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MOVIES

Sequel chronicling BR gangs to be released this month

A DVD that made waves last year chronicling dangerous Baton Rouge and Port Allen neighborhoods is stirring up controversy once again.

“Thuggin’ It and Lovin’ It,” re-leased in May 2009 by production company Millionaire Entertainment, is set to receive a sequel Nov. 12, according to Troy Route, one of the video’s producers.

The original production was advertised as depicting “real” life in high-crime Baton Rouge neigh-borhoods. The DVD was made up

of several segments of low-income neighborhoods with residents us-ing drugs and wielding fi rearms and knives.

Though the original video caused unrest among Baton Rouge residents for its depiction of crime and gang presence, Route said Mil-lionaire Enter-tainment hasn’t encountered any legal trouble regarding the

video because everything in it was staged.

“Everything was props and stunts,” Route said.

Noel Jackson, owner of Music Treasure Chest on North Acadian Thruway, said he sells the original DVD and plans to sell the sequel, “Thuggin’ It and Lovin’ It, Part Two,” when it’s released this month.

Jackson said the DVD is a true depiction of life in Baton Rouge, and he thinks the makers of the DVD are doing the community a service.

“It’s great that someone’s crazy enough to expose this,” Jackson said. “Parents need to know what their kids are doing out here.”

Route, who goes by the rap name “Da Triggaman,” said the DVD’s purpose is to show what life is like on the streets of Baton Rouge.

“A lot of people in Baton Rouge don’t know that side of life if they

DVD producer claims violence was staged

Rachel WarrenStaff Writer

AAUP wants University to reinstate instructors

“Thuggin’ It and Lovin’ It, Part Two”

Nothin’ but a good time

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Noel Jackson, owner of Music Treasure Chest, speaks Wednesday about the store’s role in local rap music. The store will sell the DVD “Thuggin’ It and Lovin’ It, Part Two.”THUGGIN, see page 19

LSUPD expects early kickoff to curb usual rowdiness for Alabama game

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Fans express excitement and frustration Sept. 4 during LSU’s 30-24 win against North Carolina. The LSU Police Department isn’t worried about fans’ rowdiness for Saturday.

LSU football fans are known for being among the most passionate in college football, but most commu-nity offi cials say University students aren’t rowdier than other fans in the Southeastern Conference.

Students at the University are not a major problem on game day, according to Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman.

“We do have some games that are wilder than others, but generally speaking our students are pretty well behaved,” Tabor said.

Tabor said the biggest problems LSUPD encounters with students during a typical game day are al-cohol related, including minors in

possession, students attempting to sneak alcohol into the stadium and

students being too inebriated to enter the game.

The more pop-ular games — like Saturday’s loom-ing showdown with Alabama — of-ten produce more problems.

But Tabor said police aren’t an-ticipating any problems this week-end, partially because the game is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.

Tabor said LSUPD won’t bring extra offi cers for Saturday’s big game.

“Whenever it’s a daytime game, we tend to see less problems,” Tabor

FANS, see page 19

A national faculty advocacy group is again complaining about possible infringements on faculty rights by the University administra-tion.

In an Oct. 29 letter addressed to Chancellor Michael Martin , the American Association of University Professors asked for the reinstate-ment of the 14 foreign language pro-fessors who will lose their jobs at the end of this semester.

“We urge you to rescind the notices of termination issued to the fourteen language instructors,” As-sociate Secretary B. Robert Kreiser wrote in the letter. “If, however, the notices are allowed to stand, we urge that their effective date be extended to the end of the current academic year.”

More than 200 instructors re-ceived notices of non-renewal in January . The “foreign language 14,” the subjects of the letter, are the only known instructors who did not re-ceive extensions to those letters.

The AAUP letter argues that the

Matthew AlbrightStaff Writer

Sarah EddingtonStaff Writer

AAUP, see page 19

Marijuana legalization bill unlikely in Louisiana following Prop. 19 failure, p. 4

Sophomore Russell Shepard calls his performance ‘very inconsistent,’ p. 7

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Two killed and 50 injured in earthquake in Serbia on Wednesday

KRALJEVO, Serbia (AP) — A state of emergency was declared Wednes-day in central Serbia after an earth-quake rattled the region, killing at least two people and injuring 50.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the moderate quake with a 5.3 magnitude struck 125 kilometers south of the Serbian capital, Bel-grade, at 1:56 a.m Wednesday.Octopus oracle’s successor Paul II makes public debut in Germany

OBERHAUSEN, Germany (AP) — Paul the Octopus’ successor has made his public debut, but his keep-ers aren’t yet promising deep soccer insight from the youngster.

The 5-month-old, also named Paul, tentatively explored his new tank at the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen on Wednesday. Paul hails from near Montpellier in south-ern France and weighs nearly 10.5 ounces (300 grams). He made his de-but after two months in quarantine.

Schoolchildren spot mountain lion in fi eld 200 feet from bus stop

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A group of children waiting for their school bus got a shock Wednesday when they spotted a mountain lion in a fi eld just 200 feet away.

Beach Transportation Gen-eral Manager Robert Mitchell said his driver and the children saw the wild animal at about the same time Wednesday morning just as the bus was pulling up to the stop on a rural route south of Missoula. The driver quickly loaded the children and used his two-way radio to inform the company, which called 911.Gay-rights groups view Tuesday’s national election as major setback

NEW YORK (AP) — Gay-rights activists celebrated a few bright spots on Election Day, but they also suffered some major setbacks — including losses by key support-ers in Congress and the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court judges who had ruled in favor of same-sex

marriage.On both sides of the marriage

debate, the Iowa vote was seen as a signal that judges in other states could face similar punitive chal-lenges.

The congressional results fur-ther clouded the prospects for re-pealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy so gays could serve openly in the military.Twenty tons of marijuana found near tunnel by California border

SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authori-ties have discovered 20 tons of pot near a tunnel connecting warehous-es on either side of California’s bor-der with Mexico.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack said Wednesday that the tun-nel ran 600 yards under the border near San Diego. It had lighting, ven-tilation and a rail system for sending carts of drugs into the U.S.

Mack said the tunnel ended near California’s Otay Mesa port of entry.

Louisiana courthouse escapee sentenced Tuesday to life in prison

(AP) — A 34-year-old man who was on his way to a habitual of-fender hearing last month when he escaped from deputies outside the Baton Rouge state courthouse was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison.

Demond Cook, shackled and dressed in an East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Lockdown jumpsuit, offered no resistance during his brief appearance before state Dis-trict Judge Don Johnson.

Cook, of Baton Rouge, was convicted by Johnson in Septem-ber on two counts each of armed robbery and second-degree kid-napping.

Cook stipulated Tuesday to the East Baton Rouge Parish Dis-trict Attorney’s Offi ce’s contention that those convictions made him a fourth felony offender for habitual offender purposes.

Prosecutor Will Morris told the judge that Cook had prior con-victions in 1996, 1999 and 2008.

Pedestrian killed in Baton Rouge by drunk driver in pickup truck

(AP) — A 54-year-old man was killed when he tried to cross Airline Highway in Baton Rouge and was hit by a truck.

Baton Rouge police say the ac-cident occurred around 7:20 p.m. Tuesday. Police say the driver of the pickup, 35-year-old Shawn Sterling of Baton Rouge, was issued a driv-ing while intoxicated citation and released at the scene.La. Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries rescues missing father, two sons

FARMERVILLE (AP) — State wildlife agents searched through nighttime rain and fog to fi nd a man and his two sons who got lost while scouting for deer in D’Arbonne Na-tional Refuge.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it was called about 9 p.m. Tuesday be-cause 36-year-old Timothy Thomas and his sons, aged 7 and 10, had not returned home.

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POLICE

LSUPD undergoes tactics training

LSU Police Department offi-cers don’t take their jobs lightly, and they feel the same way about their training.

Wednesday marked the be-ginning of this year’s defensive tactics training for LSUPD offi-cers. Officers gathered at the LSU Rifle Range in St. Gabriel for eight hours of training, which involved learning how to assess and handle encounters with actively resistant suspects.

Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman, said every officer in the department is required to take the course at least once a year.

“It’s basically a self-defense course for police officers, and it teaches officers ways to apprehend suspects in the safest possible way not only for the suspect but also for the officer,” Tabor said. “We take our training very seriously.”

Tabor said LSUPD complies with the Monadnock Defensive Tactics System — an international law enforcement education pro-gram.

Officers learned performance techniques ranging from basic to advanced, including soft and hard empty-hand techniques.

Soft empty-hand techniques, like blocking, involve minimal force and are intended for suspects who comply with the officer, Ta-bor said, while hard empty-hand techniques, like striking, require increased force and are intended for actively resistant suspects.

“The point is not to inflict pain. The point is to control some-one who is being combative,” Tabor said. “All of our protocol and techniques are governed by the use of force continuum. What response we apply is governed by the continuum.”

The use of force continuum is a set of guidelines for assessing what level of force may be used against a resisting subject in a par-ticular situation.

“We have to assess the situ-ation we have at hand and try to control it,” Tabor said. “We may go somewhere where a student has a gun and we need to enter that use of force continuum at a deadly force level.”

Tabor said the officers enjoy the course.

“It gives officers the confi-dence to be able to do their job properly,” he said. “If they find themselves in a dangerous or com-promising position, they have the ability to protect themselves and others.”

Tabor said people forget po-lice officers put their lives on the line every day.

“Often times people don’t re-alize that for police officers, we are sort of in a war every day,” he said. “It’s one of the only jobs I know where we come to work and we don’t know if we’re going to

make it home at night.”A common misconception is

that LSUPD officers hold posi-tions similar to security guards, Tabor said.

“Just because we are on a campus environment doesn’t mean we only encounter people affiliated with campus,” he said. “We encounter people from out-side of campus on a daily basis. We always have to be prepared.”

Sgt. Jeffrey Lemoine, LSUPD officer and one of the defensive tactics instructors, said he hopes people can break away from the stereotype.

“We have never viewed ourselves as security guards. We get the same training as all the oth-er police officers,” Lemoine said. “That’s why we take our training so seriously. We want to provide a professional police force.”

In light of recent school shootings in the U.S., Lemoine said the role of campus police is even greater.

“We are the first line of de-fense,” he said.

Officers learn proper applications

Sarah EddingtonStaff Writer

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Sgt. Jeffrey Lemoine (middle), LSU Police Department spokesman, instructs LSUPD officers Wednesday on how to put someone in an arm lock as part of training.

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Student Government Senate continued its letter writing cam-paign and discussed budget cuts at its weekly meeting Wednesday.

Much has been made of SG’s attempts to discuss budget cuts with Gov. Bobby Jindal face-to-face. SG President J Hudson and Vice President Dani Borel got their chance Tuesday when they met with Jindal at the Governor’s Mansion.

Borel acknowledged to The Daily Reveille outside of the Sen-ate meeting that she asked Jindal to sign a copy of Monday’s Daily Reveille that featured a picture of her, Hudson and Jindal at Abun-dant Life Church in Denham

Springs when the three of them first met.

Borel said although Jindal is under fire from many in the Uni-versity community regarding bud-get cuts, she still respects him as a political figure.

“I think Jindal is a good politi-cian. I think he’s done some great things,” Borel said. “I don’t think that’s necessarily the case for higher education.”

Borel said though she doesn’t approve of his handling of bud-get cuts, the opportunity to get the governor’s autograph was too much to pass up.

“It doesn’t mean he’s a man I don’t admire,” Borel said. “I mean, it’s not every day you get to meet the governor.”

Hudson spoke to the Senate on Wednesday about his recent meeting with Jindal and the gover-nor’s tentative agreement to come to speak at a forum at the Univer-sity next semester.

“It will be interesting to see if he comes to our higher education institution,” Hudson said. “In the meantime we’re going to be laying low focusing on our letter writing campaign.”

Manship School of Mass Communication Sen. Zac Lem-oine acknowledged he was one of the people responsible for the “WhatNow Lsu” event last week.

“It’s something that a couple of us who just happened to be in Student Government thought we should do,” Lemoine said.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences Sen. David Jones asked what the event has brought about.

“I just have one question after ‘WhatNow Lsu,’ which is, ‘What now?’” Jones said.

Lemoine told Jones that the Flagship Advocates student group was founded by the event and that more than 300 letters were collected there.

Lemoine said he had not heard any response from House of Representatives Speaker Jim Tucker after he said more than 300 e-mails were sent by students at the event.

SG Senate also voted Wednes-day to approve Stuart Peterson to the Programming Support and Ini-tiatives Fund Committee.

It also voted to postpone a

resolution to urge and request Academic Affairs to prohibit the assignment of graded work dur-ing the concentrated study period, also known as dead week, because a meeting with a representative from the Faculty Senate was still in the works.

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As marijuana reform failed in California, experts say it’s unlikely Louisiana residents will legally puff, puff, pass anytime soon.

Proposition 19, a marijuana le-galization bill in California, failed to pass with only 46 percent at the polls Tuesday, and Louisiana has much less support for drug reform, accord-ing to University associate political science professor Robert Hogan.

“The chances of [marijuana law] changing here is extraordinarily remote,” Hogan said. “The political system here does not lend itself to things like that.”

Hogan said Louisiana’s laws are unlikely to change because voters in Louisiana do not have the right to put a state law, like Proposition 19, on the ballot.

“In California they need a cer-tain number of signatures to get something on the ballot, and if it’s passed, it becomes state law,” Ho-gan said.

In order for a marijuana legal-ization law — either full-legalization or just legalization for medical pur-poses — to happen in Louisiana, a member of the Legislature would have to introduce a bill, the bill would have to pass both houses of the State Legislature, and the gover-nor would have to sign it.

Politicians in a conservative state like Louisiana are unlikely to take those risks, Hogan said.

Noah Mamber, legislative ana-lyst for the Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization group based out of Washington, D.C., said he thinks le-galization of marijuana on a national level will come, although Louisiana may be one of the last states to im-plement it.

“We’re going to change laws across the country,” Mamber said. “Will Louisiana be part of the first

wave of changing marijuana laws? Most likely not.”

Mamber criticized the Legisla-ture’s decision to quickly ban Spice, which has been referred to as “syn-thetic marijuana,” instead of reform-ing marijuana law.

“The proper response to Spice is to pass a tax-and-regulate law for marijuana so that people don’t have to use Spice. Marijuana is safe,” Mamber said.

Mamber said the best news to come out of Louisiana recently for pro-legalization activists is that new bills — like HP311 — that increase marijuana penalties or are targeted at marijuana users did not pass this year in the Legislature.

“That was a ridiculous bill that tried to require drug offenders to car-ry a scarlet letter, a modified driver’s license,” Mamber said.

Even though penalties in Loui-siana did not increase, the state had the fifth-highest marijuana arrest rate in the country in 2007, according to a report from marijuana activist Jon Gettman.

Louisiana had 18,535 marijuana arrests in 2007, and 2,660 of those were in East Baton Rouge Parish, according to the report.

If marijuana laws in Louisi-ana are ever going to change, stu-dent involvement will be vital,

Mamber said.“We’re going to continue to

grow, and we’re going to change the demographic of society,” Mamber said. “Once they become the major-ity and the supporters of a failed pro-hibition become the minority, polls and legislatures will be more sup-portive of marijuana reform.”

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

VP Borel defends asking Governor Jindal for autograph

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Student Government senators listen during the Senate’s Wednesday night meeting.

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While University adminis-trators bemoan continued fund-ing cuts, some state leaders say the current budget situation pres-ents an opportunity to restructure the higher education system.

Several influential policy-makers have called for an in-creased emphasis on community colleges and trade schools — schools those leaders say better serve the demands of the state.

Many of those arguments hinge on the perception that the state has too few community col-leges.

Those numbers seem to be backed up by figures from the Louisiana Workforce Commis-sion. The commission compared the number of higher education graduates in 2004 to the state’s marketplace demand for those degrees.

The report indicates 35 per-cent of high school graduates entered four-year private univer-sities, 8 percent entered two-year colleges, 20 percent entered the job market directly after high school, and 37 percent dropped out before high school.

The demand trend, however, is vastly different. According the LWC’s report, the state’s job market demands only 16 percent of the workforce have four-year degrees but demands 58 percent have two-year degrees.

The report echoes recent pushes by state and national po-litical figures for a higher empha-sis on community colleges.

Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced his Skills for America’s Future ini-tiative, which will partner com-munity colleges nationwide with private companies like McDon-ald’s, Gap and Accenture.

The same week, the president held a “White House Summit On Community Colleges,” hosted by second lady and long-time educa-tor Jill Biden.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has also pushed for greater emphasis on two-year institutions, citing sta-tistics like the report as evidence that more similar institutions are necessary.

Despite the emphasis on two-year schools, most officials say improving community col-leges doesn’t have to come at the expense of four-year institutions like the University.

“I would never decrease sup-port for the four-year education system,” said Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, chairman of the Senate Education Committee.

Nevers said community col-leges are an essential part of an efficient higher education sys-tem.

“I believe we need to get ev-ery student that we can to post-secondary education in the state in some form,” he said.

“Many students are unable to attend a four-year university in some form, and we need to give them some kind of opportunity.”

Nevers said an ideal higher education system would link

community colleges to universi-ties. Students who are initially unable or hesitant to attend a uni-versity would start at community colleges and transition into four-year institutions.

“The four-year universities and the community colleges need to realize that we’re all in this to-gether,” Nevers said.

Nevers pointed to the “Bears 2 Tigers” partnership between LSU and Baton Rouge Commu-nity College as an example of inter-school synergy.

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope acknowledges that community colleges have an im-portant educational role and that beefing them up doesn’t have to hurt four-year institutions.

“It’s unfortunate that, who-ever these statisticians are, they’re trying to set community and technical schools against universities,” he said.

Cope said community col-leges are designed to either fun-nel students into a university or to provide job training.

“They’re more keyed to the

market,” he said. Cope also didn’t challenge the demand figures.

But Cope said looking only at market demand isn’t necessar-ily the best long-term strategy.

“In the long term, the more educated a person is, the more their income goes up — which means the taxes they pay go up,” he said.

Cope argued demand for four-year institutions will in-crease in the coming years. The same LWC analysis shows pro-jected demand for four-year in-stitutions increasing by 5 percent, with demand for two-year institu-tions decreasing by 3 percent.

Cope also criticized the Jindal administration’s efforts to funnel more Louisianians into community colleges.

“He’s imposing a primitive glass ceiling over the people of the state,” he said.

HIGHER EDUCATION

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

State leaders call for more, better community colleges

Matthew AlbrightStaff Writer

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Student Government represen-tatives are planning an on-campus forum featuring leading state offi-cials for next semester.

SG Vice President Dani Borel said the ideal lineup would include Gov. Bobby Jindal, Speaker of the House Jim Tucker, President of the Senate Joel Chaisson, State Trea-surer John Kennedy and newly elected Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne.

Borel said the forum is planned for early February, when the state’s budget process begins in earnest.

Borel said students would sub-mit questions for a student panel to ask beforehand and could ask ques-tions personally at the event.

“We don’t want a debate be-tween the people on stage,” Borel said. “We want students to be able to ask questions.”

The plan replaces a proposed candidate forum SG had attempted to sponsor before Tuesday’s mid-term elections. Borel said too few candidates agreed to meet.

Borel said she hoped SG would have better luck bringing of-ficials to campus this time because those officials will not be up for re-election.

“We’re now aiming at people who are already in office,” she said. “They’re not as concerned about getting votes on the road. They want to answer the concerns of their constituents.”

Borel and SG President J Hud-son met with Jindal on Tuesday. She said one of their primary re-quests during the meeting was for the governor to come to campus.

Borel said she anticipated the meeting would be held Feb. 2 or

3 but said the governor’s schedule was the most important factor.

If Jindal or other officials decline to attend, Borel said SG would fill the seats with finance

committee members from the State Legislature.

Schools said to help higher ed system

SG plans forum for state leadersMatthew AlbrightStaff Writer

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@lsureveille.com

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Students always seem to be searching for ways to make a lit-tle extra cash, and now they have turned to pecan picking to fill their pockets.

Jeff Smith, owner of Farmers Feed Mill, said he receives around 250 people every day between the store’s two locations, and 25 percent of its customers are high school and college students.

Farmers Feed Mill, a farm supply business that buys pecans, is located in Maringouin, a 30-min-ute drive from campus, and in New Roads, a 45-minute drive.

“Regardless of where the pe-cans are from, we usually buy them for a dollar per pound,” Smith said.

Prices depend on the market as well as conditions like weather and availability, said Ken Breaux, owner of Atlas Feed Mills Incorpo-rated in Breaux Bridge.

Despite all the talk about pricing, friendly customer service remains the main focus of many businesses.

“When the younger kids come in, I usually pay them a little more,” said Larry Rider, owner of Planta-tion Feed and Supply in Port Allen.

Some specific kinds of pe-cans are worth more than regular

pecans, Smith said.Special varieties, like Elliott,

Melrose and Candy pecans, are usually sold for $1.30 per pound because they are better quality than the usual pecans, Smith said.

Farmers Feed Mill keeps spe-cial variety pecans and sells them within the store as goodies or pres-ents. Special packaging is avail-able for those who wish to give pe-cans to friends and family as gifts, Smith said.

Atlas Feed buys pecans from its customers for around 75 cents per pound and in turn sells the pe-cans to companies for 70 cents per pound, Breaux said.

“We make about a nickel per pound for being the broker be-tween our customers and the com-panies,” Breaux said.

Farmers Feed Mill has extend-ed its hours during pecan season and will remain open every day during pecan season, which spans from October until January, Smith said.

Brandon Bourgeois, general studies junior, said he has never sold pecans before, but he would consider doing it in the future.

Several new Baton Rouge developments are offering stu-dents more than just a place to live with their housing develop-ments, and they’ve been success-ful so far.

With The Cottages recently opened, Aspen Heights open-ing next fall and The Woodlands coming in 2012, luxury student communities are offering high-quality amenities and a neighbor-hood atmosphere to their resi-dents.

The appeal to students goes beyond just a nice place to live, according to Cottages property manager Josey Young.

“[Community] is something we’ve put a focus on from day one,” Young said.

The Cottages has resident events all year long similar to on-campus residence halls and gets student input on events and pro-grams from a resident advisory committee, Young said.

Mike Swope, director of campus marketing for The Dove-tail Companies, developer of The Woodlands, said his company went to Baton Rouge and did two days of focus group testing to find out what students wanted out of their living situation.

“Our goal is to offer the

residents enough variety where they don’t even have to leave the site,” Swope said.

Both Swope and Young said they see their communities as a natural development of the stu-dent housing business, and com-panies now have to cater more to student needs.

“I think students are getting more demanding in what they want,” Swope said. “Kids don’t want to live in a 1,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, two-bath-room place anymore.”

Shakari Fraser, anthropology junior, lives in The Cottages and said she signed her lease before she ever saw her place.

“Living there, I have a lot of my own space,” Fraser said. “It’s comfortable. It feels like home.”

Duncan Raster, painting and drawing junior, said she enjoys living in her apartment on State Street and can’t afford to live in a luxury community like The Woodlands.

“I have plenty of money left over for groceries,” Raster said.

A neighborhood doesn’t have to be luxurious to have a commu-nity, according to Raster.

“I would say it’s a really great community over there,” Raster said. “I know all my neighbors.”

Raster also said living on State Street offers a convenience factor that can’t be matched by

the new communities, which are several miles off-campus.

“I don’t have a car, so I bike to school every day,” Raster said.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Frederick HollStaff Writer

JOBS

Kate MabryContributing Writer

graphic by CHELSEA BRASTED / The Daily Reveille

Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

Contact Frederick Holl at fholl@lsureveille.com

Students collect pecans

Student housing facilities focuson community in Baton Rouge

Maybe a bye week was exact-ly what the doctor ordered for the LSU football team’s passing attack.

Entering the open date, LSU quarterbacks (minus a trick play) had thrown for a total of 192 pass-ing yards with no touchdowns in their previous two contests.

LSU coach Les Miles played his best role as doctor in honor of Halloween to fi ne-tune a desper-ately ailing passing game.

“Our passing game looks like we’re throwing the football better in practice on a regular basis. ... I’m pretty confi dent we’ll be able to throw it and catch it, and I’ve felt that way before, and I suspect it will come to fruition Saturday,” Miles said Wednesday.

Game day against Alabama is about 48 hours away, and Miles stressed the importance of translat-ing the practice success to a game situation.

That translation could be key to keep Alabama’s offense, which averages nearly 35 points per game, off the fi eld.

“It puts real pressure on your need to execute,” Miles said. “You have to take your guys and get points.”

The Tigers will get the chance

Aaron Dotson is a new man.The sophomore shooting

guard is healthy for the fi rst time since he was in high school, and he has switched jersey numbers from 12 to 45 .

Dotson said he was simply “looking for a change” when he made the switch.

“I was actually at Walk-On’s one day, and I saw the [former LSU walk-on Jack] Warner jersey, No. 45, and I liked the way it looked.

So I just decided to change and for-get about last year.”

Dotson parallels an LSU bas-ketball program looking for a fresh start after a dismal 2009-10 campaign.

D o t s o n averaged 3.2 points per game on 29 percent shooting in his freshman year at LSU — fi g-ures many ex-pected to be much higher from LSU coach Trent Johnson’s star recruit.

The Seattle native was a Scout.com four-star recruit and came to

LSU amid lofty expectations after leading Rainier Beach High School to the Class 3A state championship

in his junior season .He then parlayed

a solid summer in 2008 into scholar-ship offers from LSU, Washington and Lou-isville .

But Dotson suf-fered a patella tendon tear in his left knee during his senior sea-son of high school, and he hasn’t been the

same player since.Until this year, that is.Players have been taking

SportsThursday, Nov. 4, 2010 page 7

FOOTBALL

Not all sophomore college football players are created equal.

Rushing for nearly 300 yards as a freshman and fi nding the end zone three times through the fi rst eight games of a sophomore campaign may be considered a remarkable start for any run-of-the-mill college football player.

But it’s nothing to celebrate if your name is Russell Shepard .

The charming and charismatic wide receiver has struggled to meet the lofty expectations he set after inking his name to the Tigers and be-coming the gem of LSU’s 2009 recruiting class .

Shepard has 457 career rushing yards to go with 196 receiving yards and fi ve touchdowns in

19 games played as a Tiger.The 6-foot-1-inch, 188-pound sophomore

will be the fi rst to admit he is disappointed in his lack of staggering numbers. Shepard has 180 rushing yards, 162 receiving yards and three touchdowns through the fi rst eight games this season.

Shepard graded himself “very inconsistent” this season.

“Going into the season, you want to be suc-cessful,” Shepard said. “I had goals that I put on myself for the season, and I’m not going to ac-complish them.”

The dual-threat quarterback did it all for Cy-press Ridge High School in Houston, accumulat-ing nearly 4,000 total yards and 48 touchdowns his senior season before his No. 10 jersey was retired within a month of his fi nal game.

Shepard said he would have been surprised if someone told him two years ago he was going to be a wide receiver for the Tigers.

“In a sense I’d be surprised, but in reality, you never know,” Shepard said. “Football’s a crazy sport.”

Junior running back Stevan Ridley said the high expectations come with all the hype Shepard received as a highly touted high school prospect.

“[The fans are] just not seeing the big plays out of Russell Shepard, and they’re expecting it,” Ridley said . “You just have to be a football player.”

The highlight of Shepard’s career so far are a 69-yard touchdown run against Auburn last sea-son and a 50-yard touchdown run in this season’s

MEN’S BASKETBALL

ALABAMA, see page 10

DOTSON, see page 10

SHEPARD, see page 10

Miles happy with passing in practice

Dotson seeks fresh start, change

Missing in ActionRussell Shepard isn’t meeting own goals in his second season

Michael LambertSports Contributor

BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore wide receiver Russell Shepard, who only has 25 receptions this season, is looking to fi nd his niche in the LSU offense Saturday against No. 6 Alabama.

Sean IsabellaSports Writer

File photo

LSU sophomore guard Aaron Dotson (12) jumps past McNeese State senior center Elbryan Neal for a dunk Jan. 4 during the Tigers’ 83-60 win against the Cowboys.

Guard in full health for fi rst time in yearsLuke JohnsonSports Contributor ‘‘

‘I want to be a leader and a role

model for the younger guys.’

Aaron DotsonLSU sophomore shooting guard

Running back Blue to return after injury

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Last weekend’s Southeastern Conference battle between Georgia and Florida had a different feel to it — both teams were unranked.

This week’s clash between No. 18 Arkansas and No. 19 South Carolina has the opposite vibe, as both teams enter the game with 6-2 records.

The Gamecocks are at the mark for the third time in four seasons, while Arkansas is 6-2 for the first time since 2006.

But despite a big weekend in football, a dark cloud hangs over the conference with the loss of Mis-sissippi State defensive end Nick Bell.

MISSISSIPPI STATE LOSES DEFENSIVE END TO CANCER

Just one month ago, Nick Bell was battling in the trenches of the Mississippi State defensive line.

Tuesday afternoon, the 20-year-old redshirt sophomore lost his battle with cancer.

Diagnosed with skin cancer

earlier this fall, Bell played in the first four games for the Bulldogs, including two starts against Auburn and Georgia.

Bell had a tumor removed from his brain Oct. 1 and was expected to begin chemotherapy this week.

“Right now our team’s going through some tough times deal-ing with a situation that you hope no team has to go through,” said Mississippi State coach Dan Mul-len. “It’s tough for young people to deal with the reality of the situation we’re dealing with.”

Mullen and a bus of Bulldogs traveled to Birmingham, Ala., on Monday evening to visit with Bell and his family at the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center.

The team was informed of Bell’s death at a team meeting Tues-day afternoon.

Bell played 16 games in his ca-reer, recording 22 tackles and two sacks, including one this season against LSU.

Les Miles called Bell’s death “very unfortunate.”

“It’s certainly very unfortu-nate,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “I have not had to deal with some-thing like this, but I can tell you our sympathy goes out to his family. It’s hard to see a life ended that has so much potential.”

SOUTH CAROLINA HOSTS ARKANSAS IN SEC PLAY

Arkansas has won the last three meetings between these two schools and desperately needs a fourth if it hopes to stay alive in the SEC West.

The Razorbacks currently sit fourth in the West but have not been mathematically eliminated yet.

South Carolina holds the top spot in the SEC East and can strengthen its lead over Florida with a win this weekend.

With both teams needing a big win, Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino knows this year’s duel won’t be a walk in the park.

“We’ve got to go on the road and face a very, very good football team that has the SEC’s leading re-ceiver and running back,” Petrino said. “We’re excited about it. We think it will be a great challenge, but our football team is preparing and doing a good job.”

The wide receiver Petrino is referring to is 6-foot-4-inch sopho-more Alshon Jeffery.

Jeffery leads the conference with 935 receiving yards on the year, averaging 116.9 yards per game. He has also tacked on seven touchdowns.

The LSU soccer team will have to remain focused for 24 more hours.

The Tigers’ first game of the Southeastern Conference tourna-ment Wednesday against Tennes-see was postponed after heavy rain swept through Orange Beach, Ala.

“The field is underwater, so it’s very unplayable,” said LSU

coach Brian Lee. “But it should be cleared up by tomorrow. We’re very happy with the SEC’s decision to push it back.”

The first-round match was originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and will be made up at 2:30 p.m. today unless weather pushes it back further.

The rest of the tournament is expected to pick up on schedule, with semifinal matches on Friday evening at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

“It’s really OK,” Lee said. “It’s the same situation for both teams, so the teams will just relax today, do a little studying, catch a movie and get a good night’s sleep.”

The Tigers and the Volunteers tied, 1-1, in Knoxville, Tenn., ear-lier this season.

“We feel really good about how we’ve been playing the tail end of the season,” said Lee, whose Tigers won their regular season fi-nale to make the SEC tournament. “We’re still searching for more goals, but we think we’re a lot bet-ter than we were six weeks ago when we played Tennessee, and we also think they’re a lot better than they were six weeks ago.”

SOCCER

AROUND THE SEC

LSU’s game against Tenn. postponed

Razorbacks travel to SC Saturday

Contact Rowan Kavner at rkavner@lsureveille.com

Contact Mark Clements at mclements@lsureveille.com

SEC still mourning death of Nick BellMark ClementsSports Contributor

Match to be made up today at 2:30 p.m.Rowan KavnerSports Writer

LSU may want to consider changing its name to Wide Receiver University — even with its receivers not performing so well this season.

Six former Tiger wideouts cur-rently appear on NFL rosters, includ-ing Early Doucet, Dwayne Bowe and Devery Henderson. That number should increase next season as many expect senior Terrence Toliver to be taken in the 2011 NFL Draft.

LSU continues to recruit plenty of wide receivers, as LSU has 13 players currently listed as playing that position on its roster.

But even with all the talented re-ceivers on the team, only three — Tol-iver and sophomores Russell Shepard and Rueben Randle — have actually caught passes this season.

But Derek Ponamsky, recruiting analyst for Bayou Bengals Insider, said that fact shouldn’t alarm any re-cruits, as many of LSU’s receivers are freshmen.

“There’s not a recruit in America who’s looking at the fact that they’re eight games into their freshman sea-son and worried they haven’t caught a ball,” Ponamsky said.

Shea Dixon, managing editor of TigerSportsDigest.com, attributes the Tigers’ inability to spread the ball around to its ineptitude in the passing game. But even that, he said, wasn’t enough to deter receivers in the class of 2011.

“It’s certainly a black eye if you’re trying to recruit and you’ve got a passing offense that ranks in the hundreds,” Dixon said. “But it may have hurt them a little more if they hadn’t landed the guys they wanted to have in this class.”

Dixon said LSU’s reputation as a factory for professional wide receiv-ers plays highly into recruits’ deci-sions.

“It’s something a lot of recruits talk about — a chance for a staff to put them in the NFL and give them that next step,” Dixon said. “There are one or two guys every year that have bought into LSU being their best shot of being in an offense that can show-case their skills.”

That recruiting angle has allowed LSU to land some of the nation’s top wide receiver talent on a yearly basis. The Tigers have signed at least one four- or five-star wide receiver every year since 2007, with that trend con-tinuing in 2011 with four-star recruit Jarvis Landry from Lutcher High School committing to LSU.

Three-star receivers Alonzo Lewis and Paul Turner join Landry in the class of 2011. But Dixon said LSU still hasn’t put a cap on the class when it comes to receivers. Many expect three-star athlete Odell Beckham Jr. to join the class, and Ponamsky said the Tigers may target a taller receiver from a junior college.

LSU has taken the competition at wide receiver and has spun it in its favor when luring recruits, Dixon said. Many recruits see LSU as an op-portunity to compete for playing time

immediately, as no one’s spot is guar-anteed.

LSU’s inefficient passing attack may have an effect on future classes, Dixon said. That problem has a simple remedy, Dixon said: sign junior col-lege quarterback Zach Mettenberger.

The former University of Geor-gia quarterback currently plays at Butler Community College, and most recruiting analysts consider LSU to be the favorite in landing him.

“It’s such a bargaining chip for kids you’d still like to make a push for if you can say, ‘We have the quar-terback that can put the ball in your hands anywhere on the field,’” Dixon said. “It’s a real promising angle to take and a refreshing one when you’re not doing well on offense.”

The Daily ReveilleThursday, Nov. 4, 2010 page 9

RECRUITING

LSU still attractive for receivers

Contact Hunter Paniagua at hpaniagua@lsureveille.com

Passing inefficiency not a huge deterrentHunter PaniaguaSports Contributor

ZACH BREAUX / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore wide receiver Rueben Randle (2) runs the ball Oct. 23 against Auburn. LSU is still recruiting several receivers despite its offensive struggles.

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to execute in front of a nationally televised audience at 2:30 p.m. on CBS for the third time this season, much to the dismay of fans who feast on the nighttime atmosphere in Death Valley.

Even Miles chimed in on the early kickoff.

“Is there any chance that could happen, is there?” he joked. “I can’t imagine there will be a night game here, dadgummit. We’d love to be

there. Like I said, we’ll play that one whenever it’s tied up.”

On the in-jury front, Miles said true fresh-man running back Alfred Blue has been practicing all week and will play Saturday.

Blue hasn’t played since suffering an ankle

injury against Florida. In six games, he accumulated 70 yards and a touch-down while also play-ing on special teams.

Miles also added he is “pretty optimis-tic” senior defensive tackle Lazarius Lev-ingston will play Sat-urday.

Regardless of whether Levings-

ton suits up, Miles said redshirt

freshman defensive tackle Michael Brockers should see an increased role.

“He’s a big load, and I think they’ll have a tough time handling him,” Miles said of Brockers. “He’s looking forward to playing.”

Brockers has played in all eight games, recording 13 tackles and one tackle for loss.

opening game against North Caro-lina.

“When I’ve had the opportuni-ty to make plays, sometimes I have and sometimes I haven’t executed,” Shepard said.

LSU’s No. 101 nationally ranked total offense and No. 113 passing game haven’t helped ease Shepard’s transition from signal caller to wide receiver in his second season.

“His performance hasn’t really been a bust or anything like that. It’s just getting this offense to come together as a whole and fi nding the ways to use him,” Ridley said.

Shepard has more carries (27) than receptions (25) this season, even though he is listed on LSU’s roster as a wide receiver.

Senior wide receiver Terrence Toliver and sophomore wide receiv-er Rueben Randle also each have 25 catches this season, while Ridley has recorded 152 rushing attempts.

LSU coach Les Miles said he doesn’t envision changing his strat-egy to utilize Shepard .

“Some of the things we have done with him you can count on us doing it again,” Miles said. “There may be some different slants to those plays, but I think how we will use him will be how we have used him in the past.”

Randle said Shepard’s produc-tion may increase with more screen passes.

“There’s been quite a few screens being put in to get the ball in his hands so he can make a big play for us,” Randle said.

Shepard practiced as a quar-terback the bulk of his freshman season and even studied fi lm with the quarterbacks to begin this sea-son, but things changed when junior quarterback Jordan Jefferson and junior quarterback Jarrett Lee began alternating under center.

“At the beginning of the year, ‘Wildcat’ was still a big install in the offense,” Shepard said. “When we took on the two quarterback sys-tem, we pushed it to the side.”

Shepard said he has embraced the transition from his freshman to sophomore season.

“I’d love to play quarterback, but I got to do whatever the coaches say,” Shepard said.

When the LSU coaches de-signed a halfback pass this season using a player other than Jefferson and Lee , they chose freshman run-ning back Spencer Ware , a former Cincinnati high school gunslinger, instead of Shepard.

Ware received a lateral from Jefferson and then launched a 39-yard touchdown pass to Randle against Auburn.

“People think I’m still going to throw the football at some point in my career, so using Spencer was something that they totally had no clue about,” Shepard said.

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

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

SHEPARD, from page 7

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com

notice of the difference between the healthy Dotson and the injured Dotson , including sophomore for-ward Eddie Ludwig .

“He looks a lot more explo-sive this year,” Ludwig said. “It’s exciting to see him come back to the form he had in high school that got him ranked so high.”

Dotson was hailed coming out of high school for his athleticism, but that wasn’t evident last year while playing on his injured knee.

Dotson said the injury to his left knee made him feel off-balance

in games and was a factor in his low shooting percentage.

A major indicator of how often a player drives to the basket is the amount of free throws the player attempts — and Dotson only got to the line 43 times in 29 games last season.

But Dotson’s healthy knee should lead to more scoring oppor-tunities.

“I think this year with his leg strength being back, he’ll be able to get to the rim and make plays for other guys, which is really big,” Ludwig said. “I think he’s going to be really good for us this year.”

At 6 feet 4 inches and 205 pounds , Dotson will be counted on to be a defensive presence on the wing this season.

“He’s having fun, man,” said junior guard Chris Bass . “His jumping ability looks a lot better, and his defense — we were scrim-maging, and he was really getting into guys. He’s just getting more and more confi dent.”

Freshman point guard Andre Stringer didn’t see Dotson’s strug-gles with the injury fi rsthand last year, but he has been impressed by what he has seen in Dotson defen-sively so far.

“He works extremely hard — probably one of the hardest-work-ing guys on our team,” Stringer said. “In practice, he doesn’t hold back anything.”

On a team that has four fresh-men and doesn’t have a senior , Dotson is trying to fi ll the leader-ship void.

“I want to be a leader,” Dotson said. “We’ve got a lot of new guys, and I want to be a leader and a role model for the younger guys.”

Contact Luke Johnson at ljohnson@lsureveille.com

DOTSON, from page 7

ALABAMA, from page 7

Contact Sean Isabella at sisabella@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘Our passing game

looks like we’re throwing the football better in practice.’

Les MilesLSU football coach

Local musicians everywhere have searched for decades for cheap ways to record and market their music.

Baton Rouge has a place where local artists can not only record music but also learn how to use the modern tools necessary to make it in the digi-tal media world.

T i p i t i n a ’ s Music Offi ce Co-Op , located on Government Street , is the lo-cal branch of the statewide Co-Op system put in place by the Tipi-tina’s Foundation to “support and preserve Louisiana’s unique mu-sic culture.”

The Baton Rouge location has been open since 2008 and is home to more than 250 members. Mem-bership with the co-op, which costs $10 a month, includes access to graphic and design software programs like Final Cut Pro , Pro Tools and PreSonos , as well as the offi ce’s in-house recording studio.

The main function of the

Co-Op is to be an incubator for as-piring small businesses and local media artists, according to man-ager Lacey McRight .

“I’d say that the most impor-tant thing is to not only provide access to this technology but to teach these musicians and artists how to use all the software and

equipment so that it becomes more self-sustaining for their business,” McRight said.

Todd Sou-vignier , director of the statewide Co-Op project, echoed those sen-timents.

“We’re trying to help these art-

ists make more money and keep more of the money they make,” he said.

The Co-Op system is doing just that for its members, accord-ing to an economic survey con-ducted by the foundation.

“The survey showed that our members across the state have reported anywhere from a 13- to 30-percent increase in yearly in-come, and 80 percent of them

EntertainmentThursday, Nov. 4, 2010 page 11

With a title like “Fat Pig,” some potential audience members may not know what to expect from the LSU Lab Theatre’s latest pro-duction.

A work of contemporary re-alism, the play centers on an un-conventional relationship between Tom, an attractive man, and Helen, a plus-size librarian.

The play began its run Tues-day and will continue through Nov. 7. The performance starts at 7:30

every night, and Nov. 7 will have a 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. showing. Tickets are $10.

The production deals with body is-sues and the way society perceives them, said Neal He-bert, director and theatre history and historiography doc-torate student .

“What will make people want to see this play is that it’s about things that LSU students and people deal with every day,” said Hebert, a for-mer Daily Reveille opinion editor. “It is a play that asks a lot of hard questions and doesn’t offer easy answers.”

Hebert said the play assumes audience members are intelligent

and willing to see complex prob-lems dramatized.

“I like try-ing to put some-thing that looks like real life on stage,” he said. “I want there not to be a false mo-ment, like we’re seeing a relation-

ship develop before our very eyes.”Written by Neil LaBute, an

award-winning director, screen-writer and playwright, “Fat Pig” is cast and designed entirely by

Morgan SearlesEntertainment Writer

Play opened Tuesday, runs through Nov. 7

THEATER

LSU Lab Theatre’s ‘Fat Pig’ addresses body image issues

SHAINA HUNTSBERRY / The Daily Reveille

Theatre junior Lee Gresham and theatre senior Sarah Ford act out a scene from “Fat Pig” on Wednesday evening in the Music and Dramatic Arts Studio Theatre.FAT PIG, see page 15

MOVIES

Rumors are circulating and social media networks are buzz-ing as many Baton Rouge resi-dents stalk “Twilight” movie stars who are in Baton Rouge fi lming “Breaking Dawn.”

Avid fans have spotted the cast at several hotspots including Tsunami , Perkins Rowe and Ti-gerland .

And they’ve been permeat-ing the city at downtown bar Bou-dreaux and Thibodeaux’s , where 100 Monkeys — a band including “Breaking Dawn” cast member Jackson Rathbone — has been performing every Tuesday , said Eric LeBlanc , manager at Bou-dreaux and Thibodeaux’s .

“The crowds have been huge on Tuesdays ,” LeBlanc said.

Rathbone and 100 Monkeys were at the Baton Rouge State Fair this past weekend to fi lm a music video, according to J.H. Martin , the State Fair’s CEO and chair-man .

“Because Jackson is in the movie, they have been hanging around Baton Rouge ,” Martin said. “We did see an increase in people crowding around the stage when they started playing.”

Martin said the band was a pleasure to meet.

“The ladies might think [Jackson’s] the cutest because of his Southern charm,” Martin said.

Kittu PannuEntertainment Writer

‘Twilight’ cast starts frenzy in Red Stick

TWILIGHT, see page 15

Modern Music

TIPITINA’S, see page 15

Chris AbshireEntertainment Writer

Tipitina’s offers local musicians place to record music, learn new technology

‘‘‘It is a play that

asks a lot of hard questions and

doesn’t offer easy answers.’Neal Hebert

director, ‘Fat Pig’

Follow us at twitter.com/tdr_twilight to see and post updates about ‘Twilight’ cast sightings

photos by DAVID LYLE / The Daily Reveille

David Achee of Toothknife records a guitar track [above] and works on mixing a song [top left] Tuesday at Tipitina’s. Tipitina’s gives local musicians a place to practice and record music and learn how to use new digital media.

‘‘‘We’re trying to help these artists make more money and keep more of the

money they make.’Todd Souvignier

director, statewide Co-Op project

A day-to-day routine can grow stale by the middle of the week, but the Shaw Center’s newest event, Music at Mid-Day, may make the mid-week blues a thing of the past.

Music at Mid-Day kicked off Wednesday on the fourth floor of the Shaw Center in downtown Ba-ton Rouge. The event provides vis-itors with live music and lunch on the building’s terrace, said Shaw Center Executive Director David Briggs.

The event will roll every Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. with the exception of Wednesdays that fall near holidays, like Ash Wednesday, Briggs said.

“I’ve always wanted to have an activity downtown during the week that showcased the Shaw Center,” Briggs said.

Briggs said people attending Music at Mid-Day are welcome to bring their own lunch or order to-go at one of the downtown res-taurants working with the Shaw Center, like Kingfish.

The restaurants won’t deliver food to the Shaw Center, but 5 per-cent of lunch purchases at Music at Mid-Day will be donated to the Shaw Center, Briggs said.

Briggs said the event is part of the Shaw Center’s mission to be a catalyst for the redevelopment of downtown Baton Rouge.

“We’re hoping to be a little more visible downtown as an art venue,” he said.

And many Mid-Day perform-ers are or were University students, Briggs said.

University alumnus Ben Her-rington performed Wednesday at the first installment and will be performing often in the future.

Other artists include Josue Ramirez, Ryan Foley, David White and Brian Gallion.

Ramirez, a music arts doctoral student, said students should fa-miliarize themselves with musical performances like Mid-Day be-cause music is a big part of college culture.

“Try to go to the concerts, op-era productions and theater plays,” he said. “You won’t regret it.”

Ramirez and his partner, pia-nist Oscar Rossignoli, started per-forming together this semester and will perform at Music at Mid-Day on Nov. 10 and 17.

Ramirez said he and Rossi-gnoli are excited to play for the pa-trons of downtown Baton Rouge.

“We have been practicing classical music as well as a variety of jazz standards,” he said. “It will be a varied repertoire for the nice people there to enjoy while they dine.”

Ramirez and Briggs said people should check out Mid-Day if for nothing more than a cheap, unique date.

“It’s a free concert,” Briggs said. “We want folks to take advan-tage of the beautiful Shaw Center, sitting alongside the mighty Mis-sissippi and enjoying some beauti-ful music.”

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DOWNTOWN

Music at Mid-Day offers free entertainment for downtownFerris W. McDanielEntertainment Writer

DAVID LYLE / The Daily Reveille

Ben Harrington and Brad Walker (left to right) perform at the Shaw Center for the Arts downtown Wednesday as part of Music at Mid-Day.

VIDEO GAMES

New game releases highly anticipated

November is finally here, and for video gamers that means the re-lease of some of the most highly an-ticipated titles of the year.

This month marks the release of Activision’s long awaited follow-up “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” as well as Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood.”

Xbox is also releasing its real-time motion capture device, Kinect, this month, allowing gamers to in-corporate movement in a way that was only previously through a Nin-tendo Wii.

Fans of the game “Red Dead Redemption” will soon be fighting zombies in the new “Undead Night-mare” add-on.

Christmas is sure to be expen-sive with so many new games to keep players glued to the couch.

CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPSThe 7th installment of the im-

mensely popular “Call of Duty” game series, “Black Ops” is a first-person shooter set during the Cold War era. Anyone who plays COD knows multiplayer is where the best

action is, and “Black Ops” promises an even more dynamic multiplayer than “Modern Warfare 2.”

New features include a money system, where weapon upgrades are purchased with “COD points” rather than acquired through experience. Points are earned after each match, and extra points can be acquired by playing the new game types — wa-ger matches, which allow players to gamble on what place they will fin-ish, and challenges that can be pur-chased for large rewards.

Ultimately, if “Black Ops” wants to achieve the level of success and adoration that “Modern Warfare 2” did, the multiplayer must live up to its hype. Allowing players to cus-tomize their weapons load-outs is a great idea, but it shouldn’t put play-ers uninterested in wage or contract matches at a disadvantage.

ASSASSIN’S CREED: BROTHER-HOOD

The third installment in this revolutionary game series, “Broth-erhood” picks up where “Assassin’s Creed 2” left off, following the story of Desmond Miles as he relives his assassin ancestors’ lives. “Brother-hood” is a continuation of the rich

story in the single player, and will also include the series’ first attempt at a multiplayer.

In the multiplayer, players are assigned another player to assassi-nate and must hunt their target while they themselves are hunted.

Though known for its rich sto-ryline, “Assassin’s Creed” has tradi-tionally been criticized for its repeti-tive game play. The variety in the game has steadily improved, but a solid multiplayer would really help “Brotherhood” stand out among its peers.

KINECTKinect is a real-time motion

capture device that will be avail-able as an addition to the Xbox 360. Game play will be similar to the Nintendo Wii, but the biggest dif-ference is that Kinect will actually translate your movement to your on-screen avatar — or at least that’s what’s been promised.

Andrew PriceEntertainment Writer

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“Clock Out,” the much-antic-ipated first official EP from one of Baton Rouge’s most buzzed-about local bands, will finally be released on Saturday night at the Spanish Moon after months of fundraising and years of thrilling live sets.

While the indie-pop quintet has been around for four years, Prom Date’s popularity has received a substantial boost in the last year, helped by a lauded performance at Groovin’ on the Grounds last spring and the band’s consistently sprite live shows around town.

For long-time fans of the band, the EP includes four songs from the band’s demo, but all are drastically different from their pre-vious recordings.

“The songs just sound more filled out now and more mature,” said keyboard player and vocalist James Fuller. “We had many more resources available to us to record these tracks, so these songs people have gotten to be so familiar with since our demo will also have string sections and horns accompa-nying our traditional sound.”

Fuller said the band will in-corporate these instruments into upcoming live shows.

“We felt these songs deserved something special and different, so a part of that is incorporating our new toys — the horns and strings — into our live setup,” Fuller said.

Also, the EP will feature two brand new songs — title track “Clock Out” and “Molehills” — which Fuller actually said began with “an accordian and some coun-try influences,” before changes led to the song’s final version on the EP.

Fuller also mentioned the EP is split between what he described as more traditional Prom Date songs and a more orchestral or electronic style.

“We love our electronic mu-sic, and our style already veered

toward some aspects of orchestral pop anyway, so we really wanted to take the chance to incorporate those styles more into our song writing,” Fuller said.

While the finished product features lots of bells and whistles, Prom Date had to do some serious fundraising to make the EP pos-sible.

The band partnered with the Kickstarter project, which spon-sors and helps fund “creative and ambitious endeavors,” according to its website.

So Prom Date had one month, July, to raise $2,000 in contribu-tions through its Kickstarter pro-file. If it failed to reach its goal, the band would not receive any of the money.

Through intense social net-working and a passionate local fan base, the band raised nearly $2,700 in just one month, making the “Clock Out” EP possible.

Set donation totals also came with numbered incentives. For ex-ample, if someone donated $20, he or she received a physical copy of the EP, a digital release of the title track more than a month in advance and a digital copy of the band’s original demo.

“We were looking for a way to get funding for recording and to do it right,” Fuller said. “The Kick-

starter partnership just worked out so well for us, and it’s kind of crazy that there was actually people out there that wanted to help you make and fund crazy, creative stuff.”

Prom Date also had to make a decision whether to keep playing as a band, with several members recently graduating and one of the band’s vocalists, Brett Burke, re-siding in New Orleans.

“Finishing college always brings up big decisions for any-body, but playing music is what we really want to do right now, so we’re willing to dedicate ourselves to it,” Fuller said.

As for Saturday’s album re-lease party at the Spanish Moon, Fuller said the band saw the place as a natural fit to host the occasion.

“We’ve played numerous memorable shows there in the past, and I, personally, have been to so many great ’80s nights at that place,” Fuller said. “We adore the energy the crowd has there, and that’s so important when you’re sharing new material.”

LOCAL MUSIC

Contact Chris Abshire at cabshire@lsureveille.com

Prom Date releases new album Sat.Band to perform at Spanish MoonChris AbshireEntertainment Writer

File photo

Prom Date performs at Groovin’ on the Grounds on March 20 in the PMAC. The band will release its second album “Clock Out” at the Spanish Moon on Saturday.

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RanksReveille

The WidowersCentral DiscountPhantom Party Records

Matt and KimSidewalksFader Label Records

The Widowers’ funky indie-rock album “Central Discount,” out Nov. 16 , takes listeners on a technicolor ride through some interesting musical madness and is defi nitely an album worth checking out, especially considering the band hails from Baton Rouge. The stellar, get-up-and-get-your-dance-on tracks make for a fun time even between album and listener alone. The Widowers’ sound is solid, fresh and has a sexy vibe that cannot go unnoticed. Overall, the album is impressive and has this listener’s vote as a great new release.

From the fi rst track, Matt and Kim’s third full-length album, “Sidewalks,” is an addictive powerhouse of sound and fun. Tuba, tambourine, chimes and xylophone join the ever-present keyboard on various tracks, and though still present, Kim and her drums seem to take a back-seat. The innocently optimistic lyrics accompany the beats and synthesizers perfectly. The fi rst single, “Cameras,” captured the No. 20 spot on the iTunes Alternative Chart only an hour after its release. Tracks of inter-est also include “Block After Block” and “Good for Great.”

At 14 tracks, “Nothing” is like a Tuesday -night party — having a good time without partying too hard. Many songs use live instruments instead of the elec-tronic-club production N.E.R.D. is known for, which adds depth and gives the album a cohesive, contemporary feel. Songs like “Hypnotize U” and “Hot-n-Fun” serve as indicators of how members of N.E.R.D. have grown as producers. While songs like “I See the Light” rack up skip counts, others like “Perfect Defect” show the versatility in an N.E.R.D. LP .

7 Walkers7 WalkersResponse Records

Brian EnoSmall Craft on a Milk SeaWarp Records

Saw 3DTwisted Pictures

7 Walkers is a blues rock band formed by New Orleans guitar-ist Papa Mali and legendary Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann . Its self-titled debut album is dedicated to New Or-leans and attempts to combine blues rock with the Big Easy’s fl air. The result is what one would expect from the former Grateful Dead percussionist — a slow, hippie-fi ed album with all the familiar sounds of New Orleans music. “7 Walkers” is pleasant to listen to but nothing to write home about, and it comes dangerously close to boring.

Producer Brian Eno , best known for his work with Talking Heads and U2 , has created an instrumental record in a genre he practically invented: ambient electronic. The tracks are more compositions than traditional songs, as gentle keyboards swirl behind electronic blips and ominous guitar chords. While this sense of darkness is no surprise, it’s slightly disappoint-ing considering Eno ’s association with some of rock’s most uplift-ing music, like Coldplay . “Small Craft on a Milk Sea” can’t be accused of a lack of focus be-cause Eno is too good of a pop producer to lack accessibility.

“Saw 3D” is the fi nal chapter in the long and bloody series of “Saw” movies. The movie is nei-ther scary nor thrilling, and the gore is expectedly bad. With un-realistic blood, guts and blades occasionally jutting out of the screen, the 3-D aspect of the fi lm is almost pointless. One high point is the writers actually crafted a semi-sensible plot and tied up some loose ends. After seven fi lms, the “Saw” franchise may fi nally have come to an end, but another movie wouldn’t be surprising because of the movie’s somewhat open-for-interpretation ending.

[B+] [A+] [B]

[C+] [B] [D]

CATHRYN CORE MORGAN SEARLES KITTU PANNU

FERRIS W. MCDANIELANDREW PRICE CHRIS ABSHIRE

Editor’s PickGhostland ObservatoryCodename: RondoTrashy Moped Recordings

RYAN BUXTONEntertainment Editor

MUSIC * MOVIES * BOOKS * TELEVISION

Electro-rock duo Ghostland Observatory is known more for frenetic live performances than studio recordings, and “Codename: Rondo” illustrates why. While the band has tight electronic production down to a science, there’s no substance beyond that. Distracting vocal manipulations mar several songs, and the songwriting leaves something to be desired. Though there are enjoyable spots on tracks like “Give Me The Beat,” the album falls short of Ghostland’s previous efforts.

N.E.R.D.NothingStar Trak Entertainment

[C+]

The Daily ReveilleThursday, Nov. 4, 2010 page 15

attribute that increase, at least in part, to being involved with the Co-Op,” Souvignier said.

Local metal band Thou has used the Co-Op studio to record fi ve songs, two of which appeared on the band’s EP a year ago.

Thou’s bass player, Mitch Wells, described the software and recording equipment in the small studio as “great.”

“We brought in this friend of ours from Oakland to help us mix the sound in our recordings, and he was able to use all the mate-rial we recorded there like it came from any high-end recording stu-dio,” Wells said.

Wells called the ability of lo-cal artists to access a place like Tipitina’s “crucial” and said the Baton Rouge music scene is “pret-ty lucky to have the Co-Op as a cheap, viable recording option.”

“We have met a lot of bands from touring all over the place, and if you go elsewhere, bands either have to pay lots of money for offi cial studio time or scrounge some money together and do it yourself,” Wells said.

While the title of the Co-Op indicates a focus on music, both McRight and Souvignier said a strong segment of the membership comprises other digital-media professionals.

“Media is not just these iso-lated outposts of music people or fi lm people,” Souvignier said. “Media is a continuum, and some-one who has a job in entertainment will need access to and skills in all different forms of the current digi-tal media.”

Tipitina’s is also in the pro-cess of fi nding a building in Baton Rouge to convert into a practice and rehearsal space for musicians, according to Souvignier.

A fi re that destroyed The Caterie in January also damaged the rehearsal space for dozens of bands.

“We’ve got a small amount of money from the state earmarked to spend on a rehearsal space, and we have identifi ed a property that we hope to turn into a 50-room practice facility for local musi-cians,” Souvignier said.

While Tipitina’s is a 501-C3 operation — partially funded by the state and mostly by private donors — Souvignier said the Co-Op system’s state funding is being reduced to “almost zero” in 2011.

“We already don’t have much of an advertising budget, so we rely on working with nonprofi ts, like KLSU actually, and some vol-unteers to get our name out there,” McRight said.

Souvignier acknowledged the Co-Op system is vulnerable when relying so heavily on private do-nations but said Tipitina’s is work-ing to change its business model.

“We’re working very hard to become better at self-funding this project because the state fund-ing is diminishing so quickly, but things like the live music venue in New Orleans are a step in the right direction to continue our mission,” Souvignier said.

TIPITINA’S, from page 11

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“They were super nice young men.”

While the production team for 100 Monkeys was fi lming the music video, some of the patrons started to notice, Martin said.

“We did a shot in the back by the bumper cars, and we had to get two security guards to make sure nothing got out of hand,” Martin said. “If somebody spots one, they tell the world about it on Twitter and Facebook .”

Kasey Emas , creative writing senior, said she has met several “Twilight” cast members. Emas said she met Kel-lan Lutz a couple times around Ba-ton Rouge .

“He is re-ally cool,” Emas said. “The fi rst time I met him I was a stand-in for a movie he was working on with Samuel L. Jackson . I didn’t recognize him as a ‘Twilight’ actor until another stand-in told me after we talked for a good 30 minutes.”

Emas said Lutz and many of the producers were nice the last time she ran into them at The Of-fi ce , a bar on Third Street .

“We were at The Offi ce , and they were just drinking and having a good time,” Emas said. “When we were hanging around their table, [Lutz] was dancing with my friends and buying everyone shots.”

Emas said she has also met Robert Pattinson , who is less of an extrovert than Lutz .

“Both times I ran into Rob , he

looked kind of messy and pretty pale,” Emas said. “The last time, he left The Offi ce right as it was fi lling up. He just seems like a really quiet person who keeps to himself.”

Ashley Greene and Joe Jonas frequent Fred’s Bar in Tigerland and are usually accompanied by other “Twilight” cast members, Emas said.

“I feel bad because I know my friends pull out their iPhones and snap pictures of the actors when

they are out,” Emas said.

Katie Harvey , project coordina-tor for the Ba-ton Rouge Film Commission , be-lieves fi lming will help raise Baton Rouge’s profi le.

“All of the fi lms that are in the area bring a great deal of direct [spending] into Baton Rouge and its businesses,”

Harvey said in an e-mail. “[We] offer a discount to the fi lms while they are shooting. It’s a wonderful gesture on behalf of the local busi-nesses and a great grassroots way to display the hospitality of Baton Rouge to our guests.”

Since “Breaking Dawn” pro-duction began, Harvey said her offi ce has been inundated with inquiries about extras casting, but BRFC doesn’t handle extras placement.

“We get calls and e-mails dai-ly from Baton Rouge to even as far away as Brazil ,” Harvey said.

TWILIGHT, from page 11

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undergraduate students, with the exception of the director.

Hebert said the opportunity to work with these actors has been the best part of directing the pro-duction.

“Despite the fact that I’ve directed 10 shows, this is my fa-vorite group of designers I’ve ever worked for,” he said. “There is a level of sophistica-tion and polish in all aspects of their performance and design.”

Theatre senior Sarah Ford plays Helen, the lead female character. Ford said playing an emotionally vulnerable charac-ter has been an interesting process.

“Helen is not hard to relate to,” Ford said. “She has a lot of joy, and it’s been fun to play those moments. Finding the joy in her makes it worthwhile.”

Hebert said the actors have been enthusiastic about the produc-tion from the beginning.

“The actors have been incred-ibly willing to go places emotion-ally that I thought would be very diffi cult for them from the fi rst read-through,” Hebert said. “We all believe in this show very strongly.”

Ford said she wanted to be in-volved in the production because of the issues it involved and be-cause it granted her an opportunity to play a lead role.

“As a plus-size woman myself, the roles that usually come my way are supportive roles,” Ford said. “Most plays are not to have the main character be plus-size. And

also I think this play speaks to ev-eryone. It’s about feeling comfort-able in your own skin, and it shows that no matter who you are and what you weigh, every-one has issues.”

C o m m u n i -cation disorders sophomore Carol Ann Bryant, who

saw the play, said it was bluntly truthful.

“It raised a lot excellent points about social issues,” Bryant said. “They didn’t try to make the sub-ject romantic or beautiful. They just put it the way it is. The actors did a really good job. The funny characters had me laughing, and the sad parts had me tearing up.”

FAT PIG, from page 11

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‘Twilight’ Sightings in BR• Fred’s Bar in Tigerland• Tsunami on Third Street• Halloween Express on Bluebonnet Boulevard• California Pizza Kitchen in Perkins Rowe• Urban Outfi tters in Perkins Rowe• Boudreaux and Thibodeaux’s on Third Street• The Offi ce on Third Street• Baton Rouge State Fair on Airline Highway

‘‘‘What will make

people want to see this play is that it’s

about things that LSU students and people deal with every day.’

Neal Hebertdirector, ‘Fat Pig’

The Daily Reveille

Let’s revisit the energies of Student Government President J Hudson and Vice President Dani Borel in the past weeks.

After failed attempts of con-tacting Gov. Bobby Jindal and a fruitless meeting Oct. 14 where Jindal pawned off his executive council on Hudson and Borel in-stead of showing up himself, the pair went on the war path.

Within days, apparently fed up with Jindal ignoring their at-tempts at reaching him for an-swers about the state’s budget, Hudson shot letters to multiple U.S. newspapers in cities Jindal was visiting on a whirlwind Republican campaign tour. He called the governor out for ignor-ing the budget crisis in his own state and begged him to “fix your state’s serious problems.”

Hudson’s message even turned cynical at times, calling Jindal’s political travels a move toward a 2012 presidential bid.

The next day, Jindal’s camp put out a lengthy Facebook post that asked students for their take

on the way the state is funding higher education.

And immediately elicited a response from Hudson.

“I believe that [state officials] are incorrect when they state all universities are delivering less value than the students deserve,” was his response, though he as-serted whatever progress the University has made is now be-ing threatened by the budget cuts from the state.

Hudson and Borel met with legislators after that — House Education Committee members John Bel Edwards and Patricia Haynes Smith — who both criti-cized Jindal for his handling of higher education’s crisis.

But the dynamic duo wasn’t satisfied. Hudson and Borel con-tinued to hound Jindal, press-ing him for accountability and answers for students concerned about their education.

On Oct. 28, SG’s ultra-secre-tive “WhatNow Lsu” event un-folded into students writing let-ters to Jindal and legislators, and

a similar campaign the next day in Free Speech Plaza was meant to culminate in Hudson and Borel hand delivering the letters to Jindal at the Capitol.

When they arrived, Jindal wasn’t there to meet them, so they held onto the letters until he agreed to see them.

They finally met with the governor Monday at an event in Denham Springs, and they con-fronted him with the letters. They took the brief encounter with a grain of salt, saving the real is-sues for a meeting with him and Chancellor Michael Martin the following day at the Governor’s Mansion.

Boy, what a few angry letters during a fundraising campaign can do. Hudson and Borel went from being ignored by Jindal’s office to a personal invitation to the Governor’s Mansion.

Hudson and Borel took the opportunity to hand him 700 stu-dent letters and to press him on whether he’d attend a University forum with legislators to discuss

budget cuts, to decipher the ra-tionale for the Board of Regents’ funding formula and his plan for bettering our campus.

Jindal’s answers may have been noncommittal at best, but at least the pair made headway in opening a different type of bud-get cuts conversation — one be-tween the governor and students.

“This isn’t a publicity stunt. This isn’t, ‘Hey, let’s get a picture with Jindal,’” Hudson told The Daily Reveille after the meeting. “This is saving higher education and saving LSU.”

But just when it seemed our student leaders had objectively put their charges (the University and its students) first, Borel did just what a starstruck politician with a personal agenda would do.

She asked Jindal to auto-graph the photograph featuring herself, Jindal and Hudson to-gether on the previous day’s Dai-ly Reveille cover.

So much for keeping a safe distance from the subject of the pair’s supposedly harsh scrutiny.

Something just doesn’t seem right with Borel asking Jindal — the man she and Hudson have been fervently challenging about budget cuts for weeks — for an autograph, like a giddy tourist in Disney World.

“I think Jindal is a good politician. I think he’s done some great things,” Borel told The Daily Reveille on Wednesday. “I don’t think that’s necessarily the case for higher education. It doesn’t mean he’s a man I don’t admire. I mean, it’s not every day you get to meet the governor.”

But even with that explana-tion, the meetings with Jindal ap-pear to be more the culmination of a networking exercise than a tough front against government apathy to higher education.

And to think, we had just started to trust the hardlining duo to convey to the governor what LSU students really think.

What now, LSU?

Opinionpage 16 Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010

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SPORTSMAN’S PARADISE LOST

Though I was born and bred in Louisiana, I can’t help but ad-mire the state of Texas, particu-larly for its recent stance on bud-get cuts.

To be fair, our neighbors to the west have had their fair share of gaffes in recent years. The An-drea Yates fiasco was unforgiv-able, and I still haven’t decided if I can forgive the Lone Star State for bringing us the Bush family.

But overall, I reluctantly have to admit I’m grateful to our friends to the west. After all, any place capable of breeding Drew Brees should be held in a similar regard as Nazareth.

While Louisiana politicians and higher education officials twiddle their thumbs and wait for some sort of Brees-like miracle to blow on through, Texas is tak-ing action in the nationwide col-legiate funding crunch.

And rather than skirting around the issue subjectively, as the University and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration seem to be doing, Texans are coming out guns blazing by putting prices on their professors’ heads.

According to a report in the

Wall Street Journal, the chancel-lor of the Texas A&M University System recently put out a 265-page profit-and-loss statement

for each of its faculty mem-bers.

The state-ment analyzed faculty salaries against stu-dents taught, tuition gener-ated and re-search grants

obtained.The move has received

mixed reviews in the state, rang-ing from praise for its emphasis on productivity to criticism for its limited measurements and time frame.

The results are quite inter-esting, however. For example, one metric in the report com-pares professors’ salaries to the number of students they teach. While some non-tenured profes-sors were paid less than $100 per student, others cost more than $20,000 per student.

Even more striking are the actual cash flow figures from the

report. The three most profitable de-

partments at the university were chemistry, history and English.

Considering the significant criticism liberal arts programs are enduring, especially the Univer-sity’s own English department, it’s incredible to see the fund-generating potential within those fields of research.

And while the specific fig-ures from A&M don’t directly apply to LSU itself, the schools have quite a bit in common.

Both are the flagship univer-sities of their respective systems, both are A&M institutions, and both are large public universi-ties suffering from a shortfall of funding — Texas A&M is pre-paring for $60 million in cuts and reallocations for next year.

Criticize the move all you want for its questionable criteria and relatively small window of time, but at least the report is an objective measurement of pro-ductivity within the Texas A&M System.

It makes me wonder why we haven’t done anything simi-lar. I fail to see why the flagship

university one state over, which has more students and more fac-ulty, can put out such a report but our University can’t.

It wouldn’t be too difficult to calculate the figures. Hell, if an Aggie can do it, a Tiger can do it.

Perhaps the University doesn’t have the data for such a report.

Maybe A&M is simply more pragmatic about budget cuts and wants real, definite answers for why its universities aren’t as pro-ductive as they can be.

Maybe A&M is simply working harder to find real solu-tions to a complex issue. While I hope that isn’t the case, the alter-native is worse.

Perhaps the University doesn’t want the public to know these figures because figures like these are powerful.

They provide a standard in-dex for judging which professors are providing more value to their colleges.

Figures like these reveal the best and the worst of university employees, and if the worst are tenured professors or certain ad-ministrative puppets, the public

outcry could get ugly.But enough speculation —

consider this a University-wide challenge.

Let’s look at the example set in Texas and apply it here at home.

Let’s throw away stigmas of subjectivity and actually look at budget cuts from an objective stance by valuing our professors — and better yet, our administra-tors.

If nothing else, it will at least give us a common ground for dis-cussion of a pretty scary matter.

Otherwise, it’s going to take a miracle even Breesus himself couldn’t pull off to save our in-stitution.

Cody Worsham is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Cworsham.

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OUR VIEW

Hudson, Borel hurt credibility with autograph

Putting a price on professors could solve buget cut woes

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OpinionThursday, Nov. 4, 2010 page 17

SHOCKINGLY SIMPLE

Pinning down exactly what qualities ensure success is a tricky business.

Success is defined and mea-sured in so many different ways it’s hard to even bring the subject up. But in our capitalist society, we can at least say perception of success is heavily influenced by our bank account. For the sake of argument, we’ll say success comes from having a good edu-cation, a good job and a clean criminal record.

Now comes the even more contentious question of what quality determines success. Is it an innate ability like intelligence or talent, or can it be learned and practiced to perfection?

Strangely enough, one of the best indicators of future success just might be the ability to not eat a marshmallow.

In the late 1960s, Walter Mischel of Stanford University conducted an experiment hop-ing to discover at what age chil-dren develop the ability to delay

gratification. He took children ages 4 to 6 and put them in a room with a marshmallow.

M i s c h e l told each child they could eat the marshmal-low, but if they waited until he came back they would get another marsh-mallow.

What fol-lowed was complete agony for the children.

Some kids would shove the marshmallow in their mouths as soon as the door closed, while others would sit, stare at and even sniff the marshmallow, trying desperately to hold out against temptation. In the end most of the children ate the marshmallow, but about a third of the kids suc-cessfully resisted the puffy white treat until Mischel returned 15 minutes later.

Mischel analyzed the data

and concluded age does affect our ability to delay gratification. However, the really interesting results would come a few years later.

Many of the children from the experiment went to school with his daughters. In the follow-ing years their classmates would come up in conversation.

Eventually, Mischel noticed a trend. The children having a hard time in school usually had eaten the marshmallow.

Fascinated by this idea, Mischel began a series of follow-up studies, which have contin-ued to this day. The first follow-up took place 10 years after the initial experiment and involved SAT scores. Incredibly, Mischel found that students who waited for the second marshmallow out-performed students who ate the marshmallow immediately by more than 200 points.

Over the years, Mischel has conducted dozens of follow-up studies and come up with some

pretty incredible results. Not only are kids who waited more likely to attend college and get good grades, but they also have a lower body mass index, a clean criminal record and a higher an-nual income.

The marshmallow experi-ment suggests the most important quality for determining success isn’t intelligence or talent but the ability to delay gratification. Children who were able to put up with temporary discomfort in exchange for a future reward are now more successful in almost every measurable way.

The ability to delay gratifica-tion may be the key to success, but it doesn’t mean people with poor self control are doomed to failure.

The kids who waited didn’t do it because their brain told them they didn’t want to eat the marshmallow. Every child was tormented by the treat — some were just better able to resist its allure. Everyone has this

ability to some extent, but the key is practicing it.

In modern America, instant gratification is king, and patience is more scarce than ever. The in-ability to delay gratification has a hand in everything from rising credit card debt to the mortgage meltdown. Most of us would rather sacrifice tomorrow to get our results today, but in the long term, waiting is almost always better.

So the next time you want to go out the night before an exam, at least try not to eat the marsh-mallows.

Andrew Shockey is a 20 year-old biological engineering sopho-more from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Ashockey.

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EAT LESS, LEARN MORE

Saddened liberals can pull out the tissues, and crazy con-servatives can rest easy — the House is won.

I wish I could tell you who won exactly, because it might predict the successes of America for the next two years. All I can tell you is that Repub-licans “won” the House and nearly leveled the scales in the Senate.

Of course I understand the implications this has on the civics of the situation, but it means little for the country besides percent-ages shifting closer to 50 in the bicameral legislative body.

Tea Partiers are claiming victory in the battle to take back America, and left-wingers are calling for a resurgence of the passion that got them to Wash-ington back in the good ole days of 2008.

No matter what, it’s all a gi-ant crock.

Of the four labels used to describe the political landscape, zero of them had a purpose. It’s the same meaningless type of thought process that equates skin color, nationality or any charac-teristic to another characteristic — correlation is not causation.

Democrats and Republicans both have a national platform, but why? Perhaps it’s so they can unify themselves to trick uni-formed voters into perpetuating the broken system that has put us in this mess.

I stumbled upon the debate between senatorial candidates Charlie Melancon and David Vitter last week, and it was truly entertaining. Melancon was pre-pared and ready for what Vitter had in store. Vitter, on the other hand, sounded like a broken re-cord caught in the headlights.

When reporters asked Vitter whether or not he violated the law with his involvement in a prostitution ring in D.C. in 2007, he squirmed for about a minute without giving a yes or no answer. The moderator even stopped Vit-ter after he claimed he couldn’t make the judgment to inform him that he has a law degree.

Vitter never answered, but he didn’t need to. Why? A friend pointed it out to me — neither his ethical nor moral standings make him qualified to legislate, espe-cially for economic issues.

Every bit of this sentiment make sense. Even if Melancon gave Nancy Pelosi the finger in session, that big blue “D” in front of his name makes him a liability to voters in Louisiana on election day.

With party clout and cam-paign money at stake, voters have every reason to assume every other politician will do what their party requires of them in lieu of what actually serves voters.

That being said, voters don’t have any legitimate source of candidate information. Campaign ads are blatantly exaggerated, worth less than Vitter’s “escorts.” The big red “R” is what got the ethically crippled Vitter elected, not any of his stances on issues. All voters heard was how he is a

Republican backed by the Tea Party, and in these economic times, any party other than Dem-ocrat is golden.

I still don’t know Vitter’s true stances, and I hardly know Melancon’s after the hour-long debate. Government has become both a dream and nightmare for a marketing major — where people buy products with zero research but turn on a dime because of who knows what.

If our elected leaders re-ally wanted to make government more efficient and effective, they would do a few things:

First, eliminate parties. Parties replace logic and reason with “strategic” self-serving de-cisions to promote bodies that do nothing but polarize America.

Second, eliminate cam-paigns — the money-sucking, marketing debacle that displaces public scrutiny from subjects worth investigating. Meg Whit-man poured 150 million of her own dollars into her campaign for governor of California alone, which is respectable, but that money would be much better off somewhere else.

Campaign money isn’t spent

to inform voters — it’s spent to persuade voters.

Ignorant democracy is doomed, and that’s where Ameri-ca is headed — even if you think the House is won.

Matt Lousteau is a 21-year-old mechanical engineering senior from LaPlace. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Mlousteau.

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don’t live in those areas,” Route said.Michael Steele, civil engineer-

ing freshman, said he has heard of the DVD, but it doesn’t make him feel unsafe in Baton Rouge.

“I’m not too worried about it,” Steele said. “I don’t really go into those parts of town.”

Steele said he thinks police should try to investigate the people on the DVD.

“[They should] watch them and see what they’re doing,” Steele said.

Sgt. Don Kelly, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman, said BRPD had “absolutely no reaction or comment or desire to speak about” the video.

Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSU Police Department spokesman, said he doesn’t believe the DVD signifies any threat to students on campus.

Jackson said the producers of the DVD claim the people involved are actors, but he doesn’t believe it. He said he believes the produc-ers made that claim to put residents at ease.

“It’s been going on,” Jackson said. “You just woke up to it.”

Route said he received mixed responses to the original video when it was released.

“A lot of people liked it, but we did get some negative feedback,” Route said. “You can’t really have one without the other.”

Jackson said he doesn’t agree with people who say the DVD en-courages violence. He compared the DVD to movies like “Scarface” and “Takers” and said its purpose is en-tertainment, not to encourage crime.

“I like those movies. It’s not like I’m going to go out and rob anyone,” he said. “It’s just a show.”

Jackson said his store will carry both the original DVD and its sequel because he thinks it’s important for the community to know what’s go-ing on.

“It’s going to be big,” Jackson said. “It’s going to be bigger than the first one.”

THUGGIN, from page 1

said, adding that students probably don’t have enough time to get intoxi-cated.

With the Alabama game comes a larger crowd, so officers will be looking out for certain activities, Ta-bor said.

“We’re always on our toes and ready for big games like Alabama. If you look at our schedule, it’s by far the biggest game we’ve had at home this year,” he said. “Obviously, with these bigger games, there are things we are more aware of.”

Tabor said officers will be look-ing out specifically for ticket scalp-ers and underage drinkers because of the size of the game.

Arrests for MIPs vary from game to game, Tabor said, but the more popular games often have the higher numbers.

The Mississippi State game had the largest number of MIPs issued so far this season with 20 people arrest-ed, both students and non-students, Tabor said. There were 16 for the West Virginia game, six for the Ten-nessee game and 15 for the McNeese State game.

Tabor said undercover officers are also located inside the stadium to look for alcohol.

“We try our best to stop every-one at the gates, but unfortunately we can’t catch everyone,” he said.

An LSU cheerleader was struck in the head with an empty whiskey bottle Oct. 2 during the Tennes-see game, resulting in her having to get stitches, according to Pauline Zernott, LSU spirit coordinator and cheerleading coach.

“People were excited that we had won, so they started throwing cups and bottles,” she said. “It was like a rain shower of things coming down.”

But Zernott said the incident was not a common occurrence.

“They haven’t had a game like that in years,” she said. “There was a lot of emotion involved, and they just got careless and started throwing whatever was in their hands.”

Zernott said LSU fans compare well to other schools’ fans, but they do stand out in their involvement.

“The one way our fans really stand out is how they participate with each of the downs,” she said. “You really don’t see that around other schools. Overall, we really have great fans, and they play a major role in pumping up our team.”

Misused ID cards and student intoxication are the biggest problems the Office of Student Advocacy and Accountability sees, according to Jennie Stewart, assistant director.

Stewart said first-time offenses can result in something as simple as a reflection essay, while serious re-peat offenders may be asked to leave the University.

The most common problems inside the stadium are arguments among fans and disturbing the peace by public intoxication, according to Casey Rayborn Hicks, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office spokeswom-an.

But Hicks said LSU fans aren’t an abnormally rowdy bunch.

“LSU fans are no more rowdy than fans in any other venue,” Hicks said. “They are just more passion-ate.”

instructors, most of whom have been at the University for more than seven years, should have received more advanced notice that their contracts would not be renewed.

The letter is the third such com-plaint this year. The AAUP blasted the administration in February for not renewing Ivor van Heerden, the marine sciences professor who made national headlines for his post-Ka-trina criticisms of the Army Corps of Engineers’ maintenance of the New Orleans levees.

The group claimed the admin-istration had Ivor van Heerden fired

because those criticisms could have endangered federal funding funneled to the University through the Corps.

The AAUP’s argument in the new complaint echoes the argument in the van Heerden case — by the association’s reading of LSU policy, both van Heerden and the foreign language 14 were tenured, protecting them from abrupt firings.

The University stringently de-nied that van Heerden had tenure when he was let go. A federal judge denied van Heerden a preliminary injunction in March that would have saved his job, arguing the University could legally fire him.

The AAUP is also

investigating a case involving biolo-gy professor Dominique Homberger. In April, University administrators suddenly removed Homberger from teaching an introductory biology class after her students had unusually low class grades.

Homberger sponsored a Faculty Senate resolution passed Tuesday echoing the AAUP’s call for the pro-fessors to be reinstated and claiming administrators violated the instruc-tors’ due process rights.

“A budget crisis should not be an opportunity for the administration to make major structural changes to the university,” the resolution said.

Faculty Senate President Kevin

Cope says it’s unusual for “an aca-demic institution of this stature to face this many complaints in so short a time.”

Though the AAUP doesn’t have any legal power, Cope said it has moral and political authority.

“The administration has made all sorts of promises and led people to believe their jobs are more secure than they really are,” Cope said.

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FANS, from page 1

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