LSU President-elect F. King Alexander said Tuesday the Transition Advisory Team was on track as the team took a closer look at how the University can capitalize on research opportuni-ties to bring economic change to Louisiana.

The University is tackling re-organization issues the right way, Alexander said. Consolidating, reducing costs and saving mon-ey is the best way to protect the University’s research and overall education, which he said is a top priority.

Secretary of Louisiana

Economic Development Ste-phen Moret said while the state’s economy has relied mostly on traditional industries like agricul-ture and chemical manufacturing in the past, those job areas have been declining, and higher edu-cation is the future of developing and retaining Louisiana’s intel-lectual talent.

“The ultimate frontier for economic development in Loui-siana will be realized through the development of higher edu-cation,” Moret said. “The long-term, big picture involves LSU.”

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Of� cers search Evangeline Hall on LSU’s campus Sept. 17, 2012, after a bomb scare, which was later discovered to be falsely phoned in by William Bouvay Jr.

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Almost seven months later, William Bouvay Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to last September’s empty bomb threat on campus that in-voked a whirlwind of confusion as faculty and students scurried to evacuate and administrators can-celed all classes and activities for the day.

Bouvay , a two-time felony offender , made the plea agree-ment with the 19th Judicial Dis-trict Court in Baton Rouge , which saved him from becoming a third-time felony offender and will limit his jail sentence to no more than 28 years , according to the Baton Rouge Clerk of Court’s offi ce .

According to the Clerk of Court’s offi ce , Bouvay was charged with communicating false information for a planned bombing on school property. Bouvay will not face sentencing until June 28 .

“Yes, I planted three bombs at LSU’s campus. My colleagues planted three bombs at LSU to go off in two hours if my ...”

These were the words spoken by Bouvay to a 911 dispatcher as he phoned in the bomb threat. Students, faculty and staff were

notifi ed of the threat minutes later via the University’s emergency text messaging system, which asked everyone to “evacuate as calmly and quickly as possible.”

Roadways on and around cam-pus almost immediately became clogged with anxious students who sat in bumper-to-bumper traffi c, waiting for the next update from the University while bomb-sniff-ing dogs and police offi cials did a sweep of buildings on campus.

Many faculty and students were frustrated by the vagueness of the University’s evacuation instructions and lack of initial in-formation about whether classes would be canceled.

LSU Emergency Operations Center core committee chair-woman D’Ann Morris later took responsibility for the lack of clear communication. Morris said the EOC planned to improve commu-nication and protocols dealing with evacuations and other emergency procedures.

Bouvay was arrested two days after the false alarm.

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[Left] A demonstrator holds a poster of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles on Monday as other Capriles supporters and students block a highway in the Altamira neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela. [Right] Mechanical engineering graduate student Gustavo Gonzalez holds a Venezuelan � ag as he stands in protest in front of the Memorial Tower.

Venezuelan students protest for election votes recount

Venezuelan students gathered in front of the bell tower Tuesday in solidarity with thousands world-wide against the recent and alleged-ly corrupt election of Venezuela’s

President-elect Nicolas Maduro .Biological engineering senior

Stephanie Linares and friends de-cided to stage a protest on cam-pus with other Venezuelan and international students. As she and her friends at the University were planning their demonstration

Monday night, citizens of Caracas, Venezuela, gathered outside and banged their pots and pans together to make a political statement on the recount.

Another demonstration will be

VENEZUELA, see page 6

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Earthquake hits Iran, Pakistan; kills dozens and topples homes, shops

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An earth-quake toppled homes and shops on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border Tuesday, killing dozens of people and causing skyscrapers to sway in Dubai. It also forced Iranian officials — for the sec-ond time in less than a week — to issue assurances that its main nuclear reactor wasn’t damaged.

At least 34 people were killed in a single village in Paki-stan, a military official said. But the overall death toll became clouded after conflicting reports from Iran.Chavez heir charges United States is behind unrest over election

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s president-elect blamed the opposition Tuesday for seven deaths and 61 injuries that the government claims have occurred in disturbances protest-ing his election, and he accused the United States of organizing the unrest.

Maduro’s accusation against Washington came after the U.S. State Department said it would not recognize the results of Sun-day’s unexpectedly close election without the vote-by-vote recount being demanded by Capriles.

American Airlines cancels all United States �ights for hours

DALLAS (AP) — A key com-puter system used to run many daily operations at American Air-lines failed Tuesday, forcing the nation’s third-largest carrier to ground all flights across the Unit-ed States for several hours and stranding thousands of frustrated passengers at airports.

Flights already in the air were allowed to continue to their destinations, but planes on the ground could not take off. And travelers could do little to get in the air until the computer system was restored.Lawyers say Arkansas to use execution drug never used in U.S.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas plans to put prisoners to death with a drug that experts say has never been used in a U.S. execution.

The state Department of Cor-rection told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it plans to use phenobarbital, along with loraze-pam, to kill condemned prisoners.

In a letter obtained by the AP, federal public defender Jenniffer Horan told Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe that phenobarbital takes ef-fect more slowly than other drugs used to execute prisoners.

LAFAYETTE (AP) — U.S. mar-shals in Philadelphia have caught a 43-year-old Louisiana man who walked away from his trial in La-fayette on charges including ve-hicular homicide.

Wade Lohse, of Youngsville, was arrested without incident Tuesday afternoon near a train station and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, said Deputy Marshal Corey Britt in Lafayette.

“It’s only been three weeks, but it seemed longer than that. He’s been running hard,” Britt said.

Lohse walked out of his trial March 25.House GOP delegation supports shelving of income tax repeal

(AP) — The decision to shelve Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s state income tax repeal proposal was “responsible and prudent” because the effort could have worsened the state’s ongoing fi-nancial troubles, the House GOP delegation said Tuesday.

Alexandria Rep. Lance Har-ris, the delegation chairman, is-sued a statement saying Repub-licans support the move by their colleague to jettison discussion of the tax repeal bills.

Top U.S. military of�cials defend Guantanamo Bay prison raid

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Top offi-cials at the Guantanamo Bay de-tention center on Tuesday defend-ed a raid that resulted in a violent clash with detainees, saying the operation was critical and the in-juries on both sides were minor.

Soldiers with riot helmets and shields swept into recreation yards and met with resistance from several dozen prisoners, the leadership of the detention center said in interviews with journalists visiting the U.S. base in Cuba.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime scheme that included illegal, high-stakes poker games.

Federal authorities in New York City said the poker players included pro athletes, Hollywood celebrities and Wall Street execu-tives.

The money-laundering in-vestigation led to arrests in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and elsewhere around the country.

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The recently released 2013 Louisiana Survey shows, in con-junction with other polls, that Louisianians are less likely than the rest of the United States to support gay marriage, marijuana legalization and stricter gun con-trol laws.

Students and professors at the University seem to agree that Louisiana is lagging behind the rest of the country when it comes to popular opinion. The cul-ture of Louisiana runs deep with t r a d i t i o n . T h i s often limits pro-gressive ideas and many think the strong Catholic presence in the state also makes it diffi cult to pass any legislation that may be against most constituents’ mor-als .

Religious studies senior and president of the University’s chapter of College Democrats Daniel Colvin said it is natural for Louisiana to oppose a more liberal agenda .

“You have to look at the cul-ture in Louisiana,” he said. “Es-pecially when it comes to guns – Louisiana has always been the sportsman’s paradise.”

Colvin said there has been a long distrust of the government, which stemmed from the abuse of offi ce by public offi cials. He said he believes this has caused residents to be wary of large gov-ernmental solutions to problems .

“Traditional values trump popular ideas in culture,” he said.

Political communication pro-fessor Kirby Goidel agreed, say-ing traditions and religion play an important role in the conservative political ideas of the state.

Goidel said in addition to the strong conservative Catholic presence, more young people, who are typically more liberal, have begun to relocate to other states while the young people choosing to stay are usually more conservative.

A lack of large urban areas also leads to a more conservative voting . Goidel said the more rural the state, the more conservative it will be . He said a larger city like New Orleans will have more sup-port for laws like legalizing gay marriage and marijuana mostly because of the exposure to dif-ferent types of people, including members of the LGBT commu-nity.

Agricultural business junior and president of the University’s chapter of College Republicans Arielle Sutton said she was not surprised at the revelation that Louisiana was more conservative than the United States as a whole and believed the same would be true of various states in the South.

Sutton said she believes strongly in states’ rights and hopes any law Louisiana passes because of public opinion will not be infringed upon by the federal government.

She said an example of this occurred in the November elec-tion where the Louisiana people passed a bill that would ensure any attempted change to gun laws would be looked at with the strictest scrutiny of the law.

The surveys also showed Lou-isianians were more open to the idea of a civil union instead of a marriage.

Goidel said he believes this is due mostly to the

language. “If you got rid of the word

marriage, you’d get rid of a lot of opposition,” he said. “The word marriage is connected to reli-gion.”

Most people do agree that marijuana legalization and gay marriage are more likely to oc-cur in Louisiana than stricter gun laws.

“I don’t think you will see guns moving as steadily as LG-BTQ issues and marijuana,” Col-vin said.

History freshman Nathaniel Hearn said he is a member of the NRA and believes guns are a way of life in Louisiana. Part of the Louisiana culture is based on the idea of a sportsman’s paradise , he said.

Goidel said it is only a mat-ter of time before marijuana and gay marriage are legalized in the state , but said guns are not of the same sort of logic . Louisianians see guns as a sign of indepen-dence and an indentifying marker of who they are, he said.

“I think Louisiana is becom-ing more liberal,” Colvin said. “They are seeing what is happen-ing with the rest of the country and their ideas are changing.”

Goidel said Louisiana is moving to be more liberal in some ways , but is behind the rest of the nation in secularizing it-self.

“People who fi nd that they have something to fi ght for polit-ically get involved,” Colvin said.

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Schematic designs have been released for the new River Center Branch Library downtown, which gives Baton Rouge residents a glimpse of what the building may look like when it is projected to be completed in 2016.

Assistant Library Director Mary Stein said there is now a comment period for community members, especially University students, to comment on the de-sign and features with any ideas or suggestions via the East Baton Rouge Parish Library website.

“Over the next six weeks if anybody has a brilliant idea … now’s the time to speak up and our designers can still see if it meets the mission and meets the goals of the building,” she said.

Stein said comments from a responsive community of users who currently use the library are welcome, but non-users who may use the library if certain amenities were present are also welcome to comment.

The existing River Center Branch Library located at 120 St. Louis St. along with the Main Li-brary located on 7711 Goodwood Blvd. are the oldest buildings in the system and are in dire need of updates, Stein said.

A new building is under con-struction that will replace the

existing Main Library and is 80 percent complete, Stein said. The current River Center Branch Li-brary will be demolished, and the new structure will be built in its place.

“The existing library right now – it’s dark, it’s got low ceil-ings and it’s got gigantic columns that obstruct the views,” Stein said. “We look at the way the building doesn’t function now, and we look at the way we want any of our libraries to function and all that goes into the design.”

The dated buildling doesn’t attract new visitors which library personnel want to change, said River Center Branch Library branch manger Allison Cooper.

“We want to be able to attract non-traditional library users and the building we have here isn’t adequate to do that,” Cooper said.

The new library is being de-signed as a joint venture between Boston-based architecture firm Schwartz/Silver Architects and WHLC Architecture of Baton Rouge.

The schematic designs are conceptual sketches to show the general size, scale and placement of the building, said Rex Caban-iss, principal at WHLC Architec-ture.

Cabaniss said the building will be technologically complex and is a work-in-progress for the next few months.

New features to the library will be improved technology units like a green screen, recording stu-dio, collaborative study rooms, video rooms and conferencing rooms, Stein said, and there is even potential for a large digital screen on the outside of the build-ing.

“No matter where you go, there’s not enough capacity in the city for meeting rooms, for group study and such,” Stein said. “So

this is something LSU students can really benefit from … They can benefit from some of the re-sources that Middleton won’t have.”

The library will also have a “bookstore feel” to it as well, Stein said.

“We do want to embrace that bookstore model, and we do want to invite people to not just come in and grab and go with what they need, but to come in and enjoy and

browse the collection,” she said.Stein said there is a possibility

to include a café in the library, which will contribute to the new atmosphere the library will have.

The project is slated to cost $19 million, and Stein said it will go out to bid and construction should start in 2014.

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Four former Louisiana gover-nors will speak at a panel discussion at 1 p.m. today in the rotunda of the Business Education Complex in hon-or of PAISA Day, hosted by the LSU Public Administration Institute and the Public Administration Institute Student Association.

Kathleen Blanco, Edwin Ed-wards, Murphy “Mike” Foster and Buddy Roemer will discuss “not only the past four years but where they see our state and local govern-ments operating in the future,” as PAI Director Jim Richardson said in a news release.

The panel will be moderated by Jim Engster, host of “The Jim Eng-ster Show.”

“This will be a very rare event, regarding the four governors’ panel,” Richardson said in the release. “It will be just one of the many high-lights for us on that day.”

Video of the governors’ panel discussion will be streamed live on-line.

The PAI’s MPA Alumnus of the Year Award will also be given out at the event to Patrick Goldsmith, the release states, who currently serves as the director of the House Fiscal Division for the Louisiana House

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In kitch-ens, they prepare food faster, but pressure cookers by their very na-ture help make good bombs, ampli-fying the blast and the carnage.

They don’t just hold the explo-sives. The tightly sealed pot that speeds the cooking of beans and meat makes easier to obtain weak-er explosives faster and stronger. And they may also help investiga-tors fi nd out who built the deadly homemade bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

Investigators found frag-ments of BBs and nails, possibly contained in a pressure cooker, said Richard DesLauriers, the FBI agent in charge in Boston. He said the items were sent for analysis.

If a pressure cooker was used, it probably cost around $100 to construct, according to former fed-eral forensic and explosive inves-tigators. It’s like a pipe bomb but bigger and more powerful.

Pressure cooker bombs are more often used in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal — where the pots are more commonly used for cooking. But they have also been prominent in bombings and attempts in the United States, especially in New York Times Square in 2010 and Grand Central Terminal in 1976.

In Al Qaeda’s online maga-zine, there’s even an article titled: “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” by “The AQ Chef.” It mentions, even recommends, pres-sure cookers, noting that weak ex-plosives only work with the high pressure of a cooker or sealed pipe.

Low power explosives like black powder and smokeless pow-der — the most likely ones used in Boston — blow up at a slower rate and only deliver the big boom if they are confi ned and the pressure from the gas and explosion builds up, said Denny Kline, a former FBI explosives expert and instructor in forensics at its academy.

The pressure cookers are a key fi rst piece in a painstaking de-tective process. The sound of the explosion is a clue. The color of the fl ash — yellow — and smoke — white — are clues. So is the size of any crater and the distance fragments fl ew. Even the smell can give a seasoned investigator a good idea of what explosive was used, Kline said.

“We basically try to create a model for what the bomb looked like,” said Matthew Horace, a for-mer special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “Investigating bombs is like a puzzle.”

Piece by piece, forensic inves-tigators now have to put together what came apart with an explosive force of thousands of feet per sec-ond: the bombs themselves.

“It’s going to change its ap-pearance and its form, but it’s go-ing to remain,” said Kline. “It’ll be broken up into lots of little pieces,

but it’s not going to evaporate.”The job is to piece things back

together and identify chemicals. But it happens slower than on TV crime shows. And it isn’t as easy, Kline said.

“It takes a lot more intelli-gence to put it back together ... from multiple pieces than to follow a simple set of instructions on the Internet,” said Roy Parker, a retired ATF explosives expert.

Kline said once forensic in-vestigators have something on the bomb itself, it is given to lead de-tectives to take the next big step

Take the pressure cooker. If the brand is determined, “investigators will track every store that sells that pressure cooker and when it was built and sold,” Horace said. “This kind of investigation requires hun-dreds, if not thousands of leads to be followed up on.”

Horace and others are confi -dent that the pressure cooker iden-tifi cation can be a big help.

The pressure cooker can also help point to the type of explosive, Kline said. If it’s a high powered explosive like dynamite or C4, the blast would have shattered the cooker leaving sharp edges. If it’s the low explosive, it will merely blast through, leaving more squared off edges, he said.

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Investigators in haz-mat suits examine the scene of the second bombing Tuesday on Boylston Street near the � nish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, a day after two blasts killed three and injured more than 170 people.

After Groovin’ on the Grounds on Saturday, Ruben Morales, 30, of 10962 Abington Ave., Apt 7; Jesus E. Mercado-Robles, 26, of 6676 Exchequer Drive; and Javier A. Macias Ra-mos, 25, of 8352 Ned Ave. were arrested after the three were in-volved in a fi ght, according to LSU Police Department Spokes-man Capt. Cory Lalonde .

An LSUPD offi cer saw three men in a heated argument at 12:36 a.m. Sunday in front of the Baptist Collegiate Min-istry on Highland Road. When he stopped, Morales knocked

Intoxicated student damages dorm furniture, door in Res College North

Bradley M. Pregeant, 19-year-old student from 79146 Lady Lane, Folsom, La., was ar-rested April 12 for simple crimi-nal damage to property after moving the furniture from a Resi-dential College North study room onto the patio and breaking the furniture and door in the process, Lalonde said.

LSUPD was informed that drunken students removed a couch and an end table from a study room to the patio. The pa-tio door and furniture were dam-aged, and Pregeant admitted to moving the furniture but was unaware anything was damaged, Lalonde said.

Pregeant was arrested and is-sued a misdemeanor summons, Lalonde said.

Student arrested for simple assault after verbal � ght with roommate

Ramos unconscious, Lalonde said.

The offi cer attempted to ar-rest Morales , but Mercado-Ro-bles tried to grab the offi cer and fl ed when he was unsuccessful. The offi cer detained Morales , and other offi cers located and ar-rested Mercado-Robles , Lalonde said.

EMS arrived for Ramos , who sustained moderate injuries to the mouth, Lalonde said.

Lalonde said Morales was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for second-degree battery, Mercado-Robles was booked in EBR Parish Prison for battery of an offi cer and resisting an offi cer. Ramos was issued a misdemeanor summons for dis-turbing the peace by intoxication.

LSUPD was called to Lejeune Hall on April 11 after two roommates became involved in a verbal fi ght, Lalonde said.

Angel K. Wilkes, 19-year-old student from 8858 Hereford Ave. in Zachary, was issued a misde-meanor summons for simple as-sault after aggressively yelling and gesturing at her roommate, who felt threatened and pressed charges, Lalonde said.

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spearhead cutting-edge research projects that set the state apart from others. Instead of focusing solely on graduation rates, keep-ing graduates in the state is what would make Louisiana more eco-nomically competitive.

This idea harkens to the re-cent deal between IBM and the

University that is expected to create new educational opportu-nities and 800 new jobs.

The University has also partnered with Electronic Arts and ConAgra, initiatives that will yield millions of dol-lars and several significant re-search contributions, accord-ing to a Louisiana Economic Development publication.

Moret identified six focus areas that he said could produce 255,000 to 400,000 Louisi-ana jobs over the next 20 years, which he said would help achieve target population and tax revenue growth.

The focus areas empha-size the importance of digital media and enterprise software, clean technology, advanced

manufacturing, life sciences, wa-ter management and next genera-tion oil and gas.

Higher education, especially at the flagship university, can contribute to the evolution of these fields by pushing toward greater research and intellectual talent retention, Moret said.

Universities should find what they’re good at and capitalize on

those fields, said Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson. Areas like coastal issues and petrochemicals are a couple places LSU has an upper hand, so focusing on those research topics would be most beneficial, he said.

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held at 6 p.m. this evening in front of the bell tower.

Sabrina Kassab, digital art se-nior, said the event also happened in cities with large Venezuelan pop-ulations in the U.S.

“It kept going and showed how the people are responding to the situation,” Kassab said.

Linares said although other Lat in-American nations have rec-ognized Maduro, under the new Ven-ezuelan constitu-tion, citizens have a right to a recount.

United Social-ists Party candidate Maduro won with 50.8 percent of the vote while Henrique Capriles Radonski of the Justice First party won 49 percent in Sunday’s election, according to Venezuela National Electoral Council.

“There is no way they counted the votes from the exterior in such a short time period,” Linares said.

Kent Mathewson, geography and anthropology professor, said Maduro was Chávez’s groomed protégé.

“Maduro was a trade union activist who became Chavez’s des-ignated heir apparent,” Mathewson said.

Kassab said the protest was also about generating awareness.

The group wants to show all

sides of the story, Linares said.Though the turnout numbers

were weak, Linares said she was happy with the support of the Uni-versity community.

She said families with chil-dren, members of the Baton Rouge community and international stu-dents attended the event.

The event showed support and sympathy from the Latin American community at the University, said Gabriel Rivera, bi-ological engineer-ing junior.

“It’s not only happening in Ven-ezuela. It’s hap-pening everywhere in Latin America,”

Rivera said.Mathewson said Chávez’s pol-

icies of countering the privatization of government services, providing services to the poor and antagonism toward the upper middle class cre-ated a polarized society.

Ultimately, Linares said she hopes the support leads to action.

“Mainly our goal was sup-port,” Linares said. “We are think-ing about signing an online peti-tion.”

The petition will urge the White House to pressure the Ven-ezuelan government to recount the votes.

VENEZUELA, from page 1

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Students for Life at LSU set up pink and blue �ags on the Parade Ground on Tuesday to represent the daily abortions in the United States.

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BACKGROUND:After Hugo Chávez’s death, Nicolas Maduro of the United Socialist Party served as interim president and won Sunday’s election against Justice First party candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Radonski demanded a recount Monday.

The responsibilities for the first hitter in a baseball team’s batting order are endless. Whether it’s knocking a base hit, drawing a walk or driving in

the bottom-half of the order late in the game, the leadoff position proves to be critical.

Over LSU’s first 26 games this season, the leadoff spot was a revolving door, as coach Paul Mainieri strug-gled to find a hitter to solidify the top of the order and set up the power bats further down in the lineup.

Freshman outfielder Andrew Stevenson, sopho-more outfielders Jared Foster and Chris Sciambra and junior second baseman JaCoby Jones all found them-selves setting the table at one point or another, but none were able to claim the spot for themselves.

In the squad’s second game of a three-game series against Missouri in late March, though, Mainieri turned to junior outfielder Sean McMullen and hasn’t looked back since.

McMullen started off the season as a reserve out-fielder who transferred from Delgado Community Col-lege. The junior was included in an outfield platoon that saw himself, Sciambra, Stevenson and freshman Mark Laird all fighting for playing time.

“In [McMullen’s] case, I was just never going to give up on him because I thought he had some outstand-ing ability,” Mainieri said. “We’ve put him in there, and he’s playing calmly, he’s playing relaxed, he’s playing confidently. I think he’s made us a better team. He’s cer-tainly answered the question about the leadoff position, but he’s done more than that. He’s gotten some clutch hits for us.”

McMullen has taken the leadoff spot by storm. The combination of Stevenson, Foster, Sciambra

and Jones went 21-for-85 (.247 average) while hitting first in the order.

Sometimes, all it takes is a little perspective.

In his final season donning pur-ple and gold, senior tennis player Stefan Szacinski decided he didn’t want to lose anymore.

“This is probably my last hurrah as a tennis player,” Szacinski said.

“So why not make the most of it?”That’s exactly

what he’s done, as Szacinski hasn’t lost a singles match since March 3 against then-No. 6 Kentucky. Since then, he has ripped off 10 wins without losing and takes his hot play into the Southeastern Con-ference Tournament on Thursday.

Szacinski said small adjustments in his game have allowed him to have

this dominating run.“Tennis is a

game of rhythm, and as a player, you try to get comfortable,” Szacinski said. “I’ve been able to keep my opponents from getting comfortable.”

Szacinski has used a wide variety of shots to get his oppo-nents out of their com-

fort zones. By changing speeds, spin

LSU coach Paul Mainieri takes pride in his team’s stellar midweek play – so much so, the seventh-year Tigers coach regular-ly scoffs at any questions related to a weekend series when a midweek opponent still looms.

For Mainieri, taking it one game at a time is easy. For his play-ers, it’s a different tune.

“Coach always has his way,” said junior third baseman Christian Ibarra. “But it’s pretty difficult [not to overlook midweek games].”

Nevertheless, Ibarra and company are tasked with keeping the midweek streak alive as they welcome Grambling (14-21) into Alex Box Stadium as the visiting Tigers heal from a 30-0 drubbing at the hands of Central Arkansas last Tuesday.

Though that lopsided loss may be the only result casual sports fans see, Mainieri pointed to a hard-fought 2-0 loss Grambling suffered against Southeastern Conference foe Mississippi State in its fourth game of the season.

“They’ve played some teams really tough,” Mainieri said. “They’ve won a few big games this year. I know last year when we played Grambling … they were knocking the ball all over the park against our top pitchers.”

Senior southpaw Brent

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BASEBALL

Tigers to tussle against GramblingChandler RomeSports Writer

McMullen batting .385 at top of the order

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LSU junior right�elder Sean McMullen (7) follows through his swing after a hit April 7 during the Tigers’ 11-4 victory against Kentucky in Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers are 9-1 with McMullen leading off the batting order.

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LSU senior Stefan Szacinski follows through his return swing March 22 during the Tigers’ doubles match against Ole Miss in W.T “Dub” Robinson Stadium. Szacinski is in the middle of an eight-game win streak.

MEN’S TENNIS

Senior rides eight-game win streak into SEC TournamentSzacinski has relied on smarter playTrey LabatSports Contributor

GRAMBLING, see page 15NEW LEADOFF, see page 11

STREAK, see page 15

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‘[He] always practices as hard as he could ... so to see him break through like

this is good.’ Jeff Brown

LSU men’s tennis coach

The big cat drill is as synony-mous with LSU coach Les Miles as his hat, his fourth down gam-bles and his propensity for eating grass.

Miles has always said he prides himself on producing a tough and physical football team, and having physical drills at practice is a big part of making that happen.

The drill features two play-ers, normally one offensive and one defensive, lined up across from each other. On Miles’ whis-tle, both fi re out and try to push the other one backward. Wide re-ceivers and defensive backs stand up across from each other and all other players line up in a three or four-point stance.

“It gets everything up tempo and moving fast,” said senior linebacker Lamin Barrow . “We do it at the start of practice, and it’s a good way to get the blood fl owing.”

This spring, Miles has thrown a wrinkle into the drill. Instead of players going one-on-one, offense and defense line up three players on each side of the line of scrimmage with a quarter-back and a runner lined up behind the offensive line.

The quarterback hands the ball off and the offense has three

plays to gain 10 yards against the defense as the rest of the team separates to create purple and white walls on opposite sides of the drill.

“We created a little compe-tition with the crowd on the pe-rimeter,” Miles said. “We started a plural big cats drill, which had good power and was a lot of fun.”

Barrow said both units and their coaches take pride in win-ning the drill, and competition is why he likes running the big cat.

“I’m a bigger fan of it than the original big cat drill because it has more of a game type as-pect,” Barrow said. “Competition makes a better team. Every day we try to beat those guys, they do the same to us and it makes ev-eryone better.”

Tuesday was the second practice in a row that has start-ed with the big cat drill. Senior fullback J.C. Copeland said he remembers Miles using the drill two springs ago, but hasn’t seen

it since.Barrow and junior defensive

tackle Anthony Johnson both said they liked that the new big cat drill allowed more than two play-ers to get involved at a time.

“It’s a lot more fun to me be-cause it is three-on-three up front and we get to play a little bit of tackle football,” Johnson said. “It’s better for the offense as well because they get to play head up and get some physical play in their mouth.”

Copeland said he likes the drill, but doesn’t get into the competition.

“It’s really about working on technique because everyone has to block at some point,” Copeland said. “To me it’s not about going out there to try to kill somebody; it’s about everyone trying to get better.”

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FOOTBALL

Les Miles puts his own spin on big cat drillExercise starts o� Tigers’ practice James MoranSports Contributor

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Senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger (8) hands the football off to sophomore wide receiver Chris LaBorde (13) on Tuesday as the Tigers run a big cat drill. In the drill, which the Tigers begin practice with, offense and defense line up three players across from one other and the offense attempts to gain 10 yards in three plays.

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The LSU softball team will end its eight -game road stint today in Lake Charles when the No. 11 Tigers take on McNeese State.

The Cowgirls (32-10) will at-tempt to be the speed bump in LSU’s (35-9) season, as they are sandwiched in the middle of a three-week period that includes three dif-ferent top-10 opponents for LSU — the fi rst of which was the Tigers’ most recent matchup in a 2-1 series

victory against then-No. 10 Texas A&M.

“I don’t think it’s ever a let-down when we’re playing an in-state opponent, and McNeese al-ways gives us a tough game,” said LSU coach Beth Torina . “We never look past them or any of our in-state opponents. Is it tough to get our kids to go on the road in the middle of the week? Defi nitely. But will we ever look past them? No.”

The Tigers will have to make a quick turnaround after Texas A&M with only one day of practice before getting back on the road to Lake Charles.

LSU senior pitcher Rachele Fico said the road trip has been long for the Tigers but believes as

long as they keep doing what they need to do off the fi eld — combined with the added excitement of play-ing another Louisiana program — the Tigers will be able to persevere through it.

Torina said she didn’t real-ize this game would be the eighth straight road game for her team until recently, but it doesn’t really matter because she’s taking it one game at a time, regardless.

This will be the third time the teams have met during the Torina era at the helm for the Tigers, with all three meetings last season result-ing in LSU victories. The Tigers — who hold a 24-2 all-time record against the Cowgirls — swept all meetings with McNeese last season

with a combined score of 8-1 .“McNeese has a 32-10 record,

not too far off from Texas A&M,” Torina said. “Just because they’re in a different conference I don’t think that means they’re not going to be talented or bring their ‘A’ game.

They have plenty of talented softball players to challenge us [tonight].”

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SOFTBALL

Tigers wrap up eight-game road stint against McNeese

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LSU in� elder Rikki Alcaraz (1) hits the ball March 26 during the Tigers’ 5-1 victory against Southern University at Tiger Park. The Tigers hit the road today to face McNeese State in Lake Charles. LSU holds a 24-2 record against the Cowgirls.

LSU to travel after one practice Mike Gegenheimer Sports Contributor

The LSU women’s tennis team will take on Kentucky in the first round of the Southeastern Confer-ence Tournament at 2 p.m. today in Starkville, Miss.

The 14-seed Lady Tigers (8-15, 1-12 SEC) suffered several close losses over the course of the season, including a 3-4 defeat at the hands of the 11-seed Wildcats (13-11, 4-9 SEC) in the home opener March 3. In that match, LSU built up a 3-2 lead, only to see it slip away on the last two courts. LSU coach Julia Sell said LSU’s record does not tell the whole story of its season.

“Probably the most disap-pointing part [about this season] is we have had a lot of very winnable

matches,” Sell said. “We have been so competitive. … We just haven’t gotten the ‘W.’”

The inability to clinch close matches has crippled the Lady Tigers this season, according to Sell, who

still believes they could make some noise in the SEC Tournament. Senior Kaitlin Burns said they were excited when they saw how the bracket was set up.

“I think we have been given a really good draw,” Burns said. “Ken-tucky is a team we wanted to play and Vanderbilt is a beatable team for us. I think it gives all of us a lot of confidence.”

Because of their losing record, the Lady Tigers would have to win the SEC Tournament in order to make the field of the NCAA Tourna-ment. And while that may not happen this year, Sell said LSU’s progress as a program cannot be overstated.

“For our players, every single one of them, the transformation from August to now is huge,” Sell said. “I’m really excited about next year,

not just because of the recruiting class I have coming in, but also be-cause of the returnees. … They have a clear understanding now of how much putting in work makes a dif-ference [on the court].”

That recruiting class, ranked 16th in the country by Tennis Re-cruiting Network, is the highest-ranked class in program history. Added to the core of players return-ing, Sell said there is reason to look forward to next year’s campaign.

“Nobody likes to lose,” Sell said. “If there is anything that has come out of losing a lot this year, it’s that they are even more motivated.”

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Univer-sity of Oregon has acknowledged major NCAA violations in con-nection with football recruiting and proposed a self-imposed two-year probation with the loss of one scholarship in each of the next three years, according to documents re-leased by the school.

The revelations were made in a summary disposition report in-cluded in the documents released Monday night. The contents were first reported by KATU television in Portland.

Oregon and the NCAA have failed to come to an agreement on the matter and the case is expected to go before the infractions com-mittee at some point this year.

The NCAA began looking into possible violations following reports about payments Oregon made to recruiting services, includ-ing a $25,000 payment to Willie Lyles and Houston-based Complete Scouting Services in 2010. Lyles had a connection with an Oregon recruit.

The NCAA will not comment on the ongoing investigations.

Oregon’s athletic department issued a statement that said: “The review is ongoing until the NCAA Committee on Infractions issues its final report. The integrity of the process and our continued full co-operation with the NCAA prohib-its us from publicly discussing the specifics of this matter.”

The university released 515 pages of documents Monday night in response to public records re-quests. The documents were heav-ily redacted and included several drafts of the summary disposition report.

The report included details of Oregon’s relationship with Lyles. Following allegations of possible violations in 2011, Oregon released information that Lyles had pro-duced, but it was largely outdated.

“There were underlying ma-jor violations coupled with failure

to monitor violations involving the head coach [2009 through 2011] and the athletics department [2008-11],” the report said. “While the violations were not intentional in nature, coaches and administrators of a sports program at an NCAA member institution have an obliga-tion to ensure that the activities be-ing engaged in comply with NCAA legislation.”

However, the summary dispo-sition also noted no “lack of institu-tional control,” typically one of the most severe charges the NCAA can bring after an investigation of rules violations.

“There is no finding of lack of institutional control and no findings of unethical conduct,” the report said. “None of the underlying vio-lations were intentional in nature.”

Chip Kelly was head coach at Oregon for the past four seasons, leading the Ducks to a 46-7 record with appearances in four straight BCS bowl games — including a bid for the national championship against Auburn in 2011. He left

Oregon to become head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year.

“I am aware of the recent re-ports and of the ongoing investiga-tion being conducted by the NCAA and the University of Oregon. While at Oregon, I know we were fully cooperative with all aspects of the investigation, and I will con-tinue to contribute in any way that I can. But until the NCAA rules on the matter, I will have no further comment,” Kelly said Tuesday in a statement released by the Eagles.

Ducks offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich was promoted to head coach at Oregon following Kelly’s departure.

Oregon was penalized by the NCAA in 2004 for a major viola-tion involving the improper recruit-ment of a junior college player by an assistant coach. The university was put on probation for two years and the unidentified assistant coach was suspended without pay for a week and restricted from some recruiting activities.

Oregon remained eligible for postseason play and did not lose any scholarships because of that violation, which occurred in 2003. The case was resolved without a formal hearing after the NCAA’s governing body agreed with the

university’s proposed penalties.

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LSU sophomore Mary Jeremiah crouches to return the ball March 17 during a doubles match against Missouri in W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

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DALLAS (AP) — Pat Summerall was the calm alongside John Mad-den’s storm.

Over four decades, Summerall described some of the biggest games in America in his deep, resonant voice. Simple, spare, he delivered

the details on 16 Super Bowls, the Masters and the U.S. Open tennis tournament with a simple, under-stated style that was the perfect complement for the “booms!” and

“bangs!” of Madden, his football partner for the last half of the NFL player-turned-broadcaster’s career.

Summerall died Tuesday at age 82 of cardiac arrest, said University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen-ter spokesman Jeff Carlton, speak-ing on behalf of Summerall’s wife, Cheri.

“Pat was my broadcasting part-ner for a long time, but more than that he was my friend for all of these years,” Madden said in a statement. “Pat Summerall is the voice of foot-ball and always will be.”

His final play-by-play words beside Madden were succinct, of course, as he called the game-ending field goal of the Super Bowl for Fox on Feb. 3, 2002, when New England beat St. Louis 20-17.

“It’s right down the pipe. Adam

Vinatieri. No time on the clock. And the Patriots have won Super Bowl XXXVI. Unbelievable,” Summerall said.

Sparse, exciting, perfect. A flawless summation without distract-ing from the reaction viewers could see on the screen.

At the end of their final broad-cast together, Madden described Summerall as “a treasure” and the “spirit of the National Football League” in a tribute to the partner that complemented the boisterous former Oakland Raiders coach so well.

As former teammate and broad-caster Frank Gifford put it in an ac-companying video tribute: “America is very comfortable with Pat Sum-merall.”

Summerall played 10 NFL sea-sons from 1952 to 1961 with the Chi-cago Cardinals and New York Gi-ants, but it was in his second career that he became a voice familiar to generations of sports fans, not only those of the NFL.

“Pat was a friend of nearly 40 years,” said CBS Sports broadcaster Verne Lundquist. “He was a master of restraint in his commentary, an example for all of us. He was also one of the great storytellers who ever spoke into a microphone.”

Summerall started doing NFL games for CBS in 1964, and became a play-by-play guy 10 years later. He was also part of coverage of the PGA Tour, including the Masters from 1968-94, and U.S. Open tennis.

When CBS lost its NFL deal after the 1993 season, Summerall switched to Fox to keep calling NFL games with Madden. Summerall had hoped to keep working with CBS for other events like the Masters, but network executives saw it otherwise. At the time, CBS Sports anchor Jim Nantz said he was “very saddened” that Summerall didn’t get to leave CBS under his own terms.

“Pat Summerall was a hero to me,” Nantz said Tuesday. “I trea-sured the gift of friendship that I had with him. I was his understudy for 10 years. He could not have been more generous or kind to a young broad-caster.”

A recovering alcoholic, Sum-merall had a liver transplant in April 2004. The lifesaving surgery was necessary even after 12 years of so-briety.

After an intervention involving, among others, former NFL Com-missioner Pete Rozelle, former CBS Sports President Peter Lund and for-mer PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beaman, Summerall checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in April 1992.

“I had no intention of quitting, I was having too good a time,” Sum-merall said in a 2000 Associated Press story. “The prescribed stay at Betty Ford is 28 days. They kept me 33 because I was so angry at the peo-ple who did the intervention, the first five days didn’t do me any good.”

Summerall received the liver of a 13-year-old junior high foot-ball player from Arkansas who died

unexpectedly from an aneurysm. Summerall had an emotional meet-ing with the teenager’s family the following year.

“He always had a joke,” Mad-den said Tuesday. “Pat never com-plained and we never had an unhap-py moment. He was something very special.”

Summerall often shared his tes-timony with Christian groups and told his story when speaking before other organizations. In his 2006 book, “Summerall: On and Off The Air,” he frankly discussed his per-sonal struggles and professional suc-cesses.

Long before broadcasting Super Bowl games, 16 for television and 10 more for radio — in fact, before there was even a Super Bowl — Summer-all played a role in what is known in football circles as “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” the 1958 NFL championship. The Giants lost to the Baltimore Colts 23-17 in the NFL’s first-ever overtime game.

“Pat Summerall was one of the best friends and greatest contribu-tors that the NFL has known,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “His majestic voice was treasured by millions of NFL fans for more than four decades. It is a sad day in the NFL.”

McMullen has gone 15-for-39 (.385 average) at the top of the lineup.

“It’s huge when you can get the leadoff guy on that often,” said senior first baseman Mason Katz. “Then you have a guy with Mark [Laird’s] speed and potentially the best hitter in the country in [freshman shortstop Alex] Breg-man up with two guys on. He sets the table for everybody, and if he doesn’t get a hit in his first at-bat, then he usually comes up and does it in his second one. He’s a huge run-producer for us.”

The Tigers have scored 86 runs in the 10 games McMullen has batted leadoff since the sec-ond game of the Missouri series, and LSU is 9-1 over that span. Overall in 2013, McMullen has hit for a .317 average with a home run, 14 RBIs, seven doubles, 14 walks and 12 runs scored.

McMullen doesn’t think about his playing time anymore. He only has one goal in mind when he steps up to the plate in the first inning.

“I just have to take it one game at a time and just keep having good at-bats,” McMul-len said. “We’re trying to win baseball games. I’m not worried about if I’m going to be playing or not. If I’m in the lineup, then I’m going to do anything to help the team win.”

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Editorial Policies & Procedures Quote of the Day“Our enemies have made the mistake that America’s enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.”

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I turned on the television as soon as I heard.

There was a large explosion of some kind. People didn’t know if it was an accident or if it was some kind of attack. All we knew was that there were a lot of peo-ple killed or injured.

And then there was the sec-ond explosion, and we knew.

That was Sept. 11, 2001. I was a little 11-year-old boy with no concept of what the ter-rorist attacks meant. Now I’m a 22-year-old guy who has more of an understanding of the world and what goes along with it.

Even though there was much less devastation from Monday’s terrorist attack in Boston, it has a lot of similarities to the Sept. 11 attacks more than a decade ago.

Both were completely un-expected. Both used fiery explo-sions to hurt and inspire terror in as many people as possible. Both quickly spawned bloody pictures and videos of people running around during the destruction.

But in both cases, the images showed something else. They showed people running toward the explosions. They showed people literally carrying others on their backs — complete strangers — away from the scene.

They showed Americans coming together in support of the relative few. Whether people drove to New York to help dig through the rubble or placed an Old Glory magnet on their car, nearly everyone did something to outwardly support our brothers and sisters.

America and her people have shown time and again their capa-bility to respond to these types of situations. Our first respond-ers are the best in the world. Our intelligence agencies are unri-valed. And our people — whether through faith or reason, friend-ship or common decency — are always there for one another.

When the time comes for

it, retribution will be swift and powerful. On Sept. 11, President George W. Bush gave one of the most powerful im-promptu speeches in our nation’s history.

As he stood on a pile of what used to be the World Trade Cen-ter, he found himself surrounded by Ground Zero rescue workers and started speaking in a bullhorn about how the nation had New York in its prayers.

One of the rescue workers shouted — at the president of the United States, no less — an inter-ruption, “I can’t hear you!”

Bush memorably responded, “I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people that knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”

That American spirit contin-ues to shine through our people and our leaders, as President Barack Obama promised to seek revenge.

“But make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this,” Obama said. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice.”

Everyone expects the media and politicians to start making this issue a political one before long.

Republicans may blame Obama for failing to protect the nation, and Democrats may blame conservatives for a culture of guns and violence that leads to this sort of thing.

Part of me is optimistic, though, that this situation is dif-ferent. Maybe our people and our elected officials will come to-gether and take this for what it is: An act of evil that is impossible to stop in the type of society in which we all value living.

One can only hope.

John Parker Ford is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Alexandria.

Uniting through TragedyAmericans prove they will help one another, strengthening bonds

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An injured woman is tended to Monday at the �nish line of the Boston Marathon. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon �nish line, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts.

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Flowers sit at a police barrier near the �nish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombs that ripped through the crowd Monday, killing at least three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to in�ict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.

As the founder of Smoking-Words at LSU, I am asking the campus community to support increasing the state tobacco tax by $1.05. A rally to show support for the tax and continued funding

for cancer-related screening pro-grams will occur today at noon to 12:30 p.m. on the Capitol steps. Take action and show your sup-port!

The $1.05 is necessary to put us on par with Texas and will have a significant impact on the health of Louisianians by reduc-ing youth smoking rates, encour-aging adults to quit and saving lives. Increasing the tobacco tax would prevent more than 36,400 would-be smokers in Louisiana, cut health care costs and re-duce deaths from lung and other

cancers, heart attacks, strokes and other preventable diseases.

We cannot settle for less than $1.05. Louisiana is near the bot-tom currently in a state tobacco tax. A smaller tax increase will not produce significant public health benefits or cost savings because the cigarette companies can easily offset the beneficial impact of such small increases with temporary price cuts, cou-pons, and other promotional dis-counting. I also know from the research that I’ve done that our college students are targets for

tobacco companies, and only a large increase in the price will make any kind of impact on our smokers (almost 30 percent of our undergraduates are regular or social smokers).

The annual health care costs in Louisiana directly caused by smoking are $1.47 BILLION. According to TobaccoFreeKids.org, 109,000 kids under the age of 18 who are living in Louisiana today will ultimately die prematurely from smoking. Think about how much better off LSU and this state

would be if we weren’t dealing with tobacco-related illnesses and deaths. We can’t afford to continue smoking.

Judith Sylvester Founder of SmokingWords at LSUjsylves@lsu.edu(225) 578-2067

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OpinionWednesday, April 17, 2013 page 13

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

We cannot settle for less than $1.05 tobacco tax increase

Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at opinion@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @TDR_opinion

It’s almost comical how some things can be so easily miscon-strued.

The notorious creator of the infamous LSUGreeksThatMatter.blogspot.com has been revealed, according to videos that surfaced on the Bamagreeksthatmatter website.

Biological sciences freshman Olivia Angelette has been exposed as the creator of the controversial site as it highlighted “Greeks that mattered” within the LSU com-munity, segregating organizations upon biased, superficial mate-rial. Although Angelette claims to have made the website in said vid-eos, her laptop came back clean to the Delta Zeta sorority Standards Board. She has still been removed from the chapter’s active roster.

The Daily Reveille reported on it when the site first launched, and it rang clear that students be-lieved there was an invasion of privacy for Greeks in the LSU community.

As the site posted the links to the “Greeks that Matter” personal Facebook accounts, it was appar-ent why these students felt some-what threatened and helpless in the situation.

In the two videos posted to the Bamagreeksthatmatter page, Angelette clearly portrayed no re-morse for her actions and further-more continued to make a slew of irrational and obtuse comments, highlighting her lack of concern toward the subject matter.

In one video, she claimed she believes “that hazing is an es-sential part of manhood,” and she “hazed SAEs in the fall.”

Since the videos surfaced, the Delta Zeta sorority’s Standards Board has removed Angelette from the roster and has worked diligently to remove any negative stigma this act could associate with its name.

That got me thinking.

How is it that the actions of one individual can affect so many other individuals on such a large scale without having any regards to doing so?

Because the turmoil that not only the Delta Zeta sorority faces, but the Greek community as well, is undeserved and unfair, as they will be critically evaluated by the posts on a website ran more or less, by one woman.

And upon pondering the sub-ject, one can only assume view-ers of the site will rationalize and comprehend the fact that this mes-sage does not resound through the Delta Zeta sorority as a whole.

It would be utterly ludicrous to believe an organization would condone these thoughts or sup-port this type of morale, but then again, one can only hope the situa-tion can be perceived in this light.

The choices one person made behind a computer screen will be magnified to an extent that, yet again, brings others into the equa-tion.

But that was the point of the website, right?

Bundling people into hierar-chies among their peers, putting them on an unwarranted pedestal without taking the initiative to consult said students on whether this was OK with them.

I am sure the repercussions are not OK with the students who are undeservingly facing the mu-sic one individual thrust upon them.

So I ask you to think twice before you scoff and point a fin-ger, remembering that you too could be the victim of something out of your control and to hope a fellow LSU student may learn from her mistakes and grow to be a better person from the lessons she will learn.

John Polivka is a 21-year-old creative writing junior from Houston.

Contact John Polivka at jpolivka@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @jpolivka_91

POLIVIN’ THE LIFEJOHN POLIVKA Columnist

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and height of his shots, Szacin-ski keeps his opponent moving all over the court during a match.

“He’s been much more con-sistent,” said fellow senior Mark Bowtell. “He’s constantly applying pressure to his opponent, he returns really well, and his serve is very good, so he never gives the other player a break.”

Szacinski’s streak is even more impressive given his struggles with fitness throughout his career.

The Australian native suffers from posterior lateral instability in both knees. The condition, which he was born with, places added stress on the lateral portions of his knees.

“In tennis, you’re moving lat-erally pretty much all the time,” said LSU trainer Paul Porter. “It’s a lot of quick, explosive movements, which doesn’t lend itself to Szacin-ski’s condition.”

Szacinski also suffers from a condition called genu recurvatum, which is a natural hyperextension of the knee.

Porter said the genu recurva-tum, along with the structural defi-ciency present in Szacinski’s knee,

leads to an incredible amount of stress being placed on the lateral and posterior por-tions of Szacin-ski’s knee.

“The stress leads to a sensation of instability,” Por-ter said. “As the match progresses and his body be-comes fatigued, his knee will feel as if it is unstable and on the verge of giving out.

S z a c i n s k i plays every match with both knees taped, and at practice Tuesday he sported a mechanical knee brace after suffering a setback in his last match.

LSU coach Jeff Brown said the winning streak has surprised him, given the problems Szacinski has experienced throughout his ca-reer.

According to Szacinski, the condition has played a role in his improvement, though.

Szacinski said the knee issues motivated him to play a smarter brand of tennis, which led to the increased variety of shots.

Szacinski hasn’t been taking advantage of weaker competition,

either. During this streak, Szacinski has beaten five na-tionally ranked opponents while playing on court two in the tough SEC. SEC teams hold 11 of the top 25 slots in the ITA rankings.

“He’s doing this at a higher lev-el,” Brown said. “Playing on court

two in the SEC and winning isn’t easy.”

Brown described Szacinski as a grinder and one of the hardest- working players on the team.

“He’s always been a guy who brought his hard hat and lunch pail to work,” Brown said. “Always practices as hard as he could, but he didn’t always get the results that he wanted. So to see him break through like this is good.”

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4-16 ANSWERS

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Bonvillain will start for LSU (34-3, 13-2 SEC) — but will only throw about two innings, according to Mainieri — before giving way to junior righty Kurt McCune.

McCune saw his first action of the season last week, tossing three innings and allowing only two runs in an 11-2 victory against Southern followed by one shutout inning in an 8-3 loss against Arkansas on Saturday.

“I was very happy with my second performance [against Ar-kansas],” McCune said. “I felt that I was hitting my spots pretty con-sistently. It was very comforting and hopefully I’ll just keep produc-ing the same results.”

McCune has fully recovered from two stress fractures of ver-tebrates in his back and said he’s finally in a groove with his new-found splitter, a pitch he calls a difference-maker in his arsenal.

“I can throw it to where they’ll swing at it pretty consistently, which is huge for me,” McCune said. “Having that pitch has defi-nitely stepped my game up this year.”

Mainieri added that McCune would also go about two innings and said he wanted to get junior Will LaMarche some work on the mound after his less-than-stellar outing in Saturday’s loss against Arkansas.

With the usual lineup set to go, Mainieri cautioned against looking past Grambling after last season’s 17-10 slugfest and assured LSU’s focus would only be on the Ala-bama series after accomplishing its primary goal.

“We’re taking a lot of pride in that we haven’t lost a midweek game in two years,” Mainieri said. “Our first goal is to win this game tomorrow night.”

‘Tennis is a game of rhythm, and as a

player, you try to get comfortable. I’ve been

able to keep my opponents from

getting comfortable.’ Stefan Szacinskisenior tennis player

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