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Friday, Sept. 24, 2010Volume 115, Issue 24
University faculty speak out against UL System, p. 4
As the University struggles to absorb continued cuts in state fund-ing, faculty and administrators are looking to the state government for leadership — and maybe a break.
But Baton Rouge -area legis-lators say their efforts to stick up for the University have so far been largely thwarted by politics and par-liamentary procedure, and some say they won’t apologize for budget de-creases at all.
State Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge , complained that some leg-islators view the University as a re-gional interest.
As the Legislature struggles to decide where to cut back, Clai-tor said some legislators don’t view
students or others connected with the University as their constituents.
“One of my colleagues said ‘I don’t have no LSU back where I’m from,’” Claitor said. “It thought it was rather short-sighted.”
Claitor said while he has many students and professors in his dis-trict, the University shouldn’t be considered his personal priority.
“These guys who want to see LSU as my project or [Rep. Steve Carter’s] project are insane,” he said. “LSU helps the whole state.”
Claitor said most of the real work in the Legislature gets done in committees.
“Once that stuff gets out on the fl oor, it’s mostly decided,” he said.
Claitor said as an interim member of the Senate Finance Committee , he has a voice in some
of the discussions of the budget but can only vote when the Legislature is in session because he isn’t a “full member.”
Carter , who sits on the House Education Committee , said the legis-lative hurdles necessary to ease pres-sure on the University have so far proved diffi cult to overcome.
“A while back, the Legislature revised the constitution. They made it so all these special interests got their interests protected,” he said.
Many programs have constitu-tional budgetary protections during times of budget cuts — protections higher education and health care lack and are thus cut disproportionately when fi nancial times get tough.
“To be honest with you, it’s very
AAUP requests salary reductions
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[Top left] West Virginia running back Tavon Austin runs Sept. 4 during the Mountaineers’ 31-0 win against Coastal Carolina in Morgantown, W.Va. [Bottom left] Quarterback Geno Smith rolls out to pass. [Right] Running back Noel Devine breaks a tackle Sept. 10 during WVU’s 24-21 win against Marshall in Huntington, W.Va.
Matthew AlbrightStaff Writer
LEGISLATORS, see page 11
SOULFUL CELEBRATION
LSU, West Virginia to square off for fi rst time in historyRachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer
MOUNTAINEERS, see page 4
The University chapter of the American Association of University Professors discussed Thursday a res-olution to reduce the pay of Univer-sity administrators.
The resolution, authored by mathematics professor Charles Del-zell , requested a 20-percent reduc-tion of the pay packages of the Uni-versity’s chancellor, provost, vice chancellors, associate and assistant vice chancellor, vice provosts and deans.
“If a 20 percent cut is not suf-fi cient to prevent the termination of the affected faculty members, then those faculty members should still not be terminated until ... all LSU faculty have been furloughed across the board by up to 10 percent,” the resolution said.
University AAUP President Brooks Ellwood criticized the ad-ministration’s role in delegating the budget cuts among the departments. He said Chancellor Michael Martin is abrogating his responsibilities and
Catherine ThrelkeldStaff Writer
RESOLUTION, see page 11
The Big East conference doesn’t get enough credit when it comes to the caliber of its football teams.
At least that’s West Virginia coach Bill Stewart’s opinion.
The No. 22 Mountaineers (3-0) will have a chance to silence critics in a matchup Saturday against No. 15 LSU (3-0) at 8 p.m. in Tiger Sta-dium.
It is the two teams’ fi rst-ever meeting on the gridiron.
“This is a big week for us for notoriety,” Stewart said. “I guess it’s the basketball image, but ... all I see is how bad [the Big East teams fare] after week one.”
The Big East is not irrelevant, as some college football afi cionados might think. The conference is 16-6 in bowl games since 2006 , when its teams went undefeated in bowl ap-pearances at 5-0.
Last season the eight Big East teams fi nished 36-10 in out-of-con-ference play , a winning clip of 78 percent.
That number is not far be-hind the Southeastern Conference, whose 12 teams fi nished 49-11, a winning percentage of 82 percent, in out-of-conference games.
LSU is certainly not tak-ing West Virginia lightly, as the
BUDGET CUTS
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Big East is no breeze
Efforts for higher education thwarted
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Venezuelans to elect 165 members of National Assembly on Sunday
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opponents and supporters of President Hugo Chavez held their fi nal rallies on Thursday ahead of legislative elections that both of Venezuela’s political camps view as a critical test. Venezuelans on Sunday will elect 165 members of the National Assembly, which has been almost entirely pro-Chavez since opposition parties boycotted the last vote in 2005 citing con-cerns about possible irregularities.
Peru thieves nab mayor’s late father’s skull before elections
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Foes of a small-town mayor in Peru said they have dug up the skull of his late fa-ther and won’t give it back unless he drops out of next month’s elec-tion. Police in San Cristobal said unknown thieves unearthed the remains of Juan Vizcarra Quispe, who died in 1978.
Texas sues Feds over $830M in education aid
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas offi cials fi led a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to overturn the federal agency’s rejection of the state’s application for more than $830 million in aid that has been tied up in political wrangling. A state-specifi c provision inserted into a federal law by a Democratic Texas congressman requires that Republican Gov. Rick Perry prom-ise Texas will maintain certain education spending levels through 2013 in order to get the funds.
Nicaragua diplomatic offi cial found dead in NYC apartment
NEW YORK (AP) — A Nicara-guan diplomat was found dead Thursday with his throat slashed in his blood-spattered apartment and a knife by his side, hours before he was to attend the United Na-tions General Assembly’s annual
meeting, offi cials said.Cesar Mercado, 34, who had
worked at the Nicaraguan consul-ate as acting consul general, was found at 10:35 a.m. in his apart-ment in the Bronx by the driver who came to pick him up to attend the meeting, police said. The driver found the door ajar and Mercado’s body lying just inside, police said.
Pakistani sentenced to 86 years for fi ring at US troops
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist con-victed of trying to kill U.S. agents and military offi cers in Afghani-stan was sentenced Thursday to 86 years in prison after she delivered a message of peace and forgave the judge. During a three-hour hear-ing in federal court in Manhattan, Aafi a Siddiqui claimed she had ev-idence Israel was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and warned more plots were in the works. She also tried to dispel rumors she was tortured while in New York.
Some still left out of recovery aid 5 years after Rita
CAMERON (AP) — First Baptist Church in this southwestern Loui-siana town is fi nally celebrating its reopening, fi ve years after the com-munity was nearly obliterated by one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history: Hurricane Rita.
It took that long for the church’s members to raise money to repair the double dose of dam-age from Rita and then from Hur-ricane Ike in 2008.
On Saturday, they will sing a theme song they adopted in Rita’s aftermath, “Standing on the Prom-ises.”
Like the church, some coastal communities in Rita’s path have faced a slow recovery — and many people have been left behind.
In Louisiana and Texas border towns like Cameron, the people who survived Rita sometimes feel as though their suffering became an afterthought in the wake of Hur-ricane Katrina.
4 groups apply for fi nal riverboat casino license in La.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisi-ana gambling regulators received four applications Thursday for the state’s 15th and fi nal riverboat ca-sino license, with three companies wanting to locate in the Texas-ori-ented market of Lake Charles and the fourth proposing a boat near New Orleans.
Murder suspect shoots self after standoff, still in critical condition
LULING (AP) — St. Charles Par-ish sheriff’s Capt. Patrick Yoes says a 52-year-old Luling man re-mains in critical condition, a day after a six-hour standoff ended with an apparent suicide attempt.
Sheriff Greg Champagne says Gary Farrell called Wednesday to tell deputies he had killed his girl-friend and left her body in a car at a hospital. Deputies soon found her body. An autopsy will decide what killed Ginger Mongrue of Luling.
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A lot of people wander through life waiting for their purpose to fi nd them.
Martin Roth went out and grabbed his.
Roth, international trade and fi -nance senior, went from loose plans to go to law school to becoming an entrepreneur and the self-titled “vice president of just about everything,” of Feelgoodz, a company that makes fl ip-fl ops.
The New Orleans-based Feel-goodz is a sandal company with a twist. The shoes, according to Roth, are made of compressed all-natural rubber from Thailand, an idea owner Kyle Berner got on a trip in Decem-ber 2007.
All of Feelgoodz fl ip-fl ops are made for a fair wage in Thailand and are biodegradable within fi ve years, Roth said.
Roth said Feelgoodz works with UniquEco, a company that provides people in poverty in other countries with jobs recycling old, worn-out fl ip-fl ops and making them into little statues, handbags and bowls.
“If we’re making money, why not give back?” Roth said.
Roth got involved in 2009, when he saw an article about Feel-goodz and Berner on NOLA.com. He did something he said was to-tally out of character for him — he got involved.
“I just e-mailed and asked if there was anything I could do to help,” Roth said.
Before long, Roth was on a trip across the Southwest, promoting Feelgoodz in Whole Foods stores, which had just picked up the shoes for a trial run, Roth said.
“I was studying to go to law school, and all of a sudden, I’m in the nitty gritty of this experience with the founder of the company,” Roth said.
Roth said he found himself, still a college student, going to meetings with important people and trying to help get a company off the ground.
“I don’t want to sound cheesy, but it’s like following your dream,” Roth said.
Now Feelgoodz fl ip-fl ops are sold seasonally “in over 120 Whole Foods stores as far as Portland, Ore., and about 70 mom-and-pop stores nationwide,” as well as online, Roth said.
While the product has
expanded its availability, consum-ers are not likely to see Feelgoodz billboards or television commercials any time soon, Roth said.
Because of a limited market-ing budget, Feelgoodz has to focus mainly on social networking and word-of-mouth, which Roth called “guerrilla marketing.”
“That’s what we rely on. We know we have a superior product, and people will go out and tell their friends about it,” Roth said.
As someone who was never sure what he wanted to do and found it, Roth has advice for other students.
“If you don’t want to work a nine-to-fi ve, don’t,” Roth said. “Find something you’re passion-ate about and take a leap. After that leap, everything will fall into place.”
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Resolution counters UL System
The LSU System Council of Faculty Advisors, including the Uni-versity’s Faculty Senate, is speaking out against the actions of the Univer-sity of Louisiana System, according to a resolution adopted Monday.
“[The University of Louisiana system] has been attempting to re-write contracts of academic person-nel, sometimes in draconian ways,” said Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope.
The system, which is comprised
of schools like the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana Tech University, is attempting to re-duce the notice that tenured faculty must be given for canceled programs from one year to 90 days, Cope said.
This, among other allegedly im-proper actions, has captured the at-tention of the state, resulting in the Council’s first resolution that com-ments on issues within another sys-tem.
Cope said one major concern was this type of practice might seep into other systems.
“[The Council] thought we needed to take a firm stand that those practices were not appropriate for a higher education institutional sys-tem,” Cope said. “This resolution is a way of putting the higher education management board on notice.”
The officially adopted docu-ment is the first step of action, but Cope noted that “in Louisiana, any-thing can happen tomorrow.”
Mountaineers bring their unique version of the spread offense to Ba-ton Rouge.
LSU senior linebacker Kelvin Sheppard said West Virginia’s of-fense will be tough to handle, and the challenge will be a test of LSU’s mental and physical repertoire.
“They run the hurry-up, the no-huddle spread,” Sheppard said. “We basically have to take control of the line of scrimmage and bottle up the ball in between our gaps. ... Playing against a team like them this early in the season is going to be good for us.”
One of West Virginia’s premier players is senior running back Noel Devine, who spurned the NFL draft to return for a final season.
Devine has rushed for 3,735 yards and 26 total touchdowns in
his career.“There’s some get-along in
[Devine’s] frame,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “He’s a dangerous run-ner, elusive, and his stop and start is very good. He was a tremendous back coming out of high school, and I wish I’d had greater success in pursuing him.”
Devine is a small running back at 5 feet 8 inches and 180 pounds, similar to former LSU running back Trindon Holliday (5-foot-5 and 166 pounds), who was a weapon for LSU on offense and special teams.
The Mountaineers are No. 3 in the Big East and No. 43 in the country in rushing offense with 179 yards per game. The LSU defense is No. 2 in the SEC in rushing defense and No. 16 in the nation, allowing 80 yards on the ground per game.
LSU junior safety Brandon Taylor said Devine will be a focal
point of the West Virginia offense that LSU will have to contain.
“[Devine] is probably the best running back we’ll see until Ala-bama,” Taylor said. “He has good vision ... and he’s hard to tackle, so we have to wrap him up and get a lot of people to the ball.”
Sheppard called Devine “ex-plosive” and said the reigning First-Team All-Big East player is a touch-down threat if he gets a seam to run through.
“I’ve watched him over his entire career in college, and I nev-er thought we’d be playing West Virginia,” Sheppard said. “He’s an amazing running back. Now it’s our time to face him.”
MOUNTAINEERS, from page 1
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Sydni DunnStaff Writer
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Facilities make a difference.The grand opening of the LSU
basketball practice facility Thurs-day accentuated this notion, as the cutting-edge facility was fi nally un-veiled after more than two years of construction.
The groundbreaking for the $14 million facility took place July 1, 2008, and it encompasses 58,960 square feet. It is equipped with two new practice gyms — one for the men’s team and one for the wom-en’s team — each spanning 11,324
square feet with two portable goals and four overhead retractable goals.
Former LSU basketball player Durand “Rudy” Macklin was awe-struck by the facility. He said hav-ing a state-of-the-art place to play is a fabulous incentive for the basket-ball teams to perform well.
“Oh my goodness, I’d probably have trouble going to class,” said Macklin, who played at LSU from 1976 to 1981. “It’s overwhelming. Now the pressure goes up a notch.”
LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor called the facility “a gift sent from heaven,” in that it enables the team to arrange practice
without worrying about when the men’s team wants to practice.
“It’s not anything but a great advantage and a tremendous addi-tion to the Lady Tiger program,” Chancellor said. “Let me give you an example of how valuable it is — [junior guard] Destini Hughes is a pre-veterinary [major]. We’ve been practicing from 12:30 to 2:45 every day, but she has to take a class until 1:30 on Monday, Wednesday and
West Virginia sophomore quarterback Geno Smith has already enjoyed his com-ing out party this season.
In just his second game as a starter, Smith directed the then-No. 23 Moun-taineers to two 96-plus yard drives in the fourth quarter to steal a victory away from Marshall.
“[Smith]’s developed a lot,” said WVU sophomore running back Tavon Austin . “He had to wait his turn just like I did. He’s fi nally getting to show
what he has.”After putting up pedestrian numbers
and only managing to put six points on the board through three quarters , Smith caught fi re.
In the fi nal two drives of regulation — a 96-yard drive and a 98-yard drive — Smith completed 14 of 17 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown and carried the ball four times for 34 yards .
With 12 seconds remaining in regu-lation , Smith lofted a 5-yard touchdown pass to senior tight end Will John-son . Smith then capped off his impres-sive fourth quarter with a game-tying,
two-point conversion to senior receiver Jock Sanders . West Virginia won the game in overtime.
“It was a huge confi dence booster for myself and my teammates,” Smith said of the win. “I think it really showed us that if we stick together we can really pull off anything, and it also gave us confi dence in one another.”
The 6-foot-3-inch quarterback could add another impressive mark to his résu-mé if he manages to pull off a victory on Saturday in Tiger Stadium.
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VOLLEYBALL
LSU puts undefeatedseason on the lineRob LandrySports Contributor
The No. 17 LSU volleyball team (11-0, 2-0) is just one win away from matching the 12-0 start of the 1991 squad — the last LSU team to reach the Final Four.
This current group of Tigers has won with a different style than the ’91 squad. The 2010 ver-sion plays with a stout defense and a solid cohesiveness.
“The team in ’91 was a very offensive team that was very athletic with a lot of great indi-vidual players,” said LSU assis-tant coach Steve Loeswick . “This year’s team has won a bunch of matches because we play well as a team, and we play real strong defense and have been attacking at a pretty high percentage.”
Despite the fast start and im-pressive stats, the Tigers will face stiff competition this weekend facing Alabama and Mississippi on the road.
A surprise star for the Tigers has been the emergence of fresh-man middle blocker Desiree El-liott . She racked up 16 kills and logged eight blocks last weekend en route to being named South-eastern Conference Freshman of the Week .
“It’s a really big honor, but I know I couldn’t have done it without my teammates backing me up,” Elliott said. “I just want to work hard for them, and what-ever I get is because of my team-mates and my coaches.”
Elliott’s competitive attitude has caught the eye of at least one of the Tigers’ team captains —
BASKETBALL
Practice facility has grand openingRachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer
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LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor, Athletic Director Joe Alleva, men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson and Chancellor Michael Martin are joined Thursday by others during the grand opening of the PMAC basketball practice facility.
VOLLEYBALL, see page 6
BREAKOUT, see page 6
Luke JohnsonSports Contributor
Mountain Man
Virginia on Saturday at 8 p.m. on
Mountaineers quarterback Geno Smith leads team in his breakout year
JEFF GENTNER / The Associated Press
West Virginia sophomore quarterback Geno Smith celebrates a 24-21 overtime win Sept. 10 against in-state rival Marshall during a game in Huntington, W.Va.
OPENING, see page 6
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Friday. Now we can practice at 2 without having a major problem.”
Other features include a men’s locker room, coaches’ locker room, team lounge and training room, and the lobby showcases team graphics and trophy cases.
On the second level of the fa-cility, a pre-function room connects to the PMAC concourse.
LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson said the new facility and amenities are huge benefi ts to the program.
“I speak from the players’ per-spective that it gives us an oppor-tunity to compete with the best,” Johnson said. “We’re going to make sure we do our best to be worthy to be in this facility. The bottom line is the work you put in. It’s all about substance.”
If Smith is concerned about starting his fi rst game in such a hostile environment, he’s not showing it.
“I haven’t really been faced with the challenges a Tiger Stadi-um throws at you,” Smith said. “I think we’ll have to make a couple adjustments here and there, but I think we’ll be fi ne with them.”
Smith leads a non-tradition-al West Virginia attack that has historically relied on the run to power its offense. But with Smith at the helm, the team’s passing game has taken off.
Dating back to the 2003 sea-son, West Virginia hasn’t ranked higher than 90th in the country in passing yards and has been at or near the bottom of the Big East rankings in passing yards as well .
Three games into the 2010 season, West Virginia is tied with the nation’s 23rd-best passing attack — tops in the Big East . Smith has accumulated 800 pass-ing yards and seven touchdowns while completing 70.3 percent of his passes.
“We are just taking what the defense gives us,” Smith said. “Teams are stacking the box be-cause we have [senior running back] Noel Devine , and he’s a
great runner, and it’s given us the offensive ability to throw the ball a little bit more. The defenses have been giving us the opportu-nity to change a little bit.”
Smith has a tough test in an LSU defense that is coming off a fi ve-interception performance against Missis-sippi State and boasts all-world cornerback Pat-rick Peterson as the cornerstone of its secondary.
West Virginia coach Bill Stew-art said Smith must know where Peterson is on the fi eld at all times.
“Our quarter-backs, they know where [Peterson] is,” Stewart said. “You better know where [Peterson] is. He’s a shutdown guy. When you look up and you say, ‘Wow, how many balls [did] these guys catch?’ Well, they didn’t catch very many. Why? Well, because Peterson’s cover-ing him.”
This won’t be Smith’s fi rst showdown against Peterson , though. The Miramar, Fla. , native played high school foot-ball against Peterson .
“In high school, Peterson was a local legend, you could say,” Smith said. “I mean, he was one of the top guys in the nation. Even then looking at him he had great size and speed. You knew he’d do good. Obviously, he’s proven that.”
Smith’s ath-leticism has given defenses fi ts this year, as evidenced by his 20- and 17-yard scrambles in the fourth quarter of the Marshall game. LSU coach Les Miles is eager for the challenges presented by the quarterback.
“Smith is very accurate.
The things he throws, he throws extremely well,” Miles said. “He also has the ability to move his feet and be athletic. Any time you line up against a quarterback who has had success like he’s had, we’re very respectful of how he would attack our defense.”
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junior libero Lauren Waclawc-zyk .
“She came in from preseason knowing she wanted to make a difference, and now she’s mak-ing a difference,” Waclawczyk said. “She wasn’t OK with not play-ing. She wanted playing time. She worked hard to get it, and now she’s getting it and making a dif-ference.”
The Tigers are topping the charts in nearly every conference statistical cat-egory, ranking in the top two
in everything except aces and blocking percentage.
The Crimson Tide (8-3, 0-1) has won seven of its last eight matches, including four in a row to start the season at home.
Mississippi State (8-4, 0-1) is also undefeated at home on the year but has struggled as of late, losing four of its last fi ve .
“Both teams are much im-proved from last year, and going on the road is al-ways tough in
the SEC,” Loeswick said. “Both teams have a couple of younger players that are putting up some
pretty good numbers. But we’re going to keep the focus on us and making sure we take care of things on our side of the court and also preparing for some of the things they’re going to do.”
Waclawczyk said she is ex-cited for taking the fi rst confer-ence road trip of the season be-cause the Tigers know they’re going to be challenged every night.
“We have a target on our back,” Waclawczyk said. “Every-one wants to try to take our unde-feated season away, and everyone is just looking to beat us. It has always been like that. Everyone plays their best game against us.”
VOLLEYBALL, from page 5
Contact Rob Landry at [email protected]
Contact Luke Johnson at [email protected]
Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]
BREAKOUT, from page 5
OPENING, from page 5
‘‘‘I haven’t really
been faced with the challenges a Tiger Stadium throws at
you.’
Geno SmithWest Virginia
sophomore quarterback
‘‘‘This year’s team
has won a bunch of matches because we play well as a
team.’Steve Loeswick
LSU assistant volleyball coach
Through the course of a non-conference road schedule that left them with four losses in five games, members of the LSU soccer team in-sisted the tough slate would prepare them for Southeastern Conference play, and now they’ll get a chance to prove it.
LSU, winners of the past three SEC West (3-4-1) titles, will open up SEC play on the road against No. 19 Georgia (5-2-1) on Friday and Tennessee (3-5) on Sunday. The Bulldogs will be the sixth con-secutive ranked opponent the Tigers have faced on the road this season.
“The Georgia/Tennessee road trip is probably the toughest one we’ll have,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “Given the nature of our sched-ule, this is as tough as it gets in the SEC.”
The Tigers figure to have a much bigger challenge on their
hands than last season, when LSU opened conference play with a 6-0 romp against Georgia before blow-ing out Tennessee, 5-1. Such an offensive display seems especially unlikely for a team that has scored multiple goals in only two of eight matches, both at home.
“I’m sure Tennessee and Geor-gia haven’t forgotten [last season’s defeats], so it’s not going to help us this year,” Lee said.
While the Tigers boast arguably the nation’s toughest non-confer-ence schedule, the Bulldogs haven’t exactly feasted on cupcakes. Geor-gia held its own against No. 2 Stan-ford on the road, ultimately falling in overtime, and earned a tie against No. 9 Santa Clara.
LSU’s streak of road games against top-25 opponents will mer-cifully end Sunday against unranked Tennessee. But that doesn’t mean the Tigers will look past the Lady Vols, a team they’ve never beaten on the road.
Sunday matches have proved somewhat troublesome for LSU this season. The Tigers struggled to a loss against Virginia Tech and under-whelmed in wins versus McNeese State and Louisiana-Lafayette.
“SEC Sunday road games, re-gardless of opponent, are probably as tough as it gets,” Lee said.
The offense is still struggling to find the back of the net but has been bailed out recently by an improv-ing defense, highlighted by battling goalkeepers. After saying in the preseason that he would likely use a redshirt on freshman goalkeeper Megan Kinneman, Lee started her against both Louisiana-Lafayette and Illinois.
“[Both goalkeepers are] doing quite well,” he said. “It’s really been a benefit to have them pushing each other.”
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LSU to play in oldest fall tourney
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Four LSU men’s tennis play-ers will compete this weekend in the nation’s oldest fall tournament in Athens, Ga.
Fresh off winning three matches, sophomore Olivier Bor-sos leads the Tigers into the South-ern Intercollegiate Championships at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex on the University of Georgia’s campus, beginning Friday.
Borsos advanced to the A bracket final of the season open-ing ULL Invitational in Lafayette last weekend before being ousted
in three sets by Louisiana-Lafay-ette’s Yanick Mandl. Borsos won the first set in a tiebreak but even-tually succumbed to the combina-tion of the heat and Mandl’s play, dropping the final two sets 6-1, 6-0.
“The first set took two hours,” said LSU men’s coach Jeff Brown. “He probably ran out of gas more than anything.”
Joining Borsos in Athens are senior Cody Loup and juniors Jor-dan Girdley and David Roberts, the same group that competed in Lafayette a week ago. Girdley won his first round match before fall-ing in a three set marathon match against Lamar’s Marton Harath 6-7, 7-6, 3-6.
Brown expects improvement across the board this weekend.
This year marks the 43rd
playing of the Southern Intercol-legiate Championships. The field of 36 is the largest in tournament history.
The LSU women’s tennis team will also travel to the Hoo-sier Classic at Indiana University’s Tennis Center this weekend.
The tournament starts Friday at 9:30 a.m. and ends Sunday.
“The Hoosier Classic is al-ways a good tournament for us,” LSU women’s coach Tony Minnis said in a news release. “This is the first action for Kaitlin and Kylie, and Ebie and Alexus both played well at the SEC Coaches’ Classic a few weeks ago, so we are excited about this competition.”
LSU faces UGA, Tennessee on road
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Lady Tigers head to Hoosier Classic
It seems like there aren’t a lot of things to celebrate at the Uni-versity these days.
With impending budget cuts threatening the academic sanc-tity of this institution, the outlook feels bleak. Professors and instruc-tors are being let go, programs are being eliminated and students are left to wonder if their degrees will mean anything — or if their pro-grams will even be there in the next year.
But in this time of crisis, it’s important to remember what really matters — those close to you at this University.
Take this time to enjoy the friends you will make at LSU,
as well as the memories you will share for the years to come.
And we suggest you do so ev-ery Saturday of this football sea-son, especially this weekend.
This University has one of the most unique tailgating atmo-spheres in all of college football. Nowhere else will you find RVs and tents set up the Thursday be-fore a Saturday game, nowhere else will you find alligator and jambalaya as tailgate staples, no-where else will you see fans as fearsome as ours.
All the passion surround-ing football in Baton Rouge boils down to this: While academics are the core of any university, football
allows this University to shine on a national stage, as it has done for years.
Administrators are saying on what seems a daily basis that this University will be a shell of its for-mer self if these devastating bud-get cuts materialize. These admo-nitions may sound like a broken record, and while we are encour-aging you to let loose this Satur-day, don’t lose sight of what lies ahead for LSU.
The University will always be here. It has too much importance for this state and too many proud alumni to let it die. But it could possibly be an unrecognizable ver-sion of itself in the near future,
even within the next year.However, we can assure you
this: Barring any major catastro-phes, the tradition that is LSU football, especially at Tiger Sta-dium, will never change. As our alma mater faces a dark road of budget shortfalls and program cuts, school spirit among the Ti-ger faithful is more important than ever.
For five days in each week for the next year or two, all of us should have our minds focused on what will happen to this Univer-sity and the students that not only attend it now, but will come in the following years.
But for every Saturday this
fall, each of us should deck our-selves in purple and gold and take the chance to drink in the atmosphere that is tailgating, and remember what is most important to this region: family, friends and football.
Celebrate this weekend, and every weekend the Tigers play at home this season, because those Louisiana Saturday Nights will be short but sweet for certain this year.
And make sure you rest up ev-ery Sunday so you can prepare to do it all over again the next week.
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When most families pur-chase a house, an automobile or some other expensive item, they are usually very cautious. They try to get the very best value for their money. When it comes to se-lecting a university, families need accurate information and expert assistance; yet, most just assume they will get value for their mon-ey: their student will graduate in a reasonable time and move on to a good job. For public institutions in Louisiana, that is not a good assumption. The total cost of at-tendance for students living on campus can be as high as $20,000 per year, but a student’s chance of graduating from a public institu-tion in Louisiana with a meaning-ful degree is among the lowest, if not the lowest, in the nation. Ac-cording to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics, the average four-year graduation rate of the 14 four-year univer-sities in Louisiana is only 11.2 percent. The average four-year graduation rate of the 15 four-year institutions in Virginia is four times that for Louisiana schools, or 44.3 percent. LSU and Louisi-ana Tech have four-year gradua-tion rates significantly better at 26 percent.
While the graduation rate in Louisiana is low, the average time required to earn a bachelors’ degree in our 14 universities is a high 5.7 years. This means that
those students who do graduate are paying, along with the state, 42 percent more than the expected cost of completing a four-year degree. Again, LSU and Louisi-ana Tech have better records: 4.6 years for the time to degree, or 20 percent less than the state average. For those who fail to earn a degree in six years — an amazing two out of three entering freshman stu-dents, given a 37 percent six-year graduation rate — the student and the state both pay the cost of at-tendance, but no valuable creden-tials are produced. There must be in Louisiana tens of thousands of residents with significant student debt with insufficient earning ca-pacity to pay the debt.
Large sums of state and feder-al money go into supporting insti-tutions and students. In addition, students and their families use savings and borrow large sums to pay the cost of their effort to ob-tain a meaningful college degree. One would think public institu-tions would do their very best to produce graduates who have the credentials required to earn a liv-ing and enrich society in general. That is not the case in Louisiana. Most Louisiana institutions want enrollment and institutional clas-sification because that equates to funding and economic influence. Students that are not even close to being prepared for attendance in a four-year institution are recruited and encouraged to attend. If they borrow money and fail, they can-not take bankruptcy and it is un-likely they can pay off a sizeable loan working part time for mini-mum wage. Graduates tend to be mobile, and those who fail tend to be locked into state boundaries.
People wonder why the Leg-islature is unhappy with higher education. The various higher ed-ucation boards have allowed our current problems to develop in the past 30 years. Instead of follow-ing the lead of progressive states like Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia, Louisiana has spent large sums of money per postsec-
ondary student but has failed to produce the occupational creden-tials needed by a strong economy.
In view of the circum-stances, parents should insist on knowing in advance the likeli-hood that a student with grades and test scores similar to those of their child will graduate in a reasonable period of time at each
institution. It is not where students start but rather where they end up that count. Parents and students can get help at: www.nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator
James H. WhartonChancellor Emeritus, LSU
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“Riverside stole my car,” was the statement Andrew Fuse-lier, civil engineering sopho-more, woke me with early one Friday morning. “Can you bring me to get my truck?”
Unfortunately for me, I had to make the drive down River Road to the car prison we know as Riverside Towing Inc. But what I thought would be a quick trip quickly turned into a night-mare.
We arrived, money in hand, ready to pick up his truck. As we entered the run-down lot, the lady running the establishment told us Fuselier’s parents must come pick up the vehicle because his dad was listed as the owner on the insurance.
She told us an e-mail from his father would suffice, so we left, only to return minutes later with an e-mail sent to Fuselier’s cell phone. It was apparently no good — it needed to be printed out.
Finally, after producing a printed e-mail and paying more than $154 in cash — they don’t take credit cards or checks, and they don’t give change — we retrieved the truck.
Before that day, I had heard Riverside was a sad excuse for a business (the main office is es-sentially a shack) and had pretty shady practices, but I never quite believed it until I experienced it.
So I started asking around and discovered I wasn’t the only one who found the company a little strange.
Ally Mendoza, civil engi-neering sophomore, said River-side moved her car to tow others.
“My car was in a legal park-ing space [in Arlington Trace], but Riverside moved my car be-hind other residents’ spots to tow cars by mine,” she said. “They didn’t move it back, and in the morning the residents I was blocking keyed my car.”
Mendoza said her car was
parked in the overflow lot, and when she met with the complex’s supervisor, the supervisor said Riverside is not supposed to tow from the overflow lot.
Mendoza also said she has seen a River-side employee damage a truck at University Crescent on Burbank.
“[A River-side employee was] moving cars to get to others, and
when the driver went to lower a truck, sparks flew up as it hit the ground ... and the [Riverside] driver ran out and tried to pre-tend that nothing had happened,” Mendoza said.
There’s a Facebook group called “Make Riverside Towing Pay,” where unfortunate souls complain of the alleged ills the company has caused them.
Most comments claim, “[Riverside] stole my car.” But some comments read “I got towed in a guest spot,” and “I have personally witnessed [Riv-erside] damage more than one car ... because they were working in such a hurry.” Others say the employees were more than just rude when trying to get their cars back — they told people asking questions “to get to the back of the f&^%$#@ line.”
So after reading this, I went down to the Riverside office to find out just why everyone is so livid about the company.
I questioned the “rude” em-ployee — who turned out to be the manager — whom every-one seems to comment about on Facebook, and she gave me an-swers to the many reasons of why we hate Riverside. She wished to remain unnamed because of the reputation of the company.
She told me all fees that Riverside charges are set by
the Louisiana Public Service Commission — Riverside does not have the pleasure of setting the absurd prices we claim they charge. Another thing I was told was the lack of change comes from the fact they immediately deposit all transactions into a safe, and no employees have ac-cess to it.
She also said all their prac-tices are honest and legal — they have contracts with apartment complexes, they video tape each car before towing and they are al-lowed to tow you if you do not have your parking pass in the right place. Lastly, she said the police make them require a letter from the car’s owner before you can drive it off the lot.
Riverside claims to be an honest business, but most people who have dealt with them say otherwise. And their shady ac-tions have led to an outright hate towards them as seen in the Face-book group’s picture, which says “Grand Theft Auto Baton Rouge Presented by Riverside Towing.”
And until something dras-tic happens, Riverside is here to stay. But there are a few things we can do to annoy them in the meantime.
The first can occur after your car has been stolen from a com-plex that uses parking stickers. Borrow a friend’s sticker, go to Riverside and ask to get some-thing out of your car and place the sticker in the appropriate
place. Tell Riverside about the sticker, and you’ll get your car back and $100 in compensation.
And the second — well, it’ll never happen. But if we park in the correct places for long enough, they’ll go out of busi-ness.
Chris Grillot is a 19-year-old mass communication and Eng-lish sophomore from New Or-leans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Cgrillot.
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STORRS, Conn. (UWIRE) — Making the switch to being a vegan — someone who does not consume or use any products that contain animal products — is un-doubtedly a huge lifestyle change and an admirable one at that. Walking by those big tubs of ice cream, leaving the gooey cheese off your sandwich and skipping the omelet bar line can be diffi-cult, and making the change takes some extreme dedication.
Even all these measures may not be enough. Animal products are lurking in the most obscure
places, sneaking their way into your foods, your beauty products and your clothing, even when you thought you had escaped them completely.
Ever heard of the Amino acid L-cysteine? Me neither, but it’s creeping into your baked goods. It’s a product derived from ani-mal hair and feathers, and it can be found in the ingredient lists of bread and crackers. Breads en-riched with whey protein or ome-ga-3 fatty acids also don’t fall into the vegan-friendly category because whey is a milk product and omega-3’s can contain fish oil. Scan your bread labels care-fully for these ingredients, but
chances are a bread with a laun-dry list of chemicals shouldn’t be entering your stomach anyway.
One of the most ambigu-ous categories of food where you would never expect to find animal products (with the excep-tion of milk chocolate) is candy. Marshmallows and Jell-O both contain gelatin, a product made from animal bones. Any foods or candies containing lard (pie crusts, many fried frozen foods, cookies, candy and everything else dangerously delicious) are a no-no. Lard is pig fat, and that’s definitely not vegan.
Even some food coloring can slip onto the prohibited list.
Red food coloring is generally made from cochineal. If being vegan doesn’t deter you from eating this, learning what cochi-neal actually is will. Ready? It’s a parasite native to South America and Mexico. Yes, it is made from insects, which should be a food group strictly confined to “Fear Factor.”
Hidden animal products don’t just creep into what you eat — they can be around your house, too. First, any product that doesn’t have a label that says something along the lines of, “This product was not tested on animals,” most likely was. Many soap products are made with
sodium tallowate, which is just a fancy name for animal fat.
If you’re ever not sure of an ingredient in a product or a food, it never hurts to do a quick Google search before you buy anything. Do your homework if you commit yourself to the life-style of eliminating animal prod-ucts from your life. Being a veg-an isn’t about depriving yourself of everything you once loved but rather exploring new options and choices that suit you and your new lifestyle, too.
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dumping them on department chairs.“He’s done it badly,” Ellwood
said. “It’s not worth the money he’s earning.”
The AAUP members and visit-ing faculty debated the resolutions’ specifics, including how to resolve the case of the “Foreign Language 14.”
The 14 are those professors who will be released as of January 2011, eliminating programs in Japanese, Russian, Portuguese and Swahili and reducing program capabilities in Ital-ian, German and the classics.
The AAUP will not vote on or pass the resolution until further con-ferring takes place.
After the resolution is passed, Faculty Senate member Dominque Homberger said she would pres-ent it to the Faculty Senate. Even if the Senate does not pass the resolu-tion, she said coverage in the media would still help the AAUP’s cause.
Ellwood also had updates on the investigation into Homberger and former University professor Ivor van Heerden’s cases, which the national AAUP looked into in late August. He said the cases are ongoing, and he hopes to see results soon.
Ellwood said there has been vir-tually no response from the adminis-tration on the AAUP’s investigation, and the faculty are seeking an apol-ogy.
“Basically we felt it was im-pacting our teaching functions here at LSU because it created a cloud that suggested that if a faculty who is a tenured faculty member does not bend to the wishes of administra-tive groups or if they do not assign grades that they think are proper, they shouldn’t be allowed to teach in a classroom,” Ellwood said.
RESOLUTION, from page 1
tough to effect change,” Carter said. “Everyone has their own special in-terest groups.”
Carter said Baton Rouge-area legislators tried to form an explor-atory committee to consider a con-stitutional convention. That conven-tion would have attempted to revamp the constitution so higher education would bear a fairer share of budget cuts. That motion failed in the Sen-ate.
Carter said raising taxes to better fund higher education is also virtually impossible.
“The governor has said ‘no new taxes,’” Carter said. “Even if we
could pass a tax, it would just get vetoed.”
One legislator who agrees that taxes shouldn’t be raised is Rep. Hunter Greene, R-Baton Rouge. Greene is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees state tax policy.
“We’re not going to increase taxes,” Greene said. “We don’t have a revenue problem — we have a spending problem.”
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