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NEWS:

Few students would turn down a high grade from a professor.

But when high grades are given to every stu-dent, the value of each is called into question.

The national average grade for college students has signifi cantly increased during the last 20 years, according to a report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, an independent, non-profi t

Student GPAs on the rise across country

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NATIONSENATE

Bill that would allow concealed fi rearms on campus introduced

Concealed handguns could be in the pockets, purses and holsters of licensed University students on campus if a recently fi led bill be-comes law.

Identical to a bill submitted last year, House Bill 27 would al-low college students, faculty and staff with a license for concealed fi rearms to carry them on campus.

Rep. Ernest Wooton , R-Belle Chasse , fi led the bill Monday . A former Plaquemines Parish sher-iff, Wooton fi led the measure last year and said he would re-submit the bill at every session as long as he is in the Legislature, The Times-Picayune reported on Tuesday . Last year, the bill was approved by the House Committee he chairs, 11-3, but was abandoned on the House fl oor after it fell seven votes shy of the 53 needed to pass.

Eliminating an exception in the law that prohibits carrying fi re-arms near schools, courthouses and governmental buildings, House Bill 199 was largely criticized by University offi cials last year.

“This is not a bill that was sup-ported by us, city or campus police, or students of various student orga-nizations,” LSU System President John Lombardi told The Daily

photo courtesy of Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayune

The Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Arena shine against the backdrop of the New Orleans skyline Oct. 5, 2006. The Saints and Hornets have aided the state’s economy and given hope to its residents.

Rising up to the challenge Athletics in New Orleans have helped unite

the city’s people for years.And after Hurricane Katrina devastated the

city in 2005, New Orleans residents like Ryan O’Malley found athletics as a rallying point in the face of disaster.

O’Malley, accounting senior, said his family

has held Saints season tickets all his life, and he followed them even during the 2005-06 season when the team played four games in Baton Rouge and relocated to San Antonio for most of the year.

The Louisiana Superdome, the Saints’ home venue, suffered $142 million in damage, accord-ing to Superdome spokesman Bill Curl.

Construction began in March 2006 to get the

Professional sports teams boost New Orleans economy, residentsBy Rachel WhittakerSports Writer

NEW ORLEANS, see page 11

By Kyle BoveChief Staff Writer

BILL, see page 5

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PAGE 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009Nation & WorldWORLD NEWS

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A team of heavily armed gun-men, some traveling in rickshaws, am-bushed Sri Lanka’s national cricket team Tuesday as it arrived for a match, killing six police guards and wounding seven play-ers. The brazen attack heightened fears that Pakistan is becoming increasingly unstable. The assault bore striking similarities to last year’s three-day hostage drama in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. Working in pairs, the attackers in Lahore carried walkie-talkies and backpacks stuffed with water, dried fruit and other high-energy food — a sign they anticipated a protracted siege.

Gunmen in rickshaws attack cricket team

Swiss mountain rescue plays out over Web site Twitter LONDON (AP) — An Alpine rescue in the Swiss Alps played out over the blogging Web site Twitter ended in tragedy after a snowboarder was found dead, British media and Swiss author-ities said Tuesday. Police in the Swiss canton of Valais said a 29-year-old fell off a cliff in foul weather Monday evening near Verbier, a ski resort near the French border popular with British tourists. British media identified him as Rob Williams, an entrepreneur. Another snowboarder, identified as Jason Ta-varia, also 29, was found unscathed nearby, police said.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

Obama suggests buying stocks, defends planWASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to pump up the nation’s confidence, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Wall Street has been hammered so hard that “buying stocks is a potentially good deal,” and he dispatched top aides to Capitol Hill to defend his plans for pulling the economy out of its deep reces-sion. The stock market slipped ever lower, and Re-publicans suggested Obama was “cooking the books” in rosy recovery predictions. After being accused for weeks of being too negative about the economy, Obama recently has shifted to a more positive tone. He and his aides still say recovery won’t come quick-ly, but they are becoming more aggressive in declar-ing that the government’s efforts will work.

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President Barack Obama meets with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday in the White House in Washington, D.C.

Jindal proposes touger drunk driving law

Evangelist sues school over speech policy

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal wants to toughen the pen-alty for drivers who refuse to take a Breathalyzer test when they are suspected of drunken driving. Jindal says the current law seems to encourage the refusal to submit to the test. He wants the penalty for refusal to submit to match the penalties for failing the test. The gover-nor’s office says right now, a person who refuses the test faces a driver’s license suspension of 180 days on a first offense. Jindal wants to change that to a minimum penalty of two years license suspension.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge made an initial ruling Tuesday in favor of a Louisiana uni-versity being sued by a Christian evangelist who claims he was threatened with arrest if he didn’t stop speaking on campus. U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle refused to grant a preliminary injunction requested by the Alliance Defend Fund, a Christian civil rights group that claims Southeastern Louisi-ana University stifled traveling evangelist Jeremy Sonnier’s constitutional right to speak on campus.

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While most students choose to walk or ride a bicycle to class, Mat-thew Huber takes a more unusual approach — he unicycles.

Huber, geology graduate stu-dent, can often be seen riding his unicycle through the Quad, around the lakes, on the Parade Ground and

even down the Indian Mounds.

“ W h e n I got here, I started look-ing at bikes,” he said. “I was looking to fi nd some way to get across cam-pus better than walking be-cause walking is not effi cient around here.”

Huber, who learned to ride the unicycle while he was an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee, decided to purchase one for $75 dollars when he moved to Baton Rouge.

“I thought ‘I just need to get a unicycle. That would be a lot better than getting a bike,’” he said.

Huber lives in Nicholson Apartments and uses the unicycle as his primary mode of transporta-tion. He has ridden the unicycle as far as downtown and even to the Wal-Mart on College Drive.

“I almost never have to drive anywhere,” he said. “I can go pret-ty much anywhere I want on the unicycle.”

Huber received his fi rst uni-cycle as a gift from his parents for Christmas as a joke when they couldn’t think of anything better to give him.

“They went to the store and got a kiddy unicycle,” he said. “I learned to ride it, but the entire unit was too small for me. It was nearly impossible to ride.”

Huber began to teach himself to ride a few days after Christmas and was profi cient by New Years. He said holding onto the wall and falling down helped him to become skilled at riding.

“I got poles, and I used the poles to prop myself up,” he said. “I eventually got rid of the poles. I’ve just ridden ever since then.”

Huber said although he has ridden his unicycle daily for years, he still has a number of embarrass-ing accidents.

“The thing about the uni-cycle is when you’re sitting on it, you’re almost vertical,” he said. “If the unicycle slips out from under you, you go straight down. So un-less I’m really going fast or doing something a little more diffi cult, I’m going to just fall on my feet.”

But one day on his way to class, Huber’s shoe laces got caught in the spokes of the wheel, throwing him on his back and leading to a crash that resulted in a broken shoe

lace and backpack strap.“Riding around on game day,

having a bunch of people chant ‘Unicycle, Unicycle!’ and falling in front of them is on the embarrass-ing side,” he said. “Nobody beats me up, but they laugh at me.”

Huber has joined Critical Mass, a bicycle organization that travels as a group through the city, but he said it’s frustrating because he isn’t able to keep up with the other cyclists. Huber said his uni-

cycle will travel up to 10 miles per hour.

“When I ride around the lakes, if there are people jogging, I usually pass [them],” he said. “But people running pass me.”

Huber said he has the most fun riding along the levee and riding fast downhill.

“One great spot that I love go-ing is down the Indian Mounds,”

he said. “I just love riding down those. I haven’t yet been able to ride all the way up. I’ve tried several times, but it’s just too steep.”

Huber said he doesn’t know many

others who ride a unicycle in Ba-ton Rouge, but students are always

asking to learn.“I will let anybody who wants

to learn try it,” he said. “When you’re actually learning, it takes a few days to let your body adjust. No one has signed on to that com-mitment.”

Grad student uses unicycle as main transportation

By Leslie PresnallStaff Writer

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Matthew Huber, geology graduate student, balances on his unicycle Saturday on the Parade Ground. Huber taught himself to ride the unicycle after he received one for Christmas as a joke and now uses it as his main form of transportation.

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SEX OFFENDER ARRESTEDLSU Police Department offi cers

arrested a 45-year-old registered sex offender from Florida on charges of sexual battery and obscenity for al-legedly forcing a University student to touch his penis at a fraternity par-ty.

During a party at the Lambda Chi fraternity house on Oct. 26 , Ken-neth James Griffi th , of 879 South Eugene St. , forced a woman to touch his genitals, Detective David Hero-man said. A complaint was fi led that night, and an LSUPD investigation proceeded.

On Feb. 18 , WAFB aired a Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week announcement, giving a descrip-tion of Griffi th and a phone num-ber for tips. About 15 minutes after the announcement, Crime Stoppers received a tip identifying Grif-fi th , according to a news release on crimestoppersbr.com.

Griffi th was arrested Feb. 19 and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

MAN ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF HEROIN

A man unaffi liated with the

University was arrested on Feb. 26 at about midnight for possession of heroin, among other charges. His companion, a female University stu-dent, was arrested for simple posses-sion of marijuana.

Offi cers patrolling near the in-tersection of Dalrymple and High-land drives saw a vehicle make a traffi c stop, and smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle. Offi cers asked the driver, 20 -year-old Daniel J. Bienvenue , for consent to search his vehicle, said LSUPD spokesman Russell Rogé . Bienvenue agreed, and offi cers eventually found a plas-tic bag fi lled with marijuana.

Bienvenue and the passen-ger, 22-year-old University student Rose M. Lee , denied the marijuana belonged to them. The offi cers then arrested the two. When searching Bienvenue ’s body, offi cers found a syringe in his pocket, a plunger for the syringe in his sock and a small plastic bag fi lled with heroin in his shoe, Rogé said.

Rogé said Bienvenue told the offi cers he had just gotten out of a re-habilitation facility in Michigan and was keeping the drug on him to hide it from his girlfriend.

Lee , of 10 Savannah Ridge Lane, Metairie , was issued a misdemeanor summons for simple possession of marijuana and released. Bienvenue , of 4233 Bordaux Drive, Kenner, was charged with possession of marijua-na, possession of heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and not having a driver’s license. He was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

STUDENT ARRESTED FOR SIMPLE BATTERY, SENDING VULGAR TEXT MESSAGES

A University student was arrest-ed for simple battery on Feb. 26 at about 2:30 a.m. after pushing his ex-girlfriend in McVoy Hall, Rogé said.

LSUPD offi cers responded to McVoy Hall after a female Univer-sity student called about her ex-boy-friend, Kurt Manning , 19 , of 1007

West Ashland in Louisville, Ky. , sending her vulgar text messages, defacing her room door and shoving her.

The victim told the offi cers she broke up with Manning recently, and he had been sending her angry, ex-plicit text messages ever since, Rogé said. She said she was in McVoy Hall looking for a friend when she saw Manning in one of the rooms. Man-ning had been banned from McVoy Hall because of a different offense.

After a confrontation, Manning shoved the victim. He had written a vulgar message on her door before she arrived, Rogé said.

Manning was charged with criminal trespassing, simple battery, simple criminal damage to property and improper telephone communica-tions. He was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

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A new Staff Senate resolution seeks to attain an “equitable park-ing fee” for Facility Services staff who work the night shift.

Staff Senate Resolution 02-09 asks the Offi ce of Financial and Ad-ministrative Services to reconsider the amount charged to after-hours workers who occupy the reserved lots for only a short period of time.

The night shift for these work-ers, most of whom are custodians, begins at 3:30 p.m. The employ-ees park in a reserved lot near the building where they will be work-ing that night. But the lot is only reserved until 4:30 p.m., when the Easy Streets gates open.

“They are only parked for one hour while Easy Streets is in ef-fect,” said Chad Gothreaux , Staff Senate president-elect.

Because of the short time they are using the lot while it’s reserved, night shift workers are offered a prorated parking plan at 50 per-cent off of the full price. They pay $104.50 per year, half of the $209 fee for parking plan B, which al-lows access to lots at the center of campus.

These workers and the Staff Senate feel this cost is still too much for one hour of parking per day. The resolution seeks a prorated hourly fee.

“These are some of the low-est paid employees on campus,” Gothreaux said. “They should only

be charged for the time the lots are reserved.”

Gothreaux acknowledged night workers have other options besides paying the parking fee, including parking on the outskirts of campus and using the jitney service, which transports members of University faculty and staff.

But if all the after-hours em-ployees used the jitney, Gothreaux said, the system would be clogged and ineffective.

Kim Gardiner , assistant direc-tor of Facility Services, said not parking in a reserved lot creates a safety issue for the workers.

The Staff Senate unanimously passed the resolution at its Febru-ary meeting, and it will now be sent to the provost for consideration.

Lower parking fee sought for some staff

ADMINISTRATION

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organization working with educa-tion leaders in America.

“Grade inflation” affects a stu-dent’s grade point average in exact-ly the same way economic inflation affects a citizen’s dollar — as more good grades are given away, the value of each falls.

While most universities set a limit on the number of a particular grade a professor can distribute in a given class, the number of students receiving As is higher than ever.

Because student evaluations of teachers influence instructor salaries, promotions and tenures, professors may feel pressure to in-flate grades, according to ACTA’s report.

The report said many profes-sors, especially those who teach arts and humanities, show less in-terest in rigorous grading. They depend more on subjective class discussions and participation.

“I’m not sure there has been much grade inflation, but the con-versation has occurred,” said Chan-cellor Michael Martin. “To take one variable and to say that the faculty is too soft or the students too lazy is unfair without more research.”

GPAs for College of Engineer-ing and College of Arts and Sci-ences students have increased each year since 2006. However, GPAs of undergraduate students as a whole has fallen, according to data from the Office of Budget and Planning.

When he discovered he was being too lenient with his students, Kevin Cope, Faculty Senate presi-dent and English literature profes-sor, decided to change his grading scale.

To compensate, Cope adjusted his curriculum to incorporate more quizzes per semester. Cope moved away from standard five- to six-page essays and began assigning more “fact-oriented writing exer-cises.”

“As a result, I saw two things: on the one hand, the drop rate for my class increased, but on the other hand, students were better able to perform with regard to the history of British literature,” Cope said.

Cope said students were ex-pecting certain grades when they scheduled their classes. When those students didn’t make the marks they expected, they often withdrew from the class or complained.

“When grade inflation is es-tablished, they become slightly annoyed or peevish if they are not making the grades they’re expect-ing,” Cope said.

Some departments are re-aligning grading policies. By this fall, University public relations stu-dents can expect fewer As. Though the numbers are still being decided, the public relations department of the Manship School of Mass Com-munication plans to raise the bar for an A from its current 10-point scale.

“It’s something we’ve talked

about because we are concerned that the A-students earn in class should really mean something,” said Lisa Lundy, public relations head. “It should really represent a significant achievement on their transcript.”

The blame for inflation lies with the professors assigning the grades and the students and Uni-versity administration. Students are part of a “consumer culture” which can infect the world of higher edu-cation. Students who pay often out-rageous sums of money to attend a university can feel entitled to good grades, according to the ACTA’s report.

“If the word is out that you can expect a certain grade in a certain class and that does not happen, it can become distressful for stu-dents,” Cope said.

Most schools show a serious focus on improving their national standings. Some universities are motivated to inflate students’ scores because higher grades are an im-portant factor in national rankings. Cope suggested the University is-sue a statement on the meaning of each letter grade.

Martin said he believes it is important for student grades to be representative of effort and knowl-edge. He said there were no plans to implement grading regulations.

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Reveille in June 2008. “We believe that there is sufficient recognition of the difficulties of implementing a bill of this type that ... This will not succeed.”

Chancellor Michael Martin couldn’t be reach by press time, but an official statement from the University is expected.

Meg Casper, chief spokes-woman for the State Board of

Regents, told The Times-Picayune on Tuesday that Higher Education Commissioner Sally Clausen has not seen the bill.

“We will approach it from a campus safety perspective and not a Second Amendment — right to bear arms — issue,” Casper said.

The bill states that while Uni-versity officials can’t prohibit car-rying firearms on campus, they would have the right to create rules or regulations about the storage of

firearms, according to The Times-Picayune.

The bill is designed to enhance safety for students and faculty who have the credentials to carry hand-guns, Wooton said last year.

This year’s Legislative session begins April 27.

BILL, from page 1

Contact Kyle Bove at kbove@lsureveille.com

(AP) — The Jindal administration will try again today to get legislative backing for a plan to spend Louisi-ana’s first dollars from the federal stimulus package, about $300 mil-lion, for road and bridge work.

The top leader in the state Sen-ate, however, said he’ll recommend that lawmakers only approve a por-tion of the spending while they await further details from Gov. Bobby Jin-dal about how much of a multimil-lion dollar state surplus Jindal wants to spend on road projects.

The joint House and Senate bud-get committee, which must approve the spending plans before the work can begin, plans to review the trans-portation proposal at a Wednesday afternoon meeting. Though lawmak-ers had previously complained of his absence, Jindal said he won’t make a personal pitch to the committee.

“Certainly, the ball is in their court. We’re fine with them mak-ing changes as long as they meet the federal criteria,” the governor said Tuesday.

But he warned that any addi-tions or deletions lawmakers want to make to the list need to be done quickly. He said the state needs to get a list of transportation projects to

federal officials by March 19.Rather than approve the full list,

Senate President Joel Chaisson said he’ll recommend that the commit-tee approve enough of the spending to meet the federal requirement that half the money be obligated within 120 days.

“We can’t delay any further on those projects because of the federal timelines. The others, we have a little bit more time to look at our priori-ties,” said Chaisson, D-Destrehan.

For the rest of the stimulus transportation money, Chaisson said

he’ll suggest the committee delay again until lawmakers get more de-tails about how much of an $865 mil-lion state surplus the governor wants to pump into highway projects.

Lawmakers stalled the stimulus proposal two weeks ago when the governor was getting prominent na-tional attention for his opposition to parts of the stimulus.

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Road, bridge dollars from stimulus package up for vote in Louisiana

ECONOMY

By Melinda DeslatteThe Associated Press

LSU junior fi rst baseman Sean Ochinko was batting .125 on Friday when he hit a soft ground ball up the middle against Central Florida.

The ball looked to be an easy out for the slow-running Ochinko, but it kicked off the second base bag and allowed the Tigers’ fi rst baseman to record an infi eld sin-

gle.“ Y o u

take hits any way you can get them,” he said follow-ing Friday’s game. “The fi rst weekend, I was hitting the ball well and just didn’t fi nd any holes. But when you get one of those, it gives you a lot

of confi dence.”Since the infi eld single,

Ochinko has been on fi re at the plate having recorded hits in 13 of his past 16 at-bats, including a 3-for-4 performance with seven RBI in Tuesday’s 19-3 win against the University of New Orleans at Maestri Field at Privateer Park in New Orleans.

Ochinko had RBI hits in the fi rst, second, fourth innings, in-cluding a grand slam in the second inning.

Preseason excitement surrounded the opening of the softball program’s new Ti-ger Park. But few could have predicted the Tigers would have played this many games at home with so little action on the road.

LSU will play its 11th straight game in the new stadium tonight when the Tigers host Nicholls State .

Rain and snow prohibited the Tigers (11-4) from playing in the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga., last weekend . The Tigers were also rained out in Ham-mond against Southeastern Louisiana on Feb. 18 . Aside from the season-opening Paradise Classic in Hawaii, those games

were the only road contests LSU had sched-uled up to this point.

“When you are starting to get into a groove, you want to stay in that groove,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard . “You want that continuity.”

The Tigers enter tonight’s matchup with a fi ve-game winning streak and are ranked No. 22 in the ESPN/USA Softball poll and No. 19 in the USA Today/NFCA Top 25 poll .

LSU has managed to remain in the rankings despite early concerns about the health of the pitching staff. Senior Dani Hofer and junior Cody Trahan have been dealt with wrist and back injuries, respec-tively, all season.

But Girouard said the Tigers haven’t had problems in the circle so far.

“I don’t think the problem has been pitching,” Girouard said. “I think the prob-lem has been hitting.”

LSU freshman shortstop Juliana San-tos said the Tigers have concentrated on im-proving an offense that has scored 49 runs in 10 games in the new park. LSU has an 8-2 record at home this season .

“We’ve been coming out an hour early every day for early hitting,” Santos said. “We’ve been focusing on our timing, which is a big issue.”

Girouard said the team needs to pro-duce hits when it has runners in scoring position.

“It’s what we call ‘prime-time at bat’ — stepping up in an RBI situation,” Gir-ouard said.

The Tigers last faced Nicholls State in a doubleheader in the old Tiger Park on Oct. 17 in the LSU Collegiate Classic . The Ti-gers won, 3-1 and 9-2 , respectively.

Despite the victories, the Tigers aren’t

No. 12 Tigers celebrate senior night, face Vanderbilt in PMAC tonight

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SOFTBALL

Tigers try to dust off rust tonight against NichollsTournament in Ga. rained out last weekBy Jarred LeBlancSports Contributor

BASEBALL

Tigers blowout UNO, 19-3By Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer

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LSU freshman pitcher Brittany Mack throws a pitch Feb. 14 during the Tigers’ 6-5 extra-inning win against Texas A&M.

MARCUS THORNTON#5, guard

M. Thornton is the 10th player

in LSU history to score at least

1,000 career points in two years.

TERRY MARTIN#13, guard

Martin had seven straight

games with double fi gure points

in the 2007-08 season.

GARRETT TEMPLE#14, guard

Temple only needs 37 minutes

to break the record for most

minutes played in LSU history.

CHRIS JOHNSON#21, center

Johnson is the second all-time

shot blocker in LSU history with

161 blocks.

QUINTIN THORNTON#32, forward

Q. Thornton recovered from a

torn pectoral injury to become a

consistent defensive force.

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Quintin Thornton — “the en-forcer.” Garrett Temple — “the de-fender.” Marcus Thornton — “the scorer.” All have taken on different roles as LSU basketball players.

But they share one thing: They’re seniors. And they will be honored Wednesday night at senior

night when the No. 12 Tigers (25-4, 13-1) host Vanderbilt (17-11,6-8) at 6:45 p.m. in the PMAC.

“They’ve had a huge impact on me in a short period of time — as people and as basketball players,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson.

Every player said they had a unique LSU experience.

Guard Garrett Temple played his fi rst season on a team that made it

all the way to the Final Four. “Obviously, my freshman year

was a special year,“ Temple said.

“Playing multiple minutes as a fresh-man and us going to the Final Four was special.”

The Baton Rouge native didn’t think he would end up playing as much as he has, but now he’s 37 min-utes away from playing more than any other player in LSU history.

Center Chris Johnson had to

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The University campus was buzzing in February with the opening of the new Tiger Park and Alex Box Stadium.

The old Tiger Park was the Tigers’ home for 12 seasons , and LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory said the completion of Tiger Park says a lot about the University’s attention to women’s athletics.

“The softball stadium is the fi rst venue for women’s athletics with a true women’s-only athletic facility that I’ve ever been part of in my 20-plus years of coaching,” Flory said. “It was a monumental experience and really a landmark for all of us at LSU ... The fact that LSU has built a [$12 million] facility for one female sport is

wonderful. Twenty years ago, it wouldn’t have happened.”

Associate Athletics Director Judy Southard and Senior As-sociate Athletic Director Herb Vincent said LSU is in full compli-ance with Title IX of the Education-al Amendments of 1972, which forbids gender d i sc r imina t ion in athletics at schools with fed-eral funding.

LSU endured a seven-year lawsuit beginning in 1994 involving gender equity vi-olations, bringing about a lack of opportunities for female student-athletes. Two softball players and three soccer players fi led the lawsuit before their sports were enacted at LSU. When the law-suit headed for trial, LSU created a women’s soccer team in 1995 and a softball team in 1997, in a

new stadium. The lawsuit, settled in 2001

after a unanimous ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, said LSU was biased and “pos-

sessed a highly d i sc r imina tory athletics system.”

Terms of the settlement in-cluded monetary compensation to the plaintiffs and their attorneys and “LSU’s con-tinued public sup-port of women’s

athletics,” which Southard said the athletic department has made known now more than ever.

Southard said LSU goes

through a certifi cation process with the NCAA every 10 years. She said the last certifi cation be-gan in 2002 and was fi nalized in 2005.

“We really get down into what

our offerings are and make sure we’re meeting the needs of our student-athletes in an equitable manner,” she said. “We made

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LSU picked up right where it left off in the weekend sweep of Central Florida and scored six runs in the opening inning.

The Tigers took advantage of three walks and a hit batter by UNO pitcher Jim McGoni-gle to lead the inning.

O c h i n k o and senior third baseman Derek Helenihi each had two RBI hits in the inning.

The Priva-teers answered with a run of their own in the fi rst inning on an RBI single by designated hitter Jerad Co-marda.

But LSU quickly took back control in the second inning and pounded out four hits and six runs in the second inning to go ahead 12-1.

Ochinko’s grand slam — his fi rst home run of the season — capped the inning.

Freshman pitcher Chris Mat-ulis made his second start of his career for LSU.

Matulis struggled in the early innings but found a comfort zone in the middle innings and pitched 5 2/3 innings and allowed two runs to improve to 2-0 on the sea-son.

Spencer Mathews pitched the fi nal 3 1/3 innings for LSU to preserve the win.

One Tiger who was not able to join in the hitting parade was sophomore outfi elder Chad Jones.

Jones had to “take care of

business on campus,” according to LSU’s radio broadcast team. He is expected to play tonight when the Tigers return to Alex Box Stadium to face Mississippi Valley State.

First pitch for tonight’s game

has been moved up to 5 p.m. to allow fans to attend the LSU men’s basketball game against Vanderbilt.

a commitment when we went through our last certifi cation pro-cess to do some dramatic facility improvement for a number of our women’s sports, and we’ve pro-ceeded with that plan over the course of the last seven years.”

One allega-tion the fi ve fe-male students made against LSU was that the athletic depart-ment refused to allow the wom-en’s volleyball team to travel to a tournament in Hawaii, but it per-mitted the men’s basketball team to make the same trip. Southard said there’s no way discrepan-cies in travel funding between men’s and women’s teams would

happen.“If our men’s basketball

team charters a plane to fl y to Tennessee, the women’s team also does,” she said. “It may be

our men’s and women’s basket-ball teams have different sched-ules outside of conference. That may dictate the men’s travel bud-get is a lot larger than the women’s, not because we’re not providing the

same things for the women as we do for the men when we make those trips.”

Flory said she can see clear differences in her own team’s travel accommodations since the lawsuit.

“We’re not allowed to put more than two girls in a hotel

room on a team trip,” Flory said. “That didn’t happen before the lawsuit. You put four or fi ve peo-ple, whatever you needed to do to stay within the budget. And in terms of meals, the door is wide open for us to feed our team the same as the football team if we wanted to.”

Vincent said the bottom line for LSU athletics today is equal opportunity to “compete for championships and graduate.”

Southard wholeheartedly agrees with that motive.

“What is important to know is it is our goal,” Southard said. “We strive to provide the abso-lute best possible for all student-athletes and all our coaches, re-gardless of gender.”

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wait for his opportunity to contrib-ute.

“It just feels like yesterday just coming in as a freshman and watch-ing guys like Glen Davis, Tyrus Thomas and Darnell Lazare — big guys before me,” Chris Johnson said.

Johnson saw limited action his first two years before moving into a starting spot last season. Johnson is the second all-time shot blocker in LSU history with 161 blocks.

Both Marcus and Quintin Thornton transferred to LSU from junior colleges.

“It felt like I was never going to get to the [Division-One] level,” Marcus Thornton said.

Quintin Thornton agreed.But both players have made an

impact on the team.Quintin Thornton has been a

defensive presence inside the paint, and Marcus Thornton has led the Ti-gers in scoring both of his seasons as a Tiger.

Marcus Thornton is the 10th player in LSU history to score at least 1,000 career points in just two years.

“I just cherish the two years I’ve had with these guys,” Marcus Thorn-ton said. “These guys are going to be my friends from here on out.”

Guard Terry Martin sat out LSU’s Final Four season after trans-ferring from Texas Tech in 2004.

“I wasn’t expecting what we did,” Martin said. “So it was good to experience that even though I couldn’t play. It just had me ready for the next three years that I was going

to be here, so it was kind of disap-pointing in the following seasons.”

Even with pomp and circum-stance, the Tigers know they have a game to play against a team that al-lows the second-fewest points in the Southeastern Conference.

“You look at them on video tape and watch how they demolished a very good South Carolina team,” Trent Johnson said. “Obviously we need to be ready to play — and play well.”

Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stall-ings said in the SEC coaches tele-conference this week he doesn’t re-call seeing a team this dominant in the conference.

“Their shooting, their field-goal percentage, their 3-point percentage, free-throw percentage, their blocks,

their steals, everything is better ... their assist totals,” Stallings said. “They really are having a dominant year other than just what’s happen-ing in their final scores.”

And the Tigers want to make sure they continue to dominate.

“I’m trying to go out on top as I know my fellow four seniors are,” Temple said.

If sophomore guard Bo Spen-cer is unable to play because of a sprained wrist, Trent Johnson said he would consider starting Quintin Thornton and Martin.

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taking Nicholls State — which is on a six-game winning streak — lightly.

“You have to throw the fall out of the window. Nobody is playing to win it all in the fall,” Girouard said. “The team in the fall is always a whole different team in the spring.”

Girouard said she expects to give all her pitchers “a couple in-nings” Wednesday night.

Freshman pitcher Brittany Mack, who has been named Louisi-ana Sportswriters Association Soft-ball Pitcher of the Week already this season, said she looks forward to get-ting back on in the circle for the first

time since her no-hitter performance against Texas State on Feb. 21.

“Going to Georgia felt like too long of a week off,” Mack said. “We need to make sure we don’t underes-timate anyone.”

Santos said Monday is normal-ly the team’s day off, but after the rain outs the team practiced on both Monday and Tuesday to prepare for tonight’s game.

“We’ll be excited to play a game and quit being rained out,” Santos said.

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Superdome ready for the Saints to play in it. It was the biggest construc-tion project to any American stadium in history.

That time and effort came to fruition Sept. 25, 2006, when the Dome reopened for the Saints’ first home game of the season against the Atlanta Falcons.

O’Malley said that night is one he will never forget.

“It was so awesome to see that rush of everyone in the Dome, to see so many people get so excited about the Saints,” O’Malley said. “It was the best Saints game I’ve ever seen. I still have my ticket from that game.”

The Saints would go on to win the game, 23-3, behind a blocked punt that led to a Saints touchdown just minutes into the game.

“Our seats were right behind that end zone,” O’Malley said. “It was so loud, yet so much fun. The people in our sections were high-fiving and getting so excited.”

Mary Beth Romig, public rela-tions and communications director for the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, said having sports to lean on is something special for the city.

“Sports are a spiritual thing for us here,” Romig said. “We were asked in the national and internation-al media if a sporting organization

could mean that much to a city, and I said, ‘Absolutely.’

The spirit of the teams reflects the spirit of the people who returned. And it’s crucial to our well-being.”

Sports psychologist Eric Duch-mann said sports can be “a tremen-dous beacon” for a city, particularly in post-Katrina New Orleans.

“Athletics give a common cause for a city, something that the community can focus on and rally around,” Duchmann said. “It gives them a diversion from the hardships and experiences there every day. We all know it’s a game in reality, but it’s also something that stands for strong values about how to live life, over-come adversity, and stay positive and focused — all the different things that are a sign we can overcome.”

Jay Cicero, president and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, said athletics have helped New Orleans residents take their minds off the stress of Katrina’s aftermath.

“Sports are something that is in our DNA here,” Cicero said. “Citi-zens of New Orleans needed some-thing they could rally around besides concentrating on FEMA and rebuild-ing, where they would live and their jobs.”

The New Orleans Arena, where the Hornets play, also sustained dam-age after Katrina, causing the team to relocate to Oklahoma City for two

seasons.Duchmann said the return of the

Saints and Hornets to New Orleans provided an emotional spark for resi-dents.

“Particularly in New Orleans, which celebrates any good cause for a party, the teams coming back and having good years fit even more into what [the city] needs to put the past behind them,” Duchmann said.

The Saints finished 10-6 in their first season back and reached their first NFC Championship game in team history. The Hornets were Southwestern Division champions and reached the Western Conference semifinals when they returned to the Big Easy last season.

Curl said SMG, the Superdome management company, spent $77 million on post-Katrina renovations — including a new roof, replacement of the Dome’s outer skin and various improvements inside the stadium.

Curl said having the “crown jewel” back has been invaluable to the city’s economic life.

“The Saints sold out season tickets for the first time in history in their first season back after the storm,” he said. “The Hornets had a run of 13 consecutive sellouts, and they’ve been doing extremely well this season with an exciting team. We’ve also had a packed house for the Sugar Bowl and the BCS championship, so the business of

sports has been very good.”New Orleans was the first city

to host three major college football bowl games in one season: the 2007 New Orleans Bowl, the 2008 Sugar Bowl and the 2008 BCS champion-ship game. LSU faced Ohio State for the BCS title, and the game set a Superdome attendance record with 79,651.

Curl said the “newer, more ac-commodating” Superdome and the team involved in bidding for large-scale sporting events helped the city land several events in the near fu-ture.

New Orleans will host the BCS championship and its fifth men’s bas-ketball Final Four in the Superdome in 2012 and the women’s Final Four in the New Orleans Arena in 2013.

The Superdome will host a men’s NCAA regional semifinals and finals in 2011, and New Orleans had already won the first and second rounds of the men’s NCAA tourna-ment in 2010.

“That run of NCAA basketball events is four years back-to-back with March Madness in New Or-leans,” Curl said. “No city has done that in recent history. That is a great accomplishment for us to be that successful and bring those events to New Orleans.”

Cicero said the city is also hop-ing to make a pitch for the 2013 Super Bowl and 2014 NBA All-Star

Game. New Orleans was the host of the 2008 NBA All-Star Game, and the sellout game was broadcast in 215 countries in 44 languages.

Romig said the ability to land such big events is largely because of the city’s marketability.

“We are in such a walkable, com-pact city, and the games themselves, the hotels and all the fine restaurants are all so close to each other,” Romig said. And this is what New Orleans does. We do big events, including sporting events, better than anyone. Hospitality is what we do best.”

Romig said marketing what New Orleans is all about is some-thing to which the city cannot assign a dollar value.

“When you have an event such as the NBA All-Star Game or a Final Four, and people keep talking about the road to New Orleans, and they show ... scenes of street life and all those colorful things that come along with the city outside of the actual games, that’s the kind of marketing we can’t afford,” Romig said. “It’s an invaluable opportunity for New Orleans to showcase itself to the world.”

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In a recent study, a third of stu-dents surveyed at University of Cali-fornia Irvine said they expected B’s just for attending class lectures.

Another 40 percent felt they de-served B’s for simply completing the required reading, according to The New York Times.

Professors nationwide have en-countered similar feedback.

Many observed these grandi-ose expectations stem from a sense of entitlement, a trait emblematic of today’s collegiate society.

“I noticed an increased sense of entitlement in my students and wanted to discover what was caus-ing it,” said Harvard professor Ellen Greenberger.

Greenberger related entitle-ment to increased parental pressure,

competition among peers and family members and a heightened sense of achievement anxiety.

In his research, Dennis Gaylord found that compared to prior ages, our generation generally holds a more cynical view toward authority and absolute logic. Results also in-dicated our age bracket has a much more liberal approach to today’s so-cial issues.

These findings also suggested — although our generation’s intel-lectual ingenuity exceeds that of pre-vious cultures — our emotional ma-turity and ability to handle conflict indicate a lack of personal efficacy.

Though no generation is im-pervious to adversity, ours has been spoiled into expecting any and all ef-fort to be rewarded.

Our minds process information quicker, but many of us lack the am-bition to put our sense to good use, possibly for lack of inspiration.

Conversely, prior cultures were generally instilled with more initiative to overcome ad-versity. Much of our modern ad-vancement can thus be accred-ited to their en-during fortitude.

For exam-ple, past generations looked at high-er education as an often unattainable goal. Once college was readily ac-cessible, however, those generations viewed it as a necessary bridge to

financial prosperity.Now college is a stage in per-

sonal development rather than a me-dium for long-term success.

Further, previous generations drew a distinct line between work and play. Our generation’s collab-orative stance is work should be enmeshed with leisure and personal passion.

Today’s students outlook on jobs reflects their tendency to pursue enjoyable academic courses rather than potentially valuable ones.

According to this logic, blend-ing work and play is perfectly vi-able.

And unlike our parent’s genera-tion, ours generally seeks pleasure over profit.

To some extent, this tendency

presents a dilemma.While personal satisfaction

should be held in higher regard than financial equity, we shouldn’t nec-essarily anticipate a free ride on the pleasure train.

This means we shouldn’t avoid taking initiative or expect things to come easy.

It helps to understand the dy-namics of those before us — not only to identify their blunders but also to emulate their successes.

Scott Burns is a 19-year-old political science major from Baton Rouge.

Controversy arose throughout the state’s college and university community last year when Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle Chasse, proposed a bill to allow licensed handgun owners to carry con-cealed weapons on campus.

The House committee Woo-ton chairs passed the measure, 11-3, but Wooton pulled the bill off the floor in the last stages of the Legislative session.

Wooton proclaimed back then

that as long as he is in the Legisla-ture, he would file the bill in every session. And he stayed true to his word Monday.

Wooton proposed an identi-cal bill Monday — a measure we think is unnecessary.

He argued last year the pas-sage of the bill would increase the safety of people who have to be out and about on campuses late at night.

For the bill to become law, a

loophole would have to be made in a current law that prohibits car-rying handguns near courthouses, schools and government build-ings.

Having easy access to weap-ons does little to prevent harm, and one could argue everyone walking around with a concealed firearm increases the risk of injury.

The fact this bill failed in the Legislature last year should send a message to state congressmen and

residents.Numerous university officials

across the state — including Chan-cellor Michael Martin — opposed the bill then and feel the same way now. Student Government passed a resolution supporting the bill last spring — a resolution then SG President Cassie Alsfeld later vetoed.

We admire Wooton’s continu-ous determination to try and do what he believes is right for the

safety of college students and fac-ulty across the state.

But awareness and increased security measures by trained pro-fessionals have worked for the most part in the past. And there’s no reason to believe they won’t continue to do so.

Guns aren’t the answer to ev-erything.

Pope Benedict XVI recently praised advances in genetics but also issued another shocking caution to the world.

The pope said geneticists allow for “a glimpse of the possibility of new conquests” and the anticipation of “authentic progress for the whole of humanity” at the Pontifical Acad-emy for Life on Feb. 21.

Benedict pressed the scientific community to avoid the temptation of “genetic reductionism” — which he claimed would reduce mankind to merely reproducing new individu-als, “as is the case with all other ani-mals.”

Emphasizing the old axiom the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, Benedict explained why man is more important than mankind:

“In fact, he carries with him the power of thought, which is always drawn to the truth about himself and the world.”

From there, the pontiff explained

the difference of the modern threat compared to the eugenics of yester-year. While the ideological and racist manifestations have largely faded, a new mentality has inched to the fore-front of human consciousness — one that justifies the measure of life and dignity according to desire.

“There is thus a tendency to privilege the capacities for work, efficiency, perfection and physical beauty to the detriment of other di-mensions of existence that are not held to be valuable.”

Eugenics is defined as the selec-tion of desired characteristics with the intention of improving future generations.

This theory, sprouting from So-cial Darwinism — the theory that ad-vocated a “survival of the fittest” ap-proach to society — allegedly would hastily improve the lot of fit humans over the less suitable. Consequently, eugenics became a science shortly after its advent.

This is no joke to those well-versed in history. Eugenics, on the contrary, is a very real threat — Big Ben noted it was such an imminent

danger it found expression in the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The inher-ent dignity and equal and in-alienable rights of all members of the human

family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world — ac-cording to the Declaration.

The respect owed to life is non-existent when those deemed unfit for life are punished from conception.

In the often forgotten or ig-nored depths of American history lies one of the ugliest sins of this nation’s past — a stake in the in-ternational eugenics movement that

often consumed even some of the most famous American personalities — from some of the most influential writers and thinkers to former presi-dents and world leaders.

The reason the science failed to pick up was because of its most eminent proponent — Hitler. Thus, American scholars tried to erase the stain on the national ego by ignoring it uniformly and excluding it from history textbooks entirely.

But the pope saved his sharpest rebuke for last, decrying discrimina-tion based on real or presumed ge-netic factors as an act of violence against all humanity.

From early eugenics opponents, like author G.K. Chesterton, to to-day’s Bishop of Rome, the Catholic Church has consistently battled this recurring elitist phenomenon.

By acknowledging worth results not from achievement but from exis-tence, Benedict made apparent there are few greater advocates for world

peace and stability than organized religion in general, and the Catholic Church in particular.

Biology should never become an element of discrimination, as the pope warned.

The world must amass a culture “that concretely testifies to solidar-ity with those who suffer, razing the barriers that society often erects, discriminating against those who are disabled and affected by pathologies, or worse — selecting and rejecting in the name of an abstract ideal of health and physical perfection...

“Confidence in science cannot forget the primacy of ethics when human life is at stake.”

Daniel Lumetta is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Metairie.

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Of all the textbooks sold at the LSU Bookstore, Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” is prob-ably the most controversial.

It’s hard to calculate the number of souls communism has snuffed out of existence. Estimates for Joseph’s Stalin’s regime range between 3.5 to 60 million, and esti-mates of the deathcount of Mao Ze-dong’s brutal rule vary from 19.5 to as high as 75 million, according to The Black Book of Communism.

Despite these immeasurable tragedies, Marx is still given far more respect than he deserves.

Marx’s economic theory — and hence his moral judgments, utopian vision, depressing psy-chology and unrealized predictions — are largely based on a concept called “surplus value.”

Because employers pay em-ployees less than the value they contribute, Marx argued laborers are systematically exploited by the capitalist system.

The silliness of this position can be seen in your daily life.

Imagine a cashier at Raising Cane’s making $7 an hour. For the sake of argument, assume he al-lows an additional $10 of chicken and toast to be sold every hour. In Marx’s view the $3 an hour “sur-plus value” the cashier provides for Raising Cane’s is extracted from him by exploitation.

When looking at any social sit-uation, it is imperative to separate the voluntary from the coercive.

No one forced the cashier to give part of his value to Cane’s. He chose to work there.

And this isn’t just rhetoric. In a very real way, the Cane’s fry cook could quit his job, take out a loan from the bank, buy out the

Blockbuster Video across the street and set up his own chicken shop where he could work without sur-rendering any value.

But his ad-ditional value would come with tremen-dous costs. Our young entrepre-neur would lose any benefits from special-ization as he switched from

working one aspect of the fast food industry to every job. He would have to reinvent his own recipes and his own special sauce to com-pete with the reputation found across the street.

Standing on his own two feet, he would no longer be protected from potential lawsuits, and his income would unpredictably vary with the success of his industry in-stead of staying at a stable $7 an hour.

For some innovators, the risks of starting a business are worth the potential payoff, and society ben-efits from their creativity.

But for most, the challenges in-volved in starting a business make giving a pre-existing firm your sur-plus value a worthwhile trade.

The source of the surplus value Marx railed against is not exploi-tation but the freedom to choose. Employees choose to surrender their surplus value for the benefits a company provides.

And the existence of this choice increases the wages of em-ployees. Because of a “selfish” desire to better their own circum-stances, workers will constantly drift toward companies providing

the best-paying jobs.Ironically, Marx’s prescription

to the problem involves an increase of state power and a decrease in freedom.

The “Communist Manifesto” includes 10 planks to connect capitalist countries to communism. These steps include an increase in income taxes, abolition of private property, a national bank and other decreases of individual freedom.

That his philosophy has re-sulted in an increase in exploitation should not be surprising.

To be sure, exploitation can exist in the labor market without the presence of the state. People have a tendency to abuse power, and abuses of power can be found outside governments.

But within the nasal cavities of government, these infections fester and expand.

To better the lot of the masses, we must increase their freedom and subject Marx’s theories to the derisive laughter they deserve.

Daniel Morgan is a 21-year-old economics major from Baton Rouge.

Tradition is one of the most powerful forces that influence long-standing religions. As with almost any aspect of human in-teraction, religions often look to the past in matters of doctrine and practice.

Usually, relying on tradition is beneficial — a way of linking be-lievers with a long history of faith, a way of connecting with religious beliefs rooted in the ancient past. Tradition is also a powerful means of stabilizing a community, of us-ing tried and true methods of man-aging a congregation.

But tradition can also cause problems, especially when relied upon too heavily.

No organization or religion is as much testament to the power-ful influence – both positive and negative – that tradition can have on the way it operates than the Catholic Church.

Recently, the church has res-urrected an ancient and controver-

sial practice – indulgences. Indulgences remove “the

temporal effects of sin,” specifi-cally reducing or eliminating time spent in purgatory. It is important to note an indulgence does not forgive sins — it merely reduces the punishment caused by sins. Generally, indulgences are earned through some form of penance, like a pilgrimage or prayer ritual.

The practice of offering in-dulgences fell out of favor, largely because of negative historical con-notations the practice carried.

In medieval times, wide-spread corruption within the church led to abuse of the in-dulgence tradition, when greedy clergy began selling them to the highest bidder and claiming they held powers beyond their intend-ed scopes – namely, claiming they could absolve all sins.

Martin Luther was extremely critical of the indulgence system of his day, and the system was one

of the abuses of power that led to the Protestant Reformation.

This year, the Vatican de-clared, in honor of one of the

most influen-tial Christians ever, anyone who makes a pilgrimage dedicated to St. Paul and gives a confession will be given a plenary indul-gence, which removes the

time the recipient spends in pur-gatory altogether.

The church’s decision to rein-state a practice with such a storied and sordid past is raising some eyebrows.

This is unfortunate because the tradition of indulgences is not in itself a questionable practice, and the common perception of in-dulgences is largely inaccurate.

Indulgences are not, as the name might suggest, a way for wealthy individuals to use their money to indulge in sinful ac-tivities. Nor are they a method of buying forgiveness. During the Council of Trent in 1563, the Catholic Church officially banned their sale.

Neither can an indulgence be purchased for a future sin – a Catholic cannot earn an indul-gence that will allow them to com-mit a sin free of retribution.

The tradition of pilgrimage and penance as a way of proving repentance is a fundamental part of most religions, and few would take issue with its practice. And in the modern era — where far more people are educated, where insti-tutions are held to higher stan-dards and where news of suspect behavior spreads almost instanta-neously — the potential for abus-ing indulgences is minimal.

But, unfortunately for Catho-

lics, the steadfastness of long-held traditions can sometimes prove to be a disadvantage.

Although the church’s efforts are entirely innocent, it will prove extremely difficult – if not impos-sible – to overcome the stigma associated with the tradition. As long as the term “indulgences” exists, the shadow of their abuses in the distant past will continue to haunt public perception of their execution.

As powerful and enriching as traditions can be, once those tradi-tions are sullied, they will always bear a stain – even if that stain is more the fault of relatively few abusers than the real intent behind it.

Matthew Albright is a 20-year old English and political science sophomore from Baton Rouge.

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