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HURRICANE ISAAC: Campus escapes with mostly tree damage, debris, p. 18

Opener recalls memory of LSU resiliency

University sustains minor damage

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[Left] Les Miles, seen here watching a football practice April 7, 2011, was set to lead his � rst game as LSU’s head coach against the University of North Texas on August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina altered the planned matchup and the game was postponed. The teams � nally met on Oct. 29, when the Tigers won, 56-3. [Right] LSU running back Joseph Addai celebrates a touchdown in the 2005 game.

It came more subtly than the empty shelves of non-perishable food, the numerous fl ash-lights and the sandbags predicted. Hurricane Isaac destroyed homes and lives in Plaquemines and Tangipahoa parishes, but its presence on campus was made up of nothing more than wind whisperings and rain pelts as it dispir-ited from a hurricane to a tropical storm.

Some students evacuated, some weath-ered the storm on campus and others took to local bars that were open, but their

Hurricane Isaac freedom came with an aca-demic price — students will have to make up missed classes over fall break and during one to-be-determined

Saturday. While the rain has let up and the wind has died down, the University is not fi nished with Isaac. It’s currently housing two medical facilities.

Fallen trees comprised the main dam-age Isaac infl icted on campus, as well as

Andrea GalloEditor-in-Chief

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359 students hail from a ected areas

Isaac threatened to repeat delay of 2005 North Texas opener

There’s just something eerie about LSU’s relationship with North Texas.

Hurricane Isaac threatened to, among more important things, cancel the football team’s opener against the Mean Green. It was a familiar situation for Coach Les Miles .

“Good news is, we’ve been through this before,” Miles said on Monday as Isaac approached Southeastern Louisiana. “We know how to do this. We’ll fi gure it out.”

Miles was, admittedly, a “novice LSU coach” the other time this exact situation reared its head.

The day for which he’d been prepar-ing for months, his debut as the Tigers head coach against North Texas, was a mere fi ve days away when Hurricane Katrina devas-tated the Gulf Coast in 2005 .

Sure, the last time North Texas was on the schedule in 2008 , Hurricane Gustav also delayed the Troy contest and caused

much more surface damage to campus than its predecessor.

But the gash caused by Katrina was deeper and wider, throwing the lives of thousands along the Gulf into disarray.

Everyone involved in Miles’ new football program was included.

Some players couldn’t contact their parents. The early schedule was shot. Somehow, Miles still kept it together — made the most of it, even — despite the initial disappointment felt by fans and the administration.

Isaac followed Katrina seven years to the day, with the same opponent waiting at the of end LSU’s week.

The outcome is different: the Tigers and the Mean Green will clash Saturday. But the similarities still serve as a remind-er of both the resiliency of the University

NORTH TEXAS, see page 26

Alex CassaraSports Writer

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Trees outside Acadian Hall were twisted and broken by Hurricane Isaac’s ferocious winds.

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Haiti park standoff highlights con�ict over woodland areas

LA VISITE NATIONAL PARK, Haiti (AP) — Police officers and other officials went to one of Hai-ti’s few national parks with weap-ons and orders for hundreds of squatters to vacate the homes and farms they had carved out.

The people living there had known they could be removed at any time because they were on a rare piece of protected woodland in one of the most deforested coun-tries on earth. But they were re-solved to put up a fight. In a violent clash that lasted several hours, four squatters were shot to death.98-year-old message in a bottle sets world record for oldest recovered

LONDON, (AP) — It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world record.

Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle— released in 1914 — in his nets in April while sailing east of the Shetland Is-lands, which lie off Scotland’s northern coast.

Guinness World Records con-firmed Thursday the find is the oldest message in a bottle ever re-covered, beating a previous record by five years.

Crash involving 100-year-old driver rekindles old age driving debate

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 100-year-old man who was at-tempting to back his Cadillac out of a grocery store parking lot struck and injured 11 people, nine of them children.

The accident in front of a South Los Angeles elementary school brought to the forefront again a debate over how old is too old to keep driving.

With the American Automo-bile Association reporting that 10,000 Americans are turning 65 every day, it’s a debate that will only intensify in coming years.

Southern Montana wild�res burn homes, cause injuries, evacuations

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Rap-idly expanding wildfires across a broad swath of southern Montana have caused injuries and burned homes, buildings and vehicles, authorities said Thursday, as fire-fighters struggled to contain the flames amid hazardous condi-tions.

The precise toll of the lat-est spate of fires to hit the state remained uncertain. But at least three evacuation orders were in place and well more than 150 homes threatened by blazes that in some cases burned unchecked.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil giant BP says it will donate $1 million to support relief efforts related to Hur-ricane Isaac.

BP says the donation will be made to the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army and divid-ed equally between the two hard-hit states. In addition the donation, BP says it’s also providing assistance to employees and their families in the region.

Two years ago, an oil rig oper-ated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, causing a massive oil spill. Millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf over several weeks and slimed coastal areas until the blown out oil well was capped.

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Levees around New Orleans hold through hurricane, prove reliable

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Since Katrina, the Army Corps has worked at breakneck speed — and at a cost of billions of dollars — to install new floodgates, pumps, floodwalls and levees across New Orleans.

The work paid off. A day af-ter Isaac hit New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, of-ficials said the 130-mile flood pro-tection system did its job, excepting a breach at the 17th Street Canal.

Miners charged in deaths of 34 people killed by African police

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — About 270 miners were charged Thursday with the murders of 34 striking colleagues who were shot by police officers, authorities said, a development that could fur-ther infuriate South Africans.

The decision to charge the miners comes under an arcane Ro-man-Dutch common purpose law used under the apartheid regime, and it suggests President Jacob Zuma’s government wants to shift blame for the killings from police to the striking miners.

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A boy leans against the base of an outdoor toilet damaged by Haitian police in La Visite National Park, Haiti, a rare piece of protected woodland.

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CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

Hurricane Isaac crept upon Baton Rouge on Tuesday as the sun set behind the PMAC. Submit your photo of the day to [email protected].

Harvard probing dozens of students on cheating, plagiarizing accusations

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered they may have shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam.

Harvard officials declined to release the name of the class and other details, citing privacy laws.

The undergraduate class had a minimum of 250 students and pos-sible cheating was discovered in roughly half the take-home exams, university officials said Thursday.

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A home burns north of East River Road during the Pine Creek Fire in Paradise Valley near Pine Creek on Wednesday.

BP will donate $1 million for Hurricane Isaac disaster relief

Under normal circumstances, the LSU Lakes are a hub of exercise and activity for thousands of Uni-versity students.

During the brunt of Hurricane Isaac’s impact Wednesday after-noon, one freshman made them his personal playground.

Wildlife and fi sheries freshman Nathan Vercher perched himself atop the near-white caps in the Uni-versity Lake in an inner tube around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, even as tropi-cal storm conditions toppled trees and fl ooded streets around him.

“I was just having some fun,” Vercher said. “It’s a storm, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a great time.”

The Castor, La., native may have been the only one in the water, but he wasn’t alone.

A cheering section of about two dozen people was gathered across West Lakeshore Drive at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house to watch Vercher’s second foray of the day into the water.

Despite sustained winds of ap-proximately 40 miles per hour and sheets of sideways rain howling through campus, Vercher said he wasn’t nervous.

“It really wasn’t that scary,” he said after getting out of the water. “I’m used to severe conditions out-doors anyway.”

Nicole Sergent, a petroleum engineering sophomore, was one of the onlookers and said the stunt was a necessary break from the storm’s serious business.

“It’s really not that bad yet,” she said. “It was pretty silly but fun-ny for all of us. We have supplies, and we’re getting ready, but it was nice to take a break to come out and goof around.”

The students’ presence outside went against the University’s advi-sory Wednesday morning, which asked the LSU community to “shel-ter in place,” and remain indoors.

Vercher’s tubing time wasn’t the afternoon’s only shenanigans on West Lakeshore Drive. A group

of approximately seven male stu-dents was gathered across from the Acacia fraternity house, some sans shirts.

The entire unit waved to passing vehicles as one of them pretended to be a matador while wielding an American fl ag in the whipping winds.

Students who enjoyed their three-day “hurrication” this week may not enjoy its consequences — the University announced Thursday it will cancel the Fall Holiday and schedule classes on an upcoming Saturday.

According to a post on the Uni-versity’s Emergency Response web-site, since the University was closed for three days as Tropical Storm Isaac slowly approached the coast, it will remain open during the time traditionally used as a two-day break in October.

The post also said the Univer-sity will designate a Saturday in the future to make up missed classes, but it did not specify when the date would be announced.

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said the make-up days are part of a plan negotiated by the Faculty Senate and the University’s Regis-trar’s Offi ce years ago.

Cope said the state mandates a specifi c number of days for stu-dents to be in class and requires the University to make up most days it misses.

“If the University only misses two days, it is the instructor’s pre-rogative to make them up if he or she

wants to,” he said. “But if the break goes beyond that, the next step is to cancel fall break.”

The missed days will also change the academic calendar in oth-er ways — the deadline for dropping classes without a grade of “W” will be Sept. 4 at 4:30 p.m. and the dead-line to add courses for credit will be Sept. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

Minutes after the decision to cancel the break was announced, stu-dents and parents took to the Univer-sity’s Facebook page to voice their concern.

Several asked why the Univer-sity could not add the missed days to the end of the semester.

Cope said the University’s aca-demic calendar has limited maneu-verability because intersessions are scheduled so close to the beginning and end of the academic year. Add-ing days to the calendar could change the dates for intersessions, gradua-tions or other University events.

The University’s post acknowl-edged its decision may not sit well with everyone.

“We recognize that there is no perfect solution,” it said. “This is the best approach for meeting the mission of LSU as well as the goals of our faculty and students. The im-plementation of these changes will require patience and cooperation by all.”

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WEATHER

Hurricane Isaac downs trees on campus in its wake

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[Top left] Mardi Gras beads hang from a fallen tree Thursday outside of the new Business Education Complex after winds from Hurricane Isaac knocked the tree down. [Left] A tree limb rests on the stone seats of the Greek Theater. [Above] Debris collects around the PMAC Thursday morning in the aftermath of the storm.

Governor Bobby Jindal warned Louisiana residents Wednesday that the state will be weathering Hurricane Isaac through Monday morning.

Jindal gave a midday address concerning the state of Louisiana as Isaac slowly makes its way north.

He said more than 4,000 peo-ple are in shelters across the state, and more are expected throughout today and tomorrow.

In the University’s Carl Mad-dox Field House, 122 special needs residents are currently being cared for, Jindal said.

Already, more than 5,000 Na-tional Guard soldiers are active in the state, and Jindal said he will mobilize 3,200 more.

University campuses south of Interstates 10 and 12 were closed until Tuesday, and LSU was closed through Thursday. Jindal advised students to stay updated with school administrators.

Jindal detailed the state of many coastal parishes including Plaquemines Parish, which is fac-ing breached levees.

The governor has requested

that all 64 Louisiana parishes be considered for additional federal aid to recover after the storm.

The eye of the storm was ex-pected to pass over Baton Rouge at 1 p.m. Wednesday, but Isaac’s impact was delayed until late that night.

Winds gusted in the upper 40s all day Wednesday, uprooting large trees and scattering leaves and branches across the University’s campus as Hurricane Isaac battered southeast Louisiana.

But who’s going to clean up the mess?

The University has a special contract in place with a cleanup crew for situations like hurricanes. But they couldn’t begin assessing the damage until the storm died down signifi cantly, according to the LSU

Emergency Operations Center.Ashley Berthelot, EOC spokes-

woman, said the sweep should begin sometime Thursday, but there’s no estimate on how long it might take.

Once it’s safe for cleanup to be-gin is when the contracted crew will scour the campus for damages and then begin removing the scattered debris, Berthelot said.

Several large trees toppled dur-ing Wednesday’s storm, including one in front of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house and a palm tree in front of Evangeline Hall. Another tree split in half between University High and East Campus Apartments.

The National Weather Service observation post at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport registered a peak wind gust of 57 mph Wednes-day morning, with sustained winds in the 20s and 30s most of the day.

All fl ights were canceled at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on Wednesday, and the earliest ar-rivals couldn’t land until sometime Thursday evening at best, according to an airport spokesman.


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Just a week removed from bid-ding farewell to their newly minted LSU freshmen, some parents insist-ed their children return home when Hurricane Isaac was approaching its landfall.

Faced with the possibility of power outages and destruction, many proud fi rst year students decided to ride out the storm in residential halls while trying to keep contact with their loved ones back home.

Biology freshman Hunter Strohmeyer, a Naples, Fla., native and no stranger to hurricanes, rode the storm out in East Laville Hall.

“[My parents] seem to think dorms are safer than anywhere else,” Strohmeyer said. “They’re not just going to fall over.”

Nashville native and philosophy freshman David Gibbs said while he’s never experienced a hurricane, his parents knew Baton Rouge was the best place to be.

“They weren’t concerned be-cause they know up here [in Ba-ton Rouge] it doesn’t get as bad as it does in other parts of the state,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs said he ensured his cell phone and laptop were fully charged in case the power went out so he could keep in touch with his family in Tennessee.

Both Gibbs and Strohmeyer said they got together with other East Laville residents to enjoy the precious hours of power.

“Hopefully the power stays on long enough to play some Xbox,” Gibbs said. “If it goes off, we’ll have a deep bonding time.”

Fellow biology freshman Lo-gan Burnsed said his communication with his parents would be limited.

Burnsed said he and his room-mate, mechanical engineering fresh-man Ross Armond, planned to ven-ture out into the rain and wind to fully experience the hurricane.

“My parents know me well enough to know I can take care of myself and handle a little hurricane,” Burnsed said.

Economics senior Chris Duffy picked up a fl ying disk, reached back and let it rip Tuesday afternoon on LSU’s Parade Ground.

The white disc rose vertically, traveling about halfway to its intend-ed recipient before catching hold of a wind gust and boomeranging back-ward straight over Duffy’s head.

“Throwing into this wind is not fun,” Duffy said, as 25 mph gusts swirled around campus, according to fi gures from the National Weather Service.

The winds were on the outskirts of Hurricane Isaac, which reached Baton Rouge sometime Wednesday afternoon as a tropical storm, accord-ing to WAFB’s forecasters.

But the Parade Ground looked just like it would any other Tues-day afternoon, with students playing pick-up soccer, football and frisbee as Isaac roared toward Louisiana’s capital.

Students said hurricane par-ties, board games and sleepovers will likely pass the majority of their time during the University’s two-day “hurrication.”

“I’m actually pretty pumped for it,” said Duffy, an East Campus

Apartment resident who said an 18-hour drive home to Michigan wasn’t an option. “We’ve got board games and cards, and if the power doesn’t go out, we’ve got Xbox and movies.”

Biology junior Ben Xie said his parents wanted him to come home, but a 14-hour drive to Lubbock wasn’t happening because he didn’t think it would be that bad.

“On a scale of zero to 10, I’d probably say a four,” Xie said of his worry level regarding Isaac. “If it were a higher category, I’d be a little more worried.”

New Orleans native and ac-counting freshman Lee Babst knows the drill, since Hurricane Katrina pushed him up to New Jersey with family for three months. But he’s not worried about this hurricane.

“It’s pretty cool not having classes,” Babst said. “I’ll fi nish some homework, I guess.”

Freshmen roommates Ashley Pikes and Nicole Butler said they were having a sleepover in Herget Hall, where they’d mostly be eating and playing card games.

“It’s just a storm, just a little wind and rain,” Pikes said.


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Students use their free time to toss a � ying disk Tuesday on the Parade Ground.

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Students kick a soccer ball around Tuesday on the Parade Ground as they enjoy the break from regular classes.

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For many people, hurricane preparation means stocking up on water, non-perishable foods and gas. But for some students and veteran storm survivors, al-cohol is just as important as any of those items.

Brandon Landry, ISDS

freshman, said he and his friend Zachary Sonnier, mechanical en-gineering freshman, chose to ride out the storm at their homes in Prairieville.

“We live like right next to each other, so we plan on having a pretty good-size hurricane par-ty,” Landry said. “We’re not re-ally holding back, we really have nothing better to do.”

Landry said he was excited to fi nally take part in his fi rst big hurricane party.

“For any of the recent ma-jor hurricanes, like Katrina or

Gustav, we weren’t really old enough to drink or party,” Landry said. “But now that we’re old enough, we’re ready to have fun.”

Sonnier said he and Landry each have about two cases of beer and planned to invite friends over to their houses. But Sonnier said it’s important to him to stay safe and stock up on essential goods.

“Beer’s at the top of the list, of course, but defi nitely get food you don’t have to heat up,” Son-nier said. “You’ve got to have water, but no milk or nothing per-ishable. And of course beer.”

But some students planned to stay relatively tame during Isaac. Erick Perdomo, computer engineering sophomore, and Wil-liam Urias, petroleum engineer-ing sophomore, had no parties planned, and said they planned to stock up on essentials and stay inside.

“We’ve got water and Gato-rade, we didn’t even think about beer,” Urias said. “We went gro-cery shopping yesterday and got everything we needed. Plus we have a grill, which is about the best thing to have during a hur-ricane.”

Both said they didn’t feel the need to stock up on alcohol like other students, as they focused on practical supplies.

“We may have a couple friends over to the house just to chill, but we don’t plan on having

a party or anything,” Perdomo said.

For entertainment, they said they’d rely on a more old-fash-ioned way to pass the time.

“We’ve got an awesome pool table and ping pong table, so we’re pretty excited about

having an excuse to play them for a couple days,” Perdomo said.


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Kent Bergeron, a University senior, launches onto a slip ‘n slide set up Wednesday afternoon on the side of the levee.


Philip Hahn, chemistry sophomore, and Luke Mathentheny, undeclared sophomore, use a tarp to ride a scooter and Ripstick around Patrick F. Taylor.

Ever since the Mississippi River laid down this spit of silt and swamp grass, wind and water have conspired to drag it into the sea. And for almost as long, the oyster-men, river pilots and others who call it home have refused to let go.

But in Isaac, the residents of Plaquemines Parish are battling an adversary some fear they may have underestimated, even as it weakens to a tropical storm.

“We’ve never seen it this bad — the way this wind is shifting,” said Alvin Sylve, a 52-year-old disabled truck driver, preparing to evacuate from a street of double- and single-wide trailers in Jesuit Bend, an area of Plaquemines out-side the federal levee system.

“This double-wide is shaking, even though it’s anchored down. You see another piece came off the roof,” he said inside a friend’s trailer. “It’s falling apart!”

As water spilled over the top of a critical levee Wednesday, this thinly populated parish south of New Orleans was already inundat-ed by Isaac’s punishing downpour, stranding some residents in their homes and forcing more to fl ee.

“We didn’t think it was go-ing to be like that,” electrician Joshua Brockhaus said after res-cuing fl ood-stranded neighbors in his boat. “The storm stayed over the top of us. For Katrina, we got 8 inches of water. Now we have 13 feet.”

Offi cials braced for the worst and said they would cut a hole in a levee in the parish to relieve pres-sure on the structure, though they did not say when. They also had to wait for the winds to calm before they could begin search-and-res-cue efforts.

“We’re going to get out there to them. We’re going to do every-thing we can to get them out of there. But we’re not going to put further people in harm’s way,” said Col. Mike Edmonson, superinten-dent of the Louisiana State Police.

The Louisiana National Guard brought in 14 high-water vehicles and 10 boats, and as many as 70 people were rescued from homes with water up to their roofs in some places. Offi cials believed no one else was stranded.

Parish President Billy Nung-esser said a portion of the roof of his home on the parish’s west bank had blown off. He described wind-driven rain coming into his home as “like standing in a light socket with a fi re hose turned on.”

Offi cials worried about the storm surge also ordered a manda-tory evacuation for the west bank of the Mississippi River below Belle Chasse, the community that is home to the largest share of the parish’s nearly 24,000 residents. The order affected about 3,000 people, including a nursing home with 112 residents. Offi cials said the evacuation was ordered out of concern that more storm surge from Isaac would be pushed into

the area and more levees might be overtopped.

Plaquemines, a mostly rural fi shing and farming community threaded by the Mississippi and known for its rough and tumble residents, is proud of its ability to withstand and recover after hur-ricanes. But it has always been a tenuous struggle on this perilously exposed ribbon of earth, a place nearly entirely below sea level. It’s as much water as it is land.

The water that washes through it and around it supplies Plaquemines with much of its livelihood, with the protection of the mostly local levees to keep the tides at bay. It makes for sur-real sights and sounds. When the river is high, drivers on the high-ways can be startled by huge ships that appear to be fl oating above them across the levee. Clusters of homes, some on stilts, old planta-tion homes, marinas and oilfi eld businesses dot the roads as the sliver strip of mostly marshy land between the Gulf and the river nar-rows.

But Plaquemines’ location is also its weakness, jutting out into the Gulf of Mexico in a way that has invited punishment by the rav-ages of Katrina and the Gulf oil spill. Now, it is Isaac’s turn.


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Tropical Storm Isaac, down-graded from a hurricane about 19 hours after making landfall, drove water over a levee in a lightly pop-ulated part of Plaquemines Parish, fl attened sugar cane 50 miles west in Terrebonne Parish, forced evacu-ation of a neighborhood in St. John the Baptist Parish and knocked out power to more than 700,000 house-holds and businesses statewide.

A hole will be made in the low levee near Braithwaite, where dozens of people who had ignored an evacuation order needed res-cue, said Garret Graves, head of the Coastal Protection Restoration Authority. Until the weather stabi-lizes, he said, it’s too dangerous to breach the levee, but it needs to be done so water can fl ow back into the bay.

Parish spokeswoman Caitlin Campbell said an 18-mile stretch from the St. Bernard Parish line at Braithwaite south to White Ditch was taking water and homes were fl ooding as storm surge piled up against levees between the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River. Civilian volunteers in boats, Loui-siana National Guard troops in high-water vehicles and boats and sheriff’s deputies from St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes were go-ing house-to-house.

The Louisiana National Guard brought in 14 high-water vehicles and 10 boats.

“This is a local levee. They knew it’s prone to fl ooding. That’s why it was under a mandatory

evacuation order. About 20 people or so didn’t leave,” said Col. Mike Edmonson, superintendent of Lou-isiana State Police.

“We’re going to get out there to them. We’re going to do every-thing we can to get them out of there. But we’re not going to put further people in harm’s way,” Ed-monson said.

The fi rst confi rmed storm-related death in Louisiana was re-ported in Vermilion Parish, where a man who went to help friends move a vehicle from under a tree climbed up the tree and fell 18 feet to his death.

Carlos Medellin-Guillen, 36, of Erath, died Tuesday evening shortly before Isaac made landfall 170 miles away.

With the storm expected to be moving across the state for hours, if not days, he said, “This is some-thing we’re going to be in for the long haul. This is not anywhere anytime soon.”

Wednesday afternoon brought some good news: the storm was weakening more quickly than ex-pected, with peak winds of 50 mph.

Worry about storm surge in Plaquemines Parish prompted a mandatory evacuation Wednesday for the west bank of the Mississippi River below Belle Chasse, where about 3,000 people live.

In St. John the Baptist Par-ish, about 25 miles west of New Orleans, at least 1,500 people were forced from their homes by fl oodwaters and thousands more needed to evacuate, according to the governor’s offi ce.

In the parish’s River Forest subdivision, the water rose quickly Wednesday, and higher than it ever has, said Brittney Reid.

By noon it was creeping into her family’s driveway. “Our street will fl ood, but it’s never been in the driveway before,” she said. As she was driving her car from the drive-way to the higher back yard, “the sheriff came down in a big rescue truck like a paddy wagon,” she said.

Rapidly-rising water closed off all main thoroughfares into the parish, and in many areas, water lapped up against houses and left cars stranded. Floodwaters rose to waist-high in some LaPlace neighborhoods, and the Louisi-ana National Guard was working with sheriff’s deputies from a lo-cal Home Depot to rescue people stranded in their homes and sur-prised by the fl ooding.

Isaac bounced off the mouth of the Mississippi River Tuesday night, making its fi rst landfall. It then stalled over Grand Isle, Loui-siana’s only inhabited barrier is-land.

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu de-scribed the then-Category 1 storm as “nasty and determined.”

“It continues to hover over the region, dumping fl ooding rains on a large swath of the Gulf Coast and driving winds that have left hundreds of thousands without power,” she said. “The good news is that the re-engineered and re-built federal levee system with the $14.5 billion investment that came after Hurricane Katrina is holding.

There have been no reports of ma-jor damage so far within the pro-tected area.

“Unfortunately, that’s not been the case for low-lying areas outside the federal system, in particular lower Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes. It’s heartbreaking to watch people climb out of their at-tics and onto their roofs in search of safety.”

Jesse Delcambre, who stayed in the town hall because her fi -ancé is a town employee, said two to fi ve feet of water covered the island Wednesday morning, and

had fallen about 12 to 18 inches by late afternoon.

“The houses over here are all 12, 14 feet above ground on pil-ings,” she said. The few on slabs are fl ooded, she added.

Jefferson Parish President John Young said 30 to 40 peo-ple stayed on Grand Isle, and all were safe.


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A Plaquemines Parish vehicle rides through rising � oodwater behind the levee.

knocked-down fencing and light poles, blown-out windows, water damage, leaks and fl oods. Despite many power outages around Ba-ton Rouge, the University kept its power throughout the storm.

Wednesday — when the hur-ricane hit the city — was the most deserted day, with dining halls, the Student Union and the University Student Recreational Complex all closed. LSU Dining offered emer-gency meals to all students and es-sential personnel, fi lling up both dining halls Tuesday and Thursday.

Behind the scenes, a group of administrators and staff members who made up the Emergency Op-erations Committee, EOC, worked out of a small room in the Offi ce of Public Safety. With computer screens in front of them and mul-tiple televisions displaying differ-ent news channels mounted on the wall ahead of them, they worked to ensure every problem on campus was documented and fi xed.

Members of the EOC, consid-ered essential personnel on campus during the storm, monitored its ef-fects on every segment of campus, from how students were delivered food to how a truck full of medical supplies would be unloaded at the PMAC. An issue they focused on at Thursday’s briefi ng was setting up a Hurricane Isaac Relief fund to help students and families affected by the storm, as they did for Hur-ricanes Katrina and Gustav.

According to their data, 359 students at the University are from areas heavily impacted by Isaac, including Plaquemines and St. John’s.

Spearheading the group were Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administrative Services and CFO Eric Monday and Interim Director of Emergency Operations D’Ann Morris. The two focused on surviv-ing the hurricane “the LSU way” in a Thursday afternoon briefi ng.

“What have y’all achieved?” Monday asked the group of Facili-ties Services leaders, fi nance lead-ers, technology leaders, public in-formation offi cers and more during the briefi ng. “Our students are safe, campus is safe and we’re serving the state.”

The serving the state aspect of

the University has not been as vis-ible as the debris peppering cam-pus, but the University has two hospitals set up — one inside the Carl Maddox Field House and the other in the PMAC. The PMAC medical station, set up Thursday evening, is run by the federal gov-ernment.

Dotted with white cots, the Field House held 65 patients Thursday afternoon, according to EOC Public Information Offi cer Ashley Berthelot. University stu-dents were among those helping the special-needs patients, many of whom said they volunteered to help because they were looking for something to pass the time.

Kathy Kliebert, the state’s deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals, visited the Field House on Thursday after-noon and said she was grateful for the volunteers, who ranged from students to nurses to doctors.

“It’s pretty amazing to think you’ve got employees who could be taking days off and they’re here always,” she said.

Angela Johnson, a doctor who was working in the Field House, praised the students’ volunteer efforts and said the doctors and nurses are attempting to make sure the patients know they’re trying to send them back home. But going home might not be an option for some of the patients from St. John or Tangipahoa parishes, she said.

No patients have become

unstable, Johnson said, but she ac-knowledged that it is always a con-cern with special-needs patients.

“I work because it makes a dif-ference,” said Madeline Monroe, a nurse in the Field House. “I’ve been a nurse for 48 years.”

The PMAC’s setup was most-ly a government-run process, and a truck delivered bedding, toiletries and other medical supplies Thurs-day afternoon, Morris said.

Both the Field House and PMAC are set up as hospitals in-defi nitely.

“The event is not over. As long as we have people in those facili-ties, there will be some form of ac-tivation in those rooms,” Morris said about the EOC.


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Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in an eight-part series previewing each position heading into 2012.

In the past, LSU has produced a high-caliber group of NFL corner-backs. Tharold Simon could be the next name from this group to be called out at the NFL draft.

The junior corner-back is poised for a breakout season after being one of the Southeast-ern Conference’s best-kept secrets last year.

Simon led LSU with 12 passes defended last year, which was also good for sixth in the SEC . With a lanky 6-foot-3 frame and proto-typical NFL speed, Simon has the chance to be a true shutdown corner.

“The NFL player I would com-pare myself to is Dominique Rodg-ers-Cromartie ,” Simon said. “He’s a

big guy with good ball skills than can make an impact on the defen-sive side of the ball.”

But the recent de-parture of Tyrann Ma-

thieu leaves the rest of the sec-ondary in question.

SportsFriday, August 31, 2012 page 13

Game Week NotebookLSU SCHEDULE

TIGERS STATISTICS 2011

MEAN GREEN STATISTICS 2011

LSU NEWCOMERS

VS.No. 3 LSU North Texas

Sept. 1Sept. 8Sept. 15Sept. 22Sept. 29Oct. 6Oct. 13Oct. 20Nov. 3Nov. 10Nov. 17Nov. 23

North Texas Washington Idaho@ AuburnTownson@ FloridaSouth Carolina@ Texas A&M AlabamaMississippi St. Ole Miss@ Arkansas

FOOTBALL

Young Tigers look to fill defensive voidTrey Labat Sports Contributor

THE DAILY REVEILLE ARCHIVES

LSU junior safety Craig Loston (6) takes down an Auburn player Oct. 22, 2011, during the Tigers’ 45-10 victory in Tiger Stadium.

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior running back Alfred Blue escapes University of Kentucky defenders by leaping into the air Oct. 1, 2011, in Tiger Stadium.

‘We � y in any weather’Forget DBU , LSU might as well be Drama U

— at least when the Tigers step outside the lines.

After another tumultuous offseason, this one complete with post title-game fallout right on through to its stormy conclusion, the No. 3 Tigers fi nally return to action Saturday at 6 p.m. against North Texas in Tiger Stadium .

Even though the Mean Green is LSU’s fi rst opponent in nearly eight months, most local eyes have hardly been trained on a North Texas team

that went 5-7 last season in Dan McCarney ’s fi rst year as coach.

They’ve been watching Hurricane Isaac, and now their attention shifts to the Tigers’ stars, both present and absent.

LSU dismissed cornerback and 2011 Heis-man fi nalist Tyrann Mathieu three weeks ago, leaving the Tigers’ secondary thin on starting ex-perience beyond juniors Tharold Simon and Eric Reid .

True freshman Jalen Mills — Mathieu’s re-placement — and fi rst-year starter at safety Craig Loston will face off against Mean Green junior quarterback Derek Thompson , who threw for

1,759 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2011 .LSU coach Les Miles praised North Texas’

offensive athleticism, despite the loss of the school’s all-time leading rusher, Lance Dunbar , to graduation.

But it’s the LSU offense and junior quarter-back Zach Mettenberger who will be in the spot-light.

After an erratic and four -year tenure with Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee under center, all talk of LSU this offseason has centered on an en-hanced aerial assault with Mettenberger.

Tigers open season with North Texas in Tiger Stadium

SEASON OPENER, see page 27

Chris AbshireSports Writer

THE DAILY REVEILLE’S KEYS TO THE GAME:Score early, score often.Keep junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger comfortable in his debut as LSU’s starter.Show the same defensive tenacity that propelled LSU to the BCS National Championship in 2011.Rattle North Texas junior quarterback Derek Thompson with a heavy pass rush.Control the clock with the veteran offensive line paving the way for a standout corps of running backs.Inexperienced linebackers need to prove their worth on veteran defense.

Junior DE Sam Montgomery: nine sacks, 13.5 tackles for loss, 49 total tackles

Junior DE Barkevious Mingo: eight sacks, 15 tackles for loss, 46 total tackles

Junior S Eric Reid: 76 total tackles, two forced fumbles, two interceptions

Junior cornerback Tharold Simon: 10 pass breakups, two interceptions, 42 total tackles

Sophomore WR Odell Beckham, Jr.: 41 catches, 475 yards, two touchdowns

Junior QB Derek Thompson: 157/272 passing, 1759 yards, 11 touchdowns

Junior WR Brelan Chancellor: 457 receiving yards, 3 touchdowns

Senior WR Christopher Bynes: 442 receiving yards, 5 touchdowns

Junior LB Zachary Orr: 74 total tackles, two sacks

Freshman CB Jalen Mills

Freshman CB Jalen Collins

Freshman RB Jeremy Hill

Freshman LB Lamar Louis

Freshman LB Deion Jones

Freshman LB Kwon Alexander

ALBERT BURFORD / The Daily Reveille

Position Preview

DEFENSE, see page 25

When the climbing pitch of some 92,000 fans reaches its apex at the penultimate moment, just before a football is sent tum-bling end-over-end to the oppo-site side of the Tiger Stadium at 6 p.m. Saturday night, 236 days of agony will fi nally be over.

Despite Mother Nature’s best attempt at prolonging LSU’s time in football purgatory, football is back in Baton Rouge.

LSU — both the football team and the community that re-lies on it — needs this new begin-ning.

And it needs it bad.It needs to feel the rhythmic

thump of drums that churns it into a teeming mass just before it hears the four famous hair-rais-ing notes.

It needs to see the Tigers’ shiny new toy with the rocket on his right shoulder dropping bombs into the arms of streaking wide receivers.

And most importantly, it needs to forget that the month long detour to college football hell ever happened by thoroughly dominating North Texas.

Remember that month? Of course you do.

Things got off to a bad start on Jan. 5 , when Dutchtown safety Landon Collins , considered one of the best prospects in the coun-try, spurned the hometown Tigers and committed to hated rival Ala-bama.

Things got sickening Jan. 9 , when LSU’s perfect season was irreparably marred in a 21-0 slaughter on its own state’s turf at the hands of that hated rival.

Things spiraled on Jan. 16 ,

when the stud quarterback recruit with the perfect name, Gunner Kiel , decided he’d prefer South Bend, Ind. to the Red Stick.

All of a sudden, nobody wanted a part of LSU.

And that’s why nobody wants to talk about 2011 and the early parts of 2012 — not now anyway. Nobody wants to relive the season many were hailing as possibly the best season ever put together before the Big Easy Beatdown.

In a little more than three hours, the Tigers had gone from the best team in college football history to the laughingstock of the country for myriad reasons that have been hashed and re-hashed so much they don’t need to be discussed in this column.

Saturday will mark the 236th day since the Allstate BCS Na-tional Championship Game. Much has happened in those nearly eight months, but almost nothing to assuage the sour taste.

When introducing LSU’s re-cruiting class on national signing day, LSU coach Les Miles took some heat for publicly ripping Kiel , saying, “There was a gen-tleman from Indiana that thought about coming to the Bayou state. He did not necessarily have the chest and the ability to lead a pro-gram.”

The team’s most recogniz-able fi gure, Tyrann Mathieu , was mysteriously dismissed shortly before reportedly checking in to a drug rehab facility in Houston.

But the negativity surround-ing the Tigers and their tumul-tuous eight months couldn’t dampen the excitement — or ex-pectations.

LSU will storm Death Valley Saturday night as the nation’s No. 3 team in the Associated Press Poll and the No. 1 team in the

USA Today Coaches Poll .The defense that suffocated

every high-fl ying and ground-pounding offense thrown at it returns most of its stalwart core.

The new-look offense led by junior quarterback Zach Metten-berger gives the Tigers a dimen-sion they have lacked for far too long.

But the real excitement comes from the reunion of fans.

LSU’s campus will trans-form into the world’s largest group therapy session. The LSU family will grieve together over spilled beer and gumbo.

They’ll congregate next to the Indian Mounds, the Parade Grounds and all along Nicholson Drive and recall that interception by safety Eric Reid in Tuscaloosa, or the shifty touchdown reception by wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. against Kentucky and smile.

Soon, maybe aided by alco-hol’s infl uence, last year’s inaus-picious end will fade to the back of the collective mind.

The deluge brought on by Hurricane Isaac washed the cam-pus clean just in time for thou-sands of happy fans to fi ll it with their tailgate refuse before fi ling into the new Tiger Stadium gates.

They will swarm to their seats and buzz until the thump of a foot striking a football offi cially turns the open wound into a scar.

The renewed passion of Sat-urdays in Tiger Stadium is the only thing that can put the an-guish of last season’s end to rest.

Tomorrow, it’s fi nally here.


BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

Students cheer Jan. 9 before the BCS Championship Game against Alabama in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.


Then-freshman punter Brad Wing tearfully watches Alabama players and fans celebrate their Allstate BCS National Championship win after the Tigers lost to the Crimson Tide.

COOL HAND LUKELUKE JOHNSONSports Editor

For LSU football, fans, the time to heal is Saturday

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Editor’s Note: This is the fi nal in an eight-part series previewing each position heading into 2012.

The LSU football team has a knack for producing superstars that come out of no-where, and sophomore punter Brad Wing is just another.

Though Wing was just a red-shirt freshman last season, he was named a First Team All-American and was a semifi nalist for the Ray Guy Award , which is present-ed to the nation’s best punter.

Wing was remarkably ac-curate in his fi rst season. In 2011, 45 percent of his punts were downed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line .

His average of 44.4 yards per punt ranks fi rst in career average and fourth-most in a single season at LSU.

When considering the quality of special teams players, Wing’s success isn’t surprising.

“A lot of our best players in the past – Patrick Peterson , Stevan Rid-ley , guys like that – started out on special teams,” Wing said. “Every-one wants to be on special teams, so we always get the best players that want to work the hardest.”

Wing and the punt team al-lowed just 3.7 yards per return last season . Though Wing was

outstanding in 2011, he knows he can improve.

“I’m pushing on to get bet-ter every single year,” Wing said. “Trying to get more direction is what I’m really trying to focus on, to try to prevent return yards.”

Wing doubles as senior kicker Drew Alleman’s holder on place-kicks.

The amount of time that Alle-man and Wing spend together in practice has allowed them to cultivate a relationship based on trust.

“We have a great relationship,” Wing

said. “We’ve got to have a lot of trust in each other to be success-ful.”

Alleman said their time spent together on the fi eld has led to a friendship off the fi eld.

“We have to be close,” Alle-man said. “I have to put my trust in him because he’s holding for me. I have to fully trust him and I do. [Off] the fi eld, we’re always to-gether and hanging out.”

Alleman had his own suc-cesses in 2011, as he was named to second team All-SEC and a semifi -nalist for the Lou Groza Award for best kicker.

His .889 fi eld goal percentage ranked fi rst in the SEC and second in the nation.

Sophomore James Hairston will keep his position at kickoff specialist after he earned a spot on the freshman All-SEC team last season.

Hairston took over kickoff duties after the Tigers averaged just 58.6 yards per kickoff and

no touchbacks through their fi rst three contests in 2011. Hairston stepped in and averaged 65.7 yards per kickoff and had 16 touchbacks throughout the rest of the season.

True freshman Reid Fergu-son will replace long snapper Joey Crappell , who started in 39 of 40 games for the Tigers from 2009 to 2011 . The recruiting web-site Scout.com named Ferguson the No. 2 long snapping prospect

last year. Sophomore wide receiver

Odell Beckham Jr. will take over punt return duties following Tyrann Mathieu’s dismissal.

Beckham and senior wide

receiver Russell Shepard are likely to handle kickoff returns for the Tigers.


FOOTBALL

Contact Marcus Rodrigue at [email protected]

Marcus RodrigueSports Contributor

Wing, Alleman to anchor standout special teams

ALLEMANWING

Tigers work in new long snapper


LSU senior kicker Drew Alleman kicks a � eld goal March 31 in the 2012 National L Club spring football game in Tiger Stadium.

Position Preview

Editor’s Note: This is the fi nal in an eight-part series previewing each position heading into 2012.

The LSU football team has a knack for producing superstars that come out of nowhere, and sophomore punter Brad Wing is just another.

Though Wing was just a red-shirt freshman last season, he was named a First Team All-American and was a semifi nalist for the Ray Guy Award , which is present-ed to the nation’s best punter.

Wing was remarkably ac-curate in his fi rst season. In 2011, 45 percent of his punts were downed inside the opponent’s 20-yard line .

His average of 44.4 yards per punt ranks fi rst in career average and fourth-most in a single season at LSU.

When considering the quality of special teams players, Wing’s success isn’t surprising.

“A lot of our best players in the past – Patrick Peterson , Stevan Rid-ley , guys like that – started out on special teams,” Wing said. “Every-one wants to be on special teams, so we always get the best players that want to work the hardest.”

Wing and the punt team al-lowed just 3.7 yards per return last

season . Though Wing was out-standing in 2011, he knows he can improve.

“I’m pushing on to get bet-ter every single year,” Wing said. “Trying to get more direction is what I’m really trying to focus on, to try to prevent return yards.”

Wing doubles as senior kicker Drew Alleman’s holder on place-

kicks.The amount of

time that Alleman and Wing spend together in practice has allowed

them to cultivate a rela-tionship based on trust.

“We have a great relationship,” Wing said. “We’ve got to have a lot of trust in each other to be success-ful.”

Alleman said their time spent together on the fi eld has led to a friendship off the fi eld.

“We have to be close,” Alle-man said. “I have to put my trust in him because he’s holding for me. I have to fully trust him and I do. [Off] the fi eld, we’re always to-gether and hanging out.”

Alleman had his own suc-cesses in 2011, as he was named to second team All-SEC and a semifi -nalist for the Lou Groza Award for best kicker.

His .889 fi eld goal percentage ranked fi rst in the SEC and second in the nation.

Sophomore James Hairston will keep his position at kickoff specialist after he earned a spot on the freshman All-SEC team last season.

Hairston took over kickoff duties after the Tigers averaged just 58.6 yards per kickoff and

no touchbacks through their fi rst three contests in 2011. Hairston stepped in and averaged 65.7 yards per kickoff and had 16 touchbacks throughout the rest of the season.

True freshman Reid Fergu-son will replace long snapper Joey Crappell , who started in 39 of 40 games for the Tigers from 2009 to 2011 . The recruiting web-site Scout.com named Ferguson the No. 2 long snapping prospect last year.

Sophomore wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will take over punt return duties following Tyrann Mathieu’s dismissal.

Beckham and senior wide receiver Russell Shepard are

likely to handle kickoff returns for the Tigers.


FOOTBALL

Contact Marcus Rodrigue at [email protected]

Marcus RodrigueSports Contributor

Wing, Alleman to anchor standout special teams

ALLEMANWING

Tigers work in new long snapper


LSU placekicker Drew Alleman kicks a � eld goal March 31 in the 2012 National L Club spring football game in Tiger Stadium.

Position Preview


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No college football player’s de-velopment is the same.

Some might be ready to con-tribute the day they set foot on cam-pus. Others need time to acclimate themselves to the leap from high school to the collegiate level.

It’s hard for most coaches to judge when and how to utilize an athlete — but not for LSU football coach Les Miles . The conundrum of who to play and who to sit is quite an easy issue for him.

“I really want the best play-ers on the fi eld, period,” Miles said Monday in his weekly “Lunch with Les ” press luncheon .

Miles doesn’t care if he starts a true freshman in front of a fi fth-year senior. The ability to make plays and win football games is all that matters.

Miles has shown that when it comes to deciding whether to red-shirt a player, play him right away or remove a redshirt from him mid-way through the season, he knows all the right moves.

Junior defensive ends Barkevi-ous Mingo and Sam Montgomery are the best pair of defensive ends in college football. Mingo’s speed and Montgomery’s power make it a nightmare for opposing offensive line coaches to game plan against them.

Despite the dominant seasons both juniors are poised for in 2012, they were both redshirted their fi rst

year on campus in 2009 . After waiting in the wings for

a season, both contributed signifi -cantly in 2010 .

Montgomery had six tackles-for-loss and garnered Freshman All-Southeastern Conference honors despite only playing in fi ve games before tearing his ACL against Ten-nessee . Mingo fi nished the season tied for ninth on the team with 35 tackles and played in all of the Ti-gers’ 13 games.

Mingo and Montgomery will likely be top 10 picks in the 2013 NFL Draft, but Miles’ decision to redshirt and ease them into the col-lege game is a major reason for their success.

While patiently waiting for a season was the recipe for success for Mingo and Montgomery , Miles doesn’t shy from putting freshmen on the fi eld.

Former cornerback Tyrann Ma-thieu had one of the best freshman seasons in LSU history in 2010 .

Miles didn’t care the Honey Badger was only a freshman . Ma-thieu was fourth on the team in tackles, picked off two passes and forced a team-high fi ve fumbles.

Because of Miles’ “best player will play” mentality, Mathieu was given the opportunity to contribute from day one.

After Brandon Taylor went down with a foot injury against Ala-bama, freshman Eric Reid stepped in to fi ll the void at safety. Being able to put a freshman into such a high pressure situation shows the supreme confi dence Miles has in his players to perform when called upon.

With the experience he gained from starting as a freshman, Reid can offer fi rst-hand advice to

freshman cornerback Jalen Mills , who will make his fi rst collegiate start Saturday.

Even when a player is given a redshirt by Miles, he shouldn’t get too comfortable on the sideline.

Two players in 2011, defensive end Jermauria Rasco and safety Ronald Martin , were both redshirt-ed as true freshmen — then Miles had a change of heart.

Rasco was called into action against Mississippi State because Miles thought he possessed too much talent to not make a contribu-tion on an already-stacked defen-sive front.

With only three games left in the regular season, Miles burned Martin’s redshirt after Reid was set to miss a game against Ole Miss af-ter a quadriceps injury. It takes some serious swag to burn a player’s redshirt season for him to only

appear in three games. Miles did it without thinking twice.

Seeing true freshmen receive signifi cant snaps from the get-go can only help attract recruits to LSU who want to the see the fi eld imme-diately. I don’t expect that trend to end anytime soon, with freshmen Mills , Kwon Alexander and Deion Jones likely to see numerous snaps immediately in 2012.

When it comes to determining when a player is ready to take his talents to the fi eld, the Mad Hatter is head and shoulders above the com-petition.

Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.

Miles’ personnel decisions unparalleled by competition

Contact Micah Bedard at [email protected]

Twitter: @DardDog


Defensive end Sam Montgomery (99) heads to the locker room before the Tigers’ victory over Alabama on Nov. 5, 2011, at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

Defensive lineman Jermauria Rasco (59) and UK quarterback Morgan Newton (12) dive for a loose ball Oct. 1, 2011, in Tiger Stadium.

MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

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Trees and debris: Hurricane Isaac sweeps

through campus

photos by TAYLOR BALKOM, MORGAN SEARLES AND CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

The University made it through Hurricane Isaac relatively unscathed, with the exception of a few downed trees around campus. While some students evacuated, others remained on campus and entertained themselves amid rainy weather and gusty winds. Isaac made its way through campus Wednesday as a tropical storm.


VOLLEYBALL

Tigers face two top 12 teams

As if the task of taking on two of the nation’s top 12 teams wasn’t daunting enough, thanks to Hurricane Isaac, the LSU vol-leyball team’s home opener has been moved to Rice University in Houston.

The Tigers will face off against No. 7 Purdue , No. 12 Washington and unranked Rice a week after losing to No. 2 Texas and No. 19 San Diego in straight sets at the Longhorns Classic.

“We have three tough match-es ahead of us, and the chal-lenge before our team is big,” said LSU coach Fran Flory in a news release. “I’m extremely appreciative to our administra-tion who allowed us to evacuate Baton Rouge on Tuesday. Rice has been wonderful in hosting us this week.”

Purdue and Washington have yet to lose a set this season af-ter going a perfect 18-0 through three matches each.

LSU went 1-2 in its opening weekend after posting a total of 60 hitting errors over two days.

“I don’t think we under-stood how many hitting errors we were making last weekend,” Flory said. “As a coaching staff, we had the players trying to do some things that they weren’t real comfortable with. We’re going to have to open up a bit more, hit some different shots and be more

creative offensively.”Flory said she will continue

to make adjustments in the lineup leading up to the start of confer-ence play in two weeks.

“We feel like we’re in a good spot and made some great strides in practice this week,” Flory said. “We’ll get to lineup tomorrow and see how it goes.”

The Tigers may lean on se-nior libero Meghan Mannari and junior middle blocker Desiree El-liott throughout the tournament.

Mannari averaged 4.22 digs per set last weekend and stands 151 digs away from becoming the 12th Tiger to record 1,000

digs in a career.Elliot earned All-Tourna-

ment honors at the Longhorns Classic last weekend after post-ing a 3.33 kills per set average.

“We feel like we’re in a good spot and made some great strides in practice this week,” Flory said. “We’ll get to line up tomorrow and see how it goes.”

The Tigers face Rice and Washington on Friday and Pur-due on Saturday.

Mike GegenheimerSports Contributor

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Tiger Classic moves to Houston

SOCCER

Hurricane alters upcoming matchups

The LSU soccer team may not be playing tonight, but there’s still a busy week on the horizon for the Tigers.

LSU postponed its home match against Stephen F. Austin — originally scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. — to Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 5:30 p.m.

LSU coach Brian Lee said Hurricane Isaac ’s extended ef-fects and tropical-storm impact on the campus caused the decision, which was announced Wednesday morning.

“We felt it was better to make a decision early,” Lee said. “There was no need to wait with a storm like that coming.”

But the Tigers (1-1-1 ) now face a challenging task, as they will take on Houston on Sunday afternoon in the LSU Soc-cer Stadium , which suffered little visible damage from the storm.

It will be the fi rst of three matches in a six-day span, a gru-eling slate for a collegiate soccer squad.

The Cougars are 1-2 this season and play at UL- Lafayette tonight.

Junior midfi elder Jasmine Martinez leads a fi ckle Houston attack that has already been shut out but also tallied three goals in a match.

Martinez accounted for two of those scores and is a former Conference USA All-Freshman selection.

LSU hasn’t practiced since Tuesday morning, a lengthy break for a squad already struggling to fi nd the net.

The Tigers have scored one goal in each of their three matches this season, but squandered more than a dozen legitimate scoring opportunities during a winless weekend at home.

Houston’s porous defense could help kickstart the LSU of-fense in the attacking third. The Cougars have allowed multiple

goals in all three matches, includ-ing two in a shut-out loss to com-mon opponent Stephen F. Austin .

The postpone-ment was the sec-ond time during coach Brian Lee ’s

tenure at LSU that a hurricane af-fected the Tigers schedule.

Hurricane Gustav and Hur-ricane Ike combined to wipe out four LSU matches in 2008 .

Stephen F. Austin match postponedChris AbshireSports Writer

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Freshmen Khourtni Fears (1) and Cati Leak (24) attempt to block a spike from freshman Katie Lindelow (7) in the Purple and Gold Scrimmage Saturday at the PMAC. ‘� ere was no need to

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Sophomore kicker James Hairston will kick off the Tigers’ 2012 campaign against North Tex-as on Saturday differently from any previous season in college football history.

The NCAA announced this offseason that teams will kick off from the 35-yard line instead of the 30-yard line and touchbacks will be brought out to the 25-yard line instead of the 20.

Hairston downplayed the im-pact of the new rules.

“Kicking is kicking and it will always be kicking,” Hairston said. “Now it is just five yards closer.”

According to the NCAA, the rule changes were made for player safety reasons. An NCAA study found that there were more kick-offs last season and that the big-gest collisions oc-curred on kickoffs.

The new rules were made to make kickoffs a less significant part of the game by making it more advantageous for teams to not take the ball out of the end zone.

Last season, the Tigers uti-lized the high, short kickoff. Hair-ston had the leg to reach the end

zone but instead kicked the ball short of the goal line and allowed the coverage team handle the rest.

Sophomore wide receiver Jarvis Landry and junior safety

Craig Loston, both five-star recruits, stood out on kick-off coverage last season.

“ E v e r y o n e has to be able to play special teams,” Landry said. “Coach [Les]

Miles stresses that if you can’t play special teams, you can’t play offense or defense.”

This strategy might change this season. LSU still puts

superior athletes on special teams, but part of the rules changes might make the special teams players’ coverage less effective.

Coverage men must line up within five yards of the ball, which eliminates the running start under the old rules.

“This team works so hard that really they don’t need much of a running start,” Hairston said. “The athletes we have covering the kicks are explosive, and I think if anything they will take these new rules as a challenge.”

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Safety concerns reason for change


LSU senior placekicker Drew Alleman kicks off the ball March 31, 2012 in the National L Club Spring Football Game in Tiger Stadium.

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Tulane to play on schedule SaturdayThe Associated Press

“We have concluded it is not only appropriate to move ahead with this event but essential to show the nation the resolve and resiliency of our community when faced with enormous adversity,” Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson said Thursday.

The Superdome sustained only superficial damage to sur-rounding signs, banners and land-scaping.

Doug Thornton, an executive with SMG, the company that man-ages the state-owned Superdome, said the stadium never lost pow-er and its roof never leaked. He noted key Superdome personnel were returning to work Thursday to get the stadium ready to host college football.

Although the dome was in good shape Wednesday night, Tulane officials waited on a final decision to play until evaluating the condition of the community and confirming the airport would be ready for Rutgers’ charter flight on Friday.

Louis Armstrong Interna-tional Airport lost power during the storm, which came ashore

Tuesday night and lingered in south Louisiana as both a hurri-cane, then later as a tropical storm, throughout Wednesday. The air-port also was closed to commer-cial air traffic on Thursday.

On Thursday morning, Dick-son consulted with officials from the city, the Superdome, Rutgers and the CBS Sports Network, which will televise the game na-tionally.

The Tulane football team left New Orleans for Birmingham, Ala., on Monday and practiced at Samford. The team planned to practice there again Thursday and Friday morning before returning to New Orleans.

The game will mark the end of an eventful first week of the regular season for new Tulane head coach Curtis Johnson, who is used to such weather-related dis-ruptions. Johnson grew up in the New Orleans area and spent the past six seasons as wide receivers coach for the New Orleans Saints.

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‘Kicking is kicking and it will always be

kicking.’ James Hairston

LSU sophomore kicker

Though Hurricane Isaac uproot-ed trees and littered the LSU streets with debris, the athletic facilities were spared of any major damage.

The newly renovated west side of Tiger Stadium was unphased by Isaac’s consistent 40 mph winds, and Assistant Director of Athletic Facili-ties & Grounds Eric Fasbender said the field is in satisfactory conditions.

“The field is fine,” Fasbend-er said. “We walked it first thing [Thursday] morning, and it held up well.”

The stadium sustained minimal superficial damage, as the banner commemorating the Tigers’ national championships partially ripped off the south endzone scoreboard, which Fasbender said is a simple repair.

Aside from a tree falling near the PMAC and minor flooding on both the track and tennis courts, all athletic facilities are unharmed, something Fasbender attributes to astute planning.

“We had enough time to prepare ahead of time, so things were where they needed to be,” Fasbender said.


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Only minor damages were seen around campus Thursday morning such as: [left] a corner of the National Championship banner hanging loose, [top right] siding falling off the PMAC and [bottom right] debris lying next to the PMAC.

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The New Orleans Saints took no chances in their final preseason game, resting all the starters in a 10-6 loss to the Ten-nessee Titans on Thursday night as they prepared to return home to storm-ravaged Louisiana and put a scandal-ridden offseason behind them.

Interim coach Joe Vitt scratched 26 players, including starting quarterback Drew Brees and their top three running backs and wide receivers, ensuring the Saints (2-3) will be on solid foot-ing as he begins a suspension for New Orleans’ pay-for-injury scheme. Offensive line coach Aaron Kromer will lead the team into its Sept. 9 regular-season opener against the Washington Redskins.

New Orleans’ backups showed plenty of spark with a few roster spots on the line and largely outplayed the starters of the Titans (3-1) early in what was a meaningless game for just about everyone but new Ten-nessee starting quarterback Jake Locker. With running back Chris Johnson sitting out but with most of the offensive starters on the field, the second-year player con-tinued his streak of spotty play.

He overthrew one open re-ceiver for a sure touchdown and fumbled inside the 5, completing 9 of 16 passes for 81 yards in four series that yielded a field goal by Rob Bironas. He was largely out-played by Saints third-stringer Sean Canfield, who was 14 of 18 for 144 yards and led the Saints

to a 6-3 first-half lead.While a few players fought

for roster spots as Friday’s cut-down day approaches, most of the Saints were thinking about home as Hurricane Isaac brought heavy storm damage and some flooding to Louisiana.

Brees warmed up briefly with the team before bear-hug-ging Vitt and exiting to the side-line. He sent a tweet to fans ear-lier in the day: “We are about to take the field in Tennessee, but our hearts are with New Orleans and its residents. May God watch over us all.”

The team gave players Sun-day and Monday to secure their families and homes, then relo-cated to Cincinnati where they worked out at the Bengals’ facili-ties on Tuesday before heading south to Nashville.

It was just another distrac-tion to deal with in an offseason that was filled to the brim with them.

New Orleans coach Sean Payton is gone for the season, as is linebacker Jonathan Vilma thanks to suspensions levied by the NFL. Vitt is next up as Kromer takes over for six weeks. Still considered Super Bowl con-tenders, they have had questions swirling around their team for much of the offseason.

The only significant Saint seeing time against the Titans was fourth-string running back Chris Ivory, who carried six times for 24 yards.

By contrast, most of the Ti-tans starters saw time with little to show for it. They failed to convert Alterraun Verner’s early forced fumble and recovery at the Saints 24, settling for a field goal. And their only touchdown, a 1-yard run by Jamie Harper,

came midway through the third quarter following an interception in Saints territory.

Locker finished the pre-season 31 of 60 for 215 yards with two touchdown passes and an interception. His mistakes in accuracy and ball protection against the Saints were similar to those he’s made since being taken with the eighth overall pick last year. But help may be on the way. Kenny Britt was activated from the physically unable to per-form list on Tuesday and reports Thursday say the team’s athletic wide receiver faces a one-game suspension from the NFL for off-the-field issues.

That could mean a quicker-than-expected boost for the Ti-tans, who lacked consistent of-fensive playmakers while just missing the postseason last year.


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Saints defensive back Isa Abdul-Quddus (42) knocks the ball from the hands of Titans quarterback Jake Locker (10) in a preseason game on Thursday in Nashville, Tenn.

Most Titan starters see playing time

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — No. 9 South Carolina and coach Steve Spurrier got a big scare to open the season. Marcus Lattimore and Connor Shaw helped the Game-cocks grind their way past plucky Vanderbilt.

Lattimore ran for two touch-downs and 110 yards in his first game back after tearing his left ACL, and Shaw ran for 92 yards while playing the second half with an injured shoulder as No. 9 South Carolina rallied for a 17-13 victory against Vanderbilt on Thursday night.

Shaw bruised his right, throw-ing shoulder late in the first half and missed the first two series of the third quarter before returning. The junior drove the Gamecocks for the go-ahead touchdown and ran 12 yards to the Vandy 1 before rolling in pain in the end zone.

Lattimore scored the go-ahead TD on a 1-yard run with 11:25 to go.

Vanderbilt had plenty of time to attempt a comeback, the last with 5:08 left. But The Commo-dores turned it over on downs with 1:47 to go when Jordan Matthews couldn’t handle a fourth-down pass from Jordan Rodgers. Gamecocks defensive back D.J. Swearinger ap-peared to grab Matthews’ arm be-fore the ball arrived.

Vanderbilt didn’t have the sellout crowd coach James Frank-lin wanted, but most of the 38,393 who did turn out were wearing black as part of a “blackout.” The Commodores came up with three sacks and forced two turnovers, and they out-gained South Caro-lina 276-272 in total offense.

But South Carolina had Lat-timore and Shaw running through and around the Commodores all night long. Lattimore played for the first time since tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament last Oc-tober. The Gamecocks also got five sacks and came up with an inter-ception that set up Lattimore’s first TD, a 29-yarder in the first quarter.

The Gamecocks’ night started off with two turnovers and a pen-alty on their first four offensive plays. Spurrier used three different quarterbacks, including senior Seth Strickland who’s only on the depth chart as a holder, when Shaw shuf-fled to the sideline holding his right arm close to his side to protect his aching shoulder.

South Carolina finished with 67 yards passing, a rare stat for a Spurrier-coached team.

Even with the ugly start, South Carolina jumped out to a 10-0 lead. Vanderbilt came right back with 10 straight points to tie it up going into halftime.

Rodgers threw a 78-yard TD pass to Matthews in the second quarter as Vanderbilt scored 10 straight points to tie up the Game-cocks. Carey Spear put Vanderbilt ahead 13-10 with his second field goal, a 44-yarder, with 6:51 left in the third quarter.

Shaw was hurt at the end of a 2-yard run down to the Vanderbilt 46 late in the first half. He went to the sideline before going to the locker room where he was exam-ined. Dylan Thompson finished the half and oversaw two three-and-outs to start the second half before Shaw ran back to the Gamecocks’ sideline.

The junior quarterback, who’s

now 9-1 as a starter, came back into the game with 6:02 left in the third quarter. He went three-and-out himself before putting together the game-winning drive. The big play was a 20-yard pass to Justice Cunningham. Officials flagged Vanderbilt cornerback Andre Hal for hitting a defenseless receiver above the shoulder, knocking the receiver’s helmet off.

Hal tried to make up for the penalty with a 52-yard kickoff re-turn, but the Commodores punted it back after going three-and-out to lose momentum.


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HOUSTON (AP) — Johnathan Franklin rushed for 214 yards and three touchdowns as UCLA racked up 348 yards on the ground en route to a 49-24 win over Rice on Thursday night.

Brett Hundley, a redshirt freshman, was 21 of 28 for 202 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 68 yards and a touch-down. Joseph Fauria caught three passes for 53 yards and a touch-down.

Franklin just missed his ca-reer high of 216 yards rushing set in 2010 against Washington State. He became the first play-er in UCLA history to have two rushes of at least 72 yards in a game after scoring on touchdown runs of 74 and 78 yards in the first half.

Rice’s Taylor McHargue threw for 172 yards and two touchdowns on 17 of 28 pass-ing and rushed for 95 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries. Sam McGuffie caught eight passes for

63 yards and a touchdown.UCLA finished with 651 to-

tal yards in Jim Mora Jr.’s first game as coach, compared to 347 for Rice.

After a scoreless third quar-ter, UCLA put the game away with a 3-yard touchdown pass from Hundley to Fauria to make it 41-24 after the two-point con-version failed with 12:29 left in the game.

Franklin extended the lead to 49-24 with a 22-yard touchdown run and Hundley connected with David Allen for the two-point conversion with 7:54 remaining in the fourth.

Hundley took UCLA’s first snap and ran 72 yards down the right sideline for a touchdown. The PAT was blocked to make it 6-0.

After Roosevelt Davis’ in-terception of McHargue, UCLA took three plays to go 47 yards and score on an 11-yard pass from Hundley to Jerry Johnson. The PAT was blocked again to make it 12-0. Franklin took UCLA’s first

snap on its next drive 74 yards to extend the Bruins’ lead to 19-0.

The Owls got on the board with a six-play, 75-yard drive capped by an 8-yard pass from McHargue to Luke Wilson to cut the lead to 19-7 with 6:08 re-maining in the first and sliced the lead to nine on a Chris Boswell 53-yard field goal four minutes later.

After Rice recovered a Bruins’ fumbled punt return, the Owls trimmed the lead to 19-17 on a McHargue 1-yard touchdown run to begin the

second quarter.UCLA rebounded to extend

the lead to 22-17 on a 27-yard field goal by Ka’imi Fairbaim with 9:17 remaining in the first half, and Franklin went 78 yards on the second play of UCLA’s next drive to up the UCLA lead to 29-17 with 3:36 before halftime.

The Owls answered with a 2-yard touchdown pass from McHargue to McGuffie 1:20 be-fore the half to make it 29-24, but Damien Holmes returned Turner Peterson’s fumble 43 yards for a touchdown 17 seconds before the

half to extend the Bruins’ lead to 35-24 after another blocked PAT.

Rice’s Cameron Nwosu set an NCAA record with three blocked PATs in one game.

As in the 2010 season, when junior safety Eric Reid and Mathieu stepped in as freshmen, this current crop of young cornerbacks will have to step up early and often.

“We have been blessed with a lot of talent,” said defensive coor-dinator John Chavis. “We will be a little younger … There is some real push for playing time. We are not afraid to play young players. That’s what we’ve done, and we are going to continue to do that.”

Jalen Collins is the presumed leader of the freshmen and could start opposite Simon on the outside in the Tigers base formation.

Possessing solid speed and a 6-foot-2 frame, Collins has the chance to be the next breakout star from the Tigers secondary.

Starting opposite of Simon, Collins could be targeted early and often by opposing offenses. His play in these situations could be critical to LSU’s success, and Collins believes in his abilities.

“If given the opportunity, I feel confident that I can perform well at this level,” Collins said.

Jalen Mills, another true fresh-man, made up for his inexperience with his willingness to learn from coaches and teammates.

“Since coming in for the spring … I’ve learned the playbook front to back, so I know where I need to be on the field,” Mills said.

Even with the young cover cor-ners in the fold, the Tigers have the ultimate safety valve in the talented junior free safety Reid.

A cerebral player that is a natu-ral leader on the field, Reid’s expe-rience should allow him to cover up mistakes in coverage.

“We know that he’s always go-ing to be in the right spot to make a big play, he reads the game extreme-ly well,” defensive backs coach Co-rey Raymond said.

Couple that with his immense physical attributes he flashed last

season, such as the season-defining interception against Alabama in the regular season, and Reid is set to be one of the top safeties in college football.

Starting next to Reid in the de-fensive backfield is first-time starter Craig Loston, a former five-star re-cruit who has been plagued by injury.

Flush with physical tools, Los-ton finally has the opportunity to seize the job, and could push the sec-ondary from good to great if he real-izes his immense potential.

“Loston made a step in spring practice,” Chavis said. He was set back a little by injury, but right now he is having a great fall camp.”

While Mathieu’s dismissal is an obvious blow to special teams, the stats suggest it will have a mild ef-fect on the secondary.

Opposing quarterbacks com-pleted 14-25 passes against Mathieu for 221 yards, leading to 8.8 yards per attempt last year. In compari-son, Simon allowed only 3.6 ypa on 30 targets last year, with Morris Claiborne giving up 7.5 ypa on 25 targets.

Given the talent of the freshmen coming into replace Mathieu, the parts in place for the team to over-come his absence and post better numbers than last season.

“I think there’s a number of [cornerbacks] that are pretty talent-ed,” said head coach Les Miles.


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and the way Miles showed he belonged, more than any tune-up win could.

SORTING THE SITUATION Skip Bertman was in the

middle of his seven -year tenure as LSU’s athletic director when Ka-trina imposed. He’d hired Miles eight months earlier to replace Nick Saban , who turned the pro-gram into a perennial contender before he left for the Miami Dol-phins .

For that reason, fans had lofty expectations, and they were hard enough to meet without Katrina’s chaos.

“What they didn’t quite un-derstand was that a football coach considers any kind of outside in-fl uence clutter,” Bertman said. “…This was the mother of all out-side problems.”

Health offi cials from around the country descended on cam-pus to set up in the PMAC what would become the largest acute care hospital in U.S. history at the time. Much like during Isaac , spe-cial needs patients fi lled the Carl Maddox Field House .

Helicopters frequented LSU airspace for weeks, touching down at Bernie Moore Track Sta-dium to drop off critical victims and emergency personnel at the care center, including one carry-ing President George W. Bush . Football was not a priority for the University.

Even though he had to im-press on the fi eld, it wasn’t exactly a top priority for Miles either. His players spent time with patients in the health care facilities, the visits cutting into their already limited practice time. Shawn Jordan , a fullback for the Tigers at the time, said the team helped run and con-tributed to food drives.

“He was emphasizing to take care of the people in the com-munity and do whatever’s right,” said Doug Tatum , the Times-Pic-ayune’s deputy sports editor at the time. “The football team was grounded and they would play and represent LSU’s interests.”

Before it could turn its focus to football, the team also had its own personal problems to ad-dress. Approximately 25 players couldn’t locate their families in the aftermath, Bertman said.

“Kenny Hollis , who was a linebacker for us, his fi ancée and his little girl were in Mobile and he drove in the middle of the night to go pick his family up,” Jordan said. “So yeah, it was hard for us to focus on what we were doing, but all the coaches were very un-derstanding and they really were there for the players on the team as well as trying to [fi nd] things for us to do so we could help out.”

UNDESERVED CRITICISM The last step to relative nor-

malcy was overhauling the sched-ule. The North Texas game was moved to an open date later in the season. The recovery effort on campus forced LSU to move their home matchup with Arizona State to Tempe, Ariz. Following the 35-31 win against the Sun Dev-ils was the Tigers’ lone bye week in 2005 .

If that wasn’t enough,

Hurricane Rita forced the fi rst home game from a Saturday to a Monday, forcing the chancellor to cancel school. The team roared out to a 21-0 lead over Tennessee at halftime before the emotional drainage started to show.

“That was their fi rst game back in Tiger Stadium and you could defi nitely get the sense that they were playing for the state of Louisiana,” Tatum said. “They came out so strong and so fi red up, I think they might not had enough in the tank in the second half.”

The Tigers lost to the Vol-unteers in overtime, 30-27 . They wouldn’t lose again until the SEC Championship, taking a 34-14 beating from Georgia . The schedule shuffl e meant 11 straight weeks of football. They were ex-hausted.

“These kids aren’t special forces units in the United States military; they’re just college football players,” Bertman said. “They can’t play every seventh day with a schedule like ours and not lose.”

With four weeks of rest, Miles’ team returned to the Geor-gia Dome and doled out its own 40-3 beating to Miami . Still, some fans weren’t satisfi ed. Neither was the LSU System Board of Su-pervisors, according to Bertman .

Bertman said the board, “even the president of the Univer-sity at the time,” criticized Miles for losing the Tennessee and Georgia games. He said he was shocked that “intelligent people ... [with] Ph.Ds” wouldn’t consider

the hurricane’s effect when judg-ing Miles’ performance in his de-but season.

“The whole year was a tre-mendous burden for all the foot-ball players, all the coaches and particularly, the head coach,” Bertman said. “He handled it with class, dignity and a tremendous amount of compassion, and still came out 11-2 in a year where he would’ve won all 13 in my opin-ion, had there been no hurricane.”

‘HE DID A GREAT JOB.’If they were upset then, they

have to be more than happy now. Two seasons later, Miles brought LSU to its second BCS Champi-onship of the decade. Another was well within reach last season, and his team is a favorite to reach the game again this year.

The Tigers, and LSU as a whole, dodged Isaac virtually un-scathed compared to seven years ago. They will meet North Texas on Saturday and when they do, the region’s, the University’s and Miles’ ability to rise above the surging tide will be at the fore-front of many minds.

“Doctors, nurses that stayed there, police offi cers, fi rst re-sponders — they were all heroes,” Bertman said. “But there was also a hero and he was a football coach. And he did a great job.”


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“The ability to throw the foot-ball’s better,” Miles said. “Call it confi dence. Call it a new quarter-back. I thought the two quarter-backs that we had were talented, but it just appears to me there’s a little bit more juice in the ball — a little bit more ability.”

Mettenberger and a largely un-proven crop of wideouts will likely fi nd ample room to work out any kinks against a North Texas second-ary that has zero returning starters.

That lack of experience will make it even tougher for the Mean Green in Tiger Stadium , which has been a house of horrors for them in recent years.

North Texas has made it past the Tigers’ 16 -yard line only once in four meetings, with LSU winning by an average score of 49-3 .

That history suggests Saturday to be a benign opener, something the Tigers haven’t been accustomed to in recent years.

The Tigers opened against ranked opponents at a neutral site the last two seasons, crossed the country to take on Washington in 2009 and started 2007 at conference foe Mississippi State on a Thursday night.

LSU is beginning the season at home for just the third time in Miles’ eight seasons and the fi rst since Appalachian State in 2008 .

That game was also the last time Baton Rouge dealt with the ef-fects of a hurricane, as Gustav rolled through the campus area and forced LSU to shuffl e around its schedule.

But the home date doesn’t mean the offseason was a quiet one, and that turmoil kept on rolling ear-lier this week, extending even be-yond Isaac’s path.

Miles announced that junior running back Michael Ford and ju-nior linebacker Tahj Jones may miss the opener as they deal with unspec-ifi ed academic eligibility issues.

Sixth-year senior offensive lineman Josh Dworaczyk said the distractions have become “white noise” by this point, noting LSU’s undefeated regular past season as the expected response to any per-sonal issues.

“Through crisis or through any adversity, we’re going to get closer,” he said. “You have to take those things and spin it into a way that you turn it into a positive for this team to grow together. If you lose a guy or there’s a void that has to be fi lled, guess what: you have to tighten things down a little bit.”

Ford was LSU’s leading rusher in 2011 , gaining 756 yards and fi nd-ing the endzone seven times.

Junior Alfred Blue and sopho-more Kenny Hilliard earned the nod as co-starters at running back fol-lowing strong fall camps and fl ash-es of brilliance down the stretch last season.

“They’ve had the best camps, and that’s why we’re comfortable with their skills,” Miles said.

They’ll run behind an offensive line returning four starters from the 2011 unit that powered a running at-tack to 202 yards per game.

The combination of that bruis-ing presence and a defensive line — one that remains largely intact this season — sapped the drama from the second half of many LSU games last fall.

In recent years, LSU has be-come synonymous with on and off the fi eld theatrics, which was only exacerbated by last August’s inci-dent at Shady’s Bar and Tyrann Ma-thieu’s dismissal this August.

With the storm, both literal and fi gurative, behind them, the Ti-gers open a new chapter in the saga against the Mean Green Saturday night in Death Valley .


SEASON OPENER, from page 13

THE DAILY REVEILLE ARCHIVES

Former Tiger Tayler Debusk (21) goes for the � rst down as former Tiger safety Brandon Taylor (15) and former Tiger tight end Ronnie Turpin (41) try to make the tackle on March 27, 2010, in the National L Club spring football game.

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Opinionpage 28 Friday, August 31, 2012

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Editorial Policies & Procedures Quote of the Day“Everybody talks about the

weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

Mark TwainAmerican author

Nov. 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910

Editorial BoardAndrea Gallo

Emily HerringtonBryan Stewart

Brian SibilleClayton Crockett

Editor-in-Chief

Managing Editor

Managing Editor, External Media

News Editor

Opinion Editor

Cheers and JeersThumbs up: Electricity. Unlike

most of Baton Rouge, the Universi-ty never lost power. University offi-cials even tested on Tuesday night to

ensure a backup power source would work. Students could use the Internet, stay in touch with their families and see in the dark during the storm.

Thumbs down: Making up classes. We’re still dreaming of our now-gone plans for fall break. And we’re dreading the Saturday when we

have to wake up and get to class. The Uni-versity should expect hurricanes every fall and build in at least three days of class that can be missed without foregoing fall break — a wonderful reward for trudging through several weeks of the semester. Now, once we’re exhausted from the semester under way, we’ll have no chance for relief.

Thumbs up: Facility Services. We ventured outside Thursday at 7 a.m., and Facility Services workers were already assessing damage and clear-

ing debris. They deserve an extra thank you for the hard work they do every day, but their hurricane clean-up efforts were outstanding.

Thumbs down: Lack of commu-nication. We spent hours and hours without hearing from administrators about the status of the storm and

whether or not we would have class. In times of crisis, we need leadership and we need up-dates every few hours. One email a day sent, not from the chancellor or provost, but from the University’s communications staff, is not cutting it. Students deserve contact from their top leadership at all times.

Thumbs up: Dining. The deci-sion to give emergency meals to all students and essential staff Tuesday and Thursday was an excellent and

delicious choice. All of the LSU Dining em-ployees who cooked, served and delivered the meals should be applauded for their extra work.

Thumbs down: Storm speed. Hur-ricane Isaac needed to make up its mind. Was it a hurricane? A tropi-cal storm? Moving quickly? Not at

all? The storm’s slow nature contributed to the lives lost and endangered along the coast.

Thumbs up: Emergency Operations Center (EOC). We had the privilege of walking into this maze of com-puters, news and information brim-

ming with intel Thursday and we were over-whelmed by the amount of hard work that went into keeping track of campus, students and government-ordered medical care.

Thumbs down: New Orleans tun-nel vision. The national media put too much emphasis on New Or-leans when Plaquemines Parish,

Tangipahoa Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish were where the stories of Hurricane Isaac loomed. The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina still haunts us, but it was time to fo-cus on Isaac.

Thumbs up: Student Media. Cross-convergence from The Dai-ly Reveille, Tiger TV and KLSU kept students informed all the way

through the storm.

�e Daily Reveille assesses Hurricane Isaac’s impact on campus

Contact The Daily Reveille Editorial Board at [email protected]

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photos by TAYLOR BALKOM, MORGAN SEARLES, CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

Around Baton Rouge and the University, signs of Hurricane Isaac’s impact were apparent following the storm.

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OpinionFriday, August 31, 2012 page 29

The great American essayist H.L. Mencken said there existed to every problem a solution — neat, plausible or wrong. Within this spectrum of possible outcomes is where the United States now finds itself in regard to its foreign policy as it relates to Basher Al-Assad’s despotic Syrian regime and the war-torn country it holds captive.

What started as a peaceful pro-test 17 months ago in the border-city of Dara’a has evolved into a metaphorical and literal conflagra-tion of the Syrian people. Fighter jets, helicopters and tanks continue to besiege the opposition groups, and if one isn’t with the govern-ment, he or she is automatically against it. No exceptions or exemp-tions.

It is into this climate of uncer-tainty, fear and death that President Barack Obama has injected himself — after what can only be assumed to have been extreme reluctance — and issued the first warning to the Syrian government.

With knowledge of Syria’s ex-tensive chemical-weapons stock-pile and in anticipation of a further escalation in the level of violence, Obama warned al-Assad and his murdering militia any movement of “unconventional weapons” — chemical or biological — would result in direct military interven-tion.

I applaud the president for what he said, and implied. In-timidation itself is frequently sufficient to prevent an unwant-ed action from occurring, but chemical-weapon usage or not, the conflict in Syria is still dire. Inter-vention must still be examined and debated realistically.

Narrowed in scope to cover only the American aspect to any

such mediation, there is a trio of factors to consider: pressure within the U.S. to intervene, the U.S. role in an intervention scenario and possible complications that may arise afterward.

Directly intervening is an op-tion — the last option, and one that I would support — the reality of the situation is this: Syria is not Libya.

The most dangerous weap-ons Col. Qaddafi possessed were hand-held anti-aircraft armament, and although he enjoyed concrete support outside of Libya, he had a poor military within. Libya also had a low risk of ethnic and sectar-ian animosity, unlike Syria, where a major fraction of the combat is now Sunni on Shia and Alawite against Sunni.

And let us also not forget this is an election year in the U.S., which means any military con-frontation gone wrong is strongly suggestive of the vote swinging in favor of the non-incumbent.

Henri-Lévy, a popular mem-ber of the Nouveaux Philosophes movement in France, gets it right in his most recent plea when he says the U.S. can provide logisti-cal support, loan intelligence ca-pabilities and provide technology that would assist in imposing a no-fly-zone, all without deploying troops. This combined with the $82 million already supplied and more that is surely on its way for refu-gees and for non-lethal support to the opposition movement makes it possible for the U.S. to techni-cally intervene without physically

doing so. Any difficultly springing up

after such an intervention will now be drastically reduced for the U.S., which is to say that any such di-lemma would be negligible enough to ignore beforehand.

Economically, since there are no personnel being dispensed, the cost of the entire operation is likely to be less than the foreign aid we donate to undeserving or illegal countries like Pakistan or Israel.

But this is all under the as-sumption that the West’s cascade of constant and continuous submis-sion to the bullying of Russia and China will end.

These two duplicitous allies of Syria have repeatedly voted against directly halting the blood-shed, and for all practical purposes,

would rather see al-Assad’s regime reassert control.

After a certain point, we who fight on the side of liberty, freedom and human rights against the forces of injustice and intolerance and op-pression must put the flippancy and alibis aside, overlook those who re-fuse to cooperate, and in the words of Henri-Lévy, “act without delay to stop the killing.”

Arun Gunasekaran is a 20-year-old biochemistry junior from Baton Rouge.

Contact Arun Gunasekaran at [email protected];

Twitter: @TDR_ArunG

WHY DO WE FALL?ARUN GUNASEKARANColumnist

Mediation in Syria calls for close consideration

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In response to Taylor Hammons’ column, “Air Force general sets ex-ample for secularism,” readers had this to say:

“I’m a disabled vet (1951-55), and the more I see of religionists picking on those unlike themselves, the more I wonder what I was fight-ing for. I sure wasn’t fighting for Christianity. I never took an oath to uphold or defend any religion, let alone Christianity. I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the Unit-ed States. I took my orders from the Top of the Chain of Command the

CIC right down to my immediate next. These religionists do not be-long to the vast majority of Ameri-cans who believe that Religion is a connection between the individual and God, and there are many ways to connect. But one should always be judged on what one does, and not on what one believes. Do you trust politicians on what they believe or what they do? Same for soldiers. They are there to defend the United States and not to proselytize. If they want to do that, let them get into civvies and do it on street corners, and let the military fulfill its prime purpose. If they want comfort in religion, they have their Chaplain. This is America. Liberty and Justice for ALL.”- Anonymous

In response to Tesalon Felicien’s column, “Homophobia, cul-tural discrimination fixable with insight,” readers had this to say:

“Obama is using gay rights as a tool to gain votes. In the same way, Romney is using his opposition to gain votes. The Democrats are very good at painting themselves as the “gay-friendly” race, but where were they in 2009 when they had a ma-jority of Congress and the ability to repeal DOMA? I don’t believe their support is sincere. I think they’re riding the “Obama supports gay marriage/LGBT Oreo/Chick fil A” media firestorm that’s been making headlines since May.

When it comes down to it, sec-ular opposition to gay marriage re-volves around tax incentives. Years ago, marriage was church-driven. Marriage also meant babies. There-fore, tax incentives are offered to married couples for if/when they have children. Times, however, have changed. Divorce rates are high and single-parent households are very common. Gays are gain-ing adoption rights, so the notion

of “marriage = babies” is eroding. Replace the old tax incentive with tax credits for children, regardless or marriage or single, and this rea-son has disappeared. This would be a great place to see a reasonably bipartisan agreement between more moderate congressmen, but given today’s polarized political climate it would certainly be left-centered.”- jb

“I was once a gay marriage supporter, but am no longer. Be-ing against gay marriage doesn’t have to rest on religious convic-tions. According to natural law theory, marriage is the social and legal recognition of the biological one-ness that occurs during hetero-sexual sex (unlike the circulatory system or the respiratory system, the reproductive system is not complete within one individual and only be-comes complete during the joining of a man and a woman). This union

of two persons is the basis for mar-riage. Since this kind of biological one-ness simply cannot exist in gay couples, they simply fall outside the objective biological definition of marriage and it is not discrimination to not extend marriage to include those types of relationships. It is no more discrimination than denying veterans’ benefits to a non-veteran: they simply don’t meet the objec-tive criteria.”- Princeton ‘12

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BEBETO MATTHEWS / The Associated Press

William Hague, U.K. Foreign Minister, and Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., listen during a meeting on Syria in the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. Turkey’s foreign minister urged the Security Council to set up a safe zone in Syria to protect thousands of civilians �eeing the civil war.

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DEAR TRI DELTA I am a 25 year old political science student. I am going to graduate in May. I am shy and have been called a sweet

guy. All I want is to go on one date with a member of the tri delta

sorority. They have some of the smartest and prettiest girls. Look-

ing for one dinner and a movie or maybe to spend a game day

together. I just want this more than anything in the world. bwood8@

lsu.edu

ANY SLASHERS IN THE HOUSE? Are you a girl that likes

yaoi and shows like BBC Sher-lock? Do you pair together guys in everything you watch? If so, I am looking to make some friends

with the same interests to hang out with! My name is Danielle and my

email is [email protected] to hear from some fellow

slashers!


gmail.com


on you? Need something you can really count on? A job with LSU Student Media is just what you

need! Now hiring reliable people for advertising sales.

Networking, on-campus offi ce, unlimited income- apply today!


by B34 Hodges Hall to fi ll out an application.



INTELLECTUAL NICE GUY looking for a female

friend to do things with. (i.e. texting, getting lunch, hanging out...) Emphasis on person to person activities. Not look-ing for anything fancy just someone to talk to while getting lunch or over cof-

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[email protected]. Put personal ad or something to distinguish your email in the subject line in case it goes in

spam.

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Send your resume to Annabel at [email protected] or come by B34 Hodges Hall to fill out an application.

COME TO BB&PF FOR BEANS BURGERS AND

PLANTAIN FRIES @ 2679 HIGHLAND ROAD. www.


www.geauxluxury.com

CHILD CARE CENTER near LSU is now hiring teachers for Fall

semester. Must be able to work 2:30-5:30 M-F. Please email re-

sumes to [email protected]

NEED DRIVER -Family needs responsible student with own car to take teenager to and/or from high school. Home is located in Den-ham Springs near I-12 & Juban. High school is located in Central

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for.


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attendants. Shifts are fl exible and can be worked around your school schedule. Please apply in person at

4646 Constitution Ave





TUMBLING INSTRUCTOR NEEDED knowledgeable, energet-ic & experienced instructor needed for tumbling classes in Brusly area-5 min from campus 225.241.4348

FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE Hungry Howies is now hiring Insiders and

pizza makers. Starting pay is $8 per hour.

AVON Representatives Needed.Flexible Hours. $$ Bonuses $$Ind. Sales Rep. 225.938.7665

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TUTOR FOR : SERBOCROA-TIAN I am looking for a language tutor to teach me Croatia/Serbia/Bosnian language. 225.921.2784

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Get your Rally Towel in purple or gold before the games. Only 9.99

or one, or 7.99 for 4 or more. Great for the games. You’ve seen them and no others are like them. Just how big of a fan are you? Visit: www.therallytowel.com or call

337-322-1566





Great 2 BR/2BA apt at Southgate Towers for sublease.1160 sq ft. Looking for male roommate for

one bedroom. Apt on 5th fl oor with balcony. Gated complex, secu-

rity card entry to buildings, gated parking garage with security card, pool and other amenities. Washer/Dryer in apt. Split utilites. ONLY $680 per mo rent. Outstanding apt and rent. Available immediately.

337.280.5971

APARTMENT FOR SUBLEASE - $525

1bed/1bath in a 4bed/4bath. $525/month. Great location! No deposit. Fully furnished! No pets. Campus Crossing on Brightside. Email me for more information mjunea4@

lsu.edu


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serious undergrad, graduate, or in-ternational students. Pets welcome. 757-8175. View and apply online

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DEAR TRI DELTA I am a 25 year old political science student. I am

going to graduate in May. I am shy and have been called a sweet guy.

All I want is to go on one date with a member of the tri delta sorority. They have some of the smartest and pretti-

est girls. Looking for one dinner and a movie or maybe to spend a game day together. I just want this more than

anything in the world. [email protected]

ANY SLASHERS IN THE HOUSE? Are you a girl that likes yaoi and

shows like BBC Sherlock? Do you pair together guys in everything you

watch? If so, I am looking to make some friends with the same interests

to hang out with! My name is Danielle and my email is britaccluv@gmail.

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ers!

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