The Daily Reveille — March 31, 2009

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Today, students across campus will be participating in the fi nal leg of one of the most crowded Student Government elections in recent his-tory.

Though the Next Level ticket only received 29.76 percent of the vote in the general election, recent campaign developments may sug-gest a shift in the campaign’s number of supporters.

After their defeats in last Tues-day’s general election, two of the fi ve participating ticket leaders pledged their support for the Next Level’s presidential and vice presidential candidates, Andy Palermo and Phoe-be Hathorn .

Former presidential candidates Ari Krupkin and Greg Upton of the

Students voting in today’s Stu-dent Government run-off election will be participating in one of the largest, though relatively mildest, SG campaigns in recent memory.

Stuart Watkins and Martina Scheuermann , presidential and vice presidential candidates for the More ’09 campaign, had the larg-est percentage of votes between the fi ve separate tickets with 35.21

percent of the vote in last Tues-day’s general election.

Jeffrey Noel and Ryan Ginn , the former presidential and vice presidential candidates from the Make it Reign campaign, also threw their individual support be-hind the leaders of the More ’09 campaign earlier this week.

A 24-year-old University stu-dent died of an unknown cause Saturday evening.

Dane McCandless, a Univer-sity business student, died at 5:44 p.m. Saturday, and the reason for her death is still unknown, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Of-fi ce.

M c C a n d -less was a Baton Rouge native and resident who transferred to the University from Baton Rouge Community College, her brother Spencer Mc-Candless told The Daily Reveille on Monday.

Spencer McCandless said his older sister loved Baton Rouge and LSU.

“She always wanted to attend LSU,” he said. “She was defi nitely a big fan of LSU sports.”

Her brother said she was look-ing forward to graduating from the

By Joy LukachickStaff Writer

MCCANDLESS, see page 7

STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

DANE MCCANDLESS

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Paying for their Puffs

Ashley Laguaite sat outside Middleton Library on Monday afternoon puffi ng on a Camel cigarette, which only cost her $4.30 a pack. But starting Wednesday, she will be forced to dig deeper into her pockets before enjoying a drag.

A federal tax rate will raise the prices of tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco April 1, making it the largest tobacco tax boost ever.

A 62-cent increase per pack will be placed on all tobacco products, adding up to $1.01 in federal tax. The current tax is only 39 cents a pack.

“I try not to think about [the tax],” said Laguaite, history senior. “My friends and I have been taking turns buying packs.”

The new federal tax will fund the State Chil-dren’s Health Insurance Program, which will give states matching funds for family health insur-ance. President Obama signed the $32-billion

By Leslie PresnallStaff Writer

Federal tax increasing tobacco prices may put strain on avid smokers

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Student dies of unknown cause

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WORLD NEWS

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Japa-nese, South Korean and U.S. missile-destroying ships set sail to monitor North Korea‘s im-minent rocket launch, as Pyongyang stoked tensions Monday by detaining a South Ko-rean worker for allegedly denouncing the North‘s political system. North Korea says it will send a communications satellite into orbit between April 4 and 8. The U.S., South Korea and Japan suspect the regime is using the launch to test long-range missile technol-ogy, and warn it would face U.N. sanctions under a Security Council resolution banning the country from any ballistic activity.

Warships set sail ahead of North Korean launch

Twelve die in bloody siege at Pakistan police academyLAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Black-clad Pakistani comman-dos overpowered a group of militants who had seized a po-lice academy, took cadets hostage and killed at least six of them Monday in a dramatic challenge to the civilian govern-ment that faces U.S. pressure to defeat Islamic extremists. The security forces stormed the compound on the outskirts of Lahore to end the eight-hour siege by the grenade-throw-ing gunmen, with three militants blowing themselves up and authorities arresting four, officials said.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

Obama puts GM, Chrysler on short leashWASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama asserted un-precedented government control over the auto industry Monday, bluntly rejecting turnaround plans by General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, demanding fresh con-cessions for long-term federal aid and raising the pos-sibility of quick bankruptcy for either ailing auto giant. Obama took the extraordinary step of announcing the government will back new car warranties issued by both GM and Chrysler, an attempt to reassure consumers their U.S.-made purchases will be protected even if the compa-nies don’t survive. “I am absolutely committed to work-ing with Congress and the auto companies to meet one goal: The United States of America will lead the world in building the next generation of clean cars,” Obama said.

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President Obama, with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, and former Deputy Labor Secretary Ed Montgomery, right, makes remarks on the American Automotive Industry.

EPA head announces new port emissions proposal

Voodoo fest reaches deal with La. City Park

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The head of the Environ-mental Protection Agency wants to limit emissions along the nation’s coastline and within its seaports, just as the agency does along highways, with tough-er pollution standards on large commercial ships. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday that the United States and Canada have applied to the International Maritime Organization to create a 230-mile emissions control area around much of their coastline.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — This year’s Voodoo Music Ex-perience festival will be held at New Orleans City Park over Halloween weekend. The rock band Kiss is set to perform. An agreement was reached Monday between festival organizers and park officials, who were at odds over a scheduling conflict that had the city’s biggest alter-native music festival booked the same weekend as sev-eral weddings and a fundraiser. “I’m grateful to everyone who got involved and said this event is important to the city,” said Stephen Rehage, producer of Voodoo fest.

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Jake Stowe spends a typical Saturday in the hot Louisiana sun driving nails, laying sod or many other activities involved with con-structing a home for someone in need.

Stowe is the project orga-nizer for the University’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity which is hosting “Act Speak Build Week” in conjunction with other collegiate chapters across the country.

The group will have displays and activities in Free Speech Alley from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day this week except Thursday.

The group constructed a dis-play board Monday for people to sign to show their support for fight-ing poor housing conditions. The group also hosted a kickball game on the Parade Grounds to begin the week of awareness.

All of the displays and events this week are meant to interact with students so they can become more informed about substandard

housing issues facing people glob-ally as well as in Baton Rouge, said Rebecca Krimmel, Habitat for Humanity’s advocacy chair for the University.

“You would be very surprised how many people around the state and around the country that don’t live in adequate housing,” Krim-mel said. “Either because they are charged too much or there are too many people in the house they live or [the house] is falling apart.”

This week, Habitat for Hu-manity members are getting out and advocating for students to edu-cate themselves and move them to action in their own community.

“The main thing is the mes-sage that one person can do a lot, and if you help the situation you can make a difference,” Krimmel said. “Just one person volunteering for a couple of hours can make a huge difference.”

The University’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity typically tries to make this difference by sending students to help build houses in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans ar-eas every Saturday in a build sea-son, Stowe said.

The Baton Rouge affiliate for Habitat for Humanity assigns

University students to a project for a particular weekend. The students will do anything from framing the home to laying down sod or build-ing interior work depending on the stage of the project that particular weekend.

The group has about 35 active members, but tries to take 10 to 15 students who may not be active members to build every Saturday. The group will assist with about four different builds each semes-ter.

Typically the houses are four-bedroom, two-bath homes with a kitchen and dining room area. Most of the work is done by volunteers, except some skilled tasks requiring people like electricians.

“What many people don’t know is that Habitat for Humanity is not just a give away program,” Krimmel said.

The people who will own the homes being built by volunteers must also invest in what the group calls “sweat equity” — 300 to 500 hours of work on their home. The material costs are paid back to Habitat for Humanity at no interest, which makes the home affordable. Habitat for Humanity then invests the money repaid to starting new

projects, Krimmel said.“It’s definitely a part of Loui-

siana’s culture that we are very community oriented people, and I think its important that we try to help people who need our help, and we try to do things for them,” Stowe said.

Habitat for Humanity will be sending 20 University students to Immokalee, Fla., during spring

break to help construct homes in the area.

“You get to build all day and then at night go to the beach and relax,” Krimmel said. “Its a great opportunity, and you get to actu-ally do something with your spring break.”

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A law-maker who sparked a furor last year by proposing that the state pay poor women to have themselves sterilized will push this year to ban drug felons from receiving govern-ment assistance for up to 10 years.

State Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, also wants to require drug testing for all adults receiving welfare under a family assistance program. The proposals, unveiled at a news conference Monday, are likely to generate debate — but not the uproar prompted by the steril-ization idea, which LaBruzzo soon abandoned.

State law now bans drug fel-ons from obtaining public assis-tance for one year from the date of conviction. LaBruzzo’s bill would expand that to 10 years; however, a drug felon who goes through a drug treatment program approved by the Department of Social Ser-vices could become eligible for as-sistance two years after completing the program.

As for drug testing, current law calls for drug testing of “certain” adult recipients of aid through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program but leaves it to the state Department of Social Ser-vices to determine which recipi-ents will be tested. LaBruzzo’s bill would require testing for all adult TANF recipients.

DSS currently does no rou-tine testing of recipients for drugs, department spokesman Trey Wil-liams said. It does put all appli-cants through a drug screening in-terview. If the interview indicates drug use, they are referred to the state Office of Addictive Disorders for treatment.

Those failing to comply with OAD requirements cannot receive cash assistance, Williams added. Last year, more than 400 were re-ferred to OAD, he said.

Although less controversial than the sterilization proposal, which drew no public support from any other lawmaker last year, the drug testing and welfare eligibility proposals will face opposition.

“That is a suspicionless, war-rantless search,” Marjorie Esman, Louisiana director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Students began scheduling their summer, fall and interses-sion classes on Sunday evening, and all seems to be going smooth-ly so far, accord-ing to University Registrar Robert Doolos.

A list of scheduling dates was included in a broadcast e-mail sent to students Friday. Students schedule cours-es based on the amount of hours they have earned.

Doolos said he hasn’t heard about students having problems with course availability yet, but said the wait-list feature — in its second year of use — has been a success. For the spring 2009 semester, 11,933 courses were added to students’ schedules from wait-lists, Doolos said. Before 2007, students had to contact professors about trying to get into a class or simply had to wait until the next semester to take a course.

“It’s a much fairer way for students to get into a course,” Doolos said.

The feature allows students

to join a wait-list for classes that already have a full number of students. A number is displayed by the wait-list so students can track where they are on the list. Students are notified when a course becomes available or the course is added automatically.

“It’s getting students the courses they need when they

need them — it doesn’t get better than that,” Doo-los said.

Clay Benton, assistant registrar, said to get on a wait-list, a stu-dent first has to attempt to add the course. He said students often see there are no seats left for a course and look for the wait-list which isn’t there.

Online prerequisite check-ing is another relatively new fea-ture that allows students to view prerequisites for more than 800 courses. When students know what courses they are eligible to take, scheduling is a lot simpler, Doolos said.

Scheduling dates run through April 24.

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Habitat for Humanity sponsors ‘Act Speak Build Week’Students raise housing awarenessBy Xerxes A. WilsonContributing Writer

Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]

SCHEDULING

Class registration for summer, fall begins

STATE

Welfare users to take drug tests

Students can choose classes until April 24

Felons could be banned for 10 years

By Kyle BoveChief Staff Writer

Contact Kyle Bove at [email protected]

KIM FOSTER/ The Daily Reveille

Ray James, political science sophomore, (left) and Justin Golden, mass communcation sophomore, (right) sign their names on the Habitat for Humanity display Monday morning in Free Speech Alley. Habitat for Humanity is hosting “Act Speak Build Week.”

‘‘‘[The wait-list is] getting students the courses they need when they need them — it

doesn’t get better than that.’Robert DoolosUniversity registrar

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Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish Kip Holden opened the third public meeting for Plan Baton Rouge Phase II with a salute to the whole community for the growth of the downtown area.

Plan Baton Rouge Phase II be-gan in October 2008 to continue building on the first plan, which started in 1998, to revitalize the metro area, and the team suggested areas of Baton Rouge most in need of improvement.

The third and last public presen-tation was Monday night, and final drafts are going to be submitted to the Mayor’s office in June.

The team of developers pre-sented the plans, which improve the greenery downtown, manage parking areas, provide more afford-able housing and create a larger

entertainment district.“We continue to send a signal

across America that this is a place you want to come and see, because this is a place where people are on the move,” Holden said.

The team of consultants sug-gested downtown needed more hous-ing opportunities and parks within the city. One suggestion in the mas-ter plan was to build two signature urban parks connecting neighbor-hoods such as Beauregard and Span-ish Town.

The team said the metro area needs to be greener and more sus-tainable. Besides creating more parks, the team suggested planting more trees in the area.

Large cities have pledged sig-nificant tree planting since 2000, in-cluding Houston, Boston, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Cooling the city, oxygen en-hancement, absorption of water and controlling water all are benefits to having street trees, the team said.

Davis Rhorer, Downtown Dis-trict Developer director, said the

project was a collaboration of many organizations.

The funding partners include Baton Rouge Area Foundation, City of Baton Rouge, Fannie Mae, Cen-ter for Planning Excellence, Baton Rouge Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and Downtown Develop-ment District.

The team of consultants high-lighted the limited amount of space offered in the area. More than 50 per-cent of all the spaces downtown are not available to the general public. On-the-street parking makes up 13 percent of available space.

The team also suggested af-fordable housing was needed. The available acres in Baton Rouge were outlined at specific areas including River park that has 22 acres, East Downtown area has 14 acres and Nicholson Drive Corridor has 66 acres available for housing.

Two ways to cut the cost of housing are subsidizing more funds and finding more private lenders.

“But ultimately the vision is one of a city that is green ... and a

variety of new residential opportu-nities,” said Alan Mountjoy, project manager for urban design and plan-ning. “And it has a variety of ways one can wander about through and between these great attractions and destinations.”

He said the steps to becoming a more vibrant downtown area began with small steps but grow into larger, more developed ideas.

As the uncertain economy con-tinues to discourage high school students from applying to colleges and college students from entering the job market, as well as invoking financial uncertainty at every level, student-loan company Sallie Mae is offering a solution — more student-loan options.

Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading college savings and loan company, has introduced the new “Smart Op-tion Student Loan” in an attempt to enable students to cut the debt they face after graduation. But econom-ics instructor Kaj Gittings said the option could aid students nearly as much as it could deter students.

“Students are going to end up paying less money,” Gittings said of the loan. “Basically, one of two things is going to happen. They’re not going to get [the loans] or they’re actually not going to go to college.”

Paying interest on the loan while still in school could save the student thousands while cutting the amount of time required to pay off the loan in half, Patricia Christel, spokeswoman for Sallie Mae, said in an e-mail.

“A typical student with the average loan size of about $8,000 would make monthly interest-only payments of about $70 while in school,” Christel said. “As a result, [they] could save almost $9,000 over the life of the loan and pay off in six years instead of 15.”

In the long run, the loan winds up being cheaper because paying in-terest while enrolled in school would dramatically cut down the amount of money owed on the loan after gradu-ation, Gittings said of the difference, calling it “astounding.”

The new loan offered by Sallie Mae is private.

Sallie Mae issued about $6.3 billion in private student loans in 2008.

Gus Wales, Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance spokes-man, said private loans are used after “all federal student loan monies” op-tions have been exhausted.

Crystal Oubre, assistant director for the Office of Undergraduate Ad-missions and Student Aid, said while Student Aid encourages students to opt to pay interest on their loans while enrolled in college, private loans are more of a last-ditch resort for students who still need money after scholarships, grants and federal loans.

“We have them exhaust all av-enues before ever certifying a private loan,” Oubre said. “Any private loan is going to have a higher interest rate than the Stafford Loan funded by the government.”

Student Aid has processed about 600 private loans in the past year, Oubre said.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Plan Baton Rouge Phase II presents final draft

ECONOMY

Sallie Mae adds loan options

Ideas include moreaffordable housing

$6.3B in private loans issued in ’08By Lindsey MeauxStaff Writer

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[email protected]

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Mayor-President Kip Holden delivers the opening speech at Plan Baton Rouge’s final public proposal Monday afternoon in the Old State Capitol.

Smart Option Student Loan: •Available for every eligible student for the 2009-10 school year•Repayment term will range from five years to 15 years•Interest-only monthly payments required while still in school

Source: Sallie Mae

Unity ’09 and One Voice ’09 cam-paigns, respectively, endorsed Paler-mo and Hathorn on Friday in a press conference.

Though support of Krupkin and Upton made up 30.47 percent of the vote in the general election, Palermo said his ticket hasn’t changed much since it began campaigning.

“I think the real reason they are supporting us is the common under-standing that we have been in SG and know what is going on in-side SG,” Pal-ermo said.

While Pal-ermo said he didn’t support every issue his former rivals proposed, he said if elected, his administra-tion would pick up feasible ideas from other campaign’s push cards.

Palermo’s push card contained 25 points of interest his campaign has vowed to change if elected. Dur-ing his campaign, Palermo has said his potential administration would work with the University to establish a true dead week before final exams.

Palermo said he would go straight to Vice Chancellor and Pro-vost Katrice Albert and request the University enforce a policy prohibit-ing tests, papers and projects on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday be-fore finals week.

“The biggest hurdle with that is getting the professors to cooper-ate because they’re too used to being able to do it if it’s on their syllabus,” Hathorn said.

Next Level leaders have pro-posed keeping the University dining halls open until at least 9 p.m. and offering students healthier menu op-tions.

David Hiedke, director of LSU Dining, said the plan hinged on in-creased costs for meal plans and how much longer hours would cost in terms of dining hall employment.

Palermo also included in his list of proposed changes a motion to re-

serve the Hart parking lot for student commuters and Tiger Band members during football games.

“Students pay for passes, and they should be able to utilize them, especially on game day,” Hathorn said.

Gary Graham, director of the Office of Parking, Traffic and Trans-portation, said the real issue was how much money would be available to cover such a lot and who would be responsible for paying for it.

Graham said the idea has the po-tential for trouble because it would be difficult to identify commuters, who could give their parking passes to non-students for game day. Gra-ham said he didn’t understand the need to hold a particular lot for cam-pus commuters.

Palermo’s push card calls for an extension of the time period students have to appeal parking tickets.

“It’s doable,” Graham said. “It is just a matter of how much time we’re talking about and getting through the University administration.”

Graham also commented on a plan shared by both the More ‘09 and the Next Level tickets to reroute University buses through campus during school days. He said it would be fairly simple for the University to adjust bus routes, and it was unlikely to cause problems.

Both tickets still in the run-off have made environmental sustain-ability an issue throughout their campaigns. However, Palermo said his campaign focuses on accomplish-able sustainability issues.

Palermo said many of the issues the More ‘09 campaign has put for-ward have already been debated in SG and are likely not feasible if they have not already been implemented.

The SG Senate proposed con-densing night classes into just a few buildings, a plank in the More ‘09 campaign, several months ago. Pal-ermo said because each building on campus has instructor offices, he had been told it was impossible to close the buildings at night.

Though the members of the former Make it Reign campaign are supporting Watkins and Sch-euermann, they said they did not want to tell their supporters to vote for the More ‘09 campaign.

“If I can use the fact that I ran to get more More votes, I will,” Noel said. “But I’m not going to tell anyone how to vote.”

Noel said he did not believe the Next Level campaign was practic-ing what it preaches when it comes to environmental sustainability on campus. He said it was hypocriti-cal of the campaign to plan for a paperless campus, yet still print thousands of push cards.

Ginn said he chose to support More ‘09 because he felt they were the better ticket running on a more feasible platform.

According to Watkins, their platform has been growing since they began campaigning.

More ‘09 has made environ-mental sustainability on campus one of its most important issues during the campaign season.

Watkins said he plans to ap-proach facility services and LSU Dining regarding his plan to in-crease composting on campus. By using leftover meals and excess food, he said the University can continue working toward “going green.”

Denise Scribner, manager of facility services and campus sus-tainability, said the University has been working to increase compost-ing on campus for several months. She said the plan was simply not yet campus wide.

To make such a plan effec-tive, Scribner said there would first have to be talks with the planning department about which land could be set aside for composting and where the resources would come from.

She added there would need to be an educational component added to any composting program to inform students.

Scribner also commented on Watkins’ call to condense night

and intersession classes into fewer buildings in order to save energy, saying it could be done after the right studies were conducted and classes rearranged. But she said it may take more time than they real-ize.

“Those are really huge pro-grams, and they might not even be implemented in the next year,” Scribner said.

S c r i b n e r met with Wat-kins and Sch-euermann in February to dis-cuss their stance on campus sus-tainability. She said they not only had good ideas, but a pas-sion for “green-

ing” campus.Scheuermann said her cam-

paign is also concerned with cam-pus safety and plans to add more security cameras in poorly lit areas around campus, especially in resi-dence hall parking lots.

Though this kind of equip-ment can cost between $500 and

$5,000 depending on the model of the camera and installment require-ments, Watkins said he would not compromise because of price.

“Even though the University is facing budget cuts, as student leaders we’re going to do whatever we can to ensure students’ safety,” Watkins said.

The More ‘09 push card, like their rival ticket, suggests restruc-turing a bus route which would pass through campus during the day.

Watkins said there is currently no easy way to travel through cam-pus, but the problem that could be solved by using something the University already has.

Gary Graham, director of the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation, said this plan was not a reasonable suggestion. He said other transportation plans the More ‘09 campaign has suggested, such as a night route to Tiger Land, would have to wait until there was a definite plan formed about the new bus system.


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law in February.More than 23 percent of Loui-

siana adults smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And a state resident who smokes a pack a day can expect to spend nearly $2,500 annually after the tax increase.

But in addi-tion to the federal tax, one Louisiana lawmaker wants smokers to pay an additional $1 per pack of cigarettes, which would raise the per-pack state tax to $1.36.

State Repre-sentative Karen Pe-terson, D-New Orleans, said the tax would create $209 million in annual revenue and help reduce the state’s budget defi cit.

Peterson didn’t return phone calls for comment before press time.

Lawmakers will consider the proposal in the legislative session that starts April 27. But Gov. Bobby Jindal told the Associated Press two weeks ago that he would veto the tax increase because he opposes any tax increases during the recession.

The federal tax increase alone may cause smokers to begin chang-ing their smoking habits.

An estimated 20 percent of Americans smoke cigarettes, ac-cording to the CDC. And studies show cigarette tax increases prompt smokers to quit, according to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, an anti-smoking group.

For every 10 percent increase in the cost of cigarettes, smoking rates decline 3 percent to 5 percent, according to the group.

Mark Dupont, history fresh-man, spends $4.89 on one pack of Marlboro cigarettes every three days, but said he will quit after the tax goes into effect Wednesday.

“I’ve been planning on quit-ting, but this [tax] is the last straw,” Dupont said.

Joe Mullen, manager of South-downs Discount Liquor and Ciga-rettes on Perkins Road, said he’s un-sure how the tobacco tax will affect his business in the long run.

“Cigarettes are in our name, so they’re pretty important [to our business],” Mullen said. “We can kind of afford it, but there’s going to be this threshold where we could start losing money. Say 30 percent of our customers stop smoking, it’s going to hurt us, but 15 percent isn’t that big of deal.”

Cigarette retailers saw a price increase earlier this month when the manufactures were forced to raise prices because of production and shipping costs, he said.

Mullen said more smokers will likely try to quit smoking, but he doubts they will be successful.

“People are asking ‘Why did they have to charge us?’ and ‘Why should I have to pay for these businesses failing just because I smoke?’” Mullen said. “There’re a lot of people who just can’t afford it. They can only afford a certain amount of cartons per month, and now it’s not in their budget. They have to smoke half the amount they’re used to.”

Jarvis Green, manager and owner of Green’s Purple and Gold on Nicholson Drive, said cigarette

sales are important to his busi-ness, but he doesn’t expect the tax increase to have a major effect on business.

“It’s not going to kill our sales,” Green said. “People aren’t going to stop smoking. When gas went up, people still drove. After they get a couple of drinks, they will be here to get cigarettes.”

Green said he expects people to buy cheaper ciga-rettes in response to the tax. He said Camel cigarettes are cheaper, and he’s already no-ticed an increase in demand for that brand since the fi rst price increase.

A pack of Camels currently costs $4.47 plus tax, he said, and one pack will cost about $7 starting Wednesday. But smokers in some states are preparing to pay nearly $9 per pack.

“It’s a lot, but it’s not as bad as people think,” Green said. “It’s just not a norm to us right now.”

University and starting a career in business. Dane McCandless was interested in the sales side of busi-ness, and she was an employee at Scott Bailey Offi ce Group, a Baton Rouge-based business, her brother said.

She was registered in the Uni-versity College Center for Fresh-man Year and was registered for one class this semester, according to Uni-versity Spokes-woman Kristine Calongne.

Spencer Mc-Candless is her only sibling, and her parents are Robert and Re-becca McCandless, who all live in Baton Rouge.

Both of Dane’s parents de-clined to comment, but they did communicate through her brother about their daughter’s life.

“Growing up, she really liked sports,” Spencer McCandless said. “Basketball was her thing.”

One of her favorite recent hob-bies was painting, he said. She was

an artist, and she enjoyed painting with her friends, he said.

She loved animals and con-stantly had four or fi ve pets at all times, Spencer McCandless said. She had a heart for helping ani-mals, he said.

“She had rescued dogs and cats of her own,” he said.

Catherine Cardneaux, a friend of Dane McCand-less, described her personality as “re-ally sweet.”

Several fam-ily members and friends signed an online guest book linked on the Web site of Resthaven Gardens of Mem-ory and Funeral

Home, the Baton Rouge funeral home where her service will be conducted. She was described as a beautiful woman and a dear friend.

“Dane’s life was cut too short, and everyone will miss her ter-ribly,” said Adrienne Laurent of Starkville, Miss., on the online guest book.

The visiting service will be at the Resthaven Funeral Home today

from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The religious service is Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church.

While the cause of her death is unknown, she was tested for blood clots after having a cosmetic sur-gery last week, according to chief of operations for the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s offi ce, Don Moreau.

She had breast implant sur-gery last week, and sometimes complications including fat clots or blood clots can occur after such a procedure, Moreau said. After conducting an autopsy, no blood clots were found.

“[There are] no obvious causes of death,” Moreau said.

More tests are being conduct-ed to fi nd the cause of her death, he said.

Spencer McCandless said the family didn’t want to comment further on her death, because they wanted to focus on her life in this article.

In lieu of fl owers, the family requested mass in her honor.

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too short and everyone will miss

her terribly.’Adrienne Laurent

online guest book commenter‘‘‘I’ve been planning

on quitting, but this [tax] is the last straw.’

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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009 PAGE 9

BASEBALL

Tigers in the midst of ‘toughest stretch’ of season

The No. 2 LSU baseball team travels to in-state rival Tulane today after winning its home series last weekend against No. 15 Ole Miss, continuing what could be a make-or-break stretch for the Tigers.

“Before we started this series with Ole Miss, I looked at the next 11 games on the schedule, and I said this was going to be our tough-est stretch,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

The Tulane game is the 28th

game, the halfway point, in the Ti-gers’ season.

Mainieri and LSU hope to get the bats going after not hitting any home runs against Ole Miss, the fi rst time since May 11-13, 2007, against Florida that LSU (21-6, 6-3 SEC) failed to hit a home run in a weekend series.

“This was going to be the stretch that was really going to test our team. But I honestly felt ... this is the stretch that the team is going to put it together,” Mainieri said. “It’s going to toughen us up to the point that it’s going to prepare us for the last stretch of the season.”

Mainieri is confi dent the Tigers will fi x things quickly despite the tough stretch of competition.

“LSU, through [its] rich his-tory, has always been a better team in April and May than February and March, and that’s how I feel we are going to be,” Mainieri said.

The Tulane matchup has been a bitter rivalry through the last few seasons.

“Anytime you play Tulane, it’s going to be a spirited, exciting ballgame,” Mainieri said. “I wasn’t there through the ‘90s and the early 2000s. I guess there’s been some really spirited games through the years.

Mainieri has gone back and forth against Tulane (16-11, 1-2 Conference USA) since coming to

LSU travels to face Tulane tonightBy Rowan KavnerSports Contributor

Let’s take this time to give ma-jor kudos to LSU basketball coaches Trent Johnson and Van Chancellor for their amazing seasons.

Johnson took over a program and a group of players that every-one — including former coach John Brady — had given up on and turned them into instant winners, capturing the Southeastern Confer-ence championship and advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The LSU men’s season didn’t end the way Johnson prob-ably had hoped, but let’s be real — LSU is bet-ter than a No. 8 seed and proved it by giving North Carolina its toughest run in the Big Dance

so far.Chancellor’s go around in the

SEC didn’t go as smoothly as John-son’s, but the end result was the same. The Lady Tigers advanced to the Round of 32 before being defeated by Louisville — which is still playing in the women’s NCAA tournament and has looked as sharp as any team outside of Connecticut.

That’s not half bad when you consider only two players on the Lady Tigers’ roster had any signifi -cant playing experience, and neither had any major experience as starters prior to this season.

But despite the smooth sail-ing for both programs in 2008-2009, both coaches are at major

Coaches’ legacies hinge on next season

MY OPINION

LEGACIES, see page 14

CASEY GISCLAIRChief Sports Writer

LSU hasn’t had a problem rewarding success in recent years.

That fact poses a serious question about the future of LSU basketball.

The University took one of the fi rst steps in college football’s nuclear arms race by upping Nick Saban’s annual salary from $1.6 million to $2.3 million after the Tigers’ 2003 Bowl Championship Series National Championship.

LSU also rewarded baseball coach Paul Mainieri with a $125,000 raise in potential compensation after LSU’s run to the 2008 College World Series and gave football coach Les Miles a bump up in to-tal annual compensation from $2.8 million to $3.751 million — $1,000 more than the aforementioned Saban made last season at Alabama.

“I want to win in every sport,” said LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva. “I don’t

Athletic director expects Chancellor, Johnson at LSU for years to come

COACHES, see page 14

BILL FEIG / The Associated Press

Women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor yells to his team March 24 in the women’s NCAA tournament against Louisville.

MIKE CARLSON / The Associated Press

Men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson claps for his team March 13 during the second half of their win against Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference tournament.

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‘I want to win in every sport. I don’t care what sport it is ... I want every

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LSU athletic director

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TULANE, see page 12

Sticking Around

MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman pitcher Chris Matulis throws a pitch March 17 against the Northwestern. The Tigers visit in-state rival Tulane tonight.

By David HelmanSports Writer


Instead of practicing on the tra-ditional hard court to prepare for its spring tournaments, LSU’s volley-ball team has been training on a more comfortable and therapeutic surface — the beach.

The Tigers practice the entire fall season on the hardwood of the auxiliary gym of the PMAC, which is less forgiving and more bruising on the lower body compared to the softness of the sand, so they use the spring as a way to get out of the gym and onto the sand.

The beach training seems to be working so far, as the Tigers took six of the eight sets they played in the

Rice Spring Tournament during the weekend.

The Tigers played two set matches against four teams with no deciding sets.

LSU lost a set to Stephen F. Austin and SMU but swept TCU and Rice, an NCAA tournament team last season.

“The whole day I experimented with lineups, and I would say 90 per-cent of the reason we lost the two sets we lost was because I put people in positions that they were not ac-customed to playing in or maybe had never played,” said LSU coach Fran Flory.

Flory said she experimented with lineups to teach the Tigers to have more “volleyball savvy” on the court in the fall.

“Part of the goal for the spring is to be able to adapt and to focus on the task at hand instead of focusing

on, ‘Who is next to me?’ or, ‘Am I in the right spot?” Flory said. “I want them to be more adaptable ... and for the most part, they did a great job.”

The Tigers took only seven players who will be on the team next year because of various injuries. For-mer Tiger Elena Martinez joined the team as a safety net to make sure the Tigers had enough healthy players to compete.

The return of rising senior out-side hitter Marina Skender, who had not played since the end of the 2007 season after injuring her ACL during spring practice in 2008, was another positive to the weekend’s tourna-ment.

Dabbs said the Zagreb, Croatia, native did an amazing job in her re-turn.

“You couldn’t even tell that this was her first tournament back,” Dabbs said.

UPCOMINGFlory has her team practicing at a

local beach volleyball facility, thanks to the emergence of the Southeast-ern Conference Beach Tournament, which started last year.

The beach tournament this sea-son isn’t until April 18, but Flory said the team already looks better on the beach now than during last spring’s beach practices.

“The first few days this spring were head and shoulders above the first few days last spring,” Flory said. “We’re actually doing drills and playing at a level from the start that we finished at last spring. They enjoy it, and they want to be good at it now.”

LSU rising senior Samantha Dabbs, who transferred from Louis-ville, said this season marks her first time competing at a college level on the beach.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Dabbs said. “It’s a completely different game and a totally different mindset.”

Dabbs also said it helps get the team in shape because of the diffi-culty of playing in sand compared to playing on the hard wood.

“It really picks up your game on the court,” she said. “You feel like you are jumping higher and getting to the ball faster when you get on the court, so it’s a great training tool.”

The Tigers will have to wait to start their spring break until Sunday, as they will be competing in a Hous-ton tournament this weekend hosted by the Texas Tornados, a club team that former Tiger Kyna Washington played for in high school.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Hornets forward James Posey will miss the next three games with a sprained left elbow.

The injury occurred during Fri-day night’s game in New York. Posey will be re-evaluated on Saturday once the Hornets return from a three-game road trip that begins Tuesday at Sacramento. He will travel with the team on the trip.

Posey was hit on his elbow dur-ing the Knicks game and underwent an MRI exam on Saturday.

In Friday’s loss at New York, Posey threw the ball in frustration at referee Gary Zielinski’s feet in the fourth quarter, which caused an ejec-tion from the game. The NBA sus-pended him for one-game.

LSU landed Rivals.com’s No. 2 recruiting class with a banner 2009 year, but coach Les Miles and his staff are already hot on the recruiting trail for 2010.

The Tigers have already secured six commits for the 2010 class, including four-star wide receiv-er Mike Davis (Houston), four-star safety Eric Reid (Geismar), defensive back Tharold Simon (Eunice), line-backer D.J. Wel-ter (Crowley), fullback Bran-

don Worle (LaGrange, Ga.) and tight end Nick Jacobs (Many).

Mike Scarborough of Tigerbait.com said LSU will particularly focus on two positions for 2010 — running back and wide receiver.

“With how they finished last year’s class, they would have liked to have another receiver and another running back,” Scarborough said. “They need a solid group numbers-wise, but they need to be solid play-ers, no guys that might be two or three years up the road. They need guys who have the ability to come in and play early with that kind of abil-ity.”

The Tigers started strong secur-ing the commitment of Davis, one of the top receivers for 2010 and the No. 129 overall player according to Rivals.com.

“He’s fast, and he adjusts real fast to the ball,” said Davis’ high school coach Reginald Samples. “He’ll do some good things.”

But Miles and staff are also hot on the heels of some of the other elite

players for 2010.“In Louisiana, the wide re-

ceivers start with Trovon Reed (Thibodaux),” Scarborough said. “There’s also James Wright from Belle Chase, but he hasn’t been of-fered [by LSU] yet. They are recruit-ing nationally for wide receivers, and I think they need to sign at least three. They are recruiting all the top guys in the Rivals 250.”

A slew of top running backs are interested in the Tigers, headlined by Lache Seastrunk (Temple, Texas), Marcus Lattimore (Duncan, S.C.), Michael Dyer (Little Rock, Ark.) and Storm Johnson (Loganville, Ga.). Seastrunk, Rivals’ No. 2 overall player in the nation, is cousins with wide receiver prospect Reed.

Seastrunk (No. 2), Lattimore (No. 4) and Dyer (No. 9) are all ranked as top-10 players overall ac-cording to Rivals.com.

Reed said he and Seastrunk want to play together in college, so

one school may receive a package deal.

“I think Seastrunk is the guy they have the best shot at,” Scarbor-ough said. “He and Trovon Reed are real close. I wouldn’t trade LSU’s chances with anybody [for Seast-runk].”

Other LSU prospects to keep an eye on include the No. 56 overall player, defensive end Jordan Allen (West Monroe), and tight end pros-pect Travis Dickson (Ocean Springs, Miss.), brother of LSU tight end Richard Dickson.

Scarborough said LSU commit Tharold Simon could move up in the rankings, when Rivals evaluators see his impressive game film. Tharold Simon is expected to end up in the Rivals 250, according to Scarbor-ough.

VOLLEYBALL

LSU passes on hard courts in favor of beach trainingTeam goes 6-2 in eight weekend setsBy Andy SchwehmSports Contributor

Contact Andy Schwehm at [email protected]

NBA

Posey out three games with sprained elbow

RECRUITING

Tigers focus on RBs, WRs in ’10LSU already has six commitmentsBy Tyler HarveySports Contributor

Contact Tyler Harvey at [email protected]

By The Associated Press

Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at [email protected]

‘They need guys who have the ability to come in and play early ...’

Mike ScarboroughTigerbait.com


METAIRIE — The New Orleans Saints said on Monday they will hold training camp this summer at the same place they practice the rest of the year — their Metairie facility.

Saints owner Tom Benson said the team has a state-of-the-art facil-ity and sees no reason to leave it to train at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss., where the team has worked out the past three summers.

Training camp is tentatively scheduled to begin July 29. It will mark the fourth time in the team’s history the team held training camp at its permanent facility. The team held training camp at the Metairie facility from 2003-2005.

Benson says fans from the re-gion are welcome to visit training camp.

General manager Mickey Loomis said the decision to stay home was based on shifting “dynam-ics and economics.”

“We have decided that holding training camp at our facility would provide us with enough quality fields to work on, an indoor practice facil-ity in the case of inclement weather as well as access to the technology we have available at our headquar-ters in Metairie,” Loomis said.

The Saints stayed in dormito-ries at Millsaps and used the school’s fields and facilities in the past, and Benson spent money to upgrade some of the school’s playing fields and added air conditioning at the gym.

Coach Sean Payton said in the past he liked the focus staying at Millsaps gave the team.

Officials from Millsaps were not available for comment Monday.

The Saints are the 17th team to announce they’ll be holding work-outs at their home base this year.

“As NFL training facilities evolve and develop, there is a trend to want to maximize the exposure your team has to all of the ameni-ties that help make training camp successful,” Loomis said. “Training

camp is a very physically and men-tally demanding period of time for the players and by being able to uti-lize our facilities, we feel like it is the best decision that we can make for our team at this time.”

PRESEASON SCHEDULENEW ORLEANS — The Saints will host the Cincinnati Bengals and the Miami Dolphins in this year’s pre-season and will travel to play Hous-ton and Oakland.

The team announced the op-ponents on Monday, but did not give specific dates and times for the games.

The Saints will open their pre-season slate by hosting the Bengals at the Louisiana Superdome during the weekend of Aug. 13-17.

New Orleans travels to Hous-ton in the second weekend of games being held Aug. 20-24. The second road game sends the Saints to Oak-land between Aug. 27-31 to play the Raiders.

The Saints will close the pre-season with a home game against Miami during the weekend of Sept.

3-4.

ROSTER MOVESMETAIRIE — The Saints have re-signed backup quarterback Joey Har-rington.

Harrington, who is entering his eighth season, first signed with the Saints early in the 2008 season. A first-round draft choice in 2002 by the Detroit Lions, the 30-year-old quarterback served as the Saints’ third-string quarterback in 12 games but did see any time on the field.

In seven seasons, Harrington has started 76 of the 81 games he has played in, completing 1,459 of 2,538 passes for 14,693 yards with 79 touchdowns and 85 interceptions.

Harrington became a free agent after last season and re-signed with the Saints on Monday, at the outset of the club’s offseason conditioning program.

NFL

N.O. preseason schedule announcedBy The Associated Press

Saints to hold summer training camp in Metairie

ED ZURGA / The Associated Press

Saints head coach Sean Payton makes a call as the Saints play Kansas City on Nov. 16. The Saints announced on Monday they will hold training camp in Metairie.



LSU in 2006. LSU lost both games it played against Tulane, 16-9 and 8-3, in 2007, but the Tigers fired right back to win, 8-4 and 7-5, in 2008.

Mainieri said one of his favor-ite parts of the rivalry is coaching against Tulane coach Rick Jones.

“Rick does a great job,” Mainieri said. “Rick really manages a good game. I enjoy the in-game strategy against Rick. He really knows the game. I’m looking forward to that from a personal standpoint.”

But LSU’s starting pitcher will be a young southpaw experiencing the rivalry for the first time.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing how [freshman Chris] Matulis

handles the whole situation,” Main-ieri said. “This will be his real big test of the season.”

Matulis is undefeated this sea-son (4-0) and has a 2.51 ERA in 28 2/3 innings pitched.

Junior outfielder Jared Mitchell said the storied rivalry doesn’t weigh on his mind when facing Tulane.

“For me, it’s just another team,” Mitchell said. “It’s more of a rivalry with the fans.”

Tonight’s game begins a stretch of four road games for the Tigers, who travel to No. 6 Georgia this weekend.

Blake Griffin and Tyler Hans-brough spent a lot of time together on the court last weekend and were back together Monday as the top vote-getters on The Associated Press’ All-America team.

Griffin, the sophomore for-ward from Oklahoma who led the nation in rebounding, was the only unanimous selection for the team. Hansbrough, the consensus player of the year last season as a junior, repeated as a first-teamer the day after his Tar Heels beat the Soon-ers 72-60 to advance to the Final Four.

Joining them on the team were players from schools with little All-America history, sophomores DeJuan Blair of Pittsburgh, James Harden of Arizona State and junior Stephen Curry of Davidson.

Griffin, who averaged 21 points and 14.3 rebounds while shooting 63.5 percent from the field, became college basketball’s image for toughness when he re-turned from a concussion only to drive headlong onto the scorer’s table.

He received 71 first-team votes and 335 points from the same na-tional media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Balloting was done before the NCAA tournament.

Hansbrough, a unanimous pick last season along with Kan-sas State’s Michael Beasley, got

50 first-team votes and 304 points. This is the fourth straight season the 6-foot-9 forward received All-America recognition. He was a third-team pick as a freshman and was on the second team after his sophomore season.

Blair is Pittsburgh’s second first-teamer, joining Don Hennon in 1958. Curry, who led the nation in scoring, is Davidson’s second as well. Fred Hetzel was Davidson’s first first-teamer in 1965.

Harden is Arizona State’s first AP All-America.

Griffin, the Big 12 player of the year, is the third Oklahoma player to be selected and the first since Stacey King in 1989. Way-man Tisdale of the Sooners was a three-time All-America from 1983-85.

“When Coach (Jeff) Capel started recruiting me, he talked to me a lot about changing the culture of this program and getting it back to a place where guys like Wayman Tisdale and Stacey King and those guys came to play,” said Griffin, a native of Oklahoma City. “It’s defi-nitely an honor.”

Hansbrough, who is in his sec-ond straight Final Four with the Tar Heels, is the third North Carolina player to repeat. He joins Phil Ford (1977-78) and Michael Jordan (1983-84).

“Those are some of my favor-ite Carolina players. To be up there with them — that’s special,” Han-

sbrough said. “I never dreamed of that when I came here.”

Blair, who was third in the vot-ing with 294 points, averaged 15.6 points and 12.2 rebounds, was the only postseason All-America play-er not to be on the preseason team. One of the best offensive rebound-ers in recent years, Blair became a fan favorite when he was often caught smiling during games.

Harden, who received 290 points, was the Pac-10 player of the year after a sophomore season that saw him average 20.8 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 35.8 minutes. He led the Sun Devils to their first NCAA bid since 2003 as they posted consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in 28 years.

Curry became an overnight star in Davidson’s run to the round of eight last season, and he backed it up with a junior season that saw him lead the country in scor-ing while making the transition to point guard.

He averaged 28.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.7 assists as the Wildcats won the Southern Con-ference regular season title but lost in the tournament and didn’t make the NCAA field.


Contact Rowan Kavner at [email protected]

TULANE, from page 9

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Griffin leads AP All-America teamBy The Associated Press

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman rightfielder Mikie Mahtook hits a single bringing in LSU senior designated runner Chris McGhee in the eighth inning against Ole Miss on Sunday afternoon in Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers defeated the Rebels, 2-1.

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 14 TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009

crossroads. And next season will be defi ning years in the tenures of both at LSU.

Johnson has some major work to do.

The former Nevada and Stan-ford coach has to replace 43 points per game of offense and fi ve of the top-seven players in his rotation.

Johnson does return forward Tasmin Mitchell and point guard Bo Spencer, who were the team’s second and third offensive options and averaged 28 points per game combined this season.

Those players will have to be the core of what Johnson hopes will allow him to build on his success and establish the Tigers as a tradi-tional power in the SEC — some-thing Brady wasn’t able to do.

Brady’s Tigers advanced to the NCAA tournament in consecutive seasons just once in his 11-year ten-ure, a lack of consistency many felt ended up being the reason for his dismissal.

It will be Johnson’s abil-ity — or inability — to fi eld good teams year-in and year-out that will determine whether he will be

a program-defi ning coach like Dale Brown or just a fl avor of the week like Brady.

That issue should become more clear this time next season.

Chancellor’s path is close to the exact opposite of Johnson’s but will be equally diffi cult.

The Lady Tigers will return all but one player in 2009 and will have a core that, on paper, should com-pete for the SEC cham-pionship.

But with talent oozing out of the locker room, LSU’s hall-of-fame coach has to fi rst teach his

young players how to handle expec-tations.

This season the Lady Tigers were virtual unknowns and were in the national top 25 only one week of the season, which allowed the team to slowly creep up the SEC stand-ings without the publicity and the bull’s-eye that usually comes with wearing “LSU” across your jersey.

But that bull’s-eye will be fi rm-ly planted on LSU’s chests again next season, and how Chancellor gets his youthful players to handle them will be key in LSU making that next step from being a pretty

good team to becoming a potential Final Four team — a place where LSU fans have become accustomed to being.

So, Coach Johnson and Coach Chancellor, you’re both at pretty large forks in the road.

Choose your paths wisely, guys, because in a lot of ways, your stays at LSU will be remembered largely by how you fare next season.

Contact Casey Gisclair at [email protected]

care what sport it is ... I want every sport to be a priority.”

So at the end of a successful basketball season for both the Tigers’ men and women’s teams, will LSU up the ante again?

Men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson likely hopes so.

LSU’s surprising run to its 10th Southeastern Conference regular sea-son championship earned Johnson $100,000 in incentives, and the Ti-gers’ selection to the NCAA tourna-ment netted him another $100,000.

All told, Johnson stands to make a maximum of $600,000 in incen-tives if he ever guides an LSU team to a national championship.

“I’ve never been in an institution that had the facilities and the ability to recruit a high caliber of player and sustain [success] over a long period of time, like I have here,” Johnson said last Wednesday.

Johnson’s total annual com-pensation sits at $1.2 million, which

could be a lot less than new Alabama hire Anthony Grant. Media reports have said Grant could make as much as $2 million in his fi rst season as the Crimson Tide’s coach, but the details of his contract have yet to be made public.

Alleva said he and Johnson discussed the coach’s contract, but nothing has come of it yet.

“He still has four years left on his contract,” Alleva said. “But we’ll talk about that as the summer goes along ... There’s no urgency, there’s no rush.”

Women’s coach Van Chancellor made his own surprising run to the NCAA tournament this season.

It sounds odd to refer to an LSU tournament berth as a surprise, as the Lady Tigers are one of women’s col-lege basketball’s prominent teams. But Chancellor lost all fi ve starters from his 2008 Final Four squad and managed to achieve a 19-11 record and a trip to the tournament’s second round.

“Our kids played hard — we

did all we could humanly do,” Chancellor said.

The team’s accomplishments earned Chancellor an extra $10,000 in addition to his $250,000 base sal-ary.

Chancellor told The Daily Rev-eille on Thursday he was “really pumped for another year,” and said he wished it were fall so the season could start.

Alleva affi rmed Chancellor’s commitment just as emphatically as his gold medal-winning employee.

“He’s not retiring — not with this young group he has,” Alleva

said. “The future is really bright for him and for that team.”

A bonus of $150,000 awaits Chancellor should he guide LSU to its, and his, fi rst national title.

As Chancellor prepares to build on a tournament team, Johnson’s in-stant success has undoubtedly raised eyebrows around the world of col-lege basketball.

Johnson is adamant in his hope that “this next team won’t be judged by the team we just had,” but college athletics rarely work that way.

SEC powerhouse Kentucky is reportedly offering Memphis coach John Calipari $35 million for an eight-year contract to restore the Wildcats to national prominence — just two years after luring Texas A&M coach Billy Gillispie with a base salary of $2.3 million.

Kentucky isn’t the only national power, or set of Wildcats, looking for guidance.

Arizona is looking for a coach to continue its nation-leading streak of NCAA tournament appearances

— which sits at 25. Georgia is also looking to re-

place the recently-dispatched Dennis Felton.

While the Bulldogs’ men’s bas-ketball team isn’t usually regarded as prominent, Georgia was reported to have the nation’s most profi table ath-letic department by CFO Magazine in 2006, earning an annual profi t of roughly $23.9 million.

This all serves as proof LSU isn’t the only program prepared to pony up for progress.

But Alleva didn’t seem too con-cerned, even with all this in mind, about the approaching future.

“There will be a lot of jobs open,” Alleva said. “Coach Johnson is here, and I would like to see him end his career here. That’s what our goal is.”

LEGACIES, from page 9

COACHES, from page 9

Contact David Helman at [email protected]

‘‘‘I’ve never been in an institution that had ... the abilities to sustain [success] ... like I have

here..’Trent Johnson

LSU men’s basketball coach

When we decided to run for Student Government president and vice-president, we committed to run our campaign the same way we would’ve run our administration. For us, that included making no promises to fiscally-irresponsible pet projects.

Ultimately, we feel only one campaign has been conducted in the same way. The More for LSU campaign, led by Stuart Watkins and Martina Scheuermann, created a platform based on sustainability. Rather than just having words on a push card, they took direct action, placing recycling stations in the Quad and Free Speech Alley.

The student body showed it is committed to recycling, voting overwhelmingly to spend $5,000 of existing student fees on more re-cycling bins throughout campus.

Watkins and Scheuermann continued to uphold their views by refusing to purchase giant cam-paign signs that are the epitome of waste, staying well under the maximum-allowed campaigning budget. Their opponents, Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn of The Next Level, plan to

“encourage faculty to distribute syllabi and accept assignments electronically, thus saving paper.” They advertised this by handing out thousands of paper push cards, thus wasting paper.

The Next Level has elaborate promises. They are deficient, how-ever, in tangible solutions to many of the problems LSU faces. With our University facing $45 mil-lion in budget cuts, they focus on springing up a costly parking lot. It will not happen.

Next Level supporters love to promote their promise to establish a true dead week. However, when asked at the Tiger TV debate how to specifically accomplish this task, presidential candidate Andy Paler-mo instead chose to talk about why we needed one, rather than offer a real solution.

Inconceivably, by endorsing The Next Level, leaders of the One Voice and Unity tickets have aban-doned their own remaining candi-dates, some in close races where they directly oppose Next Level candidates — for example, the Business College senate race. As further embarrassment, the lead-ership of those campaigns felt it necessary to personally attack the desire, initiative and ability of the More candidates.

Those attacks are unfounded. It’s time to support a campaign

OpinionPAGE 16 TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2009

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EDITORIAL POLICIES & PROCEDURES QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor

rather than a critic.”

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Nov. 30, 1874 — Jan. 24, 1965

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MATTHEW ALBRIGHTTRAVIS ANDREWSERIC FREEMAN JR.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FREEMAN OF SPEECH

Student Government elec-tions are all about empty promises and bogus campaign tactics.

Most of the empty promises I can live with. I didn’t actually ex-pect SG President Colorado Rob-ertson to follow through on his promise of a live, public feeding of Mike the Tiger.

But this election season saw a little bit of everything.

From a vice presidential can-didate missing a live debate on Ti-gerTV because of a sorority chap-ter meeting — that would be you, Laura Boggs — to the owner of a used car dealership with shady ties to a frat he left without the slight-est bit of honor — hello, Ari Krup-kin — I saw the best of the worst personalities on campus.

Friday saw the ugliest side of campaigning and the benefits of shunning an entire ticket for an endorsement with the potential for a staff position.

Both the Unity ’09 and One Voice ’09 tickets — headed by Krupkin and Melanie Oubre and

Greg Upton and Boggs, respec-tively — endorsed Andy Palermo and Phoebe Hathorn’s The Next Level ‘09 ticket for today’s run-off election.

In doing so, the four contra-dicted themselves in citing rea-sons as to why Stuart Watkins and Martina Scheuermann’s More ‘09 campaign didn’t merit endorse-ment.

“We have argued that this campaign is not about who has the most experience, but who is the most capable to bring about the change that SG needs,” Krup-kin said, right before his running mate, Oubre, said she believed Palermo’s ticket has the most ex-perience.

This happened right after Up-ton cited both Watkins’ and Sch-euermann’s lack of experience in SG — despite his support for the novice Vice President Shannon Bates in their 2008 Foundation campaign.

This was after Boggs cited Palermo as the most experienced

candidate.Upton and Boggs have ev-

ery reason to be bitter. After all, the pair almost contributed as much to their campaigns — $1,889.26 each — as the More campaign spent, $3,933.80, ac-cording to SG expense re-ports.

In supporting The Next Lev-el, the former heads of Unity and One Voice decided to pretend their own candidates aren’t still in run-off elections today.

I would now like to pay hom-age to these candidates in today’s runoff, betrayed by the tops of their tickets.

From the Unity campaign:Brandon Burke, Business vice

president; Annie Jacobson, Edu-cation Senate; Adam Lagneaux, UCAC Senate; and Michael Jones, UCFY Senate.

From the One Voice cam-paign:

Ashley Johnson, Agriculture Senate; Brittany Bourg, Agricul-ture Treasurer; Sarah Bertrand, Agriculture President; Chaylon Brignac, Arts and Sciences Sen-ate; Steven Belflower, Arts and Design Treasurer; Matt Babineaux and Beau Bebeau, Business Sen-ate; Kelly Springet, Business Sec-retary; Katie Peaslee, Education Secretary; Beth Higginbotham, Education Vice President; Will Delaney and Steven Menard, Engi-neering Senate; Gabriella Arroyo, Engineering Executive Secretary; Blaine Fuselier, Engineering Vice President; Robert Ingram, Engi-neering President; Kyle Mancuso, UCAC Vice President; Brooke Story and Cody Wells, UCFY Senate; and Hannah Chambers, University Court.

A total of 5,467 votes were cast for the One Voice run-off can-didates, while the four Unity run-off candidates received a total of 906 votes.

The Unity and One Voice campaigns officially sacrificed a total of 6,373, presumably in the name of their collective future.

By throwing these candidates off their already derailed buses, Unity and One Voice have proven to be anything but united or speak-ing in unison. They traded their tickets for whatever political gain Palermo and Hathorn can give — that is, if Palermo and Hathorn win today.

Congratulations, SG. You wreaked havoc on Free Speech Al-ley for the past two months in the name of your individual resumes.

No wonder more than 2/3 of this campus didn’t vote at all last week.

Eric Freeman Jr. is a 22-year-old political science junior from New Orleans.

Eric FrEEman Jr. Columnist

Contact Eric Freeman Jr. at [email protected]

Unity ’09, One Voice ’09 betray tickets for political gain

steeped in accountability and sus-tainability. We encourage everyone to vote for Stuart Watkins and Mar-tina Scheuermann and embrace vi-able solutions rather than empty promises.

Jeff Noel and Ryan Ginnformer presidential, vice presidential candidates, Make it Reign

While I appreciate the candor and sincerity of the former presiden-tial and vice presidential candidates of the One Voice ‘09 and Unity ‘09 tickets, there is a substantial number of candidates and supporters of both of those tickets who now seek to support Stuart Watkins and Martina Scheuermann in the run-off election that will be held on Tuesday, myself included.

Personally, I try to give my sup-port to the candidates that have the courage and fortitude to work hard for the students of this university and to effect positive change both in policy and through positive ex-ample.

In the primary election, I sup-ported the candidacy of Greg Up-ton and Laura Boggs, as I believed

these candidates to have possessed the qualities that would most com-plement LSU. I also ran with One Voice as a candidate for the Univer-sity Court.

With that said and the primary campaigning season over, it is time once again for students to select the remaining candidate they feel would most effectively represent them. Many believe, as I do, that Watkins and Scheuermann are the best can-didates for this role. I personally worked with Scheuermann for a year on the UCFY College Council when she was the president of that body. I have witnessed firsthand her natural leadership skills and her te-nacious drive to accomplish more.

I feel this more than qualifies her for the office of Student Gov-ernment Vice President. I also have faith in Watkins’ ability to uphold the office of Student Government President for the benefit of all stu-dents.

The support the More ‘09 cam-paign enjoys is large and diverse, and I do expect and encourage vot-ers to choose them once more in the run-off election. They have put in the work to deserve it, and they will continue to put in that work once elected.

James Zitzmannpolitical science juniorSG director of external affairs

More support for More ‘09

Daniel Morgan’s March 30 col-umn was ignorant. Luckily, more people on campus know better than to call Reveille writers a “credible source.”

Saying chivalry is dead is like saying capitalism is dead. Ladies, don’t let Morgan mislead you to believe that all the nice guys are gone.

I don’t care how attractive or rich or unpopular a girl is, if I am going to eat with her for any rea-son, I will always pick up the tab. Any young man in their right mind should hold a door open for not only a lady, but anyone coming through a door. It is just good manners.

This is the South, it’s how we were raised as boys and we should continue it even though there are people like Morgan, who inexplica-bly find it funny to “snap the door shut behind him” when a “good-looking female follows.”

So girls, don’t get yourself down if you happen to go on a date with Morgan. There are WAY better fish in the sea.

Spencer Lamb finance sophomore

Daniel Morgan wrong on chivalry

Make it Reign endorses More ‘09

OpinionTuesday, March 31, 2009 PaGe 17

THE DAILY REVEILLE

It was simple and unobtrusive enough — a small color strip ad-vertising CBS television at the bot-tom of the page. But for those who follow print journalism, it might as well have been a tolling bell.

It wasn’t just any page. It was the front page of the Jan. 5 edition of The New York Times, the news-paper’s first Monday issue of 2009. The front page until then had al-ways been free of ads, a testament to the prestige the paper wielded.

But recently, the Times — and print journalism in general — has been suffering and was forced to put even its once-sacrosanct front page up for sale to pay the bills.

Print media’s financial woes are well documented. They began with the advent of the Internet. As more people began to look for their news online, newspaper readership began to slump.

The declining economy has turned that slump into a crisis.

Newspapers, already losing readers to the Internet, have had more difficulty finding sufficient advertisements to meet operating costs. The New York Times Media Group faced a 21.1 percent drop in November, according to the Syd-ney Morning Herald. This drop is especially dire considering it was election season, which should have generated huge revenues.

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From a business perspective, it is far less expensive to run an online operation. And from an ecological standpoint, the Internet isn’t made from felled trees and polluted ink, like its paper predecessor.

With all of these advantages, perhaps paper media doesn’t de-serve to live. In many ways, the

transition is already occurring. Unable to support their print opera-tions, newspapers across the coun-try are switching to digital-only format.

The arguments for the contin-ued existence of paper media are growing less potent every day.

Most supporters of print point to more intangible benefits of pa-per — the concrete feel, its more tangible nature, its ease of read-ing with the morning coffee. Some people just can’t stand reading on a computer screen.

But these complaints are largely those of the previous gen-eration — we grew up looking at computers and are used to getting information from the Web. And as technology increases, this discon-nect can only get smaller.

Many media critics point out print journalism is a more deliber-ate media — it takes a measured, analytical approach and provides

far better commentary and con-text.

Internet journalism has the same potential flaws as TV journal-ism — research and context are al-most inevitably sacrificed in favor of breaking the story.

These flaws may be real, but they’re irrelevant. Those concerns, though important, are largely with-in the realm of intellectuals, and the average reader is simply look-ing for convenience, affordability, accessibility and immediacy.

And in all of these areas, the Internet is clearly superior.

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President Obama’s overexposure reveals insecuritiesPresident Obama’s series of

televised appearances has done precisely what is was designed to do. It distracted America from the crisis at hand and marketed the president’s policies to a jaded, skeptical nation.

His appearance on “The To-night Show” recalled his cam-paign days, when all he had to do was show up on late night tele-vision and plug himself for the presidency.

Obama feels the need to mar-ket himself, especially given his recent drop in approval ratings.

Apparently, the hype that sur-rounded Obama during his cam-paign has not translated into real-ity. Internet blogs speculate this occurrence is mostly because of Obama’s economic policies.

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The president’s campaign style bleeding into his presidency has not escaped the attention of political analysts.

“It’s part campaign-style pol-itics and part ‘American Idol,’” said political strategist Simon Rosenburg of Obama’s media blitz last week.

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reached the consensus that the speech was not only devoid of substance, but actively contra-dicted itself. They concluded the president’s economic strategy did “not fit quite so neatly with his bullish budget.”

Apparently, the AP could not understand how the president plans to cut the deficit in half by increasing spending and expand-ing federal programs. Essentially, its critique was simply a refined way of accusing the president of being incapable of understanding basic mathematics.

Obama would do well to focus on internal communica-tions as well, rather than court-ing a suspicious public. Perhaps a strengthened internal dialogue would’ve caught the AIG bonus provision written in the original AIG bailout plan before it became media fodder.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., made provisions for these bonus-es, which means the federal gov-ernment knew what was going on beforehand.

The government is to blame for these bonuses. Anger should be directed at them, not AIG, which was technically correct in using taxpayer money for

bonuses. If our government is sincere

about stopping such “corrup-tion” as it claims to be, perhaps it would be prudent for it to focus inward and quit pointing fingers at the blameless.

Finger pointing is a sign of desperation. So is overexposure.

If Obama’s economic plan is a good idea, then why does he feel he must try so hard to sell it? If the government truly isn’t to

blame for the AIG bonuses, then why are they rabidly pointing fin-gers at every opportunity?

This string of media blitz is nothing more than a flashy carni-val designed to throw dust in the face of the American people to distract them with misplaced hate for AIG, misguided awe for their president and a contradictory eco-nomic plan devoid of logic.

This overexposure isn’t an attempt to reassure the American

people. It’s a sign of the underly-ing desperation that has gripped our government and will soon grip our nation.

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Honda - 600 cc scooter - 12,000 miles, 65

mpg-$4900 985.209.0288

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NNIICCEE BBLLAACCKK LLEEAATTHHEERR Loveseat-$200,

Great for Living Room 504.638.1555

$$113399,,990000-- 33333300 WWIILLLLAARRDD CCOONNDDOO!! High

demand 2BR 2BA Views of LSU clock tower

on private balcony! Gated! 225.937.4003

Engle Realty BuyBTR.com

WWHHYY RREENNTT!! 1400 sq ft home 5 miles from

campus. 3bdrm, 2bath. Fireplace. New

roof. Appliances included. $139,900.

Don”t miss out on this great deal!

225.757.7455

FOR RENT

PPRREE--LLEEAASSIINNGG FFOORR SSUUMMMMEERR && FFAALLLL LSU

Tigerland: Studio,1 & 2 Bdr. wood floors,

pool, & laundry $465-$695

225-766-7224

WWAALLKK TTOO LLSSUU One BR $425 881 Violet.

McDaniel Prop. 225.388.9858

**LLAAKKEE BBEEAAUU PPRREE’’ TTOOWWNNHHOOMMEESS**

Reserve your place now for Summer/ Fall

’09.

2br/2.5b - $1300/ mo.

3br/3.5b - $1650/ mo.

Featuring Clubhouse with Pool, Tennis

Court, Gym. All Appliances Included.

Dean Flores Real Estate 225.767.2227

SSUUMMMMEERR GGRROOVVEE CCOONNDDOOSS

Reserve your unit now for Summer/Fall ’09.

2bed/2 bath - $1,200

2bed/2.5 bath - $1,300

3bed/3.5 bath - $1,650

See our website for more details!

www.deanflores.com

Dean Flores Real Estate

9191 Siegen Lane Ste 4-B

Baton Rouge, LA 70810 225.767.2227

22 BBRR CCOONNDDOO FFOORR RREENNTT Two story, two

bedroom town house near LSU @ Perkins

Rd overpass. Gated Community. Washer,

dryer and refrigerator are included.

$950 per month, water and sewerage

included.

Available now.

NO PETS. NO SMOKING! Please leave mes-

sage for more info @ 225.253.0274

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2bed/2.5 bath - $1,300/monthly

3bed/3.5 bath - $1,650/monthly

All appliances included.

Dean Flores Real Estate 225.767.2227

CCOONNDDOO FFOORR RREENNTT 3 bdr 2 baths BRIGHT-

SIDE APT.#1204 900 Dean Lee Dr. Baton

Rouge La. Gated, Pool, Sand BB, Res.park

$1500.00 per Mth 504-382-8655

504.382.8655

HHOOUUSSEE FFOORR RREENNTT Beautiful 3/2ba house

on lake in Nicholson Lakes sub all ameni-

ties LSU area must see 1500/mo 225-

933-3477 225.751.4212

WWAALLKK TTOO LLSSUU 1 and 2 BR FLATS and TH,

pool, laundry center. University View

Apartments on West Parker. Call Hannah

767-2678. NO PETS.

ROOMMATES

RROOOOMM IINN GGOOOODD house. W&D, alarm, etc.

No lease needed. $260 + shared utilities.

$250 dep. 225.921.1209

PERSONALS

II FFRRAATT HHAARRDD AALLLL DDAAYY AANNDD NNIIGGHHTT One

thing a frat cant get me is love. Unless

Love is a passed out sorority chick, i’ll take

that too BTW. Come frat hard with me (polo

shirt included)[email protected]

LLOOOOKKIINNGG TTOO SSCCOORREE??!!??!!

Fun, smart, cute blonde babe about to

graduate... Looking for involved, soccer-

playing male grad-student... Only wanting a

quick fling before I move away in the Fall!

Come play with me!

[email protected]

!! GGUUIITTAARRIISSTT WWAANNTTEEDD !! New Band seeking

young electric guitarist with influences such

as...

U2... Coldplay... Fray... Blue October...

Practice space preferred,

but not necessary.

Call Josh @

(318) 458-9766

II NNEEEEDD AA FFRREECCKKLLYY RREEDDHHEEAADD GGIIRRLL I am in

love with redheads and their freckles, and I

just can’t seem to find any; it’s a problem!

I have a great sense of humor, and I’m

pretty intelligent and caring. So if there are

any freckled redhead girls out there who

like to meet a muscular Italian guy, email

me at [email protected]

BBAASSSSIISSTT LLOOOOKKIINNGG FFOORR BBAANNDD 19 Years

Old

6 Years Experience

Experience In Many Different Genres

Want To Start Giging ASAP Easy Going

[email protected]

225.614.4032

LLIIKKEE TTOO GGEETT LLOOSSTT OONN RROOAADDTTRRIIPPSS?? Single

guy looking for a fine honey to get lost tak-

ing a roadtrip, i have no clue how to read a

map, so come get lost with

[email protected]

II LLIIKKEE DDRR.. PPEEPPPPEERR ((SSEEXXYY)) I’ve recently

discovered my love for HALO. Looking for a

female partner to play w/. Call me.

337.274.2979

LLSSUU GGUUYY

Looking for love in all the wrong places.

Finally decided to put this up here. I’m 22

going to graduate next May. I need a sweet

girl who is content being herself. I like

movies, going out to dinner, traveling, and

of course LSU Football.

[email protected]

GGIIRRLL NNEEEEDDEEDD FFOORR girl needed for laundry

and creation of tasty ice cream treats

[email protected]

**TTIIRREEDD OOFF BBEEIINNGG HHEEAARRTT BBRROOKKEENN**

Smart, shy, Independant LSU Junior girl

looking to hang out with a nice, smart, sen-

sible, cute guy for friendship or possibly

dating. [email protected]

SSEEEEKKIINNGG CCHHAARRIITTAABBLLEE,, outdoor loving indi-

vidual. Must love animals and the occa-

sional hiking or camping trip. Drop me a

message at HighpointingForAmerica.org

II WWAANNTT TTOO BBEE YYOOUURR DDEERRIIVVAATTIIVVEE so I can

lie tangent to your curves. Nerdy ndn chick

seeking an intelligent and attractive conver-

sationalist. Ladies only, please—I’m tired of

natural logs approaching the asymptote.

[email protected]

TRAVEL

WWWWWW..OONNGGUULLFFSSHHOORREESS..CCOOMM Forget

Mexico. Beautiful white sand beaches of

Gulf Shores is waiting for you. Small or

large groups from 2-60. Beach front houses

& some with pools. Spring break bargains

for as little as $153 per person.

[email protected] 812.339.2859 or

251.948.5695.

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