Amid the “Pomp and Circum-stance” and gold tassels, students can submit nominations for the speaker at the University’s May 2012 commencement exercises.

Chancellor Michael Martin and his staff are currently accepting nominations for graduation speak-ers, and students can submit their choices to the chancellor via e-mail (chancellor@lsu.edu) until Oct. 15.

Martin said it is too early to

qualify candidates or say what traits the University is seeking in a commencement speaker — in-stead, he wants to hear sugges-tions of indi-viduals worthy of speaking.

An array of prominent poli-cy-makers who have impacted the country, state or Univer-sity have spoken at past University commencements.

Previous May commence-ment speakers of the past 20 years

include former President Jimmy Carter, former Presi-dent George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush. Both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were also May commence-ment speakers while they were serving terms as president and vice president, respec-tively.

State leaders Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. Mary Landrieu have also spoken at May

commencements.

The LSU Police Department’s annual crime report suggests the campus has become signifi cantly safer over the past two years, as the University has seen major de-clines in burglary, alcohol and drug incidents.

The Annual Security and Fire Report was released last week in accordance with the Clery Act, which requires all university and college police forces to provide infor-mation about crime on and in proximity to campuses.

The report shows an 87 percent decrease in burglary since 2008 , with 13 incidents in 2010 . Alcohol-related

arrests have also decreased signifi cantly since 2008 , and LSUPD saw 13 fewer drug arrests than in 2009 , according to the report.

LSUPD Major Helen Haire , who helped compile the report, said some decreases could be attributed to changes in Clery Act guidelines, but a strong deterrent of crime is partially attributed to better community involvement.

Haire said LSUPD has seen an increase in the number of reported crimes, and citizens have been more proactive in reporting crimes as soon as they happen. She said this makes it easier for LSUPD offi cers to make arrests and identify crime trends in different areas on campus.

She said people are also more aware of LSUPD’s

authoritative presence on campus. “Our message is sent and known,” she said, adding

that those wanting to commit crimes have noticed an in-crease in awareness on campus.

The atmosphere at home football games has also changed, she said. Students know offi cers from multiple agencies are on the lookout for alcohol violations, and attempts to illegally bring alcohol into games have de-creased.

The increases in awareness and reporting are a product of LSUPD’s “conscious effort to promote

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Iran criticizes Turkey for allowing NATO missile defense shield

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran criti-cized Turkey on Tuesday for agree-ing to allow NATO to station an early warning radar in the south-east of the country that will serve as part of the alliance’s missile de-fense system.

President Mahmoud Ahma-dinejad claimed the defense system was meant to protect Israel against Iranian missile attacks in the event a war breaks out with the Jewish state.Wildlife of� cials say roving manatee in Puerto Rico to be relocated

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Wildlife offi cials in Puerto Rico plan to relocate a male manatee who escaped from a rehabilitation area during a hurricane.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Lilibeth Serrano says biologists are tracking the mammal along the island’s north coast.

The manatee was stranded as a young calf in 2005 and dubbed “Tuque” for the south coast beach where he was found. He was being rehabilitated in the north in semi-captivity to get him used to the wild, but escaped during Hurricane Earl last year.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says it’s � nal: No GOP presidential run

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — After a surge of new speculation, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared with fi nality Tuesday that “now is not my time” to run for president, dashing the hopes of Republicans still searching for someone other than front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.

Christie had insisted for months that he wouldn’t run. But then came an intense weekend of reconsideration before he made an announcement at a news confer-ence at the New Jersey Statehouse.New technology and programs help Hispanics trace their roots

MIAMI (AP) — Programs like NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” and PBS’ “Faces of Amer-ica” are helping fuel genealogy trends. For many Hispanics, trac-ing family trees hasn’t been easy.

Now that’s changing for America’s largest minority group as a wealth of genealogical data, including a landmark 1930 census in Mexico, is going online. Dis-covering information about one’s great-great grandparents and other relatives could be keystrokes away for many of the nearly 32 million Mexican-Americans.

Public defenders sue over poor conditions in Orleans Parish Jail

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Say-ing there is too little privacy and often too little time and space provided for meetings with their clients, lawyers for low-income defendants in New Orleans are suing Sheriff Marlin Gusman over conditions at the Orleans Parish jail.

The lawsuit, fi led Tuesday by the Orleans Public Defend-ers offi ce, also says that waiting times for such meetings are often too long and visiting hours too restrictive at the fi ve neighboring facilities that make up the jail.

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Hannan died last week at age 98 and will be buried in religious ceremonies at St. Louis Cathedral on Thursday.

Jindal notes that Hannan was a chaplain for the 82nd Airborne and later became the 11th arch-bishop of New Orleans. He served in that capacity for more than two decades.

Return of 20 Namibian skulls Tuesday ignites anger, not peace

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Hu-man skulls taken from Namibia by German colonizers returned home Tuesday after more than 100 years, but the reconciliatory gesture instead has ignited anger and renewed de-mands that Germany pay for its sins in this corner of Africa where more than 60,000 people were killed.

The return of 20 skulls taken to Germany for racist experiments also has fueled anger about current injus-tices from people decimated after re-belling against German colonizers.

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In the midst of midterms week, SG is discussing how it will continue to fund the program which allows students to receive free scantrons and bluebooks from SG’s supply.

SG President Cody Wells and the SG Senate recently discussed allocating $10,000 from the Senate Contingency Account to provide ad-ditional scantrons and bluebooks to the supply for students. Currently, the SG offi ce is out of scantrons due to a complication in ordering the ma-terials.

Wells said approximately 100 students come into the offi ce each day and take multiple scantrons and bluebooks, and while students are limited to fi ve per visit, the number of scantrons and bluebooks are fl y-ing from the offi ce’s desk.

One thousand large scantrons cost $40 while 10,000 small scant-rons cost more than $600. Though scantrons are reasonably low-priced, bluebooks are much more expensive, with 3,000 costing $2,000, he said.

According to Wells, the $10,000 he hopes to receive should last the rest of the school year and into the summer semester.

Last year, SG spent $7,600 on scantrons, which lasted through sum-mer school. But this year Wells said he worries that the stock won’t last through midterms and fi nals for both the fall and spring semesters.

“I understand this is a lot of money, but this must be spent on scantrons if SG wants to continue this initiative,” Wells said.

In addition, Wells said he wants to encourage future SG leaders to add this initiative’s expenses into the budget.

At this time, no additional mon-ey has been set aside in SG’s annual

budget to fund this program. While the Sept. 28 discussion

of taking the money from the SG Contingency Account ended in con-troversy, the SG Committee of Fi-nance decided on Monday afternoon to present the option of removing the $10,000 from the SG Initiatives Ac-count to the Senate, and Wells and the SG Senate will be meeting again tonight to discuss further options for funding.

But De Andre Beadle, senator at the University Center for Freshman Year, said the current restrictions placed on the Initiatives Account will only allow the money for scant-rons and blue books to be used once.

“We want to amend the SG Con-stitution and Bylaws to remove the clause ‘to only fund new initiatives’ so that we can use these funds in this account to fund vital SG Programs such as ‘Blue Books and Scantrons,’ Battle of the Bands and other pro-gramming ideas that the Executive Branch plans to create,” Beadle said.

With the amount almost totaling 34 percent of the Contingency Ac-count, Meredith Westbrook, College of Music and Dramatic Arts senator, said she would prefer if SG looked into other accounts for the money.

“We’ve never spent this much money on one thing, and we almost always zero out the entire account without spending $10,000 on scant-rons,” she said.

According to Westbrook, this account is typically used to help send students and groups to conferences and other nationally recognized events. One such program SG’s con-tingency fund was used for was the Going Global program, which helps students fi nd jobs and internships around the world while also bring-ing international students to Baton Rouge.

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Lexie, a 2-year-old black labrador retriever suffering from cataracts, will have her eye surgery performed by veterinarians at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. The Londoner Pub & Grill is donating 10 percent of their pro� ts from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight to the Capital Area Animal Welfare Society to help � nance the surgery.

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The Londoner Pub & Grill will donate 10 percent of all profi ts earned between 6 and 10 p.m. tonight to eye surgery for Lexie, a 2-year-old black labrador retriever mix with cataracts.

Lexie’s surgery will be per-formed by veterinarians in the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and will cost about $3,000 . Lexie is part of the non-profi t Capital Area Animal Welfare Society’s adoption program.

Denis Ricou, member of the CAAWS Board of Directors, said the School of Veterinary Medicine regularly performs surgeries on ani-mals from CAAWS. Since CAAWS is a non-profi t, CAAWS has monthly fundraisers at The Londoner.

“We have a really good rela-tionship with the LSU Vet School,” Ricou said.

Normally, the money raised at The Londoner goes toward animal surgeries, CAAWS’s spay/neuter program and the costs of maintaining the CAAWS facility, like purchasing animal food. But Lexie, Ricou said, is a special case because this surgery will help her live a longer and health-ier life. He hopes University students support her cause.

“Having gone to LSU, I know the students have a strong non-profi t support,” he said.

Dogs are also invited to lounge on the patio during the fundraiser. Ricou said CAAWS is entirely vol-unteer-based, and students are wel-come to volunteer at the shelter.

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A new student-driven initiative could make the University a green-er place — and save some green as well.

Matt Wyatt, Student Govern-ment College of Agriculture senator, drafted a finance bill last week ask-ing for funds to support a compost-ing initiative. The SG Senate will vote on the resolution today.

“What is holding us up right now is funding,” said Amanda Mc-Whirt, agronomy graduate student.

McWhirt’s interest in compost-ing was sparked while participating in a group project for a horticulture class last spring. Her group’s class project has since blossomed into a full-fledged initiative to implement University composting.

The group researched facts and figures and compiled a proposal

showing the feasibility of composting food waste from the two dining halls on campus.

T h e project will require an initial start-up invest-ment of $52,500, ac-cording to McWhir t ’s group. The one-time fee will provide

a trailer to transport waste from the University to an off-campus com-posting site, as well as site preparation and irrigation.

Projected yearly expenses for the endeavor would cost nearly

$77,000 and would mainly go to pay the yearly salary for a composting tech and graduate student.

While she thinks the price may seem steep, especially in times of budget cuts, McWhirt said the in-vestment would be worthwhile.

“LSU pays $111,500 for waste disposal services every year,” Mc-Whirt said. “We could save the Uni-versity roughly $34,500 every year in expenses.”

The benefits of composting far exceed the costs, according to Lau-ren Hull, assistant director of sus-tainability for Student Government.

“By composting, we would be saving waste from going to a landfill where it would produce carbon di-oxide and methane gases, which are harmful to the environment,” Hull said.

Hull also noted the educational opportunities composting offers.

“This could be used as a ser-vice-learning opportunity or field class for horticulture and other areas of study,” Hull said.

Composting involves mixing brown wastes like paper with green wastes like food scraps in a pile to achieve a favorable carbon and ni-trogen ratio. The waste is then cov-ered in a substrate like hay to con-tain its heat and moisture. Microbes subsequently infiltrate the compost pile and naturally break down the waste. Once the pile is aerated and mixed, it produces landscaping ma-terial and fertilizer.

Hull said the process may sound complicated and laborious but wouldn’t be much more work than the dining halls already do.

“The dining halls already sort and quantify their food waste,” Hull said.

The task at hand then becomes collecting the food waste and trans-porting it to a four-acre composting site.

Hull, McWhirt and other composting advocates have secured a plot of land at the W. A. Callegari Environmental Center, a division of

the LSU AgCenter. The Callegari Center is already

involved with composting on a small scale, said Andres Harris, LSU recy-cling manager.

“We have used composting at the last three Fall Fests,” Harris said.

University Recycling desig-nated compost bins at the autumnal celebration and then transported the bins to the Callegari Center to be composted.

“We were able to compost six cubic yards of food waste from this year’s Fall Fest,” Harris wrote on the LSU Recycles Facebook page.

Hull said she has spoken with Chancellor Michael Martin, who supports composting, but the initia-tive needs more advocates.

“Taking personal initiative is where it all starts,” Hull said. “If stu-dents don’t say anything, then it may not happen.”

President Barack Obama is en-dorsing a new debt-collecting tactic that would allow private collectors to increase calls to cellphones, particu-larly to indebted college students.

Debt collectors would be al-lowed to contact debtors by cell-phone if they have failed to make payments, according to a deficit re-duction plan submitted to Congress in September.

The plan said this method should be more successful in col-lecting payments than past efforts, as people rely less on landline phones and primarily use cellphones.

The Associated Press report-ed Tuesday contact will be made

through “robocalls” — automated calls that utilize prerecorded mes-sages delivered by computers.

If more debt collectors begin calling cellphones, students with debt could be on the receiving end.

The tactic will be successful for the federal government but could put greater strain on indebted students, said Emily Hester, Student Financial Management Center coordinator.

Hester said students are the new target of these type of debt calls.

She said the shift to cellphones is wise, especially when trying to successfully communicate with col-lege students.

But educating students about the loans they apply for is a wiser plan, she said.

Students have many options on how to pay off loans, but many often accept loans without first consider-ing the best payment option, Hester said.

Sarah Odom, biology freshman,

said these calls would be annoying, but more students in debt should be more willing to seek help.

Odom said many students do not admit to having debt issues and do not seek ways to solve the prob-lem, but cellphone reminders would not help.

“I wouldn’t take a cellphone call from a debt collector seriously,” she said.

Odom said she has taken out loans but isn’t worried about paying them yet because she is only a fresh-man.

Max Smith, accounting sopho-more, said the calls would be an effective reminder to students who have many obligations and put debt in the back of their minds.

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Make your own“Worm Box”

1. Get a sturdy shoebox-sized container.

2. Poke holes in the top of it.

3. Fill the box with food waste — excluding animal by-products.

4. Purchase several red worms to put in the box.

They along with nature will turn the waste into fertilizer product.

Obama endorses new collection tactic

Green initiative is also educational

Sophomore running back Al-fred Blue has experienced success on the field lately, with a 72-yard rushing game against Kentucky last weekend.

But outside of football, Blue went through a recent setback when a fire destroyed his family’s home and all their belongings.

LSU has set up the Relief-4-Blue Fund, which will assist Blue, his younger siblings — Aly-hea, Clarica and Clarence, Jr.— and his mother and grandmother.

The NCAA has permitted the fund, which will receive donations through the Tiger Athletic Founda-tion.

Under NCAA Bylaw 16.11.12, fundraisers are acceptable in “ex-treme circumstances ... extraordi-nary in the result of events beyond the student-athlete’s control.”

The fundraising is permissible as long as the proceeds are desig-nated for a specific purpose such as the replacement of belongings lost in a fire.

Blue has registered 34 car-ries for 148 yards and three touch-downs this season.

“The institution’s president or chancellor is responsible for the ad-ministration of all aspects of the ath-letics program.”

That principle — also known as NCAA bylaw 2.1.1 — grants control of an athletic department to a uni-versity’s chancellor. Though it may surprise some, Chancellor Michael Martin has significant input in the University athletic department.

Martin said the magnitude of interest in LSU athletics has always

required him to maintain a stern watch over the program, but recent national scandals have forced him and his colleagues to take a deeper look at intercollegiate athletics.

“Presidents and chancellors have taken their responsibility a little more seriously as of late to try to ensure that we retain integrity,” Martin said.

Martin has had to balance his responsibilities with LSU’s academ-ic side while focusing on creating solutions to problems running ram-pant throughout the NCAA.

“People are staking out extreme positions,” Martin said. “Hopefully some of us who are rational can find the middle ground that works. But there’s a lot of white noise out there.”

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Overshadowed by the hype of the defensive line and record-breaking performances in the secondary, there lies an-other defensive unit trying to earn recognition of its own.

The Tiger linebackers have avoided the majority of the limelight this season, despite helping LSU be-come No. 9 in the nation in total defense and No. 3 in rushing defense.

Senior linebacker Ryan Baker said winning comes first, but the linebackers are itching to earn their stripes.

“That’s a thing we’ve kind of being going through lately,”

Baker said. “The defensive line is eating right now, and the secondary is making some plays, but it seems the linebackers

aren’t getting their share. But hey, we’re win-ning.”

The linebackers’ job got tougher this sea-son after losing two-time leading tackler and All-American Kelvin Sheppard to the NFL.

The Tigers turned to Baker — the second leading tack-ler last year — and fellow senior Stefoin Francois to com-mand the linebacking corps, as well as converted senior safety

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Young linebackers stepping into big roles after Sheppard’s departure

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[Top] LSU sophomore linebacker Kevin Minter (46) and LSU sophomore safety Eric Reid (1) tackle Kentucky running back Josh Clemons (20) on Saturday in Tiger Stadium. [Bottom left] LSU linebackers prepare for a snap Sept. 10 against Northwestern State. LSU dominated the Demons, 49-3. [Bottom right] Senior linebacker Karnell Hatcher (37) chases Northwestern State quarterback Brad Henderson (10).

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For the first time I can remem-ber, my Monday night didn’t begin with my favorite question.

Are you ready for some foot-ball?

That’s because legendary coun-try singer Hank Williams Jr. was re-lieved of his duties as Monday Night Football’s intro singer Monday af-ter making controversial comments about President Barack Obama. Wil-liams said Obama playing golf with Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner would be like Hitler playing golf with Benjamin Netan-yahu — the current Prime Minister of Israel.

While Williams’ comments were extreme and out of line, it was by no means cause for his dismissal.

First, why anyone puts any stock into what a musician has to say about politics is beyond me. There’s a reason his profession isn’t political

analyst — he doesn’t know a whole lot about it.

Second, if ESPN hadn’t made such a stink about this, few people would even know this happened.

I won’t go off on a political ti-rade here because, much like Wil-liams, my job isn’t to talk about politics. But if Williams made those comments five years ago about for-mer President George W. Bush, who was constantly maligned and ha-rassed, he would still be the leadoff voice for Monday Night Football.

I guarantee it. But ESPN loves to throw its im-

mense weight around when it leeches on to a cause. Last summer ESPN senior college football writer Bruce Feldman was suspended for ghost-writing controversial material in for-mer Texas Tech coach Mike Leach’s book, “Swing Your Sword.”

Ironcially, Feldman was granted permission by ESPN higher-ups to ghostwrite the book.

After the Twitterverse made #FreeBruce” go viral, ESPN back-tracked, saying Feldman was never

actually suspended. Feldman eventu-ally left ESPN for CBS Sports.

In another twist of fate, Leach was let go by Texas Tech because of a crusade by another ESPN analyst, Craig James. James was the leader of the Leach lynch mob after ru-mors began to swirl that James’ son, Adam, had been locked in a closet by Leach after he was unable to practice due to an injury.

Leach vehemently denied the rumors he locked an injured player in a closet as punishment. He claimed

Adam was a nuisance to the team, and despite his injury did not want to act as a member of the team.

ESPN began pumping anti-Leach material onto every newscast it aired until Texas Tech eventually fired him. To add to the bizarre na-ture of ESPN’s decision, four days after Leach’s firing, Craig James was part of the announcing crew calling Texas Tech’s bowl game.

The Williams decision just adds to the speculation that ESPN tries to operate by its own rules instead of adhering to understood journalistic norms.

I am well aware the “E” in

ESPN stands for Entertainment, but as a network attempting to pass itself off as a news outlet, it fails miserably in hiding its biases. Now the World-wide Leader is merely pandering to the soft, politically correct forces that are in charge of our great country.

#FreeHank

Rob Landry is a 23-year old mass communication senior from Mandeville, La. Follow him on Twitter @RobLandry85.

Few teams have a backup quar-terback with 27 career starts and nearly 4,000 passing yards.

LSU does.Following his reinstatement,

senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson has returned as the No. 2 quarterback behind senior Jarrett Lee. Jefferson saw playing time against Kentucky only a few days after he practiced for the first time since August. But how LSU coach Les Miles will continue to use Jefferson remains uncertain. Junior center P.J. Lonergan said Miles has not yet told the team what Jefferson’s role will be.

“That all has to do with the coaches upstairs,” Lonergan said. “I’m glad I’m not in the position to make that decision because that’s a tough one.”

Miles admitted he’s still figur-ing out how to incorporate Jefferson into the offense but said he continues to have faith in Lee.

“We’re so early into the plan that it is difficult to figure,” Miles said. “I can tell you that Jarrett Lee is our starter, and our vision first and foremost takes Lee into mind. That is how we are approaching it. We’ll get to the other aspects of the offense later.”

Lee said Miles’ support has lift-ed his game, and the fifth-year senior has performed admirably as Jeffer-son’s replacement. Lee has thrown for 793 yards and seven touchdowns with just one interception this sea-son.

“It’s not something I need to hear, but it is a confidence booster,” Lee said. “I just got to keep working hard and keep these guys believing in me.”

Jefferson entered the game against Kentucky with LSU on the Wildcats’ one-yard line. Lee had al-ready led the Tigers 67 yards, con-verting two third downs through

the air, but Miles called on Jeffer-son to punch it in from the goal line.

Lee said he wasn’t bothered that Jefferson fin-ished the drive.

“He came in and made a play

for us,” Lee said. “That’s what the coaches wanted. I wasn’t mad or up-set at all. We scored, put up points and won the ball game, so that’s all that mattered to me.”

The two quarterbacks have grown accustomed to splitting du-ties. Though Jefferson started all 13 games in 2010, Lee saw action in 12

games, often entering for the third offensive series. Lee said this situ-ation is different because he is the starter, but added that he and Jeffer-son can handle sharing time.

“It’s something that Jordan and I have done our whole career here,” Lee said. “We’ve switched out and in. Whatever it takes for us to win ball games, that’s what we’re going to do.”

Though the two-quarterback system received heavy criticism last season as neither quarterback seized the full-time role, junior wide receiv-er Russell Shepard said now it’s dif-ferent. Shepard praised Jefferson’s ability and believes his skills will cause opposing defenses to struggle.

“Jordan did an amazing job stepping in and adding an extra ele-ment to the game, which we haven’t had the last couple weeks,” Shepard said. “When you have a quarterback

that can pull it down and run, it cre-ates headaches for the defense.”

Jefferson brings a running threat to the offense, Shepard said. Jeffer-son did not attempt a pass against Kentucky but carried the ball four times for 29 yards and a one-yard touchdown.

“I fit in some great spots,” Jef-ferson said. “Coach is going to use me to my full abilities. Whenever I get my opportunity, I’m going to do whatever I can.”

Jefferson said he has accepted his current position, but added he won’t be satisfied until he hears his name in the starting lineup.

“It’s a personal goal of mine,” Jefferson said. “I will do whatever it takes to get to that.”

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Karnell Hatcher , who fi nished third in tackles last season.

“I’m still just trying to learn more,” Hatcher said, who has eight tackles in the fi rst fi ve games at his new position . “I’m going back to fi lm from past games I’ve played in and just trying to better myself and see how I can get my reads quicker. It’s coming along very good.”

Contributions from the younger linebackers have also been key to the Tigers’ success.

S o p h o m o r e linebackers Kevin Minter , Lamin Bar-row , Luke Muncie and Tahj Jones have seen action in every game this season, contributing a total of 42 tackles, three for loss .

“We have dem-onstrated that we have depth at line-backer and the ability to play a number of guys,” said LSU coach Les Miles . “The more veteran and experience a guy has will serve them in this game at well. You’re going to have to play a number of guys anyway. We will not hesitate to put them in the game again.”

The young guns got their chance to shine against North-western State , when Baker was suspended for violating team rules .

Minter , Barrow and Muncie all fi nished with three tackles that game, and Jones added two more tackles.

Minter said confi dence was the key to fi lling in for Baker .

“[Baker] was so confi dent

about his play calls and his game-play, and I feel like we need to mimic that because that’s what you need out here,” Minter said. “Lamin stepping in there, he pret-ty much had to do the same thing, so it helped him a lot, and it helped me a lot because it was all on me this time.”

Minter now leads all line-backers with 20 tackles — which surpasses last season’s mark —

and has earned his way into a starting role.

Baker said the Suwanee, Ga., na-tive has been the most impressive of the up-and-coming linebackers, despite having large shoes to fi ll.

“Kevin kind of gets overshadowed by some of the other young guys on the defense, but I think he’s done a great job of fulfi lling his role as middle line-

backer,” Baker said. “I don’t think there’s been much of a drop off at all.”

So while opposing offenses may be scouting the front and back of the Tiger defense, Minter warned against overlooking the unit the middle.

“We have some of the best D-linemen and some of the best DBs in the country, so I’m not giving excuses as to why we’re over-looked, but … we’re good too,” Minter said. “We have a solid linebacking corps, and we’re still a force to be reckoned with.”

involvement includes his member-ship in the Knight Commission, a group formed in 1989 by university presidents and chancellors to ensure college athletics programs maintain the educational mission of colleges.

Martin will travel to Washing-ton, D.C., on Oct. 24 for a Knight Commission meeting. The group will discuss the rising costs of ath-letic programs, recent scandals and lowering academic standards.

“I really hope that we get back to remembering that these are student-athletes, not the other way around,” Martin said. “We have an obligation to them. If we’re going to admit them as students, then we have to make sure they are students.”

Martin said he worries that col-legiate athletics have become noth-ing more than a stepping stone to the pros.

He considered proposing that ath-letes admitted with subpar test scores should sit out from athletic participation during their fresh-man years. He also recommended post-season participation should be linked to a school’s Academ-ic Progress Rate, a metric used to de-termine the academic success of a school’s athletes.

Martin still fears academics have at times been forgotten, espe-cially during the most recent series of conference realignment.

REALIGNMENTMartin said he made several

trips to Atlanta for “secret meet-ings” to discuss the addition of Texas A&M to the Southeastern

Conference. When the Aggies’ ad-mission went to a vote, Martin voted to accept them.

Although SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said the conference has fi nished adding teams for now, Mar-tin said he expects conversations to begin about adding a 14th team and that Slive simply wanted to quiet the rumors.

One possible candidate is Mis-souri, whose curators voted Tuesday night to consider leaving the Big 12.

Martin didn’t speculate as to what the 14th team might be but feared that school will fall outside of the current SEC region.

“The bigger the geographic footprint gets, the harder it is to get teams in and out without missing a lot of school,” Martin said. “I think West Virginia desperately wants to be a part of the SEC, but Morgan-town is a killer to get to. If you send the tennis team to Morgantown, they

may never come home.”

Martin said money has taken control of the NCAA and concerns about television contracts have driven the re-alignment discus-sion.

“I hope we have the courage not to let that be the only fac-tor, but it is a big fac-

tor,” Martin said. “I’d be very disin-genuous if I didn’t admit that.”

SHADY’S ALTERCATIONThe Aug. 19 incident at Shady’s

Bar involving a number of LSU foot-ball players tested Martin’s guidance of the athletic program.

“We’ve gotten our priori-ties out of shape,” Martin said. “We’ve turned student-athletes into celebrities, and in this case in a

negative way.”The altercation forced Martin

and the Athletic Department to re-consider their management. Martin said the athletic program should be run like an enterprise and some re-sponsibility should be taken out of the coaches’ hands.

“Coaches are oftentimes great coaches but terrible businessmen,” Martin said. “We assume that be-cause you can do Xs and Os you can run everything else.”

Martin also stressed every employee of the Athletic Depart-ment should have full knowledge of NCAA regulations. The prominence of collegiate athletics has made en-forcing the department a challenge, he added.

“I wish we could go back to a different time when it was a little less formal and a little less visible,” Martin said. “But it’s not. So we’re going to try and get the best of it and minimize the worst.”

BENEFITS OF ATHLETICS

Though the negativity sur-rounding collegiate athletics has grabbed the public’s attention, Mar-tin hopes the positivity of sports will move to the forefront.

He mentioned the impact ath-letics has on the city, the community service athletes provide and the suc-cess stories of athletes who utilized their educations.

“You look around this campus and look at what athletics does, and you can see all the good things it does here,” Martin said. “It’s easy to fi nd all the negative stuff, and there’s plenty of it out there. But you have to look a little harder sometimes for the positive stuff.”

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remembering that these are student-athletes, not the

other way around.’Michael Martin

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‘‘‘We have some of the best D-

linemen and some of the best DBs in the country, so I’m not giving excuses

as to why we’re overlooked but ... we’re good too.’

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Like most things, education is becoming more expensive.

For those of us with humble roots and little to no parental pa-tronage, scaling the social strata is becoming an increasingly costly proposition.

This is where the Pell Grant comes in.

Unbeknownst to most of its recipients, the federal govern-ment’s largest grant program has gone through a series of changes and now fi nds itself on the chop-ping block again.

Setting the stage for conserva-tives’ slash-hap-py budgetary bat-tle with President Obama this fall, House Repub-licans have un-veiled a spending bill that will fund the Department of Education along with the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services.

In a budget proposal, which was issued earlier this week, Re-publicans proposed cutting fund-ing for the Federal Pell Grant along with aid bound for minority serv-ing schools .

For those fortunate enough not to know what a Pell Grant is, the grant is a semesterly stipend is-sued by the federal government to cover exact costs of education for families with fi nancial need as de-termined by the FAFSA.

While the bill will main-tain the maximum Pell Grant

appropriation, it trims eligibility and reduces the number of years students can receive the grant.

Overall, the Department of Education would see a $2.4 billion decrease, according to the Ameri-can Council on Education.

The bill can be seen as a list of demands, as House Republi-cans will likely roll it into a larger spending measure to fi nance a number of spending measures.

What’s troubling about this is many, myself included, thought Pell Grants were safe from further cutting following the great debt ceiling debacle of 2011.

There is undoubtedly a cul-ture of cut in Washington, best evidenced by other sections of the same bill that completely cut fund-ing to Title X of the Public Health Service Act, which provides fam-ily planning services to more than 5 million citizens , according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

But I must question our priori-ties when Pell Grants and family planning are at the top of a weak list of reforms.

Republican leadership said the bill will cut “wasteful spending.”

I’ll concede waste is likely rampant within the Department of Education and every other plush Washington bureaucracy, but giv-ing the most unfortunate students a way that they can break a cycle of poverty hardly fi ts this category.

Perhaps one positive from having an intricate federal budget is there is much room for reduc-tions, but our priorities, I’m afraid,

are askew. With urgent reforms required

in Social Security, still-booming defense spending and lingering tax loopholes, there are other cuts — and revenues — that must be con-sidered when culling savings from social programs.

At our University, almost 20 percent of students, including my-self, require the assistance of a Pell Grant, according to the Offi ce of External Affairs.

The Pell Grant is the backbone of college aid for those with docu-mentable fi nancial need.

It’s critically important for out-of-state students who see in-credible fees levied at colleges across their home state’s border.

This is especially true when their home state has no blank check aid program like TOPS, which, unlike Pell, funds the needy and rich with-out discretion for need.

I understand there are those out there who will gnash their teeth upon reading this and rage at the thought of defending such a redis-tribution of wealth.

Unfortunately, there is no em-pathy grant to allow such people to appreciate the different circum-stances and paths into which we are all aimlessly injected.

As usual, our website, lsureveille.com, has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

In reference to Monday’s editorial entitled “With Jefferson’s quick re-turn, Shady’s incident lingers,” readers had this to say:

“This entire case is an example of the typical favoritism that tends to follow the football team. Had it been any “average” resident of Baton Rouge, the arrest and pros-ecution would have taken place with little to no media attention. However, since the football players are involved, the District Attorney decides to bring the case before a grand jury for indictment to save

his elected status so he doesn’t look like the bad guy.”

-Anonymous

“I believe ANY athlete who is indicted for ANY crime that could carry a jail term needs to be kept off the team until such time as he/she is found not guilty by a jury of their peers. Red shirting the ath-lete would protect their eligibility provided they are found not guilty. No athlete should have the honor of playing for and representing a university with that hanging in the background. Let the athlete keep the scholarship, but red shirt him.”

-Anonymous “If he would have just sat him

down he would have been punish-ing him more for something he

likely didn’t do. Boos would have come in whether Jefferson played in the fi rst or third quarter for the fi rst time. I’m glad those that are ruling in judgment are without sin. To me, this is just a displeasure for the fact that one player is loved more than the other because he’s done well in the last 5 weeks - with a twist that one was accused of injuring some-one and lost all their hard work dur-ing the off season.

It’s best that we move on now, the likely event of Jefferson being found not guilty is very high. By continuing to debate this, we are injuring what I think is an innocent person. For those that’s never faced a misdemeanor before - you better go look at the last speeding or non-moving violation you paid - Guess what, that was a misdemeanor!

Cast that stone!!!”-Anonymous

“Miles has lost control of his locker room if his players are break-ing curfew, violently attacking people in public, and tweeting tem-per tantrums to the people whose dollars keep the SEC afl oat. Fans have a right to boo their dissatisfac-tion with a team or a player on the team. A good coach would be teach-ing these boys how to manage both the applause and the boos; if Miles were doing that, there would be no need for this article.”

-Anonymous

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What do you think about quarterback Jordan Jefferson

being booed at the LSU vs. Kentucky

game?

‘Yes, he made a mistake.

Yes, he was drunk, but nobody is perfect.’Alex Mouton

mass comm. sophomore

‘It’s still got a ways to go be-

fore I make a decision to support him or not.’ Gary Langlois

business sophomore

‘It’s bad sportsman-

ship to boo a player ... but do I think he deserved to get in? No.’Jarrett Gartin

biology junior

‘He’s still a member of

the team, and ... booing one

member of the team is like booing the whole

team.’Destiny Price

chemical engineering freshman

‘I don’t think he

deserved to [get booed]. You should

always support the

players.’Lauren Becnel

mechanical engineering freshman

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Taylor Balkom: Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event started in typical fashion, showing how much it is currently and will be kicking its competition’s ass.

OS X Lion has managed to sell 6 mil-lion copies since its launch in July. It took 20 weeks for Windows 7 to hit 10 percent of Window’s install base — it took Lion two weeks. Apple’s Mac platform has grown by 23 percent in the last year. PC has only grown four. Ap-ple is quickly approach-ing 60 million users across the globe, and has grabbed close to a quarter of the market share as of August 2011.

In the portable music player market, the iPod owns a 78 percent market share, selling more than 300 million players since 2001. The iPad is also dominating the tablet mar-ket, making up 74 percent of all tablets sold. There are offi cially more than 250 million iOS devices on the market today.

Adam Arinder: While that’s all fi ne and dandy, at the end of the day, Apple continues to be Apple.

The company, which thrives on the herd mentality, will be making a killing later this month without having to do any real work. Upgrade a few things, convince millions to buy it, make money — sounds like a great business strategy to me. However, Tim Cook just didn’t bring the same energy to the key-note as former CEO Steve Jobs and his tur-tleneck did.

Jobs was a brilliant marketer and could sell water to a fi sh. He made Apple what it is today, one hyperbole and overpriced iThing at a time. This keynote was much bigger than an iPhone event. It showed an underlying theme in the direction I see Apple going in the future. And if you’re an Apple follower, things aren’t looking too bright.

Taylor: Hey, settle down now. One con-ference doesn’t mean the ship is sinking. Cook did what he was supposed to do: not screw up. No one will ever be able to replace the magic of a Jobs keynote, and we know that. But I can guarantee Jobs handed Cook a white leatherbound book containing the next four versions of the iPhone and everything he needed to know. Cook just isn’t used to running the ship yet. For now, small updates to a great design are all they need.

Jobs trusts Cook to continue making Apple great — he wouldn’t have hired him otherwise.

Adam: While Apple has made a killing with all of its iDevices, the main reason people fl ocked to Apple’s main headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. — as well as crashing multiple websites online — was to see the unveiling of the new iPhone. With rumors swirling around the net based on speculation as well as the “lost” prototype from earlier this summer, everyone was itching for the illustrious iPhone 5.

You’d think after nearly a year and a half since the re-lease of the iPhone 4, Apple would have something “magi-cal” and “revolutionary” planned for all of its followers. Unfortunately for Apple fans everywhere, the house that Jobs built unveiled nothing but disappointment.

Taylor: To the disappointment of myself and Apple fans everywhere, all we got was the iPhone 4S — the same design we know and love with a faster processor, better graphics, new camera and crazy voice-recognition app, Siri.

Adam: But, Taylor, how could you forget about Ap-ple’s new main moneymaker app, Cards? After the newly appointed Cook spoke his piece, Senior Vice President of iOS Software Scott Forstall took the stage to talk about Cards. Joining the Apple app powerhouse of iMovie and GarageBand, Cards will allow all iPhone users to create greetings cards to mail to their loved ones.

Suck it, Hallmark.I jest. Cards is a cute gimmick, but Forstall’s main con-

tribution to the keynote is the introducing the world to iOS 5. The new slick operating system for all iDevices launches on October 12 boasting many features already available on other platforms. A new drop-down notifi cation system a la Google’s Android. A new messaging system called iMes-sage — allowing users of any iOS device to quickly com-municate to each other — similar to BlackBerry’s BBM. Finally, a deeper Twitter integration rounds out some of the key features promoted by Forstall for iOS 5.

Taylor: Like Steve Jobs once said, Apple may not be the fi rst at doing something, but it does it the best.

Adam: No more Jobs hyperboles, please. He’s gone — it’s Cook’s show now. But if Apple is the “best” at mak-ing things, the company may have surpassed Facebook as providing easy tools to stalk your friends.

Taylor: Oh yes, we couldn’t forget about Find My

Friends. Instead of “checking in” to places on Facebook, you can easily see the locations of iPhone owners who have opted to use the service. While this may seem like just another way to stalk, it’s actually pretty useful if you get separated

from a group. Imagine you’re at a festival of some sort and you go to the restroom. Instead of calling your friends to fi nd out their location, just open the app and you can see them on Google Maps.

Adam: Creepy, yet effective. However, not as creepy as Ap-ple’s main highlight of the keynote — a voice-recognition application called Siri. How about you discuss Siri, Taylor?

Taylor: “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Adam.”

Siri will inevitably kill you, much like the self-aware computer HAL9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” But until then, it’s a pretty advanced voice-com-mand application. You can ask things like “How’s the weather?” and get weather stats pulled up on your phone. Even cooler, you can simply ask “Do I need an umbrella for today?” and Siri will answer whether or not it’s raining. It can also do dictation, and take commands like “Wake me up tomorrow at 6 a.m.” or “Remind me to call Rodger tomorrow.”

Adam: While Siri is an impressive piece of tech, the overall iPhone keynote was a huge letdown. The jump from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4 truly was a huge technological advancement in terms of hardware and software. Unfor-tunately, the jump from the 4 to the 4S is insignifi cant. The only changes, as Tay-lor mentioned, are an improved camera and a faster processor. Apple spent too much time showing Siri off to try and

convince people this new phone is relevant and should be bought.

However, with few improvements it should be just left on store shelves — especially if you already have an iPhone 4.

Taylor: I wouldn’t suggest paying an early-termination fee to upgrade from the iPhone 4 to the 4S, but if you’re still running on a 3GS, I would defi nitely switch. Everyone was hoping for the iPhone 5, but Apple is sticking to the design of the 4, which is not a bad thing.

The phone is simply gorgeous, even if it’s prone to more cracked glass than other phones. There’s an old say-ing: if it ain’t broke, don’t fi x it. And the iPhone 4’s design defi nitely isn’t broken. Apple gave its baby a zippier pro-cessor, a phenomenal camera and crazy voice-recognition software, which is plenty enough for me.

Adam Arinder is a 22-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

Taylor Balkom is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @taybalkom.

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Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, unveils iPhone 4S Tuesday at Apple’s main headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

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But students said they care more about the message a speaker conveys than a speaker’s credentials or position.

Austin Wong, biological engi-neering freshman, said he envisions hearing “an average Joe” who has done something inspirational, like the people featured on “CNN He-roes.”

“[I’d like to see] someone who’s made it in life and someone who doesn’t take life too seriously,” Wong said.

Maria Aguirre, international trade and finance freshman, said a celebrity could be “too showy,” but a politician might speak for too long. She said she’d rather see someone outgoing and funny.

Humor appears to be a theme that resonates among students.

Kevin Wood, mechanical engi-neering junior, said his ideal gradu-ation speaker would be Seth Mac-Farlene, the creator of the comedic cartoons “Family Guy,” “American

Dad” and “The Cleveland Show.”Gabriela Rivera, market-

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Cole Cowart, biological sci-ences freshman, said he’d like to hear a speaker aligned with his faith. He said a speech could per-haps centered on a Bible verse, like

John 16:33, which is about perse-vering in rocky circumstances.

“I would like to hear a spiritual speech,” Cowart said.

The Chancellor’s Office has already urged Student Government, the Faculty Senate and the Staff Senate to submit nominations.

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“We depend on [community involvement],” Haire said. “We’re not going to get mad if you call us. It’s our job.”

She said LSUPD has many methods of measuring the effec-tiveness of its police force, but Clery Act reports are good for com-parisons to other universities.

Compared to other Southeast-ern Conference schools’ statistics, the University saw fewer crimes on campus in 2010.

LSUPD reported 13 burglar-ies on campus, but schools like the University of Georgia reported 82. The University of South Carolina had 87 cases.

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DUIs and public drunkenness — than USC, the University of Ala-bama and the University of Ten-nessee, among many other SEC schools that reported high volumes.

Alabama reported 533 viola-tions, Tennessee had 667 and USC had the most with 875. LSU report-ed 102 violations.

Forcible sex offenses remained high, however, with five reported incidents on the University cam-pus. Some universities reported higher numbers, with 10 incidents at Vanderbilt University, nine at Al-abama and eight at the University of Kentucky.

LSU was second only to UGA and USC in motor vehicle thefts, with 13 reports.

Many universities reported hate crimes, including LSU with one hate crime through vandalism. UGA reported the most with three incidents, and the University of

Florida, the University of Arkan-sas, Vanderbilt and Kentucky each reported one.

The report does not cover ev-ery incident of crime on campus because the Clery Act has specific and selective requirements, but Lalonde said the report is a fair rep-resentation of campus safety.

In accordance with Clery Act laws, all higher education institu-tions must release crime reports by Oct. 1 of each year.

The annual report also focused on fire safety at residential facili-ties, including emergency evacua-tion areas, number of drills per year and number of fires. Four fires were reported in 2010 at Highland Hall, Nicholson Apartments and the Business Residential College West.

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Contact Brian Sibille at bsibille@lsureveille.com

photo courtesy of JIM ZIETZ / University Relations

Former President Jimmy Carter delivered the commencement speech at the University on May 20, 1994, and also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

Contact Andrea Gallo at agallo@lsureveille.com

SPEAKERS, from page 1

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