Bicycles are everywhere since Ba-ton Rouge and the University began go-ing “green.”

To deal with the increasing num-ber of bicyclists, map out safe routes around town and provide the rules of the road in the state and on campus, Stu-dent Government , the Environmental

Conservation Organization and the Ba-ton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets have partnered together to create LSU Bikes — a one-stop Web page for all bi-cycling information on SG’s Web site.

Moshe Cohen , mathematics gradu-ate student, said no Web site or organi-zation for bike advocacy or collective biking information exists .

Cohen said many riders do not know the state laws and University regulations about bicycles. He said the Web site will show bikers what they are allowed to do instead of telling them what they cannot do .

“Helping bikers helps everyone,”

Cohen said. “Solving this issue will solve larger traffi c issues around LSU’s campus. The goal is to house bicycling information in one place ... to pair the rules with their rights.”

Cohen said University rules

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Treasurer calls for higher ed. overhaulBy Kyle BoveSenior Staff Writer

State Treasurer John Kennedy called for the restructuring of Louisi-ana’s higher education and proposed a single board govern the state’s three systems in an opinion column published Thursday.

In the piece, Kennedy compared the state’s higher education system to confl icts in Iraq.

“Just as the Sunnis fi ght the Shiites who fi ght the Kurds for po-litical power and natural resources, the three systems of higher educa-tion in Louisiana scrap over turf and scarce taxpayer dollars in a political free-for-all that plays out every year in the Louisiana Legislature,” Ken-nedy said.

The three college systems in the state are the LSU System, Southern System and University of Louisiana System. They each have a board of supervisors and had to deal with funding cuts because of the reces-sion and slumping state revenues this summer.

Kennedy said only one board should govern all of higher educa-tion. It would be more effi cient and effective, he said.

“A single board would be able to make strategic decisions based on data and resources, not politics,” Kennedy said. “This will help Loui-siana be better prepared to meet the

Phase one master plan to be complete by springBy Mary Walker BausStaff Writer

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The LSU football team has never lost to Louisiana-Lafay-ette .

The Tigers have surren-dered only one touchdown in 21 matchups against the Ragin’ Cajuns — 16 of those games being shutouts. LSU has a com-manding lead in the all-time score as well, dominating ULL

by a total of 957-22 .Despite the extreme dispar-

ity in just about every statistical category, ULL fans are still ex-cited for the matchup between the Tigers (2-0) and the Ragin’ Cajuns (2-0) this weekend in Tiger Stadium.

“Absolutely, without a doubt, 100 percent, it is a rival-ry game,” said ULL kinesiolo-gy junior Jacques Leruth . “Peo-ple around here feel that LSU

gets everything in the state, and we’re being looked over in this game. Plus, we’re right across the bayou from each other.”

LSU fans have slightly dif-ferent sentiments toward the matchup with the Ragin’ Ca-juns .

“I would not really con-sider the game a rivalry,” said LSU undecided sophomore and

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Questions arise whether LSU-Louisiana-Lafayette matchup considered rivalry

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Louisiana-Lafayette fans cheer for the Ragin’ Cajuns on Sept. 5 at Cajun Field. LSU will play ULL for the 22nd time Saturday at 6 p.m. in Tiger Stadium.

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RIVALRY, see page 13

‘‘‘If LSU is playing

Germany in the national championship

somehow, I’d probably pull for Germany.’

Jacques LeruthULL kinesiology junior

BICYCLE, see page 14

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EU leaders press Obama on bonuses, climate change

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders is-sued a joint plea to President Barack Obama on Thursday to back their call for rich and developing nations to cap bankers’ pay and to impose deeper cuts on emissions for a new global climate change pact. All EU nations are in “total unity” that the world cannot repeat the “scandal.”

Mexico says millions of swine fl u cases possible during winter

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico could see up to 5 million cases of swine fl u during this winter’s fl u season, a higher projection than offi cials had previously given, the health secretary said Thursday. Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said in the worst-case scenario, deaths could reach 2,000. Cordova told the television network Televisa on Thursday that offi cials in recent weeks have seen a resurgence of the fl u that fi rst hit in April.

Yale animal lab technician charged with murder of student worker

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler for the rules who often clashed with researchers and considered the mice cages his personal fi efdom. Police charged 24-year-old Raymond Clark III with murder, arresting him at a motel a day after taking hair, fi ngernail and saliva samples to compare with evi-dence from the grisly crime scene at Yale’s medical school.

Americans’ household wealth grows for fi rst time in two years

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the fi rst time in two years, Americans actually got a little wealthier. House-hold wealth grew by $2 trillion, or about 4 percent, this spring, end-ing the longest stretch of quarterly declines on records dating back to

1952, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday. Net worth — the value of assets such as homes, checking ac-counts and investments minus debts like mortgages and credit cards — came to $53.1 trillion for the second quarter. Stock portfolios came back to life this spring after the market hit its lows for the year in March, and home prices have stabilized.

Obama honors US soldier killed on Afghan battlefi eld

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday praised a U.S. soldier who three times left cover for an attempted rescue while Taliban bullets and grenades rained around him, ultimately losing his own life while trying to save his comrade on an Afghan battlefi eld. A somber Obama, standing just feet from Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti’s parents, told a White House audience the 30-year-old soldier’s sacrifi ce should give Americans pause when they throw around words such as duty, honor, sacrifi ce and heroism.

Baton Rouge gets best, worst ratings in survey results

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Baton Rouge is Louisiana’s best place to live and its worst, a new report says. A coalition of groups analyzed 2007 data on health, education and earnings to form a quality of life index. The “best” rating for Ba-ton Rouge cited a suburban swath of predominantly white southern East Baton Rouge Parish combined with West Baton Rouge Parish. The “worst” rating came for sections of downtown and north Baton Rouge, which are predominantly black. The report, spearheaded by Oxfam America, the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation and other groups, said someone in the fi rst area “is expected to live, on aver-age, nearly half a decade longer, earn twice as much, is almost three times more likely to have a bach-elor’s degree and is three times less likely to have dropped out of high school” than someone living in the other section.

$45 million in new construction spending approved

(AP) — A nearly $45 million list of new state construction spending is moving ahead. The state Bond Com-mission approved the list of projects Thursday without objection. That list includes local museums, drain-age projects, an animal shelter in Washington Parish, a baseball sta-dium in Baton Rouge and a slew of other construction plans.

State board pushes for changes to Gov. Jindal’s ethics laws

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A non-partisan research group has joined the state ethics board in calling for changes to ethics laws Gov. Bobby Jindal pushed through the Legislature in 2008. On Thursday, the Public Af-fairs Research Council of Louisiana said Jindal and the Legislature should ask the Louisiana Law Institute — a group of lawyers, law school faculty and other experts — to examine the law and suggest revisions.

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The Music and Dramatic Arts Building will offi cially open its doors Sunday after undergoing a nearly fi ve-year, $22 million renovation.

Originally built in the 1930s , the building was completely gutted — making way for state-of-the-art fa-cilities and plenty of art-deco charm.

A re-dedication ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the re-

stored Claude L. Shaver The-atre , where some Swine Palace and LSU Opera productions take place now.

After a pre-sentation from g o v e r n m e n t leaders and Uni-versity alumni, there will be an open house for the public to see the renovations.

A presentation of Swine Palace’s lat-est comedy “The Royal Family” at 7:30 p.m. in the Shaver Theatre will end the evening.

The event is free and open to the public, and tickets for the show are on sale for $28 .

Constructed in 1932 during the Great Depression, it only cost about $600,000 and took a mere 18 months to construct.

“The height of the Great Depres-sion did not stop Gov. Huey Long and other visionary Louisiana leaders and citizens from building this monument to the performing arts and related scholarly fi eld,” said Laurence Kap-tain , dean of the College of Music and Dramatic Arts. “All these years later, it still retains that importance.”

The building — which is now 20 percent bigger — has new features like a black box studio theatre for student productions, a dance/opera studio and a design technology lab, complete with a dozen drafting tables and computers equipped with the lat-est design software.

“Everything’s just state-of-the-art,” said Vastine Stabler , director of marketing and public relations for the LSU Department of Theatre. “A lot

of stuff here is going to be better than what you fi nd backstage at Broad-way.”

Several “smart” classrooms have also been added, equipped with projectors, computers and other luxu-ries the school didn’t have before. A new movement studio, allowing stu-dents to experiment with Cirque du Soleil-style fabric performance, and a high-tech piano lab are also part of the renovations.

A large costume studio — hous-ing separate rooms for dying fabric, sewing, and storing clothing and oth-er equipment — was also added.

Classroom demonstrations and small performances will be held dur-ing the open house Sunday , Stabler said.

With fuel-effi cient cars, reus-able shopping bags available at nearly every department store and the increasing popularity of re-cycling bins, LSU Dining is also leaving its stamp on going “green” — with reusable mugs.

LSU Dining has sold nearly 5,000 reusable mugs within the last year as part of the national Project Green Thumb, prompting the University to adopt its own LSU-branded mugs — but the sale of the mugs does little to decrease consumption, said Matt Moer-schbaecher, renewable natural re-sources graduate student.

“It’s been a real hit,” said LSU Dining Director David Heidke. “It was such a success here, we took the step of getting an LSU-brand-ed refi llable mug.”

The LSU-branded mugs will be available by the end of Septem-ber for $5.

Project Green Thumb mugs were available throughout the summer at a discounted price of $5 with any purchase in the Tiger Lair, Pierre’s Landing, the Atrium Cafe in the Design Building and CC’s Community Coffee House in

the Middleton and Law libraries. They were previously available for $8.

With the mug, fountain drink and coffee refi lls are available at the discounted price of 99 cents at participating locations — locales where the mugs are available for purchase.

“There’s a cost due to LSU Dining for offering that program,” Heidke said of the discount of-fered on refi lls. “It’s just one of the responsible things that we as a din-ing unit on campus should do.”

Moerschbaecher said students ideally should be offered refi lls on containers they already possess because it would decrease the sale of plastic.

“Why don’t they just allow everybody to have 99 cent drinks if it’s the same or smaller volume [as the cups being sold]?” Moer-schbaecher said. “It’s about mon-ey. They’ve obviously fi gured they can make enough money by sell-ing these containers.”

The majority of sustainable pushes being made are merely “corporations cashing in on the green trend,” Moerschbaecher said — but the efforts fall short of de-creasing overall consumption.

From the perspective of public health concerns, Moerschbaecher said using plastic to transport hot liquids — like coffee — could potentially have negative health repercussions because plastic

becomes more malleable and loses bisphenol A when heated.

Studies have shown the re-lease of bisphenol A could be linked to birth defects in children, Moerschbaecher said.

But Moerschbaecher said making the option of refi llable mugs available to students is a positive decision.

Cas Smith, Student Govern-ment assistant director of Campus Development, said SG is working with LSU Dining to offer alterna-tives to fountain drinks and coffees at discounted prices.

“I discussed with [Heidke] about having more liquids acces-sible for a reduced price and also more locations accepting the green

mug,” Smith said. Other SG initiatives aimed at

reducing waste include a campus-wide composting initiative and partnering with Frito-Lay to re-cycle chip bags, Smith said.

The upcoming LSU Fall Fest will have a stand and Tiger Card swipe area set up to distribute First Year Experience mugs to incom-ing freshmen, according to FYE Program Coordinator Maggi Spur-lock.

FYE is partnering with LSU Dining to produce the mugs fea-turing an FYE logo and contact information, Spurlock said.

“It’s a good way for [fresh-men] to visibly identify other fi rst year students, and it kind of cre-ates a community for them,” Spur-lock said.

An overarching goal of dis-tributing the mugs to fi rst-year students is a green one, Spurlock said.

“We want them to be mindful of being green,” she said.

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LSU-branded mugs “geaux green” By Lindsey MeauxSenior Staff Writer

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Project Green Thumb offers inexpensive drink options

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Reusable Project Green Thumb mugs sit unsold Wednesday on a shelf in the Union.

FACILITIES

MDA building to open SundayFacility features new technologyBy Kyle BoveSenior Staff Writer

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Stagehands build the set Wednesday afternoon in the newly renovated Claude L. Shaver Theatre in preparation for opening night on Sunday.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s — a bill to oust pri-vate lenders from the student loan business and put the government in charge.

The vote was 253-171 in fa-vor of a bill that fulfills nearly all of President Obama’s campaign promises for higher education: The measure ends subsidies for private lenders, boosts Pell Grants for needy students and creates a grant program to improve commu-nity colleges, among other things. “These are reforms that have been talked about for years, but they’re always blocked by special inter-ests and their lobbyists,” Obama said Thursday during a rally at the University of Maryland.

“Well, because you voted for change in November, we’re going to bring change in the House of Representatives today,” the presi-dent said.

Ending loan subsidies and turning control over to the gov-ernment would save taxpayers an estimated $87 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Of-fice. Lawmakers would use that money to help make college more

affordable, increasing the maxi-mum Pell Grant by $1,400 to $6,900 over the next decade.

“The choice before us is clear. We can either keep sending these subsidies to banks or we can start sending them directly to students,” said the bill’s sponsor, California Democratic Rep. George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.

Yet the money also would be spent on things that don’t help pay for college, such as construc-tion at K-12 schools and new pre-school programs.

And while the measure would increase Pell Grants, it would do nothing to curb college costs, which rise much faster than Pell Grants do.

In addition, the CBO says when administrative costs and market conditions are considered, the savings from switching to di-rect government lending could be much lower, $47 billion instead of $87 billion.

Republicans warned instead of saving the government money, as Democrats promise, the bill could wind up costing the gov-ernment more money.

“Unfortunately, the numbers just don’t add up,” said Minnesota Rep. John Kline, senior Republi-can on the Education Committee.

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DAIRY STORE

Ice cream new gameday treat

Tiger fans can scream for their team — and ice cream — starting Saturday.

The School of Animal Sci-ences will open two new venues to sell the LSU AgCenter Dairy Store ice cream on game days in addition to the location on South Stadium Drive.

The new venues are located in the concession area in Ti-ger Stadium directly behind the South goalposts and on the side-walk between the stadium and the PMAC.

“We tried to do this for a while with our own labor, but budget cuts kept [us] from do-ing it,” said Gary Hay, interim director of the School of Animal Sciences. “We got the student or-ganizations involved as a way for them to raise their funds.”

Hay said the money raised will go to the Block and Bridle Club and the Dairy Science Club. University students in these orga-nizations will sell the ice cream at all three locations.

“The clubs will make some-where around a dollar a cup,” Hay said. “About 25 percent of sales is profit — that goes to them.”

Brittany Bourg, Block and Bridle Club president and agri-cultural business senior, said the club will use the money to fund different scholarships for students within the club each spring.

Cathleen Williams, animal science associate professor and Dairy Science Club adviser, said the money earned by members will fund attendance to American Dairy Science Association re-gional and national conferences.

Hay said the School of Ani-mal Sciences, which operates the Dairy Store, has to pay Tiger

Concessions a cut of its sales but would not disclose an amount.

Hay said the Dairy Store lo-cation inside Tiger Stadium will stay open until the end of the game if business goes well.

Two Tiger Stadium venues to openBy Mary Walker BausStaff Writer

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Remington Leger, geology senior and Dairy Store employee, scoops ice cream June 17. Students will work the new Dairy Store venues to earn money for their clubs.

Contact Mary Walker Baus at mwbaus@lsureveille.com

FINANCIAL AID

House votes gov’t in charge of college aidCBO: $87 billion in taxes to be saved By The Associated Press

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama called reinventing health care a “defi n-ing struggle of this generation” on Thursday, even as several Democrats criticized some of the fi ne print in a Senate proposal the president has praised.

Obama told about 15,000 col-lege students at a campaign-style rally that Congress must resist scare tactics and false accusations to remake the nation’s health care system.

The fi ght will be diffi cult, he said, and resistance that started surfacing Thursday to a key pro-vision in Sen. Max Baucus’ bill illustrated that. Several Demo-crats expressed concerns about a new tax proposed by Baucus, a

Montana Democrat who chairs the Finance Committee. It would ap-ply to high-value health insurance policies, but some say it would hit too many middle-class workers.

Obama, seemingly energized by the wildly cheering students at the University of Maryland, said forces are lining up in favor of a major health care bill, even as “special interests” oppose it. He said an “unprecedented coali-tion” of hospitals, doctors, nurses and drugmakers support the ef-fort. Some of the most enthusias-tic backers, he said, “are the very medical professionals who have fi rsthand knowledge” of how bad-ly the current system operates.

A large infl ux of federal dollars after Hurricane Katrina turned Loui-siana from an economically poor state into a relatively rich one.

But enormous federal funding decreased over time, and the state has faced a severe decline in rev-enues through the 2012 fi scal year.

Enter the Commission on Streamlining Government, a 10-member panel created in July to study which state agencies can be eliminated, streamlined, consolidat-ed or outsourced to reduce the size of government.

“Now is the time to drive the re-forms needed to create a strong and sustainable state government that is accountable and effective,” said Gov. Bobby Jindal in a Sept. 16 letter to state Sen. Jack Donahue, chairman of the commission.

The state’s per-capita income increased 42 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The increase in-cludes all sources of revenue, includ-ing federal assistance like the Road Home program and other recovery programs.

The increase in per-capita in-come relates to less federal aid, though most of the money has been spent on recovery.

Because of this and other fac-tors, the state’s fi ve-year budget out-look shows an estimated shortfall of almost $3 billion .

This shortfall requires at least $802 million in savings for the 2010 fi scal year alone. These required sav-ings exclude another $146 million in reductions required for higher educa-tion.

Those reductions are being han-dled by a separate commission.

The commission is broken down into fi ve advisory groups, each responsible for exploring ways to reduce state spending in various sec-tors.

The groups are expected to pres-ent their ideas to the general com-mission in mid-October, said Jerry Guillot , streamlining commission administrator.

One of the ideas already submit-ted by the Advisory Group on Effi -ciency and Benchmarking recom-mends the University of Louisiana System, Southern University, LSU systems and the boards of supervi-sors for each be abolished.

“We don’t have too many uni-versities — we have too many univer-sities that try to do the same thing,” said John Kennedy, state treasurer and chairman of the advisory group on effi ciency and benchmarking .

The advisory group recom-mended each of these organizations be placed under the Louisiana Board of Regents to limit the number of or-ganizations required to operate the systems.

“We need a government struc-ture that looks like someone de-signed it on purpose, and we don’t have that,” Kennedy said. “It’s hurt-ing our universities, it’s hurting LSU

particularly and it’s costing the tax-payers’ money.”

To reduce the rate of criminal recidivism in the state, the group put forth a recommendation to require inmates at least pass a general edu-cation development test before being eligible for probation or parole.

Pam Laborde , communication director for the state department of corrections, said this recommenda-tion would drive up the cost of in-carceration because it would require more teachers and longer periods of incarceration.

“There are obviously some things we’d have to work out before that statute could be implemented,” Laborde said.

Though no dollar fi gure is avail-able, Laborde said it could save money in the long run if it reduced the recidivism rate in the state.

She said Louisiana has a 46 to 47 percent recidivism rate.

Another recommendation would prohibit legislative earmarks for non-government agencies like social clubs and nonprofi t organizations.

The advisory group found the state appropriates millions of dollars to NGOs each year, which curtail the ability of the executive branch to manage fund allocation.

Kennedy said $30 to $60 mil-lion are earmarked for NGOs each year.

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NATION

Commission aims to cut spending Obama pitches health care to college studentsBy The Associated Press

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‘‘‘We have too many universities that

try to do the same thing.’

John KennedyLa. treasurer

People who are concerned with the dangers of serious illnesses like Parkinson’s disease or various types of cancer have a new resource to evaluate the likelihood of develop-ing them — an online service which analyzes genes and reports on the possibility of contracting diseases.

For $399, customers can mail a saliva sample to 23andMe, a per-sonal genomics company based in California which tests the cus-tomer’s DNA for genes commonly correlated with certain diseases. The site then provides a report on wheth-er clients are more, less or as likely as the average person to develop 116 different diseases and traits.

Results for tests like this one are determined by looking for genes which have been highly correlated with certain conditions, said Steven Pomarico, biology professor. One example is two genes in women, which can be evidence of breast cancer.

“If you’ve got one of the two genes, your chance for developing breast cancer is six times greater,” Pomarico said. “If you’ve got both, your chance is 600 times greater.”

Several variables with services like these make genetic testing a slippery slope, Pomarico said. The company’s ability to properly ana-lyze genes and the quality of current research about diseases could affect that test’s accuracy, and the average person may not be able to ascertain that information, he said.

23andMe acknowledges the room for error in its test results and is clear about what its service is not meant to be.

“We cannot and do not diag-nose diseases or medical conditions, provide medical advice or otherwise assess your health,” according to 23andMe’s Web site.

Pomarico said one useful appli-cation of the data would be avoiding environmental factors which could increase the chances of developing a condition.

“If I found out I was predis-posed to a lung condition, I wouldn’t want to live in a place where pollu-tion is high,” Pomarico said.

Blaire Whitaker, communica-tion disorders sophomore, said she would be cautious about test results.

“If I got bad news, I wouldn’t be too pessimistic,” she said. “I would definitely go to the doctor.”

Alejandra Vargas, psychology junior, agreed on the importance of a doctor.

“Based on the percentage of how likely I am to get a disease, I would take precautions and ask my

doctor if I should be concerned,” Vargas said.

But there could be other uses for the data not intended by 23andMe, Pomarico said. Knowledge about predisposition to disease could af-fect the way people think about in-surance policies.

“People might say, ‘If I know I have something really bad, I should increase my life insurance. I’ll take out a gazillion dollar policy and leave a lot of money to someone,’” Pomarico said.

The other side of that — in-surance companies gaining genetic information about policy holders — could also be a concern.

“If you were an insurance company and you had an accurate way of assessing that one group of people had higher likelihood of get-ting a condition than another group, wouldn’t you charge the first group more for insurance?” Pomarico said. “It could be a good business model. But is it ethical?”

23andMe offers customers the option of keeping results private or making it available to others.

Pomarico said the results and how customers use them may vary, but the bottom line on genetic test-ing is research, and the interpreta-tion of it is always changing.

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TECHNOLOGY

Company offers genetic analysisReports determine likelihood of disease By Ryan BuxtonStaff Writer

Contact Ryan Buxton at rbuxton@lsureveille.com

TRAPPED IN A LOCKER

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The Locker Gallery in the main hallway of the sculpture building features a new, light-up sculpture every few weeks done by Sculpture graduate student Kit French.

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VIENNA (AP) — Iran experts at the U.N nuclear monitoring agen-cy believe Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developing a missile system that can carry an atomic warhead, according to a confidential report seen by The Associated Press.

The document drafted by se-nior officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency is the clearest indication yet that those officials share Washington’s views on Iran’s weapon-making capa-bilities and missile technology — even if they have not made those views public.

The document, titled “Pos-sible Military Dimension of Iran’s Nuclear Program,” appeared to be the so-called IAEA “secret annex” on Iran’s alleged nuclear arms program that the U.S., France, Is-rael and other IAEA members say is being withheld by agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei — claims the nuclear watchdog denies.

It is a record of IAEA findings since the agency began probing Iran’s nuclear program in 2007 and has been continuously up-dated.

The information in the docu-ment that is either new, more de-tailed or represents a more forth-right conclusion than found in published IAEA reports includes

— The IAEA’s assessment that Iran worked on developing a chamber inside a ballistic mis-sile capable of housing a warhead payload “that is quite likely to be nuclear.”

— That Iran engaged in “probable testing” of explosives commonly used to detonate a nu-clear warhead — a method known as a “full-scale hemispherical ex-plosively driven shock system.”

— An assessment that Iran worked on developing a system “for initiating a hemispherical high explosive charge” of the kind used to help spark a nuclear blast.

In another key finding, an excerpt notes, “The agency ... as-sesses that Iran has sufficient in-formation to be able to design and produce a workable implosion nuclear device (an atomic bomb) based on HEU (highly enriched uranium) as the fission fuel.”

ElBaradei said in 2007 there was no “concrete evidence” that Iran was engaged in atomic

weapons work — a source of fric-tion with the United States, which has sought a hard-line stance on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

Responding to the AP report, the agency did not deny the exis-tence of a confidential record of its knowledge and assessment of Iran’s alleged attempts to make nuclear weapons. But an agency statement said the IAEA “has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapon program in Iran.”

It cited ElBaradei as telling the agency’s 35-nation governing board last week that “continuing allegations that the IAEA was withholding information on Iran are politically motivated and to-tally baseless.”

“Information from a variety of sources ... is critically assessed by a team of experts working col-lectively in accordance with the agency’s practices,” it said.

“The IAEA reiterates that all relevant information and assess-ments that have gone through the above process have already been provided to the IAEA Board of Governors in reports of the direc-tor general.”

The document traces Iran’s nuclear arms ambitions as far back as 1984, when current supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was president and Iran was at war with Iraq.

At a top-level meeting at that time, according to the document, Khamenei endorsed a nuclear weapons program, saying “a nu-clear arsenal would serve Iran as a deterrent in the hands of God’s soldiers.”

He and other top Iranian lead-ers insist their country is opposed to nuclear weapons, describing them as contrary to Islam. They argue that Iran’s uranium enrich-ment program and other activities are strictly for civilian purposes.

Senior U.S. government offi-cials have for years held the view that Iran has the expertise to make

a bomb.The Obama administration

said Thursday it was scrapping a Bush-era plan for a missile de-fense shield in Eastern Europe. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the decision came after U.S. intelligence concluded that Iran’s short- and medium-range missiles were developing more rapidly than previously projected and now pose a greater near-term threat than the intercontinental ballistic missiles addressed by the plan under for-mer President George W. Bush.

The AP saw two versions of the U.N. document — one running 67 pages that was described as be-ing between six months and a year old, and the most recent one with more than 80 pages and growing because of constant updates. Both were tagged “confidential.”

A senior international official identified the document as one described by the U.S. and other IAEA member nations as a “secret annex” on Iran’s nuclear program. The IAEA has called reports of a “secret annex” misinformation.

The document is based on intelligence provided by member states, the agency’s own investi-gations and input from outside nu-clear arms experts under contract with the IAEA.

Iran is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment, the key to making both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade uranium. It is blocking IAEA attempts to probe allegations based on U.S., Israeli and other intelligence that it worked on a nuclear weapons program.

Iran recently agreed to meet Oct. 1 with the U.S. and five other world powers seeking curbs on its atomic activities for the first time in more than a year. But Tehran says it is not prepared to discuss its nuclear activities.

Presented with excerpts from the earlier paper, the senior in-ternational official said some

of the wording and conclusions were outdated because they had been updated as recently as sev-eral weeks ago by IAEA experts probing Iran for signs it was — or is — hiding work on developing nuclear arms.

At the same time, he con-firmed the accuracy of the ex-cerpts, including Khamenei’s comments, as well as the IAEA assessment that Iran already had the expertise to make a nuclear bomb and was well-positioned to develop ways of equipping mis-siles with atomic warheads.

An official from one of the 150 IAEA member nations who showed the AP the older version of the document said much of the information in it has either never been published or, if so, in less direct language within El-Baradei’s periodic Iran reports first circulated to the agency’s

board and released to the public. That was confirmed by the senior international official.

The officials providing the information both insisted on ano-nymity because of the confidenti-ality of the document, which they said was meant to be seen only by ElBaradei and his top lieutenants.

In the case of Khamenei, there is only an oblique reference in the annex to ElBaradei’s Iran report of May 26, 2008, saying the agency had asked Tehran for “information about a high level meeting in 1984 on reviving Iran’s pre-revolution nuclear program.”

The international official said the Iranians denied that Khame-nei backed the concept of nuclear weapons for his country.

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Nuclear agency: Iran able to make atomic bomb

By George JahnThe Associated Press

Report traces Iran’s ambitions to 1984

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LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory’s team was picked in the preseason by the Southeastern Conference coaches to win the SEC Western Division title.

If they do win the division, it would mark the fifth-straight sea-son the Tigers have done so.

For Flory and the Tigers, that’s a great achievement. But it’s not quite what they want — they want the outright SEC championship.

That quest begins in the PMAC this weekend as LSU (6-3) will open its conference schedule against Tennessee (6-3) tonight and will also face Kentucky (10-0) on Sunday afternoon.

“This weekend is going to go a long way because these two teams are two of the top teams in the conference,” Flory said.

LSU sophomore libero Lau-ren Waclawczyk said despite a tough weekend, she feels the Ti-gers have the talent to achieve their goal.

“We’re figuring out our sys-tem still,” Waclawczyk said. “But when we are in [a] system, I feel like nobody can stop us.”

Home matches like these will be important for Flory’s club, as road victories are hard to come by in the conference. Last season,

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FOOTBALL

VOLLEYBALL

LSU pays Tulane $700K to end seriesBy Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer

Tigers open SEC play tonightTeam to face Tenn., Ky. this weekendBy Andy SchwehmSports Writer

VOLLEYBALL, see page 15

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LSU junior setter Brittany Johnson and senior middle blocker Britnee Cooper jump to block the ball Sept. 4 against Nebraska junior outside hitter Tara Mueller.

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FlowFootball is in Louisiana-Lafayette senior

offensive guard Brad Bustle’s genes. It’s in his blood.

Bustle, son of ULL coach Rickey Bustle, was raised on the practice fields of Virginia Tech, where his father was offensive coordi-nator under Frank Beamer from 1995-2001.

“I think he cut his teeth on football,” said Lynn Bustle, Brad’s mother. “He was out there every day, following his dad around ev-erywhere. I think, kind of by osmosis, it got in his blood because we certainly didn’t pres-sure him to even play football.”

But football seemed to choose him. As a toddler, Brad was already watching film with

Rickey most nights. He wanted to know the plays and how they worked. He would dash around the living room, performing the plays for his parents. He was a coach in the mak-ing.

Rickey was hired as ULL’s head coach in 2002 when Brad was in the ninth grade and, naturally, was playing football.

By the time his senior year of high school rolled around, Brad had nary an offer from the collegiate ranks, not even from his father. He hadn’t yet hit his growth spurt, a negative in most college coaches’ eyes.

That’s not to say his father didn’t want him at ULL. It just wasn’t feasible to offer a scholarship.

“No question, I wanted him to come here,” Rickey Bustle said. “We talked about

that. He knew that. I wanted him to make his own decision to where he wanted to go.”

Nevertheless, at the beginning of summer after graduation, he got a call from Southeast-ern Louisiana. They offered a scholarship, and he quickly accepted.

“I had been watching them throughout the season and saw some random games on TV and thought it would be cool to go there,” Brad said. “They recruited me and had me on a visit, so that’s where I wanted to go.”

The decision was made, and Brad was happy. One of Brad’s main reasons for shying away from ULL was the thought of being “the coach’s son.”

That summer, Brad worked out with ULL

Louisiana-Lafayette senior offensive guard Brad Bustle overcomes ‘coach’s son’ monikerBy Chris BranchSports Contributor

BUSTLE, see page 15

‘I didn’t know how other players would accept me because of [being the coach’s son]. But I found out quick that I came here and worked hard, and they respected me for that.’

Brad Bustle, Louisiana-Lafayette senior offensive guard Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

LSU paid Tulane $700,000 to cancel the remaining six matchups between the schools, senior associ-ate athletic director Verge Ausberry said Thursday.

Ausberry said the decision was made largely because of the chang-ing economy.

“We just came up with a num-ber,” he said. “We found a number that was fair and talked to both sides, and the cancel was made. Both are ready to part next year and explore different scheduling opportunities.”

Ausberry said LSU is paying Tulane $650,000 to play Oct. 31 in Baton Rouge, which will be the final game in the 10-year contract that was signed in May 2005.

Ausberry said the economic uncertainty did not make it smart to continue following through with such a lengthy contract.

“We just said it was time to change it. A 10-year deal was too long,” Ausberry said. “When the fi-nancial structure changes, you have to change with it ... There is a good relationship between both athletic departments.”

LSU was scheduled to open the 2010 season at Tulane, but that spot was officially filled Wednesday with the announcement that LSU will face North Carolina in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game on Sept. 4 in Atlanta.

LSU made some other schedul-ing moves this week, adding a game against Louisiana-Monroe in Baton Rouge on Nov. 13, 2010 and a game against Northwestern State on Sept. 10, 2011. LSU also moved a pro-posed home matchup with Southern Miss to Nov. 12, 2011.

Bustle

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Louisiana-Lafayette senior offensive lineman Brad Bustle originally committed to play football at Southeastern but transferred to ULL and eventually earned a scholarship after walking on the team.

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The LSU cross country teams will finally get their season under-way today at the Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa, Ala., after last week’s season opening meet was rained out.

LSU coach Mark Elliott said it was unfortunate his runners did not get the opportunity to compete last weekend, and the teams ad-justed this week’s practice regimen because of the rainout at the Texas A&M Invitational.

“The kids were looking for-ward to it,” Elliott said. “It gives us another week to prepare for this meet.”

The Crimson Classic, hosted by Alabama at Harry Pritchard Run-ning Course, begins at 5 p.m. with the women’s 5K race and is fol-lowed by the men’s 8K race at 5:30 p.m.

Pritchard Running Course will also be the host site of the NCAA South Regional later in the season.

The Crimson Classic consists of 16 teams in both the men’s and women’s races. The Tigers match up against stiff competition with Southeastern Conference foe and

host team No. 10 Alabama. Other conference teams competing on the men’s side include No. 13 Auburn and Tennessee.

Elliott praised the Crimson Tide for their lofty ranking.

“They have one of the best teams in the country,” he said. “You’re not going to find a better team to run against. We are going to try to do the best we can with the talent level that we have.”

Both the Alabama men’s and women’s teams won the Crimson Classic last season.

The Tigers last competed at the Crimson Classic in 2007, with both teams placing third. Then-freshmen Kyle Hecker and Ken Ehrhardt placed 46th and 52nd, respectively. Hecker finished in 27:46.91, while Ehrhardt posted a time of 27:58.80.

Elliott said he is eager to see how his teams do against formi-dable competition in their opening meet of the season.

“After it’s over, we will see how we stack up against them,” he said.

Several of the runners Elliott will count on this weekend are in-experienced. Senior-to-be Andy Florek and junior Richard Chautin, two of eight upperclassmen on the roster will both redshirt this season for academic reasons.

Florek was one of the most consistent runners for the Tigers a season ago. He ran in all six meets

and scored in four of them with a personal best 26:30.47 at the Tiger Invitational. Chautin placed a per-sonal best ninth last season in the Tiger Festival.

Elliott said he expects sopho-mores Luke Dessauer and Cullen Doody to lead the pack for the Ti-gers. Now juniors Hecker and Eh-rhardt are familiar with the course. Juniors Sean Swanner, Tim Landry and sophomore Kenneth Schiffman will also compete for the Tigers.

“We may not have a kid that can win the race this weekend, but if they all run up to their potential, we should do well as a team,” El-liott said. “It’s just a matter of who’s ready to run on that day.”

On the women’s side, Elliott said the Lady Tigers are strong in terms of numbers this week. Senior Kayann Thompson and freshman Charlene Lipsey, both distance run-ners for the track team, add depth to the women’s team.

Sophomore Jenna Henssler and redshirt senior Katie Hamel are ex-pected to be the top runners for the Lady Tigers. Henssler posted a 5K personal best 19:43.2 at the Tiger Invitational. Sophomores Amber Abbott, Laura Carleton, Jessica Deutsch and senior Amal Esmail will also compete this weekend.

CROSS COUNTRY

Tigers get second shot at today’s Crimson Classic meet

By Jonathan SchexnayderSports Contributor

Contact Jonathan Schexnayder at jschexnayder@lsureveille.com

Last week’s season opener rained out

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Senior Andy Florek runs ahead of a Southeastern Louisiana runner in the LSU Tiger Cross Country Festival in 2008. Florek will redshirt this season for academic reasons.

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The 2009 fall intramural season has started slowly because of rainy weather.

“The weather has not been too friendly for us as of late,” said As-sociate Director of Recreational Ser-vices Melissa Longino. “We’ve only been able to have one night of our intramural soccer league.”

Longino said soccer, the biggest intramural sport going on right now, has canceled three nights of games because of weather since the start of the season Sept. 2.

In the men’s open soccer di-vision that plays on Mondays, Malostranska beat MBA Ballers, 4-1. Channel 4 News Team beat Hot Sauce, 5-0.

Grizzly Adams Beard beat The Unnaturals 2-1, while Team Pup ‘n’ Suds beat G-Squad, 7-0.

In the Monday 8:30 p.m. fra-ternity division, Kappa Sigma beat Sigma Phi Epsilon “B” 5-0 and SAE beat Sigma Phi Episilon “C” 5-0.

The Free Agents beat the Blue Ballers, 5-0, and Motor Boaters beat Pi Kappa Phi, 5-0, in the Wednesday open division.

The 6:30 p.m. Wednesday fra-ternity division has also only played one game each. Sigma Chi beat DKE, 2-0, while Sigma Phi Epsilon “A” beat Pike, 4-0.

The 9:30 p.m. Wednesday divi-sion men’s soccer teams are the only ones to play more than one game. Kappa Alpha leads 2-0, followed by Acacia at 1-1, and then Delta Chi and Phi Delta Theta at 0-1.

The Sunday open divisions

have had the worst luck and have not played yet because of the weather.

In women’s soccer, the Sun-day division has not played yet. The Wednesday division is led by Chi Omega at 2-0. Katie’s team and Delta Delta Delta are 1-1, and Kappa Delta is 0-2.

The coed soccer teams have also experienced rain problems. The Monday and Wednesday divisions have played one game each. The Sunday divisions haven’t played yet.

The coed Sunday division’s first games are expected to be played Sept. 20, according to University Recreation’s Web site.

Other intramural sports going on right now are 3-on-3 basketball,

team racquetball, singles table tennis and singles tennis.

Registration for flag football and sand volleyball begins Sept. 28, and both seasons begin Oct. 11. Available leagues are men, women and coed, with open, Greek, faculty/staff and residential life divisions available. For sand volleyball, teams can be formed with as few as three players or as many as 20.

Club sports are also underway. The men’s rugby team held a fall training camp in August. Its first game is against ULL on Sept. 26 at LSU.

Lisa Jackson blends in quite well on the tennis court.

With her dirty blond hair pulled back in a ponytail and sunglasses masking her hazel eyes, the fourth-year LSU women’s assistant tennis coach could be mistaken for one of her own players.

The 31-year-old has become an instrumental part in the Lady Tigers’ resurgence as a top-25 team in the country.

“She’s a good hustler and a good example for the girls because she has such a great work ethic and attitude that I think rubs off on them,” said LSU women’s coach Tony Minnis.

Jackson came to LSU in 2006, after a brief stint 50 miles down In-terstate 12 at Louisiana-Lafayette.

With the help of Minnis, Jack-son corralled the No. 17 recruiting class in the country in 2006, signing four-star recruit Hannah Robinson

and five-star prospect Nicole Kan-tor.

Minnis said Jackson has a natu-ral ability to evaluate talent.

“She’s great at spotting talent … and keeping in touch [with recruits],” he said.

When Jackson isn’t scouring the world for talent, she handles the con-ditioning program for the team and can regularly be seen on the courts at sunrise.

“She really emphasizes fitness,” Kantor said, speaking of the team’s 6 a.m. workouts Jackson orchestrates. “She really cares a lot about how we do, and she’s always there for us if we want to practice extra.”

Jackson started her college play-ing career at the small NAIA school William Carey College before trans-ferring to Texas-Arlington.

As a coach, she is known for her hands-on teaching approach and is not afraid to pick up a racket.

“I really enjoy getting out there and hitting with them,” said the two-time Southland Conference Player of the Year. “It helps me understand their game and ... it builds team chemistry, not only with them, but

the coaches as well.”Kantor said it’s a relief to have

Jackson practice with the team be-cause Minnis covers the technical and strategic aspects of the game.

“It’s always nice to have a coach who is doing the same thing you are, so it’s easier for her to relate to us,” Kantor said.

Jackson hails from Johannes-burg, South Africa, where she lived for 18 years before moving to Gulf-port, Miss., to play at William Car-ey.

After she became a graduate assistant at Texas-Arlington, she landed in Lafayette as associate head coach at ULL.

Jackson helped lead the Ragin’ Cajuns in 2006 to their first winning season in four years.

“She pretty much ran the pro-gram at UL, and one of the reasons I hired her was because she did such a good job there,” Minnis said.

Jackson has family in Johan-nesburg and tries to make the near 9,000-mile trip once a year.

She said the move to the U.S. went pretty smoothly, despite the distance.

“[The culture between Loui-siana and Johannesburg] it’s pretty similar,” said Jackson, who was the 2007 Southwest Regional Assistant Coach of the Year. “People are really nice, easy going, polite and just are really good people. That’s why I like it so much here.”

Jackson has no plans to leave LSU in the foreseeable future but would like to someday become a head coach.

She had a taste of that aspira-tion last weekend when she coached the Lady Tigers in the Southeastern

Conference Fall Classic while Min-nis was in New York for the U.S. Open.

Minnis said several schools have contacted him in the past few years about Jackson and sees her get-ting an opportunity to become a head coach in “the next couple years.”

“She’s played a pivotal role in every aspect of this program,” Minn-is said. “Whatever needs to be done, she’s out there to do it.”

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Asst. coach Jackson leads Lady Tigers’ resurgenceS. Africa native uses hands-on approachBy Sean IsabellaSports Contributor

Contact Sean Isabella at sisabella@lsureveille.com

UREC

Weather hinders intramuralsSunday soccer games rained outBy Katherine TerrellSports Contributor

Contact Katherine Terrell at kterrell@lsureveille.com

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YELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Kymball Duffy’s final football “game” didn’t take place under the glow of Friday night lights, but it was impossible to tell by the players and fans who gathered for it in a small Arkansas town.

The 1,300 residents of Yell-ville, and then some, crowded into a school gymnasium Wednesday to honor the 16-year-old offensive and defensive tackle, who was killed in a rollover truck crash just hours before his Panthers were to host the season’s first home game.

In the small community with a passion for high school football, mourners wore team jerseys, cheer-leading outfits and hand-painted T-shirts bearing Kymball’s number 72. The teen was to be buried in his green home-game jersey, black-and-white shorts and a pair of athletic socks.

“Just like he was coming home from football practice,” said local funeral home worker Jim Collins.

Yellville-Summit High School football games bring the town to-gether to sip hot chocolate in foam cups, cheer touchdowns and com-miserate about losses. Away from the field, parents mind their neigh-bor’s children as well as their own, hidden away from the rest of the world among the hills of north Ar-kansas’ Ozark Mountains.

“If there ever was a village as Hillary Clinton would talk about to raise a child, this is one,” said high school principal Ralph Bishop. “We take pride in our village, raising our kids.”

It’s where Kymball Ray Duffy was raised. The stocky boy who

drank lots of milk and made other people laugh not only played foot-ball, but loved it, memorizing all the plays kept on the quarterback’s wrist to prepare for a no-huddle offense.

Last Friday, the high school ju-nior left a school pep rally with four friends. The team planned to have its traditional pre-game supper at Kym-ball’s house, then return to the field to face the Salem Greyhounds from nearby Fulton County.

The meal was left untouched as panicked phone calls brought play-ers and community members to the narrow country road that leads to Kymball’s home. Just past a small brush pile left by a road crew, they

found the small pickup truck Kym-ball drove.

Marion County Sheriff Roger Vickers said in his excitement, Kymball had sped down the road with two of the friends riding in the truck’s bed. Kymball came over a hill and dodged the brush pile, run-ning up the other side of the road before overcorrecting and losing control, the sheriff said.

Four of the boys went flying from the truck. Kymball died there, only a short distance from home.

There are measuring stick games, and then there is No. 1 North Carolina.

The Tar Heels (6-0) have won 19 national championships in soccer, their most recent coming last fall, and have started this season with comfortable wins against three dif-ferent top-10 teams.

The Heels will be LSU’s open-ing opponent today at 4 p.m. in this year’s Duke Nike Classic in Dur-ham, N.C., and could be the toughest test ever for the LSU soccer team, as the Tigers (4-1-1) have never faced a No. 1 team, let alone on the road.

“It’s a great chance to test our-selves against the best team in the country as we head toward [South-eastern Conference] play,” said LSU coach Brian Lee.

The Tigers are riding a three-

game win streak heading into the weekend, as they beat South Florida on Sept. 6 before dispatching Okla-homa and Louisiana-Lafayette last weekend in a pair of 4-0 shutouts.

“I certainly feel like we’ve got-ten better week-to-week,” Lee said. “The result is always important, but what we’re really looking for is how does the flow of the game go and how do we compete for 90 minutes.”

North Carolina’s last perfor-mance before facing LSU was a 2-0 win against No. 13 Texas A&M. The Tar Heels have also downed No. 4 UCLA, 7-2, and No. 12 Notre Dame, 6-0, this season.

“The No. 1 thing about Carolina is how hard they tackle,” Lee said. “Their effort level for 90 minutes is as good as it gets — not just at college soccer but anywhere in the

world.”The challenge doesn’t end with

North Carolina, as LSU faces host team Duke (4-3) on Sunday after-noon. The Blue Devils started the season ranked No. 14 but fell out of the rankings after a loss to Florida last week.

The Duke Nike Classic will round out what has been a tough non-conference schedule for LSU. The Tigers open SEC play with Georgia next week, but this weekend’s games have been circled on the Tigers’ cal-endar for some time.

“It’s really exciting because all the other seasons we’ve never really had these huge games,” said sopho-more midfielder Taryne Boudreau. “These two teams have always made it to the NCAAs and Final Fours. It’s going to be real tough for our team, and we’ll see where we’re at right now.”

The Tigers will need contribu-tions from their senior-heavy attack if they are to keep pace this weekend.

Senior midfielder Malorie Rutledge followed through on her All-Amer-ican expectations last week with an assist against Oklahoma and two goals against ULL.

Senior midfielder Melissa Clarke continues to hum along as well, scoring two goals and an assist in the rout of the Sooners. She has five goals through six games after scoring just six goals in all of 2008, placing her in a five-way tie for first in goals scored in the SEC.

“I’m so blessed and so thank-ful,” Clarke said. “I’m really excited about the weekend. That’s going to be a big one.”

Lee held Clarke out of practice Wednesday with a tweaked ham-string but said she should be avail-able this afternoon when the Tigers and Tar Heels kick off.

SOCCER

Tigers square off against No. 1 Tar Heels, Blue DevilsTeam heads to N.C. for Duke Nike ClassicBy David HelmanSports Writer

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

MEGAN J. WILLIAMS / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior midfielders Brittany Lowe, left, and Malorie Rutledge, right, steal the ball Aug. 21 from Memphis’ Krista Turner during the Tigers’ 2-0 loss.

FOOTBALL

Yellville-Summit High School player, 16, gets his ‘last game’By The Associated Press

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Eagles aren’t giving up hope of having Donovan McNabb on the fi eld when they play their home opener Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.

McNabb made a brief ap-pearance on the practice fi eld Thursday afternoon but did not take part in any drills, after frac-turing his rib on a touchdown run late in Philadelphia’s 38-10 vic-tory over the Carolina Panthers last weekend.

“Donovan is working very hard,” offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg said. “You know Donovan, he’s doing ev-erything in his power to get back out there, make it to this game. He’s played with a broken ankle, a broken sternum and all these things. Donovan is a very tough man.”

If McNabb isn’t available,

the Eagles will go with Kevin Kolb, the team’s second-round draft pick in 2007. Kolb would make his fi rst NFL start ahead of veteran Jeff Garcia, who signed Tuesday as an emergency back-up.

“If Kevin starts the game, he’s our quarterback,” Mornhin-weg said. “It’s that simple. I don’t

know if I can be anymore clear. I have great confi dence in Kevin.”

Kolb took nearly all the reps with the fi rst team on Thursday. Garcia and Michael Vick, who is on the active roster but still must serve one more week of his league-mandated suspension, split the remaining snaps and worked with the scout team.

“I would expect him to play at a high level,” Mornhinweg said of Kolb. “He doesn’t lack for any confi dence and that’s a good thing. That’s a good thing because I’m not saying he’s cocky, but if you get a player that’s even on the cocky side, it’s a good thing to have.”

Kolb has appeared in eight games in his career, including last week against Carolina. His most notable appearance came in 2008 against Baltimore, when McNabb was benched at half-time of a 10-7 game. The Ravens went on to win, 36-7, with Kolb completing 10 of 23 passes for 73 yards with two interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown.

“Going back to the Balti-more game, he did some really good things in that game against one of the very best defenses in the league,” Mornhinweg said.

“We did move the football up and down the fi eld several times and he made a couple of critical mis-takes.

“Really, there were three bad plays, two critical ones. You clean those critical ones up and now you have a chance to win the game.

“Sometimes, to have great success, you have to have many failures and sometimes it’s sort of horrifi c type failures and if you are strong enough mentally and you get through that then you end up having some pretty good success.”

Kolb completed seven of 11 passes for 23 yards last weekend against Carolina, but still is try-ing to get over that disappointing game against the Ravens.

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Eagles quarterback Kevin Kolb (4) throws the football during practice Wednesday as (from left) Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick and Jeff Garcia watch.

Lafayette native Andrew Price . “We hate Florida , we hate Ala-bama , but they’re usually a good game and a good matchup. Even growing up in Lafayette , LSU football was always a way bigger deal than ULL football.”

That apathetic attitude from LSU has led to much resentment from those in the ULL camp.

“I hate LSU ,” Leruth said. “LSU as a school, as a whole, pays a lot more attention to its athletic program. I just don’t like how LSU gets all the money in the state. I’ll just put it like this: if LSU is play-ing Germany in the national cham-pionship somehow, I’d probably pull for Germany .”

Ricky Wendel, LSU interna-tional trade and fi nance freshman, said those harsh feelings stem from ULL fans’ jealousy toward LSU .

“Maybe they couldn’t get into LSU, and now they have a hatred toward LSU ,” Wendel said.

Both sides agree, though, if the rivalry is ever going to develop into a great in-state game, the two schools need to play regularly. The two teams have played just twice — 2002 and 2006 — since 1938 .

“We don’t play every year,” said ULL general studies sopho-more Collin Moreau . “If they played every year, I’m sure it would become a good rivalry.”

Eric Guidry, LSU business ad-ministration freshman, said LSU and ULL are not on equal playing fi elds and is not sure why the two schools play each other.

But LSU coach Les Miles said his team is excited about this Saturday’s game, and the Tigers are eagerly awaiting the in-state matchup.

“We know every team that comes into Tiger Stadium is pre-pared to play us,” Miles said. “We look forward to those kinds of

games. I understand in-state teams want to play us, and I enjoy the feel of a state fi lling the stadium to celebrate two in-state schools. I have no problem with it.”

LSU has 12 players from the Lafayette area, and they under-stand what this game means to their home city.

“It’s just one of those things where we’re from that area, and we know what this game means to the people of Lafayette and the Ragin’ Cajuns,” said sophomore offensive lineman Josh Dworac-zyk. It’s something we’re all look-ing forward to.”

ULL has not scored a touch-down on LSU since their matchup in 1924 , but that has not put a

damper on the Cajuns’ early sea-son confi dence following their 17-15 win against Kansas State last weekend.

“I saw the point spread on the game is 27 points,” Leruth said. “I think [LSU] is overlooking [ULL] a little bit there. I feel like we’re going to get worked up and all, but LSU has more athletes. If I were to call it right now, I’d call it 28-24 Cajuns .”

LSU fans are looking at his-tory and see this year’s matchup as being just another lopsided game in this extremely lopsided series. Three of LSU’s four largest mar-gins of victory have come at the expense of ULL , including a 93-0 win in 1936.

“They’re not a very good team,” Price said. “When LSU and ULL play, everyone knows it’s just going to be decimation on the part of LSU . My prediction is LSU by 60 points.”

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RIVALRY, from page 1

‘‘‘Maybe they

couldn’t get into LSU, and now they

have a hatred toward LSU.’

Ricky Wendelinternational trade and

fi nance freshman

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higher education demands of the fu-ture, while enhancing the quality of undergraduate and graduate educa-tion programs, facilitating valuable research endeavors and expanding educational partnerships.”

The Advisory Group on Ef-ficiency and Benchmarking for the Commission on Streamlining Gov-ernment recommended a similar plan in August. Kennedy is part of the group, which suggested each current system be placed under the complete jurisdiction of the Board of Regents.

“The Board of Regents is re-sponsible for coordinating the higher education systems, but the job is almost impossible under this top-heavy, dueling board structure,”

Kennedy said. Kennedy said a single board

would be open to the ambitions of all schools, with the understanding the state can only afford one flagship university — LSU.

“Joint long-term planning will help to develop the unique assets of each campus, helping to make high-er education a linchpin in our state’s economic development efforts,” Kennedy said.

LSU System President John Lombardi and Chancellor Michael Martin both could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon.

prohibit biking on sidewalks and in the Quad, yet about five bike racks stand in front of Middleton Library. He said the University was sending bikers mixed mes-sages.

Mark Martin, president of Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets, said his organization pro-vided the information for the Web site.

“The biggest part of [our in-volvement] is that B.R.A.S.S. started up as a community orga-nization outside of campus, and we’ve been trying to work as much as we can with the organiza-tions on campus, but there aren’t any specific bike clubs,” Martin said. “We’re trying to develop a coherent bike program.”

Cas Smith, SG assistant di-rector of Campus Development and biological engineering senior, said the LSU Bikes Web site is in its beginning stages.

Cohen said the bike initiative started when SG took over the bike auction last year. He said SG raised $4,000, which was used to install bike pump stations around

campus at the end of the summer.Cohen said some of the pump-

ing stations are behind Middleton Library, by the LSU Police De-partment station, between Herget and Miller halls and outside the University Student Recreational Complex.

Smith said both the Univer-sity and the students need to work to fix the “good problem” of more bikes on campus.

“The University’s working on their side with putting in the bike master plan,” Smith said. “Phase One of the bike master plan will be complete by the end of this se-mester. It is projected to include nine different hubs around the pe-ripheral of the Quad.”

Smith said Phase Two will add six more hubs around the Quad.

“The student side is change in behavior,” he said. “Most students do not know how to ride legally.”

Smith said SG is going to work with the Office of Orienta-tion to include how to ride bikes on campus for the different stu-dent orientation programs.

“Hopefully, by the beginning of next year, incoming students will know how to appropriately

ride, which will slowly change the behavior side,” Smith said.

Gary Graham, Office of Park-ing, Traffic and Transportation director, said the cost of different bike hubs around campus will cost between $130,000 and $140,000.

“That’s part of the increase in parking fees that we’ve been in-creasing over the last few years,” Graham said. “We got the bike plan geared up this year. The first push is to build new bike areas. We targeted the Quad ... We will create bike lanes when we get that report later this fall.”

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players, thinking the training of a Division-I program would aid in his improvement. It was a fore-boding decision.

“I didn’t know how other players would accept me because of [being the coach’s son],” Brad said. “But I found out quick that I came here and worked hard, and they respected me for that.”

After his summer training, Brad packed up and headed to Hammond to begin his college career at SLU.

He didn’t stay long. After two days, Brad was

ready to go home. The bond he had created with many of the players and coaches at ULL was too strong. So he left and trans-ferred to play for his father.

The coach’s son wasn’t given anything after transferring. He started as a walk-on defensive lineman and redshirted his fresh-man season.

Rickey and Brad discussed the parameters of their relation-ship when Brad decided to play at ULL. By all accounts, they’ve done well.

“On the field, he doesn’t really mess with me too much,” Brad said. “He lets [offensive]

coach [Ron] Hudson deal with me, and he’ll give me a ‘C’mon Brad, let’s go,’ every now and then.”

Lynn said the two have done a remarkable job of keeping their relationship within certain bound-aries.

“They’ve done a really good job at it because it hasn’t, I’m sure, been easy on either end of it,” she said. “It’s been a little strange and difficult to negotiate.”

The spring after the 2005 season, Hudson decided to move Brad to offensive line — a deci-sion that has yielded big divi-dends for ULL.

“I guess being around foot-ball my life helped, but I got it,” Brad said of his new assignment. “I got the position, I got the of-fense and I got football in gen-eral.”

Brad, who now stands 6-feet-3-inches and weighs 302 pounds, showed promise. His nurtured football knowledge, coupled with Hudson’s guidance, did wonders. After a few practices, he and fel-low lineman Chris Fisher were given scholarships.

Brad said it was a “cool mo-ment.”

Three years later, Brad is now the stalwart of the Ragin’ Cajun

offensive line. Brad has played in 37 games, 25 of them starts, since the 2006 season. His 2008 cam-paign garnered him First-Team All-Sun Belt honors, along with a spot on the 2009 Rotary Lom-bardi Award Watch List.

“He’s a heck of a player,” Rickey said. “The game makes a lot of sense to him. He makes very little mental mistakes.”

Brad said his nomination for the award, which goes to the best lineman or linebacker in the na-tion, was flattering.

“It definitely feels good,” Brad said. “The best part is it brings some publicity to the school itself. I couldn’t have done it without all the other guys around me.”

Not surprisingly, Brad wants to become a coach. The football aura that oozes from him is too powerful to refuse.

“It’s something that is pretty hard to do, so you have to love it,” Lynn said. “He just decided to play, and now he wants to coach. That’s that.”

the Tigers were 8-2 in conference at home but 5-5 on the road.

All SEC matches will be made a little harder for the Tigers because LSU is stuck without a travel partner this year, as the SEC has 11 teams that participate

in volleyball. That means the Tigers will face two teams each weekend that have to play only one match.

“Being at home is going to give us more conf idence,” said senior out-side hitter Ma-rina Skender. “It’s going to be very impor-

tant to take care of these opening matches.”

A pair of home victories this weekend will be even harder to come by against the Volunteers and the Wildcats, two of the top SEC teams. Tennessee got one of 11 votes to win the SEC, while Kentucky got three.

The Tigers went 1-3 last sea-son against their two SEC East foes, with their only victory com-ing at home against Tennessee.

LSU will get to face Ten-nessee and preseason All-SEC selection Nikki Fowler, a junior outside hitter, to open SEC play. The Tigers are 0-3 in Friday night matches this season.

Fowler racked up 34 kills and 16 digs in seven sets against the Tigers last season.

Flory said she isn’t sure how to game plan for Fowler.

“We have to try to do a better job [than last season] of getting them out of system serving-wise,” Flory said. “The great thing for them about Nikki Fowler is that

she is an option even out of sys-tem. So we will have to try to limit her touches, and our block-ing will have to be good.”

Tennessee coach Rob Pat-rick said he will have the same problem with LSU senior middle blocker Brittnee Cooper, noting that focusing too hard on Cooper will allow LSU’s other weapons to hurt his team.

“I think the first thing we are going to try to do [to stop her] is

see what kind of music she likes best and see if that band is play-ing somewhere Friday night,” Patrick joked. “We’re going to buy her some tickets and send her there, and I’m being serious when I say that’s about the only way you are going to stop her.”

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VOLLEYBALL, from page 9

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Louisiana-Lafayette senior offensive lineman Brad Bustle attempts to block a Florida International defender Nov. 1. The Ragin’ Cajuns won, 49-20.

‘We’re figuring out our system still. But

when we are in [a] system,

I feel like nobody can

stop us.’Lauren

WaclawczykLSU sophomore libero

I could tell by reading the headline to Linnie Leavines’ ar-ticle Tuesday on Vector Market-ing that I was about to read some

mistaken information that Vec-tor employees see occasionally. These common misconceptions have garnered Vector the title of “scam” from some “misled” individuals who wouldn’t have been if they just read the adver-tisement. The most common of these is the “per hour” pay rate. Keep in mind that no Vector ad-vertisement says “per hour” any-where, simply that we offer a $15

starting pay or base rate of pay. Some advertisements even say $15 Base/APPT. The last time I checked, APPT is not an acronym for per hour. The per hour pay rate is just an assumption by col-lege students because that is what they’re used to.

Aside from that, allow me to clear a few other things up. Vector sales representatives do not work on a door-to-door ba-

sis – we work on a professional appointment system. For those confused by people not coming into a store to buy something, that means we work on a referral system. This is direct selling and is a very common type of sales. As far as working with friends and relatives initially, that’s net-working. It’s a simple skill Vec-tor representatives learn early, the same skill which is a huge reason nine out of 10 businesses fail: they can’t network. Relatives don’t have to buy, though they usually do. Probably because we represent the top-selling brand of cutlery in the U.S. and one of the best products a consumer could purchase (ask one of our 15 mil-lion+ customers). Finally, the reason you were called for an in-terview was because your friend wrote your name and phone num-ber down during training to be called for an interview. It’s called personal recruiting and the way we get the majority of our best representatives. If you have any friends who work out at Defi-nitions, you’ve probably been called from there to come in for a tour. It’s just business.

The sales positions Vector Marketing has to offer are very different from the typical student job. That’s obvious. But don’t knock something because you

don’t understand it. Just because we have hard-working young people who go out of their way to make their business successful doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with our company. If you don’t understand a base rate of pay or a commission scale, or how di-rect sales works, or even personal recruiting, wait until you get out of college and you come in con-tact with people doing these very things on a daily basis. That’s how real business works, and something our representatives learn earlier than most. And as far as the money goes, I recruited and trained an 18-year-old fresh out of high school this summer who had to open a bank account because he made $17,306.50 in about two months, while person-ally saving over $11,000 and get-ting the experience of building an office from the ground up, again, as a 21-year-old. How was your summer job?

Matthew Smithcriminology senior

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“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by

evading it today.”

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Jan. 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

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THE GRUMBLING HIVE

Increase of public defense funding necessaryHave you ever considered the

cost of your constitutional rights? Do you take them for granted? We say our freedom has been purchased by the blood of patri-ots, but what about the cost of our constitutional rights — in eco-nomic terms?

The Sixth Amendment clear-ly states: “In all criminal prosecu-tions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial . . . and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”

This guarantee is essential to ensure the accused, regardless of economic status, will have a fair trial which will help safeguard against the conviction of innocent people.

But it all comes down to money in the end.

Without an increase in fund-ing, many public defender of-fices throughout Louisiana may soon have to refuse cases. This threatens the very foundation of our judicial system, which guar-antees the availability of legal

representation “in all criminal prosecutions.”

To give an idea of the bud-get shortfall, Jean Faria, Louisi-ana State Public Defender, was recently granted an infusion of $27.8 million to help support lo-cal public defender offices, The Advocate reported. That’s in re-sponse to a request for $46 mil-lion.

In 2007, Act 307 of the Regular Session was approved by the Louisiana House of Rep-resentatives, establishing a public defender system which uniformly provides for the con-stitutional rights set forth in the Sixth Amendment.

The system is good, but “the money that is necessary to make that system work is simply not being provided,” Walt Sanchez, an attorney from Lake Charles who was formerly a member of the Louisiana Indigent Defense Assistance Board, told The Ad-vocate.

More public defenders need

to be hired to provide adequate legal representation, thus reduc-ing the number of cases handled per lawyer. This will allow the public defender to do more than

just show up in court to rep-resent the de-fendant. It will provide more time for inves-tigation and preparation.

The 24 public defend-ers in Louisi-

ana’s 14th Judicial District cur-rently work around 400 cases per day, explained Mitch Bergeron, the district public defender for the 14th Judicial District. That’s about 17 cases per lawyer per day. This is much too high a number to provide the standard of legal representation which should be available to any person who is threatened with the loss of life, liberty or even property.

One of the primary

arguments in appeals is often “ineffective assistance of coun-sel,” said Phil Haney, district at-torney of the 16th Judicial Dis-trict.

The report “Minor Crimes, Massive Waste — The Terrible Toll of America’s Misdemeanor Courts,” published on the Na-tional Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Web site states “the explosive load of misde-meanor cases is placing a stagger-ing burden on America’s courts. Defenders across the country are forced to carry unethical casel-oads ... As a result, constitutional obligations are left unmet and taxpayers’ money is wasted.”

As Faria continues to work to acquire funding for public de-fenders, I believe other options need to be considered.

One of the recommendations provided in the NACDL report is to “divert misdemeanors that do not impact public safety to penal-ties that are less costly to tax pay-ers.”

These tax savings could be used to help bridge the shortfall in the funding for indigent defense.

When it becomes apparent public defender offices may have to refuse cases due to a lack of funding, it is imperative we as a society reassess our priorities. People often complain about the lack of funding for the arts. I also find this sad. But when the basic constitutional rights on which our country was founded are threat-ened because of the same lack of funding, I find it unconscionable to spend another cent on arts until we ascertain these rights are guar-anteed.

Nathan Shull is a 35-year-old fi-nance junior from Seattle. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_nshull.

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Leavines’ artcile on Vector Marketing

misleading

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FREKE FRIDAY

Acker’s “9” elevates imagery above characterization or plotThe day after tomorrow is a

motif in literature and films. From the Bible in Genesis 8, where a dove returns to Noah with an ol-ive branch following the Great Flood, to Will Smith’s last man on Earth in “I am Legend,” numerous examples exist in the post-apoca-lyptic genre. The newest addition is “9,” directed by up-and-coming animator Shane Acker.

“9” dwells on the adventures of an eponymous hero, a rag doll endowed with a soul, who awak-ens in a laboratory and discovers the Earth had been transformed into an arid wasteland. He then joins forces with other dolls, themselves engaged in a war with a dreaded mechanical beast — a contraption which resembles what a dinosaur would look like if de-signed by General Motors.

When 9 revivifies a terrify-ing villain, endangering his fellow dolls, he will have to decide be-tween following the dictates of his

conscience or the mandates of the close-knit community.

It bears repeating that Ack-er’s concept is unoriginal. The film satisfies the sensory and tac-tile desires, which makes it worth watching; however, the film suf-fers from a clash of visions and leaves several themes unexplored. It is a smorgasbord of influences that don’t cohere.

Though directed by Acker, “9” unmistakably bears the imprint of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov. Whereas Bek-mambetov is interested in incendi-ary action with superficial literary allusions, as seen in “Daywatch” and “Wanted,” Burton dwells more on the dark, macabre world of “Corpse Bride” and “Edward Scissorhands.” This fertilization has resulted in a Janus-faced cre-ation — the film is in part a fable on the unintended consequences of technology and part Bayesque indulgence on explosions, à la

“Transformers.”“9” is painted in a sepia-

toned palette with impressively-drawn characters and scenery. At one point, one of the dolls passes beside a milk bottle and an image gets re-fracted behind the transparent glass. Acker’s attention to the little things is also noticed in the sound effects: from the rusty gears creaking to the burlap swishing. It’s all in the details.

The film dips into the philo-sophical by asking questions like “Why are we (the dolls) here?” and “Why are we fighting the ma-chines,” but it does not pause to reflect on the battle between the pursuit of knowledge and the con-servation of order. Indeed, when

“9” moves to ‘minor’ issues such as characterization it founders.

Its characters are human-like, but lack humanity. There doesn’t appear to be much investment in endowing either the rag dolls or the machines with sentiments which would resonate with the au-dience. And without an empathic transaction between the viewer and character, the animation re-mains unanimated. “The world was destroyed, so what?” we end up asking. Consider this: Would anyone have enjoyed “Wall-E” if we didn’t all see ourselves in the little robot gunning for the pretty girl?

A consequence is a sense of terror is lacking. In Michael Haneke’s “Time of the Wolf,” we see a family on the run after an environmental disaster befalls the earth. There is no clear sense of what had occurred; everyone is left to fend for themselves or gain strength by joining a community.

We are transported into a terrify-ing state of nature described by Thomas Hobbes as one of “con-tinual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

In its original form, “9” was a 10-minute short film (easily available on Youtube) which was more cogent, concise and capti-vating — without a back-story, it was necessary to take the im-ages on their own terms. With the theatrical version, we once again discover for films, more is usually less. Though visually stunning, the stitched plot is threadbare.

Freke Ette is a political theory graduate student from Uyo, Nigeria. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_fette.

VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

Attendance policies have no place in college settings

TUSCON, Ariz. (U-WIRE) – I can’t remember exactly when it began, but lately the University of Arizona seems to be cracking down on absences and enforc-ing much stricter attendance and punctuality policies than before.

What does strict enforcement of a silly attendance policy ac-complish? Not much of anything, if you ask me. It seems ridiculous that many professors, some of mine included, say things like, “If you’re more than 3 minutes late, I’d rather you not come in at all. There is no excuse for be-ing more than 3 minutes late.” Basically, you’re telling me that the first 5-10 minutes of class are more important than the hour that follows? Why then, don’t I just go to class for the first 10 min-utes and then leave? Oh, that’s not cool either? It disturbs my classmates? Never mind then.

I figure that since we’re pay-ing for a service, then you don’t have the right to tell us that if we’re late we can’t partake. Any other industry at least tries to be accommodating (for example: restaurants, doctors, dentists, car service centers, etc.), while some professors seem to think they have the right to belittle and embarrass people. Who needs a guilt trip for showing up late or missing a class? Not me; I could get treated horribly for free rather than paying thousands of dollars for it.

I understand and appreci-ate the difficult path taken by

professors in order to achieve their career statuses, and I also appreciate that they have jobs to do, but I’d appreciate the same kind of consideration from them that they demand from me. While it’s fairly rare for instructors to be late to class, I wouldn’t throw a fit about it, nor would I feel in-sulted by it.

Of course I know it wasn’t your idea to make it an 8 a.m. class, but coming in at 8 a.m. doesn’t pay my mortgage like it does for you, professor. What pays my mortgage is that job that doesn’t end until 2 a.m. So I apologize if you feel I’m some-how disrespecting your work by trying to earn a living, but the co-nundrum is that I need to work to go to school.

On top of it, if I can get an A in the class without having to attend half the classes, then the only thing that means is it’s a shame that I had to spend $900 on a class that I didn’t really need, except to graduate. God forbid I don’t go and “learn,” and God forbid the university allows us to take classes that pertain to what we want to do rather than topics that many of us find irrelevant.

Student: “I want to be an ac-countant after I graduate.”

Adviser: “OK, you’re going to have to start by taking this so-ciology class and that literature class.”

Student: “Huh?”What’s the deal if I actually

get sick? I know I can miss two days, great, but any more than that and I’m screwing myself. So, sorry to the rest of you, but

I’m going to have to come in on Thursday with the swine flu, because I can’t afford to miss another class. I apologize if you end up getting sick and having to attend class anyway, but it’s a catch-22, you see. Sure hope this flu doesn’t somehow rapidly spread!

My question is, when

did a grade become lashed to attendance and not to the quality of the work completed? If I turn in work on time, if my test grades are high, why should I deserve to get less than an A for doing A work? Not that I’m used to get-ting A’s, but the same argument works for B’s, too.

The ultimate message here

is don’t treat us like children be-cause we’re not. And don’t act like parole officers for our fed-eral crimes, when our attendence offences are more akin to broken jaywalking laws.

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0576 or email jhorn@tritonstonela.com.

PART-TIME PROGRAMMER Access, VB,. NET, and SQL experience. HR@bankers-bank.com

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS P/T Offi ce & WHSE/delivery help needed. ONLY 5 MIN FROM LSU CAMPUS. Flexible hrs. Apply in person M-F 9-6 & Sat 9-4. Brian’s Furniture. 515 Court St. Port

Allen. 225.346.0896

PARRAIN’S SEAFOOD Now hiring servers, hostess, and bar

backs with oyster shucking experience 225.381.9922

NEEDED FRONT DESK POSITION able to work 30-35 hours/week, needs good communica-tion & computer skills, dependable, multi-

tasker; please email resume to jodi@gofi tt.com

DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!Now hiring for all positions at the following

locations:JEFFERSON 7615 Jefferson Hwy Baton Rouge

70809PERKINS ROWE 7707 Bluebonnet Blvd. Baton

Rouge 70810“Flexible schedules & Benefi ts for Full Time

Associates”Please apply in person during regular restau-

rant hours.Equal Opportunity Employer

EXP VETERINARY TECHNICIAN needed at SBR vet clinic. Call Monica at 756-0204

NINFA’SIS NOW HIRING SERVERS.

APPLY IN PERSON AT 4738 CONSTITUTION AVE., BATON ROUGE, LA. **EQUAL OPPORTU-

NITY EMPLOYER**

FITNESS INSTRUCTOR NEEDED: Looking for an outgoing, hardworking, enthusiastic fi tness instructor and front desk attendant. Must have a dynamic personality and ability to multitask.

Email resume to info@exerfi tbr.com or fax to 225-706-1634.

►►BARTENDING UP TO NO EX-PERIENCE NECESSARY. TRAINING PROVIDED.

AGE 18+ OK 1-800-965-6520 ext127

DRIVER NEEDED Weekend driver needed around LSU area. Easy hours, great pay!

225.252.6149

PART TIME OPENING!Must have great computer skills and an outgo-ing personality! Afternoon hours till 5pm M-F. Duties include - screening resumes, phone in-quiries from applicants, setting appointments,

data entry, etc. Salary to $11 DOE. Please email your resume to resume@snellingbaton-rouge.com attn: Part time student opening

STORAGE SALES ASSOCIATE Local storage facility looking for part time employee. Great

student job. Great pay. Must be able to work weekends. Email resume’s to Nathan@

storsafebr.com

CASH FOR TAILGATE SETUP/DOWN Need 2 stu-dents (w/ truck) to setup/ takedown tailgate

for 4-5 games. 2 hours of work - $100/ game. Must be responsible and on time. JasonL@

tracesecurity.com

PARKVIEW BAPTIST PRESCHOOLPreschool Teachers needed fl ex days

no degree required 293-9447

RUNNER/FILE CLERK NEEDED. Off of Essen Lane. Student friendly hours. Email resume and daily availability to resume@transfi nan-

cialco.com

INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE, Construction Manage-ment Majors with 75 Hrs or more of Schooling,

Flexible Hrs, Good Pay. Contact Christina at 225.744.3912

IMMEDIATE OPENINGSDog hotel & spa needs kennel techs for morn-ing and afternoon shifts. Must be good with people and dogs. Pre-vet students preferred.

Call Petropolitan, 225.926.8282

SURVEY TAKERS NEEDED: Make $5-$25 per survey. GetPaidToThink.com.

PART TIME POSITION Church seeks childcare worker for Children’s Program. Shifts include

Wed & Sun nights, some Thurs & Sat. Flexible schedule. Send resume to micah@tlvc.org

INTERNET WORK! $6.75-$139+/ Hr. Flexible Hours. Use any computer. $25 Starting Bonus.

http://tinyurl.com/LSUWork

SPORTS COORDINATOR - P/T The Paula G. Manship YMCA seeks expd,

dependable Sports Coordinator, 30 hrs/wk max. fl ex sched includes weekends, multi-task,

scheduling, rosters, data entry, ref/ump responsibilities. Apply in person to: Paula G. Manship YMCA, 8100 YMCA Plaza Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70810 (767.9622) ask for Nathan.

TUTOR needed for 12 yr old to organize study plan & prepare for tests. 225.767.8020

ATTENTION LADIES Do you have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)? If so, you may

qualify to particpate in a new study at PBRC. The purpose of this study is to determine if

cinnamon extract will lower blood sugar levels in women diagnosed with PCOS. You may

qualify based on age (20-40 years old), weight and must be diagnosed with PCOS. Earn up to

$600. Call TODAY 225.763.3000

CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC SEEKING part time energetic individual to assist with patient care.

Please fax resume to 766-2890.

STUDENTPAYOUTS. COMPaid Survey Takers Needed In Baton Rogue.

100% Free To Join! Click On Surveys.

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2000 FORD EXPLORER EB, $5500 OBO, 1 owner, Blk/Grey Lthr, V8, 108K mi, new tires,

non-smoker call 225-266-7332

TIGER MANOR CONDOMINIUMS. UNITS READY FALL 2009!! Brand new 1, 2, and 3 bedroom units for sale starting at $124,900. Ask about our Guaranteed Buy-Back Program!! 3000 July St. 225-346-5055 www.tigermanor.com Loca-tion. Location. Location... Start Living.

MOVING OUT SALE 7am to noon saturday, 406 carriage way-plantation trace. three couches, four tables/chair sets, appliances, big speak-ers, tons of arts/craft and many other things.

perfect for students. 344-6136

98’ FORD WINDSTAR MINI VAN Runs Great COLD A/ C

Near LSU $1900 OBO Call 225.241.2011

$AVE $$ WALK TO LSU! !LARGE 1 BR APT. ON SITE MGR. 769-7757 /

978-3123 / 767-4128

2BR/2BA TOWNHOUSE SHARLO area, $975, covered parking, private patio, f/p, w/d, no

pets 225-648-3115

FIRST MONTH FREE Arlington Trace 3BR/3.5B

Off BrightsideAll Appliances Included 225.767.2227

RESIDENT NEEDED For Veterinary Hospital studio apartment. 15 min from LSU. Call for

more info. 225.387.2462

2 & 3 BEDROOM CONDOS Nice 2br condo in Brightside Manor $950. Half off 1st mths rent.Spacious 3br $1050 at 5252 Brightside View

937-4849

TIGER MANOR CONDOMINIUMS. UNITS READY FOR FALL 2009! Brand new 1, 2, & 3 bed-rooms available. Reserve your unit today! Walk to class! 3000 July St. 225-346-5055. www.tigermanor.comLocation. Location. Location... Start Living.

3 BEDROOM OFF BRIGHTSIDE Large 3bed/2bath townhouse with washer and dryer-

on LSU bus line. $900mt. Call Monica or Ashley 225.930.9996 225.930.9996

BRIGHTSIDE MANOR THCeramic fl oors, new carpet and appliances. W/ D 2 BR 1 1/2 B. $750. 772-2429. mck-

properties.com

2BR/2BA APARTMENT FOR RENT!980$/month, 1124 square feet, vaulted ciel-ings, 2nd fl oor. Located in Beau Chene Apts.

at Nicholson & Lee behind Am Mart! Available starting Sept. 28th!

Email sarahkate5688@gmail.com or call 318.347.1224

HOUSE FOR RENT3 BEDROOMS & 11/2 BATH BY LSU LAKE

$995 225.205.7364

1-BED APT. and 2-bed townhouse, near LSU $450-$650 / month, W / D included. Call

Carrie 225-768-1654

GREAT APT-TIGERLAND Large 2BR, granite, tile, great colors, like new. Avail immed $750. No

pets. Ref required. 225.297.4009

3 GIRLS SEEK ROOMMATE!! Sterling Northgate off Highland. Near Campus. $635 a month. Includes utilities & cable/internet. Available

immediately!! 561.601.7040

FIRST MONTH FREE! 3 BED/3 BATH Arington Trace Condo for Rent

Great Location! Perfect Condition!Gated Parking, All Appliances

3 Bedroom/3.5 Bath -- $1500/ Month Nice Bedroom Views2405 Brightside Lane

On LSU Bus RouteLease Today, Move Tomorrow!

310 989 4453hollisleech@yahoo.com

NICE NEIGHBORHOOD-2 Story House--3BR/2BA--W/ D and D/ W--367 Stoney Creek-

-$1400--Call Rusty 225.892.8702

WALK TO CAMPUS 1Br, 2Br, and Townhomes. Starting as low as $400.00. www.lsu-westchimesplace.com 225.346.4789

1 BR STATE ST-WALK TO SCHOOL Recently remodeled, $650/Month with w/d. Includes cable, internet, and water. $650 deposit and

is available 10/5/09. E-mail nicpit522@gmail.com for details and pictures.

4170 JANET ST walk to LSU Beautiful 2 story 3000 sf 4 BR 2 1/2 BA security gate backyard gazebo water/sewage pd no pets 2400.00 mo

892-8517 225.615.8521

CHATEAU DU COUR IN TIGERLANDLarge 2 BR 1 B in gated complex..772-2429

mckproperties.com

MOVE IN SPECIAL 2BR 2.5 Bath. Brightside Park Townhomes. W/ D, Pool. 937-4849

southlandpropertiesinc.com

APARTMENT FOR RENT2 bedroom 2 bath. Great Location on Nichol-son Dr. in Oakbrook Apartments. September Free!!!!!!!! 985-517-4216 or 985.517.6824

2 BED 2 BATH FLAT off South Brightside View on bus line. Ready to move in immediatley.

$675mt Call Monica or Ashley 225.930.9996

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LookIng For open mInded braIny female non-student looking for a guy who loves video games and syfy and be skilled at computer

work also love of animals required. ages 26 or younger. please email me if you are interested

at babygurl_4eva_190016@yahoo.com

LookIn For a bad grrrLL 18-25. Show me your wild side ya heard. jolden3@tigers.lsu.edu

aTTenTIon: Fun-loving sunshine and daisy nerd looking for calm but fun guy. must like

girls in glasses and doing fun things like hiking and playing board games. If interested, email

lsusunshine@gmail.com

a FemaLe STUdenT needed! a young mature man at LSU is looking for a smart, sensitive,

lovely, nice and intelligent girl student over cof-fee, dinner or dance! reach me at robertwil-

laims2008@yahoo.ca.

SIngLe whITe FemaLe age 21 that loves a good home cooked meal, karaoke, and danc-ing! Looking for a tall handsome, hopeless ro-mantic man that can handle a girl with curves in all the right places! email me a description

of yourself if you are interested! lsutigergirl21@yahoo.com

LookIng 4 mS rIghT! east Indian LSU Senior looking to meet a smart, sensitive,

and intelligent girl over coffee! reach me at arienrocks1@gmail.com

aTTraCTIve boLd headIng!!! down-to-earth, intelligent yet athletic double major guy

looking for girl with similar attributes, give or take a major. Let’s get some lunch. email:

bemythirdmajor@yahoo.com

TeST SUbJeCT needed!!! Tall, dark, chiseled male looking for a same-sex playmate to help discover my new lifestyle. needs to be open for experimentation, physically and emotion-ally. 8 pack preferred but 6 pack acceptable. open to serious pursuers or one night flings. Come let me make your dreams come true.

sjdude112189@yahoo.com

LookIng For my maTCh to fill the little open-ing in the jumbeled sock drawer of my heart.

white female who is into snake charming, chainsaws & sealing envelopes with hot wax. Seeking male companion with high aCT score,

high cheekbones and high self esteem. no weirdos pLeaSe!

allthegoodonesweretaken666@yahoo.com

gIrL needed For laundry and creation of tasty ice cream treats

hungrymandirtylaundry@yahoo.com

SearChIng 4 SoULmaTe 20yo asian guy seeking masculine guy 18-23 to date. races open. I’m a sweetheart! tigerboy1988@gmail.

com

LSU TICkeTS wanTed Top dollar paid for premium seats to all LSU home games! please

contact Scot or kevin. 800.678.8499

need 2-4 FooTbaLL TICkeTS to LSU-aUbUrn & LSU-arkanSaS games. need moTor home parkIng permits for both games

225.933.8827

peT and home Care ServICeS do yoU need Someone To Take Care oF

yoUr peT(S) whILe yoU are In SChooL or oUT oF Town? - 225.329.9754

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