The third time’s the charm — at least LSU hopes so.

The Tigers will attempt to exorcise their 2012 road trip demons in their fi rst-ever South-eastern Conference clash with Texas A&M on Saturday in Col-lege Station, Texas.

Being outscored 24-18, coughing up fi ve turnovers and posting a 1-1 record in its fi rst two road games this season isn’t good enough for LSU junior safety Craig Loston, who attrib-uted LSU’s road performance to mental errors.

“We can’t shoot ourselves

in the foot and put ourselves in a hole,” Loston said. “If we don’t do that, we’ll be fi ne.”

For the Tigers to cut down their mental errors Saturday, they will fi rst have to contend with one

of the most hostile environments in college football — The 12th Man.

According to Texas A&M, the

LSU to get SEC dose of 12th ManSpencer HutchinsonSports Contributor

A&M, see page 4

Two weeks. Three students. Zero response.

In the past two weeks , three students have been injured by moving vehicles on the Univer-sity’s campus.

The fi rst incident occurred Oct. 4 around 1:15 p.m. when Dominic Gulino , a 21-year-old student , was lounging in the grass of the usually tranquil Quad. Sud-denly, a maintenance truck, driven by Facility Services employee Wil-liam Earl Bujol , 40 , accidentally rolled over Gulino’s upper body.

Gulino sustained minor, vis-ible injuries to his face but was

walking after the incident. He re-fused to go to the hospital with police or emergency responders at fi rst but went on his own later.

“The safety of the students, faculty and staff and our employ-ees is a top priority for our orga-nization,” said Tammy Millican, manager of communications and grants for Facility Services . “We’re reviewing our procedures to ensure that we’re operating in the saf-est manner possible as we travel around campus to perform our maintenance work.”

Six days later , Jinjuta Ji-rawatjunya , a 25-year-old interna-tional student from Thailand , was hit by a white Buick Lucerne while in the crosswalk at the intersection

of North Stadium and Nicholson drives on Oct. 10. The car, driven by an unnamed student, was at-tempting to turn left from the Old Alex Box parking lot onto Nichol-son Drive when it struck Jirawatju-nya , who had the right-of-way, at the waist, causing her head to hit the driver’s side windshield.

Jirawatjunya sustained in-juries to her head and face from hitting the pavement. She was put on a stretcher and taken to Baton Rouge General Hospital in Mid City . Jirawatjunya’s friend, Adri-ana Soto , went with Jirawatjunya to the hospital and said she was re-sponsive and coherent.

A week later, Andrew Rauch , was hit by a white Chevrolet

Suburban around 4:30 p.m. while riding a longboard at a crosswalk in front of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building on the corner of Dal-rymple and Infi rmary drives on Wednesday.

Rauch was put on a stretcher and removed from the scene in

stable condition less than 20 min-utes after the accident.

When asked for com-ment on the fi rst two accidents, Interim Chancellor William Jen-kins responded with a statement

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Many students are breaking the law and aren’t even aware, ac-cording to Steve Myers, East Baton Rouge Mayor-President candidate and property manager.

Myers said the Unifi ed Devel-opment Code , a 19-chapter docu-ment that lays out the future of Ba-ton Rouge, restricts the number of people that can live together. But Myers said it has outdated defi ni-tions and is selectively enforced.

The document is dated 2009 , but its sections go back further. My-ers frequently cites the 1950s as the beginning of the UDC. Its chap-ters address different areas of city-parish government, such as zoning districts, streets, and sidewalks and utilities.

Dwelling is one of the defi ni-tions pertaining to students.

It reads, “A single-family dwelling is a building that

Code says unrelated group can’t share homeJoshua BergeronStaff Writer

FOOTBALL: Sports editor calls SI article ‘half-cooked’ story, p. 7

VOLLEYBALL: Lady Tigers to take on Auburn and Kentucky following rebirth ceremony, p. 6

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International and food science master’s student Jinjuta Jirawatjunya is assisted Oct. 10 after being struck by a car on the corner of Nicholson and North Stadium drives.

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How does one rescue a baby elephant? Rope and a Land Rover

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — How do you pull a baby elephant out of a deep, muddy hole? A rope and a Land Rover. Then the payoff: A frantic baby elephant sprint to mom.

A heartwarming video of the rescue of a baby elephant in a Kenyan national park that lies in the shadow of Mount Kiliman-jaro gained a mass of viewers on Thursday. The video shows the rescuers’ potentially dangerous fa-ceoff with the mother elephant and their struggle to get her calf out of a 5-foot hole.Letters written by retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro published

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuban news media on Thursday published the first new writing in months from retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The letter, which was dated Wednesday, comes in the wake of rumors that prompted relatives in both Cuba and Miami to deny that the health of the 86-year-old ex-pres-ident was critical.

Castro has not been seen in pub-lic since video images showed him greeting a visiting Pope Benedict XVI in late March, and the last of his essays known as “Reflections” was published June 19.

U.S. Army Court: Fort Hood suspect can be forced to shave

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army appeals court has ruled that the Fort Hood shooting sus-pect can have his facial hair forc-ibly shaved off before his murder trial.

The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals’ opinion issued Thursday upheld the military trial judge’s decision to order Maj. Ni-dal Hasan to appear in court clean shaven or be forcibly shaved.

Hasan has said the beard is an expression of his Muslim faith. His attorneys say they’ll appeal the ruling.California, other states take part in ‘Great ShakeOut’ earthquake drill

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Millions of Americans preparing to survive an earthquake ducked under tables and covered their heads Thursday as part of the annual “Great ShakeOut” drill.

Organizers said some 14 mil-lion people, including 9.3 million in California, signed up to participate. Schoolchildren, hospital workers, elected officials and others got ready to rumble from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

The drill was held in some Western and southeastern states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico and parts of Canada and Italy.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gam-blers lost nearly $199.7 million at Louisiana’s state licensed casinos in September, up from $188 million for August and $196.6 million for Sep-tember of last year.

Most of the money was spent at the state’s 13 riverboat casinos. Rev-enue climbed to $141.8 million for September, up from $132.7 in Au-gust and $134.1 a year earlier, a boost credited to the opening of a new ca-sino, L’Auberge, in Baton Rouge.

Slot machine casinos at the four Louisiana horse tracks won $32.7 million, up from $32.4 million in Au-gust and $31.7 million a year earlier.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Coyote hunters in New Mexico will have the chance to compete for a couple of high-caliber grand prizes just in time for the holidays — a pair of Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifles.

A shooting range and gun store in Albuquerque is hosting a two-day contest to see who can kill the most coyotes, despite protests from envi-ronmentalists.

KOB-TV reports that Calibers Shooting Sports Center is holding the challenge for two-member teams beginning Dec. 1.

Royal wedding gives tiny country of Luxembourg a turn in the spotlight

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg doesn’t get many turns in the spotlight.

It is an independent country tinier than Rhode Island, the small-est U.S. state, and it would fit inside Germany, its neighbor to the east, 138 times with room to spare. It won no medals at the 2012 London Olym-pics — in fact, it hasn’t won a medal at the summer Games since 1952.

But this week is Luxembourg’s turn to shine. Prince Guillaume, the heir to the throne will marry Belgian Countess Stephanie de Lannoy.

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BP PLC says source of sheen on the Gulf of Mexico is from equipment

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP PLC says a sheen on the Gulf of Mexico appears to have come from oil seep-ing out of a piece of discarded equip-ment used to contain its massive 2010 oil spill.

On Thursday, the company said underwater surveys determined oil probably leaked from an 86-ton steel cofferdam the company lowered down to the well in efforts to funnel oil to the surface. The cofferdam was one of several methods BP used in its months-long effort to contain its blown-out Macondo well.

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Before being rescued, a baby elephant rests while stuck in a 5-foot hole on Tuesday in Ambolseli National Park in Kenya.

La. casinos increase total revenue in September to $199.7 million

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In 1992, Japanese foreign ex-change student Yoshihiro “Yoshi” Hattori was killed in Baton Rouge. This weekend, the community will come together to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death at a conference held in his honor.

On Oct. 17, 1992, Hattori and his homestay brother Webb Hay-maker stopped at the wrong house for a Halloween party. It had a simi-lar address and decorations as the house they intended to go to.

They knocked on the door, but no one answered, so they began walking away.

Moments later, Rodney Peairs, the homeowner, exited the house carrying a .44 magnum.

“We’re here for the party,” Hat-tori said, walking toward Peairs.

“Freeze,” Peairs shouted. Hattori didn’t. Peairs fi red once. The bullet entered Hattori’s

chest and exited his back. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

U.S. and Japanese media swarmed the case, bringing gun

control into the national spotlight. Though Peairs was eventually

acquitted on the slaying, protests were sparked at home and abroad.

The case also helped push the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act — which requires background checks on people purchasing fi re-arms — into effect in 1994, accord-ing to University theatre assistant professor Rick Holden.

The conference will begin today at 7 p.m. with a keynote speech at the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge on Goodwood Boulevard.

On Saturday at the church, at-tendees will listen to guest speakers, including Hattori’s mother, and par-ticipate in workshops discussing the role of the media, the National Rifl e Association and politics, among oth-er factors regarding violence.

On Sunday, attendees will cel-ebrate the life of Hattori and hear from his family and friends.

At the end, Holden’s students will perform a “culminating perfor-mance on violence and peaceful re-solving of issues.”

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The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine is up for reaccreditation in March by the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Council on Education .

Vet School Dean Peter Haynes said he thinks the school will be fully reaccredited in March when the re-sults are released.

Reaccreditation occurs every seven years. The school has been limited or fully accredited every sev-en years since its creation, Haynes said.

Representatives came to visit the school for four-and-a-half days a few weeks ago to scope out facili-ties and interview faculty based on the council’s 11 standards, which in-clude fi nances, admission and clini-cal resources .

Haynes said between reaccredi-tation years, the school sends the AVMA reports, so the representa-tives come in with background infor-mation.

The only problem the AVMA has had with the school is the ab-sence of a building to isolate large

animals. The school is now building its Large Animal Disease Isolation Unit , and Haynes said he expects the construction to be done in a little more than a month .

“[Being reaccredited] signals that your program is credible and meets the standards of expectations for educating veterinary students ,” Haynes said. “In other words, you have to graduate from an accredited school to get a license .”

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Speakers commended the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Au-thority at a news conference Thurs-day, reviewing the organization’s work from the past three years.

The RDA serves as an entity created to rebuild or refurbish ar-eas of Baton Rouge. John Noland , chairman of the RDA Board of Com-missioners, said many of the city’s neighborhoods need to be helped.

“The RDA exists, in no small measure, to level the playing fi eld,” Noland said.

Noland said Baton Rouge residents view the improvement of blighted areas to be RDA’s respon-sibility.

Smiley Heights , a 198 -acre site the RDA acquired this year, will be a mixed-use project including the BRCC automotive training center and EBR parish schools’ workforce development high school, said Wal-ter Monsour , RDA president and CEO.

Monsour said RDA provides fi -nancing to help investors fund hous-ing projects like The Elysian and Hooper Springs senior housing.

Conference organizers pre-sented a video in which Lynn Clark , executive director of Habitat for Hu-manity of Greater Baton Rouge, said replacing empty fi elds with afford-able homes brings the community together.

“By bringing in more families, it seems to have helped with the crime in the area,” Clark said.

In addition to cleaning up neighborhoods and providing safe housing, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden said

RDA invests in projects that imple-ment the goals of FutureBR , a devel-opment plan to ease traffi c conges-tion, develop walkable communities, enhance green spaces and improve Baton Rouge in other areas of devel-opment.

“[The RDA is] proof of what our city-parish does when they work together,” Holden said.

Monsour said the RDA began operating in 2009 and has invested more than $67 million in improving the community. These investments have helped to build 760 new hous-ing units, create and retain 3,350 jobs

in Baton Rouge and increase state and local tax collections.

Metro Council members, stake-holders and business leaders came together over an 18-month span to create fi ve community improvement plans, which have continued to be carried out since then, Monsour said.

“The needs of our community remain great, but we’re extremely proud to accomplish what we have in such a short period of time,” he said.

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Mayor-President Kip Holden and Board Chairman John Noland speak Thursday after the Redevelopment Authority’s news conference at the Old State Capital.

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contains only one living unit includ-ing attached buildings in the case of townhouses.”

Many areas surrounding the University are zoned A1, or single-family dwellings.

The document’s defi nition of family reads, “not more than two (2) persons, or not more than four (4) persons (provided the owner lives on the premises) living togeth-er by joint agreement and occupy-ing a single housekeeping unit with single culinary facilities on a non-profi t, cost sharing basis.”

Students start breaking the law when three or more unrelated stu-dents occupy a single-family dwell-ing, unless one of the residents owns part of the property.

Once the defi nitions are used together to enforce law, Myers said it becomes a tool for discrimina-tion against minorities and young people.

“College students, and young people in general, live with oth-ers,” he said. “But it isn’t just young people. Lots of people have roommates. Sometimes it is two unrelated people; sometimes it is

more than that.” The Department of Public

Works enforces violations, but it does not actively seek them out. Instead, the department waits for complaints from neighbors or other Baton Rouge residents.

Myers said the department asks neighbors for photos. After receiv-ing the complaint, a person assigned to the UDC goes to the residence.

“The complaints offi cer sim-ply goes to the house and looks for multiple cars with different license plates,” Myers said. “But I don’t think that a license plate with a dif-ferent state on it could really tell whether someone is related or not.”

The discrimination leads to demographically homogeneous neighborhoods. In Southdowns — a neighborhood on the outskirts of campus — Myers said the residents are looking to keep out college stu-dents and minorities.

Biology freshman Trent Davis said he is puzzled by residents re-porting their neighbors . Although many students choose to live on campus or in apartment complexes, others live in single-family dwell-ings near campus.

Davis lives on State Street and

has never received a preliminary letter, but his friend William Reed , a 22-year-old Baton Rouge resi-dent, received two letters in eight months .

“I just walked out to check the mail one day and found a letter tell-ing me that I was breaking some kind of ordinance,” Reed said. “All the letter said was that we were breaking some ordinance, it didn’t give any specifi cs. The next time I heard about it, my landlord told me that we had to move out.”

According to the Department of Public Works , the owner isn’t notifi ed until he or she receives a warning letter. Myers said he wrote back several times to get more in-formation but never received a re-sponse. Instead, the Department of Public Works sues the owner without taking into consideration the owner’s response, according to Myers.

There have been 290 prelimi-nary letters sent, 90 lawsuits and one injunction based on the single-family dwelling defi nition.

tradition of The 12th Man started in 1922 when former Aggie head coach Dana Bible called a reserve player, E. King Gill, who was not dressing for the game, from the stands.

Gill suited up and stood with the team for the rest of the game. Although he never saw the fi eld in that game, the symbol of the team’s fans always at the ready to help their Aggies stuck.

The tradition’s legend grew in the 1980s when former A&M head coach Jackie Sherrill started The 12th Man kickoff team com-prised of regular students selected through open tryouts.

If any team is prepared for The 12th Man, it should be LSU, as its Tiger Stadium home is often con-sidered one of the loudest places to play.

For Loston, who grew up just 45 minutes from College Station and was committed to A&M in high school, Saturday’s game is a homecoming of sorts.

Loston said he is well-ac-quainted with The 12th Man and

has high expectations for Satur-day’s atmosphere.

“I’m expecting it to be just how it is [at LSU],” Loston said. “It might not be louder, but I’ve been there, and it does get loud. They do a lot of things like the rocking back and forth, and it’s just a great sta-dium to be at.”

Junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger said he hopes A&M fans aren’t morning people and Saturday’s 11 a.m. kickoff removes their infl uence from the game.

“Hopefully the crowd will be kind of out of it so early in the morning,” Mettenberger said. “We’re looking at the early game as an advantage for us.”

If kickoff was any earlier, the Tigers might have a problem, but 11 a.m. should be plenty of time for the Tigers to prepare, Miles said.

On the fi eld, LSU will have to contend with a potent Aggie of-fense led by freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel.

Texas A&M is averaging 47 points per game and Manziel, as the Aggies’ leading rusher and passer, has individually accounted

for more than half of the team’s to-tal yardage.

Though A&M opponents have failed to limit Manziel this season, LSU has the advantage of being perhaps the fastest defense he will have faced this season, Miles add-ed.

“Hopefully we will use a style of pressure that’s most effective,” Miles said. “At times it’s going to be coverage and keeping him in the pocket, and other times, hopefully we can get to him.”

With injuries still plaguing the Tigers, LSU will continue to rely on inexperienced players.

Junior safety Eric Reid said he is confi dent that now halfway through the season, the young LSU players are no longer wide-eyed on SEC road trips.

“They’ve developed and ma-tured, so they know what we mean when we say it’s a business trip,” Reid said. “You don’t go to these cities to sight see or to enjoy the stadium. You go to play football.”

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similar to Millican’s .“The safety of our students,

faculty, staff and campus visitors is our top priority in everything we do,” Jenkins said. “There is great concern anytime an accident oc-curs on campus, and we are always looking for ways to improve the well-being of everyone at LSU.”

LSU Police Department spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde did not mention any specifi c plan to improve campus safety.

“We’re going to continue edu-cating the public,” he said. “Stu-dents need to be aware, as well as drivers, and they need to pay atten-tion to traffi c laws and their sur-roundings.”

All three students involved in each incident had the right-of-way.

A poll conducted on The

Daily Reveille’s website reveals that nearly 73 percent of the 124 respondents have come close to being hit by a car while walking on campus.

Theatre sophomore John Michael Moore said he has almost been hit three times by vehicles at the same crosswalk as Rauch this semester. Moore said cars “just speed through” most pedestrian walkways on campus.

Administrators should make it better known to travelers that the University is a pedestrian campus and walkers usually have the right-of-way, Moore said, adding that more signs might be necessary.

“I just want to see some actual changes,” Moore said. “We’re giv-ing directions through signs, and if people are still getting hit, maybe we just need to put more up.”

Katie Messina , kinesiology

sophomore , said she has also come close to being hit by a vehicle on campus. People should be more re-sponsible and pay attention when driving through campus, she said.

“I’ve seen tons of people violating speed limits. There are people who fl y down the street,” Messina said. “I actually have a friend who was hit last year on her bike.”

Messina said Jenkins’ re-sponse to the incidents was empty and he needs to be less vague about his plan to improve safety.

“It just kind of sounds like rhetoric,” Haul said about Jenkins’ statement. “Something’s going to have to be done. I mean, three stu-dents in two weeks.”

ACCIDENTS, from page 1

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Earlier this week, Sports Illustrat-ed ignited the extinguished fuse on the Tyrann Mathieu bomb.

But that bomb exploded before the magazine could heave it toward the foot-ball-crazed masses, leaving it to gather its shards of credibility.

First, let’s take the article by Sports Illustrated writers Pete Thamel and Thayer Evans for what it is — a regurgi-tation of everything Honey Badger that had already been reported, written and overanalyzed.

Mathieu was kicked off the team and went to rehab, probably (it still hasn’t been confi rmed) because he smoked pot. His biological father is in prison for a vi-olent crime. He’s the former mohawked Honey Badger who took what he wanted on the football fi eld.

We’ve got it, and we’ve had it for a while. Only one element of the story was fresh, and it too was a nonstarter.

Mathieu’s image, along with those of former LSU defensive back Mor-ris Claiborne and sophomore defensive tackle Anthony Johnson , was used on a fl ier to promote an event at The Palace, a local night club.

The article questions Mathieu’s po-tential eligibility if he were ever to suit up again because of the fl ier and other promotional material, but good luck with that case.

The club’s owner, Torrey Lewis , al-ready said in an interview with WBRZ that the club pulls photos off the Inter-net and puts them on the fl iers without player consent.

“Everybody does that,” Lewis said in the interview.

LSU has already said Johnson was unaware the images were used, and it has experience with people using Ma-thieu’s likeness to sell something.

Remember those Honey Badger T-shirts? LSU’s Compliance Offi ce issued a cease and desist order last December concerning the shirts under the heading “Honey Badger Does Care.”

When perusing LSU’s schedule in the preseason, it wasn’t the away games in The Swamp or on the Plains that caught Tiger fans’ eyes — instead they jumped at the chance to end a 17-year hiatus.

Rekindling a once-fi erce rivalry, fans of No. 6 LSU (6-1, 2-1 Southeast-ern Conference) are sure to travel in droves to welcome Texas A&M (5-1, 2-1 SEC) into the SEC when the teams meet at Kyle Field for the fi rst time since 1995.

LSU fans like mass communica-tion senior Bo Buser said the preseason hype stemmed from Tiger fans want-ing to assert their dominance within the conference to the “new guys.”

“A&M just now joined the SEC and I think they talked a big game about being able to hang in the SEC, and thus far, they’ve done a pretty

good job,” Buser said. “LSU got hyped about [the game] because they wanted to stick it to them and show them they didn’t belong.”

The early morning atmosphere at Kyle Field is sure to be unlike what Tiger fans saw in last Saturday’s me-thodical 23-21 victory against South Carolina, where the raucuous, gold-clad crowd of 92,734 came alive to preserve the Tigers’ 22-game home winning streak.

The earliest start for LSU since a 10 a.m. tilt with Appalachian State in 2008 prior to Hurricane Gustav, the 11 a.m. kickoff threw a wrench in some Tiger fans’ giddy-up, quelling the feverish hype that broke out in

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Game Week NotebookLSU SCHEDULE

AGGIES STATISTICS

TEAM STATISTICS

VS.No. 6 LSU No. 20 Texas A&M

Sept. 1Sept. 8Sept. 15Sept. 22Sept. 29Oct. 6Oct. 13Oct. 20Nov. 3Nov. 10Nov. 17Nov. 23

LSU 41, UNT 14LSU 41, Wash. 3LSU 63, Idaho 14LSU 12, Auburn 10LSU 38, Towson 22LSU 6, Florida 14LSU 23, S.C. 21@ Texas A&M AlabamaMississippi St. Ole Miss@ Arkansas

PASSING· Zach Mettenberger: 1322 yards, 6 TD, 4 INT

RUSHING· Kenny Hilliard: 415 yards, 68 carries, 6 TD· Michael Ford: 279 yards, 49 carries, 2 TD· Spencer Ware: 240 yards, 54 carries, 0 TD

RECEIVING· Odell Beckham, Jr.: 385 yards, 22 catches, 2 TD· Jarvis Landry: 219 yards, 22 catches, 1 TD· Kadron Boone: 183 yards, 11 catches, 3 TD

PASSING · Johnny Manziel: 1680 yards, 14 TD, 3 INT

RUSHING· Johnny Manziel: 676 yards, 91 carries, 10 TD· Ben Malena: 380 yards, 60 carries, 3 TD· Christine Michael: 169 yards, 41 carries, 4 TD

RECEIVING· Mike Evans: 549 yards, 36 catches, 2 TD· Ryan Swope: 299 yards, 20 catches, 3 TD· Thomas Johnson: 265 yards, 20 catches, 1 TD

TOTAL AND SCORING OFFENSELSU: 224 points, 32 points per game Texas A&M: 282 points, 47 points per game

Rushing offenseLSU: 1448 yards, 206.9 yards per game, 18 TD Texas A&M: 1415 yards, 235.8 YPG, 19 TD

Passing offenseLSU: 1322 yards, 188.9 YPG, 6 TD, 4 INTTexas A&M: 1847 yards, 307.8 YPG, 14 TD, 4 INT

TOTAL AND SCORING DEFENSELSU: 98 points, 14 points per gameTexas A&M: 131 points, 21.8 points per game

Rushing defenseLSU: 625 yards, 89.3 YPG, 6 TDTexas A&M: 748 yards, 124.7 YPG, 7 TD

Passing defenseLSU: 912 yards, 130.3 YPG, 7 TD, 10 INTTexas A&M: 1685 yards, 280.8 YPG, 8 TD, 6 INT

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LSU sophomore wide receiver Jarvis Landry celebrates after a catch Oct. 13 during the Tigers’ 23-21 win against South Carolina in Tiger Stadium.

SI article missed the mark

With life, comes death. And with death, comes rebirth.

That’s what the LSU volley-ball team hopes at least.

The Tigers literally laid the disappointing fi rst half of their sea-son to rest recently during a formal funeral and vowed to look forward in their quest to take an eighth-straight Southeastern Conference Western Division title, the next test of which is their matchups with Au-burn and Kentucky this weekend.

“We were in the process of grieving for the fact that we didn’t accomplish what we wanted to in pre-conference,” said LSU coach Fran Flory.

Entering the season with high hopes, everything fell apart quick-ly. They were demolished by then-No.2 Texas in three sets in a game that was especially important to them.

Hurricane Isaac forced LSU to play its home tournament, the Tiger Classic, in Houston. The Ti-gers’ loss to North Carolina disap-pointed them, and they fi nished the pre-conference schedule with a 4-5 record.

That rut carried over to the SEC schedule, which they started 4-6. A loss to Georgia on national television was the last straw and Flory knew she had to do some-thing to change her teams’ fortunes. She struggled until LSU softball coach Beth Torina suggested she hold a symbolic funeral.

Flory laughed at fi rst but even-tually fi gured it could help the team.

“I need to lead them through the process in a very formal way that lets them know that this is not a joke,” Flory said. “We are truly burying it. It’s over, it’s done, it’s gone, and you’ll never have to deal with it again.”

Instead of holding the sched-uled practice the following Friday, Flory simply told her team to wear black and meet in the locker room at a certain time. The girls had no idea what they were in for until they walked into their candlelit team lounge.

“It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever done,” said senior outside hitter Madie Jones.

Flory had her team write down anything it wanted to let go from the fi rst half of the season. She threw the vocations, along with game DVDs and stat sheets, in a box at the front of the room and led her team out behind the softball fi elds, where they burned the mem-ories away.

The next scene was straight out of a cheesy movie.

“There was like nothing in this fi eld but this thing burning and dead grass everywhere, and this butterfl y comes and lands right by us,” Jones said. “Coach said, ‘You know what that means, right? But-terfl ies symbolize rebirth.’”

They fi nished out the ceremo-ny by returning to the team lounge and discussing their roles on the teams, receiving corresponding nicknames. Jones became the “Ter-minator” for her blistering kills,

and junior middle blocker Desiree Elliott was named the team’s “Fire” for her spark.

“The symbol of rebirth and starting over, it’s all about managing mentality, and it’s opened some doors for us,” Flory said.

The team is 2-1 since the pro-cession. They’ll look to double that win total this weekend as they trav-el to Auburn and Kentucky, the lat-ter of whom LSU defeated earlier this season, 3-2.

Jones and senior defensive specialist Meghan Mannari will have more motivation than just the

ceremony against Auburn. They played club ball together in high school with two current Auburn players, outside hitters Sarah Bull-ock, senior, and Katherine Culwell, redshirt junior.

“We’re really excited to get to see them because they’re some of our best friends,” Jones said. “But this game? It’s going down.”

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As the LSU soccer team be-gins its fi nal regular-season road trip tonight against Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss. , it’s in an unfamil-iar position.

The Tigers (6-7-4 , 2-6-2 SEC ) are currently on the outside looking in for one of 10 spots into the Southeastern Conference Tournament , which LSU has qualifi ed for in each of the previ-ous fi ve seasons.

“We have certainly re-shaped our team goals for the year,” said LSU coach Brian Lee . “If we make the SEC Tournament at this point, that’s certainly an accomplishment. It’ll probably take winning at least two of our last three matches.”

The Rebels (12-5, 5-5 SEC ) don’t fi gure to be a welcoming host for a quick turnaround.

Ole Miss has won its last three matches and boasts a 7-2 mark at home this season.

But the series’ recent history suggests LSU won’t be an easy out.

The Tigers have a four-game unbeaten streak against the Reb-els, including a 3-2 comeback win last year at home.

That offensive burst was an oddity in the annual divisional matchup, as LSU and Ole Miss played to scoreless ties in 2009 and 2010.

“LSU and Ole Miss has al-ways been a bit of a rivalry,” Lee said. “When I got to LSU [in 2005 ], [Ole Miss was] the top team in the SEC West . They were the hurdle we needed to

climb then, and it’s no different [tonight].”

Even with standout junior goalkeeper Megan Kinneman — who has allowed 1.1 goals per game this fall — guarding the net for LSU, keeping the Rebels off the sheet will be a tall order.

Ole Miss has tallied the sec-ond-most goals in the league with 38 in 17 games and features two double-digit goal scorers on its frontline.

Sophomore striker Rafaelle Souza leads the SEC with 11 goals, and junior striker Mandy McCall isn’t far behind, netting 10 of her own.

“You can just look at the stats for those two players, but they’re a solid team from mid-fi eld right through the net,” Lee said. “Once they get you reeling, it’s a tough, organized

attack to handle.”LSU was accustomed to such

prolifi c scoring last fall, when All-SEC striker Taryne Boudreau roamed the pitch, but this season has been a different story.

With six freshmen playing signifi cant minutes, the Tigers have scrambled to fi nd the net, especially on the road.

Six goals in regulation dur-ing fi ve road games have led to just one conference road win for the Tigers .

After facing the Rebels to-night, LSU will travel to Colum-bia, Mo. , on Sunday afternoon for its inaugural league matchup with No. 16 Missouri.

SOCCER

LSU could miss SEC TourneyChris AbshireSports Writer

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Freshman mid� elder Tori Sample (28) dribbles past University of Florida senior defender Jo Dragotta (14) Oct. 5 at the LSU Soccer Stadium.

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LSU junior middle blocker Desiree Elliott (4) and sophomore setter Malorie Pardo (14) block Oct. 14 during the Tigers’ match against Alabama in the PMAC.

‘We have certainly reshaped our team goals

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The LSU softball team will play host to the National Pro Fastpitch All-Star team Friday at Tiger Park in what will be a matchup between two of the most prolific pitchers in program his-tory.

LSU senior pitcher Rach-ele Fico will represent the home team in the circle Saturday against the NPF All-Stars. Fico notched a career-best 1.20 ERA last season, 14 wins against 10 losses and 221 strikeouts in 230.1 innings of work.

Fico’s coun-terpart in the circle will be former Tiger Brittany Mack — No. 1 overall pick by the USSSA Pride during the 2012 National Pro Fastpitch Draft — who finished her LSU career with a 56-26 re-cord, a paltry 1.96 ERA and 602 strikeouts.

“It’s something the fans have been wanting,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “Mack versus Fico. Let’s do it.”

The duo propelled the Tigers to their first Women’s College World Series berth since 2004 last season, but they will be in different dugouts Saturday.

“It’s going to be weird

going up against her and hav-ing to face her,” Fico said. “I’ve never wanted to go up against her because she’s so talented, and she has some of the best breaking pitches I’ve ever seen. Lucky for me, I’m not a hitter, and I don’t have to face her.”

LSU junior infielder Allison Falcon said she hit against Mack in scrimmages and practice dur-ing the All-American’s time as a Tiger, but that doesn’t mean Mack’s former teammates will know exactly what to expect Sat-urday.

“Brittany Mack, when she gets on the field and puts that uni-form on, she’s a completely dif-ferent person,” Falcon said. “I’m really excited to see it and to com-pete against the best, and Brittany Mack is one of the best.”

The game will be the Tigers’ final fall exhibition after going 7-0 in a fall schedule that got started Oct. 6.

Torina said playing the NPF All-Star team will be a good learning experience for her team, especially for the newest Tigers.

“I think it’ll be neat for the freshmen to get to see that type of experience and to be on the same field with those type of play-ers,” Torina said. “It’s a really special thing and a neat experi-ence to get to be with the best of your game and to get to compete against them.”

First pitch is scheduled for 7

p.m. on Friday at Tiger Park, and admission is free.

The LSU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams meet Southeastern Conference jugger-naut Auburn in the pool Saturday at the Martin Aquatics Center in Auburn, Ala., in the men’s first SEC competition and the women’s second.

The LSU women’s squad is coming off a 181-80 victory against Vanderbilt on Oct. 10 in Nashville, Tenn.

“I’m really excited to see where our men are right now,” said LSU swim coach Dave Gey-er. “I think there’s going to be a lot of great races on both sides and a lot of close races on the men’s side.”

Auburn’s men’s squads are entering the 2012-13 campaign as reigning SEC champions just as they’ve done every year since 1997.

“It’s amazing,” Geyer said. “It’s a testimony to the strength of their program and what they’ve been able to do there over the time. This is why a lot of students swim [at LSU]: to compete against some of the best in the country.”

Auburn’s women’s team won all but one conference title be-tween 2003 and 2008, but finished fourth — one spot ahead of LSU — in last season’s conference championships.

The LSU men’s team suffered a 218-82 loss to Auburn last sea-son at the LSU Natatorium and is looking for more than just a better result this time around.

“It puts [us] in a situation when we get to the conference championship, we can look across the lane and say, ‘We’ve raced this team before,’” Geyer said. “It puts [us] in more of a comfort zone knowing that we’ve stepped up and raced these guys in dual meet fashion.”

Saturday will be the first com-petition for LSU’s divers and will give them a chance to gauge their progress early in the season.

“We’ve trained really hard, and I’m really happy with the training we’ve done up to this point on the boards and on the towers,” said LSU diving coach Doug Shaffer.

In last season’s tussle with Auburn, then-LSU senior Matt Vieke placed first in the 3-meter springboard and notched a close second in the 1-meter. Even with-out Vieke in the lineup, Shaffer said he thinks LSU will have a good showing at Auburn.

“I’m looking for an opportu-nity to gauge and be competitive and perform well,” Shaffer said. “I’m 100 percent confident we can be confident.”

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“Yes... When people blatantly

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“No, because I pay attention, stay in the crosswalks, and assume that every driver I’m near is check-ing their email.

There’s a time and place for being self-righteous. A crosswalk is not one of them. Yes you have the right of way, but you’re on foot and Bubba from Lincoln Parish is driv-ing his daddy’s F-350 with the deer-catcher on the front while texting

his bros with one hand and trying to get to second base with his girl-friend with the other.”- Chase Edwards

In response to the David Jones’ Cul-ture Club column, “Greek fashion trends should disappear for fall,” readers had this to say:

“Pull yourself out of your little hole in the Earth for five seconds and realize that we know we’re not looking “going out” good. The Norts and an oversized t-shirt com-bo in question serves a purpose: comfort and utilitarianism. I know

I can zip across campus to class, go work out, relax, all in the comfort of my Nike shorts. I have bigger fish to fry at 7:15 am than if I look runway ready, or my inner person-ality is being projected through my outfit. And quite frankly, you should too. We’re here to learn. And maybe you should keep that in mind when you’re chastising an entire group of people. I could say the same for car-go shorts and Crocs but you don’t see me writing an article about the non-Greek community’s countless wardrobe faux pas out there. And if you think that the Nike-short-t-shirt-combo is limited to just

Greeks, kind sir, take a look around. A good majority of your fellow non-Greek counterparts are showing up in them too.

As far as the short-shorts go, I’ll also speak on behalf of them: I’m partial to being able to pick out a fine fraternity man out by what he’s wearing... Sky’s out, thighs out, gentlemen. Long live, Chubbie’s.”- anonymous1327

Your privacy isn’t important enough for the Supreme Court.

Last week, the court declined — with-out comment — to hear a case six years in the making between civil liberties groups and telecommunications companies over the National Security Agency’s (NSA) wiretapping programs.

Why? Because a law passed in 2008, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA), made the agen-cy’s illegal activities legal and gave these companies immunity from lawsuits.

It’s the land of the free, as long as you’re a “job creator.”

Otherwise, watch your language in that text message, terrorist.

The case Hepting v. AT&T was a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 2006 against AT&T. They alleged that AT&T assisted and permitted the NSA to monitor its cli-ents’ activity and mine data from its records without warrants.

The case was doing pretty well in the beginning.

After the NSA wiretapping program was exposed by The New York Times in 2005, more information began seeping to the public.

Mark Klein, a former AT&T techni-cian-turned-whistleblower, became the preeminent plaintiff for the case. Klein produced internal company documents that suggested the NSA was monitoring Inter-net traffic from a secret room in an AT&T

facility in San Francisco.Klein even suggested that the NSA’s

program was not limited to foreign com-munications — a claim that is being echoed by former NSA analyst William Binney and gaining prominence.

But then FAA passed. All of a sudden, the case had to switch

from seeking billions of dollars in damages from AT&T for violating its users’ privacy to arguing whether the FAA’s immunity provisions were constitutional.

The case was dismissed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, citing the FAA’s retroactive provisions.

The Supreme Court has now upheld its ruling, protecting these companies from their own customers.

Telecommunications companies are involved in some of the most repugnant aspects of the surveillance system that has grown since 9/11.

Justice Department documents released to the ACLU have shown that surveillance activities that obtain (without warrants, of course) information about who is sending and receiving communications have risen to 37,616 in 2011 from 5,683 in 2001.

Even worse, these companies have turned your data into a revenue stream, charging law enforcement for each request.

This case could have been the first step in turning back this tide, but the Supreme Court upheld the act.

Here is a fundamental example of the disparity of power that exists between large, moneyed corporations and us peons when it comes to our influence in the gov-ernment.

Our government’s system of checks and balances is one the most praised as-pects of our republic.

Yet, here we have a fundamental break-down of its protections.

The FAA involved the legislative branch bailing out the executive branch for its misdeeds. Currently, with the judicial system being the only course left that can protect citizens from this abuse of govern-ment and corporate power, the highest court backs down without even commenting.

Admittedly, the Supreme Court will be hearing the ACLU challenge the govern-ment and the FAA in a separate case, Am-nesty et al. v. Clapper, on Oct. 29.

But there are fundamental differences between the two cases.

For one, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the ACLU, so the Supreme Court has to hear the case to protect the FAA.

Secondly, the defendant in this case is the government and not the telecommuni-cations companies.

The FAA has already been reautho-rized by the House this year and will be coming to the Senate before the year’s end.

Unless, by some miracle, the Senate does not reauthorize the law, or the Su-preme Court actually rules in favor of the ACLU in the second case, then the FAA will continue to be a part of American life.

And our private communications will continue to be fair game.

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

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As the weather turns grim, class attendance seems to follow, but one major factor of the falling attendance is preventable: the flu.

As a borderline germaphobe, I cringe when I notice unsanitary habits on campus that contribute to the spread of germs. The lack of hand-washing in the restroom is my personal pet peeve.

But luckily, the Student Health Center will be adminis-tering free flu shots this week in preparation for flu season.

Though many students know about the free flu shots, few re-ceive them and often endanger others by not getting vaccinated.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu season spans from October through March. But Julie Hup-perich, associate director at the Student Health Center, said the Health Center usually encounters

annual peaks in cases of the flu during January and February.

Hupperich said recipients are best protected within six months of receiving a flu shot. So ideally, one would get vaccinated in Oc-tober to ward away the flu until

flu season ends. Though flu season coinci-

dently begins near midterms, everyone knows midterms week isn’t complete until you are en-tirely stressed and sleep-deprived — two major factors contributing

to illness.In an effort to make flu shots

more accessible to students, the Student Health Center kicked off its annual program, Flu Shots on the Geaux, last year.

Because the flu shot is free for all full-time students and stu-dents who have paid the Student Health Fee, there is no reason to miss out on this opportunity — unless, of course, you’re afraid of needles.

But ask yourself: Does the brief pain of receiving an injec-tion outweigh spending an achy week in bed with the flu? Defi-nitely.

Hupperich said almost 1,600 students received flu shots last fall, and that’s an abhorrent turn-out on such a large campus for something healthy and free.

Though it’s good to hear so many students were vaccinated, a vast majority of our campus, which comprises almost 30,000 students, did not receive flu shots through the Health Center — if at all.

Symptoms of the flu include fever, coughing, body aches and

a stuffy nose — not symptoms you’d like to experience during final exams week or the start to a new semester.

On Monday and Tuesday, students can receive their flu shots from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the Student Health Center. The shots will also be administered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Student Union Theater, as well as from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thurs-day at the University Student Recreational Complex.

Oct. 30 is the final day to re-ceive flu shots from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Business Education Complex while supplies last.

So instead of risking spend-ing a week quarantined in your bedroom with the flu, take 15 minutes out of your busy sched-ule to get vaccinated.

Kate Mabry is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from New Orleans.

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Students should take advantage of free flu shots

Stock market correction means it’s time to dump stocks

When it comes to zombies, do what Woody Harrelson would do. When it comes to money, do what a billionaire would do.

According to Robert Wiede-mer, a glorified economist and author of The New York Times best-selling book Aftershock, you’ll need to befriend a billion-aire soon.

Since the financial crash in 2008, real estate prices have finally leveled off and unem-ployment rates have stabilized, all because the stock market is reaching four-year highs.

And those four-year highs are quickly becoming all-time highs; however, it’s too good to last.

It may be the darkest before the dawn, but it’s the brightest before it even starts getting dark.

According to Wiedemer, the stock market is bound to see a massive market correction by as much as 90 percent — and that’s the worst-case scenario.

“Our real concern is the ef-fect even if only half of Wiede-mer’s predictions come true,” said Aaron DeHoog, financial publisher for Newsmax.

Wiedemer is like the Mayan of Wall Street, and because of his accurate predictions, renowned billionaires are dumping their American stocks.

Warren Buffett, the oracle of Omaha and one of the many bil-lionaires listening to Wiedemer, has been a cheerleader of the stocks because it’s what made him his fortune. But this past week it was reported that he’s dumping stocks left and right — which is making the predicted market correction even worse.

A stock market correction is when the market declines 10 per-cent or less in a relatively short period of time. Wiedemer is pre-dicting a 90 percent correction as the worst-case scenario, yet a large drop is an undeniable cer-tainty.

And Wiedemer is not pulling a hoax, unfortunately.

In his book, he accurately predicted the collapse of the housing market, equity markets, and consumer spending that al-most drowned the United States.

After his string of accurate predictions, it’s safe to say he’s legit.

However, despite his psychic abilities, what is even more as-tonishing is the fact we have put ourselves in this situation.

The Federal Reserve reck-lessly printed a large amount of money in an attempt to stimulate the economy. When more money is printed, the value of each dol-lar bill decreases. Thus, the inevi-table secondary effect is a rise of inflation rates.

Because these funds have not yet reached the economy, we have not suffered from the ef-fects of printing money. When the funds do reach the economy,

however, inflation will surge, and that is as certain as two plus two equals four.

So the best way to handle this situation is to follow the bil-lionaires — sell a few stocks. Because once those fresh-pressed bills reach your pocket, your stock may have already lost 50 percent of its value.

With all that said, there is some good news: A market

correction is not a market crash. Corrections occur natu-

rally as part of the stock market cycle, and the market will usu-ally bounce back within a few months.

But this should serve as a warning. We need to hold our government more accountable so we can avoid the unnatural mar-ket hiccups.

In the short term, we need to

stop printing money.

Taylor Hammons is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Atlanta.

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Specialist Fabian Caceres works Oct. 9 at his post on the �oor of the New York Stock Exchange. Economist Robert Wiedemer’s latest prediction has billionaires selling stocks because of a possible upcoming stock market correction.

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“Please be advised that the sale of any products and/or ad-vertisements including the name, likeness or image of [Mathieu] or any other LSU student-athlete is in violation of NCAA Bylaw 12.5.2.2 and could have a nega-tive impact on the involved stu-dent-athlete’s eligibility.”

The article was grasping at straws, searching for something new to report.

If the NCAA were to hit Ma-thieu with a violation, it better be prepared to tackle players at just about every prominent university with a bar or club nearby.

But we can’t stand back and pick the article apart without understanding the motivation

behind it being Sports Illustrat-ed’s Oct. 22 cover story.

You wanted this article. You didn’t necessarily want it the way Thamel and Evans presented it, but you still craved it. We all did.

Mathieu is a fascinating in-dividual with a cautionary tale, one that in due time will come out and probably enlighten us all in some way.

Yes, in two years his star rose at break-neck speed to heights most probably didn’t think pos-sible for a college defensive back. With his success came his perso-na, and with his persona came an insatiable desire from the fanbase for more.

Yes, when his star fell we all scrambled to sate that desire. It’s not a case of kicking him

while he’s down, as many who commented on Sports Illustrat-ed’s website seemed to think. Ma-thieu’s larger-than-life persona made him a hot topic.

We are all drawn to him, ei-ther positively or negatively, and that demand drives the media’s attempts to supply his story.

The problem is that Sports Illustrated took that demand and

supplied a half-cooked story.

Luke Johnson is a 26-year-old mass communication senior from Lake Mills, Wis.

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the offseason.The morning kickoff, cou-

pled with LSU’s 14-6 road loss to Florida, has resulted in some Tiger fans opting not to travel again, ac-cording to humanities and social sciences senior Brandon Harden .

“People wasted their money going all the way [to Gaines-ville, Fla.] to see what happened,” Harden said. “People don’t want to waste their money and have that happen again.”

Harden , the roommate of sophomore running back Kenny Hilliard , said he’ll be in atten-dance to not only watch his friend “do his thing” but also to scope out what so many elder Tiger fans described to him.

“[Texas A&M] has a high-powered offense and it used to be a big rivalry back in the ’90s,” Harden said. “People wanted to go back there.”

Harden added that Heisman candidate and Texas A&M fresh-man quarterback Johnny Manziel and SEC sack leader junior Da-montre Moore may frighten some Tiger fans, especially after the de-bacle in Gainesville.

Political science senior Devin Fields concurred with Harden, saying the hype has dwindled a bit since the beginning of the season.

“If [LSU] was undefeated at this point, the hype would have been still big,” Fields said. “If [LSU] wins this game, the season can still turn around.”

Fields called the early kick-off ridiculous, and while he said he was never going to attend the game, he added the start time was the fi nal deterrence in his decision.

As is their reputation, Tiger fans will hit the trail no matter the time or the opponent, according to early childhood education sopho-more Olivia Robe , who herself won’t attend the game, but said she senses excitement from her friends who are making the trek.

“Since [LSU is] playing a lit-tle bit more ‘iffy,’ [fans] are a little bit more nervous,” Robe said. “I think everyone’s still pretty excited about it, for sure.”

Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @Rome_TDR

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