The Board of Regents’ study to analyze the feasibility of merging the University of New Orleans and Southern University-New Orleans has been temporarily suspended

after a court order was issued Tues-day by the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge .

The order was issued after a lawsuit was fi led against the Regents and Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday.

The suit was fi led by former state Sen. Cleo Fields , of The Fields Law Firm in Baton Rouge , and co-fi led by Katrina Jackson , of the Law Offi ce of Willie Hunter Jr. on be-half of seven Southern University students from the Baton Rouge and

New Orleans campuses. The lawsuit states the higher education board’s current makeup is unconstitutional, as it has no minority membership and is not representative of the state’s population.

The document calls for a tempo-rary restraining order on the actions of the Regents, which was issued Tuesday.

The Regents’ study, called for by the governor on Jan. 18 , was scheduled to be complete by its

March 1 deadline, but work cannot continue until after the scheduled Feb. 24 court hearing.

“Decisions regarding these uni-versities’ merger are being made by a body whose membership is in viola-tion of the Louisiana Constitution,” the lawsuit says.

The Louisiana Constitution states, “the board should be repre-sentative of the state’s population by race and gender to ensure diversity.”

The suit argues Jindal removed

all appointed racial minorities from the Board and replaced them with all white males on Dec. 17. Of the 15 appointed members, there are no ra-cial minorities, and only four mem-bers, or 26 percent of the member-ship, are women.

It also states the membership underrepresents the female and black citizens’ population of the state, providing statistics from the

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Uncertain future, cuts cause delay

Tails are wagging in Baton Rouge.The East Baton Rouge Parish Animal Control and Rescue Center re-

cently released statistics that show the rate of animal adop-tion is up and euthanasia has gone down.

According to a news release from Animal Control, 1,766 animals were adopted in 2010, up from 1,514 in 2009.

While adoptions went up, the number of euthanized animals went down with 1,115 dogs and 469 cats euthanized in 2010 — a 29 percent decrease from 2009.

One reason for the decrease in the rate of euthanasia could be local or-ganizations that proactively collect animals from Animal Control and keep them until they’re adopted.

Peggy Polk, president of Project Purr Baton Rouge, said the group’s goal is to save as many cats as possible from being euthanized in shelters.

Polk said the organization has taken more than 640 cats from Animal Control since it was started last May.

Polk said she wasn’t shocked by the statistics in the news release. “We’re encouraged but not surprised,” she said.

Polk said Project Purr holds adoption events every day at its location in the Mall of Louisiana.

She explained Project Purr has two programs — res-cue, foster, adopt for cats pulled from shelters; and trap,

neuter, return for feral cats. Polk said Project Purr began neutering and returning feral cats to their

original locations because killing them was inhumane and ineffective. Polk said volunteers catch feral cats, spay or neuter them and vaccinate

them for rabies, then put the cats back where they found them. Polk said so far the group has sterilized more than 600 cats in the Baton

Rouge area, which equates to prevention of the birth of 60,000 kittens in a seven-year period.

Susan Trahan, a Project Purr volunteer and foster owner to several cats,

LSU System President John Lombardi announced Tuesday the search for a new chancellor at the University of New Orleans is tem-porarily suspended because of the university’s uncertain future, amid talks of a potential merger between UNO and Southern University-New Orleans.

The announcement came after conversations were held between Lombardi, UNO’s national recruit-ing consultant and the chairman of the search committee. Lombardi e-mailed Search Committee Chair-man Gary Solomon Sr. and his fel-low committee members to notify them of the decision, according to a news release.

“After reviewing the status of the search process for the Chancel-lor of UNO, the consultants have indicated that we probably will not be able to identify a satisfactory pool of candidates until some of the uncertainties surrounding the future status, mission and gover-nance of UNO are resolved,” Lom-bardi wrote.

UNO Provost Joe King will

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A cat awaits adoption Tuesday at Project Purr’s Mall of Louisiana location. Project Purr works to save cats from euthanasia by rescuing, fostering or adopting them.

Statistics show increase in animal adoption in Baton Rouge, euthanasia rate down

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Kyrgyzstan offi cials plan to shoot 10,000 stray dogs in 2011

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Offi cials in the capital of Kyrgyz-stan say budgetary constraints are forcing them to shoot the city’s estimated 10,000 stray dogs rather than build shelters for them.

Bishkek city hall spokesman Pavel Klimenko told The Associ-ated Press on Tuesday that around 5,000 strays were shot last year because the impoverished Central Asian nation couldn’t afford ken-nels that would have cost $300,000.

He said the dogs this year are being killed in the early morning and in the evening by a team of 10 shooters and dog catchers.

Klimenko urged the world not to consider the act barbaric.British Prime Minister fi nds new ally: Tabby cat to battle rats

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron turned to a new recruit Tuesday to help fend off his foes — an ally armed with whis-kers, claws and sharp teeth.

Larry, a 4-year-old tabby cat, arrived at his new home at 10 Downing Street, tasked with ward-ing off a pack of rats seen scuttling close to the British leader’s offi cial residence.

The former stray, adopted

Berkeley considers welcoming released Guantanamo detainees

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Berkeley City Council is consider-ing a measure that would welcome freed Guantanamo Bay detainees to resettle in the college town.

The resolution set for a vote Tuesday night would invite “one or two” detainees to live in Berkeley once they are cleared of wrongdo-ing and released from the U.S. de-tention facility in Cuba.

It would also ask Congress to allow cleared Guantanamo detain-ees to resettle in the U.S.Montana gov. blocks slaughter of diseased Yellowstone bison

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Mon-tana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Tuesday signed an executive order blocking the shipment of hundreds of Yellowstone National Park bi-son to slaughter.

The Democratic governor said he was worried the shipments could spread the disease brucellosis, now largely confi ned to Yellowstone’s wildlife, to Montana livestock.

Park offi cials had planned to slaughter potentially hundreds of bison testing positive for exposure to the disease, which causes preg-nant animals to prematurely abort their young.

Man is fi rst convicted on recent La. movie bootlegging law

(AP) — Louisiana Attorney Gener-al Buddy Caldwell says a relatively new law that aims to prevent indi-viduals from utilizing recording devices in movie theaters was used to convict a Baton Rouge man of movie bootlegging.

Kevin Casey of the Motion Picture Association of America says the conviction is a fi rst under the law passed by the legislature in 2005.

The attorney general’s offi ce says 55-year-old Terry Lee Briggs was convicted Feb. 10 on six counts of unlawful operation of a recording device.

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(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal said Tuesday he’ll propose no cuts in the $3.3 billion funding formula for public schools next year, even as colleges and health services are on the chopping block because of budget shortfalls.

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is expected to vote on the 2011-12 school year funding plan this week, to divvy up money among the state’s 70 school districts in the new budget year that begins July 1.

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Television cameras had cap-tured several sightings of rats around Downing Street — a com-mon problem in London, where the trash on sidewalks provides a constant supply of food.

“I’m delighted to welcome Larry to his new home,” Cameron said in a statement. “I’m sure he will be a great addition to Down-ing Street and will charm our many visitors.”

Larry, Downing Street’s new offi cial rat catcher, looks out of a window Tuesday in the Prime Minister’s residence in London. The feline weapon has been taken on after a rodent was spotted scuttling past live TV cameras twice last month. It is the fi rst such offi cial appointment since stalwart ratter Humphrey was retired in 1997, shortly after Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street.(AP Photo/Mark Large, pool)

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories looking at 34 Uni-versity programs under scrutiny. The Board of Regents, the body that oversees the state’s higher education system, labeled those programs “under-performing” Jan. 26.

Two covered bus stops will be added to campus by the end of the summer, according to Student Gov-ernment Vice President Dani Borel.

One of the bus stops will be on the corner of South Stadium Road and Tower Drive across from the Frey Computing Services Center, and the other will be by Lockett Hall. They will be in the same style as the bus stop in front of the Jour-nalism Building.

Gary Graham, director of the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation, worked with SG to determine budgets and future development plans. He said in an e-mail that the office will fund the bus stops and that “bus amenities and infrastructure” are funded by the student transportation fee.

Borel said more bus stops will be built by an outside company. These bus stops will be smaller, but they will still be covered.

She said an outside company will build smaller, covered bus stops for free under the stipulation that they can advertise on them. Those bus stops are in the design and contract phase, Borel said, but there may be a bidding process to determine which company will build them.

“What we mostly did was make the administration aware of how important it was to us,” Borel said.

Borel said she and SG Presi-dent J Hudson have been asking for the bus stops since the beginning of their administration. They initially

met with Jason Tolliver, University Auxiliary Services director, and discussed plans for building with him, but budget cuts took first pri-ority, Borel said.

They then wrote a memo and attached a legislative resolution in support of the bus stops and sent it to K.C. White, dean of students, and Kurt Keppler, vice chancellor for Student Life and Enrollment Services, Borel said.

Borel said they then looked at cost methods and found outside companies were willing to build the bus stops for free because of the ad-vertising incentive.

Borel and Hudson said they also want a bus stop at the corner of South Stadium Drive and CEBA Lane, and Graham said he is work-ing on a “bus hub” in this area, which will require a building to be taken down.

Graham said eventually there may be up to 10 bus stops on cam-pus with red tiles.

“The weather here at LSU makes the covered shelters a neces-sity on days of inclement weather or days when it is very hot,” Gra-ham said.

Though the bus stops will be unfinished by the time they leave office, Borel and Hudson haven’t decided if they will label bus stops as “completed” or “in progress.”

“It shows the dedication of our staff,” Hudson said of the initiative.

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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is confi-dent it will win its appeal against the Board of Regents’ recommendation to close the undergraduate environ-mental engineering program.

The University must submit to the Regents either its plans to con-solidate or cut the programs or its ap-peal to keep the program funded by Feb. 28.

Environmental engineering professor John Pardue, who is cur-rently working on the department’s response to the Regents’ recommen-dations, said the department dipped slightly below the average comple-tion requirements last year, but is ex-pecting to graduate its largest classes yet in the coming years.

To be considered a low complet-er, an undergraduate program must have, on average, graduated fewer than eight students annually in the past three academic years.

Pardue said the program dipped below the eight average but is ex-pecting to graduate 15 students this year.

“We got ahead of this issue about three or four years ago,” Par-due said.

Pardue said the department no-ticed a lull in graduates and appli-cants and retooled the program.

Pardue said the curriculum has been revamped and the department recruited corporate donors such as Walmart, which updated and remod-eled the program’s laboratories.

“This really helps with recruit-ing,” Pardue said. “We are actually recruiting really heavily for the pro-gram now. We were not really doing much recruiting before.”

Pardue said the program is also improving its attractiveness to out-of-state students after having the program certified in Mississippi and Alabama as Academic Common Market, which allows students from these states to pay in-state tuition when studying environmental en-gineering at the University because these states’ Universities do not have a similar program.

These changes have greatly in-creased the program’s outlook. Par-due said the program has 37 students declared in the University College and has seen its applications increase by about 40 percent.

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Students wait at the covered bus stop Tuesday outside the Journalism Building. Two more covered stops should be built on campus by the end of summer.

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Faculty Senate cited a need for more research in its decision to postpone further debate on a resolution for investing money into higher education during its monthly meeting Tuesday.

The Senate also unanimous-ly passed three resolutions at the meeting and had opening discus-sions on topics such as changes to Thanksgiv-ing break and the concentrated study period.

Senators de-bated a resolution urging increased investments in higher education, presented by Justin Walsh , School of Art sena-tor.

Joseph Legoria , Accounting Department senator , said he feels the Legislature and Board of Re-gents are tired of hearing about the need to increase spending to higher education and that the wording implies a raise in taxes.

The resolution was then amended to read “increase in in-vestments” instead of spending.

As the debate on the resolu-tion continued, Chancellor Mi-chael Martin jumped in from the gallery of the Senate Chambers.

Martin said he does not want to go to the Legislature with a resolution showing the Univer-sity needs to do more research.

“There’s a lot of homework that needs to be done,” Martin said about the resolution.

After Martin’s input, the Senate unanimously voted to postpone any further debate on the resolution until meeting on March 17 .

The Faculty Senate also

briefl y passed around ideas for possibly making Thanksgiving break a week long, and the reso-lution will be voted upon later in the semester.

Student Government repre-sentatives presented a resolution regarding the concentrated study period, also known as “dead week,” as new business, meaning the resolution would not be voted upon.

SG asked Faculty Senate to change the policy to say course-work outside of class projects are

prohibited during dead week.

“This is a re-vision to the cur-rent policy,” said Jeffrey Wale , SG director of aca-demics .

SG Sen. Scott Sullivan , College of Science , said when a professor

gives an assignment worth 10 percent of a student’s grade dur-ing the concentrated study period and the fi nal the following week, a large portion of the grade is de-cided at the end of the semester.

Sullivan also said the point of concentrated study time is to give students preparation time for the exam.

Faculty Senate offered many ideas for the resolution, such as allowing quizzes and graded as-signments that help students pre-pare for the exam, and asked SG to consider the ideas before the resolution is voted upon.

Business owners from across the state gathered at the Hilton Capi-tol Center on Tuesday for the fi rst-ever Louisiana Entrepreneurship Day.

Carol Carter, associate director of the E.J. Ourso College of Business Stephenson Entrepreneurship Insti-tute, said the reason for the event was to encourage entrepreneurship in the state.

“The state of Louisiana was built on entrepreneurship,” she said.

Carter said it’s important to in-clude students because many will own businesses in the future.

“If we want the best and bright-est, and to keep our college gradu-ates here, we need to have an entre-preneurship environment here,” she said.

Carter said the event hosted guest speakers and networking ses-sions in which local business owners were encouraged to meet others from around the state.

She said the event ended late Tuesday evening with a town hall meeting where attendees could speak with an entrepreneurship panel to learn how to implement ideas in Ba-ton Rouge.

Carter said her hopes are high for this event in the future.

“I know our chamber and state government recognize the impor-tance of this,” she said.

Kevin Langley, a member of the SEI advisory board, was one of the event’s organizers.

Langley said he agrees it’s im-portant for students to become inter-ested in entrepreneurship.

“It’s showing them that it’s a real career choice,” he said.

Jill Roshto, SEI director of de-velopment, said public response to the event was encouraging.

“We knew there was a large

interest in entrepreneurship in Baton Rouge, but we really see it here,” she said.

Roshto said about 300 people registered for the event and several others attended without signing up.

“It really exceeded our expec-tations,” she said. “It was twice as

many as anticipated.” Roshto said another entrepre-

neurship event is planned for the fall, and she expects Louisiana Entrepre-neurship Day to continue annually.

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Event supports better business in La.

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Ryan A. Furby, corporate communications director for digital and social media strategies at FedEx, speaks at Louisiana Entrepreneurship Day on Tuesday.

‘‘‘There’s a lot of homework that

needs to be done.’

Michael Martinchancellor

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Students living in the College of Agriculture’s Residential College will be using pedometers throughout the spring in their first fitness chal-lenge.

The students will count their steps each day throughout the semes-ter, and the group with the most steps will win the competition.

At least 150 pedometers have been given out by the College of Agriculture, and participants for the competition, which ends April 30, include students from all seven floors of Blake Hall and the AgCol-lege administration, faculty, staff and student workers, said Betsy Garri-son, associate dean of the College of Agriculture.

The program should prevent students from gaining weight, and in some cases, it may even help them lose weight if followed correctly, according to Sandra May, coordina-tor of Extension’s LA on the Move

Walking Program.“The purpose of this fitness

challenge is to help increase the physical activity of the participants and to show them that exercise is not only beneficial to one’s health, but also fun to do, especially when you have the help of friends’ moti-vation and a goal to work towards,” Jamie Mascari, graduate assistant in the College of Agriculture, said in an e-mail.

During the first week of the Fit-ness Challenge, Blake Hall’s second floor raced to first place with a com-bined 497,169 steps, equaling 248 miles, Garrison said.

In addition to the use of pedom-eters, the students will enter their

daily number of steps into the Amer-ica on the Move website.

The America on the Move Foun-dation is a national non-profit orga-nization. Its mission is “to improve health and quality of life by promot-ing healthful eating and active living among individuals, families, com-munities and society,” according to the foundation’s website.

AOMF offers the opportunity to participate in the program to several states in the country, and the Univer-sity accepted the offer to join, said Ellen Murphy, associate director at the School of Human Ecology.

The University contributed money to the foundation, and stu-dents were given free pedometers to

watch and record their daily activity, Murphy said.

Several years ago, the AgCenter became a partner with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the University put money up front to create a database to collect the number of steps from partici-pants, May said.

“We do nutrition programs with the general public and the elderly,” May said. “We wanted to see if we could improve their nutrition and health of their family.”

Louisiana has a higher obesity rate than most other states, and pe-dometers can be a motivating factor to get people active, May said.

“Dr. Betsy Garrison contacted

us to get her students involved in the walking program through the Fitness Challenge,” Murphy said. “Apparently, it is as successful with her students as it has been with our clientele.”

The pedometers will make stu-dents aware of their daily activity, and organizers hope this program will increase physical fitness for some students, Garrison said.

While using the America on the Move website, students will track their steps every day. Participants have been asked to measure their normal amount of steps per day and increase the number by 2,000 steps. In addition, they will decrease their average daily caloric intake by 100, May said.

The floor with the most number of steps will receive a prize at the end of the semester.

“We haven’t decided on any-thing yet, but I’d like to see a bicycle, bicycle tire pump or tennis shoes for the winning floor,” Garrison said.

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lot.’Rachel Yarabouundeclared junior

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Man pulled over for lights, caught with handgun, fake marijuana

Q: Is a fitness challenge a good way to get freshmen more physically active?

A University student was charged on Feb. 13 with DWI and careless operation of a vehicle.

Steven Sullivan, 21, of 3923 Overlook Point Court, was stopped by LSUPD at 2:42 a.m. for wreck-less driving and speeding through the Hart parking lot, Tabor said.

Sullivan failed field sobriety tests before being transported to

A 29-year-old University stu-dent was charged Feb. 10 with driv-ing with no headlights and posses-sion of synthetic marijuana and a weapon.

Michael Terry, of 39483 Old Cornerstone Court in Prairieville, was pulled over by LSU Police De-partment officers at 12:29 a.m. for driving without headlights on High-land and West Parker roads, said Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokes-man.

The LSUPD officer said Terry seemed nervous, so the officer se-cured permission to search Terry’s vehicle.

Upon obtaining permission, Terry admitted to having a Smith and Wesson .40 caliber handgun in the vehicle, which is illegal when carrying illegal substances, Tabor said.

During the search, the officer found 0.7 grams of synthetic mari-juana, which Tabor said recently became illegal, and rolling papers, Tabor said. Terry was charged and booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Students caught smoking in dorm, one charged with possession

Two students were caught Feb. 11 with 4.1 grams of marijuana, two Concerta pills and drug parapherna-lia at Graham Hall.

LSUPD officers were called to room 235 at 12:30 a.m. to investigate an aroma of marijuana coming from the room.

Upon entering, William Dewey, 18, of 4654 Hickory Ridge Road in Jackson, Miss., and Jon Blacklock, 18, 1011 Portrush Court in Katy, Texas, admitted to smoking marijua-na in Blacklock’s room, Tabor said.

Student refuses breathalyzer, receives DWI early Sunday morning

The officers conducted a pat-down search of both men and found 2.2 grams on Dewey, Tabor said.

Before officers searched the room, Blacklock said he had mari-juana and a bong, Tabor said.

Police found a silver grinder, 1.9 grams of marijuana, a pill bottle containing two Concerta pills and a black humidifier, which is similar to a vaporizer, Tabor said.

Dewey received a misdemeanor summons for possession of marijua-na. Blacklock was charged with pos-session of marijuana, two Concerta

LSUPD where he refused to take a breathalyzer test, Tabor said.

Sullivan was charged and booked in EBR Parish Prison.

pills and paraphernalia and booked in EBR Prison, Tabor said.

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has $9.2 million in his campaign ac-count for his fall re-election bid, showing a continued fundraising prowess that could make it difficult for Democrats to find a challenger to jump in the governor’s race.

The Republican governor’s latest campaign finance report will show $3.6 million raised in 2010 and $12.3 million total brought in for this election cycle, said his chief of staff, Timmy Teepell, who previewed the report before it was officially filed.

Teepell called it “enough to run a good campaign.”

The report, showing Jindal’s contributions and spending from last year, is due to the Louisiana Ethics Administration Program on Tuesday, along with finance re-ports from all the statewide elected officials.

The reports are considered a bellwether of the strength of the officials’ re-election bids before the Oct. 22 primary election.

“We continue to be aggres-sive in raising the resources we need to put our message in front of the voters. I hope the voters will entrust me to serve them for a sec-ond term,” Jindal said when asked about his latest report.

In office since 2008, Jindal has no announced competitors so far, though several Democrats — including wealthy contenders who could help finance their own cam-paigns — are rumored to be con-sidering a possible campaign as the governor’s approval ratings have dipped.

The sign-up period for the race is in September.

“We’re not going to be com-placent. We’re not going to take anything for granted,” Jindal said.

The governor’s fundraising pace slowed slightly from 2009, when he had raised $5 million as he crisscrossed the country and held at least three dozen fundrais-ers in different states. Last year, he attended fewer than a dozen out-of-state fundraisers for his own campaign.

That’s because he was mired in the Gulf oil spill disaster through-out the summer.

He later spent most of the mid-term election cycle stumping for candidates in other states and rais-ing cash for GOP causes and orga-nizations expected to help build his profile nationally. Doing so didn’t necessarily create dollars for his own campaign account.

Still, Jindal has nearly reached his fundraising total from his 2007 race, when he had collected about $13 million. He spent $11 million on that campaign, with much of the money raised in the final months.

The governor has denied he is running for anything besides re-election this year, but he has trav-eled the country extensively in the last three years to raise money for himself and other Republicans. He has tapped into an extensive

network of GOP fundraising and consulting firms that could help launch future political campaigns on a national stage.

Other campaign finance re-ports for the 2010 fundraising pe-riod included:

—Treasurer John Kennedy raised the most among statewide elected officials after Jindal. Ken-nedy’s report showed him raising more than $1 million in the last year and ending the period with $1.4 million in the bank. Although Kennedy has been publicly critical of several of Jindal’s budget pro-posals, the Republican treasurer insists he is only running for re-election.

—Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, a Republican, showed $146,538 on hand, after running a special elec-tion to get the job. Dardenne took office in November and left his previous position as secretary of state.

—Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, who recently switched

to the GOP, reported $466,854 in his account, most of it raised in the last year.

—Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, a Republican, report-ed $404,795 in the bank.

—Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain, a Republican, report-ed $186,459 in his campaign cof-fers.

—Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat who left office in 2008, still has more than $2.1 million in her campaign account. She spent $208,764 in the latest reporting period, including thou-sands in donations for Democratic candidates and the state party. She contributed to Caroline Fayard’s failed bid for lieutenant governor and Charlie Melancon’s lost elec-tion for the U.S. Senate. She also gave $26,500 to the Louisiana Democratic Party.

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STATE

Jindal campaign fundraising report to show $9.2 M on handThe Associated Press

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Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks Jan. 31 at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

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FUNNY PEOPLE

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Adrian Wintz, mass communication freshman, auditions for a spot in LSU’s Last Comic Standing on Tuesday. “I hate how toilet paper companies call their product bath tissue,” Wintz joked. “It sounds too fancy and elegant. It’s a product designed to clean up your [butt].”

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At the rate it’s going, the LSU softball team will have shaken the rust off after just two weekends.

No. 18 LSU (6-0) is just fi ve days into its season, and the Tigers have already played three double-headers with two more to come at week’s end.

“It’s just the way it is. We have to jam so many [games] in to get ready for conference play,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard . “We’re al-ready 6-0 after just three days.”

After so much softball, the pros-pect of playing just one game seems like a break. LSU hosts its fi rst mid-week game of 2011 tonight, with Southeastern Louisiana (3-2) coming to Tiger Park at 6 p.m.

Midweek games have been an Achilles heel for the Tigers in recent seasons — something Girouard at-tributed to her experimental tenden-cies.

Heading into the second week of the season, Girouard said she might rearrange things to give some younger players, like freshman out-fi elder Alex Boulet and freshman utility player Jacee Blades, a chance to contribute.

“Blades might play some in-fi eld so we can get her some more at bats. We might try to get Boulet

some at bats,” Girouard said. “Those are some kids that can really run and help us, so we might do that.”

Girouard also noted the motiva-tion factor for in-state schools play-ing against Louisiana’s most high profi le program.

“They’re always going to be excited to play here,” Girouard said. “Sometimes we can’t match that in-tensity.”

Based on LSU’s fast start, those may not be concerns this time around. The Tigers pounded the op-position by a combined total of 41-8 during opening weekend.

The Tiger lineup, which Gir-ouard fretted over during the team’s media day last week, delivered a

SportsWednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 page 7

Today in sports: Softball takes in Southeastern Louisiana at 6 p.m. at Tiger Park

SWIMMING & DIVING

SOFTBALL

Trepp strives for individual title

Heyward shines as hitter, base stealer

TREPP, see page 11

SOUTHEASTERN, see page 11

Albert BurfordSports Contributor

David HelmanSports Contributor

BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

Freshman outfi elder Simone Heyward looks at a pitch during one of the Lady Tigers’ wins Saturday. Heyward, the team’s leadoff hitter, stole six bases this past weekend.

Busy Tigers battle Southeastern

“It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. They’d con-sider it a tragedy,” Ray Kinsella said to Dr. Moonlight Graham in “Field of Dreams.”

Graham, a minor league player who was called up to a professional baseball game but never got an at-bat, responded, “If I’d only gotten to be a doctor for fi ve minutes — now that would have been a tragedy.”

Few athletes are able to make a differ-ence outside their respective sport — for-mer Tiger Eddy Furniss was one of the few.

The 6-foot-4-inch, 220-pound fi rst baseman was more than an imposing fi g-ure. Thirteen years after his fi nal college game, Furniss is still the all-time Southeast-ern Conference leader in hits (352), home runs (80), RBIs (308), doubles (87) and to-tal bases (689).

Those numbers put him third in total bases, fourth in home runs and doubles and fi fth in RBIs in the history of college base-ball.

“He was loved by his teammates and respected as a competitor,” said former LSU coach Skip Bertman. “Fans would get on him wherever we’d go but by the third game would be standing and clapping.”

Furniss won three SEC titles, went to three College World Series and won two national championships in 1996 and 1997.

He received the Dick Howser Trophy in 1998 as college baseball’s most out-standing player, hitting .403 with 28 home runs and 76 RBIs.

“I had this irrational certainty that I was going to get a hit every time I went to the plate,” Furniss said.

Even greater than his athletic prow-ess was his ability to give all it up. Furniss did something most athletes would never dream of doing. He walked away before he

FURNISS, see page 11

Rowan KavnerSports Writer

The diving segment of the 2011 Southeastern Conference Championships left LSU in fourth place on the men’s side and eighth place on the women’s side.

Now it’s time for the LSU swimming team to continue the ef-fort in Gainesville, Fla., when the SEC Swimming Championships start today.

Points earned by swimmers will be added to the divers’ scores for a fi nal score Saturday when the championships wrap up.

The SEC Swimming Champi-onships bring some of the strongest competitors in the country together for one meet.

“The top four teams here are all in the top 10 in the country,” said LSU swimming coach David Geyer . “There is no other meet like this in the country as far as the at-mosphere, teams and crowd.”

But LSU doesn’t lack talent.Senior Jane Trepp heads into

the championships with the No. 2 time in the country in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfl y . Trepp is the top seed for the 100-yard butterfl y in the championships and second seed for the 50-yard freestyle.

Swimmers attempt to best divingsuccess

photo courtesy of STEVE FRANZ / LSU Sports Information

Former LSU fi rst baseman Eddy Furniss, now a doctor, gears up for a grounder in the 1997 College World Series.

Former Tiger Furniss fi nds calling post-stardom

Living Legend

Courtney Jones’ father ad-mits he initially underestimated his daughter’s basketball abili-ties.

But the Midfi eld, Ala., na-tive found her way into the gym on Saturday mornings with her father, Cleveland. She had a shot to learn the game in elementary school.

“She’s always been a head-strong kid,” Cleveland said. “I let her start doing the drills with me ... technique-wise, she just had it in her. She put down the debu-tante balls and stuck with it.”

Jones, now a junior, came to LSU ranked as one of the top 20 forward prospects in the country by HoopGurlz.com. She has pri-marily come off the bench, start-ing 24 of 88 career games played, but the enthusiasm she brings to the court does not go unnoticed.

“ C o u r t n e y is an energizer, a spark plug,” said LSU senior guard Katherine Graham. “When she comes on the court, you see a tremendous en-ergy boost with the team. That’s a good formula for any team to have, a player we can look forward to coming in.”

Jones stepped up in LSU’s home game Feb. 10 against Au-burn , recording her fi rst career double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds in 26 minutes off the bench.

Jones said she has a knack for “anticipating the fl ow” of the game, although she said her pass-ing can be shaky.

“I’m not a big scorer, but I fi nd other areas where I can help my team out, whether it’s defend-ing or rebounding or just getting players open,” she said. “I do need to make better decisions on passing the ball. Sometimes they tend to get defl ections on the ball, or I try to force the pass to where it’s not open.”

Cleveland said Courtney’s major downfall is overanalyzing.

“She tries so hard and tries to do everything,” he said. “She’s unselfi sh. ... She’ll make a pass when she should make a shot, and when she gets to the free throw line she gets so tense. I have to tell her to settle down and breathe or you’ll have an aneurysm.”

Courtney said nerves were an initial factor in the Auburn game.

“When I came out there I was pretty nervous ... I really wasn’t fi nishing shots,” she said. “I decided to put more into play-ing defense and getting stops around the basket, and I got more relaxed.”

Courtney reached double fi gures in four earlier games this

season , includ-ing consecutive 18-point efforts against Louisiana Tech and Prairie View A&M in December. It was her fi rst career game with dou-ble fi gures in re-bounds, eclipsing her previous ca-reer high of nine.

LSU coach Van Chancel-

lor contemplated starting Jones against Kentucky, but he said the coaching staff was split on the is-sue. Courtney eventually scored seven points and three rebounds in 20 minutes off the bench.

“The greatest misnomer about coaching is that it’s who starts the game,” Chancellor said. “It’s who fi nishes the game.”

Cleveland said LSU was on Courtney’s mind since age 7,

when a stuffed LSU Tiger was one of her precious possessions.

Back in Midfi eld, population 5,635, Cleveland said Courtney is a celebrity.

“She’s an icon here in Ala-bama,” he said. “I had a guy stop me the other day to say he knew Courtney when she was a baby. I can go to my hometown and they’ll be like, ‘Give me a Court-ney Jones jersey.’”

Courtney said her idol is Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bry-ant. Her father encourages her to remember Bryant’s leadership under pressure when she tries to undertake too much.

“I love that man,” Courtney said of Bryant. “I have a pair of his shoes, and I watch all his games.”

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‘‘‘She’ll make apass when she should make ashot. ... She

gets so tense.’

Cleveland JonesCourtney Jones’ father

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Junior forward gets fi rst double-double

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Rachel WhittakerSports Writer

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Junior forward Courtney Jones dribbles downcourt during the Tigers’ 55-52 win against Auburn at the PMAC on Thursday.

Jones lends enthusiasm, energy to Lady Tigers

A pair of losing streaks are on the line Wednesday in New Orleans.

The LSU women’s tennis team, mired in a three-match skid to begin the 2011 season, travels to the Big Easy for the second time in two weeks to take on Tu-lane (2-4) at 2 p.m.

The Tigers (0-3) faced Texas Tech in the New Orleans Hilton on Feb. 2 in a match moved from W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium due to inclement weather.

LSU dropped the match to the Red Raiders, 5-1.

The Tigers, winless on the season, can point to a startling

0-6 start in doubles as the root of their struggles.

“We had match points against [Texas] A&M in No. 1 doubles,

and we were up in No. 3 doubles, and we were up against Rice,” said LSU coach Tony Minnis. “One thing we emphasized all

week is that we weren’t doing a very good job of serving and re-turning. Until you get to the point where you can actually get the point going, you’re going to have trouble.”

Minnis’ squad has competed respectably in singles play, split-ting the six matches in each of their last two outings. But the doubles losses have proven too difficult to overcome in the 4-3 defeats at the hands of Rice and Texas A&M.

Another thorn in the Tigers’ side has been the odometer.

To open the spring season, LSU has traveled to Charlottes-ville, Va.; New Orleans; Houston and College Station, Texas.

The team now faces trips to New Orleans and Dallas before taking their home court for the first time on Feb. 26.

With constant travel and

chilly temperatures, the practice schedule has been drastically al-tered.

“We went pretty much a month where we we’re all over the city trying to figure out what we’re going to do,” Minnis said. “With the last couple of days we’ve had ... the consistency that comes with being able to practice should pay.”

Minnis hopes practice ben-efits are coming at just the right time.

“It’s definitely a rivalry,” said Minnis of the Tulane match. “We know they’re going to be up for us. We’ve just got to be ready to play.”

LSU won last season’s tilt at the “Dub,” 4-3.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Team has dropped all doubles matchesHunt PalmerSports Contributor

Lady Tigers travel to New Orleans in search of first win

Southeastern Conference baseball coaches aren’t fazed by the youth of LSU’s baseball team this season.

The Tigers, who welcome 18 new players to the squad, were voted to finish first in the SEC West in the annual preseason coaches poll.

“You certainly like to have the respect of your peers, but it doesn’t really mean anything,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

LSU earned 63 out of a pos-sible 66 points to finish ahead of Arkansas in the West.

“We do have a good core group of guys,” Mainieri said. “We did have the No. 1-ranked re-cruiting class.”

Auburn, division winner in 2010, is predicted to end the sea-son third.

Florida was the unanimous pick to win the SEC East. The Gators were SEC Champions last season after a 22-8 record, and they enter the year as the No. 1 team in the Baseball America poll.

“They’ve got a lot of things going for them,” Mainieri said. “Certainly it would be shocking if they weren’t picked No. 1.”

LSU sits 22nd on the Baseball America poll and will open the 2011 campaign Friday night against Wake Forest in Alex Box Stadium.

“You get what you earn on the field,” Mainieri said. “You’re not going to start the game with an additional run.”

Preseason polls haven’t al-ways nabbed the correct winners.

LSU was selected to win the West in 2010 coming off a na-tional championship season, but the Tigers finished fifth in the di-vision.

The 2008 team had the op-posite experience. LSU was pre-dicted to finish fifth in 2008, but

ended up first in the SEC West.This year’s team has an in-

flux of fresh faces, but they do return experienced players such as juniors shortstop Austin Nola, outfielder Mikie Mahtook and in-fielder Tyler Hanover.

“There’s a lot of tradition at LSU,” Mainieri said. “People ex-pect LSU to be in the hunt every year. Hopefully at the end of the year we’ll be at the top.”

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LSU tabbed preseason No. 1 in WestBASEBALL

Florida picked to finish first overall Michael Lambert Sports writer

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LSU shortstop Austin Nola practices batting before a scrimmage Tuesday. The Tigers were picked to win the SEC West division in the preseason coaches poll.

photo courtesy of STEVE FRANZ / LSU Sports Information

Junior Whitney Wolf returns a shot in pratice. Wolf is looking to help the Lady Tigers win their first match Wednesday against Tulane.

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John Isaac didn’t waste any time with his college decision.

The Pickering High School shooting guard committed to LSU on March 9, 2009, and hasn’t looked back.

“I’ve always wanted to be a Tiger,” said Isaac, who commit-ted early during his sophomore season. “I just went ahead and did it then so I can get all that stuff out the way.”

The Leesville native aver-aged 18.5 points and 11.5 re-bounds per game and was named First Team All-District 4-2A his sophomore year.

He recorded 20 double-dou-bles in 33 games and four triple-doubles that season, which ex-cited coaches early on about the young athlete’s future.

“With guys like John, it’s not a hard evaluation,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson. “At that time we thought there was no question he had the chance to be a special player.”

Interest began pouring in for Isaac from schools across the country like Texas, Duke, Flori-da, Florida State, Clemson, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Kansas, but Isaac chose to stay close to home.

“LSU was always the school he wanted to go to, and LSU is where I wanted him,” said Isaac’s mother, Delilah. “He’s happy, and I’m happy.”

But his bright future took a dark turn. Isaac tweaked his knee in the summer of 2009, making a move to the basket while playing for the S h r e v e p o r t -based Loui-siana Select AAU team in Orlando, Fla.

T h e 6-foot-4-inch,

210-pounder underwent surgery in September of 2009 and again in August to repair a torn ACL.

“You hate to see young people get surgeries ... but we were very supportive,” Johnson said. “I don’t back away from my commitment to young men, and he showed a lot of toughness coming back after surgery.”

Isaac said Johnson and his staff were supportive during re-covery and never lost faith in his ability.

“He gave me a call the next day and told me ‘It doesn’t mat-ter, we’re still going to be inter-ested in you, and we still want you to be a Tiger,’” Isaac said. “I felt really good about that.”

Isaac said he got out of the hospital and hit the ground running with his rehab.

Eddie Thomas, who has coached Isaac since middle

school, complimented Isaac’s work ethic and said he never questioned the future Tiger’s commitment and dedication to the recovery process.

“He’s very committed,” Thomas said. “I’ve come up here on the weekends and opened the weight room up for him many times.”

Isaac’s hard work is paying off. Not only has he been a starter on the school’s varsity team since seventh grade, but in his junior season Isaac earned a first-string

job on the defensive line of the Red Devil football team.

“Last year, playing [basket-ball] without him, it was diffi-cult,” said Thomas, who is also an assistant coach for the Pick-ering football team. “I did try to talk him out of [playing football], but Coach Johnson was all for it. He expressed that he likes him to play as many sports as he [can].”

Isaac is only playing one sport under Johnson, who called his future pupil “exactly what we need.”

Isaac signed with LSU in November, along with forward Johnny O’Bryant.

O’Bryant committed to LSU on Oct.14.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Low-key commitment anticipating a promising Tiger futureIsaac recovered after knee surgery Mark Clements Sports Contributor

Contact Mark Clements at mclements@lsureveille.com

photo courtesy of DANIEL GREEN / The Leesville Daily Leader

Pickering High School guard John Isaac dribbles past a defender Nov. 27. Isaac, who tore his ACL, says he is at full strength.

‘There was no question he had the chance to

be a special player.’

Trent JohnsonLSU men’s

basketball coach

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A Trepp win would be the first SEC individual championship for a Lady Tiger swimmer since 1997.

“We expect a good meet from Jane,” Geyer said. “But we have strong athletes in all of our events.”

Sophomore Andrei Tuomola, a member of the SEC 2010 All-Freshman team, will look to lead the No. 22 men’s side in Gaines-ville. He is third in the SEC in the 100-yard breastroke, fourth in the 50-yard freestyle and seventh in the 100-yard freestyle.

Seniors Hannes Heyl and Clint Hallum are also looking to score points for the Tigers. Heyl ranks fifth in the conference in the 100-yard butterfly, while Hallum is the team leader in the 200-yard individual medley, the 400-yard in-dividual medley and the 200-yard breastroke.

Hallum enters the meet with the SEC’s 10th-fastest 200 indi-vidual medley time.

Freshman Cari Blalock will look to be one of the Lady Tigers backing Trepp’s efforts. Blalock holds the seventh-fastest time in the SEC for the 200-yard butterfly.

“We seem loose,” Geyer said

after the first day of practice. “I hate to sound overconfident, but I think we’re going to get some out-standing results.”

The events will begin with preliminaries Wednesday morn-ing and continue through Saturday night’s finals.

ever made it past Double A ball in the minor league system.

It wasn’t to sulk after five inju-ry-plagued minor league seasons or to wallow in self-pity about a dream that faded. It was to focus his energy on a new vision.

He wanted to be a doctor like his father, who worked more than 300 miles away in Nacogdoches, Texas, but attended every weekend series at LSU while Furniss was a Tiger.

“I saw how people approached him in town, how much difference he made in peoples’ lives,” Eddy Furniss said. “He saved their moth-er or their kid. He saved lives. You can’t put a price on that.”

Furniss married his high school sweetheart, Crystal, who was with him through every tough decision,

from LSU to the minor league af-filiates of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics and Texas Rang-ers.

She said she remembers when Furniss real-ized his true pas-sion. In 2002, he

called her before a baseball game in Shreveport while he was playing for the Rangers’ Double-A affiliate.

Crystal said she was worried be-cause she never received phone calls from him before games. He proceed-ed to tell her he was released, and he felt relief rather than sorrow.

“He knew it was time,” she said. “He started studying for the MCAT and started medical school and never looked back. I think this was his call-ing, and baseball was an avenue and a path but not what he was meant to do.”

Furniss, a three-time Academic All-American, had the grades to achieve that goal.

He went to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth to complete his medical residency, the same fa-cility his father attended. Furniss was one of only seven in his class of 215 to choose family medicine, the same profession his father selected.

“I chose it because I felt I could do the most good for the most peo-ple, and I had a good example in my father,” he said. “I always wanted to be a small town doctor.”

Furniss was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2010 and continues to practice medicine in Nacogdoches.

He has three children and has coached his 7-year-old son in base-ball for three years.

“That’s really how I get my joy out of baseball now,” Furniss said. “I have not missed playing baseball. I don’t want that to sound bad, but I really played for so long and so hard.”

Though he has left Baton Rouge, he isn’t forgotten. LSU coach Paul Mainieri asked junior shortstop Austin Nola why he wore the No. 36, an unusual number for a shortstop.

“He said, ‘That’s because Eddy Furniss wore No. 36, and I want to be like Eddy,’” Mainieri said.

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team batting average of .368. Three juniors — infielder Anissa Young, infielder Juliana Santos and outfield-er Ashley Langoni — combined to provide 18 RBIs.

“The whole team is really work-ing,” Santos said. “I think we pro-duced from one through nine.”

Of particular prominence was freshman outfielder Simone Hey-ward, who sparkled in the leadoff spot vacated by former senior Kirst-en Shortridge.

“I came out here and did what I was supposed to,” Heyward said. “There are things I can still work on, but that comes in time.”

Heyward batted .412 for the weekend, knocking two triples and scoring 11 runs. She also frustrated opposing pitchers, stealing six bases during the course of the weekend.

“I hit second ... and four or five times she was on third already with

no outs,” Santos said. “As long as I make contact, she’s going to score. She’s very dynamic.”

The Tigers’ pitching staff was dynamic in its own right, as LSU’s three pitchers combined for a 1.26 ERA. The best performance of all came from incoming freshman Meghan Patterson, who posted a 2-0 record and a 0.54 ERA on the way to being named Southeastern Confer-ence Freshman of the Week.

“The freshmen did awesome,” Santos said. “Patterson did absolute-ly amazing for us, and all the pitchers pitched great.”

Despite the early success, Gir-ouard said Wednesday’s lineup won’t be the final edition. Two of LSU’s seniors, infielder Jessica Mouse and outfielder Ashley Applegate, are still injured and not ready for action.

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SOUTHEASTERN, from page 7

DAVID LYLE / The Daily Reveille

Freshman pitcher Meghan Patterson, Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week, pitches during the Lady Tigers’ 10-2 win against Louisiana Tech on Sunday.

‘I always wanted to be a small

towndoctor.’

Eddy Furnissformer LSU

first baseman

A shortage of o.b. tampons be-ginning last fall created a black mar-ket for the health product, selling for upward of $100 on eBay in recent months.

o.b. derives its name from ob-stetrics and gynecology or OB/GYN because the brand is allegedly developed by these doctors.

I’m skep-tical about its origins, but the brand has at-tracted a sur-prisingly large cult following, both because of its unique origin and its lack of an applicator, which many women claim makes the brand both “green” and more compact.

It’s no surprise then, that when the brand started to disappear off the shelves last fall, some women around the nation began to panic.

In similar situations, when a product disappears or goes into de-mand faster than suppliers can pro-duce, prices go through the roof, and black markets are common.

Honestly, we go nuts over some pretty crazy stuff. Today it’s tam-pons, but it wasn’t long ago our own

LSU-Alabama football game tickets weren’t worth a cup of coffee. Elmo, with his tickle-me tendencies, em-barrassed many a people in his day.

In fact, it seems the things we obsess over the most are usually ri-diculous.

Imagine, if you will, that you are some form of intelligent life looking down on our little blue plan-et. Imagine your surprise when you saw how we hoard things like toys and tampons, disrupting our lives, economy and sanity over the most mundane parts of our life.

You’d have to assume our lives were empty and our aspirations ab-solutely pathetic, but that would be too harsh. We can’t help ourselves, it seems, from taking something rather tame and innocuous and de-voting our full attention to it.

And so was the case during the Dutch Golden Age when in Febru-ary 1637, the price of a tulip’s bulb reached its peak. Ten times the an-nual wage of a skilled worker could buy anyone who desired it a thing like a single, lonely bulb.

It is considered one of the first recorded times when we went abso-lutely crazy and in our frenzied de-sire, coveted small idols that stand to represent higher ideals: our pride,

our desire to appear rich and high class and least of all, our desire to own the object itself.

So it’s not surprising that when our o.b. tampons disappeared mys-teriously from the shelves, the black market for tampons formed, and with it, an economic bubble.

In an attempt to get some num-bers on the whole situation, and see just how pricey the tampons got, I went to the market — metaphori-cally, of course.

Using historical prices of o.b. tampons on eBay, I tracked the price per tampon from Dec. 22 through Feb. 15.

Several interesting things showed up.

First of all, we can see a faint increase in prices in the several weeks, leading to their eventual de-cline. It’s not a perfect bubble, but they retail at around 17 cents, and we see a peak on Jan. 14 at 80 cents per tampon.

That’s huge.Interestingly, this came after

Johnson and Johnson’s announce-ment on the o.b. website Jan. 10, which stated the brand was now shipping. “There may be a delay of a few days or weeks,” they cautioned, “but we are working with retailers

to restock store shelves as soon as possible.”

The statement relieved con-cerns that the brand had been dis-continued, but prices continued to rise.

On Feb. 3, the o.b. website displayed a new message stating proudly that the brand was restocked in online retailers like Amazon and Soap.com, as well as brick-and-mortar locations like Walmart. Around this time, the average price was only slightly higher than the re-tail, and with its return to a reason-able price, the bubble was mostly over. Strangely enough, though, people still continued to pay high prices for tampons on eBay.

In the end, it doesn’t really matter what you paid for your fa-vorite health item, ladies. It’s back, and as one woman’s tweet so elo-quently exclaimed: “My lady parts rejoiced.”

Devin Graham is a 21-year-old business management senior from Prairieville. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_dgraham.

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Opinionpage 12 Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011

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SHOW ALL COMMENTSAs usual, the Opinion Section of our website, lsureveille.com, has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out to-day, and let your voice be heard.

Regarding Bryant Garcin’s letter to the editor, “Global Warming is a controversy in itself,” readers had this to say:

“The ‘experts’ also proclaimed in the ‘70’s that our world was en-tering an ice age and humans were not long for the planet. Google it. This was just 35 yrs ago. The same ‘intellectual elitists’ read scientists now rally behind ‘manmade global warming’. I agree with the writer.....nobody has any credible evidence ‘global warming’ is remotely the re-sult of human activity.”

-Anonymous

“A little surprising that the commenter giving Bryant an F+ didn’t bring up anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan, who began hammering the idea that the media was giving ‘unfair balance’ to skep-tic scientists around 2004-5, despite any real evidence to back up THAT claim, apart from a reference to the Boykoff brothers’ study, which itself referred to Gelbspan to back up its similar claim (see ‘The Boykoff / Gelbspan circle in the con-senseless global warming media coverage’ http://www.freedompub.org/pro-files/blogs/but-wait-theres-more-the).

And as I offered in another ar-ticle on this, in 200+ discussion seg-ments about global warming on the PBS NewsHour from 1996 to the present, only 3 gave any substan-tial time to presenting the skeptic’s side of the underlying science. Talk about one side dominating the is-sue..... (see ‘The Left and Its Talking Points’ http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/the_left_and_its_talk-ing_point.html)”

-Russell C

“Great article Bryant. The pre-vious 2 sheeple need to learn to think for themselves.”

-Anonymous

“Keep learning, Bryant, be-cause you’re clearly not getting it yet! You don’t even make a point in your letter - which side of the debate is ‘dominating the rhetoric’? You never tell us! You barely even make an argument, let alone back up any of your vague claims with facts. I give this letter an F+ PS: global warming is for real.”

-Anonymous

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A friend’s comment on my last column about the marketabil-ity of stupidity got to me.

This friend of mine from Colorado saw the link to the col-umn on my Facebook and replied: “Why not write about something smart? Why not write about some-thing you love?”

So I’ve decided to write about music again.

Obviously, music would fit both parameters my friend sug-gested. I love music, and good music always teases our minds in a positive, constructive way that no other form of communication manages to do.

But some concepts involving the way music is made and dis-tributed to the public are stale and outdated, leaving the intelligence out of the equation.

There’s a broken boundary between what’s called classical music and its apparent opposite — popular music — that’s hard to distinguish.

This isn’t the first time I’ve said there are only two types of music. In every genre, whether it’s classical or pop, music can be separated into two categories: good and bad.

That feels weird to say, be-cause music should be good by definition.

So something is wrong when good classical music and the ma-jor ensembles that perform it, as well as the institutions supporting them, start to lose their funding and core structures.

There’s a wonderful artist and an interesting personality on

campus this week that can bring some light to the subject. Pianist and radio-television show host Christopher O’Riley is a resident artist in the College of Music and

Dramatic Arts for this aca-demic year, and he will play with the LSU Symphony this Friday.

He’s most-ly a classical pianist, but as a fan of rock

music — especially the band Ra-diohead — he records and often performs his own arrangements of the band’s songs.

It’s a smart way to show the classical music audience that a popular style can be enjoyed in a classical way, as opposed to the sometimes faint efforts to show the larger audience that classical music also has value.

Classical music does have value — although the merit of music isn’t related to whether it’s classical or popular. If you are not willing to sit and listen to music without judging it, it’s going to be hard to appreciate.

But then again, that’s true for many other things in life. We start to realize, quoting O’Riley, that, “a talent for listening is often merely an attitude of openness.”

Defining music as classical or popular should not affect the way people get interested and listen to music, nor should musicians always think that what they do is good and should be appreciated.

The way music is browsed, webcasted and transmitted ev-erywhere is at least a good clue that the way we incorporate mu-sic and the multiple options we have of comparing different styles and interpretations of music has changed — and is changing.

Pedro Huff, a Brazilian cellist and great friend of mine, once said something on a TV show in Brazil that goes along with the kind of prejudice that insistently overruns the world of music and stifles its social and cultural potential. The

host asked: “So, playing classical music demands much more prepa-ration, it involves much more edu-cation, right?”

The surprising answer, at least to the interviewer, was no.

“If you want good music,” he explained, “if you are a musician of any genre of music, and you want to deliver something that is good to the audience, you’ve got to work, practice, study. It doesn’t matter if it’s classical music.”

We could talk about this simple yet complicated truth for

hours. But it doesn’t prove itself until you go to a concert and see it happening.

Marcelo Vieira is a 33-year-old jazz cello graduate student from Brazil. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_MVieira.

It’s a modern-day John Hen-ry story.

For those unfamiliar with the folktale, John Henry was a big, tough, steel-drivin’ son of a gun who worked on the railroad (all the livelong day).

He was the best, but when the railroad owner hired a steam engine to replace his workers, Henry challenges the owner to a contest.

Henry bet he could drive more railroad spikes into the ground faster than the steam en-gine.

As the folklore goes, Henry beat the machine — but, unfortu-nately, died as he was victorious.

Today wraps up the “Jeop-ardy!” IBM Challenge.

A three-day tournament pit-ting two of the greatest “Jeopar-dy!” players — 74-day champion Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the highest monetary winner in

“Jeopardy!” history — against a new challenger named Watson.

Watson is an artificial intelli-gence program developed by IBM and designed to answer questions posed in natural language.

However, it’s more compli-cated than it sounds.

Watson isn’t connected to the Internet. He can’t simply Google the correct answer.

Instead, Watson comprises 2880 POWER7 processor cores and 16 terabytes (or 16,000 gi-gabytes) of RAM — most low-end laptops come equipped with about two gigabytes of RAM.

While Watson can’t see or hear anything, he competes on “Jeopardy!” by having the ques-tions fed to him in a text file at the same time host Alex Trebek reads the question aloud to the human players.

Watson then breaks down and analyzes the question, pro-cesses thousands of algorithms and picks its top answer before buzzing in.

All in under two seconds.Basically, it’s thinking.

The interesting thing about “Jeopardy!” questions is they are rather “punny.”

What makes Watson’s tech-nology so impressive is it is fre-quently able to decipher the puns and still come up with the correct answer.

Puns aside, he also has to be able to fully understand the Eng-lish language.

Essentially, Watson’s engi-neers had to “teach” Watson the meaning of words.

For example, you could say a politician runs for office — or you could say a sprinter runs a race.

The same word, “runs,” has two different meanings, so the engineers had to make Watson clever enough to decipher the meaning of the word.

Unfortunately, Watson can’t always get it right.

In practice rounds, Watson didn’t just miss questions — it was nowhere close.

One clue began with, “This non-dairy substance…” and Wat-son’s response was, “milk.”

Also, on Monday’s show, Jennings rang in to a clue and answered “1920s,” but was incor-rect.

However, Watson also came up with “1920s” as his top answer and proceeded to ring in after Jen-nings to also miss the question.

The tournament is taking place in the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

The actual Watson sits in this facility, next door to the audito-rium hosting “Jeopardy!”

Watson fills an entire room surrounded by two enormous re-frigerating units to keep it cool.

Similar to how computers used to fill an entire room in the 1950s but were considerably less powerful than modern-day cell phones, it blows my mind to con-sider that in less than 50 years, people will be able to hold the computing power of Watson in their hands.

Although the special spans three days, only two full games of “Jeopardy!,” which includes Jeopardy!, Double Jeopardy! and

Final Jeopardy!, will be played with segments of Watson’s ori-gin and development intertwined within.

After the first two days, one full game of “Jeopardy!” has been played.

The results after the first two shows (or one full game of “Jeopardy!”) are Jennings at $4,800, Rutter at $10,400 and Watson with a commanding lead of $35,734.

These totals will be added to today’s final round with the win-ner taking home $1 million.

The type of computing power out there is scary.

Let’s just hope Watson sticks to answering “Jeopardy!” ques-tions and isn’t the beginning of a real-life Skynet.

Adam Arinder is a 21-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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The lawsuit followed a series of negative comments from the New Orleans area regarding the potential merger.

At a Jan. 26 forum centered on discussion of the merger, SUNO Faculty Senate President and former SUNO Chancellor Joseph Bouie said legal action would be the school’s last resort. Bouie said SUNO would

fi le a federal suit against the state for denial of equal access to education for blacks if fi ghting legislative ac-tion did not work.

“Having just received the law-suit this morning, the Board of Regents is currently reviewing the document, and as in common practice when dealing with litigation, will not be making any comments at this time,” Regents spokesperson Meg Casper said Tuesday in an e-mail.

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Management Systems , a Colorado-based consultant, to assist in the merger analysis on Jan. 28 . Accord-ing to the contract agreement, the state agreed to pay NCHEMS up to $99,000 to complete the study by its deadline.

said she has placed 11 cats in loving homes since she fi rst began working with the group two months ago.

Trahan said she got involved with Project Purr because she’d been doing something similar on her own.

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Citrullo said the shelter has adopted out more than 5,000 cats since it was started in 1999.

Citrullo said he believes the group’s progress will continue.

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LAWSUIT, from page 1

Contact Sydni Dunn at sdunn@lsureveille.com

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Regents is currently reviewing the

[lawsuit] and ... will not be making any

comments.’Meg Casper

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serve as acting chancellor and pro-vost for the time being, according to the release.

Lombardi said the search con-sultants remain optimistic about attracting candidates for the posi-tion once the “uncertainties are re-solved.”

Though the search process is temporarily suspended, he said the committee and the consultant will remain on standby.

“Although we would have pre-ferred to move more expeditiously, the long-term interests of UNO are paramount, and we believe this is the most prudent action,” Lombar-di wrote.

Lombardi referenced the Board of Regents’ study to analyze the feasibility of merging UNO and SUNO as one uncertainty.

“After conversations with the search consultants and the chair of the search committee for the UNO chancellor, it appears prudent to suspend the activities associated with the search until the end of the legislative session,” he wrote.

The Regents’ study was sus-pended on the same day — after a lawsuit was fi led on behalf of sev-en Southern University students from Baton Rouge and New Or-leans against the Regents and Gov. Bobby Jindal . The suit states the higher education board’s member-ship is unconstitutional, as it has no racial minority representatives and only four women members.

UNO, from page 1

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3,416 2,436 1,953 1,7213,416 2,436 1,953 1,721

6,023 8,527 8,774 N/ANumber of

euthanasias in E.B.R.

Number of adoptions, rescues and

redemptions in E.B.R.

3,416 2,436 1,953 1,721

6,023 8,527 8,774 N/A

Year 2010 2009 2008 2007

source: Animal Control and Rescue Center news release

ANIMALS, from page 1

Contact Rachel Warren at rwarren@lsureveille.com

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