The Daily Reveille - September 4, 2012

WAIT LISTS OVER THE YEARS:

Wait lists for dorms have de-creased by hundreds over the past few years because of new dorm openings and re-openings of ren-ovated dorms.

Each year, students who do not make the cut for on-campus housing are put on a standby list. After the fi rst week of school,

the members of the Residential Life Assignments Staff perform a “fail to claim” procedure that en-ables them to provide students on the list with rooms.

For fall 2012 , the standby list shrunk from 800 to 200 students. This change is attributed to the re-opening of the fi rst six fl oors of Kirby-Smith Hall, said Jay High, Residential Life associate director of Communications and Development .

The opening of North Hall and the re-opening of East Laville

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TECHNOLOGY

State’s powerful computer nears endJoshua BergeronStaff Writer

After fi ve years of use, the supercomputer that powers Loui-siana’s Optical Network Initia-tive is nearing the end of its life.

The computer, nicknamed Queen Bee, has sat in the state’s Information Systems Building, quietly humming since it was purchased by LONI in 2007 .

According to LONI’s web-site, Queen Bee’s name comes from a nickname given to former Gov. Kathleen Blanco .

Most personal computers only contain two or four cores, but Queen Bee contains 5,440 cores, according to a list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. In 2007, LONI’s super-computer ranked 23rd on the list. However, the supercomputer is no longer ranked.

Queen Bee also provides a memory capacity of 50 tera-fl ops to the LONI network. A

LONI, see page 15

New residence halls shrink wait list numbers signi� cantly

Caitlin McCordContributing Writer

AUSTIN BENNETT / The Daily Reveille

Students help a resident carry a refrigerator and supplies upstairs in East Laville Hall on move-in day Aug. 15.SHRINK, see page 4

Read what The Daily Reveille’s sports columnist has to say, p. 5

ENTERTAINMENT: Students marry despite young age, p. 9

SPORTS: Odell Beckham, Jr., steps up in Mathieu’s absence, p. 5

LSU coach Les Miles likes his running backs the way he likes his NASCAR : fast.

Miles turned Saturday night in Tiger Stadium into Talladega Nights , touting the Tigers’ backfi eld tandem of sophomore Kenny Hilliard and junior Alfred Blue as “Shake N’ Bake ” after the duo stampeded through and around the North Texas defense for a com-bined 264 yards.

“It wasn’t so much ‘Thunder and Lightning,’” Miles said. “They were like the Will Ferrell movie with the NASCAR . Shake N’ Bake.”

Chris AbshireSports Writer

Blue, Hilliard power potent ground game

BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

Junior running back Alfred Blue dodges North Texas defenders during the Tigers’ 41-14 victory against the Mean Green.


Sophomore running back Kenny Hilliard bursts for several of his 141 rushing yards in Saturday’s 41-14 win.

‘Shake N’

Bake’

SHAKE, see page 15

RESIDENTIAL LIFE

Length of list drops from 800 to 200In 2008, zero students who

applied for housing were left without a bed on campus.However, 800 students were left on the standby list in 2009.

2010 started with an overwhelming 1,200 students still waiting for an on-campus bed, and it ended with only 200.

This year’s numbers dramatically dropped from 800 to 200 students thanks to new residence halls opening.

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Four shot at South African gold mine in latest episode of unrest

PARIS (AP) — Western powers are preparing a tough response if Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime de-ploys chemical or biological weap-ons in its civil war, key European officials warned Monday.

Syria’s leadership has said the country, which is believed to have nerve agents as well as mustard gas and Scud missiles capable of deliver-ing them, could use chemical or bio-logical weapons if it were attacked from outside.

“Our response would be mas-sive,” French Foreign Minister Lau-rent Fabius told RMC radio.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police and security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas Monday at sacked gold miners who were attacking colleagues to block them from working, the mine owner said. Police said four people were wounded at the mine that used to be partially owned by the president’s nephew.

The clash at the Gold Fields mine east of Johannesburg, reported by police and Neal Froneman, the CEO of Gold One International, was the latest violence to hit South Af-rica’s mines in months of unrest.

Infamous actor Michael Clarke Duncan dies at 54 of a heart attack

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, pro-lific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nomi-nated performance as a death row inmate in “The Green Mile” and such other box office hits as “Ar-mageddon,” ‘’Planet of the Apes” and “Kung Fu Panda,” is dead at age 54.

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his fiancée, Reverend Omarosa Man-igault, in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.Cause of shark’s death on Rhode Island, Massachusetts border unclear

WESTPORT, Mass. (AP) — A Mas-sachusetts marine biologist who ex-amined a 13-foot great white shark carcass found ashore near the Rhode Island state line wasn’t able to de-termine how the shark died, state of-ficials said Sunday.

State biologist Greg Skom-al performed a necropsy on the 1,500-pound male shark Saturday. A fisherman discovered the carcass Saturday morning on a rocky shore-line in Westport, less than a half-mile from public beaches in Little Compton, R.I.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tens of thousands of customers remained in the dark Monday in Louisiana and Mississippi, nearly a week after Isaac inundated the Gulf Coast with a deluge that still has some low-lying areas under water.

Most of those were in Louisi-ana, where utilities reported more than 100,000 people without power. Thousands also were without power in Mississippi and Arkansas.

In Louisiana, many evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives.

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(AP) — Louisiana’s labor depart-ment is asking the federal govern-ment for $3.4 million to pay unem-ployed state residents to help with cleanup work after Hurricane Isaac.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission said Monday that it’s filed a request for an emergency grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

The commission estimates the grant could pay salaries for about 450 people, along with ca-reer counseling and other work force assistance.

Egyptian Islamist lawyer calls heavy metal concert Satanist, �les suit

CAIRO (AP) — A heavy metal concert has prompted a police in-vestigation after an Islamist law-yer claimed it was attended by Satanists at a well-known cultural center in Egypt’s capital Cairo.

A security official says Mus-lim Brotherhood lawyer Ismail el-Washahi filed a suit accusing the El-Sawy Culture Wheel of host-ing people wearing black T-shirts, carrying Satanists’ drawings and accessories while dancing at the concert. The suit claims “Satanist rituals were held.”

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Two boys play on a Syrian military tank, destroyed during �ghting with the Rebels, in the Syrian town of Azaz on Sunday.

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lice officers and emergency medi-cal workers were among about 70 men who pranced through a Lake Charles mall in women’s high-heeled shoes to raise awareness of rape and sexual assault and money to help its victims.

Organizer Tammy Vincent tells The American Press that Saturday’s event, called “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” raised about $10,000.

She says the light-hearted event gets people talking about serious problems that many com-munities don’t want to admit are happening.

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Two-year-old Mason sits on a swing outside, eyes fi xed on the ground and a slight smile on his face.

“Do you want to slide?” asks graduate student Ashley Brown , Mason’s therapy student.

Mason looks around, pausing at the sound of the clock tower, and decides to make his way to the other side of the playground. Shouts of excitement and encour-aging words can be heard as oth-er children climb and run in the playground of the LSU Language Preschool .

The LSU Language Pre-school , tucked between the Col-lege of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Student Health Center in the Dean French House , serves as a place of learning for children with autism and other learning disabilities.

University students from the Communication Sciences and Disorders department provide therapy for the children three hours a day through reading, communication exercises, eating and outdoor play.

Clinical Supervisor Laura Teague said there are several plac-es in which children in the Baton Rouge area can receive services, but the LSU Language Preschool remains the only one in the area that offers one-on-one therapy in a group setting.

Teague said the facility also sets the University apart from others regarding preschools that cater to children with disabilities.

“Very few have preschools like this,” she said. “So it makes us pretty unique.”

Teague said the children, who are typically 2 to 4 years old, learn to improve communication and play skills.

“A lot of them learn to talk,”

she said. “We have a lot of kids that come in nonverbal, and by the time they leave, they are speaking.”

Five-year-old Anna Cath-erine and her twin sister, Addi-son , attend the preschool. Their mother, Amanda Juneau , said that Anna Catherine , who is develop-mentally delayed, started out only saying a few words like “go” or “bye.”

Now she is starting her third semester at the preschool and can say three-word phrases, Juneau said.

Juneau said her other daugh-ter Addison , who suffers from cerebral palsy and is starting her second semester at the preschool, can now follow commands better.

Juneau said the girls cry when she drops them off at pub-lic school, but when it comes time to go to the Language Preschool , there are no tears.

“They’re happy to be there,” Juneau said.

While Teague enjoyed seeing the progress the children make during their time at the preschool, she said she also liked watching the University students become professionals as they work with the children.

Graduate student Katie Daigle spent her spring semester working at the preschool. She said even activities like snack time helped facilitate language from the children.

Daigle said she would give her child about three Cheerios, and if the child wanted more, he or she had to ask for more.

She said progress with the children at the preschool is slow-er than usual, and working there helped her gain patience.

“I learned that even though you feel like you’re not making a difference, you really are,” Daigle said.

Communication disorders se-nior Lindsey Mancuso is a student worker at the preschool. She said while she cannot provide therapy because she is not yet a gradu-ate student, she still helps with

keeping an eye on the children and assisting the graduate stu-dents with communication exer-cises.

Mancuso said being involved at the preschool has given her a new interest in working with chil-dren.

“My favorite part of working there is seeing the progress from beginning to end,” she said.

Mancuso said progress is sometimes as small as a child learning to make a sound that he or she could not make before.

“Sometimes, if we can get two kids to throw a ball between each other, that is a really big deal,” she said.

Teague said in the future, the demand for therapy services like those of the preschool will increase. She added that children are now diagnosed with disabili-ties like autism earlier and the number of those children seems to be going up.

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Mason, who is 2 years old, plays outside during his � rst day as an LSU Language Preschool student Aug. 27 at the Dean French House on In� rmary Road.

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Hall created 790 available beds for fall 2012 and helped decrease the number of students on stand-by, High added.

It is not known how many students will be left without on-campus housing this year until “fail to claim” is finished, High said.

“[The standby list] is differ-ent every year,” High said. “It kind of baffles us sometimes.”

The list for fall 2008 was non-existent. Students without room assignments were housed in emptied kitchens and some two-person rooms became three-person rooms.

“We were trying to do stu-dents a favor, but we got a lot of bad press for it,” High said.

Fall 2009 saw a standby list of 800 students. By the end of the first week of classes, everyone on

the list was assigned to a room, High said.

The next year, fall 2010, the standby list consisted of 1,200 students. High said all but about 100 of those students received a room assignment.

At this time, the ResLife staff discussed creating a residency re-quirement for freshmen but real-ized that it would require turning upper classmen away from on-campus housing.

“We average 68 percent of the first-year class living on campus,” High said. “This year it’s going up to 75 percent. The goal of the first year residency requirement is 77 or 78 percent. We’re almost there.”

Students and parents said they have found that living on campus has its advantages.

“Since you’re on campus, you have easier access to teach-ers and students who know what

you’re talking about,” said Geor-nessa McKinley, a physics fresh-man.

Helga Arango, mother of Natalia Arango, animal science freshman, said on-campus hous-ing is important for the transition from high school to college life.

High said the off-campus student communities like Aspen Heights, The Cottages and The Woodlands create competition for on-campus housing.

“They are our competition, but when you’re at capacity you have to think ‘Gosh, if they weren’t there, where would these people stay?’” High said.

Reddit.com users reveled in a rare opportunity to direct-ly question President Barack Obama when he posted an “Ask Me Anything” last Thursday on the popular social news website.

Reddit touts itself as “the front page of the Internet,” where users post articles and pictures they find interesting or amusing on specific forums, called sub-reddits.

Obama posted an invitation to the Internet community to ask him anything, promising to an-swer however many of the high-est-ranked comments he could in 30 minutes.

User Dave Stroup saw the AMA within the first few minutes of the presiden-tial posting and asked, “What is the first thing you’ll do on No-vember 7, win or lose?”

Obama re-sponded that he would thank ev-eryone involved in his campaign.

“I never expected I’d be able to say, ‘The president replied to a comment I wrote on a website!’” Stroup said in an email to The Daily Reveille.

Obama’s post shut down the website a few times over the course of his question-answering.

“An extremely popular sub-mission may have 2 to 5 percent of visitors at any given time …the Obama AMA received over 30 percent of all visitors to Red-dit at its peak,” according to the official Reddit blog.

Stroup said the president using Reddit showed he and his staff are in tune with technology, “parts of our economy where we lead the world.”

Another Redditor, going by the name Ormirian, asked the president about possible increas-es to funding for the space pro-gram.

Obama responded that the funding is “a big priority for my

administration.”“I already

liked the guy,” Ormirian said in an email to The Daily Reveille.

Reddit is now calling for Repub-lican presidential candidate Mitt

Romney to take the same route as Obama.

Other notable people who have also allowed people to ask them questions on the Internet include astrophysicist Neil de-Grasse Tyson, Nick Offerman of the NBC show “Parks and Rec-reation” and scientists from the Mars Curiostity Rover Mission.

There are 1,177 LSU stu-dents on Reddit who follow LSU’s official subreddit. Recent posts include a tailgating invite, information about Hurricane Isaac and a video of LSU quar-terback Zach Mettenberger’s first sack of the football season.

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POLITICS

Megan DunbarStaff Writer

President Obama’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ forum crashes Reddit

Contact Megan Dunbar at [email protected]

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‘Why are taxes so high, and

why did you want the

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‘Why haven’t

you done anything you said

you would do?’Paul Guinn

Finance Freshman

‘What are your new policies for the

next four years?’Jorge Hasbun

Mechanical Engineering Freshman

‘Why didn’t you push harder

for single payer?’

Ryan Thompson Communication Studies Senior

‘I never expected I’d be able to say, ‘�e president

replied to a comment I wrote on a website!’

Dave StroupRedditor

What would you ask President Obama?

“Odell, he’s a special player. He just showed y’all a little glimpse of it. You can expect a lot from him for the rest of the season.”

Kevin Minter, LSU junior linebacker

The only hurricane that im-pacted the LSU football team’s season opener against North Tex-as was the tempest brought on by the Tigers’ running backs Alfred Blue and Kenny Hilliard .

With all the talk in training camp surrounding new starting quarterback Zach Mettenberger chucking the ball downfi eld and utilizing speedy receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry , the LSU backfi eld got lost in the shuffl e.

Blue and Hilliard made one thing clear with their combined 264 -yard rushing performance on Saturday night — the Tigers’

bread and butter is still lining up and forcing the ball down the defense’s throat until they prove they can stop it.

North Texas couldn’t.During the offseason, offen-

sive coordinator Greg Studrawa hinted the offensive playbook wasn’t going to change dramati-cally, even with the emergence of Mettenberger’s impeccable arm strength. LSU’s 46 rushing attempts compared to 26 passes thrown by Mettenberger showed that Studrawa is still sticking with the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fi x it” mindset.

Who can blame him?What was thought to be a

stable of runners has turned into a two-horse race with Blue and Hilliard looking to dominate the workload in 2012 .

While Blue and Hilliard got

the lion’s share of the carries Sat-urday night, junior Spencer Ware and highly touted freshman Jere-my Hill didn’t tote the rock once.

LSU coach Les Miles al-lowed 12 true freshmen a chance to see the fi eld for the fi rst time Saturday night.

Hill wasn’t one of them. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him redshirted in 2012 .

Ware hasn’t done anything wrong. Blue and Hilliard have just done everything right.

Blue bulked up to 220 pounds during the offseason and appears to be a much more determined runner than he was a season ago. He put his added strength on dis-play against North Texas , carry-ing defenders with him and piling on yards after contact.

SportsTuesday, September 4, 2012 page 5


North Texas defenders trail behind LSU sophomore running back Kenny Hilliard (27) as he runs in for a touchdown Saturday in the Tigers’ 41-14 victory.

Blue, Hilliard separating themselves from the packMIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

MIC’D UP, see page 8

Some parts of Baton Rouge remained without power following Hurricane Isaac, but sophomore wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s elec-trifying punt returns were enough to keep the lights on over Death Valley as the Tigers rolled to a 41-14 win against North Texas on Saturday.

The dismissal of Tyrann Ma-thieu left many concerned about a potential decrease in production in the return game. Beckham did his best to put those fears to bed as he notched his career-fi rst punt return touchdown in LSU’s fi rst game since Mathieu’s departure.

Beckham , who averaged 18.8 yards on four returns , gave credit to the rest of the punt return squad and cited the unit’s rhythm as a reason for his success.

“The punt return team was blocking tremendously tonight,” Beckham said. “I’m running up the

fi eld, and I see blocks left and right, people getting laid out. It’s a good feeling. It’s a secure feeling to be

back there and know that that’s how it’s going to be.”

The sophomore wide receiver fi rst showed off his big play ability in the return game following a 38-yard touchdown run by sophomore running back Kenny Hilliard . Beckham scampered 76 yards to the end zone, only to look back and see yellow fl ags indicating a block in the back by sophomore wide receiver Jarvis Landry.

“It’s a split-second decision that’s hard to make, whether you take the shot at him or you let him go,” Beckham said. “But we’re go-ing to watch fi lm on it and work on it, and we’ll be better next week.”

Beckham was granted a second chance just minutes later, and he

SportsSports page 5Sports

Marcus RodrigueSports Contributor

Beckham Jr.’s punt returns highlight Tiger victory against North Texas

BECKHAM, see page 8

Answeringthe

Call

LSU sophomore wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. returns a punt Saturday during the Tigers’ 41-14 victory against the Mean Green in Tiger Stadium.


Reports: Mathieu enrolling at LSU

ACADEMICS

Former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu is planning to en-roll at LSU today, according to re-ports from ESPN and WVUE-TV in New Orleans.

University Relations spokes-man Ernie Ballard said Monday the University didn’t know if Mathieu planned to re-enroll and would not be able to confi rm his enrollment until today because the University was closed on Labor Day.

Mathieu was dismissed from the LSU football team Aug. 10 af-ter reportedly failing a number of drug tests.

Following his dismissal, Ma-thieu underwent drug rehab at a facility in Houston, where he re-ceived guidance from former NBA player John Lucas.

LSU hasn’t taken a defi nitive stance whether Mathieu would be allowed to take the fi eld for LSU again.

LSU coach Les Miles original-ly said Mathieu would not be back on the football team, but on Aug. 15, Miles said he wouldn’t specu-late on Mathieu’s future as an LSU football player, other than that he wouldn’t play this season at LSU.

The original fall semester en-rollment deadline at LSU was last Wednesday, but the deadline was pushed back to today because of Hurricane Isaac.

Albert BurfordDeputy Sports Editor

Contact Albert Burford at [email protected]

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The LSU volleyball team fi nds itself on shaky ground after another two-loss weekend dropped the Tigers to 2-4 heading into the fi nal weekend before Southeastern Conference play begins.

The Tigers fell to No. 7 Pur-due and No. 12 Washington in straight sets after earning a win in the weekend’s fi rst match against Rice.

“Playing against four top-20 programs over the fi rst two week-ends have made us a battle-tested group and shown us what we need

to work on,” said LSU Coach Fran Flory in a news release.

The Ti-ger Classic was supposed to be LSU’s home opener, but Hur-ricane Isaac caused the tour-nament to be moved to Rice University in Houston, Texas.

LSU continued to struggle against ranked opponents this season after a .084 hit percentage against Purdue and Washington dropped the team’s average to .099

against ranked opponents.In 12 sets played against

ranked opponents, the Tigers have failed to win a single set through four matches.

Another 64 hitting errors this weekend catapulted the Tigers to 124 errors through six games, a number last season’s team needed eight games to reach.

Despite their offensive strug-gles, Flory maintains an air of confi dence in her team’s ability to improve before the start of confer-ence play.

“We’re very close to fi nding our consistent offensive rhythm and tempo,” Flory said. “I’m proud

of the progress our team made from last week to this week. We’ll get back into the practice gym and make the neces-sary adjustments to continue to get better.”

The only Ti-ger to be named to the All-Tour-nament team was senior libero Meghan Mannari .

Her 42 digs left her 109 short of becoming the 12th Tiger to re-cord 1,000 career digs.

Junior middle blocker Desiree Elliott led the Tigers in kills for a

second straight week after posting 28 kills through the three matches.

“I thought Desiree had a de-cent weekend at Texas,” Flory said. “She played very hard, but we just couldn’t create enough opportunities for her. The fact we were able to control the fi rst contact well enough to get her in-volved into a major offensive role was key. When her offense is roll-ing, her blocking also jumps to a high level.”

The LSU soccer freshmen proved their capabilities Sunday by pushing the team to a 2-0 vic-tory against Houston in the Tigers’ highest scoring match this season. Despite the win, they said their per-formance could have been sharper.

Freshman midfi elder Heather Magee scored the fi rst goal of her Tiger career in the fourth minute of play from 20 yards out. The goal came with assists from freshman Fernanda Piña and junior Nina An-derson .

In her fi rst game at LSU,

freshman Jade Kovacevic wasted no time to prove what she could do for

the Tigers. Ko-vacevic not only started the game, but also scored in the 40th minute off an assist from redshirt freshman Victoria Sample .

K o v a c e v i c returned to the

team last week after competing in the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan with the U-20 Canadian Women’s National team.

“She’s one of our best players,” said LSU coach Brian Lee . “She’s a

world class player.”The Tigers controlled the fi rst

half of the game with six shots versus Houston’s two . The tempo was set early by Magee’s goal, and Houston didn’t get many chances to score.

Houston had more opportuni-ties to score in the second half, but could not convert.

They shot seven times in the second half and had three corner kicks. Katelyn Rhodes led Houston with fi ve shots in the game.

Houston was able to score, but an offsides Houston player negated the point.

Lee said the team played better

in their home opener against Rice and portions of their loss to NC

State on Aug. 26.“We just

weren’t sharp,” Lee said. “But maybe the prac-tice routine got a little affected by Isaac .”

LSU com-petes tonight in

a rescheduled matchup against Ste-phen F. Austin to continue their se-ries of home games.

The Ladyjacks (4-1-0) come to Baton Rouge with four shutouts in their last fi ve games. Seniors Kylie

Louw and Laura Sadler lead SFA with three goals and six assists, respectively. The Ladyjacks’ experi-enced squad competes with six se-niors and three juniors this season.

Lee remains confi dent in his younger team.

“There’s a lot of young play-ers among our best kids,” Lee said. “We’re going to have growing pains in terms of sharpness. I think we’re doing fantastic, and they’re working hard. …We’ll keep having growing wins until we hit on all cylinders.”

Tigers’ struggles continue against ranked teams

Freshmen lead shutout of Houston in Baton Rouge

Contact Bria Turner at [email protected]

Contact Mike Gegenheimer at [email protected]

SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

LSU football offensive statisticsPASSING

NAME CMP ATT YDS CMP% YDS/A TD INT RAT

Zach Mettenberger 19 26 192 73.1 7.39 1 1 140.1

RUSHING

NAME CAR YDS AVG LONG TD

Kenny Hilliard 13 141 10.8 60 2

Alfred Blue 16 123 7.7 37 0

Michael Ford 8 50 6.3 12 0

J.C. Copeland 4 33 8.3 16 1

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NAME REC YDS AVG LONG TD

Jarvis Landry 8 82 10.3 33 0

Kadron Boone 2 46 23.034 (TD)

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Odell Beckham Jr.

3 30 10.0 21 0

James Wright 2 15 7.5 10 0

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Cody Journell kicked a 17-yard fi eld goal in overtime and No. 16 Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 20-17 on Monday night.

Georgia Tech got the ball fi rst in overtime, but quarterback Tevin Washington threw the ball away under pressure and was in-tercepted.

Tevin Washington’s 10-yard touchdown pass with 44 seconds left in regulation had given the Yellow Jackets a 17-14 lead.

Logan Thomas then drove the Hokies and Journell’s 41-yard fi eld goal tied it at the end of regu-lation.

After Washington’s turn-over in overtime, needing only to score to win, the Hokies got runs of 6 and 18 yards from Michael Holmes, before Journell spared them another crushing loss in a big early game.

The Hokies trailed 17-14 until Journell, who had earlier missed from 38 yards, made his fi rst kick.

Until his overtime mistake and Journell’s clutch kicking, Washington was primed to be the star of the game.

Georgia Tech’s run-fi rst quarterback hit Deon Hill with a 10-yard touchdown pass with 44 seconds remaining, stunning the sellout crowd in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams.

Four plays earlier, Washing-ton was fl ushed from the pocket on a fourth-and-6 play from the Hokies 37, and after eluding a pass rusher, he found B.J. Bostic with three defenders around him for a 19-yard gain on the right sideline to keep the drive alive.

The Hokies, who had gone ahead on Thomas’ 42-yard scor-ing pass to Demitri Knowles with 7:46 to play, got the ball back and drove to the Yellow Jackets 24 with 6 seconds remaining.

The Yellow Jackets used a timeout to try to ice Journell, but his kick sailed through the up-rights to tie it at 17.

Fans, most of whom came clad in orange, didn’t even wait for the offi cials to signal the kick good, but took their cues from the reactions of those with a better view and were already celebrating having scored more points in the last 7:46 than the fi rst 52:14.

Before the offensive fl urry in the fourth quarter, the game was a punting contest that turned on a punt that went awry.

Georgia Tech had managed just two fi rst downs when Hokies freshman punter A.J. Hughes set them up with a mistake.

Dropped back in punt forma-tion near midfi eld, he let a snap go through his hands and scrambled to fall on it for a 22-yard loss.

That put the Yellow Jackets at the Hokies 24, and three runs tied it. On the 12-yard touchdown, Robert Godhigh went wide around the left side, dodged defenders, broke several tackles and scored

easily, making it 7-7 just 26 sec-onds into the second quarter.

The mistake seemed to knock the Hokies off their stride, and neither team threatened the rest of the half.

The Yellow Jackets fi nally started moving the ball and went ahead 10-7 on a 34-yard fi eld goal by David Scully to start the fourth quarter.

The score came after a 15-play, 56-yard drive that not only took 7:18 off the clock, but in-cluded three short third-down conversions and left the Hokies defenders looking as if the high humidity was fi nally starting to wear them down.

After falling behind, Thomas and the offense fi nally gave the defense a break, driving from their 23 to the Yellow Jackets 21 in 11 plays, but Journell missed.


1. USC defeated Hawaii 49-10

2. Alabama defeated No. 8 Michigan 41-14

3. LSU defeated North Texas 41-14

4. Oklahoma defeated UTEP 24-7

5. Oregon defeated Arkansas State 57-34

6. Georgia defeated Buffalo 45-23

7. Florida State defeated Murray State 69-3

8. Michigan lost to No. 2 Alabama 41-14

9. South Carolina defeated Vanderbilt 17-13

10. Arkansas defeated Jacksonville State 49-24

11. West Virginia defeated Marshall 69-34

12. Wisconsin defeated Northern Illinois 26-21

13. Michigan State defeated No. 24 Boise State 17-13

14. Clemson defeated Auburn 26-19

15. Texas defeated Wyoming 37-13

16. Virginia Tech defeated Georgia Tech, 20-17

17. Nebraska defeated Southern Miss 49-20

18. Ohio State defeated Miami of Ohio 56-10

19. Oklahoma State defeated Savannah State 84-0

20. TCU idle

21. Stanford defeated San Jose State 20-17

22. Kansas State defeated Missouri State 51-9

23. Florida defeated Bowling Green 27-14

24. Boise State lost to No. 13 Michigan State 17-13

25. Louisville defeated Kentucky 32-14

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Virginia Tech place kicker Cody Journell (89) celebrates with his teammates after making a 17-yard � eld goal in overtime Monday to win 20-17 against Georgia Tech.

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made the most of it with a 70-yard touchdown return when he broke a tackle and hurdled over a Mean Green player.

Beckham’s returns didn’t come at dramatic or pivotal mo-ments in the game, but they served as standout moments in a game that LSU coach Les Miles described as “sloppy, but domi-nant at times.”

The Tigers wore the old hat against North Texas with a pun-ishing running game and relent-less defensive play. LSU leaned heavily on Hilliard and junior running back Alfred Blue in a ground attack that produced 316 yards , and the defense had a strong showing as it allowed only 219 total yards . The defense also showed its depth with 22 differ-ent players recording tackles.

Junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger made his debut as a starter for the Tigers , going 19 of 26 for 192 yards while throw-ing one touchdown and one inter-ception . The Tigers did not show much of a vertical passing game, mostly sticking to screens and in-termediate patterns.

After roaring out to a 24-0 fi rst-half lead , the Tigers seemed to sputter and began making mis-takes as the pace of the game ap-proached a crawl. A missed fi eld goal , an interception in the red zone and a slew of 10 penalties marred what was otherwise a fairly dominating performance.

“It was kind of like offense, defense and special teams had an opportunity to play dominant at times, but really had some sloppy plays,” Miles said.

After the game, Miles called Beckham a “very talented return-er.”

Even though Mathieu is no longer a part of the team, his impact can still be felt. Beck-ham said that Mathieu played a

pivotal role in his development as a punt returner.

“I’ve just got to give thanks to him,” Beckham said. “He taught me so many things [about] the punt return game. … I’ve just got to take those tips and use them.”

Junior linebacker Kevin Minter said Beckham is only scratching at the surface of his

potential.“Odell , he’s a special play-

er,” Minter said. “He just showed y’all a little glimpse of it. You can expect a lot from him for the rest of the season.”


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After looking more like a safety than a running back last season, Blue proved in the opener that he isn’t just going to sit back and wait for the job to be handed to him — or anyone else for that matter.

“We tell each other, if you don’t get it, I’m [going to] get in and get it,” Blue said after the game.

The junior from Boutte, La. , defi nitely got in and got his Saturday night, running for 123 yards after receiving the starting nod from Miles .

While the key to Blue’s suc-cess has been adding weight, Hilliard has slimmed down from 240 pounds in 2011 to 231 pounds this season.

Despite reducing excess poundage, Hilliard didn’t have any trouble thumping the Mean Green into submission. His fi rst two carries of 2012 resulted in trips to the end zone, and he led the Tigers in rushing with 141 yards on only 13 carries.

Playing sparingly throughout

much of 2011 until the Western Kentucky contest, Hilliard has now racked up eight rushing touchdowns in his last six games.

The performances of Blue and Hilliard combined with bruising fullback J.C. Copeland will give Studrawa time to fi g-ure out exactly how he wants this passing game to work. After all, the same horizontal passing scheme Tiger fans moaned and groaned about last season was put on display yet again Saturday with minimal results.

If Ware or Ford hope to sup-plant either of the two featured backs, they might want to get started now. The one-two punch of Blue and Hilliard looks like a freight train gaining speed leav-ing the station.

Good luck trying to stop it.

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LSU sophomore wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. cuts past North Texas defenders as he returns a punt Saturday during the Tigers’ 41-14 victory against the Mean Green.

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LSU junior running back Alfred Blue (4) ran for 123 yards in the Tigers’ 41-14 rout of North Texas. His offseason strengthening helped secure a season-opener start.

Sitting side-by-side on the Parade Ground, Kayla Robi-cheaux and her fi ance Brandon Boughrara are just like any happy college couple — except there’s a diamond on her ring fi nger.

They hold hands and smile, unconcerned about their age, when talking about plans for their upcoming wedding. They talk about living together and their “kids” — a dog and a cat — as comfortably as an old married couple, even though Robicheaux is only 21.

“It’s weird sitting in the fi rst day of class with a bunch of 18-year-olds when I’m plan-ning a wedding,” Robicheaux said.

Many stu-dents want to wait until after college to settle down, but not Robicheaux, a psychology se-nior who got engaged at the end of her junior year.

Robicheaux isn’t the only one. Facebook notifi cations about peers’ engagements populate the pages of students like Leah Romero, a landscape architecture senior, who noticed a trend as graduation nears and people start popping the question. Romero said nearly every day means an-other notifi cation about a friend or classmate getting married.

“It’s like that bulletin at the top of the [Facebook] page never stays the same for more than a week,” Romero said.

Trish Shaffett, a hair stylist at On the Boulevard Salon & Spa

on Sherwood Forest Boulevard, said about half of the brides she has styled lately were between the ages of 18 and 22.

“They’re always happy to be in love and looking forward to the future,” Shaffett says of her college-aged clients. “Everyone talks about how often divorce happens and [that] they aren’t go-ing to be a victim of it.”

Robicheaux is just as op-timistic. She and Boughrara, a recent University graduate , said marriage felt like a natural pro-gression in their relationship. The two met through Boughr-ara’s younger brother while Ro-bicheaux was still in high school, and they began dating when Ro-

bicheaux started college.

“We’ve been acting like we were married for-ever,” Boughrara said. “I would have asked her sooner if I could have.”

Boughrara and Robicheaux have already set a date for next fall and booked a venue, and they are excited about starting the rest of their lives together. Though neither has experienced any cold feet, Robicheaux said the reality still hits her sometimes.

“When we were register-ing for china it was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m registering for fi ne china. I’m getting married.’ That was crazy,” Robicheaux said.

Boughrara’s age may have been a factor in the couple’s decision to start planning their wedding before Robicheaux’s

Editor’s note: This column contains spoilers.

It’s an understatement to say the ending to the fi rst half of television phenomenon “Break-ing Bad’s” fi nal season is a cliff-hanger.

Sunday’s episode “Gliding Over All” re-visited what has happened over the last four-and-a-half sea-sons — We’ve seen Walt as a desperate family man, a chemical genius and a ma-niacal tyrant.

It’s only in the fi nal minutes that we see the fi rst truly redeem-ing moment from Walt this sea-son, as he seemingly retires from his “crystal blue” dominion.

But the show stays true to form, and the last second is a game changer as the moment Walt has narrowly dodged qui-etly unfolds on a “throne” of a different kind.

His secret is out.Now, anything can happen,

and there are new questions to ask, while old ones are still brew-ing. Here’s some of the biggest questions I hope to see resolved when the season continues:

Fast food is usually not associ-ated with healthy food or West Afri-can cuisine with fries, but restaurant owner Caroline Collins will have diners thinking and eating differ-ently.

Collins’ month-old restaurant, BB&PF , occupies Red Flower Chi-nese Restaurant’s former location on the corner of Highland Road and West Grant Street . BB&PF is an

acronym for the food joint’s signa-ture dishes, bean burgers and plan-tain fries.

The seemingly alien food is commonplace in coastal areas of West Africa , such as Nigeria , Collins’ na-tive country. Collins im-migrated to the United States 17 years ago. The naturalized citizen settled in Baton Rouge for its similarly humid, tropical weather.

Collins said she wanted to open her restaurant to give Baton Rouge residents a taste of her native cul-ture’s cuisine.

“There’s no other restaurant like it in Baton Rouge ,” Collins

said. “I wanted to promote my Af-rican heritage.”

Upon entering the eatery, Col-lins’ African infl uence is evident.

Green fl oor tiles, uphol-stered seating and leafy plants refl ect Nigeria’s green, natural environ-ment. Carved wooden masks peer down from the walls, emitting tribal vibes.

While I absorbed the comfort-able yet outdated interior, I ordered the restaurant’s namesake — a bean burger and plantain fries.

Collins set to work cooking my

EntertainmentTuesday, September 4, 2012 page 9

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BREAKING BAD, see page 11

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Restaurant serves a healthy taste of West Africa BB&PF o� ers bargain prices Josh NaquinEntertainment Writer


A bean burger and plantain fries is served at BB&PF on Highland Road. The recently opened restaurant serves healthy West African cuisine. BB&PF, see page 11

Food for ThoughtA Daily Reveille

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‘Breaking Bad’ keeps puzzling fans

HERE COMES THE BRIDE


LSU psychology senior Kayla Robicheaux pre-pares Aug. 27 in Middleton Library for her upcoming wedding.WEDDINGS, see page 11

Students decide to tie the knot despite young age

Kaci YoderEntertainment Writer

‘We’ve been acting like we were married

forever.’ Brandon Boughrara

University alumnus

Neon is the new black. Clusters of colorful hues

stomp through campus as Uni-versity students embrace sum-mer’s latest trend — bright neon running shoes.

Available in an assortment of colors, brands and styles from various footwear retailers, each shoe shares similar features in-cluding a “second-skin-like fi t,” a breathable mesh and mutli-layered upper and a lightweight, fl exible sole.

Although these shoes have been tailored for the more ath-letic crowd, Complex Magazine deemed running shoes to be a staple in fashion this year.

Complex listed running sneakers replacing dress shoes among its top 10 best trends of 2012 thus far.

Karli Henderson, Swine Pal-ace production stage manager and graduate adjunct, was spot-ted on campus last Friday sport-ing the fashion forward trend.

“I had to walk across cam-pus, and they are way more com-fortable than my business shoes,” Henderson said as she scurried across the Quad in her ruffl ed blouse, pencil skirt and multi-colored running sneakers.

Henderson said business people are constantly moving. She said she understands why they would wear running shoes with formal attire, but she does not consider it to be a fashion statement.

“All the fashionistas prob-ably cringe when they see us,” Henderson said.

Mechanical engineering freshman Kelly Fox agreed. Fox said she has seen men wearing bright running shoes with suits and did not like the trend.

However, she said neon run-ning shoes are the perfect addi-tion to a University student’s ev-eryday attire.

Kelli Fatigate, a kinesiology sophomore, said she wears bright running shoes mainly because she likes the colors.

“I just love bright colors,” Fatigate said. “Orange is my fa-vorite.”

Many female students pair colorful footwear with Nike shorts, which is why the shoes have become an on-campus trend, Fatigate said.

But Fox said she primarily wears running shoes for comfort.

“It’s a lot easier to get around a big campus [in running shoes],” she said.

Fox said she used to wear fl ip-fl ops, but after coming to the University, she found running shoes to be more comfortable. She said she bought four pairs in multiple colors.

During her search for new shoes, Fox said she noticed a disturbing trend of her own. She said the men’s shoes were more

colorful than the women’s. “I think it’s weird for men

to wear bright shoes at all,” Fox said.

Mechanical engineering freshman Jacob Landry dis-agreed.

Landry said he owns two pairs of Nike Free Runs: one in grey and orange, and another in blue and red. He said the shoes are comfortable and are a great alternative to open-toe footwear.

“I’m not really a sandal guy, so these work,” he said.

Landry said it’s unlikely for him to ever wear running shoes with formal wear, but he will continue to sport them with khaki shorts and a T-shirt.

He said his two pairs of Nike Free Runs cost him between $89 and $100 each. Prices for other brands vary.


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1. How will Hank handle his discovery?

A nifty fl ashback assured us that Hank has fi nally caught a whiff of what’s been under his nose for a long time. We’ve seen many sides of Hank’s character — a gentler, more rational inves-tigator and a heated, irrational re-actor. It will be interesting to see how Hank will pin his beloved brother-in-law, or if he even will at all.

2. Is Walt’s cancer back?The iciest Season 5 moment

so far has come from Walt’s dis-tant wife Skyler when she re-minded Walt that his cancer could come back. In the fi nale, we see a montage not so different from the fi rst episode when Walt initially learned of his illness. His odd moment with Jesse and his sud-den willingness to quit the busi-ness suggests there’s still some-thing about Walt we don’t know.

3. What about that Denny’s in the fi rst episode?

The cold open of this sea-son’s fi rst episode was one the se-ries’ best. We know three things: it’s about a year later from the season’s current events, Walt has hair and assault rifl es are neces-sary. If anything, that scene was assurance that the writers know much more than they’re willing to tell us.

4. Who will survive?

We saw one major character die this season, and there’s no doubt the toll will quickly rise over the fi nal sprint. The sad-dest to see go would be one of the best characters in TV history, Jesse Pinkman , or either of Walt’s children. A simple Google search of “‘Breaking Bad’ theories” is enough to overwhelm, but the fate of Heisenberg is unpredict-able.

5. What about that goddamned ricin?

The white poison has been around since the fi rst season, a constant reminder of Walt’s prowess and depravity. The ap-pearance of the infamous ricin in Sunday’s episode suggests we haven’t seen the last of Walt’s weapon of choice.

graduation. Six years her senior, Boughrara made it clear from the beginning that he was serious about their relationship.

For other students who are tying the knot, an engagement ring may be more like a promise than a defi nite plan.

Stephen Peltier, creative writing senior, proposed to his girlfriend of three years when they both began looking into post-graduate opportunities in different cities.

“I wasn’t thinking about the future in terms of if we should get married right now. I just wanted to be with her, and we would fi gure it out on the way,” Peltier said. “It was a promise that we would be together in the end.”

Peltier’s fi ance, 20-year-old psychology senior Camille La-Bauve, sees their engagement as the next logical step, but she said they will let their academic and professional lives determine how it unfolds.

“There are a couple of possi-ble dates we have in mind, but it all depends on where we get into school and where we get jobs,” LaBauve said. “We’re still fi gur-ing it out.”

Some, like Shaffett, think college students should tread carefully down the aisle. “As young adults, we can be naive,” Shaffett said.

LaBauve and Robicheaux have both had their share of skep-tics, but both insist they are confi -dent in their decisions.

“Some of our family was

like, ‘Oh, you’re going to do that now?’” LaBauve said. “I do think that some younger people rush into it, but this fi ts into our plan. I’m not taking my time through college.”

Robicheaux agreed.“A lot of people my age

say they couldn’t imagine get-ting married right now,” she said. “I’m sure some people think I’m too young, but that’s OK. They don’t know us or our relationship.”


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order in a long, dimly lit kitchen. As she diced a large plantain , Collins warned that her food has no pretense of sophistication.

She said her parents taught her to cook, and explained that bean burgers and fried plantains are common street fare in her home region.

As the plantain pieces sizzled in a pan of canola oil, Collins explained how she has added an American twist to her African recipes.

Collins said she dresses her bean burgers with lettuce, tomato, onions and condiments in a simi-lar fashion to the American ham-burger — a departure from the Africans’ bean patty and bread only approach.

My meal arrived at my table, plated on a fl oral ceramic dish, in eight minutes . While the meal’s execution was quick, it was not hastily done.

The golden-brown plantain fries were a nice combination of sweet and crispy, in a similar vein to sweet potato fries. I found their fl avor was complemented well with the creamy tang of yellow mustard.

The bean burger, called “aka-ra ” in Africa , was a nice change

of pace from its meaty alterna-tive. The bean patty was fi rm and had a subtle taste, which was masked by more prominent fl avors within the burger.

Collins said she crafts the pat-ties by soaking black-eyed peas and peeling away their skin. She

then blends them into a moldable paste and seasons them with a se-cret combination of spices. The bean patties can then be baked or fried, depending on the patron’s wishes.

Offering to bake the patties is just one area in which Collins strives to provide healthy food. Collins buys her produce from a local vendor. She cooks predomi-nantly with canola oil and lists nutrition facts for all of her menu items on her restaurant’s website.

In addition to bean burgers and plantain fries, the restaurant offers rice, couscous and yam dishes prepared in a variety of ways.

When the bill came I was surprised to fi nd my meal cost me just $5 . With $3 bean burgers and $2 plantain fries, the food is fi ll-ing at a price comparable to fast food joints.

While some patrons may fi nd BB&PF’s location on the fray of the Northgate area intimidating, it is a family-run establishment that provides enough interior warmth to override its tougher exterior.

With its healthy focus, ethnic roots and value pricing, BB&PF fi lls a niche in the Baton Rouge restaurant and vegetarian food scene where few alternatives reside.


LSU psychology senior Kayla Robicheaux � ips through wedding magazines on the Parade Ground on Aug. 27.

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If you go, expect:

• Casual atmosphere• Cheap meals ($5 for the signature meal)• Quick service

It can’t be easy being a libertar-ian in the Republican Party.

Despite the Republicans’ record with aggressive foreign policy, apa-thy toward civil liberties and fiscally irresponsible economic policies, many libertarians stayed on board hoping to work with Texas Repre-sentative and former presidential candidate Ron Paul in changing the party from the inside.

In return, they’ve been treated as the party’s annoying stepchildren.

During the Republican prima-ries, Paul was often portrayed as the wacky kook in the race, and battles between Paul-supporting delegates and the party establishment took place all over the country.

Those battles finally culminated when House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, pushed through changes to delegate rules during the Republican National Convention.

Libertarians and Paul-support-ers at the convention and around the country were outraged by the deci-sion viewing it as betrayal by the Re-publican establishment.

When your own party shows such contempt for your ideology and efforts, it might be a sign that it’s time for a change.

Libertarians need to realize they’re in a failing relationship and cut their ties with the Republican Party – a party that doesn’t seem to care much about them except wheth-er they vote for the guy with the “R”

instead of the one with the “D.”Luckily for libertarians, they

can find solace and comfort in the warm, welcoming arms of the Lib-ertarian Party and its presidential candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

When November comes around, Johnson will be the only candidate espousing the libertarian ideas of “fiscal conservatism and social liber-alism.” Johnson’s candidacy brings a much-needed choice for those who disapprove of President Obama’s performance but are disillusioned with the Republican Party. And this position could help propel his party into the greater national conscious-ness.

Johnson’s candidacy is also an opportunity for liberals.

Many southern states, like here in Louisiana, are not swing states and will undoubtedly be red Nov. 6. A vote for Obama in these states is essentially “throwing away your vote” — the main critique given when voting for a third party.

Yet a vote for Johnson could be a vote against the Republican Party, which has shown itself to be liberal with facts and reactionary to social change and science, and a vote for the Libertarian Party, which offers a more intellectually sound defense for conservatism.

Johnson is a pro-choice, pro- marriage equality conservative can-didate who is against the War on Drugs and the assault on civil liber-ties — two positions that have weak-ened the Obama administration’s appeal to many liberals around the country.

The Libertarian Party and its

candidate could offer the type of conservative intellectual foil needed to keep the Democratic Party on its toes and bring a much more substan-tive debate to the political sphere in this country.

Political scientists may point to Duverger’s Law to show why our sys-tem favors two parties and why a third party cannot do much in this country. But that line of thinking is short-sighted.

It is not written in stone that the second party must be the

Republican Party, and there are am-ple signs the country is slowly mov-ing away from the brand of conser-vatism represented by Republicans. A survey conducted by the Har-vard Institute of Politics in April found that millennials, 18 to 29 -year olds, are increasingly open to libertarian ideals. And anyone who’s paid attention to Paul’s can-didacy knows his most fervent base has been college students, who typically voted Republican. When the future of conservatism

in America shows its face, it will look much less like Republican pres-idential candidate Mitt Romney and much more like Ron Paul.

David Scheuermann is a 20-year-old mass communication and computer science junior from Kenner.

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“I am certainly excited that LSU football is back. However, I think it’s disheartening to hear you write about the anguish of last year and nobody wanted a part of LSU. Awfully spoiled there Luke. It was the greatest season in LSU football, period. Let’s revel in that. We are

not going to grieve the past season; we are going to celebrate the hope of a new season and the annual re-union of old friends like the true purple and gold fans we are records be damned.”- Anonymous

“What many are possibly grieving is the fact that Zach Mettenberger sat on the sidelines and watched the humiliation of the century. Along with the thousands of fans who could not fathom how a coach could stick with one QB who had done nothing to advance LSU’s game. And the realization that kids preferred going to Alabama and be-ing coached by a REAL coach who has mastered the game rather than wasting their talents at LSU. You play ‘TO WIN THE GAME.’”- Anonymous

I am a handicapped student, and on numerous occasions I have been unable to park because Uni-versity work vehicles are parked in handicapped spots. Today, while cleaning up after Hurricane Isaac, I understand the clean up equipment being in a spot for the length of time needed to clean the spot, but I do not understand University pick-up trucks being parked in the re-served parking spots. Between the Union and Howe Russell, a white University pick-up truck took up

more than one spot while the spac-es reserved for loading and unload-ing remained vacant. Three handi-capped spaces were not available due to misuse by University em-ployees personnel. This is a prob-lem that happens often, not just on hurricane clean up days. LSU Parking told me to call when this happens, but calling does no good. Today I was I instructed to look for a spot further away. Handicapped students face plenty of challenges in getting an education - parking shouldn’t be one of them.

Wendy Gilleyhistory junior

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In life, it is usually better to be proactive than reactive when dealing with problems. This is especially true when dealing with the reality of an impending hur-ricane.

There was no better way to celebrate the anniversary of Hur-ricane Katrina, which made land-fall Aug. 29, 2005, than to host Hurricane Isaac.

Who can forget the damage and devastation caused by one of the strongest recorded Atlantic hurricanes?

The thriving city of New Orleans was reduced to a water bowl; response from FEMA and other governmental agencies was delayed.

Who can forget televised scenes of people being rescued from roof tops and dead bodies floating in the water?

No one expected the hurri-cane to cause as much destruc-tion as it did. New Orleans is still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Though less in magnitude than Hurricane Katrina, Gustav, which hit three years later in 2008, had a similar shock effect on Baton Rouge and surrounding areas.

With the memories of these two hurricanes fresh on our minds, Baton Rouge residents sprang into action to prepare for Isaac.

I decided to do some school supply shopping late Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, only to find Walmart packed to capacity. Water, bread, ice, batteries and other hurricane necessities had

disappeared from the shelves. It always puzzles me that out

of 25 or so checkout aisles, there are usually about six open at any given time. It was just not the day for my kind of shopping.

That following Monday, the University issued an announce-ment that school would be closed until Wednesday, and we all knew what needed to be done — party, we thought in unison.

On my way to pick up some party supplies, I witnessed a change in atmosphere around Baton Rouge — the city had the feeling of a zombie apocalypse.

Businesses began boarding up their stores. Gas station lines backed up into the streets.

Chainsaws buzzed as they severed branches from trees, residents relocated flower pots, chairs and any potential

projectiles in hurricane-force winds.

University and city police along with ATF employees pa-trolled the streets.

Interstate 10 westbound re-sembled the biblical exodus. Students filled the lines of local stores stocking up on ice, liquor, beer and anything but water. There was going to be an abun-dance of it falling from the sky anyway.

I grabbed a 12-pack as a just-in-case measure.

The city was ready for the approaching hurricane. We would not relive the memories of Hurri-canes Katrina and Gustav.

I first saw signs of Isaac on Tuesday afternoon as the hur-ricane neared Baton Rouge. The once-blue sky turned dark grey with streaks of blue as lightning

flashed in the distance.The hurricane proceeded to

do what hurricanes do best: wa-ter plants, dispose of houses like Kodak cameras and put man back into his place.

I laughed as famous weather-man Al Roker struggled to keep his ground during a live shoot in New Orleans.

For the next two days, I, like so many other students, confined myself to my bedroom waking occasionally to the sound of rain pummeling the roof and wind howling against the window.

I emerged from my cave Thursday afternoon to see a few tree branches in the yard and friends and family doing fine, for the most part.

Though many areas in the city were flooded and without electricity, Baton Rouge seemed

to be spared the worst of the Isaac’s brutality.

According to WAFB approx-imately four deaths were reported around the region. The Haitian government reported 24 Isaac-related deaths as well as some in the Dominican Republic.

LSU resumed school Friday and football team managed to secure the victory against North Texas on Saturday.

Only thing left to complain about is the loss of Fall Break.

Can I get a “Geaux Tigers?” Tesalon Felicien is a 21-year-old print journalism junior from St. Lucia.

“Hi, I’m a reporter from LSU’s student magazine, LEGA-CY.”

“What is it?”This is all too familiar for the

editorial staff of LEGACY, the University’s quarterly, general in-terest student magazine.

Though the publication has thrived in providing varied content and captivating photos for its read-ers, it has lacked a voice, a brand, an identity.

But not for long. The fall 2012 staff has decided to take on a dras-tic, but much-needed overhaul. We’re changing the look, we’re changing the style, and, most importantly, we’re changing the

magazine’s name.And we need your help.We launched a NAME YOUR

MAGAZINE campaign the first week of school to get students involved in the naming process. The past two weeks’ effort has been online, but this week you’ll see the staff on the ground talking with you about your expectations for our product, handing out fliers about the campaign and inviting your input in Free Speech Plaza.

We’re asking LSU students to submit a suggested name for our revamped publication through the campaign’s website, nameyour-magazine.com, or through Twit-ter @NAMEYOURMAG. All submissions must be received by Friday.

The name should reflect the mission of the magazine, which is to provide in-depth, innovative, provocative coverage in the form

of content, design and photogra-phy for the LSU community.

So, what’s in it for you? Not only will you have the chance to make LSU history by contributing to its only student magazine, but all finalists will be entered to win a NOOK Color. Students who sug-gest more than one title will be en-tered only once, and only students in good academic standing will be eligible. For more details on the contest, please see nameyourma-gazine.com.

After we have finished read-ing through all of your sugges-tions, we’ll be conducting internal Student Media discussions and or-ganizing student focus groups. The name will be unveiled in the Nov. 5 edition and not a day sooner.

Until then, you’ll start to see hints of our advanced look and feel in print and online.

The Sept. 24 issue, which will

be printed under the LEGACY name, will host a new design template that provides a modern but streamlined platform for our audience. Magazine departments, ranging from “music + culture” and “features” to “food” and “opinion,” will organize the publi-cation’s content and make it more reader-friendly.

The design will host color-ful, engaging photography and an array of in-depth articles that are sure to please the eye and mind.

And it won’t stop at the end of page 44.

You’ll see LEGACY‚ and its heir, online like you’ve never seen it before. With the upcoming launch of the new Student Media website, lsulegacymag.com will also receive a facelift. Through the site, we promise to bring you expanded web coverage with embedded interactive features,

graphics and photo galleries. And we promise to give readers online exclusive content in between magazine issues to ensure we are providing material you can’t find anywhere else.

LEGACY magazine, unlike most of the other Student Media outlets, has the luxury of time. Be-cause we do not produce content daily, we have time to dig deep and talk to multiple sources, time to develop long-form pieces, time to create the perfect photo shot. We’re finally taking advantage of it.

It’s an exciting time in B26 Hodges Hall, and we want you to be part of our evolution. It’s your campus, your culture, and now, it can truly be your magazine.

If you have title ideas or sug-gestions regarding the magazine’s content, feel free to email: [email protected].

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computer processing at data speeds measured in terafl ops can solve complicated math problems found in 4000-level classes in a nanosecond.

The supercomputer has six smaller counterparts located at LONI member schools. Referred to as worker bees , some of these computers have human names, such as Eric, Oliver and Louie . Other names include Posedion , Painter and Sat(ellite) .

But at fi ve years old, the machines are quickly becoming obsolete, according to LONI Ex-ecutive Director Donald Vandal .

“The fact that we still have some space left on what we purchased fi ve years ago means we made some very wise deci-sions,” Vandal said at the Board of Regents’ August meeting. “But, at the same time, we need to replace these machines in or-der to continue to provide the same quality.”

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Leslie Guice, vice president for Research and Development at Louisiana Tech and member of the LONI management coun-sel, explained the importance of maintaining LONI.

“I am sure you have heard of the Higgs Boson particle that was discovered at CERN in Switzer-land,” Guice said at the Board of Regents’ August meeting. “Sev-eral students and faculty played a role in discovering the particle because of LONI.”

Other fi elds that are re-searched on the LONI network include energy research, fl ow of porous materials and hurricane surge modeling.

Although the current ma-chines still function properly, Vandal said the new machines could take the network to a high-er level.

“The capabilities and power of such a replacement would far exceed that of Queen Bee,” he said in an email. “A new, more powerful machine could run larger, more complex, more de-tailed and sophisticated models and simulations for scientifi c re-search, hurricane surge modeling

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On a night when the word “correctable” was on the tip of Miles’ tongue as LSU committed several “sloppy” errors, the Tal-ladega tandem was the offense’s lone sharp spot.

“They just hit and continue hitting,” said senior offensive line-man Josh Dworaczyk . “Next thing you know, they’re 30 yards down-fi eld. It made up for a few mistakes we had on the line.”

Despite the talk surrounding new quarterback Zach Mettenberg-er and an enhanced passing game, LSU’s offensive formula from last season looked unchanged.

But instead of last year’s lead-ing rushers, juniors Michael Ford and Spencer Ware , knifi ng through an opposing defense, it was Blue

and Hilliard — both serving as a featured back for the fi rst time — who made the formula work.

Hilliard noticeably slimmed down in fall camp and ran more like a tailback than a fullback, a spot he occupied early last year as a true freshman .

Hilliard’s fi rst two carries each netted touchdowns, and he broke free for a 60-yard scamper late in the second quarter, a longer run than LSU had all of last sea-son.

“The offensive line kept get-ting [me] to the next level, so it usually just took one move by that point,” said Hilliard, who fi nished with 141 yards rushing. “I saw a lot of green grass.”

While Hilliard was the surprise “Shake” side of the duo, Blue was busy seeing green , too

— North Texas green .The junior hardly looked ner-

vous in his fi rst career start, consis-tently grinding out fi rst downs and bowling over Mean Green defend-ers for 123 yards on 16 carries.

“I was anxious just to get to the fi eld,” Blue said. “Once I got out there, it was just natural. I was trying to prove that I can keep my head down and hurt you.”

But Blue also tore off a 37 -yard run and fl ashed the speed that kept him in LSU’s rotation last fall, preventing the North Texas defense from loading the interior.

On a night when the LSU passing game struggled to take fl ight early as Mettenberger often found himself under pressure, that versatility lifted the Tigers to 508 total yards — LSU’s highest offen-sive output since November 2007 .

“You don’t usually realize which guy is back there behind you,” said senior center PJ Loner-gan . “Either of them is capable of getting to the outside. That’s most effective because they’re both so big, so getting a yard or two on short yardage plays inside isn’t an issue.”

Even though the duo cred-ited an experienced offensive line for the Tigers’ 316 yards on the ground, Lonergan and Dworac-zyk were quick to point out any number of mistakes they made in blocking.

That’s a scary thought for opposing defenses, because LSU didn’t exactly show its offensive hand on Saturday .

Ware didn’t see the fi eld against North Texas, hyped fresh-man running back Jeremy Hill

didn’t get a carry and the passing game still relied on quick screens and horizontal throws to move the chains.

So how did LSU’s rushing attack barely miss a beat, even though the major players from last season were largely absent?

“I guess the running backs behind us are just that good,” Lo-nergan said. “You don’t reach 316 yards on accident, but it wasn’t on us [Saturday]. They know how to shake up those defenders.”


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