Fifteen minutes into the 10:30 a.m. section of CMST 4112 on Wednesday , students received an email from professor Loretta Pecchi-oni informing them that “basically everyone is getting an F in the class,” and the class would be canceled for the rest of the semester “due to poor attendance and preparation.”

“If you needed this class to graduate, too bad,” Pecchioni ,

associate professor and graduate director of communication studies, wrote in the email.

On Wednesday evening, Pec-chioni said the situation had passed.

“In my opinion, the incident is resolved,” she wrote in an email to The Daily Reveille. “I had a very productive conversation with the stu-dents who were in attendance in class today. I hope whoever approached [The Daily Reveille] read the second email that was sent shortly after the fi rst, indicating that the problem as a class has been resolved.”

Pecchioni did not return phone calls.

One communication stud-ies senior , whose name The Daily

Reveille agreed to withhold, said she was on her way to class when an-other classmate called to inform her that their professor had an outburst, directing her frustration at students and allegedly cursing at them. Stu-dents said Pecchioni then left class and proceeded to send the students an email at 10:45 a.m., directly after the outburst.

About an hour after the initial email was sent, students received another email with the subject “be thankful,” in which Pecchinoi wrote, “For the 11 people who were in class this morning and were willing to talk me down. Our class will continue

LSU President-elect F. King Alexander offi cially accepted a $600,000 annual salary Wednesday that was outlined in a letter of ap-pointment from Board of Supervi-sors Chairman Garret “Hank” Dan-os at the Board meeting .

Former LSU System President John Lombardi and current Interim System President and Chancel-lor William “Bill” Jenkins enjoyed similar contracts. Lombardi’s an-nual salary was $550,000, and Jen-kins’ yearly salary totals $600,000 .

The LSU football team’s offen-sive coordinator Cam Cameron’s contract was also fi nalized Wednes-day, totaling $600,000 annually as well. The salary fi gures for Cam-eron’s position increased $175,000 from the amount earned by the pre-vious offensive coordinator.

AgCenter Chancellor Wil-liam “Bill” Richardson also told the Board he will not fi ll the vacant roles of vice chancellor and associ-ate vice chancellor — effectively eliminating the positions — to free up funds that could give salary

increases to other faculty members. Dwight Landreneau, who cur-

rently fi lls the AgCenter associate vice chancellor position , plans to retire June 1 . The vice chancellor position was held by Paul Coreil , who retired earlier this semester to serve LSU Alexandria as interim chancellor .

The duties from these positions will be divided among fi ve or six other AgCenter faculty members including Richardson himself, he said.

Richardson said he plans to hire Southern University Agricul-tural Research and Extension Cen-ter Vice Chancellor for Extension Gina Eubanks to fi ll a new position as the program leader for consumer and family sciences. Eubanks will take on the new role while continu-ing to fi ll her Southern position.

LSU Shreveport will also ex-perience changes after the Wednes-day meeting.

LSUS Chancellor Paul Sisson announced at the Board meeting that the campus will begin a new initiative called LSUS Accelerated , which will reformat courses to be offered in eight-week terms fi ve

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LSU Student Governent President John Woodard (right) and Vice President Taylor Parks (left) were sworn in Wednesday in the Capital Chamber of the Student Union.

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday at the Leadership for Change 2013 Louisi-ana Education Excellence Summit that Louisiana needs to main-tain a sense of urgency regarding education reform.

Sponsored by the Louisiana Association of Business and In-dustry and Rep. Steve Carter, R-Baton Rouge, chairman of the House Education Committee, the summit aimed to gather educa-tional, business and nonprofi t leaders to discuss issues in Louisi-ana education.

Several University administrators were present, includ-ing LSU President -elect F. King Alexander and Interim System

Condoleezza Rice, Bobby Jindal push education changes

EDUCATION, see page 8

Powerful People

‘If you needed this class...too bad’ Alexander accepts $600,000 salary

Gabrielle BraudContributing Writer

Professor angered by poor attendance

OUTBURST, see page 8

At a governors’ panel held Wednesday, for-mer Louisiana governors Kathleen Blanco , Ed-win Edwards , Murphy “Mike” Foster and Buddy Roemer all expressed the similar idea that from their experience as governors, the people of Lou-isiana ultimately have the fi nal word.

“I came here today, not to do anything but simply to tell you that in the long run, it is what the people want and will fi nally be decided,” Ed-wards said.

Following the presentation of the Public Administration Institute’s MPA Alumnus of the

GOVERNORS, see page 8

FERNANDA ZAMUDIO-SUAREZ · Staff Writer

Former governors stress importance of job growth

GABRIELLE BRAUD · Contributing Writer

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses education reform Wednesday.

MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille

Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards speaks Wednesday in the LSU Business Education Complex.

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Ceremonial funeral held for Britain’s Iron Lady on Wednesday in London

LONDON (AP) — Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest Wednes-day with prayers and ceremony, plus cheers and occasional jeers, as Britain paused to remember a leader who transformed the coun-try — for the better according to many, but in some eyes for the worse.

Soaring hymns, Biblical verse and fond remembrances echoed under the dome of St Paul’s Ca-thedral, as 2,300 relatives, friends, colleagues and dignitaries attend-ed a ceremonial funeral for Brit-ain’s only female prime minister.Options narrow for Venezuelan opposition after rule for no recount

Senate gun control legislative vote angers Connecticut of�cials

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Con-necticut officials reacted Wednes-day with disappointment and an-ger to the U.S. Senate’s rejection of gun control legislation inspired by the massacre at Sandy Hook El-ementary School in Newtown.

The state’s General Assem-bly this month passed a sweep-ing bipartisan package of gun control measures. Some law-makers said proposals the U.S. Senate was considering paled in comparison to what they had passed, with both Democratic and Republican support.American Indians turn to technology to save endangered languages

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a win-dowless conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test ver-sions of new apps and screening for glitches.

But these are no Silicon Val-ley techies in town for one of the city’s massive electronics shows. Many are from far-flung American Indian reservations, and their high-tech devices are serving a decid-edly old-school purpose: trying to save their languages from the brink of extinction.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Testi-mony has concluded for the first phase of a high-stakes trial over the deadly 2010 rig explosion that led to the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.

U.S. District Judge Carl Bar-bier didn’t rule Wednesday on any claims in the litigation after BP PLC wrapped up its defense.

The trial started Feb. 25 and also included testimony by wit-nesses for the federal government, a team of private plaintiffs’ attor-neys, rig owner Transocean Ltd. and cement contractor Halliburton.

The trial’s first phase was in-tended to identify causes of the blowout of BP’s Macondo well.Louisiana Senate backs ban on social networking while driving

(AP) — Louisiana’s state sena-tors want drivers to stop tweeting and posting to Facebook and put their hands on the wheel.

The Senate voted 25-9 Wednesday for a proposal to ban social media posts while driving. The bill would expand an existing prohibition on tex-ting while driving to include accessing, reading and posting to sites like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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It’s the “pivot point” of the legal debate, Judge Morgan Christen of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday.

Morgan and two other judges on the nation’s largest federal ap-pellate court considered 90 min-utes of legal arguments over the ban on “sexual orientation-change” counseling of minors.

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Two U.S. drone strikes Wednesday killed at least five suspected al-Qaida mili-tants and destroyed the house of one of them in Sanaa, a moun-tainous area south of the capital, a Yemeni security official and wit-nesses said.

The four were killed in the first strike while riding a vehicle in the desert area of Oussab al-Ali, about 90 miles south of Sanaa, the official said.

The second strike killed a fifth suspected jihadi.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition watched its options dwindle Wednesday af-ter the head of the Supreme Court said there could be no recount of the razor-thin presidential election victory by Hugo Chavez’s heir, leaving many government foes feeling the only chance at power is to wait for the ruling socialists to stumble.

Opposition activists and in-dependent observers called the judge’s declaration blatant and le-gally unfounded favoritism from a purportedly independent body.

A group of renowned civil rights activists, journalists and historians will speak today at the Civil Rights Forum in the Holliday Forum of the Journal-ism Building to discuss their roles in civil rights and how cur-rent citizens should re-spond to con-t e m p o r a r y civil rights issues.

Program Director and Professional-in-Residence Bob Ritter said they “put together a group of eight people who are involved in civil rights, either covering as journalists, activists and scholars to talk about con-temporary civil rights issues and makes suggestions about what we have learned and what can be applied.”

Some of the distinguished panelists include Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, who co-authored “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation”

that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History; and Moses Newson, a pioneering civil rights jour-nalist with the Afro-American Newspapers who covered stories throughout the South and the rest of the country during the height of the movement in the 1950s and 1960s, the news release said.

Dorothy Cotton, recipient of the 2010 National Freedom Award of the National Civil Rights Museum and friend of Martin Luther King Jr., will also

be there, Rit-ter said.

T h e r e will be two p r e s e n t a -tions about civil rights: one from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and the sec-ond from 1:30 to 4 p.m., accord-

ing to the news release.Director of the Reilly Center

for Media and Public Affairs Bob Mann said students with all types of majors can learn from the pre-senters.

“People can learn about American history and how dif-ficult it was to be an African-American person in the ’50s and ’60s and how hard they had to fight for basic rights,” Mann said.

Ritter said he is looking

forward to the speakers because they were part of “one of the most significant social movements in the 20th century.”

“Just because bills are in place and we have an African-American president doesn’t mean we have conquered racism or the problem of race,” Mann said. “There are still challenges in this country to address and face them honestly.”

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Journalists, activists to speak at civil rights forum todayPanelists talk past and current issuesNic CottenStaff Writer

‘Just because bills are in place and we have an African-

American president doesn’t mean we have conquered

racism or the problem of race.’ Bob Mann

Director of the Reilly Center forMedia and Public Affairs

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Dorothy Cotton speaks Wednesday during the Civil Rights Forum in the LSU Alumni Center. Cotton worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders.

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The University is “ramping up” its efforts to increase online learning, said Associate Vice Chan-cellor for Enrollment Management David Kurpius at Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting.

The University currently of-fers online learning in graduate school programs. Kurpius said 17 students are enrolled across the programs, but they expect more in the fall and next spring.

“Inquiries are ramping up sig-nificantly. We see the flood com-ing,” he said.

Kurpius said students in-volved are non-traditional students who have jobs and families.

The programs offered online are courses that started as on-cam-pus classes.

“Courses have been approved, recognized as... three-hour courses and then delivered in a format that allows [them] to be taught in seven weeks. I think it’s the way of the future,” said T. Gilmour Reeve, vice provost for Academic Pro-grams, Planning and Review.

Reeve and Kurpius said it is crucial for the University to prog-ress in online learning.

“Even today, we’re behind. We risk being left in the dust by our peers and our aspirational peers as even smaller universities get ahead of us,” Kurpius said. “This is a race to make sure our brand resonates in the online world.”

Reeve said institutions are quickly moving ahead with use of online education.

“Major research institutions are fully engaged in online educa-tion. LSU needs to be a player,” he said.

Kurpius said they want to en-sure a degree online is “every bit as rigorous and valuable” as an on-campus degree.

Kurpius said the price for an

online Master of Business Admin-istration would be the same as it is on-campus.

“We have to price the pro-grams based on what the market-place will handle. We are not al-lowed by the Board of Supervisors to go above in-state tuition,” he said. “The goal is a one-price de-gree for each program.”

Academic Partnerships, a business that helps universities develop and market their online programs, will help the University with the process, Kurpius said.

Academic Parternships is pro-viding marketing support, reten-tion support, help to faculty and as-sistance with Moodle and technical support for online students, among others, he said.

Of in-state tuition, 50 per-cent will go to Academic Partner-ships and 50 percent will go to the

University, Kurpius said. The cen-tral administrative running the pro-gram gets 35 percent of what’s left and the individual college gets 65 percent.

Volunteer LSU is gearing up for National Volunteer Week at the University, which begins Monday, giving students the chance to get involved with volunteering around campus through various daily ac-tivities scheduled for next week.

Students can learn more about the volunteer opportunities and events by visiting the Volunteer LSU table in Free Speech Plaza beginning Monday morning, said landscape architecture junior Erin Percevault, one of the special event coordinators for Volunteer LSU. According to the Volunteer LSU website, a few events next week will be a Volunteer Recognition Day where “local nonprofits and volunteer organizations will hold a fair to thank and meet volunteers.” There will also be a Hands for Hope event where volunteers will “write encouraging letters to ju-venile delinquents at Jetson Youth Center.”

The week of events will end with the Fourth Annual Spring Greening Day, which takes place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 26, and a sustainability expo held in front of the Student Union, Percevault said.

Registration for the greening day ended Wednesday, but Percev-ault said students will be able to register the day of the event.

“Spring Greening Day is meant as the culmination of Na-tional Volunteer Week,” Percevault said. “We have projects running all throughout the week for students to come by and work for a few hours whenever they are free between classes.”

This year, volunteers will be helping to place mulch around the live oaks on the Parade Ground, add color to flower beds along Tower Drive from Dalrymple to the gate at the Union, and engage in some replanting of vegetation that may have been damaged or died since last year’s greening day, said Assistant Director of Facility Services Tammy Millican.

University Landscape Ser-vices works with Volunteer LSU to help with logistics and to supply tools, said Assistant Director for Landscape Services Fred Fellner.

Students and faculty work alongside staff from Landscape Services, which Fellner said spe-cific employees are assigned to certain areas to aid the volunteers.

Fellner said he is expecting around 55 members of the Land-scape Services staff and Percevault said about 150 students will be present for the greening day.

ADMINISTRATION ENVIRONMENT

Online learning efforts to increaseLSU discusses how to remain relevantMcKenzie WomackStaff Writer

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Associate Vice Chancellor David Kurpius discusses online education Wednesday in the Capital Chamber of the Student Union during a Faculty Senate meeting.

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After a long-fought election season, John Woodard and Taylor Parks were inaugurated as Student Government’s president and vice president Wednesday afternoon in front of the University’s Memorial Tower.

Woodard , the 91st SG presi-dent , said he is excited about ad-dressing students’ concerns during his time in offi ce.

“I hope to help rebuild SG and continuing the job that Taylor and Carrie did this year,” Wood-ard said in an interview afterward.

Woodard said he hopes to gain students’ trust during his term as well as to highlight the achieve-ments of previous SG presidents.

The inauguration of Wood-ard and Parks comes following a series of problems that occurred during this year’s election season.

On March 13 , it was an-nounced that Woodard and Parks won the election by more than 1,000 votes. However, their Unite LSU ticket was disqualifi ed for alleged overspending by the SG election board.

Unite LSU fi led an appeal with the SG University Court regarding whether the election board had the right to disqualify the ticket from the election.

On March 16 , UCourt upheld the disqualifi cation, stating the election board did have the right to disqualify the ticket.

However, on March 17 , UCourt heard a complaint fi led by Kristina Lagasse against the election board that said the board incorrectly re-evaluated Unite LSU’s fi nancial documents.

UCourt ruled in Unite LSU’s favor, but it then called for a sec-ond election.

After a second SG election, it was announced on March 26 that Woodard and Parks had won, once again, by more than 1,000 votes.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Woodard sworn in as SG presidentParks inaugurated as vice presidentJudah RobinsonSenior Contributing Writer

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War medicine now helping bomb victimsBOSTON (AP) — The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefi eld medicine to their civil-ian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharp-ened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen oth-er patients still fi ghting to keep damaged limbs.

“The only fi eld or occupa-tion that benefi ts from war is medicine,” said David Cifu, re-habilitation medicine chief at the Veterans Health Administration.

Nearly 2,000 American troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifi ces have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well as in the quality of prosthet-ics that are now so good that sur-geons often chose them over try-ing to save a badly mangled leg.

Tourniquets, shunned during the Vietnam War, made a come-back in Iraq as medical personnel learned to use them properly and studies proved they saved lives. In Boston, as on the battlefi eld, they did just that by preventing people from bleeding to death.

Military doctors learned and passed on to their civilian coun-terparts a surgical strategy of a minimal initial operation to stabi-lize the patient, followed by more defi nitive ones days later, an ap-proach that experience showed offered the best chance to pre-serve tissue from large and com-plex leg wounds.

At the same time, wartime demand for prosthetics has led to new innovations such as sophis-ticated computerized knees that work better than a badly dam-aged leg ever would again.

“This is a clear case where all of the expertise that was gained by prosthetic manufacturers was gained from the wars. It’s aston-ishing how well they function

and the things people can do with these prostheses,” said Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The hospital has performed amputations on three blast vic-tims so far. A few other patients there may yet need them. Yaffe is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and many other doc-tors treating Boston blast victims also have had military training.

Besides the three at Beth Is-rael, fi ve patients who have lost a total of eight limbs are at Boston Medical Center; four who each lost a leg are at Massachusetts General and one who lost one limb is at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

The military partnered with the American Academy of Ortho-paedic Surgeons to train doctors throughout the United States on advances learned from the wars, said Kevin Kirk, an Army lieu-tenant colonel who is chief or-thopedic surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center.

Help, too, has come from Is-rael, which for decades has dealt with the aftermath of Palestinian bombs, like the ones in Boston,

often laden with nails, ball bear-ings and other metals.

“Unfortunately, we have great expertise,” said Pinchas Halpern, director of emergency medicine at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center.

Halpern, who gave lectures in 2005 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Gen-eral about responding to attacks, has been in email contact with doctors in Boston this week.

Among the topics he covered in his lectures were how to coor-dinate ambulances to distribute the wounded to area hospitals according to their type of injury, performing more CT scans than usual to locate deep shrapnel

wounds and ways to identify and classify wounds. Paul Biddinger of Mass General’s emergency department said the hospital took much of Halpern’s advice.

“We improved our plans for triage, site security, reassessment and interspecialty coordination” following Halpern’s visit, Bid-dinger said.

Blast victims can be chal-lenging to treat because they typically have multiple complex physical injuries that may include loss of limbs, fractures, brain damage, and vision and hearing impairment, said Paul Pasquina, chairman of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Uni-formed Services University and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

“It’s very important that dur-ing their acute medical and surgi-cal care that rehabilitation is ap-plied early on, to get them up as soon as possible to reduce risks from being immobile, including blood clots, deconditioned mus-cles and other problems that will make recovery more diffi cult,” he said.

A multidisciplinary approach that involves everyone from plastic and orthopedic surgeons to therapists is important, said James Ficke, chairman of the de-partment of orthopedics and re-habilitation at San Antonio Mili-tary Medical Center.

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An injured person is helped on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon � nish line following an explosion Monday in Boston. Thirteen victims lost limbs and nearly a dozen other patients are still � ghting to keep damaged limbs.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Missis-sippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to Presi-dent Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for poisonous ricin and set the nation’s capital on edge a day after the Boston Mara-thon bombings.

Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, was ar-rested at 5:15 p.m. at his apartment in Corinth, near the Tennessee state line about 100 miles east of Memphis, said FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. It wasn’t immediately known where he was being held.

Authorities still waited for defi nitive tests on the letters to Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. Preliminary fi eld tests can often show false positives for ricin. The letters were intercepted be-fore reaching the White House or Senate. Ricin is derived from the castor plant that makes castor oil. There is no antidote and it is at its deadliest when inhaled.

An FBI intelligence bulletin obtained by The Associated Press said the two letters were post-marked Memphis, Tenn.

Both letters said: “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to be-come a silent partner to its continu-ance.” Both were signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.”

As authorities scurried to in-vestigate three questionable pack-ages discovered in Senate offi ce buildings, reports of suspicious items also came in from at least three senators’ offi ces in their home states.

Sen. Carl Levin said a staff member at his Saginaw, Mich., of-fi ce would spend the night in a hos-pital as a precaution after discov-ering a suspicious letter. The staff member had no symptoms, Levin said in a statement. He expected to learn preliminary results of tests on the letter by today.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said suspicious letters at his Phoenix offi ce had been cleared with noth-ing dangerous found. A package at Sen. John Cornyn’s Dallas-area of-fi ce also was declared harmless.

All three packages in the Capitol complex turned out to be safe, Capitol police spokeswoman Makema Turner said late Wednes-day.

Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Ter-rance Gainer said that an individu-al who was responsible for the sus-picious packages in the Hart and Russell Senate offi ce buildings on Tuesday was detained and released on Wednesday. The packages were

not hazardous.Gainer said the man was “not

particularly harmful, although ter-ribly disruptive.”

All the activity came as ten-sions were high in Washington and across the country following Mon-day’s bombings at the Boston Mar-athon that killed three people and injured more than 170. The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the letters and the bombing. The letters to Obama and Wicker were postmarked April 8, before the marathon.

Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, said mail sent to the White

House is screened at a remote site for the safety of the recipients and the general public. He declined to comment on the signifi cance of the preliminary ricin result, referring questions to the FBI.

Capitol Police swiftly ramped up security, and lawmakers and staff were cautioned away from some parts of the Hill complex. After hours of jangled nerves, of-fi cials signaled it was safe to move throughout the area and people settled back to normal, if watchful, activity.

At a House hearing, Postmas-ter General Patrick Donahoe noted

there had been ricin alerts since the notorious 2001 anthrax mail-ings and procedures are in place to protect postal employees and help track down culprits.

“Over the course of years we’ve had some situations where there have been ricin scares,” Do-nahoe said. “Until this date, there’s never been any actually proved that have gone through the system.”

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times a year , replacing the current semester system.

Sisson said the intent is to make this the default structure by the 2014-15 academic year.

“This will provide a faster rate for degree completion,” Sisson said.

The Board also tended to a list of agenda items regarding Univer-sity faculty and student achieve-ments.

Truman Scholars Matthew Landrieu , an elementary education junior , and Catherine Fontenot , a biological sciences junior , attended the meeting, thanking Board mem-bers and University administrators for their support.

The Board also took time to ap-prove R. Eugene Turner , Shell En-dowed Chair in Oceanography and Wetlands Studies , as Boyd Profes-sor — the highest academic distinc-tion in the LSU System.

Jenkins was granted an honor-ary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa by the Board .

The Board unanimously voted to call the Alex Box Stadium fi eld Skip Bertman Field . Bertman , who was in attendance at the meeting, thanked the Board for the honor.

Two Cooperative Endeavor Agreements were approved, con-tracts that would allow private management to operate two hospi-tals instead of the LSU Health Care Services Division — a measure that will save money for the state.

The fi rst agreement would al-low University Medical Center Management Corporation and Loui-siana Children’s Medical Center to manage and operate Charity Hospi-tal and Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans. The second agree-ment would allow Lafayette Gen-eral Health System, Inc., and Uni-versity Hospital and Clinics, Inc., to manage and operate the University Medical Center at Lafayette.

“This process will really ramp up today with approval,” said Da-vid Callecod , president of Lafayette General Health.

After approval from the Board of Supervisors, the contracts must be approved by the Department of Health and Hospitals. Pending ap-proval, which Callecod said he an-ticipates, the transition process will come full-circle by June 24.

Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com

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LSU President-elect F. King Alexander watches the speaker Wednesday during the Board of Supervisors meeting in the LSU System building.

Year Award to Patrick Goldsmith, the panel host, Jim Engster of “The Jim Engster Show” addressed the group as the “fearsome foursome” and asked them to share their thoughts about the state of higher education in Louisiana as well as tax reform and healthcare.

The governors agreed on the importance of higher education and its role in moving the state forward, although they expressed opposing ideas regarding the state of higher education in Louisiana.

“You have to put your money where your mouth is, or else it is not a real priority,” Blanco said.

Blanco, who said she was the first governor to move funding for higher education and elementary and secondary education to the Southern regional average, said education is the most important facet in creating jobs in Louisiana.

Edwards said he supported higher education in 1987 by using the $640 million he “wrestled” from the federal government in a one-time settlement to give teachers a one-time pay raise, and said he also put $540 million into a trust fund that has since been constitutionally dedi-cated to education.

“Since 1987, every university in the state has enjoyed a windfall of revenue from this source of money,” Edwards said. “No other state has a similar fund, and I’m very proud of that because education is very important, as all of you know,” Ed-wards said.

Roemer said he salutes Gov. Bobby Jindal for the accountability standards he has set for public educa-tion but also warned that the state has a serious problem.

“The lessons for the future for me come to one simple fact, and that is our state is disappearing,” Roemer said.

Roemer said in the 40 years since Edwards became governor, the number of representatives in Congress that Louisiana receives de-creased from eight to six as Louisi-ana’s population continues to plum-met — while the populations of 14 other Southern states have rapidly increased.

“We the people are going to decide what we are going to be,” Roemer said. “Are we going to be a place that sees our kids more than at Christmas because they live in Cin-cinnati or Kansas City?”

To solve this problem, Roemer stressed the importance of bringing more jobs to Louisiana and applaud-ed the announcement of the IBM

facility coming to Baton Rouge. “That is literally a game-

changer. It attracts you people. It attracts educated people. It attracts people of the 21st century,” Roemer said.

Foster said after doing some research to prepare for Wednes-day’s panel, he was surprised by the amount of money that has disap-peared from the budget in the past decade.

However, Foster said the state has successfully managed the bud-get and has learned to use the money wisely.

“It has been tough, but I have to give credit where credit is due,” Foster said. “The legislature has done a lot less harm than you would think.”

The governors also expressed similar views that Jindal’s most recent decision to pull back from his income tax proposal is the re-sult of the strength of the people of Louisiana letting their views be known.

“When an ill-advised program that transfers the tax burden of the state from the wealthy to the poor, the public becomes aware of it and will rise to defend or oppose it, and that is an example of what we just saw and that is the way it should be,” Edwards said.

Roemer said Jindal was unpre-pared with his income tax plan, but he applauded him for proposing tax reform.

Blanco said she disagrees with Jindal’s initial proposal to remove the state’s income tax and instead supports generating income by elim-inating tax breaks.

“The list of exemptions is end-less, and we have some obsolete ra-tionale for some of the exceptions on the table,” Blanco said.

Foster supported Jindal, saying the state should eventually eliminate of the income tax. But the key is at-tracting more people to the state to spend money, he added.

“What I think is in Louisiana, we have to have a tax system that at-tracts people,” Foster said. “We are on the right track.”

Edwards said the final decision lies with the public.

Roemer said the state needs to use teamwork, and Jindal needs to call on the wisdom of the past gov-ernors.

“You don’t learn from your victories. You learn from your mis-takes,” Roemer said.

as planned.”The student said Pecchioni was

upset about poor attendance in her 28-person class.

“We don’t sign a roll in this class. Attendance is not required on the syllabus, which is a contract, and unfortunately that affects the class size,” she added.

The student said she has con-tacted Student Government, who re-ferred her to Debra Joseph, assistant to the dean, and was transferred to Jennie Stewart, the assistant dean of students and the associate director of C.A.R.E. for Student Advocacy and Accountability. She left a voicemail.

“You don’t know who to

approach when your teacher does something like that,” the student said.

She said she reported the in-cident because she was concerned about her future in the class as well as the professor’s professional con-duct in future classes.

“It ruined the professional idea I had of her when she cursed out the class,” she said. “What if the same thing happens again, but worse?”

Several other students in the class declined to comment because they were worried about their grades.

President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins.

While introducing the keynote speaker, Jindal emphasized that im-proving education must be made a priority to the American people, and currently education rankings have straggled behind.

“It doesn’t sound very American to say we are No. 17,” Jindal said.

In the facilitated discussion, Rice said although America’s K-12 education lags behind other nations, the nation’s higher education is still a gold standard and regarded highly worldwide.

Higher education has two fac-tors that make it unique: variety and competitiveness, Rice said.

“Access to higher education is going to even the playing field,” Rice said. “Education is the key to the very

foundation and core of our society.” Jindal spoke about last year’s

legislative session’s business lead-ers and their demand for education so schools can produce more highly skilled workers.

In an effort to improve the Uni-versity’s computer science program, Jindal said the IBM partnership will train the technology and computer science concentrated employees the local economy needs.

The problems with education in the U.S. are currently causing a di-vide in the nation between capable people and incapable people, Rice said.

She said leaving children trapped in a failing school is not an option.

Additionally, Rice gave insight into No Child Left Behind, the edu-cation reform based on standardized testing that dominated the George W.

Bush presidency.She said No Child Left Behind

put education on the national agenda and gave the federal government a role to play by letting people realize that every child can learn.

Jindal maintained his position on K-12 reform, saying the dollars should follow the child. Good teach-ers should be evaluated and rewarded for improving scores and making sure children learn, he said.

Rice said the success in schools will be achieved when children have pride in what they are doing and when citizens take responsibility for how they behave toward education.

“Education has been the inter-vention that has allowed us to over-come circumstances,” Rice said.

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As LSU junior third baseman Christian Ibarra’s sprinted toward fi rst base, he yelled, “Dang it!”, thinking his pop-up to left fi eld would be caught for an out. But as he rounded fi rst, he saw the ball go over the Grambling left fi elder’s glove and into the stands for a

home run — Ibarra’s fourth of the season. The homer in the sixth inning gave LSU

(35-3, 13-2 Southeastern Conference) a cush-ion in what would end as a 4-0 win against Grambling (14-22) Wednesday night in Alex Box Stadium. LSU struggled at bat with only three hits all game.

The Grambling pitchers held LSU’s nor-mally red-hot bats to only three hit s all night.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri said the team was surprised with Grambling’s starting pitcher, Cory Jordan, who threw six innings, allowing three hits and four runs. Only Ibarra, fresh-man right fi elder Mark Laird and senior fi rst baseman Mason Katz were able to record hits off Jordan.

The LSU softball team fi n-ished a stretch of eight consecu-tive road games Wednesday night with a 7-1 victory against in-state foe McNeese State.

McNeese (32-11, 13-3 Southland Conference) entered Wednesday night’s game as the top team in the Southland Con-ference with the NCAA’s eighth-leading team ERA of 1.67, but LSU made easy work of the Cowgirls’ pitching.

McNeese starting pitcher Jamie Allred held No. 11 LSU (36-9, 11-4 Southeastern Con-ference) in check for the fi rst three innings, allowing the Ti-gers only two runs. But in the fourth inning, it fell apart for the freshman.

LSU freshman shortstop Bi-anka Bell ended Allred’s night with a three-run home run, top-ping off a fi ve-run inning for the Tigers and giving the Ti-gers their winning 7-1 margin. In addition to putting the game well out of reach, Bell’s homer pushed her team-leading RBI total to 42 and secured her 12th consecutive game with at least one RBI.

Sophomore outfi elder A.J.

The response to the Boston Marathon bombing makes me proud to be an American , and sports played a huge part in that.

To see such an outpour-ing of support after the tragic events that took place in Boston on Monday was a breath of fresh air.

While watching the hor-rifying images and hearing

testimonials from people who were steps away or in the path of the explosions, it made me remember how sports were af-fected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 .

The NFL delayed its sea-son by a week, numerous col-lege sporting events were put on hold and the New York Mets and Yankees along with the rest of the MLB showed their support for the victims of the attacks by donning New York police and fi re department hats.

It was a time in Ameri-can history when sports still went on, but everyone knew

something bigger had occurred — something that was a matter of life and death.

Sports are an escape from reality. Spectators only have to focus on what happens between the lines.

The Boston Marathon is the equivalent of a holiday in Bean-town — forget about the Bruins , Patriots , Red Sox and Celtics , kids get days off from school to take in the 26.2-mile trek around the city.

It’s a big deal.The explosions Monday

SportsThursday, April 18, 2013 page 9

KATHY WILLENS / The Associated Press

New York Yankees players bow their heads during a moment of silence Tuesday in honor of victims of the Boston Marathon explosions before a baseball game.

LSU beats McNeese, 7-1, to end road trip

Tragedies like Boston bombing bring out the best of sports

MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

TRAGEDIES, see page 11

SOFTBALL, see page 12

SOFTBALL

Spencer HutchinsonSports Contributor

Visit lsureveille.com/multimedia to see a video from LSU football’s spring practice.

MAKING IT COUNT

Grambling holds Tigers to three hits

BASEBALL, see page 12

LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior in� elder JaCoby Jones (23) � st bumps junior in� elder Christian Ibarra (14) after Ibarra’s two-run home run Wednesday during LSU’s 4-0 victory against Grambling.

Patterson pitches complete game

Catherine ThrelkeldSports Contributor

The National Football League saw a fl urry of big-name players sign with new teams in this offsea-son’s free agency period. General managers across the league put mil-lions of dollars on the line for play-ers they believe will have a positive impact on their franchises. Here are the fi ve signings that will be worth putting tens of dollars on the line for the teams that truly matter — your fantasy team.

New England Patriots — Danny Amendola

After losing Wes Welker to the Broncos, the Patriots got them-selves a Welker look a like to play

his position this year. Before going down with an injury last year, Amen-dola became Sam Bradford’s favor-ite target. With a major upgrade to quarterback, Amendola could end up resembling Welker in more ways than appearance, as he’s more than capable of producing a 100-catch season in New England.

Philadelphia Eagles — James CaseyIn what was one of the more un-

der-the-radar signings this offseason, the Eagles acquired one of the most versatile players in the league. Casey was heavily under-utilized in Hous-ton as a fullback, so he doesn’t have impressive statistics, but he’s the type of player who can play several positions and has the physical tools that should translate to nice numbers in Chip Kelley’s system.

Detroit Lions — Reggie BushThis signing with the Lions is the

defi nition of a hand-in-glove fi t. Bush’s dynamic skill set is perfect for the Lions’ pass-happy offense and Bush is sure to become one of Matt Stafford’s favorite targets out of the backfi eld. If Jahvid Best is any indication of what a quick back with good pass-catching ability can pro-duce in that offense, Bush should put up some serious numbers, especially in a point-per-reception format.

Atlanta Falcons — Steven JacksonThe Falcons parted ways with

long-time running back Michael Turner this offseason and are ready to give Steven Jackson full posses-sion of the backfi eld in Atlanta. As-suming he’s able to stay healthy, he should be able to produce plenty of points with a much better offensive line than what he was working with in St. Louis.

Denver Broncos — Wes WelkerWes Welker will go from catch-

ing passes from one future Hall of Famer in Tom Brady to another in Peyton Manning. The presence of Demaryius Thomas and Eric Decker will keep opposing defenses from doubling up on Welker. Everything is in place for Welker to have an-other phenomenal year, and the Manning/Welker combo is sure to be dynamite.

Dimitri Skoumpourdis is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Houston.

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Atlanta Falcons running back Steven Jackson responds to questions during a news conference about his signing with the NFL football team March 15 in Atlanta.

photos by ERIC BAKKE and JOHN T. GRELLICK / The Associated Press

[Top] Wes Welker stretches with teammates during NFL offseason training Monday at the Denver Broncos’ Dove Valley facility in Englewood, Colo. [Bottom] Reggie Bush speaks at a news conference after agreeing to a four-year deal with the Detroit Lions on March 13 in Detroit.

THE GOLDEN GREEKDIMITRI SKOUMPOURDISSports Contributor

The No. 20 LSU men’s tennis team faces a rematch against No. 17 South Caro-lina today in the fi rst round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.

The Tigers (15-10, 5-7 SEC) suffered a 1-4 loss to the Game-cocks (17-9, 7-5 SEC) on March 31 in the second game of a long road trip. LSU raced out to win the doubles point but faded once singles play started.

“We all came out pretty fl at in the singles matches,” said se-nior Stefan Szacinski . “We had a tough road win against Florida, but now we’re well-rested so I think we’ll come out with more energy this time.”

The Tigers haven’t traveled since the South Carolina match and have battled to a 4-2 home record this month. LSU enters the match sporting renewed confi dence after defeating Ar-kansas and Jackson State last weekend.

“There’s a lot of positives going into this match,” Szacin-ski said. “We’re capable of do-ing really well against any team of the SEC. We aren’t scared of anyone.”

The Tigers have an added advantage of having been on an extended home stand this month. The time at home has given the Tigers a chance to rest and prepare their bodies for the challenges of the SEC Tournament.

Szacinski said the Tigers are as rested as they have been

all season going into the match against the Gamecocks.

Several of the Tigers have battled nagging injuries all sea-son, with Szacinski and seniors Olivier Borsos and Mark Bowtell all having struggled with fi tness this season.

“All credit needs to go to [coach Jeff Brown ],” said trainer Paul Porter . “He has re-ally kept this team on course and kept them focused on the goal, which is to win the SEC Championship and hopefully make a deep run into the NCAA Tournament.”

LSU comes into the tour-nament as a No. 11 seed , while South Carolina is the No. 6 seed .

The SEC Tournament gives several of the conference teams a chance to achieve a top-16

seed nationally, and with that comes the advantage of host-ing the regional match in the NCAA Tournament.

With the No. 20 ranking, LSU has a chance to move up if it can string together wins over the weekend.

“In the practice building up to the match, there’s a certain ex-citement about having something left to play for,” Brown said. “Those little things can make a difference when you’ve got guys who have been in the grind of the SEC all season.”

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were different from the events of 9/11 . Not only did a heinous act occur on American soil, it hap-pened during an athletic event in one of the biggest sporting cities in the world.

Boston athletic teams came out in droves to stand up for their cities.

The Celtics and Bruins can-celed their contests scheduled for Monday night, new Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola vowed to give $100 to a Boston Marathon relief fund for every pass he catches in 2013 and the Red Sox ’s third baseman Will Middlebrooks tweeted, “I can’t wait to put on my jersey today ... I get to play for the strongest city out there.”

The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports — their fans fl at out de-spise each other. But on Tuesday night, the animosity between both teams was forgotten.

After the third inning in the game between the Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks , the Red Sox anthem, Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” played over the loudspeakers.

Instead of booing, the sound echoing around Yankee Stadium was the crowd singing in unison. For one night, at least, the rivalry was forgotten.

To put it in perspective, it’s like the entire crowd of Alabama fans in Bryant-Denny Stadium singing “Hey Fightin’ Tigers” at halftime. Think about that for a second.

And the Yankees’ support for Boston was just the tip of the ice-berg for the MLB .

Every stadium from Seattle to Miami played the song to re-member what happened the day before in Boston .

It was like there were 16 Fenway Parks on Tuesday night. And it gave me chills.

College sports teams also took action. Louisville wore its patriotic uniforms against Ken-tucky , and Vanderbilt wore its red, white and blue uniforms to show support for the victims of the bombings.

Even across the pond, English soccer club Arsenal sported black armbands to re-member the Boston Marathon victims.

Tragedies like the one that occurred Monday give us much more perspective. To see ath-letes and fans not care about who won on the scoreboard is refreshing.

This week has hopefully made American citizens, ath-letes and fans across the coun-try realize we’re all on the same team. And that’s what makes me honored to be an American .

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

TRAGEDIES, from page 9

Contact Micah Bedard at mbedard@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @DardDog

TENNIS

LSU prepares for South Carolina rematch

Trey LabatSports Contributor

Tigers could host NCAA regional

Contact Trey Labat at tlabat@lsureveille.com

MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior Olivier Borsos hits the ball Saturday during the Senior Day match against Arkansas in the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Tennis Stadium.

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Andrews padded her own stat sheet, collecting two RBIs on three hits and adding two stolen bases. Andrews reached base in four of her fi ve at-bats and scored three of LSU’s runs.

But Andrews and Bell weren’t the only Tigers doing damage against Allred, as all but one Tiger starter tallied a hit in the game and fi ve LSU hitters had multi-hit games.

“I thought our kids did exact-ly what they needed to do,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “They came out and scored early, took care of business and left no doubt in people’s minds.”

LSU junior pitcher Meghan Patterson pitched a complete game, striking out three Cow-girl hitters while surrendering only three hits. One of those hits came on McNeese sophomore

catcher Ashley Modzelewski’s solo home run, which accounted for the Cowgirls’ only run of the night.

Patterson effectively used a drop-ball pitch that Torina said Patterson has been developing in bullpen sessions over the last couple weeks.

The pitch forced McNeese into several ground ball outs, but Patterson said the true effective-ness of the pitch will come in three-game series when teams have to contend with her drop ball as well as senior ace pitcher Rachele Fico’s contrasting rise ball.

“[The drop ball] was defi -nitely working for me tonight,” Patterson said. “I was just focus-sing on keeping the ball down, and there was just that one time that I didn’t and she happened to hit it out. ... I’ll defi nitely use it a lot going forward.”

Patterson will have an op-portunity to test the drop ball in a series setting this weekend against No. 12 Missouri. The Tigers will follow that series with three games against No. 4 Alabama to close out its SEC home schedule.

Missouri and Alabama are the toughest back-to-back oppo-nents LSU has faced all season, and both will test LSU’s streak of not losing an SEC series all sea-son.

Regardless of the opponents that await them, Torina said the Tigers are just glad to be return-ing home after more than two weeks on the road.

SOFTBALL, from page 9

Contact Spencer Hutchinson at shutchinson@lsureveille.com

“I’m as guilty as the players, I think he just caught us off guard, the quality of his arm,” Mainieri said. “We just weren’t ready to compete against that caliber of a guy tonight.”

Despite his home run, Ibarra said the game was an off day for the LSU hitters.

“This game, we weren’t that pumped,” Ibarra said. “It’s not as exciting as an SEC game, you know?”

LSU senior left fi elder Raph Rhymes put the Tigers on the scoreboard in the third inning when he hit a pop-up to right fi eld that was dropped by Grambling right fi elder Kris Minter. The error allowed Laird and freshman short stop Alex Bregman to score LSU’s only other runs of the night.

Compensating for a slow of-fense, the LSU bullpen shined as 10 pitchers saw time on the mound. Senior pitcher Brent Bonvillain saw his fi rst start since LSU’s 11-1 win against Stephen F. Austin on March 5.

After contributing to

Arkansas’ win against LSU on Saturday, junior pitcher Will La-Marche said the loss left him with a bad taste in his mouth. He got re-demption in the fi fth inning against Grambling, delivering back-to-back strikeouts.

“I beat myself at Arkansas, [and I’m] just glad to get that in the past,” LaMarche said, referring to his bases-loaded walk at Arkansas.

The win marked LSU’s fi rst game on the freshly dubbed Skip Bertman Field, named for the leg-endary LSU baseball coach and athletic director. Earlier Wednes-day, the LSU Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an LSU Athletic Department proposal to name the fi eld.

Bertman served eight years as LSU’s athletic director after 18 years as LSU’s head coach, leading the Tigers to fi ve national champi-onships.

LSU will travel to Tuscaloosa today for a weekend series against Alabama (23-16, 8-7 SEC).

BASEBALL, from page 9

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com

LSU junior pitcher Kurt McCune (39) pitches a ball Wednesday, during the Tigers’ 4-0 victory against Grambling at Alex Box Stadium. McCune was credited with winning the game.

LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

Digital music sources like Pan-dora and Spotify have exploded in popularity over the last several years. Convenient as these sites may be, it’s often argued they lack the enduring charm and character of the classic vinyl record.

Since 2007, the third Satur-day in April has been celebrated as National Record Store Day. Record stores across the U.S. will commem-orate National Record Store Day on April 20 with events like in-store

performances, special discounts and meet-and-greets. Hundreds of artists release special records as exclusives for this event.

Local record store Atomic Pop Shop on Government Street will join in the celebration. Its event, which features live music, special give-aways, limited releases and a store-wide sale, will last from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday. This is Atomic Pop Shop’s second year hosting an event for National Record Store Day.

Store owner Kerry Beary an-ticipates long lines and a nice crowd because everything will be first

come, first serve. Atomic Pop Shop will have

plenty of limited releases this year, including Blind Melon, Black Swans, Lamb of God, Stephen Mal-kmus and Sigur Rós. Some of these releases are limited to only 250 re-cords.

Highly anticipated releases from David Bowie, Cream, The White Stripes, The Grateful Dead and The Flaming Lips will also be available. Local artists The Patsies, Secret Annexe and Clay Parker will

EntertainmentThursday, April 18, 2013 page 13

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

The Atomic Pop Shop on Government Street will participate in National Record Store Day on Saturday.

Atomic Pop Shop to celebrate National Record Store Day

MUSIC

Marie ChaneyEntertainment Writer

RECORD STORE, see page 19

With the skyrocketing number of movies being filmed and pro-duced in Louisiana in recent years and its zeal for the arts and story-telling, it’s surprising the Pelican State doesn’t have any major film festivals.

The Louisiana International Film Festival will change the status quo when it debuts today in New Orleans and concludes Sunday in Baton Rouge.

The initiative is being spear-headed by Chesley Heymsfield, executive director and founder of the festival; Jeff “The Dude” Dowd, co-artistic director; Dan Ireland, co-artistic director and film director; and many others.

Ireland said the four-day festi-val will screen more than 60 titles at six different venues in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The fest also in-cludes a multitude of workshops, parties and expos.

Heymsfield enlisted the help of Dowd and Ireland, both industry experts in their own right. Dowd is largely known for being the inspira-tion for the character “The Dude” in the Coen Brothers’ cult classic “The Big Lebowski.” He and Ireland have been in the film industry from an early age.

Ireland was one of the found-ers of the Seattle International Film Festival when he was in his early 20s. Dowd said Ireland helped transform the depressed town from the No. 44 film market in the nation to the Mecca of film festivals. Ire-land has also directed six films and helped many actresses get their start

Inaugural Louisiana International Film Festival begins tonightTaylor SchoenEntertainment Writer

The Rouge Carpet

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Dan Ireland (left) and Jeff Dowd (right) are the co-artistic directors for the Louisiana International Film Festival, which will be held today through Saturday.FILM FESTIVAL, see page 19

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Reveille Ranks

October’s Very OwnEDITOR’S PICK: Drake, “Girls Love Beyoncé”

If you sample “Say My Name” by Destiny’s Child, you damn well better do it right. Canadian bro rap king Drake tries to pull this off with his latest single, “Girls Love Beyon-cé,” but the effort mostly falls � at. Drake sounds uninspired with his nasally delivery that feels more rushed and offbeat here than usual. Even the production sounds a bit off, with soulful background cooing being drowned out by stereotypically heavy bass and Drizzy’s voice. Invoking one of Beyoncé songs, and perhaps a best hit for Destiny’s Child, comes off as gimmicky, a ploy to get tweets and top Google

search results. This isn’t helped by how underwhelmingly average “Girls Love Beyoncé” is. A note to rich attractive people: please stop complain-ing about not being able to � nd a boo you’re “really into.” No one’s convinced — just bored.

BRIAN SIBILLEEntertainment Editor

Iron and Wine’s latest album, “Ghost on Ghost,” is both a stroll down memory lane and a step forward for singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Beam said in an interview his goal for the album was to get away from the “anxious tension” of his past two albums. Bean suc-ceeded — “Ghost on Ghost” is anything but tense and anxious. Pop and smooth jazz in� uences abound, especially in the track “Lover’s Revolution,” which features a sweet saxophone solo. Leadoff track “Caught in the Briars” sets the relaxing and breezy tone for the

rest of the album. With each new album, Beam expands and layers his sound with a careful dexterity that few artists possess. However, long-time Iron and Wine fans might prefer the pared-down acoustic sound of previous albums. “Ghost on Ghost” may not have the staying power of “The Creek Drank The Cradle,” but it’s still a dreamy and ethereal ride. MARIE CHANEY

Nonesuch RecordsIron and Wine, “Ghost on Ghost”

Drawing heavily upon vocalist Patrick Stump’s solo endeav-ors, Fall Out Boy’s latest release may shock FOB loyalists. With head-scratching collaborations with artists like Court-ney Love and Elton John , the seasoned band makes a great attempt to break out of its pop-punk label and into a much more diverse genre. FOB seems to still be � guring out what ex-actly that sound is. While the

title of the record is a noble goal for the band, it is optimistic at best because it’s hard to describe the record as solely rock and roll. If this attempt from the band famous for tongue-in-cheek song titles and too-tight jeans could be described in one word, it would be “messy.”

The Island Def Jam Music GroupFall Out Boy, “Save Rock and Roll”

While inspirational sports movies tend to be a bit tiresome, “42” does a good job of telling the story of Jackie Robinson and his rise to fame. The movie offers an excellent repre-sentation of Robinson’s struggles to become a prominent baseball player during a time of adversity. The unknown Chadwick Boseman lays everything on the table in his portrayal of Robinson. Supporting actor Harrison Ford plays

the Dodgers’ manager and offers some comedic relief. The movie has more of a focus on the civil rights struggles of the 1940s than the actual sport of baseball itself, but that’s not a bad thing. Solid storylines, believable act-ing, inspirational clichés — what more could you want in a movie?

Warner Brothers“42”

Emblem3, the inexplicably popular trio of snapback-wearing West Coast douchebros from the The X Factor’s most re-cent season, has in� icted its debut single upon the world. “Chloe,” an ode to a girl with a hot sister (Khloe Kardashian, anyone?), is so aggressively terrible that it will make you recoil from your radio like it’s actually trying to kill you the � rst time you hear it. Emblem3’s entire wheelhouse seems to be shouting at different

pitches and rhythms in an attempt at what some call “singing” or “rapping.” Is it pop? Is it punk? What is that accent sup-posed to be? Why is this happening? We just don’t know. The only redeeming quality of “Chloe” is that it might be atrocious enough to never make it to the radio and send these talentless LFO-wannabes crawling back to the Billabong from whence they came. KACI YODER

Syco Music / Columbia RecordsEmblem3, “Chloe”

“Injustice: Gods Among Us” is the latest � ghting video game from NetherRealm Studios, the developer of the last “Mortal Kombat” game, and it delivers big. The game features a roster of 24 DC Comics heroes and villains, including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Joker, Flash and plenty of other iconic characters. The gameplay is similar to “Mortal Kombat” and is just as rewarding. It may not be as violent, but there are enough attacks that provide

diversity to each character so they feel unique. One of the game’s biggest highlights is story mode. While some � ghting games may deliver weak stories, if they have one at all, “Injustice” is the best in recent memory. In addition, classic modes and online and local multiplayer make this game great. For fans of DC Comics and “Mortal Kombat,” this is a game to buy. ROB KITCHEN

NetherRealm Studios“Injustice: Gods Among Us”

REBECCA DOCTER

Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers.

“The Place Beyond the Pines” is another Focus Features

production star-ring indie dar-ling Ryan Gos-ling and it tells a much more complex narra-tive than the ex-pected romantic drama the trailer portrays.

Movie-go-ers are partially right in expect-

ing a story about a new father forced to rob banks to support his son and win over his sweetheart, yes. What else would Ryan Gos-ling be doing in a heist movie op-posite his real-life girlfriend, Eva Mendes ?

However, the couple is hard-ly canoodling its way across the screen and into the audience’s hearts.

Gosling’s bad-boy act as heavily tattooed motorcycle stunt rider Luke Glanton — which came off as a somewhat lazy re-prise of his character in “Drive” — may have charmed Mendes’ Romina during their fl ing the year before, but her attention is now divided between dependable boy-friend Kofi and the needs of Glan-ton’s infant son.

It is only after Glanton’s un-surprising demise mid-escape at the hands of rookie cop Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper) that the

real story begins.The next two chapters, cen-

tered fi rst on Cooper’s charac-ter and later on the children of both men, feel as ominous as the fi rst. An uncomfortable tension is prevalent from the fi rst scene through the last.

There is an eye-catching use of parallel images to demonstrate relationships between charac-ters, like several scenes in which characters are followed from be-hind by cameras centered on their backs as they walk.

The fi rst of these introduces Glanton as a stunt rider, dress-ing on the way from his trailer to the circus tent in which he will perform on his motorcycle. This is repeated as Cooper’s charac-ter saunters through the police station, receiving congratula-tions for his heroic act in taking

down Glanton .The existentialist message of

the story is not subtle.After the midpoint of the

fi lm, it seems to drag the audience helplessly along to prove life is a run on a hamster wheel going no-where. In another trick of paral-lel imagery, the children literally take the place their fathers had taken in their youth.

So it appears the pines in the title — which is a rough English translation of the Mohawk word “Schenectady,” where the movie is set — are symbolic of turbu-lent male relationships, whether between fathers and sons or col-leagues, morally bankrupt as they may be — and Ray Liotta’s sinis-ter policeman character defi nitely was.

Above anything, the fi lm as-serted that expectations and limi-tations of the world cannot be es-caped, even in new places or roles in society — the places seemingly beyond the pines.

After all that running, audi-ences could be surprised to end the fi lm at scenes more fi tting for a prequel and without a real feel-ing of resolution.

Grade: B-

Samantha Bares is a 19-year-old English sophomore from Erath, La.

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PERFORMANCE

Connor Parsons will use his own body as a percussive instru-ment in one of many experimen-tal pieces he will be performing in a recital Monday at the French House.

Parsons, a philosophy junior, will lead and perform along with a handful of music majors in a show that focuses on modern

percussion music. All pieces in the recital were composed within the last 40 years and include vari-ous experimental aspects, such as improvisation and spontaneity.

One of the piec-es featured in the re-cital was written by percussion professor Brett William Dietz and is a response to last November’s Sandy Hook tragedy . The piece, “Sandy Hook: 20 Meditations on the Death of Children,” is for solo vibraphone and includes a dedicated move-ment for each child lost in the tragedy.

Dietz said the piece was written the week of the shooting.

In another piece called “Cor-porel,” a bare-chested Parsons will pummel himself with his hands to create a sort of man-made rhythm using only his body. “Corporel,” which means “bodily” in French , is by far the most experimental of the songs to be performed and fea-tures no traditional instruments, focusing instead on a some-what violent means of rhythmic expression.

Parsons said the piece can be shocking and somewhat un-comfortable for the audience, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“Someone needs to be there pushing buttons, someone needs to step outside of the box,”

Parsons said. Because of the sheer inten-

sity the piece demands, Parsons said he occasionally hurts himself

while practicing. Music educa-

tion junior Josh Stea-rman is perform-ing with Parsons on “Angels,” a trio for nine triangles , which was written

so that each individual perfor-mance is unique. Stearman said he looks forward to playing in the show because of the ideal acous-tics and atmosphere of the French House .

Other pieces to be played include one written for the ma-rimba, in which the stages of

grief are interpret-ed musically, as well as a piece Par-sons himself com-posed with percus-sion performance graduate Brian Bell.

Parsons said he’s inclined to

this sort of experimental mu-sic because of the possibilities it presents.

“It’s interesting because it’s different, and not so obsessed with traditional structure. It’s def-initely a little more out there,” he said.

The recital is free and open to the public.

CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

Philosophy junior Connor Parsons will use his own body as a percussive instrument Monday in a recital at the French House.

Student to honor Sandy Hook victims in percussion recital

Daniel CatalanelloEntertainment Writer

Parsons to perform at French House

Experimental Percussion Recital

Where: LSU French HouseWhen: 7:30 pm. on April 22Cost: Free

‘Someone needs to be there pushing buttons, someone needs to step

outside of the box.’ Connor Parsons

philosophy junior

Contact Daniel Catalanello at dcatalanello@lsureveille.com

CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

Philosophy junior Connor Parsons rehearses an experimental percussion piece Saturday in a practice room in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.

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Ryan Chenevert (left) and Josh Howard (right) are two 2009 LSU graduates who run the blog 2BRokeGuys, which is meant to help � nd fun, cheap things to do in Baton Rouge. Chenevert and Howard try to focus on events like marathons and outdoor activities that promote a healthy lifestyle.

Alums look for fun in Baton Rouge‘2BRokeGuys’ shows a� ordable optionsRebecca DocterEntertainment Writer

When people say there’s noth-ing to do in Baton Rouge, Ryan Chenevert likes to say it’s because “they’re boring people.”

Chenevert , along with Josh Howard , runs 2BRokeGuys , a website dedicated to fi nding ad-venturous, wallet-friendly events in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas.

“You have the idea that Baton Rouge is terrible, but it’s not true,” Chenevert said.

Baton Rouge natives and University alumni, Chenevert and Howard perfected th e art of frugal spending while in college.

“Being in college is when you learn to be broke,” Howard said.

The pair met in 2009 through Leadership LSU , a service initia-tive. They started 2BRokeGuys earlier this year.

Both avid adventure-seekers, Chenevert and Howard were al-ways searching for interesting things to do in Baton Rouge. Once they realized many others were searching as well, they began to post about their experiences, even rating them and 2BRokeGuys was then hatched.

“We wanted an alternative to simply going to bars and watching movies,” Howard said.

While Chenevert and Howard cover annual, expected programs like parades, they lean more to-ward unexpected events, and they prefer events with a local angle. For example, they compiled a list of the best thrift stores in Baton Rouge.

The duo says there is a differ-ence between being “broke” and “fi nancially responsible.” 2BRoke-Guys aims to teach Baton Rouge residents that people can have fun without breaking the bank. If some-thing that sounds exciting happens to cost money, the pair suggests volunteering at the event. One ex-ample of this is Warrior Dash .

To make their blog accessible, Chenevert and Howard rely heav-ily on social networking outlets such as Twitter , Facebook and In-stagram .

“It takes creativity to fi gure it out,” Chenevert said.

The pair also tends to focus on events that promote living a healthy lifestyle, like marathons or outdoor activities.

“We’re doing it our own way,” Chenevert said.

Contact Rebecca Docter at rdocter@lsureveille.com

As the temperature rises and the air gets heavy, top-notch style doesn’t have to come at the expense of dripping in sweat under a wool suit. Lighter fabrics can make for a breathable spring or summer look.

Casual clothing can be cool and feel cool. Finding the threads that accomplish both of these things is entirely a matter of selection.

Sweat, heat and humidity all cause great dis-comfort, so the natural response is to fi ght the heat in every way pos-sible. You may feel the need to lose layers, wear sandals — basically ex-pose as much skin as possible with-out being inappropriate. Logically, this checks out, but in practice, there are more stylish ways to fi ght the hu-midity.

Choose dark wash jeans over gym shorts, or even light-colored slacks if jeans are too heavy for your taste. Go for a pastel button-down or a thin, solid-colored shirt over a graphic tee. Always choose shoes over sandals. Running shoes typically

don’t look quite as good as some-thing understated like a loafer, but still look more better than fl ip-fl ops.

Having thin, lightly colored clothing won’t keep you entirely dry of course, so part of staying stylish in the heat will hinge on any work put in before venturing outdoors. Have an area that chafes regularly? Com-pression undergarments are light and reduce friction dramatically. Is sweat becoming an issue? In this day and age, deodorant not only blocks sweat but usually provides enough scent to replace the need for cologne.

In extreme cases, Gold Bond Medicated Body Powder or any oth-er body powder will also stop fric-tion while having a refreshing effect.

This summer, take charge and make the word “cool” take on two meanings. And whatever you do, don’t let humidity get between you and your ideal image. Dressing sharp doesn’t have to stop when the sun comes out to play.

Connor Tarter is a 21-year-old communication studies junior from Dallas.

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Check out today’s entertainment blogs at lsureveille.com:

“That Comic Book Guy” goes into detail about “Injustice: Gods Among Us.”

“Frugal Fashionista” discusses options for recreating affordable alternatives to looks from Monday’s MTV Movie Awards.

“Tech with Taylor” reviews the latest Facebook app update and shares the latest Google Glass news.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Budget cuts from Congress will soon re-duce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithson-ian Institution and will furlough U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation’s monuments.

Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough testified Tuesday in Con-gress that the museum complex must reduce its security contract for gallery attendants because of budget cuts. As a result, the Smith-sonian plans to begin rolling gal-lery closures after May 1.

Clough says the Smithsonian will likely postpone or cancel some exhibits for 2014.

The Smithsonian had to re-duce its budget by $41 million due to across-the-board cuts imposed by Congress. Separately, the Na-tional Archives saw a $20 mil-lion cut and already reduced its

operating hours.The National Park Service is

making $153 million in cuts, lead-ing to police furloughs.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Motion Picture Association of America an-nounced changes Tuesday to its movie rating system, saying the group wants to better inform par-ents about violence in films.

The new system, called the “Check the Box” campaign, will include a more prominent and de-tailed description explaining why a movie received a particular rat-ing. One example read, “An intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage, brief strong violence.”

The changes announced by MPAA CEO Christopher Dodd in Las Vegas on Tuesday come in the aftermath of explosions at the Bos-ton Marathon and recent shooting rampages, though the former U.S. senator did not address such exam-ples directly.

The White House has called on the movie industry to help parents monitor violence in the media since the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the state Dodd represented for 30 years as a Dem-ocrat until 2011. And in a sweep-ing proposal this year, President Barack Obama asked specifically for a stricter movie rating system.

Dodd announced the indus-try’s plan at the annual movie-theater convention, CinemaCon, and spoke generally about the need to help parents “so they can make

the best choices about what movies are appropriate for their children to watch.”

The plan stated, “The enter-tainment and video game industries have a responsibility to give parents tools and choices about the movies and programs their children watch and the games their children play.”

Also, Dodd listed several types of content the new campaign might highlight, including violence, crude humor and thematic elements.

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perform at the event.The yearly “mystery release”

record is another highly anticipated pick. These records are limited re-leases and can only be purchased by independent record stores. Beary ordered 15 of the 5,000 mystery re-cords, and she estimates they will cost between $12 and $18.

Beary’s passion for records led her to start Atomic Pop Shop almost two years ago. She believes Baton Rouge has a particular sort of customer — a customer she wants to target.

“They know what they want, they want music they can dance to … music they can make memories to,” she said.

Sociology junior Taylor Merrill said she loves records because they take her back in time.

“My records take me back to the mid-’60s — a time I wasn’t able to experience,” Merrill said. “The sound of music on vinyl is pure and perfect — it can break your heart.”

RECORD STORE, from page 13

in the industry, including big names like Renée Zellweger and Jessica Chastain .

The festival boasts nearly ev-ery type of movie: documentary, short fi lm, black-and-white, foreign, anime, drama, thriller, comedy, sci-ence fi ction and more.

“What I would suggest to ev-erybody is to go on the website, look at some of the descrip-tions and then look at the trail-ers,” Dowd said. “We’re laying out a buffet. When you go to a buffet, some folks like the shrimp and some folks don’t like the shrimp. So go check out our buffet online. … We’ve got great fi lms across the board for every audience.”

Many of the fi lms fall under a Louisiana-type theme that includes francophone fi lms (“Renoir,” “In the House” ), music-related cinema (“The Savoy King,” “Unfi nished Song [Song for Marion]” ) and a

variety of environmental fi lms (“Ferngully: The Last Rainforest,” “The East” ) for Earth Day on Sun-day.

Ireland said another special feature will be a midnight screening Friday night at the Union Theater of a documentary named “Room 237,” which delves into the twisted world of Stanley Kubrick and theories surrounding his horror classic “The Shining.”

To follow up “Room 237,” a digitally restored screening of “The Shining” will play Saturday night.

Dowd and Ireland have lent their expertise to LIFF and hope to transform the Louisiana com-

munity into a thriving fi lm center for the next generation of fi lm cre-ators.

Heymsfi eld said the inaugural fest has two components: one is the actual screening of the fi lms and the other is a mentorship program, which is essentially an opportunity to help fl edgling fi lmmakers network with

industry professionals. “The genesis behind starting

the fi lm festival was in order to help connect new fi lmmakers who are up and coming with fi lmmakers who are veterans in the industry in order to share information, knowledge and resources,” Heymsfi eld said.

Heysmfi eld said this pro-gram is the fi rst of its kind in the state, and its long-term goal is to give people fi rst-hand experi-ence by getting them on the set, in the development process or the post-production environment.

Heysmfi eld suggested an opportunity for connections will begin at 8 p.m. Friday at the Film-maker Reception , hosted at the Old State Capitol .

She said the reception will host various fi lmmakers, live music by pianist Henry Gray and a photo ex-hibit called “1963,” featuring pho-tos focusing on a retrospective look at the civil rights era . The reception is free for students with a University ID.

A full schedule of the fi lms and events, tickets, times

and venues can be found at liff2013.com .

Tune in to 91.1 KLSU at 4:20 and 5:20 p.m. for

more information on the Louisiana International

Film Festival.Watch an interview with Dan Ireland and

Jeff “The Dude” Dowd discussing the Louisiana International Film Festival at lsureveille.com.

Contact Taylor Schoen at tschoen@lsureveille.com

photos by MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

Select records at The Atomic Pop Shop on Government Street will only be on sale on National Record Store Day on Saturday.

Contact Marie Chaney at mchaney@lsureveille.com

FILM FESTIVAL, from page 13

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In last year’s session at the Louisiana legislature, Gov. Bob-by Jindal cut the Council for the Development of French in Loui-siana’s budget by $100,000, say-ing the organization “has been adequately funded.”

Even though the language is making a strong comeback after skipping the better part of three generations, that was a tough licking on CODOFIL and the rest of Louisianians pushing for continued proliferation of French language and culture in Louisi-ana.

But the people answered with a festival last fall.

Lâche Pas — “don’t let go” — was a festival held in Lafay-ette to raise the funds cut by the governor. Yes, it would have been sweet to one-up the governor and raise more; unfortunately, the festival fell short, raising a meek $90,000.

Although Lâche Pas was a success and a great time, CODO-FIL cannot continue to rely on the Sunday afternoon fais do-do to raise that much money every year. However, two state repre-sentatives have come up with a

rather nifty bit of legislation to help fund the critical organiza-tion.

Earlier this month, two state lawmakers, Rep. Mike Huval (R-Breaux Bridge) and Sen. Fred Mills (R-Parks) proposed two state legislative bills, which would create a new option for people to claim their “Cajunity” on their driver’s licenses and li-cense plates.

The backbone of this sweet little piece of proposed legislation is that it will be raising money to support the efforts of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana. People in Louisiana will not only be able to tout their roots, but the money raised will go to the recruiting and training of French teachers.

An annual fee of $15 will be issued to Cajuns who wish to tag their whips with “I’m Cajun…and proud” plates, and the op-tion to purchase a four-year $20 license, or pay an annual fee of $5 will be available to those who wish to dress up their state ID with the gentle reminder.

Huval, the representative who introduced the legislation , was quoted in The Advocate say-ing, “Cajun is hot a item.”

I could not agree more. People love Cajuns, and Ca-

juns love to be Cajun. Our “exot-ic” way of life seems to always be of great curiosity and a must-see, must-do experience to outsiders.

Despite some Vermontonian research I criticized this past February, Louisiana pride is on the rise and so is the Cajun beat.

Our little swampy section of paradise has been getting some good helpings of positive regional and national attention. Two instances in Southern pub-lications: Last year, Southern Living deemed Lafayette the South’s Tastiest Town, and Baton Rouge was recently showcased

in Garden and Gun. Not to men-tion the music and various musi-cians pumped out of the bayous have been shuffling les pieds des étrangers since the 1960s.

It should be understood the word “Cajun” encompasses a broader demographic than one may suppose. Typically,

people are inclined to believe that “Acadian” and “Cajun” are synonymous, and they are. How-ever, a quote from Dr. William Arceneaux, president of CODO-FIL, should clarify:

“All Acadians are Cajun, but not all Cajuns are Acadian.”

Acadians are the original people and their descendants who suffered exile from Nova Scotia in Le Grand Dérangement. Ca-juns are more or less the people who embraced the lifestyle and culture that has been cultivated by the Acadians, Creoles and the land of Louisiana.

So maybe I can only wish that my surname ended in a cool “eaux,” maybe I am only one-16th Acadian and perhaps I don’t fit the stereotype. But you don’t have to be born in Atchafalaya mud or have grown up in a house with that peculiar ladder on the front porch to be considered Ca-jun.

Even though I may only be the one-16th Acadian, there was a time, to quote Mark Twain, when that “one-16th out-voted the oth-er 15-16ths.”

If this legislation passes, I’ll at least be getting a new driver’s license.

Chris Ortte is 22-year-old political science senior from Lafayette.

Contact Chris Ortte at cortte@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_chrisortte

I have a confession to make. My name is Seth Medvin and I have never committed a single hour of community service in my life. I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I swear, I’m not alone.

There are many just like me who have always been envious of those who spend time giving back to the less fortunate. We’ve always been too busy, or too lazy

to go out of our way to volunteer. We like to come up with excuses or just ignore this problem all to-gether.

During my last semester at LSU, I have been fortunate enough to discover a way out of this sorry predicament. Louisi-anaGives.com is an online com-munity marketplace that gives money back to nonprofit organi-zations through online shopping. Over 150 nonprofit organizations can benefit from simply shopping online through over 230 stores.

The first step is to log onto Louisiana Gives and begin online shopping. Students in class right now reading this, I’m talking to you because I know you’re about

to open your laptop anyway. Here is how Louisiana Gives

works:When a purchase is made at

any of the online stores featured on Louisiana Gives, the online store pays Louisiana Gives a commission for the reference to the store. The revenues generated by these commissions are then distributed to the nonprofit orga-nization of choice.

Participants may choose the non-profit to benefit from each purchase by clicking the par-ticular organization on the par-ticipating organizations/causes page. Thereafter, all of purchases through Louisiana Gives will be credited to the organization of

choice. Causes may be changed at any time and no additional fees will be incurred through online shopping.

I must admit that the only rea-son I stumbled upon this remedy was through my public relations Capstone course, which placed me within a team of students tasked with handling the public-ity for a nonprofit organization. Luckily for me, Louisiana Gives is our client and I have been moti-vated to take action.

When I realized how easy it can be to give back to the less for-tunate people in this state without sacrificing any additional income (let’s be real, I’m still in college), I immediately had one of those

light bulb on top of the head mo-ments.

This opportunity is perfect for people just like me and for those who have avoided commu-nity service. My only challenge to you is to come up with an ex-cuse why you won’t be shopping on LouisianaGives.com in the future, because I know a reason simply does not exist.

Seth Medvin,mass communication senior

Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at

opinion@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_opinion

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Cashing in on CajunCajun culture needs preservation

THE TRADITIONALISTCHRIS ORTTEColumnist

Louisiana Gives o�ers unique opportunities

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As a college student studying to become part of the working world, choosing to be a teacher is not an op-tion that jumps out for any typical, attractive reasons.

The hours are long, it’s not particularly good pay and it means remaining part of the same system from kindergarten until retirement.

Teachers aren’t in it for the money, they’re in it because they have a passion. The nation’s policy-makers should do everything they can to facilitate that, instead of judg-ing accomplishment by a misman-aged educational yardstick, as in the system supported by Louisiana.

In a rare public appearance in his home state on Wednesday, Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke in an education forum with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other edu-cational and business leaders, both touting merit pay for teachers as a way to improve the K-12 system.

Maybe this would be true in a perfect world. Considering Louisi-ana, and even the United States, is

not part of an ideal educational situa-tion, the idea of merit pay is useless.

Paying teachers based on stan-dardized testing scores compared with schools across the nation is not an acceptable way to improve the system.

Above all, the U.S. is based on the idea that anyone can make something of himself or herself, and

education is key to that effort. Following that idea, schooling

should be the matter of most impor-tance to everyone.

This is not an overreaction.We all attended school, whether

public, private or home-school — we all have the advantages modern education provided us.

We also know from this

education, and all the options af-forded, everyone’s situation is not the same.

Students and school districts all have different circumstances, wheth-er it be a school-positive family at-mosphere or state funding, and ac-cording to multiple journal articles, these are integral parts of the educa-tion equation.

Teachers can only do so much.They already do so much. Ask

an average K-12 teacher in an Amer-ican school about his or her day, and it will most likely start before dawn and end after dusk.

Asking teachers — especially those in under-resourced schools that typically score lower on standard-ized tests — to do more and be paid less is ridiculous.

The argument here is that no one hates teachers; our appreciation for them only goes so far.

Public policy needs to echo this sentiment because right now, what we show teachers is not up to par with what we show champions of our free enterprise economic sys-tem, men and women who achieved so highly, coincidentally, because of phenomenal teachers. Whether pre-k, middle school or university, someone taught them how to read, how to think critically and how to

run numbers.If we continue further down the

road in the direction we’re headed, the nation would see a continuation of current patterns.

Those include worse burnout of new teachers at younger ages, a migration of the highest-qualified teachers to comfortable suburban or private school jobs and disintegra-tion of the system.

If the United States still wants to harbor beliefs about being the nation of up-and-coming greatness, Jindal and Rice — as well as other policy-makers — need to refocus their at-tention on students.

Create tutoring programs and help them be the best-prepared stu-dents they can be for the classroom environment that passionate teachers provide.

Facilitate the passion, and just let teachers do what they do best.

Not paperwork, not proctor-ing ridiculous standardized tests — teaching.

Megan Dunbar is a 19-year-old English junior from Greenville, S.C.

Stop merit pay policies, let teachers be teachersSHUT UP, MEGMEGAN DUNBARColumnist

Contact Megan Dunbar at mdunbar@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_MDunbar

Technology moves at the blink of an eye.

Computers now stand in for typewriters, film has been replaced with digital imagery and even our phones do much more than make calls.

It only makes sense for our money to go from dollars and cents to bits and bytes.

Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 by a pseudonymous developer (or developers) named Sa-toshi Nakamoto to serve as a tool for peer-to-peer transactions over the In-ternet. They are largely transparent, are based on cryptography and, as of this writing, are worth $81 a coin. At this moment, they are probably being used to buy anything from a new T-shirt to black market LSD.

However, Bitcoin’s greatest draw, its most significant sociologi-cal impact, comes from its decentral-ized nature.

Bitcoin is based on a decentral-ized network of “miners” who add new coins to the market and facili-tate transactions between individu-als. Yet, all you need to be a Bitcoin miner is to download a computation-ally intensive application and run it on your hardware.

These miners ensure that indi-viduals can exchange the currency among one another without the need

for a central authority like a bank and with limited transaction fees. They also maintain records of transactions stored in a public database called the block chain, allowing users to dis-cern trustworthy from untrustworthy transactions and researchers to keep tabs on the Bitcoin marketplace.

Bitcoins, therefore, provide a means of exchange free from the oversight of banks that can be sim-ply done with only your computer or smartphone.

The currency’s open-source nature and relative anonymity also make it a favored currency for those concerned about their privacy – es-pecially those looking to purchase illegal materials, such as drugs and other black market items.

With such a limited barrier-of-entry, Bitcoin’s influence has spread out, allowing the currency to become a potential investment for many.

Early Bitcoin miners potentially made a killing off their investment. At the beginning of this year, al-ready four years past their creation, Bitcoins were only worth about $20. With current prices already four times greater than that, the gains made on an early Bitcoin investment must be impressive.

However, there are still some downsides to the currency.

First, mining requires far too much computational power. As more coins are created, it becomes more difficult to mine the coins, requir-ing increasingly powerful comput-ers. This can create an environment in which an elite group, comprised of those wealthy enough to afford

sufficiently powerful machines, be-come the top class in the Bitcoin market.

It’s also possible Bitcoins will be hoarded instead of exchanged as people hope to capitalize on their in-vestment.

Second, it is frighteningly vola-tile.

After climbing to a peak value of $260 last week, Bitcoins lost about 40 percent of their value in one day, crashing to around $160. And this isn’t the first time the currency has crashed.

Similar crashes occurred in 2011 and 2012, and the currency

didn’t reach its pre-crash peak again until 2013.

Without a bank, Bitcoins also have no insurance for their value. Losing your password or having your computer hacked could entail losing more money than you ever feared.

Third, it isn’t widely used — yet.

Certain websites, such as Word-Press and Reddit, accept Bitcoins as currency, but these are few and far between. The vast majority of retail-ers do not deal in Bitcoins leaving the currency fairly useless.

Whether Bitcoins take off, or

cause a bubble, remains to be seen.However, Bitcoins are an in-

triguing experiment in the possibili-ties provided by digital tools, and in an age of too-big-to-fail banks, they offer a more autonomous, decentral-ized means of exchange.

David Scheuermann is a 21-year-old mass communication and computer science junior from Kenner.

MANUFACTURING DISCONTENTDAVID SCHEUERMANNColumnist

Contact David Scheuermann at dscheuermann@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @TDR_dscheu

LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

Gov. Bobby Jindal discusses education reform Wednesday at the 2013 Louisiana Education Excellence Summit held in the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Bitcoin’s value, future uncertain because of volatility

RICK BOWMER / The Associated Press

Software engineer Mike Caldwell holds a 25 Bitcoin token April 3 at his shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of Bitcoins, as the currency propels from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use.

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