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The University submitted a proposal to the LSU System Offi ce on Thursday , requesting the Board of Supervisors change a major

policy that would make enforcing an involuntary furlough on faculty easier.

Chancellor Michael Martin , along with other administrators, asked System President John Lom-bardi in late January if the Univer-

sity could consider imposing a mandatory furlough — a tempo-rary, unpaid leave of absence — on faculty and staff to help cope with possible large budget cuts next fi s-cal year.

“Their salaries would be re-duced by the percentage of the time they are furloughed,” Martin

suggested to Lombardi in a Jan. 20 e-mail obtained by The Daily Reveille.

The Board of Supervisors currently requires the University to declare fi nancial exigency — an actual or upcoming fi nancial

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As the clock struck 1:33 p.m., a haunting blast from an ocean conch echoed through the Quad and signaled a mass call for stillness. Within moments, hundreds of students, professors and passers-by fell still and silent.

Movement in the Quad ceased for fi ve full minutes Thursday after-noon as part of a loosely organized fl ash mob designed by several Uni-versity theatre students. Inspired by a growing international trend of improvisational public events, the Quad was transformed into a still life of campus activity.

The fl ash mob was developed by Ann Harris , theatre senior, and Rebecca Stewart , theatre sophomore, and communica-tion studies senior Casey Miller . After almost a year of

Furlough proposal submitted to LSU System

Quad comes to complete stop

SAY WHAT?•Furlough: A temporary, unpaid leave of absence •Financial Exigency: An actual or upcoming fi nancial crisis in which a university can no longer support its academic units at their current level

By Adam DuvernayStaff Writer

Theatre students pull off fl ash mob prank Thursday afternoon

By Kyle BoveChief Staff Writer

Twix gives students chance to use comedy skills for free trip

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photos by JASON BORDELON / The Daily Reveille

[Above] Claire Newman, sociology sophomore (left) and Taylor Moore, political science freshman, laugh at a YouTube video Wednesday. [Top left] Zachary Lott (right) and Erik Runnels, English sophomores, laugh at the same video.

By Joy LukachickStaff Writer

Claire Newman could feel the air becoming tense when her roommate and her boyfriend were in a heated argument. But she immediately began to ramble off light-hearted sentences to ease the mood.

The sociology sophomore found it easy to cool the escalating tension in her apartment by spouting off a joke.

“Laughing is a very essential part of life,” Newman said.

People like Newman are rewarded every time they make people laugh — a concept Twix brand is using to reward the funniest student in America.

Twix is searching for “The funniest college student on campus” in a contest ending on April Fools’ Day. The winner receives a $3,000 check from the company and a one-week internship to the TBS A “Very Funny” Festi-val: Just For Laughs, for which Twix is one of the main sponsors.

Everyone enjoys well done comedy, said John Fletcher, theatre professor. But if people can’t connect with the person making the joke, they won’t fi nd any hu-mor in the situation, he said.

“[People] like to laugh,” Fletcher said. “It’s freeing, and it gives us a sense of perspective.”

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PAGE 2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2009Nation & WorldWORLD NEWS

OTTAWA (AP) — President Barack Obama courted warmer relations with America’s snowy northern neighbor Thursday, declin-ing to ask war-weary Canada to do more in Afghanistan, promising he won’t allow a protectionist creep into U.S. trade policy and talking reassuringly around thorny energy is-sues. Obama-happy crowds cheered Obama’s seven-hour visit, his first outside U.S. borders as president, and he returned the compliment with a quick stop at an indoor market. where he delighted shopkeepers by picking up pas-tries and souvenirs.

Cheered in Canada, Obama treads lightly

New Atlas shows dying languages around the worldPARIS (AP) — Only one native speaker of Livonian re-mains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away. Those are just two of the nearly 2,500 lan-guages that UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, says are in danger of becoming extinct or have recently disappeared. That’s out of a total of 6,000 world languages.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

Lawmakers learn how to override Gov. Jindal(AP) — Louisiana lawmakers are questioning how they can tap into the state’s full share of federal stimulus money, suggesting they would consider sidestepping Gov. Bobby Jindal if he tries to turn away some of the dollars. Jindal is one of a handful of Republican governors who have said they aren’t sure their states should use all the stimulus money they’re eligible to receive, depending on the condi-tions attached to the spending. Members of the Sen-ate Finance Committee, looking for ways to plug next year’s budget gap, asked their financial ana-lysts Thursday how they could get to the dollars if the governor turns them down.

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, joined by several legislators, exits a news conference at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

Facebook removes many sex offenders since May

Dow ends at lowest close in more than 6 years

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its so-cial networking Web site since May, Connecticut’s attorney general said Thursday. Richard Blumenthal said the world’s largest social networking site, which claims to have more than 175 million active mem-bers, reported to his office that 5,585 convicted sex offenders were found on the Web site and removed between May 1, 2008, and Jan. 31, 2009.

NEW YORK (AP) — An important psychological barrier gave way on Wall Street Thursday as the Dow Jones industrials fell to their lowest level in more than six years. The Dow broke through a bottom reached in November, pulled down by a steep drop in key financial shares. It was the lowest close for the Dow since Oct. 9, 2002, when the last bear market bottomed out. The blue chips’ latest slide dashed hopes that the doldrums of November would mark the ending point of a long slump in the market.

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In a bright, sunlit room, about 40 anxious University academics waited with Provost Astrid Mer-get for Chancellor Michael Mar-tin to take the to podium discuss a grim topic — budget cuts.

Martin, introduced by Facul-ty Senate President Kevin Cope as the University’s “fearless leader” and later commended for his cooperation with the Faculty Senate.

He thanked Senate members present at the Thursday afternoon meeting for “keeping the faith” amid impending budget cuts at the second monthly Faculty Sen-ate meeting of the spring semes-ter.

“What we know is fairly constant, and what we don’t know is increasing geometri-cally,” Martin said of the his ef-forts to keep the Faculty Senate informed. “We are awaiting, as always, news from various places within the state government and beyond about what the real situ-ation is ... The fi rst uncertainty is exactly what the federal stimulus package means and how it will trickle down to directly effect us and then secondly whether the governor will accept it.”

President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package Tuesday, which allots about $4 billion for Loui-siana.

Martin, who said he spent

Thursday meeting with legisla-tors, said the University’s situa-tion will be more clear after Gov. Bobby Jindal’s budget is present-ed March 13.

Martin’s at-tendance at the meeting is the most recent of many efforts he has made to main-tain open commu-nication with the Senate, accord-ing to Cope.

“This ... is admirable, es-

pecially considering LSU has a long history of secrecy — it’s a

fresh start and a break in the right direction,” Cope said of the hand-ful of meetings between Martin and the Senate since the onset of the budget crisis. “I would say the chancellor has been very quick

when something does arise to call more or less on the spot. We appreciate not only being in the

loop, but being in the loop in a timely way.”

Martin, who made assurances “no large amount of faculty” cuts are planned, pledged to make an effort to stay in touch with the Senate as developments occur.

“We’ll try to keep you in-formed,” Martin said. “If you don’t hear from us, we just don’t know anything we didn’t know before.”

The chancellor wrapped up his presentation by taking ques-tions from the Senate and ex-pressing hope that the “stimulus package stimulates.”

Dydia DeLyser, Faculty Ath-letics representative, was on hand to discuss graduation rates among athletes and Athletic Department funding.

“If you hear about coaches salaries, it’s not taking money out of your pocket,” DeLyser said. “Our athletics is self-suffi cient. That money does not come from student fees at all or from state tax dollars.”

They’re known as Humphrey, Himmler, Jamal, Walter Cronkite, Trey, Mark Davis Jr., Snowball and Goosey Von Goose by some of the students who have seen them around campus.

But the University’s “furry and feathered celebrities” — the albino squirrel, three-legged squirrel and Herget geese — face life-threaten-ing danger everyday, according to Phil Stouffer, associate professor in the School of Renewable Natu-ral Resources.

“The squirrels thrive and sur-vive with the level of interaction they have with students on cam-pus,” Stouffer said. “The bigger problems are things like cats on campus and other things that are not meant to be here.”

Stouffer said the squirrels are natives to campus, and even though they enjoy the food students pro-vide, they encounter danger from

student-related disruptions in their habitat.

“There are people that feed these feral cats on campus,” Stouffer said. “They’re an introduced pred-ator that are attacking wild animals and potentially spreading disease, and human involvement is keeping many of them around.”

Stouffer said there’s no need to worry because squirrels are not a species people need “to have a conservation interest in,” but to students like Ali McCrosky, an-thropology junior, squirrels like the “living legend” albino squirrel need to receive care.

“I’ve come into contact with the albino squirrel once, and I was really excited because I thought it was a good omen,” McCrosky said. “If a black cat [is] crossing your path it’s bad. Surely an albino squirrel crossing your path is good, right?”

The University does not take care of the animals in any way, said Andres Harris, Facility Services manager.

“We just let them be,” Harris said.

Stouffer said the geese are not

really a wild species since they naturally live near populated areas, so students should not care about their conservation “unless you just really like to look at geese.”

Students like Madeline Grant, biology junior, see the effects of the lack of care through “run-over” squirrels across campus and helps by feeding the animals. Other stu-dents, though, hold hostility to-ward some of these animals and feel indifferent about the care they receive.

“I really had a bad day, and it was rainy when those geese started charging at me to scare me off,” said Craig Clement, international trade and fi nance junior . “I started running full force at them to get them to run away, but Papa Goose snapped at my kneecap. I jumped back and yelped.”

Many students like Matt Grif-fi n, pre-nursing senior, had similar stories about goose attacks near Herget.

“Once I sat down near the geese, and they came and sat in my lap and started pecking at me,” Griffi n said. “Also, I used to crunch up bags of chips from the snack

machine to give to the ducks and the geese would come steal them.”

Many students’ bad opinions of the geese prevent them from car-ing for the geese’s safety, but for now Grant George, English junior, made a suggestion.

“Do not wear open-toed shoes,” George said. “They go for the feet.”

On-campus ‘furry celebrities’ face many daily dangers

Chancellor addresses Faculty Senate with budget update

ANIMALS

ADMINISTRATION

Hazards include predators, traffi c

Martin commended for open disclosures

By Peter HubbsContributing Writer

By Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

Contact Lindsey Meaux at [email protected]

Contact Peter Hubbs at [email protected]

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The University’s infamous “albino squirrel” hangs out on campus. The squirrel’s existence has been rumored to be false, but many students claim to have seen it.

‘If you don’t hear anything from us,

we just don’t know anything ...’Michael MartinUniversity chancellor

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The Corporation for National and Community Service has rec-ognized the University with a po-sition on the Presidential Honor Roll for Community Service .

With 179 service-learning classes through 35 departments and community-service programs such as Volunteer LSU, the com-munity service is “defi nitely a huge part of LSU Culture,” said Mallory Trochesset, Campus Life coordinator.

“In regards to how we feel

about the importance of this honor, I think that it’s such a sig-nifi cant honor to be recognized in the [Presidential Honor Roll for Community Service],” Troches-set said.

Jan Shoemaker, director of the Center for Community En-gagement, Learning and Leader-ship, said the University has re-ceived the distinction every year since 2006, and the University is among nine schools throughout the state to receive the honor.

Shoemaker did not know the number of schools across the country honored with this dis-tinction.

“It’s certainly a very fi ne dis-tinction to be recognized for the hard work that our faculty and students are involved in around

the community,” Shoemaker said. “It reinforces our efforts ... it challenges us as a University to be an even better citizen.”

S h o em ak e r called the Uni-versity’s service-learning program “unique in the variety of ser-vice” — which Shoemaker said spans from mass communication classes to biology classes.

Siobhan Du-gan, public affairs specialist with the Corporation for National and Community Services, said schools throughout the coun-try are honored by Presidential

Honor Roll based on the level of “student involvement in a service and impact in that service.”

“In the past, LSU has done a tremendous amount of that following Hur-ricane Katrina,” Dugan said of the University’s past efforts.

Vo l u n t e e r LSU worked in close collabora-tion with CCELL to help make the recognition pos-

sible, according to Trochesset.“Volunteer LSU is commit-

ted to upholding that status,” Tro-chesset said, naming two upcom-ing community service projects.

Trochesset named he next two projects Volunteer LSU is working to facilitate as an up-coming trip to Galveston, Texas, and their annual spring project with the Mid-City Redevelop-ment Alliance .

Volunteer LSU is targeting damage to Galveston from Hur-ricane Ike as an attempt to re-pay Texas’ support in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, Trochesset said.

Human agriculture signifi -cantly increases pollution levels in waterways, but the efforts of a University researcher will help reduce these levels.

LSU AgCenter professor Donald Boquet received the Cot-ton Researcher of the Year award at the 12th annual National Con-servation Tillage Cotton and Rice Conference in Marksville, La. , in January for his years of research in agricultural management tech-niques.

Chairman John LaRose said the conference honored Boquet not just for cotton research, but “in recognition of his work that he has contributed over the years to conservation systems and agri-culture.”

Boquet , a researcher at the Macon Ridge Re-search Station in northeast Louisi-ana, has worked for the last 10 years to develop ways to reduce the amount and the effects of sedi-ment run-off that pollutes Louisiana’s waterways.

“Agriculture contributes a lot to the pollution of the Mississippi River and the Atchafalaya Basin ,” he said. “We’ve been doing our part here to keep the sediment and nutrients on the fi elds.”

The pollution comes from across the central United States in the form of agricultural nutrients like nitrogen, but especially from the agricultural Midwest, Boquet said.

The pollution ends up in Lou-isiana waterways and the Gulf of Mexico .

The Mississippi River wa-tershed is the second largest in the world, draining 1.83 million square miles of land in 31 states and two Canadian provinces.

Boquet said sediment run-off is an ancient and necessary pro-cess that brings nutrients to Loui-siana’s marshy ecosystems. Pol-lution resulting from human agricultural practices is seven times higher, however, than natural levels.

“This has been going on for millions of years,” he said. “What we want to do is not have an ex-cessive amount. We need to go back to what nature intended.”

Macon Ridge Research Sta-tion director Montgomery Alison Jr. said the award was an honor to the AgCenter and the University .

“It’s a tribute to the AgCen-ter to have a sci-entist recognized in his fi eld by the producers in his area,” he said.

Boquet said a reduction in the amount of tillage, or the prepara-tion of the soil for planting, will help keep any pollu-

tion on the surface and reduce the amount of soil lost to erosion.

“In the past, farmers did a lot of tillage of the land,” Boquet said. “But over the years, we’ve learned that we can reduce the amount of tillage that is done.”

He said a two-crop rotation can help reduce soil run-off. Plant-ing a winter crop such as wheat, rye or winter peas rather than leaving the fi eld fallow prevents soil erosion during the winter.

Boquet estimated famers lose 10 percent of the summer crop when they use a two-crop rotation

system, but added that the profi ts from the winter crop and sav-ings, reduced tillage labor and the

long-term benefi ts of better soil qual-ity should make up for those loses in revenue.

Boquet said another way to reduce pollution levels in sediment run-off is to iden-tify the correct levels for fertil-izer application.

This method is also cost-effective for the farmer.

COMMUNITY

AgCenter professor honored as top cotton researcher

University receives national recognition for service

AGRICULTURE

Instructor awarded for years of researchBy Matthew BarndigeContributing Writer

Volunteer LSU looks toward futureBy Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

Photo courtesy of Don Boquet

LSU AgCenter professor Donald Boquet works on equipment Wednesday at the Macon Ridge Research Station in northeast Louisiana.

Contact Matthew Barndige at [email protected]

‘‘‘We’ve been doing our part here to

keep the sediment ... on the fi elds’

Donald BoquetAgCenter professor


‘‘‘It’s certainly a very fi ne distinction to be recognized for the hard work ...’

Jan Shoemakerdirector of the Center for Community

Engagement, Learning and Leadership

‘‘‘It’s a tribute ...

to have a scientist recognized in his

fi eld by the produc-ers in his area.’Montgomery Alison Jr.

director of Macon Ridge Research Station

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sis in which a university can no longer support its academic units at their current level — before ap-plying furloughs, layoffs or termi-nations of tenured faculty, non-tenured faculty or other contract employees before the end of their contract.

Martin told Lombardi in a Jan. 21 e-mail obtained by The Daily Reveille that even a budget reduc-tion below the worst-case scenario level of 30 percent would cause the University to consider furloughs.

“If the cut even approach-es the 20 percent level it seems some rather dramatic actions will be called for,” Martin said in the e-mail. “Including furloughs and layoffs.”

The issue of furloughing fac-ulty was not included in the Sys-tem’s “budget reduction exercise” — showing how the System would deal with cuts between 18 and 30 percent for the fi scal year begin-ning July 1 — submitted to the

Division of Administration Feb. 4, but fi nancial exigency was.

“To terminate faculty would likely involve the necessity of the Board of Supervisors declaring fi nancial exigency and implemen-tation of a procedure to further evaluate and act,” the budget re-duction exercise states. “Further-more, fi nancial exigency action is best implemented in relation to an actual budget reduction and not a range of potential budget cuts.”

The proposal will have to be reviewed by Lombardi and other System offi cials before it is pre-sented to the Board of Supervisors . System Spokesman Charles Zewe said it will likely not be a part of the Board’s upcoming March 5 meeting.

It is undetermined when or if the proposal will go before the Board of Supervisors, who would ultimately need to approve the measure.

Contact Kyle Bove at [email protected]

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Lynsie Mumphrey started col-lege with a clear focus: admission into medical school.

According to the kinesiology sophomore, she has bounced be-tween a basic sciences major and a kinesiology major. But she wishes she had spent her college years working on a degree in direct preparation for medical school — a pre-medical degree.

“It would’ve provided you with a wide range of subjects to help in medical school,” Mumphrey said. “You don’t just need science.”

The Graduat-ing Student Sur-vey, which was submitted by 83.6 percent of the fall 2008 graduating class, indicated about 20 percent of respondents intended to pursue a professional degree, whether part-time or full-time, according to an e-mail from Sara Crow, Ca-reer Services spokeswoman.

However, the University does not offer pre-law, pre-med or pre-dentistry programs. Students are “advised to graduate with a de-gree in a related fi eld,” according to undergraduate admissions.

Stacia Haynie, vice provost of Academic Affairs, said students planning on attending profession-al school should set their primary focus on excelling in the degree of their choice.

“LSU, like many universities, provides a variety of curricular options for students which will provide the essential foundation

for post-baccalaureate studies,” Haynie said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille. “It is important that students major in an area for which they have a strong intel-lectual curiosity ... GPAs tend to refl ect not just a student’s intel-lectual capacity but their passion as well.”

Data from the Graduating Students Survey indicates 19 graduates intend to attend the LSU Health Sciences Center while an additional three students are an intent to pursue a post-undergrad-uate degree from Our Lady of the Lake. Three students showed in-terest in the LSU School of Vet-

erinary Medicine. Kathy Stuck-

ey, admissions co-ordinator for the LSU New Orleans Medical School, said the majority of the incoming fall 2008 class was comprised of science majors.

“The more science background you have, the easier the [Medical College Ad-mission Test] would be,” Stuckey said. “Other than that, they have to have 32 hours of science.”

Stuckey said other incoming students previously majored in foreign languages, business, psy-chology, English and kinesiology.

Ginger Guttner, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine spokes-person, said 86 students comprise the fall 2008 incoming class.

“Obviously, most of those [degrees] are science related,” Guttner said.

According to data on the in-coming class, among the 86 stu-dents, 48 of them were animal science majors and 15 were bio-logical sciences majors.

Thirteen respondents to the Graduating Students Survey indi-cated an intent to attend LSU Law

Center while 14 respondents ex-pressed intent to attend other law schools.

Beth Loup, Paul M. Hebert Law Center interim director of admissions, said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille the Law Cen-ter does not recommend any spe-cifi c majors for undergraduate students.

As per guidelines outlined in the LSU Law catalog, students are advised not to enroll in undergrad-uate-level law courses.

Loup said there are currently 108 political science graduates, 51 history graduates, 51 English graduates and 32 mass commu-nication graduates enrolled at the Law Center. Other graduates include fi nance, accounting and management .

ACADEMICS

Survey indicates about 20 percent plan to attend graduate school


By Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

Pre-med, pre-law programs not offered

‘‘‘GPAs tend to refl ect not just a student’s

intellectual capacity but their passion as well.’

Stacia Haynievice provost of Academic Affairs

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talking about it, the students created a Facebook group two weeks ago to finally organize the scene.

“At first it was kind of a joke we would mention to each other in pass-ing, but at the beginning of the se-mester, Ann got really serious about it all,” Miller said.

The word got out, and the idea snowballed from a group of only about 20 to more than 260 confirmed participants within a two-week pe-riod. The event was attended by even more students, many of which partic-ipated on the spot without any prior knowledge of the event.

“I knew what it was because I’m

a theatre minor, and in New York, people do random acts of theater all the time,” said Sherrin Perkins, mass communication junior. “When I rec-ognized what was happening, I just froze.”

Harris said she was inspired by the work of the New York per-formance art group “Improv Every-where.” The group, which has staged similar freezes in New York, is also responsible for such scenes as the annual “No Pants” events in which participants ride the New York City subway across town dressed only in shirts and boxer shorts.

“A lot of people have asked me if we were making some kind of po-litical statement or something like

that, but it’s really just to have fun and laugh at ourselves,” Harris said. “It’s a prank.”

Despite the massive number of participants, like all good pranks, Thursday’s Quad freeze took the un-aware by surprise. Reactions ranged from confusion to annoyance with the arbitrary nature of the freeze.

Other students were excited about participating in such a unique campus event.

“I feel like it gave people a chance to stop and look at their sur-roundings for five minutes,” said Kelly Ryan, theatre senior. “It was really cool.”

After a highly successful turn-out in the Quad, urban-style pranks

like this might become a regular oc-currence on campus. Harris said she and her fellow pranksters are work-ing to create an official student orga-nization dedicated to causing scenes of social absurdity.

“The student organization would be focused on performing arts and improv skits, fun things around campus to keep people entertained and exercise our creative juices,” Stewart said.

Spontaneous musicals in dining halls, giant picnics and slow motion students are some just some of their prospective ideas for future events.

The likelihood of a student orga-nization forming around such social pranks depends mostly on the types

of events they would create and whether student risk was involved, according to Michelle Lowery El-dredge, assistant director of facility services.

Though flash mobs have a tradi-tion of being politically galvanized events, Miller said their event was not a protest. Along with the goals of having fun, these student improvisa-tional scenes also carry the weight of campus art.

“It’s important that we can laugh at ourselves and have fun, but also it’s performance art,” Harris said.

FREEZE, from page 1

stressful problems in life, and laugh-ing can teach the moral of not sweat-ing the small things, Fletcher said.

Twix is trying to find the most entertaining candidate to give the winner “a break” from the stress of life, said Julie Curry, account execu-tive for Weber Shandwick, a public relations firm.

College, university and junior college students can submit a video up to three minutes long to the com-pany’s Web site to compete in the contest, she said.

“[Students] can tell a joke, act out [or say] anything clean to make the judges laugh,” Curry said.

One of the most effective forms of humor is when the person making everyone laugh is the brunt of the joke, said Loretta Pecchioni, com-munication studies professor.

Comedy makes everyone feel

good about themselves, and audience members at a comedy show want to be engaged, Pecchioni said.

“Laughing is one of the best things about letting off steam,” said Curry.

The comedy festival, hosted by TBS for the first time in Chicago, will host famous comedians including El-len DeGeneres and Dane Cook.

Newman said she can turn any-thing she does into a funny situation because she just continues to talk un-til people start laughing.

Zachary Lott, English sopho-more, said the only time he laughs at comedy is when he can relate with the story the comedian is telling in the joke.

“I think laughter is the best part about life,” Lott said.

People tend to think a joke is funny when it’s original, but a lot of times good comedy is expected hu-mor, Fletcher said.

The reason humor is effective is the connection people can make with others, Pecchioni said.

“Humor is a great coping strat-egy,” Pecchioni said. “It helps us make sense of the world.”

Nervous or uncomfortable situ-ations can be resolved by laughing or telling a joke, she said.

“Shy people are generally not funny,” Pecchioni said.

Devin Allain, construction man-agement senior, said he grew up in a house full of family members who “loved to tell dumb jokes.”

He said he would sit back and listen but would never pipe in with his own.

“I guess I’ve never been good at telling jokes,” Allain said. “I can’t seem to remember any jokes or the punch lines.”

Pecchioni said noticing the little details is the heart of joking.

“Going to get a book of jokes is

not going to make you funny,” she said. “But I think people can look at structure of jokes.”

People who are considered funny by their peers or co-workers generally understand when it is ap-propriate to make fun of a situation, Pecchioni said. If a joke is overly racist or sexist, people may be hesi-tant to laugh, Fletcher said.

A recent study conducted by several graduate students in the Communication Studies Department explored the idea of how effective humor is in classroom settings.

Michael Rold, communication study researcher and doctorate stu-dent, said the study measured how credible teachers who used humor in the classroom perform in three areas — confidence, trustworthiness and goodwill.

One of the results of the study showed students perceived female professors as more trustworthy if

they were funny, Rold said.“[Humor] can make an instruc-

tor more human in the eyes of the students,” Rold said. “It ... can work to someone’s advantage but should be used sparingly.”

Sometimes a professor may use humor to cover up a deficiency or a hole in the lecture, Rold said. Too much humor can take away from a teacher’s credibility, he said.

Figuring out when it’s the right time to tell a joke is important, Pec-chioni said.

“They’re times when we just need to be serious,” she said. “[But] being able to tell a good story that makes people laugh and brings peo-ple together ... is a positive feeling we like.”

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LSU junior guard Allison Hightower had just fi ve words to say Tuesday when asked if the Lady Tigers were among the top-64 teams in the country.

“Of course,” she said. “Without a question.”Hightower did her best to back up her statement

Thursday night, scoring 16 points and notching six re-bounds and fi ve assists to help the Lady Tigers (14-9, 7-4) lead from start to fi nish in a 57-46 win at Georgia (15-11, 5-6).

“ H i g h t o w e r was her usual good self,” LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor said on his postgame radio show. “She was 8-for-19, but three times she had to hoist up a 3-ball with the shot clock running down. She

was terrifi c again.”The Lady Tigers carried momentum from their win

against Florida on Sunday into the opening minutes of Thursday’s game and took an early 10-2 lead.

The Lady Bulldogs narrowed LSU’s lead to 14-10 midway through the opening half thanks to the strong

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LSU junior designated hitter Blake Dean blasts a home run to right fi eld during last season’s NCAA super regional against UC Irvine. The Tigers open the 2009 season tonight against Villanova.

LSU faces Auburn for fi rst time this season

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By David HelmanSports Writer

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers earn win at GeorgiaBy Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer

LSU’s brand-new 8,786-seat ballpark is considered by many to be the best stadium in college baseball.

But while the Tigers open a new era in LSU baseball this weekend against Villano-va, LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri hopes his team’s level of performance matches the beauty of the new park.

“The only thing that remains is for us to put a ball club out there on the fi eld that’s worthy of us using such a beautiful facility,” he said. “I’m pretty excited about what we have going for us.”

One of the things Mainieri is excited about is his team’s experience.

Seven starters return from last season’s offense, led by junior outfi elder Blake Dean, who hit .353 with 20 home runs last season .

Dean said the Tigers are anxious to re-turn to the fi eld after last season’s College World Series run.

“We’re so excited to get started,” he said. “We have a solid team and a great new park. We hope to make our new home as memorable as our old home.”

Senior pitcher Louis Coleman will start on the mound in the season opener.

Coleman was one of LSU’s most consis-tent pitchers last season with an 8-1 record and a 1.95 ERA in 23 appearances .

Mainieri said the high magnitude of to-night’s game was the reason he chose to give Coleman the opening game start.

“I’m hoping to put him in the bullpen for the rest of the year,” he said. “We’ll see how it plays out, but I feel real confi dent that the guys that we think are going to be our starters will end up our starters.”

By Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer

Tigers set to open season at new stadium tonight

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PROJECTED OPENING DAY STARTING LINEUP

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Leon Landrysophomore, center fi eld

Ryan Schimpfjunior,

second base

Micah Gibbssophomore,

catcher

Blake Deanjunior,

DH/left fi eld

DJ LeMahieusophomore, shortstop

Jared Mitchelljunior,

right fi eld

Sean Ochinkojunior,

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Chad Jonessophomore, left fi eld/DH

Derek Helenihisenior,

third base

Louis Colemansenior, pitcher

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LSU junior guard Allison Hightower takes a shot Sunday in the Lady Tigers’ 66-47 upset against then-No. 9 Florida. LSU beat Georgia on Thursday, 57-46.OFFENSE, see page 10

There’s something suspicious surrounding the LSU men’s bas-ketball team’s 10-game South-eastern Conference win streak.

Wednesday’s win against Ar-kansas was LSU’s eighth game against the SEC West, and the conference’s other set of Tigers have yet to rear their heads on the schedule.

Heading into tomorrow’s game against Auburn, LSU has played home and away against every other team in the division before playing Auburn once.

“I always thought that was kind of weird, that we played most teams twice before we played Au-burn,” said junior forward Tasmin Mitchell. “I asked [senior guard] Garrett [Temple] last week, ‘We don’t play Auburn?’ I really don’t understand that.”

While hardly earth-shatter-ing, it’s a bit unusual compared

to recent years. LSU and Auburn played at least once by Feb. 1 in each of the previous three seasons, and in 2008 the two played twice before the end of January.

“It’s a fi rst time for me, that we play [Auburn] twice this late in the season,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson. “It almost feels like they aren’t a part of our league or we’re not a part of theirs consider-ing what’s been going on.”

LSU may be happy for a fresh face after the past few games.

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With a new stadium comes a new era.

But LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri doesn’t want his players to forget where numerous teams in the past era ended up by the close of their seasons.

That is part of the reason the large, new scoreboard that graces the left-fi eld backdrop at new Alex Box Stadium replicates the one in the stadium where the Tigers have spent so many postseasons, win-ning fi ve national championships.

“Everybody misses the In-timidator down the right-fi eld line because it al-ways gave those left-handed hitters a target to take a whack at,” Mainieri said. “But we wanted to make this stadium as much like Rosenblatt [Stadium] as we could so that if we are fortunate enough to get to Omaha, the adjust-ment doesn’t seem so great.”

While that scoreboard will re-mind players where they want to end their season, its recent completion also builds excitement for opening day tomorrow.

“The week before the fi nal week is always the hardest because guys are starting to get a little sore, and they are getting tired of practic-ing against one another all the time, and the season is still a week away,” Mainieri said. “When they woke up on Monday morning, they knew it was opening game week, and I’m sure their adrenaline was pump-ing.”

The players said they are ex-cited for opening day and the new era of LSU baseball.

“Of course it’s hard to leave a place over there with all the memo-ries, but you have to form your own memories,” said LSU senior out-fi elder Nicholas Pontiff . “We are going to ... try to turn this place into a dynasty like it was back over there at the old Box.”

The Tigers have only practiced a few weeks on the fi eld because of the ongoing construction in and around the stadium.

Mainieri said he had a “tough decision” whether to keep practic-ing at the old stadium because the batting cages in the new stadium were not completed until Tuesday.

“I just thought that it was im-portant to get over [to the new sta-dium] and start to get used to the environment and the surroundings,” Mainieri said.

But the players still feel they are already comfortable with the fi eld.

“This fi eld is one of the best I’ve played on,” said sophomore shortstop DJ LeMahieu .

Sophomore catcher Micah Gibbs said he is getting comfortable with his spot behind home plate.

“I got behind home plate a little bit,” he said. “There’s no hitters eye back there right now, but it’s not too bad. Once we have that hitter’s eye there, it will be perfect.”

Pontiff said no matter what the situation is, there shouldn’t be any excuses for bad play.

“Everybody is real comfort-able,” he said. “I don’t think there should be any excuses for anybody on any aspect. The playing surface is better than it is [at the old Box], and the amenities are 100 times bet-ter.”

FORMER TIGERSThe excitement for opening

day extends beyond Mainieri and his current players.

Michael Hol-lander, a four-year starting infi elder for the Tigers from 2004-2008 , is happy for his old teammates to get the chance to play in the new sta-dium.

“There’s been talk for a while now

about building a new stadium,” Hollander said. “I’m excited to see not just how this team does but how the stadium looks and how the fans like it.”

Former LSU baseball coach and athletic director Skip Bertman and his former standouts are also ready for a new era in LSU baseball.

Bertman, who coached the Tigers from 1984-2001 , said he is happy the stadium construction is coming to a completion.

“It’s been a well-done stadi-um that is fan friendly and player friendly,” Bertman said. “Although it’s not a Taj Mahal, it’s functional. It’s got all the things a coach needs and all the things a player needs and all the things that the fans and media need.”

Bertman is also looking beyond opening day to the second phase of construction, which includes the amenities outside the stadium.

“There are parts of it that have yet to take place — like the foliage, the skyboxes, more parking for mo-tor homes — that I’m looking for-ward to,” he said.

Bertman won fi ve national championships during his time as coach in old Alex Box, and he also played a large part of getting the new stadium as LSU’s athletic di-rector. He said he feels good about being such an integral part of both stadiums.

“The old Box was venerable,” he said. “It had unbelievable great history, and we are taking that with us. There will be an Alex Box Hall of Fame in the new stadium. We ex-pect to have the same electricity that we had at the old Alex Box.”

Kurt Ainsworth , LSU starting pitcher from 1998-1999 and a mem-ber of the All-Alex Box Stadium Team “Omaha Era,” said the new stadium is well overdue.

“I’m just happy that they are getting a new stadium,” he said. “We were always one of the worst stadiums in the [Southeastern Con-ference] condition-wise, but the fans were always the best. You put those fans in the new stadium, and

it’s going to be exciting. I can’t wait to watch it as a fan now sitting in the new ballpark.”

Brad Cresse , LSU catcher from 1997-2000 and a member of the All-Alex Box Stadium Team “Omaha Era,” said he is ready to start the new era in LSU baseball.

“The last game last year, when we had all the celebration, it was sad because of all the great memo-ries, but we will always have those memories,” said Cresse, a mem-ber of two national championship teams. “It’s time for the Box to be upgraded. The new stadium, driving by it down the street, it’s so impres-sive. It’s time to make the change.”

The former players are also happy to see LSU’s baseball pro-gram back on the map.

“It’s exciting to see LSU back up at the top of the rankings where LSU belongs,” Hollander said. “I know coach Mainieri has done a great job, and he has worked really hard to get that result. That’s what he came here for.”

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BASEBALL

Former, current Tigers prepare for opening of new BoxTeam excited about first gameBy Andy SchwehmSports Contributor

Daily Reveille fi le photos

[Left] Former LSU athletic director Skip Bertman discusses a call with an umpire back when he was the Tigers’ baseball coach. [Right] Former LSU third baseman Michael Hollander was a four-year starter for the Tigers at shortstop and third base.

Contact Andy Schwehm at [email protected]

‘‘‘I’m excited to see ... how the stadium looks and how the

fans like it.’

Michael Hollanderformer LSU baseball player

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NEW ORLEANS — He had a fresh haircut, and his players’ jerseys were black and red.

But the man sitting in the sec-ond seat of the Arkansas State bench at the New Orleans Lakefront Arena on Thursday night was unmistakable to LSU men’s basketball fans.

A small crowd watched coach John Brady’s return to Louisiana af-ter being fired by LSU just more than a year ago.

The Red Wolves’ 73-63 loss to New Orleans was Brady’s second trip back to Louisiana in less than a week. Arkansas State lost, 54-50, at Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday.

“It’s like being anywhere I’ve ever coached,” he said. “I don’t re-ally want to go into that. It has no bearing — I coach at Arkansas State now, and I’m trying to do the best I can. I like it there. They like me for now, so that’s kind of it.”

Less than a minute into action against UNO (11-16, 6-10), Brady was nervously rubbing his hands to-gether and barking directions to his players. He was out of his seat and pacing the bench by the five-minute mark.

The Red Wolves trailed, 39-30, at halftime, but a quick six points after the break cut the lead to 39-36 and briefly changed Brady’s attitude — he and his associate head coach, Chad Dollar, stood and applauded loudly.

Brady was up and yelling after a 12-3 UNO run, stomping his feet on the playing floor.

Dollar, who assisted Brady and interim coach Butch Pierre at LSU last season, even joined in at times, yelling from his seat between Bra-dy’s and the scorers’ table.

“It’s been tough the last couple games here, but we’re just trying to build this program up … and that takes time,” Dollar said. “It’s always frustrating when you’ve lost a few games in a row.”

Arkansas State battled UNO late into the game, trimming the lead to as little as four points with less than a minute to play before the Privateers pulled away following a Bryant tech-nical foul.

The Red Wolves have struggled through several close losses in a re-cent 1-7 month-long stretch of games decided by an average of just more than four points.

Meanwhile, Brady’s former team has built a three-game lead in the Southeastern Conference standings.

“I haven’t had a chance to keep in contact with any [LSU players] just because of NCAA rules,” Dol-lar said. “I’m happy for the success they’ve had, and I wish those guys the very best.”

Following Wednesday night’s rainout at Southeastern Louisiana University, LSU softball coach Yvette Girouard said she’s looking forward to another opportunity to play at home in the new Tiger Park.

The No. 22 Tigers (6-4) host the Easton Purple and Gold Challenge this weekend.

“It’s all about us, the Tigers, making adjustments right now to succeed,” Girouard said.

The four-team tournament in-cludes Alabama-B i r m i n g h a m , Northern Iowa and Texas State.

Pool play opens up at 3:45 p.m. today when UAB and Texas State square off. LSU and North-ern Iowa follow with a 6 p.m. matchup.

“The com-petition is a little

better than we anticipated ... three very good opponents coming in here this weekend,” she said.

The Tigers are no strangers to UAB (2-3). They split two games with the Blazers two weeks ago in Hawaii at the Paradise Classic.

LSU won the first meeting, 10-5, on Feb. 5, with UAB defeating the Tigers, 5-3, the next day.

Northern Iowa (7-2) is off to its best start since 2002, while Texas State (6-4) knocked off two ranked foes last week. The Cougars are fresh off a 3-2 upset of No. 19 Texas A&M on Wednesday and also sur-prised then-No. 14 Houston on Sun-day with a 2-0 victory.

With the stiff competition, the Tigers will be looking for more

consistency at the plate. LSU is bat-ting .250 through 10 games this sea-son, 65 points lower than its average through 10 games last year.

Girouard attributes the low team average to a slow start, particularly by the more experienced players.

“[It’s] a slow start by some of our veterans, maybe a lack of focus on everyone’s part and the reality of the adjustments at this level,” she said.

Senior pitcher Dani Hofer is still sidelined following wrist surgery last April and also has back problems.

Girouard said she has no idea when Hofer will return to the lineup.

The Tigers have relied on ju-nior pitcher Cody Trahan and junior pitcher/outfielder Kirsten Shortridge to step up in Hofer’s absence.

Trahan also has injury problems of her own, coming off back surgery during Christmas break. She experi-enced struggles in her first few out-ings and has yet to record a decision, but her 1.19 ERA leads the team.

“Things have come around here toward the last two games, but there’s still a lot more to be done,” she said.

Shortridge, a Baylor transfer, leads the team in batting with a .378 average and has also started three games as a pitcher.

Two of those starts came against UAB. She was the winning pitcher in LSU’s 10-5 win against the Blaz-ers at the Paradise Classic, allowing only one hit in three innings.

“It’s awesome she transferred here when she did,” said junior out-fielder Rachel Mitchell. “She’s our starting outfielder ... And of course she also pitches for us — especially in this time of need when Dani had surgery and Cody had back surgery. She can step in and even it out.”

The Tigers conclude pool play with two games tomorrow as they take on Texas State at 2 p.m. and UAB at 4:15 p.m.

Bracket play begins at 9 a.m. Sunday, with the championship game scheduled for 3:45 p.m.

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By Jerit RoserSports Editor

SOFTBALL

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Junior pitcher Cody Trahan throws the opening pitch Feb. 11 at the new Tiger Park. The Tigers will host the Purple and Gold Challenge at Tiger Park this weekend.

Tigers host Purple and Gold ChallengeLSU faces UAB for third time this seasonBy Sean IsabellaSports Contributor

Contact Sean Isabella at [email protected]

Contact Jerit Roser at [email protected]

Brady returns to familiar territory

‘It’s all about us, the Tigers,

making adjustments right now to

succed.’

Yvette GirouardLSU softball coach


Two of the pitchers Mainieri talked about are sophomores An-thony Ranaudo and Austin Ross, who will start Saturday and Sun-day’s games respectively.

Ranaudo was limited for the early part of last season with an el-bow injury but returned for the sec-ond half of the season and pitched 12 scoreless innings.

Ross served as one of LSU’s most reliable bullpen pitchers last season and was 3-1 with a 2.58 ERA in 52.1 innings .

Against Villanova, LSU will face a team that went 30-28 last season .

But the Wildcats were deplet-ed by graduation and return just one hitter with at least a .300 bat-ting average and two pitchers with an ERA under fi ve from last sea-son’s team .

Sophomore pitcher Chris Pack will start opening night for Villano-va. Pack was 4-3 with a 5.17 ERA in his freshman season last year .

Junior Brian Strilein and freshman Kyle Helisek will start on Saturday and Sunday for the Wildcats.

Villanova coach Joe Godri said his young team’s performance this weekend will go a long way in determining the Wildcats’ success this season.

“When the lights get turned on Friday night at LSU, it won’t be an intrasquad game in a controlled

situation,” he said. “At that point it comes down to who can make the plays.”

The Wildcats have a reputation for defeating Southeastern Confer-ence opponents, beating then-No. 8 Florida in 2005 and then-No. 18 Alabama in 2007 .

Godri said for a similar situa-tion to play out this weekend, his team needs to handle the atmo-sphere in Alex Box Stadium.

“We are going to play in their backyard,” he said. “We have to be able to handle the stadium atmo-sphere with 7,000-plus fans. There are a lot of opportunities on the fi eld this weekend for Villanova against one of college baseball’s true heavyweights.”

Contact Casey Gisclair at [email protected]

OPENING, from page 7

interior play of junior forward Angel Robinson, who used her 6-foot-5-inch frame to score 8 fi rst-half points and fi nished with 15 points and 15 rebounds.

LSU maintained its comfort-able lead and took a 32-25 lead into halftime thanks to effi cient offensive play.

The Lady Tigers shot 44 percent in the fi rst 20 minutes, led by 11 fi rst-half points from freshman forward LaSondra Barrett.

But LSU’s offense sputtered following their second-half surge, and the Lady Tigers went four min-utes without a fi eld goal to allow the

Lady Bulldogs to cut the lead to 36-30 with 14 minutes to play.

LSU’s offense continued to sputter throughout the half. The Lady Tigers had just three fi eld goals in the fi rst 10 minutes after intermission.

But LSU kept Georgia at a dis-tance thanks to a swarming defensive effort that limited the Lady Bulldogs to just 33 percent shooting in the sec-ond half.

“When you’re able to guard somebody and you’re able to give up just 46 points to Georgia, who is a heck of a team, you have to feel good about that,” Chancellor said.

Hightower put the Lady Bull-dogs away for good late in the fi nal half, scoring three points in a 10-0

run to give LSU a 13-point lead with three minutes to play.

LSU also got plenty of help off of the fl oor on Thursday.

With Arkansas’s upset win against No. 15 Florida and Ken-tucky’s home win against No. 19 Tennessee, the Lady Tigers are now in fourth place in the Southeast-ern Conference with three games to play.

Chancellor said with the way things have unfolded in the SEC this season, he likes his team’s chances just as much as any other team in the conference.

“These kids did not play early,” he said. “I didn’t coach them well. But now they’re playing wel. Right

now my energy is so high I can fl y home on my own. I don’t need an airplane.”

Contact Casey Gisclair at [email protected]

OFFENSE, from page 7

games. That margin has dropped to 6.75 in the rematches, includ-ing the Feb. 11 double-overtime game at Mississippi State and Wednesday night’s scare against the Razorbacks .

“We’re playing with fi re,” Johnson said. “If you play against good people and continue to play like we’re playing, it’s going to come up and bite you in the face.”

Much of that deals with the loss of sophomore point guard Bo Spencer. Spencer went down with a sprained ankle against Mississippi State and has been “day-to-day” ever since.

Spencer said he practiced for the fi rst time since the injury on Thursday.

“He thinks he can play, but

he thought he could play Wednes-day,” Johnson said. “The key is how he adjusts if there’s any swelling or anything. If he is able to go I will probably start him be-cause I won’t get him warmed up and sit him and give [the ankle] a chance to stiffen.”

LSU fans would have prob-ably preferred to get Auburn out

of the way in the early going of the conference sea-son.

A u b u r n dropped three of four games to start SEC play but has rebounded with a four-game winning streak, including a last-

second win against Tennessee on Feb. 7.

“We’re shooting the ball pret-ty consistently from the perimeter and our bench play has been sol-id,” said Auburn coach Jeff Lebo. “Even though we’re small, we’ve

done a fairly good job of being even or winning a little bit on the rebounding margin.”

Three of Auburn’s four-straight wins have been at home, while its most recent road win was at last-place Georgia. A win at the PMAC would give LSU only its second home loss of the season.

“They’ve played awfully well at home — I think 17-1,” Lebo said. “We’re going to go into a very tough environment against a team that’s got a lead on every-body for the overall SEC champi-onship.”

There may be more to cel-ebrate during the upcoming holi-day than just Fat Tuesday. With Tennessee and South Carolina both suffering losses Wednesday night, LSU can come within a game of the SEC title by beating Auburn and can clinch it with a win against Florida on Tuesday.

Contact David Helman at [email protected]

RETURN, from page 7

‘‘‘I always thought that was

kind of weird, that we played most teams twice before we played Auburn.’

Tasmin Mitchelljunior forward

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Tasmin Mitchell looks to pass after grabbing a rebound in Fayetteville, Ark., on Wednesday. LSU beat the Razorback, 72-69.

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As the University closes its doors for the Mardi Gras holiday, it’s important to remember to have a good time safely and responsibly.

Every year thousands of people crowd the Big Easy streets for one of the most interesting holidays we have — and University students will be right there with them.

But this year should be a little more exciting than years past.

The Daily Reveille reported on Feb. 4 that local experts are “cau-tiously optimistic” crowd numbers will be similar to pre-Hurricane Ka-trina parades.

That means more people, more alcohol, and more concern over safety.

Whether students brave the streets of New Orleans to attend any of the city’s historic parades or

choose to celebrate closer to home with Baton Rouge’s own Spanish Town parade, safety needs to be pri-mary concern.

Although most Louisiana na-tives are veteran parade-goers and no stranger to the dangers of a Mardi Gras party, it’s always important to remember safety precautions before once again braving the streets.

Things can escalate when alco-

hol is involved in any activity, and mixing booze with one of the largest festivals only adds to those worries.

Be aware of your limits and sur-roundings, and make sure at the end of the night — or day — you have a safe place to crash and recharge those party batteries.

Also be careful about decisions you make and the long-term effects they may have. Although Mardi Gras

is technically a break from classes, it’s not long before students have to start concerning themselves with responsibilities of the week ahead. Midterms are around the corner.

After Fat Tuesday, it’s back to business. Have fun and be safe.

Editor’s note: This column con-tains language that may be offen-sive to some people.

Our society promotes impos-sible standards of beauty.

Standards of beauty which are only attained through plastic surgery, PhotoShop and, most recently, Web sites encouraging eating disorders.

National Eating Disorder Aware-ness Week begins Sunday, so there’s no better time to address this topic.

Thanks to virtual eating disorder communities, anorexia and bulimia are no longer considered diseases but are lifestyles.

And “Ana” and “Mia” are be-coming girls’ best friends.

Gone are the days when girls had to sneak off to recovery groups or rehabilitation centers. Now they can openly talk to others with simi-lar goals and can proudly parade the bones protruding from their bodies for all the world to see.

The number of Web sites

promoting anorexia and bulimia has increased 470 percent in a single year, according to a 2008 study by Optenet, a global Internet trend com-pany.

These online communities in-struct visitors how to lose weight — whether it be by pills, laxatives or the classic starvation and purgation. They also provide “thinspiration,” or photos of emaciated models, mal-nourished celebrities or obese and overweight people to keep these girls on the right track.

Pro-eating disorder Web sites have been around since the advent of the Internet. However, they used to be so well-hidden it took more than just one Google search to uncover them.

Upon entering “pro-eating dis-order” in my Web browser, 44 pages devoted to this topic appeared.

The first on the list, “The World’s Largest Pro-Anorexia Site” where users’ profile pictures range

from the thinspirational, incredible shrinking women Nicole Richie and Ellen Pompeo to photos zoomed in on girl’s skeletal remains.

While some comments cheerily express a girl’s pride for only con-

suming only 175 calories in a day and are adorned with smiley faces, others are quite dismal.

“Food is everywhere. in my head and in my house and on my tv. I cant

stop thinking about it and i’m going fucking insane. i can’t give in ... Be-cause once I start eating I can’t stop, and we all know that purging doesn’t do shit anyway because those fuck-ing calories are in you as soon as the food hits your mouth,” said one visitor to “The World’s Largest Pro-Anorexia Site.”

And these communities are spreading to popular social network-ing sites like Facebook and MyS-pace.

“Many pro-ana Facebookers say the groups provide an invaluable support system to help them cope with their disease, but psychologists worry that the growth of such groups could encourage eating disorders in others,” read a Nov. 2008 Newsweek article.

Four out of 10 teenagers with eating disorders visit pro-eating dis-order Web sites, according to a 2006 Stanford University study. Of the 96 percent of young women afflicted with eating disorders who visited these Web sites, 50 percent of them learned new weight-loss techniques. Seven out of 10 visitors admitted they tried techniques discovered on these sites while one-third tested the suggested diet pills, supplements or laxatives.

But Facebook isn’t standing

idly by. These pro-eating disorder groups violate Facebook’s terms of use by promoting harm to oneself and others.

There are designated Facebook employees who delete dangerous groups like pro-ana and pro-mia groups, company spokesperson Bar-ry Schnitt told Newsweek.

Despite Facebook’s admirable endeavors, it can only do so much.

Ten million females and one million males are battling eating disorders, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.

And that’s only in the U.S.So in honor of National Eating

Disorder Awareness Week, girls, do yourself a favor and scarf down ev-ery last morsel of that Big Mac or Raising Cane’s chicken finger box because I promise, it won’t kill you.

But throwing it up will.

It’s finally Mardi Gras.As someone who calls New

Orleans home, it’s often difficult to transcribe the immense joy that fills me when royally clad marching bands and bead carrying floats amble down St. Charles Avenue.

It can be hard to describe what it is that makes us from New Orleans learn parade routes months early and study the schedule, which by this point we’ve easily memorized.

Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose has already done a more than an admirable job of document-ing every aspect of our Christmas, from child-bearing ladders on small tires to our penchant to do everything just a little bit bigger and louder than our neighbors in, well, the world.

But the unbridled, unadulterated

joy that exists in “Iko, Iko” seems al-most unmatched in anything else. It brings with it the ideals of family, of friends, of fun.

Facebook statuses, which have begun to usher in all seasons, are ripe with Mardi Gras references and pleas to return to the most wonderful city on earth, one shared by Fats Domino and Lil’ Wayne alike.

In some ways, many of us are part of the generation that saved Mar-di Gras. After Hurricane Katrina did its best to gut the city, we returned with beaming smiles and ice-chests of crawfish and cheap beers, ready to take back Fat Tuesday.

Three years ago, I had the plea-sure of interviewing Arthur Hardy, the quintessential Mardi Gras expert who writes the annual Mardi Gras

Guide. It was the first Mardi Gras following the hurricane, and we dis-cussed the wisdom in holding a cele-bration while the city was attempt-ing to heal.

He told me, “‘I do [think holding Mardi Gras is a good idea] because I think it says we’re down but we’re not out. To not do it would be to say New Or-leans is done for.”

At the time, it felt like the city was done for. Like with my flubber-ing Saints, I had faith but wasn’t ac-tually sure what to expect.

Three years later, I realize how

much wisdom was contained in those words.

Mardi Gras is like Christmas to New Orleans residents — we mea-sure our years by it. I have more memories from Mardi Gras than I have from any other holiday. It is al-ways a rite of passage for the year, a time to reflect and evaluate every-thing that has happened since the one before.

New Orleans wasn’t down and out. It never will be. They’ve thrown a fire our way. Then they threw water our way. We’re still standing.

As much as this doesn’t need to be written, it needs to be stated. It’s our responsibility to keep it standing. Through anything and everything.

Frankly, this ain’t that bad of a responsibility.

Just remember what Fats Dom-ino said: “New Orleans is my home / that’s the reason that I’m going / Yes, I’m walking to New Orleans.” Because if you are part of the LSU community, then you are part of the New Orleans community.

So after you’ve filled your roll-ing ice chests with food and beer and you’ve readied your old Schweg-mann’s bags to carry your bounty of green-and-purple beads and plastic cups that you’ll be using around the house for the next year, then come on down for a few days of pure, un-tainted joy.

The city will be waiting for you.

OpinionPAGE 12 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2008

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Celebrating President’s Day and Lincoln’s bicentennial has overshadowed the celebration of black history month during the tenure of America’s first black president.

In searching for a way to commemorate both, The Daily Reveille offers a discussion rel-evant to both — and we reserved a space for your opinion as well.

Honest Abe was by no means an abolitionist, but was he, as some claim, an “anti-slavery white supremacist?” Did his prejudice disappear after he witnessed the fortitude of black Union troops?

On Feb. 12, the editor-in-chief of The Root, enquired, “So which was the real Lincoln, the benevolent countenance hang-ing on the walls of black people’s homes, the Man Who Freed the Slaves, or this man whom Du Bois was quoting, who seemed to hate black people?”

Check out what the peanut gallery had to say, then visit us online at lsureveille.com and tell us what you think.

Lerone Bennett Jr., outspoken critic of Lincoln the myth, has made numerous unsettling claims ques-tioning the character and impetus of the 16th president.

Throughout his books, Bennett claimed Lincoln habitually used the n-word and supported Black Laws and the Fugitive Slave Act among other things. Bennett refers to the Emancipation Proclamation as a front for “colonization” — a veiled term that meant exporting blacks in the U.S. to Africa or Latin America.

Lincoln was, by all means, a racist.

When discussing Lincoln’s ra-cial disposition, it’s best to go

directly to the source.Lincoln himself claimed whites

and blacks had broader differences than any other two races and it would be better for the races to remain sepa-rate. He openly touted his opposition to equality and claimed blacks were not entitled to the natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.

Others throughout history have given mixed reveiws at best. Freder-ick Douglas, black abolitionist, noted Lincoln was free from the popular prejudices of his day. But civil rights acitivist W.E.B. DuBois put it best when he called Lincoln “big enough to be inconsistent.”

The logical conclusion is Lin-coln was a calculating politician, able to play all sides and come out on top of history.

Though he transcended them, Lincoln was a product of his times.

A man caught between extremes

— a man blameless in that age.By utilitarian standards, Lincoln

was a giant among men. Because the quality of a presi-

dency is determined through the prism of historical hindsight, which lends more consideration to outcome than motivation, the ends shouldn’t matter as much as the means.

It’s not the catalyst for his ac-tions but their products that should be measured.

Because America is subject to “evolving standards of decency,” Lincoln shouldn’t be blamed for his intolerance.

He may have harbored bigoted tendencies, but he did free the slaves. He may have been mistaken in his prejudice, but he did more for blacks than any other person in American history.

Lincoln’s morality trumped po-litical expediency and his era’s stan-dards of reasoning.

Invoking his memory is not a time for ignorance or hypocrisy, nor is it a time for condemnation. The point is not to neglect awareness or deny legacy but admonish history.

But perhaps it’s best to hear it

straight from the elephant’s mouth.

First inaugural address, March 4, 1861

“Intelligence, patriotism, Chris-tianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this fa-vored land are still competent to ad-just in the best way all our present difficulty...

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

Next week’s question: Where would you rank George W. Bush among presidents?

Simply by acknowledging him, President Barack Obama has mis-takenly given conservative talk ra-dio host Rush Limbaugh a platform — involuntarily forging him as the mantle of the opposition.

Never shy about playing the villain as he did during the Clinton administration, the opposition leader of a party in exile has again returned to lead his people through the wil-derness.

And Obama — having waged the initiative when he called out Limbaugh’s apparent weight (no pun intended) behind House Repub-licans’ opposition to the stimulus bill — made a serious error by acknowl-edging him.

Those traditional conservatives on the far right have now translated

Obama’s invocation as a verbal act of warfare.

A standard axiom of warfare — those on the offensive have an advantage — doesn’t apply here because, unfortunately for the presi-dent, Limbaugh is winning.

And Obama is making all the mistakes former President Bill Clin-ton did — namely, attempting to si-lence Limbaugh.

Limbaugh’s name hasn’t been mentioned this much since he called Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb overrated be-cause he’s black. Fast-forward five years, and because Limbaugh drew comment from the president, his words are again worthy of front page news.

In response to every

Republican representative voting against Obama’s proposed econom-ic stimulus bill, Obama addressed Congress.

From the floor of the U.S. House, Obama said, “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.”

C o n s e -quently, on Jan. 29, The Wall Street Journal gave Limbaugh a platform to address the nation by offering him his own slot on the opinion pages of a publication with one of the largest circulations in America.

And with this opportunity,

Limbaugh and the rest of the talk radio right have pursued a familiar tactic — fearmongering.

By acknowledging his criticism of the stimulus, Obama allowed Limbaugh to successfully frame Obama’s invocation as a veiled as-sault on talk radio.

Regardless of the threat’s merit, conservatives everywhere fear the state-imposed demise of their talk radio empire.

After reading Limbaugh’s mock plan for a national stimulus, people unfamiliar with him may now be more attentive to his words.

This could have adverse effects. Or it could come back to bite Obama — like it did when Limbaugh helped Newt Gingrich engineer the

“Republican Revolution” of

the 1990s. Regardless, Obama has opened

up an entirely new segment of the population to Limbaugh’s rhetoric.

With a larger audience, talk ra-dio has wisely chosen to mobilize its listeners against a revisied Fair-ness Doctrine, which has rallied the movement behind the fear of its si-lencing through government inter-vention.

This does not bode well for the Democrats.

The tragic lesson for Obama? If Obama had never mentioned Lim-baugh’s name, you’d be reading about something else.

Obama is currently losing War on Talk Radio

Lincoln was fickle, calculating, but was he racist?

Contact Daniel Lumetta at [email protected]

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JOHN BRANCH / San Antonio Express-News

Kyle Bove recently praised the efficiency of the new BRPD li-cense scanners.

This method of identifying stolen vehicles is a blatant invasion of privacy — more so than traffic light cameras. The scanner takes pictures of “stationary or moving vehicles,” and indicates the driver whose picture is being taken does not have to break the law for their information to be scanned and stored by the government.

Lockheed Martin, a major manufacturer of traffic light cam-eras, is allowed to retain data from their leased cameras. This compa-ny can use this data however they wish.

While the BRPD may use this scanner for the purpose of return-ing stolen vehicles to their right-ful owners, when are government surveillance activities actually re-stricted to a single purpose?

This issue of “mission creep” is addressed by the ACLU, who re-ported the use of cameras on a state border to photograph law-abiding civilians and subject them to inqui-ries concerning their intentions for crossing state lines.

According to the Supreme Court, “The right to be let alone

(is) the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the gov-ernment upon the privacy of the in-dividual, whatever the means em-ployed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment.”

These license scanners and cameras, connotative of Orwellian telescreens and Big Brother pro-paganda, are unconstitutional and morally wrong.

Kathryn Touchestoneinternational studies senior

BRPD license plate scanners an

invasion of privacy

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33BBRR//22..55BBAA 11550000SSQQFFTT $$11111100//MMOONNTTHH5291 S. Brightside View Drive: On-Site

Manager, Flexible Leasing Terms, Washer &Dryer, Ceiling Fans, Central A/C, Near BusStop, Small Pets Allowed, Master Bedroomhas it’s own Bathroom and Walk-In Closet.

Available Now 225.978.7400

TTIIGGEERRTTOOWWNN 11BBRR UUNNFF 3299 Ivanhoe St.stove, fridge, AC 1BR $400 9275495 or

7660579

DDOOWWNNTTOOWWNN RRIIVVEERRVVIIEEWW CCOONNDDOOSSRenovated 2 BR/2BA, granite counters,

cypress cabinets. Fresh paint. $1200/mo.Plus deposit. CallDon 368-3240

SSUUMMMMEERR GGRROOVVEE CCOONNDDOOSSReserve your unit now for Summer/Fall ’09.

2bed/2 bath - $1,2002bed/2.5 bath - $1,3003bed/3.5 bath - $1,650

See our website for more details! www.dean-flores.com

Dean Flores Real Estate9191 Siegen Lane Ste 4-B

Baton Rouge, LA 70810 225.767.2227

WWAALLKK TTOO LLSSUU 1 and 2 BR FLATS and TH,pool, laundry center. University View

Apartments on West Parker. Call Hannah767-2678. NO PETS.

NNEEWWLLYY RREEMMOODDEELLEEDD AAPPTTSS small 20 unit

cmplx w/ cntrl a/ h, ceramic tile flrs, tile kitcntr tops, otr micro, new appls, deck for fun,

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HHOOMMEESS FFOORR RREENNTT,, AALLLL AARREEAASSNO CREDIT CHECK!

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4968 UNDERWOODBaton Rouge 70805

Rent King 225-355-6220

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LLSSUU:: TTIIGGEERRLLAANNDD Studio, 1 & 2 Bdr. WOODFLOORS, POOL, LAUNDRY, QUIET $465-$695

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11 RROOOOMMAATTEE NNEEEEDDEEDD to share new 4 bed-room house at Nicholson Lakes. Washer/

dryer. $420/ month + 1/4 utilities. 5 milesto campus. 805.551.0471 or 225.405.0918

ROOMMATES

FFEEMMAALLEE RROOOOMMMMAATTEE 2br2ba townhouseSharlo off Brightside. Now through end MayJune or July. $475 plus 1/2 utilities. Julie at

[email protected]

MMAASSTTEERR && RREEGGUULLAARR BBEEDDRROOOOMM pvt bath$370. Reg. room $260. Nice house. W&D.Alarm etc. No lease needed. $250 deposit.

225.921.1209

RROOOOMMMMAATTEE NNEEEEDDEEDD AASSAAPPto share 2br/2bth off Highland w/ male stu-dent. $395/ month, all utilities except elec-

tricity free. Now through [email protected]

PERSONALS

LLOOOOKKIINNGG FFOORR MMIILLIITTAARRTTYY MMAANN looking forstrong military man who isnt afraid to cud-

dle...im white female 19 freshman...if inter-ested hit me up at: wonderchief1@

yahoo.com or my cell: 337.581.6946

BBOOOOTTYY HHUUNNTTEERR Looking for a cute pirate toshiver me timbers. Ask me about my

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at HighpointingForAmerica.org

**BBEE MMYY LLOOVVEE** Tall, Dark & Handsome LSUJunior Guy looking to hang out with and pos-sibly date an outgoing, smart & independent

girl. Join me over Coffee!With Love!

[email protected]

II NNEEEEDD YYOOUU!! I’m a tough army guy lookingfor male to dig foxhole with. Ask for

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NNEEEEDD MMAATTHH TTUUTTOORR AASSAAPP Seeking MathTutor for College Algebra. Email rates/avail-

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GGLLUUTTEENN--FFRREEEE Gluten-intolerant student seek-ing to meet other participants of gluten-free

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FFAASSCCIINNAATTEEDD?? Looking for a male senior too focused to

read the personals and too cute to need thepersonals...

yet too curious to not [email protected]

SSTTIIMMUULLUUSS LLOOVVEE PPAACCKKAAGGEE!! Single, outgo-ing, very attractive, brown LSU Senior gal

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NNIICCEE GGUUYYSS FFIINNIISSHH FFIIRRSSTT Tall, independent, blonde senior looking for

smart, cute, sensible guy. I love reading,walks, and family. Email if interested: sunset-

[email protected]

LLFF11MM Quietly confident and fun male tired of gam-ing alone. Looking for shy guy to play with,

hang out, and maybe date. Let’s take achance. Hope you are out there!

[email protected]

II WWAANNTT TTOO BBEE YYOOUURR DDEERRIIVVAATTIIVVEE so I can lietangent to your curves. Nerdy ndn chick

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LLOOOOKKIINNGG FFOORR MMYY SSOOUULLMMAATTEE I am aBusiness Major here at LSU. I am also

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LOST AND FOUND

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