T HE D AILY R EVEILLE WWW.LSUREVEILLE.COM Volume 113, Issue 115 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 WIN OR GO HOME Lady Tigers make push for seventh straight Sweet 16 tonight, page 7. lsureveille com Log on to see stained glass windows on campus. SNAPSHOT SG presidential candidates debate issues on eve of election, page 3. NEWS Sports ...................... 7 Classifieds ............... 22 Opinion ................... 20 Index WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS 76 65 TODAY THUNDERSTORMS 80 64 7:20 a.m. 8:20 a.m. Noon 3:20 p.m. 4:20 p.m. 5:20 p.m. Broadcasts Weather Bethany Hawkins is an avid “Law and Order” fan, but she never thought she’d step onto the scene and be a part of a real jury. The U.S District Court division in Baton Rouge summoned Hawkins to jury duty in April 2007, forcing her to miss four days of classes. “I didn’t get out of it,” said Hawkins, mass communication senior. “But I was told since it’s federal court, I couldn’t be excused. This was even after explaining to them I’m paying for college and didn’t want to miss class.” But the U.S. Senate is reviewing a bill that would exempt college students from jury duty. The House of Representatives already passed the bill. History professor Robert Out- land stepped to the podium in Dod- son Auditorium to deliver his last lecture to about 40 students Monday night — hypothetically. The Students Activities Board is sponsoring the three-part “Last Lec- ture” series, asking popular faculty, After three weeks of intense campaigning, the candidates of each Student Government ticket will make one final push for stu- dent support as the clock winds down on election day. Election day officially begins today at 7 a.m. and will continue until the polls close at 9:59 p.m. Students will be able to vote for their candidate through the stu- dent services link on their PAWS account. Online voting will con- tinue throughout the day. Three separate polling lo- cations manned by the election board are also available across campus. During the day, students can vote outside Patrick F. Taylor Hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and inside the Middleton Library lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A separate poll- ing station will be set up inside the University Student Recreational Complex from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. The three final selections for how to spend $5,000 of student fees are also included on tomor- row’s ballot. The options include more recycling bins on campus and in- creased recycling awareness, an online wait list system for Middle- ton Library that will show which computers are available and more Legal Excuse illustration by STEPHANIE CLARK / The Daily Reveille JARED P. L. NORMAND/ The Daily Reveille History professor Robert Outland delivers a lecture Monday in Dodson Auditorium on the social lifestyles before and after the Great Depression compared to today’s. LECTURE, see page 17 ELECTION, see page 18 JURY DUTY, see page 18 U.S. Senate reviewing a bill which would relieve full-time students from jury duty Prof. delivers ‘Last Lecture’ By Leslie Presnall Staff Writer FACULTY STUDENT GOVERNMENT SG elections today on PAWS, at polling stations 2009 season shorter, more crowded Outland: Americans buying happiness By Adam Duvernay Staff Writer By Leslie Presnall Staff Writer lsureveille.com Log on to see highlights from Outland’s lecture.
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THE DAILY REVEILLEWWW.LSUREVEILLE.COMVolume 113, Issue 115 Tuesday, March 24, 2009
WIN OR GO HOMELady Tigers make push for seventh straight Sweet 16 tonight, page 7.
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Log on to see stained glass windows on campus.
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SG presidential candidates debate issues on eve of
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Bethany Hawkins is an avid “Law and Order” fan, but she never thought she’d step onto the scene and be a part of a real jury.
The U.S District Court division in Baton Rouge summoned Hawkins to jury duty in April 2007, forcing her to miss four days of classes.
“I didn’t get out of it,” said Hawkins, mass communication senior. “But I was told since
it’s federal court, I couldn’t be excused. This was even after explaining to them I’m paying
for college and didn’t want to miss class.”
But the U.S. Senate is reviewing a bill that would exempt college students from jury duty. The House of Representatives already passed the bill.
History professor Robert Out-land stepped to the podium in Dod-son Auditorium to deliver his last lecture to about 40 students Monday night — hypothetically.
The Students Activities Board is sponsoring the three-part “Last Lec-ture” series, asking popular faculty,
After three weeks of intense campaigning, the candidates of each Student Government ticket will make one fi nal push for stu-dent support as the clock winds down on election day.
Election day offi cially begins today at 7 a.m. and will continue until the polls close at 9:59 p.m.
Students will be able to vote for their candidate through the stu-dent services link on their PAWS account. Online voting will con-tinue throughout the day.
Three separate polling lo-
cations manned by the election board are also available across campus.
During the day, students can vote outside Patrick F. Taylor Hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and inside the Middleton Library lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A separate poll-ing station will be set up inside the University Student Recreational Complex from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The three fi nal selections for how to spend $5,000 of student fees are also included on tomor-row’s ballot.
The options include more recycling bins on campus and in-creased recycling awareness, an online wait list system for Middle-ton Library that will show which computers are available and more
Legal Excuse
illustration by STEPHANIE CLARK / The Daily Reveille
JARED P. L. NORMAND/ The Daily Reveille
History professor Robert Outland delivers a lecture Monday in Dodson Auditorium on the social lifestyles before and after the Great Depression compared to today’s.
LECTURE, see page 17
ELECTION, see page 18
JURY DUTY, see page 18
U.S. Senate reviewing a bill which wouldrelieve full-time students from jury duty
Prof. delivers ‘Last Lecture’
By Leslie PresnallStaff Writer
FACULTY STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG elections today on PAWS, at polling stations2009 season shorter, more crowded
Outland: Americans buying happiness
By Adam DuvernayStaff Writer
By Leslie PresnallStaff Writer
lsureveille.comLog on to see highlights from Outland’s lecture.
Nation & WorldTHE DAILY REVEILLE
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WORLD NEWS
BALTANAS, Spain (AP) — Lance Arm-strong will have sur-gery after breaking his collarbone Mon-day during a race in Spain. “I‘m alive!“ the seven-time Tour de France champion wrote on his Twitter feed. “Broken clavicle (right). Hurts like hell for now. Surgery in a couple of days. Thanks for all the well wishes.” The 37-year-old American cyclist was knocked off his bike during a pileup in the first stage of the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon race. The injury has jeopardized his participation in upcoming races. Armstrong was scheduled to compete in the Giro d‘Italia from May 9 to May 31 and the Tour from July 4 to July 26.
Lance Armstrong breaks collarbone in crash
NATO: Taliban commander one of 10 people killed in strikeKABUL (AP) — NATO troops killed a senior Taliban com-mander and nine other militants in southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, striking a blow in the group’s heart-land where the U.S. plans to send thousands of additional troops to stem the growing violence. Over a dozen Afghan and coalition forces have been killed in the south in recent days, including eight Afghan police who were killed by Taliban fighters Monday in the Kandahar province.
NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS
Astronauts take third and final spacewalkCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two astronauts, who were teaching math and science to middle school students just five years ago, went on a spacewalk to-gether Monday, their path cleared of dangerous orbiting junk that had threatened the space station and shuttle. On Sunday, the linked shuttle-station complex had to move out of the way of a 4-inch piece of debris that had been projected to come perilously close during the spacewalk. Astronauts Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold II had no luck trying to free up a jammed equipment storage shelf at the international space station, one of their main tasks. Using a hammer, they managed to loosen a pin that Aca-ba and another astronaut accidentally inserted upside down on the platform during Saturday’s spacewalk.
photo courtesy of NASA TV / The Associated Press
Astronauts Joseph Acaba (bottom) and Richard Arnold II (top) make a spacewalk Monday at the international space station.
Administration moves against bad bank assets
Connecticut legislators consider slavery apology
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration aimed squarely at the crisis clogging the nation’s credit system Monday with a plan to take over up to $1 trillion in sour mortgage securities with the help of private investors. For once, Wall Street cheered. The announcement, closely stage-managed through-out the day, filled in crucial blanks in the adminis-tration’s financial rescue package and formed what President Obama called “one more critical element in our recovery.”
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut legislators are considering making their state the first in New England to apologize for slavery and other racist policies of old. A legislative committee heard testimony Monday on a resolution that would issue a formal, general apology and express the General Assembly’s “profound contrition” for the official acts that sanctioned and perpetuated slav-ery. The state’s African-American Affairs Commission, a liaison between black communities and the government, is urging legislators to pass the resolution.
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The five pairs of Student Government presidential and vice presidential-candidates gathered in the TigerTV Studio on the eve of the SG elections for their final debate.
Supporting their preferred candidates and providing audi-ence questions, nearly 100 stu-dents gathered to view the final debate, which promised to answer students’ final questions before voting opens on PAWS today.
The debate will be reaired on TigerTV, campus channel 75, at various times throughout the day.
Moderator Amy Vitrano, Ti-gerTV station manager, asked each pair of candidates questions about transparency and sustain-ability after they introduced themselves via a previously taped segment.
The candidates were then given the opportunity to answer students’ questions submit-ted through TigerTV’s e-mail
account. The initial question con-cerned the $45 million in budget cuts the University is facing.
Subsequent questions dis-cussed the ways the losing candi-dates would work with the future SG president and vice president, how the candidates plan to pro-mote athletics and what differ-entiates them from candidates in past years.
The Make it Reign ticket, composed of mass communica-tion students Jeffrey Noel and Ryan Ginn, pushed three major proponents of their campaign throughout the debate — the effi-cient and effective use of money, communication and their lack of a push card.
“We’re not going to set im-portant issues now,” Noel said of his ticket’s approach. “We’re go-ing to do the small stuff.”
The More ’09 ticket, led by human resource leadership development junior Stuart Wat-kins and mass communication junior Martina Scheuermann, is a ticket running on a green premise. Issues they pushed dur-ing the debate included the goal of cutting “frivolous spending,” their previous student leader-ship positions and the quality of
other candidates running on their ticket.
“Get us elected ... and we’re ready to fulfill our duties,” Stuart said, adding the candidates back-ing him are “people that are go-ing to think and act responsibly throughout the year.”
The One Voice ticket is fronted by College of Business Sen. Greg Upton and SG Execu-tive Director Laura Boggs. Boggs was not present for the first half of the debate. The pair pushed the viability of the options on their push card and their economic prowess.
“As an economics major, I’ve been working with econo-mists here at LSU,” Upton said. “The most important issue facing LSU this year is the budget crisis ... Our campaign is the only cam-paign that has actually come up with a solution.”
The Next Level campaign, led by University Center for Ad-vising and Counseling Sen. Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn, SG assistant director of finance, pushed their extensive experi-ence in SG, plans to cut “frivo-lous spending” and their intent to reform dead week.
“With this current economic
climate, we need to be the so-lution and not the problem,” Palermo said. “We need some-one that has the experience ... We need somebody that’s going to represent SG to the best of its ability.”
Unity ’09 is led by Ari Krup-kin, political science senior, and Melanie Oubre, mass communi-cation sophomore. They pushed their leadership experience in organizations outside of SG and
their intent to unify the campus.“We are working to make
sure that you are informed,” Krupkin said. “[We want to] make sure that everyone on this campus can come together in the best ways possible ... That’s what we’re about.”
A treasure hides behind Mid-dleton Library.
If one wanders into the court-yard to the left of Middleton Li-brary, one will find that X marks the spot on the “Mariners, Merid-ians and Monsters: Exploring the History of Maps in Fact and Fic-tion” exhibition, which opened Monday in the second floor gallery of Hill Memorial Library.
The exhibit, which is spon-sored by LSU Libraries’ Special Collections, features a collection
of about 50 maps of the world, the Baton Rouge area and theUniver-sity’s campus. One of the maps entitled “Early Map of Louisiana” by Louis Hennepin — circa 1626-1705 — is the first map to refer to the Mississippi Valley as Louisi-ana.
“A lot of people enjoy seeing old maps,” said Michael Taylor, assistant curator of books. “We usually have four main exhibitions a year to advertise what we have. We are most known for our Louisi-ana collection. I like to show peo-ple collections they may not know much about.”
The exhibition is organized by different themes, like propaganda maps, maps of Louisiana and fic-tional and mythological maps.
Geologist Dave Morgan, a map collector, investigated the ex-hibit as soon as he heard about it. Morgan said his interests in maps developed while working on his geology thesis about the historic changes of the Mississippi River Delta.
“I did a lot of research with copies of historical maps, and I decided I wanted the real thing,” Morgan said. “The theme is inter-esting. I’m anxious to see how it all fits together.”
Taylor curated the exhibition, choosing the maps and writing the information on the labels next to each map.
“I wanted to pick a subject for people in different disciplines,” Taylor said. “I want to show how maps are related to art, history and literature.”
The exhibition has a wide range of maps from old road maps that extend on a scroll to a map of Middle Earth from “The Hobbit” to maps of Louisiana and Baton Rouge from the Civil War.
A map of the University from 1935 by Ben Earl Looney is also featured and includes traditional University symbols like a craw-fish, bike riding, a fleur de lis and a tiger.
“[The exhibits] are successful because it’s our way of letting peo-ple know the range of materials we have in the collections,” said Leah Wood Jewett, exhibitions coordi-nator and Civil War Manuscript Archivist. “The great thing about having exhibitions in our library is that once the exhibition is over, people can still see the materials in our reading room. This is our
way to really showcase the materi-als we have in our collections that people may not realize we have.”
The map exhibition will re-main in the second floor gallery of
Hill Memorial Library until Au-gust 15.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG presidential candidates debate on eve of election
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TigerTV station manager and mass communication junior Amy Vitrano hosts the TigerTV debate Monday night with the presidential candidates for today’s SG elections.
About 39 percent of American adults hold a two- or four-year de-gree, and a short-age of 16 million adults is predicted in the workforce by 2025 — prob-lems the Lumina Foundation is ad-dressing state-by-state.
The Lumina Foundation, an Indianpolis-based private founda-tion, is advocating for state and fed-eral government to protect higher education and is offering to work
with the government to accom-plish that goal.
The foundation’s big goal, “A Stronger Nation through Higher Education,” is to increase the number of Americans with college degrees to 60 percent by 2025.
Education is a major driver for the economy, said Dewayne
Matthews, Lumi-na foundation vice president of policy and strategy.
“States need to think in terms of their human resources,” Mat-thews said. He defined human re-sources as the edu-cated work force.
The Lumina Foundation is looking for ef-ficient ways for states to avoid
cutting higher education budgets,
Matthews said. While states are facing more pressure to cut bud-gets, it’s essential for higher edu-cation to be accessible to people, he said.
In Louisiana, 24 percent of the state’s 2.3 million working-age adults hold at least a two-year degree, according to the Census 2000 data. In East Baton Rouge parish, 38.4 percent hold a two- or four-year degree.
The foundation is advocating three major areas where states can help reach the goal of increasing the level of graduates, Matthews said. Preparing people before they go to college, ensuring students are financially prepared to succeed and making sure the hiring system is efficient will help accomplish the goal, he said.
The organization wrote a re-port giving specific recommenda-tions to states on how to protect higher education, Matthews said.
“Protect [a state’s] financial
aid programs,” he said. “That can have a devastating effect on peo-ple who are going to college.”
President Obama has ad-dressed the issue of higher edu-cation needs by funding more student loans. Obama is receiving some opposition for his plan to re-turn to a system of funding student loans through federal government,
said Robert Mann, mass commu-nication professor.
The system would eliminate the “middle man” for funding stu-dent loans, Mann explained.
To reach the foundation’s goal to fill the needs for college gradu-ates, nearly 800,000 more college graduates need to be educated each year until 2025, the Lumina Foundation reported.
There are no easy solutions, Matthews said, but states can at least learn to minimize the damage from budget cuts to higher educa-tion to increase college graduates.
Obama’s budget proposes all new student loans originate in the Direct Student Loan program starting in 2010, according to the Committee on Education and La-bor’s Web site.
The U.S. generated 2.9 mil-lion tons of electronic waste in 2006, and nearly 90 percent was trashed in landfills.
But the Capital Area Corpo-rate Recycling Council will give students the chance to drop off their obsolete personal IT equip-ment from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday on Tower Drive to re-duce their carbon footprints.
“It’s important to eliminate as much electronic waste as you can,” said Shannon Fish, CACRC director of resources. “Bring us anything you have sitting in clos-ets or under your bed. It’s not serving any purpose, but we can do something good with it.”
CACRC is a nonprofit organi-zation that promotes waste reduc-tion and the use of recycled goods, according to its Web site.
Electronic waste — or E-waste — is any type of electronic device no longer needed by some-one, Fish said. But CACRC is try-ing to keep electronics out of the garbage cans.
Electronics contain materials including lead, mercury and cad-mium that can contaminate water and soil and harm human and ani-mal health.
“A ton of bad stuff is inside these electronics, and we’re try-ing to find another life for it,” Fish said.
Students can recycle gad-gets like computer hardware, keyboards, mice, speakers, tele-phones, cell phones, DVDs, MP3 players, XBoxes, Playstations, GPS Devices and digital cameras.
Students cannot recycle tele-visions, stereos, appliances or
copiers.When a computer is brought
into CACRC’s warehouse, it’s assessed by the warehouse crew and sorted. If items are old and aren’t able to be reused, they are sent to de-manufacturing, where every-thing is pulled apart and sorted to be recycled based on the components.
If an elec-tronic can be reused, it’s sent to testing, where the crew removes the hardrive’s data, and the system is cleaned, tested and reworked.
If the electronics are still working, they can be given to someone in need, or the working parts can be reinstalled into other devices.
“It’s going to benefit people when it’s donated to us,” Fish said. “It’s also a tax-deductible donation. We give you a receipt, and you can write off the value of what you donate to us on your taxes.”
In 2007, the CACRC refur-bished and recycled more than 1,000 tons of used electronics — enough energy savings to power 3,350 US households a year, ac-cording to the Environmental Pro-tection Agency.
years old:• Less than ninth grade: 5.4 %•Ninth to 12th grade, no diploma: 15.4%•High school graduates: 33.2% •Some college, no degree: 21.9% •Associate’s degree: 4.0% •Bachelor’s degree: 13.3% •Graduate or professional degree: 6.8 %
Workforce shortage predicted by 2025 ‘‘
‘Protect [a state’s] financial aid
programs. That can have a devastating effect on people who are going to
college.’Dewayne Matthew
Lumina Foundation vice president of policy and strategy
Council to recycle electronicsStudents can donate old gadgets
‘It’s important
to eliminate as much
electronic waste as you can.’Shannon FishCACRC director of
resources
Foundation urges governments to protect higher ed.
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — High school and college students were let out of class Monday to help with sand-bagging as residents raced to hold off a threat of flooding from the rising Red River.
City officials planned to fill more than 1 million sandbags, but with more rain predicted, they in-creased the need to nearly 2 mil-lion sandbags — about 500,000 each day by the end of the week.
“We’re confident that we can get the bags delivered,” said Bruce Grubb, Fargo’s enterprise direc-tor. “Getting them made is a more daunting challenge.”
North Dakota State Univer-sity canceled classes Monday, and Fargo high schools also excused students to help.
“The students are eager to
help. We’re ready to go,” Fargo school spokesman Dan Huffman said.
Across the river, outside Moorhead, Minn., Dilworth-Glyn-don-Felton High School junior Luke Gable said he was given the option of studying or sandbagging, and decided school could wait.
“Everyone needs help right now,” Gable said. “We’ve got fresh legs and fresh arms.”
North of Moorhead in Oak-port Township, where residents had to be evacuated by boat during the 1997 flood, homeowner Barb Groth helped volunteers fill sand-bags near her house Monday.
“We’re considered the dry side of the township, but we flood-ed anyway in 1997. This flood is supposed to be worse,” Groth said. “We’re nervous.”
Fargo city administrator Pat Zavoral estimated the city of some 90,000 residents was about 40 per-cent protected as of Monday.
Flood stage at Fargo is 18 feet, and the National Weather Service said the Red River had reached 25.3 feet Monday morning. The weather service said the river is expected to crest in Fargo early Friday at about a record 40 feet.
Officials said the dike pro-tecting downtown Fargo was be-ing raised to about 43 feet and an emergency levee south of the city was being completed.
Minnesota and North Dakota both were sending National Guard troops to help.
Fargo is borrowing some ex-pertise from Louisiana. The Na-tional Guard and the city plan to bring in seven miles of 4-feet high interlocking plastic containers that can be filled with sand to form temporary dikes, a system that was used during Hurricane Katrina.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Eight con-tractors were paid more than $80,000 to assess autopsies and other medical information as part of a failed effort to prosecute Dr. Anna Pou for alleg-edly killing patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina.
Former Attorney General Charles Foti also failed to prosecute two nurses accused of helping Pou.
A ninth contract — for $15,000 — was awarded, but an invoice for services was not submitted, records show.
The contracts and invoices sub-mitted with them, obtained by The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request, run as high as $300 an hour. The lowest charge was $75 an hour.
Foti accused Pou, a cancer surgeon, and nurses Lori Budo and Cheri Landry of killing critically ill patients with overdoses of a seda-tive-painkiller mix in the days after the storm, when Memorial Medical Center and other hospitals had no electricity and no way to evacuate.
No one was ever indicted, and all three denied the accusations. Both nurses were given immunity for grand jury testimony. Pou was not indicted, and the charges have since been expunged.
“This is a prosecution that should never have been brought,” Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said Friday.
Caldwell testified before the Louisiana Supreme Court that there might someday be further prosecu-tion for the 34 deaths at Memorial, but not against Pou.
The attorney general has not yet tallied the complete cost of the cases against the three; some will not be accounted for separately since the work was done as part of investiga-tors’ and attorneys’ regular sched-ules.
The attorney general’s office was active in the case from Septem-ber 2005 until a New Orleans grand jury refused to indict on July 24, 2007.
Last week, the state Attorney Fee Review Board recommended Pou and her employer, LSU Health-care Network, be paid more than $450,000 for their legal fees. Most of the money — about $312,000 — would go to LSU. Pou would get about $145,000. The state Legisla-ture must approve the payments.
Pou, the case’s primary target, had patients at the hospital when the storm struck on Aug. 29, 2005, and volunteered to stay and care for the critically ill. Budo and Landry were employees of Tenet Healthcare Corp., the private company that oper-ated Memorial at the time, and didn’t qualify for state reimbursement, Pou lawyer Rick Simmons said.
The storm flooded the area around the hospital and knocked out electricity. Daytime temperatures spiked to more than 100 degrees.
Many of the dead succumbed to dehydration as they waited for four days for boats to rescue them.
Ochsner Health System later bought Memorial hospital from Te-net and changed the name to Ochsner Baptist Medical Center. It reopened in January 2009 after renovation.
Of the $80,028 Foti paid, the largest payment was to Dr. Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathology consul-tant, who received $22,049. He con-cluded 11 patients died from “acute drug toxicity,” and that the deaths should be classified as homicides.
Dr. Steven Karch, a consultant in pathology and toxicology, was paid $18,500, and later testified be-fore the Legislature that every case “should have been declared undeter-mined, because it is impossible to do a scientific analysis of a cadaver that has been in the sun for 10 days.”
While many University stu-dents are hitting the gym to pre-pare their bodies for spring break, Cody Albright is making sure his body is in tip-top shape for a much different reason.
Albright, anthropology se-nior, along with 28 other dedicated University students, is part of the University’s powerlifting team, which will compete in the 2009 Collegiate National Powerlifting Championships in Baton Rouge on March 27-29.
This year’s nationals, which Albright called the “Super Bowl of collegiate powerlifting,” be-gins at 7 a.m. in Family Christian Academy’s gymnasium and will hopefully contribute to the team’s growing list of national titles since its formation in 1999.
Among the powerlifting team’s recent achievements are a men’s 2007 national championship and combined team 2007 champi-onship, as well as a women’s 2008 national title. But the team mem-bers agree that winning this year’s national title in a local venue would be especially rewarding.
“[The location of nationals] switches every year around the
nation,” said Albright, who serves as the men’s team captain. “It’s been ... years since it’s been in Ba-ton Rouge. One of the big national meet promoters happens to live in Baton Rouge, so we [are] lucky and excited that it’s in our back-yard this year.”
The lifters’ performance at na-tionals comprises three lifts: squat, bench press and dead lift.
“You get three attempts on each lift,” said Andy Hughes, ki-nesiology junior and team secre-tary. “Your heaviest [weight lifted] in each category goes toward your combined total, and the highest to-tals determine the winner.”
The powerlifting team com-petes in an average of four sanc-tioned meets a year with the goal of reaching a qualifying total, Al-bright said. The lifters who reach this total are then eligible for na-tionals.
Among the powerlifting pow-erhouses are LSU, Louisiana Tech, University of Louisiana at Lafay-ette and some Texas universities, said Patrick Mooney, kinesiology sophomore and team treasurer. Mooney said powerlifting is a South-dominated sport, with only a few choice teams emerging from the North.
“I transferred from South-eastern University to LSU ... spe-cifically to join the powerlifting team,” Albright said. “The thing I really like about [powerlifting]
is that it’s ‘put up or shut up.’ It’s not like I’m throwing a pass, and if someone doesn’t catch it, ev-erybody’s doomed. I have to lift [the weight], and if I don’t, it’s on me — I don’t have anyone else to blame.”
Though each individual seems to bear the burden, Albright, Hughes and Mooney agree their individual accomplishments as well as their common goals make nationals — as well as every other meet — a team effort.
But the men aren’t the only contributors to this team effort. The women’s team makes up a vi-tal portion of the combined team’s total lifting points.
“Some of our female lifters ... are probably stronger than some of the guys in our weight classes,” Albright said. “Their strength is underrepresented sometimes. Sam [Baker, team vice president] was a cheerleader, converted powerlifter and now she’s ranked ... [among the best] in the world. They come in and work and earn it like every-body else.”
“Earning it,” as defined by the powerlifting team, is practicing 365 days a year with no off sea-son, Albright said. After nationals, the team takes a week off before it starts training for next year’s competition, a commitment that requires both mental and physical strength.
Despite the team’s grueling
schedule, extensive practices and preceding victories, this year’s na-tionals will be anything but a walk in the park, Hughes said.
“We’re definitely going to have to fight to win nationals,” Hughes said. “Last year, we didn’t ... get the combined team award, so this year ... we’re definitely look-ing to take back our crown and hopefully have another big ring on our fingers.”
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University powerlifting team to compete in nationals
Samantha Baker, powerlifting team vice president, practices a lift. Baker and her teammates will compete in the National Powerlifting Championships on March 27-29.
Event to be held March 27-29
LSU’s 2008 season ended with a heartbreaking loss to a team led by the projected first pick in the WNBA draft, Candace Parker.
That 47-46 loss to Tennessee came much deeper in the NCAA tournament — in the Final Four. But the Lady Tigers are hoping to avoid a similar fate tonight in their second-round matchup against No. 3 seed Louisville in the PMAC.
The winner of the contest will advance to the semifinals of the Raleigh regional this weekend.
Louisville senior forward Angel McCoughtry averages 23 points and nine rebounds per game this season and is projected by many to be the first player se-lected in April’s WNBA draft.
And LSU’s success in con-taining McCoughtry could de-termine whether the Lady Tigers advance to their seventh-straight Sweet 16.
“You don’t stop great play-ers,” said LSU coach Van Chan-cellor. “You just hope she doesn’t have a monster game. You’ve just got to make sure she doesn’t score 45 points and keep her at her aver-ages.”
And accomplishing that feat
The Tigers have found a magic number for this season: five.
LSU is 15-0 when leading after five innings and 15-1 when scoring at least five runs.
The combination of large of-fensive output with solid starting pitching to back it up was the key to the Tigers’ two wins this week-end in South Carolina.
“It was so good to hear the bats come alive like they did,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “Hitting is a contagious thing. When one guy starts getting the big hits, then the other guys all seem to follow. I knew it was just a matter of time before we started to swing the bats again.”
The No. 5 Tigers (17-5, 4-2) can build on their last two games of 10 or more runs today in the first
of their two-game, mid-week series against Harvard.
This will be the first game ever between the teams. It will also be the fifth game in as many days for the Crimson as they are on a seven-day Louisiana road swing including a weekend series against Centenary, a Monday night game against Lou-isiana-Monroe, two games against the Tigers and a Thursday night game against New Orleans.
“They called us and said they were going to take a trip through the South and wanted to know if we had spots on our schedule, and we did,” Mainieri said. “I have a lot of respect for schools like Harvard. They want to get their kids some experience.”
Harvard has compiled a 2-11 record so far this season after a 10-30 effort last season.
But the Crimson’s problem hasn’t been their bats.
Harvard is batting .303 with a .439 slugging percentage and has hit eight home runs this season.
While those numbers pale in
comparison to LSU’s .313 batting average, .540 slugging percent-age and 40 home runs this season, they’re still nothing to scoff at.
The problem has been pitch-ing. Harvard’s ERA (10.94) looks more like former LSU quarterback Andrew Hatch’s yards-per comple-tion (11.28) as their opponents are hitting at a .377 clip.
Mainieri said he won’tt over-look the Crimson, despite their re-cord.
“I’m not going to take these games lightly,” Mainieri said. “They will be good games, and we want to keep our momentum go-ing, especially with the way we are swinging our bats.”
Harvard will have to do more than calm the Tigers’ bats tonight as they face LSU senior southpaw Ryan Bird, who boasts a 0.00 ERA and 10 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings pitched this season.
With one weekend of the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments in the books, I can truly say it has been an educational experience.
Here’s a short list of things I learned from watching the tourna-ments — in no particular order.
1. Never doubt LSU when the deck is stacked against them. I lost points in my bracket pool and $5 from my wallet because I was stupid enough to doubt coach Trent Johnson’s boys and fol-low popular opinion. I had But-ler beating the Tigers in the first round. Wrong. I also made a side bet for the second round game that North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough would score 30 points against LSU’s interior defense. Su-per wrong.
2. Wake Forest is possibly the most inconsistent team this year. This team beat Duke, UNC and blew out Florida State in Atlantic Coast Conference play. But the Demon Deacons lost to Cleveland State in the first round of the big
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Tigers face Harvard in first meeting between teamsCrimson travel across state for seven daysBy Andy SchwehmSports Contributor
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Sophomore catcher Micah Gibbs throws the ball Wednesday during LSU’s game against McNesse State. LSU faces Harvard tonight in Alex Box Stadium.
Rumble for Raleigh
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[Left] Senior forward Kristen Morris fights on the floor for the ball with a Wisconsin-Green Bay player Sunday night in the Lady Tigers’ 69-59 win. [Right] Liberty guard Rachel Hammond defends Louisville senior forward Angel McCoughtry on Sunday.
Quarterbacks eager to rebound from shaky 2008 season
Last year was not a good year to be an LSU quarterback.
The Tigers’ quarterbacks threw a combined 18 intercep-tions in 2008 — the second most of any team in the Southeastern Conference. The 116.6 passing ef-ficiency was barely good enough for the sixth best in a conference of 12 teams.
But with a rough season under their belts, LSU coach Les Miles said he expects more production from sophomores Jordan Jeffer-son and Jarrett Lee — the team’s top returning quarterbacks.
“[Quarterbacks] who step onto the field better have thick skin and be ready to play,” Miles said. “They understand it’s about
their ability to be the best and not what the other guy is do-ing.”
Jefferson is considered by many to be the favorite to start the Tigers’ season opener Sept. 5 against Washington.
The St. Rose native started the final two games of the season, throwing four touchdowns and just one in-terception.
But Jefferson had problems with accuracy throughout the season. He completed 49 percent of his passes.
Senior offensive tackle Ciron Black said Jefferson has tried to be more vocal in LSU’s locker room after winning the Offensive
Most Valuable Player award in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
“He’s starting to let the childish things go,” Black said. “He’s trying to help out the new freshmen.”
Jefferson said he has also been preparing his body for the upcoming season.
“I’m more advanced this year,” Jefferson said. “I gained some weight, got a little bigger — [about] 218-220 pounds.”
Lee’s freshman season was the opposite of Jefferson’s as the Bentham, Texas, native started his season hot and rallied the Ti-gers off the bench to a 26-21 road
win at Auburn.But Lee’s sea-
son ended poorly as the then-red-shirt freshman threw seven in-terceptions that were returned for touchdowns and suffered a right ankle injury against Ole Miss. The injury caused Miles to switch to Jeffer-son prior to the Arkansas game.
Miles said he expects Lee to rebound strongly after a difficult end to the season.
“Jarrett understands the aches and woes of the quarterback,” he
said. “He’s here to compete.”
True fresh-man Russell Shepard is also expected to compete with Jef-ferson and Lee for playing time in
the fall.Shepard was rated as Rivals.
com’s No. 7 prospect in the coun-try last season and the No. 1 dual-threat quarterback.
Miles said though Shepard lags behind Jefferson and Lee in terms of his understanding of the offense, the Houston native’s ath-leticism will earn him an oppor-tunity to see the field in the fall.
“With a guy with that kind of skill, you’re constantly looking for opportunities to get the ball in his hands,” Miles said.
The opportunities Miles ref-erenced may not necessarily be under center.
Miles said the coaching staff is focused first on utilizing the blue chip prospect at quarterback but will focus in the fall on the opportunities for him to play oth-er positions.
“I don’t think there will be anything else other than getting [Shepard] comfortable at quarterback in practices,” Miles said, “If we choose to look at him in some other positions, we’ll de-cide at that point in time.”
Miles said the play of Shep-ard and fellow freshman Chris Garrett should have fans optimis-tic for the future of the position.
Like Shepard, Garrett en-rolled early for spring practices.
“The younger guys have a lot of talent,” Miles said. “And it’s going to be fun.”
Shepard to join battle for playing timeBy Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer
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Freshman quarterback Jordan Jefferson prepares to pass the ball during a spring practice session. Jefferson has been preparing for the upcoming season by gaining weight and working on his passing skills.
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LSU’s softball team shouldn’t be too concerned about a South-eastern Conference road trip after its past three games.
The Tigers (19-7, 7-2) play their second consecutive mid-week series against Ole Miss tonight (12-16,1-10), but that seems fairly manageable after
LSU’s last series in the Magnolia State.
The Tigers swept Missis-sippi State in Starkville, Miss., last weekend, which isn’t exactly an easy task for a team that has started as many as five freshmen in some games this season.
“We were down in two of those games and managed to fight our way back,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “There’s no quit in our team.”
As the Tigers rolled to their fifth-straight win, Ole Miss found itself getting rolled by Alabama.
The Crimson Tide crushed the Rebels by a combined score of 31-4, putting Ole Miss on a three-game losing streak.
As hot as the No. 2 Crimson Tide’s bats were in Oxford, Ala-bama couldn’t get a win in Baton Rouge. The Tigers swept the Tide in a doubleheader last Wednes-day, giving the Crimson Tide just its second and third losses of the season.
“The ‘Bama wins were just a huge boost in confidence for our younger players,” Girouard said. “Our pitching staff is put-ting things together bit by bit, but we’re finally starting to get pro-duction from the lineup.”
The big week was enough to earn junior outfielder Ra-chel Mitchell SEC Player of the Week honors Monday. Mitchell knocked six hits and 11 RBI and added three runs of her own, in-cluding a game-winner against Alabama.
“Rachel Mitchell has been absolutely on fire — she’s been monumental,” Girouard said. “We have her [fourth in the lineup] to get RBIs. She’s our RBI girl.”
As hot as LSU has been, Ole Miss has been equally cold, if not more so. The Rebels have lost 9-of-10 SEC games with their only win coming against South Carolina, which is 1-11 in con-ference play.
Girouard said getting ready for the Rebels won’t be much of a challenge, despite their poor re-cord.
“They beat us in two-of-three games last year in Baton Rouge,” Girouard said. “The returners understand that. The young ones don’t understand yet, but [Ox-ford] is a difficult place to play for us.”
Ole Miss took two from LSU despite finishing 2008 with a 9-19 SEC record, so it’s not likely the Tigers will look past Ole Miss’ three-game losing streak.
While LSU has Mitchell, the Rebels also boast one of the conference’s top hitters in junior All-American infielder Lauren Grill. Grill has six home runs and 20 RBI in the early going of the season, and it was Grill’s pair of home runs that helped Ole Miss to the series win at Tiger Park last season.
“They’re in most of their games, and they don’t go away,” Girouard said. “They have a player in Lauren Grill, who could start for any team in the SEC, and if you don’t show up you’re go-ing to get beat.”
Mitchell named SEC Player of the WeekBy David HelmanSports Writer
LSU takes five-game win streak to Ole Miss
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Freshman catcher Morgan Russell takes a swing on opening day of Tiger Park Stadium. The Tigers shut out McNeese State, 6-0, on Feb. 11.
Rumors spread in the offseason about senior offensive tackle Ciron Black possibly entering the NFL draft.
But he decided to stay and an-chor the offensive line for his senior season — something LSU coach Les Miles has appreciated a lot in the Ti-gers’ spring practice.
“He makes a heck of a difference to us,” Miles said. “He’s a leader. He knows exactly what to do, and he’s a left tackle. As a protector, there’s no finer spot to have a veteran.”
Black’s leadership could prove vital to the Tigers’ offensive line af-ter guard Herman Johnson and center Brett Helms completed their eligibil-ity last season.
“I’m basically just trying to lead the younger guys,” Black said. “We have a lot of freshmen.”
Black said he wants to make sure his play on the field dictates how the younger players look up to him.
“Talk is cheap. You can talk a big game, but if you don’t show it on the field, you can’t be a leader,” Black said.
Black said he wants the experi-enced football players to make a dif-ference with their leadership.
“Coach says he’s really trying to mesh the line because we have a lot of guys who haven’t played,” he said. “Me, Lyle and Joe [Barksdale] have to be that glue to mesh the of-fensive line.”
S o p h o -more Josh Dworac-zyk may join the starters with the departure of the 386-pound Johnson, who had 100-pound advantage on the 286-pound sophomore.
“At left guard, Josh Dworaczyk played a lot of football last year, and he’ll be the place we start there,” Miles said.
Hitt, a guard, will join Black as the only other senior protecting the backfield.
But with all the changes to the left side of the line, the right side re-turns a few veterans.
Hitt and Barksdale, a junior tackle, return after starting every game last season.
The only question mark seems to be the three-way race at center.
“I like [sophomore] Will Black-well, [freshman] P.J. Lonergan and [sophomore] T-Bob [Hebert],” Miles said. “Those guys will be in there competing. We have good centers.”
Miles said the center position is still very much up for grabs.
“Some days one guy looks bet-ter than the others,” Miles said.
Miles said some of the more in-experienced players are getting their chance to show what they can do.
“There are no [third-stringers],” Miles said. “These guys who come in here will certainly compete at the second-team spot. We’ll develop a third team after the incoming fresh-men arrive. We’ll give those [second-stringers] time to improve.”
The Tigers picked up three four-star offensive linemen for the 2009 season in Carneal Ainsworth, Chris
Faulk and Stavion Lowe, along with one three-star lineman, Josh Willi-ford, according to Rivals.com.
But outside of the center posi-tion, there aren’t too many players who are competing for a starting job.
“The lack of depth does hurt to-day,” Miles said. “But it allows these guys to go a little quicker.”
Newcomers fill spots after player lossesBy Rowan KavnerSports Contributor
BEN BOURGEOIS / The Daily Reveille
The offensive line prepares for a play as center Brett Helms snaps the ball during the Tigers’ 34-24 victory over Mississippi State on Oct. 11.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa barred the Dalai Lama from a peace conference in Johannesburg this week, hoping to keep good rela-tions with trading partner China but instead generating a storm of criti-cism.
Friday’s peace conference was organized by South African soccer officials to highlight the first World Cup to be held in Africa, which South Africa will host in 2010.
But because the Dalai Lama isn’t being allowed to attend, it is now being boycotted by fellow No-bel Peace prize winners retired Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former president F.W. de Klerk as well as members of the Nobel Committee.
“It is disappointing that South Africa, which has received so much solidarity from the world, doesn’t want to give that solidarity to oth-ers,” Nobel Institute Director Geir Lundestad told The Associated Press in Oslo, referring to the decades-long fight against apartheid.
An eclectic mix of Nobel laure-ates, Hollywood celebrities and oth-er dignitaries are coming to discuss
issues ranging from combating rac-ism to how sports can unite people and nations.
But Thabo Masebe, spokesman for President Kgalema Motlanthe, said a high-profile visit by the Tibet-an spiritual leader would have dis-tracted from the conference’s focus.
“South Africa would have been the source of negative public-ity about China,” he said Monday. “We do value our relationship with China.”
South Africa is China’s larg-est trading partner on a continent in which China is heavily and increas-ingly involved.
Tamu Matose, a spokeswoman
for Tutu, told the AP that Tutu would not attend “because of the Dalai Lama issue.” Tutu was quoted Sun-day as calling the barring “disgrace-ful.”
“[South Africa] should admit anyone with a legitimate and peace-ful interest and should not take po-litical decisions on who should and who should not attend,” de Klerk said Monday, announcing he also would skip the conference.
The Norwegian government said it “regrets” the South Afri-can decision and was considering whether to withdraw.
However, the South African Communist Party backed the move,
saying March was a particularly sen-sitive time for a visit.
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of anti-government riots in Lhasa, Tibet’s regional capital, and 50 years since the Dalai Lama escaped into exile in India after Chi-nese troops crushed a Tibetan upris-ing.
China claims Tibet as part of its territory, but many Tibetans say Chi-nese rule deprives them of religious freedom and autonomy. Beijing ac-cuses the Dalai Lama of pushing for Tibetan independence and foment-ing anti-Chinese protests.
South Africa decided last month to refuse to issue an official invita-tion, without which, Masebe said, the Dalai Lama cannot visit.
Masebe said the spiritual leader had been welcomed twice previ-ously in South Africa and would be welcome again in the future — but “not now, when the whole world is looking at South Africa.”
Beijing, an ally when South Africa’s now-governing African National Congress was a liberation movement, and Pretoria have diplo-matic ties stretching back a decade and an economic relationship based on trade as well as aid.
China’s exports to Africa last year rose 36.3 percent from 2007 to $50.8 billion, while imports of Afri-can goods rose 54 percent to $56 bil-lion, according to customs data re-ported by Xinhua, the Chinese state
news agency.Critics say China’s investment
in and aid to Africa, ranging from building presidential palaces and sports stadiums to rail and road proj-ects, aims to secure access to the continent’s natural resources.
African governments, though, are eager for the funds and counting on continued Chinese investment despite the global economic melt-down.
Samdhong Rinpoche, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, said South Africa was un-der pressure from Beijing and its decision to bar the Dalai Lama was a business matter.
“South Africa is a newly emerg-ing country and China is giving it considerable economic resources so it is understandable,” he said Mon-day in Dharmsala, India. “Every country has to protect its economic and political interests.”
Masebe insisted that his gov-ernment was not bowing to pressure from China.
“We make our own decisions,” he said.
Masebe said if conference or-ganizers had talked with officials beforehand, they would have been advised to exclude the Dalai Lama and the controversy could have been avoided.
WORLD
South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace talks
By Donna BrysonThe Associated Press
ASHWINI BHATIA / The Associated Press
Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama greets the crowd gathered to welcome him as he arrives March 8 at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India.
BOSTON (AP) — Curt Schilling retired from baseball Monday, end-ing a career in which he won World Series titles with the Boston Red Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks and was one of the game’s most dominant pitchers and grittiest competitors.
The 42-year-old right-hander said on his blog he’s leaving after 23 years with “zero regrets.” Schil-ling missed all of last season with a shoulder injury after signing a one-year, $8 million contract.
“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, men-tors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime,” he wrote.
Schilling had surgery last June and had said he might come back in the middle of this season though he was not under contract. He made no reference to his injury on his blog.
He was co-MVP of the 2001 World Series with Randy Johnson while in Arizona. Schilling also won World Series titles with Bos-ton in 2004 and 2007.
“Curt had a great career and made a profound impact on the Red Sox, helping to restore the Red Sox’ status as a championship or-ganization,” general manager Theo Epstein said in an e-mail to The
Associated Press. “He was consis-tently dominant, and never more so than when it mattered most. Not only for what he did — but for when and how he did it — Curt de-serves to be remembered with the all-time greats.”
Schilling came to Boston for the 2004 season and helped the team win its first World Series in 86 years, pitching Game 2 of a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals after a surgical procedure to suture a loose tendon in his right ankle and with blood seeping through his sock. The sock is now in the Base-ball Hall of Fame.
He was drafted by the Red Sox in the second round in 1986 but was traded to the Baltimore Orioles before playing for the big league club. He pitched for Balti-more, Houston, Philadelphia and Arizona before being wooed to the Red Sox by Epstein.
Schilling, one of the sport’s hard throwers, finishes his career with 3,116 strikeouts, 14th most in baseball history, a 216-146 record and a 3.46 ERA.
He was even better in the post-season, with an 11-2 record, the best of any pitcher with at least 10 decisions, and 2.23 ERA in 19 ca-reer starts.
“The game always gave me far more than I ever gave it,” Schilling wrote on his blog. “All of those things, every single one of those memories is enveloped with fan
sights and sounds for me.”Schilling was 9-8 with a 3.87
ERA in 2007, when he spent sev-en weeks on the disabled list with shoulder tendinitis.
In the final game of his career, he won Game 2 of Boston’s 2007 World Series sweep of the Colo-rado Rockies, 2-1. Schilling al-lowed one run on four hits in 5 1-3 innings and was relieved by Hideki Okajima after walking Todd Hel-ton on a full count.
Schilling’s shoulder injury came to light early the following February when he disclosed on his blog that he and the team disagreed about the best way to treat it. He preferred surgery while the team wanted him to rehabilitate it in hopes of having him pitch in 2008.
He eventually had surgery on June 23 to repair his right biceps tendon and labrum. Dr. Craig Mor-gan, the surgeon, said the operation kept Schilling on target to pitch by the middle of this season if he de-cided to return.
Schilling was known for his outspokenness.
In March 2005, he testified at a congressional hearing concern-ing steroids. In July 2007, he said on HBO’s “Costas Now” that the refusals of Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire to address speculation about steroids use were tantamount to admissions.
Last September, he criticized former teammate Manny Ramirez
during a radio appearance.“He was very kind, and well-
mannered, but there were spurts and times when you didn’t know who he was,” Schilling said. “You know, he was always kind and nice for the most part, but he’d show up the next day and say, ‘I’m through with this team, I want out now.’”
On Monday, Schilling an-nounced he was out of baseball.
“The game was here long be-
fore I was, and will be here long af-ter I am gone,” he wrote. “The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.”
MLB
Red Sox pitcher Schilling retires with ‘zero regrets’By The Associated Press
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Curt Schilling throws to the New York Yankees dur-ing the first inning of their game at Fenway Park in Boston. Schilling wrote on his blog March 23 that he’s retiring from baseball.
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isn’t too far-fetched. The Car-dinals’ All-American forward struggled in Louisville’s 62-42 first-round win against Liberty and scored just 12 points on 5-of-14 shooting.
“I don’t worry about scor-ing,” McCoughty said. “I think we showed [Sunday] we can play as a team.”
LSU forward Kristen Morris, who scored 13 points and 16 re-bounds in LSU’s 69-59 first-round win against Wisconsin-Green Bay, said the Lady Tigers will have to bring their best defensive effort to contain McCoughtry, despite her slow start to the tournament.
“We’re going to have to play great team defense,” she said. “I don’t think any one player can stop her.”
Louisville overcame Mc-Coughtry’s rough shooting night and forced 27 turnovers against Liberty.
The Cardinals play a full-court pressure defense for the ma-jority of their games and force 22 turnovers per game.
Chancellor said the way LSU’s inexperienced point guards
handle the Louisville pressure will go a long way in deciding the out-come of the game.
“That’s our No. 1 concern,” Chancellor said. “We’ve got to limit our number of turnovers.”
The Cardinals are 2-0 against Southeastern Conference compe-tition on the season and defeated Alabama and Kentucky early in the season.
But those victories came be-fore Christmas. Since then, Louis-ville has endured a rigourous Big East Conference schedule, and LSU has overcome its freshman-heavy roster and used a late-sea-son surge to once again play deep into March.
“Reaching the Final 32 with this team is almost like going to the Final Four,” Chancellor said. “At one point this season, we thought we’d be out playing golf today if you want the truth.”
LSU rode its two most expe-rienced players, Morris and junior guard Allison Hightower, in its 69-59 opening round win against Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Hightower led the Lady Ti-gers’ offense and scored 20 of her career-high 26 points in the first half.
She missed portions of the second half with cramps — an issue she said she’s working to stop from happening again against Louisville.
“I’m starting early already with a lot of drinking and getting a
lot of food in me,” she said. “And just trying to prevent it from hap-pening [tonight.]”
dance. 3. Don’t pick teams based on
the nationality of their post players. I have an affinity for Australian big men when it comes to basketball. I love Vanderbilt sophomore center A.J. Ogilvy, former Georgia Tech standout center Luke Schenscher and former Chicago Bulls great Luc Longley. But those three guys are no reason for me to put Utah in my Sweet 16 just because they have a 7-foot Australian center in senior Luke Nevill.
4. The Southeastern Confer-ence really was that bad. The con-ference only had three teams in the tournament, and none of them made it out of the first weekend. Mississippi State got dismantled by Washington. Oklahoma State squeaked by Tennessee. And UNC beat LSU by double digits. It’s pretty shameful.
5. The Big East really was that good. Of its seven teams to be included in the field of 65, the conference had five teams advance to the Sweet 16. At least two of its three No. 1 seeds appear warrant-ed after the clinics Louisville and Connecticut put on their opponents last weekend. But the jury is still out on Pittsburgh though.
6. There’s a reason not many mid-majors were included this year as at-large bids. Thirteen of the 16 teams playing next weekend are from major conferences. The only teams from mid-major conferences to win two games last weekend were Xavier, Gonzaga and Mem-phis. In addition to the Big East’s five teams, the Big 12 has three, the ACC and Big Ten each have two and the Pac-10 has one.
7. I am better than President Obama. The president chose the winners of 12 of the first round’s 32 games incorrectly in his official bracket. I, on the other hand, only chose nine incorrectly. Take that, commander in chief. He was 14-2 in the second round while I was 11-5, but it doesn’t prove his su-periority — just that he can choose chalk.
Here’s a few lessons from the women’s tournament as well.
8. LSU is pretty good. The Lady Tigers’ win against Wiscon-sin-Green Bay on Sunday night marked the program’s 10th-straight trip to the second round of the NCAA tournament. The women have history on their side as only one of those tournament appear-ances ended in the second round. That being said ...
9. Anyone can be beaten in the tournament at any time. Tennes-see, who had been to 27 straight Sweet 16s, lost its first round game against Ball State. The Lady Vols were 51-0 against teams seeded lower than them.
10. Well, almost anyone can be beaten. The Connecticut women will win the title. This team is too good to be bothered with losing any games. The Huskies defeated Vermont by 39 in the first round, and sophomore guard Maya Moore only scored 13 points.
I’m sure there will be more lessons to be learned about the tournament next weekend.
Liberty sophomore guard Rachel McLeod, right, tries to get past Louisville senior forward Angel McCoughtry on Sunday in the NCAA tournament. The Cardinals won the game, 62-42.
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ENVIRONMENT
Growing numbers think global warming is exaggerated
While most climatologists agree global warming exists, a growing number of Americans think the idea is “exaggerated,” according to a re-cent Gallup poll.
The poll reports a record-high 41 percent of Americans are skepti-cal of the severity of global warm-ing.
“Surveys such as this Gallup poll suggests that our effort to edu-cate the public about the science of global climate change needs to be strengthened,” said David Brown, geography professor.
Most climatologists agree on the existence of global warming, and most don’t doubt the earth is warm-er today than it was 100 years ago, Brown said.
The real question is if humans are contributing to the earth’s warm-ing temperature and how much they are affecting the climate. Most scien-tists think the human role is an im-portant one, Brown said.
The poll shows a 10 percent jump from 10 years ago, when 31 percent of Americans believed the idea was exaggerated. And after 2006, skepticism grew steadily.
“A couple problems is it’s a very complex issue in which all the components are not all understood,” said University climatologist Barry Keim.
While many people are con-vinced humans are causing all the problems and catastrophic changes are near, many people take a stance that the issue doesn’t exist, Keim
said. In reality, people should be in between the two extremes, he said.
Jared Gallo, mechanical engineering sophomore, said he thinks climatologists have proved the sea levels are rising.
“Even if it is exaggerated, it’s still something to worry about,” Gallo said. “If we don’t worry about it, it will be the next generation’s
problem.” Climatologists know the climate
has warmed about a whole degree Fahrenheit since the ’70s, but the big question is what caused the change, Keim said.
Most people see the global change in climate as an issue “off in the future,” and view the stock mar-ket, the local economy and issues in
the Middle East as more immedi-ate problems, he said. These issues could be the reason more people are skeptical about the severity of global warming, he said.
While Keim said many peo-ple may not be as educated as they should be on the issue, even clima-tologists don’t understand some of the changes and how they occur.
“There are a lot of uncertainties in terms of predicting what the future will hold,” he said.
Matthew Schullen, philosophy junior, said he didn’t think the threat was a big deal to worry about.
“What it means to us is exagger-ated,” Schullen said.
Another finding in the Gallup poll suggests Republicans’ belief that the threat of global warming is inflat-ed has grown increasingly. In 2009, 66 percent of Republicans believed the climate change is exaggerated, and this number is growing among
Independents as well. Democrats have remained close to 20 percent in their belief of the climate change, the study found.
“The average person doesn’t know about climate change,” said Kirby Goidel, mass communica-tion and political science professor. “Most people take cues from politi-cal leaders.”
People don’t have time or don’t take the time to research issues for themselves, Goidel said. Instead, people take positions on issues based on the leaders they trust, most often from partisan leaders, he said.
Global warming should be ad-dressed as a problem, Keim said. But the issue should not completely disrupt the order of business in the economy, he said.
Study: 41 percent of Americans skepticalBy Joy LukachickStaff Writer
Deal madefor LSU teaching hospital(AP) — LSU will go to the state Leg-islature next month for the $120 mil-lion in construction funding needed if a deal is struck for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center to be-come LSU’s teaching hospital.
LSU System Vice President for Health Care Fred Cerise said LSU will ultimately need legislative ap-proval of the plan under which LSU would close its Earl K. Long Medi-cal Center.
The antiquated hospital on Air-line Highway serves the area’s poor and uninsured.
Included in the Our Lady of the Lake construction is development of a trauma center, the addition of 60 hospital beds and construction of a medical education building.
staff and offi cials, “If you had one last chance to address a group of LSU students, what would you say?”
Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist, gave his last lecture about facing termi-nal cancer in 2007, quickly gaining international attention, and today, universities across the country spon-sor their own “last lecture” series.
Outland de-livered a motiva-tional, emotional and ordinary lecture intertwined with a discussion of to-day’s economic problems. He also emphasized some of the lessons to be learned from what happened in the 1920s and ’30s.
Outland said he wished he could tell students what to do with their lives to make them happy in his “last lecture.”
“You can’t buy true happiness,” he said. “You can’t surround yourself with cool stuff and in the end be truly satisfi ed. Hopefully, we will make it out of this economic disaster rela-tively easy, but we should not let this lesson escape us.”
Outland said Americans are liv-ing with the disastrous consequences of unsustainable economic practices and are coming out of a decade when people took their jobs for granted.
“We center our lives and educa-tion around pursuit of more and more expensive stuff that we absolutely don’t need,” Outland said. “We’ve
been trying to buy happiness.”Outland said acceptance is so
important for Americans, and buying expensive goods rewards Americans with acceptance.
“In a way, people in the ’20s got themselves in the same jam for the same reasons,” he said. “The simi-larities are frightening and embar-rassing.”
The American economy was booming in the ’20s, and people were living better than ever, he said. Businesses got big-ger, factories pro-duced more and economists prom-ised it would only get better.
“People had a very primal fear that
they wouldn’t be accepted,” Outland said. “They identifi ed themselves by what they had and what they looked like.”
But the stock market crashed in October 1929 — forcing a cultural and consumer change.
“If you are your stuff, what ex-actly are you when you lose every-thing?” Outland asked.
Outland said Americans today are being forced to relearn the les-sons of the 1930s and go through a very similar cultural correction.
“This is a seismic shift occur-ring in the culture,” he said. “People are enjoying simple activities that don’t cost a thing.”
Students looking to share their thoughts, suggestions and ques-tions about the University can look to Monday on Mondays, a weekly forum held at the 459 Commons discussing University issues with students .
Monday’s topics focused on parking and bus transportation, and forums in the past have centered on campus dining, student fees and green campus and sustainability . But just one student participated in Mon-day’s forum . Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Life Eric Monday said the forum began as a way to engage more students and gives him the op-portunity to hear student opinion on different aspects of the University .
“This allows us to go to the stu-dents instead of the students having to come to us,” Monday said. “It’s just good to have that direct feedback from the students and to hear what they’re concerned about.”
Thoughts and concerns brought up at past Monday on Mondays led to the green competition among residential halls as well as bringing healthier options to campus dining facilities . Don Koshis, LSU Dining
Director of Operations, said they are looking for healthier options for late-night dining, and students will be able to use meal transfers to get a sandwich, a piece of fruit and a bev-erage .
“We’re going to run some of the new things throughout the semester,” Koshis said.
Gary Graham, Offi ce of Park-ing, Traffi c and Transportation direc-tor and guest at this week’s forum, said several things done during the school year have been because of student initiative .
“We look at what the students say and say, ‘That’s not a bad idea, let’s try it,’” Graham said.
The forum is open to everyone. The next forum, about residential life, will be held at one of the resi-
dence halls on March 30 . “Sometimes we get a lot of stu-
dents, sometimes we only get a few,” Monday said.
But some students said they were unsure what Monday on Mon-days actually is. Molly Csaki, politi-cal science freshman, said she only knew of Monday on Mondays from the screensaver on the library’s com-puters but thought the forum’s con-cept is a good idea .
“Most people don’t know where to go if they have concerns of ques-tions, so it’s good that they have a specifi c time and place to go and talk about these things,” Csaki said.
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Forum lets students speak upMonday on Mondays talks transportationBy Brianna PaciorkaContributing Writer
KIM FOSTER / The Daily Reveille
Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Life Eric Monday sits at a table at 459 Commons on Monday waiting to discuss parking and transportation issues with students.
House Bill 2045 states any person who’s enrolled in and at-tends any higher education insti-tution as a full-time student will be exempt from jury duty ser-vices.
This exemption only applies to jury service during any term of court while classes are in ses-sion.
The 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge already of-fers full-time col-lege students an exemption from jury duty, regard-less if the bill passes.
“If this bill passes, it will change nothing we do,” said Mona Gills-Collins, jury coordinator for the 19th Judicial District Court.
Before po-tential jurors are summoned for service, their names are randomly drawn from a list of voters to receive a ques-tionnaire to determine whether they meet the legal qualifi cations
for jury service.Individuals who receive
questionnaires are required to complete and return them to the clerk’s offi ce to determine eligi-bility for jury service.
The prospective jurors are then questioned in court by the judge and attorneys.
“We were asked questions about our occupation, hobbies, where we lived, and bumper stickers or window decals on our car,” Hawkins said. “After ev-
eryone answered these questions, the attorneys got to pick people they didn’t want on the jury.”
To legally qualify for jury service, an indi-vidual must be at least 18 years old, a U.S. citi-zen, profi cient in English, have no physical or men-tal condition and not be convicted of a felony.
Members of the armed forces
on active duty, members of the police and fi re department and public offi cers of federal, state or
local governments are exempt. Many courts offer excuses
from jury duty for persons more than 70 years old; persons who have, within the past two years, served on a federal jury; and persons who serve as vol-unteer fi re fi ght-ers or members of a rescue squad or ambulance crew, according to the Federal Court’s Web site. But this exclusion doesn’t include full-time students.
As long as students have proof from the Registrar’s Offi ce stating they’re full time, they’re excused from the 19th Judicial District Court. Usually the Registrar’s Offi ce faxes the proof to the courthouse, Gills-Collins said.
“Most students show up on Mondays for orientation,” she said. “But if they send us from something from the Registrar’s Offi ce before the actual jury date, we will take care of it, and they don’t even have to come down-town.”
Some courts require those who are excused to postpone their services and serve at a later date,
but Gills-Collins said students are permanently exempt unless they want to serve.
“We work with students the best we can,” she said. “School
is very important, and the judges know and under-stand that.”
But students are required to serve if the are summoned to jury services during the summer and aren’t enrolled in summer school, G i l l s - C o l l i n s said.
“You have to be a present college student at the time you’re summoned for jury duty to be ex-cused,” she said.
Blake Richard, biology sophomore, received a letter in the mail saying he had jury duty this month in Lafayette.
Richard went through the Registrar’s Offi ce to get a letter for the clerk of court to excuse him.
“As far as I know, I’m out of it,” he said. “I would have missed
class, plus I just really didn’t feel like sitting through that process.”
Despite the bad timing, Hawkins said she felt like jury duty was a learning process.
“Neither of my parents had ever been on a jury, so I didn’t know what to expect,” she said. “Also, during this time, I was taking a sociology class on our criminal justice system, so need-less to say, it was a learning ex-perience.”
Patricia Beste, senior associ-ate registrar at the Registrar’s Of-fi ce, said court-imposed legal ob-ligations like subpoenas or jury duty are valid reasons for school absences.
The student is responsible for providing reasonable advance notifi cation and appropriate documentation, according to the University’s PS-22 policy.
“We usually tell students to talk to their instructors,” Beste said. “If they go to their college’s dean’s offi ce, the dean’s offi ce will send out a notifi cation to all their teachers.”
be a United States Citizen• be at least 18 years old• reside primarily in the judicial • district for one yearbe adequately profi cient in • Englishhave no disqualifying mental or • physical conditionnot currently be subject to • felony chargesnever have been convicted of a • felony (unless civil rights have been legally restored)
To be legally qualifi ed for jury service, an
individual must:
microwaves in dining areas and high-traffi c buildings on campus.
SG received about 100 stu-dent-submitted ideas during the past two months, and a team of fi ve student Senators serving on the Temporary Stu-dent Initiatives Committee nar-rowed it down to the top three.
While SG candidates will continue to cam-paign throughout the day, they will not be allowed to do so within 50 feet of any polling location.
This year’s season lasted only three weeks, signifi cantly shorter than past seasons, which have lasted up to fi ve weeks. Commis-sioner of Elections Jordan Milaz-zo and the election board set the dates for this year’s election sea-son last November.
“We got a lot of complaints from students about how long the campaigning season was,” Mi-lazzo said. “It annoyed students more than it encouraged them to go vote.”
SG President Colorado Rob-ertson said the only benefi t of having an extra week to campaign last year was a longer opportunity to speak with different student or-ganizations.
Each of this year’s presiden-tial candidates agreed the shorter season was benefi cial to the stu-dents, but some said they would have liked more time to go to stu-dent organizations.
The election codes specify a 35-day season from the beginning of fi ling until two days following the announcements of run-off re-sults.
The election codes, which de-fi ne the terms of an election, gen-
erally remain the same from year to year, but they can be amended by any student who gets a SG Senator to pen a bill altering the
rules. Aside from a
shorter campaign season, another major difference between this year and previous elec-tions is the num-ber of candidates running for SG offi ces.
“This is defi -nitely one of the biggest elections
in recent memory,” Milazzo said.More than 320 students on
fi ve separate tickets fi led to partic-ipate in this year’s election, a 250 percent increase from the spring of 2008, according to Milazzo .
Each of the candidates agreed
the campaigns had been handled well, focusing more on the issues than on personal attacks, despite the increased number of person-alities.
“Our campaigning was a little more heated last year,” Robertson said. “It was a little bit more per-sonal because there were much broader issues at hand.”
Though the spending cap for each campaign differed based on the number of candidates on their ticket, most of the parties spent nearly $4,500 in the past three weeks. The exception was the Make it Reign campaign, which ran as an independent party and spent less than $100.
‘‘‘We got a lot of
complaints [in 2008] ... about how long the campaigning
I am last year’s director of Students on Target. I do not write this letter with intent to create controversy or debate, but rather to fulfill a personal responsibil-ity.
I do not write as a critic of the current administration or be-cause I think highly of myself.
I attended this year’s Groov-in’ on the Grounds concert. Let me first commend everyone on another wonderful event.
Last spring — when the new administration was considering nearly absolving Students on Target or making it functionally ineffective, I expressed my con-cerns. But having withdrawn my membership from SG, my opin-ions were like any other, unim-portant.
I, like everyone else, swayed to the music of Corey Smith and danced with Akon, but I couldn’t really get past the realization that most of Corey’s lyrics had some reference to alcohol.
Nor could I ignore Dee-1 promoting his after-party at a bar downtown, to which I would later find a link on the Groovin’
Facebook event with drink spe-cials.
I hope some would agree that references to getting drunk don’t have a place at an alcohol-free event promoting responsible drinking.
Which brings me to the next point, the only mention by the new director of the organization’s purpose was almost a joke. We are all aware of alcohol.
I hope the director of Stu-dents on Target would know the purpose of the organization he was running and the fact that it was set up to combat the deaths of LSU students to binge drinking and drunk driving; that funding is provided through the SG Pro-gramming, Support and Initiative Fund for a spring concert solely for this purpose because higher administration and the campus community believe in its cause.
And perhaps he would have known if he’d ever talked to me about it. I suppose that sounded very personal, but it was not meant to.
Please know I am not trying to comment on anyone’s charac-ter, I just want someone in Stu-dent Government to get it.
But also, it is an another ex-ample of Student Government perhaps missing the point for whatever reason. If you’re go-ing to promise a show with the purpose of attempting to prevent
Groovin’ concert missed
the point
So Bush being against em-bryo stem cell research is equal to 11th century “the earth is flat” theory? What kind of science is Obama’s religious worship of embryonic stem cells?
Liberal fascists are alive and well. If some one does not agree with you, accuse them of being intellectually inferior and sub-human and eliminate them — just like the Nazis did.
Harold Daigle Jr.biological sciences graduate student
more alcohol-related deaths, perhaps you should appoint some-one who believes in that purpose or else you’ll just be made a hyp-ocrite.
So I am reminding the new administration: Without remind-ing people that mistakes happen and without planning a show with a purpose, then the time you spent working on the event, was indeed “good time wasted.”
Today’s Student Government election marks an exciting, new opportunity for all LSU students. When you vote for your respec-tive candidates, you will vote on how you would like to see $5,000 of your student fees spent.
Last semester, the Student Senate created the Temporary Student Initiative Committee, which was designed to facilitate this innovative program.
Five student senators were elected to this committee. Over the course of two months, we en-couraged all students to submit
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EdITORIAL POLICIEs & PROCEdUREs QUOTE OF THE dAy
“God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men
Women would benefit from returning to their place at homeBoys, imagine your worst
day ever. You wake up early for a use-
less class with a hangover from the night before, and it only wors-ens when you realize you have an English paper and a calculus test.
But this day, believe it or not, is sunshine and roses compared to a girl’s worst day.
Women have a tough time now that they have so many rights and opportunities to make personal choices.
It used to be simpler — girls were bred in captivity and sold to their husbands and lived life con-tentedly in bonds. Contentiously, people may point to literature and media that show girls unfor-tunately in the past, but in reality, they were not.
Girls were probably happier than they are now because they didn’t have to think for them-selves. Instead, they were catered to like fragile princesses.
But now, they’re free and in-dependent. Women are obligated to fend for themselves. They are expected to do as the boys do. Women are not monkeys; they should not imitate the standards of boys.
Most women probably feel more pressure now than they did 50 years ago.
It’s quite ironic that as tech-nology was invented to facilitate the way of life, women fought to make their lives harder.
Instead of sitting at home, cooking food, washing clothes and taking care of children, they opted to become doctors, lawyers and CEOs of Fortune 500 com-panies.
Success for a woman is now most likely oriented with her an-nual salary and the materialistic items she owns.
Women need to revert back to their subservient, nurturing selves.
Women should choose to be housewives rather than pursue careers.
S o c i e t a l norms have turned in the opposite direc-tion. Women, who choose to be classic homemakers, are castigated as parasites of society who
absorb their husbands’ salary. Domestic engineers should
not be thought of as bums who happened to be pretty enough to land a rich fellow. They should be revered for their acumen on life. Someone should be required to stay at home, manage the famil-ial expenses and take care of the offspring.
Without women at home, families are not as stable.
Staunch feminists may argue
a home and life can still come after obtaining a career. But hon-estly, it can’t.
Women are aging more quickly now than ever.
Having to balance school, work and social life is hazardous for a woman’s beauty. One needs only to look at the amount of re-juvenation products in stores to know premature aging is preva-lent in the population. Compa-nies like Olay work many hours to formulate compounds that re-pair a women’s face and restore her wasted, book-filled youth. Women as young as 25 are pull-ing out strands of gray hair from their golden locks to look their true age.
Women can’t expect to at-tract shallow men with wrinkling skin and gray hair.
Women must realize what they should do best is what they can do best: Make babies. Wom-en shouldn’t overstress their
bodies proving to the world they are as tough as boys but simply stay home and help continue the population.
Society would benefit from women staying at home and primping as much as women should.
Without women, men will also learn to relax as they no lon-ger have to prove their masculin-ity. Men, undistracted by women, can compete among themselves to climb the ladder of success. A woman shouldn’t be climbing with heels anyway; it will only make the worst day worse if she falls.
Dini Parayitam is an 18-year-old biochemistry freshman.
ideas on how these fees should be spent. We collected almost 100 submitted ideas and narrowed them down to three for you to vote on, based on feasibility and legitimacy. You’ll be able to vote for the following:
1. More recycling bins on campus and increased recycling awareness
- submitted by Julia Reine-man
2. A computer wait list sys-tem in Middleton Library that will allow students to enter the library and immediately view which computers are available
- submitted by Frederick Ad-dison
3. More microwaves installed in high-traffic campus food areas
- submitted by Laurie Mc-Neil
Our committee has made it a point to check these ideas to make sure they can be implemented with $5,000, and we wish for you to choose which one you think LSU needs the most. Regardless of which idea gets chosen, I hope they can all be accomplished in the near future.
There were a great deal of good ideas that were submitted, and just because your idea doesn’t appear on the ballot doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
These three were just the best for the situation and monetary amount involved. The Student
Senate will keep these submit-ted ideas close by, and we want to sincerely thank all of you who took part in our effort to include more of you in the decision mak-ing process.
Drew PrestridgeStudent Senate Speaker pro temporeTemporary Student Initiative Committee chair
Criticism of Bush’s beliefs unfair
One of the misshapen mutants forged in the fallout of the recent financial fiasco is a paradoxical populism. Rightly enraged over the parasitical mosquitoes living off the middle class sheep, they stand in willful ignorance that these lambs are being led to the slaughterhouse.
Recent outrage has focused on two families of incidents: large bo-nuses paid to executives of failed and failing companies and a slew of Ponzi schemes revealed by the chaos of Wall Street.
During the past two decades, AIG has contributed more than $9 million to federal candidates and parties. This makes AIG one of the 100 largest political contributors of all time, according to OpenSe-crets.org, a nonpartisan research Web site.
Since the crisis began, AIG has received $170 billion in bail-out money.
Of the $170 billion, $165 mil-lion was used to pay bonuses.
That is, $170,000 million were given as a bailout to AIG, of which $165 million was used to pay bonuses.
All else held equal, I would rather have senators debate how to spend $165 million of bonuses than trillions of dollars of “stimu-lus money.”
Given government’s track record of misdirecting resources, public outcry is perhaps not a bad way to limit the damage they can do.
But I agree with the majority view — Wall Street fat cats should not be able to profit from taxpayer money.
By the end of November 2008, the federal government had
already committed $7.36 trillion to the economic recovery, accord-ing to a November 2008 MSNBC
report.Sticking to
the earlier no-tation, we are talking about $ 7 , 3 6 0 , 0 0 0 million.
T h e s e measures could be forgiven if they worked.
Throughout the 1990s, Japan suf-fered a crisis very similar to our own. From 1992 to 1995, they spent 65 trillion yen on six stimu-lus packages.
The result was a “lost de-cade.”
If we wish to be proportional with our energy, the rage over the government’s response to the cri-sis should be more than 44,000 times greater than the outcry over the AIG bonuses.
Similar claims can be made about the recent ponzimonium.
A Ponzi scheme defrauds cli-ents by paying old investors with new investors rather than the prof-its from investing. Though they can be extremely profitable in the short run, they can only continue working for as long as new inves-tors can be found.
With less people willing to invest, Ponzi schemes are being identified at an alarming rate. As Warren Buffett said, it’s “only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming na-ked.”
The most infamous conman is Bernard Madoff, who made away with as much as $65 billion. The Stanford Financial Group also
defrauded many local investors of much of their life savings.
Those unfortunate enough to be caught in such a scheme have a right to be angry, and there is noth-ing wrong with sympathizing with their plight.
But paying old “investors” with money from new “investors” is the definition of the Social Secu-rity system. The old receive pay-ments directly from the money sto-len from the young’s paychecks.
Unlike Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, which people only volun-tarily invested in, participation in Social Security is compulsory.
In early 2008, the Government Accountability Office claimed the government needed to invest more than $50 trillion to pay for future obligations to Social Security and similar programs.
That number can only be higher since the recent bailouts.
It’s easy to shake our fists
at the AIG’s and Madoffs of the world, but this only serves to dis-tract us from crimes a thousand times larger.
Daniel Morgan is a 21-year-old economics junior from Baton Rouge.
Imagine this.You’re an ingenious, young
business owner who essentially has a monopoly on your particular product.
For the sake of argument, you sell coffins.
Everyone needs one at some point.
And for the sake of argument, no one else in your region sells coffins, save for a few pawn shops which try to sell coffins for far more than the going rate.
They aren’t making much money because you produce cof-fins in all types and price ranges. If someone needs a cheap cedar box or a Rosewood palace to spend eternity, they come to you. It’s a seller’s market, and you own it.
But you want more money.So you buy out the pawn shops.
Then you use these pawn shops to buy your coffins at a cheaper rate than normal, until your original
company has very few coffins left to sell. When customers come in looking for the final Redwood-lined satin-filled mother of all cof-fins, you have to say, “Sorry, we’re all sold out.”
But you direct them to one of the pawn shops you’ve bought where they can buy this fantastic coffin. There they buy the fancy coffin for 40 percent more than originally intended.
You get all the profits.They have no chance.You’re kind of an jerk, aren’t
you?Sure, what you did wasn’t il-
legal in anyway, but nothing more must be said. You’ve taken a ser-vice that only you offer — a ser-vice, mind you, that you were mak-ing a handsome living off before, err, “expanding” — and you’ve exploited your customers to make more money that you don’t need.
You’re a 21st century
businessman, no doubt.To take this closer to real-
ity, you are Ticketmaster. Or were Ticketmaster.
The in-nocuous Tick-etmaster, who was always frowned upon by ticket buyers for throwing on a service charge that was a de-cent portion of the actual ticket price, had a bril-liantly selfish plan that worked for a long time.
By selling tickets to Tick-etsNow, a subsidiary of Ticketmas-ter, they could sell tickets to shows that weren’t actually sold out for scalper’s prices, according to The Star-Ledger. Because Lord knows Ticketmaster needs more pull in the ticket-selling community.
The first time I saw Modest
Mouse, it cost me $12.The last time, it cost me $45.Having essentially the only
avenue for selling tickets wasn’t enough.
Ticketmaster agreed to stop after being pressured by the New Jersey attorney general.
It would seem as if the prob-lem is all tied up. But Ticketmas-ter is still surviving in a loophole that would make it pretty easy to do again.
Worse, though, is that other ticket markets have picked up on the trend.
AEG Live, the promoters for Michael Jackson’s “This is it!” tour, did the same thing. They set aside tickets for sale on the second-ary market, according to Rolling Stone. This tour is the best-selling tour of all time, and someone still felt it necessary to rip off fans.
At the risk of sounding like a petulant, puerile child, this is
absurd, wrong and simply unfair.It’s sad to see greed taking over
one of the parts of life that makes it worth living — at least for me. It is sad to see the already seedy music industry take a dive into the inter-national industrial dumpster of un-abated greed.
But it can be stopped. For once, we could actually do some-thing — something simple.
We can stop buying our tickets from secondary markets.
We stop, then their plan does not work.
And we win.It can be stopped. If we care
enough.
Travis Andrews is a 21-year-old English major from Metairie.
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BBAASSEEBBAALLLL IINNSSTTRRUUCCTTOORRSSPart-time work in kids’ athletic program.HS baseball/ softball experience pref’d.Exp with kids a plus. Salary. Call Randy
at 225.291-8730
PPLLUUCCKKEERRSS Now Hiring Delivery DriversEarn $8-$16/ Hr
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dent. Fax resume to 225-924-9893
EEAARRNN EEXXTTRRAA MMOONNEEYY Students neededASAP
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SSUUMMMMEERR DDAAYY CCAAMMPP CCOOUUNNSSEELLOORRSS Nowhiring thru April 15th...training starts inMay and 1st day of camp starts May25th. Work where you have fun! Don’t
delay apply today. Must be age 18+ andpass criminal b/g check and drug screen.Contact your nearest YMCA for more infor-
mation.
Paula G. Manship - 767.9622Baranco-Clark - 344.6775
A. C. Lewis - 924.3606C. B. Pennington, Jr. - 272.9622
Southside - 766.2991Dow Westside - 687.1123
PPAARRTT TTIIMMEE MMAARRKKEETTIINNGG PPOOSSIITTIIOONNLocal Commercial Real Estate Firm seek-
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PPAARRKKVVIIEEWW BBAAPPTTIISSTT PPRREESSCCHHOOOOLLPreschool Teachers needed flex days
no degree required 293-9447
DDOONN’’TT MMIISSSS TTHHIISS OOPPPPOORRTTUUNNIITTYY!!Now hiring for all positions at the follow-
ing locations:JEFFERSON 7615 Jefferson Hwy Baton
Rouge 70809PERKINS ROWE 7707 Bluebonnet Blvd.
Baton Rouge 70810“Flexible schedules & Benefits for Full
Time Associates”Please apply in person during regular
restaurant hours.Equal Opportunity Employer
SSTTRROOUUBBEESS CCHHOOPPHHOOUUSSEE DDOOWWNNTTOOWWNNNow Taking Apllications for the following:Wait Staff, Bartenders, Exp Kitchen staff,
and Host. Pleas pick applications atCapital City Grill 3535 S. Sherwood
Forest blvd
SSTTRROOUUBBEESS CCHHOOPPHHOOUUSSEE DDOOWWNNTTOOWWNN107 Third StreetOpening Soon
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GGRREEAATT HHOOUURRSS!! GGRREEAATT PPAAYY!! TexasRoadhouse is currently hiring servers andhosts. Make money at a fun restaurant!
Come by 10360 N. Mall Dr, M-T, between2 and 4 pm for an interview. Hope to see
you soon! 225.293.0144
LLIIFFEEGGUUAARRDDSS Lifeguards needed at all (7)branch locations of the YMCA.
Certification classes available. We willtrain you! Flex schedules & fun atmos-phere. Be part of our Y family! Apply inperson at any YMCA or contact Toni at
(225) 924-3606.
AAQQUUAATTIICCSS CCOOOORRDDIINNAATTOORR //PPTT The Paula G. Manship YMCA seeks
Responsible for the quality control of allaquatic programs, focusing on swim les-sons and the swim team. Individual mustbe comfortable managing co-workers and
interacting with the membership.Lifeguard certification required and swim
lesson instructor or equivalent.Certification classes available.
Flexible schedule, Mon-Fri and someweekends as needed.
Apply in person or submit resume to: Anthony Iracki
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$114,860 985.859.3292
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