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Marcus Sylvas walked into his friend’s apartment with the intention of burning the Phi Beta Sigma letters onto his fl esh.

“You’re going to get it burned on so it’s defi nitely something you want to think

about,” said Sylvas, Phi Beta Sigma presi-dent and agricultural business fi nance ju-nior.

Tattoos, branding and piercings are applications of body art that have become more common and socially acceptable these days. But certain kinds of body art could pose health risks and legal prob-lems.

Branding is illegal in Louisiana, ac-cording to Title 51, Part 28 of the Louisiana Administrative Code.

“We just can’t offer that service, and

we discourage any nonprofessional modi-fi cation,” said Jake Brooks, a piercer from Atomic Tattoo on Lee Drive.

Kathryn Saichuk, Wellness Education coordinator, said branding poses a high risk of infection.

“Branding is done by heating surgical grade sheet metal to 1,900-2,100 degrees and then applying it to the skin,” Saichuk said in an e-mail.

Meanwhile, branding sites that aren’t

Members of the Board of Re-gents received anticipated higher education budget cut fi gures for the 2009-10 fi scal year on Wednesday , under which the LSU System would see a reduction in state funding of $102,087,705 .

Gov. Bobby Jindal’ s proposed state spending budget has higher education taking a $219 million reduc-tion, on top of the now permanent $55 million mid-year cut, to help make up for slacking state revenue.

In distributing the $219 million reduction between the state’s four university systems, Regents staff “phased in” the much-talked about performance-based funding formula in combination

By Victoria YuContributing Writer

By Kyle BoveChief Staff Writer

Health risks make branding illegal in La.

New body art trends emerge in BRCULTURE

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MEGAN J. WILLIAMS / The Daily Reveille

Piercer Jake Brooks puts dermal anchors in the face of a tattoo artist at Atomic Tattoo on March 15. BODY ART, see page 19

REGENTS, see page 19

LSU System may cut $102 million

PROJECTED BUDGET

CUTS • LSU System: $102,087,705• SU System: $16,942,411• UL System: $67,054,816• LCTC System: $28,794,979

This year’s Student Government presidential election will continue with a run-off election between the leaders of the Next Level ticket, Sen. Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn, and the More ’09 ticket, Stu-art Watkins and Martina Sheuermann.

More than 300 stu-dents packed Dodson Auditorium on Wednes-day night, fi lling the hall with applause, cheers and congratulatory hugs as the winners of this year’s SG elections were announced.

Commissioner of Elections Jordan

Milazzo began the announcement cer-emony by welcoming current SG Presi-dent Colorado Robertson to greet the students present.

Robertson greeted the crowd and applauded the candidates for running

a clean campaign that focused on the issues of the election instead of the personalities in-volved. He also told the candidates who didn’t win their particular elections to remain un-daunted and continue

working for the University. The More ‘09 campaign earned

35.21 percent of the votes and moved

By Adam DuvernayStaff Writer

RUNOFF, see page 19

Palermo, Watkins headed for runoff

EMMETT BROWN / The Daily Reveille

[Above] Stuart Watkins and Martina Scheuermann of the More ’09 ticket celebrate Wednesday after fi nding out they made the SG election runoff. [Left] Phoebe Hathorn, left, Drew Prestridge, center, and Andy Palermo, right, celebrate after fi nding out the Next Level ticket is moving to the runoff.

7,771 students vote in this year’s SG election

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WORLD NEWS

BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Union slammed President Barack Obama’s plan to spend nearly $2 trillion to push the U.S. economy out of recession as “the road to hell” that EU governments must avoid. The blunt comments by Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek to the European Parliament on Wednesday highlighted simmering European dif-ferences with Washington ahead of a key summit next week on fixing the world economy. It was the strongest pushback yet from a European leader as the 27-nation bloc bristles from U.S. criticism that it is not spending enough to stimulate demand.

EU presidency: US stimulus is ‘the road to hell’

Clinton: US shares blame for Mexican drug warsMEXICO CITY (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that America’s “insatiable” demand for illegal drugs and its inability to stop weapons from be-ing smuggled into Mexico are fueling an alarming spike in violence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Clinton said the United States shares responsibility with Mexico for dealing with the violence and that the Obama administration will work with Mexican authorities to improve security on both sides of the border.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

Chief says post office running out of moneyWASHINGTON (AP) — The post office will run out of money this year unless it gets help, Postmaster General John Potter told Congress on Wednesday as he sought permission to cut delivery to five days a week. “We are facing losses of historic proportion. Our situation is criti-cal,” Potter told a House panel. The agency lost $2.8 bil-lion last year and is looking at much larger losses this year. Reducing mail delivery from six days to five days a week could save $3.5 billion annually, Potter said. Potter also urged changes in how the post office pre-pays for re-tiree health care to cut its annual costs by $2 billion. If the Postal Service does run out of money, the lingering ques-tion, Potter told the House Oversight post office subcom-mittee, is which bills will be paid and which will not.

ALEX BRANDON / The Associated Press

Postmaster General John Potter testifies Wednesday on Capi-tol Hill about the post offices’ financial situation.

Unified Democrats mirror Obama budget priorities

Louisiana gained 9,600 jobs in February

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a springtime show of unity, congressional Democrats welcomed President Barack Obama to the Capitol Wednesday and unveiled budget blueprints that embrace his key priorities and point the way for major legislation this year on health care, energy and education. Even so, both the House and Senate ver-sions lack specifics for any of the administration’s signa-ture proposals. And Democrats decided to cut spending — and exploding deficits — below levels envisioned in the plan Obama presented less than a month ago.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With the Baton Rouge and Monroe areas leading the way, Louisiana registered a net gain of 9,600 non-farm jobs during February, the state Workforce Commission reported Wednesday. Between February 2008 and last month, the tally was up by 9,500 jobs, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis. Over the month, service-providing jobs increased by 7,800, while jobs in the goods-producing sector — in-cluding the petroleum, construction and manufactur-ing sectors — gained 1,800.

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Imagine the amount of students who pass you by in four years in college. You can bet Cecil Eubanks has seen more.

Eubanks is a political science professor who has taught under-graduate and graduate students at the University for more than 40 years. Eubanks came to the Univer-sity in 1968 and served as the chair of the political science department from 1990 to 2000 with a one-year hiatus. In 1992, Eubanks was se-lected to be an Alumni Professor, a special honor awarded by the Alumni Association to professors notable in the area of teaching, he said.

Because of his dedication to teaching at the University for four

decades, political science graduate students have worked hard this past year trying to raise money for The Cecil L. Eubanks Award for Gradu-ate Student Advancement, a schol-arship named after their esteemed professor.

“[The scholarship] made me feel honored and pleased that they chose that way of remembering me,” Eubanks said. “It’s a very nice and appropriate gesture for a teacher.”

In April 2008, the faculty, staff and graduate students of the politi-cal science department threw a sur-prise party in the LSU Faculty Club to honor Eubanks for his 40th year at the University and to announce the creation of The Cecil L. Eu-banks Award for Graduate Student Advancement.

“The best gift we could give him was to create an endowed scholarship named after him,” said Thomas Laehn, political science doctoral student. “The desire to

create the scholarship grew out of the desire to honor his 40 years of teaching.”

The LSU Political Science Graduate Student Association is aiming to raise $20,000 to perma-nently endow the award.

“LSU requires that we raise $20,000 to make it a permanent scholarship,” Laehn said. “We want to make this a lasting honor.”

The Eubanks Award is intend-ed for political science graduate students who specifi cally want to teach. The award will be distrib-uted annually to a small number of graduate students so they can attend teaching conferences and workshops.

“There’s no better way to honor a man who has dedicated his life to teaching than by ensuring that our department is producing great teachers,” Laehn said. “All of the conferences and workshops

FACULTY

Scholarship named after prof.$20,000 needed to endow scholarshipBy Mary Walker BausContributing Writer

With less than 10 days before the run-off election, candidates for Louisiana State Senate District 16 are making a last push to claim the seat.

The candidates, Lee Domingue and Dan Claitor, are running on the Republican ticket in the April 4 run-off election for the seat vacated by recently elected U.S. Congressman Bill Cassidy. Domingue received an endorsement from Gov. Bobby Jin-dal.

In the primary election March 7, Claitor received 38.79 percent of the vote while Domingue received 34.33.

Roy Fletcher, Claitor’s media director, said among Claitor’s assets as a candidate are his Baton Rouge roots, his education and his business background.

“When we have budget prob-lems in Louisiana, health care and education always get hit,” Fletcher said of the lawyer and University alumnus’ plans. “And that’s some-thing that we’re going to have to get away from.”

Fletcher said the campaign is trying to “raise money and spend money.” A television advertisement from the Claitor campaign premiered Wednesday, and a radio advertise-ment is set to premiere Monday.

The biggest problem for the Claitor campaign has been associated with available funds, Claitor told The Daily Reveille after the March 7 pri-mary election.

“We were outspent four or fi ve to one,” Claitor said. “But our mes-sage and our presentation resonates with the voters.”

The Representatives from Domingue’s campaign did not return phone calls for comment by press

time.Leonardo Alcivar, Domingue’s

campaign manager, told The Daily Reveille after the primary election that the campaign would continue to spread its message of “change and re-form” in the days preceding the April 4 election.

“In 30 days, Lee Domingue is going to win this race,” Alcivar said. “We ran a campaign that was validated on the part of voters considering we won round one.”

If elected Domingue plans to “fi ght for strong families in Louisi-ana and to protect the constitutional rights bestowed upon us by our Founding Fathers,” according to his

Web site, District 16 stretches east from

the LSU lakes. To encourage students to turnout

for the April 4 elec-tion, Fletcher said the Claitor campaign has been coordinat-ing through the Uni-versity’s fraternities and sororities.

“Being an LSU grad, I wish that the LSU student body would turn out more aggressively in these campaigns,” Fletch-

er said. “When I was there 30 years ago, people were talking about the same thing.”

SCHOLARSHIP, see page 6

STATE

District 16 seat up for grabsBy Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

Contact Lindsey Meaux at lmeaux@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘I wish that the LSU student body would

turn out more aggressively in

these campaigns.’Roy Fletcher

Dan Claitor’s media director

Senate runoff scheduled April 4

BURNIN’ UP

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Tim Hebert [above] of the Baton Rouge Fire Department stands outside Middleton Library on Wednesday night after investigating a fi re alarm that caused a 35-minute evacuation. See lsureveille.com for more information.

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A recent survey shows a national increase in computer science majors, the first enroll-ment increase since the “dot com boom.”

According to the 2007-2008 Computing Research Associa-tion Taulbee Survey, the national enrollment for computer science majors increased 8.1 percent last year, marking the first increase in computer science enrollment in six years. The average number of new students majoring in the field is up 9.5 percent from last year.

“The upward surge of student interest is real and bigger than anyone expected,” Peter Lee, in-coming CRA chairman, said in a news release. “The fact that com-puter science graduates usually find themselves in high-paying jobs accounts for part of the rever-sal. Increasingly, students are also attracted to the intellectual depth and societal benefits of computing technology.”

Sitharama Iyengar, Computer Science department chairman at the University, said he sees a clear increase in enrollment.

“I’m very optimistic there will be an increase in computer science majors in years to come,” Iyengar said. “There seems to be a slight enrollment increase, and many students are coming to talk to us about majoring.”

Iyengar said students are gradually understanding the ap-plication of computer science to real-world problems and job op-portunities, like computer models used to understand weather pat-terns and intricate programs used in research by drug companies.

“People are starting to realize the potential of computer science,” he said. “They’re not just design-ing Web pages or doing Mickey Mouse work. This is the next gen-eration of computer architectures, language programmers, cyber se-curity workers and so forth.”

Iyengar said many of the Uni-versity’s computer science gradu-ates achieved high-quality jobs with Google, Microsoft, Firefox and other prominent companies — jobs usually offered only to graduates from schools like Stan-ford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Iyengar said after the short-age of job opportunities following the dot com boom, most students opted for other fields, not wanting to put forth the effort required for the computer science curriculum.

But undergraduate research, trans-lated into actual products, have enticed many students back to the field, he said.

Tyler Robinson, computer science freshman, said he plans to use his computer background to assist with his ultimate goal — editing and designing media in the film industry.

“I’ve always liked comput-ers and learning what I can about them,” he said. “I recently found out Baton Rouge might have a film business, so I’d like to try to find a job there.”

Iyengar said the computer sci-ence curriculum is different from other majors because it requires statistics, logical thinking and a solid mathematical background — it’s not just about reading and comprehending.

“The courses are fairly tough, and it’s a rough curriculum,” he said. “But the quality of our stu-dents is excellent, and they are dedicated and passionate about their major.”

Jessica Green, biology soph-omore, started out as a computer science major but switched to bi-ology because of lack of interest. She said her initial plan was to be-come a software engineer.

“I found it to be boring,” she said. “It’s just not the major for me. I’m a very energetic person, and sitting at a computer all day just doesn’t fit me.”

Green said she only took a few computer science classes but found the curriculum difficult.

“A few people in my class and I found some of the classes to be tough,” she said. “It’s a hard

subject.”Robinson said the curriculum

is too difficult and time consum-ing, having to take 3 semesters of calculus and putting in five to 10 hours into each computer pro-gram.

“The curriculum is a little more difficult because there’s a lot of detailed information, and you have to retain the concepts as it builds,” he said. “You can’t just ‘get by.’”

Peter Harsha, CRA director of government affairs, said the Computing Research Association surveys departments from 200 academic institutions, taking only a slice of the data available.

“Despite taking only a sub-set of data and using only 200 institutions, our numbers have

historically correlated with the National Science Foundation’s survey of all available academic institutions,” he said.

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, computer and mathematical science occu-pations, which include computer programmers, computer software engineers and operations research analysis, earn an average yearly salary of $72,190.

“There are many opportuni-ties for computer science gradu-ates,” Iyengar said. “We are train-ing the next generation of the global workforce.”

Baseball game attendees will have to find a new parking location at home baseball games.

Parking cars along Nicholson Drive is prohibited, according to an LSU Sports news release. The rule will be enforced beginning Friday.

The long-existing portion of the Baseball Fan Guide will be enforced for safety reasons and because the fans who have “begun to encroach on that area throughout the early weeks of the season” are damaging the grounds.

The proximity between the road and railroad tracks along Nicholson Drive creates safety problems.

The LSU Baseball Fan Guide defines the area along either side of Nicholson as a “no-parking area.”

Fans will be “encouraged” to park in the Hayfield Lot, the Levee Lots and Lot D, according to the re-lease.

The University will make Hay-field more appealing by adding trash cans, portable toilets and “supple-mental” lighting, according to the release.

PARKING

NicholsonnolongeropenforparkingBy Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

Contact Lindsey Meaux at lmeaux@lsureveille.com

TECHNOLOGY

Computer science enrollment increasesFirst increase since ‘dot com boom’By Steven PowellContributing Writer

Contact Steven Powell at spowell@lsureveille.com

graphic by MARISSA BARROW / The Daily Reveille

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Instead of relaxing during the summer months, students are en-couraged to transform their summer into work experience by test driving a job in their fi eld of interest.

The experiential education divi-sion of Career Services held a sum-mer work experience workshop as part of “Experiential Education” week on Wednesday evening to em-phasize the importance of having work experience.

“Just because you have a degree does not mean you will get a job,” said Rashanda Booker, expe-riential educa-tion coordinator. “There are plen-ty of people with experience and a degree who can-not fi nd jobs.”

The experi-ential education division seeks to give students the necessary tools to compete in the job market. Stu-dents are encour-aged to gain experience thorough internships, volunteerism, part-time and full-time jobs. All jobs should have value and transferable skills.

Booker said many students don’t realize the importance of get-ting jobs early. Having internships is a great way for students to fi nd out what they want to do — or don’t want to do — through experience.

This division provides a variety of opportunities for students, includ-ing helping students structure re-sumes, holding mock interviews and teaching students how to conduct themselves during an interview.

“Students have to be able to articulate how and who they are in an interview,” Booker said. “A lot of students don’t know how to be personable. These are things we can address.”

Besides learning about the im-portance of having work experience, students were informed about a va-riety of places to fi nd internship and volunteering information including studentjobs.gov and internships-usa.com.

Dawn Monahan, anthropology junior, said though she knew a lot of information from her human re-search education class, she found the workshop helpful.

“I’ve learned a lot here that I didn’t know,” Monahan said. “I’ll defi nitely use the federal job Web site they gave us because I want to work for the government.”

CAREER SERVICES

Program advises summer workBy Alice WombleContributing Writer

Contact Alice Womble at awomble@lsureveille.com

‘Just be-cause

you have a degree doesn’t

mean you will get a

job.’

Rashonda Booker

experiential educa-tion coordiantor

Following the announcement of the results from the Student Government general election, SG members made their way across campus to participate in the weekly senate meeting.

The senators spent most of their time debating two resolu-tions put forward by Sen. Aman-da Gammon, College of Arts ad Sciences, and Sen. Parker Wi-shik, Manship School of Mass Communication, concerning University budget cuts. The resolu-tions were backed by SG President Colorado Robert-son.

The fi rst res-olution brought before the senate body was SGR No. 19, which urged the Louisi-ana State System to administer performance based budget cuts to the University rather than the across the board cuts the state has proposed.

“We don’t think the highest preforming school in our state should get a larger cut just be-cause we have more people,” Gammon said. “Just because we’re better doesn’t mean we should get less.”

Robertson said he disagreed with the state’s assessment that a

larger university with greater tu-ition income could better handle budget cuts than smaller educa-tional institutions. He said Uni-versity students should come together to demand budget cuts based on performance rather than size.

Sen. Brett Jackson, E.J. Our-so College of Business, presented an amendment to the resolution which suggested the University be exempt from budget cuts alto-gether.

“Why not protect LSU for-ever and keep us as a tier one in-stitution, because if we cut LSU we’re not going to be tier one next semester,” Jackson said.

The amend-ment was not ad-opted to the reso-lution because the senate recognized it was likely an impossibility.

Gammon au-thored SGR No. 27, was written to request the Loui-siana Board of Regents amend

the performance based funding formula to refl ect an equal per-centage state share of cost distri-bution among all Louisiana four-year institutions.

Currently, the state has set the state’s share of University costs at 56 percent while other four-year in the state are gener-ally covered up to 60 percent.

The resolution urged the state to be equitable in its assignment of funding instead of providing

less money because of the Uni-versity’s size.

“LSU stu-dents should not pay more of a share for attend-ing the state’s fl agship univer-sity,” Robertson said. “It puts LSU at a cost disad-vantage and lower accessibility.”

Some sena-tors were uncon-vinced the resolution was in the best interest of the state at large, because smaller schools would take a greater cut should the Uni-versity not.

“I want LSU to come out unscathed, but you’re hurting education as a whole,” said Sen. Matthew Babineaux, E.J. Ourso College of Business. “Others schools are looking out for them-selves, too. You can’t expect ev-eryone to go to LSU.”

Robertson and Gammon said the resolution was not aimed at tak-ing money away from smaller schools in favor of the University, but instead creat-ing an even fi eld when it came to state funding.

We could ask for 100 percent from the state and we wouldn’t be

taking money from other people,” Gammon said. “The little guy is not going to have to get more money taken from them.”

Both resolutions were even-tually passed by the senate body.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate requests equitable budget cutsSenate seeks fair treatment for cutsBy Adam DuvernayStaff Writer

Contact Adam Duvernay at aduvernay@lsureveille.com‘‘‘If we cut LSU we’re

not going to be tier one next semester.’

Brett JacksonE.J. Ourso College of Business senator

‘‘‘LSU students

should not pay more of a share for

attending a fl agship university.’

Colorado RobertsonSG president

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 6 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009

are very expensive. A scholarship that gives students the funding to fl y and register for these events will train them to be bet-ter teachers. “

Two aspects be-hind Eubanks’ dedi-cation to the Univer-sity is the beautiful campus and his in-teraction with stu-dents.

“I enjoy teach-ing very much,” Eu-banks said. “I love the students, I love the University and I love the idea of a university. It’s such an incredible creation of human beings. This institution to which people come and we teach and we conserve these grand ideas and push the frontiers of knowl-edge further, it’s just an incredible opportunity.”

Drew Thompson, political sci-ence doctoral student, studies under Eubanks directly. Thompson said Eubanks is “in his element” when he teaches in front of undergraduate

students.“He has lectures, but he also

engages the class in discussions,” said Paula Fredin, political science exchange student from England.

“He’s a very good professor, very intellectual and philosophical.”

Laehn said anyone can make a contribution to The Cecil L. Eu-banks Award for Graduate Student Advancement by sending a check

to the LSU Foundation with the account number (107-40-F008) in the memo line. The account num-ber ensures that the check goes directly to the Eubanks Award and not a general fund. Contributors can also bring the check with a note for Laehn to the political science department on the second fl oor of Stubbs Hall.

Contact Mary Walker Baus at mbaus@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘There’s no better

way to honor a man who has dedicated

his life to teaching.’Thomas Laehn

political science doctoral student

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Miss Florida Teen USA Kayla Col-lier was 15 when she fi rst visited a tanning salon so the stage lights at a local pageant wouldn’t make her fair skin look ghostly white.

Later that year, as she tried on homecoming dresses, her mother noticed what looked like a scab on her back. It turned out to be skin cancer.

And though she can’t defi ni-tively link the tanning to the can-cer, Collier, now 18 and healthy, won’t be back under the bulbs. On Wednesday, her voice catching, she asked Sunshine State lawmakers to ban people under 16 from using tanning beds.

“I know teenagers that go ev-ery day, every week, twice a day sometimes to tanning beds,” said Collier, who wore her sash and a sunshine yellow jacket. “I do be-lieve that it did play a part in my skin cancer.”

Florida is among 17 states, including Hawaii, considering laws this year that would restrict indoor tanning by minors. Propos-als would ban teens from tanning salons or require them to get notes from parents or doctors.

After the Florida bill passed a Senate committee, Collier’s mother, Claire, who had signed the permission form that allowed her daughter to tan, said she hopes the full Legislature will approve it.

“Do you really realize that your daughter or son — after just a few times in the tanning bed — could have melanoma? I didn’t,” she said.

Opponents say the tanning beds are safe for teens and their use should be up to parents, not states.

“I gotta tell you, you cannot

regulate everything in this world,” said Florida Sen. Mike Bennett, a Republican who voted against the bill. “I suppose we could say the same thing and outlaw tanning on the beach.”

Persuading teens to stop tan-ning could be a hard sell. Accord-ing to one study released in 2002, a quarter of those ages 15 to 18 had used indoor tanning in the past year.

Florida already requires pa-rental approval before minors can use tanning salons. If the new law passes, it would be among the strictest in the nation. Only one state, Wisconsin, bans teens 16 and under from using tanning beds, though a handful of others — Cali-fornia, New York and New Jersey among them — ban the under-14 crowd. At least 29 states have some regulations governing tanning by minors.

Even more restrictive propos-als in Texas and Vermont would prohibit anyone under 18 from us-ing a tanning bed without a doc-tor’s note.

Texas state Rep. Burt Solo-mons, a Republican, says it makes sense to ban minors from tanning just like they’re prohibited from buying cigarettes because both are known carcinogens. And Demo-cratic Vermont state Rep. Janet Ancel, who introduced her bill af-ter having skin cancer herself, said just requiring parental consent isn’t good enough.

“It isn’t healthy for a young person to be in a tanning booth, so allowing it with a parent’s consent isn’t going to protect them,” she said.

HEALTH

By Jessica GreskoThe Associated Press

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com

Indoor tanning raises concernsStates considering teen tanning bans

SCHOLARSHIP, from page 3

MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

Professor Cecil Eubanks teaches his political science class Wednesday morning in Stubbs Hall. A group of political science graduate students plan to raise $20,000 to endow a scholarship established in Eubanks’ honor.

Sports THE DAILY REVEILLE

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009 PAGE 7

BASEBALL

Hornets drop key game to Nuggets

NBA

By Brett MartelThe Associated Press

Tigers receive unlikely spark from freshman bat

The Future Starts Now

HARAZ N. GHANBARI / The Associated Press

LSU coach Trent Johnson directs the Tigers on March 19 against Butler during the fi rst half of the teams fi rst-round 2009 NCAA Tournament game in Greensboro, N.C.

Garrett TempleLSU guard

Marcus ThorntonLSU guard

Quintin ThorntonLSU forward

Chris JohnsonLSU center

Terry MartinLSU guard

Loss of fi ve seniors causes Tigers to move forward with different teamBy David HelmanSports Writer

The fi fth fl oor of the LSU Athletic Department seemed to offer greater perspective than the bowels of the Greensboro Coliseum for LSU coach Trent Johnson.

It has been fi ve days since North Carolina eliminated Johnson’s Tigers from the NCAA tournament. But the fi rst-year coach was in a better state Wednesday than he was last Saturday.

“It’s taken me a while to bring closure to the Carolina game, be-cause we were in a great situation,” Johnson said. “The guys played extremely well and extremely hard — probably as good basketball as we’ve played all year long.”

The Tigers’ coach wasn’t the only one who noticed. Sports

Inside: The Tigers have already landed four recruits during Johnson’s fi rst season, page 8.

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

SENIORS, see page 18

LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri knew he needed fresh-man pitcher Chris Matulis to eat up innings Wednesday night against Harvard with a critical series against No. 11 Ole Miss looming this weekend.

The LSU bullpen had been overworked in the last few games and pitched a combined 8 1/3 in-nings since Sunday’s 11-3 win against South Carolina.

Matulis gave the Tigers’ bull-pen much-needed rest Wednesday and pitched seven innings, allow-ing two runs in the Tigers’ 10-2 win against the Crimson.

“That’s just the way baseball is,” Matulis said. “Sometimes the bullpen picks up the starting pitch-ing, and sometimes the starting

pitching helps pick up the bullpen. I was glad to do what I could out there to help those guys today.”

The teams traded scoreless in-nings until the bottom of the sec-ond when LSU sophomore short-stop DJ LeMahieu and freshman center fi elder Mikie Mahtook each hit home runs to spark a three-run inning.

Mahtook was one of four Ti-gers who aren’t regulars in the bat-ting lineup to get the start against the Crimson — a move Mainieri said was made after he saw a lack of effort from a few players in Tuesday’s 4-3 win against Har-vard.

Mahtook hits two home runs in winBy Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Car-melo Anthony scored 29 points and the Denver Nuggets beat New Orleans 101-88 on Wednes-day night, snapping the Hornets’ three-game winning streak.

Chauncey Billups scored 26 points, hitting four of his fi ve 3-pointers in the second half to help the Nuggets pull away after the game was tied with a little more than 7 minutes to go in the third quarter.

Chris Paul had 19 points and 13 assists, and David West scored 18 points for New Orleans (44-26), which dropped a game be-hind Denver (46-26) in the West-ern Conference standings.

The score was tied at 55 when Anthony scored six quick points on two free throws and a pair of transition jumpers. The fl urry began a 17-6 run that lasted late into the third quarter, putting Denver up 72-61. Billups drained his third 3 of the game during the spurt, while Kenyon Martin dunked and J.R. Smith convert-ed a tough driving layup into a crowd.

Billups added two more 3s and a mid-range jumper early the fourth quarter. Then Smith, a former Hornets fi rst-round draft choice, nailed a 3 to give Denver a 94-73 lead with 7:38 left.

Fans began getting up and heading for the exits, while one

LSU freshman outfi elder Mikie Mahtook swings at a pitch Wednesday night during the Tigers’ game against Harvard in Alex Box Stadium. Mahtook hit two home runs and had four RBI to lead the Tigers to a 10-2 win against the Crimson.

MAHTOOK, see page 18

HORNETS, see page 18

‘‘‘I wanted to play

some kids who were really hungry to play

[Wednesday].’Paul Mainieri

LSU baseball coach

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RECRUITING

Four recruits commit during Johnson’s first season

LSU coach Trent Johnson did more than lead LSU to a regular season Southeastern Conference championship and a first-round NCAA tournament victory during his first season.

Johnson has retooled the men’s basketball team for the fu-ture since receiving commitments from four top recruits in an at-tempt to help fill the void left from losing five seniors.

Guard Aaron Dotson and forward Eddie Ludwig signed in November for the 2009 class. Forward Jalen Courtney commit-ted for 2010, and guard John Isaac committed for 2011.

Sonny Shipp, Louisiana re-cruiting analyst for Scout.com, said Johnson is recruiting forward Matt Derenbecker, guards Langs-ton Galloway and Bryan Williams and others for 2010.

AARON DOTSONDotson is the highest-rated

recruit Johnson has signed. The Seattle native is a four-star player and the No. 22 shooting guard in the nation, according to Scout.com.

The 6-foot-4-inch guard sus-tained a season-ending knee in-jury in January during his senior campaign at Rainier Beach High School. He underwent surgery Feb. 16 in Baton Rouge. Rainier Beach High School coach Mike Bethea said losing Dotson affect-ed the dynamic and success of the team.

“We qualified for state but didn’t place,” Bethea said. “When you put Aaron into the lineup ... I think we probably would have been a top-10 team in the coun-try.”

Shipp said Dotson recovered from his knee injury.

“The surgery was a success, and he should be ready to go when he gets [to LSU],” Shipp said. “He’s got a good chance to come in and get a lot of playing time if not start.”

EDDIE LUDWIGThe Country Day High

School power forward is the sec-ond signee of the 2009 class.

Ludwig averaged 23.2 points, 14.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks his junior season.

The 6-foot-8-inch forward led Country Day to the Louisi-ana Class 1A title as a senior. He was an All-State selection and the 2009 Small Schools All-Metro Player of the Year for the greater New Orleans area.

Ludwig finished his career as Country Day’s all-time scoring leader with 2,530 points.

Shipp said the Metairie native will provide depth for LSU.

“When they get him in here and they get him in [LSU’s] sys-tem ... he’s definitely going to be a

contributor,” Shipp said.Shipp said Ludwig knows the

game of basketball very well.“He may not be the quickest

guy on the floor, but he’s got a

good basketball IQ,” Shipp said.

JALEN COURTNEYCourtney committed to LSU

on March 8. He was Johnson’s

first recruit of the 2010 class. The Jackson, Miss., native led Provine High School to the state title game this year, accounting for 24 points and 14 rebounds in the game.

“He can shoot from the out-side,” Shipp said. “He can also get inside and play above the rim.”

The power forward averaged 19 points and 12 rebounds as a ju-nior. The 6-foot-7-inch, 210-pound forward had offers from Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia State and Missouri.

“[He’s] maybe a younger ver-sion of Tasmin Mitchell,” Shipp said

JOHN ISAACLSU received a commitment

from Isaac two years before the Pickering High School guard will graduate. The 2011 recruit did not want the attention of being a top recruit.

“He’s not someone who needs all the parading and everything,” said Pickering High School coach

George Thomas. “He felt like [LSU] was the place he wanted to go.”

The 6-foot-4-inch, 205-pound shooting guard averaged 18.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and 8.9 as-sists per game last season.

Shipp said the Leesville na-tive could get bigger before com-ing to Baton Rouge.

“He may be 6-6 by the time he gets [to LSU] and could be one of those big off-guards that would create a lot of mismatch prob-lems,” Shipp said.

Thomas said he coached Isaac since seventh grade, and the re-cruit never stopped trying to get better.

“[Isaac] comes home after a game — especially if he felt like it was bad — and he’s out there working and shooting free throws,” Thomas said.

Two will play for LSU in fallBy Michael Lambert Sports Contributor

photo courtesy of Michael Palumbo

Power forward Eddie Ludwig, (center) signs his commitment letter to play at LSU with his parents, Trip (left) and Lisa (right) sitting by his side.

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com

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The No. 17 LSU softball team isn’t quite done playing teams from Mississippi, which may or may not be a good thing.

The Tigers (21-7, 8-3) cooly dispatched Mississippi State last weekend, sweeping the Bulldogs by a combined score of 16-10.

But a midweek trip to play Ole Miss didn’t go as well, with a late-inning rally from Ole Miss resulting in a 3-2 loss and a doubleheader split with the Rebels.

Tonight’s close encounter of the Mississippi kind will be with Missis-sippi Valley State (24-9, 9-0) at Tiger Park.

The Devilettes sit atop the Southwestern Athletic Conference and are the only team in the league with a winning record.

Their standing probably comes as no surprise to LSU coach Yvette Girouard, as the Devilettes have won five-consecutive SWAC champion-ships and advanced to the NCAA regionals against LSU in 2008.

The Tigers defeated MVSU, 8-0, in five innings at the old Tiger Park.

“Mississippi Valley State is al-ways a regional team and are leading the SWAC once again this season,” Girouard said.

MVSU’s trip to Baton Rouge will mark another homecoming for a former LSU softball player.

Former LSU outfielder Trena Peel — who was named 2002 South-eastern Conference Athlete of the Year — will return to campus as an assistant coach for the Devilettes.

“It’s always special to welcome back a former Tiger to LSU,” Gir-ouard said.

The Tigers’ crop will probably be more focused on getting hits than meet-and-greets. LSU managed five runs off seven hits in its second game against Ole Miss, but the Tigers’ four hits and two runs in the opening loss to the Rebels was enough to stick in Girouard’s mind despite the win.

“Our goal for Thursday is to concentrate on the Tigers,” Girouard said. “We need to continue to get bet-ter every time we take the field.”

A big factor in plate production

will probably be LSU junior out-fielder Rachel Mitchell.

Mitchell was named both the Southeastern Conference and Na-tional Fastpitch Coaches Associa-tion’s Player of the Week on Mon-day.

Mitchell tallied six hits for 11 RBI in wins against Mississippi State and No. 4 Alabama. Her production tailed off slightly against Ole Miss, as she hit 1-for-6 at the plate.

The Tigers’ likely starter tonight will be either junior pitcher Cody Trahan or freshman pitcher Brittany

Mack.Mack (7-1) has won six-straight

games, including Tuesday’s win against the Rebels.

Trahan (6-2) seemed poised to collect a complete game, no-hitter against Ole Miss, but the Tigers fell apart in the final inning. Trahan al-lowed three hits to let the Rebels back into the game and surrendered the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 10th inning.

The Lady Tigers finished the season with their highest finish at the NCAA women’s swimming and diving championships since 2001.

A week later, the No. 17

Tigers head to the men’s champi-onships expecting similar results.

The Tigers head to the Texas A&M Student Rec Center Na-tatorium with hopes of a top-20 finish.

LSU placed 29th last season with five swimmers who compet-ed in six events.

The Tigers send five swim-mers and one diver to Texas A&M this year, but the Tigers are entered in more events this sea-son.

LSU senior Christoph Lubenau leads the charge for the Tigers.

“In dual meets when we needed a win, he’d pull it off,” said LSU coach Adam Schmitt.

Lubenau was the only LSU athlete to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA championships.

But the Leizpig, Germany, native, said he wanted to make sure his teammates made it too.

SOFTBALL

Tigers send five swimmers to meetBy Amos MoraleSports Contributor

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

SWIMMING AND DIVING

LSU welcomes back former All-AmericanBy David HelmanSports Writer

LUBENAU, see page 12

Tigers return for doubleheader

LSU aims for top-20 finish at NCAAs

ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille

Freshman Juliana Santos and junior Rachel Mitchell congratulate freshman Mor-gan Russel on her home run March 11 and celebrate their 4-3 win against Baylor.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Rain delay doesn’t stop 250th win for Minnis

LSU women’s tennis coach Tony Minnis had to wait through a three-hour rain delay Wednesday.

But in the end, his team reward-ed him with his 250th career win as darkness fell at W.T. “Dub” Robin-son Stadium.

The Lady Tigers beat Oregon, 5-1. Minnis said he was more excited about the players’ performance than his milestone.

“I am as proud of them as any team I’ve ever coached,” Minnis said. “I’m really excited because I was very worried about this match. We had two starters out, so to step up and come through was great.”

LSU seniors Megan Falcon and Staten Spencer did not play on Wednesday because of injuries, but two of their freshman teammates stepped up in their absence to car-ry the Lady Tigers (11-4) to a win against the Ducks (7-9).

“Hopefully [Falcon’s] injury is not too serious,” Minnis said. “She is day-to-day for now.”

LSU freshman Whitney Wolf moved up to court No. 2 and was first to finish, beating Pavlina Smatova, 6-2, 6-2, to run her singles record to

13-12 this season.“To win this way was really en-

couraging,” Wolf said. “[Having Me-gan and Staten out] made everyone a little bit nervous, but we handled it really well and took care of business. It was nice to beat them that bad.”

Fellow freshman Nicole Smith also handily defeated her opponent, Siobhan Cavan, 6-1, 6-1. The South Africa native is now 9-9 in singles play.

“Nicole played unreal. That was the best I’ve ever seen her play,” Minnis said. “And Whitney is a very talented player. She had been out with [mononucleosis] for a while, so

that was good to see.”LSU junior Nicole Kantor

clinched the match for the Lady Ti-gers with a 6-2, 6-4 win against Or-egon’s Ana Cecilia Olivos.

Kantor said the Lady Tigers stuck together against a tough Or-egon team, despite Falcon’s recent injury.

“We were a little flustered, but we knew we needed to carry the team now because she’s done so much for us the past three years,” she said. “We all just really stepped up today, especially the freshmen. They were off the court so fast, and it was nice to know we already had two points.”

Kantor said she realized how important it was for her to come through and seal the win with LSU ahead of Oregon, 3-1.

“I knew it pretty much came down to my match toward the end,” she said. “At 4-all, it got kind of tight, but luckily I was able to win

that game. At 5-4, I knew how much I needed to step up because I saw [LSU senior] Mykala [Hedberg] was having a tough match.”

Kantor clinches match for LSUBy Rachel WhittakerSports Writer

EMMETT BROWN / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman Whitney Wolf returns the ball Wednesday evening during her singles match. She defeated Oregon’s Pavlina Smatova in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2.

Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

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“It is like extra motivation,” Lubenau said. “It is not just you racing there. It is you racing for your team.”

He helped the Tigers’ 200- and 400-yard freestyle relays qualify for the NCAAs.

“I just think the more guys go, the more fun it is going to be,” Lubenau said.

Lubenau transferred to LSU after starting his college career at Eastern Carolina University.

“I kind of decided late to go to college in the U.S.,” Lubenau said. “It was around this time in March or February, so there wasn’t much scholarships left at bigger schools — schools like LSU — so I had to take what I was offered.”

He said he chose LSU be-cause both the academics and

athletics were superior to ECU.“He could see that we had

been improving over the years and that we were a program where he could come fit in and be a player right away,” Schmitt said. Lubenau placed ninth, the highest of any LSU participant last season, in the 100-yard but-terfly last season at NCAAs.

Lubenau’s qualifying time of 45.99 seconds gives him the 11th seed in the event this year.

He finished fourth in the event at the Southeastern Confer-ence championships.

“It was sad that he couldn’t get a medal, being a senior at his last SECs,” said sophomore Jane Trepp. “But he can go faster in the NCAAs.”

Senior Julius Gloeckner qual-ified for two individual events af-ter missing last years NCAAs.

Gloeckner will swim the 200-

and 400-yard individual medley and the 200-yard butterfly. He is seeded 13th in the 400 IM.

Senior Brandon Selts quali-fied for the 50-yard freestyle. Selts was a member of the Tigers’ 200 frees relay team that earned All-America honors at last years NCAA’s.

This year’s 200 free relay team is seeded 13th.

Sophomore Hannes Heyl makes his second trip to NCAAs.

Heyl qualified for the 100-yard backstroke, 100 fly, 100-yard freestyle — the same three events he qualified for in last years NCAAs. Heyl finished 24th, 16th and 43th at last year’s NCAAs in those events, respectively.

His seed times are all faster than what he swam at last year’s NCAA events.

The 400 free relay team is seeded 16th.

Senior Niko Dalman is the

lone diver representing LSU. He makes his third trip to NCAAs and will compete in the 1-me-ter, 3-meter and platform diving events.

Junior Sean LeNeave heads to the NCAAs as the Tigers’ other relay swimmer.

Contact Amos Morale at amorale@lsureveille.com

LUBENAU, from page 9

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

Christoph Lubenau, freestyler and butterflyer, swims the third leg of the 200 free relay Oct. 22 in the Tigers’ meet against Florida at the LSLU Natatorium.

Designer Seema Sudan of Lia-Molly will make a stop on campus today, and the New Orleans-based designer will be holding a trunk sale in the lobby of the Human Ecology Building from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Sudan, known for her progres-sive knitwear line, will sell her orig-inal designs at wholesale prices.

“I like to push the limits of knit-wear by making pieces and shapes that you don’t typically see,” Sudan said. “I am infl uenced by my trav-els around the world and nature and fashions past and future. I design

timeless pieces, not fads.”LiaMolly is sold at Anthropol-

ogie, Bloomingdale’s and 100 inde-pendently owned boutiques across the country.

After the trunk show, there will be a model casting call in the lobby of the Human Ecol-ogy Building at 7 p.m. for the May 9 LSU En Vogue Fashion Showcase.

The fashion show, which will take place at The Purple Monkey on Government Street, includes garments produced by University designers and will also incorporate an art gallery and dance performances.

Erin Williams, Hemline presi-dent and textile, apparel and mer-chandising senior, said the compa-ny is seeking confi dent models who can showcase the garments down a

runway. Because of the

sizes of the man-nequins on which the garments are produced, models taller than 5-feet-7-inches and with a waist between 24 and 27 inches are preferred.

Williams said she’s excited about fi nding models and is thrilled to have someone as successful as Sudan coming to the University.

Entertainment THE DAILY REVEILLE

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009 PAGE 13

FILM

Outhouse screens amateur fi lmsBy Jake ClappEntertainment Writer

OUTHOUSE, see page 17

FASHION

New Orleans-based designer to hold trunk sale Model casting for LSU show followsBy Jack LeBlancEntertainment Writer

photo courtesy of LiaMolly / The Daily Reveille

A model shows a design from LiaMolly’s new summer collection. LiaMolly designer Seema Sudan will hold a trunk sale at the Human Ecology Building today.TRUNK SALE, see page 17

Five mechanical engineering seniors at the University are doing their best to defy the laws of gravity.

As a senior design project, the group is building a hang glider to fl y at the Red Bull Flugtag Competition this summer.

The Flugtag competition challenges teams to build homemade, human-powered fl ying

machines and pilot them off a 30-foot high deck in hopes of fl ying. After a few feet in the air, the homemade machines land in the water below.

“We are essentially running off a 30-foot pier with the hope of fl ying,” said team member Eugene Lopez-Oña.

The machines are judged based on the fl ight’s distance, creativity and showmanship. This prompts some interesting designs and wacky displays of courage when approaching the 30-foot drop-off.

“When you see it on the Internet, it looks like a bunch of guys goofi ng off and falling off a pier,” team member Abe King said. “We ap-proached it as a legitimate low speed aerody-namic problem. It has real engineering behind it.”

The record for the farthest fl ight stands at 195 feet, set in 2000 at Flugtag Austria. The U.S. record is 155 feet, set in Nashville, Tenn.,

Team of mechanical engineering seniors prepare for Red Bull Flugtag Challenge

‘‘‘I design timeless pieces, not fads.’

Seema SudanNew Orleans-based designer

By Jack LeBlancEntertainment Writer

FLUGTAG, see page 17

KIM FOSTER / The Daily Reveille

[From left to right] Eugene Lopez-Ona, Jason Cary, Abe King and Ryan Meyer, mechanical engineering seniors, stand in front of the hang glider they built for the Red Bull Flugtag Competition.

Students fl ying high

Big-screen movies, such as “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Déjà Vu,” can easily attract audiences in theaters, but Louisiana is home to hundreds of fi lmmakers whose works may nev-er have that kind of exposure.

The Outhouse Film Festival exists for these fi lmmakers.

In its 10th year, Outhouse of-fers the unique opportunity for any fi lmmakers to submit their work to be screened at the large, two-day fi lm festival presented at the Uni-versity.

Each year, the LSU Cinema Club freely accepts submissions from fi lmmakers across the globe.

The club then picks out the best fi lms to present to the public in a free and open fi lm festival.

“The basic purpose of Out-house has always been to bring lo-cal fi lmmakers together,” said Ga-rick Giroir, president of the LSU Cinema Club. “We are trying to keep fi lm alive in Louisiana.”

Founded by the Cinema Club in the spring of 2000, Outhouse is one of Baton Rouge’s oldest fi lm festivals and has grown from a small, one-day showing to a large event that has covered three days, included guest speakers, work-shops and an awards ceremony.

University alumnus Mark Lan-dry was the original president of

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RanksReveilleMUSIC MOVIES BOOKS TELEVISION

I Love You, ManDreamworks

Dan DeaconBromstCarpark Records

Papa RoachMetamorphosisInterscope Records

“I Love You, Man” is a broman-tic comedy about Peter Klaven, a man who realizes he doesn’t have any guy friends and goes on a series of man-dates to find his Best Man for hi up-coming wedding. This movie, led by Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, will make the audience laugh so hard they’ll cry. The humor, mixed with an amaz-ing soundtrack that includes Rush, Vampire Weekend and Santogold, is guaranteed to please the entire audience.

The best way to describe Dan Deacon’s brand of electronic, up-beat, dance music is to imagine if you will, Animal Col-lective met a really drunken Battles at a party and they went out to the back of an old VW van for wild, rough, dirty sex and 9 months later produced a baby. Then that baby developed an alcohol problem and met LCD Soundsystem for a night of de-bauchery, the resulting mash-up of dance music and creative use of electronic effects and beats would be Dan Deacon’s 2009 album “Bromst.” Listen to it and you may need a cold shower later.

KnowingProd. Company

Pet Shop BoysYesAstralwerks

DuplicityUniversal Pictures

Fortunetelling has never been as intense as it is in “Know-ing” starring Nicholas Cage. Cage’s son receives a list of numbers written 50 years ago. Cage deciphers the numbers and concludes that they are predictions of the future. The controversial twists and turns between determinism versus randomness of the universe propel the movie forward. The film does not fail to keep the audience’s interest, but the end dances on the line be-tween ridiculous and moving.

“Yes,” the tenth studio album by the electronic pop duo Pet Shop Boys, hearkens back to their glory days of the late 1980s. One would think that the Pet Shop Boys would be struggling to stay musically rel-evant in the new millennium, but with the assistance of one of the best British songwriting houses, Xenomania, the duo continues knocking out catchy electronic pop hooks. “Yes” is an album that any longtime Pet Shop Boys fan will be proud to own.

Clive Owen, the perfect lead-ing man, teams up with Oscar-winner Julia Roberts to deliver a witty and smart film about rival CIA agents. While the film is a romantic comedy at its core, it still has charm, espe-cially while the leading charac-ters are double-crossing each other left and right. There are a bit too many plot twists but Owen and Roberts are too good to disappoint.

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[B-] [B+] [B+]

C. VOGELS J. CLAPP B. BOURGEOIS

A. NORSWORTHYL. NUNEZ B. LeJEUNE

Editor’s PickThe DecemberistsThe Hazards of Love

FOR FANS OF:Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, The New Pornographers

Capitol Records

S. AYCOCK

“The Hazards of Love,” the fifth album from The Decemberists, probably won’t produce many singles. The album weaves the fan-tastical tale of a girl named Margaret and, well, the hazards of love. Each song builds on the next, with frontman Colin Meloy tell-ing the story with help from Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond, Shara Worden from My Brightest Diamond and Jim James of My Morning Jacket.

From the rap-metal of their ma-jor label debut “Infest” to the straight radio rock of “Loveha-tetragedy,” Papa Roach has always been a band difficult to identify. And their sixth studio release “Metamorphosis” is no different. The band may have abandoned rapping entirely, but the wanna-be metal sound on this record certainly isn’t the best route to take.

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“Knowing,” the controversial, action-packed fi lm released Friday was written by an alumna of the University’s creative writing pro-gram.

University graduate Juliet Snowden made it big in Hollywood with her screenplay for this box of-fi ce hit starring Nicholas Cage .

The movie is controversial in its pursuit of deciphering religion and the theories of determinism versus randomness of the uni-verse.

Audiences had tremendous reactions to the fi lm. Since its re-lease, blogs have appeared that are devoted to the debate of this movie.

“I write from my heart and soul. Some people are going to get that; some people aren’t.” Snowden said. “And I’m OK with that. It’s what being an artist is all about.”

It took Snowden a great amount of time, patience and sac-rifi ce to get where she is today.

Snowden explained the ca-reer trajectory of an artist is not as straightforward as other career op-tions.

“Other people know their path,” Snowde n said. “But an art-ist’s path is unpredictable and scary. You have to make sacrifi ces and you have to keep honing your craft.”

Snowden accredits some of her creative infl uences to the Uni-versity.

“I loved LSU.” Snowden said. “The programs, students and teachers were really nurturing to my creativity.”

She explained she always felt at ease and inventive while at the University and said she was in-spired by her professors.

Snowden graduated from the University with a degree in creative writing and English. After gradua-tion, like many freshly graduated 22-year-olds, she still had no idea what she wanted to do as a career. She decided leav-ing Louisiana was her best option and moved to Philadel-phia and worked for an editing com-pany.

“Sometimes it’s good to leave home and see the world.” Snowden said. “You can get more experience that way.”

She explained post-graduation is a scary time for artists and writ-ers. Snowden also said many writ-ers avoid the challenge of working on their own writing and resort to editing.

“I wasn’t happy editing,” Snowden said. “A friend of mine asked me if I could do anything, what would it be, and I said fi lm. And then there it was.” Snowden then began taking fi lm classes and loved it. She attended University of Southern California and received a master’s degree in screenwriting.

Snowden now teams up with her husband, Styles White, to write screenplays and to work on re-writes for other scripts.

The couple’s fi rst screenplay was a wedding horror story set in

Snowden’s hometown of Natchi-toches . After working on the script for two years, they were unable to sell it. However, the piece did help them receive a manager, an agent and meetings in Hollywood.

She explained the majority of fi rst scripts are not bought and there is typically a 10-year period of attempting to make it before an artist may succeed.

During this waiting period, Snowden and her husband worked full-time jobs to make ends meet and worked on their scripts at night. Snowden worked as a volun-teer recruiter for a non-profi t organi-zation that reno-vated libraries and

taught inner city children to read. White worked in the special effects department for Stan Winston Stu-dios .

She explained that maintaining a social life under those circum-stances was diffi cult, but the sacri-fi ce was worth the accomplishment that came with the extra effort.

Snowden’s big break came with her rewrite of “Boogeyman ” in 2005, which aired in New Zea-land and made $20 million . She also worked on “The Need” which was released in 2006.

A remake of the 1982 fi lm “Poltergeist” is Snowden’s next big venture. The movie will come out in 2011. Baton Rouge 15 (Mall of La)

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Alum authors hit fi lm ‘Knowing’Writer’s future path scary, uncertainBy Lindsay NunezEntertainment Writer

Contact Lindsay Nunez at lnunez@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘It’s good to leave home and see the

world ... You can get more experience.’

Juliet SnowdenUniversity alumna, screenwriter

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 16 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009

With the weather warming up, it seems as if there is a charity race almost every weekend. This gives runners, walkers and those who want to benefi t local causes many options this spring.

Alicia Chatman , co-race chair for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Baton Rouge, said al-most 10,000 people participated in this year’s run on March 7.

“This year was monumental,” Chatman said. “It was our biggest race ever.”

Race for the Cure is a national corporation and has foundations in many cities. Nancy Brinker , Komen’s sister, founded the Susan G. Ko-men branch.

“The Komen Foundation is on the premise of Nancy and Susan,” Chatman said. “Susan died when she was 36 of breast cancer. [Nan-cy] promised her sister she would do everything she could to fi nd a cure.”

This was the 13th year for the foundation, and it counts every year a success.

“The cause itself is so per-sonal,” Chatman said. “But not all [participants] are survivors. It’s the families of survivors, doctors, nurs-es. They all come out.”

The funds raised by the race are donated to benefi t local efforts.

“Seventy-fi ve percent of pro-ceeds go to the community,” Chat-man said. “We fund education, people who are uninsured and those who need assistance.”

The rest of the money raised goes to the Race’s headquarters in Dallas, Texas, for research fund-ing.

The Providence Corporate Cup is another local race that rais-es money and promotes wellness. Providence Engineering reincar-nated the race two years ago.

“The race has been around for about 25 years,” said Rich Major , senior managing partner of Provi-dence Engineering. “The Business Report started it, and an individu-al bought the rights and ran it for about 10 years.”

Major said the race was “dor-mant” for four years before Provi-dence bought it and made it a non-profi t function with a twist.

“Most people just go out and run,” Major said. “But this is de-signed to promote corporate well-ness and corporate commodity.”

If a team is formed, one team member must be female and one must be older than 40 years old, making the crowd quite diverse.

“It’s all over the board,” Major said. “That’s a good thing. People come out and walk, some come out with their babies and some people

run the whole thing in eight min-utes.”

The race is a traditional 5K, but many different awards are offered as well as food and beverages.

“ S e v e r a l vendors will sell food and beer and drinks,” Major said. “There is also a band after the race. The band this year is The Michael Foster Project.”

All profi ts are donated to the Big Buddy Program and the Mid-City

Redeve lopment Alliance . The race raised $20,000 last year for charity.

“The Big Bud-dy program is for underprivi leged kids that don’t have any guidance or leadership in their lives,” Major said. “The Mid-City Re-development Al-

liance is a nonprofi t organization responsible for improving the Mid City area.”

The race will be held down-town April 18 at 9 a.m. The cost to

participate is $20, and registration ends April 12 .

Chris Swanson, communica-tions studies senior , has partici-

pated in many runs and adventure races since his ju-nior year of high school.

“I really like the Susan G. Ko-men [5K],” Swan-son said. “You see a lot of people out there who don’t run other races. They are out there

to support it and do something good.”

Swanson has also run in the Big Apple 5K and many other races around Baton Rouge.

“It’s a good way to stay in shape,” Swanson said. “Some peo-ple drink and party to clear their head, but I like to get out and clear my head running.”

Other races this spring include the Fat Boy 5K on Saturday, Hap-py’s 5K on April 4 , Louisiana Di-etetic Association 5K on April 20 and Fleet Feet 5K Siesta on May 1 .

CHARITY

Races raise money, promote wellnessBy Ashley NorsworthyEntertainment Writer

Contact Ashley Norsworthy at anorsworthy@lsureveille.com

Runners come out for good causes

‘‘‘The cause itself is so personal ... It’s

the families of survivors ...’

Alicia Chatmanco-race chair, Race for the Cure in

Baton Rouge

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updates throughout the day.

‘‘‘This year was

monumental. It was our biggest race

ever.’Alicia Chatman

co-race chair, Race for the Cure in Baton Rouge

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the Cinema Club and fondly recalls starting the club and Outhouse.

“A bunch of friends and I were really interested in cinema and wanted to be fi lmmakers, so we got together, started making mov-ies and formed the cinema club my junior year,” Landry said. “We saw that there was a lot of talent in the area and decided to try and bring them together with a fi lm festival.”

That fi rst Outhouse, named so because Landry and the Cinema Club felt they were on the outskirts of the sports-minded LSU com-munity, was nine-straight hours of fi lm on a Saturday afternoon in the spring of 2000.

“It started out as an experi-ment, but after 200 people showed up that fi rst day, we thought we may keep doing this,” Landry said.

After graduating from the

University, Landry attended the University of Southern Califor-nia’s fi lm school and now works as a producer, editor and writer in Los Angeles.

Filmmakers at the University have followed in his footsteps.

For Brady Crane, Outhouse has been something he grew up with since he attended the fi rst meetings with his older brothers.

“I have a real appreciation for Outhouse,” said Crane, a 24-year-old sociology junior at BRCC. “The festival helps to inspire young fi lmmakers and gives them a fun reason to pursue working with fi lm.”

Crane, along with his three brothers, started a production group called Crane Films and has submitted movies and short fi lms to Outhouse since its inception.

“Outhouse has been a great way for me to network and get to

know people not only as fi lmmak-ers but as friends,” Crane said. “I want to see this continue to get bigger and help the local fi lm in-dustry.”

The Crane Brothers will pre-miere their third feature-length movie “For Hearts” in the Cox Communications Center for Stu-dent-Athletes as a non-competition entry at 7 p.m. Saturday.

For other fi lmmakers, such as Travis Hedges Williams, Outhouse provides a rare chance for their fi lms to be seen by a larger audi-ence.

“One of the hardest things about being at the independent lev-el of fi lmmaking is getting a venue to show off your movie,” Williams said.

Williams, general studies ju-nior, randomly found out about the festival while in high school and has participated in seven Outhouse

Film Festivals since.“Baton Rouge has a small but

growing community of fi lmmak-ers,” Williams said. “Outhouse is about fostering this community. It motivates fi lmmakers to make something because they know it has a good chance to be seen.”

Williams and his production group Hedges Pictures will be pre-miering three pieces at Outhouse: the comedy “Dance World Revela-tions,” a horror piece called “Lost Island of Laveau” and a music vid-eo entitled “Dangerous Games.”

The 10th annual Outhouse Film Festival will run Saturday and Sunday starting at 12 p.m. each day

in Dodson Auditorium, except for the fi lm “For Hearts.”

The festival will conclude with an awards ceremony at 5 p.m. on Sunday, honoring the best pictures of the festival as judged by the Cin-ema Club.

Outhouse is free and open to the public. A full listing of movies and times can be found on the Out-house Film Festival Facebook or MySpace pages.

“It’s not easy to do what she has done,” Williams said. “I’m en-couraged that she is taking the time to come speak to us. Her success is inspirational.”

Sudan got her start in the fash-ion industry at Liz Claiborne. She also worked for Calvin Klein and as the senior sweater designer at An-thropologie. Then in 2006, Sudan decided to move to New Orleans to start her own business.

“My husband is from Loui-siana, and we felt a strong pull to come to New Orleans,” Sudan said. “Being in New Orleans meant we had to start our own business, and there isn’t a fashion industry here.”’

Sudan said she loves designing lines for the new seasons.

“It always comes out a bit dif-ferently from where I started, but telling a new story through a new collection is very exciting.”

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in 2007. “Our goal is to beat the U.S.

record,” Lopez-Oña said. “We also want to win the competition, which is based on show-manship and cre-ativity in addition to fl ight distance. We are going to have to dress this thing up and really get the crowd in-volved if we want to win.”

The team plans to decorate the glider’s base like a Mardi Gras fl oat, complete with beads and a bi-cycle disguised as a tractor.

Flugtag, German for “fl ying day,” started in Vienna, Austria, in 1991. Since then, more than 35 Flugtags have been held around the world attracting up to 300,000 spectators.

The University’s Flugtag team consists of King, Lopez-Oña, George Hunsucker, Jason Cary, and Ryan Meyer, all mechanical engineering seniors.

The fi ve have been working on their fl ying machine since the be-ginning of the fall semester. They did a paper design in the fall and are now working on building the real thing and testing.

“Our grade comes from the quality of design and the engineer-ing analysis we conducted to show the validity of our decisions,” Lopez-Oña said. “The competition is the fun part.”

Cary and Meyer chose Flugtag as their se-nior project because it was one of the only projects that didn’t require a sponsor.

“The sponsors expect a lot out of these projects and have certain demands,” Cary said. “In this one, we got to come up with own idea and funded it ourselves. All we have to do is meet our own expec-tations and standards and comply with Red Bull’s rules.”

Red Bull stipulates the wing-span cannot exceed 30 feet, and

the combined weight of the glider, cart and pilot cannot exceed 450 pounds. The fl ying machine has to fl oat and be environmentally friendly.

Machines must also be human powered, mean-ing there can be no motors, rubber bands, propellers or anything else that stores poten-tial energy.

The Uni-versity’s Flugtag team chose to use a hang glider because it allows more leeway for inexperienced pi-lots to lean back and get the most distance with little speed.

The group of fi ve bought two hang gliders from Steve Burns, a veteran hang glider from Austin, Texas. They plan to use the sail from one glider for the Flugtag machine and to use the other glider for fl ying practice. The sail will fi t over a collapsible aluminum frame, which will be attached to a wood-en cart mounted on wheelchair wheels. The cart is complete, and

the team is working on the frame.“We are trying to make it

lighter to be better for low-speed fl ights,” King said. “Usually when you fl y [a glider], you get pulled into the air by an ultra-light air-

plane, or you can jump off a cliff. We have to make do with what we’ve got and make it as light as possible to get the best lift without a cliff or plane.”

Red Bull hasn’t announced the lo-cation and dates of the competition yet.

Last year, there were competitions in Tampa Bay, Fla.; Chicago, Ill., and Portland, Ore.

Prizes vary from competition to competition and, in past years, have included a trip to Salzburg, Austria, cash and free fl ying les-sons.

FLUGTAG, from page 13

Contact Jack LeBlanc at aleblanc@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘It looks like a bunch of guys goofi ng off ...

It has real engineering behind it.’

Abe KingFlugtag team member ‘‘

‘We have to make do with what we’ve got

and make it ... light ... to get the best lift.’

Abe KingFlugtag team member

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 18 thursdAy, mArch 26, 2009

Illustrated’s Joe Lemire caught a glimpse of the Tigers during their stint in Greensboro, N.C. He said they represented the Southeastern Conference very well.

“Even if the SEC had a down year, a major conference champion kind of deserves a better seed than what [LSU] got,” Lemire said. “So they kind of got a raw deal, but they did an admirable job giving North Carolina a scare ... They forced Roy Williams to take a timeout after a run, which he hates to do.”

Such praise usually draws little or no response from Johnson, who says, “There’s not silver lining to losing.”

But Johnson was willing to look back on a 27-8 record and a 10th SEC championship — if only for an hour — with the season behind him.

“I feel a sense of accomplish-ment for [the team],” Johnson said. “This team maximized their talent. They overachieved ... and there’s a sense of satisfaction for them, but the grind for me continues. I know how hard it is to compete at this level.”

LSU starts its 2009 season in less than a week. Johnson said he will meet with returning players April 1.

Johnson said the offseason pro-gram will be crucial, as the Tigers lose the current SEC Player of the Year in Marcus Thornton and two

first-team SEC All-Defensive play-ers in Garrett Temple and center Chris Johnson.

“You just don’t replace [the se-niors] with any high school or junior college player,” Johnson said. “The biggest thing for our basketball team is this spring and this summer.”

LSU junior forward Tasmin Mitchell would be equally hard to re-place for the Tigers, but his future is not as clear as the departing seniors. Johnson said Mitchell is on pace to graduate in the summer with one more year of eligibility remaining.

But Mitchell could decide to forego that final season and enter the 2009 NBA Draft.

“We’re compiling as much in-formation as possible so he’ll have facts, and he’ll be able to make a de-cision that is the best for him,” John-son said.

Mitchell has until April 26 to declare for the draft. Early entry or not, one of this season’s Tigers could give LSU its fifth-straight NBA draftee.

Johnson said Thornton and Temple are interviewing with agents, while the Tigers’ three other seniors are preparing for the offseason.

Aran Smith, analyst for NBADraft.net, said Thornton’s late-season hardware could be important toward a selection in the 2009 draft.

“Winning the SEC Player of the Year opened the eyes of a lot of

scouts as to how good he is,” Smith said. “I’d put him as a mid-second rounder with a chance to move up ... he probably wouldn’t be a first-round pick because of the amount of early entries this year.”

Smith called Thornton a “nice package” but said his smaller stature — one to two inches shorter than a standard NBA shooting guard — is the biggest knock on his potential.

Smith wasn’t as optimistic about Chris Johnson or Mitchell’s potential but did not rule anything out. He said adding either one could slip into the later part of the draft.

“[Mitchell] is scrappy and strong, but he needs to go back and become a perimeter player ... he didn’t raise enough eyebrows this season,” Smith said. “I see Chris Johnson as an NBA athlete who needs to add some strength ... He’s kind of stuck because he has the strength of a small forward and the game of a power forward.”

Smith said he saw the NBA’s Developmental League in Europe as a possible destination for Chris John-son to hone his skills.

Whatever their destination, Trent Johnson said he will be there to help his seniors with their futures.

“I’m always around,” he said.

STEVE HELBER / The Associated Press

LSU senior guard Marcus Thornton celebrates on Saturday during LSU’s NCAA tournament game against North Carolina. The Tigers lost the game, 84-70.

SENIORS, from page 7

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“I wanted to play some kids who were really hungry to play [Wednesday],” said Mainieri.

Mahtook made the most of his second start of the season and went 2-for-4 with a pair of home runs and four RBI.

The Lafayette native said he was trying to avoid doing too much at the plate with limited at bats this season.

“You’re not supposed to re-ally think too much at the plate,” he said. “I was just trying to do the best I could, and I just put a few good swings on a couple of balls.”

The Crimson battled back for a pair of runs in the third inning on a two-RBI single by sophomore centerfielder Dillon O’Neill.

Those runs were the only

ones the Crimson could plate off Matulis who struck out five hit-ters and allowed just five hits in his seven innings to improve to 4-0 on the season.

“He did a good job,” Main-ieri said. “We expect a lot out of him, but I think he has a chance to be a really great pitcher, and he’s almost there.”

Mahtook struck again in the bottom of the fourth inning and hit a towering home run over the left field fence to put LSU ahead, 5-2.

The Tigers added five more runs in the seventh inning to put the game away.

Sophomore Ben Alsup and freshman Randy Ziegler pitched the eighth and ninth innings to preserve the win for LSU.

Mainieri said it was impor-tant for him to get Alsup and

Ziegler into Wednesday’s game because the Tigers are searching for middle relief pitching to fill the gap from the team’s starters to the team’s closer, freshman Matty Ott.

“We’ve become so accus-tomed to [Anthony] Ranaudo and [Austin] Ross and [Louis] Cole-man pitching six and seven in-nings for us,” Mainieri said. “But that may not happen every game. In those days when we can’t do that, we’ve got to have someone else, so I was happy with the way Alsup and Ziegler threw today.”

yelled, “you never should have let him go,” in an apparent reference to Smith, who had 16 points.

Hilton Armstrong and Rasual Butler each scored 10 points for New Orleans, which played an unusually sloppy game.

Paul turned the ball over six times, and Denver wound up con-verting 19 Hornets turnovers into 18 points.

In the second half, Anthony and Billups combined for 33 points.

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on to a run-off election with the Next Level campaign which earned 29.76 percent of the votes.

Tickets not proceeding to the run-offs were the Unity ‘09 cam-paign with 11.76 percent of the votes, the One Voice ‘09 campaign with 18.71 percent of the votes and the Make it Reign campaign, which took 4.56 percent of the votes.

About 33 percent of the student body — or 7,771 students — voted in this season’s presidential elec-tion, according to Milazzo.

Of this season’s 72 different races, 44 were moved into run-offs.

Milazzo said there are 128 students left in the run-off election.

Milazzo said the Election Board would be spending the next week reviewing the expenditures of each campaign and preparing to ad-vertise the run-off election. Milazzo said the results of the general elec-tion wouldn’t be final until Friday at 4:30 p.m., the deadline for candi-dates to file election complaints.

The run-off election will be on March 31, and the results will be an-nounced the following day. Run-off election results will be validated on April 3.

Once the announcements had been made, the candidates’ support-

ers flooded the winners with praise and congratulations.

Palermo said he and his cam-paign would continue doing what they had been doing during the past weeks to try and win over the voters who had not voted for his ticket.

“I really feel like we’re go-ing to take it home next week and snatch up those extra voters,” Pal-ermo said.

Hathorn said her heart stopped beating when she saw her ticket alongside the More ‘09 ticket in the run-off. Hathorn said she and her ticket would be back to working hard in the coming week.

“Tonight we sleep, tomorrow

we campaign,” Hathorn said. Watkins said he and his ticket

would celebrate Wednesday night but get right back to campaigning the following day.

“We’re going right back to the drawing board, and we’re going to do what we’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks,” Watkins said.

Scheuermann said she was humbled by the opportunity to have another week of campaigning with the students and praised the mem-bers of her ticket for their support and determination.

She said she had been comfort-able going into election night but

didn’t want to be overconfident be-fore the results were in.

“This is about feeling comfort-able in what you believe in and giv-ing it your all,” Scheuermann said.

Also added onto the ballot was the resolution from the Tempo-rary Student Initiatives Committee which allowed students to choose between three options for spending $5,000 of their student fees. Of the three resolutions, 47.05 percent of students voted for more campus re-cycling bins.

with each system’s funding base re-quired by the executive budget.

“As we have analyzed the vari-ous reduction allocations, it is also clear that use of the new perfor-mance-based funding formula and its performance funding emphasis must be implemented even in this time of budget challenges,” Commissioner of Higher Education Sally Clausen told system presidents in letters sent on Wednesday. “We will adopt the new funding formula approach and pursue its desired outcomes as we move through this budget reduction

process.” During a March 13 news con-

ference, Jindal said he wants to see the cuts distributed based on per-formance. The performance-based funding formula has been in the works for nearly two years.

The formula used to fund fis-cal year 2008-09 is based mainly on enrollment while the new perfor-mance-based formula is based on an institution’s level of research, gradu-ation rates and workforce develop-ment.

“While not designed to be a budget-cutting tool, the phased-in approach for using the new formula

will guide systems in making imagi-native, specific, targeted, strategic and performance-based decisions when crafting their campus plans,” Clausen said in March 25 news re-lease.

When the Legislature approves a final state budget during the ses-sion that begins April 27, the Board of Regents will have the responsi-bility of distributing funds to each system. From there, system leaders will distribute the funds among their campus entities and make budget recommendations. The Legislature will make final appropriations.

According to LSU System esti-

mates calculated earlier this month, a $101 million cut to the System would result in about $45 million in cuts for LSU A&M in Baton Rouge. How the cuts will be distributed among systems and campuses won’t be finalized until the legislative ses-sion.

The cuts to state funding for higher education are $219 million — or 15 percent of current state fund-ing — only after including nearly $219 million in federal “stimulus” money. Without the federal money, spending could’ve been cut by more than $400 million.

But the funds are only good for

about two years, meaning higher education’s budget situation may be significantly worse come 2012.

“The issues we face may extend out at least two, if not three years,” Clausen said. “Unless the economic conditions change for the better, higher education in Louisiana will be required to respond to a $440 mil-lion shortfall by 2012.”

Higher education budgets will be presented to the House Appro-priations Committee on April 21.

properly cared for can lead to infec-tion. In serious cases this can cause the loss of large amounts of tissue or a limb, Saichuk said.

Brooks said he’s also seen a rise in customers coming in and asking

for dermal anchors, a type of surface piercing.

Dermal anchors involve punch-ing a scalpel into the skin. Unlike an earring, the punch does not go all the way through. The jewelry is then lodged into the skin because it has a bottom with small holes. The

skin grows through these holes so the jewelry is irremovable without surgery.

“I had them located two on each side in between the rib cage so they would be in between each bone,” said Konstantin Foltz, construction management engineering junior and

member of Phi Delta Theta.Foltz said his fraternity brother

handed down his piercings.“It was more of a symbolic

meaning, more of a bonding type thing,” he said. “It was something fun to do, a passing down.”

Title 51, Part 28 does not men-

tion dermal anchoring. “Dermal anchors are a little ex-

treme,” Sylvas said. “It looks more painful than being branded.”

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MADISON, Wisc. (UWIRE) — If someone were to try to pigeon-hole me into a specific political category, I think they would ul-timately find I am part of the di-minutive and rarely mentioned religious left.

I am fiscally liberal and a so-cial libertarian not in spite of my religious views but because I do not believe spiritual law can in-fluence secular law.

My ideal vision of the direc-

tion of my synagogue does not need to mirror the direction I’d like to see in my government, and my interpretations of reli-gious law cannot influence my understanding of American law. If this is forgotten, the important distinction between the two will be erased.

One issue that seems to man-ifest this idea is my understand-ing of same-sex marriage.

Religiously, I see no way to validate permitting a man to wed another man other than to com-pletely disregard the scripture at

the core of Abrahamic faiths for thousands of years. While that may be a fine outlet for some, my presuppositions about religion and religious doctrines do not allow me to do this. I hardly be-lieve, however, the words of my scripture need to run parallel to the words of my constitution.

A secular union of two people of the same sex does not infringe on our freedom of religion and should undoubtedly be allowed. Call it a union, call it marriage — the name does not really matter; what matters is the human rights

of these couples be protected. I understand that all religions

pose laws dictating actions of other religions (i.e., Noachide Laws), but if you chose to live in a religiously free democracy like our own you simply cannot attempt to enforce those laws. Enforcing them would be just as wrong as enforcing any other re-ligious doctrine in secular court.

Being against same-sex mar-riage is understandable because marriage itself is a religious word. Being against same-sex unions is not right. What it is not

is bigoted. It is a gross misinter-pretation of the relationship be-tween church and state.

Religion is not the cause of all of the world’s problems, and belief in the power of prayer is not some weird superstition just as unfeasible as Santa.

Religion and state must re-main separate if we are going to retain democracy.

A global crisis has been un-winding for more than a year now.

Our media blames the banks

who bet on our real estate mar-ket with money they didn’t have. This led to the current economic situation.

I don’t support the despicable greed these financial institutions exhibited, but I do look further into the root cause of our nation’s downturn — and it all starts with our parents.

The baby-boomer generation has been living beyond its means

for more than a decade, and we are feeling the effects.

Our parents’ generation has indulged themselves in unnec-essary luxuries for which they could never pay.

With the average adult carry-ing thousands of dollars of debt each month, they simply spent more money than they had.

This created a false economy with false growth.

Essentially, the over use of credit cards and buying homes our parents could not afford cre-ated a mirage that more money existed in than in actuality; it had to unravel at some point.

The banks amplified the problem with leveraging.

However, the foundation of our nation’s issue rests in over-spending.

And we, as a generation of

new ideas, need to recognize the consequences of living beyond our means. Take a lesson from our parents’ greed: live appropri-ately.

To our parents: “Stop look-ing for a scapegoat, and start liv-ing within your means.”

James Chasseeaccounting senior

The revelation that some executives from embattled insur-ance company AIG received sev-en-figure bonuses dominated the news cycle last week.

Upon learning of the bo-nuses, President Barack Obama told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to “pursue every legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the American taxpayer whole,” according to The New York Times.

It is infuriating to think of executives receiving any kind of bonus when AIG is at the heart of the economic crisis facing the country.

But what is more troubling is the power the federal government applies in recouping the taxpay-ers’ money.

The government has used money collected from taxes to purchase enough stock in AIG to effectively own 80 percent of the company. This process of buying up stocks was couched in terms like “capital injection” and “in-

vestment” in an attempt to rename what the Bush administration be-gan and the Obama administration is trying to carry out to its natural conclusion — nationalization.

AIG is no longer a private company. The government owns it — and now the government is trying to run the business.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is one of the most outspoken pro-ponents of the government using its ownership powers to control the future of AIG and its employ-ees.

“We can’t keep them from getting their bonuses, but we can keep some of them from continu-ing in their jobs,” Frank said on The Today Show.

There was a time when gov-ernment ownership of a private corporation was unthinkable. But those days ended when former President George W. Bush said he abandoned the free market to save it.

Fiscal conservatives’ worst nightmares are being realized as

a result of the firestorm these bo-nuses have generated.

There is a sentiment among the Washington establishment similar to that of French revolu-tionaries. Executives at compa-nies like AIG claim some politi-

cians are out of touch with reality like Ma-rie Antoinette was when she proposed to feed her starv-ing people with cake. And, like the French radicals, politi-

cians in Washington are eager to whip out their guillotines.

The Washington elite are try-ing to use any means they can to strike a blow against corporate America in favor of the “taxpay-er.”

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., gave a chilling speech about the power of the federal govern-ment to control the economic en-

gines sustaining this country.“We will take this money

back by taxing virtually all of it. So let the recipients of these large and unseemly bonuses be warned, if you don’t return it on your own, we’ll do it for you,” Schumer said.

Bowing to pressure from the kingmakers on Capitol Hill, Ed-ward Liddy, the newly installed CEO of AIG, told a House sub-committee he would ask AIG employees “to step up and do the right thing. Specifically, I have asked those who received retention payments of $100,000 or more to return at least half of those payments.”

Implicit in the outrage over these bonuses is the notion that bonuses should be performance-based. Since AIG is struggling and nearly brought down the en-tire financial sector, executives should not be rewarded.

The government employees who occupy the hallowed halls of Congress are experts at underper-

forming.And while outrage directed

toward executives of failing busi-nesses who receive bonuses is appropriate, the taxpayers should save some of their indignation for the bloated paychecks received by arrogant congressmen.

It was Congress — acting first under the “conservative” Bush administration and later under the Obama administration — who paved the way for this incendiary set of events.

The taxpayers’ dollars never should have been on the line.

Had the government pre-served free market principles, AIG would be gone and the con-tracts at the center of this contro-versy would have been nullified.

Drew Walker is a 24-year-old philosophy senior from Walker.

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I have a huge crush on first lady Michelle Obama.

And no, it has nothing to do with her beautifully sculpted bi-ceps.

She has arguably the keenest intellect of any first lady since El-eanor Roosevelt.

Instead of engaging in the mainstream media’s desire to turn her into a fashion model, Obama is using her talents and platform to preach a new message about healthy eating and lifestyle choic-es.

Did she rebel against 24-hour fast food eateries or criticize the makers of mass consumption foods?

No. She planted a vegetable garden.

Armed with shovels, rakes, pitchforks and fifth graders, the first lady broke ground Friday on a 1,100-square-foot, L-shaped patch of grass on the South Lawn of the White House.

The garden will include spin-

ach, broccoli, at least four differ-ent kinds of lettuce and berries, and various other fruits and veg-etables, including a beehive.

The 26 fifth graders from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington, D.C., assisted in shoveling up dirt, raking leaves and wheelbarrowing dirt into a central location. After finish-ing their work, the children were treated to apples, apple cider and cookies in the shape of a shovel.

This garden is the first kitch-en garden planted on the White House lawn in 60 years.

The last first lady to plant a garden?

Eleanor — with her Victory Garden planted during World War II.

The first lady’s decision to plant a vegetable garden on the White House lawn — complete with a wish list from the White House kitchen in terms of fresh produce — comes at the same time as a disturbing report from

the New England Journal of Med-icine.

The study concluded African-Americans suffer heart failure at a rate 20 times higher than their white counterparts. It found heart failure rates for African-Amer-icans in their 30s and 40s are the same as white patients in their 50s and 60s.

It also found one in 100 black men and women could develop heart failure before age 50, ac-cording to CNN.

This study frames the impor-tance of the White House vegeta-ble garden in a whole new light. It’s a symbol of sustainability — clearer than anyone testifying to Congress on C-SPAN and visible from E Street on the South Side of the White House.

And the garden idea has oth-ers jumping on the freshness bandwagon.

California first lady Maria Shriver announced on last Tues-day plans for an edible garden on the grounds of the state Capitol.

Both gardens have been championed by noted California chef Alice Waters, who has lob-bied for a White House garden for the last decade.

“Fresh, wholesome food is the right of every American,” Waters told The Associated Press. “This garden symbolizes the Obamas’ commitment to that belief.”

In an age where we can order tacos, cheese sticks, bacon, egg and cheese biscuits and double decker burgers all at the same place at any time of the day, this new garden will send a powerful message about the benefits of lo-cal, homegrown produce — both in terms of physical and financial prosperity.

Locally grown fruits and veg-

etables are not only healthier than their canned and processed alter-natives packaged in bulk at most supermarkets, they taste infinitely better and cost much less. The conveniences of the 21st century have allowed this nation — and this state in particular — to get in-creasingly fat, myself included.

But we can cut back. We can show the world we aren’t a na-tion of lazy slobs addicted to high fructose corn syrup as if it were crack.

With one day of hard work, Michelle Obama proclaimed it from the loudest megaphone in the world.

I love her.

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

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SAVED BY THE BELLE

We’re not Generation Y. We’re not the Information Gen-eration either. We’re not even Generation OMG, as The New York Times writer Kate Zernike so cleverly coined.

We’re Generation OMFG — because classmates, we’re effed.

W e ’ r e thousands of dollars in debt from student loans — and bar tabs.

Six months after we toss our hats we’ll be using them to collect spare change on street corners so we can pay back our loans in time.

Twenty-two percent fewer college graduates will be hired this year compared to last year, according to the National Associ-ation of Colleges and Employers. Sixty-seven percent of employers said they have altered their hir-ing plans for the class of 2009 by lowering and even eliminating spring hiring. And 21 percent are offering less internship opportu-nities.

The unemployment rate as a whole was 8.1 percent in Febru-ary, which is nearly double what it was a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And at the rate it’s going, May won’t be much prettier — which means “Pomp and Circumstance” won’t be music to our ears.

Although Ben Bernanke, Fed-eral Reserve chairman, claimed the recession will be done by the end of the year, that doesn’t mean

there’s a light at the end of the tunnel — because when the cur-rent Fed chair decides to do the first interview in the history of Fed chairs, you know it’s bad.

The recession, or rather the Great Recession, is the worst to hit the U.S. since the early 1980s.

It lasted from July 1981 to November 1982, and skyrock-eted the unemployment rate from 7.2 percent to 10.8 percent, ac-cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And the wages of those who graduated during this recession didn’t return to pre-recession lev-els for at least 10 years.

So in today’s terms, that means we college graduates will probably be flipping burgers at the local Sonic or pumping gas at the neighborhood filling station until the lag ends.

Not that there’s any shame in that.

But it’s kind of a downer when you worked your butt off for four years, sleeping on cots every other night in the design building, or burning your skin off every day in the chemistry lab, or even pulling all-nighters just to earn that little piece of paper.

And now that little piece of paper is pretty much worthless, unless your degree happens to be in one of select few recession-proof fields.

Getting a job in the fields of education, energy, environment, financial services, government, health care, international busi-ness, law enforcement, technolo-gy and the funeral home business

are our safest bets for moving back to that not so sweet home and rooming with the ’rents.

So basically, if you’re not willing to teach snot-nosed kids, empty bed pans or embalm corps-es, you’re plumb out of luck.

But don’t sell your bodies or commit suicide quite yet.

The January 2009 unemploy-ment rate for those with a bach-

elor’s degree or higher was 3.8 percent while the rate for those with less than a high-school di-ploma was 12 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

So maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel, even if it is a dim one.

And if there’s not, go ahead and drive your car off a cliff be-cause at least I’ll be making mon-

ey writing your obituaries.

Drew Belle Zerby is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Vidalia.

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