Breaking into the American job market is hard enough, but one man is working hard to break into 50 different markets — in 50 differ-ent states.

As part of his 50-week employ-ment mission, Daniel Seddiqui is making his way across the country state by state, working a different job at every stop. Prefer-ring jobs which are culturally and economically relevant to the state he’s in, Seddiqui is on a quest to understand the American people

through the jobs they do.Already through week 21 of his

journey, 26-year-old Seddiqui left Louisiana on Sunday morning after

proving himself behind the bar serving drinks to locals and tour-

ists in New Orleans. He even vis-ited the University last week as he made his way down the river.

After graduating from Univer-sity of Southern California with an economics degree, Seddiqui tried to fi nd employment through more

conventional means. While seek-ing work in any fi eld related to his degree — banking, accounting and other related fi elds — he spent more than $6,000 traveling across California to interview for jobs.

In the end, he failed to secure one after more than 40 interviews.

Desperate for a job, Seddiqui looked to his love for athletics to pull him through. After sending an e-mail to 18,000 university coaches in the country, he found a job coaching

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The School of Veterinary Medicine treated visitors this weekend to a petting zoo, an equine treadmill, a raptor rehab unit and a fi stulated cow that had a hole in its side for people to reach into.

The Vet School invited the public into its educational environment Saturday

to showcase its latest technology and pro-vide family entertainment as part of the 27th annual open house .

This year’s theme was “Where’s Mike?.”

Mike VI was on display in his cage outside of the building from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. — the mascot’s fi rst time to attend the event.

Joseph Taboada , Vet School associate dean for Student and Academic Affairs, said Mike VI, who arrived at the Univer-sity in August 2008, wasn’t ready for all the attention at this time last year.

“Mike hadn’t been here very long,

and [we] didn’t want him exposed to all the people,” he said.

Some came to the event to entertain their children. Baton Rouge resident Terry Moore brought her granddaughter to the open house .

“She just loves animals,” Moore said. “We got here 15 minutes before time. She was looking forward to the petting area.”

Lisa Ryan of Prairieville attended with her two daughters.

“We want to have the kids be able to experience what they do over here,” she

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A vet school student demonstrates how arthroscopic surgery would be performed on a horse’s knee Sunday afternoon.

Mike VI appears among animal crowd

Vet School wows guests at open house

Born a Ramblin’ ManTo better understand the American job market, USC alumnus attempts 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks

Week 12: Medford, Oregon Employer: HM Inc. Logging Job: Logger

Week 2: Denver, Colorado Employer: U.S. Geological Survey Job: Hydrologist

Week 6: Ames, Iowa Employer: Iowa St. University Job: Agronomist

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Daniel Seddiqui poses for a portrait with Mike VI last Monday at Mike’s cage. Seddiqui is traveling through all 50 states in 50 weeks to get a job in each state.

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WORLD NEWS

TEKAPO, New Zea-land (AP) — This little town is in the dark and proud of it. Where other places greet the night by lighting up their streets and tourist attractions, this one goes the other way — low-energy sodium lamps are shielded from above, and household lights must face down, not up. The purpose: to bring out the stars. The town of 830 peo-ple on New Zealand’s South Island is on a mission to protect the sight of the night sky, even as it disappears behind light and haze in many parts of the world. The ultimate prize would be UNESCO’s approval for the first “starlight reserve,” and already the “astro tourists” are coming.

New Zealand town is in the dark and proud of it

Iraqi women’s minister resigns in protest of gov’t budget cutsBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s state minister for women’s affairs has quit to protest a lack of resources for a daunting task — im-proving the lives of “a full army of widows” and other women left poor or abandoned by war. In an interview Sunday with The Associated Press, Nawal al-Samarraie described how her office’s budget was so tight that she often found herself dipping into her own pockets for the women who came begging for help. She said she finally submitted her resignation last week in part because her budget was slashed from $7,500 to $1,500 per month — part of overall government spending cuts.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

Summers warns stimulus battle not yet overWASHINGTON (AP) — One of President Barack Obama’s top economic advisers forecast Sunday a difficult struggle with Congress over Senate cuts of $40 billion for state and local governments from the administration’s massive spending and tax cut pack-age to stimulate the failing economy. The $827 billion Senate version of the plan — designed to bring the economy out of the worst downward spiral since the Great Depression — was expected to pass the Senate on Tuesday. The House had already passed its $819 billion version of the measure. Lawmakers were likely to begin reconciling those differences later this week, with Obama still pressing to have the stimulus mea-sure on his desk for signing by mid-month.

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Tim Geithner [right] and Lawrence Summers await the arrival of the President Barack Obama on Friday in the White House.

Enrollment at two-year colleges increasing

Burying power lines would cost up to $70B

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — College freshman Eliza-beth Hebert’s choice of a four-year school suddenly got too expensive. George Haseltine already has a business degree, but he concluded after several layoffs that he needed more training to get work. So, in the middle of this school year, both landed at New Hamp-shire Technical Institute, which like other community colleges across the country has suddenly grown a lot more crowded. The two-year schools are reporting un-precedented enrollment increases this semester.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — A Louisiana Public Ser-vice Commission report says burying the state’s util-ity lines to protect them from hurricane-force winds would drastically increase monthly bills for custom-ers and cost up to $70 billion. The PSC staff surveyed 14 utility companies that provide power in Louisiana to determine how large and how expensive the task would be. In its report, which was distributed to com-missioners last week, the staff suggested the five regu-lators not mandate that the lines be buried.

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Univeristy celebrates 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth

In a show of community support, LSU athletes and local professionals went to Sherwood Middle Academic Magnet School on Saturday to encourage sixth, seventh and eighth graders to start thinking about college.

A group of fi ve Manship pub-lic relations students partnered with the parent-teacher organiza-tion at the middle school to host the Saturday afternoon event. The main focus was to educate stu-dents about the importance of col-lege preparation and the necessity of saving now.

As part of their capstone class — the last core class taken in a mass communication concen-tration — and the national Bate-man Case Study competition , four groups in the class were given the non-profi t organization “Hit The Books Running” as a client and were given the task of develop-ing and implementing a campaign in the community. “Hit the Books Running” is dedicated to educat-ing 11- to 14-year-old students

about fi nancial and academic col-lege preparation and encouraging them to start now to reduce fi nan-cial debt upon college graduation.

The Manship students created the event based on trends in their research of middle school students interests and implementing the college preparation theme.

The event featured guest speakers such as Todd Graves, CEO of Raising Canes and Maj.

Michael Hicks , the University’s Army ROTC alchemist from Al-bemarle. It also included one-on-one sessions with several LSU ath-letes including basketball forward Garrett Green , volleyball middle blocker Lauren DeGirolamo , bas-ketball forward Dennis Harris and track jumper Lauren Saucier .

Graves, a participant of Fox’s “Secret Millionaire,” said he strongly believes in education and

the need to motivate the youth in the Baton Rouge community.

“I don’t want them to think [success] comes without work,” Graves said. “It takes a lot of hard work, focus and determination.”

Saucier was equally motivated to encourage stu-dents to work hard and do well in school.

“We as ath-letes have a big part in this community just being able to reach the younger kids,” Saucier said. “It’s important for [middle school students] to real-ize if they want to be athletes they need to start playing now that way they’ll be able to reach their goals and go to college.”

In addition to the guest speak-ers, the event also featured differ-ent informational sessions about LEAP and iLEAP and several tables at the career fair including information on LSU Financial Aid and La Capitol Federal Credit Union . La Capitol encouraged stu-dents to open up saving accounts to help pay for college. As an incen-tive for opening an account, $10 would be automatically de-

posited.“We had 50 applicants sign

up and about 150 people stop by,” said Ingrid Johnson, La Capitol

regional manager . “We want them to establish the prac-tice of saving.”

Aside from learning how to save money, many students embraced the opportunity to eat lunch with vol-leyball players and play basketball with hoop stars.

Bryan Grigsbi, a 6th grader who wants to be an entrepreneur and a pro-football player, said he came to learn more about LEAP and iLEAP but was glad he was able to talk to the athletes.

“They told me even if I am in sports to stay in school and get my education,” Grigsbi said.

Harris said he was glad to play ball and talk with students.

“I love kids,” Harris said. “I like giving them something to look forward to in the future.”

Abraham Lincoln may be dead, but that isn’t stopping the birthday celebrations.

The 200th anniversary of Lin-coln’s birthday is Thursday, and celebrations will continue through-out the week at various locations in the Baton Rouge area and on campus.

“Lincoln Chose Louisiana” is the theme of a 10-day commemo-ration during which Lincoln’s sto-ries will be told through music, ex-hibits, poetry, plays, short speeches and poem readings by and about Lincoln.

“We’re always talking about being last in this, that and the other, but I think it’s important to know we were fi rst in the mind of Lincoln,” said David Madden, chair of the Louisiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

The University will host “Lin-coln and Bolivar as Emancipators,” today at 10:30 a.m. in the Memo-rial Tower.

LSU System President John Lombardi will speak informally about Lincoln and Simon Bolivar as emancipators, along with James Stoner, political science chair, who will speak briefl y about Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and the Decla-ration of Independence.

“The events, except for the ones on Monday, aren’t designed to teach things about Lincoln,” Madden said. “It’s more of a

celebratory thing where we are ex-periencing facets of Lincoln.”

The main birthday celebration is on the State Capitol steps Thurs-day at 3 p.m.

“[This celebration] tells us what we could have been instead of what we are,” Madden said. “Just to know there was a brighter vision for Louisiana that didn’t come into play explains partly why some of the bad things we have exist.”

Madden said Lincoln had a friendlier version of reconstruc-tion planned for the South that fell through when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He said race problems, corrupt politics and eco-nomic instability can be linked back to reconstruction.

By Leslie PresnallStaff Writer

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

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AMANDA HARB / The Daily Reveille

LSU volleyball team members Brittnee Cooper and Lauren DeGirolamo have lunch with students from Sherwood Middle Academic Magnet on Saturday.

‘‘‘They told me even if I am in sports to stay in school and get my education.’

Bryan Grigsbisixth grader

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At the corner of South Stadi-um Drive past Tiger Stadium and around the bend in the road near the Design Building, a building with a small sign reading “Tiger Talk” is taped above double doors.

Behind these doors is the Uni-versity’s call center where student workers raise money for the LSU Foundation and individual colleg-es’ private funds.

“Every penny that is raised here goes to the academic pro-grams on campus,” said Quinn Rainwater, LSU Foundation funds director. “The money we raise for the Flagship fund ... goes to where LSU needs it the most.”

The student call center started in 2003, later than those at other Southeastern Conference schools, Rainwater said. The University wanted to open the center earlier but couldn’t get the resources, he said.

Rainwater said Tiger Talk pro-vides an annual fund campaign for the University and consults the dif-ferent colleges on campus to raise money for their annual funds.

Students make calls Monday

through Thursday in the evening and on Sunday afternoon.

“We still think we’re one of the best kept secrets on campus,” he said, explaining that not many students know about the job.

About 75 students work the different shifts, Rainwater said. Students called a little more than 96,000 alumi last semester.

But many students work at Tiger Talk for only a few weeks, Rainwater said.

“It’s a hard job,” he said. “The burn-out rate is high.”

Though most alumni are nice, the student workers commonly go a whole shift without getting dona-tions and even experience frequent hang-ups, Rainwater said.

But the atmosphere turns more exciting at night, when the phones are ringing and donations are coming in, he said. One stu-dent raised $325 on Thursday, and the students collectively received pledges for more than $5,500.

“Last fiscal year, [Tiger Talk] actually raised $451,000 for LSU,” Rainwater said.

Bayo Famoriyo is the current top caller for Tiger Talk, raising more than $70,000.

Famoriyo, electrical engineer-ing senior, said he walked into the building in summer 2005 look-ing for an on-campus job and was hired the next day.

“The first couple weeks it was

hard,” Famoriyo said. “I just got to the states, and the Louisiana south-ern drawl was really tough.”

He said he couldn’t understand what the speaker on the other end of the line was saying, nor could the speaker understand him.

On one occasion Famoriyo said he received a $10,000 dona-tion from an alumnus, and the manager let everyone leave early for the night.

“It was the best feeling in the world,” Famoriyo said.

The student call center has experienced a drop in donations since November, Rainwater said.

“The economy is having the biggest impact on us,” he said.

But with news of the recent budget cuts, Rainwater said he’s hopeful alumni will use the op-portunity to donate more for the University.

Students called alums for the E. J. Ourso College of Business, last week, and this week work-ers will begin calling the College of Engineering and will continue down the list of colleges until all have been called, Rainwater said.

“I think people are going to rally around us,” he said.

FUNDRAISING

Students called about 96,000 alums last fallBy Joy LukachickStaff Writer

JASON BORDELON / The Daily Reveille

Bruce Derbigny, general studies senior, calls LSU alumni Thursday night for Tiger Talk. The organization works to generate funds for the LSU Foundation, which raised $451,000 for the University in the last fiscal year.

Tiger Talk raises more than $451K in last fiscal year

Contact Joy Lukachick at jlukachick@lsureveille.com

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The LSU women’s basketball team thought it had its offensive problems sorted out with Thurs-day’s 68-point performance.

But things took a turn for the worst for the up-and-down Lady

Tigers’ attack Sunday after-noon.

Fresh off a 68-53 win against Arkan-sas where the Lady Tigers shot 50 percent from the floor, LSU shot just 23 percent in the opening half of a 65-55

loss against Mississippi State.“We fought really hard today,”

said LSU coach Van Chancellor in a postgame radio interview. “And I was really proud of how we fought so hard. But in the first five min-utes, we got completely away from our game plan.”

The Lady Bulldogs rattled off an early 16-0 run, including a pair of 3-pointers by junior guard Ty-sheka Grimes to take a quick 16-2 lead.

Freshman forward Ayana

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Members of LSU’s gymnastics team rush the floor Friday to congratulate team-mate Ashleigh Clare-Kearney on her floor exercise in the PMAC.

Sweet RevengeTigers even season series with ‘Bama,

move to 7-1 in conference play

The LSU men’s basketball team woke up Sunday afternoon faster than a freshman who overslept a mid-term.

Facing its largest deficit of the conference season, LSU (19-4, 7-1) put together a 17-0 run to turn a slow start against Alabama (13-10, 3-6) into a 76-62 win.

“We got off to a real sluggish start, and quite frankly I was sort of surprised,” said LSU men’s basket-ball coach Trent Johnson. “But it’s

no surprise, to this team or to me that once we find out the flow of the game we try to find a way to wear people down.”

Five minutes into an early Sunday tipoff, the 10,578 fans in

By David Helman Sports Writer

REMATCH, see page 10

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

BULLDOGS, see page 10

First half dooms LSU in Starkville

Members of the No. 11 LSU gymnastics team weren’t ready to pat themselves on the back Friday night, despite posting a season-high score.

“I think we are capable of so much more,” said LSU senior Ashleigh Clare-Kearney. “We still had mistakes, and we still had landings that weren’t stuck, especially on vault.”

Despite those mistakes, the Tigers (7-2, 2-2) got their first home victory of the season and their first victory against Florida (3-2, 2-2) since 2005, defeat-ing the No. 8 Gators, 196.800-195.825.

The .975 victory also broke the 19-straight seasons the two teams have had of the meets be-ing decided by five-tenths of a point or less.

LSU sopho-more Samantha Engle said she was pleased with the team’s overall performance.

“We just needed to go out and have fun be-cause we’ve been having a hard time getting it all together and put-ting every piece of the puzzle together,” she said. “Tonight we finally acted as a team and … It was a great perfor-mance and definitely something we needed.”

Clare-Kearney posted a

season-high score of 39.625 to win the all-around title. LSU junior Susan Jackson came in second in the all-around with a 39.450.

The Tigers posted a season-low 49.150 on the vault but placed the top three in the event with Jackson winning the title (9.90), Clare-Kearney coming in second with a season-low 9.875 and LSU freshman Gloria Johnson coming in third with a season-high 9.85.

The Tigers followed up the season low by posting a season-high 49.425 on the bars.

“A season-high on that event is a tough event — like beam — to get a season high on,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “Hope-fully, this will be a new bench-mark for this team, and they will realize why we are demanding so much.”

LSU posts season high in victoryBy Andy SchwehmSports Contributor

VICTORY, see page 10

MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

[Left] Senior forward Quintin Thornton dunks the ball during the Tigers’ 76-62 win against Alabama in the PMAC on Sunday. [Above] Senior guard Marcus Thornton drives by an Alabama defender to go toward the basket.

‘But in the first five minutes, we got

completely away from our game

plan.’Van Chancellor

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A group of individuals who ap-peared to be break-dancing drew a small crowd outside of the USS Kidd downtown on Sunday afternoon.

But the group was actually par-ticipating in a roda, where partici-pants practice the Afro-Brazilian cul-

tural dance martial art of capoeira. The group was composed of

members of Capoeira Angola Pal-mares Baton Rouge and the Capoe-ria Club at LSU, and they performed moves of the martial art that origi-nated in Brazil.

“It was created in slavery, and it is an expression of freedom,” said Donovon Miller, who leads the Capoeira Angola Palmares Baton Rouge. “You learn to move your body, and you learn to think if your mind is open. And you have total control of yourself physically. Then

mentally you are truly free.” Capoeira resembles a dance be-

cause the slaves wanted to practice the martial art without their masters knowing.

The clubs hold roda often, but Sunday’s was special because it fea-tured the participation of the Contra Mestre Pererê. The Contra Mestre, or counter or assistant master — whose real name is Eric Johnson — said Miller invited him to work to with the groups.

Johnson currently lives in Ore-gon and has practiced capoeira since

the late 1980s.“He invited me to come here and

do a musical instrument work shop and to lead a weak of a workshops in movements, music, art and culture of capoeira,” Johnson said.

The roda is performed with music played by drums and the ber-imbau, a one-stringed percussion in-strument Johnson helped the groups build.

“It is done with music,” Miller said. “The rhythm and the pacing is led by the berimbaus. It tells you the type of game to play either to play

low to the ground, to play high or whether to play slow or fast.”

Brooke Cassidy, graduate stu-dent in ceramics, said the club at LSU was hoping to expose more people to capoeira.

“I started taking the class last semester at the Rec Center, and I just really loved it,” Cassidy said.

The No. 19 LSU softball team opened its season with mixed results in the Paradise Classic in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Tigers (3-2) began the tour-nament with a 10-5 win Thursday against Alabama-Birmingham to increase the team’s season opening record to 12-1 since 1997.

“There is always jitters in the

first game,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “We hit the ball well.”

The Tigers showed their lack of depth in the circle against No. 10 Oklahoma in an 8-0 loss Friday.

Girouard said the pitching rota-tion is going to be a problem for the team for a while.

“This pitching staff right now is truly piecemeal,” Girouard said. “[Junior Baylor transfer Kirsten] Shortridge did have surgery before she got here, so she’s been limited. Really the only healthy pitchers we have are a freshman in Brittany Mack and [sophomore] Casey Faile.”

Faile stepped in the circle against Hawaii in the team’s second

game Friday and led the Tigers to a 6-5 victory against the Warriors.

Faile threw the Tigers’ first complete game this season despite giving up a three-run home run in the seventh inning.

“It was hers to win or lose,” Gi-rouard said. “She had thrown a great game up until that point.”

The Tigers opened Saturday with a rematch against UAB.

LSU tried to rally late against the Blazers, scoring thee runs in the top of the seventh to pull ahead, 3-2, but a walk-off three-run home run by UAB’s Amanda Allen in the bottom of the inning gave the Blazers the victory.

Shortridge struck out four and gave up six hits in 3 1/3 innings.

“We didn’t get it going right off the bat like we should have,” Shor-tridge said. “I was definitely strug-gling.”

The team managed to salvage the day when LSU held off Hawaii again, 6-5, in a nine-inning rematch.

Girouard said the trip to Ha-waii was a good recruiting tool be-cause it showed recruits the team can travel all over the country. She said the team had to move its schedule around to budget for the trip, and as a result, most away games in the Southeastern Conference will be bus trips instead of flights.

“So this is our one big trip,” Gi-rouard said. “Next year we have to take a whole lot more flights in the SEC, so that would have been truly out of the window for us to be able to come here next year.”

Freshman Juliana Santos said the opportunity to play in Hawaii was intriguing when she was decid-ing what school to attend.

“When I found out that we were going to go Hawaii my freshman year, I was very excited,” Santos said.

Contact Amos Morale at amorale@lsureveille.com

Contact Jarred LeBlanc at jleblanc@lsureveille.com

By Amos MoraleSports Contributor

By Jarred LeBlancSports Contributor

Group hoping to expand awareness

LSU opens season with 3-2 record

MARTIAL ARTS

SOFTBALL

Lack of pitching depth hurts Tigers in Hawaii

Capoeira master visits LSU, Baton Rouge clubs

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The LSU women’s tennis team notched wins in two states this weekend, and the men’s team added a win in the team’s home opener to complete a weekend sweep for LSU tennis.

The No. 25 women’s team pulled out a 4-3 win at No. 27 Texas A&M on Sunday after dominat-ing No. 73 Southern Methodist University in Baton Rouge on Fri-day.

“I think [the traveling] was fine, we’re kind of used to doing that,” said LSU women’s tennis coach Tony Minnis. “We do that every week in the SEC, so I don’t think it wasn’t that big a deal.”

Both the men’s and wom-en’s tennis teams had their home

openers this weekend at “Dub” Robinson Stadium, as the No. 16 ranked LSU men’s team also defeated No. 27 Rice on Saturday, 4-3.

The women’s team swept SMU in doubles play and went 5-1 in singles play.

In women’s singles competition, LSU’s No. 5 ranked Megan Falcon won both her matches, improving her season record to 17-4.

“It was a very good win,” Minnis said. “I was really impressed with our team and our very hard-fought victory.”

The men’s team swept in dou-bles against Rice while splitting the singles matches, 3-3.

“We need everyone to play that well to win,” said LSU men’s coach Jeff Brown. “That’s a good team. They’ll be top 20 by the end of this summer.”

In doubles, the duo of Michael Venus and Neal Skupski defeated Rice’s Tobias Schiel and Christoph Muller, 8-5.

Venus and Skupski improved their doubles record to 3-0. Venus was formerly teamed up with James Cluskey.

“In doubles we got victories all the way around,” Brown said. “It ultimately took Neal [Skupsi], Julian [Gauthier] and Sebastian [Carlsson] — two sophomores and a freshman — to come through for us.”

Carlsson took the first victory for the Tigers in men’s singles play dominating No. 61 Sam Garforth-Bles (6-0, 7-6) in straight sets.

Rice’s Rosa proved why he is ranked No. 26 in the nation after a convincing victory versus Cluskey (6-1, 6-1).

LSU sophomore Julian Gauthier gave the Tigers the lead, and fresh-man Neal Skupski sealed the win.

LSU’s No. 2 ranked Michael Venus lost a back-and-forth match against Rice’s Christoph Muller. Ve-nus and Muller split the first two sets. But the third set ended up being the turning point, as Venus lost his com-posure and slammed his racket into

the court after Muller began to take the advantage. Muller won the final set, 6-1.

“He was just frustrated going in,” Brown said. “He knew it was going to be a tough match.”

But Venus’ loss was irrelevant, as LSU had already sealed the vic-tory against Rice shortly after Venus’ third set began.

“There’s just a rule that you have to play once the third set starts,” Brown said. “Sometimes depending on the situation, people are able to stop. He wanted to stop, but he would have to default anyway. He was just frustrated. We reiterated the rule to him, and he understands. He’s glad the team won ultimately.”

The LSU men’s team will next match up against No. 1 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, on Feb. 22.

The women will host Florida State and Southern at Robinson Sta-dium the same day.

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Hornets defeat T-Wolves, 101-97By Brett MartelThe Associated Press

HORNETS, see page 8

Tigers, Lady Tigers win homeopeners

By Tyler HarveySports Contributor

Falcon improves record to 17-4

Contact Tyler Harvey at tharvey@lsureveille.com

TENNIS

NBA

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The short-handed New Orleans Hor-nets overcame the ejection of Da-vid West in a 101-97 victory on Sunday night.

Rasual Butler scored 23 and Devin Brown 14 for New Or-leans Sean Marks dunked with 7.8 seconds left to cap a career-high 18-point effort. The hornets won their second straight game while handing Minnesota its third-straight loss.

Al Jefferson led Minnesota with 25 points and 14 rebounds, but had to be helped off the court inside the final 30 seconds with an apparent right knee injury.

New Orleans, already starting the game without All-Star Chris Paul (groin) and starting center Ty-son Chandler (ankle), lost another All-Star when West was ejected late in the second quarter.

West was called for a flagrant-2 foul when he chopped down over the back of Mike Miller’s shoulder as Miller attempted a fast-break layup. West’s forearm caught Mill-er in the face, but Miller remained in the game with no apparent in-jury.

Making matters worse, Peja Stojakovic, who hit seven 3s in a season-high 28-point performance in New Orleans’ most recent vic-tory Friday night, was only 1-for-10 from the field until late in the fourth quarter against Minnesota.

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The Hornets escaped with the victory only because they got the best performances they’ve seen from Marks, acquired in the off-season, and point guard Antonio Daniels, who arrived in a trade af-ter the season began. Daniels had 12 points and seven assists while starting for Paul.

The Hornets finished with 42 points from reserves, including Brown’s total and nine points from James Posey.

Jefferson had all of his points during the first three quarters. Swarmed by defenders in the final period, he got off only two shots and missed both. He then landed awkwardly on his right leg after attempting to block Marks’ dunk attempt with 27.2 seconds to go. Jefferson was called for a foul on the missed shot, then hopped to-ward the sideline before falling to the floor. He did not put any weight on his right leg as he was helped to the locker room.

Marks made only one free

throw to put New Orleans up 95-94, then Marks fouled Minnesota’s Randy Foye, who made both free throws to put Minnesota back in the lead with 16.8 seconds left.

After Marks’ dunk put New Orleans ahead again, Minnesota looked for a fast break the other way, but Sebastian Telfair’s cross-court pass sailed out of bounds be-hind Miller.

Minnesota was then forced to foul and the Hornets got the ball to Stojakovic, who despite a lousy night from the field did not miss

any of his seven free throws in the game and finished with 11 points.

Minnesota’s loss wasted a strong performance by Ryan Gomes, whose five 3-pointers were a career-high for a single game. Gomes finished with 21 points, while Telfair had 14 points and Kevin Love 12.

After scoring only one point in the first quarter, West appeared to be coming on strong in the sec-ond, when he scored eight points on several strong inside moves and a mid-range jump shot. But

West seemingly lost his cool when he thought he was fouled while turning the ball over. No foul was called, and as West ran back on defense he committed the flagrant foul on Miller with 1:53 to go in the period.

The Hornets trailed 48-43 when West was thrown out, but pulled to 52-49 by halftime.

LSU’s track and field teams topped the NCAA leaderboard this weekend when they traveled to New York’s Armory Track and Field Center for the New Balance Collegiate Invitational.

The Tigers posted more sea-son bests in individual categories en route to finishing second in the Invitational.

They racked up 60 points finishing second to Baylor (65), while the Lady Tigers finished sixth in the women’s standings with 43 points.

LSU junior LaTavia Thomas set an NCAA-leading time (2 minutes, 4.54 seconds) in her first 800-meter race of the season, breaking her own previous meet record set at last year’s New Bal-ance Collegiate Invitational.

Thomas won the Most Out-standing Female Performer of the meet after also anchoring the winning 4x400-meter relay team, which set its first NCAA provi-sional qualifying time of the year at 3 minutes, 38.84 seconds.

She became the first Lady Ti-ger to set an automatic qualifying time for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

LSU junior Samantha Henry, who teamed with Thomas in the 4x400, set an NCAA provisional qualifying time in the 200 me-ters (23.61 seconds) Saturday af-

ter setting an NCAA provisional qualifying time in the 60 meters Friday (7.33 seconds).

LSU sophomore and Kings Park, N.Y., native Walter Henning won the weight throw with a meet record of 72 feet, 8 1/2 inches, becoming the first LSU athlete to win the event at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational.

“It was really nice to come back to the same circle where I threw for so many years in high school and set a meet record,” Henning said in a news release. “I really wanted to compete more than anything, and I think I did that.”

The LSU men’s long jumpers swept the top two spots Friday. No two athletes from the same school had ever swept the long jump at the meet before.

LSU junior Will Coppage won the event with an NCAA-leading mark and new personal best jump of 25 feet, 7 1/4 inches.

Coppage went into the meet without a 2009 NCAA qualifying mark, and left with a mark one inch farther than his previous best set at the 2007 Indoor Champion-ships.

“We just had a great week of practice as a group, and I knew I could put it all together,” Coppage said in a news release. “When I hit that big jump, I felt really good going off the board, and my land-ing was much better. I knew it was a big one,”

LSU senior Jeremy Hicks finished second and set an NCAA provisional qualifying mark at 25 feet, 3 1/2 inches after fouling on his first two attempts.

LSU junior Trindon Holliday continued his winning ways in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.56 seconds, matching his own 2009 NCAA-leading time.

“Trindon continues to look great running the 60 meters,” said LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver in a news release. “He’s just a very confident runner right now.”

LSU junior Josh Dominguez set the first provisional mark of his career with an NCAA provisional clearance of 17 feet, 3/4 inches in the pole vault.

“This is another step in the right direction for both our teams,” Shaver said.

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Tigers finish second in New Balance Invitational

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Dunning helped LSU push the def-icit to 18-9 with a free throw and a layup.

But Mississippi State junior forward Chanel Mokango an-swered by starting a 7-0 run capped by a fadeaway 18-footer by junior guard Alexis Rack to push the Lady Bulldogs’ lead to 25-9 with six minutes left in the fi rst half.

Rack led the Lady Bulldogs with 22 points, while Mokango scored 15 points and had four blocks.

Chancellor got his fi rst tech-nical foul since becoming LSU’s coach on the following possession. An LSU player was unable to draw a foul while driving to the lane and Chancellor picked up a technical for arguing with offi cials.

Chancellor said the physicality of Sunday’s game was something he had not seen since his return to the college game.

“I’m amazed we didn’t have a fi ght in the game, and we almost did,” he said. “This was one of the most physical games I’ve been in-volved in.”

The Lady Tigers were unable to receive an offensive jolt from their coach’s emotion and missed 20 of their 26 shots in the opening half.

The Lady Bulldogs were equally anemic offensively the fi -nal six minutes of the half and were held scoreless by LSU. But the Lady Tigers were only able to trim

four points off the lead in that span to go into halftime trailing 27-13.

The Lady Bulldogs’ defense continued to stifl e the LSU offense in the second half, keeping LSU without a fi eld goal for the open-ing three minutes of the half while stretching their lead to 22 points.

Following a scuffl e during a jump-ball that saw Donnisha Tate receive a technical foul, LSU re-sponded with a 10-0 run to cut the lead to 12 with 12 minutes to play.

Junior guard Andrea Kelly caught fi re in the second half and scored a career-high 23 points —

all in the second half — to cut into the lead.

“Kelly was outstanding,” Chancellor said. “That’s the best she’s played all year.”

As a whole, LSU’s offense played better in the fi nal half and shot 44 percent from the fi eld, but the Lady Tigers were unable to create enough defensive stops to cut further into Mississippi State’s lead.

LSU, Mississippi State and Georgia are now tied at 5-4 for fi fth place in the SEC.

But things will not get easier for LSU as two of their fi nal fi ve games will come against ranked competition.

“We’ve got to get some wins,” Chancellor said. “We’ve got to play.”

attendance at the PMAC had to be wondering if the Tigers were still hitting the snooze button. Alabama raced out to an 11-2 lead fueled by four LSU turnovers, while the Tigers shot 1-of-6 from the fi eld.

“We came onto the court with-out intensity,” said senior guard Gar-rett Temple. “Coach [Johnson] was a little upset ... We were just sluggish offensively. We were not executing like we know we can.”

Then the alarm went off.LSU outscored Alabama, 36-17,

from the 14-minute mark of the fi rst half. Senior guard Marcus Thornton shot 80 percent from the fi eld for 20 fi rst-half points on the way to a 22-point performance.

Junior forward Tasmin Mitch-ell made a rare 3-point appearance, shooting 2-of-2 from the arc on the day for 16 points and 11 rebounds overall — his sixth double-double of the season.

“I was just open at the top more than I was open at the bottom,” Mitchell said. “I just shot wide open shots.”

Temple shot 2-of-3 from 3-point range to fi nish with 10 points, his highest total since notching 14 at Ole Miss on Jan. 17.

“Coach always wants me to be aggressive, especially going toward the rim,” Temple said. “I haven’t been scoring. My wrist hurts, so my outside jump shot isn’t as comfort-able, so I tried to get to the rim a little bit and put up some more points for

the team.”Alabama gave away the lead

and the game over a dismal fi ve-minute stretch in the fi rst half. The Crimson Tide missed six shots from the fi eld and shot 0-for-3 from the free throw line from the eight-minute mark to the three-minute mark of the fi rst half.

“There were times when we were able to get the ball where we wanted to get it around the bas-ket,” said Alabama interim coach Philip Pearson. “We just couldn’t convert the shots, and I think a lot of that had to do with the defensive pressure.”

Alabama sophomore guard Se-nario Hillman, who buried LSU with 24 points in the teams’ fi rst meeting, fi nished with 11 points while shoot-ing 28 percent from the fi eld.

LSU’s bench saw some of its most extensive play of the confer-ence season. Freshman guard Chris Bass fi nished with fi ve points, his fi rst scoring output in conference play. Senior forward Quintin Thorn-ton has been battling injuries for much of the past three weeks but managed four points in 12 minutes.

“Chris Bass in the fi rst half was real, real good,” Johnson said. “Down the stretch in the second half, near the 10-minute mark, we were able to rest a lot of guys and get some guys some meaningful minutes against good players.”

REMATCH, from page 5

VICTORY, from page 5

BULLDOGS, from page 5

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Jackson won the bar title with a season-high 9.925. Clare-Kearney posted a 9.900 to tie for second in the event. Five Tigers posted season-highs in the event.

The Tigers held a 98.575-98.150 lead against the Gators through the fi rst rotation, and re-fused to give it up, as they posted another season high with a 49.300 on the beam.

Johnson posted a season-high 9.800 on the apparatus, her second season high of the night.

“I don’t want to diminish ... how well she performed, but that’s the tip of the iceberg,” Breaux said. “She’s so talented, so I was very pleased to see her break through tonight.”

Engle also posted a season high of 9.85 on the beam. Clare-Kearney tied her season high of 9.875.

The team then scored a 48.925 on the fl oor to fi nish up the victory.

Clare-Kearney posted a sea-son-high 9.975 to fi nish up the night and win the event. Junior Kayla Rogers posted a season-high 9.90 to tie for second.

The Tigers head to Tuscaloo-sa, Ala ., on Friday to face the No. 9 Crimson Tide (3-2, 2-2). The Tide are coming off a season-high 197.025 in their victory Fri-day night against Denver.

“I’m pleased with the pattern of our workouts and ... the prog-ress we are making, but we need to continue to make small strides and small improvements as we go into our meet next week with Alabama,” Breaux said.

Contact Andy Schwehm at aschwehm@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘Kelly was

outstanding. That’s the best she’s

played all year.’Van Chancellor

LSU coach

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2009 PAGE 11

Lil Wayne is still enjoying the success of last year’s “Tha Carter III.” The record went on to sell more than a million copies its fi rst week. It was the best selling album of 2008 and won Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.

So what’s next for the “best rapper alive?” How can he possibly top the success of “Tha Carter III?”

By releas-ing a rock al-bum.

Lil Wayne announced Jan. 23 on MTV that his next album due out April 7 will not be a re-release of “Tha Carter III,” but a new rock album titled “Re-birth.”

Lil Wayne making a rock al-bum? Seems a bit odd, but on Jan. 27 the fi rst track from the album “Prom Queen” appeared on Lil Wayne’s MySpace page.

I have to be honest when I say I didn’t really care for Lil Wayne’s new material. After listening to “Prom Queen” and “Hot Revolver,” a track leaked from the new album, I was skeptical this album would prove to be successful.

I really wasn’t a big fan of “A Milli” when it came out either, but after repeated listens I fell in love with the track. I’m hoping the same thing happens with his new mate-rial.

And while “Rebirth” might not

Actors, musicians try new genres

JOSHUA CHENIEREntertainment

Writer

Crescent City

Open-mic nights gives beginners a chance to performMUSIC

Baton Rouge isn’t known for its music scene the way Austin, Texas, or Nashville, Tenn., are. But several local musicians are doing their best to change that and give emerging musicians a chance.

David Borne, University alumnus and local musician, hosts open-mic night every Monday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the Roux House downtown.

It is a laid-back environment, with no sign-up and sets that last 30-40 min-utes.

For many aspiring musicians, open-mic nights like the one at the Roux House offer the time and place to prac-tice.

“It’s cool to watch people get so much better,” Borne said. “A lot of peo-ple who started here have their own gigs now.”

One such musician is singer and songwriter Daniel Patterson.

Patterson said he has been writing songs for fi ve years but was reluctant to perform in front of strangers.

“I was nervous as all hell the fi rst time I played at the Roux House,” Pat-terson said. “But as I got more experi-ence, I got a lot more comfortable. I just had to take that fi rst step.”

Since his fi rst performance, Pat-terson has gotten paid gigs through networking with the hosts and regulars

at the various open-mic nights around town.

He also won an open-mic contest at the Roux House, giving him the oppor-tunity to open for the band Soul Haven.

“I like open mic because it’s typi-cally a pretty casual attitude,” Patterson said. “The crowd is a little more forgiv-ing, and everyone is just there to have a good time.”

Patterson liked performing open-mic night so much he decided to start his own open mic at BrewHaha coffee shop on Jefferson Highway on Sunday evenings.

“I’d say it’s the best open mic for performers in Baton Rouge,” Patter-son said. “The mood is very low key, the audience is attentive and enjoys the

OPEN MIC, see page 13

Several local venues host new musiciansBy Jack LeBlancEntertainment writer

JACK LEBLANC / The Daily Reveille

Daniel Patterson, local singer and songwriter, performs last Monday at the Roux House’s open-mic night.

REBIRTH, see page 12

CrescentCrescent City

Deep in the heart of New Orleans, a being lurks — part man, part ghost. It waits to overcome evil and save its home from

the predators that would do the city wrong.

He is The Black Ghost, and the night belongs to him.

Many children — and even some adults

— dream of being superheroes. But

Will Warner is as close as it gets.

Warner, a 42-year-old counselor, fi lm-

maker and teacher at Delgado

Community College in

New Or-l e a n s ,

created The Black Ghost in 1998 while in the Navy.

He used it as a way to pass the time by creating fi lm shorts and

comic strips.Warner returned

from his service shortly before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.

“Around the time of Katrina, I saw the violence and hurt through-out the city, and I knew that I could create something to give to the peo-ple to give them hope,” Warner said. “Growing up I had heroes like the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet and the Shadow, and I knew that kids these days don’t have the same type of heroes with the same type of val-ues to look up to.”

People watch the movies and read the comic books and imagine just what it would be like to be Spi-derman, Batman or Superman, and wish they could have the power to jump buildings in a single bound or hang upside down from a web.

To many, though, the super-hero is much more than just heroic powers and spandex costumes. It is a symbol representing peace, hope, protection and the ability to change

New Orleans resident takes his mask and cape to inspire citizens on the streets

By Jake ClappEntertainment writer

SUPERHERO, see page 13

MY OPINION

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be an album I’ll enjoy, I am glad Lil Wayne chose to do this.

It sends a message that regard-less of what’s popular in the music scene today, some artists can be successful while taking a new di-rection in their musical careers.

Kanye West was put under the radar late last year when he re-leased “808’s and Heartbreak.” The album was filled with auto-tuned lyrics over tribal drum beats, a dif-ferent direction from tuned up soul samples.

The album received mixed re-views but maintained a strong po-sition the Billboard charts, reach-ing No. 1 on Dec. 13. The album proved to be a success for West, calling it his best album to date in Vibe magazine.

It goes to show some musi-cians can be successful even when they branch out from the sound that

made them famous.Some musicians pursue other

goals besides music and take their chances with acting.

After the success of Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé went solo and found immediate success. She was cast in an MTV made-for-television movie “Carmen: A Hip Hopera.” The mu-sical film was directed by Robert Townsend and starred Mos Def, Wyclef Jean and Mekhi Phifer.

Beyoncé also had other success in acting, like starring in the movies “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” “The Fighting Temptations” and “The Pink Panther.”

Other celebrities have even tried their luck in music.

After recording minor hit songs “Parents Just Don’t Understand” and “Summertime” as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Will Smith landed his own show, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

Smith began a dual career, re-

leasing “Big Willie Style” in 1997 while also starring in “Indepen-dence Day” and “Men in Black.” Smith is now one of the most popu-lar actors in Hollywood, command-ing at least $20 million per film.

While these actors and musi-cians found success in either tele-vision or music, other celebrities don’t receive the same warm re-sponse.

After playing John McClane in the “Die Hard” film series, Bruce Willis released a pop blues album entitled “The Return of Bruno” which was received with mixed re-views, not scoring higher than 14th on the billboard chart.

Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael even started their own band called The Bacon Brothers. They have released four albums since 1997.

And while The Bacon Broth-ers aren’t one of the artists on my iTunes, it still proves actors and

musicians can pursue other goals in different fields and find more fame and success.

The latest addition to this gang is Joaquin Phoenix. The actor who has starred and written music for “Walk the Line” while also appear-ing in “Gladiator,” “Ladder 49” and “We Own the Night.”

Phoenix announced his retire-ment from acting in October to fo-cus on a music career.

He performed his first rap show earlier this month and is said to be working on an album with the Char-latan’s front man, Tim Burgess.

Whether Phoenix will succeed as a rapper is to be determined, but he definitely has the ability to have

some kind of successful music ca-reer.

He is another example of a ce-lebrity with the ability to conquer more than one genre in his career.

So until the release of “Re-birth” on April 7, I’ll just keep an open ear out for some new songs from Lil Wayne and hope they grow on me. And if not, it won’t be too much longer before “Tha Carter 4” comes out.

Contact Joshua Chenier at jchenier@lsureveille.com

REBIRTH, from page 11

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ unorthodox musical partnership yielded rich re-wards on Grammy night, as the pair won a leading four Grammys, includ-ing record of the year for the haunting

“Please Read The Letter.”At the same moment that the

show was going on, teen heartthrob and double Grammy nominee Chris Brown was talking with detectives about an alleged felony assault on an unidentified woman the night before. Police records showed he was being held on $50,000 bail.

Brown and longtime girlfriend Rihanna, also nominated, were both slated to perform in different slots

of the show, but separately dropped out at the last minute. The victim of Brown’s alleged assault wasn’t iden-tified, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether Rihanna’s absence was re-lated to Brown’s.

Jennifer Hudson was there, how-ever, and provided the night’s most emotional moments onstage. The Oscar winner took her first Grammy award — for best R&B album — for her self-titled debut.

The Grammy telecast was filled with eye-popping and eyebrow-rais-ing performances, from Radiohead’s collaboration with a college marching band to a televised black-and-white throwback performance from Jay-Z, T.I., Lil Wayne, Kanye West and a very pregnant M.I.A.

Coldplay and Lil Wayne each won three Grammys apiece — Cold-play’s win included song of the year for “Viva La Vida.”

Lil Wayne was the nominations leader with eight, and won best rap solo performance for “A Milli,” rap song for “Lollipop” and rap/sung col-laboration for “Swagga Like Us.”

Krauss, Lil Wayne win big at annual Grammy awards

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Coldplay takes home Song of the Year

AWARDS

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the world.“It’s difficult to make any

kind of generalization about the meaning of the superhero,” said Brannon Costello, English as-sistant professor. “An appealing element of the superhero is that it is densely packed with meaning and significance.”

For years, this symbol was something people would find only in a comic book, movie or televi-sion show, but recently hundreds of people have begun to take it to the streets.

In just the past few years a grassroots movement has formed called the Real Life Superhero Community.

Men and women across the country make their own costumes and head out into their communi-ties to serve and protect.

Their Web site, Reallifesu-perheroes.org, has a full roster of male and female superheroes across the country.

Some heroes, such as Master Legend of Orlando, Fla., go out and patrol their neighborhood streets in search of crime; others seek to change the world by ac-

tively showing life can be differ-ent through hard work.

Warner took his character and developed it into a real su-perhero the kids of New Orleans could follow.

Starting out with a digital camera and a laptop, Warner set out to create the first episodes of The Black Ghost television series to air on a public access channel.

Since those first days in 2005, The Black Ghost has grown into a full production with the help of 30 volunteers.

Warner constantly works side by side with the New Orleans Po-lice Department to raise public safety awareness.

Through his social work with kids and teenagers, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin named The Black Ghost the official New Or-leans superhero and an Ambassa-dor of Hope for the city.

Warner stays busy, as he and his non-profit production com-pany continue to shoot The Black Ghost and planning a workshop that allows high school seniors to earn college credit by working on The Black Ghost set.

“I’ll know that my work has meant something when I can see

kids with blankets tied on run around the yard pretending like they are superheroes, like I did as a kid,” Warner said. “When you

go about it the right way, a super-hero is a symbol of hope and so-ciety. That is all I want The Black Ghost to be.”

music and you don’t have to wor-ry about 10 drunken requests for the same song.”

Patterson said he thinks Ba-ton Rouge as a music scene has taken off in the last few years, but still has a way to go to catch up with Austin, Athens, Ga., or Nashville.

“It seems as if original mu-sic has found a foothold recently and continues to expand, and I think we need to do everything we can to keep that going,” Pat-terson said. “There’s no reason we can’t be the next Athens or Austin. We’ve got 30,000 college kids here along with the rest of the general population and New Or-leans right down the road. We’ve got to be able to make something happen.”

Borne said he has had a good amount of success playing in Baton Rouge and has been able

to work only as a musician since graduating in 2006.

“It’s a cool town. You could actually make more money play-ing music in Baton Rouge than in a big music town like Austin and Nashville,” Borne said. “There’s always someone playing acoustic guitar somewhere.”

Another option for acoustic performers is French Quarter Dai-quiris. Benjamin Moore has been hosting the Thursday open-mic night off and on for five years.

There are typically five or six performers who play a mixture of covers and original music.

“It’s a smaller open-mic night, so it’s where a lot of guys start,” Moore said. “Performers get a chance to get up there and perform for people without the pressures of a three hour gig.”

Moore said once performers play a few open-mics, they are usually ready to start looking for their own gigs.

“You’ve got to just get out there and do it and not be afraid of what everyone thinks,” Moore said. “Once you get up there and do it, it will feel good.”

But not all performers do well their first time.

“There are definitely people who come in and you cut them short,” Moore said.

Borne said when performers are struggling on stage, he uses his skills as a host to politely let them know they only have time for one more song.

“I just smile and clap and hope nobody leaves,” Borne said. “Most people that are bad the first time get a lot better when they come back.”

OPEN MIC, from page 11

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JACK LEBLANC / The Daily Reveille

David Borne, University alumnus and local musician, performs last Monday at the Roux House. Borne hosts open-mic night every Monday at the Roux House.

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cross country at Northwestern Uni-versity in Chicago.

While he was there, he worked as a part-time accountant and paint-ed stairs to make ends meet. But when the cross country program fell apart, he was unemployed again.

An unpaid internship coaching football took him to the University of Virginia, though he had no prior experience with the sport. Continu-ing circumstances kept him moving from job to job, and by the time he was working at a Home Depot in Atlanta, Seddiqui said he had had enough.

“That was when I asked my-self ‘What the hell happened to my life?’” Seddiqui said.

That was when he devised a plan to escape from the traditional working experience. His travels had exposed him to the cultural differences between states and the variety of jobs those differences created.

After weeks of persistent phone calls across the nation, he was on

the doorstep of a new adventure in American employment — 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks.

“At first I kept getting rejected, but I was use to that,” Seddiqui said.

By Sept. 1, he was in Salt Lake City working in the humanitarian services business for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints where he put together hygiene kits for the victims of Hurricane Ike.

Just a week later, he was in Denver working as a hydrologist.

“That was kind of over my head during the first day,” Seddiqui said. “I’ve worked six science jobs since, and I always manage to catch on.”

From week to week, it was never the same. He was sometimes forced to sleep in the back of his Jeep Grand Cherokee as he roamed the country when he couldn’t find a place to stay.

For Seddiqui, this adventure has been more than just about find-ing work. Because he tries to work in careers that relate to the state he is in, he said he’s showcasing what

each state has to offer both cultur-ally and economically.

“I use to drive through farm fields without caring, but now I can completely understand their func-tion,” Seddiqui said. “I care more about this country now than I ever have before. I’m living the life of someone in each state.”

As his travels became popular-ized through his Web site and local and national media, Seddiqui was offered numerous book and movie deals.

“I want to write about my first-hand experiences with these careers because so many people get out of college into a career and don’t know what they’re getting them-selves into,” Seddiqui said.

Seddiqui arrived in Louisiana last Monday after spending a week as a petroleum engineer in Hous-ton. On his way to New Orleans to work a stint on Bourbon Street as a bartender, he passed through Baton Rouge and visited the University. On his Web site, Seddiqui said it was the nicest campus he had seen.

On Tuesday, Seddiqui was be-

hind the bar of the Funky Pirate on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Though he doesn’t drink alcohol, he said he enjoyed the music and culture of the city.

“I wonder why people would go to Europe when they could just go to New Orleans,” Seddiqui said.

Working outside his comfort zone is something Seddiqui is ac-customed to, but he said working in a New Orleans bar made time go by fast.

“He’s willing to test and try things, and that is what it takes in life,” said Pam Fortner, co-owner of the Funky Pirate. “He just has an initiative about him, who knows how he didn’t get a job in Califor-nia.”

Fortner said Seddiqui is a peo-ple person and worked well in the bar room. However, she said she’s sure he would never settle down into a career on Bourbon Street.

“I think he would be more geared to a conventional job,” Fort-ner said. “I feel he could do the job, but I think he wants to get closer to using his degree.”

Fortner housed Seddiqui in an apartment she owns on Bourbon Street while he was in town. Be-cause he had never been to New Orleans before, Fortner gave him time off from the bar and took him on a tour of the city.

Fortner and Seddiqui drove to the Lower and Upper 9th Ward, Lakeview and St. Charles neigh-borhoods to tour some of the parts of the city still blighted by Hurri-cane Katrina.

“People still talk about Katrina like it happened last week,” Sed-diqui said. “It’s really hard to com-prehend.”

On Sunday morning, after an eight-hour shift behind the bar, Seddiqui packed up and headed for Mississippi, where he will work as a nutritionist. With 29 weeks left, there is still work to be done.

said. “So far they are having a lot of fun.”

Others parents came to see what their kids are learning in vet-erinary school. George and Mary Pivach of Belle Chasse came to support their daughter.

“Our daughter is in vet school,” he said. “We’ve come for the last couple of years. It’s a fun family day.”

Still others came as poten-

tial students to check out the Vet School facilities. High school stu-dent Dorian McFarley of Opelou-sas wants to attend the LSU Vet School.

“I like animals,” he said. “It’s really exciting. There’s a lot of in-teresting things. I’m impressed and excited.”

Students found participation in the event rewarding and time-consuming.

“It’s great to see all the people and how interested they are,” said

Grace Burns, second-year vet stu-dent. “There’s a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that people don’t realize.”

Most of the funding for the event came from corporate spon-sorships like pharmaceutical and pet food companies.

Ginger Guttner, Vet School public relations coordinator, said the open house was a way to show the community what veterinarians do.

“This is a way for us to show

that vets do more than just dog and cat medicine,” she said.

Taboada agreed, adding that the open house showed people vet-erinarians have a big impact on hu-man health, as well.

“Vets are very much involved in the health of people through pub-lic health and through food safety,” he said. He added that their re-search “has a focus on animals. But the animal serves as a model for hu-man health.”

Guttner could not provide at-

tendance estimates by press time. She noted, however, the school was pleased with the turnout, as people showed up before the event started at 9 a.m.

“It has definitely been a steady stream of people,” she said.

JOB, from page 1

OPEN HOUSE, from page 1

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Cite your sources.There’s a good reason profes-

sors make you do this, and, as point-less as it might seem at first, there’s a good reason why your sources are one of the most critical aspects of your paper.

Any good argumentative writ-er’s first and greatest rule is to en-sure accuracy. When facts are recent events, it is absolutely essential the news come from a credible source.

Using credible sources ensures the information you are presenting is true – the events it describes actu-ally happened, the numbers it cites were scientifically obtained and the quotes it uses were actually said.

Good information is the funda-mental basis of any good argument, whether it’s an academic paper, a published column or a debate.

With the advent of the Internet, the question of what constitutes a

good source is far more difficult to answer than it has ever been.

The recent phenomenon of the “news aggregation site,” is making this line especially hard to define.

A news aggregation site con-sists of hyperlinks to other sources. It is essentially a way for those scouring the net for news to easily find the most important headlines, and, for a reader on the go, a way of rapidly assimilating the headlines.

News aggregation sites are like SparkNotes: They can serve a useful purpose but should never be used as a primary source of information.

Ever.The most popular example of

news aggregation sites is Drudge Report. Matt Drudge, who cre-ated and runs the site, has become through his creation one of the most influential modern conservatives. The site has approximately 3 mil-

lion unique viewers, according to Nielson.

When analyzing how useful Drudge Report is, the SparkNotes

analogy is es-pecially appro-priate. The Web site is useful as a way of gather-ing initial infor-mation, a way to filter through the almost limit-less information

available to find the most important news.

And like SparkNotes, it’s im-portant that its usefulness not be overestimated.

If Drudge Report is to be used as a filter, it’s essential the obvious biases it favors be recognized. No-where was this more evident than during this past presidential cam-

paign, where the Report routinely blasted Obama with its headlines, linking to the most incendiary of articles.

The Web site started the trend of calling Obama unpatriotic by repeatedly hammering him for not wearing a flag lapel. It also notori-ously claimed that Obama did not pledge allegiance to the flag — using a photo of questionable authenticity showing him with his hands clasped surrounded by other candidates with their hands on their breast.

The patent falsehood of this story leads to the second, and most important reason Drudge is not a le-gitimate news source on its own. It’s information has often been proven patently false.

Among other things, the site has posted stories claiming a White House aide had beaten his wife, John Kerry’s campaign was about

to collapse due to an intern scandal, and Bill Clinton had sired an ille-gitimate child.

Every one of these serious and damaging accusations was disprov-en beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Drudge Report cannot be con-sidered a legitimate source of news because it does not hold itself to the high standards of reliability legiti-mate sources do.

There’s nothing wrong with looking at sites such as Drudge Re-port. There is, however, very much wrong with relying too heavily on it. Anyone with any interest in the truth should look for plenty of addi-tional sources and should absolutely never cite Drudge as a source itself.

Black Republican.Two words seemingly as anti-

thetical as “civil war” or “Christian scientist” now head the Republican Party, as Michael Steele was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee on Jan. 30.

Steele’s rise to national promi-nence began as the chairman of the Republican Party of Maryland. He was chosen to run for lieutenant gov-ernor by then-Rep. Robert Ehrlich against incumbent Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Townsend’s candidacy was tainted by news of then-Gov. Parris Glendening’s in-volvement in a marital scandal and a very large budget deficit.

After winning the election, Lt. Gov. Steele then campaigned for Maryland’s Senate seat in 2006, only to be defeated by Ben Cardin in a very tough year for Republicans.

After spending time on the Fox

News circuit — in which he guest-hosted a couple of times for Sean Hannity on “Hannity and Colmes” — he emerged as the RNC Chair, defeating Katon Dawson, a segrega-tionist and a previous member of a whites-only country club.

It took Republicans five hours and six ballots to choose between a black man and a segregationist.

Maybe this is a new party.In his acceptance speech, he

pledged to “bring this party to ev-ery corner, every board room, every neighborhood, every community, and we’re going to say to friend and foe alike, we want you to be a part of us, we want you to work with us.

“And for those of you who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over.”

Last time I checked, Democrats control both chambers of Congress as well as the executive branch.

One has to first pick their teeth up from off the ground and dust themselves off before they have time to knock anyone over.

Steele’s selection only magni-fies the many problems the Repub-lican Party has with recruiting and maintaining a minority base.

The GOP’s problems were exposed at last year’s conven-tion, when the Joint Center for Political and Economic Stud-ies reported only 36 of the 2,380 Republican dele-gates were black, making it the most overwhelmingly white Republican Convention since the Joint Center began tracking diversity at conven-tions more than 40 years ago.

It’s no wonder President Barack Obama won 95 percent of the black vote in the 2008 election.

But the GOP continues to preach its long-standing commitment to di-versity, continually citing themselves as “The Party of Lincoln.”

First off, a Lincoln Republican is more similar to an Obama Demo-crat than, say, a Reagan Republican.

Secondly, the Democrats and Republicans virtually changed ideo-logically in the 1930s and 40s, partly because of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and a new era of liberal-ism within the Democratic Party.

In short, the Republicans ran out of good ideas.

While Obama campaigned un-der a 50-state strategy while seeing through idiotic ploys on the part of Republicans to bait the Democrats into saying something stupid — in-cluding John McCain’s idea for a

“gas-tax holiday,” which Hillary Clinton fell for, hook, line and sink-er — Steele was busy inventing the chant “Drill, baby, drill!”

Loosely stolen from the black power chant “Burn, baby, burn,” Steele invented the chant about off-shore drilling — even though most experts agree drilling off our coast-line will generate little to no impact for at least 30 years — and it became the beacon by which Republicans burned themselves on their way to an electoral embarrassment.

Steele’s election displays back-wards thinking under which Repub-licans operate. Instead of good ideas, they yield to their worst instincts.

Republicans don’t need black leaders. They need actual leaders.

OpinionPAGE 16 MONDAY, FEbruArY 9, 2009

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EDITOrIAL POLICIES & PrOCEDurES QuOTE OF THE DAY“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is

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OUR VIEW

Tabling library renovations best choice for University

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It doesn’t just work with any old black guy, GOPFREEMAN OF SPEECH

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Earlier this semester, Student Government President Colorado Robertson proposed spending about $500,000 on renovations to Middleton Library.

The idea was tossed around during Robertson’s first Presi-dent’s cabinet meeting in January, but now it looks as though those renovations might not happen for a while. And that decision is the best

one for the University in the short term.

Robertson met with library of-ficials Thursday to discuss the pro-posed renovations, which outlines adding two new study rooms on the third and fourth floors and a new room with recording and projec-tion technology.

But the two parties decided not to make any decisions regard-

ing the renovations until the Uni-versity knows more about its next fiscal year budget.

We think tabling any decisions like these is the best thing to do given the current financial situa-tion the University is in. The spec-trum for how much money could be cut from the budget is wide, and until University and LSU System officials know more, unnecessary

spending should be monitored.Middleton Library is fine

as is. Sure, there are times when study spaces are too crowded and computers may be slow, but that’s something students deal with all the time and have become some-what accustomed to.

Many students don’t even use Middleton to study, preferring to do work at home or at one of the

various coffee shops around cam-pus.

Maybe when the University’s financial situation is more stable, upgrades should be made. But now is not the time.

Contact the Editorial Board at editor@lsureveille.com

I never had anything person-al against John Brady.

Sure, his bland “paint peeling off the wall” offensive strategy was a bit excruciating to endure. And maybe his patented “Brady Ball” style didn’t exactly gener-ate the level of excitement and enthusiasm from students and fans we would’ve liked.

Say what you will about the former headman’s comportment. At least his offensive strategy wasn’t systematically endanger-ing our health.

Trent Johnson, on the other hand, has evidently made it his priority to destroy our student body.

Literally.During the past few years,

the Raising Cane’s Challenge has become a staple of LSU basket-ball.

The rules are simple: If LSU exceeds the pre-ordained mark — whether it be a point total like 75 points or a shooting mark like seven total threes — LSU students can win free food from Raising Cane’s.

During Brady’s tenure, these challenges were rarely met be-cause of the more anemic offen-sive stratagem of the previous coaching staff.

But this season has been a completely different story.

During LSU’s current seven game SEC winning streak, the team has averaged more than 81 points per game.

Meanwhile, the Tigers’ de-fense has only given up 65 points per game.

But it’s not the defensive side of the ball that has me con-cerned.

LSU’s offense has been far too dynamic lately. As a result, student health is officially on high alert.

Raising Cane’s fat-drenched, grease-enhanced fast food delib-erately kills healthy bodies.

A single Raising Cane’s chicken finger accounts for about 127 calories.

A standard Box combo at Canes – minus a drink – carries a hefty toll of more than 1,200 calories. The daily amount rec-ommended for stable health, ac-cording to Human Health, is only about 2,000 calories.

Louisiana adults weigh in at the third-most obese in the na-tion, according to the Center for Disease Control.

More 30 percent of our resi-dents over age 21 suffer from obesity, which often begins dur-

ing college years when students are more prone to develop un-healthy eating habits.

But it’s not just Johnson that’s in on this whole scheme.

Starting last spring, Raising Cane’s introduced LSU foot-

ball coach Les Miles as one of their leading spokesmen.

His pat-ented voice has since become a trademark for grease-guzzling gurus and calorie-

clobbering aficionados, alike.Because of their interactive

role in LSU activities, Raising Cane’s has become one of the most popular food destinations for students.

But if we want to protect stu-dent health and vitality, there is still time to counteract this grow-ing trend by raising awareness and taking action.

There’s many ways you can contribute to the cause by tak-ing part in such efforts as “Call A Skinny Girl Fat Day” and “Make a Guy Insecure About His Weight Week.”

But, more than anything, we

need to ensure Coach Johnson and the Tigers don’t keep scoring at unprecedented rates. The more the Tigers reach the Cane’s chal-lenge, the more likely we’ll herd back to Raising Cane’s.

As college students, money is rarely an accessible commod-ity. So whenever there’s a chance to stuff some free meat in our mouths, we’re bound to take ad-vantage of it.

No one cares if the food is destined to give us cardiovascu-lar dysfunction and flapping love handles.

But that doesn’t ameliorate the fact Raising Cane’s chicken fingers are as threatening to stu-dent health as Islamic extremists are to domestic security.

Cane’s chicken fingers are addictively delicious and inevita-bly hazardous. It’s like a drug.

And according to Mr. Mack-ey from South Park, “Drugs are bad.”

So, for the love of God, Ti-gers:

Stop feeding the ball under-neath to Tasmin Mitchell.

Stop setting up open threes for Bo Spencer.

Stop throwing the ball up to Chris Johnson.

And, for Allah’s sake, keep

the ball as far away from Marcus Thorton as humanly possible.

The more points our team puts on the board, the more girth we add to our waistline. And the last thing this campus needs is more fat sorority girls.

There’s something much more important at stake than winning a few games and maybe even an SEC title: The health of our students.

Unfortunately, it looks as though there’s no way we can possibly alter this trend. Success, it seems, is inevitable. And the point barrage will only continue.

But you can’t keep the wool pulled over our eyes any longer, Trent. This isn’t Stanford. We aren’t stupid.

So maybe it’s time we brought back sloppy Brady Ball.

There’s plenty of ways you can do this, coach.

You can start by taking a hike on the Oregon Trail.

I’m pretty sure Ben Voogd is still available.

If there was ever any doubt the federal government is waste-ful and inefficient, there can be no more debate.

President Barack Obama was able to charm people with his grace and eloquence.

His pedestrian proposals were secondary to the elation many felt about electing a presi-dent who could speak in complete sentences.

But recent events have shown his true colors — and that color is red.

When former President George W. Bush gave his treasury secretary Henry Paulson free rein to intimidate and coerce banks into signing on to his ill-advised attempt at averting economic disaster, he opened the door for Obama to impose his socialist-like will on corporate America.

During his last days in office, Bush gave an interview to CNN where he claimed, “I’ve aban-doned free market principles to save the free market system.”

Part of this abandonment of the free market included railroad-ing through Congress a $700 bil-lion march towards collectivism.

In October 2008, the Bush administration announced plans to “inject capital” into the coun-

try’s faltering financial institu-tions by purchasing equity in some of the largest banks.

Once the government began investing in stocks to help bolster the ailing economy, the country was set on a course from which we may not be able to recover.

“Whatever you want to call it, if we are strengthening them [the banks], then the American people should get some of the upside of that strengthening.

“Some people call that na-tionalization,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told ABC News earlier this year.

Some people don’t just call this nationalization — it is na-tionalization.

The government owns a por-tion of the institutions in which it has invested.

By purchasing ownership in private companies, the govern-ment has put itself in an unten-able position.

Paulson began acting like a financial adviser for the Ameri-can people — taking the money gained by fiat through taxation and unilaterally putting it into in-stitutions unable to raise capital on their own.

These institutions were in trouble because private inves-

tors were scared to put their own money into them.

But Paulson felt it was his duty to override the public’s bet-ter judgment.

By investing taxpayers’ mon-ey without any consideration to the downside, Paulson also took it upon himself to pick winners and losers.

The gov-ernment began c o n t r o l l i n g economic out-put by prop-ping up businesses that should have been allowed to fail.

Once the government begins supporting some businesses, oth-ers who don’t get help suffer.

Then they too have to grovel at the feet of the almighty.

The actions carried out by the Paulson-Bush bailouts have increased the dependence of the American people on the federal government to the detriment of us all.

Now the torch of self-as-suredness has found its home in the person of Obama.

This past Wednesday, Obama unveiled his plan to cap executive

compensation at $500,000.This is the first step in the

culmination of what began with the Bush administration.

Now that the government has partial ownership in private industries, it can mandate how those industries are run.

Increasingly, the federal government will require pri-vate industry to conform to how the president thinks businesses should operate.

Instead of being given the freedom to innovate and succeed on its own, businesses will face increased stagnation because of federal policies.

Old industries will continue on past their usefulness, and new technologies will be held up in the name of the “common good.”

Businesses must be allowed to fail, regardless of how far reaching their influence.

Without the failure of the old ideas, the new can’t move for-ward.

The old Alex Box was near and dear to the hearts of every LSU baseball fan. It was the Rosentblatt of the South.

But now a new era is dawn-ing in the storied history of the baseball program.

There’s a new stadium that

should be ready for opening day that is poised to help carry on the tradition of the old stadium while adding new memories of its own.

The Box will not be the same, but it will be the home of the Ti-gers as they swing their way into a new century of excellence.

This is how business should be conducted.

Never forget the past, but don’t get stuck in it.

Instead of strengthening America, the collectivist policies of both the past and new adminis-tration will eventually set Amer-ica back.

Innovation, advancement and success will be severely ham-pered if the government doesn’t stop trying to “fix” the economy.

Capping salaries and direct-ing how the industry should oper-ate isn’t going to do anything but bog business down in the mud of old, rehashed socialist ideals.

The economy will fix itself if the process of purgation is al-lowed to be carried out.

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400 Marquette Ave, BR 70806.225.924.1054

YYMMCCAA -- CCHHIILLDDCCAARREE SSTTAAFFFF PP//TTKids Zone Nursery, After School Care,and Childcare staff. Flex schedules,morning/afternoon/evenings. Expd.

w/passion for caring for children. Apply:Paula G. Manship YMCA, 8100 YMCAPlaza Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA or call

767-9622 (Lindsay or Nathan).

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school at 647-2803 a.s.a.p. Knowledgeof volleyball necessary and background

check required. 225.647.2803

CCHHIIMMEESS RREESSTTAAUURRAANNTT 3357 Highland Road

Accepting applications for all positions.Apply in person, only. 11AM-5PM

Monday-Frid

NNOOWW HHIIRRIINNGG an after care person atthe Baton Rouge International SchoolMonday thru Friday, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

$10/ hour. Send resume atbrisla@yahoo.com or call 225-293-

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SSTTUUDDEENNTTSS TTOO WWOORRKK with children /adults with disabilities. Several posi-

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33BBRR//22BBAA CCOONNDDOO Like New. FreeCable. Community Pool. Extra Parking.

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OOAAKKBBRROOOOKK SSTTUUDDIIOO $720 Gated com-munity, fully furnished kitchen,

W/ D, walk-in closet, cable, phone,and FAST internet all included 504-289-

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ROOMMATES

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utilities. $250 dep. 225.921.1209

FFEEMMAALLEE RROOOOMMAATTEE WWAANNTTEEDD Beautifulhouse on lake shared with 2 other stu-dents close to LSU / security, cable,

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MMAANNAAGGEE MMYY MMIISSCCHHIIEEFF Male, desper-ately seeking a female muggle born for

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SEEKING TICKETS

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MISCELLANEOUS

BBIIOOCCHHEEMM TTUUTTOORR NNEEEEDDEEDDTutor needed for General, Organic,

BioChem (sophomore level class). Mustbe available during the day on

Thursdays. $25/hour. Contact amil-neck@gmail.com

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