The 6-year-old girl who in-spired the nation visited the Paul M. Hebert Law Center nearly 52 years after she became the fi rst child to attend an all-white school in the South. Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges , now 57, spoke to about

100 students on April 5 just before University students began the mass exodus of spring break.

Bridges described her fi rst day at William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward in fall 1960 . As a young child, Bridg-es said she was unaware of the sig-nifi cance of her trip to school.

“I was there getting dressed for my fi rst day and thinking that everybody was so excited and that everyone came out because I was so smart, and I was on my way to college,” Bridges said. “If you

don’t explain what is happening to a 6-year-old, they will use their imagination.”

But Bridges faced a much harsher reality.

The crowd gathered at Bridg-es’ house to escort her to school were there to protect her from the even larger mob that angrily pro-tested her presence at the school.

Bridges said she learned later that her fi rst trip to school was pre-ceded by weeks of preparation by civil rights activists nationwide. The National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People gathered a pool of 140 African-American children whose parents were willing to send them to white public schools in New Orleans.

Of those students, only six passed the test white administrators required the black students to take before they could enroll in public schools. Those six students were divided in half and sent to separate schools in what Bridges called the most racist parts of the city.

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Shooting on Sunday yields no suspects

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Baton Rouge Police Department offi cers have yet to identify a suspect in the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Brandon Harris , who was found in a driveway Sunday at 1400 Sharlo Ave.

Offi cers responded at 2:37 a.m. to the shooting at Sharlo Avenue near Brightside Drive. Cpl. Tommy Stubbs, BRPD spokesman , said the victim from 854 North Acadian East Thruway , Baton Rouge, was shot multiple times.

Stubbs said homicide detectives were notifi ed of the incident and ar-rived shortly thereafter to take over the investigation. He said police have not yet determined a motive.

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LSU players will take their tal-ents from the fi eld to the stage today for the fi rst Mikie’s Student-Athlete Awards and Talent Show at 6 p.m. in the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes.

A back-to-school talent show with and for student-athletes existed

years ago, and members of the Student-Athlete Advisory Com-mittee , or SAAC , expressed a de-sire to bring the event back.

M a d e l i n e Jones , SAAC president and LSU volley-ball player , said other Southeast-ern Conference schools hold tal-

ent shows named after their mascots, which inspired the Mikie’s .

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Ruby Bridges speaks April 5 to students about her struggle against racism at a young age. BRIDGES, see page 19

The number of years Jones spent as an

assistant on former LSU coach Dale

Brown’s staff in the ’80s and ’90s

Number of seasons Jones spent as head coach

12Number of North Texas

NCAA Tournamentappearances in Jones’

11 seasons at the school

2Number of career wins

North Texas’s average points in the 2011-12 season, four more than LSU

LSU men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones celebrates his new position Monday at his introductory press conference.

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Johnny Jones sat in his closet last Friday and lis-tened to LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva offer his “dream job” over the phone. That dream became reali-ty Monday afternoon, when LSU formally introduced the former North Texas head coach and longtime

Tiger assistant as its new men’s basketball coach.“I had to leave work [Friday ] because my nerves

were shot,” Jones recalled. “Joe called, so I left the room and went in my closet, and he asked how I was doing. I said, ‘I don’t know, that depends [on] what you’re telling me.’”

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Two protesters climb atop Bahrain Embassy in UK and unveil banner

LONDON (AP) — Two protesters climbed onto the roof of the Bah-raini Embassy in London on Mon-day, unfurling a banner in a protest aimed at the Gulf state’s ruling family.

An Associated Press photogra-pher saw two men waving a fl ag on the building’s roof.

On Twitter, a user identify-ing himself as Moosa Abd Ali said the activists had occupied what he called the “Al Khalifa den,” a reference to Bahrain’s ruling family.Cell phone left in restroom triggers Delta Air Lines bomb scare

DUBLIN (AP) — A Delta Air Lines fl ight bound for the United States made an emergency landing Monday in Dublin because a pas-senger left a cell phone plugged into a socket in one of the aircraft’s restrooms, police and aviation au-thorities said.

Dublin Airport offi cials later cleared the Boeing 767-300 travel-ing from Istanbul, Turkey, to con-tinue its journey to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after de-termining that the suspected bomb was just an unattended mobile phone and charger.

Newt Gingrich bitten on � nger by penguin at St. Louis zoo

ST. LOUIS — At least one penguin at the St. Louis Zoo appears to be a feisty opponent of Newt Gingrich.

The Republican presidential candidate is sporting a small ban-dage on his fi nger after getting nipped by a small penguin during his tour of the zoo on Friday. Gin-grich was in St. Louis to speak dur-ing the National Rifl e Association’s annual meeting.

During his visit to the popular zoo in Forest Park, he was treated to a behind-the-scenes visit with two Magellanic penguins. One of them nipped Gingrich on the fi nger.U.S. government: Other targets eyed prior to NYC subway plot

NEW YORK (AP) — A man ac-cused of becoming an al-Qaida operative discussed bombing New York City movie theaters, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the New York Stock Exchange before settling on the city’s sub-ways, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

Adis Madunjanin considered the high-profi le targets with two of his former high school class-mates from Queens, Assistant U.S. Attorney James Looman said in opening statements.

House to debate hand-held cell phone while driving ban

(AP) — The Louisiana House will debate whether to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driv-ing.

Similar proposals have failed in recent years to gain traction with the Legislature. But the House transportation committee voted 9-7 Monday to advance the bill to the full House for another debate.

Baton Rouge Rep. Regina Barrow says she’s proposed the bill as a safety measure.

Shreveport Rep. Barbara Norton says cell phones aren’t any more dangerous than drink-ing coffee, eating or reading the newspaper while driving.

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Boy, 16, killed in New Orleans shooting early Monday

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police are investigating the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy.

Offi cer Garry Flot says Jeremy Doughty was shot multiple times at about 7 a.m. Monday.

Flot says Doughty was taken to a local hospital where doctors pronounced him dead a short time later.

Police did not have a suspect or motive in the shooting.

UN council strongly condemns North Korea rocket launch

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned North Korea’s rocket launch Monday, announcing it will impose new sanctions and warn-ing of further action if Pyongyang conducts another launch or a new nuclear test.

Acting swiftly, the 15-member council, including North Korea’s closest ally China, adopted a presi-dential statement underscoring its united opposition to Friday’s launch and the military policy.

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As University students flocked to the beach during spring break, the Republican presidential race saw several alterations, including the suspension of Rick Santorum’s campaign and comments from Newt Gingrich on a Mitt Romney success.

Santorum’s campaign trail came to a halt April 6 when his 3-year-old daughter, who is diag-nosed with a serious genetic dis-order, was hospitalized for pneu-

monia. On April 10, Santorum announced he would suspend his presidential campaign.

“We are not done fighting,” Santorum said April 10 in Pennsyl-vania.

Many think Romney will ul-timately gain the nomination fol-lowing Santorum’s campaign sus-pension.

“I didn’t feel [Santorum] was going to win anyway,” said Domi-nic Clust, political communication junior. “Romney had it in the bag to begin with, but this cleared the way for his nomination.”

Romney’s significant lead in delegates may also foreshadow a nomination for him.

A Republican candidate must win 1,144 delegates to be named

the Republican nominee, and Romney remains in the lead with 684 delegates.

While Santorum trailed be-hind Romney with 270 delegates, Gingrich received 136 delegates, and Ron Paul came in last with 52 delegates.

On April 8, Gingrich stated his campaign was “operating on a shoestring” and that Romney “is far and away the most likely” Re-publican nominee.

If Romney were to win the Republican nomination, Gingrich also said he would rally behind him.

But Clust said Gingrich should drop from the race immediately.

“I don’t think Gingrich stands a chance,” Clust said.

Although Paul trails the other candidates in last place, some stu-dents think he should remain in the race.

Pre-nursing sophomore Austin Culotta said he would like to see Paul continue to campaign.

“He should stay in and stick with his message,” he said. “I like what he’s saying.”

Other students, including Clust, said they would like to see

Paul run as a third-party nominee. “A lot of people think Obama

has not done as good as he could have these last four years and are going to look forward to a third party to lead the way,” Clust said.

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As early as fall 2013, students could be able to repeat courses in which they’ve previously received lower than a “C” and have that pre-vious grade excluded from their GPA.

The Faculty Senate passed a resolution to create a grade exclu-sion policy at its monthly meeting Monday afternoon.

The University’s current pol-icy states a student can repeat a course and have the grades from multiple attempts averaged in his or her GPA.

University Registrar Robert Doolos said the resolution comes as a recommendation from the University’s retention committee.

“[The current policy] basically puts us at a disadvantage when it comes to completion rates com-pared to our peers,” Doolos said.

Student Government Director of Academics Thomas Rodgers, who read the resolution to the Sen-ate, said students who want to take advantage of the policy will be re-quired to report to their senior col-leges to ask permission.

Rodgers said the grade will be excluded from the GPA after the student has completed his or her next attempt.

According to the resolution, students will be allowed to exclude grades for up to three courses, or 12 credit hours total.

Boulder, Colo.Over spring break, French se-

nior Jay Ledoux flew to Colorado to visit a friend at the University of Colorado at Boulder and hike in the nearby area.

Ledoux said he wanted to go hiking in a national park and saw spring break as the perfect opportu-nity to fulfill his aspirations.

While hiking and camping in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Ledoux said he saw a waterfall, fro-zen lake and an elk.

“There’s still snow every-where,” he said.

While in Boulder, Ledoux also toured the Avery Brewing Company.

“We toured the brewery and then had a few pints at their tap room,” he said. “We talked to the bartender, who gave us a discount because we were from Louisiana. It was cool touring a brewery bigger than Baton Rouge’s Tin Roof, and I always like tasting beer we can’t get in Louisiana.”

Washington, D.C. During kinesiology junior Brad

Field’s first trip to Washington, D.C., he flew to the nation’s capitol to visit a childhood friend at Georgetown University and to tour the campus

and surrounding area.

While in Washington, Field toured many of the major land-marks in the city including the White House, the Washington Mon-

ument, the Capital and the Smithson-ian Museum.

Georgetown’s spring break falls on Mardi Gras, and Field said his friend visits home during that time to partake in the New Orleans cel-ebration. This year, Field saw spring break as the perfect opportunity to switch the pattern and visit his pal in Washington.

“Everything is totally dif-ferent in Washington D.C.,” Field said. “It’s nothing like Baton Rouge.”

New York CityInternational studies and hor-

ticulture senior Alex Bobet visited New York City over the break. Her road trip began in Baton Rouge, and she stopped in Pensacola to visit the beach.

After soak-ing up the sun in Florida, Bobet said she drove 22 hours to New York City, where she attended a “vegan foodie tour” and visited the New York University campus and a number of museums, including the Museum of Modern Art.

Bobet said she wanted a low- key spring break and thought a road trip to New York City would meet those expectations.

“Every other time that I’ve been, it’s included extensive sight-seeing, and this is more of exploring hidden gems outside of Manhattan,” she said. “I’d been on road trips be-fore, but not to the length that this one is.”

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The nerves were unnecessary. Alleva was calling Jones home.

Jones is the only person to both play on and coach an LSU Final Four team, playing on the 1981 Ti-ger squad during his four seasons as a guard and serving on former coach Dale Brown ’s staff for 13 years, in-cluding LSU’s improbable 1986 NCAA Tournament run.

Jones succeeds Trent Johnson , who departed Easter weekend to fi ll TCU ’s head coaching vacancy and left LSU scrambling for a coach late in the recruiting and hiring game.

Alleva said the search was a national one. He said he interviewed four candidates for the job but found his answer close to home.

“I have no doubt we have the right man for this job at this time,” he said. “Johnny’s the best fi t for this university, and that only starts with basketball. He’s earned this opportu-nity with his success. The ties he has here are just a bonus.”

The 51 -year-old DeRidder na-tive coached 11 seasons at North Texas , where he turned a desolate Mean Green program into a consis-tent 20 -game winner, making two NCAA Tournaments and compiling a 190-146 record.

Monday’s formal press confer-ence felt more like a homecoming than a hiring.

LSU legends like Joe Dean , Ricky Blanton , Collis Temple and Brown — Jones’ own former coach and close friend — packed the fi fth fl oor of LSU’s Athletics Department to welcome back one of their own.

And Jones played to that crowd, talking of glory days past and re-cruiting the future while proudly em-bracing LSU’s present after meeting with current Tigers on Sunday night.

Center Justin Hamilton left 12 days ago for the NBA, and rumors of player transfers swirled before John-son’s departure. All seven current LSU scholarship players attended Monday’s introduction.

“This is not about a transition period where a new coach comes in and gets his guys. You are my guys,” Jones said to the players. “We’re go-ing to have success together, and it’s going to start right away.”

LSU went 18-15 last season and lost to Oregon in the fi rst round of the National Invitational Tourna-ment .

Jones promised an up-tempo style that would rely on defensive pressure and sound ball security, appeal to recruits and revive the PMAC’s dormant “Deaf Dome” sta-tus.

“I’m up for the challenge,” said freshman point guard Anthony Hickey . “He runs a fast offense that I’m familiar with. We’re not thinking about transfers. I’m here for the long

run, and he’s the newest part of our family.”

Jones’ Mean Green offense scored the most points in the Sun Belt the last two seasons and fi nished in the league’s top two during seven of the last eight years.

Offi cially hired Friday evening, Jones spent the weekend trekking across the South on recruiting trips, calling himself “a one-man wrecking crew” as he has yet to hire assistants.

His top recruiter at North Texas, Shawn Forrest , is expected to fol-low Jones to Baton Rouge, and for-mer Tiger player Randy Livingston has expressed interest in joining his former coach at LSU, but Jones de-clined to name specifi c candidates.

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“The main motif was wanting to have our own kind of show here,” she said. “We’ve always been jeal-ous of award shows that other SEC SAAC organizations have.”

Performances will include danc-es by the volleyball and swimming and diving teams, impersonations by the women’s basketball team and a satirical video by the soccer team.

Olympian and former LSU track athlete Lolo Jones will host the show, and the performances will be judged by three campus celebrities — football coach Les Miles , super-fan Matthew Clark and Fox 44 news anchor and former softball player Emily Turner .

Along with athlete-provided entertainment, the show will include presentations of awards decided by student-athlete votes, Jones said.

“Awards will include things like fi ercest competitor, best play, most involved team, Mr. and Mrs. Con-geniality and best hair,” she said. “There are some funny ones, but there are also some serious ones.”

Fundraising is another major reason the SAAC decided to host the talent show, Jones said.

According to Jones , all pro-ceeds from ticket sales, which are $5 in advance or $7 at the door, go to Best Buddies, a non-profi t organiza-tion . Best Buddies members will per-form a dance for the opening act of the show, she said.

The Best Buddies program pairs a role-model fi gure with a “buddy” who has a mental or physical dis-ability, said Megan Kinneman , LSU soccer player and Best Buddies par-ticipant.

The buddies have one-on-one hangouts regularly and participate

in group activities, Kinneman said. Kinneman and her buddy attended the Krewe of Mutts parade in Janu-ary and recently danced the night away at a prom, she said.

Kinneman said the student-athletes voted on an organization to sponsor for the show and Best Bud-dies was chosen since multiple ath-letes are involved in the program.

Jones said the talent show will be fun and lighthearted, and most importantly it benefi ts a good cause.

“It’s going to be pretty funny,” Jones said. “Most of the awards we’re giving out are humorous, and a lot of the acts are hilarious. We want people to come knowing that every cent of ticket costs goes to a good cause.”

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The next phase for former Lady Tiger LaSondra Barrett’s basketball career is officially under way after the Washington Mystics made her the No. 10 pick of Monday’s WNBA draft.

Barrett became the seventh Lady Tiger to be selected in the first round of the WNBA draft — the first since Sylvia Fowles in 2008.

“I am excited and willing to do whatever it takes,” Barrett said in a news release. “I will bring competitive drive to any position in whatever the team needs me to do. I am very thankful for this oppor-tunity and can’t wait for training camp.”

Barrett’s main tool is her

versatility, evidenced when she played several different positions for the injury-riddled Lady Tigers

last season.Playing as

both LSU’s pri-mary ball handler

and its best post scorer last sea-son, Barrett put up arguably the best numbers of her career.

While averaging 12.8 points

per game — tying her career high — Barrett also put up career-high numbers in rebounds (242) and assists (92).

The 2012 John Wooden Award candidate set the LSU re-cord for most free throws made in her career with 497, and fin-ished near the top in several LSU

The LSU baseball team sits at the top of the polls for the first time since 2010.

The Tigers earned the No. 1 spot in the Collegiate Baseball poll and ranked No. 4 in the lat-est Baseball America poll af-ter sweeping Alabama for their third-straight series win.

“We’re certainly very proud of the No. 1 ranking,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said in a news re-lease. “It brings a lot of notoriety, but it also brings a lot of respon-sibility. ... It’s a great honor, but it’s most important to be No. 1 at the end of the year.”

LSU (30-7, 11-4 Southeast-ern Conference), who is in first place in the SEC, earned the sweep in part through the effort of sophomore pitcher Ryan Eades, who was named SEC Pitcher of the Week on Monday. Eades had five strikeouts and allowed just one earned run in 7 1/3 innings of work in a 7-1 win against the Crimson Tide on Saturday.

It’s the second consecutive week an LSU pitcher earned the honor, as junior Brent Bonvillain was recognized last week. Eades is the fifth Tiger to earn SEC Pitcher or Player of the Week honors this season.

When LSU announced new men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones on Sunday, the atmosphere couldn’t have been more different than the typical press conferences I’ve become accustomed to un-der former coach Trent Johnson. Former LSU coaches and players packed the interview room for Jones’ return to LSU.

Jones played on the 1981 Final Four team and was an as-sistant coach on the team that reached the national semifinals in 1986. The hiring of the former

Tiger has Baton Rouge buzzing about basketball for the first time in a long time.

Here are five things I expect to happen in Jones’ first season as LSU basketball coach.

1. The Tigers will embrace a fast-paced style of play.

If there’s one thing Jones is known for, it’s quickening the tempo.

While at North Texas for 11 seasons, Jones helped establish one of the highest-scoring teams in the Sun Belt. The Mean Green was the top-scoring team in the conference and also had the con-ference’s leading scorer the past two seasons.

The current players on the LSU roster are better suited for an up-tempo style and will ben-efit from Jones’ new system.

2. Jones will assemble a top-25 recruiting class for 2013.

Jones lured Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Jackson and Ran-dy Livingston to Baton Rouge to play for former LSU coach Dale Brown. Although he won’t make too big of a recruiting haul in 2012, the fruits of his labor will show in the 2013 class.

Two Baton Rouge prospects in the 2013 class, Episcopal for-ward Brian Bridgewater and

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LSU ranked No. 1 by Collegiate BaseballTigers ranked No. 4 in Baseball America

Mystics select Barrett with 10th pick in WNBA draft

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LSU men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones speaks Monday at his �rst press conference.EXPECTATIONS, see page 10

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LSU senior forward LaSondra Barrett (55) jumps for a shot March 20 during the Tigers’ 90-80 loss to Penn State in the PMAC.

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LSU’s LaSondra Barrett (left) holds up a Washington Mystics jersey with WNBA president Laurel J. Richie on Monday after the Mystics selected Barrett as the No. 10 pick in the WNBA draft in Bristol, Conn.

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LSU to face McNeese for third time

For the first time this season, the LSU softball team has lost four straight games.

The No. 22 Tigers (26-9, 11-6 Southeastern Conference) will have a chance to get back on the win-ning track Tuesday against McNeese State (25-11, 8-2 Southland Confer-ence) at Tiger Park.

Tuesday’s game will mark the third matchup of the season between LSU and McNeese.

The Tigers won their first game against the Cowgirls this season, 2-0, on Feb. 25.

In that game, junior pitcher Rachele Fico tossed a one-hitter af-ter opening the game by giving up a triple.

Senior catcher Morgan Russell powered the LSU offense with two RBIs to secure the win for the Tigers.

In the teams’ second matchup of the season on March 28 in Lake Charles, senior pitcher Brittany Mack threw a shutout to propel LSU to a 4-0 victory.

The Cowgirls again notched a triple on their first hit of the game, but Mack fired back by retiring 10 consecutive McNeese batters.

LSU only put up five hits in the game, but three errors by Mc-Neese and heads-up base running from LSU led to a Tigers’ win.

The last time LSU played Mc-Neese, the Tigers had won 13 of their last 14 games. This time, LSU is

looking to recover after being swept for the first time this season.

The Tigers lost three games at No. 10 Tennessee last weekend in a series in which the total score was 16-4 in favor of the Volunteers.

LSU kept it close Friday but couldn’t find any of-fense in a 2-0 defeat.

On Saturday, the Tigers put together a rally in the bottom of the seventh inning, but couldn’t find their way back from a 4-0 deficit, losing 4-2.

LSU jumped out to an early 2-0 lead Sunday, but Tennessee responded with five

runs in both the fifth and sixth in-nings to claim a 10-2 victory.

After the Tigers play McNeese on Tuesday, they face another mid-week game against No. 21

Florida State.LSU coach Beth Torina said

the quick turnaround means the Tigers have to be ready for their busy week.

“We don’t have a lot of time to sit around and be down about the Tennessee series,” Torina said in a news release. “We have to bounce back immediately and try to take the five games on our schedule this week.”

The prior weekend, the Tigers lost two of three at No. 2 Alabama.

The lone LSU win on the week-end was the Tigers’ first win in Tus-caloosa, Ala., since 2006 and Ala-bama’s second loss of the season.

The Tigers dropped their other two games against Alabama by a score of 6-0 each.

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SOCCER

Tigers wrap up ‘quiet’ spring season in Ala.

The LSU soccer team spent its spring break on the Gulf Coast, but the Tigers were concluding their spring season on the pitch rather than enjoying the beach.

After winning the Southeast-ern Conference Western Division last fall, the Tigers continued to impress by posting a 2-1-1 spring record.

LSU took down Division II power West Florida, 3-0, on Sat-urday and played South Alabama to a scoreless tie in Mobile, Ala., last Wednesday.

“It was a more relaxing time than usual,” said LSU coach Brian Lee.

He might as well be talking about the Tigers’ spring. It was a quiet portion for LSU, who is replacing leading scorer Taryne Boudreau and starting goalkeeper Mo Isom.

The Tigers’ goal differen-tial in the spring was plus-eight, spurred by three shutouts in four matches.

That stingy defense is led by former All-SEC freshman Me-gan Kinneman, who was benched last season for Isom, but is still considered one of the league’s premier keepers heading into her

junior season.“She assumed a leadership

role this spring that will make our team better,” Lee said. “Megan’s talented enough to contend for All-SEC and All-American hon-ors next fall.”

The Tigers defeated Nicholls, 5-0, last month and lost, 2-0, at Texas Tech.

But Lee said spring’s results aren’t as important as individual player development and singled out rising sophomores Alex Arlitt and Kaley Blades as the season’s standouts.

“You make the biggest im-provement between your fresh-man and sophomore seasons, and Alex is in that process right now,” Lee said. “We’re going to rely on Kaley in the attacking third next year to be one of our best scorers. She showed positive signs there.”

With the new 14-team SEC and a difficult schedule awaiting LSU next fall, Lee said the Tigers need to improve their midfield-ing consistency, which lacked this spring.

“We still have a young team, so they’re continuing to familiar-ize themselves with playing to-gether,” Lee said. “That’ll turn into maturity and a comfort level on the field by the fall.”

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GYMNASTICS

Tigers maintain focus during break preparing for Regionals

While the majority of LSU stu-dents visited family or sprawled out on beaches during spring break, the Tiger gymnasts were hard at work.

It’s a small price to pay after LSU squeaked out a second place finish at the NCAA Regionals on April 7 to earn the right to compete in the NCAA Championships as the No. 11 seed this weekend.

“When you’re doing different routines, you remember we could be done and we could be finished with this and the season could be over,” said freshman gymnast Lloimin-cia Hall. “We’re fighting for it, and we’re practicing, and that overlooks all the pain and injuries and anything you want to complain about.”

Hall was part of the LSU beam lineup that sent the Tigers to the NCAA Championships. LSU led Washington by just .025 points be-fore the final event, when the Tigers pulled ahead with a 49.10 on beam,

while Washington earned a 48.875 on floor.

LSU coach D-D Breaux de-scribed the event as one of the most gratifying and exciting experiences she’s had with any team.

“To go to beam in our last event with the people we’re trying to beat going to floor is really daunting,”

Breaux said. “Traditionally, floor is a higher scoring event than beam. Our team just did a terrific job of holding it together and staying focused.”

Hall and fellow freshman Jessie Jordan each scored a 9.825 to lead the Tigers in the event.

Hall said the greatest part about the experience was performing and

advancing as a team. She said she could hear her teammates and feel them pushing her when she was on the beam. Tears and laughter both followed.

“In high school, you’re up there and maybe you make it to nationals, maybe you don’t,” Hall said. “Here, it’s like maybe we make it to nation-als or maybe we don’t.”

Since that meet, the Tigers haven’t taken much time off. LSU began practices earlier than normal during spring break, taking advan-tage of extra time without classes.

“We were able to come in the morning, because our practice and competition will be in the morning on Friday,” Breaux said. “We were able to use our spring break to relax and come in the morning and have their afternoons free.”

Breaux said she gave the gym-nasts time to themselves during the afternoons so they could experi-ence at least a taste of spring break, because the group has stayed com-mitted and intense during practice

and training.She said if the gymnasts contin-

ue to maintain their focus throughout the next week, they’re capable of posting a higher score than they have at any point this season.

“The best that this team has in them is good enough to be a Super Six team, but it’s going to take an emotional effort, a physical effort, a great competition,” Breaux said.

Breaux said she’s tried to take the pressure out of practice for the two weeks between NCAA Region-als and NCAA Nationals.

While the long span between meets can be nerve-racking for the young team, lone senior Ashley Lee said she wants to drag the time out as much as possible.

“It’s my last meet,” Lee said. “As long as it needs to take, I’m hap-py with it, because I’m not ready to be done.”

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LSU sophomore gymnast Sarie Morrison performed a 9.90 out of a possible 10 on March 16 at the LSU gymnastics meet against West Virginia.

FOOTBALL

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The crystal football Alabama won for beating LSU in the BCS championship game in January was shattered on A-Day when it was ac-cidentally knocked off a display by the father of a current player.

Athletic department spokesman Jeff Purinton said the Waterford

Crystal trophy, valued at $30,000, was on display in the Mal Moore Athletic Facility as part of the fes-tivities for the Crimson Tide’s spring football game Saturday in Tuscaloo-sa, Ala. He says the man stumbled on a rug that was under the trophy display.

Purinton said the school is working with the American Football

Coaches Association, which owns the trophy, on getting a replacement.

Florida’s 2006 trophy was de-stroyed when it was accidentally knocked off a pedestal by a recruit in 2008. In 2004, Florida State had two trophies stolen.

“In 2009 and again this season, Alabama did a great job showing the trophy off to fans even after we

turned it over to them,” said Charley Green, manager of the coaches’ tro-phy. “Unfortunately it is fragile, and accidents can happen.

Green said the trophy makes appearances for several weeks be-fore it is turned over to the school in mid-January.

“We use a temporary adhe-sive called museum gel to keep the

crystal from falling off its pegs,” he said. “We do provide that substance to winning schools, along with a page of assembly instructions. But we have no way of knowing whether the schools use the gel.”

all-time statistical categories, in-cluding scoring (11th with 1,553 ) and rebounds (10th with 813 ).

Though she was one of fi ve seniors on LSU’s team last sea-son, Barrett was the only Lady Tiger drafted. There are only 36 total picks in the three-round WNBA draft .

Barrett was one of 15 play-ers invited to the draft, which was held at ESPN Headquarters in Bristol, Conn.

The Mystics, who held the second-worst record in the WNBA last season at 6-28 , se-lected Notre Dame’s Natalie No-vosel eighth overall with the fi rst of their two fi rst-round picks.

“Natalie and LaSondra give us players with three-point shoot-ing ability and versatility,” said Mystics general manager and head coach Trudi Lacey in a news release. “They also bring a team-fi rst mentality, and we are very excited to have them both on our roster.”

Joining Barrett in the fi rst

round were fellow All-SEC se-lections Shekinna Stricklen and Glory Johnson from Tennessee, and former Volunteer Kelley Cain, who didn’t play last season because of multiple injury prob-lems.

The Los Angeles Sparks se-lected Stanford’s Nnemkadi Og-wumike with the draft’s top pick. Ogwumike was widely regarded as the best player in the draft.

“Washington is getting a great player but most important-ly, a great person,” LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said in a news release. “We are very proud of what LaSondra has accomplished on and off the court. She will be a great ambassador for LSU as a professional. She has unlim-ited potential with her versatility and size.”

Madison Prep Academy forward Jarrell Martin , could contribute right away in the Southeastern Conference . He can’t afford to miss out on in-state recruits like Johnson did during his four-year tenure.

Jones was able to get fi ve-star forward Tony Mitchell to come to North Texas last season. Imagine who he can convince to come to LSU.

3. The PMAC might actually be packed.

The PMAC used to be called the Deaf Dome . Now it’s one of the least intimidating venues in the SEC.

Jones was around during the days when the PMAC was a place opponents dreaded visiting. He’s already made it a point to reach out to the Baton Rouge commu-nity to fi ll the seats.

This past season at North Texas , Jones set the third best single-season attendance mark in school history. Getting a sizable

crowd in the PMAC will be the fi rst step in bringing LSU hoops back to its glory days.

4. Interaction among former LSU players and coaches will increase.

Reactions to Jones’ hiring from people such as Brown and Collis Temple show former LSU players and coaches are excited to see someone with purple and gold roots on the Tigers’ sideline.

Johnson did a great job of alienating former Tigers, one of the reasons he was never a good fi t in Baton Rouge.

Having Brown and Temple around the program can only benefi t a new head coach. Jones , unlike Johnson , will take all the help he can get from former LSU players and coaches.

5. LSU will reach 20 wins for the fi rst time since 2008-09 season

Although Jones is mostly noted for his extraordinary re-cruiting ability, the man can win basketball games, too.

From 2006 to 2011 , Jones led North Texas to fi ve consecu-tive 20-win seasons . North Texas averaged a mere fi ve wins a sea-son in the four years before his arrival.

If LSU can add a few post players to go along with fresh-man forward Johnny O’Bryant III , it will have the talent to com-pete with anyone in 2012.

Jones will immediately bring a winning mentality into the LSU locker room. The Tigers will en-joy their fi rst 20-win campaign since Johnson’s fi rst season in 2008-09 .

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Editor’s note: This review is of the play’s final dress rehearsal.

If Romeo and Juliet were an example of star-crossed lovers, then the characters of “Gruesome Play-ground Injuries” are pain-crossed.

The play tells the 30-year story of Doug and Kayleen, two child-hood friends who are constantly plagued by injuries so severe it’s a wonder they live long enough to re-alize how they feel about each other.

Doug’s injuries are mainly ex-ternal, while Kayleen’s are more internal and emotional. For every blown-out eye and broken leg Doug

suffers, Kayleen’s uncaring father and drug issues match that intensity.

Between the two of them, almost every part of the human body is brutalized in some way. It’s never explicitly said, but the couple is almost masochistic — it’s not sexual, but the pain they go through and share gives the other an enjoy-ment of some kind.

Every time Doug is injured, Kayleen asks, “Did it hurt?”

To which Doug re-sponds, “A little.”

Their constant back-and-forth is both endearing and re-pulsive, but it shows the strong bond formed when people share pain.

Theatre senior Chris Silva does

an excellent job of portraying the injury-prone yet brave Doug, flash-

ing between silliness and seriousness with ease. Moments of pro-tection, when he speaks to Kayleen’s father for example, are spine-tin-gling and highlight his performance.

Opposite him, the-atre sophomore Mo-nique McCain plays Kayleen, whose mental instabilities playfully counter Doug’s bro-ken bones. At times she seemed stiff and emo-tionless — arms straight

at her side, fingers playing with each other — and her voice also sounded

Southern Comfort, Internet Explorer and Willy Wonka’s Nerds candy have at least one thing in com-mon: an appreciation for dubstep.

Each of the companies released commercials that use the bass-heavy beats of increasingly commercial dubstep music. These companies are neither inventive nor alone in their incorporation of dubstep music into mainstream commercials.

D u b s t e p ’ s bombastic bass provides listeners with an attention-grabbing sound unlike other mu-sic genres, which may be just what advertisers are aiming for.

Clothing manufacturer The North Face and video camera com-pany GoPro have also run commer-cials accompanied by dubstep in the past few months. A British chil-dren’s cereal, Weetabix Chocolate Spoonsize, produced a commercial in September that featured a girl dancing to dubstep.

This shouldn’t come as a sur-prise, however, as the dubstep genre originated across the pond. Dubstep has roots dating back to the Lon-don night-club scene at the turn of the millennium.

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Theatre sophomore Monique McCain, as Kayleen, and theatre senior Chris Silva, as Doug, perform Monday during a dress rehearsal of “Gruesome Playground Injuries.”

Less is more. Short shorts are shrinking and fashion-

able men are invading campus as part of a new spring season trend.

These shorts are available in styles and colors from coral pink to neon green. They are meant to be a comfortable wear for the spring season.

Fashion design junior Eric Williams owns and rocks the shorts as part of his per-sonal style. Williams said the “package-pop-ping” shorts are more fun, flattering and flirty than regular shorts.

“The pair I own is a teal kind of color.

It’s super short, but comfortable to walk in,” Williams said. “You can sleep in them.”

One brand of men’s short shorts, Califor-nia company Chubbies, has become a popular business, according to founder Tom Mont-gomery.

Montgomery and his business partners met at Stanford University. Montgomery said the group was tired of looking for good-qual-ity shorts. The men, nicknamed The Chub-sters, viewed pants as a “necessary evil” and sought to create change.

Chubbies offers three types of shorts: Remember the ’80s, The Classics and The Staples, with each boasting a variety of color options.

“They are radical shorts with a different

attitude,” Montgomery said. “They are ex-tremely comfortable and aerodynamic.”

Montgomery said the shorts are made to be worn anywhere from a barbeque to a beach outing. The company’s sole focus is on the shorts and relating to customers.

“[The company] has been through a lot ... but customers have been responding,” Mont-gomery said. “Feedback has been awesome with ridiculous commentary on Twitter.”

Chubbies seeks to engage customers and generate involvement through the website by posting content clients can view and generate.

“These shorts are not traditional,” Mont-gomery said. “We want to get people in

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LSU male students can be spotted around campus wearing short shorts. California company Chubbies proclaims the shorts to be comfortable and “utterly radical.”

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MUSIC

Touring through different cul-tural areas makes up a large part of Ramona Gonzalez’s musical career.

The singer, songwriter and creative mind behind the electric-pop project Nite Jewel will per-form with Chairlift on Wednesday at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans, but when she began touring she traveled to European cities as cul-turally vibrant as the streets of the French Quarter. These experiences proved inspiring for her work.

“All the different people you meet and all of the personalities are definitely brain food,” she said. “All of the imagery that implants on your mind will come up later when you’re looking for a concept to write about.”

Gonzalez got an important start in 2008, when she began self-producing her early music, touring within the U.S., balancing work for an undergraduate degree in philos-ophy and garnering enough support

to tour Europe shortly after.Gonzalez said her first tour

helped her appreciate the South be-cause of its warm reception.

“Baton Rouge was one of the best shows we had,” she said. “The whole South has been some of my best experiences because people are really warm and respond really well to our sound.”

She has since produced a number of singles, EPs and two al-bums, 2008’s “Good Evening,” and the March-released “One Second Love,” which Gonzalez explained features different production than her prior work.

“I’ve released a lot of stuff since then,” she said. “[‘One Sec-ond Love’] is very different from

the record before, which was not really collaborative at all and was recorded in between other things. I didn’t have a lot of focus on it 100 percent like I did on this record.”

While Gonzalez traveled through both Baton Rouge and New Orleans previously, Wednesday’s show will offer her an op-portunity to show off “One Second Love,” which she said adds more energetic tracks and vibes to her live shows.

“Those songs are really fun to play live,” she said “They’re meant for a band to play them, so they have a lot of visceral connection with the audience.”

Nite Jewel also refashioned older tunes to better create a live-ly show. While Gonzalez’s older music features imitations of bass, drums and other elements, Nite Jewel’s current tour has featured a full band to clearly create each musical component.

“We’ve retooled the older

stuff as well so it all comes across that way,” Gonzalez explained. “It’s a lot huger than you would expect from listening to the older recordings.”

Gonzalez ex-plained she finished “One Second Love” long before its re-lease and has been recording new mate-rial for the past year. She plans to travel to

Europe and Australia and work on more recordings before Nite Jew-el’s next tour.

“There’s a lot of different directions I’ve gone in as far as the recordings go, and I’m just trying to figure out what I want to keep for the next record,” she said.

Wednesday’s performance at One Eyed Jacks will began at 9 p.m., and tickets are priced at $15.

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Nite Jewel returns to the South for New Orleans performance

How to go:Location: One Eyed Jacks, New OrleansTime: Doors open at 9 p.m.Price: $15

SOCIAL MEDIA

Most Facebook users less inclined to give

Facebook users have become lazy, according to a recent Pew Research study.

Researchers discovered that on average Facebook users are less inclined to give to friends than receive in terms of friend requests, page “likes,” tags and messages.

The study watched 269 Face-book users and observed their daily activity. In the results, a segment of Facebook users were labeled as “power users” because of their higher contribution of Facebook activity compared to the typical user.

Power users send out friend requests, “like” posts, send mes-sages and tag friends in photos. Regular users are on the receiving end and are “liked” and “tagged” more than they would perform the action.

Alex Cook, IT coordinator for Continuing Education, said he personally takes in more than he gives out on Facebook.

“Most people, when it comes to media, are consumers,” Cook said. “Social media operates be-tween regular conversation and broadcast.”

Cook said the action of sim-ply sharing pictures and informa-tion through social media instead of conversing forms a trend. He said most people don’t feel the need to broadcast information, which is why they share what they’ve read.

“With things like Pinter-est and Tumblr, most people are resharing pictures and things,” Cook said. “Facebook is designed

so that we say things, but it’s in-creasingly more about links and sharing information.”

Hillare Lafond, electrical en-gineering freshman, and Joseph Mills, mechanical engineering freshman, agreed that they are not power users.

“I barely send anything,” Lafond said. “I like checking what people are doing. I don’t post much.”

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Ramona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel will perform Wednesday at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. Gonzalez said the South has provided some of her best musical experiences.

Music fans have more options than ever to explore their favorite tunes online.

Most students are familiar with programs that play music saved to a computer, like iTunes, but other Internet-based services offer unique features and sharing strategies. Here’s a sampling of some of the most popular online music players.

1. SPOTIFY

Originally a Europe-only ser-vice, Swedish-born Spotify launched in the United States on July 14, 2011 .

Like iTunes, Spotify can be used to organize a music library on a computer. But instead of a store, Spotify streams music from a vari-ety of major and independent mu-sic labels for free with intermittent ads. Artist or song radio stations can also be created, which create a near-limitless playlist of similar-sounding music.

Paying $4.99 a month gets rid of the ads, and $9.99 allows playlists to be saved offl ine and gives access to

the Spotify App on mobile devices. Spotify is available on Win-

dows, Mac, Linux and most mobile operating systems.

Biology sophomore Timothy Harris likes Spotify’s huge library of songs.

“You have access to any song you want, unlike Pandora, where you’re ushered into the next song,” he said. “You have a lot more free-dom to what you want to listen to. ”

Spotify has stolen my heart with its enourmous library and snappy in-terface. Very few songs I’ve wanted to listen to are absent from the appli-cation, and the fact that it combines my personal library with any music I’ve starred seals the deal.

2. GROOVESHARK

Grooveshark is a music search engine and streaming service avail-able over the web. Users can create a profi le and save songs and playlists to that profi le, then access them on any computer.

It’s like Spotify, but it’s Web-based instead of a downloadable ap-plication. It offers an extensive mu-sic library, streaming between 150

and 160 million songs per month, and it has a radio feature similar to Spotify. As of May 2011, Groove-shark boasted 35,000,000 registered users.

Grooveshark is also being sued by many major music labels. On Jan. 5, EMI sued Grooveshark over non-payment of royalties, and Uni-versal Music Group fi led a copyright infringement lawsuit the next day.

Grooveshark is ad-supported and free. The site is an old fl ame of mine, getting me through the early years of my musical history. Being able to access my playlists on any computer is a huge perk, but I found several tracks were only available as the live version. Spotify has taken its spot in my life, but Grooveshark still has a thriving community.

3. 8TRACKS

8tracks is an Internet radio web-site that revolves around creating playlists at least eight tracks long instead of algorithm-based stations.

Users can upload their own music for the playlists or use Sound-Cloud, a music streaming app, then share with other users to form a mu-sic-based social network.

The site also has a subscription service — for $25, ads are removed for six months.

This site is completely new to me. I haven’t delved too far into the details of 8tracks, but being added to Time Magazine’s “Best 50 Web-sites” list in 2011 is no small feat.

4. LAST.FM

Unlike the other music players, Last.fm is an Internet radio applica-tion that looks at the music users lis-ten to using other services (iTunes, Spotify, etc.) and builds a music profi le around those numbers. That information is transferred or “scrob-bled” to Last.fm’s database, where it recommends new artists or songs to listen to based of the songs and art-ists previously listened to.

Last.fm is free in the United Kingdom, United States and Ger-many.

While I haven’t used Last.fm extensively, building a mu-sical profi le is an intriguing process. It’s fun to fi nd other people with similar tastes in music and talk about it. Plus, its recommendation system is scary accurate at fi nding music I’ll enjoy.

5. PANDORA

Pandora is an Internet radio ser-vice that builds radio stations around users’ musical tastes.

It’s part of the Music Genome Project , which uses a combination of 400 different musical attributes and an algorithm to build playlists. Users can then give a thumbs up or thumbs down for each song, which changes the style of the playlist.

In the 2011 fi scal year, Pandora grabbed $138 million in revenue.

Geography sophomore Andrew Loreno said he likes that Pandora chooses music for him.

“Sometimes it’ll give me a bad song, but it also gives me new artists to listen to,” he said. “Plus, I can use it on my phone.”

Unlike iTunes, Pandora requires Internet access and is only available in the United States.

I fi nd Pandora to be best for dis-covering new music or rediscovering favorites. My “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” station satisfi es my classic rock cravings and even gives me Blink 182 songs from my high school days.

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soft and quiet compared to Silva’s. This may have been a character trait, but it seemed odd during the perfor-mance.

But McCain’s monologue while Doug is in a coma is the best moment in the play, and her near-perfect fa-cial expressions combined with run-ning to and from Doug’s bed makes that scene her strongest.

Lighting was good, and scenes were bracketed with effective black-out transitions that made it feel like viewers were really watching the duo’s life fl ash from their young days to old.

Makeup was superb — Doug’s head gash and Kayleen’s cuts on her thigh looked painfully real.

“Gruesome Playground In-juries” tells an incredibly dark love story that both fascinates and

sickens the audience. Don’t ex-pect anything lighthearted from this play, other than the occasional joke by Doug. While this may turn away some viewers, the play is defi -nitely worth a watch, if only to see a

different kind of love story.

Grade: B

that mindset.”Short shorts for both men and

women that are cut high in the in-ner thighs are prevalent this sea-son. Dolce & Gabanna’s menswear collection for spring and summer included ornate short shorts. Louis Vuitton also debuted couture briefs for women and short shorts for men.

Sociology sophomore Ashleigh Guss and anthropology sophomore Tyrie DeSilva said attraction de-pends on the guy wearing the shorts.

Guss said she doubts she would like a guy who wears short shorts.

“It depends on their swag,”

Guss said. Williams said although shorts

are currently in style, they will die out.

“As far as LSU trends, it will always be the same with the over-sized T-shirts,” Williams said. “People keep adopting the same styles.”

Williams said fashion on cam-pus is a platform to be different and not conform to what friends are wearing. He said wearing his shorts makes him feel like he’s doing his part to be different.

Dubstep music slowly found its way to the Western Hemisphere in the following decade and has since made its presence known in the American music market. Dubstep DJ Skrillex was one of the fi rst art-ists to attain major commercial suc-cess in America with his 2011 EP “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites ,” which peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard dance/electronic album charts.

MtvU recognized America’s growing interest in dubstep music this year by adding an additional category to its annual awards show. The EDM Effect Award was cre-ated to celebrate infl uential artists in electronic dance music , an umbrella under which dubstep falls.

MtvU’s recognition of EDM and dubstep in particular is interest-ing, as mtvU focuses on the interests of a younger crowd, namely col-lege students. Does this mean that a younger crowd is responsible for the robotic rhythms of dubstep music in today’s commercials?

The answer to this question may

lie within the court of popular opin-ion, which many media lovers con-sider to be Comedy Central’s “South Park .” The animated comedy series has earned a reputation for covering current events, and it crafted an epi-sode with thinly veiled references to dubstep last summer.

South Park portrayed dubstep as a hip new trend in music, popu-lar with the town’s youth while dis-carded by the majority of the town’s adults as sounding similar to bowel movements. The program followed one adult character’s endeavors to adapt to his child’s music interests in an attempt to prevent himself from being perceived as “getting old.”

While America’s collective mu-sic taste may not be getting old, its population surely is. As America’s bulging baby boomer generation be-gins to retire as a driving consumer force, advertisers will surely begin to pander to the interests of a young-er crowd.

Goodbye Beatles , hello Bassnectar .

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Theatre sophomore Monique McCain, as Kayleen, and theatre senior Chris Silva, as Doug, perform in a dress rehersal of “Gruesome Playground Injuries.”

Don’t lose that beach body yet; you might want to look good if you ever end up on the wrong side of the law.

The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote on April 2 that law enforcement officials may strip-search a person arrested for any offense, no matter how minor, and regardless of whether there is probable cause.

The ruling is yet another ad-dition to the authoritarian powers and policies that have plagued 21st-century American gover-nance. From warrantless sur-veillance to these needless strip searches, Americans have stood idly by as their civil liberties have been stripped one by one over the past decade.

Of course, the Supreme Court justices did not base their decision on how they could best tear civil rights away from civil-ians.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, aided by the more conservative members of the Supreme Court, stated in the majority opinion that the strip searches were nec-essary in order to keep criminals from smuggling contraband into prison. They argued the searches helped keep prisons secure.

While this may be a worthy

goal, the ruling reflects what Sa-lon columnist Glenn Greenwald calls the “definitive police state mentality ... that isolated risks justify the most sweeping secu-rity measures.” This ruling ig-nores the rights of the innocent in order to better protect against the guilty, and in doing so, it restricts the liberty of all.

These strip searches entail violations of privacy and protec-tions of the Fourth Amendment, such as the protection against un-reasonable searches and seizures, and open up the potential for this new power to be abused.

What happens if a male offi-cer subjects a woman arrested for a minor crime to a strip search for his own amusement? What hap-pens even if it’s a man subjected to such a search for no real rea-son?

What would be a case of sex-ual harassment is now the legal use of authority by a police offi-cer. The court’s ruling essentially weakened the only protection civilians have against abusive searches and seizures by law en-forcement: the need for probable cause.

And if you believe that no of-ficer would ever subject someone to a strip search without a real cause, then I have news for you.

Strip searches have already been applied in minor crimes.

According to Adam Lip-tak of The New York Times, strip searches may be applied to

people who commit such minor offenses as violating leash laws, driving without a license or fail-ing to use a turn signal.

Yet, Justice Kennedy ar-gued that those arrested for mi-nor crimes are sometimes “the most devious and dangerous criminals.” He cited Timothy McVeigh and one of the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks as examples of criminals who were

arrested for minor crimes before committing major atrocities.

This is a leap in logic. I’m sure McVeigh and the

other terrorist had homes as well. And in those homes they may have even had their own rooms. Does this mean we should raid everyone’s homes and put sur-veillance in everyone’s rooms on the off chance that someone might commit a crime?

No. So why should all arrest-ees be potentially subjected to a strip search if there is no prob-able cause?

Some may not care so much for this ruling, as it only applies to people who have been arrest-ed, and many people do not have sympathy for those who break the law.

The problem is that consti-tutional rights are not supposed to be open to negotiation. There shouldn’t be a time when Fourth Amendment protections are val-id and another time when they aren’t. If the rights protected for us in the Constitution aren’t up-held at all times, they no longer have any meaning.

It’s sad and ironic that the Supreme Court would play such a role in weakening a constitu-tional protection. But it’s much worse that we Americans have allowed such protections to be squandered in recent years.

Eventually this country will have to decide: Will we trade some security for our freedom, or will we relinquish our liberty for security?

David Scheuermann is a 20-year-old mass communication and computer science sophomore from Kenner. Follow him on Twit-ter at @TDR_dscheu.

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Things have fallen so far since the days of Dale Brown.

Gone is any semblance of the Deaf Dome. Today, it sounds like someone pressed the mute but-ton. The entire fan network needs an IV injection of enthusiasm.

Gone are any expectations, aside from the occasional flashes and flares fired over the PMAC to remind campus the basketball program still exists.

Johnny Jones has the chance to bring the consistency LSU basketball lacks.

The newly minted LSU coach was around in the time of Brown as both a player and coach. He has the Louisiana roots and recruiting chops Trent Johnson lacked, and he’s a better coach than John Brady.

More importantly, he has a chance to make LSU men’s bas-ketball relevant.

The latest semblances of the PMAC being anywhere close to “packed” were the past two times No. 1 Kentucky came to town. It’s akin to when LeBron James plays in Charlotte. The place was also full when No. 15 Xavier

came to town in 2008.Aside from that, no dice. “Fire marshals bothering

people for sitting in the aisles — that’s what I want,” Jones said Monday at his introductory presser.

The LSU student section is a sham compared to other top-tier programs, let alone others in the Southeastern Conference. That’s no indictment to the students — it’s hard to get jazzed about a cel-lar dweller.

Undoubtedly, Johnson is a fantastic basketball coach. From hearing him in news

conferences to seeing his overall body of work, there’s no arguing he knows his X’s and O’s.

His personality and disposi-tion were another story. Gruff with a dry wit, Johnson failed to establish solid connections in Louisiana.

In Jones’ time as an assistant, LSU notably made the tourna-ment nine straight times from 1985 to 1993, including a Fi-nal Four and an Elite Eight. He earned a reputation as a recruit-ing wiz, luring stars Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Jackson and Ran-dy Livingston to Baton Rouge.

Jones is also charismatic, as evidenced by Monday’s presser. A people person, plus extensive roots in the state, affords the basketball team the chance to reclaim some former glory and, along the way, more fans.

Here’s your chance, John-ny. Do what past LSU coaches haven’t been able to do.

Make LSU basketball matter.

OUR VIEW

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STRIPPING OUR RIGHTSSupreme Court decision to allow strip searching weakens Fourth Amendment rights

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MANUFACTURING DISCONTENTDAVID SCHEUERMANNColumnist

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OpinionTuesday, April 17, 2012 page 17

The tide has rolled out, spring break has ended and finals are less than three weeks away.

The painful week of exams will come faster than you antici-pate. It’s usually important for students with borderline grades — or those looking to pass the class.

Sadly, teachers are still teaching new material. More than likely, this information will have a higher concentration on your final than anticipated, so start paying attention if you haven’t already.

With three weeks of class left until finals week, there’s still time to talk to professors and teaching assistants, start study groups and find that syllabus you stashed somewhere. Some professors also provide extra-credit assign-ments accepted at the end of the semester, so listen, read and

ask around.Apart from complaining to

your friends about fatigue, the easiest thing to do during finals week is to figure out what will be on the test — yet many students forget to do so.

Knowing what will be on the exam is half the battle.

Another thing students for-get before finals week is to be rational. Don’t anticipate earning a grade you aren’t capable of re-ceiving.

In other words, don’t expect a 100 on a final if you haven’t earned higher than a 70 on the previous exams.

With that being said, never calculate the curve a professor could give while determining the score you need for the final. When you don’t add in the curves you could potentially receive, your grades will boost when they’re posted.

Or there may not be a curve, and you end up suffering.

Shockingly, not everyone knows that studying isn’t con-fined to silence in the library.

Studying exists anywhere you can retain the information and in-terpret it for the exam.

Be open to different study methods. Going over material in groups tends to prove effective and motivates others at the same time, but remember to also study individually — which isn’t the same as reading over the material in bed.

The only time studying on your bed is acceptable is when you have substantial time before the exam or if you’re trying to cure insomnia.

Don’t stress yourself out dur-ing the time before finals, study at a pace and remember to take breaks. Breaks should be nothing longer than the actual study ses-sion, but ensure enough time to refresh your mind, grab a snack and watch the latest Lil Finals Week video on YouTube.

But if you do happen to stress out, avoid excessive food binging and wild energy drinks. Energy drinks may help you stay awake to study, but if you crash during the final, all your time and

effort will be wasted.At the end of the day, stu-

dents fail to realize that finals week doesn’t have to be stressful. Many of your colleagues do well on their exams without pulling all-nighters and living in Middle-ton.

Take this reminder seriously and start reviewing now, before dead and finals week start.

By now you should know your own studying habits and abilities. Apply them accordingly and with rational thought.

And if you don’t enjoy the stress of finals and dead week, don’t put yourself in a situation where your final exam deter-mines so much of your future in that course.

Marie-Therese Yokum is a 19-year-old mass communica-tion and finance sophomore from Lafayette. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_myokum.

NEVER EMPTY THOUGHTSMARIE-THERESE YOKUMColumnist

Save yourself the panic, prep for finals now

This letter is to alert you to changes in the LSU retirement system proposed by the state Legislature. Perhaps you have heard some of the controversies surrounding this issue in the news. We at LSUnited want to briefly acquaint you with the pro-posed changes and how you can have a voice in this debate. For faculty, it’s a matter of protecting our retirement and stopping the erosion of benefits. For students, it’s a matter of protecting your education and stopping the ero-sion of the morale and quality of the LSU faculty.

Many of us faculty are alarmed by the state retirement proposals not only because we have not received raises for four years, so that our compensation has not kept up with inflation or the cost of living, but also be-cause we now face the possibil-ity of having our salaries, already significantly lower than those of our peer institutions, further taxed to pay for the legislative mismanagement of our retire-ment system.

For example, changes to the proposed defined benefit plan would impose what amounts to a 3-percent tax on salaries of facul-ty in TRSL (Teachers Retirement of Louisiana), effective July 1, 2012 (HB56, SB52). Other legis-lation, if passed, would close the traditional, defined-benefit plan to new employees and would burden current members of the

plan with a higher contribution rate for the same or worse ben-efits. That’s a tax. The current ORP (Optional Retirement Plan), in which the majority of faculty participates, would be replaced for new faculty. All new faculty would be forced to choose be-tween another defined contribu-tion plan or the new cash-balance plan, depending on which legis-lation passed.

In either case, the employer’s contribution would be reduced from the current ORP level, which is already significantly below regional standards. And in either case there would be a five-year vestment period, which ne-gates the main advantage of the current ORP plan: namely, porta-bility.

In addition, at least one of the bills now before the Legislature,

of some 40 introduced in this ses-sion on retirement alone, raises the retirement age to 67 years of age. For example, a faculty mem-ber who began at LSU at age 30, has been at LSU for 23 years, and planned to retire in seven years at age 60 would now have to work for an additional seven years be-fore retiring. Faculty in this or a similar position are being penal-ized instead of rewarded for their good service to the many students they have taught and the state that has benefited from their research.

When faculty signed con-tracts with the state to teach at LSU, we trusted that those con-tracts would be honored. Now the state is trying to change the rules.

The faculty at LSU should be outraged by these proposed changes. They would affect our financial survival in the future.

Even though we have an out-standing Faculty Senate, they are not allowed to lobby the Legis-lature. That reality greatly limits our voices; indeed, it silences us. As faculty, our only opportu-nity to be heard and to lobby is through LSUnited. Our dues sup-port lobbyists who work for us and represent our interests at the Capitol. If you’re a faculty mem-ber, you care about your future and want to stop the erosion of the promises made to us when we were hired, join LSUnited. Our only chance is to stand together and speak with a common voice. Please join us.

Barbara Heifferon LSUnited member

Proposed changes to retirement affect

students, faculty

ARTHUR D. LAUCK / The Associated Press

Reps. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, left, and Frank Hoffmann, R-West Monroe, confer Thursday during debate of a bill that would create a new retirement plan for new state employees.

Contact Marie-�erese Yokum at myokum@lsureveille.com

As usual, the Opinion section of our website has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

In response to the April 4 story “Senate panel passes bill that could allow guns on campus,” readers had this to say:

As an LSU instructor, I can sincerely say that passage of this bill would not make me feel saf-er on campus. In fact, it would make me feel less safe. I grew up around guns, and have no prob-lem with a person’s right to bear arms. However, the thought of even one of my students carry-ing a gun in my classroom is a bit unnerving. I sincerely hope the state senate asks Louisiana university professors, instructors, and administrators for their input on this bill. I predict that most of these people would feel the same way I do.- Anonymous

Excuse me — but did we not learn anything from what took place in Oakland, CA this past week? Please explain how that terrible situation couldn’t have been stopped by someone in the same room carrying a concealed handgun. I would much rather have a fighting chance than have my life placed in the hands of madmen — which is basically how things are set up now.- Anonymous

A real “Gun Free Zone” will have high fences topped with razor wire, limited access con-trolled by armed guards with metal detectors. Anything less is a fantasy.- Anonymous

Guns on campus sounds fine to me ( With some minimal in-struction). Every one should have to right to protect them selves from people who will shoot you even though the signs say “no guns.” The only exception should be LSU faculty. They should nev-er be allowed to handle any thing more dangerous then a #2 pencil.- Anonymous

To all the instructors who believe their students don’t al-ready carry: the criminal ones do. Welcome to reality. The only difference this law will make is that now you will have verifiable non-criminals carrying as well.- Anonymous

I love how biased this article is and of course it is biased on the side of the criminals. Get some-one with half a brain to write your articles and maybe I’ll read them more often. And perhaps fix your damn captcha if you want people to comment.- Anonymous

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Bridges said the two girls set to attend William Frantz Elementary with her dropped out two days before school began.

On her fi rst day, Bridges climbed the steps to the school amid crowds of protestors only to sit in the principal’s offi ce to wait for the end of the day.

The next day, the crowds dou-bled in size as locals learned which specifi c schools would integrate, Bridges said. Instead of going to the principal’s offi ce, she continued to her classroom alone.

“I looked into the classroom and saw empty desks,” Bridges said. “I thought to myself, ‘My mom brought me to school too early.’ And indeed she had — years too early.”

For weeks, Bridges attended school alone and was taught by Bar-bara Henry , a teacher from Boston hired specifi cally to instruct her. Bridges described Henry as the “nic-est teacher I ever had,” who fi lled her day with activities and games along with coursework.

“She made school fun,” Bridg-es said. “I never missed a day that whole year, and neither did she. She did everything she could to keep my

mind off of what was happening out-side.”

On the day she fi nally joined other students, Bridges was faced with racism from one of her class-mates. A young boy used the N-word to explain that his mother had forbid-den him to play with her.

It was at that moment that Bridges said she understood her situ-ation.

“When he said that, I remem-ber thinking, ‘So that is what this is about,’” Bridges said. “It is not Mardi Gras. I am not going to col-lege. It is about me and the color of my skin.”

While her fellow students’ re-jection disappointed Bridges , she said it did not anger her. In her youth, she understood that instructions from parents were not to be broken.

Bridges has since moved on to telling her story and teaching lessons of racial equality to schoolchildren across the country.

“They are so drawn to the story ... because they put themselves in the shoes of this child,” Bridges said, re-ferring to herself. “They understand the loneliness, but what they don’t understand is why that is happening to you, especially when it comes at the hands of an adult.”

Bridges said racism existed then and persists today, and it must be ended through the education of chil-dren. She closed by directly address-ing the law students in attendance.

“You have a huge burden upon your shoulders. We have to have the right laws in place,” she said. “We are all expecting great things from you. We have got to turn this place around.”

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