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E! News anchor and reality TV star Giuliana Rancic encour- aged the crowd of young women gathered at the PMAC for the Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics on Sunday to chase goals and give back. Rancic spoke on her career in entertainment and surviving breast cancer. After marrying her husband, the couple aimed to show audi- ences how positive relationships work by staying true to their com- mitment without a rating focus. Participants in the secretive process of selecting the LSU president were advised to sys- temically avert Louisiana public records laws, according to the transcript released Saturday of Presidential Search Committee chairman Blake Chatelain’s de- position last Monday. According to Chatelain’s comments in the transcript, the Universi- ty’s lead legal counsel Shelby McKenzie ad- vised commit- tee members to use personal email accounts and avoid written communication regarding the specific candidates and their names, all in an effort to avoid communication that would fall under Louisiana public re- cords laws. Editor in Chief of The Daily Reveille Andrea Gallo filed suit against the University earlier this month — after being denied public records requests for all of the candidates’ names — on the grounds that, by Louisiana law, the names and qualifications of candidates for public positions must be made public. NOLA. com | The Times-Picayune and The Advocate filed suit as well. “We learned that the Board set up a very sophisticated way to review potential LSU presidents in hopes that it would not violate Louisiana public records law,” said Scott Sternberg, Gallo’s law- yer. Chatelain was asked by law- yer Lori Mince, who represents NOLA.com | The Times-Pica- yune and The Advocate, why per- sonal emails were not disclosed after The Advocate’s public re- cords request of all communica- tions between representatives of the search firm and members of the Board of Supervisors or the LSU senior running back Al- fred Blue issued an apology and clarification Friday following his comments that appeared in a Daily Reveille story regarding the pos- sibility of a homosexual athlete on the LSU football team. “I understand that my com- ments may have sounded insensi- tive to those who read the Reveille article on Friday. I in no way meant to belittle any person’s way of life and feel that everyone deserves a chance to become whatever they want to be,” Blue said in a state- ment. In the quote that appeared, Blue called football a violent and aggressive sport that grown men are supposed to play. “Ain’t no little boys out here between them lines,” Blue said in the story. “So if you gay, we look at you as a sissy. You know? Like, how you going to say you can do what we do and you want a man?” In the statement, Blue also clarified the extent of his interview was not included in the story. “One of my comments that was left out of Friday’s article shows this. I told the reporter that if any person can help to contribute to the team, then that is the bottom line. I apologize if anyone was hurt by my comments and also to every- one that I may have let down,” he said. Later in his interview with The Daily Reveille, Blue said the team would come to accept a homosex- ual athlete. “I’m pretty sure [LSU coach Les Miles] would probably sit the team down and just talk about it, talk about the situation and explain to us even though that’s how he wants to be, it doesn’t change his play and how he contributes to the team,” Blue said. The full audio record- ing of The Daily Reveille’s in- terview with Blue is available at lsureveille.com. Runners and walkers across the nation and locally in Baton Rouge laced up their shoes and took to the streets for Boston on Saturday morn- ing. Jennifer Peters, owner of Varsi- ty Sports and former professor in the E.J. Ourso College of Business, or- ganized a women’s and men’s team to run in the Boston marathon. On April 15, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the marathon, kill- ing three people and injuring more than 170 racers and spectators. None of the Varsity Sports run- ners were injured, Peters said. In solidarity, Peters and Danny Bourgeois, marketing director of The Louisiana Marathon, decided to or- ganize a 2.62-mile run and walk for Boston. “It’s something that people across the community are doing,” Peters said. Bourgeois said the run/walk was able to come together so quick- ly because of the spirit of runners in Baton Rouge. “The running community in Ba- ton Rouge is well connected and very focused,” Bourgeois said. “The self- lessness allows for competitors and associates to pull together quickly.” Reveille e Daily Monday, April 22, 2013 Volume 117, Issue 126 www.lsureveille.com FOOTBALL LAWSUIT LECTURE Search for president dodged public eye Blue issues apology for comments in Reveille Albert Burford Sports Editor Clayton Crockett News Editor LAWSUIT, see page 8 LECTURE, see page 8 Run for CHATELAIN Bos ton photos by MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille [Left] A man runs with an American flag and [right] a crowd laps the Capitol on Saturday during the Baton Rouge Run for Boston. Baton Rouge runners show their support for victims in Boston Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at [email protected] GYMNASTICS: Courville wins share of national vault title, LSU finishes fifth at Super Six, p. 9 BUSINESS: Students win $25,000 in Venture Challenge, p. 3 MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic speaks during the press meeting Sunday before the Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics seminar in the PMAC. E! anchor inspires students to give back Contact Albert Burford at [email protected]; Twitter: @TDR_sports Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer See more photos from BR RUN on page7.

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Page 1: The Daily Reveille - April 22, 2013

E! News anchor and reality TV star Giuliana Rancic encour-aged the crowd of young women gathered at the PMAC for the Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics on Sunday to chase goals and give back.

Rancic spoke on her career in entertainment and surviving breast cancer.

After marrying her husband, the couple aimed to show audi-ences how positive relationships work by staying true to their com-mitment without a rating focus.

Participants in the secretive process of selecting the LSU president were advised to sys-temically avert Louisiana public records laws, according to the transcript released Saturday of Presidential Search Committee chairman Blake Chatelain ’s de-position last Monday.

According to Chatelain ’s comments in the transcript, the Universi-ty’s lead legal counsel Shelby McKenzie ad-vised commit-tee members to use personal email accounts and avoid written communication regarding the specifi c candidates and their names , all in an effort to avoid communication that would fall under Louisiana public re-cords laws.

Editor in Chief of The Daily Reveille Andrea Gallo fi led suit against the University earlier this month — after being denied public records requests for all of the candidates’ names — on the grounds that, by Louisiana law, the names and qualifi cations of candidates for public positions must be made public. NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and The Advocate fi led suit as well.

“We learned that the Board set up a very sophisticated way to review potential LSU presidents in hopes that it would not violate Louisiana public records law,” said Scott Sternberg, Gallo’s law-yer.

Chatelain was asked by law-yer Lori Mince , who represents NOLA.com | The Times-Pica-yune and The Advocate , why per-sonal emails were not disclosed after The Advocate ’s public re-cords request of all communica-tions between representatives of the search fi rm and members of the Board of Supervisors or the

LSU senior running back Al-fred Blue issued an apology and clarifi cation Friday following his comments that appeared in a Daily Reveille story regarding the pos-sibility of a homosexual athlete on the LSU football team.

“I understand that my com-ments may have sounded insensi-tive to those who read the Reveille article on Friday. I in no way meant to belittle any person’s way of life and feel that everyone deserves a chance to become whatever they want to be,” Blue said in a state-ment.

In the quote that appeared, Blue called football a violent and aggressive sport that grown men are supposed to play.

“Ain’t no little boys out here between them lines,” Blue said in the story. “So if you gay, we look at you as a sissy. You know? Like, how you going to say you can do what we do and you want a man?”

In the statement, Blue also clarifi ed the extent of his interview was not included in the story.

“One of my comments that was left out of Friday’s article shows this. I told the reporter that if any person can help to contribute to the team, then that is the bottom line. I apologize if anyone was hurt by my comments and also to every-one that I may have let down,” he said.

Later in his interview with The Daily Reveille, Blue said the team would come to accept a homosex-ual athlete.

“I’m pretty sure [LSU coach Les Miles] would probably sit the team down and just talk about it, talk about the situation and explain to us even though that’s how he wants to be, it doesn’t change his play and how he contributes to the team,” Blue said.

The full audio record-ing of The Daily Reveille’s in-terview with Blue is available at lsureveille.com.

Runners and walkers across the nation and locally in Baton Rouge laced up their shoes and took to the streets for Boston on Saturday morn-ing.

Jennifer Peters, owner of Varsi-ty Sports and former professor in the E.J. Ourso College of Business, or-ganized a women’s and men’s team to run in the Boston marathon. On April 15, two bombs exploded near

the fi nish line of the marathon, kill-ing three people and injuring more than 170 racers and spectators.

None of the Varsity Sports run-ners were injured, Peters said.

In solidarity, Peters and Danny Bourgeois , marketing director of The Louisiana Marathon, decided to or-ganize a 2.62-mile run and walk for Boston.

“It’s something that people across the community are doing, ” Peters said.

Bourgeois said the run/walk

was able to come together so quick-ly because of the spirit of runners in Baton Rouge.

“The running community in Ba-ton Rouge is well connected and very focused, ” Bourgeois said. “The self-lessness allows for competitors and associates to pull together quickly.”

Reveille� e Daily

Monday, April 22, 2013 • Volume 117, Issue 126www.lsureveille.com

FOOTBALLLAWSUIT

LECTURE

Search for president dodged public eye

Blue issues apology for comments in ReveilleAlbert BurfordSports Editor

Clayton CrockettNews Editor

LAWSUIT, see page 8 LECTURE, see page 8

Run for

CHATELAIN

Boston

photos by MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

[Left] A man runs with an American � ag and [right] a crowd laps the Capitol on Saturday during the Baton Rouge Run for Boston.

Baton Rouge runners show their support for victims in BostonFernanda Zamudio-SuarezStaff Writer

Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarezat [email protected]

GYMNASTICS: Courville wins share of national vault title, LSU � nishes � fth at Super Six, p. 9

BUSINESS: Students win $25,000 in Venture Challenge, p. 3

MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille

E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic speaks during the press meeting Sunday before the Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics seminar in the PMAC.

E! anchor inspires students to give back

Contact Albert Burford at [email protected]; Twitter: @TDR_sports

Fernanda Zamudio-SuarezStaff Writer

See more photos from BR RUN on page7.

Page 2: The Daily Reveille - April 22, 2013

Andrea Gallo • Editor in ChiefEmily Herrington • Managing Editor

Bryan Stewart • Managing Editor, External MediaKirsten Romaguera • Managing Editor, Production

Clayton Crockett • News EditorBrian Sibille • Entertainment Editor, Deputy News Editor

Albert Burford • Sports EditorAlex Cassara • Deputy Sports Editor

Carli Thibodeaux • Associate Production EditorKevin Thibodeaux • Associate Production Editor

Chris Grillot • Opinion EditorTaylor Balkom • Photo Editor

Alix Landriault • Multimedia EditorNatalie Guccione • Radio Director

Fatima Mehr • Advertising Sales Manager

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INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL STATE/LOCAL

Nation & World Monday, April 22, 2013page 2

Tens of thousands of gay marriage opponents demonstrate in Paris

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of people on Sunday took part in the West Bank’s first marathon, looping around the bib-lical city of Bethlehem four times on a course that was limited by the confines of Israel’s sprawling separation barrier.

The race was meant as a polit-ical statement as much as a sport-ing event.

One participant wore a T-shirt honoring the victims killed in last week’s bombing at the Boston Marathon.

Condition of 5-year-old Indian girl who was allegedly raped improves

NEW DELHI (AP) — The condi-tion of a 5-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and tor-tured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India’s capital for two days has improved, a doc-tor said Sunday, as protests contin-ued over the authorities’ handling of the case.

The girl was in critical con-dition when she was transferred Thursday from a local hospital to the largest government-run hospi-tal in the country. But her doctor in New Delhi said Sunday that she was responding well to treatment.

Senator: Marathon bombing suspect shot in throat, unable to speak

BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. senator says the hospitalized suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was shot in the throat, raising questions about his ability to speak to inves-tigators.

Senate Intelligence Commit-tee member Sen. Dan Coats of In-diana told ABC’s “This Week” that there are questions over whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be able to talk again.

Coats said that doesn’t mean the 19-year-old can’t communi-cate, but for now, he’s not in the condition to. Five snowboarders killed in Saturday’s Colorado avalanche identi�ed

DENVER (AP) — Authorities have released the names of five Colorado snowboarders killed over the weekend in the state’s deadliest avalanche in more than 50 years.

Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger said search and res-cue crews recovered the men’s bodies from a backcountry area on Loveland Pass several hours after Saturday afternoon’s slide, which was about 600 feet wide and 8 feet deep. All of the men were equipped with avalanche beacons.

The sheriff on Sunday identified the victims.

AMITE (AP) — Tangipahoa Par-ish school officials are discussing possible changes to the school sys-tem’s plan for court-ordered im-provements.

The Advocate reports that school system officials have pro-posed clustering schools and us-ing magnet programs or other enhancements to attract students across current school district lines in an effort to desegregate without having to spend $54.5 million on three new elementary schools re-quired under the current plan.

The School Board sought a status conference in February to present the proposal to U.S. Dis-trict Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle.Earl K. Long Medical Center closure shows pitfalls for LSU deals

(AP) — The closure of LSU’s pub-lic hospital in Baton Rouge left employees, community leaders and local lawmakers declaring a breach of the public’s trust, criticizing a scarcity of information and de-scribing a litany of still unanswered concerns.

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s adminis-tration would be wise to take les-sons from those hard feelings as the governor seeks to privatize eight other university-run hospitals.

Palestinians make political statement at �rst Bethlehem marathon

PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to sunny Paris boulevards on Sunday to protest the expected passage this week of a bill legalizing gay mar-riage. One protestor called the bill “a threat to the social fabric.”

Legalizing gay marriage was one of President Francois Hol-lande’s campaign promises. Polls have shown a narrow major-ity of French favor allowing such unions, though the support weak-ens when questions about adoption and conception of children come into play.

THIBAULT CAMUS / The Associated Press

Demonstrators march during a rally Sunday in Paris to protest against French President Francois Hollande’s social reform on gay marriage.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

Dogs were welcomed to Tiger Park on Sunday for Bark in the Park. Submit your photo of the day to [email protected].

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Maine hermit carried bacon, syrup, $395 when arrested for burglary

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A state police affidavit says a Maine man who lived in the woods as a hermit for nearly three decades was carrying bacon, marshmallows and $395 in cash when he was arrested on burglary charges.

An affidavit obtained by the Kennebec Journal lists the items 47-year-old Christopher Knight possessed when he was arrested this month on charges he stole food from a camp for children with special needs.

photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATF and FBI agents check suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday for explosives and give him medical attention after he was apprehended in Watertown, Mass.

School talks possible magnet programs under way in Tangipahoa

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Page 3: The Daily Reveille - April 22, 2013

Student-made company Frosted, which sells gourmet cupcakes, won the top prize at Friday’s Venture Challenge hosted by the LSU Student Incubator.

The Student Incubator, a program of the Louisiana Busi-ness and Technology Center, is a place for students to create their jobs and businesses and hire oth-er students, said LBTC Director Charles D’Agostino. Four stu-dents with their own businesses won a combined $25,000.

All of the 44 student compa-nies at the Student Incubator had a chance to make it to the final four, but only four can receive the money, D’Agostino said.

Kyle Anderman, the owner of Frosted, won $8,000. He hopes to buy a cupcake truck and install a cupcake vend-ing machine on the University’s campus.

A n d e r m a n , an entrepre-neurship senior, started the business in February 2012. He said they turned a profit the first year, and students have helped make the business suc-cessful.

“We’ve been super busy. The majority of our clients have been students. I just want to thank ev-erybody,” Anderman said.

D’Agostino said the Student Incubator is helping to prevent a “brain drain.”

“We educate you, but there are no jobs here. You go where the jobs are. We lose you. We lose the income you make, the taxes and everything else. By starting the Student

Incubator, we’re doing our share to eliminate this brain drain,” D’Agostino said.

Mark Moss and his company Rock Water won $7,000. Rock Water is a powder formula that can be mixed with water to help prevent kidney stones.

The majority of the money will be spent running clinical and efficacy trials at Pennington Biomedical Research Center to ensure the product’s effects will do what they say it will do, Moss said.

“The incidence of kidney stones is on the rise, primarily due to obesity. The real focus has shifted from treatment to actu-ally preventing them, but pre-ventive measures are not very effective. … Because of the ad-verse side effects, patient compli-ance is ridiculously low,” Moss said.

Rock Water reduces the ad-verse side effects but still effec-tively prevents the formation of kidney stones, he said.

Moss, who is graduating from the University’s Master of Busi-ness Adminis-tration program in May, said the target audience is people who have had several kid-ney stones.

“Once you form a kidney stone, the chance of reoccurrence is potentially up to 80 percent within 10 years. Once you’ve had multiple, you may be looking at ways of preventing them,” he said.

Lauren Stuart, a University alumna, and her business partner William Wagner also won $7,000 for their business Econofy.

Econofy is a device that lets people monitor their electricity usage and shut off outlets to low-er the cost of utilities. It is also an appliance shopping guide.

Stuart said they plan to pro-duce the first scaled prototype of

the device.“We’re hiring another incu-

bator member that has special equipment to print out small mi-crochips for us. We should have a little bit for a promotional video,” Stuart said.

The fourth competitor, Gary Shuford, who founded Supedup Auto, a mobile vehicle clean-ing and detailing service, won $3,000.

Thirty-five companies have graduated from the Student Incu-bator, D’Agostino said.

“They’re staying in the area. All of those are hiring other peo-ple. It’s making an impact. We feel that in the next two or three years, the Student Incubator pro-gram might be employing 300 or 400 people. That’s 300 or 400 people who might have left the state,” he said.

�e Daily Reveille page 3Monday, April 22, 2013

Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies 4:00 pmBRCC vs Louisiana State University Eunice 5:00 pm

Rap to Write 5:00 pmCajun Music Jams 5:30 pm

Dominick Grillo and The Frenchmen St. All Stars 6:00 pmTrapt 7:00 pm

Papa Grows Funk 8:00 pmThe Art of Funk 9:00 pmOpen Mic Night 9:00 pm

For more information on these events or toplace your own event you can visit

www.lsureveille.com/calendar/

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Media Office578-6090, 9AM- 5PM or

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BUSINESS

Students win a combined $25,000 at Venture ChallengeFrosted wins $8,000 top prize McKenzie WomackStaff Writer

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

Kyle Anderman, owner of Frosted, won the top prize at the Venture Challenge hosted by the LSU Student Incubator.

Contact McKenize Womack at [email protected]

‘By starting the Student Incubator, we’re doing our share to eliminate

this brain drain.’ Charles D’AgostinoLouisiana Business and

Technology Center director

Page 4: The Daily Reveille - April 22, 2013

Rooms once filled by LSU students will now have new oc-cupants come fall 2013.

McVoy Hall will be the new home for Baton Rouge Commu-nity College students enrolled in

the Tiger Bridge Program at the University, an invitation-only program in which BRCC stu-dents will live and participate in University life while taking classes at BRCC.

McVoy Hall has a total of 182 beds, and Director of Resi-dential Life Steven Waller said the Tiger Bridge Program antici-pates to use all of them.

Waller indicated that new students living in McVoy will not displace any of the incoming

students to the University. Both Kirby Smith and Annie Boyd residential hall renovations are expected to be complete this fall.

Renovations on the Annie Boyd residential hall began in June, Waller said.

The newly renovated hall will have a total of 110 beds, a new lounge, study spaces, com-puters and a basement kitchen. However, Waller said the most noticeable change will be the raised patio on the outside of the building.

The new changes will also incorporate more eco-friendly features that have become the norm for new ResLife projects. Low-energy lights, central air-conditioning as well as an en-ergy recovery system will make

the hall more energy efficient than before.

Associate Director of Resi-dential Life Jay High said their first priority is to get Annie Boyd complete and then possibly open the hall up to students.

“A lot can happen between now and then,” High said.

The plan is for the renovated eighth through tenth floors of Kirby Smith to be used this fall to house students, and Annie Boyd will be housing for students who have previously lived on campus and those students who were un-able to obtain a spot in the on-campus apartments.

High said the horseshoe is typically used to house re-turning students — a plan that ResLife will continue to

implement after the renovation of Annie Boyd.

In addition to having the use of the two additional halls, Re-sLife has received less housing requests this year than previous years.

Waller said ResLife had a standby list of about 300 people last year. Most of the people who stayed on the list received hous-ing. This year ResLife has re-ceived about 300 fewer housing requests, which should eliminate the need for a standby list.

�e Daily Reveillepage 4 Monday, April 22, 2013

RESIDENTIAL LIFE

Tiger Bridge program won’t displace LSU studentsBRCC students to live in McVoy HallZach Carline Contributing Writer

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

A study room on the top �oor of Annie Boyd Hall is nearing completion Monday. Renovations on the hall began in June, and the project is set to be �nished by the fall.

Contact Zach Carline at [email protected]

Page 5: The Daily Reveille - April 22, 2013

Combining the roles of LSU president and University chancel-lor is “awkward” and creates dif-ficulty for President-elect F. King Alexander to distinguish between his two roles, accreditation offi-cials said at a Transition Advisory Team meeting Friday.

Southern Association of Col-leges and Schools, the agency that grants accreditation to the Univer-sity, met with the Team to discuss potential structural changes that could affect how the institution is accredited in the future.

For the University to continue receiving accreditation, it must meet SACS standards and policies.

Admissions standards, sports programs and state appropriations were among the topics of discus-sion touched upon by SACS Presi-dent Belle Wheelan, Transition Advisory Team members and rep-resentatives from University cam-puses at the meeting.

However, while the Transition Advisory Team examines differ-ent focus areas of the System that could be more efficient and effec-tive, most of their business will not actually affect accreditation at

all, said SSA Consultant Christel Slaughter.

The Team’s ideas can be im-plemented as soon as they are fully conceptualized without any conse-quence to accreditation, said Inter-im System President and Chancel-lor William “Bill” Jenkins.

The Board of Supervisors and Board of Regents are the entities that have ultimate control over ma-jor structural changes to the Uni-versity.

“This is probably going to take legislative changes,” Wheelan said. “There’s no doubt about it.”

Wheelan said one institution means things like rules, regula-tions, academic policies and re-cruiting materials must be uniform throughout the System. It also means state appropriations money would come straight to LSU rather than to separately accredited insti-tutions like LSU Alexandria, LSU Eunice or LSU Shreveport, as they do now.

Being one entity means there is one set of admissions standards for the University, although it can have different requirements for separate programs.

Reorganization changes could also affect sports programs.

“If there’s only one entity, there can only be one sports team,” Wheelan said.

Despite Wheelan’s warn-ings, the Board of Supervisors re-cently approved additional sports

programs at other campuses. Friday’s meeting with SACS

made reorganization leaders aware of the implications of structural changes, although no official changes have been made other than merging the position of Sys-tem president and University chan-cellor.

The Team must decide up front what the redefined structure will be and then decide how the various LSU entities will work together, Wheelan said. The University’s separate institutions can continue to be accredited separately or could be accredited as one, she said.

“Changing it such that Dr. Alexander is going to be both the president of the System and the CEO of the campus is awkward,” Wheelan said. “The primary re-sponsibility of the CEO is to the institution, not to the organization. It becomes difficult to know which hat you’re wearing.”

Alexander’s dual role could create a conflict of interest, poten-tially disadvantaging other cam-puses if he cannot distinguish be-tween his two jobs, Wheelan said.

“How is that going to work?” Wheelan asked. “If Eunice has a problem, would there be an issue with King acting as chancellor and president?”

Thousands of people gath-ered Sunday on North Boulevard in downtown Baton Rouge to eat, listen to live music and support Louisiana Earth Day.

Baton Rouge has held Earth Day celebrations since 1990, said festival coordinator Susan Hamil-ton. This year, Hamilton said she expected around 50,000 partici-pants.

“The goal is to teach people how to take ac-tion and protect the environment in their daily life and work,” Hamilton said.

The volun-teers and the differ-ent organizations helped further that goal by making learning about the environment fun and entertaining, Hamilton said.

Biochemistry junior Danté Johnson and environmental man-agement systems and chemistry sophomore Autumn Acree held a demonstration at a booth for the University section of the American Chemistry Society.

The students were demon-strating the difference between Styrofoam packing peanuts and packing peanuts made of starch, which dissolves in water and are more environmentally friendly, Johnson said.

Acree dropped a Styrofoam packing peanut into a cup of wa-ter, then the one made of starch to show the process and explained how something so simple could help the environment.

Biology senior William Helt was present at a booth for a

University Conservation Biology lab. Helt said the class involves learning about the benefits of pre-scribed burns and the effects it can have on wildlife and trees and eco-systems they inhabit.

Biology senior Courtney Tu-minello said the goal of the booth was to reach out and try to get kids outside.

“It gives kids a little bit of a way to relate to trees around them,” she said.

Geology sophomore Elly Smith was with the University

Geology Club’s booth that dis-played various minerals found in everyday prod-ucts.

The Geology Club often advo-cates for earth sci-ences at different events to get more people interested

in geology, Smith said.“A lot of kids don’t get to ex-

perience geology,” Smith said.Natural resource ecology and

management junior Arianna Ri-vera volunteered with the Greater Baton Rouge Clean Cities Coali-tion that had seven different alter-native-fuel vehicles on display.

The organization advocates alternative energy forms for use in vehicles to ease American depen-dence on oil.

Rivera said Baton Rouge is a city that is a great target audience for alternative fuel, especially those powered by natu-ral gas.

“We’re letting people know what our mission is,” she said.

�e Daily Reveille page 5Monday, April 22, 2013

Student Media is now hiring Social Media team members. Send your resumé to [email protected],

or visit B-39 Hodges Hall to ll out an application today.

ENVIRONMENT REORGANIZATION

Earth Day promotes environmental quality

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

Biochemistry junior Danté Johnson (left) and environmental management systems and chemistry sophomore Autumn Acree (right) talk about packing material Sunday at the Louisiana Earth Day celebration in downtown Baton Rouge.

Jonathan Olivier Staff Writer

Contact Jonathan Olivier at [email protected]

Wheelan: Merging is ‘awkward’Changes could a�ect accreditationAlyson Gaharan Staff Writer

Contact Alyson Gaharan at [email protected]

‘�e goal is to teach people how to take

action and protect the environment in their daily life and work.’

Susan HamiltonLouisiana Earth Day coordinator

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The popular saying “Nothing lasts forever” may not be valid any-more when it comes to concealed carry licenses in Louisiana.

House Bill 265 by Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Baton Rouge, would allow gun owners to obtain lifetime con-cealed carry permits for a one-time fee of $500.

Currently, concealed carry

owners have to reapply for their licenses for $125 every five years. The reapplication process also in-cludes mandatory training courses.

Cameron Cooke, legislative assistant to Rep. Ivey, said the bill is not controversial because it in-cludes an amendment to continue education.

“The concealed carry holder still has to continue to be able to pass the education part of the exam every five years,” Cooke said.

Cooke said the purpose of the bill is to save citizens money and time by eliminating the reapplica-tion process.

Daniel Zelenka, president of

the Louisiana Shooting Association said via email the organization has not taken a stance on the bill.

With a father in the Army, electrical engineering junior Mar-tea Aultman has grown up around guns.

She is currently in the process of obtaining a concealed carry li-cense through the state of Utah, and the license will be valid in Louisi-ana.

Although Aultman said she believes in Second Amendment rights, she said she does not agree with HB 265.

“It’s important for people to re-apply,” Aultman said.

Sport administration freshman Jake Shows said he has owned a gun since he was 15 and uses it for hunting and recreational shooting.

Similarly, Shows feels a life-time permit would be inappropri-ate.

“I don’t think you should have one for a lifetime, because at some point in your life, you shouldn’t be running around with a gun,” Shows said.

Environmental engineering junior Samantha Martello also said she believes the lifetime permit should be situational.

Martello said when purchasing the license, an individual might be

in a fine mental state, but one can go through changes that can make him or her unfit to own a concealed carry weapon.

Through concealed carry training, Aultman said instruction courses have enforced shooting for safety and protection but not shoot-ing to kill.

Shows said no matter how long a permit lasts, gun owners should know gun safety and the changes in laws.

Students around campus said they are unsure about the Faculty Senate’s new plan to use the plagia-rism software TurnItIn and iThenti-cate.

The Faculty Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to use plagia-rism software to catch students who plagiarize and teach students how to correctly paraphrase and cite infor-mation.

“There really are a few students who don’t quite grasp what plagia-rism is. A system that would at least give them a fairly reliable indication of where material might have been borrowed would be an educational tool,” said Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope. “The opportunity for plagiarism even within a relatively short paper is quite prominent. Therefore, the automation of the checking is useful to ensure the in-tegrity of the teaching project.”

Biochemistry freshman Ashton Sells used it in high school and said the effectiveness of the software de-pends on how it is used.

“It counts how many words you use that are similar to a cer-tain topic. There are only so many words you can use for the topic, so of course they’re going to line up

or there’s going to be some corre-lation between those. It’s kind of hard to prove how much is actu-ally plagiarism and how much is authentic,” Sells said. “For biology essays, there are specific topics that are very concise, and you have to use certain words or phrases for it to make sense.”

Communication disorders se-nior Leigh Ann Benbow, who used the software in high school, said she does not see the harm in using it.

“I could see why professors would want to use it. I’ve never seen plagiarism to be a huge threat because I’ve never encountered it while I’ve been here,” she said. “I’ve never plagiarized anything, so I just assume that no one else has plagiarized anything either. I feel like students know better because they know what they’re risking.”

But she said a student should not be held accountable if he or she doesn’t know what plagiarism is.

English freshman Katie Keller said she thinks an initiative against plagiarism is good.

“I don’t know how you can be in college and not know what pla-giarism is,” she said.

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Baton Rouge runs to support Boston victims

photos by MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

A crowd gathers and then takes off Saturday at the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol for Baton Rouge Run for Boston, a 2.62 mile run organized by several local running clubs to support victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Page 8: The Daily Reveille - April 22, 2013

“There is a hunger for positiv-ity out there,” Rancic said.

When the couple had issues with infertility, they decided to go public with their struggle.

“We put this journey out there, and we were reliving all the pain all day long and had no reward at the end of the day,” Rancic said.

When visiting a new doctor for infertility treatments, she had a mammogram done and was diag-nosed with cancer.

After hearing the news, she described a feeling of falling and only hearing words like “che-motherapy,” “lambodomey” and “mastectomy.”

After several discussions with her husband, Rancic decided to go public with her story to report on an issue that could help save some-one’s life.

“It’s a privilege to have this platform, and it’s given me the courage to share this story,” Rancic said.

Two weeks after her double mastectomy, Rancic returned to work to get back to normalcy as quickly as possible.

Rancic highlighted that the hair and makeup part of her job

allowed her to finally recognize the person in the mirror after surgery.

This feeling granted to her by a team of stylists and proper light-ing led her to start the foundation, Fab-U-Wish which grants beauty- and style-themed wishes to women with breast and ovarian cancer.

Lafayette resident Roxanne Graham said she came to the event to support her daughter, but walked away from the talk just as inspired as the other young women in the audience.

Catherine Cole, education freshman, said Rancic presented herself as a relatable person.

“It made her sound really per-sonal. She can relate to people,” Cole said.

Graham also said she enjoyed the strong message of turning tough situations into something positive.

“It became her purpose to help others,” Graham said. “One day someone is going to use this mes-sage to get through a rough time.”

Presidential Search Committee. “It is my understanding

that I didn’t have to produce those,” Chatelain said, “based on counsel’s advice.”

Upon Mince’s questioning, Chatelain confirmed that he re-membered McKenzie telling the committee it should avoid writ-ten communications because members would be subject to the Louisiana Public Records Act.

“It was critical because con-fidentiality of candidates is im-portant,” Chatelain said. “I don’t think he advised us to put noth-ing in writing, but as it pertained to candidates, that we should be very careful.”

Chatelain also detailed nu-merous undisclosed documents used during the search, includ-ing a binder full of “roughly 10” candidates’ résumés used during an executive session Feb. 1 that was used as reference during the selection process. The ex-ecutive session was closed to the public.

Among Mince’s exhib-its were documents in which Ray Lamonica, former general counsel to the LSU System, outlined a code of conduct to “respect confidentiality of infor-mal inquiries, discussions and statements.”

All members of the commit-tee were asked to sign the code of conduct, which states, “I under-stand that informal communica-tions, discussions and inquiries are necessary to attract high qual-ity finalists” and to avoid putting their current positions in jeop-ardy.

Along with personal emails, other means of informal com-munication were utilized as well, as discussions between Chat-elain and individual members of the committee regarding their preferred candidates were con-ducted via individual telephone calls.

When asked how he recorded the selections of the 13 commit-tee members while speaking with them over the phone, Chatelain said he may have had a sticky note or note pad — though “for the most part I was pretty familiar with who I thought the top candi-dates were,” he added.

It was by this process that the committee narrowed 35 candi-dates to the recently elected LSU president F. King Alexander; the process began with about 100 candidates. The remaining can-didates for the position have not been released.

“The deposition speaks for itself,” Sternberg said.

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and The Advocate’s case is scheduled to be heard April 25, according to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, while Gallo’s suit is scheduled for April 30.

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The LSU football team’s de-fense showed signs of promise Sat-urday at the annual Spring Game as the White team, comprised primar-ily of projected starters, prevented the Purple squad from getting on the scoreboard.

The Tigers are faced with the lofty task of replacing seven defen-sive starters from last season. Junior defensive tackle Ego Ferguson said he and his teammates wanted to remove any doubts LSU fans had about their relatively green team.

“A lot of people said that we couldn’t do it and that we were a lot thinner of a defensive line since we lost a few people,” Ferguson said. “I had the mindset that I wanted to prove a lot today.”

The White squad held the op-posing offense to eight fi rst downs, a 31 percent completion percentage and 208 total yards. It also tallied three sacks, four quarterback hurries and an interception.

LSU’s defensive line showed it may be able to be productive despite not having the depth of previous lines.

Sophomore lineman Danielle

Hunter showed prowess at defensive end, leading the Tigers with eight tackles and two sacks. Ferguson and fellow junior defensive tackle Anthony Johnson also had impres-sive outings, combining for 12 tack-les.

Junior defensive end Jordan Al-len contributed with four tackles and an assisted sack.

“With the guys we have in the front, no matter what quarterback we are playing, you have about three seconds to get the ball out, and that is what we try to accomplish,” said senior safety Craig Loston.

Junior Jermauria Rasco is ex-pected to start at defensive end but did not participate in the Spring Game due to a shoulder injury.

LSU coach Les Miles con-fi rmed the middle linebacker posi-tion will be fi lled by either junior D.J. Welter or senior Lamin Barrow.

Welter got the start at the posi-tion Saturday, but stayed relatively

SportsMonday, April 22, 2013 page 9

GYMNASTICS

Tigers finish fifth at Super Six

Sophomore all-arounder Rheagan Courville won a share of the national vault title as the No. 5 LSU gymnastics team tied for its second-highest fi nish in school history, scoring a 197.050 to fi nish in fi fth place at the Super Six Finals in Los Angeles on Sat-urday night.

Courville earned a 9.9250 to tie Alabama’s junior all-arounder Diandra Milliner for the national vault championship in the indi-vidual competition Sunday after-noon. Courville also placed ninth on fl oor by registering a 9.8125.

Courville brought in First Team All-America honors for her performances on vault, fl oor and the all-around. The sophomore all-arounder was the national runner-up in the all-around with a 39.575, just .025 behind Florida’s freshman all-arounder Bridget Sloan.

“It was such an honor, espe-cially to be with so many of my teammates,” Courville said. “It says so much about our program, how much depth we have and how accomplished we were this year. We were all so blessed to be there, but to be able to be on the podium was icing on top.”

No. 1 Florida won the na-tional title with a 197.575 to un-seat two-time defending cham-pion No. 3 Alabama, which came in third. No. 2 Oklahoma came in second, and following the Tide were No. 6 UCLA, LSU and No. 4 Georgia.

The Tigers (25-11) advanced to the Super Six after placing sec-ond in Friday afternoon’s Semi-fi nal I with a 197.325, which was the highest team score at an NCAA Championship meet in program history. LSU also set new highs for vault and bars at a championship meet with a 49.500 and a 49.475, respectively.

“Although we didn’t have any mistakes tonight, we didn’t compete with the same confi -dence,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux in a post-meet radio in-terview. “[Friday] night, it was all about that reckless abandon feeling. … We got here, and I think these kids were ready to

Spring Showcase

Mettenberger, passing game shine in Spring Game

Young defense shows potential, aims to remove doubt

LSU brought in Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator to help fi x a stagnant passing attack that ranked No. 94 in the nation a season ago.

If Saturday’s Spring Game is any indication, the Tigers are on the right track.

Senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger led the White team, mostly comprised of starters, to a 37-0 victory against the Purple squad. Playing only the fi rst half, Mettenberger fi nished 12-of-19 for 236 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.

“Offensively, we threw the football well, rushed it well,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “Again, it’s more of the statistics against the sec-ond team defense which might be a little thin — but still guys who need-ed to catch the ball did, and the guys who needed to throw it did.”

Mettenberger didn’t start the game great. He overthrew a couple of open receivers down the fi eld and fi nished the fi rst quarter just 5-of-11. The White team settled for a fi eld goal and two punts on its fi rst three drives.

Junior wide receiver Odell

Beckham Jr. said the offense did not dwell on the early misfi res because it knew there would be more op-portunities to come with Cameron’s system.

“We all had an understanding of ‘let’s just get the next one,’” Beck-ham said. “We missed that one, and we can’t get it back so we can’t keep looking back on it. We ended up connected on a few deep ones later.”

On the White team’s fi rst drive of the second quarter, Beckham ran through a double team and Metten-berger found him for a 50-yard gain, setting up his 15-yard touchdown pass to sophomore tight end Dillon Gordon three plays later.

The defense played one-on-one coverage on Beckham on the fi rst play of the next drive, and Metten-berger took another shot deep down the fi eld. Beckham made the catch, broke a tackle and walked into the end zone for a 79-yard touchdown.

“We did all right today, and we can get better from here,” Metten-berger said.

Cameron gave each quarter-back the freedom of calling his own plays. Each quarterback wore a wristband of scripted plays and they

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LSU sophomore running back Jeremy Hill (33) fends off a Purple squad defender Saturday in the National L-Club Spring Game in Tiger Stadium.

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If the phrase “speak softly and carry a big stick” applied to anyone on the LSU baseball team, it would be senior left fielder Raph Rhymes.

The soft-spoken 23-year-old is the self-dubbed grandpa of the team, a well-respected elder among his peers. At any hour of the day, Rhymes is being a role model.

On this Wednesday afternoon in early April, Rhymes parks his 2008 white Hummer SUT in front of Alex Box Stadium. The massive vehicle takes a bit of maneuver-ing. Pull in halfway, back out a bit. Pull the steering wheel hard to the left, and the car squeezes into the space. He has to do that every time he parks.

It’s midafternoon, and it’s practice time.

“He’s always on time,” said se-nior first baseman Mason Katz.

Rhymes, a sports administra-tion major with a business minor, just got out of his only class, Fi-nance 3715. The class is Monday and Wednesday from 1:30 to 3, so it doesn’t take up much of his time. He’s a study-the-night-before-the-test guy anyway.

He arrives at Alex Box wear-ing casual LSU sports apparel and changes into his No. 4 baseball uni-form for practice. Out of the locker

room and into the dugout, he arrives to a posse of media, some armed with massive television cameras and some with recorders, but all wanting quotes for their stories.

After playing ball at LSU-Eunice where he said he got maybe two interviews all season, the me-dia attention was initially a shock for Rhymes.

“You get looked at so much, it’s unbelievable,” Rhymes said. “You feel like a celebrity.”

Rhymes answers questions about topics like upcoming games and his batting average, which cur-rently ranks fourth on the team at .327, behind only Katz, freshman short stop Alex Bregman and junior third baseman Christian Ibarra.

In the midst of the interviews, the players do their early work. This consists of practicing skills without a coach overseeing necessarily. Rhymes runs — because walking isn’t allowed — to the batting cag-es and joins junior outfielder Sean McMullen and junior infielder Ty-ler Moore in a cage. They rotate taking whacks at baseballs on a T-ball stand.

Place a ball, whack, rotate.After the batting cages,

Rhymes and the other players be-gin practice. First order of business: stretch for about 15 minutes.

Each practice varies. Some-times the players bunt, work on

defensive fundamentals or hit on the field. No matter what they do, it’s accompanied by the blaring sounds of Rihanna and Eminem over the Alex Box loudspeakers.

The players take turns bat-ting and fielding balls. Katz said Rhymes is always the first guy in the outfield because “he doesn’t want to miss a single ball.”

“It looks like he’s never played before ‘cause he’s out there diving into walls in practice,” Katz said.

After fielding balls in the out-field, Rhymes helps collect balls into white buckets. He gets in a little basketball practice by tossing balls to the bucket from a distance. It’s not his best athletic ability.

If it’s a non-game day, practice closes with LSU coach Paul Main-ieri giving the team a message, sometimes about upcoming games or staying on top of schoolwork.

If it’s a game day, Rhymes heads to the dugout after LSU’s practice to let the opposing team take the field for warm-ups. Rhymes checks the locker rooms to make sure everyone is out so they don’t get yelled at.

On most days, a crowd of kids wielding Sharpies beckon him over with balls that need signing and pictures that need taking.

After the game, another auto-graph-hungry crowd waits for the team as they come out of the locker

room. Rhymes asks the kids if they enjoyed the game and when they’ll return.

“No doubt we have the best fans in the country,” Rhymes said.

After games or practice, it’s time to feed. Rhymes usually joins his teammates and family mem-bers at restaurants like Walk-Ons, George’s or Rotolo’s after games. His go-to eating buddy is junior pitcher Nate Fury “because he likes

to eat, too.”Rhymes and a couple play-

ers climb into the Hummer to go to a late dinner. He backs out a bit, drives forward a little, backs out again and leaves Alex Box for the night. He’ll be back again tomorrow.

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Senior left fielder Raph Rhymes: Day in the Life

CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille

LSU baseball sports information director Bill Franques interviews senior left �elder Raph Rhymes (4) on April 11 in the team dugout. The 23-year-old self-dubbed grandpa of the team, Rhymes has taken on the role of a quiet leader.

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Page 11: The Daily Reveille - April 22, 2013

After a 16-inning marathon victory for the No. 3 LSU baseball team that ended at midnight Sun-day morning, LSU and Alabama continued with the extra-inning trend in a 4-3 Crimson Tide win in Sunday’s series fi nale.

The Tigers (37-4, 15-3 South-eastern Conference) took the fi rst game of the series while riding sophomore starter Aaron Nola as the right-hander tossed a complete-game shutout and struck out 10 Crimson Tide (24-18, 9-9 SEC) batters . The case was different Saturday , as Alabama overcame a three-run defi cit in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings in Tuscaloosa .

What resulted was a fi ve-hour, 16-inning contest that fi nally con-cluded in an 11-8 win for the Ti-gers . When both squads arrived back at the stadium Sunday , they began play only 13 hours after the previous game ended.

It was only fi tting that both squads would play into extra in-nings again.

With LSU trailing 3-2 in the

top of the ninth, senior fi rst base-man Mason Katz laced a leadoff single, then junior third base-man Christian Ibarra slammed a double over Alabama sophomore right fi elder Ben Moore’s head. LSU sophomore outfi elder Chris Sciambra then came through in the clutch, hitting a sacrifi ce fl y to tie the game at three.

The game only lasted into the 10th, though, as Alabama loaded the bases with two outs for Crim-son Tide freshman second baseman Kyle Overstreet to knock a game-winning single to center fi eld and allow Alabama to avoid the sweep.

Earlier this week, LSU coach Paul Mainieri acknowledged he wasn’t certain if sophomore starter Cody Glenn (5-1) would be able to make Sunday’s start after Glenn took a line drive off his leg in last Sunday’s series fi nale against Ar-kansas and was forced to leave the game.

The sophomore southpaw re-sponded by tossing eight innings of three-run baseball with only one run earned, surrendering four hits while striking out four .

“We basically gave them all of the runs they got,” Mainieri said. “It was really a shame, too, because Cody Glenn pitched a tremendous game. He pitched his heart out and deserved a better fate than that. We didn’t do the things

that we have been doing all year from a fundamentals standpoint.”

The Tigers’ defense commit-ted three errors Sunday, leading to two unearned runs for the Tide. LSU’s fi elders had only 26 errors prior to the series fi nale.

“It was very uncharacteristic of us today because our defense re-ally let us down,” Mainieri said.

Senior reliever Joey Bourgeois (2-1) took the mound for the Tigers in the ninth and 10th innings. The

right-hander tossed a scoreless ninth inning but wasn’t able to es-cape trouble in the bottom of the 10th, eventually picking up his fi rst loss of the season.

Offensively, Ibarra carried the load for the Tigers on Sunday , go-ing 3-for-4 with a run scored. The third baseman also played a promi-nent role in Saturday’s marathon victory, going 3-for-6 with two runs scored. Overall, Ibarra batted for a .500 average in the series .

Sciambra and junior catcher Ty Ross both had RBIs in Sunday’s contest, capping off a productive weekend for the Tigers’ catcher. Ross had two hits in Saturday’s 11-8 victory , including a three-run bomb over the left fi eld wall in the top of the fourth inning.

� e Daily Reveille page 11Monday, April 22, 2013

BASEBALL

Tiger defense struggles, squad drops � nale at ’Bama

Lawrence BarrecaSports Writer

Contact Lawrence Barreca at [email protected];Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca

VASHA HUNT / The Associated Press

LSU third baseman Christian Ibarra falls to the ground while tracking a wild pop-up for the out against Alabama during the Alabama � nale victory Sunday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Alabama won 4-3 in the 10th inning.

Final two games go to extra innings

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The No. 11 LSU softball team faced No. 12 Missouri’s Chelsea Thomas and Nicole Hudson on the wrong weekend.

Thomas tossed a complete game Sunday, and three-hole hitter Hudson launched two home runs to drive in all of Missouri’s runs in a 3-2 victory to hand LSU its fi rst Southeastern Conference series loss this season.

Sunday’s win for Missouri (26-7, 11-6 SEC) came after Thomas pitched a complete game for a win in game one of the series Friday. LSU (37-11, 12-6 SEC) was little match for the senior ace, as she twice out-dueled LSU pitcher Rachele Fico.

Fico pitched much better Sun-day than she did Friday when she allowed six runs with three earned on nine Missouri hits. The second time out, she allowed six hits with fi ve strikeouts and essentially shut down Missouri’s lineup except for one hitter — Hudson.

Hudson took Fico out of the park for a two-run home run in the top of the third inning, which vault-ed Missouri ahead of LSU, 2-1. In the top of the fi fth, she smashed a soaring solo home run off the right fi eld scoreboard to push Missouri’s lead to 3-1.

LSU scratched home a run in the bottom of the fi fth, but Thomas proceeded to slam the door on any hope of an LSU comeback, retiring the fi nal eight hitters to fi nish off her complete-game effort.

“[Thomas] defi nitely made adjustments when we made adjust-ments,” said LSU freshman short-stop Bianka Bell, who was the only player with multiple hits on Thomas and drove in LSU’s fi rst run with an RBI single in the fi rst inning.

“When we started swinging at the low pitches, she started bringing it up in the zone and we just couldn’t adjust with her,” Bell said.

Fico didn’t light up the score-board with strikeouts as she has been keen to do this season, but her out-ing was nonetheless solid, excluding two pitches to Hudson.

In Friday and Sunday’s loss-es, the LSU lineup provided Fico virtually no cushion with a com-bined three runs of support in her

two starts.Regardless of the run support

she received, Fico said the most frustrating thing is getting beaten by essentially one hitter.

“It’s always hard to swallow when the same kid beats you twice,” Fico said. “… When someone is good like that, you can’t take any-thing away from them. [Hudson] is a great player, and she was just on today.”

LSU doesn’t have a midweek game this week, but it will begin its fi nal home series of the season against No. 4 Alabama on Thursday.

The Tigers sit tied with Ala-bama for fi rst in the SEC West standings despite dropping their fi rst conference series of the season to Missouri. This weekend’s matchup against the Crimson Tide could de-cide who takes the SEC West crown.

“We’re still in the driver’s seat,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “We still can win the series with Alabama and be in a good spot in the SEC, and I think we just have to rebound from this and prepare really well for Alabama.”

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SOFTBALL

Missouri topples Tigers with pitching, home runs

Spencer HutchinsonSports Contributor

Contact Spencer Hutchinson at [email protected]

LSU drops � rst conference series

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman in� elder Bianka Bell (27) catches a � y ball Sunday during the Tigers’ game against Missouri in Tiger Park.

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Olympians and former LSU greats took to the track with the LSU track and field team Saturday, but junior middle distance runner Natoya Goule stole the show.

Goule broke her own school record in the 800-meter run, post-ing a blistering time of 2 minutes, .76 seconds, which bested her record of 2:01.18 set at UCLA’s Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Ker-see Invitational on April 6.

“The highlight of our day was seeing what Natoya Goule was able to do in the 800,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “It’s impres-sive to get on the Bernie Moore Stadium track and set a record

with the events we’ve hosted and all the athletes who have run here over the years.”

The meet wasn’t a scored event, so there was no team win-ner. But joining LSU and its for-mer All-American and Olympian athletes were athletes from a host of schools, including Alabama, Ili-nois, Houston, Minnesota, Texas State, South Florida, Harvard and Texas A&M.

Also in the field of participants were in-state schools Louisiana-Monroe, UL-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, Northwestern State and Tu-lane. LSU came away with three individual event wins in the meet.

Among the notable former Tigers who returned for the meet were Cassandra Tate, who took first in the women’s 400-meter hurdles on Saturday, and Jeremy Hicks, who bested LSU senior long jumper Damar Forbes for first place in the men’s long jump

with a wind-aided jump of 27 feet, 3 inches.

Forbes, who currently boasts the second-best outdoor long jump in the NCAA this season, finished the meet with a best jump of 25-0 1/2 in what was his last home meet at LSU.

Also making her final ap-pearance in a Baton Rouge meet was senior women’s sprinting star Kimberlyn Duncan, who easily bested the field in the women’s 100-meter with a time of 11.19.

Saturday wasn’t the final ap-pearance Forbes and Duncan will make in an LSU uniform, as each will look to lead LSU at the SEC Championships in less than two weeks.

LSU will first compete Thurs-day in the Penn Relays in Phila-delphia as the final warm-up meet before the conference champion-ships.

With the season winding down, Shaver said he’s happy with the status of his team, especially the athletes with the most expecta-tions such as Forbes and Duncan.

“Our top athletes have been consistently performing well for us, but we’ve been needing our No. 2 and No. 3 people to step up and compete a little bit better than what they have to this point,” Shaver said. “They are the ones who we will be counting on at the SEC meet in a few weeks.”

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The LSU men’s golf team posted a 17-over par score of 297 on the fi nal day of the Southeast-ern Conference Championships to fi nish in 11th place with a total score of 41-over par 881 across the entire weekend.

Sophomore Curtis Thompson fi nished as the highest-ranked Ti-ger, as his 2-over par 72 on Sun-day was good for a top-15 fi nish.

Thompson’s day was a strong follow-up performance, which

came after his 5-over 75 on Fri-day and team-low 2-over 72 day on Saturday. He fi nished tied for 15th place. This was the Coral Springs, Fla., native’s fi rst experi-ence golfi ng at the SEC Champi-onships.

Junior Andrew Presley was the second-highest ranked Tiger as his 4-over 74 on Sunday tied him for 47th place with a total score of 14-over par 224 for the weekend.

No. 2 Alabama defended its SEC title despite opening Sunday three strokes behind

South Carolina.The Tiger golfers will now

await the results from the NCAA Regional seeding, which will be decided on 8 p.m. May 6. The seeding is decided on by the NCAA Selection Committee. The next action for the Tigers will come May 16, when LSU hosts the 2013 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional for the fi rst time at the University Club in Baton Rouge.

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The LSU women’s golf team fi nished in a tie for seventh at the SEC Championships on Sunday at Greystone Country Club in Hoover, Ala.

The Lady Tigers tied No. 5 Arkansas with a three-round score of 59-over 923. They fi nished 24 shots behind No. 2 Alabama, who won the tournament at 35-over.

“It didn’t quite go the way we wanted it to,” said LSU coach Karen Bahnsen. “We need to keep building from this and use this as

a learning experience.” LSU led the tournament by

one stroke after the fi rst round of the tournament, posting a round of 15-over 303, but shot 23-over and 21-over in the second and third rounds, respectively, to drop down the leaderboard.

“Some weeks aren’t your week,” Bahnsen said. “We are going to get there. They’ve done some really good things this se-mester and we aren’t done yet.”

Bahnsen said the experience will help them prepare for the NCAA Regional tournament May 9, regardless of what region they

end up in. Junior Lindsay Gahm fi n-

ished in a tie for 11th overall with a score of 13-over 229 for the week. She shot 2-over 74 in the fi rst round, 6-over in the sec-ond round and 5-over in the fi nal round.

Alabama junior Stephanie Meadow won the tournament by nine strokes after fi nishing the week at even-par.

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quiet throughout the scrimmage, tal-lying just two tackles compared to Barrow’s seven.

Barrow has only played at out-side linebacker, but he said he is willing to play in whatever position Miles feels he will be most produc-tive.

“Of course I’m used to the out-side, but when I came in as a fresh-man I was an inside linebacker, so I’m ready wherever,” Barrow said. “... The main thing is getting the best three guys on the fi eld. All our guys are ready. Whoever gets that third spot is going to be fi ne.”

Sophomore linebacker Kwon Alexander also had a promising showing, leading the Purple squad

with seven tackles, one for loss, and breaking up two passes.

Loston stood out in the back-fi eld at free safety earning six tack-les, breaking up a pass and grabbing the sole interception of the scrim-mage.

Miles said he was happy with the defense’s performance as a whole, and said the addition of in-coming freshmen this summer can only help.

“There’s a lot to build on,” Miles said. “Certainly a great challenge to start a summer season.”

compete well, and they gave it all they had.”

The meet marked LSU’s third appearance in the Super Six after back-to back appearances in 2008 and 2009, when the Tigers fi nished in fi fth and sixth place, respective-ly.

The Tigers started the meet with a bye before earning a 49.200 on uneven bars. LSU tallied a 49.125 on balance beam to stand at 98.325 halfway through the com-petition.

After another bye, LSU put on a fl oor routine clinic, racking up a 49.550, its highest fl oor score in any national championship meet. The Tigers remained within reach but failed to close the gap as they ended the meet with a 49.175 on vault.

“A 197 is no score to sneeze at,” Breaux said. “We just showed a lack of experience at being here at a championship.”

Sophomore all-arounder Jessie Jordan picked up second team hon-ors on fl oor and all-around, while fellow sophomore all-arounder Lloimincia Hall gained a second team accolade on fl oor. Additional fi rst team recognition went to ju-nior all-arounder Maliah Mathis for vault, junior all-arounder Sarie Morrison on vault and uneven bars and freshman all-arounder Randii

Wyrick for uneven bars.Morrison tied for eighth with

a 9.8917 in the individual vault competition, while Mathis’ 9.8667 was good for 13th. Morrison also came in at seventh in the uneven bars competition with a 9.8250, and Wyrick checked in at 10th with a 9.800.

called the play based on the situ-ation.

Miles said the purpose of Cameron’s decision was not to give the quarterbacks control of the offense but to gain insight into how his signal callers think through a football game.

“It’s an exercise that allows you to see what the quarterback thinks, how he views the game

plan, what he would call, how he would operate things,” Miles said. “It’s one that will improve the quarterbacks having done it. It fi lls in for a quarterback some of the things they need to have ac-complished before they go into the gameplan.”

Mettenberger said Saturday was the fi rst time he ever had full autonomy to call his own plays. He acknowledged he struggled with it at fi rst but grew comfortable as the

game went on.“Coach Cam did that to see

how our head was in the game with down and distance management,” Mettenberger said. “I think all of us did really well with that.”

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead — killed in a fire fight with Boston-area police — and Dzhokhar Tsar-naev is finally in custody.

Last week, as thick gray smoke billowed across the finish line of the Boston Marathon, I was transported momentarily to my fifth-grade classroom as I watched the Twin Towers fold into the New York City sidewalk.

I felt like a bag of bricks had been hung around my neck.

If it was a Muslim, I knew I had to worry for my wife, for my friends, for the inevitable reprisals.

And not just the physical kind but the psychological and uninten-tional. The low-level pressure con-stantly building in people’s hearts that makes it hard for women like my wife to walk down the street, to look a cashier in the eye or smile at a stranger.

If it wasn’t a Muslim, that would almost be worse. That would mean a new sort of evil had

infiltrated my home, threatened my people — both Muslim and Ameri-can.

After the bombing, hours dragged into days, and I started to lose sleep constantly refreshing CNN’s homepage.

Sept. 11, Iraq, Afghanistan, friends coming home with mental wounds and physical scars, Col-umbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook — can’t we have a year or month without this madness, this accelerating chaos?

They all started to blend in my head — Mohamed Atta, Richard Reid and James Holmes — a per-verted panoply of horror-bringers.

By Thursday, I had my col-umns ready to go, and I was set with my canned responses.

I’ve spent the better part of three years beating the drum of in-terfaith cooperation. I’ve stuck up for my community when wronged and tried my damnedest to show people the Islam that still captures my heart and soul, not the hijacked religion abused by sociopaths.

I was ready: Column A, if it’s an Arab guy, the stereotype — he doesn’t represent who we are!

Column B, the mad militia-man, shame on you America, for

thinking Muslims did it — for plastering that poor innocent Saudi kid’s picture across your newspa-pers and blogs.

What I was not prepared for was Tamerlan and Dzhokhar — the white Chechen refugees who grew up in this country, the sons of a me-chanic, the average-looking guys in backpacks and backward hats.

When the names came out, I read through Dzhokhar’s Twit-ter — the pictures of his cat, his friends talking about “smoking mad blunts,” his love of lifeguard-ing.

Who are these people, these murderers? Where do they get off being so damn normal?

Erik Rush of Fox News had already tweeted “Kill all the Mus-lims,” and a Bengali man was jumped and beaten in the streets of New York for “looking Arab.”

And then Thursday night, there was Tamerlan, trading lead with Boston’s finest in the heart of a residential neighborhood, deto-nating IEDs like it was downtown Kabul — killing another police of-ficer and endangering more inno-cent people.

Something inside of me broke around 3 that morning.

I realized no matter how hard I tried, no matter how much peace I preached, I could never reach into the hearts of evil men. I cannot

stand up to evil armed with good intentions and talking points.

I don’t have an opinion. I don’t know what’s happening to us, and I don’t know what to say. There is no message to this. No shining moral or ray of hope.

I just want off this carousel of bitter hate, constantly revolving, constantly reprising.

I just want off.

Nicholas Pierce is a 23-year old senior in history from Baton Rouge.

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In response to Mike Gegenheimer’s story “LSU athletes address the pos-sibility of a gay teammate,” readers had this to say:

“Gegenheimer, this is a perfect example of not having the patience to find a story worth reporting, so you create a conflict, turn it into a

controversy, and report ‘news’ that originated with your own agenda. Enjoy your time in the light, because you have just reached the pinnacle of your journalism career.”- Hai

“So a gay man can be a Marine or a Green Beret, but can’t be a foot-ball player? I guess 18 months of fire fights, IEDs, and generally discom-fort can’t compare to the toughness/manliness required for a full ride scholarship and and those dangerous 2-a-days. How a college educated person associates sexual preference with physical prowess is incred-ible. Well at least we can take sol-ace in knowing that in 10-15 years

comments like these will be looked upon as antiquated ignorant ideas of the past. You’re my boy Blue, now go put on your tight pants and get tackled by dudes.”- Wp815p

“Wow. That is Blue’s comment AFTER being prepped by the Ath-letic Department?

Also Mike, I noticed you’ve received several ‘Why is this so im-portant?’ comments. These always pop up when people write on gay news issues so don’t worry about it too much. But this is one of the biggest topics in big league sports. It’s justified.”- Andre Porter

“You know, I’m really getting tired of society looking at all gay man as if they were girls. Gay man are still men. They are construction workers, police officers, service men, lumber jacks, doctors, lawyers, husbands and fathers. They grow beards and sweet and drink beer and bourbon just like every other man. Just because a man sexually pre-fers other men doesn’t mean he is a ‘sissy’ and I find Blue’s ignorance to be absolutely infuriating. Also, just because a man is gay doesn’t mean he is going to try to jump his team mates when they are in the locker room or staying in hotels for away games. I find that argument to be equally ridiculous as the ‘sissy’

statement. All this being said, I ap-plaud those players that hit the nail on the head by saying that sexual orientation doesn’t matter. If they are willing to play hard for LSU and be a proud tiger and team member then it doesn’t matter!”- Darren

“University students in this country are being led down deepen-ing and darkening danger.”- Hel1960

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If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s the awesomeness of nature. That’s not refutable, es-pecially on a day like Earth Day.

In almost every incidence oth-erwise — politics, parenting and religion — there are exceptions to the rules. No one is the same.

Show anyone a picture posted by flight engineer Col. Chris Had-field, and you’ll get similar re-sponses from everyone: awe, sur-prise, wonder.

From the International Space Station, Hadfield is currently snapping photos of the Earth from space and posting them to Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter daily. It’s a reminder of the respect and awe we should have for the planet.

Recent shots include one of Amman, Jordan, lit up at night, a dry salt lake in the Australian outback and a breathtaking image of the moon rising over a cloudy Earth.

Others showcase experiments in zero gravity and everyday

activity on the ship.This is exactly what the world

needs.On Facebook, commenters

flood his pictures with exclama-tions about watching the ISS cross the sky, knowing he’s up there or the interesting perspective the im-ages bring to their desk jobs.

Hadfield helps us see the world from a view we don’t get walking around campus every day.

He broadens our perspective on life and reminds us of the big-ger picture.

There are some things bet-ter than the caterpillars infesting LSU’s campus or a slew of bomb threats and detonations.

Somewhere in space, as-tronauts on the ISS are working toward a better future in which humans have the opportunity to explore other worlds, and Had-field’s pictures are a reminder of that.

Sure, you could look at Google Earth images and get the gist of the planet, but Hadfield is timely. He responds to current events around the world — most recently offer-ing condolences to Boston.

He frames his pictures with captions like “I’m not artistic, but I appreciate it when others are.”

Despite what he says, his pho-tos are art, reminding us one snap-shot at a time of the relative size of our own lives, and the gorgeous beast that is the planet.

With all the recent media frenzy concerning Boston, the explosion in West Texas and the continuing tensions in the Middle East, it’s easy to forget we live on a beautiful conglomeration of evo-lution and geological upheaval.

Hadfield reminds us.He pushes the beauty in our

faces, and maybe for him it’s not a call to save the planet, but it inher-ently is.

Each picture is a tip of the hat to the scientific luck of our planet.

Despite all the issues humans have inflicted upon the earth, it still rebounds.

This is not to say humanity should continue in this vein of de-struction, but the negative isn’t all that exists.

Hadfield addressed the idea of loneliness in space in a Reddit Ask Me Anything forum, saying loneliness is not about location, but mindset.

Similarly, the way each per-son sees the world is not about what goes on holistically, but rath-er their unique perspective.

Hadfield offering up his per-spective for public use is some-thing we should take advantage to remember there’s something more than us in the world.

Happy Earth Day.

Megan Dunbar is a 19-year-

old English junior from Greenville, S.C.

Laws are meant to protect people from themselves, other people and in many cases, both.

Some laws are written with this in mind, but in reality, they cannot be enforced properly with-out miniature hovering cameras that could report violations, is-sue citations and follow people around without human operation.

A bill proposed by Sen. Dale Erdey, R-Livingston, happens to fall into this category.

Senate Bill 147 would ban operating social media on any cell phone, tablet computer or similar device while driving.

In theory, this is a brilliant idea, and we should all send Sen. Erdey a Baby Ruth and a gallon of ice cream to reward his vigilance against drivers who regularly en-danger themselves, their passen-gers, other drivers, brave squirrels and innocent roadside vegetation.

The damages of texting, tweeting, reading, mapping — practically anything besides con-centrating on the road — while driving cannot be overstated.

Most humans are terrible drivers even without a picture of a smiling cat in a goat’s lap distract-ing them from the minivan ahead whose driver just slammed on the

brakes because she almost ran a red light while scrolling through her Facebook News Feed.

In a study of crash data col-lected from black boxes installed in cars, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that 99 percent of driv-ers involved in collisions did not apply the brakes at full force be-fore a crash. In fact, one-third of the drivers didn’t even touch the brakes.

The issue with Sen. Erdey’s bill, along with most other laws banning any form of texting, talk-ing or tweeting while driving, deals with enforcement.

In Louisiana, for example, it is legal to scroll through your phone while driving to look up a contact’s number. It is also legal to talk on the phone, as long as you’re over the age of 18 and not a school bus driver.

A police officer would have to drive next to the potential of-fender for quite some time before he or she could even make an edu-cated guess on whether a law was being broken. Otherwise, these laws are only useful to further punish the distracted driver after a crash already happened.

But something needs to be done because many drivers, my-self included, are too dumb to re-alize the dangerous situations they create by doing anything besides driving while driving.

And there are really only two possible solutions, neither of

which include Sen. Erdey’s bill.Firstly, laws could require

automakers to install technology in cars that would prevent drivers from using their cellphone while the car is in motion. This technol-ogy already exists.

The problem with that is one, many people would be livid; and two, there are too many cars al-ready on the road without the technology.

The better solution, and one that many people can get excited about, is to eliminate human error from the equation.

Autonomous, or driverless, cars could be available to consum-ers by 2025, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal.

In other words, text, tweet, talk, nap, eat and drink all you want, because you no longer have to do the driving.

It’s a little scary, and I’m more than skeptical of the 2025 “guesstimate,” but until then, the only thing that can really protect drivers from themselves is their own conscience.

And I don’t even trust my own conscience.

Ben Wallace is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Tyler, Texas.

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12 month leaseAvailable 8/1/2013

$1350/ monthEmail: [email protected]

FOR RENT 4BR,2Bth Open July 1Nice/ Safe Subdivision5 miles from Campus

$1,400/mth 281.216.2532

RESERVE NOW FOR 2013-2014 3 Bed/3 Bath @ $1650/ Month, Free Optional Monthly Maid Service!

Brightside on LSU Bus RouteArlington Trace & Summer Grove

CondosParking for 3 & All Appliances Included

Fantastic PoolAvailable for 1 Year Lease Beginning

Summer 2013

[email protected] 310.989.4453

THE GATES AT BRIGHTSIDE CON-DO Newly renovated 3bed/2bath Condo available for rent in August. $1,500/ month plus utilities. Also a 2bed/2bath available at $1,200/ month. 504.352.4825

2 BR,1 Ba Duplex,1/2 month free, W/ D Incl. Pets OK $625.3328 Wyoming Stu-dio all utilities included $470 McDaniel

Properties 225-388-9858

BRIGHTSIDE VIEW TOWNHOUSE 4bd/4ba Washer/ Dryer, Fence yard

with Patio $1600 month. Available for leases starting in june july or august

225.802.6898

FEMALE ROOMMATE NEEDED 3 bed, 2 bath on Brightside. 560/ mo includes rent and utilities. For more

information, call 337-802-6936.

ANY GIRLS OUT THERE? female in search of open-minded movie and

music lover for more-than-friends type situation. let’s go to splash or hang out at

home. surely some of you exist! responses to: maitresse.anonyme@

gmail.com.

LOOKING FOR TICKETS to LSU Studio Art Graduation at Union Theater

May 17 9:00AM. Willing to pay per ticket. 225.931.3395

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