Unite LSU Student Government presidential candidate John Wood-ard and vice presidential candidate Taylor Parks cheered Wednesday as the announcement came that they received more than 1,000 votes over their opponents, Impact LSU presi-dential candidate T Graham S. How-ell and vice presidential candidate Kaitlin Torké. Despite the landslide of votes, it is unclear if Woodward

and Parks will reign as SG lead-ers due to being disqualifi ed while default winners Howell and Torké fl ed the scene moments after the an-nouncement came.

Woodard and Parks, who were disqualifi ed for overspending their budget and will go to the University Court tonight over a possible second disqualifi cation for submitting their fi nancial documents late, defeated Howell and Torké on an almost 60 to 40 percent vote of 3,337 to 2,240 . The University’s notoriously low

SG voter turnout was around 20 per-cent, or 5,577 , and declined from last year’s general election, which saw around 24 percent, or 6,529 votes.

“We want to make sure that we go to UCourt and represent all of our candidates,” Woodard said. “Now we are going to take this head-on and make sure this is straightened out in UCourt.”

Although Howell sent The Daily Reveille a statement via email, he refused to speak in per-son or comment on his controversial

victory by default.The announcement of the new

SG president was delayed for more than an hour while the election board deliberated over the content of Unite LSU’s fi nancial documents that were received 30 minutes past the 10 a.m. deadline Wednesday. A UCourt case is set for 7 p.m. tonight to deal with the complaint fi led against the Unite LSU ticket’s tardy fi ling of its cam-paign’s fi nancial documents.

White smoke ascended from the Sistine Chapel ’s chimney in Vatican City on Wednesday as the College of Cardinals chose a new leader of the Catholic Church . While cheers echoed throughout Vatican City, they also rose from campus.

Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina , the fi rst non-European pope in more than 1,000 years and the fi rst Latin American pope in the church’s histo-ry, was announced as Pope Benedict XVI ’s successor. Bergoglio chose the name Francis , another fi rst in the church’s history.

Father Bob Stine of Christ the King Church and Catholic Student

Center said he was hoping for a non-European pope to show that the Catholic Church has a worldwide presence.

“A large part of the 1.2 billion Catholics live outside of Europe,” Stine said. “To kind of acknowledge that is really, really good.”

Stine said the church’s recogni-tion as a worldwide institution has grown since the 20th century and it’s important to represent that change in the church’s leadership.

Biological engineering junior Matthew Zelinsky said the pope’s Latin American background is a good thing because most Catholics outside of Europe reside there.

The church’s increasingly global reputation is “a gradual

development,” Stine said. He said modern communication and technol-ogy have aided this expansion.

Zelinsky said he likes that the church seems to be more open to modern technology, referencing the pope’s Twitter account.

“This is the fi rst mode of com-munication where lay-Catholics can directly interact with the pope rather than going through priests or the bishop,” Zelinsky said. “Obviously, he’s not just scrolling through his timeline, but he defi nitely sees it.”

Stine said he doesn’t expect Pope Francis to change much in terms of the church’s basic policies, but added that each pope puts his

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Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, on Wednesday after he was elected as pope. See more photos, p.5.

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One-time funds used to finance University

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BOARD OF REGENTS

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photos by MORGAN SEARLES [left] and CONNOR TARTER [right] / The Daily Reveille

[Left] Taylor Parks (left) and John Woodard (right) celebrate Wednesday after receiving the most votes in the Student Government election. Their campaign, Unite LSU, was disquali� ed pending a UCourt appeal decision. [Right] Kaitlin Torké (left) and T Graham S. Howell (right) of Impact LSU celebrate after seeing the Student Government election results. View more photos from the election announcement, p. 6.

Unite disquali� ed but wins by more than 1,000 votes

BASKETBALL: LSU takes on Georgia today, p. 7

ENTERTAINMENT: TDR compiles a list of the must-do events for St. Patrick’s Day, p. 11

The funding of the proposed 2014 fi scal year higher education budget forces the Board of Regents to use non-recurring money to fund universities for the fi rst time , putting them at risk of mid-year cuts.

“The [2013 to 2014 fi scal year] Executive Budget fundamentally changes the manner in which higher education has been historically fund-ed,” states a Board of Regents docu-ment shared between Commissioner of Higher Education Jim Purcell and University presidents. “The predom-inant source of the state’s support towards higher education funding in the Executive Budget is non-recur-ring, one-time funds, which by their nature, may not be available for fu-ture years.”

Higher education is tradition-ally paid for with money from the general fund, but this year, nearly $700 million was taken out of that fund, while about $600 million was added to another fund within the

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Ticket to appeal disquali� cation

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Egypt’s Brotherhood disapprove of UN women’s rights document

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood sharply criticized an anticipated U.N. document on combatting violence against women, saying Wednesday it was “deceitful,” clashed with Islamic principles and undermined family values.

The text of the document has not been published because negotiations are continuing, re-garding how to address sexual violence and rights of women to control their sexuality as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights.Researchers �nd high-tech spyware that may be targeting rebels

LONDON (AP) — The discovery of a group of servers linked to an elusive espionage campaign is pro-viding new details about a high-tech piece of spy software that some fear may be targeting dissidents living under oppressive regimes.

A Canadian research center said Wednesday that it had identified 25 different countries that host servers linked to FinFisher, a Trojan horse program that can dodge anti-virus protections to steal data, log key-strokes, eavesdrop on Skype calls, and turn microphones and webcams into live surveillance devices.

Colorado gun control bills approach �nal passage, governor says will sign

DENVER (AP) — Fiercely debat-ed ammunition limits cleared Col-orado’s Democratic Legislature on Wednesday and were on their way to the governor, who has said he’ll sign the measure into law.

The 15-round magazine limit would make Colorado the first state outside the East Coast to ratchet back gun rights after last year’s mass shootings.

Democratic Gov. John Hick-enlooper has said he is ambivalent about the magazine ammunition limit but will sign it.

Transplant patient is a mom �ve years after major surgery, �rst in world

MIAMI (AP) — Miami doctors say they believe a five-organ transplant patient is the first to deliver a baby, making her the first reported case in the world.

Fatema Al Ansari was 19 and living in Qatar when she was diag-nosed with a blood clot in a major vein to the intestine. In 2007, she underwent surgery at Jackson Me-morial hospital in Miami and was given a new liver, pancreas, stom-ach and small and large intestine. Five years later, she gave birth to a girl.

Al Ansari says it’s “the best feeling in the world” to be a mother.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A fire raging in a coastal Louisiana bayou where a tugboat struck a gas pipeline appeared to have di-minished Wednesday night, but is far from extinguished, the Coast Guard said.

Smoke was still visible in New Orleans, 30 miles to the north, and officials say they don’t expect the fire sparked by Tues-day night’s crash to be out until today or later.

It started when a tug pushing an oil barge struck a liquefied nat-ural gas pipeline in shallow Bayou Perot, where Lafourche and Jef-ferson parishes meet. Four people were injured, one critically.Jindal says Texas Brine to offer deal to Assumption residents in sinkhole area

(AP) — Texas Brine will offer buyouts to Assumption Parish residents whose homes are in a swampy area under evacuation be-cause of a nine-acre sinkhole, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday.

Scientists say the sinkhole formed after the collapse of an underground salt cavern oper-ated by Houston-based Texas Brine Co. LLC, which extract-ed brine and piped it to nearby petrochemical facilities.

Fla. politician resigns; 57 charged in $300 million gambling scandal

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Flori-da’s lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities said Wednesday was a front for a $300 million gambling operation.

The organization, Allied Vet-erans of the World, runs nearly 50 Internet parlors with comput-erized slot machine-style games, which are normally legal in Flor-ida if most of the proceeds go to charity.

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(AP) — Lawmakers are bristling at pay raises handed out by Louisiana’s statewide elected officials while the state struggles with continuing bud-get shortfalls and repeated cuts.

Members of the House Appro-priations Committee said they were angry and frustrated as they learned during Wednesday’s budget hearing that Treasurer John Kennedy, Insur-ance Commissioner Jim Donelon, Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell have given salary bumps to various employees in their offices.

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Outdoor enthusiasts from across the state will converge in Gonzales today through Sunday to participate in the 34th annual Louisiana Sports-man Show and Festival at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center.

The show is touted as “Loui-siana’s largest hunting and fishing show,” according to the LSSF web-site. It will feature almost everything anyone who hunts or fishes in Loui-siana will need, said Lamar-Dixon Expo Center Maintenance Manager Bobby Soi-leau.

Admission is $10 per day, or $15 for a three-day pass, and Troy Landry from “Swamp People” will be at the Pro Power Booth from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, accord-ing to the LSSF website.

An obstacle course set up by Ya-maha is a new feature this year, said Soileau, and will allow participants to test Yamaha ATVs.

Soileau said the event is about twice the size of last year’s show and will hold the largest boat show in the state, containing around 20 acres of various boat brands and types for people to browse through.

According to the LSSF website, “the show will include dealers’ latest offerings for both fresh and saltwater fishing applications.”

Soileau said the weekend is family-oriented and contains various opportunities for youths to partake in activities such as a bow shoot.

According to the LSSF website, “the free Kid’s Shoot will have trained instructors on hand to demonstrate proper shooting tech-nique to youngsters.”

The Louisiana Sportsman’s Show Splash Dogs Competition will take place Saturday and Sunday, showcasing dogs and owners com-peting to “see which dog can jump the furthest into the water,” Soileau said.

Soileau said various hunting and fishing vendors will be present

at the expo as well, and a big buck contest will be held. All contestants entered into the contest will be entered into a drawing to win a Ya-maha ATV.

Chemical engi-neering senior Doug McClung has visited

the show in the past.“It’s great, they have just about

anything in the outdoors that you’re looking for,” he said.

McClung and friend Kyle Bour-geois have entered the Louisiana Sportsman’s Bass Tournament that will commence Saturday and wrap up Sunday.

The tournament this year will be at Doiron’s Landing in Stephensville, north of Morgan City, McClung said.

More than 100 anglers have been entered into this year’s tourna-ment, each competing for a guaran-teed first place prize of $12,000, said McClung.

Earlier this year, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced his plan to elimi-nate income tax and increase reve-nue by raising sales tax. Though the plan has been discussed, Jindal has yet to release any details of the new legislature.

Jindal tweeted in January, “We should eliminate all personal, cor-porate income taxes in a revenue-neutral way and keep sales tax low and flat.”

Associate political science pro-fessor Belinda Davis said there are many questions that need answers regarding the new plan.

According to Davis, the gover-nor stated the plan will be “revenue neutral” because he does not want to raise money through taxes, as it goes against the Republican political ide-ology of shrinking government.

Davis said the plan’s late pub-licity puts Louisiana lawmakers and residents in a tight position to evalu-ate the plan.

“Because of the late nature of the great reveal, we are going to have two months to see if this actu-ally works,” Davis said.

Jindal is changing the distribu-tion of money, she said.

Political science professor James Garand said the tax reform is substantial and could affect the higher education budget.

“If Jindal gets his way and it

generates lower levels of revenue, higher education could be subject to more cuts than it is already facing,” Garand said.

Garand said the areas of the Louisiana budget more prone to cuts are higher education and health care.

Low income families and col-lege students will pay more for products, but their incomes will not change, Davis said.

Garand said when substan-tial changes in policy like this are

proposed, legislators look for re-search on what happened in the past or other states or look to their own experience.

According to The Wall Street Journal, several states have picked up on the income tax elimination trend, including Kansas, Oklahoma and North Carolina.

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal answers questions during a news conference Feb. 25 outside the White House. Jindal announced early this year that his new tax plan will eliminate income tax and keep sales tax low. The details have not yet been revealed.

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The Student Government Senate voted Wednesday to urge higher admission requirements and to purchase six microwaves for students to use on campus .

The Senate passed a resolu-tion urging the Chancellor’s Of-fi ce to raise the University’s ad-mission requirements .

UCFY Senator Brian Rees , the resolution’s sponsor, said the standards need to be raised be-cause the University is in the bot-tom half of the Southeastern Con-ference’s freshman retention rates

as well as ACT and SAT scores of the middle 50 percent of enrolled students .

Rees said freshman retention improved by more than 15 percent when the University instituted test score requirements for admission for the fi rst time in 1987 .

Thomas Rodgers , director of SG Academic Affairs , said ACT and SAT scores are correlated with retention rates . Requiring higher scores for entry could help improve retention, he said.

Admission requirements were last raised two years ago , Rodgers said. The bill’s sponsor, College of Science Senator and

Committee on Student Auxiliaries and Services Chair Trey Schwart-zenburg , said six Avanti micro-waves will be purchased for $119 each. They will be located in the Student Union , Middleton Library and other common areas.

Schwartzenburg said six mi-crowaves are currently on cam-pus. Two of the new microwaves will replace existing ones in the Dairy Store and the Chick-N-Grill near Patrick F. Taylor Hall , he said.

Erodr , a new social media application for the iPhone, blends the best qualities of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, according to Erodr representa-tive and accounting sophomore Steele Tortorich .

Tortorich said the app is de-signed to keep posts fl eeting and fun.

“Our slogan is: ‘What hap-pens at LSU stays at LSU,’” Tor-torich said. “Posts only last 24 hours if they are not liked. Also, posts and pictures can be anony-mous, and anonymous posts can be removed if they are fl agged twice.”

Erodr was created in No-vember 2012 at Missouri Univer-sity and has already made its way to LSU with hopes of spreading, Tortorich said.

The point of the anonymous feature is “for bong hits and keg stands, not making fun of other people and hiding your identity,” according to a post on the app from an administrator last week after several instances of anony-mous name-calling.

“The goal is to post party pictures and not worrying about being held responsible by your parents or a potential job,” Tor-torich said.

Another key feature of the app is that posts can be seen by

anyone — even non-friends or non-followers — in the area, Tor-torich said.

“Your posts can only be seen in the geographical location you allow it to,” Tortorich said. “You can make your posts be seen in a 10-mile radius or more.”

Most users on the applica-tion are members of the Greek community, and Tortorich — a non-Greek student — said the app is marketed to fraternities and sororities because of how close-knit they are, but Erodr is open to all students with an lsu.edu email address.

Mackenzie Shannon, el-ementary education junior, said Erodr is an awesome way to keep in touch with fellow students.

“Erodr is a good way for LSU to connect and see what is going on campus,” Shannon said. “Some fraternities have used it to spread word about their phi-lanthropies. It’s easier to know what’s going on than in The Rev-eille or on Facebook.”

Shannon said the application allows some privacy because no one can see who liked and com-mented on posts except for the poster and the person who liked or commented.

Tortorich said the applica-tion has more than 600 down-loads from LSU students and has thousands of users across the country. Since its inception in 2012, there have been more than 10,000 posts , Tortorich said.

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TECHNOLOGY

iPhone application promotes party pics

Nic CottenStaff Writer

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SG seeks to raise University admissions standardsOlivia McClureContributing Writer

Contact Olivia McClure at omcclure@lsureveille.com

Posts annonymous for 24 hours

University students don’t necessarily think of retirement when Baton Rouge comes to mind, but the city was named one of the “25 Best Places to Retire in 2013” in the nation by Forbes magazine last month.

The rating took taxes, weath-er, living and housing, crime rates, air quality, active lifestyle ratings and doctor availability

into account. The magazine also named Alexandria among the top 25 cities to retire.

Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne said what makes Baton Rouge attrac-tive is its combination of the best of every aspect of Louisiana cul-ture.

History freshman Michael Moore said Baton Rouge attracts University alumni to move back to their college town.

Even though many Univer-sity students may think of Baton Rouge only as a college town, the sports and cultural amenities that Southern University and LSU have to offer make the city stand out in terms of retirement, said

executive director of business of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber Iain Vasey.

M a y o r -President Mel-vin “Kip” Hold-en stated in a news release that seniors to-day are looking for recreation, an active com-munity and cul-tural activities in a place to retire.

Dardenne also said peo-ple now are retiring at a younger age and have longer life expectancies.

“There is a new defi nition of retirement,” Dardenne said.

Vasey also said the city will con-tinue to invest in economic develop-ment to keep the city on the map for retirement.

“We want to build a city’s econ-omy with diversifi -cation. You want to give your city more pegs to stand on, ”

Vasey said.Recently, the brand “Retire

Louisiana Style ” has been in-troduced throughout the state,

according to Dardenne .“We are trying to stress

the important access of retirement across the state ,” he said. “Our focus now is on the western side of Louisiana from Fort Pope to the Shreveport and Bossier area and target military retirees who have done service in the military in Louisiana and encourage them to put down their roots here. ”

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[Top left] Faithful hold up a sign with the writing in Italian reading “Long live the Pope” Wednesday after the election of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. [Bottom left] Pope Francis speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. [Above] Pope Francis and cardinals pray from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Francis, was named the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

The late filing of Unite LSU’s financial documents isn’t the ticket’s only problem. After looking at Unite LSU’s election documents, the elec-tion board found the ticket had over-spent its budget, which led to Unite LSU’s immediate disqualification. SG’s Commissioner of Elections Aimeé Simon made the decision to disqualify the Unite LSU ticket.

SG Chief Justice Morgan Faulk said today’s UCourt case is regard-ing the complaint against Unite LSU ticket’s tardy filing, and there will more than likely be another hearing in the future regarding the content of the financial documents.

The Unite LSU ticket has until 4:30 p.m. this Friday to file an appeal to the disqualification over its finan-cial documents.

Woodard said although he was disappointed by the disqualification, he will work to overturn the election

board’s decision.Outgoing SG President Taylor

Cox and Vice President Carrie He-bert released a statement Wednesday evening reminding students of their commitment to hearing their voices.

“As the leaders of your [SG], we are committed to ensuring that the results of the spring election are fair, equitable and transparent,” the statement reads.

Unite LSU won the majority of the open seats in terms of votes, but because of the disqualification, Im-pact LSU won those seats by default.

Once Howell and Torké quickly left the election results announce-ments, they directed questions to their campaign managers Lindsey Bennett and Andrew David.

“It’s unfortunate what happened to Unite LSU, but we are very proud of all of our candidates and all of the hard work that they put in, and we know they will do a great job in office,” Bennett said.

Bennett said the election code is clear and the Unite LSU ticket vio-lated that code.

“Maybe if we had broken the rules too, we could have done some of the same things with our campaign,” Bennett said. “But we didn’t.”

A similar situation occurred during the University’s 2010 elec-tions when former SG President J Hudson and Vice President Dani Borel’s candidates were disqualified due to an issue with their financial documents. While Hudson and Borel won their UCourt hearings and their candidates were reinstated, they had incorrectly allocated the money in their budget, while Woodard and Parks overspent their budget.

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[Top] T Graham S. Howell (left) and Kaitlin Torké (right) of Impact LSU leave the Student Union shortly after Student Government election results were announced, citing fatigue from the campaign. [Bottom] Taylor Parks (left) and John Woodard (right) of Unite LSU celebrate during the Student Government election results announcement Wednesday. Woodard and Parks won the election by more than 1,000 votes, but were disquali�ed from the election due to overspending of funds on their campaign. The Impact ticket will face a UCourt trial today to appeal their disquali�cation. The of�cial results of the election are pending on the results of the trial.

As he watched his team prac-tice its bunting from afar three hours before game time, LSU coach Paul Mainieri sensed a lack of focus.

With its first Southeast-ern Conference series two days away, Mainieri’s fear was real-ized as the Tigers (16-1) trudged through a sloppy seven innings before pulling away in the eighth for a 9-3 victory against Nich-olls State (9-9) in Alex Box Stadium.

“This was certainly a trap game for us,” Mainieri said. “Not only did we play like it was a trap game — it felt like a trap game.”

Senior first baseman Mason Katz shared Mainieri’s fears as he overheard some freshmen Tigers conversing about rooming assign-ments in Starkville, Miss., during pregame warmups.

Katz, who lifted his sixth home run of the season out to left field to cap a five-run eighth in-ning, credited his team with finding a way to win de-spite the excite-ment surrounding its looming series with Mississippi State.

“The focus wasn’t there as it normally is,” Katz said. “It’s hard to change an 18-year-old kid’s fo-cus from going on an SEC base-ball trip. We did a good job of finding a way to win.”

The Tigers appeared des-tined to prove Mainieri wrong

at the start of the game when sophomore outfielder Chris Sciambra was hit by a pitch and freshman outfielder Mark Laird singled to put two runners on be-fore the Colonels could record an out.

F r e s h m a n shortstop Alex Bregman fol-lowed by tattoo-ing a line drive to Colonel second baseman Philip Lyons, who made the snag and turned a rare 4-3 triple play to hush the anxious 4,775

Tiger fans primed for a big in-ning.

“That was pretty interesting,” Bregman said. “I thought I hit that ball really well, actually. It was just right at him.”

Before the start of the season, the LSU men’s bas-ketball team was assigned a handful of descriptors: un-derdogs, undersized, undermanned.

All signs pointed to coach Johnny Jones’ first go-round at the helm of his alma mater as a rebuilding year. The Tigers weren’t supposed to do much because — as preseason voters indicated — they didn’t have much.

Now, after a season rife with gritty performances and scintillating comebacks, LSU (18-11, 9-9 South-eastern Conference) must once again embrace its un-derdog status as the No. 9 seed in the SEC Tournament. The first tournament test for the Tigers will come at noon today against eighth-seeded Georgia in Nashville, Tenn.

“We’re the underdogs going in,” said sophomore guard Anthony Hickey, a member of the All-SEC De-fensive Team. “The underdogs won it last year, Vander-bilt won. You never know what may happen, so you’ve just got to take it a step at a time and try to get the wins a day at a time.”

Georgia (15-16, 9-9 SEC) bested LSU 67-58 ear-lier this year in the final defeat of the Tigers’ four-game losing streak to open up conference play. The Bulldogs rode the hot hand of sophomore guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who dropped 22 points on the Tigers.

Caldwell-Pope was recently named the SEC Play-er of the Year and is the second-leading scorer in the

SportsThursday, March 14, 2013 page 7

LSU coach Les Miles said he was not aware of 2013 signee Rickey Jefferson’s pending legal troubles when Jefferson signed his National Letter of Intent last month.

Multiple outlets reported Tues-day night that Jefferson, brother of former LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson, was charged with resist-ing arrest by force or violence.

“This is new information to me,” Miles said at a news confer-ence Wednesday. “Obviously, we did not know. We’ll have to trail behind and find out what is going on. I’m without information at this point.”

Jefferson and another teen al-legedly attacked a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy Feb. 2 at the Krewe of Caesar parade in Metairie when the deputy got into a scuffle with a friend of Jefferson’s.

Miles said he has not spoken to Jefferson about the incident.

James MoranSports Contributor

Contact James Moran at jmoran@lsureveille.com

Read more about Miles’ news conference, p. 8.

RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

Senior �rst baseman Mason Katz (8) and junior third baseman Christian Ibarra (14) celebrate after Katz’s home run Wednesday during the 9-3 victory against Nicholls State.

TOURNAMENT, see page 10

BASEBALL, see page 10

TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior guard Charles Carmouche (0) lays up the ball Saturday during the Tigers’ 67-81 loss to Ole Miss in the PMAC.

Tigers grind past Nicholls State in 9-3 victoryLSU �nally pulls away in eighth

LSU begins SEC tournament against Georgia Bulldogs

Marcus RodrigueSports Contributor

Miles: Signee’s arrest was news to me

BASEBALL

Do ordie

‘�is was certainly a trap game for us. Not

only did we play like it was a trap game — it

was a trap game.’ Paul Mainieri

LSU baseball coach

FOOTBALL

Chandler RomeSports Writer

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LSU coach Les Miles dis-cussed the shuffl ing of several po-sitions when he kicked off spring practice in a news conference Wednesday in the University’s Athletic Administration Building .

In the conference, Miles said he looks forward to working with a new group of leaders.

“As we go into spring, it is a great opportunity to improve our team,” Miles said. “We have some young guys that, for 15 practices, will get real strong fundamentals. ... Frankly, we need to develop dominant and elite players.”

Miles said he looks forward to working with a slew of new faces that will look to replace the 13 players who left campus early for the 2013 NFL draft .

Wide receivers Travin Dural and John Diarse, and athletic quar-terback Anthony Jennings were cited by Miles as potential fresh-man leaders going into the season.

“For quite some time, we have expected some young guys to play a prominent role. We are also counting on young guys to lead,” Miles said.

Defensively, Miles pointed to the Tigers’ linebacker corps as potentially being one of the best in the nation.

Miles suggested that the mid-dle linebacker spot is senior Lamin Barrow’s to lose.

“We have a number of line-backers that have played a lot of football in our conference,” Miles said. “That group may be one of the stronger groups we’ve had.”

Offensively, the Tigers have the challenge of adjusting to new offensive coordinator Cam Cameron .

Miles said he does not foresee a prolonged pe-riod of adjustment to Cameron’s of-fense.

“I think [Cameron ] is per-sonable and the players enjoy him,” Miles said.

“I can’t imagine there being any issues.”

LSU will see changes on the offensive line. Miles said junior La’el Collins will try his hand at left tackle , while senior Josh Wil-liford will move around and get opportunities at center.

On special teams, Miles said junior James Hairston will contin-ue to be the Tigers’ kicker on kick-offs. He will also vie for LSU’s fi eld goal kicker position.

Positions shuff led before spring practiceFOOTBALL

Tigers to see new faces and leaders Tyler NunezSports Writer

A writer details what to watch for during spring football practice, which starts today.

Two Tigers qualify for the NCAA diving championships.

Contact Tyler Nunez at tnunez@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @NunezTDR

LSU football head coach Les Miles discusses spring training and the team roster Wednesday during a news conference in the Athletic Administration Building.

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sports content at lsureveille.com/sports:

‘As we go into spring, it is a great opportunity to improve our team.’

Les MilesLSU head football coach

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A new feature we’re implementing this semester at The Daily Reveille is the “LSU Athlete of the Week.” This week, columnist Micah Be-dard went one-on-one with LSU baseball fi rst baseman Mason Katz after the Tigers’ 9-3 victory against Nicholls State last night.

In future weeks, the nomina-tions for Athlete of the Week will be announced on “Out of Bounds” from 6 to 7 p.m. Sundays on 91.1 KLSU. You can vote at lsureveille.com/sports.

Micah Bedard: You guys are 16-1 heading into Mississippi State this weekend. Are you content with where this team is at?Mason Katz: Chemistry-wise, we’re in a really good spot. I love every guy on this team. Off the fi eld, we have some goofballs that keep us loose. We’re in a really comfortable spot the way we’re playing. We’re ready to play in the [Southeastern Confer-ence] and I’m excited to see what we do going forward.

MB: What’s something you’d like to see your team improve on in SEC play?MK: Little mistakes here and there,

certain base-running things that we can do better. We have a lot of at-bats where we can do a lot better in cer-tain situations.

MB: You have had four homers in the last three games. What’s clicked for you at the plate?MK: I’m really trying to stick to my approach in batting practice and trying to stay through the ball. The guys around me are getting on base and I’m getting good pitches to hit. When I come up to bat, they can’t throw balls and they can’t throw around me.

MB: You’ve already got six home runs so far this season and you’re the SEC’s re-turning, leading home-run hitter. Is leading the conference in homers in the back of your mind?MK: No, not at all. Every at-bat is different. I try to go up there and make my little statement when I come up to bat, but I don’t think about those things at all. I’ve got three of the best hitters in the country ahead of me.

MB: When you have a guy like out-fi elder Raph Rhymes hitting in front of you, do you feel like you’re seeing better pitches to hit?MK: Oh yeah. I’m in the best spot in the country. You have Mark [Laird], [Alex] Bregman and Raph in front of

me and [Christian] Ibarra and JaCo-by [Jones] behind me. Nobody wants to throw to Raph, who led the entire nation in hitting last season. I’m get-ting really good pitches to hit and I can’t thank those guys enough.

MB: Two true freshmen, Mark Laird and Alex Bregman, are leading the team in batting average. Did you ex-pect them to come out of the gate this hot?MK: You know what? We kind of

did. We saw what Bregman could do in the fall — the guy just dominated like he is now. Mark was a different guy. He’s actually hit-ting balls hard to all fi elds right now, and

we’re trying to help him hit balls the opposite ways because he’s so fast. He drops down bunts and it doesn’t matter how close the third baseman is playing because he’s going to be safe. We expected them to have big years and be monster parts of our lineup.

MB: What have you told the new-comers about adapting to SEC play?MK: We talked about what it’s going to be like. Last weekend when Wash-ington came in here, they had some really good arms that we were fac-ing. The guy they threw on Saturday was an SEC-caliber arm. We tried to teach the guys to approach that game

just like an SEC game, because that’s how we should approach every game.

MB: You guys head to Starkville, Miss., today for four days. Is there anything to do there?MK: From what I remember from two years ago, the only thing within fi ve miles of our hotel was a bank across the street. I played sum-mer ball with a couple guys on the team, so after one of the games they picked me up and we ate and had to go through some woods and

pastures. It’s interesting when you get there. Our hotel, if we’re staying at the same place, has a dirt pasture on the left and a grass pasture on the right. It’s different; you can’t walk anywhere.

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

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MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

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LSU senior � rst baseman Mason Katz walks off the � eld Saturday after hitting two home runs during the Tigers’ 8-4 victory against the Washington Huskies in Alex Box Stadium.

Contact Micah Bedard at mbedard@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @DardDog

Katz discusses his hot bat, the upcoming SEC schedule

AthleteLSU

of the Week

four straight singles to open the inning, highlighted by junior third baseman Christian Ibarra’s bloop-er that fell just barely in front of a diving Matt Richard.

After Nicholls State got on the board in the third inning, it broke through for two runs in the fi fth off Tiger southpaw Hunter Devall to take a 3-2 lead.

Devall and nine other LSU pitchers combined to surrender six hits and only three walks, with senior lefty Brent Bonvil-lain picking up his fi rst win of the season.

Katz responded in the fi fth

with an RBI single to score Laird, who led off the inning with a sin-gle of his own, to knot the game at three.

Ibarra came through again in the seventh with his second single of the night to score Bregman and put the Tigers back on top, 4-3.

“It was a good pitch,” Ibarra said. “It was coming in on me, it went right on the middle and I just pushed it up the middle.”

The Tigers then exploded for fi ve runs in the eighth in-ning, with Bregman registering a 2-RBI double and Katz send-ing a high homer to left fi eld to pad the scoreboard in what was a much closer game than the

score indicated.Aided by fi ve Colonel er-

rors through the fi rst fi ve in-nings, the Tigers shook off sev-eral mistakes of their own to pull out an ugly victory, according to Mainieri.

“I knew that they just didn’t have their minds totally in it,” Mainieri said. “Before the game I said to myself, ‘I just hope we can score one more run than the other team.’”

The No. 13 Lady Tigers softball team rode an eight-run explosion in the fi rst inning to victory Wednes-day night against Nicholls State.

The Tigers opened the scoring when senior Nicholls State pitcher Ashton Bennett walked freshman catcher Kellsi Kloss with the bases loaded . The Tigers proceeded to score seven more runs during the in-ning .

The scoring continued when LSU freshman infi elder Sandra Simmons doubled, bringing home freshman infi elder Bianka Bell and sophomore outfi elder A. J. Andrews .

Junior Jacee Blades capped off the hitting for the Tigers with a double to left center, driving in two runs.

“I was excited to just swing away,” Blades said. “Since my teammates had gotten on base it gave me the opportunity; without them I would have had to play my small game a little more.”

LSU coach Beth Torina said the Tiger bats were helped out by a return to their home stadium, Tiger Park .

“What a relief to be home,” To-rina said. “It’s awesome just being in front of the Tiger fans, which are the best in the nation.”

The fi rst-inning scoring run came as a surprise to the Tigers, as

Bennett held LSU to one run on fi ve hits in a Feb. 17 matchup .

Torina cited the Tigers’ solid play Sunday against Mississippi State as a catalyst for LSU’s hot start. LSU scored nine runs on nine hits in the last game of the series against the Bulldogs .

The game turned into a defen-sive battle from there as the Tigers’ bats cooled while LSU junior pitch-er Ashley Czechner limited Nicholls State to only one hit .

“My primary focus was to throw a lot of strikes and not give up too many leadoff walks,” Czechner said. “The umpire’s strike zone was a little tight, so I was trying not to get frustrated.”

Czechner only allowed two base runners after the fi rst inning. She gave up her only walk when she hit freshman outfi elder Danielle Phillips with a pitch in the fi fth in-ning .

The game ended in the fi fth in-ning when Nicholls State junior out-fi elder Alaina Guidry drove a ball into shallow center, which Andrews scooped up with a spectacular div-ing catch.

The Tigers will continue their season this weekend against Southeastern Conference opponent No. 17 Kentucky .

conference with 18 points per game . He also utilizes his 6-foot-5 frame to pull down just under seven re-bounds per game .

“We just have to really make some adjustments to [Caldwell-Pope] and try to keep him out of his comfort zone,” Jones said. “He’s re-ally good, talented, crafty. He’s ex-cellent with the basketball in terms of his ball-handling skills. He’s a good passer as well, and I just think he’s a really tough matchup.”

Sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III said LSU’s guards should be used to defend dynamic players, as they face a top SEC scor-er for the third game in a row . For the fi nal two games of the season, the Tigers were tasked with guard-ing Texas A&M senior guard Elston Turner , who is ranked third in the SEC with 17.7 points per game , and Ole Miss junior guard Marshall Henderson , whose per-game aver-age of 19.7 points is the best in the league .

O’Bryant , who earned a First

Team All-SEC selection and is tied for the most double-doubles in the league , had a strong outing against Georgia in January . O’Bryant re-corded 16 points and 14 rebounds en route to one of his 14 double-doubles, and his rebound mark equaled almost half of the Bulldogs’ 29 total team rebounds .

LSU was missing a vital player the fi rst time it tipped off against Georgia , as senior guard Charles Carmouche sat out of the game with knee tendonitis . Carmouche , who has scored 20 points or more in fi ve of the last seven games , may be key to a deep LSU tournament run.

In addition to Carmouche’s scoring capabilities, his size may be a boon for the Tiger defense. Jones said he plans to use Carmouche’s height to hinder Caldwell-Pope , who had little trouble scoring over the smaller LSU guards in the fi rst matchup.

“We can have an opportunity to show [Caldwell-Pope] some differ-ent looks we weren’t able to show the fi rst time that we played him,” Jones said. “With the addition of

Carmouche and the way that he’s played – not only defensively, but offensively – I think he gives us some other dimensions that will re-ally help us as well.”

The Tigers are currently projected to be in the running for a National Invitation Tournament seeding. A path to the national tour-nament would probably only be cleared by making the run through the SEC Tournament and coming out victorious in the fi nal game on Sunday to clinch an automatic bid .

With those circumstances in mind, the Tigers plan to play like the underdogs they are — just as they have all season.

“No matter what the num-bers say, what guys are shooting or what we’ve done defensively, we’ve just got to line up and play,” O’Bryant said. “You give your all and at the end of the day, whatever happens, happens.”

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Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com;

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LSU junior utility player Jacee Blades (23) swings at a pitch Wednesday during the Tigers’ 8-0 win against Nicholls State in Tiger Park.

No. 13 Tigers power past Nicholls StateTrey LabatSports Contributor

Contact Marcus Rodrigue at mrodrigue@lsureveille.com

SOFTBALL

Contact Trey Labat at tlabat@lsureveille.com

Ska titan Less Than Jake , with its signature style of energetic rock, made its Baton Rouge debut Wednes-day evening . The performance kicked off the Varsity Theatre’s seg-ment of Gas, Food and Lodging Fest — a festival that hosts bands pass-ing through Louisiana on the way to Austin’s South by Southwest .

Less Than Jake has been mak-ing the rounds on the music scene since the early ’90s , and 2013 marks the band’s 21st anniversary together.

Lead singer and guitarist Chris DeMakes joked the band has persevered through two decades with

the aid of inebriating substances. “We like to do drugs by state,

like when we go to Nevada and New Mexico , we’ll just do a lot of peyote the whole time we’re there,” DeMakes chuck-led. “Tonight, I think our trombone player actually got us a concoction of bleach and rat poison mixed to-gether.”

On a more serious note, he said what’s gotten them through is that “people kept coming to see us and we never stopped being an active band.”

Less Than Jake is set to play SXSW on Friday , which is only the band’s second time since the late ’90s . DeMakes has a slighted opinion on the music festival.

“It’s just a big excuse for the

people in the music industry to get together and blow their company’s credit card and get drunk for 10 days

or however long the thing is, but it’s pretty cool. We’re doing a showcase for Fat Wreck Chords ,” DeMakes remarked.

He said he’s looking forward to the festival being over. Even though the show itself is going to be great, the process of getting to Austin and setting up camp is “utter chaos,” he said.

DeMakes said he and his band-mates no longer feel the pressure to compete against other music acts at big festivals due to the group’s long-standing presence in the music industry.

EntertainmentThursday, March 14, 2013 page 11

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

Less Than Jake plays Wednesday at The Varsity Theatre as part of the Gas, Food and Lodging Festival in Baton Rouge.

MUSIC

Lead singer discusses music festivals, fadsTaylor SchoenEntertainment Writer

Less Than Jake makes premiere in Baton Rouge

LESS THAN JAKE, see page 15

SCHOOL OF MUSIC

O’Riley says farewell to LSU

Famed pianist Christopher O’Riley , best known as the host of NPR’s “From the Top” and for his love of Radiohead , has worked closely with many students in the University’s School of Music during his extended r e s i d e n c y here. He’ll be p e r f o r m i n g his fi nal con-cert at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Univer-sity.

T h e concert will feature the pianist’s take on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” in the Re-cital Hall of the School of Music.

For the past three years, O’Riley has spent three weeks of every semester working with the students at the School of Music through master classes, private

Pianist, NPR host � nishes residencyDaniel CatalanelloEntertainment Writer

O’RILEY, see page 15

Christopher O’Riley’s

performanceWhen: 7:30 p.m. MondayWhere: Recital Hall, LSU School of MusicCost: $10 for students, $19 for faculty and staff, $28 general admission

Red Stick goes GREEN

� nishes residency

Famed pianist Christopher O’Riley , best known as the host of NPR’s “From the Top” and for his love of Radiohead , has worked closely with many students in the University’s School of Music during his extended r e s i d e n c y here. He’ll be p e r f o r m i n g his fi nal con-

Entertainment Writer

Less Than Jake makes premiere in Baton Rouge

Famed pianist Christopher O’Riley , best known as the host of NPR’s “From the Top” and for his love of Radiohead , has worked closely with many students in the University’s School of Music during his extended r e s i d e n c y

MUSIC

Less Than Jake makes premiere in Baton RougeMUSIC

Less Than Jake makes premiere in Baton Rouge

28th Annual Wearin’ of

the Green Parade

Starts: at S. Acadian Thruway and

Hundred Oaks Avenue

Ends: Perkins Road just under the

interstate

When: 10 a.m. Saturday

Cost: Free

Schlittz-a-palooza ft. Werewolf and Snapper and the Fishsticks Where: Schlittz & Giggles at Perkins Road When: 9 a.m. Saturday Cost: $5 pre-sale, $10 at the door

How Baton Rouge is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day

· David Borne

Noon - 1:30 p.m.

· Rockin’ Dopsie

1:30 - 3 p.m.

· Ugli Stick

3 - 5 p.m.

· That ’90s Show

5 - 7 p.m.

· Category 6 7 - 10 p.m.

Uncle Earl’s 4th

Annual St. Patric

k’s

Day Festival

Where: Uncle Earl’s

Bar on Perkins

Road

Shamrocks and Shenanigans

Where: Boogie Nights Dance Club at

Hollywood Casino

When: 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Cost: Free

When: Doors open

9 a.m. Saturday

Cost: $10

Phil Brady’s St. Patrick’s Day Bash ft. Time Warp and

Beaucoup Boogie Where: Phil Brady’s Bar & Grill on

Government StreetWhen: Saturday

Time Warp starts after parade (around 2 p.m.), Beaucoup

Boogie at 9 p.m. Cost: $5

Happy’s St. Patrick’s Day Extravaganza feat. The Gin

Rummies Where: Happy’s Irish Pub downtown

When: Doors open at 1 p.m. Sunday

Cost: Information not available

The Radio Bar Olympics

Where: The Radio Bar on Government

Street

When: Sunday (Teams of four must be

registered by Saturday)

Cost: Information not available

· compiled by TAYLOR SCHOEN

Watch a video of Less Than Jake’s live performance

at lsureveille.com.

New Mexico , we’ll just do a lot of peyote the whole time we’re there,” DeMakes chuck-

just do a lot of

When Dave Grohl released his documentary “Sound City,” there was no surprise that a soundtrack would soon follow.

This week, “Sound City: Real to Reel” releases with a massive roster of artists con-tributing to the s o u n d t r a c k , ranging from legendary art-ists like Paul McCartney and Stevie Nicks to recent rock-

ers such as Joshua Homme from Queens of the Stone Age and Corey Taylor from Slipknot and Stone Sour.

Overall, this is a great album. The talent here is varied and the selections from each artist can be surprising. For example, Rick Springfi eld of “Jessie’s Girl” fame joins Grohl along with Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Pat Smear, all of whom are members of the Foo Fighters, for “The Man That Never Was.” It is a heavier song than Springfi eld’s biggest hit, but welcome never-theless.

The only problem the album has is its lyrics. They are hit or miss and nothing special, but each song here makes up for it with its talent and music.

The fi rst half of the album is rocky — the fi rst few tracks can leave much to be desired, but things soon pick up. The high-light of the fi rst half is easily “You Can’t Fix This,” with Nicks as the featured vocalist. While it may not be the greatest song lyri-cally, it is a change of pace from the Fleetwood Mac songs and solo work that Nicks has done in the past. Following it is “The Man That Never Was,” the post-grunge Springfi eld song, and the punk rocker “Your Wife is

Calling,” which features Lee Ving from the punk band Fear. These songs are a step down from “You Can’t Fix This,” but are still decent.

Starting with “From Can to Can’t,” the album kicks into high gear with some of its best and most varied tracks featur-ing Taylor, Homme, McCartney and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. It’s obvious the highlight of the second half and the entire album is “Cut Me Some Slack.” The song has a bluesy feel to it and has the best combination of talent featuring Grohl, McCart-ney, Smear and Krist Novoselic, essentially becoming Nirvana with McCartney on vocals. The song could have been the perfect closer, but the album continues with the Grohl-sung “If I Were Me” and “Mantra.” The last track features elements from the work

of the three featured artists and is the best mix of Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails anyone could ask for. The concept sounds crazy, but it works.

As ambitious as this soundtrack is, “Sound City: Real to Reel” is rewarding and features some of the biggest names in mu-sic. While some of the songs here are hit or miss, the talent alone is a reason to check it out.

Grade: A

Rob Kitchen is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Metairie.

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RabidEDITOR’S PICK: The Knife, “A Tooth For An Eye”The Knife may be one of the most divisive acts in the music scene today, but it’s also one of the most in� uential. The Swedish electronic duo’s signature style of ghoulish sounds coming together in a rhythm that is undeniably catchy yet as close to falling apart as a Jenga tower missing a few too many blocks is now legendary. With new record “Shaking the Habitual” dropping April 8, The Knife doesn’t show any sign of changing. “A Tooth For An Eye” is proof of that, but it also exhibits a fascinating evolution in the group’s aes-

thetic. “A Tooth For An Eye”’s percussion, which makes up most of the track’s sonic experience, morphs throughout while maintaining that in-famous primal sound. It may not be as approachable as past standouts, but it’s an assertion of dominance. The Knife’s reign is not done.

BRIAN SIBILLEEntertainment Editor

Rock royalty David Bowie has released his � rst album in a decade , and it doesn’t fail to live up to his esteemed name. This triumphant collection of songs captures the essence of what makes Bowie so interesting by drawing from all corners of his stylistically varied career. Bowie has effectively cre-ated an album that sounds like the proper culmination of his entire body of work. The album easily stands shoulder-to-shoulder with many of his 1970s classics, and while it

often dips its toes in the waters of the past, it maintains an eye toward the future in classic Bowie fashion. The 66-year -old artist has pulled off what many consider impossible for an artist of his age — creating a work that feels fresh, relevant and just as vital as any of his previous works. DANIEL CATALANELLO

ISODavid Bowie, “The Next Day”

“Oz the Great and Powerful” serves as a prequel to the classic “The Wizard of Oz .” James Franco plays Oscar Diggs, the future Wizard. This character could’ve been played by someone else to really bring the main character to the next level. Mila Kunis also disappoints in failing to bring any sort of depth to who would later become the Wicked Witch of the West . While the movie is entertaining, it is important to

remember that it is geared toward children at its most basic level, so some of the dialogue may seem a bit adolescent. All in all, the visual effects of the movie are awe-inspiring, and viewers will not be left unimpressed. The key to enjoying this movie is to not expect too much and to sit back and embrace the nostalgia of an old childhood classic. STORMY GOOD

Walt Disney Pictures“Oz the Great and Powerful”

Expectations were high for Justin Timberlake’s � fth time hosting Saturday Night Live, and this weekend’s show almost delivered. A few duds dragged down the show’s momentum, including an unfunny faux rom-com trailer and the “Sober Caligula” sketch, which handed one of SNL’s most charismatic regulars the role of an ancient buzzkill. But ultimately, it’s hard to hold down a host with so much talent and natural charm, and Timberlake scored hits with another reprise of his crowd-pleasing “Omeletville” bit and the

“It’s a Date” skit that united Timberlake and Andy Samberg’s “Dick in a Box” duo with the classic Festrunk Brothers ( Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd). Between the return of “two wild and crazy guys” and an SNL alumni-� lled monologue, the episode felt like a celebration of the SNL tradition just as much as a comeback for Timberlake. KACI YODER

NBC“Saturday Night Live: Justin Timberlake”

While “F” usually stands for “fail,” in this instance, it means “forgettable,” and easily at that. “Rule The World,” the latest single by former teen sensation Selena Gomez , is dull, boring, uninspired and unoriginal. With a beat and melody no more complicated than water dripping from a faucet, this song stands as an insult to music of any genre. Coupled with that are Gomez’ heartthrob lyrics that prove that she isn’t over Justin

Bieber , not that anyone cared. She croons, “I try to tell myself this pain would go away/Just go away,” which is what ears worldwide will think after hearing this song. “Rule The World” is so mundane and so mind-numbingly generic, it shouldn’t even register as a blip on pop music’s radar. Fans of monotony will love the song, but the rest of humanity shouldn’t care. TAYLOR BALKOM

Hollywood RecordsSelena Gomez, “Run the World”

Bon Jovi’s 12th studio album, “What About Now,” bursts at the seams with encouraging messages and catchy choruses. The album’s � rst track, “Because We Can,” seems destined for politi-cal rallies everywhere. Unfortunately, many of these 15 tracks come up short and will probably disappoint even devoted fans. Most of the songs in “What About Now” are catchy yet completely forgettable, especially compared to iconic anthems from previous

albums like “Wanted” or “Livin’ On a Prayer.” Ironically, the soft, acoustic tracks on the album are the most memorable ones, espe-cially “The Fighter,” a tender, melodic tune. “What About Now” isn’t a bad album by any means, but it isn’t incredible or even particularly memorable. Bon Jovi’s latest strives for greatness but fails to escape mediocrity. If you’re looking to rock out, skip this album. MARIE CHANEY

Island RecordsBon Jovi, “What About Now”

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Choosing which Abita brew to drink is hard enough for bar-goers, and the decision will get even harder when Pelican House brings nearly 300 beer choices to Baton Rouge.

Pelican House is a new res-taurant and bar located on Citi-place Court . Its tentative opening date is set for April 5.

In addition to 286 differ-ent beers, the bar will also offer 170 different whiskeys and have a more upscale version of a bar menu with offerings such as a twist on Boofries , frog legs, and other food pairings with a Loui-siana fl air.

Pelican House’s masterminds Chris Juge and Garrett Morgan worked together for years in various bars, and the idea to open their own was planted over late-night conversations after work. They have had a taste for exotic spirits and drinks since the begin-ning, so opening a bar together seemed like the next logical step.

Almost every person in-volved in Pelican House has at-tended the University for at least some time during their college careers.

“This is a bar for bartenders, created by bartenders,” Juge said. “We’ve all worked in numerous bars for many years. We know

what works and what doesn’t work, and have combined all of these things into Pelican House.”

A draw of Pelican House will be the 2,800 -square-foot court-yard. It will seat 85 people with six shaded trees, two fountains and a fi replace.

“We wanted this bar to be a transformer. We can use it to accommodate for everyone’s needs,” explained Juge. “We can turn into a music venue, a sports bar — it is extremely versatile.”

The Pelican House interior is reminiscent of the histori-cal districts of Southern Loui-siana . There is an emphasis on

staying true to Southern culture and décor, but they strived to keep an emphasis on Louisiana. There is also a 50-year-old Loui-siana pine adorning the interior of Pelican House.

“I’m really excited about a new bar coming into town,” said fi nance senior Brennan Bal-dridge. “It’ll be nice to get away from Tigerland and I can’t wait to try a lot of the beers on tap. I re-ally see this bar becoming a des-tination spot.”

Pelican House to serve exotic beersStormy GoodEntertainment Writer

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Co-owner of Pelican House and LSU graduate Chris Juge works a beer tap at the new bar. The bar will have the most draft beers on tap in Louisiana with 136.

Contact Stormy Good at sgood@lsureveille.comThe Union Theater will fi ll

with the majestic sound of Fred-die Mercury and the music of Queen this Sunday. But instead of the leather-clad Mercury and his former bandmates, Gary Mul-len and the Works will be playing the music of the legendary band.

“A lot of people are very ex-cited about it,” said Assistant Di-rector of the LSU Union Theater Terry Serio. “[Mullen] seem[s] to be very excited about it, and we’re hoping we’ll have a sold out house.”

For the per-formance, Mullen will be taking to the stage as the legend-ary Freddie Mercu-ry. Mullen, a native Scotsman, began im-personating Mercury on the British televi-sion show “Stars in Their Eyes” after his wife and mother applied for him to be on the show in 2000.

After winning the compe-tition, Mullen later formed his band, The Works.

“I put the band together in 2002,” Mullen said. “We started touring as a full functioning stage show.”

After putting his band to-gether, Mullen started touring the world and playing for large audi-ences.

“One of the big career high-lights for me was playing in front of 20,000 people in London,” Mullen said.

Now, Gary Mullen and The Works are on their sixth tour of the United States with stops in Shreveport, Fayetteville, Ark., and Jacksonville, Fla., in addition to playing at the Union Theater on Sunday.

“We really enjoy coming to the U.S. because the audiences are really responsive,” Mullen said. “I think it makes a differ-ence playing places we’ve never played before and we’re looking forward to it.”

Mullen said Queen fans can expect the hits in addition to some deep cuts.

“We keep the show a secret,” Mullen said. “Songs like ‘Bohe-mian Rhapsody’ and ‘We Will Rock You’ are songs that have to be in the show all the time, but we

try to play some old cuts and some weird things as well.”

Mullen enjoys playing the lesser-known tracks with the hope that he can encourage new fans to look deeper into Queen’s back catalog.

“We want to show everybody that Queen [was] not just a sin-gles band,” Mullen said. “They played almost every [genre] of music. One minute it was heavy metal, the next gospel, so we try to put the show together so that we can cover the entire back cata-log in the two-hour show.”

One Night of Queen will take place at 4:30 p.m. this Sun-day at the Union Theater. Tickets are free for students with an ID.

Contact Rob Kitchen at rkitchen@lsureveille.com

If you go:What: One Night of QueenWho: Mullen and the WorksWhen: 4:30 p.m. SundayWhere: The Union TheaterPrice: Free for students with an ID

New bar to emphasize La. culture

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Gary Mullen will impersonate Queen’s Freddie Mercury on Sunday in the LSU Union Theater during The Works’ performance of One Night of Queen.

Mullen channels Freddie MercuryQueen cover band to perform SundayRob KitchenEntertainment Writer

The phrase “It’s shorts weather” has fi nally resurfaced, which means it’s time to tie an anchor to it and send it back to the shadowy depths from whence it came. It is not shorts weather, nor will it ever be — as far as style is concerned.

Don’t get me wrong — I think shorts are very refreshing and feel great when the weather’s nice, but you won’t see me wearing them to class. Shorts should be relegated to the basketball court, the beach or any other place where physical activity will happen. Otherwise,

it isn’t necessary to expose anything below the knee.

Shorts simply give off a boyish feel. It’s diffi cult to look manly in shorts, especially if they don’t fi t. Most of the time, this applies to cargo shorts. Use common sense, gentlemen — only wear cargo shorts if you’re toting cargo. They’re unnecessarily baggy and unfl attering to anyone’s fi gure.

Going too far in the other direction can be just as bad. Nobody wants to see your Lieutenant Dangle, chief.

If shorts are a must — maybe you have really sweaty calves — approach them the same way you would pants: slim, but not skin-tight, in solid colors. If shorts didn’t look young already, they’ll

make any man look like a toddler if they’re sporting a plaid pattern.

Also, as a general rule of thumb, shorts look better when cut just above the knee. This will make you look slightly taller, and a slim cut will make you look slimmer.

Lastly, my greatest warning for shorts is to avoid, at all costs, the travesty that is jorts, or jean-shorts. Just don’t.

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

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“I’m not trying to say this isn’t a big deal or we’re not looking forward to it,” he clarified. “But, you know, we’ve been a band for 21 years. We don’t really have a lot to prove going in there. Either you like our band or you don’t.”

DeMakes said he’s noticed a dwindling of ska and punk bands in recent years because, like anything else , genres get played out.

The bands that follow the latest trend or “the flavor of the month” usually fall by the wayside because they don’t follow their heart, he said. He explained this fad isn’t exclusive to the ska/punk scene and happens across the board.

However, he believes like most styles or trends, things die out and

then are resurrected years later.“Everything pops up and comes

in cycles,” he noted. “There are a lot of young kids I meet now that are starting ska bands in high school.”

Less Than Jake’s future plans consist of traveling to Europe to play shows and festivals, which DeMakes said he looks for-ward to because

they’re “much better organized.” The band is currently writing

songs for a new album and will try to make it into the recording studio in either May or June. He said the al-bum is set to release in the fall, most likely late September.

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lessons and his participation in various orchestra and chamber concerts.

“Having Mr. O’Riley at LSU has definitely been a unique expe-rience,” said piano performance se-nior Sarah Rushing. “Most schools don’t have a concert pianist in resi-dence, especially not one with such a great reputation in so many areas of music.”

O’Riley praised the School of Music for the students’ talent and drive.

“The spirit and depth and en-thusiasm of the students as well as the desire to work is very palpable. There’s a great sense of positivity,” he said.

Whether it’s through play-ing with the young musicians on NPR’s “From the Top” or working with the students here on campus, O’Riley has shown a deep respect for younger musicians throughout his career.

“I found working with Mr. O’Riley particularly gratifying be-cause he coupled his great stature as a piano virtuoso with a sincere interest and easy communication with young people like our stu-dents,” said associate professor of conducting and director of orches-tral studies Carlos Riazuelo.

O’Riley said young people now have an exciting opportu-nity to integrate the wide range of musical interests available to them through modern-day conve-niences such as the Internet. The pianist himself is no stranger to eclecticism, having released sev-eral albums of his interpretations of popular music which include Radiohead, Elliot Smith and Nick Drake.

“He plays Rachmaninoff and Radiohead equally well and con-vincingly,” Riazuelo said. “This stylistic versatility singles him out.”

O’Riley said these covers are the product of his sheer love for music. For many listeners, howev-er, these recordings serve to bridge the divide between two seemingly disparate worlds of music, intro-ducing younger listeners to the same classical music that inspired artists like Radiohead.

O’Riley’s presence at the School of Music will be missed, but the students said they won’t forget the many valuable lessons he has imparted.

“If there’s any one thing I’ve taken away from Mr. O’Riley’s teaching, it’s his attention to de-tail,” Rushing said.

She said O’Riley’s emphasis on detail, as well as the importance

he places on the individual voice of an artist, helped her to zero in on her own interpretation of Brahms’ “Op. 116,” which they worked on together.

The “Goldberg Variations” that O’Riley will be playing Mon-day night are widely considered to be the finest example of the varia-tion form, and the collection is the only piece that Bach wrote in this form.

O’Riley said the piece, origi-nally for the harpsichord, is said to have been written by Bach for a Russian ambassador to cheer him up during bouts of insomnia. He said the piece is anything but sleepy though, featuring lively, cheerful passages that convey a positive tone.

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The sequester is nothing but a game of political mudslinging that leaves the American people facedown in the pit of oozing black sludge.

Whether the $85.4 billion of across-the-board cuts — $1.2 tril-lion over 10 years — will actually have the apocalyptic effect some Washington suits claim is not the real concern. The sequester’s sole purpose is to pose such a harsh punishment that both sides of the aisle would be forced to come to-gether in agreement.

So why were Americans not relieved of this game of legisla-tive chicken?

Because Republicans didn’t want to save America of its bur-den, and President Barack Obama let them.

The sequester was conceived by some White House ideologue who actually had the audacity to believe Democrats and Repub-licans would rather come to an agreement than punish their con-stituents. The nerve of some peo-ple, huh?

For conservatives, the se-quester — which could cost as many as 2.14 million American jobs — was a win-win situation.

Either:A) The cuts actually aid the

economy, and the Grand Old Party gets bragging rights for the next half century, or

B) The cuts tank the econo-my on Obama’s watch.

I’d like to believe Republi-cans thought the former option would be the case.

However, after seeing a slew

of Internet attack ads geared toward connecting House and Senate Democrats to the cuts and every Republican speak-ing in the past month doing so in front of billboards with the phrase “Obamaquester,” all signs point to the latter. Republicans wouldn’t connect the sequester with their political opponents if they thought it would work.

Republicans proposed legis-lation that would give some direc-tion to the cuts instead of letting them run bull-in-a-china-shop-style through half of Washington.

True, but it was nothing more than political gesturing that con-servatives knew no Democrat would touch. This way, Republi-cans get to say they at least tried while the president played the

blame game.House Republicans proposed

a plan that cuts revenue without raising taxes, but the main act of the Toomey-Inhofe Bill’s political song-and-dance slashes Obama’s healthcare bill along with a slew of other entitlement programs.

Obama and his party have to begin seeing entitlement reform as a reasonable inevitability in-stead of the first knot in the noose. However, drastic cuts would be the party’s executioner.

The proposal also suggested Obama hand-selected which cuts would take place. However, re-strictions in the bill limited the areas of the budget the president could cut.

This would be the equivalent of Obama volunteering for the

firing squad. It would put the en-tirety of blame from the cuts on his face alone with every single department included beginning an offensive in battleground states from sea to shining sea — all the while the GOP sits back and says, “Hey, we didn’t make the cuts.”

Even Republican Sen. John McCain criticized the bill for giv-ing congressional budgetary pow-ers to the executive branch.

The only proposal anywhere near the center of the aisle was the Simpson-Bowles plan that called for $2.4 trillion in deficit reduc-tion over the next decade — about three-fourths coming from spend-ing cuts and another $600 billion in revenue increases — as well as moderate reforms to healthcare and the reduction or elimination

of certain tax breaks.One of the biggest disap-

pointments in the entire debacle was Obama’s utter lack of ex-ecutive leadership within his own party.

He clearly thought Repub-licans would agree to anything rather than allow cuts to the mili-tary. And when they didn’t, he froze. What’s worse is he began to try and align the sequester with Republicans instead of trying to fix the problem.

Congress should have been locked in the chamber for a month before these cuts actually took ef-fect.

Republican leaders shouldn’t have been given the opportunity to skip town to avoid a vote. The heating in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office should have been turned to Sub-Saharan be-fore this punishment came to frui-tion.

What’s worse is Reid limited both parties to only one proposal each. I’m sorry, but isn’t the point of a democracy to have choices? Maybe there’s more than one idea that could be beneficial to our economic crisis.

Why is America being pun-ished because 535 men and wom-en in Washington can’t agree on anything?

Because 535 men and women in Washington care more about watching their opponents lose than seeing America win.

Mike Gegenheimer is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from New Orleans.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., leaves a news conference Feb. 26 after answering questions on the looming automatic spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington. Reid also responded to House Speaker John Boehner who used salty language earlier in the day to prod the Senate to act on legislation to replace the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester.

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Here is House Budget Chair-man Paul Ryan’s new budget pro-posal in one sentence: Implement the same ideas that he and Mitt Romney campaigned on for the presidency in 2012.

It contains the same misguid-ed and destructive budget poli-cies Americans cast their ballots against four months ago — im-posing huge burdens on seniors, the poor and children, while mas-sively slashing taxes for the rich.

Specifically, Ryan’s plan would cut taxes by approximately $4.6 trillion, with most of those tax cuts helping those that earn $200,000 or more in annual in-come, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

His plan would cut projected spending growth over the next decade by roughly $5 trillion, primarily focusing on Medicare, Medicaid and food assistance programs.

In effect, Ryan’s proposals are Robin Hood in reverse, as it is increasingly clear he intends to balance our national deficit by disproportionately burdening the poor.

While we do indeed have a $1 trillion deficit, the question is: What’s the appropriate type of action we should take from

this figure?What Ryan and Republicans

want you to believe is that our current deficit warrants immedi-ate action, as they believe it is in-dicative of America’s unsustain-able fiscal position.

Mostly, they scaremonger about the possibility of an “immi-nent” debt crisis similar to that of Greece, although they have been predicting this exact type of sce-nario for years and it keeps failing to come to fruition.

In fact, the U.S. is experienc-ing the complete opposite of a debt crisis.

The yields on government bonds are at historic lows, which is essentially the cost of borrow-ing money. This is a result of both domestic and foreign investors flooding into the market to pur-chase our debt.

Obviously, this would not be the case if people were actually concerned about the full faith and credit of the United States.

Ryan and Republicans real-ize this, so they’re marching to the beat of a different drum: Now, they use the deficit to argue that we can’t afford essential govern-ment programs like Social Secu-rity, Medicare and Medicaid.

This, as I mentioned earlier, completely corresponds with the Ryan Budget, as the bulk of his savings comes from slashing entitlement programs.

It’s important to understand how wrong this notion is.

The U.S. has a long-term

budget problem as a result of an aging society and the skyrocket-ing cost of healthcare.

However, the current deficit is not at all a consequence of our aforementioned problem. More importantly, it has nothing to with the viability of our entitlement programs.

Rather, the current deficit mainly reflects how terrible our

unemployment situation is.With massive unemploy-

ment rates since the recession, the U.S. has had to temporarily increase spending because more people qualify for unemployment insurance and other governmental programs like food stamps and Medicaid.

On top of this, the newly un-employed are no longer paying

payroll, federal or state income taxes, so we have far less revenue coming in.

In reality, what we need to fix the deficit is a solid economic re-covery that puts more Americans back to work.

Unfortunately, however, Ry-an’s plan will do nothing of the sort.

The considerable spending cuts contained in his plan will undoubtedly place a huge damper on economic growth, possibly sending us back into a recession.

What Ryan’s budget intends to do is fundamentally change the role government plays in Ameri-ca, which is exactly what he and Romney would have tried to ac-complish had they succeeded in the 2012 presidential election.

But they didn’t. Americans voted for the other guy, because they obviously thought he had better ideas.

So when hearing talk of Ryan’s budget plan, you should take it for what it is: yet another deceitful bid by the Republican Party to shift public opinion into getting rid of essential govern-ment programs that protect poor and middle-class Americans.

Jay Meyers is a 20-year-old economics sophomore from Shreveport.

Paul’s 13-hour filibuster should shame liberals

SHARE THE WEALTHJAY MEYERSColumnist

Contact Jay Meyers at jmeyers@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_jmeyers

Democrats during the Bush administration championed them-selves as defenders of freedom and civil liberties.

The Patriot Act was widely vilified by liberals at the time; the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretap program was considered a great offense and ex-traordinary rendition was abhor-rent.

Then President Barack Obama was elected.

Almost overnight, discus-sions about civil liberties and the growing powers of the executive branch came to a halt in Congress.

Last week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tried to bring these issues back in focus.

Paul’s 13-hour filibuster of now-CIA Director John Bren-nan’s nomination highlighted the extreme powers held by the executive branch since 9/11. He asked the president if it was legal to use a drone to assassinate an American on U.S. soil. In one

day, Paul referenced drones more than Congress ever has, according to The Atlantic.

Attorney General Eric Hold-er had previously responded to Paul’s questioning, stating while there is no plan to use weaponized drones on U.S. soil, there may be an “extraordinary circumstance” which would “authorize the mili-tary to use lethal force” within the country. Holder later told Paul it was not possible to assassinate an American non-combatant with a drone.

It’s easy to hear that and think “that’s reasonable,” but this is a legal issue, and anyone famil-iar with law knows vague terms like “extraordinary circumstance” need reasonable definitions to be understood.

Already, the administration has used vague legal terms to jus-tify the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen and radical cleric. The most offensive was its definition of what consti-tuted an “imminent threat.”

In a paper released just last month, the administration claimed the condition that a ter-rorist leader who poses an “immi-nent threat ... does not require the United States to have clear

evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate fu-ture.”

And it’s widely known that “militants” killed by the admin-istration’s overseas drone strikes are simply “all military-aged males in a strike zone,” regardless of innocence.

Yet that didn’t stop The Washington Post’s editorial board from calling Paul “paranoid” for being unhappy with Holder’s an-swer, nor MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell from making similar claims of paranoia about Paul’s “wild imaginings.”

However, the issue was never the immediate threat of a drone strike on American soil, and any-one who frames it that way is cre-ating a straw man.

The issue is about the danger of giving the president the power to assassinate American citizens he or she accuses of being a ter-rorist without any oversight. The issue is about what the long-term effects of this power might be in a seemingly indefinite war against an abstract. The issue is about what this precedent sets for a future president who may not be quite as subdued.

Nonetheless, many liberals rallied around these ad hominem attacks and red herrings about Paul’s other policies (many of which I don’t agree with either).

So quickly, liberal Democrats have assumed the role Republi-cans held during Bush’s presi-dency.

I remember when criticism of the Patriot Act and the warrant-less wiretaps were based around accusations of paranoia. The old adage “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” was thrown around often as an at-tempt to criticize those fearful of over-reaching executive power.

Paul’s filibuster flipped this scenario, showing the true colors of Democrats as spineless parti-sans lacking in any sort of con-viction.

It’s as though liberal elites, from the intelligentsia to the me-dia, have become so enamored by Obama they’ve gotten tunnel vi-sion.

Here’s a president who is in-telligent and articulate, who can make the country look better in the eyes of the world and who is progressive on social issues.

Nevermind that Obama hasn’t done all that much with

social issues, nevermind that “Obamacare” was a Heritage Foundation plan and nevermind that his foreign policy and love of secrecy is straight out of Bush’s playbook.

Even Brennan, the nominee so vigorously defended, endorsed torture under Bush, supported the FISA Amendments Act and led the drone program.

Of course, there are outliers like Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who had made seven attempts over two years to see the White House’s legal backing for drones. And Monday, House Democrats demanded the Obama administra-tion that release information on its use of drone strikes.

However, the Democrats need to do more in order to win back the civil liberties crowd.

They need to grow a pair and stand up to the president.

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

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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of the 2014 Budget Resolution on Tuesday as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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own stamp on the job.“Whichever cardinal gets elect-

ed pope, they all share a common set of values, a common set of under-standings,” Stine said.

Stine stressed the signifi cance of Bergoglio choosing the name Francis , a reference to St. Francis of Assisi .

St. Francis of Assisi , the patron saint of animals, merchants and ecol-ogy , was a spiritual reformer with a humble lifestyle, Stine said, and the new pope’s name choice refl ects his dedication to this ideal.

International trade and

fi nance senior and outreach minister at Christ the King Ben Domingue agreed that the selection of a non-European pope is a good thing.

“It’s not just a bunch of old white men who sit up in the church in Rome,” Domingue said.

Domingue said he is pleased Francis will be the church’s fi rst Je-suit pope because they are consid-ered the “thinkers” of the Catholic faith.

“A lot of people think science and reason are real and that Catholi-cism and religion are fairytales,” Domingue said. “Faith and reason line up with the Jesuits.”

Katie Richard , mass

communication junior , called the selection of a pope with a non-Euro-pean background necessary, saying Francis’ Latin American background could help to revitalize and rekindle the “fi re of faith” because Latin American Catholics’ faith tends to be so powerful.

“St. Francis is so humble and so loving, and that was referenced in the fi rst fi ve minutes of the fi rst words the pope spoke,” Richard said. “I think it was just perfect.”

budget titled statutory dedications, said Council for a Better Louisiana President Barry Erwin.

“I’ve been here a long time and haven’t ever seen a budget construct-ed like this,” said Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins . “It’s really different.”

When statutory dedications are added to a department’s budget, the money is considered one-time mon-ey because it’s not part of the general fund, which is made up of annual, recurring money funded by taxpayer dollars, Erwin said.

About $348 million within statutory dedications depends on contracts being signed, sales being made and other processes that could potentially not happen, rendering whatever money falls through un-available for use in the higher educa-tion budget, said LSU System Chief Financial Offi cer Wendy Simoneaux.

Simoneaux said non-recurring funds present two problems: what the budget will look like next year, and if the money will come through.

“We believe that the reforms we have proposed have value in their own right, and we also believe it’s important to utilize available dollars to protect higher education – they are dollars that can be used just like General Fund, and we have every confi dence that they will be avail-able,” said assistant commissioner for Policy and Communications in the Division of Administration Mi-chael DiResto in an email.

Simoneaux said the Board of Regents has not traditionally used non-recurring funds in the funding

formula, but it is including the mon-ey out of necessity.

There are too many moving parts to know where they are with the budget and allocations right now, Simoneaux said.

“Usually, the Board of Regents only allocates to campuses from recurring money, but this year sig-nifi cantly more of our budget is from one-time funds,” Simoneaux said. “The problem is: how do you allo-cate money that might not be there?”

If the money doesn’t materi-alize, universities would receive a midyear budget cut to compensate, Simoneaux said.

“Things have to happen before we get that money,” Simoneaux said. “If these things don’t go through, the whole state isn’t going to share in that non-funding, it would just be higher education. If it doesn’t mate-rialize, it comes from us.”

However, even if all the non-general fund money does material-ize, the amount used in the funding formula will decline $85 million from the previous fi scal year, a de-crease of 14.6 percent , according to Board of Regents documents.

“As long as you’re rearrang-ing dollars to fi ll a hole, you’ll have the same problem next year,” Erwin said. “This is not a good thing, and they did the same thing last year. We’ve been cutting and cutting ev-ery year, and it’s gotten tighter and tighter.”

University leaders say they ex-pect the Board of Regents to deter-mine university appropriations soon.

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BUDGET, from page 1 POPE, from page 1

Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com

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