There may not have been any gold statues, but everyone was a winner at the Manship Theatre and Scene Magazine’s fi rst-ever Oscar party.

John Kaufman,

director of marketing and programming for the Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts downtown, said the event is a fi rst for the theater.

“We have the big screen and the capability to do it,” he said. “We fi g-ured, why not?”

Kaufman said the event sold out quickly, and he believes the theater will host many more par-ties like it in the future.

Brinkley Maginnis, advertising and market-ing executive for Scene

Donning his black hat and pick-ing up his suitcase, Alonzo Fields walked to the bus stop, awaiting the bus that would take him away from his 21-year career as chief butler at the White House.

Magnolia Mound Plantation celebrated Black History Month on Saturday by presenting its 7th annual celebration , which included a per-formance by Oneal Isaac portraying Alonzo Fields . Isaac began the pro-gram by telling the audience about the days of segregation he remem-bered from when he was a boy. He then transformed into Fields .

Fields , an African-American

store owner who dreamed of having a career in music, was offered a job as a servant in an MIT professor’s home. When the professor passed away, Fields was invited to work in the White House under President Herbert Hoover . Fields had only planned to work one winter.

“That one winter turned into 21 years ,” Isaac said.

Fields worked as chief butler for four presidents — Hoover , Roos-evelt , Truman and Eisenhower .

India Jones , from Metairie , La., attended the program and said the performance was enjoyable because it was a part of history.

“Black history is always an oral history,” Jones said. “This is basi-cally more of an oral tradition that’s

been going on for generations.”Jones said Black History Month

isn’t just one month to her, but an everyday event. She said for black Americans, every day is history.

After the performance, Isaac spoke with audience members and posed for pictures. Isaac , who has been a part of the Magnolia Mound Plantation’s event since its inception , explained why he’s enjoyed being involved.

“It’s sharing with the communi-ty what they really want,” Isaac said. “It’s also black history I didn’t know about.”

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Men’s Basketball: Rebels pound Tigers, 72-48, p. 10

Baseball: LSU hitting suffers in two-loss weekend, p. 9

Photo Story: Classic rock band Styx played at the Texas Club on Saturday, p. 3

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Oneal Isaac portrays Alonzo Fields on Saturday in a one-man play at Magnolia Mound Plantation for the landmark’s 7th annual Black History Month event.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Play tells story of White House butlerShannon RobertsContributing Writer

TRIAL, see page 8

CRIME

Kate MabryStaff Writer

Judge refuses to lower $25K bonds

The 2007 killings of two University graduate students from India continue to make headlines, as a state judge set the trial date for Aug. 13 for the two Baton Rouge men accused of the crime, according to the Associ-ated Press.

The Associated Press also reported that the judge refused to lower the $25,000 bonds set by another judge.

Chandrasekhar Reddy Kom-ma , a biology student from Kur-nool, India , and Kiran Kumar Allam , a chemistry student from Hyderabad, India , were found

Trial set for men accused in ’07 killings

Contact Shannon Roberts at sroberts@lsureveille.com

photos by ALYSSA SIRISOPHON / The Daily Reveille

[Inset] Former Project Runway contestant Anthony Ryan Auld (left) is interviewed Sunday by Drew Lanehart of Scene TV before an Oscars watch party at the Manship Theater. [Main] Guests mingle before attending the Oscars watch party.

OSCARS, see page 8

Residents gather downtown to watch OscarsRachel WarrenStaff Writer

AND THE WINNER IS...Actor in a Leading RoleJean Dujardin — “The Artist”

Actor in a Supporting RoleChristopher Plummer — “Beginners”

Actress in a Supporting RoleOctavia Spencer —“The Help”

Actress in a Leading RoleMeryl Streep — “The Iron Lady”

Best Picture“The Artist” — Thomas Langmann, Producer

Best Adapted Screenplay“The Descendants” — Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash

Best Original Screenplay“Midnight in Paris” — Woody Allen

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Egypt says British couple tried to smuggle 19 artifacts out of country

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security offi cials say they have thwarted an attempt by a British man and his wife to smuggle 19 artifacts out of the country.

Police say the couple were stopped in Luxor International Air-port on Sunday with pieces in their luggage ranging from Pharonic statues and pottery to a Greco-Ro-man bronze coin.

Security offi cials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with police rules.

Azerbaijan honors victims of 1992 massacre during war with Armenia

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched through Azerbaijan’s capital on Sunday to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the killing of hundreds of people during a war with Armenia over disputed terri-tory.

President Ilham Aliyev led the march in Baku, which ended at a monument to the victims of the Khojaly massacre. Offi cials said 60,000 people took part. Tens of thousands also turned out for ral-lies in Turkey.

Fear that NYPD might be in� ltrating Muslim students’ lives spreads

NEW YORK (AP) — At Columbia University and elsewhere, the fear that the New York Police Depart-ment might secretly be infi ltrating Muslim students’ lives has spread beyond them to others.

The NYPD surveillance of Muslims on a dozen col-lege campuses in the Northeast is a surprising and disappoint-ing violation, students said Sat-urday in reaction to Associated Press reports that revealed the intelligence-gathering at Columbia and elsewhere.Naked man steals � re truck, kills a pedestrian and assaults police

PORT ROYAL, S.C. (AP) — A naked man stole a fi re truck at a South Carolina apartment complex and sped away, killing a pedestrian who was walking on a sidewalk, authorities said Saturday.

The fi re engine driver, Kal-vin Hunt, 26, drove about two miles Friday before he hit a man, careened off the road and crashed into some trees, authorities said. Hunt, who was pinned inside the fi re truck, was freed by rescue workers, and then started assault-ing two police offi cers, deputy po-lice chief Dale McDorman said.

Public defender accused for taking marijuana into prison

ANGOLA (AP) — The West Feli-ciana Parish Sheriff’s Offi ce says an East Baton Rouge Parish public defender tried to smuggle marijua-na into the state prison in Angola.

Sheriff’s Maj. Archer Lee told The Advocate that 62-year-old Nelvil Hollingsworth of Zachary was booked Saturday on one count of bringing contraband into a penal institution. He says Hollingsworth had 5.2 grams of marijuana in the lining of his sport coat.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Starting April 2, discount bus carrier Mega-bus plans two routes a day between New Orleans and Atlanta, with two stops in Alabama.

The Stagecoach Group PLC subsidiary offers fares starting at $1 and rising as bookings increase and the travel date approaches. Sunday morning, the lowest fares for April 26 were $5 to Atlanta and $8 to New Orleans.

The routes also include stops in Mobile and Montgomery, Ala.

The Times-Picayune reports that the double-decker buses will leave New Orleans at 10 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Thousands hold hands to form human chain in anti-Putin protest

MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of protesters held hands to form a 10-mile human chain encircling central Moscow on Sunday to keep up the pressure on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as he prepares to extend his rule for six more years.

Putin, who was Russia’s president from 2000 to 2008, is running for a third, now six-year term in a March 4 election. He is expected to win easily, but an unprecedented wave of protests has undermined his image as a strong leader who rules with broad public support.

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People stand along Garden Ring avenue holding hands Sunday during an oppo-sition protest in Moscow, Russia. Thou-sands form a 10-mile human chain to protest the Russian prime minister.

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By next fall, students will be rewarded for going to swim meets, wind ensemble concerts, plays and other normally low-participation events.

Student Government is work-ing with the Tiger Card Office to institute the Bengal Bonus Points program, which will give students the opportunity to receive prizes for going to a certain number of events.

“We’re going to swipe people in to concerts, … rugby match-es and kind of smaller things that students maybe don’t know about,” said Aimee Simon, chair of the SG Committee on Athlet-ics.

The idea came from the Uni-versity of Kentucky’s TallyCats program, according to SG Senate Speaker Aaron Caffarel.

Students’ Tiger Cards would be swiped at predetermined events by a device attached to an iPhone or iPad, which would

then transfer the students’ data to a spreadsheet, Caffarel said.

Once students have met a certain number of Bengal Bonus Points, their names will go into a drawing for numerous prizes, with the biggest prize being an iPad, Simon said.

The prizes, Tiger Card swip-ing devices and promotions will cost about $5,000, Caffarel said.

The funding will likely come from the Senate Contingency Ac-count, but could also come from another SG account.

The SG Committee on Fi-nance will make a decision later this semester to approve the mon-ey and decide on an account, ac-cording to Caffarel.

Simon said she is contacting different campus organizations to see if they would like to apply to turn their events into Bengal Bo-nus Points events.

“Hopefully [we will] have it in full gear for next semester for sure,” Caffarel said.

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Bengal Bonus Points to reward students

Danielle KelleyStaff Writer

Points to be given for concerts, plays

Contact Danielle Kelley at dkelley@lsureveille.com

PHOTO STORY

photos by AMY BROUSSARD / The Daily Reveille

The rock band Styx performs at the Texas Club on Saturday night. The band, which became famous in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has famous hits like “Come Sail Away” and “Show Me the Way.”

Styx performs for packed house

Temperatures may be rising, but the media’s interest in climate change is cooling off.

Newspaper coverage of sto-ries related to climate change dropped more than 40 percent in 2011 since its peak two years earlier, according to analysis by DailyClimate.org.

Despite a year that included severe weather across the globe, federal investigation into the Solyndra solar power bankruptcy and debates over the Keystone oil pipeline, media coverage of cli-mate change declined, continuing the trend that started in 2010.

Coverage of climate change and related issues on news televi-sion has followed the same trend, dropping from 83 stories on the three major networks in 2009 to 14 last year, according to an inde-pendent study by Drexel Univer-sity professor Robert Brulle.

Brulle claimed in his report that the lull in coverage is caused by a combination of other im-portant political issues, few im-portant events and a lack of dis-cussion by high-level political figures.

Mass communication assis-tant professor Bruce Hardy, for the most part, concurs.

“There is only so much space on the news agenda, and the envi-ronment as a news item has been crowded out by the economy, the

Republican primaries and even Occupy Wall Street,” Hardy said.

Not only have news outlets not stressed climate change, Har-dy said, people have concurrently lost interest.

“People are not necessarily concerned with this issue, in part, because of the economic stress they are feeling on their wallets,” Hardy said.

Polls from the Pew Research Center show that while people increasingly believe that there is “solid evidence the earth is warming,” they see global warm-ing as a less serious threat than in the past. In 2011, 38 percent of those polled rated global warm-ing “very serious,” compared to 45 percent in 2007.

Environmental science pro-fessor Ed Laws said he believes the long-term nature of climate change causes people to underes-timate its threat.

“We have Iran trying to go

nuclear — that’s the stuff on the front page, and with good rea-son,” Laws said.

The problem, he says, is that people are unwilling to look more than a few generations into the future.

“In 500 or 1,000 years, we’ll have burned up all the fossil fu-els. The ice from Greenland will all melt, and that alone will raise sea level seven meters,” Laws said. “We’re only looking for-ward as far as our children, our grandchildren, but they won’t see the greatest effects.”

In an age when the Internet and its information seem to per-meate every area in the world, some areas of Louisiana still can’t access this tool.

LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Division of Adminis-tration’s Office of Information Technology have teamed up in Connect My Louisiana, an educa-tional initiative, to extend broad-band technology and knowledge of its uses to Louisiana citizens who have limited or no access to the Internet.

Connect My Louisiana is funded by a four-year grant pro-vided by the Louisiana Division of Administration.

The project was founded last year to address a severe lack

of broadband Internet access in some areas of Louisiana.

Through research collected from participating broadband service providers, the Louisiana Division of Administration iden-tified 18 parishes without a sig-nificant broadband presence.

The 18 parishes include Al-len, Avoyelles, Caldwell, Cata-houla, Concordia, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Franklin, Jef-ferson Davis, LaSalle, Madi-son, Morehouse, Pointe Coupee, Richland, St. Helena, Tensas, Washington and West Carroll.

Bruce Garner, LSU AgCenter education awareness coordinator, said there are problems getting a DSL or cable signal to many homes in these areas because they are mainly rural. However, Connect My Louisiana aims to publicize other technologies that

can bring broadband Internet to these areas, such as satellite and cell phone technology.

Educators from the LSU AgCenter travel to these par-ishes and teach local residents about broadband Internet access and the benefits of using it in their businesses through cours-es ranging from an introduc-tory course, “What is Broadband Technology?” to “Blogging for Business.”

Garner said part of the grant for this initiative was written for economic development so an e-commerce course is offered to show small business owners how to use the Internet to market and expand their businesses.

“This can be achieved by purchasing a domain name and designing a simple website through WordPress, creating a

Facebook page or using eBay, Etsy and Craigslist to sell their products,” Garner said.

Connect My Louisiana is not just aimed at educating small business owners in these less-connected areas. The initiative also strives to educate the gen-eral public about the benefits of broadband Internet in their per-sonal lives.

Garner taught an introduc-tory broadband course to a group of senior citizens and taught one grandmother how to create a Facebook account and send a friend request to her two grand-children who live in California.

And it only took two min-utes.

“We take broadband Internet for granted. Some of the residents in these parishes still have to use dial-up, which can take forever,”

Garner said.Connect My Louisiana teach-

ers survey residents about their current Internet service following each course, so they can present that information to wireless cable and phone company vendors.

Garner said the majority of rural residents are unhappy with their current Internet capabilities.

“We want broadband In-ternet technology companies to receive this information and ex-tend their services to these areas where residents want more ac-cess to broadband technology,” Garner said.

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TECHNOLOGY

ENVIRONMENT

Media coverage, public interest for climate change decline

Connect My Louisiana brings internet to rural areasLea CiskowskiContributing Writer

Gordon BrillonContributing Writer

Contact Gordon Brillon at gbrillon@lsureveille.com

Contact Lea Ciskowski at lciskowski@lsureveille.com

SAM CRAFT / The Associated Press

Eddy Radillo of Yantis, Texas, holds a Texas flag and a sign opposing the Transcanada Keystone Pipeline on Feb. 17 outside of the Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, Texas.

Offi cials from the National Ur-ban League announced Thursday that President Barack Obama and the Republican presidential nomi-nee are scheduled to address the league’s 2012 national conference in New Orleans this summer.

The event, which will run July 25 to 28 , is predicted to draw thou-sands of viewers and about $25 million , according to the Times-Picayune .

Conferences in the past have drawn in crowds of more than 5,000 registrants and 7,000 guests , and Marc Morial , former New Orleans mayor and current president of the Urban League , said he expects to at-tract a comparably-sized crowd.

Representatives from the league’s 97 chapters will attend the conference to converse on a number of issues faced in urban areas, in-cluding education and employment.

But representatives won’t be the only ones participating in the conference.

Morial said he encourages lo-cals to volunteer at the conference as well.

“Our conference is different,” he said during Thursday’s news conference. “It’s not just a conven-tion for visitors and delegates. It’s not just a convention for out-of-towners.”

While the speakers at the con-ference are expected to attract a large crowd, this won’t be the fi rst time Obama has addressed the Ur-ban League .

In 2008, Obama and Sen. John McCain spoke to the Urban League in Orlando, Fla .

This summer’s conference will mark the fourth time New Orleans has hosted the league’s annual convention.

Though Louisiana’s higher ed-ucation system seemed unscathed when Gov. Bobby Jindal released his fi scal year 2012-2013 budget earlier this month, uncertainty still looms as state legislators prepare to reconvene March 12.

The University’s $8.1 million 2012 midyear budget cut became permanent for the 2013 fi scal year, but Jindal’s budget proposal seem-ingly left higher education alone.

The situation was the same in 2011 , with higher education initial-ly free from direct cuts in Jindal’s budget, but in the hands of state legislators and with administrative prodding, tuition increased.

“When the budget enters the process, we’re always concerned about getting less,” said Jason

Droddy, director of External Af-fairs. “The governor’s budget is a starting point.”

Several bills concerning high-er education have been fi led so far.

HB1, the standard operat-ing expenses bill, will address the higher education budget. Of 20 chapters, higher education is 19th .

The House Appropriations Committee will take up the higher education portion of HB1 on April 2 and will conclude with testimony on the bill by April 16 , Droddy said. The full house will vote on the bill at least a week after.

The only fi led bill that directly affects student tuition is HB137, which aims to give residency to student veterans regardless of how long they have held residency in Louisiana in order to allow them in-state tuition.

But a handful of bills could

also affect a different group on campus — employees.

Passage of these bills could re-sult in a higher retirement age and force employees to pay more for their retirement, among many pos-sible resolutions.

If HB53 passes, the retirement age could change from 55 to 67 , which is the current highest age for Social Security.

Retirement bills are often a source of much dissatisfaction among employees, Droddy said.

In past years, bills have also sought changes to the TOPS tu-ition system, and the possibility for another round of TOPS debate is likely, according to Droddy .

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Future higher edu. budget still murky STATE

Brian SibilleStaff Writer

Contact Brian Sibille at bsibille@lsureveille.com

NATION

SUSAN WALSH / The Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks Thursday during a fundraiser at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla.

Obama, Rep. nominee to address urban issuesKate MabryStaff Writer

Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

Stop Bullying Louisiana and Equality Louisiana released an online petition earlier this month to support the 2012 Louisiana School Bullying Prevention Act.

The bill addresses bullying against students with disabilities, students who are not native Eng-lish speakers and LGBT students in public schools. It will be up for debate in this spring’s legislative session, which begins March 12.

Equality Louisiana is an or-ganization dedicated to achiev-ing full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and Stop Bullying Louisiana is a coalition group formed around anti-bullying legislative efforts in Louisiana.

Matthew Patterson, a phys-ics graduate student who works with Equality Louisiana, said a bill similar to the 2012 Louisiana School Bullying Prevention Act was discussed last year, but new additions, including specific defi-nitions for terms in the bill, have been integrated.

Last year’s bill didn’t pass. Patterson said the bill “included students with disabilities, but it wasn’t specific.”

“It banned bullying or ha-rassment based on ‘mental or physical disabilities,’” he said. “This year, we have worked with various disability advocacy groups on better language, and our draft explicitly mentions bul-lying based on ‘mental illness or emotional health disorder, physi-cal disability, intellectual disabil-ity, developmental disability’ and other characteristics.”

People who signed the peti-tion supporting the bill agreed to ask the “Louisiana House of Rep-resentatives and Senate [to] pass the School Bullying Prevention Act of 2012 and that the governor sign the act into law.”

While individual signatures will not be made publicly vis-ible, the data, which will state the number of signatures in each district, will be introduced to leg-islators.

Patterson said he hopes to reach 5,000 signatures on the petition, but he would like to re-ceive as many as possible.

“I want everyone in the state to sign,” he said. “This affects ev-erybody.”

While the petition is antici-pated to remain open until April 30, Tucker Barry, political direc-tor at Capital City Alliance, said the closure date for the petition may be extended further.

“You don’t know when your bill will get picked up,” Barry said. “It’s all just depending on the schedule of bills being heard. The governor is proposing so many education bills that it’ll be swamped in the committee.”

Barry said Louisiana en-forces two anti-bullying laws — one general law about bullying in schools and one specific law about cyber bullying.

Some states also have similar laws on bullying, but Patterson said California and New Jersey have the most inclusive anti-bul-lying laws.

“There are a good number of states that have some kind of law, but they may not be all that spe-cific,” he said.

Additionally, the revised bill

will apply equally to students and school employees.

“A lot of people in our tes-timony [last year] mentioned that teachers may not do any-thing about bullying or may ac-tively be participating in bullying themselves,” Patterson said. “We wanted to make sure this was included, and the Louisiana As-sociation of Educators was also behind this.”

Louisiana’s current anti-bullying laws apply to all public schools but are exempted from six parishes.

Barry said the proposed bill will close the gap in parish ex-emptions that exist in the current law.

East Baton Rouge Parish is one of the parishes excluded

from the laws. While the parish has its own polices on bullying, Barry said all the parishes should approach bullying on the same level.

“A student in East Baton Rouge should have the same rights as a student in Lafayette,” Barry said.

Patterson said “there’s no real reason that we know of” to explain why the exemptions were put into place.

Barry said last year’s anti-bullying bill was heard in the House Education Committee where a large number of support-ers turned out to encourage leg-islators to pass the bill. But once the bill reached the House floor, Barry said the discussion around the bill lost focus on bullying and

became a discussion on sexual orientation.

“It became a distraction from the mission of the bill,” Barry said.

This year, Barry said there is a new strategy to organize for the passage of the bill.

“We are working very hard to have organizations sign on to support the bill that reflect the true diversity and sweeping sup-port that the bill has around the state,” Barry said. “We’re still approaching other groups. This is the first time anything like this has been done across all these different groups.”

The University is up for re-accreditation by the South-ern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleg-es next year, and the University’s Committee on General Education is working to ensure the process goes smoothly.

The University requires each student to complete 39 general education credit hours in order to graduate. The number is dic-tated by the Louisiana Board of Regents and has been set at 39 since 1987.

The University began requir-ing departments to determine “intentionality in course design” in 2009. Murphy said the inten-tion is to design courses that will eventually help students earn their degrees.

James Murphy, associate professor of theatre and com-mittee chair, said the committee began seeking out more focused assessments a few years ago.

He said the assessments must detail how each course meets the SACSCOC guidelines, and without them, there’s no proof the University is meeting its standards.

“It wasn’t even an issue of whether it was happening, there was just no means to show it,” he said.

Each general education course is required to teach stu-dents six specific competencies.

According to the competen-cy list, after taking a general edu-cation course, a student should, among other things, be able to “communicate complex knowl-edge in multiple media,” “con-duct effective research-based inquiry” and “be intelligently engaged in service to the com-munity.”

Murphy said the committee

has had trouble collecting as-sessments in recent years, which could impede the accreditation process.

He said if a course is not assessed properly, it will be re-moved.

“We don’t have any other choice,” he said. “It’s all we can do at that point.”

If a course is cancelled, it must also be removed from the general catalog. Fortunately, changes to the catalog are deter-mined months in advance.

If a course is in danger of re-moval, the committee can step in and arrange for it to be assessed

in order to “get it back on track” and save it from being perma-nently cancelled.

Murphy said the committee is currently urging professors and department heads to complete in-depth assessments of general education courses.

The official report on the University’s general education curricula needs to be submitted by fall 2013, he said.

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Gen. Ed. teachers to assess courses for re-accreditation

Organizations release petition against bullying in public schools

Rachel WarrenStaff Writer

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ACADEMICS

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Prior coursework and high ACT scores will no longer suf-fi ce for placement in Math 1550 or 1551 .

Beginning fall 2012 , the sole prerequisite for calculus place-ment will be an appropriate score on the Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces test.

The ALEKS test challenges students in numeric manipula-tion, algebra, geometry and trigo-nometry .

Students who score at least 70 percent on the ALEKS will be placed in Math 1500 (Ana-lytic Geometry and Calculus I ), and students who score at least 75 percent will be placed in Math 1551 (Honors: Analytic Geom-etry and Calculus II ).

Mathematics Department Chair Robert Perlis said in an e-mail that math faculty have known for years that even stu-dents with high scores from the ACT or high school often lose their basic algebra and trigonom-etry skills by the time they take freshmen calculus.

Perlis said the placement test is adaptive , meaning lat-er questions are determined by a student’s response to

earlier questions. ALEKS also comes with

learning modules , so if students need to raise their initial score, they are given material to study.

Perlis urges students to give themselves suffi cient time to earn the requisite score if they don’t score 70 percent or above on the initial assessment.

The ALEKS test suggests that students should expect to spend two to three hours with the modules in order to raise their score one percentage point .

He said a student getting 65 percent on their initial assess-ment should expect to spend 10 to 15 hours with the modules to raise their score to a 70 percent .

According to the ALEKS website, a score must be “fresh,” meaning it cannot be more than six months old on the fi rst day of class in Math 1550 or 1551 .

Students can navigate the ALEKS Calculus Placement Test through their myLSU accounts under the Student Services tab .

The fee for the test is $25 , which covers the initial assess-ment and learning modules for a six-week period .

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LONDON (AP) — The descen-dants of a surgeon who died on the Titanic nearly 100 years ago are appealing for a benefactor to purchase a soon-to-be-auctioned letter he wrote from the doomed ship — and to return it to the city where the vessel was built.

A two-page note John Ed-ward Simpson wrote to his moth-er days before the ship sank in April 1912 is to expected to fetch at least $50,000 at the auction later this week in Long Island, New York.

Simpson’s great-nephew John Martin said Sunday that the family can’t afford to buy it, but would love to see it back in Bel-fast.

“It would be great if a do-nor or benefactor could be found who would purchase and return it to Northern Ireland for public display,” he said.

Simpson’s letter, dated April 11, 1912, is written on notepaper headed RMS Titanic and is ad-dressed to his mother, who was living in Belfast.

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Magazine and University alum-na, said Kaufman approached Scene to host the event.

Maginnis said she was happy to work on the party because of what it means to the community.

“Baton Rouge doesn’t have a lot of communal, fun events,” she said. “What better way to cel-ebrate it locally than to do it like this?”

Maginnis said Scene and the Manship Theatre tried to emulate a Hollywood celebration in every way, right down to the red carpet.

Attendees were encouraged to stop at the event’s red carpet station to have their photos tak-en with life-size Oscar statuette cardboard cut-outs.

Residents walked the carpet wearing everything from blue jeans to formal evening gowns.

Kaufman said the event’s or-ganizers left the dress code up to attendees’ discretion because he wanted people to be comfortable at the party.

“You can drink, you can eat,” he said. “It’s just a carefree and casual night.”

Baton Rouge resident Joe Simmons attended the event wearing a purple satin jacket.

Tricia Day, his guest for the evening, wore a long dress and a colorful caplet with feather trim to match his outfit.

“It’s the Oscars,” she said. “You wouldn’t go to the red car-pet in Hollywood in a pair of blue jeans, would you?”

Simmons said he was eager to attend such a different event in Baton Rouge.

“As a lifetime resident, it’s just nice to see something shak-ing in downtown Baton Rouge,” he said.

Simmons correctly predicted “The Artist” would win for Best

Picture at the award ceremony.The pair said they usually

record the show when it airs and watch it later without commer-cials, but during the party, they didn’t have to worry about that.

University alumnus and local celebrity Anthony Ryan Auld was the evening’s host. He comment-ed on celebrities’ style choices and the evening’s winners during commercial breaks.

Kaufman said Auld, who starred on the reality show “Proj-ect Runway” last year, spoke off the cuff during the show to add to the event’s casual atmosphere.

Auld said he watches the Academy Awards every year and was eager to spend the night with members of the community.

Like many others at the party, Auld said he hoped “The Help” would win for Best Picture.

“I just really enjoyed the movie and its overall message,” he said.

East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden made an appearance at the party.

“It’s really exciting to watch the community come together like this,” he said as he glanced around the crowded room.

Holden said he didn’t have any predictions for potential win-ners, but he enjoys watching the celebrities at the show.

“I like to just sit back and re-lax,” he said. “It’s always fasci-nating watching people win. It’s really something special.”

dead with gunshots to the head in Allam’s Edward Gay apart-ment Dec. 13, 2007. The killings appeared to be related to a home invasion robbery.

Casey Jermaine Gathers, 2 3 - y e a r - o l d Baton Rouge resident, and Michael Jer-maine Lewis, 2 2 - y e a r - o l d Baton Rouge resident, were charged with two counts of second-degree murder.

G a t h -ers and Lewis

were not indicted until July 21.Devin Parker, a 23-year-old

Baton Rouge resident and the third man booked in connection with the killings, pleaded guilty on June 27, 2011, to armed rob-bery and accessory after the fact.

Parker has not been sen-tenced, but he agreed to testify in any legal proceedings in the fu-ture concerning the case.

While the three men were booked with the killings, Park-er was the only one indicted in 2009.

“I feel, personally, we had enough evidence to indict all

three, but obviously the grand jury didn’t feel the same way,” Lawrence Rabalais, LSU Police Department Chief, told The Dai-ly Reveille on Oct. 21, 2009. “It is frustrating. It was a gambit of well-experienced, seasoned vet-erans that were involved in this investigation, and I think if you ask any of them who were in-volved, they would tell you when we arrested those three people, we had the right people.”

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An uninspired 62-46 loss to No. 16 Georgia in the regular sea-son finale will send LSU into the Southeastern Conference tourna-ment on a sour note.

The Bulldogs snapped LSU’s six-game win streak and dropped LSU to 20-9 on the season. The Lady Tigers (10-6 SEC) were still able to lock up the No. 4 seed in the conference, earning a first round bye in the SEC tournament.

Though the Lady Tigers were down by only three at halftime, the Bulldogs put the game out of reach early in the second half, much to the chagrin of LSU coach Nikki Caldwell.

“You don’t necessarily worry about the outcome of the game, you worry about how we’re play-ing,” Caldwell said in a postgame radio interview. “I was not pleased with how we played. We’ll have to take this and move forward as we get ready for SEC play.”

The game seemed to turn af-ter LSU junior guard Adrienne Webb connected on a 3-pointer to cut the Bulldog lead to 41-35 with 12:57 remaining.

The Lady Tigers didn’t score again until the 7:42 mark of the contest, when senior forward LaSondra Barrett connected on

For one week every year, prospective NFL athletes are ex-amined, timed, measured, inter-viewed, weighed, analyzed and examined again.

That process is the NFL Combine, and for three of the eight former LSU players invited to participate, the four-day job interview is over. Wide receiver Rueben Randle, quarterback Jordan Jefferson and tight end

Deangelo Peterson performed their final drills and workouts this past weekend, leaving their professional fate up to the coaches and executives of the NFL.

While some play-er’s stocks soar after solid performances, some see their names fall in mock drafts if their workouts don’t meet expectations. So is the case for Randle, who had a 31-inch vertical jump and ran the 40-yard dash in 4.55 seconds.

While those measurables fall well below what many — includ-ing Randle — expected, local

draft analyst Mike Detillier said Randle’s still the third- or fourth-

best wide receiver in the draft.

“Fall in love with the football player,” Detillier said. “Don’t fall in love with the workout guy. That workout guy is going to get your ass fired. That football player is going to help you win a lot of games. Rueben Randle is a football

player.”One former Tiger who im-

pressed in his workouts was

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COMBINE, see page 15

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Former LSU wide receiver Rueben Randle makes a fingertip catch as he runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Sunday in Indianapolis.

LSU can’t hit.It’s something LSU coach Paul

Mainieri won’t shy away from ad-mitting, and the numbers don’t hide the truth. The No. 7 Tigers recorded 93 plate appearances in three games against Appalachian State (4-2) this past weekend. In 70 of those, they failed to reach base.

LSU (5-2) combined for 16 hits on the weekend, and nine of those come in the Tigers’ lone victory — a 4-0 win on Friday.

The next two days were worse, as LSU managed just seven hits in the two games — an 11-1 loss on Sunday and a 1-0 defeat on Saturday, the first time a non-conference oppo-nent had shut out LSU since Tulane

did it in 2004.“Every once in a while a team

comes out and kicks your ass,” said junior first baseman Mason Katz. “And they did. They came out here and kicked our ass. That’s plain and simple.”

LSU had a team batting average of .186 against Appalachian State and notched just two extra base hits in the three-game series. The only

run in the Tigers’ two losses came in the ninth inning of Sunday’s game, when LSU was already trailing by 11 runs.

“Obviously we have a little bit of a confidence problem offensively,” Main-ieri said. “They’re kids. No matter how much you tell them to keep their con-

fidence, it snowballs, and in their minds, they wonder if they’re ever going to get a hit.”

After dominant performances by LSU sophomore pitchers Kevin Gausman and Ryan Eades on Friday

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APPALACHIAN STATE, see page 15

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[Above] Appalachian State infielder Hector Crespo (4) rounds the bases, [bottom left] sophomore outfielder JaCoby Jones picks up a grounder, [bot-tom middle] LSU sophomore pitcher Kurt McCune prepares to throw the ball, and [bottom right] senior infielder Tyler Hanover bats Sunday during the Tigers’ 1-11 loss at Alex Box Stadium.

Offense struggles in losses to App. StateHunter PaniaguaSports Writer

‘They came out here and

kicked our ass. That’s plain and simple.’

Mason Katzjunior first baseman

Tigers secure No. 4 SEC tourney spot

The LSU track and field team wrapped up the Southeastern Con-ference Indoor Championship meet Sunday with somewhat mixed re-sults.

The No. 2 Lady Tigers crowned four individual champions, but fell just short of defending their confer-ence championship, placing runner-up to No. 6 Florida. LSU’s No. 3 men’s squad could not improve on last year’s third-place finish, instead stumbling to fourth.

“I’m proud of our athletes in the way they competed today,” LSU coach Dennis Shaver said in a news release. “We really put ourselves in a better position to compete at the NCAA Championships with some of the performances we saw today.”

Junior Kimberlyn Duncan and sophomore Jasmin Stowers paced the Lady Tigers, both winning in-dividual crowns. Stowers set a new personal record in claiming the 60-meter hurdles title, followed closely in third by teammate, junior Shanekia Hall, who also set a per-sonal best.

Duncan continued her assault on the 200-meter dash, posting a sea-son-best time to place first. She has now won 13 consecutive collegiate

finals in the event.“Coach Shaver and I have re-

ally been working on my start dur-ing practice,” Stowers said in a news release. “That was a key component for this race today.”

The Lady Tigers saved the best for last when the 4x400-meter relay team of Duncan, junior Siedda Her-bert, and seniors Cassandra Tate and Jonique Day claimed the 12th title in the event in program history.

The Tigers got a surprising lift from freshman Aaron Ernest in his first career SEC final. The New Or-leans native ran his second personal best of the weekend in the 200-meter dash to place second.

“Coming into this meet, I wasn’t even supposed to make the final,” Ernest said in a news release. “I guess second is pretty good since I’m not even supposed to be in the final. I’ll take it.”

Senior Kyron Blaise led the Tigers in the field events, setting a new personal record and taking third in the triple jump. Junior Damar Forbes, who placed second in the long jump, was close behind in fifth and also set a personal record.

Senior Michael Lauro complet-ed his final SEC Championship with a second place finish in the weight throw.

The Tigers also closed out the

meet with an emphatic win in the 4x400-meter relay. The team of se-niors Keyth Talley, Riker Hylton and Ade Alleyne-Forte and junior Caleb Williams bested Georgia by 0.49 seconds.

“I’m excited for the opportunity we have in two weeks to really go out and compete for a national cham-pionship,” Shaver said. “It’s what we work toward all year long.”

Both the Tigers and Lady Tigers will return home for the LSU Invi-tational at the Carl Maddox Field House on Friday. The meet is a pre-cursor for the NCAA Indoor Cham-pionship Meet on March 9 and 10 in Nampa, Idaho.

The LSU men’s basketball team’s four-game win streak came to an end Saturday after a crushing 72-48 loss at the hands of South-eastern Conference rival Ole Miss (16-12, 6-8 SEC).

The Tigers (17-11, 7-7) never led during the contest and were outnumbered in nearly every statis-tical category, leaving LSU coach Trent Johnson to describe the Reb-els as the “completely better” team Saturday.

“They were more physical, they ran their stuff, they got in the lane,” Johnson said. “If you look at that game and where we started, we couldn’t get back to where we were in that game. The credit goes to them.”

Johnson was ejected from the game for the first time in his LSU career with just more than seven minutes left to play. The first tech-nical appeared to be caused by Johnson being on the court after an LSU basket and the second was is-sued a moments later after an argu-ment with the referee.

“It’s an absolute joke,” John-son said. “I have a problem when a guy is more worried with what my trainers have to say on the bench than calling the game. It’s not about us coaches, and it’s not about the people calling the game, it’s about the players.”

The Tigers shot just 18-for-58 from the field for a 31 percent shooting percentage on the night, compared to Ole Miss’ 23-for-49 performance.

Senior forward Storm Warren led the Tigers with 13 points in as many minutes and added four re-bounds.

“It was our expectation to get

it going, but as you can see, it nev-er really came to us,” Warren said. “The outcome was just not in our favor. … We tip our hats to them. They came out to play tonight, and we didn’t.”

Ole Miss senior forward Ter-rance Henry scored a game-high 21 points, putting him past the 1,000-point mark for his career and making him the second Rebel in program history to record 1,000 points and 100 blocks.

“[Henry] is a great player,” LSU sophomore guard Andre Stringer said. “He’s going to be a pro one day. He’s got length, he can shoot it, he can lay it down, he’s got a lot of things to his game. He hurt us a little bit, but we play defense as a team, nobody is sin-gled out.”

The Tigers started the game in a zone defense, but after giving up a 50-percent field goal percentage and 34 first-half points, Johnson moved to a more aggressive man-to-man before his early departure.

“It’s definitely difficult [to switch defenses mid-game],” Stringer said. “They hit all of their open shots, they crashed the glass, and they got all of the 50-50 balls. Like I said, they played better than us.”

The loss puts the Tigers in a hole for an NCAA tournament bid. With just two regular season games left, the Tigers will likely need wins against Tennessee on Wednesday and at Auburn on Sat-urday, as well as a deep run in the SEC tournament to keep any tour-nament hopes alive.

“We’ve got two more games,” said freshman forward Johnny O’Bryant III. “We have to pull these out, and hopefully something will look up for us.”

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Ole Miss senior forward Terrance Henry (1) works against LSU sophomore guard Ralston Turner (22) on Saturday during the Tigers’ 72-48 loss in Oxford, Miss.

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The LSU men’s lacrosse team attempted to get its fi rst win Saturday in New Orleans against Ole Miss in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Collegiate Lacrosse Clas-sic, but the Tigers fell short.

The squad lost, 12-11, to the Rebels after a close match that was decided in the fi nal minutes of overtime.

The Tigers led for most of the game, but Ole Miss scored with less than fi ve minutes remaining to send the game to extra time.

LSU held a 6-4 lead in the fi rst quarter of the match, thanks to three early goals from sopho-more Jordan Ramirez . The Ti-gers led 9-7 at the half after three goals from freshman Saban Sell-ers .

The third quarter proved to be more of the same, with the Tigers extending their lead to 10-7. The Rebels, however, scored three goals before the Tigers could answer. LSU freshman

Josh Henderson snapped the 10-10 tie with a goal as the clock wound down to fi ve minutes re-maining in the fi nal quarter.

The lead was short-lived as Ole Miss earned the go-ahead score with just minutes remain-ing to send it into overtime.

Sellers and senior Jacob Most both attempted game-win-ning goals in the sudden-death overtime, but Rebel goalie Nick Loverde stopped the Tigers’ at-tack.

With eight seconds remain-ing in overtime, Ole Miss’s Sam Doub launched the ball past LSU goalie Rick Battista for the Rebel win.

LSU head coach Nick Jos-lyn said the sting of the loss was evident, but he had to give credit where credit was due.

“It’s really tough to lose a game like this, but hats off to Ole Miss for battling back,” Joslyn said in a news release.

The Tigers travel to Waco, Texas, on Friday to play Baylor.

The LSU softball team notched four wins over the week-end, holding its last three oppo-nents scoreless and extending its winning streak to six games.

In her fi rst start of the season, sophomore pitcher Meghan Pat-terson threw a one-hitter against Alcorn State (4-10) to lead LSU (10-4) to a 2-0 victory.

Patterson racked up a career-high 13 strikeouts during the game.

“I just took it one batter at a time,” she said. “I didn’t want to get ahead of myself. I made sure I took it slow.”

Despite the Alcorn State game being the pitcher’s fi rst start of the season, LSU coach Beth Torina said she held Patter-son to a high standard.

“She’s a talented pitcher,” she said. “We expect that from her.”

Senior left fi elder Ashley Langoni and freshman second baseman Rikki Alcaraz led the Lady Tigers’ offense with an RBI each.

LSU won a tight 1-0 decision against South Alabama earlier in the day behind a strong defensive effort.

Senior pitcher Rachele Fico gave up seven hits on the day, but none crossed the plate as the Jaguars stranded nine runners on base.

The defense got helped by a double play from sophomore third baseman Tammy Wray , who caught a line drive and tagged out a diving South Alabama player to save a run.

“We dodged a bullet today,” Torina said. “I thought South Alabama outplayed us in all as-pects. We made some spectacular defensive plays that kept us in it

and Rachele Fico continued to battle.”

The lone score of the game came when Jaguar senior catcher Haley Hopkins threw an errant ball to third base in an attempt to throw out Alcaraz.

The ball fl ew into left fi eld and Alcaraz trotted home to score.

The Lady Tigers also started off the weekend against South Alabama on Saturday. LSU came out swinging, notching four runs in the fi rst inning.

“It’s really important [to start hot],” Alcaraz said. “You have to get those runs in, no matter what.”

South Alabama responded with four runs in the top of the second inning, but senior pitcher Brittany Mack silenced the Jag-uars for the rest of the day.

Senior designated player Cassie Trosclair sent an RBI double to left-center fi eld in the fourth inning and the Lady Tigers went on to win, 5-4 .

LSU took the fi eld later in

the afternoon against McNeese State. The Cowgirls came in with fi ve straight wins, including up-sets of Oregon State, No. 1 Ari-zona State and No. 17 Houston, who they beat twice .

The Lady Tigers stopped McNeese’s run of hot play with a one-hit performance from Fico.

Fico retired 19 straight bat-ters from the end of the fi rst in-ning until she gave up a walk in the seventh .

Senior catcher Morgan Rus-sell powered the Lady Tigers’ offense, knocking home an RBI single in the fourth inning and hitting her second career home run to give LSU some insurance in the sixth inning.

The Lady Tigers went on to win, 2-0 .

LSU hits the road next week-end to play No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 21 Oklahoma State.

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Lady Tigers sweep weekend slate

Tigers remain winless on season

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LSU junior pitcher Rachele Fico hurls a pitch during LSU’s 1-0 victory against South Alabama on Sunday at Tiger Park. The Lady Tigers won four games over the weekend.

The LSU swimming and div-ing team wrapped up the Last Chance Meet in Athens, Ga. on Sunday with two event champi-ons.

The meet was the fi nal shot for swimmers who were “on the bubble” to improve their times

before selections were made for the NCAA Championship Meet. Swimming coach Dave Geyer said Friday that the NCAA typi-cally selects 19-23 men and 26-30 women per event.

All fi ve LSU swimmers achieved “B” cut times in the meet, still leaving doubt as to whether they will be selected. “A” cut times are automatically

selected, but “B” cut times are ranked in order and those on the list won’t know if they made it until shortly before the meet.

Sophomore Torrey Bussey claimed the 200-yard individual medley title for the Lady Tigers with a time of 1:59.48, while ju-nior Andrei Tuomola captured the 50-yard freestyle crown for the Tigers in 20.01.

Both Bussey and Tuomola narrowly missed improving their season high times, and remain in doubt as to their chances of mak-ing the Championship Meet.

Junior Sean Roddy also placed second in the 100-yard backstroke, clocking 55.35. Sophomore Ricardo Alvarado Jiminez swam the 200-yard breaststroke in 1:59.26, and

freshman Frank Greeff fi nished the 200-yard butterfl y in 1:45.90.

The women’s NCAA Cham-pionship is March 15-17 in Au-burn, Ala., and the men’s cham-pionship follows a week later in Seattle, Wash.

In a busy three-match week-end, the LSU men’s tennis team cleaned house to remain unde-feated at home this season.

After easily taking care of Tulane, 7-0 , Friday night, the No. 28 Tigers upset No. 12 Texas A&M, 4-3, and rolled over in-state foe New Orleans, 6-1, in the second match of a doubleheader Sunday.

In the fi rst matchup Sunday, the Tigers faced stiff competition against the Aggies who boast two ranked doubles pairs and the No. 15-ranked singles player in the nation, Alexis Klegou.

In doubles, undefeated LSU duo senior Neal Skupski and

sophomore James Turbervill im-proved their record to 7-0 this season with an 8-5 victory over Texas A&M’s No. 36-ranked pair, Colin Hoover and John Lewis , on court two.

But the Aggies fought back to win the doubles point and take a 1-0 lead with two tiebreak vic-tories on courts one and three . Sunday was the fi rst time LSU won a match without securing the doubles point.

In singles, Texas A&M ex-tended its lead to 2-0 with a quick 6-4, 6-0 victory by Niall Angus over Turbervill.

The Tigers evened the score at 2-2 with straight set victories by senior Tom Knights and fresh-man Chris Simpson.

On court one, LSU junior

Olivier Borsos completed a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 upset victory over Texas A&M’s No. 15-ranked Alexis Klegou.

“From the beginning, [Bor-sos] took advantage of what [Klegou] gave him,” said coach Jeff Brown . “[Klegou] didn’t re-ally show up in the fi rst set, and that was an important thing that Olivier took advantage of.”

The Aggies were next to even the score at 3-3 when Texas A&M’s Junior Ore defeated LSU junior Stefan Szacinski 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, putting the hopes of a Tiger victory in the hands of Skupski on court two.

Skupski rallied from a set down to win two straight sets and eventually clinch the match with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory over

Hoover. Texas A&M is the highest

ranked opponent LSU has defeat-ed since 2008, when it toppled No. 8 Florida.

“Some days the breaks will fall your way at the end and some days they don’t, but today they did.” Brown said. “We’re going to enjoy this one for a little bit.”

As soon as Skupski clinched the 4-3 win for the Tigers, he was swarmed by his teammates who dogpiled him in the middle of the court in celebration.

“It’s probably one of the best feelings of my life so far,” Skupski said. “It was just a lot of adrenaline.”

Senior David Roberts had a successful outing in his fi rst appearance for the Tigers this

season in the late match Sunday, securing a 6-2, 6-3 victory over UNO’s Kardell.

Skupski, Simpson, senior Tom Knights and junior Roger Anderson also snatched straight set victories in the Tigers’ win over UNO.

LSU’s next match will be its fi rst Southeastern Conference match of the season against Ken-tucky on Friday.

“If we can play this way against Kentucky, I think we will have a good opportunity,” Brown said. “If we don’t, it will be a tough day.”

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kobe Bryant took Michael Jordan’s re-cord, then nearly lost the game to LeBron James.

Bryant and the best of the West held off a furious East comeback, winning 152-149 in the NBA All-Star game on Sun-day.

Bryant scored 27 points, moving past Jordan as the career scoring leader in the game. MVP Kevin Durant had 36, and Thun-der teammate Russell Westbrook fi nished with 21.

James and the East cut a 21-point defi cit to one in the clos-ing seconds, but weren’t able to move in front. James had 36 points and fellow Heat star Dwy-ane Wade fi nished with a triple-double.

Blake Griffi n scored 22 points for the West, which rang up 89 points in the fi rst half, set-ting an All-Star record. But he won the game with his defense, picking off James’ pass when the East had a chance to tie in the fi -nal seconds.

“I can’t turn the ball over like that,” James said. “I let my team down, but overall it was a great weekend.”

Griffi n then hit one free throw with 1.1 seconds left, and Wade was off on a 3-point at-tempt from the corner. He fi n-ished with 24 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, joining Jordan and James as the only players with All-Star game triple-doubles.

Durant was the MVP, leav-ing Bryant tied for the All-Star record with his four. But he got a bigger mark in his 13th All-Star game.

He broke Jordan’s record of 262 points on a dunk with 4:57 left in the third quarter and now has 271 for his career. He entered with 244 and passed Oscar Rob-ertson (246 points) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (251) earlier inthe game.

It almost wasn’t enough, as the East’s comeback had the crowd fi lled with entertainers and athletes chanting for defense — never a part of the All-Star game vocabulary — in the fi nal sec-onds.

With Bryant covering him, James hit two long 3-pointers in the fi nal period, and the East had a chance when Bryant, with the crowd loudly booing, missed a free throw with 18 seconds left and the West up 151-149.

“Just being a competitor,” James said. “They pretty much beat us up all game so we just wanted to make a game of it.”

But New Jersey’s Deron Wil-liams was short on a 3-pointer, and after the East came up with it, James fi red a pass into a crowd that Griffi n intercepted.

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Western Conference’s Russell Westbrook (0), of the Oklahoma City Thunder, elevates for a dunk Sunday during the All-Star game.

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Eastern Conference’s Dwyane Wade (3), of the Miami Heat, defends Western Confer-ence’s Kobe Bryant (24), of the Los Angeles Lakers, Sunday during the All-Star game.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The LSU-Alabama rivalry didn’t end in New Orleans. It moved to India-napolis.

After playing twice for the No. 1 ranking last season, repeatedly being dubbed college football’s two best defenses and eventually settling the national championship between them, the top defensive players from those teams are ready to start Round 3 — at the NFL scouting combine.

“Right now, it’s just men-tal, but when we get back on the fi eld, it’s going to be just like the way it was,” Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpartick said Sunday with a smile.

Scouts couldn’t ask for a bet-ter scenario. Players from both teams are out to impress team ex-ecutives, hoping to improve their draft stock.

The stakes couldn’t be higher.The winners will be rewarded

with a bigger paycheck and per-haps some big-time endorsement deals, too. Bragging rights are also in play.

Kirkpatrick and LSU’s Morris

Claiborne are going head-to-head to become the No. 1 cornerback chosen in April. Alabama safety Mark Barron and outside lineback-er Courtney Upshaw are generally regarded as the No. 1 players at their positions, as is LSU defensive tackle Michael Brockers. And high school recruits undoubtedly will pay attention to which school pro-duces more NFL players and the highest draft picks, maybe giving the current prospect’s alma maters a recruiting bump.

That’s not all.Six of the 59 defensive backs

invited to Indy came from these two SEC programs, and that doesn’t in-clude LSU Heisman Trophy fi nal-ist Tyrann Mathieu, a sophomore. For the Tigers, it’s a chance to reaf-fi rm their self-proclaimed reputa-tion as DB University.

“Patrick (Peterson) gave us the name, and we just kept it going,” Claiborne said, laughing after one of his teammates ruined the secret.

But it’s not all going to be jabs and trash-talking around Lucas Oil Stadium. The Alabama and LSU players who spoke Sunday chuck-led when asked about renewing one of college football’s most bit-ter rivalries this week. The reality

is most like seeing familiar faces in an unfamiliar environment.

“People ask us ‘Why aren’t we fi ghting?’” LSU cornerback Ron Brooks said Sunday. “That was in college, they got us, they beat us fair and square and there’s no hat-ing going on out here. We’re all here for the same goal.”

Claiborne measured in at 5-foot-11, 183 pounds, slightly shorter and heavier than his listed measurements of 6-feet and 173 pounds. He says he’s more of a technician than a physical corner-back.

Kirkpatrick, a second team All-American, will undoubtedly have to answer questions about his off-the-fi eld conduct. He was ar-rested in January on a misdemean-or drug possession charge, which was dropped three weeks later af-ter the driver signed an affi davit admitting the marijuana was his, Kirkpatrick said.

“It was me being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Kirkpat-rick said.

It would be easy to mistake Rheagan Courville for a senior after looking at the accolades she’s re-ceived this year.

The LSU freshman gymnast took home her third all-around title Friday with a score of 39.450, but No. 3 Alabama was too consis-tent for No. 13 LSU in a 197.025-196.575 Crimson Tide victory at the PMAC.

“We didn’t stick landings, and that’s what cost us the competition,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “You go back in the gym and work on that. That’s easy to work on. You can pin-point that mistake.”

Courville nailed her vault per-formance with a 9.90 in LSU’s fi rst apparatus of the night and capped her all-around victory with the same score on fl oor, marking the second-straight meet she posted a 9.90 in both events.

“I think her freshman perfor-mance probably has surpassed any freshman we’ve had, because she’s been very consistent and does a high degree of diffi culty,” Breaux said.

Breaux said Courville, who scored a 9.825 on bars and beam, is capable of scoring at least a 9.90 in every event. Courville said she knows she can perform better, de-spite winning her second individual title in as many weeks.

“I don’t think it was my best on any event in particular, because I had some mistakes I’d like to keep from happening next time,” Cour-ville said. “There’s a lot of room for

improvement.”LSU fi nished with its second-

best team total of the year, due in large part to a season-high 49.350 on fl oor. Freshman Lloimincia Hall anchored the Tigers in the event and ended the night by sending a crowd of 4,013 onto their feet with an im-passioned performance to win her fourth fl oor title with a season-high 9.95.

Freshman Randi Lau and sophomore Maliah Mathis recorded season-highs of 9.85 on fl oor, and senior Ashley Lee earned a career-high 9.825 in the event.

“Having a great performance on fl oor is what we’ve been want-ing,” Breaux said. “We’ve not had that kind of performance all season long. But what makes a performance like that benefi cial is when you back it up sticking your landings in other events.”

Junior Shelby Prunty was plugged into the beam lineup for the fi rst time since Jan. 20 and earned a season-high 9.825, saving LSU’s team score of 49.10 in the event af-ter a fall from sophomore Kaleigh Dickson.

Breaux said LSU needs to get more from the gymnasts who aren’t anchoring the events.

“You set up the end of the line-up by having good performances in front of it,” Breaux said. “You put a lot of pressure on Rheagan and Lloimincia.”

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the first of two free throws. In the six-plus minutes LSU

didn’t score, Georgia built an 18-point lead while LSU missed all five of its field goal attempts, committed five fouls and turned the ball over four times.

The Lady Tigers turned the ball over 23 times in the game, with sophomore guard Jeanne Kenney committing five of the turnovers in 23 minutes of play-ing time.

The turnovers have plagued the LSU offense the entire season, and Georgia looked to exploit LSU’s sloppiness with aggressive defense on the perimeter.

“They rattled our guard play and took us out of our action of-fensively,” Caldwell said. “We didn’t play well out of their traps and it led to turnovers, which they capitalized on.”

Senior forward Courtney Jones and Webb each scored 11 points to lead the team. Barrett finished with 10, though she went

just 2-of-9 from the field.The rest of the roster strug-

gled to find its touch, however, as every other player scored four or fewer points. The LSU bench combined to shoot just 4-of-16 from the floor.

“We’re definitely going to evaluate this game because I did not feel like we got better,” Caldwell said. “I felt like we fell short of our goal to come in here and play competitive basketball.”

LSU will open its tournament play Friday at 6:30 p.m. when they face the winner of the Arkan-sas and Ole Miss.

“It’s going to be a fight,” Caldwell said. “That’s the beauty of playing in March Madness and playing in the SEC tournament. I’m excited for this team to be playing and continue to live to see another day of basketball.”

and Saturday, the third game was a different story for the Tigers’ pitching staff.

Sophomore pitcher Kurt McCune lasted three in-nings Sunday, the short-est outing of his career, and surrendered four runs on seven hits. The next six pitchers didn’t fare much better, as Ap-palachian State tacked on seven more runs with as many hits.

“The starting pitch-er’s role is to set the tone for the game,” McCune said. “Whenever you come out and give up four runs in three in-nings, that’s not setting the tone. I take full blame for the start [Sun-day] and giving them confidence

at the plate.”Though players and coaches

admit they feel frustrated follow-ing the Appalachian State series, junior outfielder Raph Rhymes did manage to find a positive

from the weekend.“Facing adversity

is good for the team,” Rhymes said. “I’d rather face it now than later.”

LSU will have plen-ty of opportunities to re-bound as the Tigers have five games in the com-ing week. The team will practice Monday instead of taking a day off as it normally does after a

weekend series.“We’re going to take a hard

look at everything,” Mainieri said. “I’m going to do a lot of evaluation of where we are. I’ve

never been one to sit back and let it happen if it’s not going good.”

The Tigers return to action Tuesday against Grambling State, then travel to Lake Charles to face McNeese State before host-ing Dartmouth for a three-game series during the weekend.

“We have to regroup, do a lot of self-analysis, figure out where we need to improve and get ready to do that,” Mainieri said. “And we will. It’s early in the year, and sometimes these games happen. I’ve been on the wrong side of several of these, and they’re hard to explain.”

Jefferson, who ranked No. 1 among quarterbacks in the 20-yard shuttle with a time of 4.06 seconds. But Detillier said an impressive combine won’t be enough to convince people Jef-ferson will succeed in the NFL.

“He has problems in his ac-curacy skills and with decision-making,” Detillier said. “I don’t see that changing at the NFL lev-el. ... From what I’ve seen, Jordan does not throw the football well enough, or accurately enough to play at the next level.”

Though Peterson impressed many with a 4.76 second 40-yard dash and 36-inch vertical, the

former LSU tight end dropped several passes during his receiv-ing drills.

But Detillier said a lack of quality tight ends in this draft class could propel Peterson into the third round.

“Normally what happens when you don’t have great depth is teams will overdraft,” Detillier said. “That will happen with Pe-terson. He’s right on the border as an early fourth-round pick, but because of supply and demand, he may go in round three.”

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LSU junior first baseman Mason Katz (8) swings at a pitch Sunday during the Tigers’ 11-1 loss to Appalachian State at Alex Box Stadium.

‘Facing adversity is good for

the team. I’d rather face

it now than later.’

Raph Rhymesjunior outfielder

Lights. Camera. Oscars.Outside the Hollywood & Highland

Center (the Kodak Theatre, for all intents and purposes), a raucous sea of reporters and cinephiles parts for Hollywood’s red-carpet parade, camera flashes cresting like whitecaps.

In fact, one might easily be reminded of watching the infamous climactic scene of Oscar-winner “The Ten Command-ments,” where Israelite A-listers narrowly escape the Egyptian paparazzi across an effects-laden Red Sea.

In this sense, the formal proceedings at the Oscars — the boring stuff, basically — might be akin to Hollywood’s wander-ing around in a barren desert wilderness.

Worshipping golden idols.It’s true there’s a certain pyrite inau-

thenticity to the affair. A certain behind-the-back L.A. duplicity. An elemental im-purity in the Oscar statuette.

Studios’ promotional marketing, for one.

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni humorously mused, for example, that Mitt Romney’s real problem is his candidacy for president instead of Best Picture.

“His super PAC isn’t The Weinstein Company (TWC), which knows how to drag an imperfect contender toward, and possibly across, the finish line,” he quipped.

The Weinstein-distributed film “The Artist,” the imperfect contender to which Bruni alluded, was the frontrunner for the

Best Picture Oscar, favored to become the only silent movie to garner the award since the first Oscar ceremony 83 years ago.

Male lead Jean Dujardin was the fa-vorite for Best Actor, in turn, while Michel Hazanavicius was the preference for Best Director. In all, the black-and-white silent film received ten award nominations.

But like Romney, it’s imperfect. “He’s Mormon; it’s more or less

French,” Bruni joked.The film does have its flaws, in all se-

riousness. Sure, it’s nostalgically charming, like

a rickety St. Charles Avenue streetcar.But good cinema — Oscar-winning

cinema — is more than a wistful homage to past historical epochs.

I love the Crescent City’s streetcars, by comparison, but hesitate to heap lav-ish praise upon the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority.

Such praise can be bought, though: free fares, for instance, would buy mine.

Likewise, “The Artist” sputtered to an Oscar not on its own wheels but rather towed by TWC — Hollywood’s Riverside Towing, in this sense.

“The Artist” is tugged, as Bruni said, by the “strategizing, needling and spend-ing” of TWC. And with the Academy Awards, as with elections, it’s necessary to have deep-pocketed, fleet-winged angels like Newt Gingrich’s benefactor Sheldon Anderson — and Harvey Weinstein.

But much like Riverside Towing’s operation, Hollywood studios’ Oscar pro-paganda campaign leaves victims in its wake.

Oscar-worthy films like “The Tree of Life,” Terrence Malick’s experimental drama, and “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen’s romantic comedy won’t receive

the recognition they rightfully deserve, aesthetic casualties of the practice.

Despite this, though, the Academy Awards is a commendable affair.

The glass is always half-full in Hol-lywood. The Oscars is ultimately the last bastion of artistic American filmmaking, protecting audiences from such films as “Mars Needs Moms,” “Season of the Witch” and “Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son.”

I won’t ascend Mount Sinai and de-stroy my copies of “The Artist” and “The Help” because of the industry’s idolatrous

rituals, in other words.But if the cinematic Yahweh should

cast a plague or two — or 10 — upon Sun-set Boulevard and Tinseltown, I’d let it Passover.

Phil Sweeney is a 25-year-old English senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_PhilSweeney.

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As usual, the Opinion section of our website, lsureveille.com, has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

In reference to Phil Sweeney’s column, “American movies shouldn’t be politicized,” readers has this to say:

“Considering how many self-proclaimed leftist produc-ers/directors have publicly talked about how they dislike the mili-tary (Examples include David Russell, Michael Moore, anyone who produces films for HBO,

etc) specifically make their films to demonize the military, these films can definitely be considered leftist. When directors who have publicly stated that they are con-servative and said that their films will portray their conservative beliefs, such as the two directors of Act of Valor or Battle LA, and these films do much much much better than any of the lefty movies that portray these heroes in these movies as villains, then it should show that people are swinging more right and are giving more support to movies like this in-stead of movies like Green Zone, that spends just as much on pro-duction, advertising, high action

and actors but don’t make nearly as much money because people are sick of that kind of crap in theaters, where these lefties de-cide to advertise their hatred of the military in a two hour film that will be loved by the academy awards but not watched by any-one who has a conscience. The military movies are just one part. Look at the religious films that do not demonize christian faith but celebrate it, like the Passion of Christ in comparison to the box office flop Dogma. The Passion spent very little on effects and actors, but Dogma spent much much more on actors, action, pro-duction and made probably half

as much in the US in theaters.Basically, people are get-

ting sick of movies that lean to-ward the left. They like honesty, so they like more conservative films.”- Anonymous

In reference to the entertainment story, “Chanel Boyz mix fashion and rap,” readers had this to say:

“Sounds like the dumbest thing since boy bands. Heard their music, they’re absolutely awful.”- LSU Student

““LSU Student” is the

dumbest person at LSU if he/she thinks this group is actually trying to produce quality music rather than providing comedic entertainment.”- Anonymous

“@LSU Student Hatin’ is bad.”- thechanelboyz

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We’ve all been warned about posting crazy pictures on Face-book.

We’ve been told employers might not be interested in some-one who can do a keg stand — or at least not someone who wants to show it off.

Once something is posted online, it can become permanent, as it is copied, saved and posted to a million other computers and websites becoming — whether we want it to or not — a part of our digital legacy.

Many of us are devoting more of our lives than ever in the digital world, spending time, money and energy on social net-working and other online media, but eventually we have to ask: What will happen to that legacy when we die?

Our digital legacies have be-come vast over the years, with scores of individuals accumu-lating thousands of e-mails and photos stored on hundreds of servers all over the world.

Without proper foresight, loved ones could be locked out of important parts of our lives or even forced to relive unpleasant memories when Facebook asks them to “poke” a deceased friend or family member.

Fortunately, Nebraska state senator John Wightman is at-tempting to streamline the pro-cess of leaving a digital legacy. The senator’s bill would allow a will’s executor automatic access to the deceased’s social media accounts so they could decide to close them or leave them as a me-morial.

A few years ago, a girl at my high school was tragically killed in a car accident. Her death shook the student body as her class-mates each found different ways to express grief.

The football team dedicated their season to their former assis-tant trainer while others covered her parking space with flowers and mementos.

Many of her friends, class-mates and family members flocked to her Facebook page, posting about how much they miss her, how happy they were to know her or just telling her about a day in their lives.

I remember talking with friends about the Facebook me-morial and how we would feel in the same situation. Some saw it as a good way for her loved ones to show their support for each other, while others felt they would pre-fer a less public memorial.

Different people respond to grief in different ways. I am in no way trying to belittle the obvious love and affection of the friends and family who visited her page, but I would rather my loved ones remember me in other ways.

Wightman’s bill is a good start, but doesn’t go far enough in

protecting the deceased’s digital property.

It’s easy to make light of someone leaving behind the doz-ens of accounts we make to read one article or to play a game for five minutes before getting bored. While the Internet is still full of trivial time-wasters, many people have built up a digital portfolio, whether through sites like Face-book or Flickr or even online banking.

New standards for copy pro-tection in the event of the own-er’s death should be adopted to ensure downloaded music, mov-ies and games can be passed on like any other property.

As our generation ages, questions over managing our digital legacies will become in-creasingly important. In the com-ing years, many of us will have to deal with the digital legacies of our grandparents and other older relatives who may have only re-cently moved online.

Wightman’s bill also relies

too much on the deceased’s ex-ecutor who is probably either the parent of a younger user or the spouse of an older one. These people may not have the tech-nological experience required to manage the deceased’s digital as-sets.

We will likely see new digi-tal protections put in place over the next few years to make man-aging a loved one’s digital life easier, but until then it might be worth it to stash your account passwords somewhere if you care about your digital legacy.

Andrew Shockey is a 21-year-old biological engineering junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Ashockey.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think being an Internet nerd would make me a hipster.

Sure, I wear plaid shirts and black plastic-framed glasses sometimes, but I don’t hang out at coffee shops or act smug when you’ve never heard of whatever crazy underground band is sud-denly popular.

However, it seems a new community page on Facebook has turned me into the preten-tious douche I usually make fun of — LSU Memes.

Pronounced like “meem,” a meme is a “cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biologi-cal transmission of genes,” ac-cording to Dictionary.com.

While I’m not here to study the biological transmission of genes, I’m more specifically re-ferring to the Internet meme.

Examples such as the “Rick Roll” (posting a link which leads to a video of Rick Astley’s “Nev-er Gonna Give You Up”), “LOL-Cats” (I Can Has Cheezburger) and “Rage Faces” have been vir-tually passed down year to year over the Internet on sites such as 4chan and Reddit.

Usually, these memes act as a sort of inside joke — funny to those in the know, but just ran-dom pictures with superimposed text to others.

Each meme has a specific way to use it to lead to maximum hilarity.

Because memes were es-sentially isolated to these small

Internet communities, they re-mained funny and intact because everyone knew how to use them.

The term “small Internet community” doesn’t work when it comes to Facebook, though.

I’m sure the intentions were good when the creators of LSU Memes brought the page to life. Unfortunately, it’s led to nothing but the misuse and bastardization of the images and videos I and so many others have come to enjoy.

Once the page became popu-lar, my Facebook news feed was overrun with incorrectly used memes and “what people think I do” pictures.

It’s like whenever your

parents started liking the same music as you when you were a kid. It instantly became uncool.

Sites like Reddit have a vot-ing system in place. If users like a link or picture, they can click an up arrow to “upvote” the post, and transversely “downvote” anything terrible.

Facebook, though, has no downvote arrow — no way to wade through the grime and ig-norantly made memes and rage comics.

I will admit, though, there are a few gems on the page, and it’s fun to see memes localized to the University.

But only when it’s

done correctly.The Internet is full of “trolls”

— people who stir up trouble just to get a reaction out of people — so unless you’re one of those people, go to sites like Knowyourmeme.com or Reddit and learn how to meme correctly.

I would say go to 4chan, the site from which most memes originate, but if you value what-ever innocence you may have left stay far away from there.

Until then, don’t try to post memes. You’re only making yourself look dumb and enraging all of those already in the know.

Then again, maybe that’s the whole purpose of the LSU

Memes page.Maybe the entire Facebook

page is nothing but a giant troll, built specifically for people to post incorrect memes just to up-set all of us who have known how memes have worked for years.

My world just got turned up-side down. Where is Conspiracy Keanu when you need him?

Adam Arinder is a 22-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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