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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 • Volume 117, Issue 53www.lsureveille.com
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / The Associated Press
President Barack Obama waves to supporters during a campaign event on Sunday in Hollywood, Fla., Obama took swing states including Virginia, Colorado and Nevada in Tuesday’s victory.
ROUND TWO
FOOTBALL: How do you pronounce Dworaczyk? p. 5
POLITICS: Mayor-President Kip Holden wins re-election, p. 3
President Barack Obama lost a slight amount of footing in Louisiana according to the results of Tuesday’s presidential elec-tion, but those numbers were not evident on a national scale since Louisiana is not a swing state.
Republican challenger Mitt Romney won 59.19 percent of votes in Louisiana, while Obama won 39.16 percent of the vote, according to numbers as of press
time Tuesday night . In 2008, Obama won 39.9
percent of Louisiana’s vote with 780,981 votes. Tuesday night’s numbers show Obama recording 749,994 votes in the state.
Romney, on the other hand, won more votes than former Re-publican challenger John McCain won in 2008 . McCain won 58.6 percent of Louisiana’s vote in 2008.
In East Baton Rouge Par-ish, though, Obama won more votes than Romney. Obama garnered 102,460 votes while Romney claimed 92,235 votes
Obama dips slightly in La., takes EBR Parish lead
Romney wins state in landslide
STATE, see page 11
President Barack Obama clinched another four years in of-fi ce Tuesday night in a victory against Republican candidate Mitt Romney that saw a narrowly close popular vote.
News organizations began calling the election around 10:30 p.m. as it became clearer that Obama was pulling far ahead the 270 required Electoral College votes.
Throughout election night,
the numbers in Ohio and Florida, which were labeled as the most es-sential swing states, were tighter by fewer than 100,000 votes.
Obama won with a large mar-gin of Electoral College votes, but the popular vote was narrower. As of press time Tuesday night, the popular vote was locked in a dead heat.
The president was victorious his home state of Illinois by a land-slide and claimed Massachusetts where Romney was formerly gov-ernor.
Leading up to election day,
national polls accurately predicted how close the race would be.
Polls were tied in most major swing states including Ohio and Florida. Many analysts recalled the 2000 presidential election when Democratic hopeful Al Gore de-manded a recount after former President George W. Bush narrow-ly pulled through.
Romney conceded in a speech to a crowd gathered in Boston, of-fering prayers for the president in guiding the country for another
Obama: ‘� ank you for believing all the way’
OBAMA, see page 11
Electoral College swings for Obama, popular vote in dead heat
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Nation & World Wednesday, November 7, 2012page 2
Bolivia returns tiny mummy to Peru; authorities to investigate smuggle
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The mummi-fi ed toddler seized from antiqui-ties traffi ckers is at least 700 years old and sits, spine curved forward, only about a foot tall.
It was welcomed back to Peru on Tuesday as a sort of celebrity, a symbol of the nation’s effort to protect its cultural heritage.
“This small package,” Culture Minister Luis Peirano told report-ers, “is just a sample of the sack-ing, of the violation of our patri-mony and all our inheritance.”Intrigue surges around Russia Defense Chief Serdyukov’s fall
MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin fi red his powerful defense chief over a corruption scandal Tuesday, but a heady mix of sex, power struggles and military vendettas dominated talk in Russia about what was really behind the downfall of the man who has overseen the nation’s most radi-cal defense reform in decades.
The dismissal of Anatoly Serdyukov was a surprise because the burly politician was widely re-garded as having the president’s blessing for a military moderniza-tion that has won the enmity of generals and arms makers with connections to members of Putin’s inner circle.
One dead, 3 injured in N.C. hospital � re, cause of � re not yet known
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Prelimi-nary information indicates a fi re at a North Carolina hospital that killed a patient and injured three workers occurred during a defi -brillation, authorities said, citing a procedure typically used to deliver an electric shock to the heart.
Spokesman Jim Jones of the state Department of Health and Human Services said the early in-formation shows a spark and a fi re took place during the defi brillation early Tuesday at Durham Regional Hospital. He did not elaborate on the specifi cs of the situation.Man sentenced for stealing lobsters repeatedly to fund drug habit
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man could spend up to 25 years in prison for stealing lobsters he planned to sell to sup-port his drug habit.
Authorities say 47-year-old Charles Shumanis III repeatedly stole lobsters and meat from Allen-town-area supermarkets, includ-ing a botched March 1 theft that included a parking lot car-jacking.
Police say Shumanis stole meat and lobsters on two other oc-casions before he was confronted when he walked out of the store with $350 in lobsters.
METAIRIE (AP) — Now that New Orleans general manager Mickey Loomis has returned to work, the Saints need his crisis-management skills to be sharp.
The organization continues to be rife with unsettled issues, some of which have made its fan base uneasy.
So there was no time for Loo-mis to ease back into a routine Tuesday after serving his eight-game suspension in connection with the NFL’s bounty probe of the Saints.
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Superdome to host Sugar Bowl game between Big 12 and SEC
(AP) — New Orleans will be the site of the new marquee bowl game between the Southeastern Confer-ence and Big 12.
The conferences made the an-nouncement Tuesday. The game will still be called the Sugar Bowl and will be played in the Super-dome. The agreement between the leagues and the bowl is for 12 years.
The SEC has a long history with the Sugar Bowl. Seventy-one times an SEC team has played in the game, far more than any other league. The fi rst Sugar Bowl in 1935 matched Tulane, then of the SEC, against Temple.
Puerto Rico votes in referendum on US ties and chooses governor
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Ricans were facing a funda-mental question on Election Day: Should they change their ties with the United States?
Citizens in the U.S. island terri-tory cannot vote in the U.S. presiden-tial election, but many participated in a referendum that could push the territory toward statehood, greater autonomy or independence.
Car horns blared and party fl ags waved as voters headed to polling stations, many carrying umbrellas against the blistering tropical sun.
PERU MINISTRY OF CULTURE / The Associated Press
This mummi� ed toddler is at least 700 years old and sits about a foot tall. Its sex is uncertain and it is believed to come from a pre-Inca culture.
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Train hits pickup, driver cited for obstructing railroad crossing
LAWTELL (AP) — The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Offi ce says a 34-year-old Opelousas woman was cited for obstructing a rail-road crossing after she allegedly tried to beat a train and it hit her pickup truck.
Capt. Megan Vizena, a sher-iff’s offi ce spokeswoman, says Ra-chel Andrepont was taken to a hos-pital with minor injuries. She says Andrepont tried to drive across the tracks about 5 a.m. Tuesday, while crossing lights and bells and the train’s whistle all were going.
MATTHEW HINTON / The Associated Press
New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis attends a media availability about the NFL draft April 26 at the team’s training facility in Metairie.
Loomis returns to Saints after suspension, has work cut out
Mayor-President Kip Holden will once again serve East Baton Rouge Parish in his third term after a landslide vic-tory Tuesday night, defeating three other candidates.
Holden had 60 percent of the votes with 97 percent of precincts reporting by 10 p.m. Tuesday, ac-cording to Nola.com.
Holden’s main opponent was Repub-lican Mayor-Presi-dent Pro Tempore Mike Walker, earning 34 percent of the votes, while independents Gordon Mese and Steve Myers secured 4 per-cent.
Crime was a major issue leading up to the debate, with candidates claiming Holden has not done enough during his time in offi ce.
Holden was the fi rst African American to be elected as Baton Rouge mayor-president. He cel-ebrated his victory at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge Tuesday night.
In other state elections, Amendment No. 2 on the ballot that seeks to eliminate restriction on guns in Louisiana passed. The
amendment calls for a rewrite to the Louisiana constitution, featuring new language that would pave the way for an ab-solute right to bear arms.
But critics of the amendment have ex-pressed concern that the law could lead to guns in churches, bars and col-lege campuses.
The amendment came to public referendum after it passed through the Louisiana State Legislature earlier this year.
Baton Rouge surpassed New Orleans in violent crime per capita for 2011 .
The FBI released its national crime statistics last week, reveal-ing Baton Rouge ’s violent crime rate as 1065.7 crimes per 100,000 people while New Orleans ’ was 792 crimes per 100,000 people. Over-all, the statistics show Baton Rouge is 26 percent more violent.
Nationally, Ba-ton Rouge is the 25th most dangerous city, falling behind other southern cities like Little Rock , Ark., Birmingham , Ala., Atlanta , Miami and Orlando .
New Orleans did not make the top 25 list.
In 2010 , New Orleans was the 13 th most dangerous city while Baton Rouge was the 16 th.
Crimes classifi ed as violent include murder, forcible rape, rob-bery and aggravated assault.
Baton Rouge recorded 64 murders, 51 rapes, 893 robber-ies and 1,460 aggravated assaults in 2011, while New Orleans reg-istered 200 murders, 163 rapes, 1,059 robberies and 1,326 aggra-vated assaults.
Baton Rouge ’s 2011
population, 231,592 people, is about two-thirds the size of New Orleans’ 2011 population of 346,974 people.
Corresponding with the grim statistics has been a debate in the 2012 Baton Rouge Mayoral race often focusing on curbing vio-lence in the city.
East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden has said he wants to attack crime at its roots without beefi ng up police forces, like his opponent Mayor-
President Pro Tem-pore Mike Walker has suggested.
Walker has said he wants to increase Baton Rouge ’s po-lice forces and crack down on gangs and drugs. He proposed a nine -step program to control crime that includes pulling all
law enforcement teams in the area together, doubling the number of street operations units from fi ve to 10 so the police can focus on crime hot spots, and using the city jail to process those arrested on outstanding warrants.
“Baton Rouge is even worse than we initially thought,” said “Fight, Not Fear” spokesman Jay Connaughton in a news release. “In the last year, crime has contin-ued to grow and spread across the city at an frightening pace.”
“Fight, Not Fear” — a cam-paign to bring attention to the growing crime problem in Baton Rouge — was started last week in the capital city.
Similar to Walker ’s ultimatum, the campaign demands the unifi cation of Baton Rouge ’s two separate police forces: East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Offi ce and Baton Rouge Police Department .
The existence of two forces causes problems and ineffi cien-cies in fi ghting crime, the release said.
“Fight, Not Fear” cites the unifi cation and subsequent drop in crimes rates in Charlotte, In-dianapolis, Louisville and Las Vegas in justifying its proposal for Baton Rouge .
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New Orleans not on top 25 list
POLITICS
Mayor-President Holden takes third term in landslide win
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RICHARD ALAN HANNON / The Advocate
Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden (right), with his wife Lois at his side, enters his election night ballroom to celebrate with supporting fans in Baton Rouge on Tuesday.
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EAST BATON ROUGE PARISHNOV. 6 VOTING STATISTICS:
-Holden: 60% votes
-Walker: 34% votes
-Mese/Myers: 4% votes
Amendment No. 2 on gun control passes
2011 BATON ROUGE CRIME STATISTICS: -64 murders
-51 rapes
-893 robberies
-1,460 aggravated assaults
University students were both disgusted and impressed by the various facts about animal processing at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ Glass Walls Exhibit set up on Tower Drive on Monday and Tuesday.
The infl atable tent made to look like a barn featured a display about animals having human-level intelligence, a life-size sow gestation box and a video about slaughterhouses.
Glass Walls Exhibit Coor-dinator Lisa Hines, who wore a shirt emblazoned with the slo-gan “Meat Sucks,” said the goal of walking through the exhibit is to make students want to make a difference.
Hines is a vegetarian and has been for three years. She said the hardest part is getting used to a new routine, but once she found a replacement for her go-to meals, making the switch wasn’t as dif-fi cult as some might think.
Photography junior Angel Casillo, who brought the PETA exhibit to campus, is also a veg-etarian and has been for eight years since she fi rst looked into PETA.
“I thought the things slaugh-terhouses did to animals were disgusting, and I thought, ‘I’m never eating that again,’” Casillo said.
She contacted PETA after she saw the notifi cation that the traveling exhibit was going to tour colleges and obtained the proper permits.
Casillo saw a need for heightened knowledge of the lack of slaughterhouse ethics in Louisiana after listening to her friends’ misconceptions.
“Lots of Louisiana people assume the wrong thing, that the animals are just shot in the head with a shotgun,” Casillo said.
She agreed with Hines, say-ing the people she has seen walk through the exhibit have been af-fected.
The fi rst room was dedicated to the relation of animals to hu-mans and features Hines’ favorite animal: pigs.
According to the exhibit, pigs play video games with the intelligence of 3-year-old human children.
Hines said people should re-member the animals they eat are babies when killed in slaughter-houses.
The second room contained pictures of slaughterhouse condi-tions, a model cage with chickens and a box made of metal bars where sows are left while they feed their young.
The third room showed a video narrated by Paul Mc-Cartney that is a compila-tion of PETA’s undercover
slaughterhouse footage. Hines said the video is what
affects people most. “It brings the images alive,”
she said. She said she sometimes has
to step out and cry after watching the video, even though she’s seen it hundreds of times.
“It’s my motivation to keep going,” Hines said.
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ACTIVISM
PETA exhibit exposes abuse
Megan DunbarStaff Writer
Student brings Glass Walls to campus
Watch a video about the exhibit at lsureveille.com. Watch a video about the
Contact Megan Dunbar at [email protected]
CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille
Educational signs are displayed inside a PETA tent to promote animal cruelty awareness Tuesday afternoon near the LSU Student Union.
Being an oft-injured, overpaid NBA player is the life. Just ask New Orleans Hornets guard Eric Gordon.
You don’t have to do much. Ice your knees, ride a bike and col-lect fat checks. Where do I sign up?
Optimism soared after the Hornets’ infusion of new talent to the Crescent City this offseason. The additions of forward Ryan Anderson, center Robin Lopez and No. 1 pick Anthony Davis have proved their worth so far as the Hornets sit at 2-1 after facing three playoff teams from a season ago.
But the key cog Hornets gen-eral manager Dell Demps thought
would help the Bees rebound from the worst record in the Western Conference last season is nowhere to be found — unless you’re look-ing in the training room or at the end of the bench.
I said it once in a column during the summer and I’ll say it again — New Orleans made a huge misstep in building a franchise by shelling out $58 million to Gordon over four years.
Rule No. 1 of being an NBA general manager: Don’t hand out max-contracts to players coming off serious knee injuries. That’s exactly what Demps did, and now the Hornets are seeing the conse-quences.
Gordon was among the last group of cuts this summer for the United States Olympic Basket-ball team. It wasn’t because his knee was bothering him — it was
because he wasn’t good enough.Suddenly after the Hornets
paid the big bucks to keep him in New Orleans, the knee that has caused him to miss so much time in his short NBA career started to act up again.
Who would have thought?I have a lot of friends who are
Hornets fans who shunned me after I called out Demps and the rest of New Orleans’ front office this sum-mer for matching the Phoenix Suns offer sheet. Now they’re the same ones telling me they can’t wait un-til Gordon is out of town.
Gordon didn’t participate in training camp, didn’t play in a single game on the Hornets eight-game preseason slate and hasn’t suited up for any of their three reg-ular season contests.
SportsWednesday, November 7, 2012 page 5
MSU offense is stable butinefficient
FOOTBALL
Every successful offense has an identity.
Oregon finds production through speed in the backfield with the No. 2 rushing offense in the nation. Texas A&M has found its identity in one player, Johnny “Football” Manziel, as he has made the Aggies the fifth most productive offensive unit in col-lege football.
The same cannot be said for No. 21 Mississippi State (7-2), but No. 7 LSU (7-2) doesn’t plan to overlook MSU’s offense.
“They’ve got talent across the board,” said LSU junior line-backer Kevin Minter. “This isn’t a one-person team. All 11 of them are pretty damn decent. Everyone is going to have to do their as-signments and execute well, and hopefully we’ll come out with the W.”
Ranking 73rd in the country with 387.1 yards per game and 48th in points per game with an average of 30.8, the Bulldogs have struggled to find an efficient balance under offensive coordi-nator Les Koenning.
Lawrence BarrecaSports Contributor
MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist
GERALD HERBERT / The Associated Press
New Orleans Hornets shooting guard Eric Gordon walks down court in the third quarter of a game against the Memphis Grizzlies in New Orleans on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011.
What’s in a name?
MSU, see page 7
GORDON, see page 6
Hornets guard Gordon’s injury charade is getting old
The names of LSU football players are some of the most often-used words in Baton Rouge each fall.
Good luck pronouncing some of them, as the Tigers’ roster is lit-tered with uncommon, confound-ing and quirky names.
From Mettenberger to Min-go, Jermauria to Jerqwinick and Aghayere to A’Trey-U, they seem to be in unlimited supply at LSU, frequently toggling between first and last name.
“Every road venue we go to, I have to go over about a dozen pro-nunciations with the opposing radio guys,” said LSU Associate Sports Information Director Bill Martin. “You have to spell them out very clearly or they won’t get it.”
Players unanimously touted freshman safety Jerqwinick San-dolph as the leader of LSU’s All-Name Team.
“Everybody, all the trainers and the staff, just calls him JQ,” said junior defensive end Barkevi-ous Mingo. “Not to be confused with GQ, because he’s not smooth like that.”
Fellow first-name oddity ju-nior linebacker Lamin Barrow said Sandolph’s name has a mystical yet appropriate quality to it.
“It just fits him,” Barrow said. “If I had to guess his name, I’d probably say something silly like Jerqwinick. That name is him — a funny guy for a funny name.”
Sandolph is better known on the team as “Thumbsucker,” ac-cording to players. He’s not alone, as nicknames often ring out in the
Tigers locker room.Freshman linebacker Kwon
Alexander is “Q-Tip.” Mingo is fa-mously known as “KeKe.” Sopho-more La’el Collins calls freshman Trai Turner, “Twinkletoes,” be-cause of a penchant for walking on his toes. Senior Josh Dworaczyk refers to junior Bennie Logan as “Mad Dog.”
It’s commonplace on the LSU football team for a given name to sound like nickname.
Take sophomore defensive tackle Ego Ferguson.
“I just found out that’s his real name a few months back,” Barrow said. “For the longest time now, I’ve thought Ego was just a nick-name. It’s still funny to me.”
Ferguson said he doesn’t know the origin of his name, only that it runs in the family.
“You’d have to ask my pops,” he said. “I don’t know what his parents were thinking, naming him that. He decided to put that burden on me, too.”
Ferguson said the name used to draw more attention when has was younger, admitting kids used to call him “Eggo,” like the frozen waffle brand.
It also inspired a comical high school incident on the gridiron.
“This guy across the line from me started singing real weird, like dancing and singing a song like ‘My Big Ego’ or something,” Fer-guson said. “I thought he looked kind of effeminate. I just laughed … but then I hit him on the next play.”
The important question, though: Does he have a big ego?
Barrow said no, but sophomore defensive end Jermauria Rasco said the charming arrogance eventually reveals itself.
“When you get to know
Barkevious Mingo[bar-kee-vee-us min-go]
Josh Dworaczyk[josh duh-ross-ick]
Jerqwinick Sandolph[jer-kwin-ick san-dolf]
CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
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CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
Chris AbshireSports Writer
NAME, see page 7
LSU football roster full of unique names
Tigers expect rushing, passing attacks
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FOOTBALL
In some of the most uncertain times of his life, Jeremy Hill’s end goal was never far from his mind — neither was Redemptorist High and LSU teammate La’el Collins .
Committing to LSU with the likes of Jarvis Landry , Anthony Johnson and Collins , Hill was a gem in coach Les Miles ’ prized 2011 Louisiana recruiting class, affectionately called “The Fam” after bonding during the recruiting process.
In an instant, it was gone.Arrested on charges of oral
sexual battery on Jan. 12, 2011, Hill was forced to put college foot-ball on hold, watching his high school teammate and other “Fam” members on television, before pleading guilty a year later to car-nal knowledge of a juvenile .
“I never stopped talking to him,” Collins said. “We stayed close, saw each other a lot and kind of let him know what to look out for when he got here.”
Hill soaked up what he could from his longtime friend and high school comrade as the two contin-ued to forge a bond essential be-tween offensive lineman and run-ning back.
Collins said he laid out the expectations for Hill on what it
takes to be an LSU player, all the while stressing the differences he observed throughout his freshman season between high school and college in the trenches.
It’s paid dividends thus far, as Hill seamlessly burst onto the Southeastern Conference football scene with three consecutive 100-yard games , including shredding the revered Ala-bama defense for 107 yards Satur-day.
Hill took the team lead in rush-ing yards after Saturday’s contest. He has now gained 429 rushing yards, despite not ap-pearing until the Tigers’ third game and receiving his fi rst start against Alabama.
“It’s the same type of plays; we ran the same offense in high school,” Hill said “The same things are going on with the blocking schemes and how he blocks for me, just at a higher level.”
Collins’ passion for the game is the impetus for some of Hill’s biggest runs, with the running back always getting reinforcement from his friend on the line.
“Out on the fi eld, he always tells me to keep going. ‘J, you gotta make a play out there. We need you, we need you,’” Hill said. “When I’m tired out there, he’s got the energy I need.”
Emerging out of the stable
of running backs as the most de-pendable even after his tumultu-ous 2011, Hill has raised eyebrows around the program with his tough running style and admirable work ethic.
“I think Jeremy has had some of the experiences that allow you to mature quickly,” Miles said. “As a running back, we’re asking
him to be the guy that learns quickly, has a great football IQ and has really strong talent.”
While Collins said the memories he and Hill shared at Redemptorist still resonate with him, playing with his friend on one of the conference’s
most premier teams just strength-ens the duo’s bond.
“[Hill being here] makes it even better,” Collins said. “He’s a real talented guy, he’s still fi ghting his way through some stuff with the offense but it feels good to play with him.”
As for Hill , he still can’t con-tain his excitement.
“It’s as great as it gets having that guy blocking for me on these stages,” he said.
Chandler RomeSports Writer
But never fear, Hornets fans — Gordon has some good news. He doesn’t need surgery on his knee, but he’ll be out four to six weeks while undergoing “stringent rehabilitation work.”
I’m sorry, but hasn’t Gordon spent the last few months doing just that?
It’s not like doctors are hold-ing him back. There’s no structural damage and no offi cial diagnosis. Gordon just says his knee is sore.
And I just got elected the next President of the United States .
It’s not just me who’s doubting Gordon’s inability to set foot on the court. New Orleans coach Monty Williams seems to be getting a lit-tle frustrated with him as well.
“I’ll fi nd out more as we go forward,” Williams said after the Hornets’ 99-95 season-opening loss to the San Antonio Spurs . “...I’ve told you he’s not playing. He’s out indefi nitely.”
It sounds like Monty doesn’t want to talk about Gordon’s injury status after every game because even he doesn’t know how many games it will be before No. 10 is “healthy” enough to play.
If Gordon misses the mini-mum four weeks, that’s still almost a quarter of the Hornets’ regular season. And what’s stopping him from saying he still isn’t good to go at the end of that time frame?
Let me get this straight, Eric — you’re getting paid upward of
$14 million a year to put a bas-ketball in a hoop and can’t do that because of some soreness in your knee that your coach questions?
Suck it up.
Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old
history senior from Houma.GORDON, from page 5
Two were teammates in high school, college
CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
LSU freshman running back Jeremy Hill runs the ball Saturday during the Tigers’ 21-17 loss against Alabama in Tiger Stadium.
Collins, Hill remain close through trials, tribulations
TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille
LSU sophomore offensive guard La’el Collins blocks a Towson player Sept. 29 during the Tigers’ 38-22 win against Towson in Tiger Stadium.
‘We stayed close, saw each other a lot and
kind of let him know what to look for when
he got here.’ La’el Collins
LSU sophomore offensive guard
Contact Micah Bedard at [email protected];
Twitter: @DardDog
Contact Chandler Rome at [email protected];
Twitter: @Rome_TDR
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On Stands November 5th 2012
How athletes manageandthe
Junior quarterback Ty-ler Russell has had individual success in 2012 , as his 139.5 pass rating and 16 touch-downs have kept the Bulldogs’ offense moving.
Russell has made the occa-sional play with his feet, scor-ing twice on the ground this sea-son.
“They’ve got a good QB,” said junior linebacker Lamin Barrow . “Their QB can move. [Russell] has grown so much from last year, and he’s just making a lot of plays with his feet, so we’re going to have to key in on every-body.”
Junior Bulldogs running back LaDarius Perkins’ 804 yards, eight scores and 5.25 average yards per carry have him striking fear into opposing
defensive coordinators. “We have to respect their
run game and how physical they are with down blocks and the stuff that they do,” said junior defensive end Sam Montgomery. “I know this is a very strong run team.”
The MSU receiving corps is led by seniors Chad Bumphis and
Chris Smith , who have combined for 962 yards and nine scores . Senior tight end Marcus Green has also been a favorite target for Russell . His fi ve
receiving touchdowns rank him second on the squad.
So one question now re-mains: If the Bulldogs have so many producers on offense, then why is their offense ranked so poorly?
Outside of Perkins , no other runner is averaging more than 22 yards per game , leaving the
workload on the team’s select group of offensive stars.
Another factor could be the play selection.
Although the Bulldogs’ pass-ing stats make up nearly 60 per-cent of their total offensive pro-duction, only 48 percent of the plays called are through the air.
The other 52 percent of play calls involve the run game, mak-ing the MSU offense a balanced but ineffi cient unit as a whole.
The Tigers plan to get into the fi lm room this week to further evaluate the Bulldogs’ offensive attack.
“We’re going to use fi lm study, and we’re going to break them down,” said junior defen-sive end Barkevious Mingo . “The coaches do a great job up-stairs with all that stuff. We put our faith in them to get us ready, and we’ll be ready.”
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him, he defi nitely does,” Rasco said, chiding Ferguson , who was stand-ing next to him. “He likes to brag a little.”
The name Dworaczyk — pro-nounced “Duh-ross-ick ” — is most notable for its consonants and gave LSU coach Les Miles fi ts early in his career.
“When Les came to New Ibe-ria to recruit me, he asked me sev-eral times how to pronounce it,” Dworaczyk said. “Now he, Coach Studrawa and even Coach Ens-minger will get bold and dare use my last name when they yell during practice.”
Martin said LSU offi cials reach out to fi rst-hand sources before clearing the offi cial pronunciation with senior associate sports infor-mation director Bill Franques .
“We contact high school coach-es or their families to make sure we get them right,” Martin said. “We know if they’re confusing to us, other people will need help.”
Even with dozens of magnifi cent names, one has achieved fame far beyond campus.
Mingo has become a household name in college football, even earn-ing the title, “Imperial Intergalactic Overlord Barkevious Mingo ” last year from Sports Illustrated’s Andy Staples .
Mingo has little preference be-tween his given name and “KeKe ,” but said he’s encountered surpris-ingly few spelling or pronunciation issues, perhaps because of his bur-geoning popularity.
“As long as I’ve played, every-body’s kind of magically been able to get it right,” he said. “I keep ex-pecting someone to mess up. I hear that a lot with the other names on this team. We got some good ones.”
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LSU sophomore defensive end Barkevious Mingo pressures WKU quarterback Kawaun Jakes during the Tigers’ 42-9 victory against the Hilltoppers on Nov. 12, 2011.
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Election day has come and gone, and many important ques-tions have been left unanswered. Which candidate will fix the deficit in the sleep budget? Does Barack Obama hang his toilet paper over or under? Would Mitt Romney’s America see a rise in combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bells?
Inquiring minds will have to let these curiosities go and move on to the next big mystery: Where do our votes go after we’ve cast our ballots?
In short, they go to the Elec-toral College. The long answer depends on where you live and how you vote.
If you’re in your state’s majority, it’s smooth sailing. If you’re in your state’s minority, however, some might liken your vote’s post-election journey to a nonsensical ride through the pipes of a Dr. Seussian machine, whereby they are deposited in It-Doesn’t-Matter-Who-You-Vot-ed-For-Ville.
This is due to the Electoral College’s controversial nature. Each state is allotted a cer-tain number of electoral votes determined by the number of members in the Senate and House
of Representatives. For better or worse, a win-
ner-take-all approach is applied here and whichever presidential candidate wins the majority of the state’s popular vote almost absolutely receives all of the electoral votes.
Hypothetically, the Repub-lican Party could edge out the Democrats by only 19 or 15 per-cent in a state’s popular vote, granting the entirety of the elec-toral votes to the Republican candidate despite strong opposi-tion.
Now remove “hypotheti-cally” from the above statement and you’ve got the events of the
presidential elections in Loui-siana in 2008 and 2004, respec-tively. Realities like this have not been lost on history freshman Brent Chapuis.
“I would vote for Barack,” he said, “but I know this state is going to go to the Republican candidate. I’d have to go all the way to New Orleans to vote, so it’d be a waste of my time.”
Even if Chapuis had vot-ed, he’d have faced some stark truths. Despite the insistence of countless campaigns launched to convince citizens their votes matter, the current system en-sures that if your vote is cast for a party not favored in your state,
like Democrats in Louisiana or Republicans in California, it is essentially moot.
As a result, a candidate can win by maintaining a slight lead in several states, regardless of whether that lead represents more overall votes. This has occurred several times, including George W. Bush’s win in 2000.
Likewise, third party candi-dates are mostly excluded since electoral votes are only awarded to candidates who win the ma-jority of a state. Their support is generally small and wide-spread rather than strongly con-centrated in any one place. As a result, a third party vote can be
considered symbolic rather than significant since it will likely re-ceive few electoral votes.
As for creating a more cohe-sive nation, the Electoral College succeeds. It prevents a form of regionalism by inhibiting densely populated cities from overriding the votes of less populated rural areas. It also coerces candidates to seek widespread approval, rather than only in those highly peopled regions.
Unfortunately, there is a cost. While I recognize the philosophi-cal reward of guaranteeing those rural outliers are represented, over-representing them because of where they live is another form of bias.
The Electoral College is an attempt at fairness, but falls short in practice. It asks us to sacrifice our ideals of equality among indi-viduals to allow equality among regions, no matter how distant or populous. For many, it’s worth-while. For others, like those in-volved in the more than 700 pro-posals to reform or remove it, it is not. For me, I’ll only be disap-pointed to see my vote go to the land of broken dreams, populated by prom queen runner-ups, failed athletes and people who have eat-en a KFC Double Down.
Aaron Friedman is 22-year-old writing and culture senior from Destrehan.
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Eve and Charles Clayton wait in line Tuesday to vote at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Shreveport.
This past Saturday night in Death Valley, while I was scream-ing at the top of my lungs and hop-ing for a fumble on the field by Al-abama, a couple of guys standing in front of me at the game started to yell at the band to play the cheer “Neck.” I know they will never play
it because I don’t think that the stu-dent section screaming vulgarities on national television is what the University wants to portray to the world that they are producing here at the LSU. But these guys kept on screaming at the band. They never did play “Neck,” but they did play something I’m pretty sure was new. I had not heard it before, and I liked it. However, I am sure that will be the first and last time the band plays that song, because these same guys were screaming at the top of their lungs, “Suck that tiger dick, bitch.”
It was loud and soon many others started to join in. I was em-barrassed and angry at the same
time. Although it all may seem like good fun, it’s disrespectful and disgusting to the opposing team, our team, all fans involved, our administrators and especially our band. They all work hard to put on a show for us every week and we throw it back in their faces when we deface a cheer with profanities such as that.
I’m not advocating for the re-moval of all profane cheers. I’ll be right there next to everyone else yelling, “Geaux to hell Ole Miss” in two weeks, and “Kick their ass” at the end of the first down cheer. I am simply asking for an exercise in some judgment so that no more cheers will be taken away from us.
With that being said, I propose a challenge to the student section this coming week. I propose that instead of shouting profanities at the opposing team we concentrate on cheering our own team on; that we don’t leave early because we are winning, and that we stand up for the entire game. I hope you will join me by standing up at the game and not joining in on any cheer that is classless and vulgar.
Abbie FishVeterinary graduate student
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for LSU image
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IndecisionEarly voting debases the competition, debates
Election Day at the polls is usually a hectic one, and many vot-ers chose to vote early to avoid the chaos. While campaigning peaks during the presidential debates, many states opened early voting before the debates even began.
The presidential debates are often believed to be game-chang-ers, but in reality, they have little effect on the decisions of voters.
Absentee voting began in Sep-tember in several states, including North Carolina on Sept. 6. Early voting began in Vermont on Sept. 22 and in Wyoming and Iowa on Sept. 27, according to NBC News. By the time the first presidential debate aired Oct. 3, many voters from across the country had al-ready submitted their ballots.
Although early voting in Loui-siana began later than many other states, voters turned out in large numbers.
Absentee voting in Louisi-ana began Sept. 22, and in-person early voting opened Oct. 23. As of Oct. 30 at 4 p.m., 327,489 Louisi-ana voters cast ballots in advance, reaching 25 percent higher in ear-ly voting turnout than during the 2008 election, according to The Advocate.
It’s not uncommon to hear voters say they don’t like any of the candidates, and often, vot-ers decide to vote based on party
affiliation, instead of in favor of a specific candidate.
If some voters would have waited until the debates were completed, some might have been taken aback by President Barack Obama’s lackluster performance during the first debate.
Morgan Craft, business and marketing sophomore, said she voted on election day, but her mind has been made up for several months.
“I watched the debates,” she said. “It was good to see both sides,
but I normally agree with one side more. My decision was pretty much maintained from everything I’ve seen from the past six months to a year.”
Many voters may have been decided from the start, but cam-paign distractions have blurred the issues in the minds of the unde-cided.
While most polls have indi-cated that the economy remains to be the top issue for voters, social issues continued to make headlines during campaigning.
Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s controversial “legitimate rape” comment spurred conversation on abortion, and Democrats shed light on Gov. Mitt Romney’s shaky stance on the issue.
Romney and Obama also sparred over women voters in the “War on Women,” which the ACLU describes as “the legislative and rhetorical attacks on women and women’s rights taking place across the nation.”
Although these are important issues, they were distractions from
the real problems, and it isn’t hard to see why some voters remained undecided so long into the cam-paigning season.
But most voters select their candidate months before Election Day and even the presidential de-bates, which were held on Oct. 3, 11 and 16.
According to Gallup, 24 per-cent of registered voters cast their ballots between Oct. 1 and 28.
Obama seemed to understand that most voters’ minds are already made up at this point.
On Tuesday, Obama played a traditional election day game of basketball with friends in his hometown of Chicago. While Romney and Republican vice pres-idential nominee Paul Ryan attend-ed several last-minute campaign events, Obama kept it low-key by participating in radio interviews in battleground states.
If partisanship takes priority in our decision-making process, we are allowing candidates to slide by without having to prove them-selves, and while early voting may be convenient, keep your eyes and ears open until election day.
Kate Mabry is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from New Orleans.
Whatever you put online is free game — it’s callow to assume no one can see or utilize what goes on your social media profiles, pri-vate or not.
Collin MacKechnie, a 15-year-old child actor located in Vancou-ver, Canada, had a fake Twitter ac-count made about him without his knowledge.
Pictures of Collin and his fam-ily surfaced, along with personal details that seemingly only he would know.
Once this situation was han-dled, the question remained: What made this account more inap-propriate than a parody celebrity account?
Accounts such as @Bill_Nye__Tho and @timtebow316 are obvious spoof profiles providing followers with humor, while the fake MacKechnie account had no desire to be funny — only to mess with his reputation.
There is a difference, though, between an anonymous account embodying a celebrity and an ac-count used to air your dirty laundry in a “private” manner.
It’s important to maintain a hidden identity if you decide to partake in this world of anons on Twitter.
Hinting to your lifestyle in a way that would give away your identity is a naive decision. The point of being anonymous is so you can put anything on your ac-count and not have to worry about the consequences.
Also, there seems to be an ob-session among these accounts with what are called “picslips.”
In a picslip, you tweet a pho-to of yourself and leave it up for a brief period of time. That way, only those who are checking their accounts at that time will get to see who you truly are.
This makes no sense. Most of these accounts are
filled with personal and sexual tweets, most of which contain in-formation the majority of society would think are too private to re-veal to the public eye.
So then why do these people feel the need to blow their covers?
The thrill of saying whatever you want sans responsibility is probably what motivates this cul-ture of anons. No name equals no consequences.
Just because you don’t have an identity tied to an account does not make it appropriate to post catty and vindictive tweets.
Additionally, the utiliza-tion of the subtweet is tacky
and dangerous.Being passive aggressive
might be effective in a one-on-one situation, but when you have hundreds, if not thousands, of fol-lowers, it’s possible for the wrong person to assume he or she was the subject of the childish remark.
Don’t forget, your friends who keep up with your account are not dumb enough to ignore a sublimi-nal slash at something they did.
It all comes back to humans treating others online as if they were not human as well.
Since the victim of a negative comment isn’t in the immediate area, there is no instant response to hurtful words. We forget there is a person on the other side of the computer screen.
Lastly, future employers are swarming your social media pro-files to see who you are as a person.
Don’t pull a Michel Morganel-la, the Swiss soccer player who got
expelled from the 2012 Olympics for tweeting racist remarks about the South Korean soccer team, and ruin your chances at obtaining your dream job.
Remember that Twitter isn’t your personal journal and anyone is entitled to see what you have to say, positive or not.
Whether you want to create a comical Twitter account for your favorite fictional character, or need an outlet to get your emotions out, be careful what you put online because it never goes away.
Jesse Tate is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Slidell.
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fulfill your hopes and lead the na-tion in another direction,” Romney said.
Louisiana expectedly elected Romney, giving him nine electoral votes.
Also on the national scale, Re-publicans will continue to hold ma-jority in the House while the Senate retains a Democratic majority.
THE UNIVERSITYMany students who voted at the
University Lab School affirmed the state’s preference.
“Voting for Romney has a lot to do with the economy,” said Alex Beem, petroleum engineering junior.
Beem said he was impressed by Romney’s debate performance and thought he would “care more about the U.S.”
“He has the best ideas for the country,” he said.
Obama’s first term was a let down, said William Daniel, petro-leum engineering sophomore and first-time voter.
“I feel kind of let down, disap-pointed,” Daniel said. “I’m just look-ing for a change for the better.”
But the majority of Louisiana was not reflected by all University students.
Many students said they chose Obama based on social issues like women’s rights and his support of same-sex marriage.
Courtlyn Sholar, architecture sophomore, voted for Obama be-cause of his economic stances.
“Being a student and my father recently passing, with my mother working part-time and my sister and I both attending LSU, Obama’s poli-cies on education make it possible for me to attend school,” Sholar said.
The mood was tense and
impatience mounted in the Journal-ism Building on Tuesday night as students watched the tight race’s re-sults roll in.
Some were doubtful that Rom-ney would be able to unseat Obama, but Republican students retained hope in their candidate.
Political science and econom-ics freshman Garrett Clawson voted for Romney but said that a win was a long shot.
“It’s no 2008,” Clawson said. “Neither side has been energized like in the last election.”
THE CAMPAIGNObama was ahead in most polls
until the first presidential debate, when he was criticized for his slug-gish showing. That’s when a swing of momentum hit the Romney camp.
Obama ran on the successes he had during his first term, includ-ing passing the Affordable Care Act, handling a national recession and killing Osama bin Laden.
Romney’s chief criticisms of the president focused on a disappointing term where promises were not kept. Obama was blasted for promising to reduce an unemployment rate that has thinly dropped just recently.
The thorn in Romney’s side was a perceived lack of sympathy from many Americans. A video leaked weeks before the election showed Romney at a private fundraiser de-nouncing 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes.
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Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré spoke to a group of about 20 students on the importance of being prepared during crises Tuesday after-noon in them in the Manship School of Mass Communication’s Holliday Forum.
Christened a “John Wayne dude” by former New Orleans May-or Ray Nagin, Honoré, who’s also been known as the “Ragin’ Cajun,” became somewhat of a media sensa-tion after he was made commander of Joint Task Force Katrina. As com-mander, he was responsible for mili-tary relief throughout the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
His experiences led him to write two books, one on how to survive in a crisis and another on how leaders should face what he calls the “new normal.”
Both prescribe ways for military leaders and politicians to address the media during crises.
“My approach to the media [dur-ing Katrina] was to give them the in-formation based on what I think the purpose of the media is, which is to
give people the facts,” Honoré said.He started, saying officials
should not address the media about how they feel about things and only relay facts, which he said often didn’t happen during Katrina.
Honoré cited the example of a congressman leaking to the media that survivors in New Orleans would have to send an email to receive help, a leak he said either wasn’t true at all or was a complete misinterpretation.
When questioned about the leak
in a 2005 news conference, Honoré famously yelled at the questioning reporter, “That’s B.S. It’s B.S. I can tell you that is B.S.!”
“If you don’t deal with the en-gaged press as a leader, other people will,” Honoré said, hinting politi-cians used Katrina to elevate their popularity.
From Katrina, Honoré moved into talking about preparedness in the “new normal.”
“Our concept of normal is post 9/11,” he said. “It changed from in-nocent little old ladies getting on air-planes with a bottle of water to them getting strip searched.”
It’s a change that happens ev-ery so often — one occurred when the nation formed, another after the atom bomb was used in World War II, he said.
Despite these shifts in prepared-ness, we’re still not fully there, he said.
“People think they can take the risk and not be prepared for potential disasters,” Honoré said.
He gave the example of failing generators in New York hospitals in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
“That really made me mad,” he
said, adding that once you lose elec-tricity during a disaster you’re “set back 80 years.”
And finally, Honoré left his au-dience with a few words of advice on reporting during crisis.
“Never ask a question you don’t have the answer to, because then people can tell you anything.”
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Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré discusses points from his book, “How Being Prepared Can Keep You and Your Family Safe” on Tuesday in the Journalism Building.
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2008Obama: 39.9 percent
McCain: 58.6 percent
2012Obama: 39.16 percent
Romney: 59.19 percent
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Political heads decorated the Holliday Forum of the Journalism Building on Tuesday for the presidential election watch party.
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