Election season began with an offi cial announcement from the Ex-perience LSU ticket, but fewer signs from The Next Step ticket.

Presidential candidate Christian Coleman and vice presidential can-didate Ashleigh Pichon of the Expe-rience LSU ticket discussed several initiatives at their ticket announce-ment Thursday afternoon. They proposed a new seating area at Alex Box Stadium called the “bump at the box” that would allow students to so-cialize and sit at an outfi eld mound at the baseball games.

Members of the Experience LSU ticket also discussed urging a pre-law program to Academic Af-fairs for interested students. Pichon said if there is pre-nursing, then there should be pre-law.

The ticket presented an idea to have a Fitness Friday on the Parade Ground, which could give students the opportunity to rent out equip-ment from the UREC.

Members of Experience LSU want to connect more with external University campuses, such as Alex-andria, Shreveport, Eunice and the LSU Health Center in New Orleans to collaborate and share ideas.

The candidates stressed the need

to clean up the University’s campus by creating a litter campaign.

“Facility Services would be used on other aspects to beautify oth-er buildings and make other parts of campus look better,” Coleman said.

The ticket aims to continue the initiative of a Tailored Tiger pro-gram, which would provide students with business attire in the new career center.

The Next Step ticket did not publicly announce its candidacy Thursday, but its members tentative-ly plan to make an offi cial announce-ment Monday afternoon.

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OPINION: Read the � nal installment of Jana King’s racism series, p. 8

TIGER BAND

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LSU rode hot 3-point shooting to a 68-56 win Thursday against Alabama, advancing to the quarter� nals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.

St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland will give Louisiana Mardi Gras a run for its money, as the Tiger Band seeks to add a little pur-ple and gold to Dublin’s green festivities.

The Tiger Band planned to leave early this morning to em-bark on its international trip. The band will perform Monday in Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

The band will return Tues-day, with some students having the option to stay an extra day.

King said the trip marks the fi rst time the Tiger Band will perform outside the country.

Roy King, director of ath-letic bands, said the total expense of the trip amounted to roughly $750,000, with $100,000 of the funds supplied by former Uni-versity football player, Ralph McIngvale.

The rest of the funding came from the Athletic Department and various supporters, King said.

“No state funds were used,” King said.

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STORY Michael Tarver · Contributing Writer

Lo u i s i a n a mud bugs

have played a major role in the cultural develop-ment of south Loui-siana’s traditional menu, and many Louisiana natives continue to look forward to

crawfi sh season each year. The consumption of craw-

fi sh dates back to Native Ameri-cans and early European settlers, most abundantly in the swamp

and marsh regions of South Louisiana. However, the com-mercial sales of crawfi sh began in the late 1800s.

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tion of crawfi sh in Louisiana per capita is 22.5 pounds.

This means the state produces enough crawfi sh for each of the state’s 4.6 million

residents to eat about 22 pounds each year.

Acadia Parish produces ap-proximately 27.5 million pounds

each year, making it the highest-producing area in Louisiana, ac-cording to statistics published by the LSU AgCenter.

Many local restaurants are beginning to sell boiled crawfi sh, despite the cold weather that has hindered the start of crawfi sh season.

Patrick Foy, front of the house manager at Parrain’s Seafood Restaurant, said the

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DENVER (AP) — Some people convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana can ask for those convictions to be thrown out under the law that legalized recre-ational marijuana in Colorado, the state’s second-highest court ruled Thursday.

The Colorado Court of Appeals said people whose cases were under appeal when Amendment 64 on rec-reational marijuana took effect in December 2012 are eligible to have their convictions reversed.

Brian Vicente, one of the amendment’s authors, called the ruling a “huge victory.” Vicente said Colorado prosecuted as many as 9,000 cases a year for marijuana possession. After pot was decrimi-nalized, a number of appeals were still in the courts.

Tom Raynes, director of the Colorado District Attorneys’ Coun-cil, said it would be diffi cult to quickly pin down how many cases would be affected by the ruling, but he believed the number would be small.

Attorney General John Suthers said his offi ce likely would appeal, noting it is well-established that

laws cannot be applied retroactively unless lawmakers or voters clearly indicate they should be.

“That was not the case with Amendment 64,” Suthers said in a statement.

The ruling came in the case of Brandi Jessica Russell, who was convicted in Grand County of pos-sessing one gram or less of metham-phetamine, possession of marijuana

concentrate and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

Her attorney, Brian Emeson, said Thursday the ruling is another indication the “tide is turning” on the nationwide attitude toward pos-session of small amounts of pot.

Emeson said he still handles a number of marijuana appeals, which shows prosecutors have not backed off.

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(AP) — Rapper Torence “Lil Boosie” Hatch has been ordered to perform 100 hours of community service in New Orleans as part of his four-year probation term stem-ming from a 2009 guilty plea to a marijuana possession charge.

The Advocate reports Hatch appeared Thursday before state District Judge Chip Moore, his fi rst court appearance since his re-lease from state prison last week.

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reports Moore con-gratulated Hatch for obtaining his GED while serving four years and four months in prison. Baton Rouge attorney Lewis Unglesby noted Hatch also had completed programs in substance abuse, an-ger management, parenting and victim awareness.

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A pro Russia protestor throws a stone Thursday at a police bus in which pro Ukraine protestors are sheltering during clashes in Donetsk, Ukraine.

INTERNATIONAL

Violence in Ukraine kills oneSIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted new military maneuvers near its border with Ukraine on Thursday, and Presi-dent Vladimir Putin said the world shouldn’t blame his country for what he called Ukraine’s “internal crisis.”

In Crimea, where the public will vote Sunday whether to break away from Ukraine and become part of Russia, jittery residents lined up at their banks to withdraw cash from their accounts amid un-certainty over the future of the

peninsula, which Russian troops now control.

In the eastern Donetsk region, violent clashes between pro-Russia demonstrators and supporters of the Ukrainian government left at least one person dead.

“These people are afraid their bank will collapse and no one wants to lose their money,” said resident Tatiana Sivukhina. “Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow.”

In Berlin, German Chancel-lor Angela Merkel sharply criti-cized Russia, saying the territo-rial integrity of Ukraine cannot be compromised.

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During a period of change and expansion of campus infrastructure, complaints about parking will always persist, said Gary Graham, director of University Parking, Traffic and Transportation.

Graham said in spite of on-going construction and events throughout a vast campus, “there is plenty of parking, it’s just a matter of being aware of the situation.”

Students have voiced their feel-ings regarding the inconvenience and congestion of parking around campus.

Emily Sullivan, interdisciplin-ary studies sophomore, said she knows students who never use com-muter lots because of their location. Riding a bike or parking off cam-pus can be more feasible because commuter lots are on the outskirts of campus, away from classes, she said.

Union Square Parking Ga-rage, complete in March of 2013 for $22.5 million, contains near-ly 300 spaces specified for stu-dent commuters in the heart of campus, Graham said.

“A lot of students still don’t know that it is open for them.”

The cost for a student commuter to park in the garage for one year is $330, Graham said. A regular stu-dent parking permit costs $165 for one year.

To some students, these figures are too high.

Julia Castro, finance sopho-more, said parking for the year is not affordable, especially when consid-ering most lots are inconveniently located.

Resident parking comes with some setbacks as well, Castro said. When living at South Hall last year, Castro said she often could not park in the North PMAC lot, the lot clos-est to her dorm, because of athletic events at the PMAC or Carl Maddox Field House.

“We paid for that space. We had a pass just for that space,” Castro said.

The North PMAC lot was built as a commuter lot of-ten used for athletic events, Graham said. The Residential Col-lege, which includes South Hall, was built over a portion of the lot. What remained became resi-dent parking. Therefore Parking, Traffic and Transportation has a prior obligation to athletes and fans.

Congested parking on campus varies from place to place, but stu-dents said the UREC and sorority houses are particularly crowded.

This area, composed of the UREC “X” lot, available to all pass-es, and the Greek lot, available to those with the appropriate parking pass, is “always full,” Castro said.

The University is not sub-ject to the city regulation requir-ing one parking space for every 100 square feet of building space, said Sherif Ishak, civil engineering

undergraduate program coordinator. This could explain the crowds.

The UREC expansion slated to begin this summer will add 400 park-ing spaces, which should help the situation, Graham said. Furthermore, the four-way stop in front of the Uni-versity Press Building and the Zeta Tau Alpha house has helped control traffic in the back of the Greek lot.

Ishak said issues could arise with parking at Patrick F. Taylor dur-ing its expansion. The expansion will make faculty parking on the west side of the building unavailable. This will push faculty to the lot on Nich-olson Extension, where many com-muting students currently park.

“Parking is certainly an is-sue and should be addressed by the University,” Ishak said.

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Young Frankenstein - Baton Rouge Little TheaterFriday Night Lecture Series - Highland Road Park ObservatoryCirque du Soleil: Varekai - Baton Rouge River Center

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Louie’s Cafe will move this summer to the old Wendy’s build-ing on State Street, Louie’s owner Jimmy Wetherford told The Daily Reveille on Thursday.

Parking at the current location, which is just down the street from Wendy’s, is cramped and inconve-nient for the restaurant’s many pa-trons. The move means more park-ing and seating space, Wetherford said, which he hopes will attract

more business. Wetherford said the new Lou-

ie’s location will retain the signature atmosphere, an open kitchen bor-dered by a counter and stools, that has made it an icon of the LSU area.

Louie’s has operated in its current building since 1986. It was first opened in 1941, making it the second-oldest restaurant in Baton Rouge.

Louie’s Cafe to relocate this summer

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PARKING BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Students, faculty voice their opinionsLyle ManionContributing Writer

The University passed the most recent phase of reaffirming its ac-creditation this week, after an on-campus review by the Southern As-sociation of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, said Jane Cassidy, vice provost for academic affairs.

SACSCOC, the body that grants accreditations to colleges and uni-versities in the South, sent 10 mem-bers to the University on Tuesday to review the imple-mentation of under-graduate research and speak with stu-dents, administra-tors and faculty.

The team left Thursday morning with only one rec-ommendation for the University as it heads into the next step in renew-ing its accreditation, said Gil Reeve, vice provost for academic programs, planning and review.

Reeve said the SACSCOC team’s only recommendation for the University to work on was its pro-cess of an annual evaluation of the school’s chancellor, something that

has not yet been accomplished be-cause LSU President F. King Alex-ander has only been at the University since last June.

“It’s like a hurdle race,” Reeve said, and the next hurdle is to sub-mit a report showing how the recom-mendation was handled. Reeve said the school’s reaffirmation complete-ly occurs in December of this year.

Preparations for reaffirmation of accreditation began in 2011 with a committee working to make sure the University fulfilled all require-ments set by the SACSCOC. The University’s funding and students’ ability to obtain grants and financial aid depended partly on the outcome of their visit, said Randy Duran, director of the University Office

of Undergraduate Research.

The 98 require-ments, or standards, set by the SAC-SCOC involved ev-ery single thing that makes the school run, from the pro-

cesses used to make decisions re-garding classes and degrees to how administration works, Cassidy said.

The University completed a compliance report of all of the stan-dards set and submitted them to SACSCOC in September. The report was then sent back with 17 recom-mendations for change, which were reevaluated during their visit this

week, Reeve said. “It’s a really great day for LSU,”

Cassidy said, adding the SACSCOC team’s reviews were very positive.

Reeve said he thinks the Uni-versity is in good standing to receive a full reaffirmation in December.

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UNIVERSITY

Reaffirmation completes in Dec.Deanna NarvesonStaff Writer

Stifl ed by both double and tri-ple teams throughout the fi rst half of LSU’s Southeastern Conference tournament opener against Ala-bama, LSU junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III couldn’t shoulder the offensive load.

With their offensive pillar stagnated, the shaky Tiger offense searched for a spark.

It got two.Senior forward Shavon Cole-

man buried fi ve 3-pointers, while freshman guard Tim Quarterman

came off the bench to post a career-high 12 points, leading the Tigers to a 68-56 victory against the Crimson Tide in Atlanta.

“We’ve been seeing a lot in Tim [Quarterman],” Coleman said. “He’s been coming out having great practice. He’s been working hard. I had a good feeling he was going to come out and give us some great minutes.”

The Tigers exploited the Crim-son Tide’s 2-3 zone to the tune of 50 percent shooting, including 11-of-22 from 3-point land. The 11 3-pointers were a season high for the Tigers (19-12, 10-9 SEC)

The win sends LSU into a quarterfi nal matchup with No. 2 seed Kentucky — the third meeting between the two this season.

Quarterman sparked a crucial

17-3 run over the last 8:21 of the fi rst half, creating separation from an Alabama squad that started the game hot from behind the 3-point line.

The Savannah, Ga., native subbed into the game with 7:41 to go and the Tigers down a point. He went to work immediately, streak-ing to the basket for a layup off a designed inbounds play to give LSU its fi rst lead since the 11:44 mark.

After O’Bryant notched a la-yup on the Tigers’ next posses-sion then corralled a missed Tide jumper, Quarterman splashed home a 3-pointer from the wing to push LSU’s lead to six.

He went on to score four of the Tigers’ next eight points,

When LSU junior Aaron Nola and Vanderbilt junior Tyler Beede meet in Nash-ville, Tenn., tonight, it will be a “Goliath vs. Goliath” scenario in every sense.

It’s the sort of meeting major league scouts drool about.

Last season, Nola fi nished 12-1 with a 1.57 ERA, 122 strikeouts and fi ve complete games.

Beede had a 14-1 campaign with a 2.32 ERA and 103 strikeouts in 101 innings pitched.

“There’s no question that you’re talking about two of the very top college pitchers in

the country,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “There will probably be 100 professional scouts there, and there could be half a dozen general managers there because you’re talking about two pitchers that should be in the top 10 picks.”

Both Nola and Beede share similar stories during their respective college careers — both were thrown into the starting rotation during their freshman campaigns, and it wasn’t un-til their sophomore seasons that they became

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AND AWAY WE GOVanderbilt junior Tyler Beede meet in Nash-ville, Tenn., tonight, it will be a “Goliath vs. Goliath” scenario in every sense.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

LSU rides hot distance shooting to 68-56 victoryKentucky awaits Tigers in quartersChandler RomeSports Writer

WIN, see page 7

BATTLE OF THE BEST

Alabama forward Shannon Hale (11) and LSU forward Jarell Martin (12) watch a loose ball Thursday during the Tigers’ 68-56 victory against Alabama in the second round of the Southeastern Conference men’s tournament.

TRACK AND FIELD

Six Lady Tigers to compete at NCAAsMen’s relay team looks for goldTaylor CuretSports Contributor

The LSU Track and Field pro-gram brings distinct goals — indi-vidual and team — into the 2014 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships beginning today.

For the No. 8 Lady Tigers, ex-tending their streak of four-straight third place fi nishes at the indoor fi na-le would surpass their expectations. In 2013, the Lady Tigers qualifi ed 10 athletes, and then-senior Kimberlyn Duncan made history by becoming the fi rst sprinter, male or female, to win three-straight NCAA Indoor gold medals.

In 2014, the Lady Tigers head to Albuquerque, N.M., with six qualifi -ers and an understanding that match-ing the achievements of recent years is too high a bar to reach at this point in their development.

“I think it’d be unrealistic to look for a top-5 fi nish,” said LSU Track and Field coach Dennis Shav-er. “We’d be excited if this group could pull together and create a top-10 fi nish. … Just getting there is a great achievement for them.”

Individually, a few Lady Tigers are looking to contend for a national championship by improving on their

NCAAs, see page 7

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LSU picther Aaron Nola [left] faces Vanderbilt pitcher Tyler Beede [right] tonight in Nashville, Tenn., as the No. 8 Tigers take on the No. 7 Commodores in LSU’s � rst SEC series of the season.

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A score of 197.500 is quite the accomplishment in collegiate gym-nastics. Only eight squads in the nation have reached that mark, and only fi ve have done so on multiple occasions. No. 1 LSU (9-3, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) leads the nation in the category with six.

But the Tigers weren’t too thrilled with their latest 197.500, which came in their most recent victory against North Carolina State last Friday. Instead, junior Rheagan Courville, who claimed her sixth all-around title of the sea-son against the Wolfpack, said the score was underwhelming for the team, but it perhaps proves how talented the squad is.

“I think coming out of it, if we can say a 197.500 is a medio-cre meet for us, then we’re really on the right track,” Courville said. “That just goes to show everybody that if we can still get such a high score without our best performanc-es, we have a lot more to come.”

LSU will look to refi ne any remaining blunders when it hosts SEC opponent Kentucky (9-9, 2-4 SEC) on Senior Night tonight in the PMAC.

The meet is the fi nal contest of the regular season for the Tigers, who have scored at least a 197 in eight consecutive meets, tying the school record set in 2004.

With the SEC championships eight days away, senior specialist Sarie Morrison, who claimed her school-record 28th bars crown on Friday, expects to see a more en-thusiastic and focused mindset

from the entire squad against the Wildcats.

“With the postseason coming up, I think it’ll bring a whole new energy level,” Morrison said. “I think that as a team, the focus was a little bit off [against NC State]. All we need to do is just be us.”

If the Tigers look on what they’ve accomplished this season, they shouldn’t have trouble re-claiming their confi dence and re-turning to form against Kentucky. LSU has scored a 197 nine times this season, a school record that’s tied for the most in the nation this season.

The program’s historic scor-ing has led to a No. 1 ranking all three weeks the regional qualifying scores (RQS) have been in effect.

But Friday is LSU’s fi nal op-portunity to build momentum be-fore postseason begins March 22, so coach D-D Breaux decided it was best to amp up the intensity this week in practice.

“[We’re] going to try to put more pressure on them in prac-tice and try to make it a little bit tougher to succeed, to do the as-signment and be successful so that their minds get a little bit sharper,” Breaux said.

There’s also a strategic reason why LSU needs to have a quick bounce back tonight against the Wildcats. In the conference cham-pionships next week, the top four seeds will be based on the RQS rankings.

If the Tigers out-score or equal conference rival Florida tonight, they will maintain their grip on the No. 1 spot, which means they would start on vault and end on

fl oor in the SEC championships. Vault and fl oor are the squad’s two best events, where they rank No. 1 and No. 3 in the nation, with an RQS of 49.545 and 49.490, respectively.

But if LSU has a repeat perfor-mance of last week and the Gators score big for the second consecu-tive meet, the Tigers could lose the top seed.

With so much to focus on, there are six Tiger gymnasts whose minds are bound to be racing with emotions. Though NCAA region-als will be held in the PMAC, this is the last home dual meet for the seniors on this year’s squad: Ka-leigh Dickson, Casey Duvall, Lain-ie Fleming, Mckenzie Fox, Maliah Mathis and Morrison.

“I never really thought that it would be my turn to have senior night because it seemed so far-fetched,” Morrison said. “It’s ex-citing to go out with a team like this on such strong terms. To have all the people who support us and the fans, I couldn’t ask for a better atmosphere to be in senior night.”

But this isn’t the end, Dick-son said, because the team has had a bigger prize in mind this entire season.

“It’s not going to be over un-til NCAAs,” Dickson said. “There will defi nitely be a lot of emotions during the night, but we’re going to work on doing our best perfor-mances for the team, each one of us seniors.”

GYMNASTICS

LSU looks to reenergize in � naleDavid GraySports Contributor

Contact David Gray at dgray@lsureveille.com

SOFTBALL

Tigers take on top-ranked Gators

Southeastern Conference soft-ball comes to Baton Rouge this weekend for the fi rst time this sea-son, but unfortunately for LSU, so is No. 1 Florida.

The Tigers (17-8) opened SEC play last weekend with a series loss to Auburn, and to bounce back, they’ll have to contend with the top-ranked Gators (26-1).

“We’ve shown that we can play with anyone,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “It is a matter of being con-sistent with that performance. We have shown that we are capable of it. Now we just have to go out and do it on a regular basis.”

LSU is 2-5 against ranked teams this season, its two wins coming against top 15 opponents in Wash-ington and Stanford.

Senior outfi elder Jacee Blades said the opportunity to play against top ranked competition like Florida fuels the team to play harder.

To pull the upset, LSU’s rota-tion must bounce back after its shaky performance against Auburn, where the rotation combined to allow 19 walks and tallied only 12 strikeouts in three games.

“We just can’t give up a walk then a big hit like a home run because that happened numerous times,” said freshman pitcher Kelsee Selman. “The main thing [Torina] told us was to stay confi dent.”

Limiting mistakes will be cru-cial against Florida’s lineup, which features junior pitcher and fi rst base-man Lauren Haeger, who leads the SEC with nine home runs.

While Haeger is the highlight of the Gators’ offense, Florida’s lineup as a whole leads the SEC in batting average and is tied for second in total home runs with 32.

Sophomore second baseman Kelsey Stewart, senior third base-man Stephanie Tofft, sophomore outfi elder Kirsti Merritt and Haeger have combined to hit 114 RBIs so far this season.

LSU’s power hitters sophomore shortstop Bianka Bell and freshman catcher Sahvanna Jaquish are close behind with six home runs each.

Florida has a similar makeup of speed and power in its lineup. The Gators rank second in stolen bases in the SEC, falling only one steal short of LSU, which leads the conference.

LSU junior outfi elder A.J. An-drews leads the conference in stolen bases with 21-22 the season.

The Tigers’ lineup must be con-sistently productive, which will re-lieve some pressure off of the pitch-ing rotation.

The combination of speed and power in the lineup will play a key role against a Florida rotation that averages a 1.15 ERA.

“They don’t make mistakes,” Torina said. “They do everything well. They are going to swing well. They really have solid pitching. I think that is probably their greatest strength this year.”

First pitch of game one is set for 6 p.m. tonight at Tiger Park.

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Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships performances from a week ago.

Senior Jasmin Stowers enters the weekend as the No. 2 athlete in the 60-meter hurdles after sprinting to a season-best time of 8.01 sec-onds and a silver medal at the SEC Indoors.

Joining Stowers are three ath-letes who notched lifetime bests at the SEC Indoors last weekend, in-cluding senior weight thrower De-nise Hinton, senior triple jumper Lynnika Pitts and senior 800-meter runner Nikita Tracey.

Tracey will also headline LSU’s 4x400-meter relay team, which in-cludes sophomore Chanice Chase and freshmen Bealoved Brown and Jada Martin.

Long jumper Nataliyah Friar is the only Lady Tiger freshman to qualify individually for this

weekend’s meet.“I think that’s just a tremendous

achievement for a freshman to get into this meet,” Shaver said. “You just have to take it like it’s just an-other track meet even though it’s re-ally not. … What we always try to get them to do is just take the same approach that you took with the per-formance that you achieved to get there.”

Four Tigers round out the 10 qualifi ers that will represent LSU at the two-day event beginning Friday at Albuquerque Convention Center. And all four of those Tigers will be competing in a 400-meter event.

LSU juniors Vernon Norwood and Quincy Downing and sopho-more Darrell Bush join Florida as the only two schools to qualify three run-ners in a fi eld of 16 for the 400-meter dash. Norwood leads the No. 20 Ti-gers after sprinting to a career-best, and third-fastest time in the NCAA, 45.39 mark to fi nish third place at the

SEC Indoors.While having several athletes

in the same event makes it tough for LSU to generate points as a team, Shaver said it speaks volumes about the Tigers’ sprint group.

“It just goes to show that that’s obviously the strength right now dur-ing the indoor season of our men’s program, is the 400 meter guys,” Shaver said. “They’ve just done an excellent job. And along with that, they also had the opportunity to run great 4x400 times.”

Sophomore Cyril Grayson com-pletes LSU’s 4x400-meter relay.

The Tigers’ biggest competition are two teams they faced in College Station, Texas, one weekend ago. The 4x400-meter relay teams of SEC Indoor Champion Texas A&M and runner-up Florida are ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.

punctuated by an emphatic putback dunk to send the Tigers to the locker room with a 35-24 advantage.

“[Quarterman] was the differ-ence in the game,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones in his postgame radio interview. “He came in and made some huge plays that set the tone for us. Our guys were able to feed off that and never looked back.”

O’Bryant found room to breathe in the second half, using spin moves and drop steps to break away from the Alabama defense to hit 3-of-4 from the fi eld and score seven of his 11 points.

“Give credit to Johnny, he didn’t

force anything,” Jones said. “[Ala-bama] did a great job of doubling down and being very aggressive with their traps on him. Johnny did an ex-cellent job after that initial trap they set on him. … He did a good job of getting that ball out of there.”

The Crimson Tide scored the fi rst fi ve points of the second half to trim LSU’s lead to six — the closest Alabama would get the rest of the way.

After O’Bryant split a pair of free throws, freshman forward Jar-ell Martin ripped off fi ve straight points to push the lead back to 10. The teams traded baskets for a while thereafter, but the Crimson Tide were never able to get the defi cit less

than eight. Coleman and senior guard An-

dre Stringer hit consecutive 3-point-ers with just less than fi ve minutes to go, pushing the lead to 15 and sow-ing up the victory that sends the Ti-gers into familiar territory against the Wildcats.

“We have to go out and make sure that we’re probably playing one of our better games all year,” Jones said. “Kentucky will come in and they will have an edge about them-selves tomorrow and we’re just go-ing to have to play well.”

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forces on the mound.So far in 2014, the juniors have

put on a solid fi rst act in each’s fi nal collegiate audition before expect-edly heading to the pro level after this season.

In four starts, Nola is 4-0, sur-rendering only 11 hits and record-ing 36 strikeouts in 27 innings pitched. The Baton Rouge native has yet to give up an earned run this season. The last time he sur-rendered an earned run was last season’s SEC Tournament game against Arkansas.

Beede is almost a mirror image.

The Auburn, Mass., native has also surrendered only 11 hits while recording 33 strikeouts in 25 in-nings pitched.

Nola said he isn’t concerned about Vanderbilt’s ace on Friday.

“He’s defi nitely a great pitch-er, and we’re going to be battling against one of the best teams in the SEC,” Nola said. “But it’s me pitch-ing against their lineup, and it’s Ty-ler pitching against our lineup. It’s just about pitching and defense and clutch hits, and we’re going to need that this weekend.”

LSU has seen Beede before. He started in Alex Box Stadium two seasons ago, surrendering three runs on fi ve hits in 3 2/3 innings pitched.

The pitcher the Tigers will see Friday night isn’t the same fresh-man who struggled in Baton Rouge in 2012, though.

No regular in LSU’s lineup was on the team two seasons ago, so Mainieri has had to prepare his hitters for what Beede brings to the

mound. His arsenal includes a fast-ball that tops out at 97 mph, a 12-6 curveball and a changeup that some scouts have called his best pitch.

“You just get ready to hit on time,” said LSU sophomore short-stop Alex Bregman. “We’ve faced guys in our past — before we played at LSU and while we’ve been here — who throw very hard. I think we just go about it ready to hit early and put a good swing on it.”

Mainieri said any SEC game will be a challenge for his squad this season, so starting off against a top squad like Vanderbilt will help prepare his players for the road ahead.

Junior left-hander Kyle Bou-man will start for LSU on Saturday, while freshman lefthander Jared Poche’ will take the mound for the Tigers on Sunday. Both have com-bined for seven wins so far this sea-son, surrendering six runs in 44 2/3 total innings pitched.

Offensively, both Bregman and sophomore outfi elder Andrew Stevenson enter the Vanderbilt se-ries on a 10 and 15-game hitting streak, respectively.

Mainieri was more than fi red up about battling the Commodores at Hawkins Field this weekend.

“There’s no easing in to the SEC schedule,” Mainieri said. “You just jump in feet fi rst. Let’s go. Let’s line it up and play. This is what you come to LSU for is these kinds of series and games.”

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Editor’s Note: This is the third column in a three-part series discussing racism in America.

When approaching this se-ries, I had several personal con-flicts. The most serious is one of political correctness. I’ve spent my life feeling uncomfortable when talking about race, strug-gling over the choice between “African-American” and “black,” followed by the guilt of pointing out race at all.

The arguments that we don’t need to talk about race and that any effort to is laced with white guilt turned into charity have skewed racial ideologies into de-nial of race as an issue. Political commentator and comedian Bill Maher said it best:

“The new racism is the de-nial of racism.”

As a country, we have abol-ished slavery, granted voting rights to everyone and elected a black president for two terms. Yet we still don’t see the problem in claiming to be “color-blind.”

The denial of someone’s ethnicity is not an acceptance of that person. Claiming to be color-blind is to say you are not comfortable accepting someone as they are, and you would feel more comfortable imagining that person has the same background as you.

This is a relevant argument in the political and judicial systems in America. When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, there was an uproar over having a black presi-dent, but there were also people who claimed he was not the first black president because he is half white.

However when Bill Clinton was elected in 1993, there were few protests to claims that he was the first black president. It’s important to note this claim was not because of his skin color or that of his parents. Clinton’s birth

into a single parent working class household, ability to play the saxophone and love of fast-food were reason enough to call him the first black president.

The comparison of these presidents points out a truth — race isn’t all about skin color in America. Sure, it’s an obvious indicator of difference, but there is a set of ideas attached to the racial group that can make one person “blacker” than another.

The idea of the black race be-ing a gradient in which one per-son can be blacker than another makes it apparent that “white-ness” is something that can be achieved. Indeed, white is a cen-tral point that we use to measure other races. White people don’t even think of being white as a

race. Race is everyone else.Nobel prize-winning author

Toni Morrison touched on the idea of hyphenated identities when it comes to race.

“In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Civil rights leaders would have been disappointed to see the hyphenated identity of an African-American.

In an interview with an assis-tant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Bry-an McCann posited that if Mar-tin Luther King Jr. were to walk around Baton Rouge, he would see the racial divide.

“He would look at the neighborhoods, poverty rates and see Baton Rouge as segregated.

Its not legally sanctioned, but functionally we are an incredibly segregated society,” McCann said.

In recognition of this segre-gation, several institutions have put codes in place to encour-age ethnic diversity. The most popular and controversial is affirmative action.

The opposition believes af-firmative action is a punishment for the majority’s white, slave-owning ancestors and a reward for ancestral black slaves. They cling to the belief that America is no longer racist because we are finished with slavery and every-one can vote.

Let me be clear. This is not the point of affirmative action.

Affirmative action covers

a wide range of policies. When LSU is performing a job search, it may state women and members of minority groups are encour-aged to apply. This is a weak version of affirmative action that gives LSU a cover, should any-one question the disproportion-ately low number of ethnically diverse employees.

The point of affirmative ac-tion is to allow a candidate for any position, job or education a fighting chance when up against someone who was given more opportunities.

There may have a white ap-plicant with more opportunities and probably more successes and a longer resume. Then there could be a minority applicant who works 10 times harder but has had fewer opportunities. That candidate seems like a risk to an employer, but not through any fault of their own.

“To oppose affirmative ac-tion is to assume that racism is self-correcting or done. Neither is true,” McCann continued as we discussed the pros and cons of affirmative action.

Those who claim affirma-tive action is not effective have a point, though. Historically, the group that has benefited the most from the policies are white women.

The oppressive history of America can only be interrupted by affirmatively helping those from previously excluded groups into positions that give them the opportunity to succeed. Other-wise we could create a permanent white supremacist society.

We have overcome much in the fight against racism, but we still have a long way to go before we are a post-racial America.

Jana King is a 19-year-old communication studies sopho-more from Ponchatoula, La.

IN LIVING COLORDenying race, claiming colorblindness do not indicate a post-racial America.

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THE BOX DOES NOT EXISTJana KingColumnist

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Communication and African American studies senior Nygel Anderson performs a monologue on Racism at the Greek Theatre on Wednesday.

I’m not what you would call a sore loser. More accurately, I am a rabid loser. I don’t have a meager lactic acid situation go-ing on; I have the sort of thing that gets your childhood pet put down.

More than half of the time, I am fine with losing a game. I’m simply not good at a lot of games, especially video games, and that’s something I’ve ac-cepted about myself. Still, a large chunk of my losses dig at me and make me the kind of person you wouldn’t want to run into in Monopoly jail.

It’s the worst when I am learning a new game, like when my boyfriend first taught me backgammon and I chucked a

stuffed animal at his head. While I’m less likely to slip into rabid-loserdom once I’ve licked the specific schematics of a game, it gets much worse when I don’t have “I don’t know what I am do-ing, dammit!” to fall back on.

My short temper is to blame, for the most part, but also the way my childhood experiences taught me to approach games.

First of all, when you’re a kid, adults don’t let you play anything fun. Yahtzee, Spin the Bottle, poker, you name it, and I was barred for being too little. I was precocious and wanted in on the fun, but no dice.

And then when I was old enough to be allowed, no one gave me a chance. My learning curve is steep at first. I ease into the game, then once I understand how it works, I get to real play-ing. There was this rush to in-doctrinate me, abandoned once they got tired of shorty trying the big leagues.

A good example of this is Monopoly. After a couple games of being bored and “acciden-tally” skittering their houses off the board with my game piece, I shut the other players out of whole stretches on the board and took all of their money. And then I flipped the board and ran to my room when they called me out on my tyranny.

While I’ve been able to rally in most games and become a wor-thy opponent, I wasn’t as lucky in others.

Team-building in grade school Physical Education class-es probably robbed me of the chance to go Olympic in volley-ball. Who knows how to serve the first time they hold a volleyball? Not me. Fittingly, I was last to be picked and shoved to the back of the court, impeding my ability to improve and making me gener-ally cranky for years.

When my siblings discov-ered Nintendo, I was again shut

out once I demonstrated less-than-ideal skill sets on “Crash Bandicoot.” That ice level is a killer. Personally, I’m more for pastoral scenes with lots of boxes to throw my body at.

I never learned how to use a joystick or game controller well, and my career as a video gamer has been nearly exclusively as a watcher. I like video games, but they are more like interactive movies to me at this point.

Given this long-standing exclusion from whole arenas of game-playing, I assume now, even as an adult, that if I do not demonstrate considerable prom-ise right off the bat when playing a new game, I won’t be allowed to play anymore. Ever.

And the anxiety associated with that carries itself into games I know and play well, like back-gammon or badminton, ruining everybody’s fun. I’ve spent a lot of time being ashamed of my being a terrible loser, especially

when I see someone else getting all sore over a game of checkers.

I’m assigning myself some-thing of a New Year’s resolu-tion as of today, midway through March. I am going to flex my los-ing muscles until they are much less sore post-play and stop wor-rying about being banned from a game — before people actu-ally do ban me from playing be-cause I am irrationally angry over scratching on the cue ball.

My fall-back plan is upping my average pitching speed at the expense of my friend’s heads. So... win-win?

Samantha Bares is a 20-year-old English junior from Erath, La.

If you could read 600 words per minute, you could read this entire column in about 60 seconds.

With an upcoming app called Spritz, you can learn to read at these speeds and then some. Before you gasp in awe at the progression of technology and the human mind, take a second to think about what this means for future generations and their attention spans.

We want the newest, most high speed technology we can get our greedy little hands on. I’m guilty of it, too. You bet I went on the Spritz website and tested how fast I could read in a minute. But that’s all it should be — a fun little test.

As college students, we are constantly searching for the easi-est way out of tedious reading as-signments and will probably ig-nore the dangerous implications of this app, leading our society to be entranced by this speed- reading frenzy. As hard as it might be to resist the urge to Spritz your way through British Lit, try to see why it may be bet-ter to pace yourself instead.

CNN reported that a psy-chologist at the University of Victoria is critical of this speed reading method because of its counter-productivity. This opin-ion is spreading among scientists who study the rate of reading to comprehension but unfortunately had not been properly considered by the general public.

The website demo starts you off at 250 words per minute, a lit-tle faster than the average reading speed. We can increase our words per minute as our eyes begin to register words more quickly. But at a certain point, we are just see-ing words and not comprehend-ing sentences.

When this app falls into the hands of users, it will change how we define reading.

The Spritz website says the app will eventually work on mul-tiple platforms like e-mail, social media and even outdoor signs. It’s all a little too robotic for me. I don’t want a program reading me my e-mails from grandma at lightning speed.

Our culture is moving in the direction of hyperspeed and call-ing our diminishing attention spans successful progress. Our minds were not designed to retain information presented at a speed of 600-plus words per minute. We can train them all we want, but there is a certain point where we need to absorb the words flashed before our eyes and more importantly, appreciate them.

It might be cool to say we can read up to 1,000 words per minute, but how many of those words are we actually retain-ing in our memories? The entire concept of speed reading implies that reading is a chore and not a privilege.

A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Lit-eracy found that 14 percent of the American population can’t read. Those who have the ability to read should stop taking it for granted.

Reading for pleasure could potentially turn into a competi-

tion instead of the peaceful es-cape that should be. Our kids will be reading the entire “Harry Pot-ter” series in one sitting and see-ing who of their friends can do it the fastest.

“I’m Brad, and I read all of ‘Prisoner of Azkaban’ in two hours, Brad! Beat that!”

“Seriously, Robert? I read the entire Lord of the Rings tril-ogy in one hour, sucker.”

Brad is a brat, and I don’t

want my kids to be faced with any Brads of their generation, let alone become a Brad. But with the way things are looking, future generations may increase their demand for instant gratification.

Books need to be read and appreciated. Spending only a few hours on a classic novel doesn’t allow readers enough time to grasp the messages and understand their value. We will lose our ability to be patient and turn into a population of

elitist Brads with no sense of appreciation for the words we are so swiftly skimming.

Our attention spans need to be exercised, not eliminated.

Annette Sommers is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dublin, Calif.

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Speed reading has counter-productive outcomes 600 WORDS OF SOMMERAnnette SommerSColumnist

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Being overly-competitive takes the fun out of games

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Spritz is an app that emphasizes speed reading, but some argue it comes at the cost of comprehension. Books should be read and appreciated.

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Presidential candidate Clay Tufts and vice presidential candidate Taylor Lambert of The Next Step ticket suggested giving part-time se-niors benefi ts that full-time students have. These benefi ts would include access to the UREC, Student Health Center and sporting events without having to pay an additional price.

Another idea from The Next Step is to partner with Southern Conference schools to create an SEC ticket exchange. Tufts said this program would be benefi cial for stu-dents who want to go to more away games. The exchange would allow students to exchange individual tick-ets with other SEC schools.

“It would be more benefi cial. Instead of buying that big package of tickets, they could do it individu-ally,” Tufts said.

The Next Step wants to

partner with the ROTC program and the Warrior Project to help raise money for soldiers who have fought and come back to Baton Rouge.

“Students should recognize this, and it’s a great way that we can show our appreciation for everything [the soldiers] did,” Tufts said.

Members of The Next Step also wants to clear up lines for football games at the student gate.

Another initiative they present-ed is to create changes with the park-ing congestion by Greek Row and Middleton Library.

Another initiative is a service project called White Roofs for the Red Stick. The project would consist of painting the roofs at LSU white to help lower utility costs and increase sustainability.

restaurant will begin serving crawfi sh on St. Patrick’s Day this year, partially because of the pricing, quality and quantity of the crawfi sh thus far in the season.

However, Darrin Dominguez, owner of Brightside Bar & Grill, said the restaurant has been serving craw-fi sh for more than a month, and he has been pleasantly surprised by the size of the crawfi sh thus far, though he expects the season will be at its height through the rest of March and April. Dominguez also spoke to the cultural aspect of crawfi sh season.

“Over the past 40 years [craw-fi sh] has exploded into something national,” Dominguez said.

Owner of Tony’s Seafood Mar-ket & Deli Bill Pizzolato agreed the demand for crawfi sh during the sea-son is more than just a craving for crawfi sh. Once the Lenten season begins and the prices start to fall, people start hosting more crawfi sh boils on the weekends, sometimes gathering to consume the traditional meal every week, Pizzolato said.

The season has been delayed almost two months because of the unusually cold weather this late into spring, but if there continues to be warmer weather, the crawfi sh start to move around more and the quality will increase, Pizzolato said.

University students can get a taste of the cultural phenomenon of crawfi sh through an annual crawfi sh boil hosted by the LSU Residence Hall Association partnered with LSU Dining.

RHA President Patrick Stiegman said this year’s boil on April 8 will provide 4,000 pounds of crawfi sh for on-campus students, totalling a cost of $13,000. The event aims to bring a traditional and fun at-mosphere to University students on the Parade Ground, Stiegman said.

The boil usually draws approxi-mately 1,000 members of the student body and is a way to expose some of the University’s international

students to the culture of South Loui-siana, Stiegman said.

Cassie Breaux, coordinator with Residential Life, said Louisiana Bayou Bistro will cater the event.

Dale Mougeot, head chef of Louisiana Bayou Bistro, born in Melville, La., said crawfi sh is the signature item of Louisiana, and he looks forward to the season every year.

One aspect of preparing craw-fi sh is the mix used and the boil it-self. Mougeot’s signature boil fea-tures a dry and liquid mix, and in his 30 years of cooking, he has had plenty of experience in preparing crawfi sh, he said.

In an average year, Mougeot

boils 250,000 to 350,000 pounds of crawfi sh for boils in various places across the state, though it is becoming more diffi cult to fi nd good crawfi sh because of how much is shipped out of the state, he said.

However, Mougeot said the res-taurant caters anywhere from 25 to 30 crawfi sh boils on campus each year for organizations, including fra-ternities, the LSU Law School and LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

“What’s a better thing to do than boil crawfi sh and drink cold beer?” Mougeot said.

New Jersey teenager Rachel Canning is suing her parents, de-manding they pay for her current living and transportation expens-es and commit to paying for her college tuition, CNN reported.

Four months prior to the law-suit, Canning, 18, moved out of her home to stay with a friend. She moved back in with her fam-ily Wednesday, but has not with-drawn her case, the New York Daily News reported.

The average student at the University pays about $10,600 each year, borrowing about $15,000 over the course of un-dergraduate studies, accord-ing to the White House College Scorecard.

Should Canning ultimate-ly win her lawsuit, her parents would be required by law to pay a similar cost if she were to at-tend Rutgers University in New Jersey, a school of comparable

size to LSU, according to data from the White House College Scorecard.

Jenna Hisey, biology sopho-more and Tiger Band bass drum-mer, said she was excited to trav-el with 325 of her closest friends.

“I don’t think a lot of bands get to do this,” Hisey said. “I’ve never gone out of the country

before and this is fi nally giving me the chance to go.”

Hisey said the band will play various marching songs at the parade.

� e Daily Reveille page 11Friday, March 14, 2014

THE Daily Commuter Puzzle by Jacqueline E. Mathews

FOR RELEASE MARCH 14, 2014

ACROSS1 __ Rapids,

Iowa6 Finds a total

10 Hawaiian island14 No longer

sleeping15 Feast at which

poi is served16 Apartment17 Send in

payment18 Blyth & Jillian19 Fabric for lining

a jewelry box20 First showing

of a movie22 Veer off course24 Teacup’s edge25 Go in again26 Reverberated29 __-up;

confused30 Beverage with

foam on top31 Money

deducted33 Passed out

cards37 Waterproof ball

field covering39 Acting parts41 June 6, 194442 Perspiration44 Sits for a spell46 __ code; part of

an address47 Lassos, e.g.49 Withdraw51 Quito’s nation54 Valley55 Actor Ted __56 Mighty60 Bump __; meet61 “The Farmer in

the __”63 Stop64 Spiral65 Daredevil __

Knievel66 __ aback;

surprised67 Golf pegs68 Communists69 Luge vehicles

DOWN1 Freshwater fish

2 Water jug3 Knighted

woman’s title4 With hands on

hips5 Accepted one’s

pension6 Awakener, for

many7 Sand mound8 Rather or Fouts9 English county

10 Insulted11 Vigilant12 Bisect13 Sheer; total21 Large sea duck23 Unwanted plant25 Ceremonies26 Has lunch27 Talon28 Roll call

response29 __ per hour;

MPH32 Any hole-

making device34 Shaping tool35 __ up; ill in bed

36 Sort; variety38 Umbrellas40 “Turkey in the

__”43 Well-__; rich45 Chooses48 Think about50 Breakfast food51 King’s decree

52 Paddled boat53 Loosen54 Gifts for girls56 __ with;

implored57 Phony58 Secondhand59 Part of the eye62 Arden or Plumb

Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

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CAMPAIGNS, from page 1

IRELAND, from page 1

Contact Renee Barrow at rbarrow@lsureveille.com

Contact Michael Tarver at mtarver@lsureveille.com

CRAWFISH, from page 1

‘I would look at how they applied themselves

in high school. As a parent, I’m not going to pay for them

to party.’

Elise Ras biological engineering

sophomore

‘Absolutely not, It’s just

not necessary. Why should parents who do have the means have

to pay?’ Justin Kennedy international studies

senior

Do you think, if they are able, parents should be required to pay for their

children’s education?

NATION

Deanna Narveson Staff Writer

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Teen sues parents for tuition

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