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Danielle Champagne enrolled in the University in 2006 , studied rigor-ously for years while working full-time, and last year, she withdrew.

Champagne’s story is not un-common. About 34 percent of stu-dents who entered the University in fall 2005 did not return for their se-nior year, said Robert Kuhn , associ-ate vice chancellor for the Offi ce of Budget and Planning .

Kuhn said retention rates have increased steadily since 1988 when the University began implementing stricter admission requirements , but the administration is still working to improve the percentage of graduat-ing students.

He said 58.9 percent of the 2002 freshman class graduated within six years — an almost 20 percent in-crease, from 39.4 percent, since the 1987 freshman class.

“We’re not where we want to be as an institution, but we’re a far better institution in terms of the qual-ity of faculty, students and graduates than we were in 1987,” Kuhn said. “We’ve come a long way in a rela-tively short time.”

Many degree plans are based on a four-year schedule, but the national evaluation standard for retention rates allots students six years to graduate. Only 26.2 percent of students who entered the University in 2002 grad-

The Student Union held the grand opening ceremony of the fi rst fl oor lounge Wednesday afternoon, announcing the an-ticipated fi nal name for the new

fi rst-fl oor area.“This is offi cially the Live

Oak Lounge ,” Chancellor Mi-chael Martin announced to cheers and applause, as University and student representatives cut the ribbon, marking the completion of Phase I renovations of the LSU Student Union .

The new lounge opened in July with the then-temporary name Live Oak Lounge. Students had the chance to suggest names

for the new space and vote on the fi nal three choices — Tiger Con-nection, Tiger Terminal and Live Oak Lounge .

“This project has been a long time in the works,” said Shirley Plakidas , LSU Student Union di-rector . “It’s taken three years to get to this point, but here we are celebrating the completion [of Phase I].”

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[From left to right] Chancellor Michael Martin, LSU Student Union Director Shirley Plakidas, Union Board Chair Allen Womble, Student Goverment president Stuart Watkins, associate vice chancellor for Finance and Administrative Services and interim director for Student Life Eric Monday and LSU system President John Lombardi cut the ribbon at the offi cal grand opening of the Live Oak Lounge Wednesday afternoon.

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LSU’s football game against Florida will be the fi rst step in a plan to one day make the purple-and-gold masses in Tiger Stadium go green.

Until this sea-son, Tiger Stadium was the only football stadium in the South-eastern Conference not to have a game-day recycling pro-gram for its patrons.

That will change Oct. 10 as recycling bins will be intro-duced into Death Valley for the Florida game in hopes that the estimated 150,000 visitors on campus will utilize them , said Andres Harris, University Solid Waste

By Xerxes A. WilsonStaff Writer

Death Valley recycling program to begin during Fla. game

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[Center] Bryce Bawcom, sociology junior, ties a garbage bag while cleaning in Tiger Stadium on Sept. 20. Trash is currently sent to a landfi ll, but a recycling program is being implemented.

Name revealed at grand opening

LOUNGE, see page 19

RETENTION, see page 14

Students’ fall favorite programs premiere, page 9.

RECYCLING, see page 14

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In the Sept. 23 article entitled “ROTC training 150 future offi cers,” Braden Bawcom’s name was misspelled.

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Obama to world: Don’t expect America to fi x it all

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Presi-dent Barack Obama challenged world leaders Wednesday to shoulder more of the globe’s critical burdens.

African leaders ally to eradicate deadly malaria

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Afri-can states launched a campaign on Wednesday to stop malaria from killing an estimated 1 million peo-ple on their continent each year.

Ga. residents warned of stagnant water after fl ood

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia resi-dents returning Wednesday to homes soaked by days of torrential rains were warned of a hidden danger — disease-causing bacteria and jagged debris harbored by stagnant, murky water. Standing water up to several feet deep was still pooled in some neighborhoods, including parts of Cobb County in the Atlanta area. Anyone venturing into a fl ooded yard or basement should wear rub-ber waders and surgical gloves, and items that were submerged should be cleaned with disinfectant, state emer-gency offi cials said.Obama wants worlwide end of fossil fuel subsidies

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on the world to end massive government subsidies that encourage the use of fossil fu-els blamed for global warming. The president, who is set to host the G-20

economic summit opening Thursday in Pittsburgh, will propose a gradual elimination, with the time frame to be determined, according to White House offi cials.“Later this week, I will work with my colleagues at the G-20 to phase out fossil fuel subsi-dies so that we can better address our climate challenge,” Obama said Tuesday at the United Nations global warming summit.

Grandmother gets 44 months in green-card scam

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas grand-mother who acknowledged run-ning a scheme in which her family members married scores of for-eigners seeking to stay in the Unit-ed States was sentenced Wednes-day to nearly four years in prison. Maria Refugia Camarillo, 72, her graying hair pulled back in a pony-tail, used a walker during her court appearance and sat calmly as she was sentenced to 44 months in fed-eral prison.

Jindal urges expansion of offshore drilling

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal is urg-ing the Minerals Management Ser-vice to expand offshore drilling, but to also pay Louisiana more to fi x the damage offshore drilling has caused to the state’s coast. Jindal staked out his position on offshore drilling in a letter to the MMS, which is considering a Bush-era proposal to expand offshore drill-ing. In the letter, Jindal said more drilling in federal waters would meet a host of needs the nation has — from creating jobs to reducing its dependency on foreign oil. But he added that MMS has failed to recognize the damage offshore en-ergy production has done on Loui-siana.US offi cials cite climate change threats in South

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Top U.S. wildlife offi cials said Wednesday they will try to save barrier islands,

La. unemployment taxes to rise, benefi ts to drop

(AP) — A rise in the ranks of Louisiana’s unemployed will force business taxes to increase and state benefi ts for jobless workers to shrink next year, moves designed to keep the state’s unemployment trust fund from being drained. The adjustment to begin Jan. 1 was triggered Wednesday when the Revenue Estimating Conference, which forecasts state income and fund balances, agreed to projec-tions that show a drop in the un-employment fund balance.

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HONG KONG (AP) — Months af-ter abruptly resigning as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin resurfaced in Hong Kong on Wednesday more moderate in tone and better versed in international affairs, possibly lay-ing the fi rst brick for a 2012 White House bid.

fi ght invasive species and work with companies to restore wildlife habitat as they confront the risks posed by climate change across the South. Sam Hamilton, new direc-tor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said the South is on the forefront of climate change threats and that coastal wildlife refuges from North Carolina to Louisiana are endangered.

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Student Government is hosting its annual bus trip to the Mississippi State football game this weekend.

About 260 students with 10 chaperones will leave by bus at 3:30 a.m. Saturday for the six-hour trip to Starkville, Miss., said SG Director of Athletics Melissa Hart at the SG meeting Wednesday.

Hart said the 11:30 a.m. kickoff caused the early Baton Rouge depar-ture time.

Because SG sponsors paid for the majority of the costs, students

only had to pay $75 for tickets and a shirt, Hart said.

Hart said the game against Mis-sissippi State was selected for the trip because it was the most fi nancially responsible game to attend.

“We had a really heavy interest in the bus trip program this year,” Hart said. “Although it’s an early game, we are really excited about it.”

Hart addressed the Senate on Wednesday about complaints re-garding the bag check line at Tiger Stadium.

Hart said she had received nu-merous complaints about how slow the bag check lines moved and said she is working with the Athletic De-partment to fi gure out a solution be-fore the game against Florida.

“I recommend if you don’t need

a bag, that don’t bring them,” Hart said. “It will speed up the process for you and everyone.”

The senate enrolled SG Concur-rent Resolution 14, 15, 16 which ap-proved the appointments of the three remaining members of the PSIF committee allowing the committee to take full function.

As a result, SG Bill 10 — which would have allocated a $2,400 from the Student Senate Contingency Ac-count for Biograds to offset the costs of a Biosymposium — was tabled until the PSIF committee meeting this Tuesday.

The Biograds were unable to re-ceive funding last week because of the PSIF committee — that would normally allocate such funds — was

THE DAILY REVEILLE PAGE 3THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As Todd Graves , founder of Raising Cane’s, strode into the Cox Communications Center for Student Athletes Wednesday with Raising Cane II at his side, he revealed one of the best things about being an entrepreneur — being able to take his dog any-where.

Graves was on campus to speak to about 75 guests at the kick-off event for the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute’s new fellows program, which will be-gin in January.

“The fellows program is a year-long work-study program designed to connect top students

to top companies for mentoring, networking and summer intern-ship opportuni-ties,” said Jill Roshto , director of development at the entrepreneur-ship institute.

Chance l l o r Michael Martin was on hand to introduce Graves, who he cited as a great example for ambitious entrepreneurial stu-dents.

“He knew chickens had fi n-gers long before I even knew they had hands,” Martin said.

Martin praised the entrepre-neurship institute for its progress and said he would look to it for advice to help the University grow.

“We need the institute to help us as an institution learn how to

take prudent and reasonable risks to innovate ... and be more success-ful,” Martin said.

Graves told the story of how he began Raising Cane’s against all odds based on passion and “liv-ing the business.”

He started the business with Craig Silvey , University gradu-ate, who submitted the business plan as a school project and got the worst grade in the class — B minus.

“People said, ‘You have zero money, no multi-year experience in restaurant management, and you want to serve only chick-en fi ngers on the North Gates of LSU? You must be crazy,’”

A newly launched, student-created Web site is dedicated to becoming the most current, reli-able source for University profes-sor ratings, course discussions and reviews of local businesses.

Joshua Duke , business man-agement and construction man-agement senior, created and de-signed the site, appropriately called EverythingLSU.com. His goal is to fi ll the niche held by other sites like University Tools which he said are no longer fre-quently updated.

“A few years ago, University Tools was useful, but it gets more

outdated each year,” Duke said. “I might have fi ve or six professors and only be able to fi nd one or two of them [on University Tools].”

EverythingLSU features a message board for every course offered at the University, as well as course and professor ratings, and reviews of local bars, res-taurants and boutiques are com-ing soon. Duke said the message boards are the main focus of the site.

“I wanted message boards to be a way for people to connect in their classes,” Duke said. “If they need a tutor, they can get a tutor. If they don’t understand something that is discussed, they can get help on the problem.”

Brian Simpson , physics se-nior, said the site is promising but because it is so new, there aren’t enough users yet to reach the site’s full capacity for use.

“The point is to be able to share and discuss your class, but this won’t work unless other peo-ple in your class actually use the Web site,” Simpson said. “Pro-fessors have a hard time persuad-ing some students to even come to class, so we’ll see. I plan on checking the site regularly to see if it is catching on.”

Duke said the site is growing by the day and had 1,400 visitors within four days of launching.

Chemical engineering junior Allison Belgard said she will use the site for the course and profes-sor ratings. She has already read reviews posted to the site and plans to submit some of her own.

Belgard said she likes the “organized and comprehensive” quality of the site, but is concerned with one factor of the reviews.

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TECHNOLOGY

Cane’s founder speaks at entrepreneurship ceremonyWork-study fellows program kicks off

Forum has message boards, ratings

Final PSIF members appointed

By Ryan BuxtonStaff Writer

By Ryan BuxtonStaff Writer

Student-created Web site provides student resources

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Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves speaks Wednesday night in the Cox Center at the kick-off event for an entrepreneurship program with his dog, Raising Cane II.

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Joshua Duke, creator of EverythingLSU.com, discusses the Web site he created to share course information on Monday afternoon.

By Xerxes A. WilsonStaff Writer

Bus trip to be held this weekendSTUDENT GOVERNMENT

SG, see page 19

‘‘‘He knew chickens had fi ngers long

before I even knew they had hands.’

Michael Martinchancellor

ENTREPRENEUR, see page 14

WEB SITE, see page 19

As the Republican Party struggles to discover a new iden-tity while Democrats hold power, attention is already focused on the potential candidates for the 2012 presidential election.

A Sept. 17 straw poll from the 2009 Value Voters Summit in Washington D.C. listed several prominent Republican names for 2012 — including Gov. Bobby Jin-da l.

Jindal only ranked seventh with less than 5 percent of the vote, but the governor has been red fl agged by Republicans as a pos-sible fresh national face since the 2008 election.

Jindal announced in December 2008 he would not run for president in 2012. He said he would instead focus his attention on his 2011 re-election campaign.

But the governor’s announce-ment left room for him to change his mind.

Robert Hogan , associate pro-fessor of political science, said Jin-dal’s posturing suggests national ambitions despite his statements he won’t take the center stage.

“To be a viable candidate for president, you need to court the very conservative wing of the Re-publican Party,” Hogan said. “And that seems to be what he’s doing.”

Hogan pointed to several policy stances Jindal has taken since 2008 indicating a play to the socially and fi scally conservative voter base.

Hogan said Jindal refused any possibility to raise taxes in the last legislative session, a possible red fl ag for Republicans.

Jindal’s refusal of $75 million in federal unemployment funds from the stimulus package made him popular among conservative voters, Hogan said.

Jindal issued an executive or-der last week to refuse state money to the controversy-wracked Associ-ation of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The state’s Division of Admin-istration reported no state agen-cies have ever had contracts with ACORN.

Hogan said these forms of po-litical posturing show Jindal may

still be open to a nomination for president in 2012, or at least a vice-presidential slot.

The political action committee “Jindal for President Draft Council, Inc.” was formed earlier this year to raise funds for a future presidential run. Though Jindal is aware of the organization, he claims no connec-tion to it.

Jindal even requested the PAC stop its effort, believing the work of the committee might damage his ability to govern the state effi -ciently.

“At that point he was trying to pass legislation, and a lot of people felt he should concentrate on being governor instead of focusing on national politics,” said Dan Kyle ,

former treasure for Jindal for Presi-dent Draft Council, Inc.

Kyle resigned from his posi-tion when Jindal said a national fund-raiser would confl ict with his gubernatorial fund-raisers.

Young voters were an impor-tant demographic in the 2008 elec-tion. Jindal would have to capitalize on the youth vote before he could be considered as a viable candidate, Hogan said.

“I like what he’s done in terms of ethics, but I’m not sure if he has the national experience in terms of foreign policy,” said Justin Terrac-ciano , biological chemistry fresh-man.

Terracciano said he considers himself a Republican, but said Jin-dal would have to clearly explain his issues before he could support him.

Teriana Wilcox , biological en-gineering freshman, said feels Jin-dal talks down to his constituents. She said she sees the governor as something of a little kid.

“The way he came across pub-licly to the entire nation didn’t seem like it would make a lasting impact on people,” Wilcox said.

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

A sweeping student aid bill which increases federal grants and changes the way students can bor-row money from the federal gov-ernment passed the U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday .

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 would convert all federal loan lending — currently done through federally subsidized private banks sometimes referred to as “middle men” — to the Direct Lending Program , elimi-nating the banks in the loan process and allowing students to take out loans directly from the federal gov-ernment.

The bill would also raise the maximum award from the annual Pell Grant scholarship from $5,350 to $5,500 in 2010 and eventually to $6,900 by 2019 .

“Of course, we are glad any time we can offer any additional aid to students,” said Amy Marix,

associate director of federal aid in the Offi ce of Undergraduate Admis-sions and Student Aid .

Marix expressed some reserva-tions with the bill, despite support-ing much of its substance — pri-marily how transferring to a new loan program in 2010 , a relatively short timeline, will affect “students in the timing we can process fi nan-cial aid.”

“We don’t know exactly what the implications are at this time if we have to transfer,” she said.

The bill’s supporters say allow-ing the federal government to han-dle student loans is cost-effi cient and will protect students from mar-ket fl uctuations because the federal government would handle the loans, keeping interest rates low.

The vote on the Democratic-led bill broke down largely along party lines, 253-171 — with few crossovers from either party.

Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Na-poleonville, who is a 2010 Senate candidate challenging incumbent Republican Sen. David Vitter , and Rep. Joseph Cao, R-New Orleans, were the only two in Louisiana’s Congressional delegation to vote for the bill.

“This legislation will help many deserving students in Loui-siana achieve [earning an advanced degree] by dramatically increasing the amount of federal scholarship money available for them, while also strengthening the student loan program,” Melancon said in a news release .

Supporters claim the bill is a much-needed break for college stu-dents in a diffi cult economic climate and also point to a Congressional Budget Offi ce estimate that the bill will save billions . Conservative crit-ics allege the program is an attempt by President Barack Obama to take over the student loan agency.

“We need competition in the private sector,” Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., told ABC News last Thurs-

day . “We don’t need to take over this sector like what we did with the automobile industry. Socialism doesn’t work. Government control doesn’t work.”

It’s not diffi cult to fi nd students who haven’t heard about the bill, but fi rst impressions were generally positive.

“It’s a good idea,” said Jacob Miller, theatre sophomore, about the federal government handling loans. “My bank is snooty.”

He added his mother would be pleased with a provision in the bill which would simplify the Federal Application for Federal Student Aid forms .

“The FAFSA is almost not worth it,” said Corinne Louis, com-munications studies senior, lament-ing the complicated form.

Louis said she liked the con-tent of the bill but expressed overall apathy about it.

“It doesn’t really matter,” she said. “You have to pay the money back one day anyway.”

POLITICS

LEGISLATION

Jindal draws attention from Republicans for 2012 electionGovernor says he’s focusing on 2011By Adam DuvernaySenior Staff Writer

House passes sweeping student aid billAct would allow fed. gov. to loan moneyBy Nate MonroeContributing Writer

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LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - It’s game over for some police offi cers who played video games while they raided a convicted drug dealer’s home in central Florida.

Surveillance video obtained by WFLA in Tampa caught the offi cers playing a Nintendo Wii bowling game, with one furiously jumping up and down in celebra-tion. Offi cials say some of the of-fi cers could be disciplined.

Offi cers with the anti-drug task force had just stormed into the home of the convicted drug dealer, who was already in custody. One Polk County sheriff’s detective can be seen taking several breaks from cataloging evidence so she can bowl frames.

Fla. cops caught playing Wii on job

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Senior tight end Richard Dickson will play Saturday against Mississippi State after leaving LSU’s game against Lou-isiana-Lafayette with slight diz-ziness, LSU football coach Les Miles said Wednesday.

“Dickson is 100 percent,” Miles said. “He didn’t miss a beat this practice week.”

Miles said Sept. 14 that ju-nior defensive end Lazarius Lev-ingston should return against Mississippi State, but Miles said Wednesday his status for Satur-day is uncertain.

“[Levingston] is so much better,” Miles said. “It’s hard for me to tell you he’ll play in this one.”

Miles said freshman de-fensive lineman Josh Downs is “doubtful” for Saturday, and ju-nior defensive lineman Akiem Hicks did not practice Wednes-day.

“There’s still some word out on [Hicks],” Miles said.

On the offensive side, Miles said he wants to increase the team’s production in the running game, particularly with seniors

On Dec. 10, 2008, Dan Mullen completed a Southeastern Confer-ence shuffl e.

Mullen moved from offensive coordinator at Florida, — ranked No. 15 in the country and No. 1 in the SEC in total offense last sea-son — to head coach at Mississippi State, nearly 100 spots lower at No. 113 and No. 10 in the conference .

The defensive side told a simi-lar story — the Gators were No. 3

in the nation and the conference, and the Bulldogs were No. 35 and No. 10, respectively.

Mullen left a 13-1 defending national champion to coach a Bull-dogs team coming off a 4-8 season at the bottom of the SEC.

But now, three games into Mul-len’s fi rst season, Mississippi State is 2-1, and his goal remains to teach

his team how to win, something he grew accustomed during four sea-sons at Florida.

The Gators were 44-9 with two national champion-ships during his ten-ure in Gainesville, Fla. Mississippi State has no national championships to its credit and has not won an SEC title

since 1941. “Our guys are learning how

to win and learning how to build a program,” Mullen said in a tele-conference. “We did a lot of com-petitive drills in the offseason to get them to learn how to win and learn what that’s all about.”

Junior linebacker K.J. Wright said not only is Mullen a “good people person,” but he also has what it takes to vault the Bulldogs into championship contention.

“Coach Mullen is an up-tem-po guy with a huge personality,”

Hurricane Gustav still haunts the LSU soccer stadium.

A temporary, makeshift set of bleachers is a result of the storm which struck Baton Rouge more than a year ago.

“It looked like a tornado came through, and there were bleachers all mangled in the middle of the fi eld,” said team spokesman Will Stafford.

Stafford said the current set of stands doesn’t extend as far as the stands in previous years.

“In the past, we had stands in

front of the press box immediately to the left and right of the press box, extended all the way down to both sides,” Stafford said.

Eddie Nunez, associate ath-letic director for operations and project development, said recon-structing the bleachers from last year would be unrealistic by the beginning of this season. A brand new set of bleachers should be in place by next season.

“The next phase that will hap-pen at the end of the season is re-placing the bleachers we have with the new bleachers to mirror what we had last year,” Nunez said. “If we’re fortunate to raise the money this year, we’ll come back and con-tinue the addition and have a whole secondary set of bleachers behind it with a new press box and really dress it up.”

LSU coach Brian Lee said the new seats next season could provide a major change in LSU’s home atmosphere.

“This [stadium] kind of makes you chuckle a little bit just because it’s so hodgepodge,” Lee said. “But the staff has done the best job they can given the circumstance.”

Nunez said LSU has a unique advantage of fan proximity, which enhances the experience for the athletes.

But there is such thing as be-ing too close. Some universities adopted the idea to put stands be-hind the goals.

“At South Florida they had it,” Lee said. “It creates a lot of atmo-sphere but also opens up to inap-propriate action.”

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FOOTBALL

SOCCER

Temporary soccer bleachers in place after Gustav

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Fans watch the Tigers play Southern Miss. from the temporary soccer stands Aug. 29. A new set of bleachers is expected to be in place by next season.SEATING, see page 13

Dickson to play Bulldogs this week

OFFENSE, see page 13

Mullen It Over

BULLDOGS, see page 13

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New coach plans to re-energize Mississippi State team coming off dismal 4-8 seasonBy Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer

By Rowan KavnerSports Contributor

Stands behind goals invite misconduct

Three defensive linemen uncertainBy Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer

MARK HUMPHREY / The Associated Press

Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen, left, leaves the fi eld with Pernell McPhee (90) after beating Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday.

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 6 ThursdAy, sEPTEmbEr 24, 2009

The Southeastern Conference is on a roll heading into week four of the college football season.

Five teams are ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, includ-ing four teams in the top seven. The SEC went 9-3 in week three with the three losses being in con-ference play.

EAST AND WEST COLLIDEFor the first time this sea-

son, all four teams ranked in the top seven of the national polls are playing conference games in one weekend.

The East and West divisions collide in this week’s first key matchup as the East’s South Caro-lina meets up with the West’s Ole Miss on Thursday night in Co-lumbia, S.C., at Williams-Brice Stadium.

The No. 4 Rebels (2-0) are looking to redeem their 31-24 loss against the Gamecocks last sea-son. South Carolina (2-1, 0-1) will be Ole Miss’s first conference op-ponent of the season.

The Rebels come into the game ranked No. 1 in the SEC in scoring offense with 48.5 points per game and ranked No. 2 in the SEC in scoring defense, allowing 10 points per game. The Game-cocks are looking to contain the Ole Miss offense with a defense that has only allowed 249.3 yards per game, which is fourth best in the SEC.

INTRADIVISION RIVALRIESA couple West rivalries high-

light Saturday’s matchups as No. 7 LSU faces Mississippi State and No. 3 Alabama faces Arkansas. The West is well represented in the AP Top 25, with three teams

ranked in the top seven. “There’s competition in this

division week-in and week-out, and you better be ready to play,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “Na-tionally, I don’t know that there is any conference or division that is as competitive as this one.”

LSU (3-0, 1-0) travels to Starkville, Miss., having gone six straight quarters without allowing a touchdown. Mississippi State (2-1, 1-1) is led offensively by se-nior running back Anthony Dixon, who averages 107.5 rushing yards per game.

Alabama (3-0) welcomes Ar-kansas (1-1, 0-1) into Tuscaloosa, Ala., where the Tide haven’t lost since Nov. 17, 2007, when Louisi-ana-Monroe beat them, 21-14.

The Razorbacks are led offen-sively by sophomore quarterback Ryan Mallett, who leads all SEC quarterbacks with 358.5 passing yards per game.

“He’s deadly accurate, or he was anyway in this last ball game,” said Georgia coach Mark Richt. “I’ve got a feeling they are going to throw for a lot of yards against a lot of people and score a lot of points throughout the year.”

No. 1 Florida (3-0, 1-0) trav-els to Kentucky (2-0) for an SEC East battle Saturday.

Kentucky leads the SEC in yards per kick return, averag-ing 42.3 yards per kickoff return. The Wildcats exploded against Louisville last Saturday with 254 kickoff return yards, including a 100-yard kickoff return by junior running back Derrick Locke.

“First time I’ve ever seen a kickoff return where the guy just catches and outruns everybody,” said Florida coach Urban Meyer. “This is the biggest challenge our kickoff team is going to have for the year.”

NON-CONFERENCE BAT-TLE

No. 21 Georgia faces its sec-ond out-of-conference opponent

from one of the major conferences Saturday when the team welcomes Arizona State (2-0) from the Pa-cific 10 into Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga.

Georgia senior quarterback Joe Cox enters the game follow-ing his greatest performance as a Bulldog when he threw for a career-high 375 yards and tied a school record with five touch-down passes. Cox leads all-SEC quarterbacks with eight touch-down passes.

BIRDS OF A FEATHERIt will be a semi-battle of the

birds Saturday when the Auburn nation of War Eagle hosts the Ball State Cardinals in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday.

Auburn (3-0, 1-0) is 9-2 against out-of-conference oppo-nents since 2007, whereas Ball State (0-3) is trying to avoid its sixth consecutive loss since last season. The Cardinals won their first 12 games of the 2008 season before dropping the last two.

Auburn has allowed 156.7

rushing yards per game, No. 10 in the SEC. Ball State’s offense is led by senior running back MiQuale Lewis, who ran for 1,736 yards and 22 touchdowns in 2008.

“I think he’s the key to them moving the ball on offense right now.” said Auburn coach Gene Chizik. “They’re trying to get back on track where they were last year.”

AROUND THE SEC

Five squads represented in AP Top 25, four in top sevenConference battles highlight week fourBy Jarred LeBlancSports Contributor

Contact Jarred LeBlanc at jleblanc@lsureveille.com

DAVE MARTIN / The Associated Press

Alabama tight end Colin Peek (84) drags North Texas defender DaWaylon Cook on Sept. 19 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Imagine having Shaquille O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Russell in their prime playing together on your favorite basketball team.

At first, the thought sounds great — three of the greatest players in NBA history on one team at argu-ably the most important position on the court.

But then you have to wonder who you should start and how much playing time you should give them.

This is the “problem” LSU vol-leyball coach Fran Flory has this sea-son at middle blocker: three amaz-ingly athletic middle blockers in seniors Brittnee Cooper and Lauren DeGirolamo and sophomore Michele Williams, along with two talented backups in junior Tania Schatow and freshman Ally Judkins.

“It’s a luxury to have Lauren DeGirolamo basically coming off the bench as a middle blocker,” Flo-ry said. “We did a great job of mov-ing her around in the middle [Friday night] and letting Cooper block on the right side and let Michele move around ... Having those three on the court at the same time really enhanc-es our options offensively.”

The middle blocker on a volley-ball team is like a center on a bas-ketball team, putting herself in the middle of the court next to the net. On offense, she awaits any ball set to her to slam it down for a dunk.

On defense, she stands poised at the net, moving from side to side fol-lowing the opponent’s attack to try to get a block.

“Middle blockers need to be quick to beat the other team’s block,” Williams said. “We attack, but we also need to pull the other side’s middle blocker away from our out-side hitter so our outside has a one-on-one with the other team’s block.”

Being an effective blocker is one distinguishable characteristic that separates the outside hitters from middle blockers.

Cooper said Flory emphasizes to her team the importance of being a well-disciplined blocking team.

They have taken her emphasis seriously, as the Tigers have aver-aged 2.55 blocks per set this season (No. 2 in Southeastern Conference), which is up from their 2.39 blocks per set average last season (No. 3 in SEC).

“She wants us to always have our knees bent and our hands up

high, ready to penetrate over the net,” Cooper said. “She also wants us to stay balanced and not commit to one person.”

Cooper is the leader of the pack for the Tigers’ middles.

The 6-foot-3-inch senior from Houston was chosen by the SEC coaches as a member of the pre-season All-SEC Team, and she has proven herself so far this season.

Just four weeks into the season, Cooper has flashed her All-Ameri-can skills by earning SEC Defensive Player of the Week in week one of the season and SEC Offensive Player of the Week the following week.

She also leads the team in two other statistical categories, averaging 3.44 kills per set and 1.23 blocks per set. She was named to all-tournament teams in all three of LSU’s pre-SEC schedule tournaments.

“The reality is, everybody is trying to stop her, and nobody can,” said Tennessee coach Rob Patrick. “She’s hitting .400 while everyone is committing [to stop] her.”

But the arsenal of four fellow middle blockers is what makes the Tigers a threat at the net.

Williams, a member of the SEC All-Freshman squad last season, was the tournament MVP at the Sham-rock Invitational and has averaged 2.46 kills per set and 1.00 blocks per set, No. 3 and 2, respectively, behind Cooper on the team.

DeGirolamo, a 2007 All-SEC First Team member, has been a solid force this season for the Tigers both at the net and on the back row, aver-aging 0.98 kills per set, 0.70 blocks per set and 2.05 digs per set.

THE DAILY REVEILLEVOLLEYBALL

Williams, Cooper lead Tigers in blocks per setTigers average 2.55 blocks this seasonBy Andy SchwehmSports Writer

Contact Andy Schwehm at aschwehm@lsureveille.com

photos by BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

[Top] Sophomore middle blocker Michele Williams (23) and [bottom] senior middle blocker Brittnee Cooper (25) spike the ball against Tennessee in the Tigers’ 3-2 win against the Volunteers on Sept. 18. Williams and Cooper average 2.46 and 3.44 kills per set.

The LSU football team has started the season 3-0 and ranked No. 7 in both major polls, but it’s still got some issues.

Don’t misinterpret this as one-sided bashing. There have been some good things on the field, but there have also been some bad, and there has also been some seriously ugly football on display by the Ti-gers.

THE GOODJohn Chavis’ defensive unit

has played pretty well as a whole when it matters most in the Ti-gers’ first three games this season. LSU hasn’t allowed a touchdown in more than six quarters and is ranked No. 14 nation-

ally in scoring defense, but its total defensive numbers aren’t nearly as spectacular.

More specifically, LSU boasts the No. 3 red-zone defense in the Southeastern Conference. In the seven times LSU’s back has been to the wall, its opponents have only put numbers on the scoreboard five times.

Three of those scores were touchdowns, and two were by field goal. The drives that stalled inside the 20 yard line both ended because of fumbles.

The defense isn’t the only group getting it done when it’s necessary. The offense ranks No. 3 in the SEC in third-down con-versions. Of their 39 third-down opportunities, the Tigers have con-verted 21.

Another bright spot on the team would be its place kicking. It’s a very important element to many teams’ success, yet many fans take it for granted.

Junior kicker Josh Jasper has been perfect on all five of his field goal attempts this season, including a 52-yard boot against Louisiana-Lafayette Saturday night. He also is 10-for-10 on extra point attempts as well.

THE BADAs good as the defense has

been in the red zone, it’s been just as bad any other time it’s on the field.

LSU ranks No. 46 nationally and No. 9 in the SEC in total de-fense. The unit has allowed a total of 960 yards on the season, and its opponents average 4.5 yards a play.

The defense has only allowed three touchdowns thus far, but the unit’s penchant for allowing a ton of yards a contest could prove di-sastrous once LSU plays more po-tent offenses.

Quarterback protection has been pretty dismal, as well. The offensive line doesn’t do a terrible job of keeping defenders from ha-rassing sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson, but they don’t do exceptionally well either.

LSU is tied at No. 8 in the SEC in sacks allowed on the season with five. As a result of the sacks, the

offense has lost 35 yards.

THE UGLYComplete offensive output

could turn out to be the cancer that kills LSU’s season. The Ti-gers rank No. 90 nationally in total

offense with an average of just less than 330 yards a contest — good enough for dead last in the confer-ence.

LSU can’t move the ball effectively on the ground or through the air this season, and the Tigers

rank No. 9 in passing offense and No. 10 in rushing offense in the conference with 162 and 164 yards per game, respectively.

No running back has eclipsed even 75 yards in a game this sea-son, and sophomore quarterback

Jordan Jefferson has yet to pass for more than 200 yards in a game.

Vanderbilt is the best defense LSU has faced so far, ranking No. 21 nationally in total defense, but both Washington and ULL rank in the mid-70s.

If it’s not the offense that kills the season, it could very well turn out to be the return game.

The Tigers average 10.4 yards a carry on kickoff returns, an aver-age that has them last in the SEC. Punt returns are working out better for the Tigers who average 7 yards a return, making them No. 5 in the conference in that category.

Johanathan Brooks is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Powder Springs, Ga. Follow him on Twitter @ TDR_jbrooks.

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BABBLING BROOKS

The good, the bad and the ugly of LSU football

Contact Johanathan Brooks at jbrooks@lsureveille.com

johanathan brooks Columnist

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior linebacker Harry Coleman (24) celebrates as senior linebacker Perry Riley (56) recovers a fumble Sept. 19 against ULL.

After the daily tolling of the alma mater at noon, the sound of a conch was heard across the Quad, signaling the start of a fl ashmob dance.

About 60 students participated in a fl ashmob organized by archi-tecture sophomores Jonathan House and Sarah Alleman through a Face-book event.

The event had gained 218 con-fi rmed guests by Wednesday.

“I think people should have the

desire to shake things up from time to time,” House said. “People should go out and affect other people’s day in a way they weren’t expecting.”

Alleman and House were in-spired to create the event after the theater department hosted the freeze

the Quad fl ashmob last spring.“It’s just a random event that

makes people turn heads,” said Alle-man. “It’s just for fun.”

Participants in the fl ashmob danced to tracks on their MP3 play-ers for two minutes.

“We see people walking around with their iPods all the time,” said House. “For everyone to take that normal action and just start jamming out is pretty hilarious.”

The fl ashmob participants

Entertainment THE DAILY REVEILLE

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 PAGE 9

MONDAY

FRIDAY

SUNDAY

THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY

Gossip Girl7 p.m., The CW

Season 3 premiere: Sept. 14

Heroes7 p.m., NBC

Season 4 premiere: Sept. 21

House7 p.m., FOX

Season 6 premiere: Sept. 21

Glee8 p.m., FOX

Season 5 premiere: Sept. 19

The Offi ce8 p.m., NBC

Season 6 premiere: Sept. 17

30 Rock8:30 p.m., NBC

Season 4 premiere: Oct. 15

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia9 p.m., FX

Season 5 premiere: Sept. 17, 2009

Ugly Betty8 p.m., ABC

Season 4 premiere: Oct. 9

Dexter7 p.m., Showtime

Season 4 premiere: Sept. 27

Curb Your Enthusiasm8 p.m., HBO

Season 7 premiere: Sept. 20

THE FALL LINEUP

‘I love ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ because each episode is crazier

than the last.’Jean Paul Caron

history senior

‘I try to DVR shows when I can because I’m

usually busy during prime time. When I’ve watched House, I’ve enjoyed it.

The other comedy shows out right now are so stereotypical.’

Chris Ballaymass communication senior

‘‘Ugly Betty’ is a show I try to watch when I can.

I’ve been keeping up with it for two years or so ... but I’ll go online if I’m

busy with school.’Deontrea Campbellcomputer science senior

DANCE

Students perform in the Quad as part of fl ashmobBy Emily SlackEntertainment Writer

JASON BORDELON / The Daily Reveille

University students dance in the Quad on Wednesday afternoon. More than 60 students participated in an organized fl ashmob dance party in the Quad.FLASHMOB, see page 12

Free Fallin’ LineupMEGAN J. WILLIAMS / The Daily Reveille

[From left] Richard Jasbring, Matt Lousteau, Christian Gonzales, Zachary Venable and Aaron Theall watch television Tuesday night at Lousteau’s apartment.

Advanced technology like DVR, online streaming Web sites help students keep up with TV shows

Noel Marcantel loves to catch his fa-vorite shows like “The Offi ce” and “Burn Notice,” but a full course load and home-work assignments make Marcantel one of the many students turning to digital video recording to catch those shows.

“With taking 18 hours and having to do military stuff or intramural sports in the afternoon, I always seem to be busy dur-ing prime time,” the history junior said. “I don’t have the time to sit around and catch the shows.”

Ann Ruble, public affairs manager for Cox Louisiana, said DVR subscriptions have signifi cantly increased during the last four years.

INCREASING POPULARITYCox Communications has 500,000 cus-

tomers across 17 south Louisiana parishes including the metropolitan areas of Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans, Ruble said.

The percentage of Cox-subscribing households with at least one DVR in Loui-siana nearly doubled from 2005 to 2006,

By Ben BourgeoisEntertainment Writer

lsureveille.comLog on to see students dancing in the Quad.

DVR, see page 12

TUESDAYV

7 p.m., ABCSeries premiere: Sept. Nov. 3

lsureveille.comLog on to see most recent episodes of some of TV’s popular shows.

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CHALMETTE (AP) — Jazz trumpeter and singer Jeremy Davenport says it’s easy to forget how much rebuilding still needs to be done in south Louisiana.

While the French Quarter and the historic Garden District were spared major damage from Hurricane Katrina four years ago and are largely back to normal, many neighborhoods still have a long way to go.

“It’s easy to lose track,” Davenport said. “There are cer-tain parts of New Orleans that are like they were before the storm, but there are a lot of places that aren’t.”

On Tuesday, Davenport put down his trumpet and picked up some tools to help volunteers re-build a home in suburban St. Ber-nard Parish that had been under 14 feet of water. An assessment after the storm showed almost every structure in the largely blue-collar parish, just east of New Orleans, had been damaged by Katrina.

Davenport says he was ner-vous about his lack of skill in construction, but by the end of the day, he had learned to hang and float drywall and felt great knowing that in coming months a

family would be living there.“As bizarre as it is, I really

enjoyed today,” he said. “It was very much an enjoyable expe-rience, even though it’s hot ... I can’t wait to come back and knock on the door when a family is living here.”

Davenport was joined by 50 volunteers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where he performs as the

headline entertainer. The group tackled three homes working with the St. Bernard Project, which helped rebuild more than 200 homes in the parish since Ka-trina.

A rhythmic roar of pounding feet and clapping hands can be heard with the proud chanting of brother-hood and sisterhood, and an array of precision movements are executed in complete unison.

The University sororities and fraternities of the National Pan-Hellenic Council work diligently to achieve each ideal motion in a step show.

“Stepping is like an entire band, but only using your body,” said Ter-rell Carter, computer science senior and former step master for Phi Beta Sigma.

Stepping is an expression of physical motion and sound which combines dance and drill move-ments. Step interwove the two forms to create its own entity. Skills needed to succeed at stepping include basic dance technique, capability to mirror and repeat beats and hand-eye coor-dination, Carter said.

Stepping is one of the only two dance forms which are completely American, said Christine Chrest, University dance adjunct teacher.

Groups like The Temptations

and The Four Tops inspired students during the ’50s to sing and mimic the steps of their musical idols. Stepping has evolved from those roots into what it is today. Phi Beta Sigma and Omega Psi Phi were the fraternities that created stepping, Carter said.

Some moves used in stepping found inspiration through the Welly Dance, a traditional South African dance done by laborers wearing Wel-lington boots, CBS’s Caitlin Johnson said in a 2007 article.

Stepping is not taught in classes like other dances and drills taught in classes, but rather it’s created in a student environment, Chrest said.

Songs usually inspire new steps. Foot stomping creates a strong

bass line while hand clapping creates a softer sound. The pattern of stomp-ing and clapping is designed to match the beat of the song, Carter said.

“I wish I had rhythm like that,” said Claire Sauls, business sopho-more. “It’s so cool to watch. It al-ways gets me really pumped.”

The sororities and fraternities use stepping to show pride in their or-ganizations. The groups incorporate chants and varying hand symbols in their routines to show off their Greek letters, he said.

Many of the chants and steps are signature for a particular so-rority or fraternity and can be seen worldwide. The steps are passed down through the generations and

are done with great pride, said Sa-mantha White, Delta Sigma Theta president.

“Stepping is something that has become a tradition in each of our or-ganizations and something we each hold very dear,” said Aislinn Her-rera, member of Gamma Pi.

Step teams begin working on their routines daily about a month before a show takes place. After learning the step, the teams spend their time conditioning and perfect-ing the routines. The steps must flow naturally for all of the performers, Carter said

“It’s hard work and dedication, but it’s worth it in the end,” said Jas-mine Jackson, general studies senior and Delta Sigma Theta member.

The step teams perform at vari-ous competitive step shows, where performances last 10 to 15 minutes and at campus yard shows, where performances last four to six min-utes. The teams participate in four

to six shows each year. The compe-titions can reward prizes as large as $2,000, but on-campus shows pro-vide a different type of award.

“We step to win, but sometimes there is no prize,” White said. “The winner is chosen by word of mouth and receives bragging rights.”

Step shows typically open with dance, which is followed by a skit and then stepping. The shows usu-ally incorporate a theme, costumes and props, White said.

But White said participating in step has one drawback.

“Some people think that step-ping is all we do, but we are capable of so much more.” White said. “We use stepping as a way for exposure, an avenue for people to see the other things we do.”

DANCE

Stepping combines dance techniques, drill movementsBragging rights top prize in competitionBy Lindsay NunezEntertainment Writer

BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

Members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority practice their steps Tuesday night.

PHILANTHROPY

Jazz singer helps rebuild home

By The Associated Press

Davenport joined by 50 volunteers

Contact The Daily Reveille’s entertainment staff at

entertainment@lsureveille.com

Contact Lindsay Nunez at lnunez@lsureveille.com

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RanksReveilleMUSIC MOVIES BOOKS TELEVISION

Pearl Jam BackspacerMonkeywrench Records

Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better NameUltra Records

Deadmau5 — pronounced Dead Mouse — solidifies his place at the top of the trance dance mu-sic genre with the brilliant “For Lack of a Better Name.” The album’s explosive beginning tracks “FML” and prelude track, “Moar Ghosts ’n‘ Stuff,” lead up to the album’s epic highlight track “Ghosts ’n‘ Stuff,” a cap-tivating track which is instantly addictive and has already become a club classic for the ages. The album is trance at its finest, sucking in the listeners to become one with the music and concluding with the exquisite 10 minute masterpiece “Strobe.”

For a tear-jerking, heart-wrench-ing, emotional time look no further than the romantic drama “Love Happens.” This movie will leave males running for the door, but from a female point of view, it has all the right ingredi-ents for a touching love story. The movie confronts with hon-esty and sincerity the emotional trials some face after the death or unfaithfulness of a loved one. Despite the touching plot, Jen-nifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart have absolutely no chemistry and are both two-dimensional. The only other drawback of the film is the painfully unmistak-able product placement.

Mika The Boy Who Knew Too Much Casablanca Music

The Informant!Warner Bros. Pictures

A perfect example of prog-rock lies in Porcupine Tree’s 10th studio album, “The Incident.” Meeting somewhere between the classics of Rush and the new-age visions of Tool, Porcu-pine Tree creates a true concept album consisting of 14 tracks which form one long song: the “Incident.” While every song can stand alone, the true impact of the CD comes as the listener hears the subtle connections and inter-weavings which play out as the album unfolds. Ex-pansive and melodic, Porcupine Tree’s heavy arrangements are exciting, and each track keeps the listener enthralled as to what can come next and how far out a song can go. If you look up progressive rock in the diction-ary, Porcupine Tree’s picture will be there.

After Mika exploded onto the music scene in 2007 with his first album “Life in Cartoon Motion,” the possibility he could make a better album seemed uncertain. “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” doesn’t so much top Mika’s first al-bum as much as it proves he’s capable of refining and improving his signature dis-co-laden sounds. Mika puts his incredible vocal range to use in “Boy,” producing a bright pop album which is sure to please fans and new listeners. With guest artists like Imogen Heap and Owen Pallett, Mika has hit a pop home run with “The Boy Who Knew Too Much.”

Director Steven Soderbergh does not disappoint in “The Informant!,” a cheery spin on a serious corporate news story. Matt Damon plays Mark Whitacre, a white-collar middle man turned informant for the FBI during an investi-gation about price fixing by a giant agriculture business. Damon, who gained weight, a mustache and a toupee for the role, doesn’t pull the typical laugh-until-you-cry humor. This film makes view-ers laugh, groan and gasp at the same time. Viewers will enjoy the increasingly idiosyncratic and deranged inter-monologue which plays over the movie.

[A-] [B+] [C+]

[B] [A] [B+]

B. BOURGEOIS A. WHITE L. NUNEZ

C. VOGELSJ. CLAPP E. SLACK

Unlike its self-titled effort in 2006, Pearl Jam is back to writing its quickest and tight-est songs yet. “Backspacer” finishes in an exhilarating 37 minutes, its shortest album ever, and contains its most upbeat, to-the-point songs. Thankfully, Pearl Jam doesn’t equate maturing with slowing down and proves so with driv-ing tracks like “The Fixer” and “Supersonic.” The upbeat vibe may delve too far into pop or new wave for hardcore fans, but this album proves Pearl Jam is still relevant long after its hey-day in the early ’90s.

Porcupine Tree The IncidentRoadrunner Records

Love HappensWarner Bros. Pictures

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danced to their favorite music or playlist, said Chelsea Norris, graphic design junior.

Alleman and House created an-other Facebook group to continue to promote fl ashmobbing and to orga-nize other fl ashmobs in the future.

“I like it because it’s something you wouldn’t expect,” said Anthony Walker , computer science freshman.

Flashmobbing has become a popular worldwide trend because of organizations like ImprovEv-erywhere , an improv group which staged the January 2008 freeze in Grand Central Station in New York City, which became a YouTube sen-sation.

“This was our fi rst attempt at doing a large-scale fl ashmob,” House said.

Many students in the Quad dur-ing the fl ashmob were unaware the event was scheduled or even what was going on, said Emily Bozeman, agricultural business sophomore.

“I pulled out my iPod and tried to participate, but I didn’t really know what they were doing,” said Adam St. Pierre , history senior.

Several students joined the fl ashmob group after seeing or par-ticipating in the Quad fl ashmob last

spring.“I was in the freeze the Quad,”

said Charlotte Raphael , theater soph-omore. “I’m in two different improv groups, so I’ll defi nitely participate in more fl ashmobs.”

House and Alleman said they were satisfi ed with the turnout of the fl ashmob and were pleased with the reaction of other students in the Quad.

“My favorite part was seeing other people I don’t even know danc-ing all over the Quad,” House said. “I’d say any event where you can go dance in front of a bunch of strange people is a success.”

increasing from 7 percent to 13 percent, Ruble said. Twenty-fi ve percent of subscribers have at least one DVR, she said.

DVR unit sales are also in-creasing nationally, according to a report by the Consumer Electronics Association. Unit sales increased from 3,225 in 2003 to 16,796 in 2008. Another study by the CEA projects up to 45 percent of house-holds to have a DVR by 2011.

DVR units allow users to re-cord live television programs and rewind and fast-forward the content as they choose. And students take advantage of the convenience to catch their favorite shows.

“I watch ‘Gossip Girl’ with all my roommates,” said Danielle Wold, environmental engineering sophomore. “We try to make dinner and watch it every week, but when I’m busy with school, I usually just DVR it or catch it on the Internet.”

STREAMING CONTENTStudents are also watching

streaming content on either TV net-work Web sites or sites like Hulu or YouTube.

“I take 18 hours, so it’s tough to catch my shows when they air,” said Shane Broussard, math senior. “I just use it to catch three or four shows like ‘Psych,’ ‘Monk’ and ‘House.’”

Dan Rice, marketing profes-sor, said networks generate most of their advertising revenue through prime-time television ads but have no problem supplementing their revenue with online ads.

“Presumably, most of the mar-keting money is made on TV during the fi rst showing, but putting the show on other venues allows more royalties and more viewership num-bers to back up your high prices for new episode advertising on TV,” he said. “It’s unlikely that networks lose money with extra postings and likely gain royalties — it’s more of a supplemental profi t issue, not an either/or type choice at this point.”

Based on the television time slot or the Web site in which an advertisement is featured, it could reach a variety of consumers, Rice said. And it’s unclear which me-dium reaches its intended demo-graphic better.

“The number of viewers that you reach with a prime-time TV ad is undoubtedly many times larger than an Internet ad,” Rice said. “However, the level of

engagement for an ad on the Inter-net in the middle of streaming vid-eo might be higher, and your ability to segment who sees which ads is likely higher as well.”

Similar to DVR, students are taking advantage of streaming shows online at their convenience.

“I watch news and sitcoms online, but mostly on Hulu,” said Shannon Geoghagan, history se-nior. “We’ll have people over and stream ‘The Offi ce’ whenever we want. We make a party of it.”

LEGAL ISSUESDVR doesn’t violate any copy-

right laws because DVR only en-ables users to fast-forward through commercials rather than complete-ly delete them, said Craig Freeman, media law professor in the Manship School of Mass Communication.

“As long as you don’t add technology that allows you to slip past commercials, it doesn’t vio-late copyrights,” Freeman said. “As long as you are keeping the

commercials, it’s tough to say TiVo owes [advertisers] money.”

But someone could face copy-right violations if he downloaded a show without permission and post-ed it online, said John Church, a law professor at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Networks have two separate rights over their content, Church said. Someone would face two sep-arate violations in court by down-loading and broadcasting the con-tent, respectively.

“A student, or anyone really, broadcasts shows without permis-sion could be in a lot of trouble,” Church said. “You might see awards [to the cable networks] as low as a few thousand dollars to as hefty as those seen in the fi le-shar-ing cases.”

DVR, from page 9

JASON BORDELON / The Daily Reveille

University students dance in the Quad on Wednesday afternoon as part of a fl ashmob organized by University students Jonathan House and Sarah Alleman.

FLASHMOB, from page 9

Contact Emily Slack at eslack@lsureveille.com

Contact Ben Bourgeois at bbourgeois@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘I ... tried to

participate, but I didn’t really know

what they were doing.’Adam St. Pierre

history senior

Charles Scott and Keiland Wil-liams.

“We had 175 yards rushing last week,” Miles said. “That’s not a bad number, but we’re striving for better. We want to get Charles Scott and Keiland Wil-liams up and running; we’d like to see them have some 100-yard games.”

Mississippi State’s rushing attack is No. 20 in the nation so far this season, averaging 221.67 yards per game behind senior run-ning back Anthony Dixon. Miles said he is “a big, physical back” who will be a formidable force against LSU’s defense, which allows 129.33 rushing yards per game, No. 64 in the nation.

“Anthony Dixon is one of the best running backs in the Southeastern Conference,” Miles said. “They run him out of the I-formation occasionally, but more often than not it’s a one-back at-tack for him.”

In the passing game, the Bulldogs employ a two-quarter-back system with senior Tyson Lee and sophomore Chris Relf.

Miles said the quarterbacks are a dual threat both running and throwing, and he said Mississippi State appears to “prefer one over the other.”

“They’re probably running more of the whole offense with one guy,” Miles said. “The other guy probably can run the offense but doesn’t. Those tendencies seem to be pretty evident, but it’s nothing you can really use.”

LSU’s game against Missis-sippi State will kick off at 11:21 a.m. CT in Starkville, Miss. The last time LSU played an SEC game that early in the morning was at home against Mississippi State in 2006.

Miles said the team will be well-rested and prepared to play no matter what time the game be-gins.

“I talked to the sleep doctor again, and he said to get them 8 1/2 to 9 hours [of sleep],” Miles said. “He said ... tell them no mental stimulus and to turn it all off.”

Wright said. “He has won national championships, which is something we don’t have. Coach is a winner, and we are going to learn from him and duplicate what he did at Flor-ida.”

Mullen, an alumnus of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., has a connection with LSU offensive coordinator Gary Crowton dat-ing back to Mullen’s high school days in Manchester, N.H. Crowton was offensive coordinator at New Hampshire from 1988-1990.

Mullen said he and Crowton crossed paths again when Mullen was quarterbacks coach at Utah from 2003-2004 and Crowton was the head coach at BYU. Mullen’s wife, Megan, was a TV anchor for FOX in Utah whose station covered BYU football.

“It was kind of funny. [BYU] was our biggest rival, and she had to cover them,” Mullen said. “She was always a huge fan of Gary, and I always had a lot of respect be-cause I’d watch him from afar with his different spread offenses and the way he would attack.”

Crowton also visited Mullen in Florida shortly after Mullen got the job as the Gators offensive coordi-nator, and Mullen said they had a great time together during the visit.

“We spent about three days to-gether just talking football,” Mullen said. “Unfortunately, we’re always on opposing ends of things, so we don’t spend as much time sharing information as we might like.”

With 15 years of experience at the collegiate coaching level, Mul-len brought a new energized feel-ing to Mississippi State when he arrived, as the Bulldogs set a new record for attendance at its annual spring game with more than 31,000 fans. Junior offensive tackle Derek Sherrod said Mullen is one of the keys for Mississippi State to be-come a winning team.

“Coach Mullen knows what to do to help us reach the next level, and he’s going to work us until we get to that point,” Wright said. “He is the new face of Mississippi State football. A lot of people are expect-ing big things from us.”

The Mississippi State offense centers on a two-quarterback sys-tem with sophomore Chris Relf and senior Tyson Lee both taking snaps. Lee has completed 23-of-38 passes for 216 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions. Lee also ran for a 22-yard touchdown against Vander-bilt in an eventual 15-3 victory.

Relf completed just 2-of-9 passes for 13 yards as a redshirt freshman, and the Montgomery na-tive has thrown 25 passes for Mis-sissippi State this season, complet-ing 14 with two interceptions.

Mullen said both players have the ability to shoulder the load at quarterback.

“It’s like mixing in two dif-ferent running backs if you have a fast back and a power back,” Mul-len said. “We do the same thing with the quarterback position. Even though we don’t have packages for each one, they both run our system. We’re going to continue to use both of them throughout the season.”

Inappropriate action reared its ugly head in an incident years ago at Kentucky when George Foto-poulos was LSU’s coach.

Fotopoulos said there were benches behind the goals at Ken-tucky with no security, and a male Kentucky soccer player urinated in an LSU player’s water bottle.

“It was one of the worst acts of sportsmanship I’ve ever seen by an individual or an institution,” Foto-poulos said.

Fotopoulos found it despi-cable nobody did anything to stop the act.

“It was awful,” he said. “All the Kentucky players were behind the goal, and their coach was at the game, and their administrators were there, and they did nothing. It was very disturbing, very disheart-ening. We filed a grievance with the SEC, and nothing came of it. It was definitely disappointing. To be able to get that close to a player’s water bottle — that’s pretty disgusting.”

Fotopoulos said he is con-cerned with the safety issues of having fans so close to the field.

“The safety of the student

athletes is now more important than ever with stalkers and crazy fans,” he said. “We’re playing the SEC. We’re not playing in some kind of co-ed rec league.”

LSU’s stadium may not be state-of-the-art, but the players and coaches can live with it for the re-mainder of the season.

Senior midfielder Malorie Rutledge said although at times the stadium may not have enough seats spectators, it’s not hurting fan attendance.

“Instead of people sitting in the extra set of bleachers, they’re standing in front of the press box,” Rutledge said. “I feel like it’s not limiting the people coming. They’re still coming, and they’re still staying.”

Lee said the crowd is rowdy and the games are intense no mat-ter what the setup is.

“Our atmosphere is as good as anybody in the country regardless of how the stands are set up,” Lee said.

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Graves said. But Graves and his partner

were determined to be business-men. They bought a couple cheap suits and briefcases and went to nearly every bank in Baton Rouge — only to be rejected.

Graves decided they needed to make money own their own. He and Silvey got jobs in Alaska fishing for sockeye salmon. They worked 20-hour days in extremely dangerous conditions, but Graves always knew it was for his pas-sion — chicken fingers.

“That’s what kind of passion an entrepreneur has to have for your dream — even risking your life,” Graves said.

After their work in Alaska, the partners were able to get funding and open the first Cane’s at the North Gates of campus.

They completely renovated

the buildings themselves. Graves even did the plumbing work.

“You’re supposed to be a licensed plumber, but that takes money,” he said. “So I learned how to plumb.”

Cane’s made its first dollar Aug. 28, 1996. The restaurant took off, and the rest is history.

The most important part of being an entrepreneur, Graves said, is never giving up, no mat-ter what obstacles pop up.

“You can be scared to death, as I have been several times with this business,” Graves said. “But

courage is going out and doing it anyway.”

Applications for the Ste-phenson Entrepreneurship Insti-tute’s fellows program are open now until Oct. 25 and are open to any major.

Recycling manager.What started as a simple poster

for architecture senior Melissa Se-anard has evolved into a proposal to begin the creation of a system to recycle Tiger Stadium’s trash, which totaled more than 87 tons last season, Harris said.

Seanard’s proposal to create a program for recycling in Tiger Sta-dium began as an assignment in her senior architecture class to determine what could be done on campus to promote an international day of cli-mate change awareness.

“I talked with Andres Harris and found out that we don’t recycle in-side the football stadium,” Seanard said. “This was supposed to be just a class poster ... but it turned into mas-sive project.”

Seanard eventually created a 39-page proposal arguing the ben-efits and feasibility of recycling in Tiger Stadium.

The first step in implementing the plan is putting 25 recycling bins donated by Coca-Cola to the project in the West side upper deck for test-ing, Harris said.

Harris said some of the bins will be monitored by volunteers during the game to make sure only recycla-ble materials are thrown in the bin. Other bins will be left unsupervised to test whether volunteers manning the bins are necessary to keep the

bins uncontaminated by non-recy-clable products as the project is ex-panded.

Once preliminary tests present enough data to create a strategic plan outlining how many volunteers will be needed, the University will be-gin looking for more volunteers and more sponsors to donate the bins and will be able to outline a general cost for the plan, said Todd Jeansonne, assistant director for Athletic Facili-ties said.

Jeansonne said he is confident the University would be able to find sponsors to donate more bins.

But he said volunteers will be necessary to assist in the program because the undermanned gameday facilities crew can not hire any more people because of a statewide hiring freeze, Jeansonne said.

Seanard said one of the major aspects of implementing such a plan is educating patrons to properly use the bins.

“The first step would be having bins inside the stadium and having promotional videos going up on the loud speakers saying, ‘We have recy-cling bins — please take your trash to them,’” Seanard said.

The University of Mississippi has 250 recycling bins inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

“[The recycling program] is a very labor intensive,” said Jim Mor-rison, director of strategic planning and sustainability at the University

of Mississippi. “So it’s very difficult — if not impossible — without all fans taking responsibility and par-ticipating in the program.”

Morrison said Ole Miss has a team of 100 volunteers, which edu-cates tailgaters before home football games about recycling programs inside and outside the stadium. “A [public address announcer] Dan Borne announcement would get people’s attention,” said Aaron Sa-voy, business graduate student. “But when you are drunk and worried about a football team winning, where you put your trash is the last of your concerns.”

Seanard said the goals for this season are to test different approach-es to introducing bins, educate fans about recycling inside the stadium

and continue efforts to recycle card-board used by vendors in the sta-dium.

Jeansonne said since the begin-ning of the season, stadium cleanup crews have gathered cardboard left by vendors and recycle bins have been placed at the entrance of the sta-dium for fans to discard their bottles and cans before entering the stadium.He said exact measurements can’t be made, but he believes the University will at best break even financially by incorporating recycling in its sta-dium cleanup process, which costs the University an estimated $19,000 for labor and supplies on the stadium alone.

“You have the benefit of not bringing all those tons of material to the landfill,” Harris said. “The main

thing is energy saving in this industry because it’s easier to make a plastic cup out of another plastic cup than to make it from scratch. If you break even, why not recycle?”

Jeansonne said he is confident recycling programs can also be in-troduced for the PMAC, Alex Box Stadium and Tiger Park at the begin-ning of next semester.

“It could really help the Uni-versity’s image, said Brennan Col-clough, construction management sophomore. “But I doubt people would go out of their way to put something in a recycling bin ... I know I wouldn’t.”

uated within four years, according to Office of Budget and Planning data.

COMPARING THE NUMBERSLSU’s 2007 retention rate, 58.4

percent, was the second lowest of 12 peer institutions and beat the lowest retention rate at Kansas State Uni-versity by only one-tenth percent.

The highest retention rate among the peers was 81.9 percent at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the average rate was 70 percent.

The Office of Budget and Plan-ning chose to compare LSU with four-year public schools that were very highly active Carnegie Re-search Universities and members of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Col-leges. Only one of the peer institu-tions, University of Tennessee, had a medical school.

Kuhn said increasing admission standards like higher ACT scores and GPA requirements are linked directly to increasing retention rates but are not the only contributing factors. He said LSU is focusing on implement-ing other methods to raise rates to at least the peer average.

Paul Ivey, associate dean for the University College, said his office will soon begin using the Compre-hensive Academic Tracking System to notify students who are not ful-filling graduation requirements on schedule.

LEAVING THE UNIVERSITYLSU loses most of its students

after their first or second year, ac-cording to Office of Budget and Planning data.

Kuhn said LSU’s first-year re-tention rate for fall 2006, 83 percent, is not far behind peer rates. The av-erage first-year retention rate for the other universities is 87 percent, he said.

Kuhn said students often drop

out or move to other institutions af-ter failing to complete necessary re-quirements to enter senior colleges, commonly the E.J. Ourso College of Business or the Manship School of Mass Communication.

The standard University resigna-tion form includes only four reasons for withdrawal: to serve in the U.S. armed forces, to serve on an official church mission, to serve in govern-ment foreign aid or simply “other.” Ivey said students often do not spec-ify reasons for leaving on the forms, although many students resign from his college because of financial and personal issues.

Ivey said UCAC will begin surveying students about their rea-sons for leaving the University this semester. A draft of UCAC’s survey includes 10 possible reasons why students might resign, including fi-nancial hardship, physical or mental health issues and academic chal-lenges.

Joyce Wakefield, University Center for Freshman Year counselor, said most students resign because of problems transitioning to college life.

“LSU’s not a fit for everyone,” Wakefield said. “But it’s hard to know that until you get here.”

Champagne said she will not return to the LSU because of finan-cial aid issues and trouble schedul-ing classes. Champagne left the Uni-versity during her third year, but she said she would not have graduated for another three years.

“In the end, an art degree just isn’t worth it for me,” Champagne said.

Champagne said she tried to re-enroll this semester but had “dif-ficulties with administration” and paperwork. She said she may pursue a degree from a smaller university in a few years.

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What would it take to get you to attend class? Would you get out of bed for $500 a week?

Principal Mark Comman-ducci believes, for his students at Children’s Charter Middle School, this reward works.

Commanducci explained students at Children’s Charter Middle School earn a weekly paycheck for attendance and ap-propriate behavior. Each week, students start with $25 of “middle school money,” which can be in-creased to $500 per week depend-ing on behavior and performance. This can buy school supplies, free dress passes and pizza parties at the school store. The cost of a free dress pass is equivalent to close to “four perfect weeks of academic and social behavior,” Comman-ducci said.

This is an excellent way to get students into the classroom where, in an atmosphere condu-cive to learning, the desire to suc-ceed can be cultivated.

You might think it’s obvious monetary payment will motivate students to behave and perform. But this is actually a complicated issue which has been extensively researched.

In the research paper “In-centives, choice, education and well-being,” Barry Schwartz,

Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College argues the use of extrinsic incentives to moti-vate a student can actually under-mine intrinsic motivations which

had previously directed a per-son’s thoughts and actions. There is evi-dence this may ultimately un-dermine perfor-mance because “ s o m e t i m e s motives com-

pete instead of summating.”Schwartz said when an ex-

trinsic incentive is provided for a person to perform, the outcome is often a decrease in performance because the desire to learn is re-placed with the desire to gain the extrinsic reward. Data shows the quality of work decreases when performance is later expected without a reward.

This brings to mind the time I was first paid to mow my dad’s lawn. The next week he told me to do it for free — my intrinsic mo-tivation to “do a man’s job” was suddenly replaced by the thought “I don’t work for free!”

But this argument may not be relevant for the students at Children’s Charter because it’s

impossible to undermine an intrin-sic motivation which doesn’t ex-ist. The majority of students have very limited economic means, and many come from a family back-ground which places little value on education.

To deal with this lack of sup-port in the home, Children’s Char-ter also works with the parents to help build a connection between the importance of hard work at a young age and future success.

The goal is to “hook [the stu-dents] with an extrinsic reward,” Commanducci said, to “build roots of why education is important.” In this way the intrinsic desire to succeed can have the opportunity to develop. The time between the opportunities to redeem rewards at the student store is increasingly lengthened as the year progresses. This is intended to help make the transition from solely extrinsic in-centive to increased intrinsic mo-tivation.

The cost of this program is negligible. Paychecks are paid in “middle school money” printed by Children’s Charter, and many of the items purchased in the school store are provided by donations from community partners.

Cost is actually reduced, be-cause improved behavior leads to less detention. Thus, the cost of

paying staff to supervise detention and Saturday school is reduced.

If this incentive program helps to keep students in school and off the streets, I count the strategy a success. The education of all our youth is of utmost importance to our society. This includes those who are personally motivated and those who are not. It is our re-sponsibility as a society to do our best to arrest the fall of those who

cannot see the benefits of educa-tion and, at a young age, unveil to them their own potential.

Nathan Shull is a 35-year-old finance junior from Seattle. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_nshull

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I wonder what Christmas is like for Steve Jobs.

As chairman and CEO for the most haughty, yet trendy company in technology – I’d imagine it’d be a splendid, superb time of year.

Well, Christmas came early this year for Jobs and the rest of Apple as the new wave of iPods came surfing to consumers about two weeks ago.

The new iPod Classic – also known as the device that holds every song you’ve ever heard in your entire life – is loosening its belt, jumping from a 120 gigabyte (GB) model to a 160GB.

Apple’s most popular iPod, the Nano, received an even bigger face-lift. On top of getting a larger screen, the new Nano was stuffed with a vid-eo camera, microphone, pedometer and a radio.

Congratulations Apple, your device finally has a built-in radio, something most MP3 players have had for years now.

But enough Apple bashing for now – there’s plenty more coming for our final contestant – I actually applaud the company for what it’s done with the new Nano.

By adding a camera to the mu-sic player, the iPod Nano can now attempt to take some market away from the popular, pint-sized Flip camcorder.

Sure the Nano can’t touch the Flip when it comes to night shots, but it holds its own in the light and even outshines the Flip in filming close-up shots.

Now for pure video shooting, would a customer choose an iPod Nano instead of the Flip?

Probably not.But the Flip’s main selling point

is filming short segments of your friend getting kicked in the nether regions, and then uploading the foot-age to YouTube for all to enjoy.

If you could own a device which can still capture that money

shot while you rock out to your fa-vorite band – why not pick the one that does both?

Now, while Apple’s decision on advancing the Nano is commend-able, the exact opposite is true for the new iteration of the iPod Touch.

Although equipped with the faster processor of the iPhone 3GS, one big feature is absent in the Touch one would assume would’ve been added in the iPod’s release. Aside from the obvious “it’s not

a phone,” one thing would keep the Touch in parity with the iPhone.

The camera.Not present in either the first or

second generation of the iPod Touch, a camera would seem like an obvi-ous feature to add to the new iTouch,

especially since it appeared in the new Nano.

But to the disappointment of many, the new iPod Touch still re-mains blind.

Jobs’ response to the Touch’s missing camera, “it’s a great game machine.”

“A great game machine.” You’re kidding, right?

Sure, I enjoy playing my iTouch between classes. But it’s more of a time waster than anything else.

No one is going to go buy the new Call of Duty strictly on their iPod and nothing else.

Also, how is Nintendo raking in money with its “great game ma-chine,” the DSi, when it has not one but TWO built-in cameras?

A couple of months ago, leaked screenshots of new iPod cases manu-factured in China showed a camera hole in the case for both the Nano and the Touch.

Tech blog Gizmodo took apart

the new iPod Touch and discovered space inside the device for a camera and a radio receiver, also missing from the Touch.

So, it appears “great game ma-chine” is a bit of a cover up.

It’s obvious the iPod Touch will eventually have a camera and a ra-dio, like the Nano. Instead of rush-ing it out, Apple should have waited until the device was ready.

There aren’t any exterior chang-es to the new iTouch, but maybe Ap-ple decided to fix that whole explod-ing thing they seemed have problems with in the past.

Adam Arinder is a 20-year-old electrical engineering junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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When the Florida Gators come to Baton Rouge on Oct. 10, they will likely bring the season’s largest crowd to Tiger Stadium

LSUPD estimates the South-eastern Conference showdown to bring 150,000 people to campus.

And fans should use the recy-cling bins which are only now being placed in Tiger Stadium for the first time, despite the stadium’s 87-ton trash yield last season.

The bottom-up movement

pushing Death Valley to be the last Southeastern Conference stadium to have a recycling program came mainly from architecture senior Melissa Seanard’s class project which evolved to a 39-page report and gained the support of Univer-sity Solid Waste Recycling manager Andres Harris.

The trial run during the Florida game will test 25 recycling bins on the West side upper deck, and volunteers will monitor the bins to

make future adjustments.We commend Seanard and Har-

ris for making this project a reality, and we thank the Athletic Depart-ment and Student Government for a willingness to help with the project. Though Seanard’s endeavors are impressive and effective in part be-cause of these group’s cooperation, we believe either of the two should have first started this program and kept LSU on par with our SEC peers.

We urge both SG and the Ath-letic Department to help make this program staidum-wide before the last home game of the season, when LSU faces Arkansas on Nov. 28.

Give Seanard and Harris fund-ing or help find the funding to put recycling bins in the entire stadium. Help find volunteers make the pro-gram successful. Encourage fans to recycle appropriate materials with pregame videos and announce-ments.

But most importantly, fans should put all appropriate mate-rial in the recycling bins rather than simply leaving recyclables in the seats or tossing them with the trash If the rest of the SEC can recycle in stadiums, you can bet Tigers will do it better.

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Last Monday, columnist Linnie Leavines offered an un-informed portrait of the hiring practices of Vector Marketing.

First, Leavines claimed Vec-tor’s chalkboard advertisements mislead students into believing the company offered $15 an hour for student jobs. I found this hard to believe considering I’m one of the people responsible for posting those chalkboard advertisements. Advertising is left up to manage-ment, and taken very seriously.

Second, Leavins claimed “jaded students will tell you it’s a scam,” without offering the name or opinion of any “jaded students.” Anyone who’s ever

worked for Vector would tell you otherwise.

Vector actually pays much more than most student jobs. In fact, if an entry level employee sets up just six appointments in one day, he or she is likely look-ing at making between $100 and $500, depending on length of em-ployment.

Next, she claimed that her experience with Vector was dif-ferent than most because the company contacted her, rather than vice versa. The truth is her experience was exactly the same as it is for almost every Vector employee and potential hire.

And that only covers the first four sentences of Leavins’ col-umn.

Leavins then explained Vec-tor employees sell Cutco cutlery, which is true, but also claimed they participate in door-to-door sales. Her sources were obvious-ly misinformed, as this is patently false. Vector does not participate in any door-to-door sales or tele-marketing. They establish con-tacts and potential clients through networking, an essential skill

required for many occupations, especially business and mass communication professions.

I’ve been working for Vector for less than a month, and I’ve already had three promotions and am being trained for an assistant manager position.

But more than that, I’ve only worked a total of 8 days for the company (I only work on week-ends) and I regularly make more money in one day at Vector than I did in two weeks at my last on-campus job.

Anyone with a positive at-titude and a strong work ethic is guaranteed to succeed financial-ly, personally and professionally at Vector. I have no prior expe-rience in sales, but I didn’t need any because Vec-tor offers a brief training session that shows employees everything they’ll need to know to be suc-cessful.

None of this is meant to be-little Leavins. She’s one of my favorite columnists and a more capable writer and thinker than I was at her age.

But take it from someone

who fell for the “get rich quick scheme” and is in the process of getting rich quick: There is no better opportunity for students searching for employment. If you can’t find a job anywhere else,

the door will always be open at Vector.

Daniel LumettaVector Marketing sales representative

My roommate and I skipped a week or two of class freshman year because we were playing The Sims. We sat in little papasan chairs with computers in our laps for hours upon hours, furiously building houses and grooming yards for our pretend peo-ple to walk around in.

It seems pretty unexciting now, thinking back on it, but it was an in-tense hobby at the time. I’m not sure why it was so hard to tear ourselves away from building a virtual dog-house, but it took a few bad grades and some shy intervention attempts from our other roommate to reinte-grate us into RL (that means “real life,” Grandma).

But more and more people these days can’t let go so easily. Role play-ing games (or RPGs, as we nerds like to call them) are more popular than ever, with virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft boasting

millions of users across the world.A growing number of those us-

ers have a hard time balancing their virtual lives with their real ones. In recent years, rehabilitation centers have begun popping up in other parts of the world for people struggling with technological dependencies, like cell phone or video game addic-tions.

The first such facility in the U.S., called reSTART, opened in July out-side Seattle. It’s a 45-day in-patient program where people can come to “detox” from their technological addictions. The program is cold tur-key — absolutely no furbolg-slaying warlocks or hot-tubbing Sims al-lowed.

Patients participate in tradition-al 12-step meetings and one-on-one counseling, as well as adventure out-ings, nutritional education, commu-nity service, and other activities de-

signed to foster a healthy social life as well as a physically healthy body.

Experts say the primary reason for a holistic approach to overcom-ing RPG addiction is many addicts have underly-ing issues such as depression, social anxiety or even autism. These issues also happen to be the reason Internet addiction is not recognized as a separate disor-der by the American Psychiatric As-sociation.

RPGs are a safe way for these “addicts” to connect with other peo-ple. You can interact with other peo-ple without having to leave the safety and comfort of your own home, no one can see you or touch you, and

you can do extraordinary things you’d never be able to do in RL.

Here lies the essence of the phil-osophical dilemma regarding tech-nology. Does it keep us connected to people, or does it actually prevent us from forming human relationships?

While Facebook or The Sims are markedly different beasts from World of Warcraft or Everquest, they provide similar outlets for social contact. The creatures you’re in con-tact with may not always be real, but you still develop a very real sense of community and a very distinct iden-tity of your own.

That confidence in your identity and sense of belonging is what every human searches for. Finding it in a World of Warcraft guild seems harm-less enough, but it’s easy to see how it could still be unfulfilling and thus become an addiction — a hole which can never quite be filled.

The very things which make RPG’s feel “safe” — lack of physical contact or face-to-face interaction — are the very things which make it ul-timately unfulfilling as a lifestyle.

People need other people. If you feel yourself relying too heavily on your Facebook or your WoW guild, take a shower. Then find me in the newsroom to pick up your free hug — I’m committed to stopping the epidemic. Even if it means joining the Horde.

Sara Boyd is a 22-year-old general studies junior from Baton Rouge. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_sboyd.

AGE OF DELIGHTENMENT

RPG addicts can find hope in new rehab center

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Contact Sara Boyd at sboyd@lsureveille.com

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“The only problem I see is that you have to log in to leave reviews,” Belgard said. “People might be afraid to leave bad re-views since it isn’t anonymous.”

Duke said one way students could use course mes-sage boards is to exchange notes with one another. Sites created for that purpose, like N o t e S w a p , have come un-der fire from professors who don’t want their class ma-terials posted online. But

Duke said the way notes would be exchanged distinguishes his site from NoteSwap.

Rather than posting notes to the EverythingLSU site, Duke said users should get connected

using the message boards and ex-change notes privately via e-mail. That way, no notes will be hosted by Duke’s site.

Katie McGee Barras, assis-tant dean of students and associate director of student advocacy and accountability, said the primary issue when sharing notes is who created the material.

“If you’re talking about notes a faculty member created, you can’t share that,” McGee Barras said. “The intellectual property belongs to the faculty member, not the student. Student-generated notes ... you can post those all day long.”

McGee Barras said students should always consult their pro-fessor before posting class materi-al online. She also recommended EverythingLSU post a disclaimer about how the site is meant to be used and make visitors aware of academic guidelines.

The celebration included live music from the LSU School of Music Jazz Band, free food and red carpet, celebrity-style pho-tos.

Plakidas said funding for the grand opening ceremony came from the marketing budget — established to keep students and faculty updated on the project and to fund a grand opening cer-emony.

The grand opening week included a billiards tournament Monday and a video game tourna-ment Tuesday in the new lounge.

Martin, LSU System Presi-dent John Lombardi, Student Government President Stuart Watkins, Union Board Chair Al-len Womble and Eric Monday, associate vice chancellor for Fi-nance and Administrative Ser-vices and interim director for Student Life, cut the ribbon.

“This is not the home, but the heart of student life on campus,” Martin said. “The quality [of the new lounge] makes it worth wait-ing for the next phase of comple-tion.”

Martin said the new lounge gives the campus a home-like feel and makes it a selling point for potential future students.

“I really like the name,” he said. “The live oak trees are an important part of campus, and the name really fits the setting.”

Plakidas said many of the student-submitted names includ-ed the word “tiger,” while oth-ers made references to Louisiana culture.

“People are partial to the name Live Oak Lounge,” said Ellen John, LSU Student Union assistant marketing director. “It was nominated [as a finalist] and was a clear overall winner.”

Trent Newell, internation-al studies senior, said the new lounge is a great improvement, incomparable to the previous first floor area.

“It’s money well spent,” he said. “The name is very fitting for the area because of the view of the oak trees outside.”

Cailin Kingsbery, biological sciences freshman, said she has always preferred the name Live Oak Lounge because of how well it fits with the University.

“There are a lot of oak trees on campus, making the name a good match for the lounge,” said Kingsbery.

John said the new lounge has been successful since opening — Union officials ran through a punch list, including audio and visual systems, without finding problems.

The first year of the lounge will be trial and error, gauging when students use the area for studying and when it will host live events, Plakidas said.

She said she wants students to be proud of the new Union.

“I hope that a year from now we’ll be celebrating the grand opening of the overall project,” she said.

Contact Steven Powell at spowell@lsureveille.com

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Contact Ryan Buxton at rbuxton@lsureveille.com

WEB SITE, from page 3

‘Student-generated notes ... you can

post those all day long.’

Katie McGee Barrass

assistant dean of students

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LSU Pubic Affairs coordinator Nancy Little, center, talks Wednesday at the student government meeting about proposals for the University’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

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