University students will have the opportunity to hear ideas from their peers on March 9 at TEDxLSU.

Two groups of Uni-versity students will pres-ent their ideas to the Baton Rouge community.

Music graduate stu-dents William Conlin and Nick Hwang will present a collaboration of ideas about

music and performance fol-lowing the “evolve” theme for the event.

Advertising senior Kris-ten Hinton and landscape ar-chitecture graduate student Prentiss Darden will present on behalf of the University’s Create Lab, a team of Uni-versity students that aims to fi nd digital solutions in an ever-evolving media world.

Conlin and Hwang collaborate with other art-ists as much as possible and

often work with different art mediums, sometimes creat-ing their own instruments.

The duo met a year and a half ago and decided to ap-ply as a duo for TEDxLSU.

“We felt it would cre-ate a stronger presentation,” said Conlin. “We do some things we don’t really see a whole lot. We do some unusual things.”

Hwang said not many

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A forest fi re protection and use course may sound boring — that is, until it’s revealed that its 10 students get to start fi res for a grade.

Niels de Hoop, professor in the Louisiana Forest Products Develop-ment Center at the LSU AgCenter, said students in his RNR 4032 class learn not only about preventing for-est fi res, but also how to use fi re as a forestry tool. Prescribed burns can be used to remove competing veg-etation, underbrush that blocks wild-life habitats and food and excess fuel material that can ignite during dry weather.

De Hoop’s course lasts eight weeks, during which students typi-cally conduct one to two prescribed burns at the Bob R. Jones-Idlewild research station in Clinton. Pre-scribed burns generally cover a 10-to-20-acre stand of trees, de Hoop said.

“There’s several fi ring tech-niques that you can use,” de Hoop said. “Some are hotter than others, some burn slower than others.”

Days with relatively low humid-ity and 9 mph winds from the north are ideal for burning, de Hoop said. It is also important to determine how high the smoke will rise and whether it will blow away or smoke the area

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Students gain hands-on forestry experience while conducting prescribed burns

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[Left] Charles Pell, forestry senior, watches the � re Thursday at the Bob R. Jones Idlewild Research Station in Clinton, La. [Top right] Niels de Hoop (right), RNR 4032 professor, and his students watch the � re burn. [Bottom right] A � re line, set by the students, burns its way into the grass. The program teaches not only how to prevent � res, but also how to use them as tools.FIRES, see page 4 FALSE CRIMES, see page 11

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The LSU Police Department has experienced a recent spike in falsely reported crimes, according to LSUPD Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.

During the 2012-13 school year, four students have made up crimes and called them in to LSUPD, Lalonde said.

“There have been occurrences of false reports in the past, but it spiked up this year,” Lalonde said. “In the past, they were rare and in-frequent.”

The crimes crafted by the students were all armed robbery, Lalonde said.

“It is a crime to falsely report,” Lalonde said. “It is criminal mischief and can have a $500 fi ne and/or up to six months in prison.”

Last semester, a student told LSUPD he was robbed at knife-point by Kirby Smith, but later told police he fabricated the story to prank his friends, Lalonde said.

On another occasion, a student

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Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has ‘friend for life’

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out Thursday with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on the third day of his im-probable journey to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later dining on sushi and drinking with him at his palace.

“You have a friend for life,” Rodman told Kim before a crowd of thousands at a gymnasium where they sat side by side, chatting as they watched players from North Korea and the U.S. play.

Benedict’s reign as pope ends; Swiss Guards end protection duties

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Benedict XVI left the Catholic Church in unprecedented limbo Thursday as he became the first pope in 600 years to resign, cap-ping a tearful day of farewells that included an extraordinary pledge of obedience to his successor.

As bells tolled, two Swiss Guards standing at attention at the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo shut the thick wooden doors shortly after 8 p.m., symbolically closing out a papacy whose legacy will be most marked by the way it ended — a resignation instead of a death.

Livestrong Foundation to persevere after Armstrong drug admission

CHICAGO (AP) — Leaders of the cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong struck a determined, sometimes defiant tone on Thurs-day as they declared the organiza-tion will persevere in the wake of the cyclist’s admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

“I am on safe ground to say that the past year did not go as planned,” Livestrong’s executive vice president Andy Miller said at The Livestrong Foundation’s an-nual meeting in Chicago. “Things happen that we cannot control — cancer has taught us that. What do we do? We adapt.”

U.S. army private pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case, faces 20 years

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Bradley Manning, the Army pri-vate arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. his-tory, pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American mili-tary’s “bloodlust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military prosecutors said they plan to move forward with a court-martial on the 12 remaining charges against him.

(AP) — Louisiana’s state education superintendent has offered local school boards a new proposal to pay for the statewide voucher program. But the leader of the school boards association, which is suing the state over the issue, has rejected the pro-posed financing idea.

A state district judge said Loui-siana unconstitutionally paid for the voucher program through the public school funding formula.

White said Thursday that he’s offered a reworking of the vouch-er funding to school districts that would sidestep the funding formula. But the plan would still use the dol-lars that flow through it.

Ex-teacher sentenced to at least four months for bomb threats

MONROE (AP) — A former teacher who made bomb threats against three Ouachita Parish schools will serve at least four months in jail.

David Reyna was sentenced in state district court in Monroe on Thursday. Judge Stephens Winters sentenced Reyna to 65 months of hard labor with all but 20 months suspended. The News-Star reports that Reyna could be eligible for parole in four months.

Japanese nuclear plant disaster results in small cancer risk increase

LONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan’s nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won’t be detect-able.

In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percent-age point added to a Japanese in-fant’s lifetime cancer risk.

The report was issued by the World Health Organization.

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The family of two young boys killed in an apparent-murder suicide — and state police — said Thursday they want to know why the boys’ grand-mother, with an apparent history of mental health problems, had access to the revolver used in the shoot-ing.

The shooting has added urgen-cy to a legislative review of access to guns that is already under way in Connecticut, where a troubled 20-year-old man gunned down 26 people, including 20 first-graders.

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Members of the Transition Advisory Team’s Academic sub-committee expressed concerns and hopes about the University retain-ing its fl agship status and autonomy Wednesday during a committee meeting to discuss the LSU System reorganization .

The Transition Advisory Team is undertaking the reorganization of the LSU System , which LSU Sys-tem Interim President and Chancel-lor William “Bill” Jenkins said is a necessity as funding is cut and the

structure of higher education chang-es.

Microbiology junior and sub-committee member Charles Lewis said many students are concerned about preserving the LSU Baton Rouge campus as the fl agship insti-tution.

“As students, we’re scared about losing the value of our degree. We’re afraid of the resources we have here at LSU being allocated to other places and losing them,” Lew-is said. “The fl agship can help other campuses, but how will the other campuses help us?”

Thomas Rodgers, mass communication senior and director of Academic Affairs for Student Government, said the University has an opportunity to increase online learning.

“I’m from Mississippi, and when I came here, I was shocked at the lack of online courses. I defi nite-ly see opportunities for students in Shreveport to take classes offered by a professor in Baton Rouge,” Rodg-ers said.

Jenkins said he is concerned with online learning. He said he is worried that a degree from an online college will be equated with a de-gree from universities like LSU.

Many of the representatives of other LSU System campuses said they are concerned about maintain-ing autonomy while also working collaboratively.

“We would like the opportunity to share resources. We have some things we can offer the other schools in the system,” said Ellen Stutes, as-sociate professor of mathematics at

LSU-Eunice . “But we have concerns about the autonomy and governance of our campus. How will it be struc-tured? Who will be in charge?”

William Corbett, Paul M. He-bert Law Center professor, said the Law Center considers itself part of LSU, but does not want to get lost in the mix and change what makes it nationally competitive.

“Our curriculum is different [from other law schools]. We do things that others do not,” Corbett said. “We are concerned as a campus about autonomy and authority in ar-eas of tuition, faculty, admissions.”

Faculty Senate President Kev-in Cope said they need to evaluate what it means to be a comprehensive university.

“What are we going to do where?” Cope asked. “We are a

comprehensive university, but may-be not comprehensive in one place.”

Stacie Haynie, a political sci-ence professor, said collaboration is key.

“We change lives with what we do. We all work with incredibly ded-icated faculty, bright students and hardworking staff,” Haynie said. “It’s the collaboration of those indi-viduals that will allow us to resolve our issues.”

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University faculty and students have expressed enthusiasm and some doubts regarding the details for proposed justice system reforms.

Last week, Gov. Bobby Jindal presented three pieces of legislation regarding Louisiana’s criminal jus-tice system. According to Jindal’s news release, one bill plans to grow the state’s Drug Court program for adults and juveniles and to give early release to nonviolent fi rst- and second-time drug offenders if they complete a detox program.

Professor of research and di-rector of the offi ce of Social Service Research and Development Cecile Guin said the detox is a medical process for those who are addicted to get off of illegal drugs.

Guin said the process is ef-fective and necessary, but an

expensive method.“I’d like to know who is going

to pay for it,” Guin said.Associate professor in the

School of Social Work Juan J. Bar-thelemy said incarceration often has more negative effects.

“The likelihood of someone being incarcerated again is in-creased once they have been in the system,” Barthelemy said. “If you incarcerate someone, you decrease their chances of them productively participating in society.”

Guin said other states have been reducing costs by reducing incarceration and targeting specifi c problems like mental illness and substance abuse.

“Treatment and keeping some-one out of the jail is the cheapest solution to the program,” Guin said. “Drug court programs are very ef-fective and always have been.”

Barthelemy regarded the

fi rst- and second-time offender and drug courts as a type of effective prevention to greater problems.

“If we are able to allocate re-sources on prevention as opposed to intervention, you spend a lot less money on the front end than what you would on the back end,” Bar-thelemy said.

In a drug court, an offender has a brief screening where a profes-sional diagnoses his or her problem, someone would develop a case plan for him or her and then the drug court offender meets with a judge regularly depending on the plan, Guin said.

“It is very effective for drug of-fenders, instead of sending them to jail. You deal with their problems in a progressive manner,” Guin said.

Guin said the main prob-lem is paying for these programs, while Barthelemy said the legisla-tion has a hole. He questioned if

someone was arrested and complet-ed treatment if their arrest record would remain on their record.

“There is no indication that there is any money to put into this,” Guin said. “The Department of Cor-rections has to spend the money, and it’s better equipped to provide mental and substance abuse care inside the parish, but the local pro-grams are just in lack of money.”

Chemical engineering sopho-more Wyatt Ferguson agreed with the potential legislation.

“Turn ‘em loose. It would save the government a lot of money. If you put all the money you save and give it to education, you can save the state a lot of money,” Ferguson said.

In regard to younger adults with fi rst- and second-time drug offens-es, Barthelemy said the legislation will help law enforcement ensure the offenders complete the program

and help young people get their lives on track.

Guin said most research shows the adult brain isn’t developed until age 25, so while college-age offend-ers are legally adults, they are not psychologically developed and this early on, “anything is better than jail.”

Ferguson said law enforce-ment should change its strategies and give tickets instead of arresting fi rst-time offenders.

“They should start giving tick-ets because police offi cers have a lot of bigger crimes in this area to worry about,” Ferguson said.

He said he knows several stu-dents who would benefi t from an early release policy.

in, he said.Forestry and natural resources

ecology and management junior Kasie Dugas and forestry senior Dexter Courville said although the course is fun, its value lies in the hands-on experience.

“The class is a good tool to teach you the do’s and don’ts of burning and land management,” Courville said.

Courville said every burn and every stand is different, making for a unique class.

“Cool guys walk away from fl ames,” said Charles Pell, forestry senior. “We walk through them.”

Because the class only has a couple of chances to do prescribed burns, conditions are not always exactly right, Dugas said. Still, the practical experience gives students the discretion necessary in the indus-try to know when might be a better day to burn, she said.

Dugas said when she and her classmates fi nish the course, they will be certifi ed to conduct pre-scribed burns.

“Once we’re done with the class, we’re pretty much going to know what we need to do and not to do and people can trust us,” Dugas said.

De Hoop said Louisiana has a lot of wildfi res, with most ranging in size from 30 to 100 acres. They are

small when compared to the “spec-tacular fi res” seen in the American West, he said.

Louisiana’s rainy weather and humidity keeps the risk of fi re low, de Hoop said. On the other hand, the humidity is much lower in the dry in-termountain West where wildfi res of-ten ignite.

De Hoop said because the need in the West is nor-mally to suppress fi re rather than prevent it, underbrush and excess fuels collect in some for-ests, creating a hazard.

“You see stands that are grown up that are just sort of tinder boxes waiting to happen almost explosive-ly, so they’re trying to institute some prescribed burning and fuel reduc-tion,” he said.

But, fuel reduction operations that remove excess branches and limbs are not always economical in the West, de Hoop said.

“It’s very tough for them be-cause there’s not nearly as many sawmills and paper mills in the inter-mountain West anymore that are able to take this material,” de Hoop said.

By contrast, timber makes up half of Louisiana’s agricultural in-dustry and forestry is the No. 4 em-ployer in the state, he said.

Forestry management is impor-tant in Louisiana for a number of

reasons, de Hoop said. One is to pro-tect people who live in wooded areas and their structures.

“We have a lot of people that live scattered throughout the woods nowadays, so the reason to put them

out has become more intense than in the past,” de Hoop said.

De Hoop said excess materials, such as dead trees and leaves, tend to rot because of Loui-

siana’s high humidity, so it is not dry enough to burn. Despite the high rot-ting rate, Louisiana also has a high growth rate that maintains a steady supply of biomass, he said.

“When we do get these dry pe-riods, typically late summer into the fall, we have a lot of material there that can catch fi re that’s now dry enough,” de Hoop said.

Southern pine forests have evolved with fi re, de Hoop said, making the trees fl ame-resistant. Be-cause of this, forests in the South are ideal for using prescribed burns to remove underbrush and other excess materials.

However, many foresters in Louisiana fear liability lawsuits and refuse to conduct prescribed burns, de Hoop said. Smoke management is often their main concern, he said.

“If you’re burning and the wind changes and now you’ve smoked in a local town or a local hospital

or a local nursing home, or you’ve got somebody in a house nearby ... and [he or she] can’t breathe very well in the fi rst place and now you’re smoking them in, you’ve got a big liability situation,” de Hoop said.

De Hoop said liability concerns have “prevented a lot of prescribed burning from happening that from a forestry standpoint really needed to happen.”

De Hoop said fi re is a tricky but effective tool — and only one of many that foresters use to manage land.

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through them.’ Charles Pellforestry senior

It was a Senior Night to remember for LSU guards Adrienne Webb and Bianca Lu-tley as the LSU women’s basketball team won its fi fth -straight game Thursday with a 76-42 rout against Alabama to further secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

Webb led the Lady Tigers with a game-high 21 points in her fi nal regular-season game in the PMAC. Lutley also had a big game, fi nishing with 12 points and six re-bounds .

“You always want to go out with a bang, and it just so happens we went out with a really big bang in our Senior Night,” Webb said. “... The support we’ve had the past four

years has been amazing, and to have the crowd that we did tonight is a great way for us to go out.”

The Lady Tigers (18-10, 9-6 Southeast-ern Conference ) didn’t waste time against the Crimson Tide (12-16, 2-13 SEC ), scor-ing the fi rst 13 points of the game.

The primary focus of the LSU men’s basketball team will be slowing down Missouri junior guard Phil Pressey when the Ti-gers travel to Columbia, Mo., for a rematch with Missouri on Sat-urday afternoon .

The Tigers (17-9, 8-7 South-eastern Conference) are one month removed from their 73-70 victory against Missouri (19-8, 8-6 SEC) in the PMAC .

Missouri was ranked No. 17 at the time , and the victory stands as a signature win for the Tigers.

LSU nearly blew a 16-point lead in the fi rst matchup , with Pressey taking over the game with 25 points . LSU sopho-more guard Antho-ny Hickey dueled Pressey throughout the night, and he fi n-ished with 20 points as LSU was able to close out the victory with late free throws.

“I thought in the second half, [Pressey] kind of took over the

game,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones . “He played extremely

well. When we had a lead, he was the reason that they got back in it, because of some of the plays that he made. As a player, when you have a guy who’s that explo-sive, the only thing you want to do is try and contain him. You know he’s going to score and make big plays.”

Hickey , who leads the na-tion in steals with 3.3 per game ,

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LSU sophomore guard Anthony Hickey dribbles past Missouri junior guard Phil Pressey on Jan. 30 during the Tigers’ 73-70 win against Mizzou in the PMAC.

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Containing Pressey key in rematch

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THE CHAMPIONSOUNDALEX CASSARADeputy Sports Editor

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[Left] LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb (10) moves the ball past Alabama freshman guard Emily Davis (4) Thursday during the Tigers’ 76-42 victory against the Crimson Tide. [Above] LSU senior guard Bianca Lutley (3) moves the ball past Alabama defenders.

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LSU attempts to sweep Missouri

Sam Montgomery was at it again last Saturday , doing what he does best (besides devouring quarterbacks for dinner): speak-ing the truth.

Only this time, what the former LSU defensive end had to say was not what most people, certainly not Tiger fans or NFL general managers, wanted to hear.

Speaking to the media during what amounts to a days-long job interview at the NFL Scouting Combine last weekend, Montgomery acknowledged he played at less than 100-percent effort against less-talented teams.

“You know, some weeks when we didn’t have to play the harder teams, there were some times when effort was not need-ed,” Montgomery said. “But when we had the big boys coming in — the ’Bamas or the South Carolinas — I grabbed close to those guys and went all out.”

Hold on a second here. So you’re tell-ing me, Sam , that you didn’t play as hard against the Towson Tigers of the Colonial Athletic Association as you did against reigning BCS National Champion Ala-bama? You don’t say?

Anyone who watched that Towson game, or any LSU game before the Florida loss, didn’t need Montgomery to vocalize a lack of effort.

It was evident. But of course, it sends a red fl ag to future employers looking to spend millions of dollars for his abilities.

Montgomery has always been honest, and it’s something I appreciate. Too many athletes and coaches these days give the stock answer, or the company spin, to avoid

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Montgomery comments come as no surprise

Seniors Shine

With only two weekends of nonconference play remaining for the No. 9 LSU baseball squad, the Tigers’ coaching staff is mak-ing a change to the rotation before the team’s weekend series against Brown and Nicholls State.

Senior left-hander Brent Bonvil-lain and sophomore southpaw Cody Glenn have been battling for the No. 3 rotation slot and Sunday start against Nicholls State. LSU coach Paul Mainieri chose the younger lefty to fill the role after Glenn threw seven innings of shutout ball against Louisiana-Lafayette on the road Tuesday night.

“It was a remarkable perfor-mance by him,” Mainieri said. “Not just that he pitched seven innings of shutout baseball on three hits, he did it on 69 pitches. It was a cool eve-ning, so he hardly even worked up a sweat. I would really like to ... turn him around and start him on Sunday of this coming weekend.”

Bonvillain will be moved to the bullpen during the weekend series after struggling late in his previous start against Brigham Young Uni-versity. Mainieri also wants to avoid pitching the senior against the school from which he transferred.

“Brent transferred here from Nicholls State, and it is a personal philosophy of mine not to pitch someone against the school they transferred from,” Mainieri said. “I think that would become the head-line of the game, and I don’t want to give it that much attention. I don’t want to rekindle those thoughts.”

When the Tigers welcome Brown today and Saturday, they will be seeing a squad that hasn’t touched a diamond in an official game in 2013. The Bears had a poor 2012 campaign, going 9-35.

LSU senior first baseman Ma-son Katz doesn’t intend to take them lightly, though.

“We don’t try to play different based on the other team, we just play within our own capabilities,” he said. “On the weekend, we ride our two big horses on the mound and try to score runs as quickly as possible to bring the other team’s morale down. That is how we’re built, and we play to our strengths.”

Nicholls State arrives in Baton Rouge with a little more success. The

Colonels are 6-3 heading into the weekend series, as they’ve won three of four games after taking a series against Towson and squeaking out a victory versus Tulane.

The Colonels will have to en-dure a Tiger offense that has heated up as of late, as LSU has scored 24 runs in the past two games.

“Everybody is just starting to settle in,” said senior left fielder Raph Rhymes. “Everybody is starting to get some confidence, and I think the numbers we’ve put up show the kind of lineup we can be.”

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LSU senior pitcher Brent Bonvillain (49) pitches Feb. 17 during a 14-3 victory against Maryland at Alex Box Stadium. Bonvillain transferred to LSU from Nicholls State but probably won’t see the �eld against his former team.

Alabama was able to chip away at the early defi cit, dimin-ishing it to fi ve points midway through the fi rst half. But LSU out-scored the Crimson Tide 22-7 for the remainder of the period to head into the locker room with a 39-19 lead .

LSU struggled shooting from the fi eld in the fi rst half, but made up for it by securing 16-for-18 from the charity stripe and out-rebounding Alabama 32-19 .

“We talk about playing ‘LSU basketball’ no matter who our op-ponent is, and I think we did that today,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell . “... We didn’t shoot the ball extremely well, but we got all over the offensive glass and drove the ball inside to get ourselves to the free-throw line.”

The bludgeoning continued in the second half, when LSU out-scored Alabama 37-23 .

LSU freshman guard Danielle Ballard fi nished with fi ve steals , to improve her season total to 87 and break the program’s all-time record for steals by a freshman in a single season .

LSU’s defense stifl ed

Alabama all night, holding the Crimson Tide to 18-for-63 shoot-ing from the fi eld and 3-for-27 shooting from behind the arc . Alabama was led by sophomore guard Daisha Simmons, who had 10 points .

Although it was Senior Night, this may not be LSU’s last game in the PMAC this season as it vies for an NCAA Tournament bid. As hosts, the Lady Tigers have an opportunity to play the fi rst two rounds in their home venue.

“This won’t be the last time we play in the PMAC,” Webb said. “We hope to have two more games here.”

The victory gives the Lady Ti-gers a 9-6 SEC record and keeps them at a stalemate with Vanderbilt for sixth place in the conference.

LSU will play its fi nal regu-lar-season game in College Sta-tion, Texas, where it will take on No. 13 Texas A&M . The Lady Tigers fell to the Aggies 57-74 when the two programs fi rst met in early February .

will get his second opportunity to guard Pressey , whose 7.0 assists per game put him at eighth in the country . Hickey fi nished with two steals in the January matchup , while Pressey dished out fi ve assists .

LSU grabbed a season-low 26 rebounds the fi rst go-round with Missouri , a signifi cant step down from its average of 38.3 per game . Mis-souri , anchored by senior for-wards Laurence Bowers and Alex Oriakhi , is ranked second in the country with 42 rebounds

per game .After sitting all but three

minutes in LSU’s loss at Ten-nessee last Tuesday , senior guard Charles Carmouche has sparked the Ti-gers’ offense in their subsequent victories against Alabama and Ar-kansas , scoring 20 and 26 points, respectively .

“I think [Carmouche] un-derstands that this is it for him,” Jones said. “... The most impor-tant thing he understands is that it’s about his team and what we need to do to get better. I think he understands when he’s at his best or doing the things that he

can do best, we have a much better chance of succeeding.”

Pressey was able to sneak into the lane in the fi rst game between the two, delivering 10 points on layups . Hickey said his objective is to turn Pressey into a shooter instead of worrying about steals.

“I’m not going to let him get to the rim a lot, and I’m going to try to be wherever he’s at,” Hick-ey said. “If he goes to the bath-room, I’m going to the bathroom, and I’m going to try to stay on him the whole game and just lock down defensively.”

publicity like this. This is simply a case where Montgomery’s hon-esty seems to have backfi red.

But what if he had lied? His answer came in response to a question about reports that his coaches were less than happy with his effort. One particular report by DraftInsider.net’s Tony Pauline , who also writes draft analysis for Sports Illustrated, says Montgom-ery’s coaches at LSU have been “slamming” him, that his “attitude and personality did not sit well with a number of his former team-mates or coaches.”

It would’ve been too easy for him to lie, like most athletes do to cover their asses. But this report was out there, and he took it head-on. It would’ve looked worse to NFL teams, who are in contact with these coaches more closely than the media, had he just written it off. Remember the photo that surfaced late in the season with a list of players, Montgomery in-cluded, hanging in LSU strength coach Tommy Moffi tt’s offi ce, warning pro scouts of their lack of effort?

None of this is new, and it’s obviously not restricted to Mont-gomery . If his teammates didn’t appreciate his effort, they’re al-most undoubtedly hypocrites, or they have to be slamming other teammates as well. In addition to the list, I quoted former lineman Josh Dworaczyk , LSU’s other open book, in my story preview-ing the Florida game as saying the team has been playing down to opponents. This was a culture problem, and it cost the Tigers a chance at berths in highly regard-ed bowls early in the season.

And if he’s being torn down by those he’s played for and with for the past few years, you’d have never known before he declared it, aside from the photo. Montgom-ery has consistently been lauded as a leader by his coaches and teammates. Now he’s a villain?

This is all a convoluted mess, and the only one coming clean in the whole situation is Montgom-ery himself. He’s owned up to his mistakes, and that’s the best thing he could’ve done.

Should he have given 100 percent effort while he was here? Absolutely.

Should he have lied about his lack of effort to the media? I don’t think so.

Will this debacle cause him to drop out of the fi rst round? No way.

NFL Network’s Mike Mayock , one of the most highly regarded talent analysts in the me-dia, seems to think Montgomery “brings it every snap more than [former teammate and fellow de-fensive end Barkevious] Mingo does.” Most draft experts expect Mingo to be taken before Mont-gomery .

Montgomery’s honesty obvi-ously scares some people, even though he’s giving voice to some-thing that’s readily apparent. Nev-ertheless, he defended himself in the news conference by saying that he’s matured since he left LSU.

I say he’s more mature than most.

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Why college males shouldn’t be trusted for sperm donations

If you are a college-aged male, you’ve probably consid-ered donating sperm a time or ten.

And why not? Men produce gallons of the stuff for tissues, toilets and trash cans every day — free of charge.

And occasionally, if we’re lucky, for an actual woman.

But what about the sperm banks? Where are they getting their sperm if the majority of men only produce and never bottle?

The answers may surprise you.

According to the Donor Sib-ling Registry, a U.S. non-profit that assists offspring of sperm and egg donations in finding their biological parents, store-bought man milk may be the best way to go.

Of sperm donors, 44 percent attended college and 39 percent hold graduate degrees, according

to DSR. Forty-eight percent of donors also have full-time jobs.

But here’s the kicker — a whopping 40 percent of sperm donors are full-time students.

I don’t know about you, but if I was a woman seeking strange sperm, I would make damn sure it wasn’t coming from a college campus, pun intended.

Just from a nutritional stand-point, I would not trust student sperm. Have you seen what we eat? Have you seen how we spend our days?

Imagine (if necessary) you are a lazy, college male. You are a full-time student, which means you go to school at least 12 hours a week. How you spend those other 156 hours, only your Inter-net history will tell.

We’re already off to an im-peccable start. Now, this particu-lar male lives on a diet consisting of Jack in the Box tacos, Caniacs, and an impressive concoction of drugs and alcohol.

In the downtime between a Nazi Zombie tournament end-ing and a FIFA tournament be-ginning, he decides to make a

quick buck and send his soldiers abroad.

OK, all my single ladies, it’s decision time. Do you really want this guy’s sperm turning into your baby, transforming inside you like a fetal Optimus Prime?

As responsible consumers, we should know where every-thing we buy comes from, up to and including a stranger’s sperm.

I understand that sperm do-nation centers put donors through rigorous background checks and testing, but if 40 percent are full-time students, there will be more than a few bad batches.

As far as the ethics behind donating a bodily fluid for cash, I don’t care. If you donate sperm or plasma on a regular basis, ad-mit it, you’re a whore. Which is fine, nobody’s judging (we’re all too busy laughing), but just admit it.

If you want to sell your body, which is exactly what happens at sperm and blood banks, far be it from anyone to stop you.

But I don’t think students, on the whole, are responsible enough to be trusted to do-nate sperm. That sperm could

eventually become a living, breathing person, and while you may never meet them, your prac-tices now could have a serious ef-fect on that person’s life.

Addiction is hereditary. So if you’re perpetually in the gutter, keep your sperm to yourself.

Parker Cramer is a 21-year-old political science senior from Houston.

Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com;Twitter: @TDR_pcramer

SCUM OF THE GIRTHPARKER CRAMERChief Columnist

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Higher education should not just serve as job factory

American universities are focusing too much on getting students jobs and not enough on making people smarter.

For example, there’s no need — other than the cultural one — to go to LSU to become an ac-countant. You can graduate from almost any school with an ac-counting program and be career-ready.

But society tells us we need to go to the best school we can get into, spend a few years’ worth of potential salary to get a degree and then find a job doing what-ever it is we wanted to do.

And that’s what the students want. I came to LSU and spent

tens of thousands of dollars so I could get a job. But should that actually be a university’s main purpose — to be a job factory?

I don’t think so.The average American work-

er probably doesn’t reference what he or she learned in college too often.

In their book, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on Col-lege Campuses,” college profes-sors Josipa Roksa and Richard Arum recount an experiment they performed in which they tracked more than 2,000 students from 30 universities.

They discovered, as far as analytical and communication skills go, students are not learn-ing much.

This is especially troubling considering most employers (with some high-skill excep-tions) actually teach employees

how to do jobs once they’ve been hired.

Workers are expected to be generally competent, but in most cases you don’t need a lot of the specific knowledge you spend your time learning in college.

To be clear, it’s important for students to graduate with a set of core requirements.

Beyond those first few se-mesters, though, we need a seri-ous increase in general academic intensity.

Most students take those core classes and then move on to their major. They start the first year or two of their major taking another set of core classes for that major, which is followed by delving into more specific classes concerning that major.

Instead, we should be con-centrating on a more in-depth, analytical education that encour-ages independent study.

I took a sociology class one year in which I memorized statistics for a few multiple-choice tests throughout the year. Why not challenge students to explore the material on their own and produce papers about what-ever interests them in that sub-ject’s realm?

The contemporary college culture is all about getting out with a degree as easily as pos-sible. But for most students, writ-ing papers is the worst thing in the world.

But writing papers on sub-jects you choose — and perhaps presenting your findings to the class to develop some presenta-tion skills, which most graduates sorely lack — is so much more valuable than memorizing a set of information. Performing in-depth research and analysis increases analytical and communication skills, which are what people

need to become a contributor to society.

Higher education should be the option for students who are seriously concerned about furthering their knowledge. If America can get away from the idea that a degree from a “good” school is the key to a good job, we would all be better off.

Community colleges and technical schools provide ade-quate education to perform most of our country’s jobs.

Oh well. At least we get to go to football games.

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

Contact John Parker Ford at jford@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @JohnParkerFord

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President Obama had the misfortune of the entire nation seeing his face become more and more pinched and constipated-looking Feb. 7 during Dr. Ben-jamin Carson’s speech at the Na-tional Prayer Breakfast.

Carson, a neurosurgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospi-tal, took the stage Feb. 7 with a speech that critiqued the tax sys-tem, ObamaCare and political correctness — all while referenc-ing Jesus. It was beautiful and it made me wish C-SPAN was a more watched channel.

Though Carson’s speech began innocent enough, quot-ing verses from the Bible such as “‘With his mouth the god-less destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape,’” the rest of the speech drifted far from anything Obama expected.

Carson first ripped apart the entire idea of political correct-ness (thank the Lord — wait, am I allowed to say that, or will too many people be offended?). He condemned it as something that “muffles” American citi-zens. Needless to say, his speech certainly was not deterred by any muzzle — though I’m sure Obama would have appreciated that.

On the subject of taxes, Car-son made not only his case plain

and simple but also his plan. “When I pick up my Bible,”

he said, “I see the fairest indi-vidual in the universe, God, and He’s given us a system. It’s called tithe.”

For nonreligious folk out there, tithing is the act of giving God 10 percent of your income to the church. Wealthy Christians don’t give more than poor Chris-tians. It’s always 10 percent.

Basically what Carson sug-gests is all Americans, no matter their income, give the same per-centage of their income in taxes, just as all Christians give 10 per-cent to the church. Honestly, if it’s good enough for God, surely it should be good enough for the government.

Now I am not implying— nor was Carson, I’m sure — that everyone is Christian or every-one in the government should do things this way because the Bible says so. That would be silly and infringe upon separation of church and state. The govern-ment should do things the way Carson describes because it just bloody makes more sense for all Americans to have to give the same percentage.

Carson then went on to men-tion ObamaCare, despite being two seats away from Obama him-self. I don’t pretend to understand all the mechanics of the health care policy he suggested, but the word “efficient” was used: a word that is disturbingly lacking

from the vocabulary of our poli-cymakers.

Carson suggested that a citi-zen should have a “health savings account to which money can be attributed pre-tax from the time you’re born until the time you die. When you die you can pass it on to your family members so that when you’re 85 years old and you’ve got six diseases, you’re not trying to spend up every-thing. You’re happy to pass it on and there’s nobody talking about death panels.”

After that statement, the president switched his attention

to the ground.The idea of being able to pass

on your health care to loved ones especially makes Carson’s plan stand out. Especially in a world in which little is legally allowed to pass on from parent to child — our own iTunes libraries don’t even actually belong to us (sorry future daughter, I guess my hardy collecting of Taylor Swift songs has been in vain). If I can give whatever amount of health care money I failed to use to my chil-dren, that will almost make up for them missing out on hours upon hours of Taylor Swift enjoyment.

Although it was obvious how uncomfortable Obama was throughout the speech, Carson still managed to be one of the few to stand up and speak out about the government’s inefficiency — an action other citizens would do well to follow.

Carson embodies everything that’s needed in a leader. Not only did he point out problems with the government, but he also offered common sense solutions, the latter of which many politi-cians seem to be lacking lately. Maybe we need a change from politicians in the White House. Maybe it’s time for just an aver-age Joe, or even a neurosurgeon, to lead our country in the right direction.

I’d like to hope that before the country’s next presidential election, our current president would learn from Carson. I’d like to hope Obama will take all the wonderful points from Carson’s speech and try to incorporate a few into his own plans, or even for Vice President Joe Biden to take something to heart.

Then again, I’m also hopeful that reporters will start being fair and balanced — so I shouldn’t hold my breath.

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President Obama (above) was present as Dr. Benjamin Carson criticized his stances on tax reform and health care. Carson raised controvery by quoting Christian ideology.

Carson deserves praise for ObamaCare critique

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Buy a female tiger, let the live mascots engage in ferocious coitus and then sell their furry offspring. Or just sell Mike’s sperm — to Charlie Sheen.

Turn the sorority houses into brothels and tack on a “purchase-your-friends fee” to fraternity members’ fee bills.

Sell pony rides between classes.

Legalize and tax marijuana on campus, setting up a dispensary in the Union.

Combine faculty positions, like physics professor and janitor or librarian and Community Coffee barista.

Charge art students’ “course fees”…

Offer a vocational course in armed robbery.

Turn the campus into L’Auberge LSU.

With the recent preview of the state’s budget and the anticipation of budget cuts,

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presentations feature two people, and presenting together will help them stand out.

Hwang said he believes they were chosen to be student speakers because of the amount of interdis-ciplinary collaboration featured in their work and the uniqueness of the work they produce.

“It looks good on LSU that students are coming out with these types of skill sets,” Hwang said.

Both agreed the TEDx talk is an important forum for spreading ideas.

“It is local [and] related to Ba-ton Rouge directly,” Conlin said. “It is hugely important for our im-age to the rest of the world.”

The duo said it hopes to pres-ent to the audience the theme of “evolve” in its own unique way of showing the audience rather than telling.

“Music is always chang-ing and becoming different things,” Conlin said. “Our musical practice has evolved and changed with time and exposure to art and other disciplines. We try to ab-sorb other areas.”

Conlin said he is excited to be part of what he feels is the biggest move of his career, given the high level of exposure his work will receive.

“To share the stage with so

many high-profi le speakers, that’s a great honor,” he said.

Hwang agreed, saying the pre-sentation would be “both exciting and humbling to share my work

with so many other people.”

Hinton and Darden will pres-ent the Create Lab’s ideas for The Times-Pic-ayune’s transi-tion from print to

digital, an industry shift Hinton said can be seen worldwide. The group began work on the project for The Times-Picayune in Decem-ber and will present its ideas to the company in May.

The Create Lab hopes to use the plan they create for the paper

could be used on a global scale for any business with the need for a digital shift.

Darden said their project rep-resents “the evolution of how peo-ple consume and create news.”

“This is an amazing opportu-nity for the Baton Rouge Commu-nity,” Hinton said. “LSU fosters a lot of creativity and innovation.”

The TEDxLSU event on March 9 will be in the Reilly Theatre with a live simulcast occurring in the Shaver Theatre.

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FALSE CRIMES, from page 1 TEDxLSU, from page 1

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was in a fi ght at Serrano’s restaurant, lost his wallet and keys and called LSUPD saying he was robbed on Tower Drive while walking home from a football game, Lalonde said.

Earlier this month, a student called LSUPD to report fi ghting off a would-be mugger by the Design Building and later admitted to mak-ing it up because of a problem in a personal relationship, Lalonde said.

Another student reported be-ing robbed in the Hart Lot by Kirby Smith but admitted to LSUPD she had lost her wallet earlier in the week and was hoping to get it back, Lalonde said.

According to Baton Rouge Po-lice Department Public Information Offi cer Lt. Don Kelly, BRPD does not keep the statistics of those who lie to police but false reports are not uncommon.

“Most times, it’s not so much for attention as it is to either fi le an insurance claim or to cover up some sort of illicit behavior they were en-gaged in,” Kelly said in an email.

Lalonde stressed the importance of students reporting actual crimes as soon as possible.

“We encourage people to report any criminal activity to us as soon as possible, and they do need to under-stand that false reports will be crimi-nally charged,” Lalonde said. “When people report incidents such as these, we shift our current resources and a lot of times dedicate additional resources based on these reports. These types of incidents tie us up on things that could prevent us from de-terring or responding to other crimes happening on campus.”

Physics freshman Colin Ful-ham said it’s a “rather stupid” idea to make up a crime, and he understands the issue LSUPD is having.

“Unless it was vengeance against someone, I can’t imag-ine a reason to make that up,” Fulham said.

‘Music is always changing and becoming

di� erent things.’ William Conlin

music graduate student

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