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Many students are voting in their � rst presidential election, p. 4

Social media is a game-changer in the 2012 campaign season, p. 6

Reveille columnists explain why they voted for their candidate of choice, p. 16 and 17

Take two sips every time Anderson Cooper has a zinger — it’s political drinking game time, p. 11

How does religion in� uence who students vote for? p. 7

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Anonymous movement in London protests on Guy Fawkes night

LONDON (AP) — Several hun-dred protesters wearing masks have gathered outside the British Parlia-ment to mark Guy Fawkes night.

The protesters Monday were supporters of Anonymous, a loose-ly organized movement of cyber rebels and activists.

Anonymous draws much of its iconography from the story of Fawkes, and the anti-hero’s ghostly white mask is a staple of the online movement’s demonstrations.

There were fireworks and bon-fires throughout much of England to mark the anniversary.Syrian chaos deepens as rebels, Palestinians �ght each other

BEIRUT (AP) — New chaos en-gulfed Syria’s civil war Monday as Palestinian supporters and op-ponents of the embattled regime were swept up in intense fighting in Damascus, while rival rebel groups clashed over control of a Turkish border crossing.

The rare infighting — accom-panied by car bombs, airstrikes and artillery shells that killed or maimed dozens of people — heightened fears that if Syrian President Bashar Assad falls, the disparate factions battling the re-gime will turn on each other.

Police helicopter refurbished before crash, two of�cers killed

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta police helicopter that crashed and killed two officers on board had been completely refurbished within the last decade, and its pilot and maintenance crew were confident it was safe to fly, officials said Mon-day.

The 45-year-old chopper went down on a busy city street late Satur-day while the officers were search-ing for a 9-year-old boy who had run away. The helicopter hit a power line pole, and part of its landing gear got tangled up in cables before the rest of it plummeted to the street.Post Sandy, manic Monday begins for commuters in New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Commut-ers streaming into New York City on Monday endured long waits and crowded trains, giving the recover-ing transit system a stress test a week after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the eastern third of the country, with New York and New Jersey bearing the brunt of the destruction.

Trains were so crowded Mon-day on the Long Island Rail Road that many people missed their trains. With PATH trains between New Jer-sey and Manhattan still out, lines for the ferry in Jersey City quickly stretched to several hundred people.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dis-missing speculation that he might be interested in Sean Payton, Dal-las Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he has “a lot of faith” in coach Jason Garrett and has no idea if the suspended New Orleans Saints coach might be available next season.

Payton was suspended for the season by the NFL for his role in the bounty scandal. The league has taken issue with a clause in the contract extension he agreed to more than a year ago, which was to have kept him in New Orleans through 2015.

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112-year-old U.S. apparel maker in Pennsylvania to shut down

ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (AP) — One of the last U.S. apparel manufac-turers of its kind is losing its shirt.

FesslerUSA had survived war and depression, free trade and foreign imports, producing mil-lions of knitted garments from its base in eastern Pennsylvania. Five years ago, third-generation owner Walter Meck and his family were feeling so good about the com-pany’s prospects they doubled ca-pacity, moving into a former pen-cil factory outside the small town of Orwigsburg.

Months of Nigerian �oods kill 363, displace 2.1 million

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency says 363 people died over months of flooding across the West African nation and 2.1 million oth-ers were displaced.

The agency made the an-nouncement Monday as Nigeria’s annual rainy season is coming to an end. The report covered July through the end of October.

The agency said Adamawa and Kogi state suffered the worst casualties, with more than 18,000 people being injured.

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International Paper gives two reser-voirs to LDWF in order to preserve

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Interna-tional Paper is giving the state two reservoirs that are popular recre-ational sites near Bastrop, the Loui-siana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Monday.

The Bussey Brake reservoir is on a 2,600-acre site and the Wham Brake reservoir on about 5,500 acres.

The company, which closed its Bastrop mill in 2009, impounded both areas in the 1950s. The donation will preserve them for future genera-tions, said IP Senior Vice President Tommy Joseph.

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City of Atlanta Capt. Stacie Gibbs and Major Vincent Moore embrace Sunday at the crash site of a police helicopter that killed two of�cers in Atlanta.

Sean Payton could be a coaching free agent in 2013 after suspension

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While presidential politics have dominated national head-lines, state and local issues are also part of today’s ballot.

The mayoral election will de-cide whether Democratic Mayor-President Kip Holden will serve four more years in offi ce, or if the mayor-presidency will go to one of the other three challengers.

Republican candidate Mayor-President Pro Tempore Mike Walker is closest to upsetting the past favorite, but two unaffi liated candidates are also running.

After fellow candidate Gor-don Mese called for Walker to bow out of the race at a mayoral debate, Walker said he would nev-er step out of a race he is winning.

Walker’s main idea is the elimination of Baton Rouge crime, and his plan to combat that includes fi nancing a new police academy and making crime-stop-ping a priority in the budget.

Mese is running on the plat-form of a closer-knit Baton Rouge.

He wants to keep graduates of the local universities in the city.

Mese has a background in ur-ban planning and believes Baton Rouge’s basic infrastructure is the root of the city’s problems.

His solutions include an over-haul of the Unifi ed Development Code that will reform city per-mits, utilities and street planning, among other basic aspects of Ba-ton Rouge life.

Attorney Steve Myers has run in eight separate elections now, winning one in 1996 for a seat on the Democratic State Central Committee.

Myers said he hates single-issue candidates. He boiled down his fi scal policy, saying paying for public safety and infrastructure are the two main pillars of fi nanc-ing Baton Rouge, and the rest is bonus.

He introduced 40 more is-sues in his “Myers Message” se-ries, with a three-part video on the economy and one about develop-ment in downtown Baton Rouge and Tigerland.

He suggested the Tigerland

area is neglected and students have moved on to newer resi-dences, and he wants to turn that around.

“Everything around LSU should be spic-and-span clean, and Tigerland is far from that,” Myers said, citing graduation speakers and other illustrious visi-tors to the University’s campus.

Voters will also weigh in on the gun law issue politicians have been debating about for the past few months.

The amendment proposes concealed weapons permits are unnecessary, and any further law change would have to be reviewed by a court.

Other amendments up for a vote include setting money aside for Medicaid, tax exemption for non-manufacturing businesses that was previously conserved for manufacturers and property tax exemption for spouses of disabled veterans.

Democratic incumbent faces competition in mayoral raceMegan DunbarStaff Writer

Contact Megan Dunbar at mdunbar@lsureveille.com

Professors from the University donated nearly $8,000 to President Barack Obama and only $2,000 to his competitor Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential election.

Thirty-three professors and employees donated a to-tal of $9,554 to the two presidential candidates.

The average donation was $308 , and the largest do-nation came from English professor Benjamin Kahan , who contributed $1,508 to Obama’s campaign.

On the Republican side, Frank Opelka , chief execu-tive of the LSU Healthcare Network, donated $985 .

Only three University employees donated to the Romney campaign, but the average donation of $670 is more than double the approximate average of $250 con-tributed to the Obama campaign.

LSU employees give more money to Obama than RomneyKevin ThibodeauxContributing Writer

graphic by BRITTANY GAY / The Daily ReveilleContact Kevin Thibodeaux at kthibodeaux@lsureveille.com

Tangled in the complex po-litical web of election issues sits education, which will have large financial implications for many students both during and after col-lege graduation.

No matter what happens Nov. 6, the U.S. will end up with a president who graduated from Harvard Law School.

Each candidate has personal-ly invested a hefty amount of time and dollars into higher education, helping to fuel heated debates on the subject at the forefront of many students’ minds.

President Obama says Repub-lican presidential nominee Mitt Romney hasn’t prioritized educa-tion and that if the former Massa-chusetts governor is elected, he’ll apply heavy cuts to student loan funding, deepening the burden on recent college graduates buried in debt.

“I’m not going to cut educa-tion funding,” Romney responded in the first of three presidential debates, repeatedly asserting the importance of a proper education to lead a successful American life.

As governor, Romney imple-mented a state-funded, merit-based student aid program in

Massachusetts. He also supports the idea that higher education should be available and affordable to everyone, though he hasn’t of-fered ways to make it happen.

Obama has maintained that higher education is one of his top priorities, evident by the fact that Pell Grant funding has yet to drop despite the urge by Congress to cut federal funding to the financial aid program.

As president, he passed leg-islation that makes it easier for students to pay back federal loans. He also played a role in increasing the number of Pell Grant recipi-ents and extended the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which

provides up to $2,500 of credit per student annually, for up to four years.

A possibility under either ad-ministration could be the elimina-tion of subsidized student loans, for which the federal government pays the interest on student loans while the recipient is enrolled in college.

In any case, both tuition and student debt are soaring both na-tionally and locally, according to figures provided by the LSU Of-fice of Budget & Planning and The National Center for Educa-tion Statistics.

In Louisiana, 46 percent of college students graduate with

debt, averaging more than $22,000 per student, according to a survey of 2011 graduates by the Institute for College Access & Success.

That’s not so bad compared to the rest of the country.

The Bayou State has the fourth-lowest percentage of stu-dents graduating with debt. As for the amount of debt incurred, Lou-isiana ranks No. 35 in the U.S., meaning 34 states have higher average debt amounts per student.

Political science junior Jamal Reneau said he believes Obama has the better policies for higher education, but doesn’t think any will get passed through a Repub-lican Congress.

“There’s really a stalemate,” Reneau said.

He won’t cast a vote in the presidential election because he feels powerless under the current Electoral College system.

English senior Daniel Brooks said he will vote for Obama, al-though he doesn’t believe either candidate has an idea to improve education as a whole.

“I get the feeling that Romney is not too much concerned with the plight of the overworked col-lege student,” Brooks said, add-ing, “I think [Obama] really does have student debt on his mind.”

The issue hits close to home for Brooks because as a sixth-year senior, he said he will definitely graduate with debt.

Kinesiology sophomore Les-lie Burch already cast her vote for Romney, but she said education “wasn’t the deciding factor.”

Other students, like first-time voter and mass communication sophomore Paige Fenerty, simply haven’t researched the issue.

“It probably should [matter], but I haven’t looked into it that much yet,” Fenerty said.

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Both candidates call education a priority as tuitions rise

First-time voters encourage others to choose wisely

For many University students, this election will be the their first time to cast a presidential ballot.

For agricultural business sophomore Gabe Stelly, this elec-tion is important to him because he feels like he finally has a voice.

Stelly said he has always been involved with politics on the lo-cal level by talking to people and expressing his views. He said he feels like he finally has a reason to campaign now that his vote counts this year.

He said it’s important for stu-dents to vote because their votes

could affect the job market and their opportunities for future ca-reers.

“This is your country and you are in college to get a job, but you might not have a job to get in four years when you graduate if you don’t go out and vote,” Stelly said.

Biology freshman David LaPlante also said it is students’ responsibilities to research the can-didates and figure out what they think is best.

He said even though each person only has one vote, talking to people could help others make decisions.

“You can actually sway a lot more votes than just your own. You

can campaign yourself,” LaPlante said.

Stelly said he has always paid attention to the news but has been particularly attentive during this election season.

He said much can be learned about a candidate from the debates by the amount of pressure the can-didates face.

“The president is always un-der pressure. That won’t change my vote, but it’s important to see how they act under pressure,” Stel-ly said.

However, LaPlante said he thinks the debates are subjective and there is no defined winner.

“Everybody wants to say that

whoever they decided on won the debate,” LaPlante said.

LaPlante said voting is more of a responsibility than a privilege, adding he hopes other students make their own decisions instead of relying on their parents or peers to make decisions for them. He said voting for the same candidate as one’s parents isn’t always a bad thing, and it can be completely just.

“I see it as a responsibility to absorb as much information as you can, but a lot of people are spoon-fed what they are going to vote by their parents and peers,” LaPlante said.

LaPlante said he was open-minded when he made his

decision, and he hopes other stu-dents will be, too.

He said he plans to watch the results alone because he doesn’t want to be ganged up on by people supporting a different candidate.

“It would be like watching the ’Bama game in the ’Bama section, especially if ’Bama wins,” LaPlan-te said.

Stelly said he plans to watch the election results with the Col-lege Republicans of Louisiana State University dressed as Ronald Reagan.

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Presidential candidates often make college campus campaign stops. Just this week, Republican candidate Mitt Romney [left] visited George Mason University on Monday, while President Barack Obama [right] visited the University of Cincinnati on Sunday.

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While a downtrodden economy and unemployment have been at the forefront of the 2012 presidential election, sensitive social issues have been knocked mostly to the back-ground.

But these issues often sway some voters, said Bob Mann, a University political communication professor and director of the Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs.

Mann said campaigns use issues such as opponents’ stances on abor-tion or marriage equality to “drive a wedge” between the voter and an op-posing candidate.

President Barack Obama is

pro-choice on abortion and has en-dorsed gay marriage, while Repub-lican candidate Mitt Romney is pro-life and against gay marriage.

Though Mann said abortion hasn’t intruded much in the cam-paign this year, it came to light in recent weeks when Obama criticized Romney’s endorsement of Indiana Senate contender Richard Mour-dock, who supports a ban on abor-tion, including pregnancies resulting from rape and incest because he said they are “something that God in-tended.”

By criticizing Romney for this, the Obama campaign is trying to portray Romney as far-right wing and drive a wedge between Romney and women voters, Mann said.

Though the Romney campaign says he disagrees with Mourdock’s remark, Romney has yet to withdraw his support.

On the other side, Mann said Romney has tried to focus on eco-nomic issues, steering away from approaching many social issues such as abortion.

“It’s not an issue that generally plays well for them with swing vot-ers,” Mann said.

Republicans, though, have changed their stances from far right in the Republican primaries to move more toward the middle ground. This may account for the reason Obama performed poorly in the first presidential debate, Mann said.

While some people say they

vote solely on certain sensitive issues deeply affecting them — known as “single issue voters” — this is prob-ably not entirely true, Mann said.

“People who say they’re ‘single issue voters’ aren’t really ‘single is-sue voters,’” he said, explaining the “single issue” is just a “proxy” for other grievances people have against candidates.

Creative writing and psychol-ogy junior Hannah Marks said vot-ers should not base their decisions on single issues, but she respects that it’s their right to vote how they choose.

“It’s not fair for other people to say one issue is important enough,” she said. “But if that’s the most im-portant thing for them, then that’s

what they should vote for.”Political science senior Megan

Lassere had similar sentiments, say-ing it can be “narrow-minded” to vote on single issues.

“People should take more issues into consideration,” Lassere said.

Overall, social issues haven’t been a huge topic this election sea-son and probably won’t be deciding factors for most voters, Mann said.

“These ‘wedge’ issues that are used to scare voters sort of recede into the background when we’re talking about people’s jobs and future and health of the nation,” he said.

Chris GrillotStaff Writer

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“I went to a number of wom-en’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ And they brought us whole binders full of — of women.”

-Mitt Romney (Oct. 16, 2012)

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“If I blindfolded Americans and took them into some of the airports or ports in China, and then took them to one in any one of your cities in the middle of the

night just so that they could see it and then said, ‘Which one is an American? Which one is in a city in America, and which one’s in China?’ most Americans would say, ‘Well, that great one is in America.’ It’s not.”

-Joe Biden (June 15, 2012)

“We know that Pakistan has arrested the doctor who helped us catch Obama’s — bin Laden.”

-Bob Schieffer, moderator (Oct. 22, 2012)

“Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets — [laughter] — because the nature of our military’s changed.”

-Barack Obama (Oct. 22, 2012)

Candidates avoid discussing sensitive social issues

Debate gaffes give entertainment, no matter the party

compiled by CAITLIN MCCORD / Contributing Writer

As short as two elections ago, no one had to — or even could — worry about keeping up with a po-litical candidate on Twitter. Since then, social media has grown to be a signifi cant element of cam-paigns.

Bob Mann , mass communica-tion professor and director of the Reilly Center for Media and Pub-lic Affairs , said in previous elec-tions most campaigns viewed so-cial media as a way to share things such as advertisements and news releases .

Now campaigns value social media because it provides a way to connect with and listen to the electorate, Mann said.

“It’s not a superfi cial thing, it’s not a toy — it’s a true and very effective way of creating relation-ships and something worth spend-ing a lot of money on,” Mann said.

Mann said the relatively re-cent inclusion of social media in campaigns is signifi cant because it can empower voters .

“It used to be that the cam-paigns were much more command and control where the decisions were being made by a small cote-rie of people,” he said.

Mann said most campaigns are still run this way , but smarter ones take voters’ ideas into ac-count . Technological novelties like social media have made this easier , he said.

He cited former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s 2004

presidential bid , during which Dean polled supporters online about whether he should accept federal matching funds for his campaign , as an early example of technology permitting voters’ opinions to impact campaign de-cisions .

“You can imagine the power that people feel when they’ve ac-tually been asked for their opinion, and their voice actually counted, and they feel like they played some role in the campaign,” Mann said.

Social media can also pro-mote political conversations and expose some users to information and opinions they may not have encountered otherwise, Mann said.

“It may be that they fi nd that they’re talking about the race amongst their friends in ways they never did before,” he said.

Mann pointed out that so-cial media is especially useful for communicating with young people who are otherwise diffi -cult to reach because they tend not to have landline phones and are more transient .

But not all young people con-sult social media for information about the election. Criminology sophomore Patrick McWilliams said he does not use social media to learn about issues or candidates .

“I don’t follow any of the candidates or anything like that because it’s hard to separate the truth and what’s the embellish-ments — what they want you to hear so you’ll elect them,” he said.

Instead, McWilliams said he usually visits websites like PolitiFact.com to research and form opinions on political mat-ters.

And even among those who do follow political candidates us-ing social media, there are those who do not actually support that candidate.

A 2012 study conducted by University political science pro-fessor Belinda Davis and Public Policy Research Lab operations manager Michael Climek report-ed “while the [President Barack] Obama campaign’s dominance in social networking is well es-tablished, it does not necessarily translate into voter support among young voters.”

The study also found no sta-tistically signifi cant difference be-tween the number of Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney supporters among young likely voters who use social media as a source of news .

Still, Mann said websites and social media have offered cam-paigns a base from which to draw volunteers.

For instance, many can-didates’ websites, including Obama’s and Romney’s , feature online calling tools that allow sup-porters to make phone calls for the campaign from any location .

“I’m thinking about some-one who is a Democrat in Baton Rouge or some heavily Repub-lican area who might be able to do online help for Obama, for example, in ways she couldn’t

a few years ago because there wasn’t a campaign here, there wasn’t anybody to talk to, there wasn’t anybody to connect with to get involved with the campaign,” Mann said. “And suddenly, you’ve got all these different ways online to fi nd like-minded people

and connect with them.”

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Religious students call economy most important

Though social issues are im-portant when making a voting decision, many religious students say the economy is ultimately the deciding factor in today’s presi-dential election.

“The No. 1 issue to me is, of course, the economy and the national debt. Social issues re-ally aren’t that big of a deal to me right now ,” said political science senior Cameron Cooke , member of the Baptist Collegiate Minis-try .

Cooke said if the economy was better, he would value social issues more than fi scal matters.

Cooke said he will vote for Republican presidential candi-date Mitt Romney today, not be-cause he is his fi rst choice, but because he agrees with Romney on most issues.

Cooke said he looks at which candidate would line up most with Christ’s teachings in the Bi-ble, specifi cally those concerning abortion and gay marriage.

“I’m not going to say Jesus would be Republican, because that’s ridiculous ,” Cooke said. “We as Christians are obligated to search through the Scripture to decide what it is that Christ would see as appropriate and rep-resent what being Christian is all about .”

Cooke noted that though he believes marriage is a church matter, he believes Christ would still embrace the LGBTQ

community.“It’s a hard line to walk, but

I do believe with pro-choice and homosexuality [stances], Christ would be adamantly against. He would say to love one another, and not damn people to hell ,” Cooke said.

Cooke said he would only vote for a candidate who is pro-choice in rare circumstances.

“It would take a lot in me ,” he said. “It would have to be very serious .”

Jessica Waggoner , communi-cation disorders junior , also said the economy is the most impor-tant issue in the election, but she said she wouldn’t vote for a candi-date who doesn’t believe what she does.

W a g g o n e r said her Christian faith helped her make the decision to vote for Rom-ney , though she doesn’t agree with everything he stands for.

“I want things to change. I don’t feel there are a lot of jobs left right now ,” she said.

Waggoner said she is pro-life like Romney , but she is mainly voting for him because he will try to repeal the Affordable Care Act .

Alise Vedrenne , communica-tion disorders senior , said social issues are most important to her, only after the economy.

“[Romney ] more agrees with me on social issues, like the pro-life thing. I’m just ready for a change ,” Vedrenne said.

Vedrenne said her Catholic faith has helped shaped her views

on abortion. She said she would only vote for a pro-choice can-didate if she mostly agreed with every other stance.

“My faith doesn’t affect ev-erything. My faith mainly just affects the pro-life/pro-choice as-pect of the elections ,” Vedrenne said.

Allen Mire , English junior , said he will vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein because he doesn’t agree much with either President Barack Obama or Rom-ney , though he prefers Obama .

“There really isn’t a negative for me voting my values in the elec-tion ,” Mire said. “There’s a snow-ball’s chance in Louisiana for Obama to win .”

Mire at-tends the Unitar-ian church, and said though he’s not sure where he stands ethi-cally on abortion,

he feels that the government shouldn’t regulate something that could be dangerous if made ille-gal.

The self-proclaimed human-ist said social issues like abor-tion should be cultural issues, not government problems.

Mire also said it is interest-ing that the “religious right” have

gotten behind Romney because there were questions about his Mormon faith in the primaries.

“It’s kind of amazing he was able to beat both [Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann ] to be-come the nominee,” Mire said.

Mire said Republicans may have supported Romney because his campaign was centered on economic issues and not social issues.

Harrison Winslow , an atheist and biology major, said social is-sues are “ruled a lot by people’s

beliefs .”Winslow said he will most

likely vote for Obama today, but he may vote for Gary Johnson . He said social issues are particu-larly important in his decision-making.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks with congregants as he leaves the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Oct. 21 in Boca Raton, Fla.

Social issue views formed by faith

‘� e No. 1 issue to me is, of course, the economy and the national debt.

Social issues really aren’t that big of a deal

to me right now.’ Cameron Cooke

political science senior and member of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry

University minority students overwhelmingly look to President Barack Obama as the presidential candidate who can deliver equal rights — a top voting issue for them this election cycle.

“The Republican Party is on the wrong side of history as far as LGBTQ and women’s rights go,” said Hope Phelps, an English and psychology senior and the fund-raising director for LSU’s Femi-nists in Action.

Young people care more about social issues than issues like the economy because social issues af-fect them more, Phelps said.

She is passionate about wom-en’s rights for many reasons, but mainly, this election year is the fi rst time an issue has affected her personally.

“I no longer have to pay $200 a month for birth control,” Phelps said, referring to the Affordable Care Act.

According to Phelps, free or affordable birth control is an im-portant part of women’s rights because unplanned pregnancies set women back. Also, more un-planned pregnancies lead to more abortions, Phelps said.

Phelps said she was confused about Republican presidential can-didate Mitt Romney’s stance on women’s rights, but said Obama’s support for equal rights for men and women is clear.

Another factor in Phelps’ deci-sion to vote for Obama is the nu-merous Republican congressmen who have been making comments about rape, which Phelps said has exacerbated the problem.

Stefano West, a kinesiol-ogy senior, is Latino and racially mixed. West also identifi es as a gay male.

“If I had to pick one issue, LG-BTQ rights is defi nitely it,” West

said. “The economy will always be up and down, and people will always fi nd ways to make more money. But you can’t have ups and downs like that with people’s lives and people’s happiness.”

Like Phelps, West said Obama shows clear support for minor-ity rights, but Romney’s stance is vague.

“With Romney, the movement would not progress. It would prob-ably stay the same, but it might get worse,” West said.

West said that the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Obama’s support for Pride month are two in-stances that show the president’s support for LGBTQ rights.

Romney’s offensive state-ments about minorities in the viral video made at a private fundraiser earlier this year showed his true opinion on minorities, West said.

Although West said most of his friends support his status as a minority, there is tension with his friends who don’t share his perspective on the presidential candidates.

“When people I know say they’re voting for Romney, I won-der if my rights matter at all to them,” West said.

Estefania Reichard, an inter-national studies senior and presi-dent of the Hispanic Student Cul-tural Society, said she will not vote for Romney because his higher socioeconomic status makes him unaware “of the struggles that the common member of the working class and middle class both feel.”

Supporting the Patient Protec-tion and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, Reichard supports women’s health issues, the belief that birth control should be free and is in favor of Obama’s view on education.

Despite planning to vote for Obama, Reichard acknowledges Romney’s “business savvy,” but stressed that “society isn’t a busi-ness” and that Romney has to learn to relate to every group in America

to be president.“He can run a company or a

business, and knows how to invest and make millions and billions of dollars, but what can he do for me being a student, a woman, a wom-an of color and being in a working class?” Reichard asked.

Acquiring a quality education and education funding are some of the most important issues for African-American students, said Kendale Thompson, political sci-ence senior and vice president of the Black Student Union.

“Education is the tool and the vehicle that will help us progress because even though we have pro-gressed, not much progression has happened, and when we do prog-ress we’re also getting a fall back,” Thompson said. “If you improve education, you improve the insti-tution which, in turn, will improve the community.”

Although Thompson said his parents are capable of paying for his tuition, he supports Obama’s federal stimulus package and dis-agrees with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s decision to reject the package.

Thompson said graduate

students are unable to receive many of the grants they earned previ-ously due to Jindal’s decisions, and now these students struggle to pro-vide money they do not possess.

“If I had to pick a candidate, I would have to choose President Obama because he seems like the candidate that’s more into improv-ing education and the develop-ment of students and making it affordable for them because not every student can go to their parent and ask them to pay for school,” Thompson said.

A registered Democrat,

Thompson said he’s willing to vote for a candidate from either major party as long as the views they sup-port positively affect his own.

“If Romney was a whole lot more pro-education, if he had poli-cies that in my view helped the bet-terment of Americans as a whole, then I might vote for him even though he’s Republican,” he said.

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Only three-quarters of the way through his college career, John Parker Ford landed a job as the director of collegiate relations with Cain’s Solutions and put his college education on hold in order to participate in national politics.

Ford spent the past 11 months helping former Republican presi-dential candidate Herman Cain’s campaign for Republican presi-dential candidate Mitt Romney.

As a college student, Ford said he was amazed to be offered the job after working for Louisi-ana Gov. Bobby Jindal in 2007 and 2011.

“I wouldn’t have even thought for applying for this job by myself,” he said.

Ford took the job even though he had to put off his college ca-reer and move to Atlanta. He felt working for a high-profile nation-al candidate would be more ben-eficial than keeping school as his first priority.

“It would have been almost stupid to not take this job, espe-cially since I’m working even be-fore I’ve graduated,” Ford said.

He said his interest in politics began during his freshman year in 2008 when the election dominated the news cycle.

Ford was just beginning to pay attention to news on his own then, after leaving his parents’ house where politics were not a topic of conversation.

His parents are both conserva-tives, and while Ford said that was the jumping-off point for his own views, he continues to develop his personal politics through reading the newspaper and keeping up with current policy.

College, his reading and the people he has met have shaped

Ford’s now more moderate view-point, but he still supports conser-vative ideals.

His favorite candidate in the presidential race was U.S. Ambas-sador to China Jon Huntsman Jr., who has been called a moderate conservative and has called for a third party to even out the U.S. po-litical system.

While working for Cain’s campaign was not a dream of Ford’s, it helped him realize he doesn’t mind working the 14-hour days campaigning requires as long as he’s invested in something he loves.

Ford is enrolled in one online course right now and will return to the University for the spring semester.

From January until July, Ford arranged events, especially on college campuses, for Cain as he campaigned for Romney and oth-er Republican candidates.

From July until last Friday, Ford’s job was arranging a 30-col-lege tour in mostly swing states for a Cain initiative called “The College Truth Tour.”

Ford said he enjoyed having so much to do with a large cam-paign, and in an ideal world, he would combine his directorship with the College Truth Tour with the political message of the first seven months of his job.

“I loved parts of it, and I hat-ed some parts, but I got addicted,” Ford said about working in the po-litical world.

Ford said the events he worked on for the first half of his year focused on Republican solu-tions to national problems, and featured Cain giving a 45-minute speech with a question-and-an-swer session following.

The format of the College Truth Tour talks were simi-lar, Ford said, but the content

changed dramatically.Instead of solutions, Cain

spoke about nationwide problems.“Instead of saying, ‘Hey, go

vote,’ we were saying, ‘Hey, go vote, but make sure you’re in-formed,’” Ford said.

He took away two main points from the experience.

The crowd would get “turned off” when Cain began talking about social issues.

“You could see it in people’s faces,” Ford said.

The Republican Party “is los-ing a lot of support from young people and moderate older people — not because of stance, but be-cause of the way we present the stance,” Ford said.

He said the other side of this was the liberal faction who came with signs supporting President Barack Obama and sometimes “never raised them because they agreed with Cain.”

Ford doesn’t think the Col-lege Truth Tour changed much on a larger scale, but said it had an impact for the scale on which they worked.

He estimated the tour reached about 15,000 students.

“It’s a small piece in a huge picture,” Ford said.

His follow-up job until elec-tion day was to make sure the events mobilized students to vote, and produced results in the form of more registered voters.

Ford also helped write one of Cain’s messages.

“Cain doesn’t have speeches, he more takes a couple, maybe six bullet points, and talks about those,” Ford said. “I was able to write the summary for his mes-sage once.”

Ford said in the future, he would like to work for something in the private sector relating to public relations, or work on a low-er rung of the political ladder.

“I was able to do my job fine. I was competent, but I re-ally should not have been in that high of a position so young,” Ford said.

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Are you voting in the presidential

election?

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soon, and this election means a lot to me in terms of job

security and the

economy.’

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‘Yes. It’s my responsibility!’

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Student halts education to work for campaign

Student Government’s Offi ce of External Affairs has hosted a slew of activities over the past few months to encourage students to vote.

In partnership with Head-Count, a national organization that collaborates with musicians to promote participation in politics, Leslie Leavoy, mass communica-tion senior and SG’s director of External Affairs, held voter regis-tration drives for students for about six weeks during table-sits in Free Speech Plaza.

“We would have table-sits two or three times a week for about six weeks, and we would register at least 20 students every time, so we consider that a pretty good turn-out,” she said.

The University only allows registered student organizations to hold table-sits, so SG was an av-enue through which HeadCount held registration drives because HeadCount was not a registered student organization at the time, said Jonathan Brothers, psychol-ogy senior and HeadCount’s Baton

Rouge team leader and New Or-leans co-team leader.

Many students told Leavoy and Brothers they were already registered to vote, but many also asked about voting early, voting locations.

But when External Affairs noticed how many students asked about absentee voting, SG created the “How to Absentee Vote!” Face-book group page within the Uni-versity’s group pages. The page lists the Secretary of State websites for every state for students to learn how absentee ballots operate in their state.

“We got a really good response to that, and I think absentee ballots and voting early is becoming re-ally popular on college campuses,” Leavoy said.

Leavoy said she plans to study why students choose not to vote because the choice not to do so “irks” her.

“In national elections with the Electoral College at work, there is a sense that everyone knows how Louisiana is going to vote,” she said. “It’s been Republican for-ever, so everyone just assumes it’s going to go like that. Just because

it may or may not do that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise a fundamental right.”

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CANDIDATES IN THE CAPITAL CITY

[Top left] Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks to students on Sept. 28 in the LSU Union Theater. [Top right] Ron Paul delivers a speech to students on Sept. 23 in the LSU Union Theater. [Bottom left] Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney meets with his campaign supporters and Gov. Bobby Jindal on July 16 at the City Club in Baton Rouge. [Bottom right] Newt Gingrich speaks to the Baton Rouge Tea Party on March 22 in Dodson Auditorium.

SG member teams up with HeadCount to register voters

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From Big Bird to binders, In-ternet memes have catapulted the simplest of presidential utterings into web-wide satirical sensa-tions this political season.

After months of campaign-ing, one vice presidential debate and three presidential face-offs, the election has spurred loads of ludicrous material for the newest form of political commentary.

Here’s a recap of the most notable 2012 election moments through political memes.

“You didn’t build that”In July, President Barack

Obama spoke at Virginia rally and uttered four words that would follow him through the election: “You didn’t build that.” The pres-ident was referring to small busi-nesses relying on both individual ambition and public infrastruc-ture, but Republicans quickly pounced on the statement as a hostile ignorance to free market practices. The comment spawned a variety of memes, including Obama donned in a Pharaoh cos-tume yelling, “You didn’t build that” to Egyptian slaves working on pyramids.

“You didn’t have to cut me off” If the three presidential

debates were boxing matches, the

first was a knockout with the end-ing blow landing on the referee. Jim Lehrer, moderator of the first debate, struggled to tame the two presidential candidates, who of-ten ignored the docile host and constantly cut him off. The pain-ful interaction among the three men prompted the fusion of Leh-rer and Gotye’s face to create a spin on the signature “You didn’t have to cut me off” meme.

B for Budget CutsDuring the first presidential

debate, Republican candidate Mitt Romney spoke on govern-ment spending and his plan to end subsidies to PBS. The result? No home for Big Bird. The Inter-

Fans buy celebrity-endorsed perfumes, alcohol and clothing brands, but some even buy into celebrities’ presidential candidate endorsements.

With the presidential cam-paign drawing to a close, many celebrities have let fans know which candidate they’re support-ing. Endorsements have been de-clared over the past few months in the form of social media shout-outs, YouTube videos and cam-paign appearances.

Team Obama: Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Jay-Z, Will Ferrell, Julianne Moore, Neil Diamond, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Eva Longoria, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, George Clooney.

Team Romney: Kid Rock, Kelsey Grammar, Clint East-wood, Chuck Norris, Lindsay Lohan, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeff Foxworthy, Donald Trump, Jack Nicklaus, Ted Nugent, Gene Sim-mons, Adam Sandler.

Pop singer Katy Perry ap-pears to be dressing for her candi-date’s success. Perry has sported election apparel at several of her concerts in the past month. A blue dress featuring the “Forward” campaign slogan and a ballot frock with the Obama box se-lected have made Perry’s stance clear.

Clint Eastwood made a splash with his unorthodox endorsement of Mitt Romney at

EntertainmentTuesday, November 6, 2012 page 11

Celebrity opinions in�uence fan votingJosh NaquinEntertainment Writer

photo from of knowyourmemes.com

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s response about gender inequality in the workplace quickly went viral after the second presidential debate.

A look at the 2012 elections through Internet memes

MEMES, see page 19

CELEBRITY, see page 19

David JonesEntertainment Writer

The campaigning has been ugly, the debates felt more like one long episode of “The Real House-wives” than polit-ical powerhouse meetings and Jim Lehrer’s therapist probably put a down payment on a condo in Tahiti halfway through the first debate.

How does one deal with elec-tion night? The vice presidential

candidates are probably either kicked back at Dairy Queen with a Dilly Bar or pumping out another set at the gym. But what about ev-eryone else?

Naturally, like red-blooded Americans, many turned to drink-ing games for the debates. For some, it was a much needed way to calm their nerves and keep from pitching furniture at their televi-sion sets. For others, an alcoholic scavenger hunt was the only way to endure two hours of talking in circles about taxes and healthcare.

No matter their differences, Americans can agree: When it comes to the tough issues, it’s an American’s constitutional right to get wasted on Tuesday night.

DebateDrinking.com, has emerged as the leader in bipartisan boozing, posting rules for drinking games before every debate and us-ing Twitter and Ustream to keep score in real time. Similar lists have circulated all over the country, car-rying on the age-old tradition of coping with high-stress situations through organized binge drinking.

For those who are spending tonight camped out in front of a screen — TV, computer, phone, iPad or all of the above — here’s a little something to help you through it. Whether one sip, two sips or the whole drink, this is a roundup of some of the best election night drinking game rules around.

The Rules: Tune into your network of choice and break out your laptop. Use some, use all, or add your own.

Take one sip when: Take two sips when: Finish your drink when:

Election Night Drinking Game Rules

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Candidates’ quotes create viral sarcasm

photo illustration by CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille

KACI YODEREntertainment Writer

You hear any of the following words: ground game, �rewall, Sandy, photo ID, recount, youth vote, Obamacare, battle-ground, in-terest group.A state is declared red or blue.Any of the third party candidates are mentioned (Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson)Any of the swing states are mentioned by name (Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin).A past president is mentioned.

You hear any of the following words: voter suppression, Romnesia, elderly, Latino, �ve-point plan, liberal bias, Benghazi, marriage.A hologram appears.Paul Ryan’s workout photoshoot is shown.Someone criticizes Obama’s performance in the �rst debate.Someone brings up Romney’s “47 percent” comments.A candidate’s Twitter account posts a picture of the candi-date and/or his team watching the votes come in.Photos of Hurricane Sandy aftermath are shown.Anderson Cooper delivers a zinger.A person on your Facebook newsfeed threatens to leave the country.

You hear any of the following words: FEMA, Osama bin Laden, binders.The LSU/Alabama game is mentioned.Your candidate of choice wins a swing state.

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Anyone who has seen a dive knows what’s the most important to a good score — a small splash. But beyond that, who knows what to look for?

LSU senior diver Elle Schmidt and junior diver Daniel Helm know. The Tigers walked The Daily Reveille through some of diving’s fi ner points:

SportsTuesday, November 6, 2012 page 13

Read what went right and what went wrong for the Tigers in their 21-17 loss to Alabama at lsureveille.com/blogs.

FOOTBALL

Miles focuses on positives in loss Tigers look ahead to Saturday’s gameJames MoranSports Contributor

MILES, see page 15

Rather than focusing on the upcoming game against No. 22 Mississippi State , LSU coach Les Miles was forced to spend most of his media luncheon answering questions about the No. 9 Tigers’ 21-17 loss to No. 1 Alabama on Saturday .

Miles said his team played well despite the media portraying an Alabama victory as a “fore-gone conclusion.”

“I’m awfully proud of this team,” Miles said. “It’s an inter-esting thing when you pick up the newspaper and watch TV and no-body gives you a chance.”

Miles focused on some of the game’s positives.

“I thought the offense had a very productive night versus a very, very capable defense,” Miles said. “It was maybe [the offense’s] most complete game of the season.”

Several of the questions fo-cused on Miles’ play-calling against Alabama .

On fourth-and-12 from the Alabama 30 , Miles called a fake fi eld goal, but the Alabama de-fense was ready, and the play was stopped for a loss of two yards.

“We saw something we liked, and I wanted to go after it,” Miles said. “Maybe it was a little too aggressive.”

On the next drive, Miles sent out senior kicker Drew Alleman to attempt a 54-yard fi eld goal on fourth-and-4 . Alleman’s kick fell short of the goal post, one of the kicker’s two misses of the day.

Alleman is just 13-for-20 kicking fi eld goals this season, but Miles insisted that he isn’t planning to change kickers.

“I like Drew Alleman ,” Miles said. “He’s my kicker. I’ll take him. We’ll win a lot of games with him and we have won a lot of games with him.”

Miles said if given another opportunity, he and defensive coordinator John Chavis would not change the defensive play calls on Alabama’s fi nal drive, when the Tide went 72 yards in 43 seconds for the game-winning touchdown.

Miles acknowledged that the touchdown, a 28-yard pass from

THE ART OF DIVING

Tigers breakdown intricacies of the sport

Scott BransonSports Contributor

Tigers breakdown intricacies of the sport

1.“We do six dives in com-

petition and have to cover fi ve,” Schmidt said “Front, back, inward [standing backward but you dive in toward the board], gainer [standing frontward but you dive back into the board], and then a twisting cat-egory.”

Schmidt said LSU diving coach Doug Shaffer decides which dives the Tigers do in competition, and the list of dives is published well in advance of a meet.

The planning 2.The mindsetWhat do divers think about before taking the

plunge?“Nothing,” Helm said. “Once you get on the

board, you don’t really think. You just let your body do.”

Schmidt said she tries to focus on one thing be-fore each dive and lets the rest take care of itself.

“You try not to think of it all at once because if you did, it would seem psychotic,” Schmidt said.

3.The dive

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It doesn’t take long to fi gure out how a dive is going to pan out, Schmidt said.

“You know if you get a good takeoff whether it’s going to be good or bad,” Schmidt said.

Helm said if something doesn’t feel right, there’s only so much he can do before hitting the water.

“If your tops aren’t there or your spins aren’t there, you know you have to save it or cross your fi ngers and hope you go in on your head,” Helm said.

Schmidt said when divers enter the water like they’re supposed to, their hands hit fi rst and make a hole in the water for their body to pass through, and the conse-quences of making a mistake are immedi-ate.

“If you go in the water and something hurts, that’s a pretty good indication that it went wrong,” Schmidt said.

Helm said he knows right away if the dive is going to score well and that getting it just right “feels amazing.”

Each specifi c dive has its own degree of diffi culty, which determines a maximum score for each dive. After a dive, the degree of diffi culty is multiplied by the judges’ scores to fi nd the dive’s total score.

“Judges look for height, proximity to the board and splash,” Schmidt said. “Other than that, it’s form. If your legs are bent or your toes aren’t pointed, you’re going to get points off.”

Helm said the judging can start even before the diver reaches the end of the platform or springboard.

“Judging starts right when you get on the board, pretty much,” Helm said. “If you look funny on the board they’re already picking you away on it.”

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Only four days removed from watching former LSU standout Ryan Theriot propel his San Francisco Giants, the current batch of Tigers crowned a World Series champion of their own.

Behind two stellar pitching performances from junior Ryan Eades and freshman Russell Reynolds, the Gold team won the first two six-inning games and held off a furious Purple rally in the third game to capture the an-nual Purple-Gold World Series, concluding the Tigers’ six-week fall practice session.

“I think the past few weeks demonstrated that we can be out-standing in all phases of the game – hitting, pitching and defense,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said in a news release.

Eades pitched three score-less innings for the Gold team in Game 1, surrendering only one hit and striking out three.

Sophomore outfielder Chris Sciambra blasted a double off his high school teammate, sopho-more starting pitcher Aaron Nola,

to lead off the scoring for the Gold team in the second inning.

Breaking the game open in the sixth inning with four runs, the Gold team got RBIs from freshman shortstop Alex Breg-man and sophomore infielder Evan Powell after a double from junior infielder JaCoby Jones, giving Gold a 5-1 win.

Fresh off a neck injury last season that sidelined him for al-most the entire season, Sciambra added two RBI’s in Game 2 , im-pressing Mainieri with his speedy outfield play and plate discipline.

“Coming on the heels of such a serious injury, it warms your heart to see that young man playing at such a high level with-out being hesitant or tentative,” Mainieri said.

Reynolds and senior Brent Bonvillian impressed in Game 2, combining to allow only six hits in six total innings of work.

Highlighted by Sciambra’s two run-scoring hits, Gold held off Purple, which was boosted by a solo home run from junior infielder Christian Ibarra, by a score of 4-2.

Mainieri wanted his teams to play a full three-game se-ries, rather than a traditional three-game set where a winner is crowned after it has won two games. After Gold took the first

two games of the series, Purple needed to win the third game by more than seven runs in order to “win” the series.

Purple started Game 3 on a tear, shelling Gold junior starter Kurt McCune to the tune of six runs on six hits through one-and-a-third innings.

Led by a pair of RBI triples from freshman outfielder An-drew Stevenson and McMullen, coupled with senior outfielder Raph Rhymes’ two RBIs, Purple jumped out to a 6-1 lead and looked to spoil Gold’s first two wins.

But senior southpaw Chris Cotton shut Purple down, strik-ing out two of the four batters he faced in the sixth inning to pre-serve the game and series win for Gold, although losing the game 7-1.

“We had a very good fall, and I’m convinced we’ll be in the hunt for everything we’d like to accomplish this spring,” Mainieri said.

Clichés aside, Malik Morgan is living the dream.

The former John Curtis star who led the Patriots to the Class 2A state title last season is fol-lowing in his mother, Detra’s, footsteps as he tries to establish himself in Johnny Jones’ first season.

“My mom played volleyball here. She was an All [Southeast-ern Conference] player,” Morgan said. “I just wanted to come here and create my own legacy.”

Starring on two SEC Cham-pionship teams in 1985 and 1986, Detra Brown led LSU in kills, hitting percentage and digs in 1985, all the while influencing her son from childhood.

Although he committed un-der former coach Trent Johnson, Morgan said he never wavered in his pledge to the Tigers after Johnson bolted for TCU.

“I just wanted to play in my backyard,” Morgan said. “I al-ways felt like this was the school for me since I was young.”

Morgan’s loyalty to the stately oaks had wide-ranging implications, especially impress-ing junior guard Andre Stringer.

“I think it said a lot about his character,” Stringer said. “He wasn’t trying to be a selfish guy. I think that shows a commit-ment not to a coach, but to the school itself.

Carrying his passion for the purple and gold onto the prac-tice court, Morgan continues to impress Jones with his rapid pro-gression in transition into the col-lege game.

The transition looked seam-less Monday as Morgan poured in 18 points off the bench, knock-ing down all three of his three

point attempts in an exhibition against Arkansas-Monticello.

“Coming off the bench didn’t mean anything for me,” Morgan said. “I just wanted to stay fo-cused the whole game.”

Unsure of who will become the fifth starter before the team’s Nov. 9 opener against UCSB, Jones hinted that Morgan could take over the starting job at the wing, opposite Stringer.

“[Morgan] is very coachable and eager to learn,” Jones said. “He’s a lot farther along than I thought he’d be.”

Reigning praise upon his crew of teammates, Morgan said the talent he’s surrounded by is not only making him a better player, but providing a glimpse into the future.

“We have one of the best point guards in my eyes, [sopho-more Anthony] Hickey, one of the fastest point guards,” Morgan said. “We have one of the great shooters in Stringer on the other

wing … so we’re just going to run as hard as we can.”

Stringer said he’s been im-pressed with Morgan thus far in practice, specifically his nose for the ball and his ability to create open jumpers.

“He’s very explosive and a fast guy,” Stringer said. “He de-flects a lot of passes and gets a lot of rebounds, so I’ve seen a lot from him so far.”

Heading into the team’s ex-hibition against Arkansas-Monti-cello Monday, Morgan vowed to do whatever he could to ensure success.

“I think everyone under-stands what their role is and everyone understands what they can do,” Morgan said. “We’ve just got to play to each other’s strength.”

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LSU freshman guard Malik Morgan (right) maneuvers past an Arkansas-Monticello defender Monday during the Tigers’ 82-66 victory against the Boll Weevils in the PMAC.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints picked up a much-needed win.

For Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles, more misery.

Brees threw two touchdown passes, extending his NFL record streak to 51 games, and Patrick Robinson returned an interception 99 yards for a score to lead the Saints to a 28-13 win over the reel-ing Eagles on Monday night.

New Orleans (3-5), which bounced back from a dismal 34-14 loss at Denver, also got a 22-yard

touchdown run from Chris Ivory.The Eagles (3-5) lost their

fourth straight, which is sure to keep the heat on Vick and embat-tled coach Andy Reid. Vick threw a 77-yard touchdown pass to De-Sean Jackson in the third quarter, but that was about the only high-light for the visiting team which saw Vick sacked seven times.

Not that they didn’t have their chances. The Eagles had first-and-goal four times and managed only two field goals by Alex Henery. In fact, they were outscored in those situations, with Robinson going the other way for a touchdown just when it looked like Philadelphia

was on the verge of scoring.Rubbing salt in the wound,

Philadelphia squandered a chance to get back in the game with a bril-liant trick play on a kickoff return. Riley Cooper laid flat in the end zone, unseen by the Saints, then popped up to take a cross-field lat-eral from Brandon Boykin.

Cooper streaked down the sideline for an apparent touch-down. Only one problem — Boykin’s lateral was actually a forward pass by about a yard, ruin-ing the play with a penalty. Cooper stood with his hands on his hips in disbelief as the officials brought it back.

Philadelphia finished with 447 yards — the eighth straight team to put up more than 400 yards on the Saints. That was already the longest streak of 400-yard games given up by a defense since at least 1950, and maybe in the history of the NFL, putting New Orleans on pace to shatter the record for most yards allowed in a season.

But New Orleans came through where it mattered most, giving up a season low in points. Their previous best was a 31-24 victory over San Diego.

Philadelphia’s last gasp was a fourth-down pass that Vick threw away in the back of the end zone with 7 seconds left, apparently more concerned about avoiding another pick than tacking on a meaningless TD.

Brees kept his record touch-down streak going, hooking up with Marques Colston on a 1-yard

scoring pass and Jimmy Graham from 6 yards out.

The Saints quarterback fin-ished 21 of 27 for 239 yards, a big improvement on his 22-of-42 showing against the Broncos. Brees also got plenty of help from the running game, which came into the league ranked last in the league.

Ivory, Pierre Thomas and Mark Ingram combined for 136 yards, each breaking off double-digit gains.

The embattled Saints defense kept the heat on Vick and the beat-ing made it tough for No. 7 to es-tablish any rhythm. He finished 22 of 41 for 272 yards and really couldn’t be blamed for Robinson’s

interception, which went off the hands of tight end Brent Celek.

Celek had a tough night. He also lost a fumble deep at the New Orleans 8 with just over 3 minutes remaining, essentially ending any hope of a Philadelphia comeback.

junior quarterback A.J. McCar-ron to freshman running back T.J. Yeldon, was the result of a blown coverage.

LSU currently sits at No. 7 in the BCS standings. If the Tigers can win out, they have a good chance of making a BCS bowl.

Losses by one-loss teams like Georgia and Florida would help the Tigers’ chances.

“Let’s just see how this thing goes,” Miles said. “Can we end up in a BCS bowl? It certainly seems like a possibility.”

With the hopes of returning to the BCS National Champion-ship game all but gone, Miles said his team needs to move past the loss and focus on playing

Mississippi State on Saturday. “Today, we will watch that

film again and then beyond that, we are done,” Miles said. “You’re forgetting it. We’re tak-ing the positive and moving on and looking forward to playing a very capable team.”

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Today, I wasted my vote.While most Americans tra-

versed their polling stations with a clear intent to vote for either Presi-dent Barack Obama or his Repub-lican challenger Mitt Romney, I had a different plan in mind.

I voted third party. I voted for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.

The former governor of New Mexico isn’t the most popular or widely known candidate — he’s polled at only 6 percent across the nation. However, Johnson’s platform offers the kind of stark change we were promised four years ago, and it’s a change we need to embrace.

In the past 12 years, I’ve witnessed this nation move in a disturbing direction. Civil liber-ties have been rolled back at an alarming pace; we’ve involved ourselves in numerous foreign conflicts, all while sacrificing our ideals and morality; and the be-ginning of a sophisticated surveil-lance state has emerged to keep watch over us.

I never had a say in any of these policies until now.

Johnson has the strongest re-cord among every candidate on the ballot when it comes to civil liber-ties. In January, the American Civ-il Liberties Union gave Johnson the best score on its “Candidate Report Card on Civil Liberties.”

The Libertarian Party candi-date has voiced opposition to the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that al-lowed law enforcement to conduct warrantless searches, and the FISA Amendments Act, which expand-ed the National Security Agency’s ability to monitor Americans’ com-munications and gave telecommu-nications companies complicit in this act immunity from lawsuits.

Johnson is also the only major candidate who has stated he would never have signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA). The NDAA allowed the federal government to indefinitely detain anyone, including Ameri-can citizens, without a trial.

Similarly, Johnson is

bringing a sane and reasonable foreign policy to the table this election.

Johnson wants to bring the troops home from Afghanistan as soon as possible and to end Ameri-can military intervention around

the globe. He is also the only ma-jor candidate who is against the use of drones –– he claims they create more terrorists than they kill and that they harm too many innocent civilians.

Liberals can find comfort

knowing that Johnson, like most libertarians, rejects the social con-servatism that has come to domi-nate the Republican Party.

The libertarian has openly said gay marriage is a constitutionally protected right, he is pro-choice

— although he wants to ban late-term abortions — and he is willing to end the War on Drugs, which has succeeded only in making our prison population the largest in the world and ruining the lives of many nonviolent individuals.

This isn’t to say I agree with all of Johnson’s policies.

His desire to cut all govern-ment programs by 43 percent and replace the income and estate taxes with the Fair Tax, a single national consumption tax, seems a bit regressive for my tastes.

However, my vote for John-son is something of a strategic and symbolic gesture.

The Libertarian Party is the best hope for fiscal conservatism in America. Forgoing the social conservatism that, mark my words, will be defeated by history, the Libertarian Party is the conserva-tive foil needed to keep Democrats on their toes, especially in regard to civil liberties.

Unfortunately, as a third party, it has had to overcome obstacles just to get on the ballot. Johnson is only on the ballot in 48 of the 50 states, and he had to battle in the courtrooms just to get there.

Yet, if Johnson receives just 5 percent of the popular vote today, then the Libertarian Party will re-ceive equal funding and ballot ac-cess in all states in 2016.

This could help the Liber-tarian Party and, perhaps, other third parties like the Green Party emerge as contenders in national politics. Americans could even become enlightened as to how two party control limits their choices.

Either way, I owe it to many to vote for Johnson.

I owe it to Americans who fear their government’s encroach-ment on civil liberties, I owe it to those who’ve been beaten by the harsh drug laws in this country and I owe it to the innocent victims of drone strikes in the Middle East.

I wouldn’t waste my vote on anyone else.

David Scheuermann is a 20-year-old mass communication and computer science junior from Kenner.

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In response to the news story, “Don’t support the lesser of the two evils: Barack Obama,” read-ers had this to say:

“Ideally, you want to vote your conscience, but throwing

away your vote is not voting your conscience; it is merely wasting an opportunity.

Agreed that Obama has dis-appointed liberals like me in not acting to reverse the excesses of the Bush administration. How-ever, by not voting for the lesser of the two evils as you suggest,

you leave the field open to the greater evil. Consider the conse-quences when, in 2000, people of conscience voted for Ralph Nad-er because they thought Al Gore was beholden to special interests. We have been living with those consequences for twelve years.

That said, your review of the

issues was spot on.”- Biff

I was born into a conservative fam-ily with a racist uncle and a majority of closed-minded relatives, so I am relieved to have the parents I do.

My parents raised me to think for my-self and challenge my judgments, which have been two of the most important things I’ve learned in life.

I was never the best of sons, causing more trouble than not and breaking the rules more often than abiding by them, but I took those lessons to heart and put them to practice when I could.

With this election being my first, I challenged myself to stay informed so I could vote for the candidate I believed would serve the country the best – but I was unsure where to begin.

As a college student, I am concerned about the future and constantly worry-ing about the job market for graduates. I knew that in order to increase my chances of getting a job, I needed a president who respects market forces.

Unsure how either candidate would improve the market, I sought answers.

But before diving into the political scene, I defined exactly what I was look-ing for out of the next president.

I decided the candidate to win my vote would be the one who limits price controls, gives states the flexibility they need and recognizes the danger of taxes only to the rich – because a benefit distributed equally should be paid for equally, otherwise the concern for price is lost.

When it comes to fixing the economy, conventional wisdom would point to the conservative. But when Obama took office the market was spiraling down. He has since turned it around, so I didn’t fall for the commonwealth.

In fact, both candidates have eerily similar plans, and it proved difficult to find the difference. In the end, though, the dif-ference lies in funding, the limit of gov-ernment control and, of course, taxes.

The president’s plan is to implement more direct government employment at higher wages, more government contract-ing to enforce the higher wages and more government aid for college students to raise their average salaries.

But financial aid is more of a trap than a solution. It works by ensuring students are able to afford college, but it does not ensure that students will graduate. If the recipient drops out of school, he or she must begin paying back the loan immedi-ately.

But how can they when jobs are scarce? Isn’t the whole purpose of finan-cial aid is to increase job opportunities?

There’s still a possibility I won’t graduate. I hope that isn’t the case, but if it were, I would need a job more than ever.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney plans to reduce income taxes by 20 percent to increase consumer spending. A second-ary effect will be the promotion of small businesses, and more businesses means more jobs.

Romney’s plan addresses the issue indirectly. As a result, more jobs will be available whether a person holds a degree or not.

Moreover, in his book “No Apology,” Romney addresses his actions to handle education policy after becoming the gov-ernor of Massachusetts. He displays the ability to consume and synthesize infor-mation, suggesting he has the capacity to be the leader this country needs, and un-like any trite Republican we don’t need.

This is why Mitt Romney won my vote: The future he has planned is a future in which I see myself better off in four years.

Taylor Hammons is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Atlanta.

Barack Obama: My favorite secret Muslim.

Our president of the past four years has spent most of that time, like many politicians, being ridiculed by the oppos-ing party.

Despite the Republican effort, the odds are still in the president’s favor to win today’s election. Why? Because half the country still has faith in his policies and shares his ideals.

My vote for Obama wasn’t just a vote against Romney. I happen to agree with the president on most things, socially and economically.

Obama is pro-gay marriage, which seems to be gaining support among col-lege-aged students from both sides of the divide.

Let’s be honest. Those who oppose gay marriage are staving off the inevita-ble. In this country, we have separation of church and state. The state can’t touch the churches, but somehow the churches keep getting away with dictating federal policy.

Obama is also the candidate who has worked to improve women’s rights in the workplace. The president supports the Paycheck Fairness Act, which dictates that women would have to make the same as their male counterparts for the same job.

Obama is the candidate who is work-ing to continue funding to Planned Parent-hood, which, despite popular belief, is not a coal-fired baby furnace. But if it was, I’m sure it would be clean coal.

Planned Parenthood provides a mul-titude of women’s health services to low-income females.

Socially, we see eye to eye. Economi-cally, Obama’s policies make the most sense mathematically.

When people preach the glories of trickle-down economics, all I can picture is a bunch of rich old men dressed in tux-edos, twisting their unlit cigars and ad-justing their monocles, smugly saying, “I can’t believe they bought it.”

For the wealthiest proportion of our society to pay virtually no tax on the basis that capital gains aren’t actually income is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

Is there new cash in your pocket or more numbers in your account? If yes, then it’s taxable.

America was founded on the hatred of tax. There would have been no revolution without taxes.

Today, if even one new tax is pro-posed, people cry socialism.

However, in the 1950s when the tax rate was roughly 50 percent — depend-ing on the income bracket — nobody cried socialism.

It was America’s golden age, the height of McCarthyism and the fight

against the evils of communism. A social-ist takeover was a real threat, yet nobody associated the relatively high taxes of the day with being part of a socialist agenda.

Taxes were higher, yet President Eisenhower wasn’t called a socialist.

Obama is not a socialist. Democrats are not socialists.

Romney cannot balance a deficit –– in spite of his business background –– if he has no income tax to balance with.

And maybe for some Americans, that’s exactly what they’re looking for: a nongovernment, a literal stagnation of all progress and public services.

Is that what we want? A confederation of states each choosing whose rights to recognize and whose to repress?

That’s not the America I want to live in. There has to be some form of federal oversight. The states are supposed to be united, not independent.

To enjoy what the future has to offer, we cannot devolve to the ways of the past.

Parker Cramer is a 21-year-old political science senior from Houston.

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the GOP convention. The Hol-lywood giant mocked an empty chair occupied by an imaginary President Obama. The off-the-wall endorsement tactic drew criticism, compliments and the ire of comedians.

Will Ferrell lent his come-dic brand to a YouTube video, proclaiming he will do anything to get people to cast their votes on Nov. 6. “I will personally give

you a tattoo,” Ferrell unflinch-ingly promised. “Fair warning, I do not know how to draw.” Fer-rell concludes the video by tell-ing viewers a vote for Obama is a “slam dunk.”

Laura Johnson, mathematics junior and Will Ferrell fan, said she can’t help being influenced by Ferrell’s endorsement video.

“I love Will Ferrell,” John-son said. “I’m not a supporter of Obama, but Will liking him does make me want to listen to him more.”

Johnson said the celebrity endorsements, and ensuing press coverage, serve as an affirmation of the stars’ importance in realms outside of the entertainment in-dustry.

“It strengthens the notion that celebrities are more than people, that their opinions mean more than mine or yours,” John-son said.

Kara Samson, sociology de-partment administrative coordi-nator, said stars should keep their political opinions to themselves as they may discourage voters from researching candidate plat-forms.

“There are lots of not well-informed people that will follow the decisions of celebrities they like instead of doing their home-work,” Samson said.

CELEBRITY, from page 11

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Katy Perry performs Saturday before President Barack Obama arrives at a campaign event in Milwaukee.

net exploded with pictures of a sullen Big Bird looking for work and cursing Romney. One meme showed the iconic bird spelling what could possibly be its last “letter of the day,” B for Budget cuts.

ERMAHGERD WORMERNThe second debate brought

on, arguably, the most prolific one-liners of the campaign sea-son. When asked about gender inequality in the workplace, Romney retorted by saying he had “binders full of women” to choose from when trying to staff his governor’s cabinet with fe-male executives. The line instant-ly became a subject of late-night punch lines and numerous meme adaptations, one in particular be-ing the ERMAHGERD girl.

Inappropriate Timing BillThe 1988 political sex scan-

dal involving Monica Lewinsky and former President Bill Clin-ton makes him a certified expert on binders full of women, right? Well, according to the Internet, Clinton wants to know more.

Hey Girl, Paul Ryan “Gosling”The election heated up when

Romney nominated 42-year-old Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate. Some female vot-ers became more interested in Paul’s physical attributes than his view on fiscal policy. The new election heartthrob was eventu-

ally dubbed Paul Ryan “Gos-ling,” which launched a series of remixed “Hey Girl” memes.

Laughing Joe Biden Viewers of the one and

only vice presidential debate may have been left wondering why Vice President Joe Biden couldn’t stop laughing. The 69-year-old politician grinned, sneered and repeatedly interrupt-ed his younger counterpart Ryan, leaving a distasteful impression

on Republicans and Independent voters. Biden’s antics inspired reams of “what makes Biden laugh memes.” Hint: Biden finds everything funny.

photos from of knowyourmemes.com

President Barack Obama uttered these four words in July at a rally in Virginia. They followed him through the election season and turned into viral Internet memes.

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