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BASEBALL: Tigers renew rivalry against Bulldogs tonight, p. 5
CRIME: Additional arrests made in McDonald’s theft case, p. 3
HEALTH
Research predicts virus in oystersRenee BarrowContributing Writer
LSU kinesiology senior Adam Roethele talks to a crowd Thursday in the LSU Student Union Royal Cotillion Ballroom.
In a sea of electrifi ed stu-dents, many sporting the increas-ingly popular bright orange “I Agree With Adam” apparel, Adam Roethele shared the story of his religious life and answered the seemingly mysterious questions surrounding the campaign on campus.
After weeks of campaign-ing, the ambiguous “Adam” was revealed to be kinesiology senior Roethele, the student chosen to take on the persona of a cam-paign to fertilize conversation about Jesus Christ among students on campus.
Roethele shared his story of faith to University students Thurs-day night including anecdotes about his personal life and his rela-tionship with God.
Political science and econom-ics junior Josh Phillips said the “I Agree With Adam” campaign is not necessarily about raising awareness but rather creating rela-tionships with people and sharing beliefs with anyone who wants to have a religious conversation.
“[The campaign] is an oppor-tunity to understand what Christ has done for us,” Phillips said.
According to Phillips, the campaign drew University students from various campus ministries in-cluding The Refuge and Campus
Outreach, and he said he has seen a lot of unity within the ministries.
Elementary special education sophomore Courtney Pope said, though it has been perceived in multiple ways on campus, she feels the “I Agree With Adam” campaign is not hurting anyone because it is not a forceful campaign but instead a resource for information about what the campaign represents.
Pope said the goal of the campaign is simply to share the personal beliefs of Adam and the campaign supporters but not to force anyone to share in those beliefs.
“I agree with Adam that
EVENT
Mysteries behind ‘I Agree With Adam’ revealedMichael TarverContributing Writer
Most people enjoy Louisiana oysters, but bringing them to the table is not as easy as throwing a net out to sea.
Zhi-Qiang Deng, associate professor of civil and environmen-tal engineering, conducts research to assist prevention of norovirus outbreaks among oyster harvesting locations.
“Most people think they’re unpredictable,” Deng said, but he said his research shows otherwise.
Last April, Deng, working with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite data, suc-cessfully predicted an outbreak in Cameron Parish and was able to harvest areas several months before it occurred.
The Federal Drug Associa-tion’s National Shellfi sh Sanita-tion Program requires all states to test state growth waters for safety approval.
According to Deng’s website, NASA’s environmental data, along
OYSTERS, see page 11
ADAM, see page 11
University art students and fac-ulty marched from the Quad to the Student Union in a mock funeral for the School of Art Thursday, protest-ing dilapidated conditions of the 90-year-old Studio Arts Building.
Organizers decided on a silent protest and black clothing to sym-bolize the potential downfall of their program if the building is not renovated soon, said painting senior Brinna Ryan.
“We’re dying,” she said. “If we don’t get help, we will fl ounder and drown.”
Ryan said she and other stu-dents are tired of paying the same tuition as everyone else while hav-ing to work in an aged, crumbling building that is home to peeling lead paint, bad drainage, a damaged ceiling and rats, among other prob-lems. Although Facility Services has “come in and fi xed what they can for the time being … it’s a Band-Aid on the problem,” Ryan said.
Despite the protest, she worries the state legislature will not approve the funding required because the arts are not a priority.
Olivia McClureSenior Reporter
Students march around campus to protest Studio Arts Building conditions
PROTEST, see page 11RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
BREAKINGPOINT
for artists on LSU’s campus
against Bulldogs tonight, p. 5
RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
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Nation & World Friday, April 4, 2014page 2
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that it won’t stop the execution of a Texas serial killer whose attorneys want the state to release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.
The plea to the high court from Tommy Lynn Sells’ law-yers was rejected about an hour before his scheduled execution Thursday evening. They made it after a federal appeals court al-lowed the execution to remain on schedule. A lower court had stayed the execution Wednesday, ordering Texas to reveal more in-formation about its drug supplier, but the ruling was quickly tossed on appeal.
“It is not in the public interest for the state to be allowed to be deceptive in its efforts to procure lethal injection drugs,” Sells’ at-torneys told the high court.
The appeal was one of two that the justices rejected. An-other before the court since last month asked for the punish-ment to be stopped to review whether Sells’ legal help at his trial was defi cient, and whether a
court improperly denied him money to hire investigators to conduct a probe about his background.
Sells was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old South Texas girl in 1999. Court records show he claims to have committed as many as 70 killings in states including Alabama, Cal-ifornia, Arizona, Kentucky and Arkansas.
Sells’ attorneys argue that they need to know the name of the company now providing the state with pentobarbital, the drug used during executions, in order to verify the drug’s quality and protect Sells from unconstitu-tional pain and suffering.
But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Tex-as prison offi cials, who argued that information about the drug supplier must be kept secret to protect the pharmacy from threats of violence. It also found that the stock of the pentobarbital, a pow-erful sedative, falls within the ac-ceptable ranges of potency.
The court said that had Texas wanted to use a drug never used before for executions or a com-pletely new drug whose effi cien-
cy or science was unknown, the case might be different.
The Supreme Court last month rejected similar arguments from a Missouri inmate’s attor-neys who challenged the secrecy surrounding where that state ob-tained its execution drugs, and the condemned prisoner was put to death.
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PORT FOURCHON (AP) — The foundation overseeing use of fi nes from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has approved $144.5 million to complete the restoration of a beach near Grand Isle.
The National Fish and Wild-life Foundation says the project will create about 490 acres of habitat, adding about 7.5 miles of beachfront to the Caminada Headland.
It will do so by pumping more than 5 million cubic yards of sand from the Gulf of Mexico through a pipeline.
Money for the project comes from a fund set up to manage fi nes paid by Transocean Ltd. and BP PLC after the companies pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges related to the 2010 oil spill.
Supreme Court won’t stop executionThe Associated Press
$144.5M in spill � nes to be used for La. beach The Associated Press
INTERNATIONAL
100 migrants try to enter SpainMELILLA, Spain (AP) — Span-ish and Moroccan police thwarted a fresh attempt Thursday by at least 100 African migrants to scale border fences and enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla. At least 25 migrants, many with bloody bare feet, clung to the tops of fences for hours.
After a seven hour standoff, authorities coaxed most of the im-migrants down from the fence, gave them water and turned them over to Moroccan police.
The Moroccan state news agen-cy said 100 were involved in the
attempt, 64 of whom were arrested.The attempt was the latest in
a recent wave of African migrants trying to breach this unusual bor-der between northern Morocco and the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta. Success is rare, but the promise is so great that migrants from around Africa keep taking the risk.
In Thursday’s assault, several dozen migrants tried to scale the fences but most were driven off, leaving just those perched on the 20-foot fence, who shouted “Freedom!” and “Victory!” and called for the Red Cross to help them from being returned to Morocco.
The Associated Press
NATIONAL STATE/LOCAL
A sub-Saharan migrant sits on top of a pole set in a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Thursday.
SANTI PALACIOS / The Associated Press
DAVID J. PHILLIP / The Associated Press
A corrections of� cer keeps watch outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas on Sept, 21, 2011.
Two additional McDonald’s employees have been arrested after it was announced late last week that workers in the Student Union had allegedly overcharged students’ Tiger Cards and pock-eted the difference. This brings the total number of workers ar-rested in the LSU Police Depart-ment’s investigation to eight.
On March 26, four work-ers were arrested on felony theft charges, according to LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde. The arrests were the result of a months-long investigation begin-ning in October 2013, which ini-tially saw two employees booked on misdemeanor theft charges.
Recently, offi cers arrested McDonald’s employees Cassan-dra Nicole Bell, 31, of 24325 Thibodeaux St., and Ashley B. Phillips, 33, of 18117 Burnham Way, Greenwell Springs, La.
Bell and Phillips were ar-rested on March 27 and March 29, respectively, on felony theft charges, Lalonde said.
Felony thefts involve thefts of more than $1,500.
Lalonde also said LSUPD anticipates two more arrests.
The fraud scheme has led to
speculation concerning whether or not employees of other busi-nesses on campus that accept Ti-ger Cash may be committing the same crime.
Lalonde said the depart-ment makes an attempt to inform business managers to be aware of their employees’ actions, but the department may only inter-act with these businesses to an extent.
“Law enforcement agencies cannot tell a business what pro-cedures it can or cannot use.” Lalonde said.
The department is not pre-pared to release any information regarding the two additional sus-pects at this time, Lalonde said.
Chartwells, the company that operates LSU Dining, an-nounced it planned to reimburse students after details of the arrest surfaced, and some students have acknowledged their Tiger Card accounts have been credited.
LSU Dining was unable to respond to The Daily Reveille’s request for comment.
The Advocate originally re-ported the employees could have stolen more than $30,000.
Contact Reese Perkins at [email protected]
The University recently selected United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to deliver the keynote address during the commencement exercises at 7 p.m. in the PMAC on May 15. Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Barnett was also selected to deliver the Paul M. Hebert Law Center commencement address at 9:30 a.m. on May 30.
Members of the University’s administration considered recom-mendations for speakers and LSU President F. King Alexander ex-tended an invitation to Mabus, who accepted, said University media relations director Ernie Ballard.
Barnett, who was selected to speak at the Law Center commence-ment, has represented presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and worked on the preparations for televised presiden-tial debates in eight campaigns, ac-cording to a University news release.
A 2010 profi le in the Washing-ton Post said that Barnett’s “special-ty is the birth, life and death of Wash-ington careers — then he works on the afterlife. … He ushers the pow-erful to Washington, tries to make their lives fruitful while they’re here, then helps them launch second acts elsewhere.”
“Bob Barnett occupies a unique niche among the nation’s lawyers,” said Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss in a news
release. “He is a trusted counselor to dozens of globally known clients on their most sensitive matters. It’s a great honor to welcome Bob as our 2014 graduation speaker.”
During his tenure as Secretary of the Navy, Mabus has focused on improving the quality of life of sail-ors, marines and their families, as well as decreasing the Navy’s use of fossil fuels. Mabus has set a goal for the Navy and Marine Corps to obtain at least 50 percent of their energy from alternative sources by the year 2020, according to a University news release.
Mabus was elected governor of Mississippi in 1988 and served as
the youngest governor of the state in more than 150 years, the release said.
Alexander said in a release he looks forward to Mabus’ talk and the advice he will give to students as they graduate in May.
The individual diploma ceremo-nies, where bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral candidates will be recog-nized, are scheduled to take place on May 16.
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Live After Five - North Boulevard Town SquareH.O.N.O.R. - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant
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Kyndra Joi - Cafe IstanbulKermit Ruf�ns and the BBQ Swingers - Blue Nile
Friday Night Lecture Series - Highland Road Park ObservatorySouthern Soul Assembly - Manship Theatre, Shaw Center Frost/Nixon - Baton Rouge Little Theater
ComedySportz - La Nuit Comedy TheaterPaul Sanchez - Chickie Wah WahThe Sweet Substitutes - Buffa's Bar & RestaurantGabriel Iglesias - Saenger Theatre
Joel Cooper Rock Show - Lava CantinaUnderhill Family Orchestra - Gasa GasaSue Johansons - The Roux House
Michael Juan Nunez - ArtmosphereBon Soir Catin - The Blue Moon
Le'Jit - Famous TheatreDuke of Orleans Entertainment - Hangar 13
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ana Gospel Fellowship Choir at the Jones Creek Regional Branch
on Saturday, November 9, at 1:00 p.m.
For more information, call (225) 756-1150.
CRIME
Two more arrests made in McDonald’s case
GRADUATION
University announces commencement speakers
Contact Deanna Narveson at [email protected]
Deanna NarvesonStaff Writer
LSUPD expects additional arrestsReese PerkinsContributing Writer
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ACADEMICS
Graduate school costs rising
CHARLOTTE WILLCOX / The Daily Reveille
Pollen litters the sidewalk in front of the Journalism Building on Thursday.
POLLEN INVASION
While the University cel-ebrates Graduate Student Appre-ciation week, graduate students without University stipends are struggling under tens of thousands of dollars in debt, according to a study released last Tuesday from the New America Education Pol-icy Program. The study showed the median graduate borrower goes into about $40,000 in debt over the course of their degree program.
The study examined all gradu-ate programs using numbers from the National Postsecondary Stu-dent Aid Study collected in 2004, 2008 and 2012. The study in-cludes information about undergradu-ate debt as well, showing some of the perceived increases in col-lege students’ debt load can be at-tributed to expensive graduate degrees.
History graduate student Ja-son Wolfe said he thinks there is a lack of upfront information about the cost of graduate school, leading some pursuing graduate degrees to take out large loans. He said many students do this
because they believe they’ll get a job immediately after obtaining their graduate degree, but that’s not al-ways the reality.
“If you’re going into a specifi c major to get a Ph.D. to teach at a university, that’s a bit of wishful thinking,” Wolfe said.
Gary Byerly, graduate school dean, agrees with Wolfe that there is a lack of upfront information about the direct and indirect costs of graduate school at the Universi-ty and higher education in general. Neither of them believe the Uni-versity is in any way intentionally hiding the information, but both think some more could be done to make resources available.
To show the nature of the problem, Byerly tried to fi nd a price calculator for the average cost of living in Baton Rouge, but was unable to locate it on the
University’s web-site.
Master’s pro-grams were the main focus of the study, show-ing, for example, a $17,000 leap in median debt lev-els for a master’s in education from 2008 to 2012.
Byerly said the current trend for graduate degrees has master’s degrees overtaking bachelor’s de-grees as the professional degree, instead of being a stepping stone to a doctorate. He said above other factors, the main reason a student usually pursues a doctorate over a master’s degree is market-driven.
Wolfe gave the example of a master’s in engineering most like-ly landing you in a management position making a good salary. He said a master’s in humanities may leave a student without a job for a few years “before they fi nd their place in the world.”
In terms of paying for gradu-ate school, the University offers tu-ition and fee exemptions, stipends and assistantships to around half of their graduate students, averaging about $35,000 over nine months, Byerly said. Some departments, typically those with high-demand programs like science and engi-neering, can offer much more, he said. In contrast, programs whose endowments were hit with budget cuts and don’t have large private donations can only offer something in the range of $10,000.
Biology graduate student Brad Nelson said in an email it was fair-ly easy for him to acquire a tuition exemption and stipend because he’s in a higher demand fi eld.
It’s not as easy for graduate students in less-demanded areas to be exempted. The study shows around 60 percent of graduate stu-dents take out loans. Comparable numbers for the University are dif-fi cult to pin down exactly, as the loans don’t go through the Univer-sity, and the information must be offered by the graduate students, Byerly said.
Degrees don’t ensure employmentJames RichardsStaff Writer
‘If you’re going into a speci� c major to get a Ph.D. to teach at a
university, that’s a bit of wishful thinking.’
Jason Wolfehistory graduate student
Contact James Richards at [email protected]
The LSU gymnastics squad entered the Southeastern Con-ference championships relishing the prospect of winning the pro-gram’s second conference title and fi rst since 1981. But follow-ing a disappointing showing, the Tigers sat and watched as others walked up to the podium to accept the trophy they coveted.
However, the squad’s unsat-isfying fi nish at SECs served as a necessary reminder of what LSU coach D-D Breaux has preached throughout the entire season — focus solely on what’s happening now.
“I think they got out of the process [at SECs] and started looking at the prize and the end
result, but the task at hand has to be the most important thing,” Breaux said.
The task No. 3 LSU (15-5) now faces is the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional on Saturday in the PMAC. The Tigers will square off against fi ve other squads as they try to claim their second consecutive regional title and stamp their ticket to the NCAA Championships.
And although the Super Six is only two weeks away, Breaux was adamant her team’s focus was on Saturday’s meet, seeing as only two of the six competing teams will make it through to the next round.
“They know that it’s all or none right now,” Breaux said.
According to junior all-arounder Jessie Jordan, the
disappointment at SECs was perhaps the shake-up the Tigers needed to reset their focus in ev-eryday preparation as they head deeper into the postseason.
“Really, what makes people win is you win every day in the gym and in practice,” Jordan said. “I think we were so letdown by SECs that it really refocused us and gave us a wake-up call for what we need to do and what our mindset needs to be going into regionals.”
With so much riding on the meet Saturday, the past two weeks of rest and non-competition may have been the remedy LSU was searching for. It was an opportu-nity to recharge both bodies and minds that have grinded through
SportsFriday, April 4, 2014 page 5
TRACK AND FIELD
Tigers battle on the Bayou
Taylor CuretSports Contributor
BAYOU, see page 7
Tigers going back to basics for NCAA Regional
RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
LSU senior Sarie Morrison attempts a vault March 14 during the Lady Tigers’ 197.800-195.000 victory against Kentucky in the PMAC.
David GraySports Contributor
REGIONAL, see page 7
GYMNASTICS
Two weeks into its 2014 out-door season, the LSU Track and Field team will host its fourth an-nual Battle on the Bayou meet Sat-urday, a chance for LSU to show-case its talent in Baton Rouge.
The Tigers and Lady Tigers, both ranked No. 8, will open up the Bernie Moore Track Stadium to Kansas, Mississippi State, Ohio State and UCLA. Saturday’s meet will be LSU’s fi rst of its three home events this season.
“We love being able to host a meet at our home facility,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “It’s a great facility, and we’re usually able to get some good teams to come in and compete with us.”
Both LSU’s men’s and wom-en’s squads are looking to win their third straight Battle on the Bayou event with UCLA’s No. 9 Bruins and No. 13 Lady Bruins being the biggest threats.
Saturday’s event is also a homecoming for the Tigers’ 4x400 meter relay team. Shortly removed from capturing gold in the 4x400
LSU hosts fourth annual meet
NO HARD FEELINGS
Spring football game Saturday, 1:00 p.m. Keep up with the game by following Reveille sports writers Mike Gegenheimer (@Gegs_TDR) and David Gray (@dgray_tdr) on Twitter.
LSU vs. Miss. State
After Mississippi State senior pitcher Kendall Graveman’s pitch went behind Mason Katz’ head last season, LSU coach Paul Main-ieri knew the Bulldogs were frustrated.
Katz had cranked three home runs in the Tigers’ two wins that Friday and Saturday in Starkville, leading Graveman to send the pur-pose pitch on the fi rst throw of the second inning.
“I mean, we beat them every year and they get tired of getting beat by us,” Mainieri told Nola.com | The Times-Picayune after the game. “There’s no place in college baseball for doing that.”
Nola gets Friday start as Tigers, Bulldogs renew rivalry
Chandler RomeSports Writer
REMATCH, see page 7CHARLES CHAMPAGNE / The Daily Reveille
Tonight6:30 p.m.
Alex Box Stadium
Win.It’s something easier said than
done in the Southeastern Confer-ence, and the LSU’s men’s tennis team has learned that the hard way in 2014.
No. 54 LSU (11-10, 2-7 SEC) begins its four-match road trip in Knoxville, Tenn., today against No. 20 Tennessee (13-9, 2-6 SEC) followed by a visit to Athens, Ga., to face the No. 8 Bulldogs (12-6, 7-1 SEC) on Sunday.
Two top-20 matchups over the course of a weekend is common for the Tigers, as they compete in a conference that boasts 11 schools in the top 50, including six in the top 20.
“It’s a diffi cult conference,” said LSU coach Jeff Brown. “It’s certainly tough on us being so young this year and lacking a lit-tle experience. Any spot that you have, whether it’s your youth or your inexperience or injury, you’re going to struggle in tennis in the SEC.”
Though LSU and Tennessee share near-identical SEC records, the Volunteers enjoy a higher na-tional ranking, which Brown said is evidence of the conference’s strength.
And while the Tigers have won at least one match for three weeks in a row, continuing that streak will be a challenge this weekend.
“We’re at the point where ev-ery match is another opportunity,” Brown said. “Tennessee and Geor-gia have been traditional powers for years. We’re looking to play a hard match. We’re looking to play good, and if we have the opportu-nity to win, we’d be delighted to accept that.”
The Lady Tigers will wel-come the women’s tennis teams of No. 45 Tennessee (9-10, 3-6 SEC) and No. 2 Georgia (15-3, 8-1 SEC) to W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium today and Sunday, respectively.
Echoing Brown, LSU coach Julia Sell said every week is a challenge for the No. 54 Lady Ti-gers (10-10, 2-8 SEC) in confer-ence play, and this weekend will
be no different.“We are the strongest confer-
ence, hands down, top to bottom,” Sell said. “Our entire conference is probably top-20 teams, but we all beat up on each other. … We are the toughest conference. There’s no one else that comes close.”
With fi ve SEC teams in the top 10 of the women’s rankings, LSU’s contest against Georgia will be its sixth top-10 matchup of the season.
And although the Lady Ti-gers are 0-6 in those matches, each week in the SEC offers LSU op-portunities to notch a marquee victory.
“They’re not bad losses, but we can’t get those wins,” Sell said. “We’re going to have to play our best tennis to beat a team like [Georgia]. We’ve shown we can go tight with a lot of top-10 teams; we just haven’t pulled off the win yet. We’re going to focus on Friday fi rst.”
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TENNIS
Both LSU teams to face stiff conference competition
RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior Chris Simpson returns a volley Sunday during the men’s tennis doubles match against Florida at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.
Taylor CuretSports Contributor
Contact Taylor Curet at [email protected]
SOFTBALL
Tigers’ brutal stretch finishes with Tennessee series
The LSU softball team just can’t seem to catch a break.
The Tigers have experienced one of the toughest stretches in the country, playing two top-10 teams and the defending national champion in the last three week-ends.
Next up? LSU will face the No. 2 team in the nation with a potential National Player of the Year on the mound.
LSU (20-15, 2-7 Southeast-ern Conference) will end the most brutal part of its schedule and begin a seven-game home stand with a three-game series against Tennessee (31-3, 8-1 SEC) start-ing today at Tiger Park.
“We knew these fi ve weeks were a very rough stretch, the roughest I’ve been a part of since I’ve been part of this program,” said coach Beth Torina. “It is what it is. Our goal is just to stay the course and stay positive and know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel here in the next
couple weeks.”The Tigers’ rough start to
conference play has dropped them to last place in the SEC, a far cry from their top 20 rank-ing to begin the season. A major problem has been the team’s fail-ures in close games, going 1-5 in games decided by two runs or less since March 8.
LSU did gain some confi -dence entering the series with a midweek 14-1 victory against UL-Monroe Tuesday. An 11-run fourth inning, including a grand slam from junior utility player Kailey McCasland, keyed the Ti-gers to victory.
The benefi t to this series is a long-awaited return home to Ti-ger Park, with LSU playing its fi rst home game in nearly three weeks. Torina said her players’ spirits should be lifted with the return of a home crowd and fa-miliar setting.
“We’ve been on the road for a long time. It’s tough on our kids,” Torina said. “They’re tired. They’re worn out. And it’s always great to be in front of the Tigers’ fans. They really boost our spirits and give us confi dence. It’s nice to have people on our side.”
Tennessee comes into the se-ries as one of the hottest teams in
the nation, winning its last eight games. The Lady Volunteers are led by an offense with 41 home runs and a pitching staff with a combined earned run average under 2.00.
Senior pitch-er Ellen Renfroe is the dominant force of Tennes-see, sporting a 21-0 record with a 1.29 ERA, while taking three SEC Pitcher of the Week awards this season alone.
Renfroe was essential in the Lady Volunteers’ sweep last
week against then-No. 4 Florida. She received the win in all three games, allowing nine hits and four runs with 20 strikeouts in
her 16 innings of work.
Torina said Renfroe is proba-bly the best pitch-er in the country, but this is the type of challenge that brought her play-ers to LSU.
Most impor-tantly, this week-end’s games are seen as a launch-
ing pad for the rest of SEC play. If the Tigers can have success in
the fi nal series of such a treach-erous stretch, some players say it can lead to confi dence for the rest of the season.
“Basically, we’re at probably the lowest point of our season right now,” said freshman pitcher Baylee Corbello. “You really can only go up from here. We know what we need to work on, and I feel like we will be prepared.”
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The often chipper, serene skipper wasn’t done there.
“I just can’t respect people who do things like that,” Main-ieri added that day. “It’s just not how the game is supposed to be played.”
Graveman’s gone. Katz is gone. And when the defending College World Series runner-up Bulldogs (20-10, 6-3 Southeast-ern Conference) begin a three-game set in Baton Rouge tonight, the feelings of animosity stem-ming from the incident will have departed too.
Instead, Mainieri and the Ti-gers (21-8-1, 3-5-1 SEC) antici-pate a clean rekindling of an SEC rivalry dating back to the days of legendary managers Skip Bert-man and Ron Polk.
“That was an isolated inci-dent,” Mainieri said Thursday. “[Mississippi State coach] John [Cohen] and I talked over the summer, and I really believe it’s behind us. We don’t have hard feelings about it.”
Mainieri originally told re-porters Thursday he would start freshman southpaw Jared Poché to give Aaron Nola a full six days rest.
But the weather forecast forced Mainieri to change plans, telling The Daily Reveille that he will start Nola on Friday night be-cause of expected rain Saturday.
Opposing Nola is crafty redshirt junior Ross Mitchell, who Cohen relied on last season out of the bullpen early in games, but uses his funky offspeed style
against righties to find success.Both teams are unsure of a
Sunday starter.With the tensions toned down
from last season’s debacle, LSU senior designated hitter Sean McMullen said the Tigers’ focus is breaking out of their SEC dol-drums and ascending the Western Division standings.
McMullen asserted the series wasn’t circled before the season and there’s no added pressure on the team, even though Main-ieri has not lost a series to the Bulldogs in his seven previous seasons.
“This is a new team, and we’re playing like we’re a new team,” McMullen said. “I’m treating it as another SEC se-ries. I don’t have any bad blood toward them.”
meter at the NCAA Indoor Cham-pionships on March 15, the LSU squad comprised of juniors Vernon Norwood and Quincy Downing and sophomores Darrell Bush and Cyril Grayson will show off their speed to Baton Rouge folks for the first time since winning the title.
While many Louisiana natives for LSU’s teams will have family and friends coming to support them, competing on familiar ground isn’t necessarily an advantage, Shaver said.
“In our sport, the 400 meters is 400 meters, no matter where you’re at,” Shaver said. “But this
is a good, competitive facility. I think the biggest thing outdoors is you have to deal with the elements. And you never know what the ele-ments are going to be.”
The weekend is also another chapter in the 4x400 relay team’s
quest for adding an outdoor cham-pionship trophy to its hardware.
The men’s 4x400 team joins an LSU sprint core that swept its competition in last year’s Battle
on the Bayou. The Tigers won ev-ery sprint event in the 2013 meet, while their only other first place finish came from junior discus thrower Rodney Brown.
The Lady Tigers retain a suc-cessful history at the annual meet
as well. In last year’s Battle on the Bayou, they won 10 of 18 events.
Beyond the accolades LSU seeks this weekend, the meet is an-other step for the Tigers and Lady Tigers to improve and evaluate their progress at this point in the season.
“A lot of kids will be opening up for the first time in an individual event,” Shaver said. “The outdoor season goes by pretty fast. They’re trying to nail down some perfor-mances. This is really a starting point for us.”
11 consecutive weeks of nonstop action.
Junior all-arounder Rheagan Courville, one of only two gym-nasts in the country earning All-American honors for all events and the all-around in the 2014 regular season, believes the rest has been invaluable in helping her and her teammates return to focusing on the details of their performances and not the scores they receive.
“We’ve been able to focus on things we wanted to fix and im-prove on instead of focusing on only hitting sets,” Courville said. “We had really become outcome-
based and score driven, and we needed to get back to the place where we aren’t worried about all that.”
Fortunately for the Tigers, they’ll have one less thing to worry about this weekend. Last year, LSU had to travel to Colum-bus, Ohio, to capture the NCAA Regional title. But the regionals will be in their home arena, so the squad can further rest up while teams from Stanford, Auburn, Ar-izona, Kent State and Iowa State make the journey to Baton Rouge.
“I don’t think some of the girls realize yet how big of a deal it is for us to not be travel-ing this week,” said senior All-American Sarie Morrison. “It’s
basically like a rest week for us even though we have a huge meet at the end.”
Saturday will be LSU’s final meet to build momentum before it heads back to the same venue in Birmingham, Ala., where it fell short two weeks ago at the SEC Championship, and Breaux is looking for her team to seize that momentum early and have it car-ry the squad throughout the meet.
“I know that this team has the capabilities, but the door needs to be opened and we need to slam through it,” Breaux said.
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bAyOu, from page 5
‘This is really a starting point for us.’
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“I will agree with you that Christians don’t need to try tricking people into approaching us about our faith, and that the “Adam” campaign is a passive way to engage people. However, I disagree with you where you say ‘The only honest and open dialogue we need is Jesus Talks and the presence of nine churches less than a block away from campus. The resources exist, and everyone knows.’ Firstly, not all students know of these resources. Secondly, telling students that their dialogue isn’t needed because someone else already shares their common viewpoint with others would be like me telling an opinion writer that her columns are unnecessary because there is already enough dialogue on campus and in our national media discussing the same issues. The beauty of a public university such as ours is that there so many viewpoints on all issues of life, and dialogue is how we get to experience this beauty and learn, understand and appreciate other’s values, beliefs, and experience. There are ways for Christians (I include myself among them) to share our faith in an honest, up-front, respectful, non-obtrusive way, and I hope that this column doesn’t discourage you from doing that in any way. I am sure Ms. Dunbar doesn’t believe that her opinions and viewpoints on Chris-tianity are more worthy of sharing than yours, but she does seem to imply it with this column.”– tzw
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Enough is Enough
A series of commercials titled “It can wait” discourages texting while driving. These commercials have had an effect all over the country. Some states have taken it upon themselves to ban cellphone use while driving altogether.
But then we have Louisiana, which is still adamant against banning phone use while driving for reasons unknown to myself. Never mind that more than 3,000 people were killed in car accidents involv-ing a distracted driver in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We should outlaw phones while driv-ing if only for the sake of those drivers in the fast lane going 15 mph slower than ev-eryone else because they are chatting on their phones.
You know who you are.Last week, the latest plea for a law
banning cell phones behind the wheel was shot down in a House committee meet-ing. Some remarked that the government shouldn’t act as a babysitter with issues like that. Others said reading the newspa-per while driving isn’t illegal, so talking on the phone shouldn’t be either.
That’s the best they could do? I would love to hear a real argument against the cell
phone ban next time it’s suggested. I’m glad the people governing our state are so concerned with our safety.
I guess that is asking too much. They can ban tobacco on campus and not wor-ry about being called our babysitters, but when it comes to road safety they would rather stay silent.
For the record, reading while driving should be illegal as well. A law banning phones while driving would only improve our already dangerous roads. I don’t under-stand the hold up.
People are starting to understand the risks involved with cell phones and read-ing while driving, but little is being done to combat the problem.
Louisiana has a history of relaxed driving laws. For instance, seat belt laws were only enforced after much of the coun-try had already implemented them. You can still hitch a ride to Tigerland with eight people in the bed of a truck.
I’m not saying I’ve never done it, but there comes a point when safety should trump the police and governmental yearn-ing for approval.
A study conducted by the Univer-sity of Utah concluded that drivers on the phone are more impaired than drunk driv-ers. While this is just one study, it still reveals the truth so many people like to ignore while nonchalantly taking a phone call or checking Twitter on the road.
To make matters worse, as college stu-dents, we have the mentality that nothing bad will happen to us. So we make phone
calls, take selfies, text and Facetime at stoplights. It’s unfortunate because no one is exempt from a possible accident.
We forget that these accidents are just that — accidents — and phone-and reading-related accidents are the most avoidable.
It’s so easy. Just put down the phone for the nine-minute car ride to Chipotle and enjoy some music. I promise nothing inter-esting is happening on Instagram anyway.
I know I’m not the only person who gets a little nervous when my driver is snapchatting while simultaneously navi-gating through 5 p.m. traffic. My hand un-consciously creeps to the steering wheel, ready to take action if my less concerned driver makes a wrong move.
Backseat driving is annoying, but I would rather yell at my driver to get off the phone than be found lying in a ditch by emergency responders.
The annoying part is that this entire scenario could be avoided if legislature just banned cell phones while driving. The law may not catch on right away, but for the sake of passengers, let’s see some action.
Annette Sommers is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dublin, Calif.
Time to fight distracted driving, ban cell phones600 WORDS OF SOMMERAnnette SommerSColumnist
Contact Annette Sommers at [email protected]; Twitter: @AnnetteSommers
photo illustration by LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille
Texting and reading while driving are both still legal in Louisiana due to legislation that was struck down.
We’ve all been dumped, found ourselves eating ice cream straight out of the carton and sipping brandy while watching “Golden Girls” reruns.
OK, maybe that’s just me. However, if Louisiana law-
makers pull through on a new bill, alcohol-infused frozen treats might be at a store near you be-fore summer is up.
There will be no need to hold a carton and a bottle anymore. This frees up a hand for tissues to dry one’s tears.
HB471 has been taking some fl ack as legislators quar-rel, but if passed, it would al-low Louisiana grocers to stock alcoholic ice cream and other
frozen goodies. Other states are already on
board with this idea; some have been for quite some time.
Rep. Ray Garofalo said he worries about a loophole in the bill that might allow minors to have the ability to buy products with alcoholic-content. The bill was pulled until an age-requirement was added to the purchase of frozen alcoholic products.
It’s high time that this state sets aside useless pieces of leg-islation dealing with education reform and poverty to take on things of greater importance like booze-laced Neapolitan ice cream and all its wonders.
These lawmakers should have initially thought about age requirements for the purchase of these products in the bill’s fi rst stages.
Naturally, I do not want to see minors buying something
along the lines of “Gin and Ber-ries” thinking they were getting Ben and Jerry’s.
Alcohol is used in various recipes and is a big part of the culinary world. The alcohol usu-ally is evaporated out of the food when it is cooked and has little to no measurable content.
This is not the case with the ice cream. Therefore, I support making strict age restrictions on who can purchase the stuff.
SnoBar Cocktails is a line of alcoholic ice-pops and ice cream started in Arizona. The company assures that each serving of Sno-Bar ice-pops and ice cream has the same alcohol percentage of a full cocktail.
For Louisiana, one of the brands hoping to make it in gro-cery store freezers is Buzz Bar. Buzz Bar’s ice cream bars are made with whiskey among other alcohols. Now that’s something I’d try sitting beside the pool while
reading some Hemingway. Buzz Bar’s ice cream has
a rather low alcoholic content. This is a point the company’s lobbyist tried to make last Thurs-day to go ahead and push the bill through.
Certainly the content is not as high as other competitors’ in the new industry, but I believe no exceptions should be made on the purchase of any product with alcoholic content. This goes for fruitcake too.
I’ve heard some crazy things in my day, and if the youth of America keeps partying on like Wayne and Garth, a purchase age might have to be added to Dr. Tichenor’s mouthwash.
All in all, the folks down at the Capitol are doing the right thing by reassessing the situation and adding age restrictions to the products among other things.
However, this kind of thing should not create the
conundrum it did. Should more serious legislation continue be-ing set on the back burner for trifl es like this, I will be eating an entire tub of whatever has the best bourbon in it to drown my woes because of this state’s foolish lawmakers.
Justin Stafford is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Walker, La.
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House bill violates women’s right to abortion
If you’re a woman in Loui-siana, there comes a time when you realize that the entire state is against you.
Last year, the Center for American Progress revealed that Louisiana is the worst state to live in if you’re female. With a small percentage of congresswomen and the dismal ratio of practicing female OB-GYNs, our state is an unwelcoming one to women.
In an effort to keep this sta-tus, the Louisiana House of Rep-resentatives passed a bill that is actually entitled, the “Louisiana Unsafe Abortion Protection Act.” It is predicted that the bill, other-wise known as HB388, will close at least three of the state’s fi ve abortion clinics.
Instead of advocating for the protection of women, our state is actively fi ghting for the protec-tion of unsafe abortions. Louisi-ana politicians would rather take women’s right to bodily autono-my and watch them suffer from unsafe abortions than protect them.
The name of the bill itself is misleading and offensive. Much of the rhetoric surrounding this bill is concerned with making abortions safe for the women who want them. However, That’s the opposite of what HB388 would accomplish.
HB388 requires abortion-providing physicians to have “admitting privileges” at a hos-pital within at least 30 miles of
wherever the abortion is per-formed. Admitting privileges let doctors admit a patient for hospital treatment.
Although this may sound like legislative mumbo-jumbo, it has incredibly dangerous implica-tions for the women of this state.
A similar bill was imple-mented in Texas less than half a year ago. Using the same lan-guage as HB388, the Texas bill was responsible for closing about one-third of the state’s abortion providers. In a state of 26 mil-lion people, there are now only 19 clinics.
Louisiana — with only fi ve abortion clinics to its name — will likely suffer the same fate.
The writer and sponsor of HB388 is Rep. Katrina Jackson, a chairwoman of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and an African-American woman.
This is particularly inter-esting because African-Amer-ican women have consistently received the most abortions out of
any race or ethnicity in America. According to the Guttmacher In-stitute, African-American women receive 37 percent of all abor-tions, compared to only 34 per-cent of white women and 22 per-cent of Latina women.
While many may cry for adoption instead of abortion, adoption clearly does not favor African-Americans. In 2010, the Center for Economic Policy Research found that non-black children were seven times more likely to be adopted than black children were. Even when black children were adopted, they cost signifi cantly less than non-black children.
Therefore, Louisiana, with an African-American population more than twice the national av-erage, is not the place to eradi-cate three-fi fths of abortion clin-ics. Although it is not Jackson’s job to legislate on behalf of the women of her same race, I doubt that HB388 is a bill that accu-rately represents the thoughts of
African-American women in this state.
There are countless protec-tions against things like guns which have no other purpose but to maim and kill both people and animals. However, the legal-ization of abortion has various benefi ts.
In all countries where abor-tion has been legalized, the chances of dying in childbirth are 10 times greater than one’s chanc-es from dying due to an abortion.
Additionally, once women no longer have to face the burden of having children they cannot pro-vide for or do not want at the time of conception, they can fulfi ll other goals like education or pur-sue more demanding employment opportunities.
Jackson said on the House fl oor that HB388 was “about the safety of women.”
This is a blatant lie. Either that or believers of this statement have no idea what safety means.
Time after time, it has been
proven that restricting access to safe, legal abortions does not stop abortions from happening.
Limitations like the ones posed in HB388 do nothing but force women to either resort to unsafe methods to induce miscar-riage or have children that they cannot afford or simply do not want.
Despite personal views on the subject, abortion is a right that women, not only in this country, but everywhere, should have. Vi-olating a conscious, fully grown being’s — meaning no fetuses — bodily autonomy is a devious crime against humanity.
SidneyRose Reynen is an 18-year-old fi lm and art history freshman from New Orleans.
Contact SidneyRose Reynen at [email protected];
Twitter: @srosereynen
OUR LADY OF ANGSTSIDNEYROSE REYNENColumnist
all information is from the Guttmacher Institute and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
• 71% of pregnancies in Louisiana resulted in live births. Only 14% resulted in abortion. • Abortions in Louisiana make up 1.2% of all US abortions. • In 2011, 89% of counties in the U.S. had no abortion clinic. • In 2011, 92% of parishes in Louisiana had no abortion clinics. 63% of Louisiana’s women lived in these parishes. • In 2010, 86% of abortions in Louisiana were completed before the end of the fi rst trimester.• If Roe v. Wade were overturned, abortion would be banned in Louisiana. • Louisiana women must undergo ultrasounds and counseling designed to discourage her from obtaining an abortion. • Less than 1% of women experience complications due to an abortion.
Abortion in Louisiana
Louisiana Legislature should allow alcoholic frozen treats
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with regular bacteria sampling and analysis, is used to develop a system that focuses on predic-tions rather than reactions after an outbreak occurs.
Deng said outbreaks typically occur around the winter holidays and early January, but not always. Outbreaks are typically related to the consumption of raw oysters.
John Supan, assistant profes-sor at the LSU AgCenter’s School of Renewable Natural Resources, said while norovirus is classically associated with oysters, people may also be exposed by eating raw vegetables like spinach.
Supan said oysters can be risk-ier to eat because people consume them raw and whole.
Supan said people infected with norovirus may experience fl u-like symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, headaches and diarrhea.
The virus spreads across hu-mans in congested areas, like hos-pitals or senior care housing, the same way a common cold does, Deng said.
Supan said these tests look for bacteria that occur in fecal materi-al, which is another way norovirus may spread.
“Sick people with fl u symp-toms shouldn’t be out on the wa-ter,” Supan said. “And people should not discharge any sewage overboard.”
Supan said thoroughly cook-ing oysters helps reduce the risk.
“You’re not eating the gut of a shrimp, you’re just eating the tail,” Supan said.
Supan said consuming the gut of an animal is more dangerous than eating the regular fl esh.
Deng said if contamination occurs during low-tide periods, the
likelihood of an oyster becoming infected increases, as the infected water concentration is higher.
“Oysters work like pumps,” Deng said. “When they pump water through their tissues, it can spread.”
Supan said oysters pump ap-proximately 8 liters of water per hour.
In the past, government agen-cies dealt with such problems as they occurred, rather than seeking methods to prevent them.
Deng said at least three cases must be reported to a government agency for an outbreak to be de-clared; if it is proved that the sick individuals ate raw oysters from the same area, the area will be closed, and the oysters will be recalled.
“But they may have already been sold in different states,” Deng said. “The cost can be very high, up to millions of dollars.”
Supan said outbreaks can have negative economic consequenc-es, particularly in the parishes in which they occur because individ-uals who work as harvesters cannot go to work.
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Jesus Christ is our savior, and that is my personal belief, but I’m not telling you to believe that, and I’m not asking you to agree with me, but it’s just me stating my belief,” Pope said. “That’s all it is.”
Director of CRU at LSU Darin Travis said the concept behind the “I Agree With Adam” campaign can be traced back to as early as 1999 when he helped execute a similar campaign called “I Agree With Matt” at Purdue University.
Travis said the point behind not providing a lot of information about the campaign is to cultivate and inspire conversation among students to share and learn about their religious lives.
Pope said Roethele chose to be the one to offer his testimony of what God has done in his life and why he chooses to believe what he does.
“He is one student of the many of us who is deciding to share his personal testimony and journey in his relationship with God in front of many other people,” Pope said.
Though it has raised many questions and even controversy among University students, Pope said the shirt is just a resource for people to use to fi nd out more information, but she does not
understand why anyone would fi nd the shirt oppressive or offensive.
Pope made the comparison of wearing the “I Agree With Adam” shirt to wearing a shirt supporting a musician or band.
“What if I dislike that band? Am I going to be upset because you’re wearing that shirt? It’s hon-estly just a shirt,” Pope said.
Electrical engineering senior Chantal Trosclair said, as a Chris-tian, she has no problem with the actual message of the “I Agree With Adam” campaign but she does not agree with the way it was executed, specifi cally in its adver-tising.
Trosclair said at fi rst, not knowing anything about the cam-paign or what is was about was confusing. After looking on the campaign’s website and Facebook page, she said she still had no
better understanding of the cam-paign or the event it advertised.
When she fi nally talked to some of her classmates who were wearing the shirt, Trosclair said she completely supported the idea be-hind Christians spreading their be-liefs but not the vague way it was executed.
“The way it was perceived by many people was that it was secretive and weird and so vague that they felt like they were being tricked into something,” Trosclair said.
As an active Christian, Tro-sclair said it is important to be up-front and forthcoming about what the goal of an event like this is.
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“They say we’re a department that doesn’t bring money in, so we’re low on the list to get fund-ing,” Ryan said. “That’s not OK. We bring more to the University than just money. We bring culture.”
Until the building is renovat-ed, students must work in condi-tions they fear are harmful to their health and safety.
“This place will kill some-one,” Ryan said. “It will. Give it time. Someone will be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Ernie Ballard, University me-dia relations director, said in an email that the University has re-quested and continues to request funds for the building’s renovation.
“The state previously pro-vided some funding for the reno-vation, and we await additional dollars through the capital outlay process,” Ballard said.
But those funds are tied up un-til the state is able to fi nd the mon-ey. University students plan to hold another protest at 9 a.m. on April 8 at the Capitol Park Museum in downtown Baton Rouge.
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ADAM, from page 1
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