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On-campus observatory lets students see planets up closeASTRONOMY

TRAFFIC

Study shows red-light cameras effectiveRachel WarrenStaff Writer

A national study released by the Virginia-based Insurance In-stitute for Highway Safety shows red-light cameras are effective in preventing fatal car crashes.

A news release from East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden’s offi ce summarized the study, which found “red-light enforce-ment cameras saved 159 lives over a fi ve-year period in 14 U.S. cities.”

The study concluded the total number of fatal red-light running crashes decreased by 35 percent in those 14 cities from 2004 to 2008,

CAMERAS, see page 7

The moon is huge from up close.

The straight line of a lunar morning cuts across the surface, running like a ruler’s edge out of the top and bottom of view.

From this close, the Man on the Moon’s face looks badly in need of acne medicine.

Craters bigger than Louisiana pockmark the surface. From above, they look like sand splattered by drops of water. The ridges of the deeper pits near the slowly-re-ceding dark side trap the sunlight, casting black shadows that pool

in their depths.The moon’s eyes and mouth

are fl at wastes of dark gray rock. They are sweeping plains of cooled basalt that bubbled up in the moon’s youth, when meteors gouged gap-ing chunks in the surface.

For a few dozen students tak-ing astronomy classes at the Uni-versity, the view is like they’re hovering in space.

In fact, they are on the roof of Nicholson Hall , in the Landolt As-tronomical Observatory .

“It’s just like fl ying over the surface yourself,” said Bradley Schaefer , University astronomy professor and Observatory direc-tor.

Schaefer threw one of his monthly “star parties” at the ob-servatory Saturday, giving students and the general public a chance to see stars and planets up close

through the Landolt telescope.Built in 1939 , the Observatory

fell into disrepair in the early ’90s . When it was refurbished in 2005 , it was named after Arlo Landolt , the longtime core of the University’s Astronomy Department.

On the outside, the Observato-ry is an unassuming green dome on top of Nicholson. On the inside, it looks like a science-fi ction movie.

The long brass tube of the tele-scope dominates the room, stretch-ing upward through a narrow slit in the roof.

The room is lit only by two dim, red light bulbs meant to pre-serve viewers’ night vision.

With the press of a button, gears whirl to life. The dome slow-ly rotates into position, its narrow slit pointing toward Jupiter.

Monthy ‘star parties’ open to public Matthew AlbrightStaff Writer

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A student peers into a telescope Saturday at the Astronomy Department’s “star party” outside Nicholson Hall. The Observatory was built in 1939 and refurbished in 2005.OBSERVATORY, see page 7

Late Sunday night, nearly 40 couples gathered around the base of the Memorial Tower, eagerly waiting for the clock to strike midnight.

The bells didn’t chime this year, but the students still sealed their love

with a kiss, becoming offi cial Uni-versity “co-eds.”

“The tradition is, if a couple kisses beneath the bell tower at mid-night on Valentine’s Day, they be-come an offi cial co-ed,” said Emily Smith, LSU Liaison and marketing sophomore.

Smith said though she has never

witnessed it, the campanile is said to deviate from the traditional “West-minster Quarters” chimes on Feb. 14 to play famous love songs. The Daily Reveille reported in 2008 the clock tower serenaded couples with “Love Me Tender” and “The Way You Look Tonight.”

Seth Guidry , history and

traditions coordinator for the STRIPES program, said Valentine’s Day is the one time of year the bells chime past 10 p.m.

“Nowadays, the co-ed rule is not as strictly enforced, but it still remains a popular tradition for

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Students kiss in front of Memorial Tower in 2009 to celebrate the start of Valentine’s Day. The tradition is part of the University’s rich history, but its origin is unclear.

Tower of Love

Memorial Tower midnight kiss continues as amorous Valentine’s Day tradition

TRADITION, see page 7

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Egypt’s military rulers dissolve parliament, suspend constitution

ROME (AP) — More than 100,000 Italian women and their supporters turned out across the country to pro-test against Premier Silvio Berlusco-ni, saying his dalliances with young women humiliate the sex as a whole and degrade female dignity.

Backers of the 74-year-old Ber-lusconi, who is under investigation for allegedly paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl, dismissed the pro-tests as strictly political.

The teenager, a Moroccan night club dancer, has said Berlusconi lav-ished cash and jewelry on her. Both deny having had sex with each other.

Thousands of Italian women rally to denounce Premier Berlusconi

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer of New York warned on Sunday that national air safety regu-lations proposed after a Buffalo air-liner crash two years ago are being watered down in Washington.

Schumer told The Associated Press that he will call on the Fed-eral Aviation Administration to fi ght what he says are industry efforts to weaken the August 2010 regula-tions. The rules are aimed at keeping drowsy or overworked pilots out of cockpits.

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A news release from the police department said Latoya Carney was arrested Saturday and charged with helping her 15-year-old son evade arrest after he escaped from the Youth Study Center Friday night.

Police said they went to Car-ney’s home after the boy’s escape. Police believe the boy was inside the home, but Carney allegedly lied about her son having already left while he escaped out a window to evade the police.

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The Vindicator in Youngstown reports an estimated 1,800 people attended a memorial service Sat-urday for 25-year-old Youngstown State University senior Jamail Johnson. He was killed last week-end in a shooting at a fraternity house party that left 11 injured.

Prostitution isn’t a crime in Italy, but paying a minor for sex is. Prosecutors are requesting to put him quickly on trial in what has been the most sensational probe against Berlusconi in over a decade of crim-inal cases against him, mainly for dealings in his billion-dollar empire of TV, fi lm, advertising and other business interests.

The premier, who willingly ac-knowledges his fondness for pretty young women and is being divorced by his wife for his purported dalli-ances, claims he is being victimized by left-wing prosecutors.

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People march against Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi during a protest in Rome on Sunday. Thousands of women turned out in 200 Italian cities to denounce what they say is Berlusconi’s debasing of females.

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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s military leaders dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution Sunday, meeting two key demands of pro-testers who have been keeping up pressure for immediate steps to tran-sition to democratic, civilian rule after forcing Hosni Mubarak out of power. The military rulers who took over when Mubarak stepped down Friday and the caretaker govern-ment set as a top priority the resto-ration of security, which collapsed during the 18 days of protests that toppled the regime.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authori-ties say a 54-year-old man collapsed during Sunday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Mardi Gras Marathon and was revived by bystanders.

New Orleans Emergency Medi-cal Services spokesman Jeb Tate said emergency technicians arrived to fi nd bystanders performing life sav-ing procedures on the runner, who regained a pulse and started breath-ing on his own.

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University enrollment has in-creased since spring 2010 but de-creased by 1,567 full and part-time undergraduate students since last semester, according to the Office of Budget and Planning.

The Office of Budget and Planning makes an enrollment re-port of full and part-time students in each college on the 14th class day every semester.

Ernie Ballard, director of me-dia relations, said in an e-mail that spring enrollment decreases from the fall because of December grad-uates and few incoming freshman.

“This past December, LSU graduated 1,603 students,” Ballard said.

Despite a decrease in enroll-ment since the fall semester, the University’s enrollment for spring

2011 increased by 695 un-d e r g r a d u a t e students from spring 2010.

The Of-fice of Budget and Planning expected the increase in stu-dents to mirror the increase from the fall semester, said Robert Kuhn, associate vice chancellor of Budget and Planning.

“ T h e spring is three percent above

last spring just like the fall was three percent above the fall of 2009,” Kuhn said in an e-mail.

Kurt Keppler, vice chancel-lor of Student Life and Enrollment Services, said in an e-mail that the University’s freshman class in fall 2010 had about 700 more students than fall 2009.

The University currently has 27,027 undergraduate and graduate students and has increased by 766 students since spring 2010, accord-ing to the report.

The University’s number of graduate students has also in-creased since spring 2010 by 44 students, according to the report.

The largest undergraduate colleges are University Center for Freshman Year with 4,614,

Humanities and Social Sciences with 3,952 and Engineering with 2,751 students, according to the report.

The largest graduate colleges are the College of Science with 678 students, Humanities and Social Sciences with 643 and E.J. Ourso College of Business with 600 stu-dents, according to the report.

Keppler said the University is reviewing strategies to increase the retention rate of these students with the newly created Retention Committee.

“The University is very com-mitted to doing everything we can to increase retention rates,” Kep-pler said.

The committee was formed in January and comprises students,

faculty and staff from all areas of the University, said Saundra Mc-Guire, assistant vice chancellor for learning, teaching and retention in Student Life and chairman of the Retention Committee.

“The Retention Committee is a group of people that has been put together to improve retention until graduation,” McGuire said.

McGuire said only 62 percent of students who begin as full-time freshmen graduate from the Uni-versity within six years.

“We are looking at why stu-dents aren’t graduating at a rate we would like them to be,” McGuire said.

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BUDGET AND PLANNING

Numbers decrease from fall semester Celeste AnsleyStaff Writer

Enrollment rises since spring 2010

Contact Celeste Ansley at cansley@lsureveille.com

graphic by MATTHEW JACOBS / The Daily Reveille

‘The spring is three percent

above last spring just like the fall was three percent

above the fall of 2009.’

Robert Kuhnassociate vice

chancellor of Budget and Planning

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Everyone at the University is sick of hearing about budget cuts.

Keirston Besse was so sick of it, she left.

The former theatre major attended the University for five semesters before she decided a degree from a dwindling program with constantly looming budget cuts was no longer worth her time and money.

Her decision may have come at the right time. The Board of Regents released a list Jan. 26 of low-completer programs that might be up for elimination. Thirty-four University programs were on the list, including both theatre graduate programs — the Master of Fine Arts program and the Doctor of Philosophy in The-atre program.

“This is the second round of budget cuts LSU is about to go through, and our department had already been downsized,” Besse said. “It was kind of just my awakening to say, well, if the department’s going to be down-sized again, the degree from it is not worth it — because I can get a far more stable and well-rounded training from a program where if I say I have a degree from there, the response is, ‘Oh, that’s a fab-ulous department,’ not, ‘Oh, they don’t have a department any-more.’”

Keeping the theatre pro-grams off the chopping block has become a priority for Laurence Kaptain, dean of the College of Music and Dramatic Arts.

“In the case of the MFA and PhD programs in theatre, the en-rollments and graduation rates only tell a part of the story,” Kap-tain said in an e-mail to faculty, staff and students in the depart-ment.

The numbers actually paint a somewhat skewed picture of the department’s success. The nature of the MFA program requires that it graduate a group of stu-dents every other year, according to Kristin Sosnowsky, associate professor and interim chair for the Department of Theatre. The Board of Regents defines a pro-gram as low-completer based on its average graduation rate over a three-year period.

“If you take a three-year av-erage, and the three years happen to be years that there’s only one class graduating, then you have an unusually low number,” Sos-nowsky said.

The department has

developed a response to the low-completer list, according to Sos-nowsky, which the Board of Re-gents will evaluate between Feb. 28 and April 18.

While the Theatre Depart-ment has developed creative ways to deal with its already-reduced budget, it can only maintain its hyper-efficiency for so long.

“It’s very hard to keep do-ing things on a shoe-string bud-get,” said Neal Hebert, a gradu-ate teaching assistant working toward his doctorate of philoso-phy in theatre and former Daily Reveille opinion editor.

Because many theatre graduate students like Hebert

teach undergraduate courses, the loss of graduate programs would deplete the quality of the entire department and the University as a whole, Hebert said.

“The MFAs and Ph.D.s, all together, teach like 1,000 stu-dents every semester,” said Nick Rhoton, a graduate teaching as-sistant pursuing his MFA in act-ing. “And if we go away, there’s no one to teach those. If you want to keep those classes, you have to hire faculty.”

Paying a faculty member is more costly than paying a gradu-ate student, Hebert said.

“A Ph.D. student is signifi-cantly cheaper than a tenured

faculty member,” Hebert said. “Five of us cost about what one tenured faculty member would cost.”

While Sosnowsky said she

believes the programs’ contri-bution to the community and University will ensure their place in the department, its uncertain future is sending students like Besse away from the University and out of the state. Besse plans to move to New York in June to attend a two-year conservatory-style acting program.

“Classes at LSU that should have been offered every semester are being offered every other se-mester or once every two years,” Besse said. “The professors are great, and the actual courses are great, but you’re not getting ev-erything you can out of them be-cause of the budget. You’re hurt-ing your own education.”

BUDGET CUTS

Theatre programs among Regents’ low completersDept. sees decline in doctoral students

Annie Hundley Chief Copy Editor

ANNIE HUNDLEY / The Daily Reveille

University graduate assistant Nick Rhoton teaches an introduction to acting class Feb.1 in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.

Contact Annie Hundley at ahundley@lsureveille.com

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories looking at 34 University programs under scrutiny. The Board of Re-gents, the body that oversees the state’s higher education system, labeled those programs “under-performing” Jan. 26.

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The concept of recycling is not novel. Bra recycling, how-ever, is a new trend with a chari-table cause.

Elaine Birks-Mitchell found-ed Bra Recyclers in October 2008 after she realized there was a need in her communi-ty. Birks-Mitchell began calling lo-cal shelters to see if residents need-ed bras.

“I had about a dozen bras in my drawer with tags on them still,” Birks-Mitchel l said.

Birks-Mitch-ell describes The Bra Recyclers as a business that “fell into [her] lap.”

The Bra Recyclers strives to supply bras to needy women around the country and abroad, Birks-Mitchell said.

“Having a bra is pretty im-portant,” said Shelly Gonsoulin, history sophomore. “I think it’s a great idea, especially if they’re nicer and might last longer.”

The Bra Recyclers is also a textile recycling company, Birks-Mitchell said. They donate usable

bras and recycle worn-out bras to fund the com-pany.

The Bra Re-cyclers currently have drop-off locations in 11 states and Puer-to Rico where women can take their unwanted bras, according to their website. Many drop-off locations are

small businesses who support the initiative, most of which con-tacted The Bra Recyclers on their own, according to Birks-Mitch-ell.

The Bra Recyclers searches for drop off locations that make donating convenient and easy. Louisiana does not currently have a drop off location, but Birks-Mitchell said she would like to have one in the Baton Rouge or New Orleans area.

“Louisiana is one of the areas we’re looking to open a shelter in,” Birks-Mitchell said.

Birks-Mitchell expressed in-terest in expanding to Louisiana because of the amount of needy women, especially those affected by storms such as Hurricane Ka-trina.

Currently, The Bra Recyclers supplies bras to 25 organizations

and hopes to increase to 35 by the end of the year, Birks-Mitchell said.

Birks-Mitchell said media and the community have re-sponded positively to The Bra Recyclers’ concept; however, they have received some ridicule.

“A lot of people don’t un-derstand what we’re doing and why we’re trying to do it,” Birks-Mitchell said.

Some are disgusted by the idea of wearing a used bra, Birks-Mitchell said.

“ W h e n you’re leaving a domestic vio-lence situation, you don’t think to pack a bra. If you were in a desper-ate situation, I bet you would take a used bra,” Birks-Mitchell said.

Birks-Mitch-ell advises people

to step back and see what it’s like in someone else’s shoes.

“Anything that helps out, no matter how personal, is a good thing,” said Olivia Marino, Eng-lish junior.

If people would like to do-nate but aren’t close to a drop-off location, there are four easy steps.

The Bra Recyclers ask people to wash their bras, tag them with the Bra Recycling form from the website, box them and mail them to Gilbert, Ariz. The full address can be found on BraRecycling.com.

Needy women benefi t from Bra Recyclers Group interested in expanding to La. Parker Cramer Contributing Writer

‘‘‘When you’re leaving a domestic violence situation, you don’t think to pack a bra.’

Elaine Birks-MitchellBra Recyclers founder

PHILANTHROPY

Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com

‘Having a bra is pretty

important. I think it’s

a great idea.’Shelly

Gonsoulinhistory sophomore

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A group of puppies awaits a new family Saturday at the Yelp!BR pet adoption center’s Valentine’s Open House Adoption Day.

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Just keep swimming.That was the topic of “Tuna

Talk,” a lecture by Bryan Fry, oceanography and coastal sciences professor, Friday morning in the Dalton Woods Auditorium in the Energy, Coast and Environment building.

Fry said he thought people would enjoy his lecture because of its popular topic.

“Everyone loves to eat tuna,” he said.

Fry explained that his speech highlighted a worldwide problem — overfi shing.

He said conservation zones have been created internationally and their purpose is to make more tuna, which will diffuse into the rest of the ocean, but problems oc-cur when the tuna don’t move any-where.

“They’re surprisingly local,” he said after presenting the re-search fi ndings to the audience.

Fry said most of the research was done by a group of researchers and graduate students.

He said they tagged tuna to monitor their trophic levels and determine their migratory patterns.

“Animals that migrate widely should have the same isotope val-ues in the west and east, but resi-dents can be very different,” he said.

Fry said it’s important to talk to students about these topics be-cause of the important role they play.

“Students are the future,” he said. “If we don’t do anything, things will not turn out well.”

Courtney Saari, oceanography and coastal sciences graduate stu-dent, is a member of the commit-tee that picks the speakers for the series.

Saari said School of the Coast and Environment Dean Christo-pher D’Elia wanted to put on the seminars to offer students a series of high-quality speakers.

She said another objective is to promote interaction and collabo-ration between the University and outside researchers.

Saari said the school will offer a seminar each week for the rest of the semester, except during spring break.

She said the seminars will cover a range of topics like ocean-ography, biology and chemistry.

“We try to get scientists from as many disciplines as possible,” she said.

One topic set to be covered is communication — something that hasn’t been discussed before in

seminars offered by the School of the Coast and Environment.

Saari said the committee chose a Manship School of Mass Communication faculty member to speak about how scientists can become better communicators.

Mimi Ferrand, kinesiology se-nior, said she enjoyed Fry’s lecture on tuna because it involved mate-rial she’d learned in class.

“He used a lot of stuff we’ve been learning,” she said. “It kind of tied it into the real world.”

Lexi Stephens, biological sci-ences senior, said she attended the seminar for credit in a class but would probably return because she enjoyed it.

LSU fans outcheered the “pig sooie” cries from Arkansas Razorback fans when Student Government took 38 students on a bus trip to the LSU -Arkansas basketball game Saturday.

The bus trip was a success despite the Ti-gers’ 80-61 loss, according to Brandon Briggs , the SG director of athletics who planned the trip.

“The trip itself went well,” Briggs said. “We had a bunch of die-hard LSU basketball fans, so it was great. LSU just had a re-ally rough week, but they gave a lot of effort all the way to the end of the game and we appreciated that.”

Briggs and Matthew Clark, a mathematics senior who took the bus trip, agreed the LSU student section was louder and more spir-ited than Arkansas.

“We actually had Arkansas fans come up and tell us thank you for being so respectful,” Clark said. “I was surprised at

their student section and how quiet they were, which made me feel better about ours, because we were loud and full of energy the whole time.”

Clark also said University students were able to talk to the team after the game.

“We wanted to go just to support our team,” Clark said. “It was really nice talking to the team afterward. They thanked us

for coming all the way. They were really grateful that we came.”

The bus left Friday at mid-night and got to Arkansas on Sat-urday around 10 a.m. The Univer-sity students got to explore the Ar-kansas campus,

but they agreed the game was a different experience than a game in the PMAC.

“The student fans in the PMAC are a lot more rowdy,” Briggs said. “I’d say our 40 stu-dents were louder than their 200. LSU’s team knew we were there. We were constantly cheering.”

Briggs said this was his sec-ond bus trip, and the location var-ies every year.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SG sponsored trip for 38 Tiger fansAndrea GalloStaff Writer

Contact Andrea Gallo at agallo@lsureveille.com

COAST AND ENVIRONMENT

Weekly discussions held during semesterRachel WarrenStaff Writer

Professor explains tuna overfi shing

Contact Rachel Warren at rwarren@lsureveille.com

CHRISTOPHER LEH / The Daily Reveille

Bryan Fry, oceanography and coastal sciences professor, gives a lecture Friday entitled “Tuna Talk: Feeding Ecology and Fish Movement in the Equatorial Pacifi c” at the Dalton Woods Auditorium. Fry discussed the worldwide problem of overfi shing. ‘‘

‘I’d say our 40 students were louder

than their 200. ... We were constantly

cheering.’Brandon Briggs

SG director of athletics

LSU students travel to Arkansas for basketball

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compared to the number of crashes from 1992 to 1996.

Scott Dyer, spokesman for Holden’s office, said Baton Rouge wasn’t included in the study because it used data from 2004 to 2008, and the city didn’t use cameras until 2008.

Dyer said the study can provide people with an idea of what may come in the future.

“It’s still a valid yardstick,” he said. “We’re still encouraged by these results.”

Sarah Edel, civil engineer in

the East Baton Rouge Department of Public Works Traffic Engineer-ing Division, said the department gets crash data six months after a time period concludes.

Because of that, Edel said, the department only has one year’s worth of data at its disposal.

Edel said 15 Baton Rouge in-tersections had red-light cameras in 2009. The data from 2009 show a 9 percent decrease in total crashes and a 21 percent decrease in cor-

rectable crashes like right-angle crashes and T-bones.

She said the results aren’t

conclusive because the cameras weren’t up in Baton Rouge until recently.

“We’ve been really encour-aged by the data so far,” Edel said. “But it’s too early to make a de-finitive decision.”

Dyer said he believes the trend occurring in the cities included in the study will also be present in Baton Rouge.

“I can’t think of any reason we’d be different from these other cities,” he said.

Aaron Zeringue, business management freshman, said he doesn’t like red light cameras.

“I’m not really a huge fan. I find myself running a lot of red lights,” he said.

Schaefer then scampers over to the telescope, rotating it by hand into position with broad, smooth motions. The huge cylinder piv-ots easily, and giant barbells of counter-weights and a swivel work silently as Schaefer hunts for the planet through the eye-piece.

Once he finds it, the crowd lines up, each student taking a turn to stare at the stars.

Schaefer’s students are here for extra credit. When they’re not in the long line that snakes around the wall inside, they’re out on the balcony, staring into smaller tele-scopes, studying star charts and pointing up at the sky.

“No way — that’s fake,” says Jennifer Harrison, psychology freshman, as she peers into a short, fat scope, marveling at the moon.

One of the stars the students are hunting for is Algol, which is undergoing an eclipse.

“It’s the demon star,” Schaefer intones, cackling lowly and loudly like a mad scientist, the red lights shining sinisterly on his face.

Sirius — the brightest visible star besides the sun — is high in the sky, twinkling visibly like a far-off disco ball.

Schaefer, who’s bouncing in and out of the room talking to stu-dents, stops to explain why.

“There’s a lot of atmosphere between us and them,” he said. “That light has a lot to go through before it hits our eyes.”

Light refracts as it travels through the atmosphere, causing shimmering and blurring effects. As the bodies and planets sink lower in the sky, light has more at-mosphere to go through, so the ef-fect worsens.

Jupiter, for example, gradually gets blurrier through the telescope as it nears the horizon.

Still, the view of the planet is stunning. It is wrapped in dark bands, tremendous jet streams big-ger than Earth that slice across the planet.

Two of the planet’s moons float brightly nearby. Io, the hot one, is full of magma and active volcanoes that hurl plumes of fire miles into space. Europa, the cold one, is covered with frozen oceans hundreds of miles deep — oceans Schaefer says could possibly har-bor life.

Throughout the night, Schae-fer moves the scope several times, from Jupiter to the moon to the Orion nebula, where stars peek out from a light-years wide cloud of stellar gas, like headlights in the fog.

It’s these objects — planets and nebulae — that are Landolt’s specialty.

The telescope’s 11.5-inch lens, made by legendary craftsman Alvan Clark, is relatively small by modern standards.

Schaefer said the telescope is primarily used to teach classes and for amateur observation. The scope is too small and too poorly located for cutting-edge research.

“There’s too much light pol-lution around here,” Schaefer said. “This would have been up to re-search standards around 30 to 40 years ago.”

students,” Guidry said.Smith agreed, saying she always

mentions it while giving University tours to potential students.

“There are a lot of facts and his-tory about the University, but I know students will remember the tradition and connect to it,” Smith said. “It sets LSU apart.”

But when and how the tradition officially began remains a mystery.

Randy Gurie, former director of University Special Events and ex-ecutive director of Cadets of the Ole War Skule, told The Daily Reveille in 2007 the tradition likely began in the 1930s or ’40s.

“If there was a tradition like that when I was there, I didn’t know it,” said Patricia Bercier, 1947 Universi-ty alumna. “And I would have never kissed a boy on the mouth in public.”

Bercier said the word “co-ed” was reserved for married couples, not young folks.

“At that time there were 9,000 boys and 3,000 girls [that attended LSU] — you dated everybody,” she said. “You were a wallflower if you just went with one boy ... and nobody would ever ask you to dance.”

Bercier said the closest tradition to the midnight kiss was “pinning,” when a man presented his true love with his fraternity pin.

According to a 2001 article in The Daily Reveille, the historic tradi-tion was turned into competition by the Greeks Advocating the Mature Management of Alcohol, or GAM-MA, organization. GAMMA trans-formed the tradition into a public event in an attempt to beat the world record for the most couples kissing simultaneously at one location. The “kiss-off” fell short of the record, which was 1,544 lip-locked couples.

Though this is no longer a des-ignated event, Student Government and other campus groups encourage students to participate.

SG Vice President Dani Borel said SG continues to promote the kiss, as it is the University’s most personal tradition.

“LSU has so many traditions that involve academics and athlet-ics, but the kiss is on a more per-sonal level,” Borel said. “You can look back years from now and tell your children stories about how you kissed your boyfriend under the tow-er at midnight.”

Borel said this is the first year she participated in the Valentine’s Day kiss.

“It’s my last year here, and I’m getting married this summer to my fiance,” she said. “There’s no better way to spend my last unmarried Val-entine’s Day.”

Joan Broussard, pre-pharma-cy junior, said the kiss is a fun and harmless University tradition.

“It’ll be something very special to share with the one I love,” Brous-sard said.

Broussard and her boyfriend, John Paul Timpa, English literature senior, will also be participating in the tradition for the first time this year. She said she is working for the official midnight tradition, but they plan to kiss at the tower before the end of Valentine’s Day.

“It’ll be something nice to share as a couple,” she said.

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The youth of the No. 19 LSU softball team put on a show this weekend as the Tigers swept the competition at the Wilson/DeMa-rini Tiger Classic at Tiger Park.

Freshman pitcher Meghan Patterson recorded 25 strikeouts and surrendered only one earned run in 13 innings of work. Fresh-man center fielder Simone Hey-ward earned tournament MVP honors with seven hits, six stolen bases and 11 runs in her first week-end as a Tiger.

Junior first baseman Anissa Young said the freshmen stepped up in a big way for the Tigers, who outscored their opponents 41-8 and started the season 6-0.

“The freshmen came out and did their jobs,” Young said. “They did not play like freshmen. With-out a doubt they’re going to be an asset to us this year.”

Injuries to senior third base-man Jessica Mouse and senior out-fielder Ashley Applegate forced freshmen into key situations. The freshmen produced offensively and defensively — including out-fielders Jacee Blades and Alex Boulet, who provided much-need-ed speed on the base paths.

“We got a very good fresh-man class,” LSU coach Yvette Gi-rouard said. “We addressed what we need on this team, and that was speed. We’ve got a lot of it with this freshman class. They just add-ed another dimension to our offen-sive game.”

The speed allowed Girouard to be aggressive early and often. The Tigers combined to steal 22 bases on the weekend and were caught only four times.

“We’re going to run until people throw us out consistently,” Girouard said.

The Tigers’ pitching staff also lived up to the lofty expectations placed on them by Girouard. Ju-nior Brittany Mack, sophomore Rachele Fico and Patterson held opponents Louisiana Tech, Bowl-ing Green and Purdue to just eight runs. Fico and Patterson notched double-digit strikeout totals in each of their two starts.

“It’s a long weekend. Six games in three days — that’s a lot of ball to play,” Girouard said. “Except for a couple of innings, I thought our pitchers were phe-nomenal.”

Patterson arrived on the college stage with a bang in her

This past week was the LSU men’s basketball team’s chance to add another “W” to the win column.

LSU was facing an Ole Miss team that was 3-5 in the South-eastern Conference and an Ar-kansas (15-9, 5-6) squad fresh off a three-game losing streak.

Instead, those two games represented the seventh and

eighth straight defeats for the Ti-gers.

It’s been 33 days since LSU (10-15, 2-8) enjoyed the spoils of victory, and it could be 19 more before the team has another chance to grab the elusive third win.

LSU radio play-by-play an-nouncer Jim Hawthorne tried comforting LSU coach Trent Johnson in the postgame inter-view after Saturday’s 80-61 loss at Arkansas, saying the Tigers return to the PMAC for the next two games.

They have been on the road since Tuesday because of wintry weather, going to Fayetteville,

Ark., after Wednesday’s game in Oxford, Miss., instead of return-ing to Baton Rouge.

Johnson noted Hawthorne’s optimism but understood the re-ality of LSU’s next two match-ups, both of which will be tele-vised on ESPN.

“We got Alabama leading the [SEC] West, and we got Florida leading the [SEC] East,” Johnson said.

The Gators and the Crimson Tide, who the Tigers face Thurs-day at 8 p.m., are a combined 17-4 in conference play.

The following three games

SportsMonday, Feb. 14, 2011 page 9

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers face difficult schedule in coming weeks after losing to Hogs

LSU loses to No. 15Kentucky in nail-biter

Freshmen help LSU sweep Tiger Classic; Heyward earns tournament MVP honors

Mark ClementsSports Contributor

DEFENSE, see page 15

FRESHMEN, see page 15

CHALLENGES, see page 15

APRIL L. BROWN / The Associated Press

LSU freshman guard Matt Derenbecker, left, drives around an Arkansas defender. Derenbecker led LSU with 13 points in its 80-61 loss on Saturday to Arkansas.

Fresh Start

LSU meets Alabama on Thursday at home

Michael LambertSports Writer

Being heartbroken on Valen-tine’s Day is not a good feeling — just ask the LSU women’s basket-ball team.

The Lady Tigers (17-10, 7-6) lost a heartbreaker to No. 15 Ken-tucky (19-6, 8-4) on Sunday after-noon in a 49-47 duel. The defeat marks the first time LSU has lost in Lexington, Ky., since 1994.

“It was a tough, tough loss,” LSU coach Van Chancellor said in a postgame interview. “We’ve been so close all year and just can’t get over the hump.”

With the game tied at 47 and just 29 seconds left, LSU followed suit with the theme of the game — turnovers.

The Lady Tigers gave the ball back to the Wildcats after a trav-eling call. Kentucky sophomore guard A’dia Mathies drove the lane and found an open Brittany Hen-derson, who scored her first basket of the game with 1.1 seconds left on the clock to seal the victory.

“I thought we played about as hard as we can play,” Chancellor said. “It’s hard to win close games when you turn the ball over twice with 48 seconds to go and miss a wide-open layup. Otherwise, our kids played hard.”

LSU’s conference-lead-ing defense held Kentucky’s BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman center fielder Simone Heyward bunts for a base hit Friday during the Tigers’ 9-1 victory against Louisiana Tech. Heyward earned MVP honors this weekend.

Hunter PaniaguaSports Contributor

FridayLSU 9, Louisiana Tech 1 F/6SaturdayLSU 6, Bowling Green 0SundayLSU 6, Purdue 2

A look at this weekend’s scores

LSU 5, Bowling Green 0

LSU 5, Purdue 3

LSU 10, Louisiana Tech 2 F/5

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GYMNASTICS

Fall dooms No. 19 Tigers in loss to No. 11 Razorbacks

The No. 19 LSU gymnastics team looked to build off last week-end’s season-high performance when No. 11 Arkansas visited the PMAC on Friday night.

And in three of the four events, the team did just that.

LSU (2-6, 0-3) scored more than a 49.000 on the vault , balance beam and fl oor exercise .

But the Tigers’ undoing came in the second rota-tion of the meet on the uneven bars, where they fell a total of three times.

The falls forced LSU to count a 9.250 and a 9.225 , which gave Ar-kansas (4-2, 3-1) a lead it would not surrender. The Gym’Backs went on to win the meet, 195.325-194.875 .

“We had a great week [of prac-tice] on bars, very few misses. It was just a great week,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux . “We just have to believe in what we’re doing. I think the kids believe in the coaches, and we certainly believe in these kids. At no point in this meet did we ever give up.”

The woes on bars may have cost LSU a victory Friday, but the Tigers took away plenty of positives from the meet.

After posting a season-low team score last weekend against BYU, the Tigers rebounded Friday with a 49.075 — their second high-est score of the year on the appara-tus.

Junior Ashley Lee and fresh-man Sarie Morrison tied for the

vault title with scores of 9.900 .The scores set a career high for

Morrison , and Lee tied her career high.

“In practice, we’ve just been working on having the right tech-nique to stick our landings,” Lee said. “So I didn’t go into the vault saying, ‘I need to stick this landing.’ I just thought, ‘Do what I’ve been practicing and prepare for the land-ing,’ and it just happened perfectly.”

LSU notched a season-best 49.025 on the balance beam, and fresh-man Maliah Mathis won her fi rst career title in the event.

The Tigers also scored a 49.000 or better for the second consec-utive week on the fl oor exercise.

Individually, Mathis and Mor-rison stole the show, winning two individual titles apiece. Morrison captured the all-around title for the second consecutive week .

“It is such a great feeling and great accomplishment,” Morrison said. “After we had a little mess up on bars, we came back and we hit really solid on beam and fl oor.”

The Tigers close out their three-meet homestand next week-end against No. 4 Georgia , where they hope to eliminate the errors and put all the pieces together.

“We’re inching toward putting that full meet together,” Breaux

said. “Sure, we want to climb up in the rankings and we want to do a lot, but we’ve got some great scores and we’ve got some great gymnasts on this team.”

Morrison wins all-around titleRob LandrySports Contributor

CHRISTOPHER LEH / The Daily Reveille

LSU’s Sarie Morrison scored a 9.80 on Friday to fi nish second in uneven bars. The Tigers fell to Arkansas, 195.325-194.875.

7:20 a.m., 8:20 a.m.

Noon, 3:20 p.m.4:20 p.m., 5:20 p.m.

‘‘‘We just have to believe in what

we’re doing. I think the kids believe in

the coaches.’D-D Breaux

LSU gymnastics coach

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Before the Southeastern Conference Diving Champion-ships, LSU diving coach Doug Shaffer said he had the stron-gest squad he’d ever taken to the event while at LSU.

The LSU men’s and women’s diving teams lived up to that de-scription this weekend and took fourth place and eighth place, re-spectively, at the tournament in Gainesville , Fla.

The Lady Ti-gers were led by sophomore Rebec-ca St. Germain’s efforts. St. Ger-main fi nished with a silver medal in the 1-meter spring-board competition .

“I couldn’t be happier with the performances of Becca and Daniel [Helm],” Shaffer said in a news release. “Becca re-ally rose to the occasion, break-ing the school record and coming away with her fi rst SEC medal.”

The second-place fi nish was St. Germain’s fi rst medal in the SEC Championships .

St. Germain , last year’s SEC Freshman Diver of the Year , earned a mark of 331.15 for her six-dive total.

Her score beat the LSU re-cord in the event and was the third strongest score at an SEC championship meet ever under the current six-dive format.

She was less than six points short of the winner, Taryn Zack of South Carolina . Zack set an SEC record with her score of 336.55.

“The entire fi nal was a nail-biter, and she went dive for dive all the way to the end with Taryn Zack,” Shaffer said. “It was one of the best women’s 1-meter competitions I’ve seen.”

St. Germain wasn’t the only LSU diver that saw success in Gainesville.

Helm fi nished fi fth for the Tigers in the 3-meter springboard competition. The freshman re-corded a personal-best score of 380.70 in the fi nals after notching a score of 348.65 in the prelims.

“Daniel was on fi re today,” Shaffer said. “He defi nitely learned a lot from his fi rst career fi nals appearance and really set the stage for his bright future.”

F r e s h m a n Sean McKinney tied for 10th in the prelims of the same event, while juniors Brian Gember-ling and Matt Vieke fi nished 15th and 22nd , respectively.

Sophomore Elle Schmidt fi nished 15th in both the 3-me-

ter springboard and the platform competitions.

While the ninth through 16th place fi nishers don’t advance to the fi nals, they do record points toward the overall team scores.

The LSU swimming team will compete in the SEC Swim-ming Championships in Gaines-ville this Wednesday through Saturday.

The SEC Swimming Cham-pionships will be LSU’s last event before the Last Chance Meet on Feb. 26 and 27. The site of that meet has yet to be deter-mined.

Riding a three-match win-ning streak, the LSU men’s tennis team’s Southeastern Conference speed was no match for No. 4 Ohio State’s Big Ten power.

The Tigers (3-3) were defeated in straight sets in all but one singles match as the Buckeyes rolled to a 7-0 win, extending their home win-ning streak to 118 matches .

“Ohio State is No. 4 ,” said LSU men’s coach Jeff Brown . “We’re not there yet, and that’s how it is. I’m encouraged, and I do think we’re a top-25 team.”

The No. 27 doubles team of junior Neal Skupski and senior Sebastian Carlsson provided the lone bright spot, winning their fi fth straight match by taking down No. 19 Matt Allare and Peter Kobelt , 9-8 (7-3) .

“A couple of the matches they lost earlier in the season, they just had to fi gure each other out,” Brown said. “They know how to complement each other well.”

However, Ohio State quickly erased any thoughts of an upset. After LSU sophomores Roger An-derson and Olivier Borsos won the fi rst two games of their doubles match, No. 25 Devin McCartney and Balazs Novak reeled off eight straight wins to prevail, 8-2 .

LSU lost the doubles point moments later when senior Julien Gauthier and junior Tom Knights fell by an identical 8-2 margin.

In singles, the Tigers let sev-eral sets slip through their grasp. Ohio State countered with its best tennis when threatened most.

After 102nd-ranked Borsos , playing on court one for the fi rst time in his career , took a 4-1 sec-ond-set lead, No. 7 Blaz Rola won the last fi ve games to defeat Bor-sos, 6-2, 6-4.

Similarly, Gauthier lost a 4-2 fi rst-set lead when Novak closed out the set by winning four games , ultimately falling 6-4, 6-4 .

“We played well about half the amount of time we needed to,”

Brown said. “[Ohio State] played at a very high level, and we were able to match that for some of the time, but we just need to do a better job of staying at that level.”

Knights was the only Tiger to win a singles set. The London na-tive battled back from a 5-2 defi cit in the fi rst set before losing, 7-6 . He bounced back to win the second set 6-4 . Because of time constraints, a super tiebreaker was played in place of the third set. Knights fell

behind early and couldn’t rally, dropping the tiebreaker, 10-4.

The win gave Ohio State its third win this season against a ranked SEC opponent and marked the 300th career victory for coach Ty Tucker .

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SWIMMING AND DIVING TENNIS

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Contact Albert Burford at aburford@lsureveille.com

Albert BurfordSports Contributor

Ryan GinnSports Blogger

Skupski, Carlsson record doubles win

Rebecca St. Germain breaks LSU record

Men place fourth, women eighth in SEC Diving Championships

Tigers swept by Ohio State, 7-0

BLAIR LOCKHART / The Daily Reveille

Junior Mark Bowtell hits a forehand Feb. 8 against Louisiana-Lafayette.

‘‘‘It was one of the

best women’s 1-meter

competitions I’ve seen.’

Doug ShafferLSU diving coach

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Former LSU baseball player Chad Jones made the move fa-mous.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri saw Jones’ versatility as a threat he couldn’t ignore, placing the former outfielder into the bullpen during the 2009 season.

Jones went on to throw a scoreless inning in Game 1 of the College World Series Finals and 1 2/3 scoreless innings in Game 3 of the CWS Finals.

The 2011 squad offers even more two-way athletes who could hit or pitch for the Tigers.

This season, six players on the roster are listed as both pitch-ers and position players. The 2010 roster contained no two-way players.

Mainieri said recruiting dou-ble-threat players was “by de-sign” because the NCAA limited the rosters to 35 players.

He said two-way players are even more crucial this season af-ter two players left the program and another was injured for the season, limiting the active roster to 32.

“As a means to make up for those kinds of losses, we have intentionally gone out and

recruited two-way guys,” Main-ieri said. “What it does is it gives you depth if the other guys don’t perform.”

Mainieri said two of those versatile players who could make immediate impacts are fresh-man Ryan Eades and sophomore Jimmy Dykstra, a junior college transfer.

Eades, a Slidell native who pitches and plays infield, didn’t pitch his senior season after

shoulder surgery but still hit .400 with six home runs at Northshore High School. He posted a 0.92 ERA with 48 strikeouts in 30.1 innings as a junior.

Dykstra, a San Diego native who can pitch and play outfield, hit .267 with three home runs with a 2.53 ERA for Yavapai (Ariz.) College in 2010.

“We couldn’t get Eades out in the fall and he was throwing well, and Jimmy has a bunch of pop on

the mound and at the plate,” said junior outfielder Mikie Mahtook.

Eades said he arrives early to practice to maintain his swing and gets as much work as he can on the mound after missing a sea-son of pitching.

“This year I think I’ll get my innings pitching, but I think I’ll have a shot to get some at-bats at [designated hitter],” Eades said. “We only have about four left-handed hitters, and I switch

hit too, so that gives me a fair shot.”

Dykstra, who said he always thought he’d be an outfielder growing up, didn’t start pitching until his senior season in high school.

“Mostly in high school and last year I was a fastball guy be-cause I threw hard.” Dykstra said. “Once I got here and worked with coach [David] Grewe, I devel-oped more pitches.”

So far, their work hasn’t gone unnoticed by the skipper.

“If Jimmy Dykstra or Ryan Eades went out there over these next few weeks and really swung the bat and we thought it would make our team better, they would supplant somebody else in the lineup,” Mainieri said.

Other two-way players on the roster include freshmen Joe Broussard and Samuel Peterson, sophomore transfer Kevin Berry and junior transfer Kirk Cunning-ham. Mainieri said Eades, Dyks-tra, Berry and Broussard are all potential starters who could also come out of the bullpen.

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BASEBALL

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Former LSU outfielder Chad Jones swings at a pitch March 1, 2009, against Central Florida. Jones played two sports for LSU.

LSU roster contains six two-way athletes, 2010 had none

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Rowan KavnerSports Writer

Recruiting players was ‘by design’

The Daily Reveille page 13Monday, Feb. 14, 2011

The LSU track and fi eld teams continued their sprints to-ward the upcoming indoor cham-pionship meets this weekend with strong individual showings at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Sophomore Kimberlyn Dun-can led the way for the Lady Ti-gers, posting a time of 23.01 sec-onds to win the 200-meter dash title and automatically qualify her for the NCAA Indoor Champion-ships in March.

Duncan’s offi cial time tied her with Oklahoma’s Candyce McGrone. Their times had to be calculated to a thousandth of a second, where Duncan narrowly edged McGrone by just .001 sec-onds.

“She’s steadily been improv-ing throughout the indoor season, not only in competition but in her training, so it was no real surprise that she made great improvement since we ran here two weeks ago,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver.

Duncan shaved .3 seconds off her time in the 200 meters from the Razorback Invitational on the same track just two weeks ago.

“I really was expecting my time to come down in this meet,” Duncan said in a news release. “I was nervous coming in here, but I talked to my mom and dad before the race, and they helped calm me down and get my mind focused.”

Duncan’s previous personal best in the event was a 23.08-sec-ond performance in the 2010 NCAA East Regional preliminary rounds.

“We’re excited for her be-cause she’s just a sophomore and she’s certainly picked up her game up in recent weeks,” Shaver said of Duncan.

Shaver said a major point of emphasis going into the week-end was the performance of the 4x400-meter relay squads.

“That was one of my main goals for our team at the meet because the track [at Arkansas] is one of the indoor tracks that gives you the opportunity to run fast be-cause of the 60-degree bank,” he said.

Both LSU relay squads re-sponded with impressive show-ings.

The Lady Tigers’ relay team of junior Rebecca Alexander, sophomore Latoya McDermott, senior Brittany Hall and junior Jonique Day took home the wom-en’s 4x400-meter relay champi-onship with a season-best time of 3 minutes, 34.54 seconds.

Day punctuated the vic-tory with a thrilling fi nal split of 52.70 seconds on the anchor leg of the event.

The Tiger 4x400-meter

relay squad of junior Keyth Tal-ley, junior Horatio Williams, junior Riker Hylton and sopho-more Caleb Williams took sec-ond place with a time of 3 minutes, 6.56 seconds, the third-fastest time in the NCAA this season.

The second trip to Arkansas in three weeks was a chance to develop depth and gain experience on the same track the Southeastern Con-ference Championships will be held in two weeks, Shaver said.

“Every meet is structured dif-ferently, and even though we’re happy to get more experience on this track, we know that this

weekend will be vastly differ-ent from the SEC Championship here,” Shaver said. “But we’ve got athletes who recognize that

difference and have created the depth to compete for champion-ships.”

Before the SEC Champion-ships, however, several LSU ath-letes will com-pete in the LSU Twilight meet

Friday at the Carl Maddox Field House.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Duncan sets personal record, qualifi es for NCAA indoor meet

Chris AbshireSports Contributor

Relay teams shine at meet in Arkansas

‘‘‘[We] have created the depth to compete for championships.’

Dennis ShaverLSU track and fi eld coach

The Daily Reveillepage 14 Monday, Feb. 14, 2011

The LSU men’s golf team jump-started the spring season with a third-place showing during the weekend at the SunTrust Gator Invitational in Gainesville, Fla.

The No. 6 Tigers shot a 22-over-par 862 in 54 holes to finish behind Southeastern Conference foes No. 3 Florida and No. 13 Auburn

The Gators won their eighth consecutive SunTrust Gator Invita-tional with a 4-over 844.

LSU seniors Ken Looper, An-drew Loupe and John Peterson all

fired 5-over 215’s to tie for 11th place.

The All-American Loupe, who finished second place in the event last season, sandwiched a 73 be-tween two 71 rounds for LSU.

Peterson, fresh off a victory at the Jones Cup on Feb. 8, rebounded from a disappointing 77 in the first round to shoot a 68 and a 70 in rounds two and three.

Looper also broke par in the second round, shooting a 1-under 69 and moving to 2-over, just three shots behind the leader and tied for fifth after day one. Looper’s 73 on Sunday bumped him out of

the top 10.Senior Clayton Rotz tied for

29th at 9-over, and junior Sang Yi finished in 40th place after a 13-over performance.

The Tigers’ total score of 862 was 10 shots better than the 872 they posted a year ago at the Mark Bos-tick Golf Course.

“While we certainly didn’t play our best, it’s hard for me to be too disappointed with third place since this is our best finish with this group at the Gator Invitational,” LSU coach Chuck Winstead said in a news release.

The host Gators had three

players finish the event tied for first place at even par, including No. 1 Bank Vongvanij, who has not fin-ished outside the top five in the 2010-11 season.

Florida senior Andres Echavar-ria won the four-man playoff with four consecutive pars to earn medal-ist honors for the weekend.

Auburn’s second-place finish was its fourth consecutive top-two result. Sophomore Blayne Barber and freshman Niclas Carlsson each posted a 1-under 69 on Sunday to ce-ment the Tigers’ place in second.

North Florida and Central Florida rounded out the top five.

LSU returns to the Sunshine State in just two weeks for the John Hayt Invitational in Ponte Vedra. LSU has fared well at Sawgrass Country Club in the past two sea-sons, winning the 2009 team title and finishing second in 2010.

“We can be an outstanding team as the spring goes along,” Winstead said. “We just need to clean up our play on and around the greens.”

Contact Hunt Palmer at hpalmer@lsureveille.com

Hunt PalmerSports Contributor

GOLF

Tigers finish third in spring opener behind Florida, Auburn

BOSTON (AP) — Rajon Rondo had a triple-double with 11 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds, and the defending Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat 85-82 on Sunday to clinch the season series against their top pursuer.

LeBron James scored 22 points for Miami, which had won eight in a row. But he missed the first of two free throws with 13 sec-onds left and the Heat trailing by two points.

The Celtics (39-14) took back

the top spot in the conference from Miami (39-15) and earned the tie-breaker for home-court advantage in the playoffs.

Kevin Garnett scored 19 with seven rebounds, and Kendrick Per-kins had a season-high 15 points for Boston, which snapped a two-game losing streak. Paul Pierce was 0-for-10 shooting and finished with one point, his lowest scoring total since 1999.

Chris Bosh had 24 points and 10 rebounds and Dwyane Wade added 16 points for Miami, which cut a 13-point deficit to two in the final minutes.

The Heat trailed 83-81 with

19 seconds left when they brought the ball in from a timeout and got it to James at the top of the key. He drove on Pierce and drew the foul but missed the first shot, then made the second.

On the ensuing inbound pass, he dived for the ball and went into the stands. But he merely knocked it to Ray Allen; the Celtics got the ball downcourt to Glen “Big Baby” Davis, who ran out some more of the clock before he was fouled.

Davis, who scored 16, hit both foul shots with 6.3 seconds to go, and Mike Miller missed a 3-point attempt in the final seconds that would have sent the game

to overtime.The Celtics beat a much differ-

ent Miami team in the first round of last year’s playoffs, then knocked James and the Cleveland Cavaliers out in the next round. James fled to Miami to join Bosh and Wade, but the Heat still haven’t been able to beat Boston, losing the season opener in Boston and falling again in Miami on Nov. 11.

The teams meet for the last time in the regular season April 10 in Miami.

Miami took a 43-39 lead into halftime, but Boston scored 12 of the first 13 points in the third quar-ter and opened a seven-point lead

on Allen’s 3-pointer with 8:31 left. After Wade drove for a layup, Al-len hit a 15-footer and Wade was called for a flagrant foul for elbow-ing Garnett while fighting for posi-tion.

While the referees discussed it, the Heat gathered on the court and Rondo lingered outside their huddle until James pushed him away. Allen intervened to pull Rondo away.

Garnett made both free throws, giving the Celtics a 59-46 lead.

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fi rst appearance as a Tiger. The Destrehan native entered in the seventh inning Friday night against Bowling Green and struck out the side to close out the game.

“There was a lot of adrenaline going through me when I got that fi rst strikeout,” Patterson said. “I just focus, going pitch by pitch. I never really think I’m going to get the strikeout. I just hit my spot. If it’s a strikeout, it’s a strikeout.”

With several freshmen pro-ducing this weekend, Girouard said she expects the younger play-ers to push the upperclassmen for playing time.

“Anytime you have competi-tion within your team and play-ers are pushing one another, that’s a good thing,” Girouard said. “Hopefully, that’s going to make us that much stronger. We need to be clicking on all cylinders.”

The Tigers opened and closed the Tiger Classic with dominant wins over in-state rival Louisiana Tech. Neither game went the full

seven innings with the run-rule coming into effect in each game.

Fresh off the 9-1 defeat of Louisiana Tech on Friday, LSU shut out Bowling Green twice — 5-0 on Friday night and 6-0 on Sat-urday . The Tigers added two more victories against Purdue to com-plete their undefeated weekend.

Heyward said her fi rst week-end in an LSU uniform could not have gone better.

“It’s more than I could have wanted,” she said. “I didn’t know what to expect coming in. It’s just

a great park, a great environment. I love it here.”

24th-ranked offense to just 22 points and a 27.3 shooting percent-age in the fi rst half and held a one-point lead going into the break.

The Lady Tigers forced 10 turnovers in the fi rst half but lost 15 of their own, giving the Wild-cats nine points off turnovers.

“I thought we did a good job of handling [Kentucky’s pressure],” said Chancellor, who suffered his second loss to the Wildcats while at LSU . “Our turnovers came be-cause of decision making.”

The Wildcats, who fi nished the game with 16 points off give-aways, lead the Southeastern Con-ference in turnover margin while racking up a league-best 11.5 steals per game.

LSU fi nished the game with 25 turnovers, its highest total since giving 22 away Dec. 19 against Louisiana Tech.

“Overall, when you hold Ken-tucky to 49 points, you thought you’d win the basketball game,” Chancellor said. “Their pressure hurt us, but a lot of our turnovers were just useless and unforced turnovers.”

Junior forward LaSondra Bar-rett led the way for the Lady Tigers with 11 points and 14 rebounds in the contest. The Tigers also out-rebounded Kentucky, 42-29.

LSU entered the contest on a two-game conference winning

streak , having won 16 of the last 17 meetings with Kentucky.

The loss puts LSU at No. 6 in the conference with just three games left on the slate before the SEC tournament. The Lady Tigers need to fi nish fourth or better to

earn their 10th straight fi rst-round bye in the tournament.

after next week will also be a steep challenge. The trio of Mis-sissippi State, Vanderbilt and Georgia are all in the top three of their respective divisions.

LSU’s fi nal game of the season, a March 5 meeting with Auburn (9-15, 2-8), is setting up to be a matchup of futility in the bottom of the SEC West.

Saturday’s 19-point loss against Arkansas stung Johnson for another reason, besides being one of the Tigers’ best chances to grab a conference win.

LSU had improved in its past three games, only losing by an average of fi ve points.

“It’s disappointing because we lost three games going into this one that we showed some life,” Johnson said. “We were playing better. For this to happen ... it’s very disappointing.”

The Tigers were turnover prone all afternoon. Junior for-ward Storm Warren and freshman point guard Andre Stringer each had three of LSU’s 17 turnovers.

“One thing led to another,” Johnson said. “When things start to get bad, it becomes conta-gious.”

The only time LSU led was after freshman guard Ralston Turner made a free throw to give the Tigers a 1-0 advantage.

LSU stayed competitive until

the fi nal 4:37 in the fi rst half, but was outscored 14-2 by the Razor-backs to go to the locker room down 40-22.

“We had a really important fi nal two minutes to end the half, and it was good to see guys go out and make baskets,” Arkan-sas coach John Pelphrey said in a news release. “To fi nish the way we did was inspiring.”

Arkansas junior guard Rot-nei Clarke’s stats once again told the tale of the game.

Clarke scored in double-fi g-ures in the Razorbacks’ four SEC wins and two of their six SEC defeats.

LSU held Clarke to fi ve points Jan. 12 when the Tigers took care of business, 56-53, against the Razorbacks in their fi rst meeting.

Clarke went off Saturday to the tune of 25 points, his second-highest scoring performance of the season.

LSU freshman guard Matt Derenbecker’s 13 points led the Tigers.

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Hosni Mubarak has resigned, and the streets of Cairo are alight. The transition was far from linear, however.

The political shuffle leading to his resignation was an arduous one, as Mubarak was one of the most stubborn leaders in the Middle East. His legacy of stability in the strictest sense will remain for de-cades. And with this in mind, one can be assured Mubarak has cards up his sleeve.

Egypt’s government is under-going the political equivalent of a slash-and-burn crop renewal, and Mubarak has planted his seeds in the rubble of the revolution.

Mubarak announced to a furi-ous public Thursday he had no in-tentions of leaving power. He said he would cede some of it, but he would not leave. The day leading up to the announcement was spent in widespread celebration, the protestors confident their wishes would be granted.

The following night was spent

rallying activists to stage the larg-est protest to date the next day.

The military even promised the people the day had finally come, and freedom would soon follow. When Mubarak clung to power as

he had sworn he would, the military had its own statement to make: It was going to take control of the government. It was then that Mubarak left, ceding power not to his hand-

picked vice president Omar Sulei-man, but to a military council.

These progressions, while the most monumental thus far, have left the Arab world on edge. Who is actually in charge? What will become of Egypt’s diplomacy, the keystone of peace in the region? What about the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty?

The remaining members of the government have been asked to work toward regaining nor-malcy — namely economically, as the Egyptian economy has stagnated because of the flight of tourists, who are key business-makers there. The most important figure remaining is Suleiman, who, though selected by Mubarak him-self, is just progressive enough to be supported as a successor to power by multiple Arab nations.

Above him, though, are the members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, who have promised a smooth transition to democracy. The first steps taken by the council were to secure peace with Israel and dissolve the Egyp-tian parliament, leaving Field Mar-shal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in command.

Tantawi, like most men of power in Egypt, is a long-time Mubarak loyalist. He was often re-ferred to as Mubarak’s poodle and was described in a leaked cable as

having “opposed both economic and political reform.”

Some analysts believe Tan-tawi, with the army behind him, deviously switched sides to sup-port the protestors rather than a rapidly deflating dictatorship — and I’m inclined to agree.

Like Suleiman, he seems to be another remnant left to ensure the safety of important concurrent leg-islation, such as peace with Israel — which the military announced will stay intact.

The retention of such men in office secures the former leader’s persistent influence, but one should not necessarily see it as a bad thing.

I would have supported Mubarak remaining in power until the September elections purely for stability’s sake, and uncertainty is what the country seems to be left with.

The cradle of civilization is wary, as it should be. Even the protestors, after being granted their greatest demand, are not sure

whether the rallies should con-tinue. Sure, the military promised a smooth transition, but the prom-ise could have been an empty one made in case Mubarak actually did step down.

I cannot imagine any other circumstances in which a man as stubborn as Mubarak would have done so. Not without insurance.

This is why the victory of Mubarak’s ouster is, as of now, a hollow one. Egypt has a long way to go, but the apprehensiveness to rapid change is founded.

Clayton Crockett is a 19-year-old international studies and mass communication freshman from La-fayette. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ccrockett.

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Mubarak’s resignation a symbolic, hollow victory

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SHOW ALL COMMENTSAs usual, the Opinion Section of our website, lsureveille.com, has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

Regarding Andrew Robertson’s column, “Stop thanking God for winning, go ‘thank’ yourself,” readers had this to say:

“Whats the point of this ar-ticle?”

-Pointless

“‘In all things, give thanks.’ that’s Biblical. but more impor-tantly, the winning team is usual-ly the one’s spotlighted the most, so them given thanks would be seen/heard in the media. but in their quiet times, i’m sure the Steelers gave thanks just for making it to the super bowl and having the opportunity. it’s sim-ply a thing a reverence.”

-ladynoble

“I dunno, anonymous. I’m pretty sure they are thanking GOD for winning, most the time these people aren’t in the least bit even understanding of what reli-gion they are in the first place.

I loved the article. Keep em coming. And anonymous, get a grip, paper is about 95% opinion.

Only about 5% of what you’re going to read is unbias and actual fact. ‘God doesn’t play favorites’ you say, obviously your just of-fended and close minded. Mr. Robertson, great job.”

-Anonymous

“Wow, you must have had some bad experience with a priest. People thank God for giv-ing them the opportunity to play, not for letting them win. Christi-anity is too easy. Why don’t you bash Islam for the rest of the se-mester and see how that works out for you :0 Or is Allah cooler than God, so atheists don’t need to bash Muslims like Christians... snnfff snnnfff, I smell a double standard”

-Tyler

“I assume that you, as a newspaper columnist, are in fa-vor of free speech. It seems a lit-tle hypocritical of you to be bash-ing those who exercise that same right. Just sayin...Have a nice day and thank God!”

-Anonymous

“You should actually know a little more about christianity be-fore commenting on it. You are WAY off Base.”

-Anonymous

“Not quite - I believe these athletes, actors, etc are thank-ing the God they believe in for the strength, skills, and ability to play the game or the part in the movie, not because God has chosen their team over anyone

else. As for Drew Brees, hav-ing read his book, I believe he is truly grateful to God for allowing him the miraculous recovery and the opportunity to help lead the Saints to their Superbowl win. I think Brees would have thanked

God after the Superbowl regard-less of the outcome.”

-Anonymous

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (UWIRE) — Facebook — it’s a great tool to keep in touch with friends and family. It’s useful for employers to profile prospective employees.

And now, it has become a great tool for police departments and prosecuting attorneys.

“It’s the 21st-century version of a private investigator follow-ing you,” said Trevor Wells, an attorney with Lexington, Ky., firm Miller Wells.

Wells said while conducting research about the use of social networking sites in court cases for a continuing legal education seminar for the bar, he found that “every couple of months the number doubled with the cases involving Facebook.”

While larger police depart-ments and law firms use Face-book and other social networking sites to find evidence for domes-tic relations, gang-related and personal injury cases, smaller PDs use the networks less ag-gressively.

“We’ve used Facebook in the past to gather information relat-ed to crimes,” said Joe Monroe, chief of the University of Ken-tucky Police Department.

Monroe explained that

contrary to popular belief, the UKPD does not use Facebook as a way to locate student parties. He said not only would that process be a full-time job, it would be a waste of the UKPD’s resources, manpower and time.

Currently, the UKPD oper-ates one Facebook page. It rep-resents the organization as a whole and, according to Monroe, is used simply as another way to communicate with the public.

However, more than a year ago, UKPD detectives used Face-book as a means to an end in cases related to theft, robbery and drugs.

Monroe said the process didn’t involve a random search or fake profiles. Instead, the de-tectives had suspects in mind and simply conducted a search to see public information, which was displayed on unblocked pro-files. From there, the detectives followed trails of evidence and submitted documentation to the courts.

“As long as people post things blindly, Facebook will be a useful tool,” Monroe said.

Northern Kentucky Uni-versity Police Department Sgt. Will Love said the only Face-book page they operate is one for community relations, similar to UKPD. However, he said in

previous years it has been useful to locate students who had oth-erwise been unreachable by con-cerned parents.

“We use it if it helps, but it’s not the first place we go,” Love said.

Sherelle Roberts, public in-formation officer for the Lexing-ton Division of Police, said social networks are a “great way to give and get information” and it’s a “wonderful way to open dialogue with the community.”

She said social networking sites have been used in Lexington investigations. Most incriminat-ing information has been posted to public profiles via video or

photos on Flickr, YouTube, Face-book and Myspace.

“It’s impossible to quantify Facebook’s use in cases,” Rob-erts said, adding that over the last decade the Internet has been a tremendous tool in gathering in-formation and identifying crimi-nal activity.

Monroe said nearly 75 per-cent of police departments use Facebook in some fashion. Developing fake Facebook or Myspace pages is nearly beyond the scope of necessity for cam-pus police departments, but not entirely out of the question for larger organizations.

Wells explained that private

profiles aren’t entirely out of the reach of the law either.

“More and more we’re see-ing formal requests (being filed) for Facebook page activity,” he said.

Other realms of the legal sys-tem are using social networks for cases as well, and it most likely will continue to grow in this day and age.

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WALKING ON THIN ICE

VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

Show love for your Valentine and nature with fair trade chocolateDark and decadent, she cas-

cades over a smooth, silky tongue creating pure bliss. Chocolate, she solves every problem.

Whether it be walking down the street and twisting an ankle or having a bad day at school, choc-olate has always been there.

In terms of Valentine’s Day, if someone forgot about the over-ly publicized, loving, commercial holiday, all they have to do to make up for it is buy a beautiful box of chocolates to please their significant other.

Unfortunately, while choco-late does an excellent job of showing our loved ones how spe-cial they are to us, it may have the opposite effect on Mother Earth.

While she’s busy changing the seasons and making the Baton Rouge weather extra cold, cocoa bean workers all over the world are viciously tearing apart her rainforests.

Cocoa beans may be beauti-ful and delectable in their final product, but to become luscious

or gourmet, they are nothing but trouble.

Often grown in tropical cli-mates such as Central America, South America and Africa, these small pods originally developed

under the tall, handsome can-opy in dense r a i n f o r e s t s where they promoted bio-diversity. This kind of grow-ing is known as shade-grown cocoa, and as

deforestation becomes more and more popular, shade-grown cocoa has become harder and harder to find.

Without the luscious cano-pies to protect the forest floor from the sun’s strong rays and the weather’s strong sway, many migratory bird species are now exposed to the harsh climate and are dying off in areas where they once found winter solace.

The National Wildlife Fed-eration has said the insect popu-lations at booming cocoa planta-tions have increased as a direct aftereffect to these species dis-appearing. The organization has called for the use of stronger poi-sonous pesticides, furthering the damage to biodiversity as well as the livelihood of workers.

Most shade-grown chocolate is also fair trade, which according to Oxfam International and many other organizations, means the producers get a fair deal — good working conditions, a decent liv-ing wage and reasonable security.

They’re promised to be paid better than they would without fair trade arrangements — and thank goodness for that.

Without the promise of fair trade chocolate, the cocoa bean industry would hold no hope for the future of sustainability. And yet now, according to Cocoa

Stainability, it has gained the ded-ication of Mars Inc., IBM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a cocoa bean genome project as an effort to better utilize the tropical land.

The project aims for farmers to produce more cocoa beans per plant. It also aims to help farmers efficiently use the remainder of their land for better yielding crops as a way to increase their income and pull them out of poverty.

Could there be a sweeter way to grow chocolate?

Could there be a sweeter way to give back to Mother Earth this Valentine’s Day, showing her how much you love her?

Fair trade chocolate is one of the few ways to smother our mother with love during this holi-day. It’s fair to all, and it can be found just about anywhere. Just look for a wrapper bearing a small symbol saying it’s fair trade

certified.Better yet, by buying fair

trade chocolate for those we love, we demonstrate that Valen-tine’s Day isn’t just a day where we show our love to one other person, but rather a day for us to show our love to everyone.

If Forrest Gump were a hip-pie, he might say, “If the world were a giant box of chocolates, we should know exactly what we’re getting with each delicious bite — a soulful helping of good karma that comes with buying the right way.”

Priyanka Bhatia is a 19-year-old pre-veterinary medicine freshman with a minor in environmental management systems. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_Pbhatia.

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