After another week of cam-paigning, Dodson Auditorium erupted in cheers Wednesday eve-ning as the Student Government election season ended with the More ’09 ticket celebrating a win.

Stuart Watkins and Martina Scheuermann won the run-off election with 55.06 percent of the vote. They defeated candi-dates Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn of the Next Level cam-paign, which secured 44.94 per-

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Astrid Merget, executive vice chancellor and provost, speaks to the SG Senate regarding academic college changes.

During a special Student Gov-ernment Senate meeting Wednesday evening, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Astrid Merget discussed future name and structural changes to the University’s “hopelessly fragment-

ed” academic colleges and schools — changes she said will not affect degree programs.

Merget discussed some examples of possible modifi cations but didn’t pro-vide a written document or full list of proposed changes. She said University Planning Council and deans who would be affected by the changes are reviewing the ideas.

“There will [be] some changes in the confi gurations and names of our col-leges and schools and in the reporting lines of several academic units on cam-

pus,” Merget said in a broadcast e-mail sent Friday.

Among the examples of possible changes, Merget said the School of the Coast and Environment would become the College of the Coast and Environ-ment, the Manship School of Mass Com-munication would become the College of Mass Communication and the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences would become the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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COLLEGES, see page 6

After more than two hours of preparation and debate, the SG Sen-ate tabled a resolution to support Louisiana House Bill No. 27 which would allow concealed handgun per-mit-holders to carry their fi rearms on campus.

The resolution was the continu-ation of a past motion which was brought up in the Senate last year.

Former Student Government President Cassie Alsfeld vetoed the resolution last year because the Sen-ate’s vote was too close to be fully representative of student opinion.

J.P. Gwaltney, president of the University chapter of Students for Concealed Carry, presented back-ground information to the senate during the public input portion of Wednesday’s Senate meeting.

To receive a concealed fi rearm permit, a 21-year-old must fi rst pass a state and Federal Bureau of Investi-gation background check, a training course and a shooting competency test administered by the Department

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LONDON (AP) — Chanting G-20 pro-testers clashed with riot police in central London on Wednes-day, overwhelming police lines, vandal-izing the Bank of England and smashing win-dows at the Royal Bank of Scotland. An effigy of a banker was set ablaze, drawing cheers. More than 30 people were arrested after some 4,000 anarchists, anti-capitalists, environmen-talists and others clogged London’s financial district for what demonstrators branded “Fi-nancial Fool’s Day.” The protests were called ahead of Thursday’s Group of 20 summit of world leaders, who hope to take concrete steps to resolve the global financial crisis.

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Libya death toll tops 200 for drowned migrantsTRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya has called off efforts to retrieve bodies of over 200 illegal migrants who drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized in the stormy wa-ters of the Mediterranean as they set off for a better life in Europe. Laurence Hart, an official with the International Organization for Migration in Libya, said Wednesday that authorities stopped the rescue operation since chanc-es were slim of finding more survivors from the weekend incident.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFSFargo resists FEMA recommendation to evacuateFARGO, N.D. (AP) — With floodwaters rising around them, Fargo officials and the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency faced an agonizing decision: Should they order a mandatory evacuation of the entire city? FEMA thought the best course of action was to evacu-ate and not leave anything to chance. Fargo officials disagreed, saying they knew what it would take to hold back the Red River. The conversation turned heated at times, and Fargo ultimately won. Now that the Red River is receding and leaving only relatively minor damage, that decision looks smart. The city be-gan returning to normal Wednesday as people went back to work, stores reopened and the river dipped to only slightly above 37 feet.

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Mrs. Obama takes her signature style on the road

Lawmakers question $70 million pay raise

(AP) — Michelle Obama packed a suitcase of her fa-vorite designers for her first overseas trip as first lady, wearing many of the same labels she’s put on the fash-ion map — including the decidedly unstuffy J. Crew. As she toured London Wednesday ahead of the G-20 summit and met Queen Elizabeth II, Mrs. Obama stuck with many of the labels that she wore during inaugura-tion festivities two months ago — Jason Wu, Thakoon and Isabel Toledo — reaffirming her role as champion of unsung American fashion.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Lawmakers questioned $70 million in pay raises that state agencies are giving em-ployees next year. Members of the House Appropriations Committee said Wednesday that too many employees are getting salary bumps without a comprehensive review of their performance. Government employment rules al-low agencies to give their workers a “merit pay” increase each year based on their annual evaluations. But the sal-ary boost can’t be less than 4 percent, and the raises are largely automatic.

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The Department of Residential Life implemented an advanced rent policy for this year’s campus hous-ing contract renewal to prevent hous-ing cancellations and to give students who are serious about living on cam-pus more housing options.

Students renewing their con-tracts were charged a non-refundable $250 advanced rent for both on-cam-pus apartments and residence halls. Students who then choose to cancel their housing assignments on cam-pus will forfeit the $250 they paid.

Renee Richard Snider, ResLife associate director of operations, said the number of renewals was down slightly this year but was not as low as anticipated. About 1,500 students renewed their housing contracts this year.

“There’s always a year-to-year difference,” Snider said. “The ad-vanced rent didn’t have as much of

an effect.”The advanced rent did, howev-

er, affect the amount of spaces avail-able in East Campus Apartments and West Campus Apartments, the most popular on-campus housing options for upperclassmen. About 60 more apartment spaces were available March 18 — the last day of apart-ment renewals — this year than last year.

“Current apartment residents would typically use their ‘squatter

rights,’ where they would use their renewal priority to reserve a spot on-campus while looking at their off-campus options and be able to cancel their on-campus housing arrange-ment with no financial penalty,” Snider said. “They can’t do that with this policy.”

Steve Waller, ResLife director, said both ECA and WCA filled up quickly this year.

“Within the first two hours on the last day of renewals, the apart-

ments were full,” Waller said. “Not everyone who tried to renew their contract got in.”

Traditional residence halls saw a decrease in renewals this year, but Snider said residence halls never fill during renewals.

“There are still spaces available in the Horseshoe — Louise Garig being the exception because it’s smaller,” Snider said.

Nearly 900 beds are available in the on-campus apartments for up-perclassmen and about 20 percent of housing assignments — roughly 200 beds — are normally canceled by June 1. Waller said ResLife looked around the Southeastern Conference and the rest of the country to see what other universities did to curb housing cancellations and noticed many of the universities assessed ad-vanced rent.

“We were one of the few schools that did not have advanced rent,” Waller said.

How the advanced rent affects the number of cancellations won’t be

known until late summer.“We’re really curious to know if

the advanced rent will have an im-pact on cancellations,” Snider said.

Waller said he’s pleased the implementation of the advanced rent policy went smoothly.

“With about 4,000 students eli-gible for renewal, we only received about six e-mails concerning the advanced rent, and the e-mails were more along the lines of questions about policy,” Waller said.

Amy Goff, English freshman, said she didn’t mind paying the ad-vanced rent when she renewed her contract and thought the advanced rent wouldn’t influence a student’s decision very much when it comes to housing options.

“If someone wants to live off campus, they’ll go off campus,” Goff said. “If they want to stay, they’ll pay it.”

HOUSING

Residential Life implements advanced rent policy

Survey: Freshmen choose alcohol

Some freshmen are spending more time playing drinking games, shooting beer pong and taking shots than hitting the books.

Nearly 50 percent of freshmen who drink alcohol said they spend more time drinking each week than studying, according to a survey which takes information from online

alcohol education courses. The sur-vey drew information from 30,000 students on 76 different campuses.

Freshmen who said they had at least one drink in the past 14 days said they spent about 10.2 hours a week drinking and only 8.4 hours a week studying, according to the National Survey of Student Engage-ment.

All first-semester freshmen at the University are required to visit MyStudentBody.com, an online al-cohol education program that pro-motes healthy behavior and respon-sible decision making.

Tyler Daniel, international po-

litical science freshman, said he learned a lot about drinking and al-cohol from the program, but he still drinks multiple times a week.

“If I have a test, I only drink one night a week,” he said.

Daniel said it took him three to four hours to complete the online program.

“This primary prevention pro-gram provides freshmen with infor-mation about alcohol and the dangers associated with high-risk drinking to encourage them to make responsible health decisions,” said Julie Hupper-

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Study shows books taking a backseat

Amount of renewals not affected

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Students renewing their contracts at on-campus housing locations, such as East Campus Apartments, will now have to pay a non-refundable $250 advanced rent.

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Trying to save $1 by download-ing a media file for free will cost University students $50 if caught on a campus network after August 1.

To discourage students from downloading or sharing movies and music illegally, Information Tech-nology Services is implementing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act fines on top of already existing Uni-versity policies.

Recording Industry Associa-tion of America will alert ITS when the company scans its software and finds a person using illegal down-loading software or sharing movies and songs illegally, said IT commu-nications and planning officer Sheri Thompson.

“[ITS] has to go investigate and find out the sources,” Thomp-son said. “We don’t scan for [illegal activity]. The RIAA will give us an address.”

Everyone has to register an ad-dress when logging onto the campus network, enabling ITS to locate the illegal downloader immediately, Thompson said.

Once the person’s wire address is located, the network is turned off, she said. Then an IT officer will

physically locate the person at their campus dorm, apartment or office to inform them a violation has oc-curred, she said.

Marcy Lambert, pre-nursing freshman, said she had no idea the University tracked allegedly illegal downloaded files but said it’s under-standable.

“It makes sense, because [the network] is in their name,” Lambert said.

Wireless campus networks will not be fined because illegal down-loading software is blocked on cam-pus networks, Thompson said. Only hard-wire campus networks can ac-cess illegal downloading software, she said.

The fine will appear on the stu-dent’s fee bill, and the payment will be similar to a library or parking fee, she said.

“[The fee] is not something you can ignore,” she said.

ITS will use the money for more education and awareness cam-paigns, Thompson said.

“[ITS] is making people aware copying files is illegal,” she said.

Adam Jennings, history senior, said the fines the University earns should go to a better cause than rais-ing awareness.

“Everybody knows it’s illegal to download music,” Jennings said. “[The University] should use the money for something else.”

Thompson said the fine is just a new tactic to crack down on the

illegal activity. ITS has been imple-menting the policy in the Student Code of Conduct for years, she said.

Last year, 45 people were caught downloading illegally, and so far this year 54 violations have occurred, Thompson said.

If a student is caught download-ing a file for the second time, they will be reported to the Office of Stu-dent Advocacy and Accountability, Thompson said.

Eric Norman, Student Advo-cacy and Accountability associate dean, said in an e-mail after his of-fice is notified, a charge letter will be sent to the student.

After the student is notified, he or she must meet with an Account-ability official and they decide if the student is responsible for the viola-tion, Norman said. If a student is found responsible, he or she could be placed on disciplinary probation, he said.

The Code of Student Conduct 5.2 section b.30, which outlines a violation of computer-user agree-ment includes “Using University re-sources to illegally distribute copy-righted material; failing to comply with laws, license agreements and contracts governing network, soft-ware and hardware use.”

But Norman said only about 10 violations were reported to his office since 2006.

“Many [violations] are ad-dressed in Residential halls,” he said.

Kara Helgeson, Department of Residential Life judicial coordi-nator, said her office receives the complaints from ITS if a student has downloaded illegally from a campus dorm or apartment room.

Students must report to the of-fice and sign a document stating they understand their actions were

illegal, Helgeson said.“In order to get Internet back

... we have them open the program up and [ResLife] double-checks the file,” she said.

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Hupperich, Student Health Center as-sociate director. “It’s an important risk management strategy for the University.”

The program costs $9,000 an-nually and is funded by the Student Health Center administration.

“The information is provided at a critical time during their first semester,” Hupperich said. “Many students come to campus with es-tablished drinking habits, and many alcohol violations occur during the first semester.”

But nearly 19 percent of fresh-men who completed the program last fall said the program wouldn’t make them pay more attention to their drinking habits, according to the University’s MyStudentBody fall

2008 summary report.The Office of the Vice Chancel-

lor for Student Life and Academic Services and the Health Center im-plemented the program in 2004.

The Health Center also recently purchased access to the drug, to-bacco and stress online programs with the assistance of grant money. Beginning next fall, students will have access to the entire health suite, including the nutrition and safe sex programs.

“Our hope is that students visit the site to complete the mandated al-cohol education but return to the site on a regular basis to obtain credible health information,” Hupperich said.

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Prospective freshmen walk through the PMAC on Wednesday afternoon during spring testing to look at booths set up by various student organizations.

of Public Safety, according to Gwalt-ney.

Gwaltney said there are 10 states with pending legislation simi-lar to Louisiana’s House Bill No. 7 and urged the Senate to pass a reso-lution favorable to it.

“It is not my view that campus is no safer than anywhere else I go,” Gwaltney said.

After surveying 552 students, SG statistician Joshua Moulton said 62 percent of students surveyed were opposed to allowing concealed handgun permit holders on campus. Moulton said he surveyed students before and after explaining require-ments to obtaining a permit. He said no one changed their opinion once they had been presented with the in-formation.

SG Resolution No. 20, authored by Sen. Greg Upton, E.J. Ourso Col-lege of Business, was the first rel-evant resolution brought to the floor for debate. The resolution was to be sent to the state to negate a possible resolution by the Louisiana Council of Student Body Presidents which would reject House Bill No. 27.

Upton said the resolution had nothing to do with his personal opin-ion on the concealed firearm issue, but he said he didn’t want to allow the Louisiana COSBP to make a de-cision for the University.

“We shouldn’t have COSBP sending something to the state that isn’t consistent with all of the schools in the state,” Upton said.

Once that passed, the Senate began a round of heated debate over SGR No. 21, which would support the state legislature and allow weap-ons on campus.

Eric Fernandez, marketing sophomore and member of SCCC, said he didn’t understand why he could carry a weapon in other parts of the state but couldn’t on campus.

“We’re not really enforcing any-thing on campus, there are no metal detectors,” Fernandez said. “There can actually be weapons on campus, but the people with permits are ex-pected not to have them.”

The debate between senators caused a great deal of division be-tween senators caught between ac-cepting the statistician’s findings and rejecting the resolution and those looking to keep campus safe.

“Once you take a class in some-thing, you are absolutely qualified.” said Sen. Tyler Martin, E.J. Ourso College of Business. “When you have a permit for a concealed weapon, the purpose is to protect yourself.”

Martin also challenged the sena-tors to name a single incident when a permit holder had caused a shooting on campus.

Speaker Pro Tempore Drew Prestridge said students should put more faith in the LSU Police De-partment, emergency text messaging system and other University safety measures.

“I’m not saying any of these things will prevent a school shoot-ing, but who’s to say guns would ei-ther?” Prestridge said.

Because the debate lasted for so long and because the senators are forced out of the Student Union at 10:45 p.m., the resolution was held for one legislative session and will be brought up again next week.

At Wednesday’s meeting, Merget said the University’s pro-grams are scattered among too many colleges. For exam-ple, all education programs are not in the College of Education. Pre-kindergarten education resides in the College of Agriculture.

“[It’s] very difficult to collab-orate and to bring a full-force of our academic power to the educa-tion of our students,” Merget said.

The University will be struc-tured around four main “pillars” — the arts, humanities, social sci-ences and the sciences, Merget said. A dean will head a college, and there will be several different schools within a college.

These changes have been in the works for some time and are not a reaction to possible budget cuts next fiscal year, Merget said. Instead, the restructuring will bet-ter align the University to com-plete the Flagship Agenda — the plan to make the University na-tionally competitive by 2010 — and its multi-disciplinary hiring

initiative, she said. “We look like a 1950s teach-

ing-driven university,” Merget said. “We do not look like what we are — a Carnegie 1 research university. We really are set up to teach — and that’s important — but we also need to be set up to do research.”

Merget drafted the plan with administrators and “senior schol-ars.” They looked at the academic structures at six universities with a similar role, scope and mission to LSU for guidance. The six univer-sities studied were Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University, Ohio State Univer-sity, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia and Texas A&M University.

“We began to look at the pace-setters — universities like us who are really out in front of great teaching, great research and magnificent civil engagement,” Merget said.

Merget said there will be no layoffs during the implementation process, but affected deans’ titles would be changed. She told the Senate she will send them a typed version of the proposal by next week. She said the changes would go into effect for the next fiscal year which starts July 1.

“These are not as dramatic changes as they sound,” Merget said.

Merget said the changes will not affect degree and admission programs and requirements or scholarships.

SG President Colorado Rob-ertson called the special session to discuss the re-alignment. The Senate decided to neither support or oppose the plan until it receive smore specific information next week.

cent of the vote.The More ‘09 ticket also

fielded a variety of college council presidential and vice presidential winners, including the Agricultural College, Manship School of Mass Communication, University College Center for Advising and Counseling, the University College for Freshman Year and the colleges of Basic Sci-ences, Business and Education.

Parker Wishik, director of com-munications for the More ‘09 cam-paign, said he was impressed by how close each of the races were this year and was glad to see such commitment to the University from the students.

“I’m happy we won. The cam-paign season as a whole was very clean, and that is the best part about winning,” Wishik said. “I don’t see how LSU can loose in an election like this, where every candidate is so passionate about the University.”

The run-off election saw 6,446 students turn out to vote — 1,325 less than the general election.

Though the election results won’t be final until Friday at 4:30 p.m., Commissioner of Elections Jordan Milazzo said no complaints have been filed as of Wednesday evening.

Milazzo said he didn’t expect any complaints to be filed but added anything could happen until then.

Watkins said he was excited by the results and is ready to be-gin working to fulfill his campaign promises. He said he’s most inter-ested in tackling environmental sus-tainability on campus.

“Students wanted sustainability in the general election, and we car-ried it through to the runoff,” Wat-kins said.

Watkins added his administra-tion is ready to enact every issue on his ticket’s push card, and he attrib-uted his success to a straightforward campaign.

“We kept it clean, positive and fair,” Watkins said. “That is what the students wanted to see.”

Scheuermann said she and Wat-kins stayed true to their message throughout the campaign season and was happy with both her campaign and her ticket.

Scheuermann said she’s ready to confront impending University budget cuts and, in the future, ex-pects to increase the communication between students and SG.

To quickly facilitate the transi-tion period, Watkins said he and his vice president-elect were sacrificing their spring break to work with SG President Colorado Robertson on future plans for their administration.

“It’s not about the person. It’s about the policies and the students they’ll be representing,” Robertson said.

Robertson said the transition period started last week when he spoke with the candidates about setting up their executive charters, mapping timelines for political ap-pointments and continuing some of the programs his administration be-gan.

He also said Watkins and Sch-

euermann would be accompanying him and SG Vice President Shan-non Bates to the Council of Student Body Presidents in Lafayette this weekend.

Robertson commended all the candidates who took part in this year’s election season and said he was looking forward to a smooth transition and the continuation of an active SG.

Though larger tickets that fell out of the race last week did not en-dorse the More ‘09 campaign, Wat-kins and Scheuermann were sup-ported by the leaders of the Make it Reign campaign, which finished last in last week’s general election.

Jeffrey Noel, former presiden-tial candidate for the Make it Reign campaign, said he predicted a 55 percent/45 percent split in favor of More ’09 on Wednesday morning.

“They were definitely the best candidates and ran a good cam-paign,” Noel said. “Of all the big tickets, I’m definitely happy it was them.”

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NEW ORLEANS — Tulane se-nior first baseman Sam Honeck has tormented opposing pitchers all season and leads the Green Wave in home runs, RBI and slugging percentage.

And Honeck kept his offen-sive tear going Wednesday night,

going 2-for-4 with four RBI in the Green Wave’s 8-7 win against LSU.

The win is the first time Tu-lane has beaten LSU at the Green Wave’s on-campus Turchin Sta-dium since 1994.

“This is just what we need-ed,” Honeck said. “I’ve been feel-ing good at the plate, but this win will help us get on a good note

ahead of our series against Rice this weekend.”

Tulane (17-11) took a 7-2 lead into the sixth inning.

A furious LSU rally fell short in the ninth inning as the Tigers (21-7) brought runners to second and third base in the final inning.

But Tulane sophomore closer Nick Pepitone ended the rally and retired sophomore shortstop DJ

LeMahieu on strikes to seal the win for the Green Wave.

“We had some real clutch hits there in the last half of the ball game,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “But we just dug our-selves into such a hole.”

The Green Wave took an early 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on a three-run home

The Southeastern Conference potentially got a lot tougher this week with the hiring of Anthony Grant and John Calipari as men’s basketball coaches at Alabama and Kentucky, respectively.

Grant comes from Virginia Commonwealth and inherits an Alabama team that was picked to win the SEC Western Division be-fore last season but underachieved. Calipari comes from Memphis, where he directed the Tigers to four

straight 30-win seasons and takes over a team that missed the NCAA tournament for the first time in 17 seasons.

These coaches could cause trouble for LSU, which won the SEC regular season championship this season.

Some LSU students were un-familiar with Grant but felt he and Calipari will make the Tigers’ SEC foes better.

“Kentucky is going all the way if you ask me,” said Dwane Hughes, management junior.

Everette Talbot, biology fresh-man, said he believes Calipari can turn Kentucky around quickly.

“It didn’t take him long at Memphis,” Talbot said. “They’ve got a lot more talent that will want

to go to Kentucky. I think they’ll be pretty good in at least a couple of years.”

Recruiting is where most stu-dents feel Calipari will have an im-mediate impact.

“I’m pretty sure that a lot of his recruits that were going to Memphis are probably going to Kentucky now,” said Sean Somers, petroleum engineering senior. “It is probably going to increase the competitive-ness of SEC basketball.”

Calipari had one of the nation’s best recruiting classes this season with two of the top-5 recruits in the Rivals150 on Rivals.com already committing to Memphis.

Rivals.com’s top-ranked

It’s time to talk playoffs.I hope this doesn’t offend for-

mer NFL coach Jim Mora.The NBA playoffs start in a mere

16 days, and aside from a handful of spots, everything is still up for grabs in the Eastern and Western confer-ences.

It’s a total logjam, and it’s as exciting as professional bas-ketball can be.

As of Wednesday af-ternoon, seeds No. 2 through No. 8 in the Western Conference were separated by only 4 1/2 games, and division titles are still on the line.

In the Hornets’ division, the Southwest, San Antonio and Houston are tied with a 1 1/2 game advantage, but New Orleans isn’t out of it yet.

The Hornets finish the season with games against both teams on the road, and if they can keep the momentum of their current two-game winning streak, capturing the Southwest isn’t out of the question — but it’s not exactly likely.

The Northwest Division has just as much potential to be exciting down the stretch.

Denver, the No. 2 seed in the conference, clinched a playoff spot Tuesday night with a win against New York, but the Nuggets only hold a 1 1/2 game advantage on No. 5 seed Portland.

Both teams are streaking right

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THE 6th MAN

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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John Calipari points to national championship banners Wednesday after being introduced as Kentucky’s new men’s basketball coach in Lexington, Ky.

Bama, UK gain new coaches

Logjam makes playoffs exciting

Hires could pose challenge for LSUBy Amos MoraleSports Contributor

Johanathan Brooks

Columnist

LOGJAM, see page 9

CALIPARI, see page 15

TULANE, see page 15

Green Wave strikes early, holds on late to take down TigersBy Casey GisglairChief Sports Writer

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

[Left] LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri and the infield huddle during one of the game’s five pitching changes. [Above] Freshman pitcher Chris Matulis winds up for a pitch Wednesday in the Tigers’ 8-7 loss to Tulane at Turchin Stadium.

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TRACK AND FIELD

LSU ‘starts the main regular season’ today

The LSU track and field teams are ready for one of the biggest meets of the season start-ing today.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers head to Austin, Texas, for the es-teemed 82nd annual Clyde Little-field Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium. The meet started Wednesday, but LSU athletes be-gin their competition Thursday.

“It’s one step up the ladder,” LSU coach Dennis Shaver said of the Relays. “It’s a little more complicated. It starts the main regular season for us.”

Shaver made glowing re-marks about the event as a whole.

“I’ve been to it for the past 30 years,” Shaver said. “They do a great job. It’ll be sold out Fri-day and Saturday. I think they seat about 25,000. It’s a great venue for track and field.”

The event has been kind to LSU in recent years. The men’s team has won the Clyde Little-field, 4x100-meter relay title in Austin five straight years, a first in the history of the event. TCU previously held the record with four straight 4x100-meter relay wins from 1986-89.

The current squad of seniors Jeremy Hicks, junior Will Cop-page, sophomore Gabriel Mvum-vure and senior Trindon Holliday, winners of a thrilling 4x100-me-ter race at the LSU Relays, will try to continue the tradition.

“It’s hard to get the stick around the track successfully five straight years,” Shaver said. “We want the relays to be successful.”

LSU sophomore sprinter Ke-nyanna Wilson, who has already qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional in the 100-meter dash, said the Tigers and Lady Tigers have been looking forward to the Relays for a long time.

“LSU has historically done well there,” Wilson said. “We plan on living up to that.”

Even after a qualifying effort in Baton Rouge this past week-end, Wilson is motivated to be better in Austin.

“I had a pretty good meet,” Wilson said. “It’s just building blocks, though.”

The LSU Relays saw con-stant threats of rain throughout the weekend, something the Ti-gers hope to avoid at the Texas Relays.

Forecasts call for clear skies are predicted in Austin for the weekend, according to the Na-tional Weather Service.

“The conditions and the competition will be better,” Wil-son said.

Shaver said one of his main concerns for the weekend is with his team’s lack of experience in a meet the magnitude of the Texas Relays.

“This group, we have an average number of people who

haven’t been there,” Shaver said. “We have a lot of first timers. They see all the people, they see their friends. It makes for one to become distracted easily.”

LSU nabbed two important relay titles at the LSU Relays — the men’s 4x100-meter and 4x200-meter relays — last week-end. The titles, paired with 12 Tigers qualifying for the NCAA Mideast Regional, encouraged Shaver.

“The LSU Relays were good preparation for us,” Shaver said. “It ought to be a great Texas Re-lays.”

By Chris BranchSports Contributor

Contact Chris Branch at cbranch@lsureveille.com

LATE NIGHTER

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New Orleans Hornets forward Sean Marks loses the ball after being fouled in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday.

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A pair of RBIs from sophomore infielder Jessica Mouse provided the difference for the No. 18 LSU soft-ball team Wednesday night.

Mouse’s RBI single in the sixth inning started a three-run rally against Southern Miss (18-17-1, 7-5), helping the Tigers (22-7, 8-3) to a 4-2 win in their first game in eight days.

“Rust was one of the things I was worried about — it looked like we had some rust out there,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “The greatest thing about this team is they never give up. There’s no panic; they’ve accepted that anything is possible.”

Mouse started the night’s scor-ing, though not in such exciting fash-ion. Southern Miss pitcher Courtney Ramous walked Mouse with the bases loaded in the second inning, giving LSU a 1-0 lead that held until the fifth inning.

It seemed LSU was destined to surrender another late-game lead when Southern Miss right fielder

Megan Hill knocked a pitch from LSU freshman pitcher Brittany Mack over the left-field wall for a 2-1 lead.

The home run, which Girouard called “her only bad pitch of the game,” was one of just four hits al-lowed by Mack (9-1), who pitched a complete game with six strikeouts.

“Our starting pitching has been solid,” Girouard said. “I’ve seen glimpses of it, and [Mack] is going to be magnificent. She has all the tools — we just have to refine them.”

Junior outfielders Kirsten Short-ridge and Jazz Jackson finished what Mouse started to cap the Tigers’ ral-ly. Shortridge lined a single to cen-ter field with runners on the corners to give LSU the lead, and Jackson scored Mouse with a base hit to fin-ish the night’s scoring.

Nearly half the Tigers’ hits came in their productive sixth inning. The lineup finished with 10 total hits but also stranded 10 runners.

“We looked a little out of sync during practice and at times during the game,” Girouard said. “The im-portant thing is we settled down and got the runs when we needed them.”

The win was LSU’s first action since splitting a doubleheader with Ole Miss last Tuesday. The Tigers’

now, but if either were to drop a game, it would open the door for the Jazz, who sit one game behind Port-land in seventh place in the West.

Crazy world, huh? I love this stuff.

The only division out west that isn’t the least bit interesting is the Pacific.

The Lakers hold an 18-game lead over the Phoenix Suns and have already clinched the division and the conference.

Back east it’s not as hectic, but there are some spots of intrigue.

Luckily for me, the Hawks al-ready clinched their playoff spot. Two years in row.

In the words of the great Herman Edwards, “We can build on this.”

At the top of the East sit the Cleveland “LeBrons.” I mean Cava-liers.

The Magic and the Celtics are vying for second place at 5 1/2 games back. The teams don’t meet again in the regular season, but it may not matter.

Boston forward Kevin Garnett will miss at least four of the team’s remaining seven games because of a knee injury, and without him, Boston is a slightly above-average team.

Orlando will be the No. 2 seed when it’s said and done. Maybe I just hate Boston, though.

The other — decidedly less ex-citing — race is to see which teams Cleveland and Orlando will sweep in the first round of the playoffs.

Detroit, Chicago and Charlotte are separated by only two games in seventh, eighth and ninth places,

respectively.All of these teams are below .500

and wouldn’t even be in the playoff picture in the West. Congratulations on rewarding mediocrity, NBA.

For the sake of argument, I’ll say Chicago finishes at No. 7, but only because I like Ben Gordon, Derrick Rose and Tyrus Thomas.

In addition to the crazy jockey-ing for position for the playoffs, the MVP race is alive as well.

If anyone believes this is more than a two-man race between Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, they’re kidding themselves.

Dwyane Wade is often listed as a contestant for the award, but his team is in fifth place in the East and would miss the playoffs in the West. How valuable is he really?

This is King James’ race to lose.

As much as I like watching Bry-ant play, it just seems as if James has done more for his team and is thus

more valuable.Without Bryant, the Lakers

are still a pretty good team. They wouldn’t be in contention for the title, but they’re serviceable.

Without James, the Cavs are bad.

Outside of Mo Williams, no one on the roster is seemingly carrying his own weight, and Williams isn’t doing that great of a job at it.

James leads Cleveland in just about every worthwhile statistic and is undoubtedly the only interesting thing about the franchise.

That’s why he should walk away with the hardware. He is the chosen one, after all.

On a side note, does it upset anyone else former Tiger Glen Davis has a ring, and James doesn’t?

It upsets me, but that’s another column for another day.

LOGJAM, from page 7

Contact Johanathan Brooks at jbrooks@lsureveille.com

SOFTBALL

Mouse’s RBI single puts LSU past S. MissMack strikes out six in complete-game winBy David HelmanSports Writer

MOUSE, see page 15

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For students looking to par-ticipate in spring break debauchery without driving hundreds of miles or spending hundreds of dollars, an hour-long drive to New Orleans may suffi ce.

The band Slightly Stoopid brings the reggae-punk party sounds of the West Coast right to the Cres-cent City.

The San Diego-based band is known for its blend of rock, punk and reggae. The guys were originally signed by the late Bradley Nowell of the band Sublime to his label Skunk Records while they were still in high school. During the past 15 years, they have made a name for them-selves through constant touring.

Drummer Ryan “RyMo” Moran said students who make the drive to the city for the show will defi nitely get their money’s worth.

“It’s a fun show,” Moran said. “Pack a cooler, bring some friends and have a nice day of it. Anyone who comes to the show will not be disappointed.”

The band en-joyed recent radio success with their single “2AM” which tells the story of a dreaded late-night knock at the door when the cops come sniffi ng for marijuana.

Moran said the band’s recent radio success hasn’t gone to their heads.

“We still do what we do live, and that’s what people come to see,” Moran said. “We hope that people aren’t coming to see one song; we hope that maybe that song sparked

interest in our music and they come and enjoy the whole show.”

The band rejected several re-cord deals from major labels to pre-serve complete artistic control, and the band has no regrets.

“A lot of people have a miscon-ception of the myth of the whole get-

ting signed thing. It’s really just a glorifi ed loan — someone is giving you money to cre-ate an album that they want to have creative input on,” Moran said. “We never wanted to give up our creative input. We stayed in-

dependent to make our own music.” The New Orleans show is the

second-to-last stop on a short tour partly in support of the band’s most recent album “Slightly Stoned to

Signs with messages such as “RIP Art in LA” and “Jindal Gets an F in Art” fi lled the streets of downtown Baton Rouge on Wednesday as supporters of Louisiana Arts and Culture protested Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed budget cuts.

Supporters of the Louisiana arts and cul-ture joined together to hold a “Jazz Funeral for Louisiana Arts and Culture.”

The march began at noon in Lafayette

Park then protesters walked down Third Street before passing in front of the state Capitol.

Jindal’s budget cuts include an 83 per-cent cut in decentralized arts funding and a 31 percent cut to statewide art grants.

Derek Mudd, communication studies graduate assistant, delivered a eulogy before the march criticizing Jindal’s proposed cuts to the arts.

“Art, like all great human inventions, is

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MUSIC

California band brings spring break to New OrleansGroup stays true to roots despite successBy Jack LeBlancEntertainment Writer

Photo courtesy of JEFFREY LAMONT BROWN

Slightly Stoopid will perform in New Orleans on Friday. [Left to right] Miles Dough-ty, C-Money, Oguer “OG” Ocon, DeLa, Kyle McDonald and Ryan “RyMo” Moran make up the San Diego-based band.STOOPID, see page 13

Artists Singin’ the Blues

BEN BOURGEOIS / The Daily Reveille

Protesters walk through Lafayette Park downtown Wednesday during the “funeral” held for Louisiana arts. Gov. Bobby Jindal has proposed an 83 percent cut in decentralized arts funding.

Jazz Funeral protests Jindal’s proposed cuts for artsBy Joshua ChenierEntertainment Writer

PROTEST, see page 13

‘‘‘We tour constantly

... and it’s really started to pay off

for us now.’

Ryan “RyMo” MoranSlightly Stoopid drummer

BEN BOURGEOIS / The Daily Reveille

Derek Mudd, communication studies graduate assistant, gives a eulogy for Louisiana jazz music Wednesday at a group protest downtown.

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RanksReveilleMUSIC MOVIES BOOKS TELEVISION

Monsters vs. AliensDreamworks

Bow WowNew Jack City IISony Music

Peter, Bjorn and JohnLiving ThingAlmost Golden RecordsThis comedic cartoon depicts

five monsters who are released from government captivity to save the world from an alien with an army of clones who want to destroy the planet. While “Monsters vs. Aliens” offers no new ideas when it comes to story line, the audience will find the personalities of each of the monsters endearing. Even though it is meant for kids, the movie, featuring a host of stars such as Reese Wither-spoon, Seth Rogan and Rainn Wilson, can still be humorous for college students.

With only three of the album’s 11 songs featuring rhymes solely by Bow Wow, he is over-shadowed by the many guest rappers and producers. The record features cuts from Ron Brownz, Nelly, T-Pain and T.I. and production from Jermaine Dupri. The guest artists and heavy production cause the album to lose consistency, giving it the feel of a mixtape rather than a solid solo release. He may have dropped the ‘Lil’ from his name a few years ago, but Bow Wow is still having trouble achieving his sound on his own.

Swedish Indie rock trio Peter, Bjorn and John made a stir in the music scene with their 2006 release “Writer’s Block” but the warmth and eclectic style that made that album and the band so appeal-ing seems to have faded in the past three years. While 2009’s “Living Thing” is a great example of the band’s minimalistic style and singer Peter Morén’s lyrical writing ability, the overly used synths and electronic beats push the album back to an oddly cold 1984.

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No one is arguing that Flo Rida is groundbreaking. There isn’t much talk of his creativity. Hell, the man got his moniker by putting a space in the middle of the name of his home state. But what Flo Rida excels at is making catchy songs with pop-friendly beats that get major radio play. While one might get flak for liking an artist with little talent, there’s no shame in listing Flo Rida as a guilty pleasure. So turn it up — just make sure no one else is listening.

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born out of struggle,” Mudd said. “And Bobby Jindal sure as hell cannot suffocate it.”

The cuts will hit home for many people, as many as 144,00 jobs will be lost — approximately 7.6 percent of the state’s employ-ment base, according to a press release from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge,

The cuts could virtually elimi-nate a $10 billion dollar industry that Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu’s of-fice said will devastate a tremen-dous economic boost to every par-ish in the state.

University students and faculty were out to show their disapproval of the proposed budget cuts.

Brandon Nicholas, commu-nication studies graduate student, said the cuts are something Jindal should reconsider.

“Art funds almost our entire economy,” Nicholas said. “Cutting the funding by 83 percent would be a huge mistake.”

Holley Vaughn, communi-

cation studies doctoral student, agreed with Nicholas, saying cuts such as these would be devastating during the recession.

“It doesn’t matter if you are a fan of the arts, or what end of the political spectrum you are on, this is just good policy,” Vaughn said. “The cultural economy is the sec-ond-largest industry in Louisiana. These budget cuts will directly af-fect the people involved.”

The cuts hit home for Vaughn, who like many other students, will be looking for a job soon.

“These budget cuts mean that a lot of the jobs that I will be apply-ing for after I graduate will not be there,” Vaughn said.

Jindal’s proposed cuts some-what oppose the national govern-ment, which recently gave $50 million to the National Endowment for the Arts.

Last year, Louisiana received 27 grants from the NEA totaling $1,343,700.

Jindal spoke out against arts funding on Larry King Live on March 2 in response to President

Obama’s policy address.“Fundamentally, I don’t think

... $50 million for the National En-dowment for the Arts is going to get the economy moving again as quickly as allowing the private sec-tor to create jobs,” Jindal said.

Jane Alexander, actress and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, criticized Jindal after his interview on Larry King Live.

“Well what he doesn’t under-stand is that $50 million goes di-rectly ... as a grant to organizations which employ people,” Alexander said. “It’s quick, and it’s a system that works beautifully, and it’s done within a year.”

Supporters were hoping to not only change the mind of Jindal but also the House Appropriations Committee, which is meeting to-day to discuss the proposed budget cuts.

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Knowing PG-1312;45, 4;20, 7;20, 10:35

Race to Witch Mountain PG12;30, 3;50, 7:10, 9:50

Last House on the Left R10:50, 4:05, 10:50

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STOOPID, from page 11

PROTEST, from page 11

Enough to Breakfast Yet Stoopid.”“The new album is kind of a

three-part thing. There are seven re-released songs from 2005, seven songs that are brand new, and there’s seven songs from the vault,” Moran said. “It really does represent the band and our different styles.”

The band has become an under-ground success story and a testament to a new music model.

“We tour constantly. The band’s been together for 16 years. It’s been a long, steady climb,” Moran said. “Our success has been because of hard work, and it’s really started to pay off for us now.”

Tickets are on sale at the House of Blues and on Ticketmaster.com and range from $18.50 to $23.50. The doors open at 7 p.m. and open-ing band Rebelution comes on at 8 p.m.

Derek Welch, construction management senior, said he’s seen the band play eight times, includ-ing shows in Los Angeles and their home town, San Diego.

“Since [band members] Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald switch off between bass, guitar and vocals, they are able to touch on more genres of music than any band I have ever heard,” Welch said.

Contact Jack LeBlanc at aleblanc@lsureveille.com

Contact Joshua Chenier at jchenier@lsureveille.com

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run by Honeck.LSU fi red back in the second

inning with a two-RBI single by freshman third baseman Tyler Hanover to push within a run.

The run support allowed LSU freshman Chris Matulis to settle down and pitch scoreless second and third innings before being replaced by senior Nolan Cain in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Matulis’ outing was his short-est of the season.

“I can’t tell you why he strug-gled, but he didn’t pitch very well though,” Mainieri said. “That’s just the bottom line. I was expecting more and was hoping for more, but he just didn’t pitch very well.”

Tulane starter Aaron Loup also settled in after early jitters and pitched 6 2/3 innings and allowed four runs.

“He threw a lot of strikes,” Mainieri said. “And we didn’t get

around on a lot of them. He was throwing his fastball right by us a lot.”

Honeck struck again in a four-run Tulane rally in the bottom of the fi fth and ripped a double into right fi eld off Cain that scored senior sec-ond baseman Seth Henry to give Tu-lane a 7-2 lead.

F r e s h m a n catcher Jeremy Schaffer also had an RBI single in the inning, and

senior right fi eld-er Drew Allain capped the rally with a two-RBI single.

The Wave added a run in the sixth inning on a sacrifi ce fl y by Schaffer before the LSU late-in-ning rally.

One bright spot of the game for the Tigers was the play of ju-nior outfi elder Blake Dean.

Dean again showed signs of

snapping out of his early-season slump and went 2-for-4.

The Crestview, Fla., native’s performance followed up a 5-of-

11 and fi ve-RBI weekend against Ole Miss.

Dean hit fi fth in the LSU batting order against the Green Wave with Loup being a left-handed pitcher.

“He’s been scuffl ing, so I wanted to take

some pressure off of him,” Main-ieri said. “But he’s getting his stroke back, and you can see that now. That’s going to be a big boost for our team.”

Despite the loss, Mainieri said he was proud of the effort his team showed in its comeback.

“Our kids battled hard, and we got ourselves in position to win the game,” he said. “I’m very proud of the effort.”

recruit, point guard John Wall, was also reported to be leaning toward Memphis.

“What I would hope is all the players that signed at Memphis will go to Memphis,” Calipari said at his introductory press conference at Kentucky.

Speculation also arose that some of Calipari’s current players would follow him to Kentucky.

“When I talked to every player on the Memphis team, ... [I said] ‘let [Memphis] hire a coach, then look at things, but you’re going to be fi ne,’” Calipari said. “I told two of them, ‘You’ll be the best player on the team. Why would you think about anything else? You got to sit out.’”

Calipari also said he plans to evaluate the recruits committed to Kentucky.

“I will watch every one of those kids play, and then I’ll be honest with them,” Calipari said. “If they’re good enough to play here and help us win national titles, I want you here. If they’re not, I’m going to tell them. I’m just going to be honest.”

Students still feel LSU has a legitimate chance at success despite the coaching hires and losing fi ve seniors.

“I feel like we still have a pretty strong team,” Hughes said.

Talbot said he feels LSU will re-coup the loss of the seniors through recruiting.

“They’re going to be hurting, but I think they’ll fi ll up the gaps pretty soon,” Talbot said.

Grant enters his fourth year as a head coach and leaves a program that has won at least 24 games and a conference championship every year he was there.

While LSU students didn’t seem familiar with him, they believe he can also turn The Tide.

“He should have a positive im-pact on them,” Hughes said. “But I don’t think we should be worried.”

CALIPARI, from page 7

Contact Amos Morale at amorale@lsureveille.com

TULANE, from page 7

Contact Casey Gisclair at cgisclair@lsureveille.com

March 26 doubleheader with Missis-sippi Valley State was canceled be-cause of damage done to Tiger Park by the severe weather that hit Baton Rouge last week.

LSU returns to Southeastern Conference action Saturday against No. 13 Tennessee. The series will

be LSU’s fi rst home games since a doubleheader with No. 5 Alabama on March 18.

“It feels like we haven’t had a game at Tiger Park in a year,” Gir-ouard said.

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

MOUSE, from page 9

‘‘‘I can’t tell you why he struggled, but [Matulis] didn’t pitch very well.’

Paul MainieriLSU baseball coach

‘‘‘Our kids battled hard, and we got

ourselves in position to win the game.’

Paul MainieriLSU baseball coach

Many are upset about the

budget cuts Louisiana universities are experiencing; however, I have not heard much more than com-plaining.

If we really care about what happens to higher education in Louisiana, then shouldn’t we be

doing something to save it?I encourage every student in

Louisiana to contact the state leg-islature every few days to remind them that we want education to be one of the last things they cut.

If we have time to text or get

on Facebook, then we have time to call or email our representatives and senators!

Why are we, students, of all people, being so apathetic?

House switchboard:

(225)342-6945Senate switchboard:(225)342-2040

Virginia Richardinternational studies freshman

Louisiana wouldn’t be Louisi-ana without music and culture.

Arguably, no place possesses its uniqueness without some sem-blance of culture, but this state — and more specifically, New Orleans — wouldn’t be home to some of the greatest music, art and culture the world has ever known.

Obviously, Gov. Bobby Jindal either has no rhythm or has never been to Jazz Fest.

The biggest travesty to ever hit the state made itself known through Jindal’s 2009-2010 budget, which includes a debilitating 83 percent cut to a grants program that aids small arts programs across the state, along with a 31 percent cut to an-other program that assists local symphonies and theaters, according to The Monroe News Star.

The arts community wouldn’t let this stand, and they made their voices heard the best way Louisian-ians know how.

Hundreds of people took to the streets Wednesday in what was dubbed a “jazz funeral for Louisiana arts and culture.” Be-ginning in Lafayette Park, armed with drums, guitars and voices, the crowd mournfully danced through the streets and in front of the state Capitol in protest of the funeral of what makes Jindal’s home state as incomparable as it is.

In total numbers, the 83 percent cut seems small — a reduction from $3 million in funding to a little more than $500,000 — considering the $239 million expected cut in higher education.

But this struck a chord with Louisiana residents, who decided to do something about it.

Susan Brunner, art gallery owner and chair of the Louisiana Partnership for the Arts, told The News Star the 31 percent cut — $798,628 — from the $2.4 million Statewide Arts Grants would have

a $4.8 million negative impact on state finances, while the arts and culture activities provide jobs to 144,000 people.

“It shows what a huge impact culture has on Louisi-ana,” Brunner said. “We bring money to the state. We’re the second largest employer in the state. There’s a

$10 billion industry at stake.”Ten billion dollars says Jindal’s

never heard the Rebirth Brass Band rock Tipitina’s until four in the morning.

I doubt he’s ever even heard of Dr. John.

The governor doesn’t know what makes his state thrive. It isn’t the work ethic or the empowerment of working-class citizens.

Jazz great Wynton Marsalis knows what makes it unique, as he, along with pop legend Linda Ron-stadt and opera singer Josh Groban, lobbied Congress on Tuesday for $200 million in funding for the Na-tional Endowment for the Arts.

For Marsalis, in the world of music, basic rules of math and sci-ence are out the window.

“One plus one equals three — me, you and the two of us together,” Marsalis told The Times-Picayune last week. “I’ve got my thing, you’ve got your thing and we come together.”It’s that intangible feeling we get whenever we go to Mardi Gras, dance in the rain or listen to anything from Fats Domino to the Funky Meters.

The jazz funeral shows our dedication to the lifeblood of our culture. Joyfully combining the sad-ness of losing a fellow friend with the greatness of knowing that per-son in the first place, jazz funerals

are our way of saluting our dearly departed by saying, “It’s sad to see you go, but we loved having you here.”

Our music and culture are ad-ventures in self-discovery, consum-ing our souls and spirits into one mean expression of life and heritage that will never be taken from us, no matter how big the budget cut.

Louis Armstrong once said, “My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.”

If Jindal knew anything about that, he would get off his high horse, stop trying to please his own sup-porters and show some real dedica-tion to the state that elected him.

Eric Freeman, Jr. is a 22-year-old political science junior from New Orleans.

In the past two years of my col-lege experience, only one particular group of people has genuinely dis-turbed me.

Frat boys.Generally speaking, a frat boy is

any Greek member who invests his entire identity into his fraternity.

More practical definitions of “frat boy” can be found at Urbandic-tionary.com, or by consulting the fat sorority girl nearest you.

Let me clarify. The term “frat boy” does not represent every frater-nity member.

Most fraternity members are normal because they realize fraternal obsession is about as admirable as recycling used condoms.

But if you’re reading this col-umn because you pitched a tent when you saw the word “broskie” in the headline, don’t flatter yourself into thinking you’re an exception.

Like guys who wear their high school letter jackets, diehard frater-nity members have always been a

source of comic relief on campus. But lately the frat boy cliché has been degraded from pathetic stereo-type to sick joke.

This doesn’t mean athletes fall into the frat boy category because they dress alike.

I’ll be glad to respect frat boys’ unique dressing preferences and in-herited exclusivity the day they ac-tually achieve something other than their required community service.

Because chasing 16-year-old women at Reggie’s doesn’t equate to winning a championship or accom-plishing anything substantial.

To understand the frat boy prob-lem, one must identify its origin.

The Greek de-evolution typi-cally starts during rush. Hazing and overindulgence have always been hot topics during initiation.

Five Greek organizations are either under probation or suspension at the University, according to Greek Life Organizational Status. In the past decade there have been at least

46 documented cases of punitive ac-tion taken against all Greek organi-zations.

Many believe these clubs should be culpable for their irresponsibility and should face stricter regulation.

Further restriction may address the symptoms, but it won’t fix the underlying difficulty.

The prob-lem isn’t the concept of fra-ternity — it’s the perversion of principle.

Fraternities were intended to hold their members to a higher standard, both academi-cally and socially.

My gripe isn’t with the idea of fraternity — it’s with the battle some members wage against individuality.

Mixing insecure teenagers with emotionally bare, sexually deprived “mentors” isn’t a healthy combina-

tion. What you get is an assembly line of blind followers instead of a group of well-equipped leaders.

Most fraternities operate re-spectably and offer their members a decent service.

These groups shouldn’t be un-dermined by the few that represent their cause dishonorably.

Diversity is one of the charac-teristics that makes college campus-es special.

Unfortunately, it seems more students are being placed on the as-sembly line and molded into indistin-guishable caricatures of each other.

Most Greeks realize fraternity shouldn’t exclude individuality.

Pledges can maintain their in-dividuality so long as their entire identity isn’t rooted in a fraternity. The same logic applies to any other social group.

Students can take many avenues to gain a sense of camaraderie.

Regardless of the route, the price for acceptance should never

outweigh the value of self-identity.What you do and which group

you join shouldn’t define who you are.

Part of the maturity process in-volves staking your ground as an in-dividual and not letting others sculpt your character.

There will always be the select few who feel the only way they can be accepted is by submitting to the crowd.

When ordinary people pay mon-ey for friends, we call them pathetic. When a group of collegiates pay for friends, we call them frat boys.

If you have to pay money to make friends, you better make sure they’re worth the price.

Scott Burns is a 19-year-old political science and business sophomore from Baton Rouge.

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Second Life is an online social networking community, one which allows you to buy virtual property, sell virtual clothes, network with other users and act out impossible fantasies — all through a digital rep-resentation of yourself called an “av-atar.” Since its creation in 2003, this phenomenon has exploded across the Internet.

True to its real world counter-part, Second Life is riddled with subcultures that mirror humanity in a dramatic, transparent way. While many use the site as a perverse form of entertainment, other users spend their time in virtual cafes chatting about philosophy, politics and cur-rent events.

“Second Life allows me to con-nect with other people easily,” Sec-ond Life user Evangeline Ametza said. “And this is far better than regu-lar chat because Second Life mimics the real world. You feel like you’re

really there with everyone.”It sounds perfectly harmless and

even constructive, Ametza added. But she admitted there is “a darker side to Second Life, just as there is in real life.”

The “darker side” becomes vis-ible once you check the “show ma-ture” box on the Second Life search engine. Most mature areas are usu-ally marked by one of two things — they either feature explicit sex or explicit violence. The former is the most prominent, especially when it comes to making money in Second Life.

It comes as no surprise that Second Life’s sex industry is thriv-ing. Sex already sells well in real life, which is fraught with inhibitions and taboo, so it’s only natural virtual sex would sell even more, given the anonymous and uninhibited nature of the transactions.

To understand the lure, you

simply have to understand one of the most basic facets of human na-ture. We tend to respond to pleasure. That response is more dramatic in an emotionally vulnerable individual.

Therefore, while an emotionally sound person may play Sec-ond Life and find it dull, an emo-tionally unstable person may play it obsessively and consequent-ly blur the lines

between fantasy and reality.Take the case of Ric Hoogestraat

for example. Hoogestraat became increasingly obsessed with Second Life to the point of neglecting his real life. He eventually met a redheaded avatar, fell in love with her and asked her to be his virtual wife.

His real wife was not amused.

“Everybody has their hob-bies, but when it’s from six in the morning until two in the morning, that’s not a hobby, that’s your life,” Hoogestraat’s wife said in an inter-view with The Wall Street Journal.

However, Second Life should not be written off completely because of a few obsessive individuals. This virtual world has allowed for new kinds of research and commerce, a development which caught the atten-tion of LSU. The University’s Cen-ter for Computation and Technology launched an impressively accurate replica of the campus to serve as a base for students’ digital work.

User Komoda Kalamunda, who is a sophomore at the Univer-sity, showcases her artwork on Sec-ond Life to rake in a little cash each month.

Her avatar has had its share of strange adventures, one which en-tailed her getting pregnant by spiders

and unicorns simultaneously. But she says her true purpose in Second Life is more serious. She networks with fellow artists to better understand the blurring of fantasy and reality as part of her independent research.

Researchers like Kalamunda maintain Second Life as a meeting place for intelligent discourse, rather than a breeding ground for perver-sion.

Because Second Life is not bound by time or space, it is ideal for furthering research and commerce for users willing to invest their time and talent.

Linnie Leavines is an 18-year-old mass communication freshman from Central City.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE — Saturday marked the 30th anni-versary of the Three Mile Island in-cident, the largest American nuclear disaster, resulting in a partial core meltdown, nuclear contamination and an end to nuclear expansion in the U.S.

But in recent months federal officials have received 26 applica-tions to build nuclear plants — the first since the disaster — across the country.

Louisiana is on the list — in September, Entergy was among the utility companies who sought per-mission for new reactors, request-ing a permit to build at the same site as its River Bend power plant in St. Francisville.

During the same time America shied from nukes, many European countries continued erecting reac-tors with iconic cooling towers. The most wholehearted adoption of nuclear energy though has been from the French, who derive roughly 80 percent of their energy from nuclear reactions.

For Louisiana — on par with the national average — approximately 20 percent of its power comes from its two nuclear plants.

The new calls for nuclear plants are overwhelming. Utilities have pushed nuclear power as a response to growing concern about global warming.

At the 2008 Republican Nation-al Convention the “drill baby, drill” mantra was accompanied by a call for more nuclear power. And Ameri-cans give it the nod — a recent Gal-lup poll found 59 percent of Ameri-cans favor nuclear power.

But like its carbon-based cous-in, the cheer for nuclear power dis-plays the prevalence of short-sighted thinking that has kept big energy

companies in business and America from responsible energy policy.

Nuclear is not an ideal source of energy. Nuclear plants don’t produce carbon directly. Extracting and en-riching the uranium does.

And while few consider Cher-nobyl-like ca-tastrophes a possibility today given new tech-nology, build-ing standards and regulations, there are many other possible dangers to nu-clear power. Opponents paint

nuclear energy as a threat to national security, citing theft of nuclear mate-rials or attacks on plants.

Although some nuclear fuel can be reprocessed or stored on site, what ultimately becomes of the waste has been a problem generating no con-sensus.

Earlier this month the Obama Administration announced its op-position to the controversial Yucca Mountain waste repository, charging Energy Secretary Steven Chu with the task of finding some alternative.

Good luck with that one, Chu. You can’t build a Wal-Mart in the U.S. without inciting a protest.

Besides the obvious environ-mental woes, there is the “lock-in” cost of building new nuclear plants. While they cost tons of money to build, they are relatively inexpen-sive to operate because of their fuel source.

This means in the 10 to 15 years it takes to get these plants opera-tional — when the price of alterna-tive energies drops — nuclear will still be competitive alongside clearly superior renewable technologies,

undercutting their implementation. And with all new plants command-ing a government backed return to investment for utilities, taxpayers will be on the hook.

Relative to fossil fuels, nuclear is a better option. And we should do what’s best for the environment now — but not at the expense of the long term. That’s been America’s story for too long.

If given serious government

support — by way of proper tax breaks, money-back guarantees (like those already afforded to nuclear projects), quotas and research grants — in the coming years the costs of alternative energy sources will fall dramatically, making them competi-tive when the plants being built to-day finally go online.

But we have to start today. This means instituting aggres-

sive policies now, so that clean

energy’s success — and nuclear power’s death — are guaranteed.

Mark Macmurdo is a 22-year-old history and economics senior.

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LLOOOOKKIINNGG TTOO SSCCOORREE??!!??!! Fun, smart, cute blonde babe about tograduate... Looking for involved, soccer-playing male grad-student... Only want-ing a quick fling before I move away in

the Fall! Come play with me!anchorchelsea@gmail.com

II NNEEEEDD AA FFRREECCKKLLYY RREEDDHHEEAADD GGIIRRLL I amin love with redheads and their freckles,and I just can’t seem to find any; it’s a

problem! I have a great sense of humor,and I’m pretty intelligent and caring. Soif there are any freckled redhead girlsout there who like to meet a muscular

Italian guy, email me at TheGoon6@hot-mail.com

LLIIKKEE TTOO GGEETT LLOOSSTT OONN RROOAADDTTRRIIPPSS??Single guy looking for a fine honey to getlost taking a roadtrip, i have no clue how

to read a map, so come get lost withme...cloupe2@lsu.edu

DDEENNIIMM DDAANN DDEESSIIRREESS DDAATTEE Looking for a girl who’s not scared of a

little denim. I’ll be at Reggie’s in my jeanjacket and dark denims on the stage,

sippin on a cranberry vodka. Love it or leave it baby

504.256.7534

II LLIIKKEE DDRR.. PPEEPPPPEERR ((SSEEXXYY)) I’ve recentlydiscovered my love for HALO. Looking for

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LLSSUU GGUUYY Looking for love in all the wrong places.Finally decided to put this up here. I’m

22 going to graduate next May. I need asweet girl who is content being herself. I

like movies, going out to dinner, travel-ing, and of course LSU Football.

Tigerlovin22@gmail.com

GGIIRRLL NNEEEEDDEEDD FFOORR girl needed for laun-dry and creation of tasty ice cream

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SSEEEEKKIINNGG CCHHAARRIITTAABBLLEE,, outdoor lovingindividual. Must love animals and the

occasional hiking or camping trip. Dropme a message at

HighpointingForAmerica.org

SSTTIIMMUULLUUSS LLOOVVEE PPAACCKKAAGGEE!! Single, out-going, very attractive, brown LSU grad

lady seeking to meetinterracially/Internationally a mature,

handsome male student, Grad/ or nonstudent (26-38) for coffee, museum

dates and live music. If interested emailme Selena_M1212@yahoo.com.

II WWAANNTT TTOO BBEE YYOOUURR DDEERRIIVVAATTIIVVEE so Ican lie tangent to your curves. Nerdyndn chick seeking an intelligent and

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SSEEAARRCCHHIINNGG 44 SSOOUULLMMAATTEE 20yo Asianguy seeking masculine guy 18-23 todate. Races open. I’m a sweetheart!

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TRAVEL

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812.339.2859 or 251.948.5695.

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