The University’s United States Postal Service branch will cease operations today.

On-campus residents are now assigned a mailbox at the newly renovated RICOH Mail and Printing Services center, lo-cated on the ground fl oor of the Student Union . The purchase of a student mailbox is mandatory for all on-campus residents, and the $70 fee for this service is charged to students’ fee bills.

All University mail services

will be handled by the contractor RICOH USA starting Thursday .

D e s p i t e the increase in fees, mar-keting sopho-more Jonathan Lewis said he is pleased with the services offered by the RICOH center .

“It is con-venient in the Union instead of across cam-pus,” he said, “That’s what we are paying for. We can argue it, but I don’t think it will do much good.”

Katherine Rappold, fi nance

freshman , said she was unaware of the fee but is glad to have her

mail delivered to an on-campus lo-cation.

“I have had to have my mail sent to my aunt’s house all week,” Rappold said Monday as she waited in line to register her new mailbox.

The switch is the result of months of prepa-ration following the June 2010

announcement of the intent to

Muslim students gathered Tuesday morning for prayer and celebration to commemorate Eid al-Fitr , the end of Ramadan .

Beginning Aug. 1 , the 30-day period of fasting and self-rest ra int ignited a time for refl ection and worship for Muslims world-wide. Through-out the course of Ramadan , University stu-dents and local Muslims partic-ipated in Iftars , the breaking of fasts.

Doctorate student and Muslim Student Association Vice Presi-dent Saif Al Qaisi said the Uni-versity’s MSA group sponsored weekly Iftars for the community where everyone could gather and break their fasts together.

Different groups within the Baton Rouge community take turns sponsoring the Iftars . During the week, the University hosted Iftars at the on-campus masjid,

or place of worship. During the weekend, the Islamic Center of Baton Rouge hosted bigger gath-erings for the whole community.

Al Qaisi said Ramadan is a time to refl ect on blessings and learn not to take anything for granted. Muslims use this time to

grow closer to Allah .“Ramadan is a

month of inner refl ec-tion, spiritual cleans-ing, humility, disci-pline, kindness and prayers,” said Arabic instructor Hatem Bachar .

Bachar cancelled class Monday and Tuesday out of re-spect for the holy day. He said he thinks it is important for his stu-dents to understand

all the cultural aspects behind the Arabic language, and observing Ramadan plays a key role.

Eid al-Fitr is a time of prayer and celebration. The occurrence of this holy celebration is marked by the lunar calendar, meaning Mus-lims must wait to learn the defi ni-tive date of the celebration accord-ing to the moon.

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Students wait in line Monday to receive packages at the new RICOH Mail and Printing Services center. Campus residents are now required to purchase $70 mailboxes.

Initiatives failed because of budget

Residents required to buy mailboxes

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Paul BraunContributing Writer

BUSES, see page 15

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The ‘reason we pray’

• All on-campus residents are required to purchase a mailbox.• A basic mailbox costs $70 and will be charged to students’ fee bills.• Non-perishable packages will no longer be received at residence halls.• Student mailboxes will be located at RICOH Mail and Printing Services in room 107 of the Student Union.

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Muslim students celebrate end of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr

Lauren DuhonContributing Writer

EID AL-FITR, see page 15

Students at the popular Ba-ton Rouge living community As-pen Heights are unhappy with the transportation to and from their new homes.

Residents felt they were prom-ised a bus route between campus and the community, located near the intersection of River Road and Brightside Drive .

Samantha Wren , an Aspen Heights resident and business freshman, is facing major inconve-niences.

“Before move-in day at As-pen Heights, residents were led to believe that we would almost defi nitely have either a bus stop in our neighborhood or even a pri-vate shuttle that commuted straight from the complex to campus,” Wren said. “I know some people in the neighborhood who, based LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, Tuesday at the Islamic Center of Baton Rouge. The month of Ramadan is marked by fasting and a focus on spirituality.

‘‘‘Ramadan is a month of inner

re� ection, spiritual cleansing, humility, discipline, kindness

and prayers.’Hatem BacharArabic professor

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Haitian police spokesman says kidnappers released American man

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian police say a U.S. citi-zen kidnapped last week from his home in the capital has been freed.

Police spokesman Frantz Le-rebours says the kidnappers of Frank Jean-Baptiste let him go Tuesday as offi cers surrounded an area in the hills above Port-au-Prince.

The kidnappers had demand-ed a ransom of $300,000 but Lere-bours says no payment was made.

Iranian protesters demand help for shrinking saltwater lake

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters demanding greater environmental protections for one of the world’s biggest salt-water lakes have clashed with se-curity forces in western Iran.

Photographs and video ob-tained by The Associated Press show police on motorcycles bear-ing down on dozens of demonstra-tors in Oroumieh on Aug. 27. The demonstrators threw rocks at po-lice, who fi red back. It was unclear whether police used live bullets.

It took several days to confi rm the event because residents were fearful of discussing it.

Federal judge strikes down key provisions of Texas sonogram law

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down key provision of Texas’ new law requir-ing a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, ruling that the measure violates the free speech rights of both doctors and patients.

The law — one of dozens of anti-abortion measures that advanced through state capitals across the United States this year — was set to take effect Thursday.

A New York-based reproduc-tive rights group had sued to block the law.Tropical Storm Katia continues to gather momentum in Atlantic

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Katia continues to gain strength as it moves west-northwest across the Atlantic.

Katia (KAH’-tee-yah) has maximum sustained winds late Tuesday afternoon of 60 mph (97 kph), a 20 mph increase over Tues-day morning. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says continued strengthening is forecast and Katia could become a hurri-cane by Wednesday.

Katia is centered about 750 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands.

N.O. Mayor Landrieu declares emergency because of marsh � re

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says a new marsh fi re near a high-way prompted him to declare an emergency and call on the Louisi-ana National Guard for helicopters to dump water on it.

Brig. Gen. Glenn H. Cur-tis said four helicopters based in Hammond were at work Tuesday and fi ve based in Pineville would join them Wednesday.

Landrieu said he does not know how the second fi re began.

Schools in New Orleans’ Re-covery School District canceled outdoor activities because of smoke from the fi re.

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The strike hit Gadhafi ’s home in his Tripoli compound, Bab al-Aziziya, in retaliation for the Lib-yan-sponsored bombing of a Ber-lin nightclub earlier that year that killed two U.S. servicemen.

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The Louisiana Board of Re-gents recently released a report designed to track the employ-ment outlook for Louisiana col-lege graduates six and 18 months after graduation.

The 2011 Employment Out-comes Report ex-amines employ-ment data from the Louisiana Workforce Com-mission and the Regents to deter-mine the employ-ment statuses for Louisiana degree completers.

The report found 73 per-cent of associate degree holders were employed 18 months after graduation, com-pared to 60 per-cent of bachelor’s degree holders.

Louisiana bachelor’s and as-sociate degree completers each year from 2006-09 were looked at in the report, which cited data from the Louisiana Unemployed Insurance Wage System . Indi-viduals who are self-employed, employed outside of the state or are employees of the federal gov-ernment are not included in the report’s data.

When analyzing data spe-cifi cally from bachelor’s degree recipients from the class of 2008-09 , the report stated health care professions had the highest em-ployment rate 18 months after graduation at 70 percent .

Education, engineering tech-nologies, family and consumer sciences and public administra-tion rounded out the top fi ve em-ployed fi elds of study, each above 66 percent .

“This report is a starting point that will eventually assist our colleges and universities in maximizing their success and im-

proving Louisi-ana’s economy,” said Commis-sioner of Higher Education Jim Purcell .

The report also factored resi-dency status into the employment equation. Nearly 64 percent of Louisiana resi-dent bachelor’s degree recipients were employed 18 months after graduation, ac-cording to the Louisiana UI Wage System

data. Non-resident bachelor’s degree recipients trailed Loui-siana residents with 23 percent employed 18 months after gradu-ation.

In addition, data was com-piled on average annual salaries per fi eld for 2008-09 bachelor’s degree recipients 18 months after graduation. Engineering led the pack with an average annual sala-ry of $56,853, followed by health care professions at $46,537 , engi-neering technologies at $43,787 , education at $37,639 and natural resources and conservation at $34,605 .

But many students complain

fi nding a job after graduation isn’t easy, said Jacob Ball , politi-cal science graduate student .

“A friend who I completed my [undergraduate] with worked in a restaurant for three years af-ter graduating before fi nding a teaching job,” Ball said.

Ball took solace in the re-port’s fi ndings.

“It’s hard to fi nd a job right now. Academia is at least a little insulated,” Ball said.

Post-baccalaureate education appears to be growing in popular-ity among students weary of the fi ckle job market. Steve Bond , history and anthropology senior, plans on pursuing further educa-tion.

“If not, I’ll go to fi eld school and go on archaeological digs to gain experience,” Bond said. “The experience helped my girl-friend get a job in the fi eld.”

Blake Winchell , coordina-tor of job search at Career Ser-vices , emphasized the need for research to University students considering post-graduation job prospects.

“You should know what is expected for you and your ma-jor fi eld,” Winchell said. “Talk to someone in our offi ce, as it dif-fers depending on your fi eld of study.”

Winchell also said prepara-tion is key when lining up a job out of college.

“Prepping for your transi-tion from college to the real world doesn’t happen overnight,” Winchell said.

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STUDY

The Daily Reveillepage 4 Wednesday, August 31, 2011

With a strained economy and higher tuition, students are searching for alternatives to physically and fi-nancially heavy textbooks.

The surge of electronic text-books and tablets in college class-rooms has businesses scrambling to invest in future classical learning.

According to a recent report by the Public Interest Research Group, which surveyed thousands of stu-dents around the nation, approxi-mately seven of 10 college students have bypassed purchasing a textbook because of high prices.

“In the digital age, textbooks are so out of date,” said Rep. Tim Burns, R-La., the author of the Accounting Whiz Kid iPad app, which released in late spring.

But Burns is not the only busi-nessman who perceives a growing market for digital education tools.

While the University bookstore currently supports two eTextbook outlets, Barnes and Noble’s Nook Study and Vital Source, the real fo-cus is shifting to Apple’s iDevices, the popularity of which is apparent during any stroll through the Quad.

“That’s where I think the future is,” Burns said of the iPad, adding that students and workers are “be-coming a lot more particular with technology.”

When looking at a regular book,

he said, “you glaze over all that text,” especially with a subject like accounting.

Dean of the Manship School Jerry Ceppos has certainly made note of the rise of digital media in the classroom, as exemplified by his re-cent purchase of more than 20 iPads for Manship school faculty.

When it comes to mass commu-nication students, the iPad “changes the product you’re producing,” ac-cording to Lance Porter, associate professor in the Manship School.

Porter gave a presentation to the Manship faculty before the semester began on how to use the iPad in the classroom and how it directly affects the curriculum of mass communica-tion.

“It’s changing our jobs in a posi-tive way,” Porter said. “You really can’t fight it.”

Between Nook Study and Vital Source, only Vital Source supports mobile access through iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads – a feature that has become a selling point for all on-line textbook suppliers.

Regardless of the textbook op-tions for tablets, many students use tablets in the classroom for conve-nience purposes.

Marrissa Burridge, dental hy-giene sophomore, uses an iPad be-cause it’s “easier to follow the teach-er” online during class.

She noted it’s less distracting than a laptop because you can’t keep

Facebook open while working.“I have a laptop at home,” she

said, “but I choose to bring the iPad for convenience.”

Ashley Ernst, psychology fresh-man, uses hers for taking notes, say-ing it’s “dumb to waste paper.” Ernst uses an app called Notes Plus, which allows her to simultaneously record a lecture and take notes in class.

Also changing with the digital shift is the author-publisher relation-ship.

A number of eTextbook apps exist for the iPad currently, such as Inkling and Kno, but most of them have yet to earn a base of both users and large publishing companies. Be-cause of this, some authors and de-velopers skip the publishing process and go straight to app creation.

According to Porter, “royalties on e-books are next to nothing.”

Many developers have followed Burns’ lead by producing not books

but study tools.Burns described his app as “a

supplement” to print.Nick Lambeth, public relations

junior, managed to find his biology textbook in an app, allowing him to use his iPad to replace the extra bulk.

Lambeth described the alterna-tive as “way easier.”

Perhaps the most promising aspects of eTextbook outlets are the free trial periods that allow students to use a textbook – sometimes for up to two weeks – before deciding to buy, allowing students to find out whether or not they can afford to pass on the purchase.

The offerings of digital text-books and textbook apps remain lim-ited but positioned for growth.

In a more immediate future are book rental services, which also of-fer cheaper alternatives to textbook purchases.

BookRenter.com, for instance,

claims students can save up to ap-proximately $2,600 over the course of four years by renting instead of buying textbooks, a practice the University’s bookstore has taken in stride.

Born and raised in Hammond and surrounded by the unique Loui-siana culture, James Wilcox always knew he wanted to be a writer, plunking out stories on an old type-writer from a young age.

Wilcox, director of the Uni-versity’s creative writing program, turned his childhood dream into re-ality and was recently announced as the recipient of the 2011 Louisiana

Writer Award.The Louisiana Center for the

Book in the State Library of Loui-siana presents the award to a writer for outstanding contributions to Louisiana’s liter-ary and intellec-tual life.

Wilcox said he appreciates having Louisiana roots to inspire his work.

“I have spent a number of years appreciating the landscape here and the way towns function here,” Wil-cox said. “I enjoy finding out new things about people who live in this area, and I’m always very happy to know what I’ve learned from grow-ing up and being raised in Louisi-ana.”

Most of Wilcox’s nine novels are set in fictional Tula Springs, La., but three are set in New York City, where he worked at Random House and Doubleday after graduating from

Yale University.Wilcox said living in the city

helped him to appreciate his South-ern upbringing.

“I feel especially grateful for this award because it comes from my home state, and I’m so pleased to be working here in Louisiana after being in New York for a while,” he said. “There is a special feel to this award that no other award has be-cause people in this state understand my books in a way that no one else can.”

As the director of creative writ-ing, Wilcox said the University has given him an opportunity to embrace inspiration from fellow writers and poets, and he encourages his students to utilize the Southern landscape.

Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton will recognize Wilcox at the 2011 Louisi-ana Book Festival on Oct. 29.

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Students, faculty embrace alternatives to traditional textbooksTECHNOLOGY

Clayton CrockettStaff Writer

Wilcox

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With a few clicks of a button, University employees can now bet-ter conserve their computer’s energy usage, reduce University operating expenses and lower carbon emis-sions.

Facility Services is offer-ing PwrSmart by New Boundaries Technology, an energy conserving program.

The software balances a com-puter’s energy consumption by con-trolling power settings, said Denise Newell, co-chair of the IT Power Management Committee, Campus Sustainability manager and facility for Campus Committee for Sustain-ability.

The software’s monitoring sys-tem tracks when a computer is be-ing used and automatically places the system in a low-powered state when it is idle, which reduces the computer’s electrical consumption, Newell said.

She explained a computer run-ning without technology like PwrS-mart is like “leaving your refrigera-tor running without anything in it.”

Additionally, the heat produced by a computer causes more energy to be put toward cooling an office, Newell said.

Facility Services purchased 6,000 PwrSmart licenses in July 2010 for a one-time fee of $35,000. Since then, the University has per-formed a series of tests, concluding $20 of energy per computer per year can be saved, according to the Cam-pus Sustainability website.

But Newell said different set-tings of intensity for the software al-low for different amounts of energy savings.

“Twenty [dollars] is very con-servative,” she said. “We could see upward.”

Newell explained that if every-one uses the lowest intensive setting, each computer would save about $5 to $8 per computer per year,

ultimately enough for the program to pay for itself in about two years.

“We’re really trying to encour-age more aggressive participation,” Newell said. “Eight dollars versus $20 is a big difference.”

While students can’t use the software on their personal devices, less energy used by University buildings’ computers means more power to go around for other de-vices, said Sai Pinepalli, co-chair for the IT Power Management Commit-tee and assistant director of Facility Services.

“Reducing consumption in of-fices would make it easier for stu-dents to charge their own devices,” Pinepalli said.

The IT Power Management Committee has members from vari-ous schools and administrative de-partments, including Campus Sus-tainability, Facility Services, Staff Senate and Information Technology Services. ITS is hosting the software for free on its servers, making the software free for offices to use.

Since the program is “opt-in,” on-campus offices have the option of joining but aren’t required to. However, installing the program becomes more difficult for Pine-palli, who must now customize the system for each department before installing it.

“People are trickling in,” New-ell said. “We’re still under 2,000 us-ers. ... If there was more participa-tion [the program] could have paid itself back in a couple of months.”

Users still boast $13,337 in sav-ings for this year, according to the Campus Sustainability website, and more users are soon to come, Newell said. The Office of Finance and Ad-ministrative Services is in the pro-cess of downloading the software for all of its units, and Student Life is soon to follow, she said.

The Baton Rouge Bar Founda-tion’s Teen Court program has en-tered into its fourth semester work-ing with the University’s College of Education Counselor Education program to prevent first-time teen offenders from returning to negative behaviors and allow them to focus on positive group work.

The counseling program is a graduate program that prepares stu-dents to be mental health and school counselors. At the end of the pro-gram, graduate students are placed in a mental health setting, where they complete a long-term intern-ship, said Laura Choate, associate professor of counselor education.

Since last fall, about 25 gradu-ate students and 50 teens have been involved in the program.

“Groups change from week to week depending on when the stu-dents decided to attend,” Choate said.

She said the program was de-signed to help first-time arrested juveniles learn life skills. This di-version program has several parts, including teen court and teen coun-seling.

In teen court, the juveniles can

be sentenced to a number of punish-ments, such as community service, damage reparation and apology let-ters by their peers in the program, she said.

In addition to those sanctions, the teens are required to attend counseling sessions and weekly meetings in an eight-week span. Ju-veniles are only required to attend six of the two-hour sessions, Choate said.

“We find many times that the kids like the groups so much that they want to come back,” she said. “They like learning about things they talk about in the group, and they receive attention from positive role models.”

Each year, the Baton Rouge Bar Association asks for volunteers, usually local high school students hoping to become lawyers, to vol-unteer to be prosecuting attorneys or part of the jury, she said.

According to Choate, the Uni-versity graduate students involved in the program are master’s degree candidates in the College of Educa-tion Counselor Education program who hope to gain experience in counseling and working with high-risk teenagers.

Andrea Farris and LaKeitha Poole, two graduate students in the Community Counseling program, are co-leading the counseling ses-sions this fall.

“I saw this as a great opportu-nity to serve middle school and high

school students in the Baton Rouge community,” Farris said. “This is a place where they can be open and share what is going on in their lives.”

Farris said she believes the courses are teaching coping skills to teenagers who are growing up in an ever-changing environment.

“They get a lot out of the ses-sions,” she said. “It’s really a great thing.”

Poole said she became in-volved in the program as an oppor-tunity to reach out to the community and help students that may not have otherwise had counseling.

“This is great for us because we can practice our skills in a group setting, but it is also a great learning experience for the kids,” she said. “We talk about topics from anger management and healthy relation-ships to career skills and guidance.”

After the teens have success-fully completed the program, their first-time offenses will be expunged from their records.

Choate said she hopes the teens’ involvement in the program will prevent any future arrests and allow the juveniles to learn from their mistakes.

“This is a prevention program,” Choate said. “We want to help them learn life skills.”

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New software reduces computer energy useAusten KrantzContributing Writer

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Counselor Education program works with teen offendersGraduate students can practice skillsKate MabryStaff Writer

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The recruiting class of 2009 entered LSU with evident future stars — wide receivers Russell Shepard and Rueben Randle , running back Michael Ford and defensive end Sam Montgomery.

A less familiar name from the class of 2009 is sophomore safety Craig Loston .

ESPN and Scout.com ranked Loston as the No. 1 safety recruit in the country, and Scout had him listed as the No. 12 overall player

from the class of 2009. However, Loston hasn’t

made his mark as a Tiger yet be-cause of injury and a defensive backfi eld already loaded with tal-ent.

During his true freshman year, Loston played on special teams against Washington and Louisiana-Lafayette but suffered a wrist injury that forced him to sit out the rest of the season. He was granted a medical redshirt.

During his redshirt freshman year last season, Loston played in all 13 games but never seemed to live up to his initial hype, fi n-ishing the season with 22 tackles and one interception.

This season, he is expected to split time with sophomore

safety Eric Reid and senior safety Brandon Taylor .

“Loston has made as much progress as anyone on our entire defense,” said defensive coordi-nator John Chavis . “When you start looking at those three guys, it gives us three guys, along with [senior safety] Derrick Bryant as a fourth, that can go play at safety.”

As Loston begins his third season as a Tiger, the fi ve-star recruit said he’s fi nally ready to make his presence felt.

Loston said he focused on learning the ins and outs of the defensive scheme during the offseason.

Second chances are hard to come by in sports.

One wrong move, and an athlete could forever be remembered for his gaffe rather than his glory.

For many in Baton Rouge, the name Jarrett Lee brings back haunting images of a struggling young quarterback thrown into the spotlight as a freshman with the task of leading the No. 6-ranked football team in the nation.

Tiger fans aren’t the only ones with that fateful season on their minds.

“I know in 2008 there were some things that happened that I still keep in the back of my mind because I don’t want those things to happen again,” said Lee, the now-senior quarterback who will get his shot at redemption Saturday night against No. 3 Oregon. “I knew I needed to make some changes.”

Those “things” Lee referred to were interceptions, and he had 16 of them in 2008 – the seventh-most in the nation.

Rather than dwell on his frustrating freshman campaign, Lee said he used it as a learning experience to prepare him for future endeavors.

“You’re going to throw intercep-tions, you’re going to have bad plays and you just have to bounce back and go to the next play,” said Lee, who threw for 1,873 yards and 13 touchdowns that sea-son . “I don’t regret 2008 at all. If any-thing, it made me a better person and a better player.”

After leading LSU to a 7-3 record

in the regular sea-son through the fi rst 10 games, Lee suffered an ankle injury against Ole Miss and missed the rest of the season.

While watching from the side-lines as fellow freshman Jordan Jeffer-son became LSU’s starter, Lee said he debated transferring but let the thought vanish.

“A few years ago [transferring] did cross my mind,” Lee said. “But it was only a thought. It was nothing I con-tinued to talk about or wanted to do. I didn’t come to LSU to transfer. I came here because it’s a great tra-dition and a great staff and great people. I want to fi nish out here at LSU.”

Looking back on that troublesome season, junior wide receiver Rueben Ran-dle complimented Lee on his perseverance through the hard time.

“Jarrett’s a strong guy. You’ve got to give it to him,” Randle said. “It’s kind of hard for a guy to stick around after the situation he put himself in. I don’t know if I would have done the same thing if I was in his shoes.”

Now the reins are back in Lee’s hands, and the outlook seems a bit brighter.

His sprinkled contributions last season induced discussions and

SportsWednesday, August 31, 2011 page 7

Albert BurfordSports Contributor

Hunter PaniaguaSports Writer

ALTERCATION

FOOTBALL

Safety overcoming rough start as Tiger

Unglesby: Je� erson is treated di� erently

LOSTON, see page 11

LEE, see page 11

Loston trying to meet expectations

File photo

LSU sophomore safety Craig Loston chases running back Warren Norman during the Tigers’ 27-3 win against Vanderbilt on Sept. 11, 2010, in Vanderbilt Stadium.

Mark ClementsSports Writer

Lowery sustained multiple injuries

Jarrett Lee

‘I’ve become a more mature player on and off the � eld, and I think I’ve come a long way.’

Jarrett Leesenior quarterback

ZACH BREAUX / The Daily Reveille

Senior QB learns from rough ‘08 season

Andrew Lowery suffered a facial fracture, a concussion, fractured teeth and facial and body bruises during the Aug.19 altercation with suspended LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson, ac-cording to an ESPN report.

ESPN also reportedthat an-other alleged victim who was pulled out a the car sustained three fractured vertebrae in his lower back, a concussion, frac-tured teeth and severe cuts and bruises on the face.

Jefferson’s attorney Lewis Unglesby continues to dispute that the quarterback did anything wrong, and said that Jefferson’s celebrity has obstructed the on-going investigation.

“The fact is that he’s treat-ed differently,” Unglesby said. “That’s what I don’t like. Not by any particular group, but he’s just being treated differently. And any other college student, with the same facts, this would not have happened.”

Unglesby said Monday he has started creating a presenta-tion for LSU coach Les Miles and LSU Vice Chancellor and

JEFFERSON, see page 11

2.0

Most sophomores would con-sider it a rarity to be named to the Preseason All-Southeastern Con-ference First Team.

But it’s no surprise to sopho-more middle blocker Desiree El-liott.

Last season, Elliott became the second player in LSU volley-ball history to earn All-SEC First-Team honors as a freshman.

In addition, Elliott was named SEC Freshman of the Year.

Even prior to her time as a Ti-ger, Elliott was named a Second Team All-American in high school and was recruited by powerhouses Texas, Illinois, Duke and Florida.

However, her decision to spend her college years at LSU was made for her when she stepped foot on campus.

“Every sports team was a big family,” Elliott said. “That hooked me. Everything about this school was a community.”

Elliott was one of only four players on the team to play in all 107 sets of LSU’s 30 matches last season.

Coming out of high school, Elliott said she didn’t know she was going to be called on to make an instant impact.

“[Coach] Fran [Flory] said something about me coming and playing but I never really took it to heart,” Elliott said. “But then when I got here, I was out on the court and going hard.”

Flory said Elliott is a “physical specimen,” who learned quickly.

Despite seeing more responsi-bility than most freshmen, Elliott said the team and coaches’ strong support helped the pressure fade.

She also pointed to senior and fellow middle blocker Michele Williams, who is also on the Pre-season 2011 All-SEC First Team, as her mentor.

“She’s my position and she’s older and more experienced,” El-liott said. “Whenever we’re talk-ing, she’s always being helpful, staying positive and firing us up.”

Elliott remains humble despite her multiple awards.

“The first time I got SEC Freshman of the Week, it was amazing,” she said. “But then it kept going and kept going, and I didn’t even realize it because I was

focused on the team. It really paid off in the end.”

While Elliott’s hard work paid off personally with a multitude of awards, her teammates said it also paid off for the team.

“It’s awesome. I can do any-thing,” said freshman setter Malo-rie Pardo of working with Elliott. “It’s easy to execute when the passes are there and they’re all up.”

Even after a successful fresh-man season, Flory said Elliott has worked hard to improve over the offseason.

“She’s more fit, she’s stron-ger, she’s more balanced and she’s really invested in it,” Flory said. “She probably will end up playing six rotations and will be a threat in every position.”

Elliott wasted no time finding her form this season. Her 38 kills through the first four games of the season are sixth-best in the SEC. In one of those games, she sent home 14 kills on 18 attempts for a career-best .722 hitting percentage.

Though the accolades keep rolling in, Elliott said she knows her mission is bigger than that.

“The team goal is to win the SEC, get and SEC Championship and get to a Final Four.”

The Tigers last reached a Final Four in 1991, a year before Elliott was born.

On a Monday with a high of 99 degrees, the LSU cross coun-try team arrived at Highland Road Park for a typical 6 p.m. practice.

“Normally we would be at 1:30 in the afternoon when it was 80 degrees,” said LSU coach Mark Elliott. “Now we have to practice at 6 o’clock at night, which is only a slight difference, but you’ve got to practice sometime.”

Elliott also adjusted practice times last cross country season to combat the heat.

“Track is always at 1:30,” said senior Laura Carleton. “Come April, you’re baking on the track.”

According to Accu-weather, Baton Rouge has recorded an average daily high of 96 degrees this August.

Based on a 2001 study conducted by Na-tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climac-tic Data Center, Louisiana, as a state, had the highest average tem-perature for August in the nation from 1971 to 2000.

“You worry, even if they’re from here,” Elliott said. “In my 26 years being here as a former athlete and coach, it’s been the hottest it has ever been.”

LSU has 11 athletes from Lou-isiana and an additional five ath-letes from the south who are condi-tioned to the atmosphere. Ten LSU runners hail north of Mississippi, including junior Dakota Goodman, who is from Wisconsin.

“Training down here in the summer is different because it’s a lot hotter and humid,” Goodman said.

Sophomore Richard Fisher, a West Berlin, New Jersey, native, said the heat is similar to home, but humidity makes it hard to breathe.

“Up there the air is more clear,” Fisher said. “Here it’s almost like I’m gasping for air after a rep.”

Elliott said a good cross coun-try runner needs two runs a day, which can be hard to accomplish with the sun draining a runner’s energy.

“You have to either wake up really early or run at nine at night,” Goodman said. “There’s no run-ning at 2 p.m. like in Wisconsin.”

Elliott has also altered the workouts to allow more breaks and opportunities to hydrate as well as shortening the distance of each in-terval.

Fisher reported many ben-efits from the weather, including increased flexibility, which has helped minimize the number of muscle strains. Junior James Thurn, a New York native, also lauded the

Louisiana climate.“It feels great here,”

Thurn said. “My body al-ways feels ready to run, In the North, everything always feels restricted, because it’s so cold.”

Fisher and Thurn both run middle distance during track season, and deal with pulling muscles more than the typical cross country runner be-cause they sprint more.

But they said coping with the ad-verse heat makes them tougher runners, and because they’re used to the hottest conditions, they can handle any environment.

“Overall, it’s definitely bet-ter because anywhere we go in the country, it’s easier to run there,” Fisher said. “Training’s harder and more difficult than almost any-where else in the country but over-all it just helps us.”

Elliott said the weather makes it difficult to get adequate mileage, but being acclimated to the heat can be beneficial when facing teams outside the South.

“If a team from Colorado comes down to run, it might give us some advantages,” Elliott said.

While the heat can be a nui-sance to athletes not used to it, El-liott said it doesn’t adversely affect recruiting.

“They want to come even if it’s 1,000 degrees, because obviously we’ve made adjustments to where it doesn’t affect their performance,” Elliott said.

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VOLLEYBALL

Elliott makes big impact on courtAlbert BurfordSports Contributor

Contact Albert Burford at aburford@lsureveille.com

CROSS COUNTRY

Summer heat prompts team to practice at night

Contact Andrew Chapple at achapple@lsureveille.com

Andrew ChappleSports Contributor

BLAIR LOCKHART / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior middle blocker, Desiree Elliott, hits the ball against Miami Saturday in the PMAC. The Tigers fell to the Hurricanes, 3-2, in a five-set showdown.

‘Track is always at

1:30. Come April, you’re baking on the track.’

Laura Carletondistance senior

METAIRIE, La. (AP) — A day after attending a back-to-school event like a typical 41-year-old father of four, John Kasay was on a morning flight from Charlotte to New Orleans and resuming is two-decade career as an NFL kicker.

“That’s how fast life changes,” said Kasay, who joined the Saints in time to practice Tuesday evening, two days after Garrett Hartley hurt his right hip while kicking an ex-tra point in New Orleans’ victory at Oakland on Sunday night.

As suddenly as Kasay found himself back in the pros, former Saints starting defensive end Alex Brown was looking for a job.

Brown, who has played nine NFL seasons and started every game for New Orleans in 2010, was among 11 players let go by the Saints on Tuesday, when NFL teams were re-quired to trim preseason rosters to 80.

Brown was slated to earn $3 million in base salary this season and the Saints had added depth at his position in the offseason, drafting

California standout end Cam Jordan 24th overall last spring, then signing former Detroit defensive end Turk McBride shortly after the NFL lock-out ended.

“It was a hard decision. We spent a lot of time on it,” Saints coach Sean Payton said. “It wasn’t that we just drafted a young player at that position. I think you try to factor in all the practice snaps, all the game film and it was something that, after going through it all and also looking at the timing of it, there’s still that opportunity within the next week that he’ll have a chance to sign with someone else.

NCAA: 8 Miami players must sit out games

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP)—Quarterback Jacory Harris and 11 other Miami players who accepted extra benefits from former booster Nevin Shapiro will be allowed by the NCAA to play again, the first sanc-tions in a scandal that continues to overshadow the Hurricanes.

In all, 12 players must pay at least some restitution. Of those, eight

will miss at least one game.The harshest penalties handed

down Tuesday were reserved for those who took gifts from Shapiro while being recruited. Defensive lineman Olivier Vernon will sit out six games, while Ray Ray Arm-strong—considered among the na-tion’s top safeties—and tight end Dyron Dye will miss four games apiece.

LSU junior swimmer Amanda Kendall has been swimming her whole life but will be treading un-known waters this fall.

Kendall will be taking her tal-ents to Guadalajara, Mexico, in Oc-tober, where she will represent the United States in the Pan American Games.

“I’ve never done anything like this before,” Kendall said.

Kendall, a Fairfax, Va., na-tive, was selected by USA Swim-ming and the United States Olym-pic Committee to participate in the 100-meter freestyle in Guadalajara, pitting her against swimmers from across the Americas.

“I’ve always had high goals to make a national team like this,” Kendall said. “When I got the news I was speechless.”

The Pan American Games are directly affiliated with the Olym-pics, occurring in the year preced-ing the summer Olympics. Other than the Olympics itself, the Pan Am Games are the world’s larg-est multi-sport competition. This year’s games will be held from Oc-tober 11-22.

Last season, Kendall earned a first-team All-America nod for her performance in the 100-yard free-style. Additionally, she earned four All-American honorable mention honors, four Southeastern Confer-ence medals and was named sec-ond-team All-SEC.

In March, Kendall qualified for the consolation final in the 100-yard freestyle and the 50-yard free-style at the NCAA Championships. She took first place in the 100 free consolation final and placed 11th in the 50 free. Kendall also placed seventh in the 100-yard butterfly final.

Kendall’s selection to the U.S. swimming team was based on her August performance at the U.S. Nationals in Palo Alto, Calif., where she qualified for the 100 free final with a time of 55.30.

LSU swimming coach Dave

Geyer said he’s proud of Kendall and “it all came together for her this summer.”

“We knew heading into Nation-als that if she swam to her potential she would have a great shot at being selected,” Geyer said. “She’s had some setbacks with some illnesses and injuries throughout her first two years so that she hasn’t been able to put a full season in training-wise, yet she has still been able to compete at the level that she has.”

Kendall said she was excited when she received word of her selec-tion to the games from Geyer and is looking forward to the experience.

“I feel honored to have to the opportunity to represent not only the U.S., but the Lady Tigers, as well,” Kendall said.

Kendall, a team captain at LSU, holds the LSU Lady Tiger record time in the 100 free after her 47.90 bronze medal swim at the 2011 SEC Championships.

“I would say the 100 free is my favorite event,” Kendall said.

Kendall also holds the LSU Lady Tiger record in the 200 free.

Getting invited to the U.S. swimming team to compete in the 100 free opens up the possibility Kendall will be asked to participate in relays as well.

Kendall was also a part of the LSU relay teams that hold school records in the 200 and 800-yard free-style and 400-yard medley.

In preparation for the Pan Am Games, Kendall has increased her practice time and received extra in-struction from her coaches.

“I’m doing doubles,” Kendall said, referring to her twice-a-day practice routine. “I’m definitely go-ing to use my previous experience in big SEC meets and Nationals to help me stay calm and not get nervous.”

Kendall will first travel to Aus-tin, Texas, where she will meet the rest of the U.S. swimming team. From there, the team will travel to Guadalajara, where they will stay to-gether in an athlete village, similar to the Olympics.

“I’m getting more prepared for it, and I’m just excited to see how it’s going to work out,” Kendall said.

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Scott BransonSports Contributor

The Associated Press

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SWIMMING & DIVING NFL

File photo

LSU junior Amanda Kendall swims in the 200-yard freestyle Oct. 23, 2009 during the Tigers’ 177-122 loss to Auburn in the Natatorium.

Kendall invited to Pan American Games LSU record holder to travel to Mexico

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Saints cut Brown, sign Kasay

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Director of Athletics Joe Alleva to ask for Jefferson’s reinstate-ment, according to The Advocate.

Unglesby also told The Times-Picayune that the Baton Rouge Police Department’s ac-tions thus far have been “pure laziness or fear of the evidence.”

Michael Bienvenu, the attor-ney representing Lowery and the three alleged victims, told The Times-Picayune the incident was not a fight.

“They didn’t throw a punch; they didn’t do anything to pro-voke it,” Bienvenu said. “It was

an attack by 10 to 15 people who have yet to be identified but who need to be identified for justice to be served in the case.”

Tommy Damico, Josh Johns’ attorney, told The Times-Pica-yune the BRPD executed a search warrant Tuesday and confiscated five pairs of shoes and said Johns will also provide a DNA sample.

Video also surfaced Tuesday taken from Shady’s Bar the night of the incident. The video shows Lowery talking to ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Siadous and following her outside the bar.

Siadous filed a restraining order against Lowery on Aug. 24.

Verge Ausberry, senior as-sociate athletic director, said Tuesday that LSU is considering different ways to control the pro-gram.

“It’s not policing players,” Ausberry said. “It’s helping out with the administration of the program. We haven’t determined all of those details yet. We’re working on all that stuff right now.”

disagreements as to whether Lee or Jefferson was the answer to the offense’s struggles, which finished 86th in total offense and 107th in pass offense.

Most notably, Lee played vi-tal roles in wins against Tennes-see when he passed for 185 yards and marched the Tigers 68 yards down to the two-yard line on the final drive of the game; at Florida

when he led a 63-yard drive and hit former wide receiver Terrence To-liver for the g a m e - w i n -ning touch-down with six seconds left; and at Ala-bama when Lee complet-ed a 47-yard pass on third

and 13 to allow LSU to drain the clock against the Tide.

“In the three games that he played significant football a year ago he showed poise,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “We felt that he was really throwing the ball well and that the style of football that we would use with him in the game was the style of football needed to win that game. That depicts a guy that plays in pres-sure situations.”

Lee finished last season com-pleting 54 of 89 passes for 573 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

He said the big games last year gave him “a lot” of confi-dence and maintained that the Lee who takes the field Saturday is different than the one who suit-ed up three years ago.

“When your number is called, you’ve got to come in and make the most of it, and

that’s something I tried to do,” said Lee, who has trimmed down to 206 pounds. “I’ve become a more mature player on and off the field, and I think I’ve come a long way. I’ve tried to stay a little more poised and not force stuff.”

Even if question marks still surround the passing game, sophomore running back Spencer Ware assured Lee that the run-ning backs have his back.

“I had a talk with Lee,” Ware

said. “I said, ‘We’ve got to do this, whatever we’ve got to do. You’ve got to make the throws. You’ve got to make the reads. You’ve got to make the checks. We’ve got to rise to the occasion, not just you, but all of us.’”

“I just want to make sure I know everything so I can be comfortable,” he said. “Instead of being out there and thinking and playing the game, I can just be out there playing the game.”

While his injury set him back during his progression and tran-sition to the college game, Los-ton said he used the extra time to further his understanding of the game and even said it may have been a positive.

“Coming in, being highly recruited, you look forward to

playing and playing early,” he said. “[The injury] set me back, but it was a setback for a major comeback.”

While Loston’s redshirt freshman year may not have gone as planned, he ended on a high note with a career-high five tackles against Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl.

“I look forward to continuing where we left off last year,” he said. “I look forward to making more big plays in whatever situa-tion I can to help my team.”

Loston said he’s not sure yet what the situation will be, but he

knows he faces deeply talented competition.

“That’s the special thing about this defense,” he said. “If somebody goes down, it won’t be a big difference between the per-son that goes down and the next person that’s up.”

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LOSTON, from page 7

LEE, from page 7

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LSU senior quarterback Jarrett Lee throws the ball March 12 during spring practice.

JEFFERSON, from page 7

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‘When your number

is called, you’ve got to come in and

make the most of it.’

Jarrett Leesenior quarterback

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Editorial Policies & Procedures Quote of the Day“I think this team has got a

fundamental ‘teammanship’ to it, or in other words, the enjoyment

of team.”

Les MilesLSU football coach

Nov. 10, 1953 — present

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HEAD TO HEAD

On the back of one of the most turbulent weeks traversed by Univer-sity athletics in recent memory, LSU football coach Les Miles received new performance bonuses while his overlord and athletic director Joe Al-leva got an outright pay increase.

I understand these perks were previously negotiated and perhaps the Tigers’ on-fi eld performance may merit such increases as contractually designed, but it begs the question: Would athletic programs be more tranquil if coaches had a little more skin exposed to players’ sin?

With the upheaval surrounding Ohio State and the abortion of any respect Miami has built, it has been a stomach-turning offseason for what many myopically see as the paragon of amateur sports.

Now senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson’s alleged kick has been followed by junior receiver Russell Shepard’ s slap to LSU’s unfortunate-ly placed public face.

In past months, the talking head atop the NCAA ladder, Mark Em-mert, a former LSU chancellor no less, has called for stiffer policing of institutions to protect the sanctity of their product.

So while Emmert is address-ing technical violations of Shepard’s variety, why shouldn’t coaches have some liability when any team rules

are recklessly ignored, as curfew was the night of our local football celeb-rities’ shady activities?

In an ideal world, players would police themselves, and we wouldn’t have the ongoing embarrassments

the football team provides.

But this doesn’t happen.

So who could better po-lice players than their campus lords?

Cool Hand Les and company

have skated through the past week with only mild public discomfort, as has been the case through a number of public embarrassments in my time at the University.

What concerns me about how these situations play out is that there is little or no liability imposed by the NCAA or the University on those who receive absurd largess to recruit, organize and implement the program that is, whether you like it or not, the public face of the University.

Chancellor Michael Martin in-dicated last week that he would like to see Miles afforded more staff for such off-fi eld issues.

This is certainly a start and in-dicates there is some administrative

culpability when things go horribly wrong.

But I reason the University would see far fewer slip-ups and felony charges if Miles and his lieu-tenants faced the prospect of missing a game or two when their authority is recklessly disregarded.

Perhaps the prospect of “in-house punishment” would be a little more persuasive to players consider-ing breaking team rules if coaches had more monetary or professional motivation to see they do not embar-rass the rest of us.

Implementing such a scheme would not be easy and would require much discretion from those outrank-ing Miles in the University’s athletic administration.

But anything could motivate en-forcers more than the one platitude followed by deafening silence from Alleva and the top fl oors of the ath-letic administration building. There will be those who say players are only kids and can’t be treated any differently than your average stu-dent, but given the status of athletics here, they are wrong.

Though it’s a recruiting and fi nancial engine for many aspects of the school, it’s not ideal that the University’s reputation, in many ways, hinges on a sports program.

But the unfortunate fact is that

people know more about the Uni-versity’s trophies than its mass spec-trometers.

Players won the genetic lottery for athleticism, which also comes with a free education, campus ce-lebrity status and perks the brightest kids on campus will never see. Sim-ply, they are representatives of the University by virtue of their status as football players.

The academic side of the Uni-versity is keenly aware of this lead-ing them to pathetically respond to last week’s bad public relations with a “While you weren’t looking: what happened at LSU away from the cameras” blitz to remind everyone that the University is a school, not a football team.

So while you can’t expect coaches to recruit nuns and brood over players at all hours, there should be some liability when their own rules are not being properly enforced.

Xerxes Wilson is a 22-year-old mass communications major from Lucedale, Miss. Follow him on Twit-ter @ TDR_xwilson.

Coaches should share the blame for violations

XERXES A. WILSONColumnist

Contact Xerxes Wilson at xwilson@lsureveille.com

Individual players, not program, responsibleCoaches are not babysitters, and

should not be held as such.The recent off-fi eld actions of

the LSU football team have posed the question of whether any back-lash should fall on the coaching staff, most notably head coach Les Miles , for not preventing such an occur-

rence.The answer is

a resounding no.The play-

ers are all legal adults who are old enough to smoke, vote and in some cases drink and gamble. They do not need constant

surveillance. Any mistakes they made refl ect poorly on them, and them alone.

LSU has found itself as a hot discussion topic on sports shows, yet not once has it been suggested that LSU’s team is full of criminals. In-stead, those accused of wrongdoing are being discussed for their alleged mistakes.

If there is any mention of Miles throughout this scenario, it should be to commend him for doing such an

admirable job.Miles was honest about the situ-

ation, just as he was with the Ryan Perrilloux ordeal of 2007 and 2008 , and he took swift and severe action when the time was right.

With numerous scandals of coaching infi delity fl oating around the country, Miles’ honesty has been a breath of fresh air.

Miles could have wrongly pro-tected his star quarterback like for-mer Ohio State coach Jim Tressel did. Tressel lied to school and NCAA offi cials about incidents of his play-ers receiving illegal benefi ts so as not to jeopardize their eligibility before the start of the 2010 season.

Miles could have turned a blind eye to a rogue booster who gave his players cars, houses and everything under the sun like what happened at the end of the Pete Carroll era at Southern California .

Instead, Miles has taken action any time there has been a glitch in his program.

When allegations arose that for-mer coach D.J. McCarthy had given illegal benefi ts to former player Akiem Hicks , Miles promptly re-lieved McCarthy of his duties, and

Hicks never saw the fi eld.As soon as a direct link to wide

receiver Russell Shepard and a po-tential housing problem was found, Miles held Shepard out of Southeast-ern Conference Media Days. And when Shepard was found in viola-tion of an NCAA statute for talking about an ongoing investigation with a teammate, Miles declared him in-eligible and is currently taking the proper steps to get him reinstated.

Then, there was the infamous fi ght. Miles sat back and waited to make sure the allegations were substantial before jumping to con-clusions. Once quarterback Jordan Jefferson and linebacker Josh Johns were arrested and charged, he sus-pended them indefi nitely.

All of these are individual ac-tions that were not known or con-doned by the program. These play-ers, former players and former coaches went out and made mistakes of their own free will, as they should be allowed to.

Now that they have made mistakes, they must pay the consequences. McCarthy and Hicks are no longer with the program. Shepard is temporarily ineligible,

and Jefferson and Johns are facing felony charges. They are paying for their mistakes, proven or alleged.

They have given themselves a black eye, not the program.

There is not one incident that someone can truthfully say Miles should have stopped this from oc-curring. Though he might eat grass and convert fake fi eld goals with the greatest of ease, Miles is not Super-man.

He can’t be everywhere at once. He can’t run faster than a speed-ing bullet to stop his coaches from giving out illegal benefi ts. He isn’t stronger than a locomotive to break up bar fi ghts before they happen. He can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound to keep his players from liv-ing there wrongfully.

But he can control how he han-dles those problems. And as of now, he’s done so as well as any superhero out there.

Rob Landry is a 23-year old mass communication senior from Mandeville. Follow him on Twitter @roblandry85.

ROB LANDRY Sports Columnist

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compiled by ALEX CASSARA

eanutThe

GalleryP

What do you think of Jarrett Lee becoming LSU’s starting quarterback?

‘It’s a good opportu-

nity for him to prove himself.’

Marki Beasleykinesiology junior

‘It’s a good thing. I

think Jordan Jefferson is stupid; he

got what he deserved.’ Raquel Gilbert

psychology, senior

‘He’s go-ing to do

just as well as Jordan Jefferson could’ve done.’

Jacob Guitreaukinesiology freshman

‘I feel like he’s got about as much

experience as

Jefferson.’ Reed Landryhistory senior

‘He only threw one

interception last year ... I’m really

happy with it.’

Johnathan Reynoldsmarine biology senior

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OpinionWednesday, August 31, 2011 page 13

SHOCKINGLY SIMPLE

Blaming rape victims for crime makes the world a less just placeIn 1988, a woman was kid-

napped from the parking lot of a Fort Lauderdale restaurant and

raped twice. The man was later acquitted of the kidnap-ping and raped by a jury, who asserted the woman so-licited sex by wearing a white lace

miniskirt and no underwear to the restaurant. The jury foreman ex-plained, “We all feel she asked for it for the way she was dressed.”

Psychologists have tried to explain this “blame the victim” reaction to rapes for decades. One possible explanation is the just-world hypothesis, which states people generally believe the world we live in is just and that people get what they deserve.

In 1999, researchers at

Wellesley College told several groups of people a story about a man and a woman. Each group heard the same story from the researchers, except for one im-portant difference. At the end of one version of the story, the man proposed, while in the other story he raped the woman.

After hearing their version of the story, listeners were asked to recall the events of the nar-rative. Subjects who heard the story of the proposal described it in terms of a romantic proposal, while people whose story ended in rape were much more likely to describe the actions of the charac-ters in terms of rape. Even though the actions of the characters were identical until the end of the story.

The subjects in this experi-ment displayed the just-world hypothesis through hindsight bias, or the tendency to see events in the past as more predictable than they actually were based on

knowledge of a situation’s out-come. Most of the listeners be-lieved the woman’s actions con-tributed to the outcome of their story, whether it ended in a rape or proposal.

In the face of the traumatic event, listeners rationalized the outcome through the actions of the woman because it allowed them to continue believing in a fair world where actions have rea-sonable consequences.

This is a common reaction to positive and negative events and is reasonable in certain circum-stances. If a woman works hard in college and eventually becomes a successful doctor, most people would say her responsible actions led to her good outcome. If a man drops his whole paycheck on a new TV instead of paying rent and then gets evicted, we blame him for his poor decision and learn from his mistake.

Belief in a just world only

becomes dangerous when we be-gin praising those who achieve undeserved success through cor-ruption, random chance or blam-ing victims of crime or other un-fortunate circumstances.

In a 1965 experiment, Mel-vin Lerner awarded a cash prize to a man while giving nothing to another. Despite telling observ-ers the recipient was chosen ran-domly, the onlookers later rated the prizewinner as smarter, more talented and more productive than the man who did not receive a prize.

While it’s obviously undesirable to give credit where none is due, shifting blame from the perpetrator to the victim is reprehensible.

Being a tempting target for a crime should play no role in the punishment of the perpetra-tor. Burglars are not acquitted for robbing a wealthy family’s house, and women should not be

punished for being desirable to rapists.

Blaming a woman in a skimpy outfit for being raped is like blaming a cute child for be-ing molested.

Absolving a rapist of respon-sibility for his actions because of personal feelings about a victim is a disgusting miscarriage of jus-tice.

The jurors may believe they live in a just world, but a world where rapists are acquitted based on their target’s clothing is any-thing but just.

Andrew Shockey is a 20 year-old biological engineering junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Ashockey.

Andrew Shockey Columnist

Individual players, not program, responsible

PRESS X TO NOT DIE

Steve Spurrier bans Twitter among football playersOne hundred and forty charac-

ters.If you really think about it, it

isn’t much.Honestly, there can’t be that

much you can say in such a short amount of text to warrant any type of punishment or discipline.

Hell, the sentence you just read was only 140 characters. What could possibly go wrong in a mere sen-tence?

Apparently enough for Univer-sity of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier to ban his entire team from using Twitter.

Earlier this month, former South Carolina linebacker Corey Miller tweeted about how fellow Gamecock receiver Alshon Jeffery got arrested after a fight.

Sound familiar?However, the main difference

between Jeffery and the problems we have here in Baton Rouge was the presence of the actual fight.

In the case of Jeffery, there wasn’t one — nor an arrest. It was all fabricated by Miller.

Of course, the misinformation leaked all over the Internet and back to Spurrier.

The coach proceeded to ban all of his players from using the social networking site.

Spurrier joins many other foot-ball coaches across the country in banning Twitter.

Last year, Boise State’s Chris Petersen was the first coach to ban the site, and Kansas’ Turner Gill fol-lowed suit.

Switching over to college bas-ketball, Mississippi State’s Rick Stansbury and Villanova’s Jay Wright also have banned their teams from using Twitter, according to

CBSSports.While it may seem like these

coaches are going to the extreme, it’s actually an extremely wise move.

Sure, those in sports media might disagree with me, but these coaches are actually sav-ing themselves — as well as their players —

a bunch of unnecessary headaches and distractions.

It’s no secret many sports re-porters get a lot of their information from Twitter. It’s become a huge source of press releases and insider scoops of what players are actually thinking rather than what their publi-cist or agent thinks.

But it isn’t always a good thing. Take the University of North Caro-lina for example.

Last year, UNC lineman Marvin Austin tweeted pictures of himself on vacation in South Beach.

Seems harmless enough. Every-one takes vacations.

Unfortunately, as of right now (and this is a different column for a different day) college athletes don’t get paid for playing. So how did Austin afford such a luxurious vaca-tion to South Beach?

The answer isn’t important.What’s important is that the

scandal had claimed the jobs of foot-ball coach Butch Davis and athletic director Dick Baddour before the question even had the opportunity to be answered,

It seems 140 characters are more powerful than we thought.

It’d take less than a minute for an angry player who was just chewed out by his coach to tweet a few choice words that’ll end up on SportsCenter.

Coming from a community al-ready dealing with enough distrac-tions concerning the upcoming foot-ball season, an angry tweet would be the last thing we’d need.

Also, have you ever heard of the term “bulletin board material?”

When a team talks trash about its opponent, the opposing team puts the article or quote on a bulletin board to use as motivation.

A quick tweet about an

upcoming game could easily get the entire opposing team fired up just the same as a news clipping.

It isn’t necessary.Luckily, the University hasn’t

had too much of a social media prob-lem with its student athletes.

While some may argue that a tighter, more filtered social network-ing policy may be better than an out-right ban, people need to remember these 18 to 22-year-olds are not only student athletes — they represent the University, the city and the state.

Filters don’t catch everything, and it only takes one hothead to garner national attention.

Not everything needs to go on Twitter or Facebook. And this is a lesson everyone should follow, not only student athletes.

Keep your thoughts to yourself and talk on the field — not online.

Adam Arinder is a 21-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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on this, decided not to have a car this year and are now having to get rides from friends.”

Wren said a petition for a bus stop has been circulating around the community.

“The petition gives all of us a little hope,” Wren said, “But it has been circulating for longer than we’ve lived here, and there’s still been no word on whether we’ll get a bus stop or not.”

Director of the Office of Park-ing, Traffic and Transportation Gary Graham said the University did not plan to send buses to Aspen Heights, nor did the living com-munity expect to be included in the route.

“We didn’t make any prom-ises,” Graham said. “We have had parents call to complain, but we very adamantly told [Aspen Heights] not to advertise a bus route.”

Student Government Director of Transportation Brian Davis said sending a bus to the community isn’t feasible.

“We kind of looked into it,” said Davis, “But there isn’t any-where for the buses to turn around.”

The streets and driveways in the community are too tight for a bus to turn around, and Davis said the next possible street for the bus to turn around on River Road would be Gardere Road, which wouldn’t be efficient.

Aspen Heights Chief Market-ing Officer Jason Sherman said bus routes were never promised to resi-dents.

“We never did promise a bus route for sure,” Sherman said. “What may have been miscommu-nicated was that we were trying to get a bus to Aspen Heights. It may have been possible that students assumed we were getting a bus.”

Sherman said many of the res-idential complexes down Bright-side Drive were trying to get routes extended because of the increase in the number of students living there, but budget cuts halted the initiative.

“We work with a bunch of peo-ple on campus that are super help-ful. They looked into doing it for us, but because of a budget issue they could not send a bus.” Sher-man said. “It’s unfortunate that we couldn’t get a ride out there, but we understand.”

This year, the holy day was ob-served Tuesday. More than 1,000 Baton Rouge residents flocked to the Islamic Center of Baton Rouge on East Airport Avenue to congrat-ulate one another on their fasting and to pray together.

Eid al-Fitr begins with seg-regated prayer, with men in one room and women in another. Fol-lowing prayer, there is a sermon and meal for all to enjoy.

Since Eid al-Fitr fell on a business day, many Muslims will host more celebrations throughout the weekend, including barbecues and family gatherings.

Computer engineering senior and MSA member Shoeb Khan

said there are always a lot of questions asked by non-Muslim students during the time of siyam, the Arabic word for fasting.

“Don’t be shy to eat in front of us,” said Khan. “We have grown up around people eating in front of us.”

Khan said the most frequent-ly-asked question is simple — why does he fast?

“The same reason we pray,” he answered.

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EID AL-FITR, from page 1

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BUSES, from page 1

privatize University mail servic-es, said Sharla Myers, University Auxiliary Services copy and mail manager.

In January, a committee was formed to select a contractor, and RICOH was solidified as the mailing partner for the Univer-sity in February, Myers said.

Threat of closure of the on-campus branch of the United States Post Office and budget re-structuring prompted the switch, Myers said.

According to University

Auxiliary Services director Jason Tolliver, mailing services previ-ously cost $418,000 annually, but the partnership with RICOH will eliminate that cost and allow the University to break even.

Packages from courier ser-vices like UPS and FedEx will no longer be sent to residence halls under the new partnership with RICOH, Tolliver said.

Students’ packages will be received and secured at the RICOH center along with USPS mail, not shipped directly to the residence halls.

He said consolidating the

delivery location of all packages and mail at the RICOH mailing center will eliminate problems with the storage and security of deliveries in the residence halls.

Residential Life Communi-cations Manager Jay High urged residents to consult the revised mailing services update on the ResLife website before address-ing a package that will be deliv-ered to the University.

MAIL, from page 1

Contact Paul Braun at pbraun@lsureveille.com

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