The Daily Reveille - February 13, 2014

Student Government Senate passed two fi nance bills while also pressing for the creation of an online syllabus database Wednesday night.

One of the resolutions passed urges the University to create an online syllabus database for stu-dents.

Speaker Pro Tempore Trey Schwartzenburg said the data-base will provide information on course objectives, grading poli-cies and textbook costs.

Schwartzenburg said SG is

attempting a different approach to fi nalizing the bill because the University Faculty Senate did not support the database in the past. SG will meet with Stuart Bell, ex-ecutive vice chancellor and pro-vost, soon in hopes that he will mandate the resolution.

Schwartzenburg said SG will try to convince department heads and deans to support the database if the Bell does not mandate the resolution.

Senator Katherine Latham said she thinks the new syllabus database will give students a bet-ter description of what classes they are signing up for.

“You need to know more about a class before just jumping into it with only a one line de-scription of a class,” Latham said.

The two fi nance bills will fund a Graduate Student Sym-posium and a Greek life retreat called Empower . At the begin-ning of the year, SG starts with an account of $30,000 that is funded through student fees. The budget is used to help fund student or-ganizations that come to SG for help.

A graduate student group asked SG for funds of $1,670 to

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Student Government president John Woodard speaks at the Senate meeting Wednesday evening in the LSU Student Union.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate urges for creation of online syllabus database

SG, see page 15

Jacquelyn MasseContributing Writer

POLITICS

TOPS, see page 15

Louisiana State Senator Dan “Blade” Morrish is look-ing to slice the amount of money students receive for TOPS by proposing a cap on the popular program in the upcoming state legislative session.

The legislation, Senate Bill 34, would increase TOPS, which covers tuition at any state public university, by 10 percent in fall 2014, with the cap percentage changing each subsequent two years.

For example, if the Univer-sity’s tuition was $10 this year, and TOPS covered the entire $10 amount, the legislation would change the amount of money TOPS covers to $11 at the start of the next school year — a 10 percent increase in the amount of money TOPS currently covers.

With universities raising tuition on a yearly basis, the amount of money the state pays for TOPS could be more than a 10 percent increase if the legisla-tion isn’t passed.

For every two years after

Proposed bill would cap TOPS fundingQuint ForgeyStaff Writer

Master Class

At a concert Wednesday , Per Hannevold ’s music swayed from high notes to low notes, from allegro to adagio. For Hannevold , it was reminiscent of a past tug of war between a musician and his instruments.

The bassoon won.

Hannevold , a Norwegian bassoonist, vis-ited the University this week as part of the School of Music ’s Manship Guest Artist Se-ries . Though he has been the principal bas-soon of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway since 1979 , Hannevold was once caught in a love triangle with the trombone and the bassoon .

Hannevold grew up in a small town with

a “good music life” that persuaded him to be-gin playing the trumpet . He soon switched to the trombone and later picked up the bassoon.

Studying the two instruments at the same time proved incompatible , though. The trom-bone has a mouthpiece while the bassoon has reeds , calling for different skill sets.

“My trombone teacher asked me to stop

University hosts Norwegian bassoonist for concert

BASSOONIST, see page 15

Olivia McClureSenior Reporter

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

Bassoonist Per Hannevold, professor at the Greg Academy, University of Bergen and Bergen Wind Quintet member, performs Wednesday in the LSU School of Music Recital Hall.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Tigers drop another SEC road contest to Texas A&M, p. 5

OPINION: Self-expression is about growth into adulthood, p. 12

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NEW YORK (AP) — The DNA of a baby boy who was buried in Montana 12,600 years ago has been recovered, and it provides new indications of the ancient roots of today’s American Indians and other native peoples of the Americas.

It’s the oldest genome ever recovered from the New World. Artifacts found with the body show the boy was part of the Clovis culture, which existed in North America from about 13,000 years ago to about 12,600 years ago and is named for an archaeo-logical site near Clovis, N.M.

The boy’s genome showed his people were direct ancestors of many of today’s native peo-ples in the Americas, researchers said. He was more closely relat-ed to those in Central and South America than to those in Canada. The reason for that difference isn’t clear, scientists said.

The researchers said they had no Native American DNA from the United States available for comparison, but that they assume the results would be the same, with some Native Americans being

direct descendants and others also closely related.

The DNA also indicates the boy’s ancestors came from Asia, supporting the standard idea of ancient migration to the Ameri-cas by way of a land bridge that disappeared long ago.

The burial site, northeast of Livingston, Mont., is the only burial known from the Clovis

culture. The boy was between 1 year and 18 months old when he died of an unknown cause.

He was buried with 125 ar-tifacts, including spear points and elk antler tools. Some were evidently ritual objects or heir-looms. The artifacts and the skeleton were covered with pow-dered red ochre, a natural pigment, indicating a burial ceremony.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The past two years have seen an “absolutely atrocious” number of journalists killed and imprisoned because of their work, with Syria the deadliest country and Turkey the number one jailer, a press freedom advocacy group said Wednesday.

The Committee to Pro-tect Journalists’ annual report “Attacks on the Press” also takes sharp aim at sprawling government surveillance by the U.S. and others as a growing threat.

Joel Simon, the New York-based committee’s execu-tive director, said 2013 saw “a near record” of 21 journalists imprisoned and 70 killed — slightly fewer than 2012.

MATT VOLZ / The Associated Press

Visitors examine a new Montana Historical Society exhibit in Helena, Mont., on Wednesday showing artifacts discovered at a site at least 12,600 years old.

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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin leaves federal court with his wife Seletha, left, after his conviction in New Orleans on Wednesday.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, best remembered for his impassioned pleas for help after the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina, was con-victed Wednesday of accepting bribes in exchange for helping busi-nessmen secure millions of dollars in city work, including after the devastating storm.

The federal jury found Nagin guilty of 20 of 21 counts against him, involving a string of crimes before and after the storm. He sat quietly at the defense table after

the verdict was read and his wife, Seletha, was being consoled in the front row.

Before the verdict, the 57-year-old Ray Nagin said outside the New Orleans courtroom: “I’ve been at peace with this for a long time. I’m good.”

Sentencing was set for June 11, Nagin’s 58th birthday. Nagin left the courthouse more than an hour after the verdict was read, and after U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan ordered that his bond be modifi ed to provide for “additional condi-tions of electronic monitoring and home confi nement.”

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With about 80 faculty mem-bers in attendance, Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) representative Katherine Whitney explained Wednesday the reason the percentage of the University’s share of retirement funds reaching faculty members is decreasing. She also described the various bills in the state legis-lature that will effect the Optional Retirement Plan, if enacted.

The Daily Reveille previ-ously reported there are two re-tirement plans open to Univer-sity faculty: a defined benefits plan, referred to as the TRSL plan, and a defined contribution plan, referred to as the Optional

Retirement Plan (ORP). As pre-viously reported, the TRSL plan operates more like Social Securi-ty, while the ORP operates simi-lar to a 401(k).

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said the TRSL plan has been inadequately funded by the state, leading to debt called the Unfunded Accrued Liability (UAL). He said the University must pay an employer’s share of the UAL, with each higher ed in-stitution in the state contributing to pay off the debt. The Univer-sity’s share is currently about 27 percent, with around 5 percent currently going to retirement benefits.

In determining the normal cost, the cost to maintain the TRSL plan, the TRSL’s actuary

conducts a study to determine how economic and demographic factors influence the projected costs of the retirement plans, Whitney said. She said the actu-ary’s two biggest factors that af-fect the cost to maintain the TRSL plan are increased withdrawals, where faculty members stop pay-ing into the system before they retire, and delayed retirements.

Whitney said the state decid-ed the employer share of the nor-mal cost, the cost to maintain the TRSL plan, would be the same across both retirement plans.

Associate professor of re-ligious studies and member of LSUnited Stuart Irvine said in a letter to University faculty the University’s payment to ORP accounts will decrease to 3.66

percent in the next fiscal year if legislative action is not taken, while University faculty will continue to pay 8 percent of their salary toward retirement.

Whitney presented a num-ber of retirement bills currently in the legislature, one of which establishes a floor for employer contributions to ORP accounts, which would prevent the Univer-sity’s projected payment to fall to 3.66 percent. Another bill would use 5 percent of state revenue from taxes resulting from poten-tial marijuana legalization to pay off the UAL.

Irvine said he thinks the best bill currently in the legislature is House Bill 6, which detaches the employer contribution to the nor-mal cost of the TRSL plan from

the ORP. He said it also establish-es a 6.25 percent floor for the rate faculty members receive.

Irvine said he does not like Senate Bill 23, which allows ORP participants to opt out and “buy years of service” in the TRSL plan. He said the bill is unrealistic, as the TRSL actuary would have to calculate the cost of those years for each individual candidate, of which Irvine sus-pects there will too many for the state to handle.

Spring enrollment at the Uni-versity has grown for the sixth straight year, according to Univer-sity Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell. Data released Wednesday from the Office of Bud-get and Planning showed a 2 per-cent increase from last spring.

Though current enrollment has grown from last spring, the total University enrollment dropped by approximately 2,000 students from fall 2013 to spring 2014, following a trend of past years, according to the data. Bell said the loss is because of students finishing their academic careers. The University doesn’t end up “refilling” until fall of the next semester, Bell said.

The Office of Budget and Plan-ning’s data doesn’t specify how the students were lost between se-mesters, said Director of Institu-tional Research Bernie Braun. Bell said the amount of students who dropped out after the first semester must be compiled individually and will come out in the coming weeks.

The number of part-time stu-dents increased from 2,120 in fall 2013 to 2,577 in spring 2014, ac-cording to the data. This increase follows a trend of increases in part-time students from fall to spring, with the number of part-time stu-dents increasing by approximately 400 from fall 2012 to spring 2013, according to the data.

Bell noted the number of part-time students includes dual-enrolled students in high school. He said the University is continually offering more dual-enrollment courses, and the increases may be because of the number of dual-enrollment courses offered, which increase from se-mester to semester.

The total number of credit hours taken by students dropped from fall to spring, with 29,795 fewer credit hours of classes taken in spring 2014. This decrease fol-lows the trend from spring 2013, when undergraduates took 33,511

fewer credit hours than in the fall 2012 semester.

Bell said the majority of the difference in credit hours can likely be attributed to graduating students. He said another reason could be some colleges offering more cours-es or more students enrolling in the fall as opposed to the spring. Bell pointed out students could go either way with the number of credit hours taken, with some students possibly taking on more classes because they think they can handle more, or

some students possibly taking less because of an excessive load in the previous semester.

The University receives more transfer students in the fall semes-ters than spring, according to the data. The University admitted 866 transfer students in fall 2013, com-pared to 313 in spring 2014, ac-cording to the data. This difference continues the trend from 2012-13, with 825 students transferring in fall 2012 and 286 in spring 2013.

Bell said the reason the

University sees fewer transfers in the spring is because students tend to act on a yearly basis. He gave the example of someone attend-ing a two year university before

transferring to the University.

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Monty Sullivan, chancellor of Delgado Community College, was nominated as president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System by the LCTCS Board of Supervisors on Wednesday.

Sullivan, a Louisiana na-tive, was one of seven can-didates, which included Jim Henderson, chancellor of Bossier Parish Community College and Deborah Blue, chancellor of the State Center Community Col-lege District in Fresno, Calif., to replace current president Joe May on Feb. 27. Before tak-ing the position at Delgado, Sullivan served as executive vice

president of LCTCS.May was selected to lead

the system in January 2007 and worked to reprioritize communi-ty and technical college offerings in the state. He announced his decision to leave in October 2013.

Sullivan supported the re-cently announced WISE fund, a pot of $40 million in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed bud-get that will allow Louisiana’s public colleges to compete for funds to further workforce train-ing and STEM (science, tech-nology, engineering and math) programs, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reported.

LSU President F. King Alexander said he worked with Sullivan on the WISE fund and

looks forward to working with Sullivan to increase the num-ber of transfer students enter-ing the University after two years at a community college, or “two-plus-two” students.

“I think our transfer rate hovers around 6 or 7 percent,” Alexander said. “Which is well below the national average.”

According to its website, 13 community colleges and tech-nical schools are a part of the system, including Baton Rouge Community College, and LCTCS currently has more than 100,000

students enrolled in its institu-tions. Delgado was ranked sixth in the nation for degree producers in health professions and related programs.

Sullivan told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune although he did not think of attending a two-year college when he de-cided to attend Louisiana Tech University, more students will consider the community and technical college system as a vi-able option, especially if they’re looking to quickly enter the state’s workforce.

Alexander said when he worked at California State University, Long Beach, there were many students who trans-ferred to the university with associate’s degrees or college credit hours from community colleges, an occurrence he would like to see more of in Louisiana.

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It was all one fl uid motion — she leapt, swatted the basket-ball out of bounds, landed and screamed while thrusting her fi st upward with excitement.

The PMAC erupted as LSU

kept its commanding lead against Missouri with 13:33 remaining in the game.

This was a version of LSU senior guard Jeanne Kenney that many Tiger women’s basketball fans hadn’t seen before.

She was electric, fl ying down the court, knocking away

opposing passes and draining 3-pointers to give her squad mo-mentum in a 75-58 victory. She fi n-ished with 19 points, four rebounds and three assists. Back on Jan. 16 in Columbia, Mo., she dropped a career-high 30 points against

LSU coach Paul Mainieri wasn’t sure what to expect when he played mad scientist while re-constructing the left side of his in-fi eld prior to the 2013 season.

To replace former Tiger se-niors Austin Nola and Tyler Ha-nover at shortstop and third base, Mainieri chose to entrust then-freshman Alex Bregman, a catcher in high school, with the shortstop

spot. Then-junior Christian Ibarra, who played shortstop while at Rio

Hondo College, would take over at third

base.“Going into

last year, I was scared to death,”

Mainieri said. “I re-member before [Nola

and Hanover’s] senior year think-ing what a luxury it was to have two seniors back on the left side of the infi eld. On the fl ip side, the

next year, you have to replace them both.”

Bregman was inserted into the No. 3 spot in the Tigers’ lineup, while Ibarra eventually worked his way up to No. 6 in the batting or-der.

The two, paired with former LSU fi rst baseman Mason Katz, combined to provide an offensive spark, igniting a run to the 2013 College World Series.

SportsThursday, February 13, 2014 page 5

Plaisancetapped for award

Aggies upset Tigers,83-73

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LEFT SIDE, see page 7

AGGIES, see page 7KENNEY, see page 7

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LSU senior guard Jeanne Kenney (5) attempts to ward off Florida sophomore guard Carlie Needles (4) on Jan. 12 during the Tigers’ 82-68 victory against the Gators in the PMAC.

UNITED STATES OLYMPIC MEDAL COUNTGOLD: 3 TOTAL: 9SILVER: 1 BRONZE: 5

Girl on Fire

The Atlanta Tipoff Club an-nounced Wednesday LSU senior forward Theresa Plaisance was one of 30 candidates for the 2014 Nai-smith Trophy. The trophy is given annually to the women’s college basketball player of the year.

The announcement marks the second midseason award watch list Plaisance has been placed on. In mid-January, she was selected among the 2014 Wooden Award Midseason Top 20 list.

Plaisance has commanded the LSU offense all season, lead-ing the team with 14.5 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. Plaisance stepped up more in Southeastern Conference play, averaging 16.4 points, ranking fourth overall in the SEC.

Plaisance established her place in LSU history when she reached 1,000 points and 500 rebounds for her career in consecutive weeks in January. She became the 18th player ever to reach both plateaus.

The award will be announced in April in Nashville, Tenn., as part of the 2014 NCAA Women’s Fi-nal Four. Former guard Seimone Augustus last won the award for LSU in 2006.

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Bregman, Ibarra attempting to bounce back after 2013 � nishes

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LSU sophomore shortstop Alex Bregman (8) throws a ball on Jan. 31 during a scrimmage at Alex Box Stadium.

Kenney brings more heat than in past years

Every which way it could be done, LSU was beaten — on the glass, on defense, on offense and in hustle.

So, in short, it was a ho-hum Southeastern Conference road trip for the Tigers.

Texas A&M out-rebounded LSU 39-32 and eviscerated an unin-spired Tiger defense to the tune of a 36-26 advantage in the paint and an 83-73 win in College Station.

The loss was LSU’s fourth con-secutive on the road, and the Aggies were the second straight team to produce their SEC-high point total against the same Tiger defense many praised after it clamped down on Kentucky and thwarted Arkansas.

Senior forward Shavon Cole-man steered a lackadaisical LSU offense with 21 points, while junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III again battled foul trouble to chip in 15 points and grab six rebounds.

“They were the aggressor,” LSU coach Johnny Jones in a postgame radio interview. “We didn’t do a great job of containing, keeping peo-ple in front of us. The defense broke down and allowed some easy scoring opportunities.”

Leading a Texas A&M offense

take over at third

The LSU softball team has speed, and it knows how to use it.

The Tigers’ speed is the key to their offense, providing sparks for rallies that lead to multiple run innings.

In their fi rst six games of the season, the Tigers have stolen 17 bases, leading to 34 runs.

In the Tigers’ wins, they have stolen 14 bases, while in their losses to Texas and Minne-sota, they combined to steal three bases.

In 2013, the Tigers were 27-3 when junior outfi elder A.J. An-drews scored at least one run.

A ndrews leads the team with 19 stolen bases in 2014.

“It defi -nitely gives us a completely different di-mension to our game,” LSU coach Beth Torina said. “And I think the steals and the momentum it brings to the game can really be game changing.”

During the Tiger Classic last weekend, LSU scored multiple runs in seven innings.

In the Tigers’ highest scor-ing inning, they stole three bases, leading to seven runs.

“We have so many on this team that are capable of stealing bases — A.J. [Andrews], Sim-one [Heyward], Jacee [Blades], Alex Boulet and Bailey Landry,” Torina said. “Not only do they sparkplug the offense, but they truly change the momentum of the game.”

Steals put speed players into

position to score runs, which provide more opportunities for the power hitters in the lineup, like sophomore shortstop Bianka Bell and freshman catcher Sah-vanna Jaquish, to hit more RBIs, Andrews said.

“Instead of just scoring one or two, I think we’re able to score six, eight, 10 by those guys run-ning the base like that,” Torina said.

Speed not only scores runs, but also puts pressure on opposing defenses.

“I think it puts a lot of pres-sure on the defense, because they never really know how to play us,” Andrews said. “You can’t

just focus on get-ting that batter out. What if they steal second? What if they steal third? It boggles the defense and really makes them think more, which can stress them out and can ultimately lead to errors.”

The speed these players bring changes the

nature of the game for the Tigers’ defense as well.

“We do a lot of our infi eld-ing practice with our speed out-fi elders,” said sophomore fi rst baseman Sandra Simmons, “So we get that chance to not panic. ... Having that chance to work with them gives us the calmness of knowing what to do when it happens [playing against speed players].”


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It’s been a week since LSU hauled in the No. 2 recruiting class in the country, which means there are only 51 more weeks un-til the next National Signing Day.

LSU coach Les Miles and his staff are already working toward another top recruiting class in 2015 with six recruits verbally committed for the 2015 class. LSU is also the only school to currently have two, 5-star prospects, according to 247sports.com rankings.

The No. 1 overall player, cornerback Kevin Toliver II out of Florida, and offensive tackle Maea Teuhema out of Texas pledged loyalties to the Tigers already.

“In terms of numbers, [LSU] is average,” said TigerSportsDi-gest.com recruiting expert Hunter Paniagua. “But in terms of qual-ity of players, they’re defi nitely ahead of the game. It’s defi nitely a good start and they’re only go-ing to add more as time goes on.”

Teuhema is the younger brother of 2014 signee, 3-star de-fensive end Sione Teuhema, who switched to LSU from Texas on National Signing Day, while To-liver is cousins with former LSU wide receiver Terrence Toliver.

Toliver and Teuhema cer-tainly headline the still-young

class, but University High run-ning back Nick Brossette and safety Kevin Henry out of Cen-tral Baton Rouge are a pair of 4-star recruits who declared prior to their senior season.

“I felt like I just wanted to get it out of the way so I can just focus on me just getting better,” Brossette said. “I committed be-cause I feel like [LSU is] where I fi t in, with that offense and everything.”

LSU has put out 62 of-fers so far, according to 247sports.com, with the possibil-ity of several more being doled out this weekend at its in-state ju-nior day, “Boys from the Boot.” Roughly 20 of Louisiana’s top recruit will come to Baton Rouge for an unoffi cial visit and combine.

The Tigers scored verbal com-mitments from Ja-cory Washington and Will Clapp at the same event last season.

LSU looks to secure several highly sought-after targets at this year’s junior day, including 5-star Warren Easton High School wide receiver Tyron Johnson and 4-star Catholic High running back Derrius Guice.

Both players received offers, but 247sports.com recruiting ex-pert Shea Dixon said he thinks they’ll let the recruiting process play out more before announcing an offi cial decision.

Dixon added Central

Baton Rouge wide receiver Ter-rell Chatman thinks he may be able to impress LSU coaches enough at the junior day for them to make an offer and that he would immediately jump at the chance.

But the focus of the Tigers’ recruiting efforts seems to be the offensive line after securing only two offensive linemen in 2014. LSU extended offers to 12 of-fensive linemen, more than any other unit thus far.

New offensive line coach Jeff Grimes hit the recruiting trail running, going after several top linemen from across the country, including fi ve offers within the past week, Dixon said.

“Miles said it on signing day, ‘Offensive line is going to be a priority for [LSU] with this class,’” Dixon said. “The fact they got some guards last year makes me think

they’re going to go heavy on the tackles this year.”

Garrett Thomas, 3-star of-fensive tackle and Many, La., native, was also confi rmed to be going to “Boys from the Boot” by 247sports.com. Thomas has not received an offer from LSU.

Speed is the key to LSU offense, wins

SOFTBALL FOOTBALL

LSU already looking to 2015

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that has looked inept for much of SEC play, guard Jamal Jones paced the Aggies with 19 points, while Da-vonte Fitzgerald — who averaged only 7.1 points coming into the con-test — chipped in 11 in the fi rst half.

The Aggies had only Jamal Jones averaging double fi gures com-ing into the contest and were fresh off a 50-point output against Geor-gia and still reeling from a dismal 36-point showing in a beatdown against Florida.

Junior guard Anthony Hick-ey buried 3-pointers on two of LSU’s fi rst three possessions while O’Bryant added a jump-hook to nab an early 8-2 lead for the Tigers.

The lead stretched to as many as six in the fi rst eight minutes before O’Bryant was whistled for two fouls in 11 seconds, sending him to the bench with 12:29 to go in the half.

Again a constant of the Ti-gers’ road woes, O’Bryant rode the pine as A&M scored at will, erasing what had become an eight-point lead behind Fitzgerald’s three 3-pointers and the Tigers’ inability to penetrate the lane or fi nd a groove from outside.

Fitzgerald took a nasty spill late in the fi rst half on a drive to the bas-ket, injuring his knee and sidelining him for the rest of the game.

After carrying a 43-37 lead into the locker room, the Aggies used a quick 5-0 spurt to open the second half to push the lead to 11.

From there, the Tigers ap-peared to have a pulse, rattling off a 10-3 run to cut the lead to four after O’Bryant’s baseline slam dunk.

Jamal Jones followed with a three, LSU freshman forward Jor-dan Mickey turned it over and A&M guard Fabyon Harris scored in the paint to get the lead back to nine and quash any hopes of a Tiger rally as LSU never got within less than seven the rest of the way.

“They executed well,” Johnny Jones said. “We just didn’t defend or rebound well enough to win this basketball game.”

Missouri, including six 3-pointers in an 87-68 win.

Kenney hasn’t always been such a prolifi c scorer.

She walked onto the court in Columbia a year prior as a junior who had to miss her grandfather’s funeral after a snowstorm delayed the game by one day.

She proceeded to score just 3 points. For the season, Kenney averaged 5.5 points per game and made only 21.6 percent of her 3-point attempts.

Such low numbers were un-usual for Kenney — she scored 1,000 career points in high school and considered herself an effective shooter.

She said it isn’t her shooting

ability that needed fi xing. “The situations [in the past]

have been that I’ve had to play the point guard position, so therefore I wasn’t able to take as many shots as I could have,” Kenney said. “This year we have many people who can handle the ball, and it gives me the opportunity to shoot on the outside. The reason I’m able to get those shots up is because of my teammates.”

Kenney said her surrounding guard play has been crucial, as her teammates have provided her with her fair share of open looks this season.

The result is a staggering in-crease in her scoring — Kenney is currently averaging 10.9 points per game and shooting 40.8 per-cent from the 3-point line, while

playing the second-most minutes of any Lady Tiger this season.

“Because of her confi dence, she feels like she can take those shots, and as her teammates, we feel like she should take those shots,” said senior forward There-sa Plaisance. “We have the utmost confi dence in Jeanne to knock down any shot.”

It isn’t just scoring that has Kenney dominating in 2014. Her leadership has bled through the rest of the roster, infl uencing her fresh-men teammates to stay motivated in any environment.

LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said the trait is vital for the program.

“When she’s being that leader that we know she can be, she can literally will our team and put us in

position to win basketball games,” Caldwell said. “I’ve seen her do it time and time again. She picks her moments during the game, and she’s a player that we want to keep running action to.”

Kenney could be found high-fi ving her comrades as the Lady Tigers began to pull away in the second half against Missouri on Feb. 6 in Baton Rouge,

Kenney was a general, and her teammates fed off the emotion she exuded on the court.

It was clear who was in com-mand that night, and Missouri buckled under her presence. It was capped off by Kenney jumping and swatting an in-bound pass back in the visiting team’s direction, one of the fi nal daggers in an eventual LSU victory.

The senior from Baton Rouge is fi nishing her legacy at LSU, and she’s making sure her mark stays on the program.

“I like the spirit of Jeanne and her playing with a lot of passion and enthusiasm because her time is ticking, and she knows that,” Caldwell said. “She’s trying to make sure that she gets this team in a position to be as successful as they possibly can.”

Bregman fi nished with a .369 batting average, six home runs and 52 RBIs. Ibarra ended his season with a .305 mark at the plate, six home runs and 39 RBIs.

The experiment worked to perfection.

“The two of them just went out there, and all they did was have First Team All-SEC years,” Main-ieri said. “So now I look at myself like I did two years ago thinking how lucky we were to have seniors back, and now we have two First Team All-SEC players back. What a luxury.”

However, the combo failed to bring home the ultimate goal — a National Championship.

Bregman fi nished his fi rst CWS appearance with an 0-for-8 showing at the plate. Ibarra went 0-for-7.

“It kind of tastes like sour Skittles,” Bregman said. “We got to Omaha, which is great, but we didn’t come out on top when we were good enough to. We’re coming out hungry this year. We learned from our failure last year, and we’re going to come back this

year with a good attitude and get after it.”

In 2014, the duo takes on the daunting task of carrying a lineup that doesn’t feature Katz or former left fi elder Raph Rhymes, who was a career-.373 hitter at LSU.

Ibarra said stepping up in the lineup will be crucial for the squad’s overall success, and he is expecting to hit either fourth or fi fth in the batting order come Opening Day.

As for Bregman, improving on a campaign where he was named the 2013 National Freshman of the Year will be his primary task this season.

He said he has plenty of room to improve.

“All around being a com-plete baseball player, I needed to improve in every facet of the game. Obviously, I came up short last year. You can be the guy all year, then you make an error in Omaha, and your team doesn’t win the National Championship,” Bregman said.

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“Bound 2”Kanye West

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“Galentine’s Day”

The best thing you can do for Valentine’s Day is to enjoy the moments with family, friends or a signi� cant other. Life is too short to wallow in the thought of being single or recent heartbreak. Valentine’s Day is more than just the cliché romantic dates at an

overcrowded restaurant. It’s about spending the day with people that matter the most in your life. Bradley Williams

There is no better way to spend Valentine’s Day than by going to the gym. Whether you’re single or spoken for, the best present you can give to your lover or yourself is the gift of gains. On this magical day, you won’t � nd a single bro doing curls in the squat rack, nor will you awkwardly stand around the bench press waiting for the guy who works chest every day to � nish his 30th super set. Reward

yourself after your workout with an alcoholic protein shake that combines vodka and amino acids in a perfect40-30 protein-to-carbohydrate ratio.

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If you’re spending Valentine’s Day by yourself this year, make the best of it. Host an all day rom-com marathon where you and your friends tear apart famous movies with couples in them. Take a walk in the park and judge the other tacky couples who went to walk in the park on Valentine’s Day. You can always think of Valentine’s Day as Christmas and you’re Jewish. Just order some Chinese food and

watch “Home Alone 2” on ABC Family .Gerald Ducote

If gifts are necessary, give something handmade. It is highly unlikely that anyone can channel the spirit of Picasso , but the effort in doing something from scratch goes a long way. For the single, this is not a day to complain, scoff or be bitter. Some years, relationships

just are not meant to happen. Do not sit in a room with Net� ix and half-priced chocolate. Go out and do something.Joshua Jackson

On Valentine’s Day, nothing says I love you more than waf� es. The Waf� e House in Zachary, La. is one of many participating Waf� e House locations celebrating the day in style. Look forward to eating your waf� es on a tablecloth in the candle-lit restaurant as you are

serenaded by the jukebox.Will Kallenborn

Fashion designers from LSU and all across the South will come together to see their designs on the catwalk this weekend for the Oneofakind Fashion Week.

Ella Rose, a recent University graduate, is known throughout the nation for her work and will be one of several designers representing her craft at the show. Rose has been invited to fashion weeks all around the country, from New York to Florida.

Rose’s velvet aesthetic is in-spired by paintings of the ’70s. She said the irony of velvet Elvis paint-ings propelled her into the Monet paintings on velvet used in her de-signs.

Rose said a personal connec-tion with the faculty and staff has helped her get the support she needs as a young designer. She said University faculty and students are doing a good job helping the Uni-versity make a name within the fashion industry.

Julie Rapp , mass communica-tion senior and lead coordinator for OBRFW, said this fashion week has allowed her to grow as a public relations practitioner and, most im-portantly, in her love for fashion.

“I thought this was a great op-portunity to dive head fi rst in this industry, and this was another way to dip my toes in something differ-ent and I loved it,” Rapp said, “I got a lot of experience with work-

ing this fashion week, and LSU has taught me all my writing and even simple communication skills.”

OBRFW was founded by pro-ducer Brandon Campbell, who cre-ated a similar fashion week experi-ence in Little Rock, Ark. Campbel l — a fashion, entertainment and live events producer — said fash-ion week is about the impact fash-ion has on the community.

Campbell said Baton Rouge offers the fashion industry a rare perspective. The city should cele-brate being different, and with this fashion show, it is able to do so, he said.

Campbell said their work is a testament to the program at the University and how the professors have helped enhance the student’s craft.

“[When people come to the show] they will know LSU does have a program that is worthwhile and we have fantastic students,” Rose said.

University alumna Chel-sea Brasted, an entertainment reporter for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, helped choose models for the event this weekend.

“Everyone came with a differ-ent attitude,” Brasted said. “Intro-verted people would become this different person as they walk the mini runway. … It was cool to see this evolution of people involved as they walked.”

Brasted also credited the Uni-versity students, specifi cally Rose. She said she was excited to see

some of Rose’s collection and she said this will be another great event that could add another “feather in the hat” for the Baton Rouge area.

Campbell said fashion allows the community to come together because of the effect fashion has on society.

Brittany Harris, who also helped fi nd models for the event, has a non-profi t centered on pro-viding high school students with new or gently worn heels for prom.

“[OBRFW] will allow many local talent and youth to see the benefi t of their work in Baton Rouge and allow them to be ex-posed to possibilities they may have never had before, and see the potential of what Baton Rouge has to offer,” Harris said.

This Saturday, event-goers will be able to see the work of fashion designers like Christopher Youngstar, Shonda-Ali Shamma, Brandon Campbell, JuJu’s Bot-ique, Ms Smitty and several Uni-versity fashion design students.

Oneofakind Fashion show hits the runway Saturday at the Capitol Park Museum, exhibiting the work of designers from all across the South and student designers from the University.

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NonesuchEDITOR’S PICK: Conor Oberst, “Hundreds of Ways”In true Conor Oberst spirit, with no warning, the legendary songwriter has released a track from his upcoming album “Upside Down Mountain.” This time around, the king of sad has bestowed upon fans “Hundreds of Ways,” a song so country-esque, it could have been pulled from a Woody Guthrie catalog. Similarly, the track has a Bob Dylan essence, something Oberst has experi-mented with before, though this time, to a higher degree. The song

is � ne lyrically, but its upbeat quality is surprising. Before, Oberst had only recorded upbeat music ironically. See: “At The Bottom of Everything.” But this time it seems almost genuine. This break from his traditional style is intriguing, and it will be interesting to see if the upcoming record follows the single’s same vein.

REBECCA DOCTEREntertainment Editor

The indie-pop duo known as Thumpers has released its synth-� lled debut album, “Galore.” The London-based musicians developed a fan base from the two EPs released last year. “Galore” draws com-parisons to another England -based band, Muse. Both bands use synth sounds in conjunction with guitar to create head-bobbing, feel good melodies. Thumpers’ song “Tame” sounds quite similar to Muse’s “Madness” from its album “The 2nd Law.” The middle of the record is strong with tracks that evoke fun sing-a-longs, such

as “Unkinder (A Tougher Love)” and “The Wilder Wise.” The end of the album is a struggle to get through. After a � urry of energetic songs, “Galore” jumps into a couple of slow tracks. The lack of transition is something to be missed on this record. Still, as “Galore” is only Thump-ers’ � rst album, there is plenty of room for growth. JOSHUA JACKSON

Sub Pop RecordsThumpers, “Galore”

On its sophomore release “You’re Gonna Miss It All,” Modern Baseball coherently fuses melodies reminiscent of ’90s emocore with the frenetic anxiety of modern pop-punk. Some songs take off slowly with angular precision and bizarre math rock time signatures à la American Football , then explode into bouts of raw three-chord riffs and blistering screams. Others ignore predictable patterns entirely and erupt and decline almost at random. The lyrics are clever, yet juvenile; Brendan Lukens

is 21 years old, and he’s fed up with everything in the most glorious way possible. This is the album’s crowning achievement and also its greatest � aw. Lukens’ biting poeticism is soaked in frustration and alcohol, but lacks the emotional depth that older audiences would likely appreciate. This is a great album if you’re twenty-something, but it’ll probably lose its luster over time. PANYA KROUN

Run for Cover RecordsModern Baseball, “You’re Gonna Miss It All”

With a stage name like Hurray for the Riff Raff, one would think southern musician Alynda Lee Segarra would make songs � lled with jaunty folk irreverence. On the contrary, HFTRR creates easy-moving ballads to the archetypes of southern sadness. HFTRR’s latest work, “Small Town Heroes,” is no different. This album is all blues, all the time. Segarra’s voice has a sultry twang that harkens back to early Dolly Parton and the darker color of Patsy Cline’s sing-

ing. “Small Town Heroes” covers the entire gambit of country and folk music’s subjects: heartbreak, drinking away sorrows and turning to God in times of need. Theses standards come together with numerous shout-outs to Louisiana , where Segarra calls home, despite being from the Bronx . GERALD DUCOTE

ATO RecordsHurray for the Riff Raff, “Small Town Heroes”

Eric Church’s new album “The Outsiders” presents him as a modern-day outlaw and pushes him past country norms with his blend of country, rap and rock. The opening track titled “The Outsiders” sets a tone for the rest of the album with its rock twist that will make anyone glad to be an outsider when listening to this song. He sings about topics people can relate to: love, heartache, addictions and inner demons people may face. In the song

“Give Me Back My Hometown,” he reminisces about heartbreak and young love. Church sticks to country roots in his song “A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young.” In the song, he talks about not dying young because of a woman’s love. Whether you’re in a relationship or � ying solo, this album will be one to enjoy this Valentine’s weekend. BRADLEY WILLIAMS

EMI NashvilleEric Church, “The Outsiders”

“The Monuments Men” is not the monument one may hope it could be. The � lm, which is about a group of soldiers heading to Europe during WWII to protect art, certainly deals with grand and powerful messages, yet is at times held back by its tone. The � lm jumps quickly between comedy and tragedy, seemingly unable to deal with the harsh reality it shows us. Sometimes the laughs work, and other times they feel awkward. But the movie remains genuine throughout and does well at honor-

ing the lives of brave men. The movie gets quite philosophical at times, with George Clooney going on diatribes about the necessity of art and art’s place in society, and this is where the movie really shines. Even with its faults, “The Monuments Men” gives a compelling argument for the necessity of art and shows the true story of the men who fought and died for our right to watch movies like this. WILL KALLENBORN

Columbia Pictures“The Monuments Men”

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School can be hard. Really hard. There are classes to attend, papers to write, books to read and deadlines to blow off. All of that adds up to stress and time away from friends and family.

Being in a band can also be hard. There are songs to learn, instruments to play, gigs to book and practice every free moment. This means less time to work on that col-lege degree.

Now try com-bining those two worlds. A life full of textbooks, songbooks, lectures and club shows. That’s where Burris , one of the latest acts to come out of the Capital City, comes in.

The band originated as a two-piece acoustic made up of Chris Hochkeppel and Scott Graves , who fi rst met in jazz class. The duo played clubs and bars around the city. Later on, Ryan McKee and Matt Murray joined the Bur-ris lineup, helping to round out the band’s distinctive style.

Hochkeppel , Burris’ guitar-ist, lead singer and songwriter, is originally from Lafayette . He plays French horn in Tiger Band but is drawn to acoustic singer/songwriter music like the work of Jason Mraz and Dave Matthews Band . His singing style contains elements of both Sam Cooke and Ray LaMontagne.

Graves is the drummer for Burris . Graves , from Austin, Tex-as , is a music student with a con-centration in percussion perfor-mance. This focus allows Graves to play with a discipline that both aids in maintaining a song’s backbone and allows him to hang loose in the slacker sections of songs. Scott claims listening to both rock ‘n’ roll and jazz as infl uence for his methods, spe-cifi cally naming jazz drummers Elvin Jones , Philly Joe Jone s, Roy Hanes and Tony Williams .

Adding to Burris’ jazz fl avor is the presence of an upright bass, played by McKee . He studies mu-sic composition, which is valu-able in his work as a bass player. McKee joked that his major al-lowed him to “write weird music that nobody will ever hear until [he] can get a good job.” With an instrument that offers much fl exi-bility, knowledge of music’s prin-ciples assist McKee’s abilities to tow the line on a song that calls for prominent bass work.

Finishing out Burris’ crew is Murray , another Austin native, who plays percussion. He also has a concentration in percussion performance. What separates Murray from Graves’ drumming is his instruments. Where Graves plays on a drum kit, Murray uses a menagerie of percussion tools,

such as congas, bongo drums, a variety of cymbals and a triangle.

Burris’ members have had some trouble describing exactly what kind of music they play. “According to iTunes ,” Hoch-keppel said, “we’re jazz.” He went on to say, “But I think with all our different infl uences and what we grew up listening to, it sort of forms this fusion of folk rock and blues.”

This may seem like a wide range for one band, but Burris manages to bridge the gap by practicing different styles and covering several varieties of oth-

er songs. “It’s like a

gumbo of music,” Murray added.

The band has performed around Baton Rouge , Lafayette and parts of New Or-

leans . Travelling around Louisi-ana has resulted in the members of Burris becoming good friends with other popular local acts, such as Levee Daze , Minos the Saint , Speakeasy , England in 1819 and GIVERS .

Since the release of the band’s fi rst EP “Listening” on Feb. 3, Hochkeppel hopes to start an accompanying tour. For now, Burris has a set of shows this week, playing at Capital City Grill Downtown tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Mud and Wa-ter on Saturday starting at 9 p.m.

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We all start playing the game of self-expression early in life. I didn’t have my stellar lipstick collection right out of the womb, after all.

A toddler could refuse to wear any-thing but his or her favorite Bob the Builder shirt. My mother could not wash a certain sailor-inspired jumper fast enough. The right sneakers and backpack are of paramount importance. Young girls fight with their moms about learning to apply mascara. The care with which a teenager, of any gender, cultivates a per-sonal aesthetic, trend-based or not, is cringe-worthy.

One of the feats of modern adulthood is a fully fleshed-out wardrobe. Haircuts aren’t exactly forever, but they can’t be wiped off in a moment, either.

Lipstick is easy — once you know what you’re doing — and transformative.

Sloppy or meticulous, there’s rea-son behind the components of anyone’s personal style. I got into lipstick early in high school, mostly for formal functions. More than any other makeup, I now put lipstick on nearly every day. I collect tubes and have at least two with me ev-erywhere I go.

There are a lot of reasons — a domino effect falling through my early years of unfortunate lip glosses and plaid dresses — that could have contributed to my love of lipstick.

Femininity isn’t really one of them. It easily could be, if I had to fight for the right to wear makeup, but it was

always my choice and never pushed on me as a prerequisite for blossoming into womanhood.

That’s why, of the styles men hate on women, the reviling descriptions of lip-stick as unnecessary and messy annoys me most.

“It’s so messy. It’s going to get all over me. Not my thing.” Cry me a riv-er, buddy. As if I dress for anyone but myself.

I don’t need validation that I am styl-ing myself as a woman should. I don’t wear lipstick because straight men do or do not approve of it, and I won’t stop for a tantrum over a hypothetical or real smudge on a bro’s cheek. Besides, I am as impressed with lip looks of Tim Curry — who is, as far as I know, a cis-gen-dered male — as Beyonce, so reducing it to an expression of womanhood doesn’t cover it.

And it’s not directly tied to my feminism, either. My belief that women should be treated as human beings, while tied up in the concept of freedom of ex-pression, is not the driving force behind my use of lipstick.

I’ll tell you what is.It’s practicality. I don’t need to stress

about looking sloppy if a couple swipes of color make me feel put together. Lip-stick makes me very aware of my face — in a good way. I don’t scrunch up my face or bite my lip as much when I have it on. With an expressive face like mine, you need impetus to keep still and appear professional.

It’s preciseness. If I overly rush my lip line, I might walk out of my house looking clownish. It forces me to take a minute to look myself in the mirror and concentrate on me.

It eases the stress of my harried,

pushed-the-snooze-button-twice routine.It’s fun, being able to insert any col-

or in the middle of a pallid face. I laugh every time my little cousins wipe my lip print off their cheeks or I can tell which cup out of a crowd on the coffee table is mine.

It’s my mother in the ’90s. She’s not much for makeup these days, but when I was young, she was a master of the full lip. I have vivid memories of her face, sort of free-floating, smiling at me, al-ways with this amazing plum shade on her lips.

It’s an expectation for myself to be better, to be more precise, to make deci-sions quickly, to be kind and positive — attributes my mother has always embod-ied. It’s not being a lady or sticking it to the patriarchy, although it does play those roles at times.

So, for me, lipstick is adulthood.Your mode of self-expression may

change over time. In the end, do and wear whatever makes you feel your best grown-up self, what makes you feel like you have the capacity to live up to your mentors.

And, if it’s the same as mine, trust me, no one will know or care that you’re wearing something called “Bistro Bur-gundy” or “We Have To Talk”. Judge not the tube by its title nor the adult by the accessory.

Samantha Bares is a 20-year-old English junior from Erath, La.

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We all have a soft spot for our pets, and we shudder and shame those who are guilty of animal abuse. But for some rea-son, animal testing doesn’t phase the ma-jority of humans.

This may be because we feel distanced from these creatures, tightly packed be-hind the white walls of sterilized laborato-ries. Or maybe because we are constantly told there are no alternatives to animal testing and we, as leaders of the animal kingdom, deserve to assert our dominance by testing and torturing these animals for our own benefi t.

Those who are still skeptical of test-ing alternatives usually tune out of the ani-mal rights debate because they think they will be faced with an ultimatum — either we test on animals or we halt all medical progress and humans die.

That is where pro-animal testing argu-ments fail, because the truth is there is no ultimatum, no matter how much advocates of animal testing want to believe in one.

As much as we justify our feelings to-ward animal testing because of its scientif-ic benefi t, our biased opinions are invalid excuses to abandon our ethics regarding the respect and rights of other species.

Scientists and bystanders can choose to ignore the facts that rightfully condemn animal testing, but ignorance won’t make these facts disappear.

I’m not saying we should switch to human testing and keep our children in cages for the betterment of society, but there are alternatives.

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham put it best when he wrote, “The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?”

Bentham believed the world would eventually progress to a time when hu-mans would protect all breathing animals and not limit certain humanitarian rights to just our species.

His ideas were outrageous for his time but have slowly become more understood and accepted.

If scientists put suffi cient funding into fi nding alternatives to animal testing, we could do it. It’s underestimating science to say animal testing is our only means of medical progression.

Microdosing is a type of drug test that involves giving humans a low dose of a substance, which will allow scientists to see the effect of said substance on a cel-lular level without affecting the human’s entire body.

Another method is in vitro — in tube — testing. This is an increasingly popu-lar alternative that is even used to fertil-ize women. In vitro is human cell-based, and therefore more humane than pump-ing chemicals and drugs into animals just to measure the amount of damage it will cause.

Not only is in vitro more ethical, it also produces more accurate results because the tests are conducted on human cells and not animals. It should be no secret that animal and human genetics differ. Animal testing can sometimes produce similar, but not identical, reactions to humans.

In the late 1950s, a drug called Thalid-omide was introduced to pregnant women. After testing the drug on various animals with no consequences, scientists mistook the drug to be safe and distributed it to women for nausea. This ended up caus-ing around 10,000 birth defects and thou-sands of fetal deaths in women who took Thalidomide.

So while animal testing is not only detrimental to the animals being worked on, it can also cause unexpected problems in humans after what may seem like a clean trial.

Our generation is the most educated and forward-thinking this world has ever seen. The next generation will be even more cultured than we are. In fi fty years, animal testing will be thought of as a me-dieval scientifi c method.

Let’s stand behind the future of science instead of clinging to its past.

Annette Sommers is an 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dublin, Calif.

Medicine and technology have trans-formed mankind from primitive, cave-dwell-ing animals into sophisticated, rational beings capable of fl ying to the moon. But all too of-ten, the processes that have contributed most to human development are attacked, penalized and denigrated.

In January, researchers in Nanjing, China reported the fi rst successful attempt at geneti-cally engineering monkeys with targeted mu-tations. Using the recently popularized CRIS-PR method, geneticists were able to breed twin monkeys both possessing mutations in genes responsible for metabolism and immune system function.

While this may seem uneventful, these re-sults hint at a future biomedical breakthrough with a potential to increase the standard of living and life expectancy. With the Penning-ton Biomedical Research Center just minutes from campus and the interest in STEM majors growing, the complete legalization and de-regulation of animal testing would reap both economic and health benefi ts not only for LSU students, but for the entire nation.

However, activist groups and politicians have historically been quick to label animal testing as inhumane and ethically evil.

Before discussing the luxury and neces-sity of animal testing, allow me to mention this — rights do not apply to animals in any way. They apply only to humans. Rights stem from the necessity of man to live among one another in a society and from our capacity to reason.

Although many animals display a mini-mal amount of cognition, they in no way com-pare to the reasoning capability of humans. Ayn Rand accurately said “man has no auto-matic code of survival … no automatic course of action.” Animals act purely on instinct; they intrinsically possess an automatic course of action and are unable to reason or adopt any ethical code.

For these reasons, and countless more, animals possess no right to life, no right to vote and no right to property like man. Along with its moral justifi cation, history supports the argument for animal testing.

Since the 20th century, testing has been responsible for the development of the polio vaccine, modern anesthetics, leprosy antibi-otics, research efforts against AIDS and HIV and organ transplant techniques. Without ani-mal subjects, these breakthroughs would have either been heavily delayed or non-existent.

Testing, observation and further experi-mentation are the cornerstones of sound sci-ence and have led to the discovery and cre-ation of drugs that have saved millions of lives worldwide.

I see no legitimate reason to op-pose animal testing, other than the fear and hatred of animal abuse. I agree that torturing animals is absurd and twisted, but those feelings do not grant ani-mals the right to be protected from testing, no matter how dangerous the experiment may be.

Despite what mainstream media claims, most experiments are humane and closely moni-tored.

Congress believes otherwise, so they passed the Animal Welfare Act in 1966. Since then, the government has required businesses, institutions and even families who intend to conduct research or sell large quantities of ani-mals to be licensed and/or registered. Along with the obscene amounts of paperwork re-quired to reach approval, businesses must follow numerous federal guidelines when conducting research, otherwise face fi nes or prison.

Without question, this bill has slowed the rate of medical innovation. Generations of sci-entifi c testing have led to more effective, effi -cient medicines that have drastically improved our standard of life; but the prospect of future discoveries is in jeopardy.

Just a century ago, it was considered lucky to reach your 50th birthday. Now, we often see 70 year olds competing in marathons — ani-mal testing is largely to thank. It’s vital that we end the polarizing debate and allow for univer-sities and other institutions to expand testing capacities free from any outside intervention. The economic, social, and medical benefi ts are incalculable. Who knows what breakthroughs await us?

One thing’s for sure: if someone were to ask, “So you’d rather humans live longer and healthier at the expense of animals?” I’d an-swer: “Absolutely.”

Andrew Stolzle is a 21-year-old nucle-ar engineering junior from Baton Rouge.

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A lab rat is held by a scientist as it waits to be put through tests.

ATLAS HAS SHRUGGEDANDREW STOLZLEColumnist

600 WORDS OF SOMMERSANNETTE SOMMERSColumnist

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Is scienti� c testing on animals ethical?No. � ere are more humane alternatives.Yes. Rights only apply to humans.

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fall 2014, the amount of money TOPS covers with the proposed legislation would depend on the Consumer Price Index, a mea-sure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website.

The Louisiana legislature would look at the CPI’s monthly data for the two-year period, and set the new percentage accord-ingly. That percentage would not apply to the preceding year, but to the initial TOPS coverage for the fall of 2014, whatever that price may be.

Though Morrish said TOPS is “one of the best programs the state has ever created,” he argued the amount of money Louisiana pays for TOPS is putting the state on a dangerous fiscal path.

LSU President F. King Al-exander said he would need to see Morrish’s proposal before he would support or oppose it. He acknowledged TOPS and other programs like it across the coun-try pose a challenging issue for state budgets.

Alexander also said the prob-lems TOPS poses financially for Louisiana are “unintended conse-quences” of the program.

Michelle Landry, chemistry senior, expressed her disapproval of Morrish’s proposal, and said if TOPS did not exist, she would not have gone to college.

“Why would you want to cap spending on education when it’s the lifeblood of the economy?” Landry asked.

Contact Quint Forgey at [email protected]

TOPS, from page 1

fund a Graduate Student Sym-posium at the Louisiana Marine Consortium that will allow stu-dents to share and help each other in their research pursuits. The money will be used for partici-pants’ and judges’ lodging at the symposium.

The Greek Board of Direc-tors asked SG to provide $2,000 for half the cost of speaker Lori Heart at Empower. For the past two years, Senate has given $4,000 to the organization but wants to start focusing on other organizations.

“We want to make sure the program happens but make sure the amount is decreasing,” said Senator Tyler Loga. “Senate is trying to back away from the or-ganization depending on us every year.”

SG also passed a resolu-tion urging facility services to have more electrical outlets throughout campus.

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playing the bassoon because it ruined my trombone playing, and my bassoon teacher asked me to stop playing trombone because it ruined my bassoon playing,” Hannevold said.

When Hannevold discovered the bassoon — initially just “a strange sound I heard on the ra-dio” — he knew he had to learn to play it. Hannevold said he real-ized he could not quit that dream. Instead, he quit the trombone and left for Oslo, Norway’s capital, to take bassoon lessons.

Hannevold, who also taught a guest lecture to University stu-dents this week, said one-to-one teaching is valuable, but musi-cians must learn to listen to and teach themselves.

“It’s learning about being able to stand alone,” he said.

Bassoonists, however, are never completely alone — their instruments often demand a re-lationship, according to visiting professor of bassoon Darrel Hale.

Commitment in this rela-tionship is serious. A bassoon

can carry a price tag of $50,000 or more. Beginner models cost about $7,000 — double the price of the average professional clari-net, Hale said.

One reason prices are so high is because bassoons are hand-crafted by a few makers, Hale said. No parts are factory-made either.

A bassoon can survive about 80 years of use. Hale said they get better with age because the rubber lining loosens and lacquer starts to breathe. Each aging pro-cess and each instrument is dis-tinct.

Although the School of Mu-sic will host two more bassoon recitals next month, those events are rarities, just like the musi-cians and instruments behind them, Hale said.

There are not many bassoon composers, so “you always get something different,” Hale said. Hannevold’s lineup Wednesday featured classical sounds as well as ragtime and jazz-inspired piec-es.

Fortunately, the bas-soon is versatile, with a sweet,

lyrical side and clown-like stac-cato capabilities, Hale said. The bassoon’s “speaking quality” and wide note range positions it as the bass voice of the orchestra, but Hale said few people even know what the instru-ment is.

Like the oboe, although much larger, the bassoon is a dou-ble reed instru-ment. Hale said players must learn to handcraft their own reeds that suit their needs.

Perhaps more difficult to master is the bassoon’s nearly 30 keys that employ the thumbs, un-like any other wind instrument.

Hale said most instruments were updated in the 19th century, when the bassoon had only five keys. So-called improvements to the bassoon made it sound like a “bad saxophone,” Hale said, so bassoon builders added

extra keys to expand the instru-ment’s abilities. The keys permit different intonations, or “how well notes speak,” he said.

In 1765, before all those keys were added, Hannevold’s orches-

tra in Norway was founded.

“We were playing Mozart when Mozart was still alive,” he noted.

H a n n e v o l d said he often re-minds himself

that he is a member of a long chain of musicians. Each member has a duty, he believes, to ensure music is passed along to the next generation in a good condition.

BASSOONIST, from page 1

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‘We were playing Mozart when Mozart

was still alive.’ Per Hannevold

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