While the Mitt Romney presi- dential campaign recently an- nounced that Romney’s longtime adviser, Beth Myers, will lead the way in his vice presidential search, many in the political arena have begun to speculate whether Gov. Bobby Jindal will throw his hat into the ring. Romney said he and Myers began discussing potential running mates last weekend, according to The Huffington Post. Former presidential candidate John McCain said Jindal would be a “qualified candidate” in an April 4 interview with “CBS This Morn- ing.” In September, Jindal endorsed former presidential candidate Rick Perry, who dropped out of the race in January. Following Rick Santo- rum’s campaign suspension, Jindal endorsed Romney. “Congratulations to Gov. Romney on winning a hard-fought race,” Jindal said on April 10, ac- cording to The Huffington Post. “I look forward to supporting him retiring President Obama. It’s time for all Republicans to focus their energies on the fall cam- paign, which will give Americans a fundamental choice between Obama’s lurch toward European- style big government and the Re- publican alternative of a thriving private sector with a smaller gov- ernment.” But James Garand, political science professor, said it would be unlikely for Romney to select Jindal as his running mate. “First, Jindal supported Perry, then he supported San- torum, and finally Romney af- ter both candidates dropped from the race,” Garand said. “It would be unlikely that [Romney] Reveille e Daily Thursday, April 19, 2012 • Volume 116, Issue 128 www.lsureveille.com In Memoriam: Remembering TV legend Dick Clark, p. 22 Baseball: Take a look inside the players’ clubhouse, p. 11 Band Spotlight: Blue October talks new album, sound, p. 17 Students pitch ideas to develop Nicholson Emily Herrington Staff Writer BR COMMUNITY NICHOLSON, see page 9 photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Bobby Jindal laughs on Wednesday at Redemptorist Elementary School as he signed three of his newly passed bills to overhaul public schools. POLITICS Students discuss Jindal as possible VP Kate Mabry Staff Writer JINDAL, see page 9 The Alma Mater rang out across the Parade Ground at noon on Wednesday as about 100 stu- dents and community members watched Taylor Cox and Carrie Hebert’s inaugu- ration as Student Government president and vice president. Cox and Hebert invoked their campaign name as they took office, thanking families, friends and staff members for their support along the way. “Leadership is action. It is not disposition,” Cox said. “You will be heard.” The pair will hit the ground running, as Cox said they plan to raise more money than past presi- dents for different SG accounts this summer. The duo said they will also begin a community spirit program over the summer to help raise the money, though they did INAUGURATION, see page 9 IN WITH THE NEW SG inducts Cox, Hebert into office Danielle Kelley Staff Writer Horse-drawn carriage trans- portation. Living spaces atop retail stores. Mixing graduate student and retirement living spaces. All of the above were ideas pitched for the LSU Nicholson De- velopment Project at a town hall meeting Wednesday evening in the Student Union. The development would span from the North Gate area near West Chimes Street to Walk-On’s Bistreaux and Bar on Burbank Drive. “At this point, no idea is a bad idea,” said Steve Waller, executive director of the project and Residen- tial Life director. Waller said the main goal of the development project is to re- place the family and graduate hous- ing on Nicholson Drive. He said there is no predetermined location for the replacement housing — it could remain in its current location or be built somewhere else. photos by AUSTIN BENNETT / The Daily Reveille Student Government President Taylor Cox and Vice President Carrie Hebert are sworn in to their new administrative positions Wednesday outside Memorial Tower.
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While the Mitt Romney presi-dential campaign recently an-nounced that Romney’s longtime adviser, Beth Myers , will lead the way in his vice presidential search, many in the political arena have begun to speculate whether Gov. Bobby Jindal will throw his hat into the ring.
Romney said he and Myers began discussing potential running mates last weekend, according to The Huffi ngton Post.
Former presidential candidate John McCain said Jindal would be
a “qualifi ed candidate” in an April 4 interview with “CBS This Morn-ing. ”
In September, Jindal endorsed former presidential candidate Rick Perry , who dropped out of the race in January. Following Rick Santo-rum’s campaign suspension, Jindal endorsed Romney .
“Congratulations to Gov. Romney on winning a hard-fought race,” Jindal said on April 10 , ac-cording to The Huffi ngton Post . “I look forward to supporting him retiring President Obama . It’s time for all Republicans to focus their energies on the fall cam-paign, which will give Americans
a fundamental choice between Obama’s lurch toward European-style big government and the Re-publican alternative of a thriving private sector with a smaller gov-ernment.”
But James Garand , political science professor , said it would be unlikely for Romney to select Jindal as his running mate.
“First, Jindal supported Perry , then he supported San-torum , and fi nally Romney af-ter both candidates dropped from the race,” Garand said. “It would be unlikely that [Romney ]
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In Memoriam: Remembering TV legend Dick Clark, p. 22
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Band Spotlight: Blue October talks new album, sound, p. 17
Studentspitch ideas to developNicholsonEmily HerringtonStaff Writer
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NICHOLSON, see page 9
photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gov. Bobby Jindal laughs on Wednesday at Redemptorist Elementary School as he signed three of his newly passed bills to overhaul public schools.
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Students discuss Jindal as possible VPKate Mabry Staff Writer
JINDAL, see page 9
The Alma Mater rang out across the Parade Ground at noon on Wednesday as about 100 stu-dents and community members watched Taylor Cox and Carrie Hebert ’s inaugu-ration as Student Government president and vice president.
Cox and Hebert invoked their campaign name as they took offi ce, thanking families, friends and staff members for their support along the way.
“Leadership is action. It is not disposition,” Cox said. “You will be heard.”
The pair will hit the ground running, as Cox said they plan to raise more money than past presi-
dents for different SG accounts this summer. The duo said they will also begin a community spirit program over the summer to help raise the money, though they did
INAUGURATION, see page 9
IN WITH THE NEW
SG inducts Cox, Hebert into o� ce
Danielle KelleyStaff Writer
Horse-drawn carriage trans-portation. Living spaces atop retail stores. Mixing graduate student and retirement living spaces.
All of the above were ideas pitched for the LSU Nicholson De-velopment Project at a town hall meeting Wednesday evening in the Student Union . The development would span from the North Gate area near West Chimes Street to Walk-On’s Bistreaux and Bar on Burbank Drive.
“At this point, no idea is a bad idea,” said Steve Waller, executive director of the project and Residen-tial Life director .
Waller said the main goal of the development project is to re-place the family and graduate hous-ing on Nicholson Drive . He said there is no predetermined location for the replacement housing — it could remain in its current location or be built somewhere else.photos by AUSTIN BENNETT / The Daily Reveille
Student Government President Taylor Cox and Vice President Carrie Hebert are sworn in to their new administrative positions Wednesday outside Memorial Tower.
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Spanish king apologizes for elephant hunting trip in Africa, calls it mistake
MADRID (AP) — In an unprec-edented act of royal contrition, Spain’s king apologized Wednes-day for having gone elephant hunt-ing in Africa while everyday people endure a severe economic crisis.
“I am very sorry. I made a mis-take. It won’t happen again,” King Juan Carlos said, trying to placate a rare wave of outrage against him.
Looking sheepish and using crutches to walk, he spoke as he left a Madrid hospital where he had un-dergone surgery after breaking his hip in a fall during the hunting trip to Botswana.Video circulates of girl being raped in S. Africa, eight arrested in case
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — When a 17-year-old girl said to have the mental capacity of a 5-year-old was reported missing four weeks ago in the sprawling South African town-ship of Soweto, police distributed her photo and asked neighborhood residents for help.
Then a video emerged of seven men and boys raping the girl. With-in a day of media alerting them to the video, police said they found the girl on Wednesday. Eight men and boys were arrested on charges of kidnapping and rape.
Judge quits Trayvon Martin case, cites spouse con� ict of interest
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The judge presiding over the Trayvon Martin shooting case on removed herself Wednesday after the attor-ney for defendant George Zimmer-man argued she had a possible con-fl ict of interest that related to her husband.
Judge Kenneth M. Lester Jr. will preside over the case. The next judge who would be in the court rotation, John D. Galluzzo, also cited a confl ict, so Lester was se-lected, according to a news release from the court.Author faces civil suit over alleged fabrications in ‘Three Cups of Tea’
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — After making a $1 million deal to settle allegations that he misused his char-ity’s money and resources, author Greg Mortenson must now face ac-cusations that he fabricated parts of his best-selling books “Three Cups of Tea” and “Stones Into Schools.”
A hearing is set for Wednesday in federal court in Great Falls on claims that Mortenson lied about how he came to build schools in Central Asia after losing his way in a failed mountaineering expedition and being nursed back to health in a Pakistani village.
Gov. Jindal signs legislation to allow private schooling funded by public
(AP) — At a Baton Rouge Cath-olic school with New Orleans’ archbishop looking on, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday signed sweeping legislation over-hauling public education in the state while allowing many parents to send their children to private schools at public expense.
The bills marked what may be the signature achievement of his young second term. Jindal said this may be the most important bill he has signed since becoming gover-nor in 2008.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chief justice of the Louisiana Su-preme Court is retiring.
Catherine “Kitty” Kimball said Wednesday that she will leave the court in January after serving for 20 years. In a statement issued by the high court, Kimball said “it is time for me to spend some qual-ity time with my family.”
Kimball became the fi rst wom-an on the Supreme Court when she was elected from the court’s Fifth District in November 1992. In Jan-uary 2009, she became the court’s fi rst female chief justice.
Vatican, breakaway traditionalists near agreement to end schism
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vati-can and a breakaway group of tra-ditionalist Catholics appear to be nearing an agreement that could bring the group back into Rome’s fold and end a quarter-century of schism.
The Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Wednesday the Society of St. Pius X had delivered an “encour-aging” response to the Vatican’s demands that it accept some core church teachings.
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Followers of Egyptian Muslim cleric and a former candidate for the Egyptian presi-dency Hazem Abu Ismail pray Wednesday in Cairo before continuing to protest.
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State Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, pulled the 2012 Louisiana School Bullying Pre-vention Act from consideration during Wednesday’s meeting of House Committee on Education after the committee voted, 10-5, to amend the legislation.
Members of campus LGBT organization Spectrum attended the hearing wearing purple rib-bons to support the legislation.
The legislation articulates a definition of bullying and pres-ents a list of specific character-istics that can motivate bullying, including developmental disabili-ties, gender identity and national origin.
Smith and Jennifer Curry, who represented the Louisiana School Counselor Association, presented the legislation to the House Committee on Education.
Rep. Christopher Broadwa-ter, R-Hammond, who sits on the committee, said he didn’t want to pass the legislation just to pass legislation. He said he wanted to work with Smith and Curry to cre-ate an incentive for local districts to take the 2012 Louisiana School Bullying Prevention Act seriously.
A similar bill passed through the committee last year but was unsuccessful on the House floor.
Rep. John Edwards, D-Amite, who also sits on the committee, said he didn’t support the similar legislation last year but changed his position after seeing the new enumerated list because he has a disabled child.
Edwards praised the list be-cause he said it was non-exclusive and gave teachers better guide-lines to distinguish bullying from teasing.
A number of people spoke on behalf of the legislation.
Joyce Haynes, Louisiana As-sociation of Educators president, referenced her former student, 17-year-old Tesa Middlebrook, who committed suicide in March after being bullied.
Haynes said the 2012 Loui-siana School Bullying Prevention Act could prevent tragedies like Middlebrook’s death from hap-pening again.
Religious leaders, including pastors and priests, also spoke on behalf of the legislation.
Russell Armstrong, policy adviser in the Governor’s Office, told the committee that Gov. Bob-by Jindal’s administration doesn’t support the 2012 Louisiana School Bullying Prevention Act because they believe Louisiana’s current measures to stop bullying were adequate.
Armstrong said the adminis-tration is willing to identify and reform problems with current laws.
Rep. Jeff Thompson, R-Boss-ier City, proposed amendments to the legislation that included re-moving the list. Thompson said the enumerated list should be removed because it detailed mo-tives, not actions.
Smith said she decided to pull the legislation because the amend-ments “gutted” it.
She said it was frustrating because committee members who originally supported the legisla-tion shouldn’t have supported the amendments.
“[I] saw the amendments coming when all the Republi-cans were leaving the hearing,” Smith said.
A cluster of similar retail stores on Highland Road and Lee Drive is getting a little more com-petition, but the new addition is slated to arrive several months later than anticipated.
A new Walgreens location, originally slated to be completed by May at the latest, will open in about four months because work is behind schedule, according to Lanco Construction Vice-Presi-dent Jonathan Lanza.
The store will be located across the street from a CVS Pharmacy and near a Walmart Neighborhood Market.
Lanza said it will take about four months to complete con-struction. He didn’t have an an-ticipated opening date, but he said it usually takes about a week after construction is completed for a store to open.
The construction completion is taking more time because “get-ting the building permit took lon-ger than expected,” Lanza said.
Lanza said he expects Wal-greens to be a competitor to the other pharmacies because of its long-time Southern roots.
Clay Lovelace, natural re-source ecology and management junior, said Walgreens is con-venient, but he doesn’t have a preference when it comes to drug stores.
“They’re all the same to me,” Lovelace said. “They all sell the same items.”
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Students and residents look-ing to get in shape for summer now have one more tool to tone their beach bodies — the newly completed Town Square down-town.
The Downtown Develop-ment District is offering free Zumba classes every Monday and Wednesday through the Charles W. Lamar Jr. branch of the YMCA on Third Street and yoga classes every Tuesday through Karmady Yoga, a yoga studio that will open soon on Spain Street, as part of its new Get Fit Downtown program.
Caleb Heine, DDD special events and marketing coordina-tor, said when Town Square was completed, he and the other em-ployees wanted to offer residents different activities to do in the space.
“We were interested in pro-viding free classes as a series to go along with Live After Five,” Heine said.
Heine said the community’s response to the program has been positive, and the DDD hopes to continue similar series in the fu-ture.
“It’s defi nitely something we’ve always thought about,” he said. “It’s really a way to bring the community together.”
Jordan Watts, YMCA well-ness director, said the center surveyed its members to fi nd out what they’d like to participate in, and Zumba was the most popular program on the list.
Watts said the YMCA has been working with the city to bring exercise to the forefront of residents’ minds, and the DDD’s program has made it easier.
“It’s a great way to utilize different parts of downtown and provide a different venue for peo-ple to exercise,” Watts said.
Amanda Wicks, Zumba in-structor at the YMCA, began
teaching the classes outside last week.
“It’s just a pleasant atmo-sphere,” she said. “So far, it’s been great.”
Wicks said her students have to get used to dancing in public, but once they do, they have a blast in the class.
“You just have to let go of all your inhibitions,” she said. “We’ve even had people walking by just come in and join us. They just let the music take over and have a lot of fun with it.”
Brooke Riglin, owner of Karmady Yoga, moved to Baton Rouge in August and plans to open her studio downtown soon. She fi rst began teaching yoga in Town Square about two months ago.
Riglin said she’s enjoyed teaching because it has given her a chance to get to know the com-munity and appreciate Louisiana weather.
“I moved here from Penn-sylvania,” she said. “I love the weather here, and I love being
able to just go outside to do this.” But being outside isn’t
always conducive to fi nding one’s center.
“It’s a lot different outside,” she said. “Not having the stabil-ity of a perfect wood fl oor is a little more challenging, but it’s mainly the traffi c that can cause problems.”
Riglin said she encourages her students to focus on them-selves and forget about the out-side world.
“This kind of forces them to do that,” she said. “After a couple sessions, they’re really just able to let go.”
The classes will run until the Live After Five season ends June 1. Heine said the DDD plans to offer the exercises when the con-cert series begins again in the fall.
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Baton Rouge residents practice yoga on Tuesday [left] and Zumba on Monday [right] during free sessions hosted by the YMCA in the new Town Square.
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The Student Government Uni-versity Court overruled an election board disqualification decision Wednesday.
Mass Communication Sen-ator-Elect Allie Schroeder was originally disqualified Tuesday for not signing a financial document. Schroeder appealed her case to the University Court.
Schroeder, who was part of the Renew LSU ticket, won the sen-ate seat with 54.27 percent of the vote in the runoff election. Her op-ponent, former University Center for Freshman Year Senator Tyler Loga, filed the initial complaint to the election board, which led to her disqualification.
Schroeder did not sign a finan-cial document that is necessary to run for office. Her ticket’s presi-dential candidate, Bat Brunner, forged her signature the night be-fore the document was due.
Schroeder said she was un-aware the document was turned in and did not give Brunner her per-mission to sign her name.
SG Commissioner of Elec-tions Amelia Burns said the technical mistake was worth
the disqualification.“[Schroeder] did win out-
right,” Burns said. “But if you’re not going to follow the rules … you’re going to get disqualified.”
Former SG Speaker Aaron Caffarel, who represented Schro-eder, said the punishment was too severe because the forged signa-ture had no impact on the outcome of the race.
“Allie didn’t sign the form. Did that have any impact on the race?” he said. “It had no bearing on the way people voted.”
Lindsay Hardiman, who also represented Schroeder, compared Schroeder’s punishment to the Your LSU ticket’s punishment. Your LSU violated three rules and received a private warning, a public censure and limit on where members could campaign. The last punishment was then appealed and lifted.
“Three violations and that’s all they got: a public censure. She didn’t sign a form and she’s [dis-qualified],” Hardiman said.
This was Schroeder’s first offense.
The well-known side effects of tanning salons haven’t stopped Katelyn Gross from visiting them to darken her skin.
“I feel better when I have color,” she said.
Health professionals consis-tently remind tanning salon cus-tomers of the risks they’re run-ning. Kathy Saichuk, University health promotion coordinator, is among them. She said frequent exposure to UV rays increases the risk of developing melanoma, the most common cancer among women ages 25-32.
Tanning beds will soon be a little less busy in California, where the state legislature banned the use of UV indoor tanning beds for all minors under 18 years old as of January. That’s currently the strictest teen tanning law in the nation, and Saichuk said this could be done in Louisiana if the right politician was involved and support was strong.
But Gross, a mass commu-nication freshman and employee at tanning salon Planet Beach on Highland Road, doesn’t think people would take such a law se-riously.
Gross said she has always wondered why tan skin is con-sidered more attractive than pale skin, and she subscribes to the
theory of another tanning salon’s advertisement: “tan flab is sexier than white flab.”
Gross acknowledged that the statement was harsh but accepted that it is true in today’s culture.
Saichuk said that many years ago, being tan signified being a poor laborer, and it was not until after World War II that darker skin showed a sign of wealth.
Although melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer, it is not the only form of skin cancer, Saichuk said as she pointed to a scar on her forehead where a cancerous squamous cell was removed.
“Whatever you do when you are young, your body will let you know you did it when you get a little older,” she said
Saichuk said when she was younger, she coached outdoors and rarely took precautions to protect her skin. Now she visits the dermatologist twice a year to make sure she hasn’t developed any forms of cancer.
Saichuck said people are be-ginning to understand that sun damage is harmful in the short-term and long-term. Sunburns cause premature aging and wrin-kling, which can’t be corrected, she said.
The ozone layer protects the earth from harmful UVA and UVB rays, according to Geoff Clayton, physics and astronomy professor. If the ozone layer is
destroyed, it lets through more UV rays and can potentially cause more harm to humans.
Clayton said people can de-termine the potential harm by comparing the amount of UV radiation coming from the sun versus the amount produced from tanning beds.
“If there is more UV radiation coming from the tanning beds lights, then yeah, that could be more damaging,” Clay-ton said
Clayton said getting some sun is healthy be-cause it produces vita-min D in the body, but Saichuk warned that people only need about 15 minutes of sun twice a week.
Saichuk said tanning beds should one day be outlawed, adding that they emit more in-tense UV light than the sun does.
“They are in the same cat-egory of some of the other things we know are high risk for cancer, like tobacco,” Saichuk said.
Gross suggested that skin cancer awareness month should be promoted similarly to breast cancer awareness month to bring more attention to the harmful effects.
The final Student Government Senate meeting of the semester be-fore the change of administration was filled with goodbyes, jokes, standing ovations and tears.
In terms of legislation, the Sen-ate had its most productive meeting of the semester, passing 12 resolu-tions, bills and finance bills.
SG passed a finance bill to allo-cate a maximum of $5,000 from the surplus account to Facility Services to purchase and install four emer-gency call towers. The executive branch will also allocate $20,000 for the towers, newly-instated SG President Taylor Cox and former President Cody Wells said.
Call towers, different from call boxes, can be custom made for the University. The University call tow-ers will include “sirens, speakers, location tracking, mass commu-nication assistance, flashing lights and cameras.”
Mass communication assis-tance will serve as an emergency notification system, much like the emergency text message system the University currently uses. The speakers in the towers can announce emergency messages quicker and more efficiently than text messages, said co-author and Graduate School Senator Rachel O’Pry.
“I don’t think you should wait until something [violent] happens,” she said. “There is an overestima-tion of how safe we are.”
The Senate also passed a fi-nance bill unanimously to allocate $4,000 “to fund a reference center in the Business Education Complex.” The money will go to purchase text-books, magazines and newspaper
subscriptions to be placed in a room in the complex for student use.
Graduating seniors, senators who lost their seat in the election and Wells gave farewell speeches during the meeting.
The students thanked one other
for their dedication to the organiza-tion and passion for the University.
Newly elected senators were sworn in, along with Cox and new SG Vice President Carrie Hebert.
After hours of business, the meeting was sent into recess
before electing a new Senate speak-er. The Senate will reconvene today at 5 p.m.
A group of civil engineering stu-dents won a steel bridge construction competition earlier this month and are hoping to continue their success when they head to nationals in May.
The team, composed of five se-niors, made its way to Tennessee for the regional ASCE-AISC National Student Steel Bridge Competition on April 5 and 6. They competed against civil engineering undergrad-uates from nine different universities in the South, including the Univer-sity of Louisiana at Lafayette and Louisiana Tech University.
The competition involved de-signing and constructing a model of a steel bridge one-tenth the normal size, said David Ziegler, team cap-tain.
Ziegler said each team member put in more than 100 hours of work preparing. The competition required that the bridge be built under a time constraint, which made practicing important, he said.
Participating in the competition cost about $3,000 total, and equip-ment cost more than $15,000, said
Mark Genre, a team member.Genre said the University’s civil
engineering department gave the team $1,500 for each competition, but the rest of the money was left up to team fundraising.
Ziegler said travel expenses alone cost around $8,000 for the na-tional competition at Clemson Uni-versity.
“If anybody wants to give us money, we’ll take it,” Genre said.
The team agreed the compe-tition provided a glimpse into the career of a civil engineer. The com-petition and preparation involved troubleshooting and trial and error, and tweaks to the bridge were made up until the last minute.
Ziegler said the team has also become a close-knit group because of the many hours they spent work-ing on the bridge together. Other members include civil engineering seniors Kenneth Lirette, Adam Mill-ing, Chris Sciortino and Jacob Trow-bridge.
The team will look at feedback from the regional competition in preparation for nationals, he said.
One of the biggest challenges the team has faced is balancing
school and the competition. Ziegler said professors have been under-standing about how much time the project requires.
Despite the challenges of par-ticipating in the project, the team agreed it was worth the effort.
“It helps you learn how to work with others and understand design
and finding weaknesses in what you build,” Genre said.
The team will test their skills at the national competition on May 25 and 26.
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Students prep for national steel bridge competitionBrian SibilleStaff Writer
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Senate passes 12 resolutions in last meeting
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Judges assess the student-built bridges during the regional ASCE-AISC National Student Steel Bridge Competition in Tennessee.
The University’s partnership with the Louisiana Optical Net-work Initiative is quickly putting LSU at the forefront of scientifi c research, according to chemistry professor Randall Hall .
LONI, a Louisiana Board of Regents program, began in 2004 and currently provides Internet to all research institutions in Louisi-ana and Mississippi. LONI gives Web access to a total of 79 institu-tions , including multiple campuses of the Louisiana Technical Com-munity College.
Those institutions share more than 85 terafl ops of data for re-search . A terafl op refers to one trillion fl oating calculations per second. A computer processing at
data speeds measured in terafl ops can solve complicated math prob-lems found in 4000-level classes in a nanosecond.
LONI Executive Director Donald Vandal said the University has “established itself as a nation-ally recognized research institution with strong credentials in cyber infrastructure and computational research expertise, particularly due to its relationship with LONI.”
Vandal said the partnership has been productive and has re-sulted in a $20 million LA-SiGMA grant from the National Science Foundation.
The grant puts LSU as the lead institution among sever-al other schools including Tu-lane, Louisiana Tech University, the University of New Orleans and Southern University. The
project is cross-disciplinary and places a heavy focus on material and computational science, Hall said.
“The LA-SiGMA grant is a way for all of these institutions to collaborate in ways not previously possible,” Hall said. “One of those is a project I am working on that will enable the University to trans-mit courses, primarily on the grad-uate level, to other institutions.”
LONI strives to provide re-search to major institutions through supercomputers. LONI also pro-vides commodity Internet access for the University.
The Daily Reveille reported in
February that University Internet usage spiked to 17,000 devices on the lsusecure network at once — approximately 62 percent of the student population.
IT Communication and Plan-ning offi cer Sheri Thompson said the increase in usage can be tied to an increased reliance on smart-phones.
“Our fi rewall couldn’t handle all the traffi c we were receiving, and it crashed,” Thompson said. “But we haven’t had any problems with our current one up to this point. ”
Although not directly moni-tored by the University, LONI
is housed in Frey Computing Center, where a recent renovation improved cooling and power ca-pacity.
Vandal said LONI plans to take advantage of the improve-ments indirectly through attach-ments to the network.
“Because of the enhanced capacity in Frey, we won’t run into bottlenecks that slow things down,” Vandal said. “It will cer-tainly help as we make attachments to the network with projects like LA-SiGMA.”
The E.J. Ourso College of Business will host Russel Hon-oré as the key-note speaker May 18 at its diploma ceremony. Hon-oré is a retired lieutenant gen-eral and the 33rd c o m m a n d i n g general of the U.S. Army at Fort Gillem, Ga.
According to a College of Business news release, the Lake-land native graduated from South-ern University in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in vocational agriculture.
He also holds a master’s de-gree in human resources from Troy State University and sev-eral honorary doctorate degrees in public administration, law and
humane letters. In 2005, Honoré led the
Department of Defense dur-ing hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He also led the Joint Task Force Katrina, where he com-manded active-duty troops for re-covery operations.
He has since supported the Department of Defense for four of the past six hurricane seasons.
Honoré retired in 2008 af-ter 37 years in the Army. He still speaks nationally about prepared-ness, most notably at the National Evacuation Conference in 2010.
“We’re very excited to have him come speak,” said Wendy Lu-edtke, director of alumni and ex-ternal relations for the College of Business.
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One of the driving forces behind the development project is the desire to connect the northern campus entrance to the campus community.
“We want this area to be ac-tive beyond 4:30 p.m. and beyond game days,” said Steve Wilson , project manager for AECOM , the planning fi rm contracted to work on the Nicholson development.
Wednesday’s meeting served as part of the project’s discovery phase. While there is no deter-mined timeline for the project, Waller said he hopes it’s completed within the next few years.
Students and community members in attendance were eager to give input about the develop-ment, but several voiced concerns about the implications of it.
Sharon Terrance , a long-time Baton Rouge resident who said she wants to live in the area forever, said project developers need to keep local residents in mind when planning for Nicholson .
Terrance lives just past the North Gate area and said when the beams for the student apartment complexes on Highland Road were erected, the foundations of houses a few streets away from her home began to sink.
Terrance also suggested
adding a retired-living site to the family and graduate student hous-ing because interacting with chil-dren would be benefi cial to retired people. She said it “helps keep them alive.”
Other suggestions for the area development included nighttime eateries, improved public transpor-tation and the creation of neighbor-hood and local businesses.
“There needs to be that lo-cal fl avor you won’t get with McDonald’s or Walmart,” said Gary Byerly, LSU’s graduate school dean .
would pick someone who was against him. Jindal picked all of Romney’s competitors, and it was like Jindal’s idea was ‘anyone but Romney .’”
In addition to naming Jindal , McCain pinpointed Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey , Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as other potential running mates.
Garand said Rubio , a Cuban-American, may be a good choice in order to appeal to Hispanic voters.
“Cubans tend to be more con-servative though, so I don’t know how much that would help,” Ga-rand said about a potential Rom-ney/Rubio ticket.
Garand also said many vot-ers like Christie for his “straight-shooter” personality.
“That could be risky though because he’s so outrageous in the things he says,” Garand said about Christie .
But many Louisiana students say Jindal would be the best match for Romney’s campaign.
Jordan Haney , sociology se-nior , said he would be more likely to vote for the Republican ticket this fall if Jindal were Romney’s running mate.
“I like that he’s from Louisi-ana and think it would be a good thing for the state,” he said. “If he were vice president, he might ad-dress more Louisiana issues.”
Molly Boesch , business soph-omore , said she would also sup-port a Romney/Jindal Republican ticket. As a registered Republican, Boesch said she favors Jindal’s conservative stance on many is-sues.
But students aren’t the only ones hoping Jindal will take on the
vice presidential position.On April 11 , the Louisiana
Democratic Party announced it would support Jindal for vice president.
Nevertheless, Jindal claims he currently isn’t pursuing any posi-tion in the White House.
“I’ve got the job I want,” Jindal said to Politico . “Our next
challenge is pension reform.”Despite Jindal’s statements,
Garand said it’s likely Jindal would accept the vice presidential posi-tion if Romney offered it to him.
not elaborate on the details.“We believe we should be a
prideful campus 365 days a year, not just during football season,” Cox said.
Cox and Hebert said one of their main goals is to make SG more transparent by using a com-munications director to let the stu-dent body know about meetings and events via press releases and social media.
“We want the [SG] offi ce to be the campus living room,” Cox said. “We want to put you in the know at all times.”
Be Heard campaign manager Thomas Rodgers said he thinks the students will trust the new leaders.
He said the fact that 73 percent of the ticket’s candidates won their seats in the spring election is proof.
“Students will have a restored faith in SG with Taylor and Car-rie ,” he said.
Another Be Heard campaign manager, Khristen Jones, said she looks forward to what SG will ac-complish under Cox and Hebert.
“I know I’m leaving SG in a better place than when I found it,” she said.
Now that Cox and Hebert have offi cially taken offi ce, they’ll get started fi lling out their sup-port staff this week. Students can apply until Friday for interviews that Cox and Hebert will conduct Saturday and Sunday for executive branch positions.
Cox said he expects the staff to have about 15 students fewer than outgoing SG president Cody Wells’ executive branch.
Wells was on hand to address the student body for the last time as president. He refl ected on the past year, including some of what he considered to be pivotal moments of his time in offi ce.
Kurt Keppler, vice chancellor for student life and enrollment ser-vices, told the crowd it had been a “joy” working with Wells and for-mer SG Vice President Kathleen Bordelon , and Keppler gave advice to the newly inducted president and vice president .
When junior left fielder Raph Rhymes comes to bat with runners in scoring position, there’s almost a 50/50 chance he will drive home a run.
No. 4 LSU (31-7) saw the good side of that coin flip Wednesday as Rhymes drove in the go-ahead run with a two-out single in the bot-tom of the seventh inning to give the Tigers a 5-4 victory against La-mar (13-22) at Alex Box Stadium. Rhymes, who leads the nation with
a .484 batting average, drove in three of LSU’s five runs Wednes-day after playing in the field for the first time since sustaining a con-cussion April 7 against Florida.
“It was weird at first,” Rhymes said. “But I’ve been taking fly balls for a couple days, so I felt pretty good.”
Senior designated hitter Grant Dozar and sophomore second baseman JaCoby Jones opened the seventh inning with walks. Junior outfielders Arby Fields and Mason Katz followed with pop outs to set up the game-winning opportunity for Rhymes.
“I knew we needed to scratch a run somehow,” Rhymes said. “Anytime I get up there with runners in scoring position, I just
try to put a good swing on the ball. Luckily, I found some holes.”
A rough night on the mound for the LSU pitching staff allowed Lamar, who has three wins this sea-son against teams currently ranked in the top 10, to linger around lon-ger than most expected.
Lamar third baseman Darian Johnson opened the scoring in the first inning with a two-run homer to right field. The Cardinals added runs in the third and fifth innings, both on infield ground outs.
“Pitching in the early part of the game was not so sharp,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “Even toward the end of the game it was not as sharp as you’d like it to be,
On the heels of an impressive performance in LSU’s 7-1 win against Alabama on Saturday, LSU junior outfielder Raph Rhymes conducted a post-game interview with the Cox Sports Television crew airing the game.
It might have been the headset he was wear-ing, it might have been senior third baseman Tyler Hanover’s impish size, but Rhymes didn’t see it coming.
With a devilish grin, Hanover swiftly crept
up behind Rhymes and smeared his face with a shaving-cream pie, prompting senior first base-man Grant Dozar to say in his best broadcaster’s voice, “And LSU’s leading hitter is missing the fi-nal game of the series with an eye infection.”
It’s all just another day at the ballpark and another example of a long line of mischievous sto-ries involving these members of the LSU baseball team.
Sometimes lost in the box score, buried beneath the team ERAs and batting averages lies one of the most important aspects of a team’s suc-cess — the clubhouse dynamic.
“With football, you have a bunch of guys, probably 100 guys in the locker room,” Rhymes said. “In baseball, there’s one locker room, prob-ably about 30 guys. You’re right next to each other. You’re in the clubhouse most of your time. We go to class and then we come to the clubhouse. We’re together pretty much 24/7.”
Fellow junior outfielder Arby Fields knows the difference between the two — he spent his freshman season on the Northwestern (Ill.) foot-ball team.
Legendary Tennessee wom-en’s basketball coach Pat Sum-mitt is stepping down after 38 years, the university announced Wednesday.
The 59-year-old Summitt, who was diagnosed with early-onset dementia less than a year ago, has been named “head coach emeritus” and will con-tinue to assist the team. Sum-mitt’s longtime assistant Holly Warlick will take the head coaching role.
LSU women’s basketball coach Nikki Caldwell played and coached under Summitt at Ten-nessee. Caldwell lent her sup-port to Summitt and Warlick on Wednesday in an LSU news re-lease.
“Coach Summitt is the rea-son I am a coach and why I am here [at LSU] today,” Caldwell said in the release. “She gave me an opportunity to go into coach-ing as a graduate assistant in 1998. More importantly, she has always been there for me since I was 18 years old. She’s my men-tor, my friend and a part of my
Pranks keep players on their toes, bond teammates
CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior left �elder Raph Rhymes prepares to swing at a pitch Wednesday during the Tigers’ 5-4 victory against Lamar University at Alex Box Stadium.
[Left] The Tigers celebrate March 17 after their 4-3 victory against the Mississippi State at Alex Box Stadium. [Top right] LSU players gather on April 18, 2010, during the Tigers’ matchup against the Crimson Tide. [Bottom right] LSU junior in�elder Raph Rhymes grins during a March 30 interview after the Tigers’ win against the University of Arkansas, moments before getting hit in the face with a shaving cream pie.
Rhymes’ three RBIs lift No. 4 LSU past Lamar in 5-4 midweek victory
Luke JohnsonSports Writer
SUMMIT
For the fi fth time in its last six games, the LSU softball team has fallen to a ranked opponent.
The No. 23 Tigers (30-14 , 11-6 Southeastern Conference) got off on the wrong foot against No. 22 Florida State (39-10 , 12-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), giving up two runs in the fi rst inning en route to an 8-1 defeat.
Senior pitcher Brittany Mack opened the game by plunking Flor-ida State junior infi elder Tiffani Brown . The next batter hit a ground-er right up the middle to Mack , who tossed the ball to sophomore second baseman Allison Falcon , but Falcon fumbled the ball as Brown slid in safely at second.
“Hitting the fi rst batter of the game kind of sets the tone,” Mack said. “I kind of messed up our team on that one.”
Mack responded with back-to-back strikeouts, she but gave up a blooper to shallow center fi eld which drove home two runs for the Seminoles.
LSU accumulated one hit in each of the fi rst two innings, but the
offense couldn’t get a runner across the plate.
Florida State struck again in the third inning, as sophomore outfi eld-er Courtney Senas singled to left-center fi eld, bringing home two runs to push the Seminoles’ lead to 4-0 .
Mack was pulled in the fourth inning in favor of junior pitcher Rachele Fico after giving up a solo home run to sophomore Florida State catcher Celeste Gomez .
LSU coach Beth Torina said the Tigers weren’t ready for the game.
“They looked very unprepared tonight,” she said. “That’s my fault.”
The Tigers threatened with an-other hit in the bottom of the sixth in-ning, but back-to-back outs stranded LSU sophomore designated player Jacee Blades at second base.
Blades was the lone LSU player with multiple hits on the night.
The Tigers’ woes continued in the seventh inning, as Fico gave up her fi rst hits of the night.
Sophomore third baseman Tam-my Wray then bobbled a grounder, which allowed two runs to come home for the Seminoles.
Florida State’s eighth run of the night scored as a passed ball bounced off the glove of senior
catcher Morgan Russell and fl ew into the backstop.
The Tigers showed some life in the bottom of the seventh inning, as freshman utility player Kailey Mc-Casland reached fi rst base and soph-omore outfi elder Alex Boulet came in to pinch run.
Boulet stole second and third and eventually made it home as sophomore fi rst baseman Ashleigh Kuhn hit a two-out single.
LSU couldn’t fi nd any more of-fense the rest of the night.
The Seminoles’ eight runs were the most given up by the Tigers at home this season. The defeat was LSU’s worst home loss since an 11-0 pounding last season against Tennessee.
A 14-9 regular season record and a 5-6 Southeastern Conference record earned the LSU men’s ten-nis team a No. 21 national ranking and the No. 8 seed in the SEC tour-nament.
The Tigers will begin their SEC tournament campaign today when they square off against No. 9 seed Vanderbilt, who they defeat-ed, 6-1 , at home in March.
The Commodores have been
reeling since the defeat, posting a 2-7 record with six straight losses, but LSU coach Jeff Brown said the Tigers can’t take any match at the tournament for granted.
“We know it’s going to be as tough a match as any SEC match is,” Brown said. “We defi nitely respect every match that we play here, and it’s diffi cult to get re-sults.”
The Tigers, on the other hand, come into the match red-hot, hav-ing won three straight matches, in-cluding an upset of No. 9 Florida in
the last home match of the season.LSU now has three ranked
singles players in No. 38 Olivier Borsos, No. 54 Neal Skupski and No. 91 Chris Simpson .
Borsos and Skupski both enter the SEC tournament with three straight victories.
“They’ve been the top per-forming part of our lineup per-centage wise, which is important because if you can pick up wins in those spots it really gives you a good chance,” Brown said.
The LSU women’s tennis
team will also begin SEC tourna-ment play today as the No. 7 seed against No. 10 seed Arkansas.
The No. 41 Lady Tigers (11-11, 4-7 SEC) will be looking for revenge against the Razorbacks, who ruined their fi nal home match of the season with a 5-2 upset vic-tory Saturday.
“There aren’t many times you have two shots at a team within a week’s time,” said LSU women’s coach Tony Minnis. “We’re for-tunate that it worked out, and we have another shot at Arkansas.”
LSU will face No. 2 seed Ala-bama if they can advance past the Razorbacks.
“We’ve been a little bit up and down this year, but if we can put it together, I feel very confi dent,” Minnis said.
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LSU junior pitcher Rachele Fico hurls the ball toward home plate Wednesday during the Tigers’ 1-8 loss against Florida State at Tiger Park.
Mid-April isn’t the time to be scrambling for recruits in college basketball.
New LSU coach Johnny Jones has no choice.
With center Justin Hamilton’s departure for the professional ranks, three graduating seniors and only one commitment — Malik Morgan — after the exit of former coach Trent Johnson, LSU’s roster is sud-denly skinny.
Only seven Tigers are currently on scholarship, so Jones could poten-tially sign five players this offseason.
But the former Tiger recruiting extraordinaire is in a unique position. With national signing day already a week in the rearview, there’s little time for Jones to identify big-time talent and get them to campus.
At his introductory press con-ference Monday, Jones said he’s fo-cused more on the program’s long-term health than bringing in players just to fill scholarships.
“We don’t want to waste any scholarships and be hung out there with somebody for the next three or four years that’s not going to help move the program forward,” he said.
LSU’s recruiting struggles in recent years are notorious. By Scout.com’s measure, Louisiana has produced 15 top-100 national re-cruits since 2003. Only three donned
the purple and gold at the collegiate level.
First-round NBA draft picks like Greg Monroe, D.J. Augustin and Danny Granger have eluded LSU, which Jones says is unacceptable.
“We’ve got to make sure we blanket Louisiana, so it’s going to be very hard for other schools to come in here when LSU wants a guy,” Jones said. “In football, they’ve done a great job of getting kids from the state and winning championships with them. We’ve got to do that.”
Jones’ hiring wasn’t unanimous-ly met with praise in LSU circles, but that divide has nothing to do with his recruiting ability.
He helped lure Chris Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal and Randy Liv-ingston to Baton Rouge as an LSU assistant and left the Mean Green with a potential lottery pick in for-ward Tony Mitchell, who signed with North Texas last year as a cov-eted five-star recruit.
Calling himself a “one-man wrecking crew” without a staff in place yet, Jones began his whirlwind recruiting last weekend, immedi-ately talking to Riverside’s Ricardo Gathers, who signed with Baylor, touching base with Morgan, who reiterated his LSU commitment, and contacting touted junior college for-ward Shavon Coleman.
Coleman, a 6-foot-6 wingman from Thibodaux who played the last two seasons with Howard College
in West Texas, is the nation’s No. 8 JUCO recruit and lists LSU, Oklaho-ma and Texas Tech as his top transfer choices.
“I don’t want to rush this, espe-cially now with what’s going on at LSU,” Coleman recently told Scout.com. “I need to take my time and make sure I make the best choice for me, but I’m still interested in LSU.”
Gathers said he might have signed with LSU if Jones’ hiring wasn’t so late in the recruiting sea-son, while Morgan said his commit-ment was always about LSU, not who was coaching.
In addition to his time at LSU and North Texas, Jones also spent time as an assistant coach at Mem-phis and Alabama, making the entire southern U.S. a potential LSU re-cruiting playground.
“JJ has an extensive reach in states like Texas, Arkansas, Tennes-see and Alabama, because he’s made those connections,” said former LSU great Rudy Macklin, who played with Jones on LSU’s 1981 Final Four team.
Jones may be limited this year, but next year looks more promis-ing. Two top-100 recruits for 2013, Madison Prep’s Jarrell Martin and Episcopal’s Brian Bridgewater, sit right in LSU’s backyard.
LSU Sports Information released renderings of a possible expansion to Tiger Stadium on Monday. The expansion would add approximately 4,500 seats and would raise the capacity of the stadium to around 100,000.
Proposed stadium expansion submitted to Board of Supervisors
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As his final season in purple and gold winds down, LSU senior golfer Austin Gutgsell has been shelling
out the best per-formances of his collegiate career.
Gutgsell fin-ished first place in the LSU National Invitational, post-ing a career-low 7-under-par 65 in the final round on
April 1 at the University Club. This victory was a culmination
of his efforts throughout the spring to shake off the mental stresses stem-ming from poor performances early in the 2011-12 season.
Gutgsell was instrumental in the Tigers’ 2010-11 season, partici-pating in 11 tournaments. The fall campaign found Gutgsell left out of LSU’s five-man competition squad in all but one tournament — Octo-ber’s David Toms Intercollegiate.
He won that tournament in 2010, but this season he didn’t crack the top 20.
Gutgsell said the departure of graduating standouts Andrew Loupe and John Peterson created an in-creased responsibility he hadn’t ex-perienced before.
“I put too much pressure on
myself because I wanted to lead the team as a senior,” Gutgsell said. “The stress affected my ball striking.”
With Peterson and Loupe gone, Gutgsell and the squad’s other senior Sang Yi were the two most experi-enced golfers on the team.
Yi placed in the top 10 on the individual leaderboard in seven tour-naments during this year’s regular season.
He finished behind Gutgsell at the LSU National Invitational, plac-ing ninth overall. He said his fellow senior’s performance is something he is very proud of.
“He’s been my brother for the last three-and-a-half years,” Yi said. “Seeing him perform like that after the struggles he’s had this year is just awesome.”
Gutgsell said his uncertain fu-ture was also weighing him. A call from his parents last month gave him a clearer view on what awaited him.
“I was in between what I was going to do for my career, so when I found out I could continue to golf it boosted my confidence,” Gutgsell said.
Although the LSU gymnastics team goes into the NCAA Cham-pionships on Friday with minimal nationals experience, they may not have to worry.
They’re getting tips and tech-niques from a two-time national champion.
Former LSU gymnast Ashleigh Clare-Kearney won both the vault and floor exercise titles at the 2009 national meet to cap off a career in which she took a school-record 114 total individual crowns.
Now she works with the team as a volunteer assistant coach. LSU head coach D-D Breaux said with her relatively fresh successes, it was an easy decision to have her back.
“She’s got such a good eye and heart for gymnastics,” Breaux said. “She’s accomplished as much as any collegiate gymnast can accomplish. Academically, she’s brilliant. I want her hanging around my program.”
Clare-Kearney chose to volun-teer because she has been involved in the sport since she was five and said she couldn’t imagine abandon-ing one of the most influential parts of her life so abruptly.
She said she hoped to give back to the University and keep the LSU tradition alive through coaching.
Competing for the Tigers gave her a huge support system and
guidance for her decision to attend law school, she said. Clare-Kearney now attends the Southern University Law Center, spurred by the attitude she learned on the purple mats dur-ing her undergrad years.
“[LSU gymnastics fostered] the desire to win and do everything you can, hard work and determination,” Clare-Kearney said. “That carries into every profession, but especially the law because of how intense and meticulous it is.”
While she said she usually throws her two cents in on vault, where she holds the most titles at 37, her main focus is the floor. Clare-Kearney acts as the choreographer, picking the girls’ music and laying out the dance, presentation and leap combinations.
She likes to tailor each routine to the performer, playing to their strengths. When building routines for the team’s two outstanding freshmen, Rheagan Courville and Lloimincia Hall, Clare-Kearney built dances showcasing Courville’s grace and flexibility while display-ing Hall’s power and entertainment factor.
With that kind of control, Breaux said the former champion is a perfectionist.
“She is extremely outspoken and very critical about everything they do,” Breaux said. “She’s very quick to point out good stuff and bad stuff.”
Breaux likened the young team’s admiration of its volunteer coach to idol worship, but she said no one looks up to her more than Hall, who called Clare-Kearney her mentor.
The two also call each other sisters.
“You look at titles, you look at how much she’s a team player, there’s something that I would want to get in to,” Hall said. “Our per-sonal relationship is unbelievable. … We’re even allergic to the same things, that’s how close we are.”
Beside an intolerance for nuts and seafood, Clare-Kearney said the two also share that power style and an outgoing personality during per-formances.
Like Clare-Kearney, Hall is especially proficient on the floor, where she won seven of her titles, including the Southeastern Confer-ence championship. She also tied the highest national score of 9.975 in the exercise twice this season.
“She has the potential and the talent,” Clare-Kearney said. “It’s going to be important for her to ... focus on what she’s done in practice
and what she’s done this season. The SEC as a whole is powerful, and if can you win that championship, you have a legitimate shot to win the na-tional championship.”
Hall said she only has to look at her mentor to find the same success.
“If Ashleigh did these things ... there’s no reason I can’t follow in her footsteps,” Hall said.
And having seen the best of
Clare-Kearney, that’s the kind of thing Breaux likes to hear.
“If [Hall] has her sights set on mirroring what Ashleigh’s accom-plished, then LSU’s in for some real good stuff,” she said.
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Former LSU gymnast Ashleigh Clare-Kearney (right) assists a current gymnast in the Carl Maddox Field House.
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but it got the job done,” Mainieri said.
LSU managed to match La-mar’s run production each time the Cardinals scored but didn’t take the lead until Rhymes’ hit in the seventh.
The Tigers tied the game at 2-2 in the fi rst inning after Rhymes drove in two runs with a double down the left fi eld line. The Tigers tied the game again in the fourth when senior third baseman Tyler Hanover drove home Rhymes with a single to center fi eld. Sophomore catcher Ty Ross added one more run with a sacrifi ce fl y to right fi eld in the sixth.
“I give it to them,” Rhymes said of the Tigers’ opponent. “They came to play. They were a good team. Every time we seemed to score a run, they would match us with one. It was a good game.”
LSU’s pitching staff settled down in the fi fth inning when sophomore Nick Rumbelow
entered the game with two outs. He struck out three of the four batters he faced before giving way to ju-nior Chris Cotton, who combined with sophomore Kurt McCune and junior Nick Goody to shut out the Cardinals in the fi nal three innings.
Still, Mainieri wasn’t pleased with the pitching performance, and
he chalked up the win to one spe-cifi c player.
“Thank goodness we have Raph Rhymes on our team,” he said. “Let’s just put it that way.”
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“As a team, you’re a lot closer to everybody on the team, as opposed to a football team where you’ve got almost [60 or 70] guys on the team,” Fields said. “It’s a lot easier to have personal relationships with every-body.”
Of course, being around one an-other all the time lends itself to some epic pranks.
Dozar , who was tagged along with fellow senior Beau Didier as one of the ringleaders of LSU’s club-house prank circus, is particularly fond of leaving his car unlocked with the keys inside.
His teammates picked up on the habit.
“Sometimes [Dozar will] walk out and his car will be on the levee,” Didier said. “We move it all the time.”
But Didier isn’t immune to car-key pranks, either.
Former LSU pitcher Anthony Ranaudo once froze Didier’s keys in a bucket used to collect batting practice baseballs. Didier said he had
to hammer at the ice to get his keys back.
Didier has also had his car fi lled with balloons, some of which were fi lled with air and some of which were fi lled with water — Didier found out about this fact as he was popping the balloons to get in his car.
Some pranks are less grandiose than shifting the location of some-one’s parked car, but they still have an effect. The most abundantly dis-cussed prank is actually an enforce-ment of a team rule.
If a player leaves gear adrift — including cleats, batting gloves and bats — that gear will acquaint itself with an almost preposterous amount of duct tape.
“If you leave your glove out here, they’ll duct tape your glove and put it in your locker to teach you a lesson, like, OK, don’t leave your stuff out,” Fields said. “It’s funny but at the same time, it teaches you a lesson. … I think Cody Glenn has the most duct-taped gloves on this team. Tyler Hanover can duct tape a glove.”
It seems to be working. These
Tigers, halfway through their confer-ence schedule, have put together an impressive résumé so far.
They’re tied for the South-eastern Conference lead with an 11-4 record in conference play and have shown a knack at fi ghting through adversity.
They’re talented, sure. The Ti-gers probably wouldn’t be in the same position without players like Rhymes and sophomore pitchers Kevin Gausman and Ryan Eades .
But the same can be said of players like Didier and Dozar , keep-ing the team atmosphere loose.
“A team that is real close, they have a better feel for each other. I’ve been on a couple of teams, and this one is really close,” Rhymes said. “That helps on-the-fi eld playing. We’re out there battling together, and everyone knows we have each other’s backs.”
LSU sophomore pitcher Joe Broussard pitches Wednesday evening during the Tigers’ 5-4 victory against Lamar University at Alex Box Stadium.
EntertainmentThursday, April 19, 2012 page 17
RED STICK ROUNDUP
Friday:
Today:Flow TribeThe six childhood friends in Flow Tribe, New Orleans locals, fuse psy-chedelic/blues and funk/rock music. Chelsea’s Café, 10:30 p.m. $5.
Gypsy Space CaravanThe brainchild of Lee White, guitarist and founder, Gypsy Space Caravan is a divergence from fusion, incorporating gypsy jazz, progressive rock, experi-mental indie, old-school gospel, new-school electroacousticism and many other genres. Chelsea’s Café, 10:30 p.m. $12.
Saturday:
From This Pointe OnThe Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre’s Spring Concert will feature Act II of Swan Lake, three company premieres and crowd favorite, Link/Unlink. River Center, 7:30 p.m. $28-33.
ZosoIn 1995, Zoso formed to portray Led Zeppelin. The members were selected to portray the playing styles of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones. The Varsity Theater, 8 p.m. $12.
Cage the ElephantThe rock band reached success in 2006 with “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked.” House of Blues in New Orleans, 7:30 p.m. $22.50.
Team Race for the RideA one-day scavenger hunt through downtown Baton Rouge with a grand prize of 2012 Honda Fit or a 2012 Toyota Yaris. Teams of two will answer riddles and complete challenges from their cell phones to follow clues through the downtown area. USS KIDD. 10 a.m. Free to enter.
Sunday:Earth DayBaton Rouge Earth Day will feature fun, music, food and interactive edu-cation and exhibits. Downtown Baton Rouge, 12 p.m.
Houston rock band Blue October will bring its brand of angst-grunge to the Texas Club on Friday.
The band’s latest album, “Any Man in America,” is the group’s seventh since its incep-tion in 1995. Known for singles like “Hate Me” and “Into The Ocean,” Blue October takes rock deeper with messages of depres-sion, heartache and forgiveness.
The Daily Reveille spoke with Matt Noveskey, bassist and backing vocalist for Blue Octo-ber , in advance of the show.
The Daily Reveille: What is the meaning of “Any Man in Amer-ica?”Noveskey: My take on it, the ac-tual title itself means what Justin [Furstenfeld, the band’s singer]
experienced and what he’s gone through [with his divorce and ensuing custody battle] can hap-pen to anybody in this country. Because based off the laws of the lack of shared parenting and just the issues we have with the laws when it comes to custody, it can happen to anybody.
We’ve been doing this for so long. We’re not just a band; we’re way more than that. We’re a family. We’ve been through so much together with many ups and downs. ... The album defi -nitely refl ects life. It’s what we like to call “reality music.” None of it is fi ctional and none of it is in third person. It’s all very much from [Justin’s] perspective. It’s all relative. When you’re going out touring in support of some-thing that is a snap shot of your life, you live it every day.
BAND SPOTLIGHT
Q&A with Blue October’s Matt Noveskey
BLUE OCTOBER, see page 23
Raylea BarrowEntertainment Writer
photo courtesy of ABEL LONGORIA
Houston rock band Blue October will play Friday at the Texas Club at 7 p.m.
For a long time, all Salma Hasan had was her memories.
Raised in a culture in which artists are forbidden to paint hu-man fi gures, the fi ne arts graduate could only reminiscence on the deaths of her father, brothers and grief-stricken mother.
But this week, Hasan liber-ated these memories with the un-veiling of her thesis exhibition, “Permitted Memories and Orna-mentation,” in Foster Hall Gallery.
The exhibit consists of a col-lection of oil paintings featuring
portraits of Hasan’s loved ones, both living and dead, accented by traditional Arabic design.
Hasan said some may con-sider her work to be “distasteful” and non-Islamic, but she considers it liberation from outdated Islamic tradition. Her paintings are not forbidden images, she said, but “permitted memories.”
“My mind is really clouded with all these people and memo-ries,” Hasan said. “It is good to release these memories and put them into paintings.”
Painting the faces of her fami-ly members alongside the intricate patterns of her childhood offers a
uniquely nostalgic form of art, she said.
Hasan said she is often asked why she chose to revisit such heartbreaking memories in her paintings, but she describes it as her process of healing.
“It makes me happy,” Hasan said. “I like to look around and see my family members’ faces.”
Hasan remained spirited as she pointed out some of her favor-ite pieces from her collection, in-cluding portraits of her daughter, son, mother and father.
“[My father’s] face, ornament and scarf is always in my heart,” she said, pausing for a moment as
if paying him respect. Hasan said she prefers to keep
the titles of the paintings simple by naming each piece according to the muse’s relation to her. She calls her father’s portrait “Abi,” the Arabic word for father.
Although Hasan’s cultural background is a distinct element of her artwork, she said one of her exhibit’s most unique qualities is the fusion of Western and Eastern cultures. In a portrait of her son, Hasan depicts him playing on a cell phone, a Western activity, but lines the bottom portion of the
through artLiberated
David JonesEntertainment Writer
ART, see page 23
File photo
Cultural restrictions on art no longer constrain grad student with new exhibit
photos by CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
Salma Hasan [right] liberates her past memories by unveiling her thesis exhibition, “Permitted Memories and Ornamentation,” which consists of portraits of her loved ones [left].
Saturday’s second annual Ra-diopalooza may begin a tradition of growth for both WHYR Baton Rouge Community Radio and its de-veloping festival.
Last year’s event included local music performances, and this year’s Radiopalooza will expand to feature more food, a musical entertainment tent for children, tables for local non-profi t organizations to promote causes and a bar area.
The addition of a second stage for musical acts will allow the festi-val to stagger performers, permitting one group to begin playing shortly after another fi nishes up. With a va-riety of featured music, including blues, pop and cajun, WHYR Devel-opment Director Jessi Stafford said the event caters to a wide spectrum of community members.
“We decided we would have a couple of different bands from each genre,” she explained . “We didn’t want it to be all one type of music. We’re trying to get the voices that are unheard of in the community — the people that don’t have a fest for them.”
This refl ects WHYR’s goals as a community radio station as well. Stafford explained the station, which is run entirely by volunteers and found at 96.9 FM, seeks to provide a voice for non-profi ts, spotlight overlooked local issues and provide interesting and comprehensive pro-gramming.
“The mission is really to be this progressive arm of Baton Rouge , a media outlet for those who don’t get to have their say,” Stafford said . “We try to include a vast array of different
types of messages.”Progressive indie rockers Eng-
land in 1819 will perform as part of the festival’s varied lineup. The per-formance will serve as a break from the group’s recent touring, which has seen the group traveling through var-ious Southern states on weekends as they promote their fi rst profession-ally recorded album, “Alma.”
Lead vocalist Andrew Callaway said these experiences have intro-duced a new and enjoyable aspect to the band’s work.
“It’s really enjoyable to live like that,” he explained. “We’ve just been doing weekends, three or four days at a time, but when we’re doing it — driving and talking about what we’ll do on the set and the people we talk to — it’s about music, and that’s all that you’re doing,”
But Callaway said playing a show in Baton Rouge can be refresh-ing after touring on the road, where attendants sometimes aren’t as fa-miliar with the band’s music.
“It makes the local shows a little more special,” he said. “It’s really nice to come home where you have
a fan base of people who are going to come out and support you. It makes it worth it.”
Stafford explained that after its fi rst year of service, WHYR has developed and drawn in more vol-unteers to allow more features and a better-managed event. As WHYR’s largest fundraiser of the year, Radio-palooza will help pay the station’s overhead while also raising funds for its live Internet streaming and help-ing to develop the station, Stafford said.
“Last year people were really unaware of what community radio was since we were just on the air,” she said . “This year we’ve gained more of an established presence, and we want to be on top of people’s minds and what they think of.”
Radiopalooza will take place at Beauvoir Park behind Chelsea’s Café . Tickets are on sale for $10 at Radiopalooza.org and will cost $15 at the event.
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What a difference four years can make. Eric Hutchin-son’s sophomore album, “Moving Up Living Down,” sounds more mature, more re� ned and more profes-sional. Songs like “Living In The Afterlife” pile layers of sound on top of one another until a great track is formed. Noticeably absent is the charm the � rst album, “Sounds Like This,” had. Hutchinson’s lyrics are still witty and sarcastic, but the album doesn’t feel as free-� owing and effortless as
his � rst. Luckily, the folk-pop, soulful tunes are still there and stronger than ever. “Moving Up Living Down” is a solid second effort, especially after such a long break after the � rst album, but a lack of charisma keeps this effort from getting a higher score.
TAYLOR BALKOM
[B-]
Warner Bros. RecordsEric Hutchinson, “Moving Up Living Down”
The Island Def Jam Music Group
EDITOR’S PICK: Neon Trees, “Picture Show”
Train’s new album introduces an all-new sound. The trio, including Patrick Monahan, Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood, has made a drastic shift from deep rhythmic rock to mainstream pop. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, the group’s musical shift is a genius way to attract a different radio audience and a younger crowd. The group, which formed in 1994, is known for mellow releases like ”Meet Virginia,” “Drops
of Jupiter” and “Calling All Angels.” Now, the “Cali-fornia 37” track “Drive By” has risen to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with its happy, upbeat melody. This album has a less soulful feel, but would make a good soundtrack for driving on the interstate.
RAYLEA BARROW
[A]
Columbia RecordsTrain, “California 37”
Arriving just more than a year since the band’s last studio album, Rise Against’s “Satellite EP” gives fans a chance to reminisce in the group’s developed discog-raphy. By presenting two live takes on popular songs from previous studio albums, as well as the popular track “Satellite” and its accompanying video, the EP is short but packed with energy of live shows and a lauded single. The group plays both live tracks well, but the recording quality could be better. Rise Against’s new
EP offers little in the way of new content, but it provides a good deal for two well-performed live tracks and a music video with its $2.99 price. This release should help hold hardcore fans over until the band’s next album.
AUSTEN KRANTZ
[B]
Interscope RecordsRise Against, “Satellite EP”
After the wide success of its � rst single, “Animal,” Neon Trees is back again, trying to regain the ground previously won with alternative-pop fans and radio listeners. Unfortu-nately, the group’s sophomore studio album “Picture Show” failed to generate a singular outlying track, creating instead a set of consistent but mediocre material. It’s plain to see the attempt at making an infectiously catchy anthem once more, but despite frontman Tyler Glenn’s powerful vocals, the collection falls � at. Nearly every song sprints with light-
ning drums and hollered lyrics. It isn’t awful, the musicians are clearly talented and it would be hard to resist Glenn’s roars in a live show, but the album fails to meet the standards of the group’s previous success. Entertainment Editor
MORGAN SEARLES[C-]
On the surface, “The Cabin in the Woods” seems like a pretty standard horror � lm. A group of stereotypical characters head to a remote cabin for the weekend where bad things happen to them. But leave it to fanboy favorite Joss Whedon to shake things up. Whedon, the brains behind “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Fire� y,” co-wrote the � lm’s script with director Drew Goddard. The pair takes the simple premise and uses it to brilliantly deconstruct
the horror genre in a way audiences haven’t seen since the � rst “Scream.” Filled with references to horror movies past and present, “The Cabin in the Woods” is a sort of meta-horror � lm that celebrates the joys of genre while simultaneously criticizing its low points.
JOEY GRONER
[A-]
Lionsgate“The Cabin in the Woods”
Nearly a decade after the release of Jason Mraz’s � rst major album, “Waiting for My Rocket to Come,” the singer/songwrit-er’s music still holds the chipper charm of a day at the beach. Mraz’s latest effort, “Love Is a Four Letter Word,” � avors his signature acoustic sound with pinches of reggae and sprinkles of folksy blues. The album’s 13 songs maintain balanced simplicity, a hallmark of Mraz’s, while adding depth via back-up vocalists and island-style percussion. The album’s spring re-
lease date is no coincidence, as tracks like “Living In the Moment” and “The Freedom Song” were made for lazy summer days. Contrary to the album’s pessimistic title, it has a romantic feel with descrip-tive lyrics that sound more like observational compliments. Music enthusiasts aiming to channel some chill island vibes in the coming months need look no further.
JOSH NAQUIN
[A]
Atlantic RecordsJason Marz, “Love Is a Four Letter Word”
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Local radio station holds festivalFunds to go to live Internet streamingAusten KrantzEntertainment Writer
photo courtesy of LAWRENCE VANOFF
A musician plays the violin during a performance at the 2011 Radiopalooza.
The summer’s seductive breeze calls for all types of fabulously light fabrics that blow in the wind, cool the body in the heat and show off sizzling trends in the shade.
For some, summer is a time to bare luscious legs paired with light sashes, ribbons and pearly necklac-es. Others seek out the long, fl ow-
ing skirts and dresses that trap a cool gust in the heat of the mid-afternoon. And depending on the humidity scale, a knee-length spa-ghetti strap cock-tail dress may best fi t the bill for
an exciting evening soiree.Exploring all the summer al-
ternatives for the sundress is an exciting feat, as this season offers carefree glamour in infi nite and cost-effective options for the fi nan-cially challenged bargain huntress.
Maxi dresses are a staple of summertime bohemian chic. Women who love to wear summer fedoras, fl oppy hats and boaters will appre-ciate a striped or solid maxi. Styles that are especially popular this time of the year are color-blocked, fl oral and graphic-printed maxi dresses and skirts, which are now offered at some of the most inexpensive trend-hungry chains that some consumers may overlook because of the cheap
quality of garments.Other up-to-date maxi dress
styles include the high-low hem-ming and long sheer maxi dresses with shorter under-dresses acting as a shell. Both of those styles present a sense of unrefi ned elegance when paired with a vest or wide belt and beaded sandals. A maxi dress that buttons down offers even more style versatility when worn with shorts while the long, fl owing feel of maxi-drama hangs alongside the legs.
Alberta Ferretti’s new collec-tion in collaboration with Macy’s presents a plethora of cute summer maxi dresses, cocktail dresses and sundresses that are just as dainty
and feminine as the women who sport them. Floral-printed, pleated, chiffon-looking cocktails that draw attention to the legs, drawstring necklines and cold-shoulder sleev-less sundresses in teal and coral are just a few of the fun creations Fer-retti has brought to this Macy’s col-lection, sold within the $49 to $149 price range.
Local shops offering these same trends include the popular and beloved Frock Candy. The boutique displays its understanding of trends with its fl ared cocktail styles in coral and white polka dot or navy blue. They’re great for spring-summer picnics and are offered at $40 to $50.
Distinct and popular styles for pool-party atmospheres are the lime and navy zig-zag perforated chevron rope-tie dress or the organic, color-block print of the “splish splash” graphic dress. These pieces are available on the Frock Candy web-site.
Charming day-to-evening dresses can be easily spotted in the new summer shipment of sundresses with spaghetti straps, deep V neck-lines and geometric and arabesque monotone prints that offer sexy front key-holes and back cutout details.
These styles in combinations of neutral palettes make for a sultry presentation and delightful elements
of surprise when you incorporate neon accents, such as the mid-thigh length O’Neill Neon Rain-bow Black Print Dress featured on TheFind.com.
Even though the options are all reasonably priced, there’s always a bargain at discounted trend stores such as Charlotte Russe and Forever 21. If those shops fail to provide something to intrigue the summer shopper, continue the hunt at Time Warp Boutique and Noelie Harmon Boutique, which offer the most charming vintage items and con-scious shopping fi nds, and students get 15 percent off on Tuesdays.
The journey is not truly over yet. Thrifters may want to try Amer-ica’s Thrift Store’s large inventory on Cortana Place and browse the section for the frilly items that will suit the pocketbook of a clearance-dwelling consumer.
In all of its glory, summertime may be hot, but ladies are fl ourished with the cool fi nds of sexy, sweet summer cocktail dresses.
Al Burks is a 25-year-old apparel design senior from New Orleans.
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LSU females show off their summer dresses Wednesday on campus. Summer dresses are hitting the sale racks of local stores.
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Forget about dubstep — this band will play you hugstep .
Royal Teeth , a six-member band of Louisianians , is perform-ing at Spanish Moon on Friday night , and they’re bringing their unique genre of music with them.
“It’s hard to classify our mu-sic and we never have a great answer,” said drummer Josh He-fner . “So we created a new genre – hugstep .”
Royal Teeth formed about a year ago, but many of the band members have been playing togeth-er for longer. The group materialized from the remnants of a Lafayette-based alternative-rock band named Oh, Juliet!
With a blend of indie-pop and electro-dance music, Royal Teeth combines sounds to pro-duce infectious music with audi-ence interaction in mind.
“We like to bring a lot of en-ergy to a crowd and make them feel like they’re a part of what we’re doing,” Hefner said.
Hefner said the band will go on “drum breaks ” playing from within the crowd, and sometimes they’ll break out the big guns – a confetti cannon.
“Fun is the main word,” said Andrew Poe , the band’s key-board and samples man. “We’re up there having fun and we want everyone in the audience to do the same.”
Poe said the band’s fun ran on and on at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival in Aus-tin, Texas .
“We were playing just about every day, if not a couple of times a day, and the crowd response was great,” Poe said.
Hefner said the band’s time at SXSW was a non-stop frenzy of fun, but the band did stop long enough to enter a contest. He said Royal Teeth submitted a perfor-
mance videotape for a contest sponsored by Nikon and Warner Brothers and won.
“They chose us and we got to play in the Warner Broth-ers music showcase, opening up for fun,” Hefner said.
Long distances have been an obstacle for the band, with half its members liv-ing in Lafayette and the other half living in New Orleans . Royal Teeth have persevered, however, turning their challenging spacial distribution into a strength with the use of technology.
Poe said the band conducts much of its creative process through e-mail. He said one of the band’s vocalists, Gary Lars-en , will typically write a bare-bones acoustic song and then e-mail the progress to the rest of
Royal Teeth . Band members then send back additions, revisions and suggestions before ultimate-ly meeting in person to play.
“It’s cool to be able to work on it individually and together as a band,” Poe said.
The band released an EP, “Act Naturally ,” in July and has busied themselves with playing live shows since, according to Hefner . Royal Teeth have played several venues in Baton Rouge including The Varsity , Spanish Moon and The Manship Theatre .
Hefner said the band is excit-ed to play in Baton Rouge again Friday, especially because of the city’s location.
“Baton Rouge is a cool market, and with it being between Lafayette and New Orleans its kind of like a third hometown
market for us,” Hefner said.Hefner and Poe said the
band has plans to tour the East Coast this summer and play with 2 Skinnee J’s and Fitz and The Tantrums . The two said they are thankful for the opportunity to play in more of the country and infect new fans with dance-in-spiring hugstep.
“With our live shows we try to make it hard to stand still,” Poe said.
Moira Crone has seen more than 100 years into the future of New Or-leans – kind of.
Crone’s newest novel, “The Not Yet ,” explores a futuristic soci-ety set in the New Orleans islands circa 2121 . It follows a 20-year-old protagonist as he investigates a dys-topian society shaped by advance-ments in life-extension technology and a sizable wealth gap among the population.
Crone , a former University Eng-lish professor , said social commen-tary topics like poverty and modern medicine are weaved throughout the parable.
“Science fi ction is always about the present,” Crone said.
Malcolm de Lazarus , the nov-el’s main character, travels to the New Orleans islands to investigate
a problem with his trust fund. De Lazarus is one of a select few con-sidered a “Not Yet ,” a member-in-waiting for the ultra-rich “Heirs ,” a group that runs a life-lengthening immortality pro-gram.
Crone said the inspiration behind her book came in the late ’90s when she had a dream where she spoke to a lady she thought to be impossibly old.
The woman’s peculiar appear-ance spurred Crone to think about the possibility of life extension tech-nology in the future.
Crone , who mainly produces short stories, said “The Not Yet ” be-gan as such when she published it in the late ’90s . She said the publi-cation’s editors received letters ask-ing for more of the tale and Crone obliged by serializing the story be-fore ultimately taking the step to ex-pand it into a novel.
One aspect of writing a novel set in the future Crone said she paid careful attention to was “world-building .”
“There came a point where I needed to stop writing and start pre-writing to form all the details of the future and how we got from the pres-ent to that future era,” Crone said.
She said her novel’s “alternative history” is joined by elements of oth-er genres outside of science fi ction like fantasy and literary speculative history .
“There are lots of different ways to perceive it,” Crone said. “It all re-ally gets back to the soul and deep human emotions.”
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Former prof. pens futuristic novelJosh NaquinEntertainment Writer
Who: The Royal Teeth When: 9 p.m. FridayWhere: Spanish Moon Cost: $7 at the door
photo courtesy of BERT LANDRY
Royal Teeth, a band from New Orleans, will play at Spanish Moon on Friday at 9 p.m.
New Venture Theatre’s latest production revives an American classic by adding a new spin on the ladies who are delicate as magno-lias and tough as steel.
“Steel Magnolias,” a play set in a small Louisiana beauty shop, tells the story of a bond found among six Southern women as they experience tragedy, triumph and transformation.
New Venture’s production will feature a mostly African-American cast, which the play’s producer Greg Williams Jr. said will give a unique flair to the performance.
“Patrons really can expect a brand new, hilarious Steel Magno-lias,” Williams said. “Nothing in the script has really been changed, but the play has been given new life.”
Williams said each actress was encouraged to bring their own cul-tural experiences and acting style to their characters, but the story will remain relatable to all cultures because of its universal themes.
Baton Rouge Community Col-lege freshman Lindsey Eakin, who transferred from LSU last spring, will play the role of timid town newcomer Annelle. Eakin said she got the part because she shares many similarities with the charac-ter.
She said she was excited to play the role because she was a fan of the original movie, but she was relieved her director encouraged her to develop her own character, rather than copying the movie.
Eakin, who has only per-formed in one other play with the company, said she initially felt in-timidated when she met her more seasoned cast mates. But after the first read-through, she said she im-mediately felt welcomed and sup-ported.
“We just laugh a lot during rehearsals,” Eakin said. “I really enjoy it.”
Jasmine Haynes, Baton Rouge Community College sophomore, plays the role of town pretty girl Shelby. Similar to the characters, Haynes said the cast developed a bond after the first day of rehearsal.
“Our close relationship in the show is reflecting in our relation-ships outside of the show day-by-day,” Haynes said.
She said the chemistry shared among her cast members stems from each actress’ similar work ethic and passion about both the play and the theater as a whole.
Other cast members include Shana Allen as Truvy, Nikisha Kelly as Clairee and Shanna Burris as Ouiser.
Williams said each actress was chosen because of their strong presence on stage and strengths in comedic timing. He said the play involved a lot of “Southern wit” that could only be executed by per-formers who had the ability to be inconspicuously funny.
“I was really looking for dy-namic people who could pinpoint how to deliver lines in a witty man-ner,” Williams said.
Eakin said her favorite part of
working with New Venture Theater is the family atmosphere the com-pany facilitates during production and everyone’s eagerness for suc-cess.
Williams said people in the theater often refer to each other as “New Venture family” because of its aims to serve as a source of net-working and fellowship for those interested in arts around the Baton Rouge community.
“We’re trying to create this ar-tistic family with a setting of peo-ple who can embrace each others differences,” Williams said.
New Venture Theater has pro-duced other plays adapted from
films, including “The Wiz” and “Dreamgirls,” which Williams said boasted more than 3,000 patrons during its run.
He said he expects a similar turnout for the current production, predicting up to 1,000 to 1,500 pa-trons to attend “Steel Magnolias.”
The play will run from April 21 through April 22 at Indepen-dence Park Theatre. Tickets are $20 and are available for purchase now at newventuretheater.com.
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Cast members of New Venture Theater’s production of “Steel Magnolias” rehearse March 26th at the Independence Park Theater.
TDR: This album has a hip-hop flair to it. What separates it from your past releases?Noveskey: Besides the actual content, which is vastly different from the other albums, style-wise there is a lot of exploration going on in this record. We just wanted to try some different things and try going in different directions. Hip-hop is actually something that Justin has really been into his whole life. He really wanted to bring that into the band for this record. ... To go a new direction is one thing, and he said he wanted to keep it fresh and not just re-gurgitate the same style over and over again.
TDR: What are some of your fa-vorite songs from the album? Noveskey: “The Worry List” and “The Getting Over It Part” are my two favorites. I really like the way they both turned out produc-tion wise and sound wise. I love playing “The Getting Over It Part” live. It has a lot of energy to it.
TDR: Are you excited about coming to Baton Rouge? Noveskey: Yeah, we have been to Baton Rouge before. I’ve got a lot of friends in the area from Ba-ton Rouge. I don’t know what it is about Louisiana in general, but it just seems like people there, when they come to the shows, they are loud and they’re hav-ing a great time. There is a ton of energy at the shows. Whether it’s New Orleans, Baton Rouge or Shreveport, the people there are just awesome. The crowds are al-ways a lot of fun.
TDR: What can fans expect from your performance at the Texas Club?Noveskey: They can expect a good blend of the new material along with a lot of older stuff. We’ve put a lot of older songs into this tour, and it’s been a lot of fun. It’s been a bit more of a rock show, since we have brought out a lot of our heavier stuff. I think that if fans want to hear a good blend of all the stuff and not just the new record, I think they will
be pleased.
TDR: Just so readers could know more about you as an artist, could you tell me what it was like au-ditioning to be in Blue October?Noveskey: For me it was a long time ago ... in 1998, I guess. I lived in Michigan. I found out about the band through a friend of mine, who was at the time their booking agent. Before I even saw the band, I heard the very first CD when they just put it out. I thought it was really good and mature. I had never been to Texas in my life, so when I came down that weekend to see the band I thought, why not? I was blown away by the show. When we all met and started talking, it was just instant chemistry. One of those intangible things when your gut tells you it’s the right thing to do. When we all played together, there was just no ques-tion that it felt right. Two weeks later, I moved down and joined the band. It was an easy decision to make.
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TDR: Has rock always been your preferred genre of music? Noveskey: No. I grew up with a lot of older siblings. My sisters would listen to Prince, the Com-modores, and my brother would listen to Metallica. I grew up with a hodgepodge of influences. I re-ally grew up being a big Motown fan. It was later when I became interested in rock, and I think I tried to bring a rhythmic feeling to it. I like to look at it as though I am more of a bass player that is a drummer/bass player than more of a guitarist/bass player.
Hasan said she prefers to capture humans realistically. This technique is most evident in the painting “Ummi,” a portrait of her mother. It features a grieving woman with weary eyes and a sol-emn countenance staring longing-ly into the air with a look of lost hope and exhaustion.
“My mom is a very bright, beautiful woman, but when the war took her son from her, she started crying until she died,” she said.
“Permitted Memories and Or-namentation” is Hasan’s second exhibit as a graduate student, and she will receive her third degree this spring.
Hasan earned her bachelor’s
degree in Baghdad and boasted a nine-year career as a teacher until she lost most of her family to the war and relocated to Jordan, where she became a freelance artist.
Hasan struggled to regain her position as a teacher when she came to America, but she contin-ued her efforts toward a career in art. Her earlier stateside exhibit was unsuccessful, which she at-tributed to its proximity to 9/11.
Hasan remains optimistic about her current exhibit and her future career as a teacher.
“It was very hard to start over, coming from a war country, but I hope I get hired someday,” Hasan said.
Her dream of being a teacher again is closer than ever, as she has received the position of a graduate adjunct this summer at the University.
Before closing, a commit-tee comprised of various art pro-fessors will evaluate “Permitted Memories and Ornamentation” and decide if Hasan will received her master’s degree this spring.
The gallery will hold a clos-ing reception Friday, which is free and open to the public.
Other thesis exhibitions will be unveiled at Foster Gallery in LSU School of Art and Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Gallery in the Shaw Center for Arts throughout the month, with the final exhibit clos-ing May 1.
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With low-cost apartments, a party atmo-sphere and a location approximately 1.5 miles from the University and on the Tiger Trails bus route, the Tigerland neighborhood is set up to be perfect for student living.
But two deaths in two months show the neighborhood may be a better place for crime to thrive than for students.
An early Monday rain shower diluted a puddle of blood next to a driveway in the 1400 block of Sharlo Avenue, located off Alvin Dark Avenue behind the popular Tigerland bars.
A few feet away, a red outline from where a body lay on the concrete slowly washed away.
On Sunday, multiple shotgun blasts at the location left 29-year-old Brandon Harris dead. The killing is the second death to occur in Ti-gerland neighborhood in two months.
On March 7, 23-year-old Gunner Wil-liamson was found unconscious and appar-ently robbed on the side of Bob Pettit Road. He died March 12. Many believe he was beaten to death, though there is speculation as to what exactly happened, according to Sgt. Don Kelly, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman.
The Tigerland neighborhood comprises approximately seven streets off Alvin Dark Avenue and a cluster of five bars.
Four walks down Alvin Dark Avenue in the last month and numerous interviews with long-term residents have shed some light on possible sources of the problem.
Though most long-term residents were afraid to go on record, nearly all agreed the neighborhood’s violent descent began about a year-and-a-half ago, when University alumnus Charlie Cangelosi was shot trying to thwart a robbery.
Cangelosi was walking with friends from Brightside Drive to Tigerland in November 2010 when he heard a woman scream and ran to help. As he tried to prevent the robber from escaping, the criminal shot Cangelosi in the stomach.
Following the shooting, the neighbor-hood’s violent crime spiked in the media.
In May 2011, a 21-year-old woman was raped in a ditch on Alvin Dark Avenue.
In June 2011, two men allegedly forced their way into an apartment on Jim Taylor Drive, beat a man with a handgun then sexu-ally assaulted a woman inside.
And in July 2011, an unidentified 18-year-old woman was severely beaten on Earl Gros Avenue.
Need I go on?A few residents explained violence in-
creased in the period around Cangelosi’s shooting after police increased their presence in the Gardere Street area — located about four
miles southeast of Tigerland — and criminals moved to Tigerland for a new hunting ground.
Their explanations check out.In past years, East Baton Rouge Parish
police have increased patrols in the Gardere area, leading to a decrease in crime, according to The Advocate.
If it worked around Gardere Street, why isn’t BRPD doing this around Tigerland?
Residents said they would like to see more patrols in the area, and research by Georgetown criminology professor David Weisberg shows “hot-spot” policing can alleviate violence in high-crime areas.
BRPD currently patrols the area as it would anywhere else, Kelly said, and extra units are present in Tigerland on weekend nights because of the high concentrations of bar-goers.
This doesn’t mean additional patrols, though. Some extra units are off-duty and paid by grants solely focusing on curbing underage drinking and bar fights. Thus, they are not pa-trolling the neighborhood.
Adding extra on-duty patrols would mean fewer patrols in other parts of Baton Rouge, he said.
Kelly also said BRPD hasn’t seen a big enough statistical increase in crime to justify increasing patrols.
“As long as I can remember they’ve had these crimes,” Kelly said. “It’s part of the char-acter of the neighborhood.”
BRPD’s judgements are contentious, con-sidering statistics show violent crime has al-most doubled in the last decade.
In 2011, BRPD recorded two rapes,
34 aggravated assaults and 32 robberies in the Tigerland’s subzone. The subzone includes parts of Brightside Drive and Nicholson Drive. BRPD does not map its crimes to street level nor do they record attempted murder in the sta-tistics.
Statistics from 2001 show the subzone is about 48 percent more violent than in 2007 and a massive 70 percent more violent than in 2001.
Kelly also said the violent crime increase may be a perception problem.
But a near 50-percent increase in four years is not a perception problem. It’s reality.
And that reality leaves a handful of ques-tions unanswered. Could police better allocate
their resources? Why isn’t BRPD acknowledg-ing the increase in crime?
On paper, the Tigerland neighborhood is a perfect place for students to live, but a 70-per-cent rise in violent crime since 2001 proves it is unsuitable for students.
So why isn’t anyone doing anything about it?
Chris Grillot is a 21-year-old English and mass communication senior from New Orleans. Fol-low him on Twitter @TDR_cgrillot.
THE C-SECTIONCHRIS GRILLOTColumnist
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KEYApril 15, 2012Brandon Harris, 29, found dead with multiple gunshot woulds in the 1400 block of Sharlo Avenue.March 8, 2012Gunner Williamson, 23-year-old Baton Rouge resident, found on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of Bob Pettit Road. He died four days later. July 27, 2011An 18-year-old woman was severely beaten at 4545 Earl Gros Avenue.June 6, 2011Two men allegedly forced their way into an apartment in the 1400 block of Jim Taylor Drive, beating a man with a handgun before sexually assaulting a woman inside.May 14, 2011A 21-year-old woman was raped in a ditch in the 2700 block of Alvin Dark Avenue.Nov. 8, 2010Charlie Cangelosi was shot in the 4700 block of Earl Gros Avenue while trying to thwart a robbery.
Two deaths in two monthsBRPD should acknowledge Tigerland’s crime problem, increase patrols
CHRIS GRILLOT / The Daily Reveille
A blood-stained puddle forms Monday after the Sunday shooting death of Brandon Harris on Sharlo Avenue.
New Orleans had 199 homi-cides in 2011, making it Ameri-ca’s most deadly city.
The three years prior, saw an average of 175 murders an-nually, according to The Times-Picayune.
Baton Rouge averaged 30 murders for every 100,000 peo-ple in 2011, placing seventh on the nationwide list.
A proposed amendment to the state constitution making its way through the legislature would make guns easier to get. Simple as that.
The lawmakers can call it protecting the Second Amend-ment, as if the government would ever be crazy enough to try to
disarm citizens. The only rea-son disarmament worked in the U.K. is because the British prefer to beat and stab each other.
The proposed amendment could go so far as to allow guns in churches and schools.
Has anyone ever sat in church and been disappointed they left their pistol at home? Do people actually do that?
Giving ordinary citizens the right to essentially “play police” after an afternoon or two of train-ing is ludicrous.
I recently received an e-mail from a gentleman from New Hampshire. He gave me the link to a Fox News story about a fe-male student in Nevada who was sexually assaulted walking to her car on her university campus late at night.
The woman had a concealed weapons license but was not al-lowed to carry the weapon on campus.
What do you say to some-thing like this? Obviously, we all wish this woman had been carry-ing her handgun at the time. This is a situation when lethal force is needed for a person to protect herself.
But if we allow this woman to carry a gun on campus, we have to allow everyone else to do the same. That includes individu-als like Anders Breivik, the Vir-ginia Tech shooters and the clock tower sniper from the University of Texas.
With the laws currently in place, it’s still possible for a shooter to easily come to campus. So why amend the constitution to make their job easier?
Why make it so an individual in plain clothes with a holstered revolver no longer stands out as unusual?
We have to find a balance. Instances like the one in Nevada should never occur because a person cannot adequately protect themselves. That being said, we cannot toss a Glock 9mm at any-one who wants it.
If the constitution is amend-ed, which I believe it likely will be, the state must take measures to protect the rights of those who do not carry guns equally as much as they protect the rights of those who pack heat on the daily.
Lengthier and more thorough training is needed for individuals who wish to carry a concealed weapon, along with a more
intensive psychological examina-tion.
We must keep guns out of the classroom and preferably off campus entirely. If students feel unsafe on campus, I advise them to make use of non-lethal projec-tile weapons, like taser guns or mace.
Instead of Student Govern-ment spending time and money establishing a campus-wide recycling program or rerout-ing a drunk bus to downtown, maybe they should work to have panic buttons installed across campus or improve LSUPD’s late-night presence.
Gun rights are not in jeop-ardy. Citizens will forever have the right to compensate for their inadequate sexual abilities with a jet black semi-automatic.
The Second Amendment gives citizens “the right to keep and bear arms.” Nowhere does it say “all the damn time.”
Parker Cramer is a 21-year-old political science junior from Houston. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_pcramer.
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Sens. Fred Mills, R-New Iberia, left, and Jonathan Perry, R-Kaplan, confer April 3 during debate of a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it easier to carry �rearms in public places where �rearms are now banned.
Proposed gun amendment to La. Constitution goes too farSCUM OF THE GIRTHPARKER CRAMERColumnist
With each passing day I live as a witness to the political take-over by modern American con-servatives, I can’t help but notice the growing similarities between our nation and the dystopic soci-ety Ayn Rand dreamed of in her novel “Atlas Shrugged.”
The novel is based upon a purely capitalistic society where heroic capitalists resist all gov-ernment taxation and regulations in a struggle to keep the “mooch-ers” from trying to steal their to-tally deserved wealth.
Sound familiar?Think Reaganomics, Bush
tax cuts or Goldman Sachs.Put these three things in a
pot, douse them with gasoline and toss a match in the pile, and you get the 2012 United States federal
budget authored by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Congressman Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity Budget” is not only fiscally irresponsible, but it is bla-tantly tilted against the lower and middle classes in an inconceiv-ably cruel way.
The Ryan budget is class war-fare in its most egregious form. It’s an attack on workers, seniors and our nation’s most vulnerable for the sole purpose of transfer-ring even more money to wealthy individuals and corporations.
For one thing, Ryan’s savings all come from spending cuts, pri-marily from safety net programs benefiting the poor.
Ryan would cut $770 bil-lion over 10 years from Medic-aid, $1.6 trillion from the Obama health care legislation and $1.9 trillion from a category simply la-beled “other mandatory.”
Pressured to explain this un-clear category, Ryan declared that
the majority of the “other manda-tory” consists of cuts to welfare, federal employee pensions, food stamps and support for farmers.
Why doesn’t he just label the category “social genocide”?
The budget also significantly cuts funding to college scholar-ships, medical research and na-tional parks.
In total, Ryan would reduce federal spending by $4 trillion over the next decade, stripping necessary resources from the low-er class and unemployed.
The most insidious compo-nent of Ryan’s budget is the sheer gall with which he blows all of the money saved from spending cuts to allot huge tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.
As estimated by the Non-partisan Tax Policy Center, $4.6 trillion in tax revenue will be lost with the draconian tax reduction for the wealthy described in the plan.
Included in the Tax Center’s
report is a more telling figure: The average member of the top 1 per-cent will receive a tax break of a cool $238,000 a year.
And because Ryan’s propos-als call for far more tax breaks than spending cuts, the budget would actually be adding to the deficit, not reducing it.
But Ryan claims he would close enough tax loopholes to yield an extra $700 billion a year, causing a budget surplus.
So which loopholes does Ryan plan to close?
He hasn’t said. Nowhere in his report can these magical loop-holes be found, nor has he made an announcement regarding any he intends to close.
Without this unspecified — and probably fictional — loop-hole scheme to raise money, Ryan and his fellow Republican hench-men are liars. They could care less about deficits. All this plan really accomplishes is making the rich, well, richer.
President Obama released a statement regarding the Ryan budget that perfectly describes the true aims of the proposals: “Disguised as deficit reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country.”
Ryan’s budget will undoubt-edly begin the manifestation of the dog-eat-dog, pure capitalis-tic society of “Atlas Shrugged” that conservatives in Congress lick their chops just thinking about.
In the eyes of Ryan, Rand and Republicans, we’re all just freeloaders trying to live off their wealth.
Jay Meyers is a 19-year-old eco-nomics freshman from Shreve-port. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_jmeyers.
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