people come out of the woodwork with products that will help our ath-letes.”
Products wouldn’t have helped in Blackwell’s case. It wasn’t nutrition, it was nerves.
“That was his first start and his first game,” Mullenix said. “I would say that anxiety had a huge component for him. He hadn’t just come off of eating a huge meal.”
And Peterson wasn’t even cramping, Mullenix said.
“This week we’ve been get-ting lots of products that will help prevent cramping, when the truth is ... he wasn’t really cramping,” Mullenix said. “I’m not sure where all that started or came from.”
Mullenix said you can tell when someone cramps up on the field, because the trainers will intervene and help stretch the
players. That didn’t happen with Peterson.
“You can see that plain as day and there wasn’t any of that going on,” Mullenix said.
Peterson simply got fatigued, she continued.
“Basically he ran the length of the field two or three times in a fairly quick succession” Mul-lenix said. “The body gets taxed on top of the anxiety of being in a game.”
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HEALTH
Trainer counsels student-athletes on proper nutritionDiet often ignored during trainingKatherine TerrellSports Contributor
Contact Katherine Terrell at [email protected]
GOLF
Tigers win team title at Gopher InvitationalThree golfers finish in top 10
Cory BoudreauxSports Contributor
Contact Cory Boudreaux at [email protected]
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3 members of powerlifting team compete in championships
National Championships? They’re old news.
After winning six national championships in the last four years at the USA Powerlifting Col-legiate National Championships, three members of LSU’s powerlift-ing team raised the bar a bit higher than national titles.
Seniors Samantha Baker and
Reece Verbois , along with junior Kaitlyn Stewart, traveled to Pilsen, Czech Republic, last week to com-pete in the International Powerlift-ing Federation’s 28th Junior World Powerlifting Championships, rep-resenting Team USA.
The friendly face of success greeted them once again.
Baker and Stewart pushed Team USA’s women to a third place overall fi nish among 29 countries by posting third and fi fth place fi nishes in their respective divisions.
Baker competed in the 60 kg (132 lb.) weight class and lifted a total of 437.5 pounds among her
dead lift, bench press and squat. Stewart earned an impressive 320 pound lift in the 48 kg (105 lb.) for the Americans, as well.
Though powerlifting involves participation against other teams, the focus of competition falls on the individual.
“Powerlifting is all about you,” Baker said. “You’re going to go as far as you want to go.”
Verbois earned a respectable seventh place fi nish among 17 other competitors by lifting 755 pounds in the men’s junior 82.5 kg (181 lb.) division.
Powerlifting is comprised of three lifts — the dead lift, the
bench press and the squat. No sin-gle lift can guarantee a competitor victory.
“Powerlifting is one of the most intense sports around that requires the most dedication of any sport I know,” Verbois said. “To be the best, you have to push yourself harder than you ever thought pos-sible and sacrifi ce things that you like doing.”
LSU powerlifting coach Mike Godawa has been involved in com-petitive LSU sports for about 35 years, serving as a gymnast and LSU’s women’s gymnastics coach. He has been powerlifting for 11 years as a competitor. Godawa said
he recognizes the intense level of commitment needed to yield inter-national awards in powerlifting.
Godawa said team members with such experience as the trio are “his gems in the workout, always there to fi ll in as excellent leaders.”
Former LSU students Andre LeBlanc , Nelson Boutte and Pam Bartz also traveled and competed for Team USA. Boutte and Bartz claim third and second place fi n-ishes in their respective divisions.
Ben WallaceSpecial to The Daily Reveille
Team USA women earn third place
CLUB SPORTS
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debut for LSU, accumulating fi ve carries for 23 yards and a six-yard touchdown run.
Blue got more carries than redshirt freshman Michael Ford, who ran the ball three times for 16 yards.
“I’m not ready to say anybody has passed Michael Ford,” Miles said. “In fact, he played well in that game, and we’ve enjoyed how he’s come. It’s just that certain
calls may favor Blue.”On the defensive side, junior
linebacker Ryan Baker returned to the fi eld Saturday after missing the
past month with a broken jaw. He re-corded six tackles and a sack against Vanderbilt.
“You real-ize what veteran means because he just understands instinctively where he is supposed to be,” Miles said. “Not that Baker played perfect, but
he stepped onto the fi eld with real
advantages on the defense. With Stefoin Francois, Kelvin Sheppard and him, that’s a pretty good line-backing crew.”
Miles said senior running back Richard Murphy is “a little nicked,” and junior tight end Deangelo Pe-terson may not play against Missis-sippi State.
“I think [Murphy] will be with us,” Miles said. “I know [Peterson] is doing much better. I don’t know the likelihood he’ll be with us Sat-urday.”
PLAYERS, from page 7
‘‘‘I know [Peterson]
is doing much better. I don’t know the likelihood he’ll
be with us Saturday.’Les Miles
LSU football coachContact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]
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back in the second half, rushing 13 times for 143 yards and the long touchdown.
“It appeared to me that he ran with a real want and desire and a great purpose,” Miles said. “We turned to hand him the ball late in the game, and certainly he was a very strong factor in that game.”
Ridley surprisingly enjoyed his strong day behind a semi-depleted offensive line. The Tigers rotated
redshirt freshman Josh Williford and junior T-Bob Hebert at right guard in the absence of junior Will Blackwell, who is sidelined with a broken ankle.
The patched-up line worked ef-ficiently, creating holes for Ridley to run through all night.
“The offensive line is working for me,” he said. “They are doing some big things up front. I’m just running the football.”
Ridley’s only touchdown came with less than five minutes remaining in the game. With LSU in
the I-Formation, he took a handoff to his left, cut back to his right and zoomed down the sideline nearly un-touched for his fourth career rushing touchdown.
The Natchez, Miss., native sur-prised spectators with his breakaway speed, most notably running backs coach Frank Wilson.
“The first person I went over to with a smile was coach Frank because we had a bet all year that I couldn’t break one from 40 yards out, and it worked out,” Ridley said.
Even sophomore wide receiver Russell Shepard, a speedster himself, was impressed with Ridley’s wheels.
“Ridley’s a big back ... it looked like he was running out of gas after a while,” Shepard joked. “I was im-pressed with that.”
After Ridley’s performance Sat-urday, he not only ranks as one of the top running backs in the SEC, but also in the country. His 240 rushing yards in two games rank him third in the conference — behind Ten-nessee’s Tauren Poole and Auburn’s
Cameron Newton — and 17th in the country.
Even so, Ridley knows a lot of football is yet to be played.
“It’s just crazy how things hap-pen because last week I was down in the dumps,” he said. “And this week, after a great game, you’re kind of on a high, but you have to stay level-headed,” he said.
RIDLEY, from page 7
Contact Sean Isabella at [email protected]
make every game count, therefore his play by play stepped up.”
Redshirt freshmen Sam Mont-gomery and Barkevious Mingo have added a degree of athleticism to the defensive front that it lacked last sea-son. The ends have been so quick off
the ball, they have set up other play-ers on defense.
“Montgomery is coming along,” Nevis said. “He’s starting to play like a veteran. I appreciate the pressure he takes off the defense because he does his job. He’s confident, and he takes his job seriously.”
Montgomery and Mingo have
combined to post three sacks in their first two collegiate games.
Besides bringing excitement to the fans and the team, the sacks have had a tangible effect on the overall performance of the defense.
With added pressure being placed on the quarterback, the defen-sive backfield doesn’t have to linger
with receivers. The results were evi-dent in the box score of the Vander-bilt game — the Tigers allowed only 70 pass yards on 16 attempts.
“The defensive ends and the de-fensive tackles we have this year are so much quicker and faster than the previous years that I’ve been here,” said junior defensive back Patrick
Peterson. “Those guys are so amaz-ing at doing their thing that they’re giving the offensive line night-mares.”
SACKS, from page 7
Contact Luke Johnson at [email protected]
My title asks for it — United States, please don’t invade Iran.
And it’s everyone’s duty to be-seech the American government to not do this.
So check your compass, turn yourself to Washington’s direction and pray for enlightenment to fall on our leaders.
Let’s be honest — the invasion of Iraq was a major disaster.
As opposed to Iraq, Iran may very well have nuclear weapons — the International Energy Agency estimates Iran possesses enough uranium to be enriched to manu-facture nuclear weapons within a year. Iran also happens to have a populist lunatic dictator who likes to pose as anti-American for the international media — much like Iraq had.
Let’s add to that “begging to be attacked cocktail” the three American hikers who’ve been held hostage for more than a year for no real reason other than crossing the Iran border during a hike in Iraq territory.
Were Bush still president this request would be useless and most likely too late.
Even in President Barack Obama’s administration, I’m pretty sure such an endeavor is the focus of Mrs. Clinton’s dreams each and every night. A brand new war un-der her name, wow! What a turn on!
But this call for peace con-cerns more than just reason and fact. Looking at the Iraq invasion
now, there are plenty of counter facts and arguments that would feed the crude logic of military wa-gers. People die, everyone loses, and little is learned.
If we are concerned with worldwide pub-lic opinion, may I say the U.S.’s in te rna t iona l image doesn’t look too good to the rest of the world right now. I know
these things — I’m a foreigner (please don’t come after me, Tea Party fanatics and racial profilers).
I’m calling for a better course of action than wanton violence and unjustly imposing military author-ity this time around.
Opinion editor Andrew Rob-ertson clearly showed the facts in his Aug. 31 column, “War of — ‘war on’ — terror ends with Opera-tion Iraqi Failure.”
Some reiteration can’t hurt: “We lost 4,500 soldiers in Iraq with another 32,000 wounded in action. If those numbers don’t shock you, then perhaps the more than 1 mil-lion Iraqi deaths will. Consider this: The cost of the Iraqi war will total around $1 trillion. The Ameri-can economy is out about $3 tril-lion.”
Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, once had a high lev-el of popularity, though this is in serious peril of late. People being
killed in the streets during rallies against his doubtfully fair reelec-tion certainly didn’t help.
Ahmadinejad represents a threat to the conservative Islamic clergy currently in power with his economic reform ideas. He’s his own worst enemy.
But the trade sanctions the Ira-nian government is going through mostly affect common citizens in their everyday lives. Stimulating the impoverishment of a popula-tion based on the madness of its leaders definitely has unintended
consequences. Iranians are having a hard time both from internal and external standpoints.
A week after Sept. 11’s ninth anniversary, reflection brings us to a new rift in the jungle of bad de-cisions. They always lead to more bad decisions.
Like the one suggesting the burning of a Quran, or trying to ex-plode a landing plane.
So, let’s sing in unison to the tune of “Please, don’t invade Iran.”
Another war would just trigger a new stream of bad decisions and
actions on an even larger scale. And I’m hopeful all of us are
tired of seeing the results of hasty military decisions come to fruition.
Marcelo Vieira is a 32-year-old jazz cello graduate student from Brazil. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_MVieira.
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CAMPUS-RESIDENT ALIEN
When I teach public speak-ing, my students hear a lot about their responsibilities to hold those in power accountable for their ac-tions. My students always and without fail answer this call of re-sponsibility by doing some of the most remarkable things I’ve ever seen. From protesting racist carica-tures at a local coffee shop, starting charitable organizations or wel-coming campus radicals into our class in order to keep them from disturbing others in the quad with their bigoted signs; they continue to inspire and amaze me with their creative and energetic responses to injustice.
As students at LSU, we owe it to our peers to make a bit of a fuss when things aren’t done cor-rectly – it is our school and is paid for by our tax dollars. We have the right to feel safe and comfortable while we try to develop and grow our spirits and our minds.
Last Spring, after teaching a morning section of CMST 2061, I walked in the quad and witnessed a most bizarre event. The administra-tion at LSU responded quickly and appropriately to my complaints.
You see, the big crises that arose from all this was not about the police response time (which is now much quicker); it was about the proper use of the LSU emer-gency text message system, which the police dispatcher failed to use because he didn’t think it was a “real” emergency.
When the Vice Chancel-lor contacted me, he expressed a
sincere desire to make things safer for us on campus and find out what went wrong. He asked me direct and action oriented questions like, “How did they use the system at your previous schools?” “What do you think we could have done differently?” and “How would you have handled it?” I left there with an overwhelming confidence in our administration and in their desire to make LSU as safe as possible.
Thursday, I received two text messages warning me of an armed man on campus. They mark only the latest in a series of texts over the past six months that LSU has used appropriately and exactly the way the Vice Chancellor and I dis-cussed.
The ultimate issue is not whether or not the potential threat is a real one or not; but is about putting the safety of the students in the students’
hands and leaving it up to us to decide when we should take them seriously and when we shouldn’t, and LSU did that. I feel safer on campus than I did a year ago be-cause I feel more informed about potential threats. Why did this hap-pen?
The answer is why I am writ-ing this letter. Because of LSU stu-dents — students working for The Daily Reveille, students posting on facebook and tigerdroppings, stu-dents emailing the Vice Chancel-lor, and students who called the po-lice and complained. You made this campus a safer place, which means you made LSU a better community to learn and grow in, for yourself and for your friends.
I tell my students (as a wise professor once told me) that de-mocracy is built on an unwavering faith in the rhetorical inventive-ness and persuasive abilities of
every citizen to change things, both big and small, for the good of the many. LSU’s students continually renew this faith for me and hope they renew it for each of you as well.
To this day, the police insist my times are inaccurate, even af-ter I provided them with my phone records from Verizon. My pride says that we lost the battle and you can’t beat the man with the badge. But my cell phone? The text mes-sage I just got tells me we all won. Thanks.
Joseph RhodesDepartment of Communication StudiesPh.D. Student/Instructor
Students responsible for text improvement
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POP GOES THE CULTURE
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It was ladies’ night at MTV’s 27th annual Video Music Awards on Sunday.
The show was hosted by a woman — comedian Chelsea Handler — for the first time since 2007. But in reality, it was just one Lady’s night.
Ra-ra-ah-ah-ah rejoice, little monsters! Lady Gaga’s record-setting 13 nominations resulted in eight victories — and almost as many outlandish outfit changes. You gotta love Gaga.
But even if you weren’t tech-nically of the female persuasion, you could still have a breakout mo-ment at the VMAs. All you had to do was look — and sound — like a girl. As evidenced by the winner of this year’s Best New Artist award, the effeminate, baby-faced fate of the music industry is Justin Bieber.
I weep for the future.This kid is living proof that
agents — not talent — spawn a superstar.
The 16-year-old heartthrob (I use the term loosely) is barely old enough to audition for “American Idol,” but apparently someone told him he had the experience and authority to produce whole
albums about romance.
This same ill-placed en-dorsement has led to the year of the Bieber: a Proactiv anti-acne commer-cial campaign (at least it’s
age-appropriate), an upcoming guest role on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” as well as a mem-oir and a biopic about the young singer due out next year.
Yes, you read those last two bits correctly. If you thought it took major struggles and lifelong achievement to have your story documented in pop culture, Justin
Bieber is on a mission to prove you wrong.
What success really requires these days is a parent willing to broadcast your amateur perfor-mances all over YouTube until a record label executive affiliated with Usher picks you up.
And that’s a fact Bieber nev-er fails to mention via constant name-dropping of his R&B men-tor in the rare moments when he’s not chaperoned by Usher himself.
The hip-hop influence is glar-ing — not in Bieber’s melodies (except for “Baby,” featuring Ludacris), but in his wannabe-gangster dress style and manner of speaking in interviews.
This superficial punk persona doesn’t exactly suit a Canadian often mistaken for a 13-year-old girl.
“Bieber fever” is just the latest instance in a sick trend plaguing the music industry: too many young artists singing love
ballads long before they hit pu-berty.
What’s worse, in an age where celebrities’ social network-ing accounts are increasingly un-censored by publicists, Bieber’s coming-of-age growing pains go on display for the whole world to read and follow.
It hasn’t gone well for him: Justin Bieber suffers more on-line tantrums than the throngs of screaming young girls in his au-dience. His most recent juvenile faux pas include complaining about his drop from Twitter’s hot topic list and posting an enemy’s phone number as his own.
And according to the web-site’s statistics, Bieber occupies about 3 percent of “tweet traffic” at any given moment. No wonder the site is always crashing. Please, someone take this narcissistic, spoiled diva’s Twitter away.
Of course, he’s not the only singer unleashing his every
thought into the Twitterverse. Over the past year, Kanye West has given Bieber’s digital blab-bermouth reputation a run for its money — a trait on which the VMAs’ producers have capital-ized.
In fact, I firmly believe West’s show-closing “toast to the douchebags” of pop culture was dedicated in part to Bieber.
Congratulations — you’re gonna go far, kid.
Kelly Hotard is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Picayune, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_khotard.
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Double Cheeseburger at Mc-Donald’s: $1.19
Double Cheeseburger at Mc-Donald’s in the Student Union: $1.59
Hamburger in Tiger Stadium: $4.
Knowing you’re being violated by money-grubbing corporations and associations like textbook sell-ers, Campus Apartments and Mc-
Donald’s every day of your aca-demic career: Priceless.
Well, ac-tually it does have a price, but that’s not how those fun Mas-tercard com-mercials end, is
it?From tuition, to mandatory
fees, to living and food establish-ments, college students are being vigorously screwed by these greedy bastards looking to make a quick buck.
And I, for one, am tired of it.While there can’t be a proper
solution to every over-expensive problem, students can take control of the situation and help drastically affect it.
The basic needs of students in college can be boiled down to tuition, books, costs of living and food — usually in that order.
Unfortunately, tuition and fees are one of those things which stu-dents can’t really control. The state
and University are going through some hard times financially, and their response has been increased tuition and fees.
However, students should edu-cate themselves as to what their fees are going toward and fully utilize those services to justify the cost.
While it’s safe to say almost every student enrolled at the Uni-versity has a laptop, as it’s basically an unwritten necessity, or has ac-cess to one of the many computers around campus, it makes too much sense to mass market textbooks in a digital form.
The LSU Bookstore’s book sellers thrive on taking advantage of naïve students. Many students don’t know of other, cheaper alternatives out there.
While it can easily be argued the on-campus bookstore is provid-ing students a convenient place to shop — and even offers 5 percent off if you pay with TigerCash — there are much cheaper alternatives online.
Sure, you have to wait for it to ship, but websites like Amazon of-fer “FREE Super Saver Shipping” on some orders over $25 and even provide students free trials to Ama-zon Prime, which offers unlimited free two-day shipping.
And when it comes to living, there are many options for students around campus, some better than others.
Of course, there’s always the option of living cheap in the slums of Tigerland, but unless you’re a
constant partier with nothing bet-ter to do than pick up desperate high school girls from the bars, the noise and distractions may be a little much.
However, moving closer to campus may not be the best solu-tion either. Apartments around cam-pus like The Venue at Northgate, Campus Crossings at Highland and Campus Crossings at Brightside are owned by the large corporation Campus Apartments.
Take it from a former Venue resident — Campus Apartments has the ability to send prices sky high while providing horrible service and fine print regarding security depos-its and renewel rates so thin you’d need the Hubble to read it. And they can do this because of their proxim-ity to campus.
Unless you (or your parents) have money pouring from your eyeballs, don’t necessarily take the
first “cool” venue you visit. There are plenty of nice, affordable apart-ments on the outskirts of campus.
Sure, you may have to ride your bike or take the bus, but a little exercise never hurt anybody. Plus, since you’re paying a yearly fee for the latter, you might as well use it.
Finally there’s the grub.There are plenty of eating es-
tablishments on and around cam-pus, but one in particular burns my McNuggets every time I walk by.
Not only does the McDonald’s in the Union not have a dollar menu, but some items are more expen-sive than at any other McDonald’s around town.
The Union McDonald’s can charge whatever it wants and get away with it because people will pay no matter what. While the sim-ple solution would be to boycott, it would be highly unfeasible to organize a 30,000-student boycott.
Instead, students should only order items on campus that offer seemingly reasonable prices.
Just because something is con-venient and close by doesn’t mean it’s the best option.
It’s good to buy locally and help boost our economy, but it isn’t good to be royally screwed without consent.
That’s called rape.Know your options, do your
research and spend wisely, and you won’t have to settle for being vio-lated by a smiling clown.
Adam Arinder is a 20-year-old com-munication studies senior from Ba-ton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.
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on the total $375 million.Many students say they haven’t
noticed any significant disrepair on campus.
“It’s a lot nicer than the school I came from,” said Christina Thom-as, biology freshman. “Of course, I came from Baton Rouge High, and they’ve scheduled that building for demolition.”
Others say they’ve noticed problems with the landscaping and custodial work.
“There’s a few places on the little side-quads where the branch-es are low, and I sometimes run into them,” said Chelsea Ward,
biology freshman. Jobe Authement, mechanical
engineering junior, knows immedi-ately a place that needs work. “Lock-ett Hall – that’s it, man,” he said. “The bathrooms are really bad.”
Whatever students’ complaints, Favaloro says things could get sig-nificantly uglier — literally.
“It’s like the show ‘Life Without
People,’” Favaloro said, referring to a History Channel show that projects what the world would look like if humans suddenly disappeared. “If I could get somebody to use our cam-pus for that, I’d be able to show peo-ple what could eventually happen.”
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construction on the Union, I guess we could,” he said. “But that money can’t go to anything else.”
Projects with capital outlay funding cost significant money. The new business school facility, for example, cost $39.9 million in construction costs. But because the funding for those projects comes as line items in bills from the Legisla-ture, they can’t be used to pay pro-fessors — or for anything else out-side the strict bounds of the project.
The business school construc-tion and construction on the new band hall were both funded by a 50-50 state-private match — the Uni-versity raised half the funds in dona-tions, then the state matched those funds.
Not only are the funds for many of these projects drawn from dedi-cated funding sources, they’re also the result of years — sometimes decades — of planning.
Once approved, the state usu-ally doles out funds for the construc-tion in increments, which draws out the process.
Some projects are now coming to fruition because they have only now gotten far enough in the pro-cess, said Emmett David, director of Facility Development.
Money for most smaller proj-ects that don’t require capital outlay funding also come from dedicated sources of funding, David said.
For example, the parking lot near the Indian Mounds is paid for with auxiliary funds — in this case, money Parking, Traffic and Trans-portation raised from fees and park-ing tickets.
“This is money that you couldn’t use to, say, pay professors,” David said.
Kevin Cope, Faculty Senate president, says he’s heard complaints from faculty about the work.
Cope said he’s aware of the dedicated funding sources that
prevent construction funds from go-ing to the academic core.
“The fundamental problem is the priorities in the way the state al-locates funding,” Cope said. “The state is handing campus a deal with the devil.”
Cope criticized the state Legis-lature for being historically stingy in funding the University.
“History doesn’t come from just barely hanging on – it comes from proper funding,” he said.
David said while some might wish the money his department uses could go to other projects, much of the new construction is essential to the goals of the University.
“As academics is responsible for educating students, it’s Facility Services’ job to get students from their parking lot to a clean campus,” he said. “Students want that service. Students pay for that service.”
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