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Daily tasks bog down SG initiativesOlivia McClureSenior Reporter

While UREC equipment on the Parade Ground and improved light-ing on campus may sound nice, Student Government candidates may not fully grasp how much it takes to make those ideas reality, according to current SG President John Woodard .

LEADERS, see page 15

Senior members of the Univer-sity’s Student Government, along with leaders from other Southeastern Conference higher education institu-tions, touched down in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to kick off a four-day push to focus on maintaining levels of federal aid for college stu-dents.

SG President John Woodard said the main focus of the trip is to prioritize students in lawmakers’ dis-cussions of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. He mentioned that certain lawmakers will seek to

SG leaders make trip to D.C.

INITIATIVES, see page 15

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[Top] Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips sings on the Power Plant stage, [left] Tyler, The Creator performs and [above] fans raise their hands during Explosions In The Sky’s set at The Buku Music + Art Project on Saturday at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Ballard’s career effort sends LSU into NCAA second round, p. 5

LSU SYSTEM: Law Center to rejoin University by 2015, p. 3

For two days, fans of hip-hop, electronic and indie music were treated to a collection of live shows, art and food this past weekend at The BUKU Music + Art Project, held at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans.

Day one featured an all-star lineup of artists like Kaskade, Zeds Dead, Pusha T and Nas.

Nas celebrated the 20th anniver-sary of his debut album “Illmatic” by performing a few songs from that al-bum before venturing into a medley of tracks from his other records. Fans knew every word of the rapper’s set, leading him to say he should “come back every year.”

The Ballroom stage was the place to be on Friday, with acts like Wavves and Miami Horror receiving a large turnout. Australian band Mi-ami Horror thanked fans for show-ing their Southern hospitality, as the show was the band’s fi rst time in Louisiana.

Pusha T’s show was well-received by the crowd. The rapper showed his longevity in rap music by carrying out a collection of songs from his time as a part of Clipse to tracks from his solo album “My Name is My Name.”

Chance the Rapper’s show was the most popular act of the Friday lineup. He performed many songs from his mixtape “Acid Rap” includ-ing crowd favorite “Cocoa Butter Kisses.” Chance and his live band, The Social Experiment , set a high bar for the Saturday shows to come.

Day two of BUKU started off with lesser-known artists like Thundercat and Dan Deacon taking the stage.

Staff Reports

BUKU, see page 15

Hip-hop, electronic artists descend on

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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish fi ghter jets shot down a Syrian warplane Sunday after it violat-ed the country’s airspace, Tur-key’s prime minister said, in a move likely to ramp up tensions between two countries already deeply at odds over Syria’s civil war.

A spokesman for Syria’s mil-itary confi rmed the incident, de-nouncing it as a “blatant aggres-sion.” The unnamed spokesman quoted on Syrian state TV said the plane was hit while pursu-ing gunmen near the border, andthat the pilot safely ejected from the aircraft.

Turkey, a NATO member that once enjoyed good ties with Syria, has emerged as one of the strongest critics of Syrian Presi-dent Bashar Assad and is now one of the main backers of the 3-year-old rebellion against him. Hostilities have fl ared along the border on several occasions, al-though the exchanges of fi re have generally been brief and limited in scope.

Despite protestations from Syria, there was little indication

either side wanted the confronta-tion to escalate.

In a statement, the Turkish military said a Syrian MiG-23 entered Turkey’s airspace near the Hatay border zone after ig-noring four warnings to turn back. One of two Turkish F-16s conducting a patrol in the area then fi red a missile that struck the Syrian jet, which crashed 1,200

meters inside Syrian territory near the town of Kassab, the mili-tary said.

Turkish Prime Minister Re-cep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at a rally in northwestern Tur-key a week ahead of local elec-tions, congratulated the mili-tary, and said the strike should serve as a warning against further incursions.

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TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — Of-fi cials say all of the remaining oil has been taken out of the dam-aged barge and it is being moved out of the Houston Ship Channel.

The barge collided with a ship Saturday and a 168,000- gallon tank started leaking.

Coast Guard port captain Bri-an Penoyer said at a news confer-ence Sunday that oil residue has been spotted as far as 12 miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Penoyer called it “a signifi cant spill.” Of-fi cials also said there have been some reports of affected wildlife but didn’t specify.

The channel is closed, block-ing more than 60 vessels — in-cluding three cruise ships — from moving between the Gulf and Galveston Bay.

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A Turkish � ghter jet � ies above the Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey on August 31, 2013.

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Airport aims to use solar powerKENNER, La. (AP) — The sweeping curves and glass walls of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport’s planned new terminal building have de-fi ned that project since the design was released last month, but the futuristic architecture is not the only forward-looking aspect of the project.

Airport offi cials say they are also embarking on an ambi-tious plan: harnessing enough solar energy to fully power the airport, allowing it to operate

independently most of the time, especially when disaster strikes.

The solar proposal is still in its early stages but is included in the offi cial cost projections for the $826 million airport revamp, which includes the new $650 million terminal on the north side of the property, a hotel and a new Interstate 10 fl yover ramp. If it happens, it would apparently make Armstrong the only airport in the country capable of running on self-generated solar power.

“Once in place, it would make us a zero-grid operation, where we’re not dependent on

outside generation,” Director of Aviation Iftikar Ahmad said.

Initial plans call for install-ing enough solar panels to gen-erate roughly 10 megawatts of power, enough to provide energy for about 1,500 homes.

A project that size would be one of the largest in the country. In fact, it could be unique in the United States, airport offi cials said. Even though other airports already have large solar projects, those are designed to feed elec-tricity back into the general pow-er grid or else to account for only a portion of the airports’ power.

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Delta Zeta hosted its 16th annual Miss LSU-USA pageant Sunday evening, awarding mass communication senior Deandra De Napoli the title.

Contestants competed in morn-ing interviews, a swimsuit competi-tion and an evening gown compe-tition. From those results, judges chose the top fi ve contestants. The top fi ve consisted of Morgan Welsh, Kendra Turley, Jourdan Williams, Sloan Tison and De Napoli. The top fi ve then competed in a second in-terview portion before a winner was chosen.

Hilary Tuttle, Miss LSU-USA 2013, said winning the pageant was one of the defi ning moments in her life. Tuttle said she was sad her year as Miss LSU-USA was over because it brought her so much. Her advice to this year’s contestants was to keep dreaming. She also gave advice to De Napoli.

“The position is what you make of it,” Tuttle said.

Tuttle said to “say yes to oppor-tunities” and to “gain all the experi-ences you can during the one year reign.”

“I’m just excited to get in-volved in different service activities on campus and in Baton Rouge and I’m excited for everything this has in store. It’s going to be a busy year,” De Napoli said.

The Paul M. Hebert Law Cen-ter will rejoin LSU A&M as part of the fl agship campus this year after a unanimous decision from the LSU Board of Supervisors at its meeting at LSU Shreveport on Friday.

The LSU Law Center has been an autonomous campus within the LSU System since 1977 when it split after three years of efforts by then-dean Paul Hebert. It will rejoin the University with some provisions made in order for the school to main-tain its accreditation and traditions, said Jack Weiss, chancellor of the Law Center. The merge is expected to be completed by 2015.

Weiss said the Law Center would need to maintain the sepa-ration and freedom to make “law school-appropriate decisions,” and there are standards for how sepa-rate law schools need to be. He said the specifi cs and details of how the school will be joined with LSU A&M will be worked out in the future.

The realignment with the Uni-versity will allow the school to bet-ter compete in today’s law school world, Weiss said. In the last 10 years, the number of students ap-plying to law schools in the state of Louisiana has dropped by more than half, meaning the school has to compete more with others and vie for a chunk of the now-smaller student group.

The Law Center is required to

uphold the American Bar Associa-tion’s standards for accreditation of law schools and will also have to be approved by the University’s accrediting body, the Southern As-sociation of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

Weiss said the emphasis in le-gal education today is for students to obtain a practical law education, which he believes relies on imple-menting studies in other fi elds, and joining with the University would make that easier.

LSU President F. King Alexan-der said the addition of the Law Cen-ter to the University would allow the school to develop a long-neglected pre-law program and communicate with more transparency with the Law Center. Alexander said the two academic units would be working side by side to work on creating the best program possible

Weiss said the merger will not necessarily be like that of the LSU AgCenter and the University last year when Bill Richardson became vice president for agriculture and dean of the College of Agriculture because Alexander’s vision is for the administration to adapt to the needs of each academic unit, tailoring the merger to the Law Center’s needs.

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Mass communication senior Deandra De Napoli is crowned Miss LSU-USA 2014 on Sunday at the Miss LSU-USA pageant in the Union Theatre.

Meg RyanEntertainment Writer

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The Joy Theater looked like a scene out of an old Hollywood movie Saturday night.

Fashion Week New Orleans hosted its Fashion Awards Gala to recognize those new and estab-lished in the New Orleans-based fashion industry. Tracee Dun-das, Fashion Week New Orleans founder, said she was happy to be back building the fashion indus-try in New Orleans post-Katrina and enjoyed honoring those in the business.

“I love fashion and I love what I do and I appreciate the continual support,” Dundas said.

Co-hosts Marcus Stewart and Chriss Knight agreed there is no place like New Orleans .

The fi rst award of the night was for the Top Design competi-tion . The nine contestants were all new, emerging designers con-sisting of Dominique White , Jose Rodriguez , Lauren Ospina , Nich-ole Steuart , Nikki Manuel , Rom-ey Roe , Sandhya Garg , Shannon Warren and Tiffany Langlinais . Each presented one design from their collections and a short vid-eo.

Langlinais said Fashion Week New Orleans provides a different kind of fashion week with its culture and atmosphere. The designers were able to be inspired by their surroundings in Louisiana .

First place went to Garg , fol-lowed by Ospina in second place and Steuart in third place.

Awards were also presented to those established in the indus-try, recognizing their successful careers.

Lisa McRoberts , LSU fash-ion school department head and business owner, was awarded the Trailblazer award. McRoberts said she’s known Dundas since before Katrina and saw how hard

Dundas has worked to get the fashion week up and running.

Albert Brown was awarded for Hair Artistry and Mignon Faget for Accessories. Bonnie Broel was awarded for Design in her business of made-to-order dresses.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art was awarded for its educational programs, includ-ing “Fashion Camp,” and “Haute and Handmade,” its fashion show occurring every two years. Rob-ert Hudson received the Makeup Artistry award and Harold Clarke was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Clarke has been a designer in the business for more than 30 years and is cel-ebrating 20 years in New Orleans this year.

“My wife and myself love New Orleans; there’s no place like it. … It’s been a great ride,” Clarke said.

The gala’s model walk off awarded young models the op-portunity to advance their careers. John Robert Powers’ modeling school awarded the fi rst place male and female model with pre-miere training and a scouting trip to Los Angeles .

A Saks Fifth Avenue fashion presentation and performances by Louisiana native Antonia De-Shannon were also included in the night’s entertainment.

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Abortion bill passes House committeesQuint ForgeyStaff Writer

The second week of the 2014 Louisiana Legislature was an event-ful one, with a bill sailing through the House Health and Welfare Com-mittee on Wednesday that would place strict requirements on abortion providers across the state.

HB 388 , fi led by Democratic Rep. Katrina Jackson of District 16 , permits only state-licensed physi-cians to perform abortions in Loui-siana clinics, and also mandates that these physicians have admitting privileges at a local hospital should complications arise during the pro-cedure.

Pro-choice advocates say the bill, if signed into law, would im-mediately close down three of Louisiana’s fi ve abortion clinics, according to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.

Psychology freshman Cisco Gonzales said Jackson’s legislation is one of the most important bills in Louisiana .

Gonzales , a member of Students for Life , said several members of the anti-abortion University group ral-lied Wednesday at the Capitol in sup-port of the bill.

“This is another bill that will help strengthen abortion laws and hopefully let Louisiana become the fi rst state without abortion,” Gonza-les said.

Rebecca Stewart , president of Feminists in Action at LSU , said in a Facebook message that HB 388 has “absolutely no medical benefi t” and noted that “politicians are behind the bill, not doctors.”

“This bill will only further re-strict the already sparse health care resources in Louisiana, and its cur-rent success is only a refl ection of the willful ignorance of the politicians in support of it,” Stewart said.

Early last month, Gov. Bobby Jindal and the state Department of Health and Hospitals rescinded the state’s new emergency rules for abortion clinics amid an outcry from abortion rights supporters across Louisiana .

The now-void rules, which were enacted last November , would have placed new fl oor space requirements on the clinics and required the hiring of more specialized staffers.

Also on Wednesday in the leg-islature, the House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs passed a bill that would eliminate the “No Party” option as a political af-fi liation in the state.

HB 193, fi led by independent Rep. Jerome “Dee” Richard of Dis-trict 55, would instead allow law-makers to identify as “independent.”

Contact Quint Forgey at qforgey@lsureveille.com

FASHION

Meg RyanEntertainment Writer

CHARLES CHAMPAGNE / The Daily Reveille

Models showcase collections by Saks Fifth Avenue on Saturday during the Fashion Week New Orleans Awards Gala held at the Joy Theater in New Orleans.

Fashion Week New Orleans awards local talent

Contact Meg Ryan at mryan@lsureveille.com

That was not the LSU team fans have grown accustomed to.

The Lady Tigers (20-12 , 7-9 South-eastern Conference) came out fast early on and never surrendered their lead, as sophomore guard Danielle Ballard led the team to a season high in points and a 98-78 victory against Georgia Tech (20-12 , 9-7 Atlantic Coast Conference) in the fi rst round of the NCAA tourna-ment Sunday in the PMAC.

“I think today this team showed a lot of toughness,” said LSU coach

Alongside his offers from Ohio State, LSU, Oklahoma State and Arkansas, Dallas native and Prime Prep Academy forward Jordan Mickey had an offer from Southern Methodist University.

“It wasn’t a very well-known program,” Mickey remembered. “A lot of people weren’t even looking to go there.”

Citing comfort and the relationship with his brother — former LSU wide re-ceiver James Wright — Mickey chose LSU. But in tonight’s second round Na-tional Invitation Tournament game against SMU, Mickey gets a return home and an in-depth look at a

revitalized program he couldn’t have envisioned in this position a few years ago.

Spearheaded by Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown’s return to the college game, the No. 1 seed Mus-tangs (24-9, 12-6 American Athletic Conference) were largely consid-

ered the biggest snub of the NCAA tourna-ment fi eld this season, just two years removed from limping to a 13-18 mark .

“In terms of build-ing program, [Brown’s] got good people, the right kids,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones . “He’s taken some trans-fers and guys that really

fi t into his system. I think that’s re-ally important. He’s done a great job with it, and they’ve competed at a certain level.”

Brown’s current Mustang club is paced by two of those transfers, sophomore guard Nic Moore and forward Markus Kennedy . The two are the only Mustangs to average double digit points and Kennedy leads the team on the glass, pulling down 6.9 rebounds per game.

Moore, who stands just 5 feet, 9 inches , matches up well with LSU’s small backcourt duo of junior Anthony Hickey and senior Andre Stringer . The duo make it a point to never rue over height, instead choos-ing to prove the doubters wrong.

Stringer struggled with his height disadvantage in middle and high school, but his confi dence was aided while watching a Brown-coached vertically challenged guard — Allen Iverson — succeed in the NBA.

Stringer watched in amazement

SportsMonday, March 24, 2014 page 5

TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman forward Jordan Mickey (25) dribbles around defenders March 8 during the Tigers’ 69-61 loss to Georgia in the PMAC.

Tigers face Brown, SMU in NIT second roundChandler RomeSports Writer

MICKEY, see page 11

DOMINANT

MEN’S BASKETBALL

In the three games leading into the Southeastern Conference tourna-ment , LSU sophomore guard Dani-elle Ballard scored a combined 12 points against Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama .

If the past three weeks have proven anything, including the Lady Tigers’ 98-78 victory against Geor-gia Tech in the fi rst round of the NCAA tournament , it’s that she was saving her offensive outburst for

VICTORY, see page 10

BALLARD, see page 10

TOMMY ROMANACH · Sports Contributor

LAWRENCE BARRECA · Sports Writer

Ballard has career day against Georgia Tech

O� ensive explosion keys � rst round victory

Next up for the Tigers:

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TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior guard Jeanne Kenney (5) celebrates after a basket Sunday during the Tigers’ 98-78 win against Georgia Tech in the PMAC.

LSU vs. Georgia Tech

98-78

As No. 8 LSU’s series finale against Georgia headed for extra innings at Alex Box Stadium on Sunday afternoon, the Tigers’ bid for a sweep would be determined by a staring contest between two bullpens.

Through 13 innings, neither blinked.

Before the game began, it was announced no new innings could begin after 3:45 p.m. be-cause Georgia had a plane to catch. So when LSU freshman Jake Fraley flied out to center field at 4:02 p.m. to leave the bases loaded in the bottom of the 13th inning, the game ended in a 2-2 tie.

One batter before Fraley, Sean McMullen flied to left field with the bases loaded. LSU coach Paul Main-ieri said rarely-used freshman Dakota Dean was supposed to try to tag from third and score the winning run, but due to a miscommunication between Dean and third-base coach Will Davis, he stayed put.

Between leaving men on base — the Tigers stranded a to-tal of 17 base runners — and base running blunders, the 13th served as a microcosm of everything that bothered Mainieri about the game.

“Davis told him ‘Go’ and [Dean] thought he said ‘No’ so he didn’t go,” Mainieri explained. “It’s not supposed to be a verbal communication. It’s supposed to be a visual communication, but Dakota Dean hasn’t played very much so I’m sure the situation was just a little bit big for him.”

Kurt McCune made the spot start for LSU in place of the in-jured Kyle Bouman, but the se-nior right-hander didn’t last long. After Georgia (14-10-1, 1-4-1 SEC) touched him up for two runs within the game’s first four batters, Mainieri lifted McCune after just 1 2/3 innings of work.

From that point on, Georgia wouldn’t score. Five LSU reliev-ers combined to throw 11 1/3 in-nings of shutout ball, allowing

just two hits along the way and strik-ing out eight.

“ O b v i o u s -ly, when you’re without a starting pitcher and hold a team to two runs in 13 innings, you expect you’re go-ing to win the ballgame,” Main-

ieri said. LSU managed just two hits

with runners in scoring posi-tion all day. Catcher Kade Sciv-icque drove in Mark Laird with a two-out double in the fifth and shortstop Alex Bregman, who batted second for the first time in his LSU career, tied the game in the seventh with a run-scoring single to right-center field.

Bregman’s single chased Laird to third base with no outs. The next batter, designated hitter Sean McMullen, grounded to the first baseman Jared Walsh who started a double play.

Mainieri said Laird was supposed to break from third once Walsh threw the ball to sec-ond base but inexplicably froze.

“We just couldn’t take ad-vantage of the opportunities. We had several chances to win the game but shot ourselves in the foot several times with base run-ning mistakes and had some bad luck,” Mainieri said.

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Bullpen leads, offense struggles in 13-inning tieJames MoranSports Contributor

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LSU junior pitcher Henri Faucheux (33) throws a pitch Sunday during the Tigers’ 2-2 tie against Georgia at Alex Box Stadium.

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LSU sophomore infielder Alex Bregman (8) fields the ball Sunday during the Tigers’ 2-2 tie against Georgia at Alex Box Stadium.

‘We had several chances to win the game but shot ourselves in the foot several times...’

Paul MainieriLSU baseball coach

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The LSU gymnastics squad entered the South-eastern Conference championships on Saturday fully expecting to com-pete for the league’s title, and they were in prime position after the fi rst rotation.

But a mishap on the bal-ance beam from the team’s anchor quickly tilted the scale against the Ti-gers, and they never recovered from the costly mistake.

For the second consecutive sea-son, LSU (15-5, 5-2 SEC) placed third in the SEC championships, fi n-ishing with a score of 197.325. It was the squad’s lowest score since Feb. 7 against Arkansas.

The big winner of the evening was Alabama (17-3, 6-1 SEC). The Crimson Tide scored a 197.875 to steal the title from defending champion Florida (15-2, 6-1 SEC), who had the lead entering the fi nal rotation.

The Tigers appeared to be in the mix with the top two teams after their performance on the un-even bars. The squad tallied a 49.350 and trailed Florida by a mere .025 heading to the balance beam.

But junior all-arounder Jessie Jordan, LSU’s beam anchor, had an uncharacteristic fall near the end of her routine, and the momentum the squad built after the fi rst rotation quickly faded.

“Our start on bars was as good

as you would want it to be,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “We went to beam, and our anchor, our best person, cracked and fell, and I think that kind of set the tone a little bit.”

The Tigers ended up scoring a 49.100 on beam, their second low-est output of the season, and dropped from second to third place halfway through the meet.

And as the gap steadily kept growing, the usually confi dent and self-assured Tigers suddenly began to doubt themselves, and it showed in their performances. This wasn’t the same team Breaux had grown accustomed to seeing this season.

“It’s the fi rst time [the team] kind of felt some nerves,” Breaux said. “The kids lost their competitive edge, lost their focus a little bit and cracked.”

Senior Sarie Morrison also felt the team’s overall mindset prevent-ed them from producing the typical stellar performances that they’ve come to expect of themselves.

“I think one of the biggest things is not necessarily that we got tight with our gymnastics, but we got tight with our minds,” Morrison said. “When things got tight, we were say-ing in our minds, ‘I hope I got this, I think I’ve got this,’ instead of know-ing that we’ve got this. We let our minds be in doubt, and that’s what did it for us.”

LSU hit the fl oor exercise for the third rotation, where junior Lloimin-cia Hall provided one of the squad’s few highlights of the night. Her fl oor

routine had all the fl air and power it’s renowned for, and Hall danced and fl ipped her way to a 9.950 to earn a share of the SEC fl oor title for the third consecutive year.

“That’s what [Lloimincia] wanted to do, and she didn’t let any-thing cloud her vision,” Breaux said.

As a team, the Tigers recorded a 49.350 on the fl oor exercise. But a 49.700 from Georgia on the uneven bars pushed LSU down to fourth place after the third rotation.

The Tigers fi nished the night on the vault, which was their best performance of the meet. The squad tallied a 49.525, which tied Ala-bama for the highest vault score of the meet.

Four Tiger gymnasts scored at least a 9.900. Jordan rebounded from her earlier, costly fall on beam and led LSU with a career-high ty-ing 9.950. Junior Rheagan Cour-ville added a 9.925, and seniors Kaleigh Dickson and Morrison earned 9.900s.

But the Tigers’ early mistakes prevented the huge vault score from being a major factor in the fi nal tal-lies. A fall from Florida gymnast Claire Boyce in the fi nal rotation opened the door for Alabama to grab the conference title, but at that point, LSU’s fate was already sealed.

“One little mistake can cost you the meet, and we should have been in the hunt right there,” Breaux said. “We should have been taking advantage of [Boyce’s] mistake and capturing it right here because we

vaulted good enough to do that.”But as tough as the loss was

for the Tigers, their season’s not over just yet, and their dreams of a national title are still very much alive.

“I think this was a great setup for what we’re going to have at na-tionals,” Courville said. “But we really need to put it together. This was a wake-up call.”

LSU will be one of the hosts for the NCAA regionals, which are April 5. Breaux said the disheartening loss her squad suffered will be the

perfect fuel for the fi nal push toward a national title.

“We’re going to be able to take this and go home and get mad, but we’re going to work harder because of it,” Breaux said. “[We’ll] take all this SEC championship stuff out of the conversation and just turn it into blue collar work. I think we’ll come back here with a vengeance.”

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Missed opportunities and inconsistent defense plagued the Tigers as the reigning National Champion Sooners swept LSU in its fi rst non-conference series of 2014.

The Tigers dropped their third straight series of the season, after losing two Southeastern Confer-ence series to Auburn and No. 1 Florida, respectively.

LSU struggled to translate hits into runs, epitomized by the Ti-gers’ leaving 18 runners on base. Failing to get hits with runners in scoring positions is something the Tigers haven’t been able to do all season.

“It’s defi nitely a recurring theme with our team,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “We just need to be a little gutsier, a little more clutch and fi nd a way. We are in every ballgame —we just need to fi nd a way to get the fi nal hit and make the fi nal blow.”

Despite out-hitting the Soon-ers 8-4, LSU (19-12, 2-4 SEC) dropped game one, 1-2, to No. 22 Oklahoma (21-8).

Freshman catcher Sahvanna Jaquish put the Tigers on the board fi rst with her ninth home run of the season in the top of the fourth.

Freshman pitcher Baylee Cor-bello continued her excellent sea-son, holding Oklahoma hitters un-til junior infi elder Shelby Pendley hit a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth.

Corbello struggled after al-lowing the home run, eventually

giving up two runs, leading to the Tigers’ loss.

Oklahoma added another run in the seventh after Corbello, al-lowed two walks and consecutive singles.

Sunday matchups have proved especially diffi cult for the Tigers, whose opposing pitchers have the greatest opportunity to adjust and change game plans depending on experience in the series.

The Tigers are 0-3 in series concluding games this season, and they have been outscored 4-20 in these games.

In game two, a rally started by freshman designated hitter Con-stance Quinn, who hit her fi rst career home run in her collegiate start, that scored two runs for the Tigers in the fourth fell short when defensive errors led to runs. “[Quinn] had a great day for us,” Torina said. “She’s defi nitely a spark for us off of the bench, but she’s the emotional heart and soul of the team. So when she can step into the lineup and do that, she can really fuel us and help us in the long run.”

In the third inning, two throwing errors led to two Oklahoma runs.

A throwing error by Jaquish

hit an Oklahoma base run-ner’s helmet as she attempted to steal third, scoring a run for the Sooners.

One throwing error by senior pitcher Ashley Czechner scored the third run of the game after a double scored a second run for Oklahoma.

Czechner earned the loss in her fi rst start since the Tigers’ vic-tory against Florida on March 15. She recorded four strikeouts, three walks and allowed six hits in six innings pitched Sunday.

“You need pitching, hitting and defense on any given day to win and I don’t think we had two of the three,” Torina said. “I don’t think we’ve played good de-fense as of late, and I think that’s something that we need to go back and make sure that we fi x. That is an area where I think we are capable of doing better and one of our strengths. We have to go back and make sure we’re performing there.”

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when it mattered most.Ballard’s final line against

the Yellow Jackets told a story of its own — 24 points, shoot-ing 7-of-17 from the field and 10-of-12 from the free throw line, a career-high 17 rebounds, four assists and two steals.

The Mem-phis, Tenn., native stormed out of the gate in the PMAC Sunday, scor-ing 19 points and recording nine rebounds before halftime.

She had more points than se-niors Shanece McKinney, Jeanne Kenney and Theresa Plaisance combined in the first half.

“Ballard just played like a woman possessed,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell. “She played like somebody who said, ‘I can’t be denied.’ When you have your point guard play-ing with that mentality, it filters

throughout our team. She did set the tone for us that we can be ag-gressive against their pressure, their press and their buzz de-fense.”

The sopho-more was a con-stant threat under the rim, leaping for rebound at-

tempts and making her presence felt for the 35 minutes she was on the court.

Though Ballard only stands at 5-foot-9, she proved why

height isn’t the only factor when getting the ball back under the glass.

McKinney and Plaisance said they didn’t mind being out-rebounded by their point guard.

“Danielle just did a great job on boards like she always does,” Plaisance said. “She comes in out of absolutely nowhere and tries to tip in. She’s not scared of big bodies in the paint or contact. Danielle is really fearless when it comes to rebounding.”

Ballard accounted for 30 per-cent of the Lady Tigers’ rebounds on Sunday — Plaisance was the only other LSU player with dou-ble-digit rebounds. Ballard had seven offensive rebounds com-pared to 10 defensive.

Georgia Tech coach MaCh-elle Joseph said containing Bal-lard proved to be more difficult than she anticipated.

“She was really difficult to

guard on both ends of the floor today,” Joseph said. “She just did a tremendous job being disrup-tive. She showed a lot of tough-ness and poise for a sophomore.”

Since the start of the SEC tournament, Ballard has scored 18, 15 and 24 points against Ala-bama, Tennessee and Georgia Tech, respectively.

LSU’s point guard has been streaky throughout the

2013-14 season — she scored a total 10 points during a three-game stretch in early February against Mississippi State, Ken-tucky and Missouri before total-ing 43 over the next three games against Texas A&M, South Caro-lina and Georgia.

It appears as though she’s hitting a hot streak at the perfect time, and LSU will need her to stay scorching when it battles West Virginia on Tuesday in the PMAC.

“If I don’t get stopped, then I’ll just continue laying it up,” Ballard said. “That’s just my game. Just penetrating and get-ting my players open and giving them open shots. [I am] just be-ing unselfish with the ball.”

Nikki Caldwell. “They showed that they can play this game for 40 min-utes.”

The 98 points scored are the most LSU has scored in an NCAA game in school history and most in any game since 2010. The scoring was well-rounded, as five different Lady Tigers reached double digits, and three scored at least 15 points.

The most astonishing aspect of the game came on the glass, as LSU outrebounded the Yellow Jackets 57-30. The Lady Tigers failed to out-rebound their opponents in their last four games.

LSU scored the first 10 points of the game less than three minutes into the game. Ballard said the team saw in film it could push down the Yellow Jackets’ throats.

The Lady Tigers kept their lead though the start of the game with Georgia Tech struggling to get the ball to its all-time leading scorer, se-nior guard Tyaunna Marshall. Mar-shall only took one shot in the open-ing eight minutes of the game and said she wishes she had done more.

“Being a leader and someone who’s played in the NCAA tourna-ment before, I definitely want to come out strong for my team,” Mar-shall said. “I wish I could have been more of a threat for my team in the opening minutes.”

The game continued its fast pace throughout the first half, with both teams combining for 74 shot at-tempts and the Lady Tigers taking a 51-44 lead into halftime.

Ballard was the main catalyst in the first half, recording 19 points and nine rebounds in the opening frame. Plaisance said the main reason for the Lady Tigers’ fast pace was Bal-lard and her ability to constantly push the ball up the floor.

The pace didn’t slow down in the second half, but Georgia Tech’s hot shooting did. The Yellow Jackets shot 30.2 percent from the field in the final 20 minutes, 21.3 percent worse than the team shot in the first half.

After a 3-pointer from junior guard DaShawn Harden put the Lady Tigers up 12, the game would never go to single digits deficit again.

The team did receive a scare in the second half when freshman guard Raigyne Moncrief went down with a knee injury. It was the first time Moncrief had started a game

since injuring her leg in a Feb. 20 loss to Georgia.

Caldwell said she would have more information on the injury on Monday.

The Lady Tigers will play West Virginia next, who defeated Alba-ny 76-61 Sunday afternoon in the PMAC. The game will be at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night in the PMAC.

After Sunday’s game, Georgia Tech coach MaChelle Joseph said this was not the LSU team she had seen in film the last 10 games. Bal-lard agrees, and she’s proud to show off a new identity.

“This team is a different team. We’ve got a different mindset,” Ballard said. “We’re just going to look better, and we’re going to go harder and harder. We’re going to give our all win, lose or draw, and people are going to continue seeing a different team.”

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The LSU women’s swim-ming and diving team wrapped up its NCAA Championship meet on Saturday, fi nishing in 36th place with a team point total of 17.

Sophomore diver Cassie Weil’s individual performance

was the high-light of the weekend for the Lady Ti-gers.

On the third and fi -nal day of the meet, Weil competed in the platform

dive. In the preliminary round of the event, she broke her own program record with a score of 311.50, earning a spot in the fi nal.

Weil fi nished seventh in the fi nal, earning First-Team All-America honors for the fi rst time in her career, and the fi rst time since 2007 for the LSU diving program.

“Given her performance last year and just missing the fi nals, it was a huge goal for her to get on

the podium and fi nish in the top eight,” LSU diving coach Doug Shaffer said in a news release. “It’s so great to see her hard work and dedication pay off.”

Weil also earned her third NCAA Honorable Mention All-America honor in her career on day two with her 12th place fi nish on the 3-meter dive.

One of the bright spots for the Lady Tigers’ swimmers was the 800-yard freestyle relay team of freshmen Kara Kopcso and Leah Troskot and sophomores Megan Cox and Danielle Stirrat, as they set the school record with a time of 7:08.61.

The Lady Tigers brought many young competitors with them to Minneapolis, and swim-ming coach Dave Geyer said in a news release that for them to gain experience in this meet gives the Lady Tigers hope going into the future.

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as Brown , then the head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, seemingly knew exactly which buttons to push to get the most out of a sometimes volatile 6-foot Iverson .

“We know a guy like Larry Brown has a lot of tricks up his sleeve,” Stringer said. “He does well with small guards as you can see with Allen Iverson. [Moore] has had a tremendous year and Brown does a good job into putting him in posi-tions where he can fl ourish.”

Kennedy teams with 6-foot-10 center Cannen Cunningham and his 6-foot-11 counterpart Yanick

Moreira to present one of the deep-est, most physical frontcourts LSU has seen.

Mickey and LSU junior for-ward Johnny O’Bryant III were syn-onymous in their assessment of the Mustang big men, noting their di-verse tendencies around the basket.

“They’re probably some of the best bigs we’re going to see,” O’Bryant said. “They’re crafty around the rim, do a lot with the ball. It’s defi nitely going to be a big measuring stick for our bigs and our frontcourt.”

As for Mickey , he’ll return home to Dallas to play for the fi rst time in his college career. He

couldn’t put an estimate on the num-ber of family and friends that will fi ll Moody Coliseum to watch.

No matter the number, Mickey said he keeps the same demeanor.

“Another day at the offi ce,” Mickey said. “I try not to get overly excited or anything like that. I just want to go out, play my game and have fun. I’ll be excited to be back home.”

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After reading Jose Bastidas’ article on the 6th District congressional race, I have to wonder if he did any research be-fore jotting down his opinion.

For example, he states “[the candi-dates] are all still the same stick-to-the-status-quo politicians who won’t do what it takes to improve the district.” What Jose forgets to mention is they have a whopping eight months until the first bal-lot is cast. It is very early in this race. The candidates have plenty of time to share their distinct messages regarding how they will work to improve the district. Jose hasn’t even given them a true shot to lay our their visions.

Next, he claims “Dietzel, 28, could be the youngest congressman in Louisi-ana history” and continues to reference his “youth” throughout the piece. This is another claim that is not accurate. Former U.S. Rep. John Breaux was elected in 1972 at 28 years old.

Also, we have had two other Con-gressmen elected at a young age — for-mer U.S. Sen. Russell Long and Rep. Cleo Fields. Louisiana has a history of electing some of the youngest members of the U.S. Congress. Thus, Dietzel’s age should not be made a major issue.

Lastly, Jose uses flawed logic to de-duce a win for state Sen. Dan Claitor. His argument is that “In a community where continuity is favored over change, Claitor is the perfect candidate to continue this trend.” What Jose leaves out is the re-districting of the 6th Congressional Dis-trict. The district now includes Houma, Thibodaux and a few “Saint” parishes.

It is also much more conservative than in the past. This is a game changer in comparison to the pre-2010 district. Two huge areas of the district elected outsiders and long-shots like Former U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry and Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jeff Hughes.

Politics is not an easy subject to write about. There are a lot of dynam-ics at play. However, the readers of this paper deserve more than just an opinion, they deserve an informed opinion based in some realm of reality.

Kyle Hebertbusiness sophomorePresident, Students for Dietzel

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Most people didn’t even care about the 6th District race for Con-gress until Edwin Edwards con-troversially entered the race. Soon thereafter, people started pretend-ing they had passionate opinions about politics because there was something juicy to talk about. Peo-ple were racing to get in the paper, be acknowledged and attract at-tention. Why don’t we try to get a clear and consistent understanding of what’s really important? Why are students so widely uninformed about the issues that affect them on a regular basis? It isn’t intelligent to be a young, hopeful individual if you wait for something as impor-tant as the race for your next repre-sentative to gain national attention before you start caring about the outcome.

Many people have been say-ing that the most important candi-dates in the race for the 6th Dis-trict are Democrat Edwin Edwards and Republicans Paul Dietzel and Dan Claitor. Obviously, Edwards will get the Democratic vote be-cause, unfortunately, some people would vote for a rock if their party

symbol were painted on it. As ex-pected, the race is seemingly a toss-up for the Republican vote. Dan Claitor is your everyday, 50-some-thing lawyer. Paul Dietzel is a 28-year-old, passionate business-man. Articles in this very newspa-per have mentioned that Paul Di-etzel is too young to win the race. Evidently focusing on providing a better future for the next genera-tions in America must not be good enough for a spot in Congress? This is a troubling realization.

Since many of the people that read this publication are, in fact, young college students, it is ex-tremely senseless to downplay the importance of giving the next gen-eration representation in Congress. In fact, it should also be important for wise, older Louisianans to make sure their successors can be repre-sented in Washington D.C. Why are young, student writers so quick to dismiss their own voices? Students should be fighting for their young, fresh viewpoints to be represented in the United States of America. A certain amount of passion is desper-ately needed from young individu-als. The youth can’t just sit down and accept what they think is true. Your lives are being changed by the people in Washington, and it’s time you think about getting some repre-sentation of your own up there.

The median age of Ameri-can citizens is 36.8 years, but the

average age of the 113th Congress, is 57 years. Young people just sit here submissively, and refuse to be heard. Not only does Paul want to give the next generation equal representation, he is extremely ve-hement about it. He announced his participation in the race for Con-gress ambitiously early in May 2013. Claitor only officially an-nounced his participation in the race slightly more than three months ago. It seems as though it was eas-ier for Paul to dedicate himself to the state of Louisiana than it was for Claitor. Paul Dietzel is dead-set on working on behalf of everybody, not only the people that put money in his pocket. He has around 50 passionate interns that are students at LSU who volunteer their time to make a change happen in this coun-try. That’s the kind of attitude and determination this country needs. If you aren’t working toward a positive change, what are you working for?

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Last week, Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and one of America’s most infamous bigots, passed away. He left behind a complicated legacy, forever clouded by his most controversial actions of picketing funerals to push for a message of religious hate and intolerance.

Although most would love to picket his funeral, a few consider the revenge picketing a sign of success in Phelps’ leg-acy. I disagree and have no problem with people choosing to picket his funeral.

Heck, from his church’s perspective, he is in heaven and living it well with Je-sus.

If people choose to picket his funeral, maybe his church and family will feel the pain that they joyfully infl icted on others. Whatever the case, the church robbed the public of the opportunity by declaring that there will not be a funeral. This was a clear move to avoid the inevitable protests that would have occurred.

Although Phelps is an irrelevant per-son who will not be remembered 30 years from now, his general beliefs defi ne mil-lions of people around the world. He hated gay people and women who had abortions and justifi ed his hatred with the Bible.

It is hard to escape the viral debates and discussions online about Phelps and the people he hurt.

For those of us who decide to hate Phelps for being a bad Christian, we need to look at how he justifi ed his beliefs. Phelps isn’t a dark and unusual example of a Christian fundamentalist using the Bible to hurt others.

Bigots and Christian radicals in American history have used the Bible to justify slavery, segregation, not allowing interracial marriage and the current debate

of not allowing gay marriage.People who despise Phelps gener-

ally have a good reason, but his message of hate isn’t unique — just his tactics. Many in America have similar sentiments to Phelps in regard to their hatred of the LGBT community.

If many consider Phelps a radi-cal Christian cultist just because he was slightly more radical and had controversial tactics, then maybe Phelps isn’t so differ-ent from the many people who hate him.

In regard to free speech, Phelps pushed the edges of freedom of speech to limits that would make diehard libertarians and liberals cringe. Phelps and his church tested us in our commitment to freedom of speech every time he entered the spot-light and picketed the funerals of famous people, gay people and soldiers.

His death should be a wake-up call about our beliefs in dogmatic tradition and religion.

Some of the greatest human beings in history were religious and had faith in a higher power but so were the worst hu-mans. Religion is just an old intellectual tool to justify the good or bad causes people get behind.

I empathize with those who don’t want to picket his funeral. They believe that it would be hypocritical to do so and that hate creates more hate.

Although I agree that hate begets hate, pain does not. Pain offers perspective that someone generally doesn’t have until it affects them. This is a major value differ-ence in the world — those who have em-pathy and those who do not.

We should not decide not to despise Phelps just because he passed away. We didn’t do it for Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hus-sein or Osama bin Laden, so why should Phelps be any different?

A person who committed abhorrent acts shouldn’t be forgiven just because his heart stopped beating.

Phelps’ beliefs and bigotry should be ridiculed and hated by society the same way that racism, fascism and Islamic fundamentalism is.

Having hundreds of protesters picket Phelps’ funeral might offer the West-boro Baptist Church and Phelps’ family something they never had with all that faith — compassion.

Joshua Hajiakbarifi ni is a 24-year-old political science and economics senior from Baton Rouge.

The news of Fred Phelps’ death, the founder of Westboro Baptist Church, sent a stream of profane celebratory social media statuses into the cyber world. In the real world, people high-fi ved and re-marked that his death was an act of God.

There were endless news stories pub-lished that weren’t news at all, but instead gleeful tributes to the anticipated death of this 84-year-old man. The entire nation seemed to share a collective joy in his death.

It’s easy to get swept up in the post-Phelps hype that has generated such hateful remarks, but doing so isn’t get-ting us anywhere. Although his death is one of the more benefi cial in his-tory, picketing at his funeral is not justifi able.

I’m sure now that he is on the other side, he doesn’t need reassurance he was wrong, and there is no point in trying to do so now.

Phelps was a horrible man. He cre-ated a group responsible for the public hu-miliation and ridicule of countless people — there is no denying that. But his death sprouted an irony that came from our own hateful cores and lowered us to the same level of shame as Phelps.

When we bash Phelps and the West-boro church and call the devil to drag them to hell, we are no better than the intoler-able nuisances that they are.

Picketing his funeral would be like screaming back at the evangelists who preach in Free Speech Plaza. Once you engage with them, all you end up with is a collective yelling match with no indistin-guishable words on either part.

In their confused and brainwashed na-ture, they truly believe what they are doing is the right thing and while they are clearly mistaken, they posses an unexplainable ig-norance to the pain they cause.

On the other hand, we know right from wrong and are consciously making the choice to mock Westboro Baptist and celebrate the death of its leader.

To be clear, I don’t think anyone out-side of his family and church should be mourning his death. It’s the fact that the aftermath of his passing generated such hateful discussion toward him, his family and his church that the hypocrisy was too great to ignore.

I’m sure when Hitler died there were celebrations, and I wouldn’t blame those who were celebrating. There is nothing wrong with being happy such a terrible person is now unable to kill and torture more people. But there is a difference be-tween happily welcoming a death and bit-terly cursing a life.

Naturally, the fi rst thing opponents of Phelps wanted to do after his death was or-ganize a picket at his funeral. In theory, it sounds appropriate that he and his follow-ers get a taste of their own medicine they

so commonly dealt out to the undeserving soldiers and LGBT community.

But honestly, that wouldn’t get us anywhere. Dishing out the same horrible actions we condemned them for would only make Phelps laugh in his grave.

If people truly believed the work that Phelps did was so evil, they wouldn’t turn around and do it back to him. Letting him leave this world without a picket and al-lowing his family a peaceful funeral is more than just being the bigger person. It’s standing your ground without submitting to the hypocrisy of the Westboro Baptist Church and its followers.

Cursing his name feels a lot like we are letting him win. Think about it. Phelps is gone now. If we still allow his poison to spread and infl uence our own actions, then we are the ones keeping him alive.

Leave that for the other members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who will hopefully die off as well and put an end to all the ideas he perpetuated.

His death shouldn’t be a reason for our hatred to be reawakened and dramati-cally voiced. It should instead reaffi rm our own peace and be a pleasing incident that brightens the future for those who were scorned in his name.

Maybe I just expected more from those who righteously shuddered at his ac-tions in the past. The way people are han-dling Phelps’ death makes me wonder just how different we really are.

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

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OpinionMonday, March 24, 2014 page 13

Pain could o� er Phelps’ family perspectiveCelebrating death is hypocritical

CHARLIE RIEDEL / The Associated Press

Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the founder of the Kansas church known for anti-gay protests and pickets at military funerals, died late Wednesday, according to his family. He was 84.

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relationships to build.” Once elected, those day-to-day

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“It’s diffi cult when there’s so much transition going on between administrations to accomplish goals, and you only have a year to do it,” Woodard said.

Woodard said there is little candidates can do to prepare for the realities of offi ce, however, because it is largely a hands-on

learning experience. Nevertheless, The Next Step

presidential candidate Clay Tufts is optimistic and believes he can suc-cessfully implement his ticket’s ini-tiatives. Tufts is currently SG direc-tor of external affairs , a position he said has allowed him to learn a lot from Woodard and Vice President Taylor Parks . Woodard and Parks are role models , Tufts said, because they have done well fulfi lling cam-paign promises .

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Christian Coleman , Experi-ence LSU presidential candidate , said he and running mate Ashleigh Pichon have met with administra-tors to ensure the feasibility of their initiatives, which include an anti-littering campaign , making UREC equipment available on the Parade

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Coleman said while all of his initiatives may not be realized while he is in offi ce , it is still worth pursuing them “to try to get them in the plans that administrators are making now.”

cut Pell Grant and other federal fund-ing because of the cost of these pro-grams to the federal government, but he said the group intends to ensure colleges remain affordable and ac-cessible in the face of rising tuition.

Woodard said the group also backs a program that would match states’ investment into higher educa-tion with the levels of federal fund-ing it receives. He said this would put more pressure on states to fund higher education.

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The group will meet with repre-sentatives Tuesday from the offi ces of congressmen Charles Boustany, Bill Cassidy and Steve Scalise as well as senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter.

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INITIATIVES, from page 1

LEADERS, from page 1

As the sun set on Mardi Gras World , Phantogram delivered its fi rst Louisiana show with songs from the band’s recent album as well as past records.

The Flaming Lips performed its Power Plant set with a physi-cally blinding laser light show. On the other side of the BUKU grounds, Baauer and RL Grime almost shook the Float Den to rubble from the bass of their combined set.

The late night lineup of day two featured performances from School-boy Q , Glitch Mob and Tyler the Creator . Tyler’ s show appeared to be the best-received of the night thanks to his interaction with those in atten-dance. He spoke to the crowd after every song and cracked jokes at the expense of everyone in sight.

Rapper Danny Brown closed the festival to a weak crowd. It didn’t help Brown that the crowd could rarely understand him be-cause of the multiple voices he uses while performing.

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