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The University appointed Doris Carver , senior associate vice chan-cellor of the Offi ce of Research and Economic Development , as the in-terim vice chancellor of that same offi ce.

Carver will offi cially take the position Jan. 1 when current ORED Vice Chancellor Brooks Keel steps down, University offi cials said in a news release. Keel left the Univer-sity after being hired as Georgia Southern University’s president on Oct. 26.

“Doris Carver will do a su-perb job in leading and managing ORED,” said LSU Provost Astrid Merget in the release. “She has my every confi dence in her new capac-ity.”

Carver studied mathematics at Carson Newman College , where she earned her bachelor of arts de-gree. She earned her master’s in mathematics from the University of Tennessee and her doctorate in computer science from Texas A&M University.

She previously served as in-terim dean of the LSU Graduate School, associate commissioner of Sponsored Research and Devel-opment and the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research director at the Board of Regents.

Carver also directs the Uni-versity’s Software Engineering Laboratory. Her research focuses on re-engineering systems, software re-quirements methodologies and for-mal model transformations.

Carver published more than 80 technical papers and was funded by both private and federal sectors — including the National Science Foundation and NASA.

“I’m both honored and excited to have the opportunity to serve as interim vice chancellor for ORED,” Carver said in the release. “I’m look-ing forward to an exciting new year fi lled with opportunities to stimulate research on campus and engage with our faculty across campus.”

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The University’s Homecoming festivities have a service component every year, but organizers decided to make it bigger for the celebration’s 100th anniversary.

The typical canned good collec-tion was beefed up into Canapalooza , a new event in which students from organizations like Volunteer LSU, the Honors College, Student Gov-ernment and various Greek organiza-tions build “canned food structures” — replicas of campus buildings

made of donated cans.“[Homecoming has] always had

a service aspect, but this year it’s 10 times bigger because it’s the 100th Homecoming,” said Amelia Burns , chair of the Homecoming commit-tee.

Canapalooza spanned three days on the Parade Ground, accompanied by other Homecoming festivities like Splatterbeat, a concert and a pep rally.

The cans used in the structures will be donated to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank , Burns said.

“This year, like everything else, the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank has experienced a lot of cutbacks to its fi nances,” Burns said. “Since LSU

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Students built tower-like structures using canned goods Tuesday afternoon for the Canapalooza food drive as part of the Homecoming Week festivities.

Students build canned-food structuresHOMECOMING

More than 2,800 cans were donatedBy Ryan BuxtonStaff Writer

CANAPALOOZA, see page 19

LSU students have been celebrating the school’s 100th Homecoming across campus this week with events, concerts and pep rallies.

But it was business as usual for the LSU football team as the Tigers prepared for their 10th game of the

2009 season.No. 9 LSU (7-2, 4-2 SEC) will try to rebound

from its second loss of the season when the Tigers face in-state foe Louisiana Tech (3-6, 2-4 WAC) for the Homecoming game Saturday night at 6 p.m. in Tiger Stadium.

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LSU sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson steps back to throw Nov. 9 during the Tigers’ 20-15 loss to Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The Tigers are trying to recover from the loss as Louisiana Tech comes Saturday into Tiger Stadium.

LSU coming off Alabama loss; preparing for Lousiana TechBy Michael LambertSports Contributor

Fireworks cause scare at Commons

An apparent fi recracker explo-sion at the Burbank Commons Apart-ments near campus caused a scare among residents and a response from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Of-fi ce on Thursday night.

“There was no shooting, and cops were out there for another situa-tion, and while we were there, some-one thought it would be funny and set off a fi rework,” a sergeant with the Sheriff’s Offi ce who would not give her name told The Daily Rev-eille on the phone.

Word of possible gunfi re in the area quickly spread after 8 p.m. on social networking sites, including Facebook and the LSU sports mes-sage board TigerDroppings.com.

“What was really weird was when we went outside there were already like 10 cops cars driving around and police on foot talking to people,” said biochemistry se-nior Robert Oubre, who lives there. “We’re pretty confi dent it was a fi re-cracker because it smelled like one of those big ones you put in a tube.”

Some students reported seeing burned portions of sidewalk where a fi recracker may have ignited.

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Pakistanis hold doubts about US nuclear intentions, trustworthiness

ISLAMABAD (AP) — In Wash-ington, the Pakistani nightmare is of the country’s nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of Taliban militants or rogue soldiers. But though Wash-ington has given billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan over the years, the U.S. is also seen as an untrustworthy ally willing to betray its friends.

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon sees biggest drop in 20 years

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Defor-estation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from Au-gust 2008 to July 2009 — the big-gest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.

Analysis of satellite imagery by the National Institute for Space Research shows an estimated 2,705 square miles of forest were cleared during the 12-month period, the lowest since the government started monitoring deforestation in 1988.

Obama promises strategy, clear mission for troops sent to war

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) — Nearing a decision on sending more troops off to war, President Obama told a military audience Thursday he will not dispatch them into confl ict with-out proper support — including the backing of the American people.

“That is a promise that I make to you,” Obama told more than 1,000 troops and their families gathered at a hangar here, as the president stopped briefl y for refuel-ing en route to a four-country trip to Asia.

Ida’s torrents dump fl oods along Atlantic coast, kill four

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Re-lentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, pelting communities from North Carolina northward with gusty winds and heavy rains, inundat-ing streets, stranding drivers and

causing three deaths in hard-hit Virginia and one in North Caro-lina.

The downpours were the con-tinuing aftermath of late-season Tropical Storm Ida, which quick-ly weakened once it made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tues-day but still soaked a swath from Alabama to Georgia.

ACORN lawsuit raises question concerning its future survival

NEW YORK (AP) — ACORN has been cut off by banks, the govern-ment and most of its private foun-dation funders, severely hampering its housing operations and raising the possibility that it will not sur-vive in its current form, according to a lawsuit the group fi led Thurs-day against the U.S. government.

The lawsuit claims that Con-gress’ decision to drop all funding to the group and its affi liates was unconstitutional because it puni-tively targeted an individual orga-nization.

House speaker questions Jindal’s $128 million tax amnesty plan

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal may run into legislative problems for his plans to roll $128 million in proceeds from Louisiana’s tax amnesty program into next year’s budget.

Jindal has said he wants to use that much money to offset health care cuts amid a hefty budget short-fall projected for the state Medicaid program in the 2010-11 fi scal year.

But House Speaker Jim Tucker said Thursday he thinks most of the amnesty money should be consid-ered “one-time” revenue. And he doesn’t think that sort of revenue should pay for ongoing programs like Medicaid.

Jindal deputy chief of staff, Stephen Waguespack, said there are “creative ways” to use the tax am-nesty money to help health care. For example, the state could pay down debt this year with tax amnesty mon-ey to free up the dollars that would have been used for debt payments next year.

Former LSU Chinese Bandit, national champion dies at 69

(AP) — Robert Rice, a member of the LSU Tigers’ vaunted Chinese Bandits defensive unit, has died at the age of 69. LSU announced Rice’s death Wednesday. There was no word then on how he died.

Rice played football for LSU from 1958 to 1963, making him a member of the Tigers’ fi rst national championship team in 1958.

Senate ethics committee dismisses complaint against Landrieu

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate ethics committee has dismissed a complaint that Sen. Mary Landrieu steered $2 million to a Texas company in exchange for campaign donations.

Landrieu’s 2001 earmark for Voyager Expanded Learning drew attention because it was ap-proved within days of company associates donating $30,000 to her campaign.

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The intriguing smell of horse manure and chewing tobacco ema-nated inside the John M. Parker Coli-seum on Thursday as the Block and Bridle student organization’s annual rodeo bucked off to a good start.

More than 100 people attended and more than 50 amateur and pro-fessional cowboys and cowgirls competed in the Block and Bridle rodeo, which was first established in 1932, and proved to be a popular tradition.

“It’s something special to be a part of,” said Brittany Bourg, Block and Bridle president and agriculture business senior. “This coliseum was built for this club to have this rodeo. We’re honored to carry on the tradi-tion here.”

Bethany Elder, rodeo manager and animal sciences senior, said this is the third year the rodeo has been split with an open rodeo on the first night and the student rodeo on the second night.

“[In the open rodeo,] you’re competing for money, and in the student rodeo you’re competing for prizes,” Elder said.

Jason Morgan, a 20-year-old bull rider from Baton Rouge, said he started riding bulls and horses when he was 4 years old.

“I’ve been on practice bulls three times a week,” Morgan said. “I go to as many rodeos as I can.”

Morgan said he likes to find out what bull he’s riding ahead of time to see if they’ll buck in a straight line or turn and spin.

“I have a feel for it,” he said. “I get on a bunch of bulls. These bulls are born to buck just like race horses are born to race.”

Elder said the rodeo was origi-nally held in the Reilly Theatre or the Swine Palace. She said State

Lumber on Highland Road used to donate materials to Block and Bridle for the rodeo each year. She said the club’s members would assemble and dissemble the buck and shoot every time, which is a large task for stu-dents.

Elder said when former Gover-nor John Parker came to the Block and Bridle Rodeo and saw what the students were building, he decided

they needed a permanent rodeo are-na, so he built the John M. Parker Coliseum in the 1930s.

“It has so much history behind it,” she said. “It ties in the sentimen-tal value to the University.”

Block and Bridle will donate 10 percent of proceeds to the Braveheart Children in Need charity.

Students can register between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to compete in the

rodeo today. Events will include bull riding, bronc riding, barrel racing and wild cow milking.

“Whoever participates [tonight] is a full-time LSU student,” said Amanda Royer, animal science ju-nior and Block and Bridle member. “It’s always very interesting and en-tertaining.”

Royer said unlike the profes-sionals in the open rodeo, the stu-dents who participate in the student rodeo wear T-shirts and running shoes instead of cowboy shirts and boots.

Jeffrey Ramagos, a 16-year-old bronc and bull rider from Zachary, La., said bucking bulls and horses gives him an adrenaline rush.

“I’m competing to compete,” Ramagos said. “It’s not about the money. I came here to beat down a horse, ride a bull and go to town.”

The American Association of University Professors is work-ing to preserve speech rights for faculty members nationwide in its new campaign, “Speak Up, Speak Out: Protect the Faculty Voice.”

The campaign seeks to edu-cate faculty members about their rights and potential dangers they face regarding speech restrictions, as well as to encourage them to examine and update institutional policies on what they are allowed to say about their “official duties,” said Kathi S. Westcott, AAUP as-sociate counsel.

The campaign was inspired by the 2006 Supreme Court deci-sion in Garcetti v. Ceballos, ac-cording to a Nov. 11 AAUP news release.

That case came up when a deputy district attorney in Cali-fornia sent out an internal memo criticizing the way evidence was being handled, and he was repri-manded for speaking out.

“The Supreme Court decision said when public employees are talking about issues in their offi-cial setting in pursuit of their offi-cial duties, that communication is not protected by the First Amend-ment,” Westcott said.

University faculty members are “public employees,” and there-fore lost part of their free speech protection, Westcott said.

“Suppose someone is dis-missed from a job for having spo-ken out on an issue,” said Kevin Cope, Faculty Senate president. “If that’s in the context of per-forming ‘line of duty’ work ... you can’t make a claim on the grounds

of free speech.”Westcott said the “official

duty” label only applies to work-related issues.

“It’s not just that your em-ployer is mad at you because you like purple grapes as opposed to green grapes,” Westcott said. “It’s that you are raising concern about the job.”

It is typically understood fac-ulty members have more freedom when teaching a lesson or giving an academic lecture, Westcott said.

“What you’re saying in the classroom when you’re standing in front of 50 students is histori-cally protected by the concept of academic freedom,” Westcott said.

Before the Supreme Court decision, the First Amendment

protected faculty members when they spoke about the governance of the University.

Cope said faculty having a voice is especially important dur-ing the current financial uncer-tainty and possible academic re-structuring at the University.

Westcott said she agrees. She said faculty members often know best about what a school needs and should be allowed to talk about it.

“[Faculty] are the ones engag-ing in the day-to-day of issues,” she said. “It’s imperative for them to be bale to engage in discussions about how to restructure or where to make cuts.”

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More than 50 participants at Block and Bridle annual rodeo

AAUP defends speech freedom

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A cowgirl competes in the pole bending competition Thursday at the annual Block and Bridle Rodeo at John M. Parker Coliseum. Students will rodeo tonight.

‘Speak Up, Speak Out’ to educate faculty

Event to give 10 percent of proceeds to charity

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By Mary Walker BausStaff Writer

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An improved relationship with the Old South Baton Rouge area could be crucial if the University plans to grow, Chancellor Michael Martin said.

Fostering a symbiotic relation-ship between the University and Old South Baton Rouge was the subject of Martin’s annual community up-date breakfast Tuesday.

“While we see a boundary be-tween that neighborhood and the University, in reality there is none,” Martin said. “As we grow this insti-tution, I believe it is clearly in the best interest of the student popula-tion and faculty and staff that has a neighborhood that serves them and that we serve well.”

Brandon Smith, University community affairs liaison, who is the principal organizer for LSU Community University Partnership (LSU CUP) presented the depart-ment’s strategic plan for the next three to five years which involves getting the University and other city parties working together in the

community.Combined with the current eco-

nomic downturn, LSU CUP is work-ing without federal Housing and Ur-ban Development grants it received early in the decade.

“Although we are in a difficult time in terms of our budget situation, sometimes those present themselves as opportunity to do great things with the bare necessities,” Smith said.

An example Smith gave of working to revitalize the community without great funding is Martin’s ongoing Faith Tour in which Martin is visiting churches in the Old South Baton Rouge area.

Martin visited the Living Word

Church on Nicholson Drive last Sun-day. He said he visited with the pas-tor and congregation to get a sense of how the relationship between the University and church can be better.

“It’s more about finding out what are the issues here in the neigh-borhood,” Martin said. “A lot of that is public safety, lack of shopping and sort of a feeling of being isolated in the middle of the city. The second thing we ask is are there things we can do as an institution to make it better.”

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Martin promotes relationship with Old South Baton RougeChancellor to foster bond with community

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Chancellor Michael Martin speaks about fostering a relationship with the University and Old South BR during his annual community breakfast Thursday at the Faculty Club.

By Xerxes A. WilsonStaff Writer

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Mike the Tiger and the LSU Cheerleaders fire up the crowd while Tiger Band plays at the 100th Homecoming Pep Rally on the Parade Ground on Thursday night.

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The University welcomed Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, the second Gordon A. and Mary Cain chair professor in chemical engi-neering, according to a Nov. 10 University news release.

Nandakumar previously served two years as the GASCO chair professor in chemical engi-neering at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emir-ates, according to the release.

Nandakumar was selected as a member of the World Council of Chemical Engineers in 2008.

Nandakumar’s research in-terests include multiphase flows, computational fluid dynamics, computer-aided modeling of chem-ical, mineral, polymer and electro-chemical processes, including fuel cells, according to the Cain Depart-ment of Chemical Engineering’s Web site.

“So one can argue that the time is ripe to organize an effort to undertake such studies, and this is going to be my goal at LSU,” Nandakumar said in the release. “Significant computational facili-ties, resources and expertise are available at LSU, and so I feel for-tunate to add a new dimension to these efforts.”

Computational fluid dynamics uses computers to understand the flow processes of different fluids, he told The Daily Reveille.

Nandakumar said he looks at the pumping of fluids from the ground up to the plant and process-ing the fluid into gasoline.

His research focuses on ef-ficiency of oil refineries and

gasoline plants, but he said the study of fluid mechanics is diffi-cult.

“Fluid is involved in every as-pect in the same way blood works in the human body,” he said.

Nandakumar joined the Uni-versity in August 2009 after work-ing in Canada.

A friend told him about the

opportunity at the University, and Nandakumar was looking for a more moderate climate, he said.

He currently teaches mechan-ics courses for master’s and doc-toral students.

After almost 40 years of strug-gling for survival, the earliest symbol of Louisiana was recently removed from the federal list of en-dangered species.

The population of brown peli-cans, Louisiana’s state bird, has re-bounded from abysmally low num-bers in the ’70s to more than 650,000 today spread across the state and the Gulf Coast.

U.S. Department of the Interior officials and Sen. Mary Landrieu announced Wednesday the bird’s removal from the endangered spe-cies list, saying the brown pelican population made a significant re-covery from the pesticide threats of the past.

The brown pelican was placed on the endangered species list in

1970, though the last known nests at the time had disappeared from Loui-siana by 1962, said James Remsen, biological sciences professor.

Remsen said the species suf-fered nationally because of repro-ductive failure associated with the introduction of the pesticide dichlo-rodiphenyltrichloroethane into its habitat.

DDT is highly toxic to aquatic life and becomes even more danger-ous to top predators when the chem-ical concentrates in prey.

Remsen said the pesticide in-terferes with calcium deposition in bird eggshells, which causes them to be soft and susceptible to damage.

“It was a pretty clear-cut exam-ple of us poisoning them, and once we weren’t doing that anymore, they came back,” Remsen said.

DDT was a factor in the over-all declining population, but Guerry Holm, research associate for the School of the Coast and Environ-ment, said it was direct poisoning from the pesticide Endrin which killed the birds in Louisiana.

Holm said direct runoff from sugarcane fields was highly poison-ous to many animal species in Loui-siana, killing them directly instead of causing reproductive failure.

Dangerous pesticides like DDT and Endrin were federally banned thanks to environmental activism in the ’70s.

The bird was eradicated from Louisiana because of poisoning, but between 1968 and 1984, Holm said close to 13,000 fledgling pelicans were successfully reintroduced to the state from Florida.

The number of brown pelicans dipped below 10,000 in 1970, but more than 12,000 breeding pairs are now estimated to live on the Gulf Coast.

Colonies of 1,000 to 2,000 brown pelicans can now be found on the Gulf Coast, according to the Department of Wildlife and Fisher-ies.

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Brown pelicans off endangered listDDT was factor in declining population

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Univ. hires new Cain professorNandakumar to work in fluid dynamics

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Adriana Soto, food science graduate student, signs the spirit wall Wednesday afternoon in Free Speech Alley as part of the Homecoming festivities.

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Student Government President Stuart Watkins said he tries to hold himself accountable and cautious of his actions during the Internet media age.

“Young individuals need to watch what they do,” he said. “An individual’s actions can come back to portray the person in an unfavor-able manor.”

Candidates are finding the In-ternet to be both a blessing and a curse in today’s Internet culture. But growing up in the Internet age will prove difficult for today’s stu-dents, who are the future political contenders.

Kirby Goidel, political com-munications professor, said it’s only a matter of time until a can-didate will fall victim to his or her past because of the Internet.

“The Internet creates a per-manent record,” he said. “With pictures or video, you can always hope they stay in safe hands. But with the Internet, it’s hard to delete everything.”

Many students are unsure of career goals while in college and don’t think about guarding against potentially harmful information posted online, he said.

Watkins said he plans to be involved with politics later in life, but he’s not concerned with the im-pact his present life will have on the future. But he said he’s always watching his actions.

“I haven’t had to deal with negative information on the Inter-net so far,” he said. “I’m a student

first, but I always keep a profes-sional manner.”

Wesley Orr, international stud-ies freshman, said he takes caution in what is posted to the Internet because of future implications. He said as more companies are search-ing applicants’ Facebook pages, it’s even more important to guard against unwanted information.

“I wouldn’t want my kids searching the Internet and find-ing embarrassing information,” he said. “Most things online never go away.”

Brandon Hick, biological sci-ences senior, said there is no way to control what is posted to the In-ternet, therefore it shouldn’t con-trol a person’s life.

“You should act the way you normally act,” he said. “You should be comfortable with your actions anyway, so it shouldn’t matter what people post about you.”

Melanie Oubre, College Democrats president, said the In-ternet will add another dimension to political races, just like TV and radio.

“Everyone will be in the same boat,” she said. “There will be a general understanding that the past is the past. Anything that pops up on the Internet will be seen as a mistake the candidate made when he or she was younger.”

Oubre said she has not had problems with harmful informa-tion posted to the Internet, but she said it’s important to guard against what is posted because of future consequences.

“It’s an interesting topic, but only the future will tell what will happen,” she said.

Goidel said the first few can-didates to have harmful past infor-mation dug up through the Internet will suffer politically. But he said

based on past scandals, as more candidates are subjected to scru-tiny for college days, the general public will be more forgiving of past events.

The Internet adds positive and negative aspects to an overall campaign, Goidel said. The Web is a means for campaign leaders and supporters to get more information to voters, but more supporters post-ing information could cause cam-paigns to lose control of what’s posted, creating a less tight cam-paign, he said.

“We’re in for a period of time where people who have grown up with the Internet think information has disappeared,” he said. “But eventually, it will resurface.”

It takes a lot to get noticed in the music industry. When hip-hop and rap artists are a dime a dozen, breaking into the industry takes tal-ent, good business sense and a little bit of luck. These are lessons local rap group, Da Future, is starting to learn.

Already with a large fan base in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Da Future is working to break out of the South and into the public spotlight, all while trying to stay true to its roots in music, friendship and LSU.

“We are definitely looking toward that next step,” said Eron “Eazy Money” Rousell, human re-sources education graduate student. “We get our business done, but at the end of the day it’s just friends getting together to make music.”

What started out as a hobby amongst four friends at LSU soon gained notice around the University, New Orleans and as far out as Atlan-ta, giving the group a chance to do more with their music, Rousell said.

The group began in 2003 when Tony “Too Smooth” Smith, Jeff “Tiga” Martin, Brain “Business” McCollum and Rousell would get together in Smith’s Pentagon dorm to pass the time by recording music.

The group began with no

aspirations in mind, but Smith be-gan to play the recordings for people in the Quad and Student Union and received a lot of positive feedback, Rousell said.

“There was really no solid mo-ment that we decided to make some-thing out of this,” said Martin, also a former employee of The Daily Rev-eille. “A lot of people heard our stuff and said, ‘Hey, y’all are good, go for it,’ and it just kind of changed into something more serious.”

Now with four mixtapes, the latest, “Delorean Muzic,” released in October, several local hits, including “Lolligag” and a new LSU-themed song, “Tiger Bait,” the group has gathered a large following around the University and New Orleans.

“I saw them live my freshman year at the LSU-Southeastern col-lege reunion,” said Melissa Brown, kinesiology junior. “They play ‘Ti-ger Bait’ at some of the tailgates whenever the buses drive by and ev-erybody gets hyped up for the game.

I think it may be the song that puts them on the map.”

Inspired by a wide range of music, including rock, rap, hip-hop and jazz, Da Future works to make its music accessible and positive for their audience. Inspired by Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West, the group mixes dance beats with more upbeat lyrics, Rousell said.

“A lot of rap is about murder and drug dealing,” Rousell said. “We aren’t like that, so we talk about our lives growing up in New Orleans and the things we’ve been through.”

Da Future will perform as special guests at 9 p.m. tonight, at the “Bayou Blackout” Homecom-ing Step Show at the Huey P. Long Fieldhouse.

Follow Jake Clapp on Twitter @TDR_jclapp

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Da Future to perform at step showNewest release includes ‘Tiger Bait’By Jake ClappEntertainment Writer

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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist in the Fort Hood massacre was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder Thursday as he lay in a hospital bed and Presi-dent Obama ordered a review to de-termine if the government fumbled warning signs of the shooter’s con-tacts with a radical Islamic cleric.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan could face the death penalty if convicted.

Army officials said they believe Hasan acted alone when he jumped on a table with two hand guns last week, shouted “Allahu akbar” and opened fire. The dead included at least three other mental health pro-fessionals; 29 were injured.

Additional charges were pos-sible, said Chris Grey, spokesman for the Army Criminal Investiga-tion Command. It was not decided whether to charge Hasan with the death of the unborn child of a preg-nant soldier who died, officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the case publicly.

Meanwhile, Obama ordered a review of all intelligence related to Hasan to determine whether it was properly shared and acted upon within the government. John Bren-nan, assistant to the president for

homeland security and counterter-rorism, will oversee the review. The first results are due Nov. 30. Obama also ordered the preservation of the intelligence.

Members of Congress are pressing for a full investigation in why Hasan was not detected and stopped. A Senate hearing on Hasan is scheduled for next week.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Re-publican on the House Intelligence Committee, and others have called for a full examination of what agen-cies knew about Hasan’s contacts with a radical imam and others of concern to the U.S., and what they did with the information. Hoekstra confirmed this week that the U.S. government knew about 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and a radi-cal imam, beginning in December 2008.

A joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI learned late last year of Hasan’s repeated contact with a radical Muslim cleric who encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. The FBI said the task force did not refer early information about Hasan to superiors because it concluded he wasn’t linked to ter-rorism.

Hasan was charged in the hospi-tal without his lawyers present, said John Galligan, his civilian attorney.

“What I find disturbing is that my client is in ICU, and he’s 150

miles south of his defense coun-sel, and he’s being served with the charges,” he told The Associated Press. “Given his status as a patient, I’m troubled by this procedure and that I’m not there. I’m in the dark, and that shouldn’t be the case. I am mad.”

Months before the shootings, doctors and staff overseeing Hasan’s training reported viewing him at times as belligerent, defensive and argumentative in his frequent dis-cussions of his Muslim faith, ac-cording to a military official famil-iar with several group discussions about Hasan. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about

the meetings and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Hasan was characterized as a mediocre student and lazy worker, which concerned the doctors and staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a military medical school in Bethesda, Md., the official said.

Even outside the military, Hasan’s behavior drew attention. Golam Akhter, a civil engineer from Bethesda, Md., said Thursday that he had spoken with Hasan about 10 times at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring before Hasan left for Texas last summer.

“He used to not believe that 9/11 was solely the work of Middle East people,” Akhter said. “His main thing was, ‘America is killing Mus-lims in the Middle East.’ That made him very, very upset.”

Akhter said he sensed that Hasan was “a troubled man” and feels guilty for not alerting others.

“I tried to convince him to try to be a moderate Muslim,” Akhter said.

Inside Walter Reed, the con-cerns about Hasan’s performance and religious views were shared with other military officials considering his next assignment, and the con-sensus was to send the 39-year-old psychiatrist to Fort Hood in Texas, the military official said.

One of the largest military in-stallations, other doctors could han-dle the workload if Hasan continued to perform poorly and his superiors could document any continued be-havior problems, the official said.

Hasan repeatedly referred to his strong religious views in discus-sions with classmates, his superiors and even in his research work, the official said. His behavior, while at times perceived as intense and com-bative, was not unlike the zeal of others with strong religious views.

NATION

Fort Hood suspect charged with 13 murder countsBy Angela Brown and Lolita BaldorThe Associated Press

M. SPENCER GREEN / The Associated Press

Firefighters salute the hearse carrying Pfc. Michael Pearson on Nov. 12. Pearson was killed Nov. 5 when Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mys-tery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson’s life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.

There’s the myth he sold his soul to the devil to create his haunt-ing guitar intonations. There’s the dispute over where he died after his alleged poisoning by a jealous man in 1938. Three different markers claim to be the site of his demise.

His birthplace, however, has been verified. The seminal blues-man came into the world in 1911 in a well-crafted home built by his stepfather in the Mississippi town of Hazlehurst.

Now, 71 years after his death, local officials want to restore the home in hopes of drawing Johnson fans and their tourism dollars to Co-piah County, about 100 miles from the Delta region that most bluesmen called home.

Johnson’s life and music have been the subject of multiple books. And producers are shopping a script in Hollywood about him penned by Jimmy White, the screenwriter for the Academy Award-winning film, “Ray.”

“It’s amazing that after all these years, people still talk about Robert Johnson on the level that they do,” said the bluesman’s grandson, Ste-

ven Johnson.Johnson’s influence can be heard

in the works of numerous artists, from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton, who covered 14 of the bluesman’s songs on his 2004 album, “Me and Mr. Johnson.”

The house is an important piece of Johnson’s legacy, said Grammy-winning pianist George Winston, who will headline a fundraiser for the restoration Monday at the

Belhaven College Center for the Arts in Jackson.

“Everything with Robert is mys-terious, but the more we can demys-tify, we can get down to the truth,” said Winston. “He was an inspired musician. He took a quantum leap.”

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The parents accused of pulling a spec-tacular hoax by reporting that their 6-year-old son had floated away aboard a helium balloon agreed to plead guilty in a deal that could send them both to jail but protect the wife from deportation.

Richard Heene will plead guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, said his attorney, David Lane. Heene’s wife, Mayumi, a Japanese citizen who could be de-ported if convicted of more serious charges, will plead guilty to a lesser charge of false reporting to authori-

ties, a misdemeanor.Lane said the threat of deporta-

tion “fueled” negotiations with pros-ecutors. An attorney for Mayumi Heene said her immigration status was a factor in reaching the deal but would not comment further.

Prosecutors announced criminal charges against the couple Thurs-day. A spokeswoman for the Lar-imer County district attorney’s office would not discuss whether a plea agreement was reached.

The Oct. 15 saga gripped a global audience, first with fear for the safety of 6-year-old Falcon Heene and then with anger at his parents when au-thorities accused them of perpetrat-ing the hoax to drum up attention for a possible reality show.

Lane said the deal does not call for removing Falcon or the couple’s other two children — ages 8 and 10 — from the parents’ custody.

The plea deal would spare the Heenes the maximum jail time, but Richard Heene could still get up to 90 days and Mayumi up to 60, Lane said.

Without the deal, the charge against Richard Heene carries a possible sentence of two to six years in state prison and a fine of up to $500,000. The charge against his wife is punishable by up to six months in the county jail and a fine up to $750.

Mayumi Heene’s attorney, Lee Christian, said he expects her to serve any jail time in a work-release program that would involve some detention and some time at home.

The parents still face a civil in-vestigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. Possible penalties range from a letter of reprimand to a fine. The balloon briefly forced some planes to switch to a different

runway for takeoff from the Denver airport.

Prosecutors said the Heenes agreed to turn themselves in and went to court Thursday to sign docu-ments promising to appear before a judge on Friday. They held hands as they walked into the courthouse. The couple’s children were not with them.

Richard Heene also had a book-ing photo taken at a county jail and was released. He declined to

comment.Lane said prosecutors insisted

on a “package deal” that required Richard Heene to plead guilty to a felony so Mayumi Heene could plead guilty to a misdemeanor and avoid deportation.


NATION

Lawyer: Colo. ‘Balloon boy’ parents to plead guiltyWife could possibly be deported to JapanBy P. Solomon BandaThe Associated Press

Johnson famed for selling soul to devilBy Shelia ByrdThe Associated Press

Bluesman’s home to be restoredMUSIC



Sports THE DAILY REVEILLE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009 PAGE 9

For the fi rst time in its 14-year history, the LSU Soccer Complex is playing host to the fi rst two rounds of the NCAA tournament beginning Friday.

“To have the home crowd be-hind us is defi nitely going to help us out,” said senior midfi elder Mal-orie Rutledge. “I think we’re great at home — knock on wood.”

The No. 11 LSU soccer team (14-4-4, 8-2-1) will battle South-western Athletic Conference tour-nament champion Arkansas-Pine Bluff (12-6-4, 3-1 SWAC) on Fri-day at 7 p.m.

The No. 4-seed Tigers hope to reverse their misfortune at the national level after a heartbreaking shootout loss to South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference tour-nament.

“Three games in fi ve days is just tough, and our legs kind of went out,” said LSU coach Brian Lee regarding the SEC tournament. “But you won’t see that situation again. We’ve got two games this weekend, and we feel good about where we are moving forward.”

Lee has never played the Lady Lions before but has heard good things from their opponents.

“They’re getting lots of positive reviews from the teams that have played them,” he said. “They’re certainly going to be dan-gerous going forward, and they’ve won 10 of their last 11.”

Unlike senior-laden LSU, Arkansas Pine-Bluff is decorated with underclassmen.

“Their coach has done a really

SOCCER

LSU to host first two rounds of tourneyBy Rowan KavnerSports Contributor

TOURNAMENT, see page 18

The LSU women’s basket-ball team will look to continue its dominance of in-state opponents under coach Van Chancellor in its regular-season opener this week-end.

After the No. 9 Lady Tigers defeated Loyola by 35 points in an exhibition game Tuesday

night, they will face Centenary on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the PMAC.

In LSU’s eighth game last year , the Lady Tigers traveled to Shreveport and knocked off Cen-tenary by 43 points, 74-31. But LSU senior guard Allison High-tower said the Lady Tigers have some work to do if they want to open 2009 with a victory.

“We take nobody for grant-ed,” Hightower said. “We are ca-pable of playing much better.”

Centenary fi nished 4-25 last season and ended on an eight-game losing streak.

LSU is 9-0 against in-state

opponents since Chancellor be-came coach in 2007 with an av-erage margin of victory of 25 points.

Chancellor said Tuesday the LSU defense has been a “trade-mark since forever,” and the team’s defensive output in the exhibition game was not where it needed to be.

“We started three freshmen in the same game at this time last year, and we were much further along defensively,” Chancel-lor said. “Trademarks of LSU

OPENER, see page 18

LSU opens season in PMACWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers to face in-state CentenaryBy Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer

As Bob Dylan once sang and as LSU men’s bas-ketball coach Trent Johnson surely knows, “The times they are a-changing.”

The LSU men’s basketball team opening its 2009 season tonight against Louisiana-Monroe in the PMAC will feature just two returning starters — junior point guard Bo Spencer and senior forward Tasmin Mitchell — from last season’s Southeastern Conference cham-pionship squad.

The rest are a jumble of contributors only Johnson can predict.

“It just depends on who we’re playing,” John-son said. “I hate to go back to last year, but last year, that was sort of etched in stone ... but that’s not this year’s basketball team.”

Johnson has coached LSU for only 19 months , and already the team con-sists of just four players who played during the ten-ure of former coach John Brady.

Senior guard Alex Far-rer suffered a dislocated kneecap Sunday and will miss at least six weeks, and all that’s left is sophomore

forward Garrett Green who joins Spencer and Mitchell as holdovers from the old regime.

“We’re going to miss [Farrer’s] experience,” Johnson said. “Now there’s more opportunities for more guys to play more minutes ... But I hate to see a guy who’s a senior — fi fth year — with as much time and effort as he’s put into the program, to see some-thing like that happen to him.”

The Warhawks boast a wealth of experience after a forgettable 2008 season.

ULM returns six upperclassmen with start-ing experience after limping to a 10-20 record in

Same Game, New NamesYoung Tiger team debuts

tonight against UL-MonroeBy David HelmanSports Writer

GRANT GUTIERREZ / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior guard Bo Spencer tries to shoot the ball against sophomore guard Chris Bass on Oct. 28 at the Purple and Gold match. The Tigers open their season tonight against Louisiana-Monroe.BASKETBALL, see page 17

‘‘‘I hate to go back to last year, but ...

that was sort of etched in stone

... but that’s not this year’s

basketball team.’

Trent JohnsonLSU men’s basketball coach

LSU sophomore forward Taylor Turn-bow, right, and junior guard Latear Eason, center, guard Loyola senior de-fend Trenell Smith, left, on Nov. 10 in the PMAC. The Lady Tigers defeated the Wolfpack, 78-43.JASON BORDELON / The Daily Reveille

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 10 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The New Orleans Hornets ended the 2008 season with an em-barrassing fi ve-game series loss in the fi rst round of the playoffs to the Denver Nuggets, which included a 58-point blowout loss at home .

The team’s struggles continued this season, and the Hornets have begun the year with a 3-6 record .

Wednesday night’s 124-104 loss to the Phoenix Suns was the tipping point, and New Orleans an-nounced on Thursday morning the fi ring of head coach Byron Scott.

General manager Jeff Bower will replace Scott as the coach for the rest of the season, and former Hornets coach Tim Floyd will re-join the team as an assistant behind Bower.

The Hornets were 41-41 in Floyd’s only season as head coach, losing in a seven-game series to the Miami Heat and then-rookie Dwy-ane Wade in the fi rst round of the playoffs.

“I have a high comfort level with Tim, who has proven himself to be a quality coach, who has prov-en himself to have some very spe-cifi c areas that he’s outstanding in,” Bower said.

Some LSU students think the Hornets shouldn’t have fi red Scott.

“That was a bad decision,” said Chirag Patel , kinesiology freshman. “He was the Coach of the Year two years ago, and he gets fi red this year because they get off to a bad start.”

Patel said he doesn’t think the Hornets’ poor start was Scott’s fault. He said players like small forwards Peja Stojakovic and James Posey haven’t been playing well.

“It may be some of the role players that might not be doing their jobs,” Patel said. “I don’t think it was Byron Scott.”

The Hornets began the season with Stojakovic coming off the bench with Posey in an effort to give the bench a spark and some depth when point guard Chris Paul and the rest of the starters come out of the game to get some rest.

But Corey Freeman , criminol-ogy senior, said he thinks no matter who is coaching the team and what rotation they put the players in, the Hornets won’t be successful un-til they get younger players on the team.

“They need to refresh,” Free-man said. “Older teams aren’t that great.”

Both Stojakovic and Posey are 32 years old , and the average age of the team is about 27.

Clarence Francis , chemical engineering freshman, said bring-ing in a new coach will not only do little to change the team’s struggles, but will also further hurt the team throughout the rest of the season.

“It might make them do worse,” Francis said. “It might benefi t them next year, but just starting the year off with a new coach and all that adjusting — it’s not going to work out.”

Patrick Bloom , kinesiology freshman, agreed the main problem the Hornets might run into is learn-ing a new style of a new coach.

“When you get used to some-one coaching and you bring some-body in new, they might have a dif-ferent style of ball they like to play,” Bloom said.

But Michael Nammour , biolo-gy freshman, said the Hornets might still have time to salvage the young season.

“It’s not like football where if you lose six games, you just suck,” Nammour said. “They play so many games that they have time to make it up. But obviously they have to turn it around and get the program heading in the right direction.”

Patel said he doesn’t think Bower will help the team as coach, but the acquisition of Floyd might give the Hornets a chance.

“He probably has better bas-ketball knowledge than Jeff Bower does,” Patel said. “Hopefully, they can come out and be at least an eighth seed and get into the play-offs.”

Another person who may not be pleased with the decision is

Hornets guard Chris Paul.Paul, who has not played for

any NBA coach but Scott, was not available after players gathered at the club’s suburban training cen-ter. Team offi cials said he had a prior commitment and had to leave. Paul was close with Scott. The pair golfed together, and Paul once re-ferred to Scott as a father fi gure who was closer to him than many of his own relatives.

“I understand personal rela-tionships,” Bower said. “Chris, that’s one of his strengths, his abil-ity to connect. And obviously it’s a very strong personal relationship [with Scott] and that should remain in place. This is a professional de-cision and a professional relation-ship that we have here, and I have a lot of confi dence in what he wants. He wants to win ... None of us are pleased from a personal standpoint to ever have a day like today.”

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory and her staff decided to give their team an extra day’s rest last week before the first two matches of a four-game road swing.

She said some of her players were looking tired, and she didn’t want to overwork them with the postseason looming.

The rest ended up working in the long run, but it was a close call, as the No. 19 Tigers (20-5, 14-2) narrowly escaped Arkansas in five sets.

“We played with fire, and we almost got burnt,” Flory said. “The bottom line is I trusted the team, and they did a great job.”

If Flory thinks matters got a little hot against Arkansas, the Tigers may as well be playing to-night’s match on the surface of the sun.

LSU faces No. 10 Florida (20-3, 14-2) and South Carolina (13-12, 5-11) this weekend on Fri-day and Sunday to finish out its four-game road trip.

The Gators enter tonight’s match against the Tigers on an eight-match winning streak since getting swept by LSU in Baton

Rouge earlier in the season. Florida and LSU are also in a tie for sec-ond place in the Southeas tern C o n f e r e n c e , a half match behind confer-ence- lead ing No. 11 Ken-tucky.

LSU se-nior setter Sam

Dabbs said the victory against Arkansas was important because it not only kept the team in the hunt for the SEC title, but it also kept its momentum going into the match against the Gators. The Ti-gers have won 13 of their last 14 matches.

“Their libero used to be the one who would take every ball on the back row, but now their whole team has gotten better at playing defense,” Dabbs said. “They have also changed up their lineups to where they aren’t making as many substitutions and are relying on a strong six or eight players that come in and out like we do.”

While Dabbs had high praise of Florida’s success, Florida coach Mary Wise wasn’t sparse in her admiration of LSU’s recent play in a press conference Monday.

“When we played LSU the first time, they played really well,” Wise said. “They could have beat-en just about anyone in the coun-try the way they played that night. We hope that we can disrupt that some on our home court.”

The biggest challenge of play-ing against Florida on the road may be in the form of the Gator’s “seventh man” — the O’Connell Center crowd.

The Gators recently drew 3,325 fans to a 3-0 sweep of Geor-gia last Friday. In comparison, LSU’s largest home crowd this season was 1,303 against Tennes-see on Sept. 18.

But the Tigers aren’t too wor-ried about the crowd being a fac-tor in the match.

“We’ve been drawing big crowds everywhere we go, so I think we’re used to it now,” said sophomore libero Lauren Waclaw-czyk. “It’s just more about our at-titude now. We’re not going to let it mess with us because we’re pumped.”

The Tigers will then have to

turn their attention to an ever-pes-ky South Carolina team Sunday that has defeated LSU in Colum-bia, S.C., the past two seasons.

LSU got the best of the Game-cocks earlier in the season in the PMAC with a 3-0 sweep, but Flo-ry knows the story may be a little different on the road.

“South Carolina at South Carolina is a notoriously difficult match for us,” Flory said. “I don’t know why. We have struggled in that building, but I don’t know if this team will. The focus we have is positive right now, and other times in years past we haven’t been at this point. We’re also a much better road team this year.”

VOLLEYBALL

Tigers look to stay in SEC title contention against FloridaLSU has won 13 of last 14 matchesBy Andy SchwehmSports Writer

BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

LSU middle blockers Lauren DeGirolamo (4) and Brittnee Cooper (25) block a hit by Florida’s Kristy Jaeckel, right, on Oct. 11 during the Tiger’s 3-0 victory.

Contact Andy Schwehm at [email protected]

‘We played with fire, and we

almost got burnt. The bottom line is I trusted the team.’

Fran FloryLSU volleyball coach

The LSU cross country teams will travel to Waco, Texas, this weekend to compete in what may be their last event of the season for the NCAA South Central Region-als, which are being hosted by Bay-lor at the Cottonwood Creek Golf Course.

The regionals are used as a stepping stone for teams to qualify for the NCAA Championship in Terra Haute, Ind.

The top two teams from each of the nine regional brackets automati-cally advance to the national meet, and 13 at-large teams are selected from the remaining pool of teams.

Runners can also earn a chance to compete for the NCAA individu-al championship.

All runners from the top two teams from each region automati-cally advance to the NCAA cham-pionship. The top eight remaining finishers from each region are giv-en invitations to participate in the NCAA Championship.

LSU has been suffering from a case of déjà vu the entire season, and if Saturday’s meet reflects on their 2009 campaign, LSU will have a hard time sending runners to Terra Haute.

Sophomore Cullen Doody crossing the finish line first for the Tigers has been a recurrent theme this season. Doody paced the Tigers in every meet this season with his best performance at the LSU Invi-tational when he placed 16th out of 112 runners.

The Lady Tigers have had a little more diversity at the top with three different runners pacing them this season. But freshman Charlene Lipsey has come on strong in recent events.

Lipsey was the top finisher for the Lady Tigers in their last two meets. Her best time came at the Chile Pepper Invitational in Fay-etteville, Ark., when she ran a 23-minute, 23-second 6K — the best 6K time for any Lady Tiger this season.

“The women have been con-sistent all season,” said LSU coach Mark Elliott in a news release. “[Lipsey] has done a really nice job, especially since she is a track runner, and she really isn’t used to cross country.”

LSU is looking to rebound from its performance at the Southeastern Conference Championships that left much to be desired.

The Tigers finished the SEC meet in last place. Doody led the Ti-gers in the 8K course, but the entire team finished in the bottom 25 per-cent of the field. Six LSU runners finished near the back of the pack within 21 seconds of each other.

The Lady Tigers finished 11th out of 12 teams competing in the event. Lipsey was the top finisher

for the Lady Tigers and was fol-lowed by junior Katie Hamel and sophomore Laura Carleton as the only LSU runners to finish in the top 70.

The men will start the event Saturday with a 10K at 10 a.m., and the women will run a 6K that starts

at 11 a.m.Baylor is hosting the regional

for the second consecutive year and the sixth time in seven years.


CROSS COUNTRY

Teams advance to postseason regional meet in Waco, TexasLSU needs to finish in top 2 to advanceBy Luke JohnsonSports Contributor


Freshman cross country runner Jenna Henssler leads the competition Sept. 26 at the LSU Invitational at Highland Road Park.

Contact Luke Johnson at [email protected]

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 14 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The LSU swimming and div-ing teams get back on the road this weekend as they head to New Or-leans to take on UNO.

The Tigers (0-4, 0-3) and Lady Tigers (1-4,0-3) will try to rebound from back-to-back losses at Alabama and Florida State last weekend.

“It will be fun to revive another in-state compe-tition so close to home,” LSU head coach Adam Schmitt said in a press release. “They reopened their pool this year, and we look forward to com-peting there.”

The Tigers and Lady Tigers have received strong individual swims despite the skid. In the weekend losses, many swimmers swam season bests in their respec-tive events.

LSU freshmen Andrei Tuo-mola and Craig Hamilton enjoyed their fi rst road trip as Tigers.

Tuomola swam his season-best

in the 50-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 20.47 seconds against Alabama and then followed the next day with a team season best in the 100-yard breaststroke with a 56.47-second time.

Tuomola was also part of the 200-yard medley relay that swam a season-best against Alabama.

Hamilton swam season bests at Florida State in both the 1,000-yard and 500-yard freestyle, clock-ing 9 minutes, 15.64 seconds and 4 minutes, 30.20 seconds.

LSU junior Hannes Heyl swam this season’s fastest time in the 100-yard butterfl y against Alabama at 49.48 seconds.

Junior Clint Hallum swam a team best in the 200-yard freestyle and the 200-yard

individual medley against Ala-bama. He swam a season best in the 200-yard breast the following day at Florida State fi nishing in 2 minutes, 5 seconds.

Sophomore diver Brian Gem-berling notched NCAA Diving Zone Regional qualifying scores against Alabama, and sophomore Simon Diefenthal swam a season-best in the 200-yard backstroke .

Senior Sean LeNeave swam a season best in the 200-yard

butterfl y against Florida State af-ter his teammate sophomore Mar-tin Jungfl eisch notch the top time against Alabama.

Junior Jane Trepp swam sea-son best in the 100-yard breast-stroke and the 100-yard butterfl y

in the Lady Tigers’ 162-138 loss to Florida State. She was also a part of the 200-yard medley relay squad that notch a season best time.

The Lady Tigers won a lot of events against Florida State.

“On the women’s side, we

won 10 of the 16 events but just got behind because of a lack of depth,” Schmitt said after the meet. “We are a young team, and I thought we responded well in our fi rst road trip. As we continue to grow and develop, I think we’ll get better and better.”

Schmitt said he wants to see more from his team despite the strong performances.

“I’m still looking to see some of our athletes step up this sea-son,” Schmitt said. “I’m hopeful we’ll see some of that against the Privateers.”

Trepp said LSU’s goal for the meet is to swim fast.

“I wouldn’t say this meet should be taken differently than any other meet,” she said. “Our main goal is of course to win, but also it’s exciting to see how people step up and show fast times.”

The LSU men and women defeated UNO last season in the LSU Invitational. The meet invite was highlighted by performances from departed seniors, but the LSU roster still features some of the meet’s top performers. Junior Kannon Betzon won the 100-yard breaststroke and senior Luc Ryko-sky won the 500-yard freestyle.

By Amos MoraleSports Contributor

Contact Amos Morale at [email protected]

Coach excited to see swimmers step up

SWIMMING AND DIVING

LSU seeks rebound in N.O. after back-to-back losses

MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman Andrei Tuomola tries to pump up the crowd Oct. 16 during the men’s 200-meter relay against Tennessee in the Natatorium.

‘‘‘It’s exciting to see

how people step up and show fast

times.’Jane Trepp

LSU junior swimmer

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LOS ANGELES (AP)—Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, who was arrested in a scuffl e with a photographer, could be sent to jail if he’s found to have violated probation from a 2007 drug case, of-fi cials said Thursday.

The 43-year-old former heavy-weight champion and a photogra-pher, Tony Echeverria, made citi-zens’ arrests of each other following a confrontation at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Los Angeles Interna-tional Airport.

Each man claimed the other struck him, police said.

Airport police were called, and the men were taken away for book-ing on suspicion of misdemeanor battery. They were fi ngerprinted and photographed, then released without bail, Sgt. Jim Holcomb said.

The city attorney will decide whether to fi le criminal charges. Ty-son is on probation after pleading guilty in Arizona to cocaine posses-sion and driving under the infl uence. He spent 24 hours in jail there.

Zach Dal Pra, deputy chief of the Maricopa County Adult Proba-tion Department, said his offi ce is still trying to get in touch with Los Angeles authorities to fi gure out ex-actly what transpired during the air-port incident.

“Did Mr. Tyson’s actions consti-tute a violation of probation here? If so, we’ll start court proceedings,” he said. “Right now, we’re still in that investigative mode.”

Tyson could face jail time if a court fi nds that he violated his proba-tion, Dal Pra said.

Tyson had stopped at LAX while traveling from Europe to Las Vegas when several photographers began snapping pictures of him near a ticket counter, Holcomb said.

Echeverria, 50, who described himself as a freelance photographer, told police that Tyson struck him once. The photographer fell to the ground and was treated for a cut to his forehead at a hospital.

With the Thanksgiving holi-day looming two weeks away, University Recreation is amid wrapping up fall intramural com-petitions .

Intramural sand volleyball is expected to complete playoff ac-tion Nov. 19 , and fl ag football is scheduled to fi nish Nov. 22 , said Matt Boyer , assistant director for leagues and tournaments .

“If all goes well, we will have everything fi nished by Thanks-giving holiday,” Boyer said.

In the men’s sand volleyball league, 3-Peat beat Pi Kappa Phi in straight sets , 2-0 , to reach the semifi nals . UREC Men also ad-vanced to the semifi nals with a straight set victory against Tiger Band .

In the co-rec “A” division, Four Play beat Party in the USA , 2-1 , to reach the semifi nal round.

The co-rec “B” bracket had Jocks for Rocks/Geoclub All-stars , MBA Ballers and Skadoosh advance to the semifi nals .

Boyer said seed numbers for the brackets online are irrelevant and serve solely as a position-holder in the bracket.

“A lot of people have been confused about the seed numbers on there,” he said. “They are not really seed numbers. Teams are placed in according to their fi nish in the pool.”

In the co-rec “A” fl ag foot-ball division, Super Phun Thyme edged Back That Pass Up , 15-13 , to advance to the semifi nal round. Jack and Jills defeated Chi Alpha , 19-13 , to reach the semifi nals .

In the co-rec “B” league, BCM , Southern Smashmouths and Team Bye Week all reached the quarterfi nal round this week.

In the men’s “A” division, Cowankyde , Wetness , TD Pizza Crazy , Skadoosh , Loose Can-nons , LSU Law Wash Ups , Team Stephan Rodrigue and No Hard Feelings all advanced to round two .

Men’s “B” and Fraternity “B” must still complete play-in games and begin round one next week .

Homecoming events con-cluded Thursday with a 3-on-3 fl ag football tourna-ment and a punt-p a s s - a n d - k i c k competition.

Boyer said 24 men’s teams and three women’s teams registered for fl ag football .

The intramu-ral fl ag football team Loose Can-nons will travel to the Regional Flag Football Championship on Saturday , hosted by the Univer-sity of West Florida .

“They are buying their entire way there,” Boyer said. “We have no fi nancial support.”

The LSU rugby team will compete against Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas, on Sat-urday , said Eric Engemann , grad-uate assistant for club sports .

Boyer said intramural league

champions receive the opportu-nity to compete at the University of New Orleans in national com-petitions Dec. 28-31 .

UREC intramural offi cials are also expected to represent the University there.

UREC is currently taking applications for spring sport of-fi cials, according to Boyer .

“ S p r i n g sports that need offi cials include soccer, softball, basketball and in-

door volleyball,” he said.Spring registration for bas-

ketball , 4-on-4 fl ag football , team tennis , team table tennis , racquet-ball singles and 7-a-side soccer starts Dec. 7 and ends Jan. 20 .

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Former heavyweightTyson may go to jail

BOXING

Rugby team heads to Huntsville, TexasBy Jonathan SchexnayderSports Contributor

By The Associated Press

Intramural playoffs continue

Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at [email protected]

‘‘‘If all goes well, we will have everything

fi nished by Thanksgiving

holiday.’Matt Boyer

assistant director, leagues and tournaments

Contact Jonathan Schexnayder at [email protected]


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Three freshmen Tennessee football play-ers, including highly touted wide receiver recruit Nu’Keese Richard-son and starting safety Janzen Jack-son, were charged with attempted armed robbery Thursday morning.

Richardson, 18, and Jackson, 18, along with defensive back Mike Edwards, 18, and compan-ion Marie Montmarquet, 22, were each charged with three counts of attempted armed robbery in con-nection with an incident at a gas station in an area known as “The Strip” at the edge of Tennessee’s campus.

Richardson and Edwards were being held Thursday afternoon on bonds of $19,500, and Jackson was released on his own recognizance.

“Mr. Jackson vehemently as-serts his innocence, and we hope that this will become apparent in the next 24 to 48 hours,” Jack-son’s attorney Don Bosch said in a statement. It was not immediately known if Richardson and Edwards had attorneys.

The three players are the first arrested during the tenure of first-year coach Lane Kiffin, who on a

Wednesday teleconference touted his team’s clean record. Kiffin’s predecessor, Phillip Fulmer, was often criticized for being too lax on a number of his players who had discipline problems.

“At this time, we are currently evaluating the circumstances sur-rounding an incident involving Mike Edwards, Janzen Jackson and Nu’Keese Richardson,” athletic di-rector Mike Hamilton said. “Any decisions or comments regarding

their status will not be made until the evaluations are complete.”

The three victims told police they were sitting in their parked vehicle just before 2 a.m. Thursday at a gas station near Tennessee’s campus when two males dressed in hooded jackets, one brandish-ing a handgun, approached and demanded, “Give us everything you’ve got.”

“The victims stated that they all presented their wallets to the

suspects and showed them that they did not have money,” the police re-port said. “The victims stated that a third black male then approached and told the other two black males, ‘We’ve got to go.”’

The three suspects were seen leaving in a Toyota Prius, and po-lice pulled over a vehicle matching the description nearby. Police spot-ted a pellet gun and hooded jackets and later found drug paraphernalia and a bag of what appeared to be

marijuana.Police say Montmarquet told

them the drug paraphernalia and substance belonged to her and she was charged with simple posses-sion.

The victims identified Rich-ardson and Edwards as the men who approached their vehicle.

The incident happened at a gas station operated by Pilot, a com-pany founded by former Tennes-see football player and longtime booster Jim Haslam. Tennessee’s outdoor football practice field is named Haslam Field in his honor.

Richardson, a highly touted re-cruit from Pahokee, Fla., originally committed to Florida but switched to Tennessee after being recruited by coach Lane Kiffin. Kiffin joked in a February recruiting celebration that Florida coach Urban Meyer cheated in trying to keep Richard-son as a Gator, earning Kiffin a reprimand from the Southeastern Conference.

Richardson had told Kiffin recently he was frustrated with his lack of production but scored his first touchdown in a 56-28 win over Memphis on Saturday. He’s had six catches this season for 58 yards and served as a punt return specialist.

FOOTBALL

Tenn. players charged with attempted armed robbery Coach touted team’s clean record Wed.By The Associated Press

Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at [email protected]

photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tennessee football players Mike Edwards, Janzen Jackson and Nu’Keese Richardson were charged with attempted armed robbery Thursday in Knoxville, Tenn. As of Thursday, Jackson was released while Edwards and Richardson remained in custody.

THE DAILY REVEILLE PAGE 17FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009

FRIDAY2008-2009. Four players who av-eraged double digits return to the lineup, including senior forward Malcolm Thomas , who averaged 12.3 points and 4.8 boards .

Senior guard Tony Hooper , who missed most of last season with a broken foot, also returns to the lineup after averaging 15.1 points per game in his junior sea-son.

“They return a lot of guys from last year’s team,” Johnson said. “This is a group that’s got a level of experience, but always the case for us is to try to get better every day.”

S p e n c e r ’ s newfound status as a veteran speaks volumes about the Tigers’ changes this offseason. He was the youngest starter on a senior-laden team just eight months ago but will be the only Tigers guard with starting experience when the Tigers take the court tonight.

“We look at it as an opportu-nity — guys are getting chances, and they have to capitalize on that opportunity,” Spencer said. “A lot of guys are going to have to step up even more than they were expected to.”

His support will be freshman guard Aaron Dotson and sopho-more guard Chris Bass , opposed

to former SEC Player of the Year Marcus Thornton.

“I’m going to have to use Chris and Bo together at times, more so than I would have liked to at this point in the season,” John-son said. “We’ll get a really good look at that come Friday, because Monroe comes with multiple types of pressure.”

The change doesn’t stop there.

Johnson is assembling future teams even as the season tips off,

as LSU signed what many be-lieve to be a top-10 recruiting class Thursday during the NCAA’s early signing period.

Four high school standouts — forward Matt D e r e n b e c k e r , point guard Andre Stringer, forward Jalen Courtney

and guard Ralston Turner — com-mitted to LSU for 2010, bolstering the Tigers’ future prospects.

Derenbecker, Stringer and Turner are all considered top 100 prospects by ESPNU.

“These are the young men that we targeted whom we felt would fi t our program, and we look forward to having them here,” Johnson said in a news release. “All that being said, this recruiting class ... should be judged at the end of their ca-reers and not at the start of their ca-reers, and I think these players all

understand that.”Perhaps the biggest — or

maybe the only — constant enter-ing 2009 is Mitchell , who begins his fi fth and fi nal season at LSU tonight.

He and Farrer are the only re-maining players from a Final Four run that seems lifetimes ago. He’s played with Glen Davis, Tyrus Thomas and Thornton — all of whom have gone on to profession-al contracts.

He sat out the 2007-2008 sea-son. He then helped carry the same team to last season’s conference title, willing LSU to an overtime victory at Mississippi State and hitting the title-clinching shot at Kentucky.

“He was a very good basket-ball player at the end of last year — he’s better now,” Johnson said.

Mitchell gave the NBA brief consideration before returning to school, where he was a unanimous First-Team All-SEC selection by conference coaches.

He is the Tigers’ only senior starter and is charged with setting the example for a young LSU ros-ter.

His fi nal performance may have to be his best.

“I don’t have a burden on me right now except to help the team win and carry out the tasks coach Johnson wants me to carry out,” Mitchell said.

BASKETBALL, from page 9

Contact David Helman at [email protected]

‘‘‘[ULM returns] a

lot of guys from last year’s team. This is a group that’s got a level of experience.’

Trent JohnsonLSU men’s basketball coach

Check out the athletic events on campus this weekend

4 p.m. — Memphis against Texas A&M at the LSU Soc-• cer Complex7 p.m. — LSU against Arkansas-Pine Bluff at the LSU • Soccer Complex7 p.m. — LSU men’s basketball against UL-Monroe in • the PMAC

SATURDAY11:30 a.m. — LSU Homecoming Parade throughout • campusNoon — LSU Ticket Offi ce opens• 3 p.m. — Club level and suites open at Tiger Stadium• 3:15 p.m. — LSU student gates open at Tiger Stadium• 3:30 p.m. — All remaining gates open at Tiger Stadium• 4:10 p.m. — Mike VI and LSU band march down Vic-• tory Hill5:45 p.m. — LSU Salutes• 5:50 p.m. — Golden Band from Tiger Land takes the • fi eld for pregame performance6:05 p.m. — Kickoff: LSU against Louisiana Tech•

SUNDAY2 p.m. — LSU women’s basketball against Centenary • in the PMAC


defense were nonexistent [Tues-day]. Don’t allow penetration. Don’t allow the open three. Don’t foul.”

Sophomore forward LaSon-dra Barrett was one freshman who took the court for the first time in 2008. Barrett said the 2009 team is “still kind of young,” but the players have a better grasp on the team’s goals.

“As far as experience, we have four returning starters,” Bar-rett said. “Getting more rebounds and playing defense is what [Chancellor] wants and what I expect of myself.”

Barrett said it is essential for LSU to perform well defensively throughout the season.

“Our defense is always go-ing to be pretty good,” Barrett said. “It’s something we stress here, and coaches prepare us well for — we have a whole defensive conditioning program in the fall.”

Chancellor highlighted the play of freshman guard Bianca Lutley against Loyola. The Plan-tation, Fla., native finished with two rebounds, two assists and one block in 10 minutes.

“Bianca Lutley was better [Tuesday] than she has been at any time during practice,” Chan-cellor said. “Looks like to me she’s a light player. When you turn the lights on, she’s going to play.”

Fellow freshman guard Adrienne Webb converted three 3-pointers in 17 minutes Tuesday

in her first action as a Lady Tiger. Junior guard Taylor Booze

drained two shots from behind the arc of her own in 10 minutes played. Fellow Trinity Valley Community College transfer Jas-mine Nelson added five rebounds and eight points.

Hightower led LSU in scor-ing against Loyola, accumulating 18 points on 8-of-13 shooting in 25 minutes played.

Chancellor said he was pleased with the exhibition per-formance from some of LSU’s reserves.

“I was really happy with that group,” Chancellor said. “I was really happy with the other group in the second half, but in the first half, we violated every defensive thing we’ve ever taught them here.”

LSU was picked to finish second in the Southeastern Con-ference in the annual preseason coaches’ poll in October, and for the 11th time in program history, LSU is in the top 10 of the Asso-ciated Press preseason poll.

In her final season as a Lady Tiger, Hightower, the 2010 SEC Preseason Player of the Year, said she is confident LSU will start playing like its No. 9 ranking.

“[Tuesday] we didn’t play like [the No. 9 team],” Hightower said. “But we will pick it up.”

good job of recruiting a lot of for-eign players who have really good backgrounds,” Lee said. “It’s a freshman- [and] sophomore-domi-nated team, and they’re going to be very good for years to come.”

The Lady Lions won the SWAC tournament with a 1-0 win against Prairie View A&M. Sopho-more Jade West had two goals in the tournament and was named the tournament MVP.

Some of the Tigers, including Rutledge and senior forward Ra-chel Yepez, have not been at full strength after dealing with injuries. But Lee isn’t concerned about his team’s health.

“Every team in the 64[-team bracket] has got dings and bruises and bumps that they’ve got to get through,” Lee said. “But we’re as healthy as we probably can be at this point.”

The brace on Rutledge’s arm would say otherwise. But she said she’s more than capable of produc-ing on the field.

“It’s just a little swollen and a little sore, but I’m fine,” she said. “I’m good to go.”

Senior midfielder Melissa Clarke said her team is poised to get the job done this weekend.

“If we play well, usually we get the results we want,” she said.

Clarke is confident, but she said she won’t underestimate the Lady Lions.

“It’s a nice opener for the tour-nament to know that it’s more in our favor, probably,” Clarke said.

“But you can never take it too lightly. Teams like that can often surprise you.”

Lee said the experience LSU gained from the shootout last weekend will benefit the Tigers. Sophomore goalkeeper Mo Isom wasn’t only saving shots last week-end but buried a goal of her own in the penalty kicks.

“We’re probably eight deep where we’re pretty certain in the shooters,” Lee said. “If we get all the way to nine or 10 it’ll be a little bit of a needle in a haystack where we’ll just pick somebody out.”

Texas A&M and Memphis

square off before the Tigers at the LSU Soccer Complex at 4 p.m. The winners of the Friday matches face off Sunday at 1 p.m. to see who advances to the Sweet 16 at a location yet to be determined.

Memphis handed LSU its first home-opening loss since 1997 ear-lier in the season in a 2-0 decision. The last time the Tigers saw the Aggies was in a spring exhibition earlier this year which ended in a draw.

Contact Rowan Kavner at [email protected]

TOURNAMENT, from page 9

AMANDA HARB / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior midfielder Courtney Alexander, left, races for the ball against Tennessee sophomore forward Emily Dowd on Sept. 27 at the LSU Soccer Complex.

OPENER, from page 9

Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]


Others also reported seeing officers use flashlights to search several ve-hicles in both the Commons and the Sterling University Crescent parking lots.

Caitlyn Blanchard, a biology sophomore who lives in the Crescent apartments, said she saw officers looking in a “sketchy” car’s trunk at the Commons, which is located at 4600 Burbank Drive. She said it looked “like a drug bust” and added she heard no information about a firework exploding in the area.

Brandi Monjure, a communica-tion studies junior who lives in the Crescent, said her boyfriend was coming to visit her and saw a com-motion in the parking lot.

“He saw two cop cars in the Burbank Commons parking lot and another four or five in ours.” Mon-jure said. “As he was walking, he heard the noise, and when he turned around, he saw firecrackers in the sky.”

Jane Berteau, a business sopho-more who lives in the Commons, said she saw police cars in the Com-mons parking lot, where officers were looking into car windows.

The sergeant refused to provide further details and said a public in-formation officer would not be avail-able to provide further information until Friday morning.

LSU coach Les Miles wants to avoid the downward spiral his team began after falling to Alabama last season.

“I’ve seen these men handle disappointment before,” Miles said. “They’ll very quickly turn their at-tention to their opponent. There is an opportunity to be a great team.”

The Tigers defeated Troy, 40-31, after a second-half comeback but then lost the final two games to Ole Miss and Arkansas.

“Last year, guys were kind of hanging their heads after the Alabama loss,” said junior linebacker Kelvin Sheppard. “It’s not like that. Every-body’s trying to get back healthy and looking forward to the future.”

LSU’s opportunity to move for-ward begins Saturday night against Louisiana Tech. The Bulldogs only have three wins, but they nearly up-set No. 6 Boise State last Saturday in a 45-35 loss.

“This Louisiana Tech team’s record is not as good as they would like, but I can tell you that they play better and better,” Miles said. “If you watch how they play week-in and week-out, you have great respect for them.”

LSU is still reeling from injuries ensued from the Alabama game.

Sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson suffered an ankle injury during the Alabama game. Jefferson practiced Wednesday, but sophomore quarterback Jarrett Lee is waiting in the wing if Jefferson can’t make the start.

Senior running back Keiland Williams and sophomore running back Stevan Ridley will carry the load for Charles Scott, who is out for the season after sustaining a frac-tured collarbone last weekend.

Freshman quarterback Russell Shepard and senior running back Trindon Holliday will get some touches as well.

Ridley saw time in the Alabama game when Scott went down. Rid-ley scored the go-ahead touchdown against the Crimson Tide with an 8-yard run.

“You never know when your number’s going to be called,” Ridley said. “We’re playing against Ala-bama, and they call my number to go in there and make something happen. When I get close to the goal line, I want to score. ”

Ridley said he wants to be his own running back, even though Scott has been a mentor for him.

“I can’t be Charles Scott. I can’t be Keiland Williams,” Ridley said. “I can only go out there and run the ball like I run the ball and try to make something happen.”

This weekend also marks a homecoming for Louisiana Tech coach Derek Dooley. Dooley was a former assistant coach at LSU from 2000-04.

Dooley has wins against Nich-olls State, Hawaii and New Mexico State, while bowing to schools such as Auburn, Navy and Idaho.

Louisiana Tech senior running back Daniel Porter has rushed for 773 yards and eight touchdowns this season, including 96 yards and one touchdown against Boise State.

Bulldog junior quarterback Ross Jenkins has been hot and cold this season. Jenkins was 10-for-19 with 114 yards and one touchdown against the Broncos and has 1581 yards and 12 touchdowns on the season.

“They are very good on

offense,” Miles said. “Defensively, they play a quality defense over the top with a good scheme and have the ability to stunt and blitz you. We have to be prepared.”

Louisiana Tech is LSU’s third in-state opponent this season and may provide the steepest test.

“It’s going to be a big game like every game is,” Lee said.

Senior offensive lineman Lyle Hitt said the Tigers are treating it like a normal game.

“It’s just another game,” Hitt said. “There’s a lot of stuff going on outside the game, but you can’t be distracted by that. We have a task at hand and a job to do.”

But the students aren’t sold on the Homecoming game.

Undeclared junior Tyler Reyn-olds said the Homecoming isn’t anything special because of LSU’s opponent.

“It’s not a big deal because of who LSU plays,” Reynolds said. “If it was a bigger game, it would be a bigger deal.”

Many students don’t have time to participate in the Homecoming festivities.

“It’s kind of cool to have some sort of celebration. But other than that, it’s nothing special,” said bio-chemistry senior Ereene Tan. “You get bogged down with work, so it’s hard to do much Homecoming stuff unless you are involved in a group.”

is all about helping the Baton Rouge community and Louisiana commu-nity, we want to give back by filling in those spaces.”

The team from Kappa Alpha Theta built a model of the Pentagon. Each team member spent only $3 to $6, but they collected more than 800 cans for the project, said Au-brey DeVillez, international studies sophomore.

The Honors College team col-lected cans at an Honors College Halloween party and used them to create a model of the North Gates and surrounding businesses.

Team member Olivia LeBlanc, chemical engineering sophomore, said students should give back to the community in projects like Canapa-looza because they owe it after all the community gives them.

“We have so much at LSU, and we will do great things with our education, so it’s important to give back,” LeBlanc said.

Mallory Trochesset, Homecom-ing Committee staff adviser, said Canapalooza’s mission was to put a more exciting spin on canned good

donation.“Our mission was to find a cre-

ative, unique way to get students in-cluded in service,” Trochesset said.

Melissa Wetzel, early childhood education sophomore, said making the service project more interesting added to the appeal of the Home-coming festivities.

“People are more willing to do-nate to something cool,” she said.

Trochesset said participation in the can donation was much larger this year than in the past. The com-mittee was able to donate 2,871 cans after only one day of donation, she said. Final totals will be available Friday.

Canapalooza will likely happen again next year, but possibly on a larger scale, Trochesset said.

“We are looking at having a week-long community build,” she said. “An architecture or engineer-ing student would design something, and we would have the community come out in shifts to build one mas-sive structure.”

CANAPALOOZA, from page 1

Contact Ryan Buxton at [email protected]

BULLDOGS, from page 1

Contact Michael Lambert at [email protected]

FIRECRACKERS, from page 1


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Pop music demonstrates society’s musical ignorancePopular music in the late 1960s

included musical innovators like The Beatles, The Supremes, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, Led Zeppelin and Frank Sinatra. I certainly left artists out, but naming all of them would fill the column alone.

Popular music of the many years before included musical ge-niuses like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Bernstein, Gershwin and Armstrong.

The greats of these eras com-posed and performed music that has lasted centuries and will prob-ably survive many more.

Music has made some fascinat-ing turns on the road to the present (Disco, anyone?) and has landed in an interesting setting.

Here’s a quick lesson on mu-sic. It has several components in-cluding dynamics, rhythm, pitch, form and harmony. I saved the best for last.

A definition of harmony is

agreement. Its application in mu-sic deviates from “agreement,” but this is a good start. Harmonies are commonly an agreement of pitches according to the listener’s ears, but they can be applied to harmonies in an entire ensemble. Harmony is what makes a gospel choir’s per-formance of “Amazing Grace” so much more powerful than that of a solo performance.

The soloist can exhibit skill, talent and finesse, but the soloist must fit into the harmony provided by the accompaniment. I strongly believe the harmony in music is symbolic and reflective of a closer-to-ideal society that can exist in some kind of “agreement.”

To fit into harmonies, musi-cians have to be polished in their skills, especially hearing. The gen-eral public notices musical imper-fections. We know when a perform-er messes up — be it the drummer out of time or a wrong note from a singer or instrumentalist.

To be on a level worthy of ac-colade and fame, performances should be as empty of wrong notes as possible, but with the rise of technology, this is pretty avoid-

able. With a fo-

cus on instant results, tech-nology has re-vealed audio devices and programs like Auto-Tune. Its use is unmistak-able in the mild-

ly creative work of T-Pain, but its use elsewhere is disgraceful to the art of music.

Auto-Tune can also be used to alter or fix pitches. Skip all the hard work real musicians exert — buy a program, and you’ll sound like Luciano Pavarotti (the phenomenal male opera singer whose need for explanation proves my point).

The users of pitch correction

justify it with claims of a “safety net” for performances and a way to ensure a good product on record-ings. It really just removes real skill from music. No, I don’t want to hear bad singers — I want good singers who are actually talented and practiced.

The lack of skill that thrives in the music industry is a reflection of monetary motivation, laziness and absence of a musically educated public.

Rap is directly linked to a defi-cit of musical talent. I think of it as poetry with music. It uses drum ma-chines, synthesizers and samples of real musicians’ — Like Earth, Wind & Fire — works to provide back-ground for the recitation of poetry, the quality of which is debatable — “Work the pole, I got the bank role.” Flo Rida is a genius, right?

A lot of popular music, rap es-pecially, provides a rhythm to which listeners can “dance.” “Dance,” you might consider an interpretation of

the lyrics or music, but Flo Rida’s lyrics prove “dance” is just a strip tease, not true expression.

No, I don’t think all pop mu-sic is bad. There are still artists that definitely produce quality music — John Legend, Velvet Revolver, Jason Mraz, Kings of Leon — but, sadly, they represent the minority of listeners’ musical choice.

Instead of “Partying in the U.S.A.,” try the great American music of Aaron Copland or the funky sounds of Stevie Wonder. They, unlike Ms. Cyrus, have what used to be necessary to be famous — talent and skill.

Matthew Lousteau is a 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior from LaPlace. Follow him on Twit-ter @TDR_mlousteau.

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If a successful comedy can be likened to a 95-yard sustained drive toward the end zone, an un-successful one would be a kickoff return. The one holds our attention for its entirety — the other ignites a burst of interest which quickly slackens. Two comedies, “A Se-rious Man,” and “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” are being market-ed for their humor, but only one of them ends up being worth watch-ing for its full length.

Recently sneaking into Ba-ton Rouge and almost on its way out is “A Serious Man,” the latest

release from directors Joel and Ethan Coen (“The Big Lebows-ki.”) The film is concerned with the family and work-related trials of Larry Gopnik, a physics profes-sor. Gopnik is up for tenure at the university, but the committee has second thoughts on his qualifica-tion because he has not published any papers. His wife, Judith, has asked him to move out of the house because she has fallen in love with an older widower. Meanwhile, his asocial brother, Arthur, who is working on a book on mathemat-ics, is wanted by the police for

gaming some gamblers.Gopnik attempts to find solace

from three rabbis who prove un-helpful in finding a greater mean-ing to his trials. “Why me?” he wonders. Is God causing his world to fall apart or is his fate ultimately meaningless? Unlike his forebear, Job, Gopnik is stranded in his uncertainty, getting only di-vine silence.

I have been a m b i v a l e n t about most of the Coen broth-ers’ corpus for a long time. Even when I acknowledge their films as very well made, there seems to be something artificial about them — like eating canned fruit. Maybe it’s their reliance on funny accents or the misogyny inherent in their violent scenes. Though the Coens’ seem to have films that are respect-ed rather than liked, “A Serious Man” proves to be well-written and expertly directed.

The film is expressively Jew-ish in content and outlook. Like most of the others, the characters are caricatures, yet here they ap-pear to draw us closer to the trag-edy in the plot, instead of alienat-

ing us by artifice. “A Serious Man” features a lot of static shots with long takes, so we dwell on the faces of the characters, patiently waiting until they provide greater meaning. Speech is also emphasized through repetition, so the same words are used numerous times in different contexts, each time reinforcing an overarching message.

If “A Serious Man” appears bizarre and the ending seems be-fuddling, don’t be alarmed. Follow the hint of one of its characters: “Embrace the mystery.”

“The Men Who Stare at Goats” is a film adaptation of Jon Ronson’s book about the U.S. mil-itary’s use of paranormal warfare and is the debut effort of director Grant Heslov. The film features performances by George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey.

Bob Wilton (McGregor), a journalist with an Ann Arbor newspaper, decides to escape his troubles by travelling to Kuwait to cover the Iraq War. Stranded in Kuwait City, Wilton meets Lyn Cassidy (Clooney), a former op-erative with a secretive U.S. army psych-ops team known as the Jedi Knights. Wilton accompanies Cassidy to Ramadi, Iraq. They get kidnapped by Iraqis along the

journey, meet curious characters like Bill Django and end up free-ing a bunch of captive debleated goats.

“The Men Who Stare at Goats” initially hauls in the jokes, especially when we learn about the Knights appropriating New Age teaching to combat situations — imagine Von Clausewitz’s “Art of War” inspired by LSD. After this fertile period, the humor gradu-ally peters out. The filmmakers ride their one-trick pony until the nag refuses to move an inch. How many variations on men in fatigues getting high are needed before the audience gets the joke?

There was an opportunity to ridicule the disturbing ways funds are spent on military research or the hubris in believing that war can be fought to end war. Instead, “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is a tepid comedy using the current war as cinematic backdrop.

Freke Ette is a political theory graduate student from Uyo, Ni-geria. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_fette.

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Site, lsureveille.com, have had a lot to say about the columns ap-pearing in the Opinion section this week.

Commentors had this to say about Opinion Editor Matthew Albright’s column “Don’t let fear turn America against Islamic faith”:

Coincidentally Muslim? Look around the world- who’s doing the most killing of innocent people? No clear proof Hasan’s rampage was motivated by his religious beliefs? Wake up to the obvious Matt. You say the idea that being opposed to the hateful religious- yes religious motiva-tions of Hasan- is “exactly what the terrorists want. And by giving into fear, we only help them win.” Is being pro-active against people with a centuries-old ideology that wants to hate, kill, and spread it’s religion by the sword (now bomb and machine gun too), ‘giving in to fear?’ So if you think there’s a chance Hasan was merely men-tally unstable, then maybe your knee jerk reaction when the planes hit the twin towers, should have been let’s hold off on judgment- they may have been just ‘insane.’

And you say we should not dis-criminate against religions? Read the Koran, look at the history of the Islamic religion, read about the honor killings in our own country, visit the Middle East and see how other religions (namely Christianity) are surpressed un-der Islamic laws- punishable by death or imprisonment, and then you tell me where real discrimi-nation lies?

-Blaise

Except in this case, Hasan actually was (though not turban-wearing) a murderous psycho killer who had terrorist ties. This is simply news from the last three days. So while your apologet-ics for him may be appropriate in the big picture, they overstep. Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but nearly every modern terror-ist is a Muslim. It’s a problem, and sweeping it under the rug in a nod to political correctness is a poor choice. The Army did not probe Hasan (even though they suspected him of religious extremism) because they feared backlash from the PC crowd. In a news report from today. Apolo-getics has its place, Matthew, but not behind murderers and adher-ents of religious extremism. You

overstep, sir. -Tyler

Albright, I commend you for being able to speak the truth especially for such a narrow-minded audience. Why is it that you morons are so quick to target all muslims on the account of a few mis-led “so-called muslims” As a muslim myself I speak for all other true muslims when I say these cowards are NOT muslims. They call themselves that so that they can shield their cowardly acts with the title of religion. The sad part is that when a hor-rible incident such as his happens I grieve, and my family grieves for all the victims. But its stupid americans like you who divide us! YOU are the ones who sep-arate us as though we fuel such acts ourselves.

To me, you are cowards like Nidal Hassan. Sure, you don’t kill people, but its YOU guys who infiltrate hatred into our society. Morons, cowards, fools like YOU all who motivate acts of hatred like this!

And trust me if you want to play the religion card cause your sad selves cannot think of anything else ..then do it. But remember over 67% of crimes

committed in the United States are at the hands of “Christians” hmm, how ironic...

By no means am I attempt-ing to target christians, because unlike the racist fools above, I know not to target an entire group of people. It’s sad, I wonder what world you live in you southern hicks, but I co-exist perfectly well with my christian, jewish, and hindu neighbors.

Also, “Oh, give us a break! “ you pathetic fool, its “allahU akbar” ...clearly, albright knows more than you do!

-Ali

Commentors had this to say about columnist Mark Macmurdo’s col-umn “Tea Parties steeped in ti-diculousness, not revolution”:

These goons are nothing but John Birch Society folks with a new name. Same hate just re-packaged. What is sad is how their ideas appeal to so many people who are actually hurt by the policies that this movement represents. We are a modern na-tion of 300 MILLION citizens. We simply cannot do with a “Jef-fersonian” view of government. Furthermore, the central idea that these Tea Party folk build their

case is not historically accurate. This nation was not founded on opposition to taxes, but in op-position to un-fair taxes without representation in the body impos-ing the tax. Case in point one of the first things that our “Free” founding fathers did after they had won in the Revolutionary War was to put down an anti-tax rebellion called the “Whisky Rebellion.” But heck, I do not expect a bunch of closet racist, knuckle-dragging mouth breather to crack a history book open and actually have knowledge of the ideas which they espouse as fact. In the end these people are noth-ing more than a political version of the yokels blabbering away into a TV camera after a tornado rips through their trailer park.

-So Tired of Conservatives

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LSU’s “think big” campaign (Roundtable Oct 29, The Reveille Oct 30 p 4, The Advocate Oct 30 p 10A) talks of restructuring into three areas: Big Science & Tech-nology, Big Arts & Humanities, and Big Coast and Community”. It is claimed that “LSU does not want to perpetuate more of the same” and that LSU faculty should no longer see themselves as “solo researchers in the lab”. Apart from rebranding to serve some perceived marketing needs, what do all these really mean?

Given the teaching functions and the structure we share with other U.S. universities, no radi-cal change from departments and colleges is likely. Barriers to inter-disciplinary activity should, of course, be lowered. But such cross-disciplinary activity is nothing new and there have been many good examples at LSU. It grows best or-ganically from below without any shoehorning into artificially coined “big” re-groupings.

Universities are the longest surviving institutions of our cul-ture. They have a place for pro-ductive research and scholarship irrespective of grant funding or short-term concerns. The lone en-gagement of a scholar with a prob-lem or idea, needing thought and reflection, and the interaction of

a teacher with students in a class-room or laboratory is still where most of the work of a university gets done, even today and even in the sciences. While recognizing the importance of group activity in certain areas, creativity has not be-come exclusive to that mode.

Computers, computer-aided-design, etc., are glorious and have made possible things not dreamt of by our predecessors. But, let us not lose perspective. Technology and funding are means to an end, not to be confused with the research, scholarship and teaching that are at a university’s core. It is also tempt-ing for each generation to see the technology of its day as revolu-tionary. But electricity, telegraph, telephone, radio, film and TV were equally path-breaking tools for generations past.

The few specific goals of the Flagship Agenda lie only on distant horizons. The immediate future of the state budget and our funding is out of sync with big talk. The mes-sage to the public and to our boards and legislatures should be that LSU has for decades performed and ranked better than what could be expected based on comparative state funding of public universities. And that we will continue efforts to become even better because that is part of our inner drive and integ-rity.

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