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Imagine not being able to see clearly through the center seg-ment of your fi eld of vision.
This is the reality for many people living with a condition called age-related macular de-generation , but members of the LSU School of Human Ecology, Division of Human Nutrition and
Food, have been conducting a three-year study focusing on how nutrition in college-aged students may impact their eye health later in life.
The Mayo Clinic defi nes macular degeneration as “a chronic eye disease that causes vision loss in the center of your fi eld of vision. Macular degenera-tion is marked by deterioration of the macula , which is in the center of the retina — the layer of tissue on the inside back wall of your eyeball.”
The disease primarily af-fects adults age 50 and older,
especially those with a high body mass index .
Louisiana is the fi fth most obese state in the country, and the adult obesity rate is slightly above 31 percent , according to a 2010 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
Macular degeneration con-tinues to grow in America in cor-relation with the obesity rates.
It’s a widespread illness with no cure; the only way to com-bat it is through prevention and detection.
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Students conduct eye health study
Taylor SchoenContributing Writer
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Nutrional sciences senior Emily Nickens [left] looks in a macularmetrics densitometer machine while student researcher Markita Lewis [right] oversees the test.
HEALTH
College nutrition can a� ect sight
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WATER, see page 6
Marylee WilliamsContributing Writer
Water activities bring new trends to LSU Lakes
As the summer heat weighs heavy on runners and cyclists, more people are turning to the water in both conventional and unconventional ways.
Outdoor activities have taken fl oat with more people canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding in Baton Rouge and other areas along the Panhandle .
Devin Drouant , Massey’s kayak demo manager, said canoe-ing is more of a family water ac-tivity than kayaking.
Native Americans in arctic regions fi rst used the kayak, but freestyle kayaking didn’t become popular until the 1970s .
Joshua Rivet , an avid kayak-er since 2005, said he discovered the sport while competing in an adventure race. Now he kayaks competitively.
“There are a lot of little races around,” he said. “People just don’t know about them.”
The Phatwater Kayak Chal-lenge is a popular competition where participants race from the Grand Gulf to Natchez, Miss.
Rivet said he has noticed wa-ter sports have become more pop-ular in the last two years around Baton Rouge .
For Rivet , kayaking is about fi tness and leisure, but not every-one uses a kayak to work out.
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Baton Rouge locals paddleboard around the LSU lakes shortly after sunrise Wednesday.
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Nobel Foundation to cut prize money by 20 percent
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — The Nobel Foundation has decided to reduce the prize money of each of the six Nobel awards by 20 percent this year to $1.1 million to help safeguard its long-term capital prospects.
The board of directors said Mon-day it wants to ensure the potential for achieving a good infl ation-adjust-ed return on the Nobel Foundation’s capital during the next several years.
The decision came after the av-erage return on the foundation’s capi-tal fell short of the overall sum of all Nobel Prizes and operating expenses.Nine young elephants � nd new home in Mexican zoo
PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — Nine Af-rican baby elephants were orphaned after their parents were poached, but by a wild game park in Latin Ameri-ca where they could wander around, wide-eyed as they munched on tor-tillas and donned sombreros in their new home.
Except that Namibia, where they came from, says it didn’t happen that way.
The nine elephants were the re-sult of a commercial sale. Despite reports to the contrary, the creatures had never been truly, fully free, and their mothers were not poached.
KKK group in Georgia aims to adopt highway for litter control
ATLANTA (AP) — A Ku Klux Klan group is trying to join Georgia’s “Adopt-A-Highway” program to clean up litter on a mile-long stretch of road, creating a quandary for state offi cials hesitant to acknowledge a group with a violent, racist past on a roadside sign.
The KKK group applied last month to adopt part of Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains. The Georgia Department of Transporta-tion is meeting with lawyers from the state Attorney General’s Offi ce on Monday to decide how to proceed.Items resembling human lungs found on LA County sidewalk
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say something that looks like lungs have been found on a south Los An-geles County sidewalk.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Dean tells the Los Angeles Times that a citizen called Sunday evening to report or-gans on a sidewalk.
He says he doesn’t know what they are but deputies turned them over to coroner’s offi cials.
Coroner’s spokesman Ed Win-ter says a doctor has not yet looked at what was found. He says an ex-amination will be conducted Monday or Tuesday.
Arbitrator: Goodell can discipline Hargrove for bounties program
NEW YORK (AP) — An arbitrator ruled Monday that NFL Commis-sioner Roger Goodell has the author-ity to discipline former Saints defen-sive end Anthony Hargrove for the New Orleans bounties program.
University of Pennsylvania pro-fessor Stephen Burbank reserved judgment last week on Hargrove’s case until the NFL provided more information why Hargrove was sus-pended for eight games. But Burbank now has ruled that he has no jurisdic-tion over Hargrove, either.
Burbank cites a letter from the NFL that attributes “the vast major-ity of (Hargrove’s) eight-game sus-pension to lying ... and obstruction.”
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Feds to set critical habitat in La., Miss., for endangered frog
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is desig-nating nearly 6,500 acres in Missis-sippi and Louisiana as critical habitat for the endangered Mississippi go-pher frog — the only endangered or threatened frog in the Southeast.
The land includes about 1,600 acres in St. Tammany Par-ish, La., with the rest of the desig-nated land being in Mississippi’s Jackson, Harrison, Forrest and Perry counties.
French book publishers drop lawsuit against Google
PARIS (AP) — Internet search giant Google and a group of French book publishers say they’ve resolved a long-running dispute over Google’s book scanning and indexing efforts.
Google and France’s National Publishers Association said in a joint statement Monday that Google will propose a “framework agree-ment” to French publishers contain-ing guidelines for the digitization of out-of-print books. French publish-ers and authors have agreed to drop their suits.
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Nine elephants from Namibia needed a new home, and the owner of a 900-acre wildlife preserve in central Mexico jumped at the chance to buy them.
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Higher education in Louisiana will be cut around $66 million from last year’s budget, despite a legisla-tive resolution allowing the use of $204.7 million in “rainy day” funds to cover gaps in the state’s $25.6 bil-lion budget.
Of that $66 million, about $28 million affects the LSU System, with slightly less than $19 million specifi-cally cut from the University.
That reduction is offset by $24 million in self-generated funds — nearly 9 percent more than last year — bringing the total operating bud-get of the University to $446.4 mil-lion, up from last year’s by about $5 million.
But that isn’t cause for celebra-tion.
The University uses a number called Direct Student Impact (DSI) to show, in dollars, the effect of bud-get actions on a student’s experience.
While the operating budget has increased, the DSI for fiscal year 2013 — beginning July 1 — is down $34.1 million.
Eric Monday, Vice Chancellor and CFO, said this decrease is due to non-recurring funds used in last year’s budget and other expendi-tures.
“None of that is good,” Inter-im LSU System President William
Jenkins said. “As these budget reduc-tions occur, they’re harder and hard-er to deal with because the state’s economy has been in a slump for a while, state general fund availability has been reduced and there are only certain areas of the state budget that can be cut.”
In addition to the forecasted cuts for FY 2013, there is still a $10.6 million cut to the LSU System that must be settled by June 30.
Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said these cuts don’t only affect the University.
“It’s estimated for every dollar that flows through the University, that’s about $10 in the local econo-my,” Cope said. “So say they end up yanking $10 million out of the bud-get, maybe $100 million will go out of the economy in this area. That’s going to put a lot of people out of business, which means fewer taxes paid, and the situation will only get worse — the classic downward spi-ral.”
Cope also criticized Governor Bobby Jindal’s insistence on no new taxes and said a half-of-a-cent tax on natural gas would “probably wipe out the deficit and the lack of money in higher education.”
“If [Jindal] did that, he would do a great service for his people at absolutely minimal cost to people in Louisiana,” Cope said. “But he’s running for national office, so he’s willing to take the people hostage.”
Another issue that makes reduc-ing cuts difficult are the mid-year cuts issued in recent years. Associ-ate Vice Chancellor Bob Kuhn said
it’s difficult to plan for the year when funding promised at the beginning of the fiscal year is cut.
One way to combat these cuts is increasing tuition, which the Uni-versity has done. But according to Jenkins, that reaches a level of di-minishing returns, at which point students can no longer afford to at-tend college.
Provost Jack Hamilton said increasing tuition should improve education, not “replace general ap-propriations money.”
Jenkins acknowledged he’s con-cerned for the future of the Univer-sity.
“I think we’ve now reached the brink of being able to deal with this,” Jenkins said. “Another series of cuts like this would have very serious consequences.”
But there are ways students can combat these cuts. Jenkins suggested students begin talking about their fi-nancial situation.
“When classes resume in the fall, start having some seminars with students and go over these financial predicaments,” he said. “There’s no secret in the numbers.”
Hamilton said calls to legisla-tors can be very meaningful and urged students to contact them.
“I am surprised students are paying more but not complaining,” he said.
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BUDGET CUTS
Cope: University shortfall a�ects entire community
Taylor BalkomStaff Writer
PHOTO STORY
ALYSSA SIRISOPHON / The Daily Reveille
Spiderman makes an appearance [above], a girl receives airbrushed stencil art of a scorpion [right] and two girls listen to karaoke after having their faces painted [bottom] during the 7th Annual International Red Stick Animation Festival at the Manship Theatre on Saturday.
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Both small, large arts support groups suffer cutsTaylor BalkomStaff Writer
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The University isn’t the only thing to be affected by next year’s budget.
Decentralized Arts Funding (DAF) and Statewide Arts Grants (SAG) for the state were cut to $1 million each, down from the $2.5 million both had received in 2009.
SAG supports larger organi-zations, while DAF feeds smaller, grassroot ones.
Without funding, these groups could be forced to close, according to Gerd Wuestemann, executive director at Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette.
Wuestemann said the cuts are
serious because of the arts’ cultural significance to the state.
“Culture is arguably our great-est tourist attraction, our biggest quality of life producer and is one of the biggest revenue makers,” Wuestemann said. “People travel here for the cultural experience.”
These experiences include things like seeing a performance from the Baton Rouge Little The-ater or Of Moving Colors Produc-tions, both of which are supported by DAF funds, according to Laura Larkin, grants director for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge.
The DAF and SAG also fund exhibits put on by the LSU Mu-seum of Art and supported bring-ing Ellis Marsalis to the LSU
Theater in 2011.“All events put on by these or-
ganizations we fund will be strug-gling,” Larkin said.
Wuestemann said the cuts have been so severe that Festival International, an annual music festival in downtown Lafayette, has stopped applying for grants because “there’s so little to gain” from applying.
These cuts also affect the lo-cal economy, according to Wueste-mann.
“We estimate for each dollar invested in arts funding, [that’s] $24 in the local economy,” he said. “People come to a show, buy a ticket, have a drink beforehand, have dinner after and maybe stay
in a hotel overnight. All those feed back into the local economy.”
Wuestemann also said the arts are one of the best tools to “keep our best and brightest in the state” by attracting businesses to the area.
“It contributes to economic development on all levels,” he said.
While that may be true, art isn’t seen as a priority around the state, if the cuts are any indication.
“Art and culture are consid-ered a luxury that happen after everything else is taken care of,” Wuestemann said.
Sara Granados, graphic design junior, cited the condition of the Art and Design building on cam-pus as an example of the lack of concern for art.
“It’s run-down and nasty,” Granados said. “It’s just not very popular, even at LSU. A lot of peo-ple don’t want to major in art.”
But she agreed art is crucial to Louisiana’s culture.
Wuestemann urged everyone to contact their respective elected officials to show their support for the arts.
“I think it’s important to hear from us,” he said. “Students should be at the forefront of this.”
LEGISLATURE
SG election code, �ling system to change
Power House keeps University coolMORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille
Engineer foreman Greg Vanveckhoven, who has worked at the University for 36 years, monitors equipment in the Power House.
Parker CramerContributing Writer
Contact Parker Cramer at [email protected]
Even on the hottest days, the team at the Power House keeps campus cool and comfortable.
The Power House, first erect-ed in the 1920s, does exactly what its name says — produces power.
It’s operated by a team of 13 Facility Services employees, consisting of operating engineers, mechanics and a superintendent, according to Peter Davidson, En-ergy Services director for the Uni-versity.
The team produced 65 per-cent of the University’s power from May 2011 to April 2012, Da-vidson said.
The Power House also sup-plies approximately 90 percent of the campus’s air conditioning and roughly 95 percent of its heating, according to Davidson.
The University saves 20 per-cent of the cost of power it would otherwise have to purchase, ac-cording to Davidson.
“It’s almost always cheap-er to make [power] ourselves,” Davidson said.
The Power House control room is monitored by teams of two employees working in modi-fied 12-hour shifts. The teams, along with an array of computers, monitor the chilled water output, generator output and steam output for the campus.
While many problems can be detected remotely and electroni-cally, a team member physically checks the equipment every hour to ensure it’s running properly.
“You can actually hear a change in equipment by the sound,” according to Greg Van-veckhoven, an engineer foreman who has worked at the University for 36 years, primarily in the Pow-er House.
The Power House, like other power plants, suffers from inevi-table equipment breakdown.
“Bad storms are our worst problems,” Vanveckhoven said.
In the past, Electrical strikes during thunderstorms have knocked out the Power House’s generator.
If the Power House isn’t op-erating normally, the University may have to purchase more power than usual.
As for the employees, they have a vested interest in the con-dition of the University.
“[The Power House team] takes it personally if they can’t de-liver,” Davidson noted.
Davidson said his team strives for complete efficiency, thereby saving the University money and keeping the campus population comfortable.
The jet engine generator is able to run on diesel or jet fuel, but are instead run on natural gas.
Natural gas prices are at a 10-year low. It also burns clean and the heat is recycled for other Power House operations.
“If we’re doing our job right, you don’t notice us,” Davidson said.
Kristen FrankContributing Writer
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University saves making own power
UNIVERSITY STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Student Government set out to make changes to the Election Code in its meeting Monday night, a task that became the fo-cus of the week’s planning.
The SG Election Code is 26 pages long and details how the three branches of SG should go about planning and executing student body elections.
Lane Pace, pro tempore, opened the meeting by show-ing Committee members three other Election Codes from other colleges’ SGs. The Codes exem-plified what other colleges are doing and how the University’s SG could change their code to better suit the needs of students and increase voter turnout.
Danielle Rushing, chief justice, said the code must be changed regarding the Election Board, the committee respon-sible for holding student body elections.
Rushing said there is not a good process regarding filed complaints. The Election Board gets anonymous emails that don’t specify any evidence.
Therefore, the complaints go to either the Election Board in the Executive Branch or
University Court in the Judicial Branch, another faction where complaints can be filed.
Examples of complaints are academic dishonesty and with-drawal status exemption.
According to the Constitu-tion of SG, the Election Board can only disqualify election candidates and oversee elec-tions, nothing else. It has re-cently been treated as a trial court, complete with hearings and extraneous evidence, Rush-ing said.
To alleviate this problem, Robert Cavell, College of Busi-ness senator, suggested the Election Board can decide if there is merit to the complaint, then make the appropriate ac-tion after that.
Rushing also suggested the Election Board be moved from the Executive Branch to the Ju-dicial Branch because the Judi-cial Branch has no bias against it.
The meeting came to a close before a decision could be finalized.
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Nik Wallenda can’t visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Link-ing buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the rag-ing, whitewater maw.
Now 33, he’s ready to live out that childhood fantasy when he at-tempts Friday to become the fi rst person ever to walk a tightrope directly over the brink of Niagara Falls.
“It’s just natural,” Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas, ex-plained. “When I drive into a city, I’m always thinking, ‘It would be cool to do a walk there.’ It’s just the way I think and always have.”
The daredevil is youthful and athletic, solidly built from gym workouts and a lifetime of train-ing. But it’s the mental element, trusting in his skill and tuning out the potential danger, that can mean the difference between success and failure.
“You can either talk yourself out of doing something or you can talk yourself into doing some-thing,” he said.
Since fi rst stepping on a wire when he was 2, Wallenda, who lives in Sarasota, Fla., has earned six Guinness records. His family has been performing for audiences
at circus-style shows for more than 200 years.
The Niagara Falls walk set for Friday night, above a nearly 200-foot drop and through potentially high winds and vision-obscuring mist, will be unlike anything he’s ever done. Because it’s over water, the 2-inch wire won’t have the usu-al stabilizer cables to keep it from swinging. Pendulum anchors are designed to keep it from twisting under his elkskin-soled shoes on the 1,800-foot walk from the U.S. shore to Canada.
“The thing about this cable, it’s unique to me even, and because of that I’ll be very, very focused on it,” he said.
A born-again Christian, Wal-lenda said he stays calm on the wire by talking to God, quoting scripture and praying. He also stays in touch with his father and chief rigging engineer, Terry Trof-fer, through an earpiece.
And unlike his usual antics — Wallenda’s been known to make phone calls and lie down on the wire mid-walk — he may be more inclined to get from one side to the other as quickly as possible, a re-quest from his 11-year-old son.
“You can tell he is a little bit nervous about it,” said Wallenda, whose three children are normally so comfortable with what he does that he once spied his two boys playing Nintendo games while he walked 200 feet above them over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh.
Wallenda’s acrobat wife, Erendira, traces her own circus blood eight generations deep on her mother’s side and seven on her father’s.
“I always give (the kids) a hug and a kiss before I do anything,” said Wallenda, “but they’re used to it in a lot of ways.”
About a dozen other tightrope artists have crossed the Niagara Gorge downstream, dating to Jean Francois Gravelet, aka The Great Blondin, in 1859. But no one has walked directly over the falls and authorities haven’t allowed any tightrope acts in the area since 1896. It took Wallenda two years to persuade U.S. and Canadian au-thorities to allow it.
That it will be a Wallenda at-tempting the history-making walk only adds to the allure.
The Wallendas, the fi rst family of the high wire, trace their fearless roots to 1780 Austria-Hungary, when ancestors traveled as a band of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, animal trainers and a bit later, tra-peze artists. The family has been touched by tragedy: Notably, Nik’s great-grandfather and the family patriarch, Karl Wallenda, fell to his death during a walk in 1978 in Puerto Rico.
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After a lengthy search, the Uni-versity’s College of Art and Design named Alkis P. Tsolakis as its new dean on Friday.
The college has been without a permanent dean since David Cron-rath offi cially became dean of the University of Maryland on July 1, 2010 . Tsolakis will assume the posi-tion in early January 2013 , pending approval by the Board of Supervi-sors. Current Interim Dean Ken Car-penter will remain in the position until then.
Tsolakis’ resumé is diverse. He is currently a professor of architec-ture and acting director of the art department at Drury University. His background also includes stints at three universities and two positions directing summer programs in Eu-rope for Tulane and Drury. He also served as a visiting assistant profes-sor at the University of Oregon.
However, he was not the only qualifi ed candidate considered for the position, according to Christo-pher D’Elia, dean of the School of the Coast and Environment and head
of the search committee. “The fi nalists either submitted
their own credentials or were nomi-nated by others,” D’Elia said. “Alkis Tsolakis impressed us as a creative individual who has impressive ad-ministrative credentials and will be a good fi t with LSU and our com-munity.”
D’elia added that the role of the search committee was to screen the candidates and make a fi nal list of applicants to invite for a campus visit. Provost Jack Hamilton made the fi nal selection.
Aside from teaching, Tsolakis served as a project architect for the National University of Athens in Greece. He has also practiced sculp-ture for nearly 40 years .
Although the search commit-tee narrowed down the pool of ap-plicants, Hamilton made the fi nal choice, but thanked the members of the search committee for providing a highly qualifi ed group of candidates.
“Their engagement in the pro-cess and thoughtful consideration of the needs of the college resulted in the success of the search,” Hamilton said in a press release.
College of Art and Design selects deanTsolakis to assume position Jan. 2013Joshua BergeronStaff Writer
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Mike Buck, dietetic nutrition senior, Emily Nickens, nutritional science senior, and Holiday Dur-ham, post-doctoral researcher, are research associates and conduc-tors for the University’s study.
“No one has looked at col-lege-aged students, so this is the first study where we’re looking
at a younger demographic,” Nickens said.
The par-ticipants in the study are asked to keep a 24-hour journal of everything that passes through their lips. This journal is pro-cessed by a machine called
Nutrition Data System for Re-search that yields the student’s results.
This information is then pro-cessed to determine the student’s macular thickness, or the macu-lar pigment optical density. High MPOD scores indicate that a per-son will have a lesser risk of de-veloping AMD.
The key nutrients for which the study is looking are omega-3 DHA, a fatty acid, and the anti-oxidants, lutein and zeaxanthin.
“These nutrients play a pro-tective role in the eye and can be preventative to age-related macu-lar degeneration,” Durham said.
Notable foods that contain the beneficial nutrients are spin-ach, kale and Atlantic salmon.
“We want to bring attention
to people and how your diet now can affect you later in life,” Nick-ens said. “Especially kids our age, we don’t always think of the long term effects of choices. You can start taking roles now to live a healthier life.”
According to the studies, women have the highest risk for getting macular degeneration, due to having children.
Durham said the number of children a woman has directly correlates with her risk of de-veloping AMD. This is mainly caused by the fetus depleting its mother of the nutrient DHA.
Using this information, the group decided to backtrack before pregnancy to see if other factors may cause AMD.
Although the study is not yet complete, researchers hope to find a connection between MPOD rates and BMIs. Another variable that has been taken into consid-eration is eye color, according to Buck.
“Those with darker eyes of-ten have higher macular density scores,” Buck said. “This is be-cause the darker the pigment of the eye, the more protection it provides from damaging things, such as the sun.”
The study has about 120 students enrolled thus far, but to draw more accurate findings, the group is hoping to recruit another 120 students in the next year.
More information can be found by e-mailing [email protected].
Aaron Cherry, Facility Ser-vices sheet metal master, said kayaking is about leisure.
“It is a different way to enjoy the outdoors,” he said. “Grew up on the water my whole life. You have a kayak, personal flotation device and paddle, and you’re ready to hit the water.”
Students passing the lakes may have noticed the kayaks but wondered about the stand-up paddle boards.
A stand-up paddle board is larger than an average surf board, and riders stand on it with a pad-dle to propel them through the water.
The sport originated in Ha-waii as stand-up paddle board surfing, but within the last few years it has made it way to the LSU Lakes.
Baton Rouge native Jeff Ar-cher founded YOLO Boards, a stand-up paddle board company that manufactures and sells the boards.
His brother, Troy Archer, Baton Rouge resident and sales representative for YOLO Boards, has held stand-up paddle board demos on the LSU lakes for about three years.
“I got a lot of funny looks bringing these boards to the LSU Lakes,” he said.
Stand-up paddle boarding isn’t confined to the South; it’s a nationwide trend. On June 2, stand-up paddle boards from across America competed in the Hobie-Hennessey World Paddle
Association U.S. Paddle Cham-pionships.
Archer said he is hoping to introduce more people to the ad-ventures a stand-up paddle board can provide, and this year, he and Walker Higgins, sales represen-tative for YOLO Boards, sold about a dozen total.
The boards come in a variety of shapes and sizes and are used for leisure, fitness and competi-tion.
Higgins said the activity is a unique fitness opportunity, and he sees the trend growing in Ba-ton Rouge.
He acknowledged most peo-ple are worried about falling off, but when they try the boards, the stability surprises them.
“This year, we hope to sell a good bit of boards, so you can see up to 15 people on the LSU Lakes,” Higgins said.
Although stand-up paddle boarding has grown in Baton Rouge, Rivet said he doesn’t think it will overshadow kayak-ing, but that the trend could pass.
Higgins described the mar-ket for canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding as “co-existing more than competition.”
“We are the little guy in this thing,” he said. “We just try to sell our boards and share the love.”
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The motto for Stony Brook baseball during this postseason has been “shock the world.”
Mission accomplished.Exploiting a putrid LSU
offense using three starting pitchers — who surrendered nine hits over 25 innings — Stony Brook rolled through the Baton Rouge super regional to reach the College World Series for the first time in program history with a 7-2 win Sunday.
“I am a little overwhelmed because I think I do know the magnitude of this,” said Stony Brook coach Matt Senk. “It’s just an overwhelming feeling.”
Seawolves reliever Frankie
Vanderka threw a complete game three-hitter, while Travis Jankowski and William Car-mona continued their abuse of LSU pitching with a combined seven hits to ensure Sunday night’s victory.
Junior Mason Katz showed the only sign of offensive life for LSU with a towering solo home run in the bottom of the first to even the score at one and rile up the Tiger faithful.
The crowd would fall si-lent for the remainder of the evening as sophomore starter Ryan Eades was chased after only 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven hits and four runs.
Vanderka continued to
For an NCAA-best 15th time, the LSU women’s track team sprinted away from the NCAA outdoor track and field champi-onships with a national title.
The Lady Tigers finished with a 76-62 lead against Oregon to claim LSU’s first outdoor na-tional title since 2008.
This was coach Dennis Shav-er’s second national champion-ship with the Tigers after taking
the reigns from legendary former LSU coach Pat Henry in 2005.
“It was a dominating kind of performance,” Shaver said. “They were in a position on Sat-urday to just keep pouring it on. So it is great to come away with such an impressive result.”
Sprinter Kimberlyn Duncan wrapped up her stellar junior sea-son with another highlight-reel performance.
The Bowerman Award final-ist for the nation’s best male and female track athlete defended her 200-meter crown (22.86) Satur-day, beating Auburn’s Kai Selvon by .3.
Duncan also anchored the women’s 4x100-meter relay to
victory (42.75), clinching LSU’s fifth sweep of the men’s and women’s competitions in the event. No other school has ever accomplished the feat in the same season.
“Coming in first place means a lot to me and the team,” Duncan said. “Our main goal was to come out and get a title, and we accom-plished it.”
The men’s side didn’t see quite the same level of success, but still finished second to South-eastern Conference rival Florida by a 50-48 total.
“The men really had one of the best-ever championships that
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Duncan, Lady Tigers claim titles at NCAA outdoorsMen place 2nd in close �nishMike GegenheimerContributing Writer
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Kimberlyn Duncan anchored the Lady Tigers to a national title in the 4x100-meter outdoor relay and claimed her second straight 200-meter dash national championship.
NOMAHAStony Brook denies LSU a CWS
berth, ends Tigers’ season with super regional romp
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[Top] LSU second baseman JaCoby Jones consoles catcher Ty Ross following the Tigers’ 7-2 loss to Stony Brook on Sunday. [Bottom Left] Jones rounds third base during the Tigers’ 5-4 win against Stony Brook on Friday. [Bottom Right] Stony Brook celebrates its �rst College World Series appearance.
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Fresh off a plane from Tusca-loosa, Patrick Murphy walked into the LSU Athletic Building on June 9, 2011 with a painted-on smile and a promise to bring LSU softball back to national prominence.
A year later, his dreams were realized with the Lady Tigers’ first berth in the Women’s College World Series since 2004.
Too bad he didn’t stick around to see it.
After Murphy and his assis-tant Alyson Habetz had a “change of heart” and returned to Alabama, Athletic Director Joe Alleva prom-ised to find someone who — unlike Murphy — would “wear the purple and gold with pride.”
He found it in Beth Torina.That’s right, Beth Torina — a
name that would’ve challenged even the savviest of softball fans last year, and with credentials a far cry from those of the legend she replaced, Yvette Girouard.
Now a year later, no conversa-tion about Southeastern Conference softball would be complete without mentioning the 33-year-old who vaulted herself into national acclaim by orchestrating a dazzling postsea-son run.
Plucked from the perceived bowels of collegiate softball at Flor-ida International, Torina took this veteran Lady Tiger squad to heights no softball experts predicted.
It’s hard to think of an LSU coach who experienced this much postseason success in his or her first season. Football’s Les Miles 2005
squad got throttled in an SEC Cham-pionship game, and then he watched his team brawl with Miami (FL) after a dominant Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl victory. Baseball’s Paul Main-ieri couldn’t even guide his maiden Tiger team to regional play in 2007.
Make no mistake, though, this past season didn’t come without its bumps in the road and numerous doubts from “average Joes” like me.
Torina and the Tigers faced a daunting schedule that included 11 ranked teams on its regular-season schedule, highlighted by back-to-back road series against fellow WCWS participants Alabama and Tennessee.
She fielded criticism for LSU’s seven one-run losses and an anemic offense that made the Tigers bas-ketball team look prolific. Torina maintained confidence in her dy-namic pitching duo even as the team limped into postseason play at the College Station Regional to face the same Texas A&M team that ended Yvette Girouard’s final season.
Three weeks and five wins lat-er, Torina was on top of the college softball world after re-energizing a team that I wouldn’t have blamed for giving up after a disastrous end to the regular season.
Soft-spoken and low-key, Tori-na lets her accolades speak volumes.
A standout pitcher for Florida in the late ‘90s, Torina amassed 60 wins in her career, including con-secutive 20-win seasons and a 1998 SEC Championship.
That point isn’t just used to pad her resumé.
Take LSU’s super regional win over Missouri, for example. I’m convinced that Torina’s ability to mimic Missouri ace Chelsea Thom-
as’ tendencies in the circle during batting practice was a catalyst in her team’s triumph against their future SEC foe.
However, I believe one of To-rina’s off-the-field endeavors far outweigh an impressive first year on the diamond.
Instituting a Teal Game to “strike out ovarian cancer,” a disease that struck her mother in November of 2010, brought awareness to an oft- forgotten illness and drew more fans out to Tiger Park.
It’s not all serious business with Torina, either, as the Lady Tigers are obviously having the time of their lives.
In the College Station regional, I remember seeing senior Heidi Piz-er with a parking cone on her head, all in efforts to rally her team.
Or in the super regional, when another teammate tossed a large salad bowl on her head, all to ask for more rally magic. Between the salad bowl, the deafening chants and the ear-to-ear grins coming from the LSU dugout, it didn’t seem like the Lady Tigers were playing for their season.
It’s obvious Beth Torina ac-complished much more than LSU’s first WCWS appearance since 2004. She won over a skeptical fanbase, brought LSU softball back to the limelight and adequately filled Gir-ouard’s legendary shoes.
After Patrick Murphy backed out on June 12, Joe Alleva said his ideal coach would be one who wouldn’t “rock the boat.”
Sorry, Joe, Beth Torina rocked the boat.
Torina proves she’s more than worthy
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BASEBALL
Chandler RomeStaff Writer
“Bash Brothers” return for senior season
When the MLB draft unfolded last week, junior Mason Katz never heard his name called.
And he couldn’t be happier.The New Orleans native told
scouts he had every intention of returning to school with fellow classmate and “bash brother” Raph Rhymes.
“For me to leave such a great university and such great guys, it would have had to be something out of the ordinary,” Katz said. “ [Scouts] understood that, and I told them I wanted to come back to school.”
Rhymes, who was taken in the 30th round by the New York Yan-kees, left little doubt of his decision in the hours after he was drafted.
Bombarded with questions on his Twitter account about his future, the Monroe native calmed any fears Tiger fans may have had.
“Huge honor to be drafted by the Yankees. Not ready to leave just yet tho…staying at LSU to make a run at it next year #geauxtigers,” Rhymes tweeted to his more than 3,000 fol-lowers.
Like Katz, Rhymes said he in-formed scouts that he intended to return to LSU for his senior season, but scouts were unable to ignore his flirtation with a .500 batting average throughout the season.
Jonathan Mayo, senior writer and MLB draft expert for MLB.com, said while Rhymes’ numbers may have warranted an early draft pick, many prolific college hitters like him
have struggled in the pros.“There have been countless
guys that hit well in college, but then it doesn’t translate well,” Mayo said.
Still, Rhymes said it was pain-ful to see his teammate and self-proclaimed “bash brother” not get selected.
“I was shocked [that Katz didn’t get drafted],” Rhymes said. “He’s a first round guy in my book.”
Katz, on the other hand, said he was relieved to avoid the hassle of negotiations and scouts.
“My dream is to play major league baseball, but not right now,” Katz said. “I’m happy as can be that I didn’t have to go through that pro-cess.”
After pacing the team with 13 home runs this season, Katz returns as the Tigers’ lone power presence in the lineup, while Rhymes, who cur-rently leads the nation with a .431 batting average, will look to rebound from a late season slump that pushed him well below .500.
The duo will look to return the Tigers to Omaha for the first time since claiming the national champi-onship in 2009, a goal that Katz said he plans to achieve before he moves on to the major leagues.
As for Rhymes, he’s just giddy to come back with a familiar face.
“We’ve just been calling it the return of the bash brothers,” Rhymes said. “I’m excited to come back with Mason next year.”
CROME IS BURNINGCHANDLER ROMEStaff Writer
Stony Brook came into Ba-ton Rouge and Alex Box Stadium largely unknown and mostly over-looked, but 29 innings and two wins completely changed that.
After Stony Brook disman-tled LSU in the fi nal game of the Baton Rouge super region-al, it was evident that the more talented team was going to Omaha, according to most fans.
Biological engineering sopho-more Austin Daspit said that while LSU showed fl ashes of sound baseball, Stony Brook was “a lot better” than the Tigers.
“[LSU had] alright pitch-ing and a few instances of clutch hitting,” Daspit said. “Other than that, they were subpar.”
Daspit said the Seawolves’ plate discipline and ability to make contact with most pitches was LSU’s ultimate downfall.
Matt Fabacher, general busi-ness junior, agreed the Seawolves showed a lot of poise and were the better team.
While Fabacher lauded the
pitching depth and pro prospects that the Seawolves had, he said he does not like Stony Brook’s chances once it reaches the College World Series in Omaha.
“I think they’re a pretty good team,” Fabacher said. “I think Florida State or Florida or South Carolina has a better shot [for the national championship].”
While trips to Omaha are almost expected for the LSU base-ball program, elementary educa-tion senior Tiffany Griffi n lauded the team’s improvement from last season.
Griffi n admitted to only watching a few games, and was disappointed with the errors she saw from the LSU defense when she did tune in.
“They were missing balls ev-erywhere,” Griffi n said. “They almost got there [to Omaha], that was pretty good compared to past seasons.”
After watching the Seawolves, Griffi n said she has a different prediction on their national championship quest.
“We were pretty good, and they beat us pretty well,” Griffi n said. “They may get very far.”
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LSU players gather for a visit to the pitcher’s mound [top left], Alex Edward misplays a ball in right � eld [top right], Tyler Hanover scratches his head after recording an out [bottom left] and players react in the dugout after their season ended with the loss.
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I have ever seen our men have,” Shaver said. “They were in the hunt right down to the last race. They bonded together as a team and really pulled for each other.”
Freshman sprinter Aaron Er-nest put the men’s side in posi-tion to win the title after his fifth-place finish in the 200-meter dash lifted the Tigers to second place with 37 points.
However, it was senior hurdler Barrett Nugent who put the Tigers in the lead — 42-40 against Florida) — with one event left after finishing fourth in the 110-meter hurdles, an event he won a year ago in the same meet.
The men’s title came down to the final event of the meet in
the 4x400-meter relay. LSU’s team, consisting of
freshman Quincy Downing and seniors Robert Simmons, Ade Alleyne-Forte and Riker Hylton, came in third by .6 in the 4x400-meter relay.
If the Tigers had placed second in the event, they would have tied Florida for the national championship.
“We definitely scored a lot more points than really anybody projected,” Shaver said. “I’m sure not many people even thought we would be here in the mix for the team title.”
befuddle Tiger hitters, striking out junior Alex Edward to end the game, sending the Seawolves into a dogpile behind the pitch-er’s mound as stunned Tiger fans looked on.
“The suddenness is just aw-ful,” said LSU coach Paul Main-ieri. “I am sure that in time we will look back on the season and dwell on the positives.”
The Southeastern Conference champion Tigers (47-18) only mustered six hits in the final two games and never led a full inning through all three games as the Seawolves dominated to continue their Cinderella run.
Mainieri said he had every expectation of getting his team back to Omaha, but his team was
simply outplayed.“They came down here and
played great baseball, and they deserved to win this super re-gional,” Mainieri said. “It’s hard for me to find weaknesses in their team.”
The Seawolves wasted no time asserting themselves in Ba-ton Rouge, flying out to a 2-0 lead in Friday’s first game, and bring-ing a 2-1 lead into the ninth in-ning.
A steady dose of “Alex Box magic” resurrected LSU’s anemic offense as sophomore outfielder JaCoby Jones launched a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at two.
After Stony Brook reclaimed the lead in the tenth, freshman infielder Tyler Moore, down to his final strike, sent another tying
solo shot to right field, sending Tiger fans into a frenzy.
Stony Brook answered once again in the eleventh to take a 5-4 lead. Then, Katz cranked an im-probable third solo home run into the left field bleachers to tie the score at five, again shocking the Seawolf faithful.
Torrential downpours forced the game to be resumed at 10:05 a.m. on Saturday. After sopho-more ace Kevin Gausman sat the Seawolves down in order, Katz singled home Moore in the bot-tom of the twelfth to put LSU in the driver’s seat with a 5-4 win.
Gausman would return for game two less than an hour later, but would be trumped by Sea-wolves ace Tyler Johnson, who scattered only three hits and one run in a complete-game perfor-mance to spur a 3-1 Seawolves victory to even the series.
Stony Brook is only the second No. 4 regional seed to advance to the College World Series, and the first team to beat LSU in a super regional at home since the current playoff format was adopted in 1999. LSU is now 5-1 in super regional series at home and 5-4 overall.
The loss also ends the career of five Tiger seniors — Austin Nola, Tyler Hanover, Beau Didier, Grant Dozar and Jordy Snikeris.
“We left everything out on the field, and we have no regrets about the year,” Nola said. “I en-joyed every bit of it.”
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Stony Brook pitchers frustrated senior Tyler Hanover and the LSU offense all weekend, holding the Tigers to just nine hits and eight runs in three games.
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When Republicans convened in Shreveport on June 2 for the Louisiana Republican State Con-vention, they planned on voting for 46 delegates for the Republi-can National Convention in Au-gust and going home.
Instead, a Republican rumble ensued between Ron Paul sup-porters and state party leaders, highlighting the inner-party ten-sion between its libertarian-lean-ing members and establishment officials.
The struggle began when Paul supporters, who made up nearly two-thirds of the conven-tion, filed a motion to remove convention chairman Roger Vil-lere and elect a new chairman in his place.
However, supplementary rules passed on the eve of the convention by state party offi-cials made it tougher to remove the chairman and lowered the quorum required to vote on del-egates in case the Paul supporters walked out.
When the majority-elected chairman, Henry Herford, at-tempted to take control of the convention, off-duty Shreveport police officers were summoned to remove Herford from the prem-ises.
In response, the Paul sup-porters turned their chairs away from Villere and the convention split in two.
The majority continued with their vote as if nothing had hap-pened, electing 27 delegates to send to the National Convention. Meanwhile, a group of state party officials convened in a corner of the room to elect delegates of their own.
Thus, the convention became a showcase for the libertarian cause as Paul supporters found themselves facing the authoritar-ian control of state party leaders.
Using their positions of power in order to accumulate more authority, state party lead-ers gave the Paul supporters in attendance no choice but to fight for their rights.
The showdown should come as no surprise.
The libertarian position at its basic level calls for the defense of personal freedom and civil
liberty. That they defended the majority opinion and democratic process from a small group of elites only shows how committed they are to their worldview.
Yet, state party leaders have argued that they changed the rules so that delegates would be allocated fairly and in proportion to the votes received during the primary and caucuses that oc-curred earlier in the year.
They feared Paul supporters would co-opt the delegates won by former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and current presi-dential candidate Mitt Romney.
However, this seems like punishing the Paul supporters for playing the game correctly. They did not design the way the Loui-siana system works, they simply had the audacity to show up and participate in the process.
Still, these same fears have been expressed by Republican party leadership throughout the country, as struggles between Paul supporters and establish-ment leaders have occurred in various conventions during this election cycle.
In Maine and Nevada, Paul similarly came out ahead with a majority of delegates in their
respective state conventions.In Massachusetts, Paul sup-
porters decried the party’s deci-sion to possibly invalidate ballots won in its caucuses – caucuses won overwhelmingly by Paul. The Massachusetts Republican branch eventually decided the ballots would be counted.
Nonetheless, there is a defi-nite pattern here, and it does not look good for the Republican party.
Libertarian-leaning Repub-licans are still a constituent base of the party, and are especially prominent among younger Re-publicans.
The crowds that gather for Paul on various college campus-es, including this one, are a testa-ment to that.
Alienating such a young and growing constituency may not be such a good long-term strategy.
As the years go by, the younger libertarian-leaning Re-publicans will begin to hold more sway over the party, especially if Paul continues to attract support-ers.
Libertarian voters may even play a prominent role in the upcoming presidential elec-tion. Libertarian candidate Gary
Johnson has a strong chance of taking a sizeable chunk of votes from the Republican presidential candidate.
Meanwhile, the votes John-son takes from Obama may be negligible due to Obama’s strong ratings among the youth.
However, accepting libertar-ians can be beneficial.
Libertarian positions can help the Republican party win over much of the youth vote that is so firmly held by Democrats, especially Obama.
Though if Republicans fail to court libertarians, I would not be surprised to see if the Libertarian party rises as the years go by.
David Scheuermann is a 20-year-old mass communication and computer science junior from Kenner. Follow him on Twitter at @TDR_dscheu.
Bonnaroo has become syn-onymous with the outrageously drug-fueled, sun-kissed party on a farm that it admittedly is.
But it might as well be a syn-onym for unpredictable, too, and I found that out this year for a third time.
From the unsurprisingly blazing performances to the un-seasonably chilly weather, Bonn-aroo again proved this past week-end why it’s the most divisive music festival in America.
The experience is large-scale and grassroots all in one, making the 700-acre farm feel like New York City and the Ra Shop de-cided to smell like a Porta Potty and only wear ironic t-shirts for 96 hours.
There’s a cliche line just waiting to be said here: “Bonna-roo isn’t for everyone.”
For some — including one of my next-door camping neighbors — it clearly wasn’t. Four days of sleeping in humid tents, rubbing elbows with people somehow even greasier than you, fight-ing intoxication of all kinds and dropping $10 for a corn dog usu-ally isn’t.
But the thrilling part about Bonnaroo is immersing your-self in the positivity that reigns throughout the grounds.
For “Parks and Recreation” fans out there, Bonnaroo is the Chris Traeger of music festivals.
It’s not a place for the cyni-cism that worrying and full-tilt responsibility can entail.
And while that sounds like the mind-set of a deluded hip-pie, the Bonnaroovians, as the patrons are called, actually make it possible.
Forget about your cell-phone charge, how much that enormous burrito costs or the hours of sleep you won’t get.
You will be repaid with a ca-maraderie unique to the festival,
one that reaches mass audiences but requires personal connection.
Strangers hug you — or offer you any number of drugs — men cry at shows and water bottles are shared as communal wealth.
There are also hot dogs and bratwursts wrapped in bacon with scallions and green peppers.
None of this even touches on the music, which is as diverse as the festivalgoers who cheer all of it with an exhaustingly zealous gusto.
Radiohead brought their own audiovisual set to the main stage and used trippy camera work, their grandiose stylings and woo-zy electronica to chilling effect.
It alienated some, left others feeling cold, but reached the gut of many, including myself.
And Thom Yorke and co. might have been the most univer-sal band at the festival.
A Ludacris set bumps right up with a performance from indie siren St. Vincent.
Bluegrass virtuosos the Punch Brothers can take the stage
mere minutes before comedian Donald Glover’s Childish Gam-bino hip-hop persona at the same stage and no one blinks.
Bon Iver can slot between the Beach Boys and Phish with-out disturbing the peace.
It’s only disorienting if you’re close-minded, musically and beyond.
One particular experience from my weekend encapsulates why Bonnaroo rewards, even when it takes you out of your comfort zone.
Since the festival is notori-ous for its warm temperatures, packing for cold weather is a waste of space.
Except this year. It fell into the low 50s the first night, wak-ing me up at 3:30 a.m. because a tent-mate had pilfered my sheets.
Shivering and desperate for warmth, I just started walking around, hoping to escape the ag-gravating frigidity.
Luckily, warmth took the form of R. Kelly. In a stroke of impromptu genius, the festival
screened his entire “Trapped in the Closet” saga in the Cinema Tent during the wee hours.
Stumbling in and watching exhausted stoners react to every plot twist and turn in the goofy soap opera — with welcome in-terludes of Kelly’s “normal” mu-sic videos — felt like living in a surreal film.
Surreality is Bonnaroo. Is it for you?
Chris Abshire is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @AbshireTDR.
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It was May and already sum-mer, for all intents and purposes. School was out for most Univer-sity students, and downtown Ba-ton Rouge was infected with their blissed-out, donezo rabidity. For my own part, I was disappointedly immune to the disease, to the hap-piness, having failed to fulfill the requirements for graduation — having failed College Algebra.
It was summer all right, the summer of my life — and the dog days, at that. At twenty-five years old, I wasn’t a puppy anymore. My spring was nearer my tail than my muzzle, and youth was suddenly lost in sevens, seemingly. In dog years.
I’d been burned this semester, at any rate, burned an even black in life’s rotisserie: I was reeling from a robbery, a wreck, a job resigna-tion and a real good ass-kicking at F&M Patio Bar in New Orleans. My mother had died in December,
and I’d since been lost without her, an orphan, an Oliver Twist.
Puncher’s Sports Bar was where I found myself one night in May, alone and with friends for one’s birthday, collared to a bar-stool, choke-chaining a maddog of disillusion and chain-smoking unfiltered carcinogenic thoughts, waiting for a last call — the bar’s or my own didn’t much matter to me.
But it was then that life called off the dogs and threw me a bone.
There are incalculably many millions of animals on America’s streets, avenues and boulevards, according to the ASPCA. In Ba-ton Rouge, Park Boulevard is one such thoroughfare. And that night, one of these strays was a dog. We nearly put the pup to sleep on our way home from the bar, slamming on the brakes by the slimmest of margins to skew to a stop beside the lucky dog.
The pooch was a canine cari-cature, almost. Pitiful-precious, like Droopy Dog. Schmaltzy-sweet, like Huckleberry Hound. A mutt’s mutt, by all accounts: a beagle-skunk mix with a bark like
a black sheep’s bleat and a potbelly that scrubbed more asphalt than a Chicano lowrider.
“Cheech,” I dubbed the col-larless CatDog, naturally — pet-ting her paunch until the car horn’s honking halted me.
“Get along,” I begged. Nothing. Cheech maybe mus-
tered a jiggle, at best. “Get lost,” I bade her after a
beat. Nothing. The ugliest pair of
puppy eyes I’d ever picked out, perhaps. And nothing more.
“What?” I finally barked — though I knew all too well what the homesick hound wanted, knew exactly what was afoot. And if I didn’t, Cheech proceeded to prod me with a pudgy paw: she was lost, and she was lonesome.
Me, too.That night, beer-goggled and
tail-spun, I fell in love with the good girl I brought home from the bar. It wasn’t to last, I knew — puppy love never does. And collar-less though she was, Cheech was primped, preened and potty-trained — and she pulled back at the very utterance of the word “bath.”
Cheech was another man’s best friend.
The morning after, I had a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast — Cheech did, too. And with a slurred “alrighty, then,” like a hungover Ace Ventura, I began to sleuth about for Cheech’s owner.
It was a game of Blue’s Clues, as Cheech and I designated it, and our search began on craigslist.com, abruptly ending when a shrewd anonymous gumshoe tipped us off to the Lost Pets of Baton Rouge (LPBR) Facebook page, a joint-enterprise of four local saints, themselves “a mix of people that volunteer heavily” with animal rescue efforts, said LPBR co-chair-man and University alumna Mindy Brooks.
“A pet is part of your family,” she said. “It’s very rewarding to help reunite families.”
Indeed.Largely through the LPBR
community and its resources, I successfully located Cheech’s owner, a University student who came to pick her in a beat-up, run-down hoopty of a car whose thrum-ming engine rang clear outside my
apartment complex.As I waited for him with
Cheech, and as his car jalopied closer, not yet visible but audible, nonetheless, her ugly-as-ever pup-py-dog eyes became as wide as saucers — flying saucers, flying platters, in fact.
Cheech — of Lucy, as it turns out — was found.
I didn’t have the heart to ask him for a reward: I had already re-ceived one, in truth.
And in the lost-and-found with a dog named Cheech, this old dog learned a new trick.
Life.
Phil Sweeney is 25-year-old English senior from New Or-leans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_PhilSweeney.
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OpinionTuesday, June 12, 2012 page 13
What I learned in lost-and-found with a dog named Cheech
Intoxication spray will create issues with college students
THE PHILIBUSTERPHIL SWEENEYColumnist
Contact Phil Sweeney at [email protected]
As if our generation needed another excuse or pathway for in-toxication, French-American sci-entist David Edwards has released a spray, which, when ingested,
causes brief intoxication with no after-effects. No puking. No head-aches. You can even pass an alco-hol test.
Designed by Philippe Starck, instant delirium (or should I say “poison”) has been neatly
packaged in a sleek aluminum tube. I can see this new product taking off with the 18-25 demo-graphic like no other. In fact, it’s a common stereotype that most college students spend four years’ worth of weekends in a drunken
stupor. Congratulations to Edwards for inventing a product which takes away any and all effort required by individuals to make complete fools of themselves.
With headlines such as “Fi-nally, A Spray Which Gets You Instantly Drunk In A Few Sec-onds” or “This Spray Will Get You Instantly Drunk – But Only For A Few Seconds”, the WA|HH Quan-tum Sensations spray is asking for various cases of irresponsible over-dose. Although the product is first releasing in Europe, Jacob Klein-man at the International Business Times puts it best, “If the product ever makes it to America’s shores, it will surely mean an epidemic of spray overdoses at colleges across the country.” This is something sci-entists and medical analysts should have taken into consideration well before proceeding with the prod-uct’s development.
While the tube is priced at $26, each dose comprises of .075 milliliters of alcohol. It would take approximately 1,000 sprays to reach the equivalency of the effects caused by a single drink. However, each tube is good for only about 21 hits. A consumer would need about 48 tubes to equate to one drink. This means consumers would be spending about $1,248 on their new addiction. According to some reports, the alcohol’s effects are in-tensified in an aerosol form, lead-ing to the temporary drunkenness. Still, the product seems inefficient to me.
Not only is this product
inefficient from a functional per-spective, but also from an eco-nomic angle. My other problem with this product is that the con-cept of an oral spray is far from novel. Why waste time creating a technology which is nowhere close to being a new idea? Many breath-freshening sprays have already been introduced into the market. Edwards himself previously cre-ated additional flavored sprays which consumers can use to stimu-late their taste buds.
When I first read about the WA|HH Quantum Sensations spray, I was surprised that some-one would have spent enough time and effort to manufacture a prod-uct which would be detrimental at all levels. Shouldn’t scientists be working toward societal advances, not hindrances? To me, it seems as if scientists would be making better use of their time by focusing their attention on real problems. such as reducing the use of pesticides in agriculture or working with more innovative medication. Working to create new addictions is an abuse of a chemistry degree.
Some might call this creation sheer brilliance, I call it sheer stu-pidity.
The Lantern, Ohio State University
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