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Student Government mem-bers will appear on LPB tonight at 7 p.m. after taking part in a panel discussion regarding budget cuts to higher education.
SG Vice President Dani Borel , Executive Assistant John Ford and Manship School of Mass Commu-nication Sen. Zac Lemoine voiced their concerns about budget cuts to the University and to the state as a whole at the taping of this month’s
“Louisiana Public Square.” The SG representatives were
members of an audience composed of Baton Rouge residents, students from other schools and professors. A panel including Gov. Bobby Jindal’s policy director Stephen Waguespack ; State Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans ; Board of Regents consultant Thomas Lay-zell and Flagship Coalition co-chairman Sean Reilly answered audience questions and explained their visions for funding higher education.
When the topic of increasing tuition surfaced, Borel spoke up.
“I think raising tuition is im-portant if we want to be competi-tive nationally,” Borel said. “If it
bettered my institution, I’d be will-ing to do it.”
Another solution numerous audience members proposed was consolidating under-performing four-year universities into two-year and community colleges. Ford talked to the panel about LSU-Al-exandria’s low six-year graduation rate.
“Is there anything we can do to change the funding for schools like this?” Ford asked.
In response, Layzell said the Board of Regents is starting a “massive” review of low-perform-ing programs for Jindal , evidenced by Jindal’s recent announcement
President Barack Obama pleaded for politi-cal unity to face the nation’s continued economic crisis in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
“We will move forward together, or not at all — for the challenges we face are bigger than party and bigger than politics,” Obama said.
Obama mentioned the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., that killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords , D-Ariz ., in critical condition.“Amid all the noise and passions and rancor
of our public debate, Tucson reminded us that no matter who we are or where we come from, each of us is a part of something greater — something more consequential than party or political prefer-ence,” he said.
The speech is Obama’s fi rst in front of a Congress with signifi cantly more Republi-cans than Democrats. The party took control of the House of Representatives and slimmed the Democratic majority in the Senate in the
November elections.Obama’s speech focused almost entirely on
the economy.“The economy is growing again,” he said.
“But we have never measured progress by yard-sticks alone. We measure progress by the success of our people.”
While the president was quick to point out encouraging economic indicators — including a recovering stock market and recovering cor-
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Student Government Vice President Dani Borel, center, prepares to be fi lmed Tuesday for Louisiana Public Square on the Louisiana Public Broadcasting channel.
Program focuses on cuts; airs at 7 p.m.Andrea GalloStaff Writer
President also names education, green energy as priorities in State of the Union
When it comes to the number of bachelor’s degrees in a parish or county, East Baton Rouge Parish is ahead of the national curve.
In East Baton Rouge, more than 32 percent of adults have a bachelor’s degree, a fi gure higher than the national average of 27.5 percent and Louisiana’s average of 20.6 percent, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Chronicle published an interactive online map Jan. 23, based on information from 1940 to 2009 census reports, showing the percentages of adults who possess bachelor’s degrees in each county or parish across the country. The map allows users to view informa-tion for specifi c sexes, races and income levels.
Of the 32.1 percent of adults with bachelor’s degrees in East Baton Rouge, about 41 percent are white, 18.8 percent are black, 26.5 percent are Hispanic and 51.2 per-cent are Asian.
East Baton Rouge Parish has
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President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. The speech highlighted the economy as a main focus.
‘We will move forward together, or not at all — for the challenges we
face are bigger than party and bigger than politics.’
Barack Obamapresident of the United States
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Egyptians denouce President Mubarak, clash with riot police
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian police fi red tear gas and rubber bullets and beat protesters to clear thousands of people from a central Cairo square Tuesday after the biggest demon-strations in years against President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian rule.
Two protesters and a police offi cer were killed in nationwide demonstrations inspired by Tuni-sia’s uprising, which also demand-ed a solution to Egypt’s grinding poverty. Riots will likely fuel grow-ing dissent in a presidential election year.
Chile’s President Pinera: ‘I won’t give up risky sports’
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s president says he’s not about to change his ways just because some think he should play it safe.
Sebastian Pinera says he doesn’t intend to give up his passion for sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, mountain climbing and river rafting.
He promises to be responsible, but says “one can’t change his way of being.”
The president has also been criti-cized for making an emergency heli-copter landing while running low on fuel on his way to a family getaway.
Grand jury indicts 20 in alleged Mexican gun smuggle ring
PHOENIX (AP) — Twenty people face federal fi rearms charges for participating in a ring that bought more than 700 guns to be smuggled into Mexico for use by a drug car-tel, according to an indictment un-sealed Tuesday.
The charges target two sus-pected leaders of the ring and “straw buyers” who authorities say were recruited to buy guns on be-half of smugglers.
Most of the guns identifi ed in the indictment were sold by one gun store in suburban Glendale. Conn. funeral operator gets 8 months for stealing from clients
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Con-necticut funeral home director was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in prison for stealing from people, includ-ing his dead clients whose homes were raided for money and other valuables.
Kevin Riley, who ran a funeral home in the small town of Coventry, was also ordered to give up his profes-sional licenses and scolded for preying on vulnerable people.
“You, Mr. Riley, yourself have to agree you lost your way. You took advantage of that position of trust,” Hartford Superior Court Judge David Gold said.
Man, woman accused of setting fi re at Lutcher High stadium
LUTCHER (AP) — A 21-year-old man an 18-year-old woman are in jail tonight, accused of setting fi re to the Lutcher High School foot-ball stadium.
The stadium burned Novem-ber 15th. St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin tells WAFB-TV that Adam Lambert faces a charge of arson while Lindsey Matherne was booked with accessory to simple arson.
Martin says Lambert was al-ready in jail on drug charges when he confessed to setting the fi re.
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State gained 26,300 non-farm jobs in 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Loui-siana added 26,300 non-farm jobs in 2010 as it continued to plow through a slow economic recovery, state labor offi cials said Tuesday.
The state still had 42,200 fewer jobs last month, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, than in December 2008 — three months after the national economic melt-down began.
The state shed an overall 900 jobs from November to December, the Louisiana Workforce Commis-sion reported.
UN chief pitches $7.4 billion in emergency aid in 2011
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. chief is asking nations to be as generous as possible to deliver $7.4 billion in emergency aid this year to 50 mil-lion people grappling with confl ict and disaster in 28 nations.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told diplomats Tuesday at U.N. headquarters in Geneva that aid is needed despite fi nancial pres-sure on national budgets. He praised donors like the European Commis-sion, the United States and Sweden that announced their intentions early so the U.N. could plan relief efforts.
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A traffi c report has labeled congestion in Baton Rouge as the worst in the nation among cities with comparable population.
Baton Rouge commuters were delayed an average of 37 hours last year because of traf-fi c congestion, according to the report.
The report derived the aver-age annual delay per commuter by dividing the extra travel time during the year by the number of people who commute in vehicles in the area. The report compares Baton Rouge within a group of “medium sized areas” charac-terized by having a population between 500,000 and 1 million people.
The 2010 Urban Mobility Report was published by the Tex-as Transportation Institute based at Texas A&M. The report stud-ied 439 urban areas across the country.
Nationwide, the study found that after the best year this de-cade for commuters, 2008, traffi c problems worsened nationally in 2009.
“After two years of slight de-clines in overall traffi c congestion — attributable to the economic
downturn and high fuel prices — leading indicators suggest that as the economy rebounds, traffi c problems are doing the same,” the study said. “While 2008 was the best year for commuters in at least a decade, the problem again began to grow in 2009.”
Baton Rouge peak time com-muters — those who travel be-tween 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. — wasted an av-erage of $1,030 in fuel because of traffi c delays, according to the study.
That is more than double the average for the 33 areas with similar population and still above the $808 national average includ-ing the most heavily congested areas such as Chicago, New York and Atlanta . The total cost na-tionwide for the delays tops $24 billion.
Although most statistics for Baton Rouge were worse than average, the city’s statistics re-mained stable in total delay per auto commuter and actually im-proved by $50 dollars in cost to peak auto commuter.
New Orleans fared better in its group of comparable cities with populations between 1 and 3 million. Commuters in the Cres-cent City spent an average of 31 hours in traffi c delays, according to the report. This is on par with the average for its population.
The report also says New Or-leans commuters wasted $772 in gasoline last year, $46 above the
average for comparable cities.Chicago was ranked as the
nation’s worst for commuters with 70 hours of delays annu-ally. Washington, D.C., was on par with Chicago as the nation’s worst for hours delayed, and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area came in third with 40 hours of de-lay per year.
The statistics for money spent on delays mirror the top two cities for delays with $1,738 in cost of congestion per com-muter in Chicago.
Baton Rouge is currently un-dertaking a six-year “Green Light Plan” to improve its roads. As part of the project near campus, East Baton Rouge Mayor-Pres-ident Kip Holden cut the ribbon on a $2.4 million widening of the Perkins Road-South Acadian Thruway intersection last semes-ter.
Students echoed the results of the study when describing their commutes to campus each day.
“They need more lanes, peri-od,” said Courtney Dupuy, histo-ry and anthropology junior . “You have many people that are not from the state passing through, and there is an accident every time it rains.”
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ExposureWear Inc., a client of the Louisiana Business and Tech-nology Center within the E.J. Our-so College of Business, has been awarded a $1 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop one cool project.
The company has been chosen to develop a prototype of an Army Climatic Suit, which will keep sol-diers cool during combat overseas.
Joe Lamendola, vice president of ExposureWear, said the company has been a client of the LBTC since 2006, and the incubator has been in-strumental in its achievements.
“There’s no question that the or-ganization provides a much-needed resource,” Lamendola said.
Ritchie Priddy, president of Ex-posureWear, agreed.
“They’ve helped us so much,” Priddy said. “Whether it’s words of encouragement or them saying, ‘This is how you do it.’”
Priddy said the development of an Army Climatic Suit is necessary because the current options are all restricting and ineffi cient.
“Overheating in combat has long been a problem,” Priddy said. “We knew that was a big issue.”
Soldiers currently use suits that circulate chilled water to keep them cool — a system that isn’t always ad-equate, Priddy said.
“If the system fails, you’re just carrying around dead weight,” he said. “And once you leave the base, you can’t take it off without putting yourself at risk.”
The ExposureWear suit will be designed so soldiers can remove it quickly if necessary, and the compa-ny will produce it in various shapes to accommodate soldiers’ needs,
Priddy said. The suits will use air instead of
chilled water to regulate soldiers’ temperatures, which makes them lighter and easier to wear, he said.
He said the suits will include a feature that also allows them to heat soldiers in colder climates.
Austin Stukins, interior design sophomore, has served in Iraq and said he believes the suits will be a great tool for soldiers if designed correctly.
“I hate the idea of wearing something else in addition to all my gear, but if it works, it’s worth it,” he said.
Stukins said during his time in Iraq, he was subjected to extreme heat while wearing 80 to 100 pounds of gear. He said he and other soldiers were encouraged to drink at least a gallon of water each day to stay hy-drated.
“It’s not necessarily just a com-fort,” Stukins said. “It’s a safety thing, too.”
Roy Keller, director of the Louisiana Technology Transfer
Offi ce, said he’s excited the compa-ny was awarded the contract because it means the LBTC has done its job.
“It really shows the value of the system we have here,” Keller said.
Keller said the incubator helps companies to develop business and marketing plans. It also offers them resources like mentors, speakers and business connections.
Lamendola said ExposureWear is only one of several companies that received contracts from the Army to develop a suit prototype. The com-pany chosen will receive a contract to continue development of the suit.
“A vast majority of them will never make it,” he said. “Some will be used in pieces.”
Lamendola said the company has been developing its patent-pend-ing suit for three months, and once it’s completed, the company will send it to the Army.
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LBTC client to design soldier suits3 Baton Rouge high school students arrested for trespassing
LSU Police Department of-fi cers arrested three Baton Rouge high school students Jan. 19 for criminal trespassing.
Offi cers were alerted to tres-passing at Huey P. Long Fieldhouse around 8 p.m. and discovered the trio climbing through a hole in the fence on the second level of the building, according to Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman.
Tabor said Chelsey Meyer, 18 , of 15936 Hoganville Ave. ; Austin Arceneaux , 17 , of 13358 Wen-ham Ave .; and Danny Jones , 17 , of 3464 Joanne Drive , were com-manded to climb down before they were transported to the LSUPD of-fi ce for further processing.
All three subjects were is-sued misdemeanor summonses and banned from the University’s cam-pus with the exception of visiting for offi cial business before being released, Tabor said.
LSU student arrested for disobeying red light, registered 0.155 BAC
LSUPD arrested a University student Jan. 21 for disobeying a red light at the intersection of West Parker Boulevard and Highland Road.
Tabor said offi cers were pa-trolling the area at 12:20 a.m. when they saw Andres Rovira , 19 , of 2 Candle Pine Place in The Wood-lands, Texas, run the traffi c light. When the offi cer approached Ro-vira , his breath and body smelled moderately of alcohol and he was asked to take a fi eld sobriety test.
After failing three tests, Ro-vira was arrested and taken to the LSUPD offi ce where he registered a 0.155 blood alcohol content.
Rovira was booked in East Ba-ton Rouge Parish Prison.
2 men unaffi liated with LSU arrested for intent to distribute marijuana
LSUPD arrested two men un-affi liated with the University on Jan. 21 for the intent to distribute marijuana and possession of a syn-thetic cannabinoid near the UREC Student Recreation Complex.
Tabor said LSUPD offi cials
were patrolling the area of West Lakeshore at Minnie Fisk Drive at 1 a.m. when they saw a vehicle driving in the wrong lane. During a routine traffi c stop, the offi cer contacted driver Terrance Patrick , 22 , of 5013 Stearn St ., and front passenger Darius Harrison , 21 , of 5160 Cadillac St.
The offi cer called in back-up after noting “suspicious move-ment” from the two passengers in the back seat.
The offi cers searched the vehi-cle with permission and discovered a marijuana cigarette in plain view. The cigarette contained a synthetic substance called “Mojo,” Tabor said.
LSUPD dogs on the scene also detected a brown paper bag fi lled with nine individually wrapped bags of marijuana, totaling 18 grams, Tabor said.
Patrick and Harrison were charged with possession, intent to distribute and improper lane usage. The pair was arrested and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Pris-on, Tabor said.
University student arrested for DWI, no headlights
LSUPD arrested a University student for DWI on Jan. 21 in the parking lot on East Fraternity Lane.
David Atchison , 19 , of 1611 Tabor Lake Walk in Lexington, Ky. , was pulled over at 2:30 a.m. for not using his headlights, and offi cers saw the student was intoxi-cated.
Tabor said the patrolling of-fi cer could smell alcohol on Atchison’s breath and body and observed numerous signs of intoxi-cation, such as unsteady balance and swaying.
The offi cer conducted a fi eld sobriety test , but Atchison refused to take two other part of the test af-ter failing the horizontal gaze test. The subject also refused to take a breathalyzer test at the LSUPD of-fi ce, Tabor said.
Atchison was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
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Despite recent weather condi-tions that have put construction on hold, LSU’s outdoor track and field facility is expected to be completed in the coming weeks.
Bernie Moore Track Stadium received its first all-weather surface in 1969. Current construction is the third major renovation the track has undergone since 1987.
Students parking near the track have seen renovations bloom since July of last year, and according to Senior Associate Athletic Director Eddie Nunez, construction on the track is 95 percent complete.
In the initial plans, renovations were set to be complete by the end of January, but construction is now set to be finished in mid-February.
“The last two things that we have to do are weather dependent,” Nunez said.
The weather has held up con-struction on the finishing touches of the facility. The throwing area and the striping on the track are the only things left to complete.
“We’ll get it done before the conclusion of the indoor track season so the athletes will have an opportu-nity to train,” Nunez said.
To observers, the throwing area is the obvious missing link to the fa-cility’s completion. The area the field athletes use to throw javelins, shot put and hammers has been trans-formed into a mud pit by the showers Baton Rouge saw early in the week.
Stadiumresurfacing,repairs near completion
TRACK & FIELD
Weather conditions delay constructionLuke JohnsonSports Contributor
STADIUM, see page 7
The other end of Wednesday night’s postgame handshake may be a little looser for LSU men’s basket-ball coach Trent Johnson.
Instead of aggressive Tennes-see coach Bruce Pearl, who claims to bench 285 pounds, Johnson will face interim coach Tony Jones.
Jones will continue to lead in
Pearl’s place Wednesday as the Ti-gers (10-9, 2-2) take on the Volun-teers at 7 p.m. in Thompson-Boling Arena.
Pearl is in his fifth game of an eight-game Southeastern Conference suspension for violating NCAA rules and misleading investigators.
But Tennessee is not the only team missing a main component.
The Tigers have been without Ralston Turner for four games with a stress reaction in his foot, but the freshman guard was able to partici-pate in parts of practice Monday.
Turner is out of his walking boot, while junior forward Storm
Warren is back in one thanks to a lin-gering Achilles injury.
“We’ve got a lot of boots,” Johnson laughed.
Johnson said Turner likely won’t play until Saturday’s game against Alabama.
Warren is questionable for the Tennessee game after scoring six points Saturday in 12 minutes of play against Ole Miss.
“He’s taken a step back,” John-son said. “If Storm can go Wednes-day more effectively than how he went Saturday, we’ll put him out
TENNESSEE, see page 7
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LSU junior forward Malcolm White dribbles past Ole Miss sophomore forward Reginald Buckner during the Tigers’ 51-78 loss Saturday against Ole Miss in the PMAC.
Volunteers continue without coach Pearl
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Warren and Turner still benched
Michael LambertSports Writer
In the college football coaching carousel, changes in latitude equal changes in attitude.
Making coaching chan ges, especially in the heart of recruiting season, could make or break a school’s signing class.
Despite losing former offensive coordina-tor Gary Crowton and gaining former Louisville and Tulsa coach Steve Kragthorpe, this is not the case for the Tigers, said Shea Dixon, manag-ing editor of TigerSportsDigest.com.
“Losing Crowton is not a huge issue be-cause he really wasn’t that active of a recruiter,” Dixon said. “I think [Kragthorpe] will talk to the new guys, but nothing in terms of having to con-vince guys to stay.”
Mark ClementsSports Contributor
KRAGTHORPE, see page 7
Kragthorpe hiring not expected to shake recruiting
In with the New
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[Top] Former Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe speaks at a news conference Nov. 16, 2009.[Bottom] Kragthorpe challenges a call in the Cardinals’ 35-21 loss to West Virginia on Nov. 22, 2008.
The LSU men’s track and field team is the new No. 1 team in the country, the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced Tuesday.
The Tigers began the season ranked No. 2, but moved up after several standout performances last weekend against Texas A&M.
Junior thrower Walter Henning, the reigning national champion in both the indoor weight throw and the outdoor hammer throw, posted the country’s longest throw in his first competition of the season with a throw of 72 feet, 3 3/4 inches.
Henning also won the shot put at the meet, an event he rarely com-peted in last season.
Two other Tigers have the NCAA’s best performance in their events this season.
In the season opener, senior jumper Zedric Thomas nabbed the top spot in the long jump — 26 feet, 3 3/4 inches — and junior college transfer Horatio Williams completed the 60-meter dash in 6.61 seconds.
The LSU track and field teams travel to Fayetteville, Ark., on Friday
to compete in the Arkansas Invita-tional.
The Lady Tigers did not move up in the women’s poll as they held on to their No. 3 ranking.
SOFTBALL CRACKS PRE-SEASON TOP 25 POLLS
The LSU softball team earned a pair of top 25 rankings Tuesday when the preseason national polls were announced.
The Lady Tigers garnered a No. 16 ranking in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll and a No. 19 ranking in the USA Today/NFCA poll.
“First off, to be chosen among the nation’s elite softball programs to start the season is something we don’t take for granted,” coach Yvette Girouard said in a news release. “We also know at the same time that there are four [Southeastern Conference] teams in front of us and a lot of hard work ahead of us if we want to reach our goals.”
UCLA is the No. 1 ranked team in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll, followed by Arizona, Georgia, Ten-nessee and Florida.
LSU has 15 contests sched-uled for the spring against top-25
opponents, four of which are against programs ranked in the top seven.
The season begins Feb. 18 at the Hilton Houston Plaza Classic in Houston.
SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM MOVES UP
To go along with the track and field and softball team, the LSU men’s swimming and diving squad moved up one spot to No. 21 in the latest TYR/College Swimming Coaches Association of America rankings.
LSU (6-5) had a close loss last
Saturday to then-No. 20 Texas A&M. The match against the Aggies was the last of the dual meet season as the Tigers travel Feb. 11 to Gainesville, Fla. for the SEC Championships.
The LSU women’s team (10-4) failed to move up from No. 21 after a 162-120 loss to then-No. 8 Texas A&M.
The Lady Tigers have their final dual meet this Friday against Hous-ton, Rice and Tulane.
There’s no doubt where LSU sophomore guard Adrienne Webb has found her niche this season — in 3-point land.
Webb showed signs of bril-liance from beyond the arc as a freshman, finishing second to former guard Allison Hightower in 3-point shooting at 30.2 percent (26-of-86) in 30 games with no starts. This sea-son, she has started all 21 games and made 55 of her 135 attempts from 3-point range (40.7 percent).
Her impressive performances have not gone unnoticed by LSU coach Van Chancellor. Chancellor said Webb is a bona fide “3-ball ma-chine” and recognized her with a pat on the back at practice Tuesday.
“I don’t believe I’ve ever had a player who’s improved as much as Adrienne Webb has improved since last year,” Chancellor said. “It’s just been unbelievable. I’m really pleased for her; she’s such a sweet person. She went all summer and re-ally worked, which gives you confi-dence.”
Webb, who has reached double figures 17 times this season, said she is not surprised by her production.
She leads LSU in scoring (13.8 points per game), field goals made (4.8), field goal attempts (11.4), 3-point field goals (2.6) and 3-point attempts (6.4).
“The coaches expect a lot from us,” Webb said. “They expect us to work hard in the offseason, and that’s what I did.”
Freshman guard Jeanne Ken-ney has also come alive on the court. Kenney has played in every game and is No. 4 on the team in scoring with 6.6 points per game.
Kenney is No. 2 behind Webb in 3-point field goals with 27 (1.3 per game) and 3-point attempts with 82 (3.9).
“[Webb] and Kenney are what they are because they’ve shot a lot of shots,” Chancellor said. “It’s about practice in the offseason.”
LSU FINISHES SEASON WITH ROAD TRIP
The Lady Tigers have won two straight games to begin their four-game homestand and will complete the stretch with games against Ar-kansas on Thursday and Georgia on Sunday.
But LSU will end the regular season with five of seven games on the road, so Chancellor has not
hyped up the home games.“I’m more worried about how
we’re playing, and we’re playing better,” Chancellor said. “It’s nice to play at home; we had a great crowd here Sunday afternoon. An enthusi-astic crowd can make a world of dif-ference, but if you go to depending on that, it’s not good for you when you have to go on the road.”
EASON’S RETURN UNITES LADY TIGERS
LSU senior point guard Latear Eason did not light up the scoreboard in her return Thursday against Ole Miss after a concussion Jan. 6, only scoring two points. But she had four assists, and Chancellor said her pres-ence is invaluable for the team in the heart of the SEC season.
“She’s given us organization and glue,” Chancellor said. “[Eason] has every intangible you can have. She inspires the coaches and team-mates. They really believe in her.”
Webb agreed: “Having [Eason] back on the court pumps us up to be our best.”
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Rivals.com recruiting analyst Mike Scarborough also called Crow-ton’s exit a “non-factor” with recruits and said he believes the Kragthorpe hire could have some immediate positive impacts.
“I think ev-erybody on offense is going to be ex-cited about a fresh start,” Scarborough said. “Who knows which guy is going to fl ourish under Kragthorpe? … I think it’s going to be good for all the offensive players.”
One of Krag-thorpe’s most valu-able characteristics is his experience at both the college and NFL level as a quarterbacks coach.
The former Louisville and Tulsa head coach spent four years as a QB coach at three different colleges as well as two seasons in the NFL as quarterbacks coach for the Buffalo Bills.
Kragthrope coached former Bills quarterback Drew Bledsoe to 4,359 yards in 2002 — good for sec-ond in the NFL that season — along with 24 touchdowns.
“From a recruiting standpoint, at least with quarterbacks, you can advertise that you’ve got someone with some NFL experience and col-lege experience that now will be working hands-on with you,” Dixon said.
LSU quarterbacks combined for 2,023 yards passing this season, ranking 102nd in the nation and last in the Southeastern Conference.
With highly touted quarterback recruit Zach Mettenberger , along with three-star prospect Stephen
Rivers , Dixon said the Tigers were looking for someone to take quarter-back play to the next level.
“I think [Kragthorpe] will be able to work hands-on with them in terms of the day-to-day grind,” Dix-on said. “Hopefully, over these next
couple years you’ll see ... some ac-tual year-to-year or week-to-week de-velopment of these quarterbacks.”
While he’s not typically known as a recruiter, Krag-thorpe jumped on the opportunity to introduce himself to his future weap-ons.
“I had the honor to talk to Coach K for about 15 minutes last Thursday, and he seems like a great guy and I can’t wait to get him in,” said fi ve-star wide re-ceiver recruit Jarvis Landry.
Landry, who worried some Ti-ger fans earlier in the year with his public critique of the LSU offense, said he’s happy with the hire and voiced his admiration for Kragthorpe as a quarterback developer.
“I defi nitely see him bringing balance to the LSU offense, and you’re going to see a big change in the quarterback production,” said the Lutcher native . “He’s one of the greatest quarterback coaches … so you really can see the passing effi -ciency in the quarterback play go up a little bit.”
Kragthorpe hasn’t fi nished mak-ing the rounds yet, though. Three-star wide receiver commit Alonzo Lewis said he hasn’t heard from the new offensive coordinator.
“I talked to some coaches [Tues-day], but we didn’t talk about that,” Lewis said.
Undoubtedly, Tiger fans will look for drastic improvement in the passing game by the time the season opener against Oregon on Sept. 3 rolls around.
With all eyes on the offense, Dixon said Kragthorpe’s fi rst season in purple and gold could set the bar for future LSU recruits.
“I defi nitely think recruits look at LSU’s offense the past couple years and see that it has struggled,” Dixon said. “If they can make a run and get a lot better in terms of offen-sive production then they’ll look at Kragthorpe as someone they enjoy playing under.”
Overall, Landry said he believes Miles made the right hire.
“A few years from now a lot of people are going to say he was the right man for the job,” Landry said.
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“The throwing area has been held up recently by the rainy con-ditions,” Nunez said. “We still have to grade it out and level it out to get it to the correct height. After we do that we can lay down the sod.”
The striping on the track will be the last renovation. As with the throwing area, construction is
being held up by winter weather. The temperature needs to be high enough outside for the striping to properly adhere to the track.
The largest part of the project was the resurfacing of the track. LSU runners will now compete on a Mondo track surface, which is the same surface Olympians compete on.
The last nine summer Olym-pic games have been held on a
Mondo surface. According to the Mondo website, 230 world records have been set on Mondo surfaces, including fi ve at the 2008 summer games .
STADIUM, from page 5
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there fi rst as well as [junior for-ward] Malcolm [White].”
The Tigers are reeling from two consecutive routs from Ken-tucky, 82-44, and Ole Miss, 78-51, which low-ered expectations back down to earth after a 2-0 conference start.
LSU thought it had a shot to gain its third con-ference victory against the then-winless Rebels.
“We came into the game thinking we could win,” said freshman point guard Andre Stringer . “We knew they were a good team, but it could have been a good win for us.”
All is not lost for LSU, how-ever.
“Don’t get caught up in how
you start a season or league as opposed to how you sustain,” Johnson said.
The Tigers still sit tied for second with Alabama in the SEC West.
“We can still turn it around this year,” said freshman guard Matt Derenbecker . “We’re 2-2 in the SEC, which isn’t a horrible record to be at.”
Four teams in the SEC East have recorded at least 14 wins, but no SEC West squads have
reached the 14-win pinnacle.Tennessee is tied for last
place in the East with a .500 con-ference record.
“Tennessee is without ques-tion a very good basketball team, probably as talented a team in this league,” Johnson said. “You
don’t beat Villanova and Pitts-burgh and Georgia on the road without being very talented and skilled.”
Pearl , who was allowed to coach through the Volunteers’ non-conference schedule, re-turned for Tennessee’s 72-61 loss against Connecticut on Saturday.
“For me, it was good to get back, and it was fun to be in the game for awhile,” Pearl said in a news release. “It was fun to have some affect on the game.”
The sixth-year coach can practice with the team, but he is not allowed to participate in team activities on days of SEC games until Tennessee’s matchup with Kentucky on Feb. 8 .
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struggled.’Shea Dixon
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‘‘‘Don’t get caught
up in how youstart a season
or league.’Trent Johnson
LSU men’s basketball coach
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CAMPUS-RESIDENT ALIEN
Prejudice is a matter of personal ignorance — fight yours
Dan Rather: American journalism could be in trouble
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairwoman of the United King-dom’s Conservative Party and first Muslim to be a cabinet min-ister, said last week during a speech at the University of Leicester that “Islamophobia has now passed the dinner-table test.”
This idea is not new, but the expression Warsi used defines a pernicious characteristic of prejudice in West-ern society. It embeds itself in daily life and entails a false, noxious at-titude toward certain groups.
Yes, the rank smell of preju-dice still stinks in common places everywhere, but don’t feel bad. I say “everywhere” meaning preju-dice is a worldwide social device for avoiding “the others,” so it is not an American privilege.
But I do feel bad, and it’s not because I suffered prejudice re-cently, or because my status as an international student makes me avoidable — or exotic, for that matter. It’s because I have also committed prejudice.
Forgive me, for I have sinned.I realize now I was biased to-
ward Americans, and the payback happens when I go back to Brazil, where I get evil eyes from friends and acquaintances.
I sold out. I joined the cattle run that is U.S. academia, and af-ter a couple of years I am acquiring detestable “American habits,” so they say.
God knows what that means.There are always two sides
of prejudice. And let me tell you, they are both ignorant and short-minded.
Bias is a mechanism of thought that is hard to control. When biased considerations take over language and become criteria, all kinds of misjudgments and consequences
can occur.I would bore you (and myself)
if I started to talk about the annoy-ingly insistent types of prejudice we know so well — those related to race, social class, religion, na-tionality, political view, color of shoes and so on.
If I want to bury any interest you have in finishing this column, I would start vomiting statistics showing how years of segregation and ignorance were built and still endure b(i)as on the notion that dif-ferent is bad.
So, to paraphrase something my fellow columnists have been saying frequently in these pages, I will be blunt: Prejudice starts with you and I.
For example, I know in Bra-zil people generally are much more relaxed about schedules — or should I say Brazilians are less responsible when it comes to getting to places and appointments on time. It’s a cultural thing, for better or worse.
But if I say: “He’s Brazilian, so he’ll be late,” I’m using nation-ality as a criteria for judgment of behavior.
It would be the same if I said: “She’s not going to hug you, she’s American.” Although Americans are less physical in first contacts than in Latin cultures, saying that would imply I think all Americans act alike in such a situation, which is ignorant, to say the least.
There are many other subtle types of communication that are instant generators of prejudice.
I recently watched a video on the New York Times’ website called “Brazilian tradition of eat-ing ants,” which shows a small town in Brazil where people eat a specific species of ant. That’s ex-otic, I guess. But how misleading is the title of the video?
Because this reporter found this little town in Brazil with an unusual eating habit, I’m now waiting for the next encounter with someone who will ask: “So, you
eat ants in Brazil, huh?”Of course, different people
and different regions of the planet have diverse culture and habits, but defining and judging actions or be-haviors based on those differences is a disease very much present in the daily life of our fragile society.
Fighting prejudice is not easy, but unlike some decades ago, it doesn’t require big revolutions and civil rights movements anymore.
We just need to battle our own ignorance.
Marcelo Vieira is a 33-year-old jazz cello graduate student from Brazil. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_MVieira.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (U-WIRE)-Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather is worried about the future of his profession.
The increasingly biased me-dia will threaten the nation, Rather said at a speech at American Uni-versity on Jan. 24.
“A free and independent press is the red beating heart of democ-racy and freedom,” he said.
Rather believes today’s cor-respondents give more lip service and less facts to support their sto-ries, saying commentators like Keith Olbermann and Chris Mat-thews do not perform valuable ser-vices and present rhetoric as truth.
“There’s a difference in mean-ing between ‘the press’ and ‘the media,’” Rather said.
“I still prefer to say ‘the press,’ where news in concerned. It re-fers to news that has this constitu-tional mission at its core content,” he said. “Some of [the media] are informative, some of it even looks and sounds like news, but the un-derlying impetus of the media is to generate profit.”
After Rather left CBS news, he believes CBS Chief Executive
Les Moonves tried “sleazing up” the program, and ratings plummet-ed as a result.
“We can’t let journalism sacri-fice itself on the altar of entertain-ment,” Rather said.
Students asked Rather if the recent Wikileaks controversy counts as legitimate journalism.
Rather said he was sure for-eign intelligence agencies were not surprised by what came out of the leaks, but raw data cannot be con-fused with real reporting.
But the New York Times and The Guardian should be commend-ed for sifting through the informa-tion and confirming what was true, he said.
Despite the “corporatization, politization and trivialization of the news,” Rather encouraged aspiring reporters to keep going.
“What I would say to young journalists is dither not, worry not, learn how to do it, you’ll find a way,” he said. “Writing is the bed-rock of the craft, learn to write, commit yourself to a lifetime of ever improving as a writer. You have to have a passion to do it.”
But Rather also said reporting isn’t always that simple.
“If you’re going to be a journalist worthy of the name,
you’d better take the attitude ‘if you’re looking for a friend, then get a dog.’ There’s always going to be someone trying to bring you down,” he said. “But if you have
a passion for doing, if you burn with a white, hot flame for doing it, that doesn’t matter as much as what you see as your mission in life which is getting to as close to
the truth as you can.”Leigh GiangrecoAmerican University The Eagle
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In the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion of businesses and websites offering to take your unused jewelry off your hands.
Presumably, we all have a stockpile of gold bullion sitting in our garages, and the only thing holding us back from fast cars and women is slip-ping all that old, dirty and useless gold between a fold-ed sheet of thin paper and mailing it to a stranger.
Similarly, there are innumer-able companies offering to help you invest in gold.
Both are nearly always scams.
And there are several prob-lems with this whole setup.
First of all, the hook. Com-panies claim that because of in-flationary pressures, the price of gold is being driven through the roof. So, you should invest in gold because the price is going up.
And that’s true. Inflation is a natural process, and it’s just something we have to account for when we go to put money away. Keeping gold, or commodities like it, can help to circumvent the loss of your investment value.
I want you to stop and think about what they’re saying for a second. Money, they claim, is worthless, and the value of gold is going through roof. So, send us your money and we’ll give you gold, the good stuff.
Only minutes later, you see commercial offering to send you
cash for your gold.If all were well in our world,
the two companies would do busi-ness with each other and we’d never have to get involved.
Clearly something is up.Now, if they really thought
gold was more valuable than cash, why would they want cash?
Like the television scams selling (by their claim) ultra-valu-able collectible coins, if they real-ly thought Buffalo coins or blocks of gold were more valuable than cash, they’d never consider sell-ing them to you. Never.
If this weren’t enough, and this will be our second point for those of you counting, it is ex-tremely irresponsible to send pre-cious metals unsecured through the mail to a stranger.
They can, for example, re-ceive the watch, necklace or ring, melt it down and sell it, and claim they never received it. In place of your new fortune, you may re-ceive a letter claiming your item was “lost in postage,” with no hope of retribution or justice.
Services like the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivery Confirmation provide some protection against these kinds of scams because they require someone to sign for the delivery, giving you proof the valuables were indeed delivered.
It’s important to remember these people run a business, and they’re out to make as much mon-ey as possible. How much money they make is directly related to how much they pay you for gold, so there’s a very strong incen-tive for them to pay out as little as possible.
Markets like this one take
advantage of what economists call asymmetrical information. All that fancy, econ-noise jargon means is that someone in the deal doesn’t know as much as the oth-er guy, which is probably you.
The used car market was the same way for a long time until the proliferation of the Internet and sites showing the fair market val-ue of vehicles opened up all the same information to buyers and sellers going into the dealership.
Unfortunately, few people
know the fair market value of gold and are thus extremely sus-ceptible to being taken advantage of.
There is a right way to sell your valuables, and if you do decide to sell your gold, bring the items to a respectable dealer, compare prices, consider sites like eBay and do not, by any means, send anything valuable without taking advantage of services like Delivery Confirmation.
By the way, I have a bundle
of grapes that will soon be worth 100 times their current price. Send me some money now, and I’ll pass a few your way.
Devin Graham is a 21-year-old business management senior from Prairieville. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_dgraham.
Sell the house and quit your job — Jesus is coming back!
I know you’re thinking, “Haven’t I heard this countless times before?”
But wait, this time it’s differ-ent. I’m super-duper serious.
Harold Camping, a civil en-gineer by trade and president of the conservative Christian group “Family Radio,” invented a shoddy biblical numbers game to prove, without a doubt, that good ole’ JC is mounting up his white horse in the near future and head-ing our way.
And I mean real soon — May 21, to be exact.
That’s right folks, commence-ment is May 20, and the apoca-lypse will occur the next day.
While 2012 had previously been the accepted year of human-ity’s unavoidable doom, it seems some eager beavers just couldn’t wait.
Camping’s eschatological pronouncement has put in a fast
lane to the apocalypse.Of course, this isn’t the first
time someone has tried to set a date for man’s demise.
I suppose the first attempt came from Je-sus himself, as reported in Mark 9 and Matthew 16. Next would most certainly be Paul, who based his entire ministry on the imminent return of the risen Lord.
Following their examples, many Christians have been ob-sessed with mankind’s destruc-tion.
Notable in these countless failed predictors are Pope Inno-cent III, founder of the Mormon faith Joseph Smith, Seventh-day Adventist founder Ellen White and the innumerable failed dates published in the Jehovah’s Wit-
ness publication, “The Watch-tower.”
But Camping’s prophecy is based on “sound” biblical calcula-tions, which also consider Earth to be 13,000 years old.
Using some funky math, he dates Jesus’ crucifixion to April 1, 33 CE, tosses in some Bible Code nonsense and, eureka — now we know for sure when to expect the return of the Jewish cosmic zom-bie.
All joking aside, I can’t help but wonder how this charlatan has received so much media attention.
This is actually not Camp-ing’s first rodeo. He previously as-serted the end of the world would occur on Sept. 6, 1994.
His followers gathered and held open their Bibles toward the heavens but to no raptured avail.
One would think deceiv-ing people and giving them false hope would damage their proph-esying credibility and cause some questioning the next time they cry
“wolf.”Not so in the Christian faith.But, to provide some criti-
cism of Camping’s claim, one only needs to understand where he’s getting his misinformation.
The basis for his prediction is a calculation made using numeric values ascribed to Hebrew letters.
This is much like Michael Drosnin’s best-seller, “The Bible Code,” which makes a complete mockery of biblical scholar-ship and fails to realize the fal-lacy of claiming the Bible is “un-changed.”
So, Camping has deciphered a nonexistent code in a book that has been redacted and changed throughout history, and he has no scholastic biblical education — not terribly surprising.
Meanwhile, droves of igno-rant followers are devouring his prediction and spreading the word to the masses without ever ques-tioning his credibility or motive.
Most importantly, it seems
nobody has grasped the insanity of the claim itself. Camping pro-claims the world is going to end and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Only about 3 percent of humanity will be rescued from the literal doomsday scenario, and ev-eryone else is just plain screwed.
As for me, I’ve beaten the apocalyptic horse for far too long.
If society wants to make fa-mous those who only desire to see it burn and destroyed, then per-haps the time has indeed come for all things to be made new.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus — any day now.
Andrew Robertson is a 24-year-old English writing and culture senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Arobertson.
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porate profits — he made clear the economic crisis is not finished.
“The steps we’ve taken over the last two years may have broken the back of this recession — but to win the future, we’ll need to take on challenges that have been decades in the making,” Obama cautioned.
Obama focused largely on making the country more competi-tive against international rivalry.
“At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this coun-try, or somewhere else,” he said.
The president argued making the country competitive in the glob-al economy requires investment in new technologies, especially “green” energy.
“This is our generation’s Sput-nik moment,” he said, referring to the Soviet Union’s early lead over America in the space race. “In a few weeks, I will be sending a budget to Congress that helps us meet that goal.”
Channeling President John F. Kennedy, Obama called for the country to be 80 percent reliable on clean energy by 2035.
To do that, he called for the
country to “become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.” He also urged Congress to “eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies.”
Obama argued that education reform is essential to rebuilding the economy.
“If we want to win the future — if we want innovation to produce jobs in America and not overseas — then we also have to win the race to educate our kids,” he said.
Obama touted several of his ad-ministration’s education programs, especially his Race to the Top pro-gram. He also called on parents to take more personal responsibility for their students.
Obama paid special attention to higher education.
“To compete, higher educa-tion must be within reach of every American,” he said.
He reiterated his previous com-mitment to make the U.S. the coun-try with the highest proportion of college graduates.
In terms of actual higher educa-tion policy, Obama called for Con-gress to make permanent the admin-istration’s $10,000 tuition tax credit.
He also asked Congress to consider removing impediments for children of undocumented im-migrants to obtain higher education.
The “DREAM Act,” which would have removed those impedi-ments, failed in the last weeks of the last Congress.
The president also reiterated his commitments to revamp the country’s infrastructure — provid-ing high-speed rail access to 80 per-cent of Americans — and to double the country’s exports by 2014.
He also acknowledged the ef-fort by congressional Republicans to repeal the controversial health care reform he signed last year.
“Instead of refighting the bat-tles of the last two years, let’s fix what needs fixing and move for-ward,” he said.
Obama focused on reducing the country’s ballooning deficit, announcing a five-year spending freeze for all non-defense, non-dis-cretionary spending.
In the Republican response to the speech, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Chairman of the House Bud-get Committee, applauded Obama for focusing on the economy, but criticized him and the Democratic
Party for increasing spending in the stimulus bill and health care law.
“We believe the days of busi-ness-as-usual must end,” he said. “Borrowing has to end. Spending cuts have to come first.”
Republicans have proposed deep federal budget cuts, saying Obama’s proposed spending freeze is insufficient, according to news reports.
Images from the Congressional crowd contrasted starkly with previ-ous States of the Union, as senators and representatives chose to sit to-gether.
In previous speeches, the crowd — and the applause — was starkly divided along partisan lines.
Bob Mann, University politi-cal communication professor who teaches political rhetoric, said Obama’s speech was skillfully vague.
“It was a well-done speech the-matically,” he said. “He obviously didn’t want to get into the weeds on specific policy issues.”
about exploring a merger between the University of New Orleans and Southern University-New Orleans.
Lemoine agreed with Ford, saying that Louisiana ranks in the top 10 states in the country for higher education spending because the state is funding 14 schools.
“That’s more schools than there are in the [Southeastern
Conference],” Lemoine said.The audience and panel also
examined solutions for funding higher education like increasing taxes, reducing TOPS funding and reinstating the Stelly Tax Plan.
Waguespack relayed “good news” to the audience when asked why it was necessary to cut higher education funding instead of a dif-ferent budget component.
“Funding for higher education
has only decreased 4 percent over the last three years,” he said.
Reilly stressed that the Flag-ship Coalition is not only meant to lobby for the University.
“There are things LSU can do to save money to be a pilot for oth-er universities,” he said. “If LSU takes less from the general fund, there will be more money for the other universities.”
The program also features a
brief video of significant events re-garding budget cuts to higher edu-cation, and SG President J Hudson is spotlighted.
“I feel good about where the budget’s going to be at the end of the day,” Waguespack said.
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earned one of the highest percent-ages in the state, along with St. Tammany and Lincoln Parishes, with 30.1 percent and 31.2 percent, respectively.
These, along with Orleans and Lafayette Parishes, are the only parishes in Louisiana above or on par with the national average.
In 1940, about 8 percent of adults in East Baton Rouge Parish had degrees compared to 4.6 per-cent in the nation.
Since then, the percentage in East Baton Rouge has continued to climb and has consistently been above the national average.
Jonathan Fayard, finance sophomore, said he thinks more East Baton Rouge Parish residents have bachelor’s degrees because it’s where the University is located.
He said students decide to stay and get jobs in Baton Rouge after graduation.
“Everybody kind of sticks around,” Fayard said.
Fayard said the state average should be higher, especially be-cause of the amount of aid avail-able to prospective students. Fa-yard said he’s able to attend the University because of TOPS and without it, he may not have been able to get a degree. And he said he believes other Louisiana residents may be in the same situation.
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