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It all started with a threat.For LSU’s offensive line, in-
spiration didn’t come from a “backs against the wall” mentality, freshman running back Jeremy Hill’s big runs
or even the deafening energy project-ed from the seats of Tiger Stadium.
Inspiration came from an un-identifi ed South Carolina defensive player telling LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger during pregame warm-ups that he would make sure Metten-berger didn’t fi nish the game.
It’s safe to say senior left tack-le Josh Dworaczyk and the rest of Mettenberger’s protectors didn’t take kindly to their opponent’s promise.
“When that comes into this locker room, I’m getting fi red up just thinking about it because Zach is one of my best friends,” Dworaczyk said.
“When you hear that, it elevates your game that much more. Your job is to always keep the quarterback clean, but when that threat comes out there, you step up and protect your quarter-back with everything you’ve got.”
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Students may soon be held to a higher standard of academic hon-esty if a Faculty Senate resolution is passed.
At the University’s October Faculty Senate meeting, German professor Gundela Hachmann in-troduced a proposal to compare an-ti-plagiarism service providers for possible University use. The issue fi rst came to light in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Committee on Academic Planning and Program Evaluation. The com-mittee reviews newly designed courses and changes to existing ones before they enter the course catalog.
“It came up during our com-mittee meeting, and everyone said ‘this is a good idea — we should look into it,’” said Meredith Veld-man, history professor.
Turnitin.com is one of the most well-known anti-plagiarism services. Approximately 7,500 ed-ucational institutions use Turnitin.com, according to the company’s
Plagiarismservices proposed at meeting
FACULTY SENATE
Joshua BergeronStaff Writer
PLAGIARISM, see page 5
Bill Cosby engrosses city with expressive storytellingCOMEDY
MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille
Legendary comedian Bill Cosby performs Sunday at the Baton Rouge River Center.
A 30,000-foot arena quickly shrunk to an intimate, 5-foot living room when veteran comedian Bill Cosby took center stage Sunday at the Baton Rouge River Center.
The 75-year-old comedian strolled to his on-stage living space, comprised of a chair, trashcan and ta-ble, causing a packed house to erupt in collective howls and applause. The diverse crowd represented all demographics, from the elderly to the youthful.
While most of Cosby’s perfor-mance was done from his seat, none
of his signature enthusiasm was missing. His captivating energy and conversational tone poured through the audience, engrossing each mem-ber for a seemingly swift two-hour set.
“Keep in mind, I know how you guys won that game,” Cosby said, in reference to the University’s win against South Carolina on Saturday.
The claim confused many at fi rst, but the monologist cleared the air with a clever story about addict-ing Louisiana cuisine and how it was the real cause of South Carolina’s de-mise in Tiger Stadium.
Even in the short of time of con-fusion, Cosby’s poignant delivery
and manic facial movements man-aged to keep listeners entertained. This slow-but-expressive form of storytelling persisted throughout the show.
Cosby easily transitioned to his next routine, which was not as palatable as the fi rst but immeasur-ably funny. The master storyteller remixed the age-old tale of Adam and Eve, remedying editing errors he said the Bible had made.
“There are pages missing,” he exclaimed, nearly jumping from his seat.
According to Cosby, the origin
David JonesEntertainment Writer
The BodyguardsLSU o� ensive line protects Mettenberger from South Carolina threat
Mike GegenheimerSports Contributor
BODYGUARDS, see page 6
CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
Senior offensive guard Josh Dworaczyk (68), junior safety Eric Reid (1) and sophomore tight end Nic Jacobs (84) celebrate Saturday in Tiger Stadium after the Tigers’ 23-21 win against South Carolina.
SPORTS: Jeremy Hill charges to victory with impressive performance, p. 7
CRIME: Accomplice to LSU murder attempt released on bond, p. 3
COSBY, see page 6
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Thousands rally for 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot by Taliban
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Tens of thousands rallied in Pakistan’s largest city Sunday in the biggest show of support yet for a 14-year-old girl who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban for pro-moting girls’ education and criti-cizing the militant group.
The Oct. 9 attack on Malala Yousufzai as she was returning home from school in Pakistan’s northwest horrified people inside and outside the country. At the same time, it gave hope to some that the government would respond by intensifying its fight against the Taliban and their allies.Scotland to set out terms of independence vote, separating UK
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — It’s not a meeting David Cameron is likely to enjoy.
The British prime minister is due to visit the leader of Scotland’s separatist administration Monday to agree the terms of a referendum that could break up the United Kingdom — the country Cameron leads.
Cameron does not want to be the leader who presides over the demise of the 300-year-old politi-cal union between England and its northern neighbor.
Skydiver breaks sound barrier in record jump of 128,100 feet
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — In a gi-ant leap from more than 24 miles up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever — a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert.
Felix Baumgartner hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph, according to preliminary data, and became the first man to reach supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft after hopping out of a capsule that had reached an altitude of 128,100 feet above the Earth.Twenty-two people saved from sinking boat in San Francisco Bay
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Near-ly two dozen people who were en-joying a bachelor party on what’s billed as San Francisco Bay’s only “floating wine tasting room” are OK after their boat hit a shoal near Alcatraz Island and began sinking Friday night, officials said.
The 45-foot Neptune hit the shoal around 8:42 p.m. and started taking on water after the impact left a 1-foot gash in the side of the boat, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. j.g. Josh Dykman said.
(AP) — Naval students at South-ern University now have a tool that can teach them how to maneu-ver through mine-filled waters or identify threatening vessels in the dark.
The Advocate reports the mar-iner skills simulator unveiled this week by Southern’s Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit is one of six in the nation. It’s a $90,000 gift from the Navy.
Lt. Erik Gardner runs South-ern’s simulator program. He can load maps depicting any part of the world into the program to give his students a realistic, three-dimen-sional look at any waterway they may find themselves navigating.Report claims Hurricane Katrina hampered N.O. justice system
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An in-dependent study commissioned by the city to scrutinize its em-battled criminal justice system found “highly fragmented” and low-tech coordination among the dozen agencies.
The report says Crimi-nal District Court was severely hampered by Hurricane Katrina, which closed the court building and displaced defendants, wit-nesses and victims.
Andes survivors mark 40th anniversary of crash in rugby game
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Sur-viving members of an Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days in the cordillera and forcing them to eat human flesh to stay alive.
The Old Christians Club squared off Saturday in Santiago in a game that was tied 1-1 against the Old Grangonian Club, the for-mer Chilean rugby team they were supposed to play back when their flight went down.
SHAKIL ADIL / The Associated Press
A supporter of Pakistani political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) reacts while holding a poster of Malala Yousufzai on Sunday.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
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Piles of trash litter the ground in front of Alex Box Stadium on Sunday morning after the Tigers’ game against South Carolina. Submit your photo of the day to [email protected].
Father and �fth-grader son �nd chirping frog in Moss Bluff
MOSS BLUFF (AP) — Fifth-grader A.J. Williams of Moss Bluff already has a scientific publication to his credit.
The 126-word-long geograph-ic distribution note in “Herpetol-ogy Review” reports that the Rio Grande chirping frog, native to Mexico and far south Texas, has been found in the wild in A.J.’s home town.
The male frog they caught was “from a chorus calling from a wooded area of dense thicket and briar,” according to the note.
PATRICK DENNIS / The Associated Press
People watch as Midshipman Morgan Brenton works a program on Southern’s Naval ROTC’s new Mariner Skills Simula-tor on Tuesday.
Navy gives $90,000 mariner skills simulator to Southern’s Reserve
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If running a 3.11-mile race isn’t enough of a challenge, try running it with 12 obstacles in the way of the finish line.
Participants of the Warrior Dash Louisiana ran a 5k and braved obstacles such as climbing over vertical walls, leaping over fire and crawling through muddy water Saturday in Denham Springs.
Warrior Dash is known as “the world’s largest running series,” with race locations throughout the year across the United States, Can-ada and Australia. This is the sec-ond year Warrior Dash has hosted a run in the Baton Rouge area.
The Warrior Dash’s national charity partner is St. Jude Chil-dren’s Research Hospital, for which participants have the oppor-tunity to raise money.
Kinesiology freshman Nya McWoods volunteered at the event through Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity. She passed out water and medals to race partici-pants.
McWoods said she looked for-ward to completing the race at the end of the day after all the regis-tered participants finished.
Some warriors took their role seriously and chose to dress in costume. Many participants wore fuzzy Viking-like helmets, while
others stepped outside of the box.“This dude shaved his chest
hair into a bikini top and bottom,” McWoods said.
Other costumes seen at the race included a banana suit, Kiss-like face makeup and Perry the Platypus from the Disney Channel show “Phineas and Ferb.”
Taylor Landry, accounting sophomore, said her friend encour-aged her to take part in the race this year, but she also wanted to do it to raise money for St. Jude’s.
Landry said this was her first time participating and she feared the vertical climb of the “Great Warrior Wall” most because she said she doesn’t have much upper body strength.
Tylyn Corona, University alumna, affirmed Landry’s fears and said the “Great Warrior Wall” was the hardest part for her, too.
Corona said her favorite part was getting down in the mud dur-ing the “Muddy Mayhem” ob-stacle. Completing this obstacle required participants to military crawl underneath barbed wire through muddy water.
After finishing the race, of-age participants had the opportunity to drink beer, eat giant turkey legs and listen to a band.
RECREATION
Runners face �re, mud in 5k Warrior DashJacy BaggettContributing Writer
Contact Jacy Baggett at [email protected]
TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille
Warrior Dash runners trudge through a mud pit to the �nish line during the race in Denham Springs on Saturday.
photos by TAYLOR BALKOM/ The Daily Reveille
[Left] Participants begin running the Warrior Dash. [Right] Warrior Dash participants leap over �re toward the end of the race.
CRIMELSU student arrested for principal to attempted �rst-degree murder released on $100K bond
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Nathan Yuhas, a Univer-sity environmental engineering student, was released from Or-leans Parish Prison on Saturday on $100,000 bond, according to Nola.com. Yuhas, 18, was charged with principal to attempt first-de-gree murder after allegedly help-ing his friend Nicole Boover kill her mother.
Boover, a 19-year-old Univer-sity biological sciences student, remains in prison on a charge of attempted first-degree murder. Her bond is set for $500,000.
Yuhas was with Boover when she fired three shots at the front door of her mother’s apartment Oct. 8 in New Orleans.
Police reports say Boover planned to kill her mother for inheritance money then flee the state. Yuhas told police he was of-fered a $50,000 cut for his help.
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Law school grad represents state in Cosmopolitan
CONTEST
Most law school graduates are worried about passing the bar, but Ryan Chenevert has another contest on his mind.
The University and LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center alumnus was chosen by Cosmo-politan magazine to represent Louisiana in its Cosmo Bachelor of the Year 2012 Contest . He is pictured shirtless climbing out of a swimming pool in the Novem-ber edition of the magazine.
Chenevert said he fl ew to New York for the photo shoot and will fl y back for the winner an-nouncement par-ty.
Chenevert is the only lawyer of the 52 bach-elors competing for the $10,000 grand prize, go-ing up against personal trainers, Olympians, fi re spinners and per-formers.
He is currently a judicial law clerk and works for District Judge Ralph Tureau .
Chenevert’s mother Peggy Chenevert said she was at fi rst concerned for her son’s future career after he posed shirtless in the swimming pool for the mag-azine.
“Of course the fi rst thing that went through my mind was ‘My goodness,’” she said. “What if one day he wants to run for a judge-ship or political offi ce? How would that look?”
But Chenevert’s current boss, Tureau , even voted for him online Oct. 1 , the fi rst day of vot-ing, Chenevert said.
“I was really nervous about telling him about winning, and I wasn’t sure how he would take it,” Chenvert said.
His mother said the family is supportive and that she bought all six copies of the magazine at her local Albertsons the day she found out it was on stands, brag-ging to cashiers about her son’s appearance. She said she fl ipped through the magazine, with mod-el Kate Upton gracing the cover, on the car ride home.
“There were three young la-dies in the car next to me, and I guess snickering because they saw the cover,” she said.
She mouthed, “This is my son,” but said the girls didn’t seem to understand.
The only feedback that makes her feel uncomfortable is her “longtime lady friends” call-ing her son “hot,” Peggy said.
Chenevert said he has re-ceived attention from women since the magazine’s publication, but contest rules prohibit him from dating until the competition is over.
Some feedback from women on his Twitter and email have been “awkward” and “random,” but he said the creepiest piece of fan mail was a photoshopped self-portrait with the caption, “Can I keep you?”
Chenevert said his ideal woman has strong faith and love
for family and friends.
He said he was “so shy” growing up, but law school taught him confi dence. Even still, he was nervous when his friend submitted him in the compe-tition.
Chenevert said he felt uneasy about the New York photo shoot, but the photographers’ helpful-ness made him a little more com-fortable.
“The photographer [says], ‘Give me more!’ and me and my awkward self, I don’t know what I’m doing,” he laughed.
C h e n e v e r t said he is only do-ing the competi-tion for fun.
“I don’t have any aspirations to use that to propel me to anything else in the spot-light,” he said. “It was just a friend
that asked me to submit me.”People can vote for their fa-
vorite bachelor at cosmopolitan.com until 7 a.m. on Thursday .
Contact Danielle Kelley at [email protected]
Danielle KelleyContributing Writer
How to cast your vote:
Go to www.cosmopolitan.com/
sex-love/bachelors-2012 before 7
a.m. Thursday to pick your favorite
bachelor.
Check out today’s LMFAO
entertainment blogs at lsureveille.com:
“Down and Dirty with David” discusses procrastination.
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Ryan Chenevert posed for The Daily Reveille on Oct. 9. He is competing to win Cosmo Bachelor of the Year 2012.
Alumnus selected for bachelor contest
‘I’m endearing, quirky, driven and loyal to every
woman I’ve dated.’
Ryan ChenevertUniversity alumnus and Cosmo
Bachelor of the Year � nalist
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website. Turnitin.com supports 12 different languages, including German and English. In addition, 69 percent of the top 100 colleges and universities listed on the News and World Reports’ ranking use the website.
The University doesn’t cur-rently subscribe to anti-plagiarism software, but Veldman said she frequently fi nds cases of academic dishonesty.
“Every year I have found a student plagiarizing, but usually it is not intentional,” Veldman said. “In our cut-and-paste, mix-and-match culture, a lot of students don’t attribute their information correctly.”
Veldman said the software could be useful in fi elds such as political science and history but stressed she wouldn’t be in favor of the resolution if it forms an adversarial relationship with stu-dents. Instead, she proposed that students submit drafts to check if their paper contains cases of
academic dishonesty before turn-ing in a fi nal draft.
Plagiarism is also common in foreign languages.
“If an essay contains a struc-ture that language learners usually don’t master before their second or third year, like the subjunctive mode or genitive case, I know that a student in the fi rst semester cannot possibly have written it,” Hachmann said. “When I taught upper-level classes ... I used search engines to check for plagiarism, if I suspected it.”
Student reactions were mixed. Kinesiology sophomore Megan Haygood said the program could show false cases of plagiarism.
“Someone’s paper could show that they were copying something when in reality they didn’t copy anything at all,” Haygood said. “The writing might be similar enough that it seems like plagia-rism when it really is not at all.”
However, marketing senior Thomas Green said he is in favor of an anti-plagiarism service.
“There are a lot of students
that spend hours writing term pa-pers and essays,” Green said. “On the other hand, some people spend a few minutes copying some online essay.”
The resolution will be read for a second time and possibly voted on at the Faculty Senate’s November meeting.
Contact Joshua Bergeron at [email protected]
Tango music fi lled the Manship Theatre on Friday evening before the fi rst Baton Rouge showing of “Sleep-walk with Me,” a fi lm from NPR’s Ira Glass that is part of a series of in-dependent fi lms the Manship Theatre is bringing to Baton Rouge.
Glass, host of NPR program “This American Life,” and star of the movie, Mike Birbiglia, launched a campaign to get the movie into more theaters than “The Avengers.” In their fi rst weekend, “Sleepwalk with Me” grossed more per screen than the blockbuster hit. “Sleepwalk with Me” showed on one screen. “The Avengers” showed on more than 4,000.
Glass appeared at the Union Theater last month to promote the fi lm, as well as to talk about his ra-dio experience, and how he likes to make stories come alive.
When Glass came onstage, the lights remained off for a few min-utes as he spoke about the difference
between radio and movies, and how in movies, the audience gets to see the characters.
In an interview with The Chi-cago Tribune, Glass said this was one of the main differences be-tween writing a script for radio and a screenplay for a movie.
The Baton Rouge audience had differing reactions to the movie.
Baton Rouge resident Jeff Car-ney said it accurately depicted sleep-walking, based on his own experi-ence.
“It’s true to form,” Carney said.Resident Andrea Galinsky
agreed, saying the movie was emo-tionally true.
Galinsky said she felt Baton Rouge has been in an indie movie drought, and “Sleepwalk with Me” was a welcome change.
Baton Rouge resident Jennifer Carwile said she thought the movie moved a bit slowly, and she knew from the beginning how the rela-tionship of the two main characters would end.
“I thought it was going to be
funnier,” Carwile said.“Sleepwalk with Me” will play
for the last time at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Manship Theatre.
Film programmer for the theater Jason Langlois said the idea to show “Sleepwalk with Me” came in an email from WRKF, Baton Rouge’s NPR affi liate.
Langlois said the theater nor-mally hosts live concerts and ballet performances, but is trying to get into the indie fi lm scene. The Man-ship Theatre hosts one new fi lm per month.
He stressed the idea that they accept suggestions.
“We can guess what people want to see, but sometimes we guess wrong.”
Langlois said people with mov-ie ideas can post on the Manship Theatre’s Facebook page if they had any in mind.
MANSHIP THEATRE
Megan DunbarStaff Writer
Contact Megan Dunbar at [email protected]
‘Sleepwalk with Me’ heads series of indie � lms to be shown in BR
PLAGIARISM, from page 1
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From that point on, Dworaczyk said everyone had an understanding that their quarterback wouldn’t be touched.
The Tiger O-line kept its word, effectively shutting down one of the nation’s most productive defensive lines.
The Gamecock defense led the Southeastern Conference with 25 sacks through the fi rst six games of the season.
On Saturday night, they were held to South Carolina senior linebacker Shaq Wilson’s lone
third-quarter sack and never record-ed so much as a single quarterback hurry.
That statistic was made even more impressive considering the fact that sophomore left guard La’el Col-lins and senior center P.J. Lonergan were the only two remaining fi rst week offensive line starters to begin the game Saturday night.
“I thought the old man out there at left tackle had a hell of a game,” Mettenberger said. “He was all over [defensive end Jadeveon] Clowney all night. And the two young guys, Vadal [Alexander] and Trai [Turner], played lights out.”
Prior to the South Carolina game, the LSU offensive line al-lowed 15 sacks this season, six of which came at the hands of two SEC defenses (Auburn and Florida), in-cluding two from the last high pro-fi le defensive end Dworaczyk had to block, Auburn’s Corey Lemonier.
After Auburn, LSU junior de-fensive end Sam Montgomery prom-ised he would take it upon himself to work harder in practice to make sure Dworaczyk and the rest of the offen-sive line would be better prepared for the other deadly SEC pass rushes.
“Having such a big name coming in like Clowney, I was
going to make sure they were ready,” Montgomery said. “Had to slap them around, had to give them some of that Saturday night Sam Montgomery. Just to make sure they were ready for war … I refuse to let somebody come in and jump on them like that.”
Mentally, the Tiger offense showed glimpses of the old Mad Hat-ter play calling, running out of for-mations the South Carolina defense hadn’t seen, most notably the un-veiling of the “Ware-cat” formation. LSU coach Les Miles said the new, more creative plays have always been in the playbook — this was just the fi rst time the Tigers decided
to use them.Sophomore wide receiver Jarvis
Landry took it a step further, saying Florida was a “wakeup call” for the offense.
“If you look at things from pre-vious games, even the Florida game, we had opportunities to score,” Landry said. “I feel like this today it was the stress of, you have to get it, you have to win. We kind of played most of our cards doing things we do well.”
Contact Mike Gegenheimer at [email protected]
of the word woman stems from Ad-am’s reaction upon seeing his naked helper – “Woooo! Man.” And the snake is only one of three animals to cross the Almighty one since God left baboons to suffer an incurable case of backside infl amation and penguins to wobble without knees.
Coming from the sensible Dr. Huxtable, the stories seemed strangely believable.
The funniest quip of the set came when Cosby decided to show-case his talents as an impersonator and channel the Holy one.
“Didn’t-est I-est tell-est you-est to-est not-est eat-est the fruit-est?” Cosby said.
Adam’s trembled response, “Yes-est-est-est” sent the audience into a frenzy, causing Cosby to raise his hand in triumph. At this point, every face was glued to center stage, hanging on every word uttered by the comedian.
Cosby then shifted toward his trademarked bit on unruly children and the chaos they often bring. After a quick poll of mothers in the crowd, he began telling the story of his fi rst-born’s temper tantrum.
Just as every other prepubescent child, Cosby’s daughter fi nally gath-ered the courage to tell her mother that she didn’t want to be born. Be-ing long immersed in the language of sassy children, Cosby said he almost chimed in.
“About nine months ago, I re-leased about 60 million men,” Cos-by said. “The idea was the one that makes it to the egg fi rst lives.”
While Cosby couldn’t bring himself to tell this to his child, the slightly suggestive joke was a de-lightful surprise and put the audience over the edge.
As the act went on, Cosby be-gan to delve deeper into details of his own upbringing. He used his words to paint images of his childhood memories, each universal in theme.
The story of growing up “broke” and sharing “nothing” with two brothers resonated with the crowd. Cosby has a knack for creat-ing characters and relaying details of his life to reach a variety of people. Every story seemed to transcend age, gender and culture.
The more Cosby talked, the more people felt the engagement. The crazier the expression of his face, the louder the laughs.
After years of performing, Cos-by hasn’t lost his comedic touch. He exited the stage Sunday to a standing ovation, leaving a pleased audience wanting more.
Contact David Jones at [email protected]
BODYGUARDS, from page 1
COSBY, from page 1
With a little help from a new-look offensive line, it was fi-nally Jeremy Hill’s, and LSU’s, turn.
With his team hold-ing a 16-14 lead over then-No. 3 South Caro-lina, the LSU freshman running back stood be-hind junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger and awaited the snap. He’d already reached pay dirt in the third quarter to put the Tigers up temporarily, but what followed would assure the win.
He took a power pitch, the same one he scored on earlier in the game, but this time he took to the right side behind Trai Turner and Vadal Alexander, two freshmen linemen. The Gamecocks defense, which had been on the field for most of the game, was “huffin’ and puffin,’” Hill said.
He banged up into and past the heart of the defense, then turned on the burners, outrunning the secondary. In no time,
Hill was celebrating in the end zone once again.
“When you can put long drives t o g e t h e r ,
and you can continue to wear on really a quality defensive front, you can break plays like Jeremy Hill’s,” said LSU coach Les Miles.
Five minutes of in-game time later, Hill was celebrating in the student section. Riding Hill to victory, No. 6 LSU de-feated No. 9 South Caro-lina, 23-21, on Saturday night in its most complete performance of the sea-son.
It was a bludgeon-ing of which the Tigers were on the receiving end against No. 3 Florida last week.
The defense was worn down by the Gators’ persistent rushing attack, forced to stay on the field for 37 minutes and 24 seconds. The possession time was flipped in LSU’s favor Saturday, allowing
The LSU volleyball team took down Alabama on Sunday in a four-set skirmish that saw the achievement of a slew of individ-ual and team goals.
“It was a lot of fun,” said
senior outside hitter Madie Jones. “That was one of my favorite games we’ve played all year.”
The Tigers (8-11) defeated Alabama (14-7) with big plays late in sets, something players and coaches felt they struggled with in their loss to Tennessee on Wednesday night.
Despite Alabama having late leads in the second and fourth sets, LSU never lost its compo-sure and was able to take both sets with late-set heroics.
“The second set was the best set that we’ve played all year,” said LSU coach Fran Flory. “… It’s the first time the other team has made a run, and we didn’t panic.”
Perhaps the biggest point of the game came late in the fourth set when Jones put an end to a seemingly infinite rally to tie the set at 20.
The crowd in the PMAC
SportsMonday, October 15, 2012 page 7
MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist
Tigers’ victory fueled by motivation
MOTIVATION, see page 10
VOLLEYBALL
Jones lifts Tigers past Alabama in Sunday’s four-set victory
Tyler NunezSports Contributor
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LSU junior middle blocker Desiree Elliott (4), senior outside hitter Madie Jones (6) and sophomore setter Malorie Pardo (14) celebrate a point Sunday in the PMAC during the Tigers’ win against Alabama.VOLLEYBALL, see page 11
HILL, see page 11
Hill of a Game
Jeremy Hill, o�ensive line improbably tow LSU
to victory
Alex CassaraSports Writer
TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille
LSU freshman running back Jeremy Hill (33) runs into the end zone Saturday in the fourth quarter of LSU’s 23-21 victory against South Carolina in Tiger Stadium.
Motivation wasn’t hard to come by Saturday night in Death Valley. The Tigers knew what was at stake.
Win and continue pursuing their preseason goal of reaching the BCS National Championship or lose for the second time in two weeks and watch dreams of play-ing in Miami, Fla., in January go down the drain.
LSU chose the former.Having their backs against
the wall was the best thing that could have happened to the Ti-gers. Playing loose and with a chip on their shoulder showed a completely different team than it did earlier this season.
“Maybe we needed a loss to get that hunger back, knowing that everything doesn’t come so easily,” LSU said defensive end Sam Montgomery after the game. “This team has been like a sleep-ing giant.”
Consider this giant awoken.The Tigers’ confidence was
taken from them against the Ga-tors. The offense couldn’t stay on the field, the defense couldn’t get off of it and being in a hostile environment with nowhere to turn for support finally caught up to them in the loss column after 19 regular season wins.
Mannari picks up 1,000th career dig
A fast start by the Lady Tigers faded quickly after two disappoint-ing final rounds at the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C., resulting in an eighth-place finish.
The Lady Tigers sent five golf-ers to the course this weekend, as ju-niors Ali Lucas and Lindsay Gahm, sophomore Madelene Sagstrom and freshmen Elise Bradley and Nadine Dreher played for the team score.
The top performers from last week’s Liz Murphey Fall Preview, Gahm and Sagstrom, came out swinging efficiently at the Univer-sity of North Carolina Finley Golf Club during the three-day tourna-ment, posting a 6-over par 222 and a 2-over 218 respectively.
Lucas also performed well, hit-ting a 7-over 223 over three rounds.
The same couldn’t be said for the two freshmen on the squad, as Bradley and Dreher combined to shoot 39-over par for the tourna-ment.
“They need to eliminate the big holes,” said LSU coach Karen Bahnsen. “Elise stepped up today, and that was big for her because she came back from a bad start. They’re still working very hard.”
Bahnsen noted before the
tournament that she was looking for improvement out of her young-er golfers behind the leadership of Gahm and Sagstrom.
Neither disappointed on the first day of competition.
Gahm came out firing on all cylinders, finishing the first round with a 1-under 71 performance. Sagstrom finished at 2-over 74 be-fore the sun set over the course Fri-day. Lucas also delivered a 2-over opening round, putting LSU in a solid position to make a run at a top-five finish.
The second day brought much of the same from the veterans of the team, as Gahm shot a 2-over 74, Sagstrom shot even-par and Lucas fired a 3-over 75.
That round wasn’t nearly as kind to LSU’s freshman class.
After mediocre performances in round one, both Bradley and Dreher found themselves struggling on day two.
Bradley completed the second round with a 10-over 82. Dreher didn’t fare much better, as a 9-over 81 left the squad with a tall hill to climb to squeeze out a finish in the top five.
As the sun rose over the course on day three, the Tigers looked to improve on the previous morning’s poor play.
Sagstrom ended her final round on a high note, shooting for even-par 72, finishing tied for seventh overall.
“[Sagstrom] is just a really solid player,” Bahnsen said. “She didn’t have her best ball striking, but she just stays tough mentally.”
Lucas and Bradley both
finished with a 2-over 74.Gahm and Dreher completed
their tournament performances at 5-over 77 and 10-over 82 respec-tively, failing to make strides in the final round.
The Lady Tigers play next at the Alamo Invitational in San Antonio,
Texas, beginning Sunday, Oct. 28, and concluding Tuesday, Oct. 30.
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The LSU women’s cross country team capped off a strong regular season with a fourth-place finish at the Chile Pepper Festival in Fayetteville, Ark., on Saturday.
Going into the tournament, LSU coach Mark Elliott said the 43-team event would feature the highest level of competition his team would see all season.
“The women ran awesome today,” Elliott said. “I think that is our highest finish ever in a large meet with this amount of competition.”
Senior Laura Carleton fin-ished fourth individually, with a time 20:59.9 to continue a strong final season at LSU.
On the season, Carleton now has two victories and a fifth-place finish to go along with Saturday’s fourth-place result.
“I have never even come in the top 15 at this race,” Carleton said. “I was just aiming for the top 10 and to finish fourth feels amazing.”
The next-highest LSU finish-ers were junior Natoya Goule at No. 32, senior Dakota Goodman at No. 43 and senior Brea Good-man at No. 55.
The host No. 11 Arkansas Razorbacks won the meet, with Oklahoma senior Jess Engel fin-ishing first individually.
The Lady Tigers will not run competitively again until the Southeastern Conference cham-pionship meet Oct. 26.
“I think our strong perfor-mances have given this team a lot of confidence,” Carleton said. “Now there are some expecta-tions on our team and we need to go out and have a good showing at the championship meet.”
The LSU men finished No. 22 out of 34 men’s teams in the Tigers’ first 10k race of the sea-son.
“Collectively as a race the team ran better,” Elliott said. “Our one through five guys ran as
well as we think they can and we did extremely well considering the length and the level of com-petition at this meet.”
Senior Roger Cooke led the Tigers with a time of 33:00.7, which helped the No. 107 overall.
The next Tigers to cross the finish line were sophomores Phil-ip Primeaux at No. 151 and Bry-an Mutell at No. 160. Freshman Travis Pope finished No. 166.
“We don’t have that strong of a men’s team this year but they are young and they get better ev-ery week,” Elliott said. “At this point, we just need one more guy to step up so we can have a stron-ger, more balanced lineup for the conference race.”
GOLF
CROSS COUNTRY
Lawrence BarrecaSports Contributor
Lady Tigers cap season with fourth-place �nish in Arkansas
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Senior cross country runner Roger Cooke (393) maintains a steady pace in the men’s 8k on Sept. 22, during the LSU Invitational at Highland Road Park.
Quick start at NC not enough for Lady Tigers
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NEW YORK (AP) — Anibal San-chez and the Detroit Tigers made the plays, got a favorable call from an umpire and took advantage of their few chances at the plate.
The reward: a commanding lead in the AL championship se-ries, and a trip home with their ace ready to start.
Sanchez shut down a Yankees lineup minus injured Derek Jeter, and Detroit won without any dra-ma, beating New York 3-0 Sunday for a 2-0 cushion.
Yankees starter Hiroki Ku-roda pitched perfect ball into the sixth inning. But the slumping New York hitters looked lost a day after their captain broke his ankle in the 12th inning of a 6-4 loss.
Making his second postsea-son start, Sanchez pitched three-hit ball deep into the game to make Tigers manager Jim Leyland’s handling of a bullpen without struggling closer Jose Valverde a lot easier.
The Tigers scored twice in the eighth after second base umpire Jeff Nelson missed a call on a two-out tag at second base. Yankees manager Joe Girardi argued, and was ejected on his 48th birthday.
Game 3 in the best-of-seven series is Tuesday night in Detroit, with reigning AL MVP Justin Verlander starting for the Tigers against Phil Hughes. Verlander went 2-0 in the division series ver-sus Oakland, including a four-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts in the decisive Game 5.
The Tigers led 1-0 in the eighth and had Omar Infante on fi rst with two outs. Austin Jackson singled and when Infante took a wide turn at second, right fi elder Nick Swisher threw behind him.
Robinson Cano made a swipe tag as Infante made a head-fi rst dive back to second. Cano missed Infante’s arm but brushed his body, replays clearly showed. But Nelson called Infante safe.
Cano and Girardi pleaded the call to no avail. Boone Logan replaced Kuroda and gave up an RBI single to pinch hitter Avisail Garcia to make it 2-0.
Girardi returned to lift Logan for Joba Chamberlain, and then he remained on the fi eld to resume the argument. Red-faced with neck muscles bulging, Girardi could be seen shouting at Nelson, “You were right there. How could you miss it?” He was tossed by Nelson for his fi rst postseason ejection.
Miguel Cabrera added a run-scoring single in the inning.
Cano had no luck at the plate, either. The All-Star’s slump ex-tended to a record 26 hitless at-bats in a single postseason, breaking the mark of 24 set by Baltimore’s Bobby Bonilla in 1996.
There were many empty seats near the foul poles, and a sub-dued crowd spent much of the day
venting its frustration, booing the punchless Yankees. The 47,082 in attendance reserved its biggest cheers early for Jeter, who broke his ankle in the 12th inning of Sat-urday night’s 6-4 loss.
While the Yankees are headed to Detroit for what they hope will be three games, their captain will fl y to Charlotte, N.C., to visit a foot specialist.
Jhonny Peralta singled in the sixth for the Tigers’ fi rst bas-erunner against Kuroda, who was pitching on short rest for the fi rst time in his big league career. Young then gave Detroit the lead with a forceout grounder in the seventh, a night after putting the Tigers ahead in the 12th inning with a double.
Sanchez has had quite the success in the Bronx. He made his big league debut at the old Yankee Stadium when it was across the street, and pitched fi ve 2-3 shut-out innings for Marlins in 2006. The only player to notch two hits against him in that game was Jeter.
Pitching for the fi rst time in this four-year-old ballpark — and in front of his parents — Sanchez limited the slumping Yankees to just three hits and three walks, one an intentional pass to Raul Ibanez.
When Ichiro Suzuki reached on Sanchez’s fi elding error to open the sixth and advanced to third with two outs, Peralta was there to bail out his pitcher with another nifty play, bare-handing a slow grounder for the third out.
Sanchez made a crafty play of his own in the fi rst with runners on fi rst and second, reaching behind
his back to glove Russell Martin’s comebacker.
Leyland took Valverde out of consideration for the closer role on Sunday. Valverde gave up a pair of two-run homers in the ninth in-ning Saturday night and also blew a save in the division series.
Former Yankees reliever Phil Coke pitched two innings for the save.
Kuroda did all he could to help keep it close for the Yankees’ anemic offense.
Curtis Granderson went 0 for 3 with three strikeouts and a walk and Alex Rodriguez singled in the ninth for his third hit of the postseason and fi nished 1 for 4. A-Rod is 0 for 18 with 12 Ks against right-handed pitchers in these playoffs. When he lined out to left
fi eld in the seventh fans gave a mock cheer.
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It was the exact opposite vibe in Tiger Stadium on Saturday .
For the fi rst time all season, 92,734 fans dressed in gold came out in force. No one left at half-time, nobody booed the Tigers. The fans knew after being at the lowest of lows coming back from The Swamp last weekend, it was their job to make sure the Tigers felt back at home in one of the loudest venues in the country.
“That was Death Valley . That was the place where opponents’ dreams come to die. It started ear-ly, and it ended late,” coach Les Miles said after the 23-21 victory against South Carolina .
Playing on the road in the Southeastern Conference is a daunting task for any of the 14 teams in the league. But getting a chance to play in front of a home crowd a week after being exposed on the road couldn’t have been a more welcome sign for the Tigers .
Raucous support from the Tiger Stadium stands wasn’t the only source of off-the-fi eld inspi-ration for LSU on Saturday.
The 2011 LSU defense’s trademark was big plays. Just when it seemed like momentum was slipping out of the Tigers’ fi ngers, it was usually the defense that was able to fl ip the switch and put the game out of reach.
Tyrann Mathieu was the guy who fl ipped that switch last season. Through their fi rst six games in 2012 , the Tigers looked like they were still trying to fi nd someone to be that spark on de-fense. They didn’t fi nd a Mathieu clone, and they never will.
But collectively, the big play defense is back.
“We kind of took a page out of Tyrann’s book tonight,” said
junior linebacker Lamin Barrow . “People say we miss him and of course we do, but we had a couple turnovers tonight and we played a great game.”
With the offense struggling in the red zone, junior safety Eric Reid’s interception in the fourth quarter was the biggest play the defense has made since Reid ripped the ball out of Alabama tight end Michael Williams’ grasp against the Crimson Tide on Nov. 5, 2011 .
It’s clear despite wanting to get a win at home or hush the critics that wrote them off last week, the Tigers had to get a win for Montgomery . The junior de-fensive end, the lone LSU player on the roster who hails from the Palmetto State , has been waiting for this game since he set foot on campus.
Montgomery came to LSU to buck the trend and show the rest of the country South
Carolina natives didn’t just suc-ceed collegiately at South Caro-lina or Clemson .
“Sam’s the emotional leader on our team,” Barrow said. “Him coming from South Carolina playing against his hometown team, it meant a lot for him. It felt great to get a win for him.”
For the Tigers , it had to feel good to get a win, period. A de-cisive victory against a top-fi ve team is an even better morale boost.
LSU has regained its hunger. The rest of the country should take notice.
Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.
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LSU junior defensive end Sam Montgomery (99) celebrates after a sack Saturday during the Tigers’ 23-21 win against South Carolina in Tiger Stadium.
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the defensive unit to keep Heis-man candidate Marcus Lattimore bottled for 35 net rushing yards.
“The only reason we probably won is because the offensive line-men … playing so great like they did,” said junior defensive end Sam Montgomery . “Zach Metten-berger rarely got touched today.”
The offensive line allowed only one sack to the Southeastern Conference’s best pass rush and helped the Tigers rush for 258 net yards, which is a surprise consid-ering the shuffl e it continued to be subjected to leading up to this game.
An already reeling front-fi ve was without veterans Josh Wil-liford , the junior who was con-cussed by the Gators, and Alex Hurst , who Miles said had been dealing with “personal issues” all week.
“Only thing I can tell you is he wasn’t here, and we wish him the very best,” Miles said of Hurst after Saturday’s game. “He has a, you know, he’s sidelined for some time.”
Senior lineman Josh Dworac-zyk , who’s also in a relatively new role starting at left tackle, said the team realized it was do-or-die this week. Instead of going to see a movie like the line typically does on Friday nights before a game, they stayed in and watched fi lm.
He pointed in particular to the two freshmen, who were re-lied upon heavily down the stretch when LSU repeatedly ran power to their side.
“Trai’s “Bull” and “Dozer’s” Vadal ,” Dworaczyk said. “Man, those two are some road graders. … It’s incredible the way they got the movement, and Hill was able to bust through.”
When junior starting running back Spencer Ware went down with what Miles called a “signifi -cant body cramp,” Miles said the team was fortunate that Hill was ready to step in.
“Once you come here, you know you’re going to have to wait your turn to play,” Hill said of the team’s depth at running back. “But once you get that opportunity, you’ve got to take advantage of it and run with it.”
Starting the season as the team’s fi fth-string running back, Hill led the Tigers on the ground Saturday with 124 yards on 17 car-ries. He also took a screen pass 21 yards on an early third-and-10.
Hill came to LSU at a disad-vantage. He should’ve been in the mix last season, but a sexual as-sault arrest forced him to sit out until this spring.
He defl ected questions asking if he was ever in doubt that this night would come following the arrest, but it’s clear the game’s sig-nifi cance was not lost on him.
“I’ve just got to keep it in my memory,” Hill said. “I’ll never forget this night, kind of my fi rst night showing the world what I can do. But it’s not about me, it’s about the team, and I think the team did a good job tonight.”
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erupted as a result, forcing Ala-bama to call a timeout and giving the Tigers the momentum they needed to take the set and the match.
“I think that was the key,” Flory said. “I think the team that won that rally probably wins the match.”
Jones led LSU tallying 25 kills with only three hitting errors and a .431 attacking percentage.
With this performance, Jones surpassed junior middle blocker Desiree Elliott as LSU’s attack-ing leader with 257 total kills and 3.62 kills per set.
“When we need plays, that’s who we’re going to set the ball for,” said senior libero Meghan
Mannari about Jones. “She just did a great job of, not only mak-ing kills, but keeping the ball in play when we needed to.”
Mannari was celebrated af-ter the game, as she became just the 12th player in LSU history to eclipse 1,000 career digs.
“[Meghan] will go down in my books as one of the best,” Flory said. “… She’s been such
a stabilizing force in our program on and off the court, and our backcourt defense is not close to what it is today without Meghan on the court.”
In World War II, our military needs were met in the same man-ner most Michael Bay movies are made: By pumping in more money and explosions.
In such an era, the M1 Abrams tank would have triumphed and proliferated. Today, despite Con-gress’s insistence on the continued production of tanks, the whimsical Michael Bay approach to military matters is outdated.
Rather than transform into futuristic robots, more than 2,000 Abrams tanks are becoming costly placeholders in a deserted park-ing lot hours north of Reno, Nev. Due to ceaseless production since WWII, the Army now finds itself with a surplus of tanks in a world where, as Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno put it, it’s unlikely “we’ll ever see a straight conventional conflict again in the future.”
This situation is not without its positives. By Army calculations, halting the production, mainte-nance and refurbishing of the tanks for a three-year period while new technologies are developed will yield a taxpayer savings of $3 bil-lion. In the face of a nearly $500 billion Defense Department bud-get cut over the next decade, it is a modest sum but a step in the right direction.
Congress, however, thinks otherwise. The confounding
conclusion to make more tanks was reached by 173 House members of both Democratic and Republican parties. The half-baked idea was mailed to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on April 20 by a presum-ably stoned Congress.
I’ll also assume they spent the remainder of the day battling for year-round production of Girl Scout cookies and “Adventure Time.”
The prospect of a giggly Con-gress is about as appealing as the reality; Congress, out of touch with national interests, is pander-ing to pet projects and lobbyists. While the letter declares, “modest and continued Abrams production for the Army is necessary to pro-tect the industrial base,” a different story involving tank manufacturer General Dynamics has emerged.
The $32 billion-earning pri-vate company employs approxi-mately 95,000 people, including the 16,000 jobs associated with the factory in Lima, Ohio where the tanks are made. This figure likely omits the 29 lobbying companies it hires and the 137 congressmen who signed the letter and received more than $2 million in campaign contributions from GD since 2001.
Data collected by the nonparti-san Center for Responsive Politics shows that in 2011 alone, lobby-ing expenditures for GD totaled more than $11 million, amount-ing to more than $84 million in an 11-year span. Further studies by journalism watchdog group the Center for Public Integrity show that donations often coincide with periods where tank fabrication is up for voting.
GD’s Vice President for Government Relations and Com-munications Kendell Pease said, “Shame on us if we don’t go and tell [Congress] our side, because the Army is doing the same thing as we’re doing, having just as many meetings as we are.” Pease, however, is only protecting the interests of a minority, which he admits is not part of the industrial base and will not perish during the production hiatus.
I sympathize with workers at the Lima facility and related plants across the country who may be seeking other employment, but producing tanks the Army neither needs nor wants will not benefit the
nation as a whole. Even if the $3 billion saved
isn’t magically re-appropriated to more worthwhile causes — like education or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which only received a comparatively small $445 million for the 2012 fiscal year — the production will still leave innumerable useless tanks on our hands. At this point, they’d ei-ther go to waste in a parking lot or be sold abroad.
Unfortunately, we’ve fre-quently been met with situations that blow up in our faces and ene-mies who wish to make that phrase literal. Our money and weapons have ended up in the hands of
Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hus-sein, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and countless others.
I’d like to think the surplus tanks would not find their way to some of our current, shaky allies or even enemies, but not all things are as certain as the strength of the M1 Abrams.
Aaron Friedman is a 22-year-old writing and culture senior from Destrehan.
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It’s been a tough few weeks for those of us following the never-ending trainwreck that is American politics.
The presidential debate was a harrowing spectacle of insincere half-smiles, stammered apologies and enough pithy “zingers” to fill a half-hour of an Aaron Sorkin script.
It was enough to make a young political junkie swear it all off — that is, until Thursday night, when the call of the vice presidential de-bate proved too much to resist.
It was all set up to be the battle of the campaign. Republican boy genius Paul Ryan duking it out with crazy Uncle Joe, bare-knuck-led after the timid sparring of their running mates.
For the most part, it didn’t dis-appoint.
Moderator Martha Raddatz largely controlled the proceed-ings well while also allowing plenty of elaboration and back-and-forth between the candidates. You can, however, tell the debate commission misses the days of widely known, well-respected
journalists like Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings.
The debate as a whole was an interesting clash of two styles – Biden’s folksy, personal approach to politics against Ryan’s new-school emphasis on theory. Politics aside, it was this battle between two generations that produced the night’s most memorable moments.
It was a tight competition, un-likely to change anyone’s mind, but it did give us some insight into the workings of both campaigns and the minds of the second men on the ticket.
Ryan gave a strong account of himself and toed the line well, but Biden’s overriding charm and humanity ultimately won the night.
Ryan came across as well-coached, giving clear and concise answers right from the beginning, while Biden took some time to find his rhythm. Biden mumbled and stuttered his way through the first questions about foreign policy, which really should have been one of his advantages over Ryan.
Romney’s attack on the presi-dent’s response to the attack on the Libyan consulate was disgrace-fully cynical in a time that called for national unity, and Biden failed to play up that angle. Instead, he rambled about Afghanistan and allowed Ryan to take control of the issue.
Biden only started coming into his own by calling Ryan out on his “malarkey.” This was where Obama failed in his debate, by staying silent and staring at the floor while Romney blatantly lied.
Throughout the debate, Biden was unafraid to interrupt Ryan and Raddatz when he had a point to make. In the more relaxed setting of the vice presidential debate, it only helped his image as a straight talker.
Ryan had the zinger of the night, quipping about Biden’s fa-mous ability to misspeak on the campaign trail, though I was also a fan of Biden’s “Oh, now you’re Jack Kennedy?”
If we learned anything from this debate, though, it’s that quick thinking and witty replies aren’t everything. Biden’s constant hounding about every fact Ryan got wrong and his insistence on setting the record straight proved much more powerful than any amount of pre-planned one-liners.
I mean, who even remembers the guy who told Dan Quayle, “You’re no Jack Kennedy”?
The debate’s most powerful moment came near the end, and, like most of the debate, did not fall clearly to one side or the other. On a question about their personal views on religion and abortion, Biden and Ryan both set politics
aside for a moment so we could see the men underneath.
For the first time ever, both vice presidential candidates are Catholics, and in answering this question, we saw a few moments of real empathy between the two.
It was a fitting ending to a con-test where each candidate showed off their strengths.
Neither party will benefit hugely from the debate, but both sides will feel confident that they
better know the man behind their candidate.
Gordon Brillon is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Lincoln, R.I.
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BUT HE MEANS WELLGORDON BRILLONColumnist
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VP debate showcases the men behind the race
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College on Thursday.
What was really on the minds of Paul Ryan and Joe Biden during the VP debate?
List compiled by The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff
5. That one where Dennis and Mac run for office? Classic.
4. Don’t laugh too much, Joe, or they’ll all know you’re on mushrooms.
3. Remember your expletive replacements: malarkey, shenanigans and, uh, stuff.
2. I know they say don't look directly into the camera, but that's a bunch of stuff.
1. Don't laugh at this one, Joe. It's about abortion.
5. I'll put this geriatric in a home if he laughs at me one more time. Did he not see my photo shoot with Time magazine?
4. If Vice President Gary Busey over here can take mushrooms before the show, I should be able to show my abs.
3. All right, I get it when I talk about green jobs, but what is he laughing at now?
2. This really needs to wrap up if I'm going to catch the midnight premiere of “Atlas Shrugged Part II.”
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