As the Supreme Court con-cludes its hearings on the Affordable Care Act today, local business own-ers and students are weighing in on the decision-making.

“The big fi ght is whether or not Congress exceeded its authority when it passed the ACA — that’s a question of constitutional law,” said Paul M. Hebert Law Center profes-sor Paul Baier .

Douglas Meek, civil engi-neering sophomore , said he hopes the Supreme Court makes a fair decision, but he’s opposed to the health-care reform.

“It’s unconstitutional to make people pay a penalty for not purchas-ing something,” Meek said.

Mary Black, owner of the UPS Store at Citiplace, said her business hasn’t been heavily affected by the

health care law since her employees are all college students working part-time.

Before the act, she said she of-fered a health care plan to her employ-ees, but no one could afford it. Now her stu-dent employ-ees are able to stay covered by their par-ents’ insurance plans.

M a u d e Valera , owner of child care service KidU-topia in New Orleans, said she’s at risk because she doesn’t have health insurance, but she is in favor of health-care reform.

Valera said she experiences a peace of mind knowing she won’t be discriminated against based on her pre-existing conditions when she

is able to afford health insurance.

In a prepared statement, Robin Mayhall , corpo-rate communica-tions senior writer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana , said the organization’s analysts are pay-ing close attention to the Supreme Court hearings.

M a y h a l l said although the organization

doesn’t agree with every provision of

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Locals weigh in as Supreme Court revisits Affordable Care ActEmily HerringtonStaff Writer

What is the Affordable Care Act?Enacted in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” would extend health-care coverage to all Americans. The individual mandate of the ACA im-poses a � nancial penalty against those who do not buy the coverage. A decision on the bill will likely come in June at the end of the Supreme Court’s term, although justices could postpone the decision since the ACA doesn’t go into effect until January 2014. The Supreme Court has been hearing arguments about the contentious bill for three days.

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Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas (left), holds up a copy of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 21 on Capitol Hill.AFFORDABLE CARE, see page 6

MED. STUDENTS, see page 6

LSU HEALTH SCIENCES

Rachel WarrenStaff Writer

Medical students staying in state

About 63 percent of students graduating from the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans will remain in the state to complete their medical training, a 3-percent increase from last year, according to Steve Nelson, dean of the School of Medicine at LSUHSC-New Orleans.

Nelson said it’s important for Health Sciences Center schools to motivate students to stay in Louisi-ana after they graduate because most of the physicians in the area were trained at an LSUHSC school.

Nelson said 45 percent of stu-dents from LSUHSC-Shreveport will also stay in Louisiana for their

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Students monkeyed around in Free Speech Pla-za on Tuesday by shaving their heads in an effort to

prevent deforestation. The student-led group

Operation Tiger protested the Asia Pulp and Paper company , which is clearcut-ting, or stripping forests of their trees, and speeding up

the extinction of endangered species such as the Sumatran tiger. Tigers have been clas-sifi ed by the International Union for Conservation of

OPERATION TIGER, see page 6

Lauren DuhonStaff Writer

Students shave heads to raise awareness for deforestation, endangered animals

photos by MARIAH POSTLETHWAITE / The Daily Reveille

[Above] Natural resource ecology senior Lauren Hull shaves accounting freshman Brad Cook’s head Tuesday in Free Speech Plaza to raise awareness for deforestation. [Right] An orangutan promotes new sustainable forest policy.

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Strong quake hits northern Japan; no report of damage, tsunami risk

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earth-quake shook northern Japan on Tuesday, but no damage was re-ported and there was no risk of a tsunami.

The Japan Meteorological Agency recorded a 6.4 prelimi-nary magnitude. The agency said there may be a small change in sea levels but did not issue tsunami warnings.

The epicenter was off the coast of Iwate and was about 10 kilometers (6 miles) below the sea surface.Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood delays decision for presidential candidate

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has postponed an open confrontation with the country’s mil-itary rulers and other political players Tuesday when it delayed a decision about whether to fi eld a candidate for the fi rst presidential elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

An eight-hour meeting of the Brotherhood’s highest leadership body failed to come up with a fi -nal decision on whether to reverse an earlier pledge not to contest the presidency. Further meetings of the Brotherhood’s Shura Council were to continue next week.

SAT, ACT tests to tighten security after widespread cheating schemes

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Students taking college entrance exams this fall will have to submit photo IDs with their applications — a key se-curity upgrade following recent al-legations of widespread cheating at a number of high schools on New York’s Long Island, a prosecutor and testing offi cials announced Tuesday.

The security change follows the arrest of 20 current or former high school students accused in a cheat-ing scheme when they were paid as much as $3,500 to stand in for other students on the SAT exam.Oldest private military academy in Vermont holds � rst gay pride week

NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — At the beginning of the school year, gay pride events at a military academy with titles like “condom Olym-pics” and “queer prom” would have been unthinkable. This week, they’re a reality.

Cadets in uniform at Nor-wich University, the nation’s old-est private military academy, par-ticipated Monday in sessions about handling bullying and harassment as part of the school’s fi rst gay pride week. The events are be-lieved to be the fi rst of their kind on a military campus.

Animal rights group targets ULL research center for primate deaths

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Deaths from trauma of 11 primates at the New Iberia Research Center may indicate negligence, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture should investigate, an animal rights activ-ist said Tuesday.

Michael Budkie, executive director of Stop Animal Exploita-tion Now!, said federal authorities should take a closer look at those primate deaths at the center oper-ating as part of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Five of the primates Budkie listed in his complaint were a few days to a year old. Others ranged from 4 and 1/2 to 13 years old.

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(AP) — Leaders of LSU’s public hospital system said Tuesday that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s budget signifi -cantly overestimates revenue for its hospitals and clinic network next year and that the system would have to impose major cuts to close a multi-million dollar funding gap.

University hospital offi cials said that the 10 hospitals and their facili-ties that serve the poor and uninsured face an estimated $43 million in cuts in the fi scal year that begins July 1.

Obama says he’s not ‘hiding the ball’ on Russia after controversial gaffe

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Speaking to the microphones inten-tionally this time, President Barack Obama on Tuesday assured he had no hidden agenda with Russia for a second term, seeking to contain a controversial gaffe that bounded all the way to the campaign trail at home and back again.

Obama got caught on tape Mon-day telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more room to negotiate on missile defense after the November election.

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Thousands of students and University supporters talk to Trace Purvis each day, but most of them don’t even know his name.

Purvis, the new media coordi-nator for University Relations, is the administrator for the Universi-ty’s offi cial Facebook page, among other social media platforms.

He originally joined the staff as a website developer in 2008. He created the University’s Facebook page in 2009, and the social media frenzy snowballed from there.

The University uses several social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, You-Tube, Tumblr and Pinterest. With more than 614,000 “likes,” the University’s Facebook page is the second-largest for a college in the U.S.

But that doesn’t make Purvis’ job easy.

On March 20, the University’s Twitter account was hacked and made to look as if the University had retweeted a post from contro-versial radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Since the University tends not to post politically charged senti-ments, red fl ags went up for one loyal follower, who alerted Purvis to the incident.

By 4 p.m., more than 15 fol-lowers had tweeted about LSU, wondering what the issue was.

Purvis tried to rectify the issue as soon as possible and replied to each tweet to give individual an-swers.

When accidents happen, Pur-vis said it’s best to be honest with the University’s fans and try to make light of the situation.

“The best approach is the hon-est approach,” he said. “We apolo-gize if necessary and try to put a humorous spin on it when we can.”

He said most followers are un-derstanding when issues arise.

“Everyone’s made a mistake like that before,” Purvis said. “Ev-eryone understands that things like this happen sometimes.”

Purvis said one of the most en-joyable parts of his job is interact-ing with University fans on a daily basis. He likes joking with them, and he’s gotten better at it over the years.

“I always compare it to being at a party,” he said. “If you can get in that frame of mind where you’re trying to engage folks at a party who you don’t really know, it gets a lot easier. If you’re good at that, you’d get great at this.”

Lance Porter, mass commu-nication associate professor, said it’s important for the University to

have an online presence because social media, particularly Face-book, has become such a big part of students’ lives.

“On Facebook, you speak in more of a conversational tone,” he said. “They do a nice job of that.”

Sometimes threads can take an ugly turn, but Purvis said he doesn’t remove negative comments unless they break the University’s rules, which are posted on its page.

“I only re-move them if someone’s using obscene language or if what they’ve posted is a com-plete fabrication,” he said. “I always post a response ex-plaining why their post was deleted. But if they’re just super critical or discussing their opinion, I’m not going to take that down.”

Purvis said he’s noticed some followers looking for verbal con-frontation, and while he enjoys in-teracting with fans, sometimes the conversations just don’t go any-where.

“If they’re looking for trouble and we just keep going around and around, it’s not productive,” he said. “It’s best to disengage then.”

Some of the most memorable moments for Purvis were also some of the most infl uential for the future of the page.

Purvis fi rst realized he en-joyed interacting with followers on a more personal level when Baton Rouge experienced bizarre weather and students bombarded the page with questions about whether the University would close.

“That’s when I saw the value of interaction,” he said. “I noticed that some people wanted facts, but others were just looking for someone to talk to.”

Purvis said the content he posts to different social media sites is meant to appeal to the diverse

crowd that follows the pages. He tries to include posts each day that focus on campus news, service projects, academics and athletics.

“I try to think about what will be utilized the most,” he said. “Does it fulfi ll a need?”

Purvis said the University will continue to monitor different types of social media platforms, and he hopes to soon create a branch of

the University homepage that lists each site and high-lights some of the content.

Porter said he believes the University should coordinate the so-cial media sites of each of its differ-ent elements, like academics and ath-

letics. “To an outsider, it can become

confusing,” he said. “They could do well by bringing all the ele-ments together and speaking with a more unifi ed voice.”

Purvis said he’s excited for the future of social media and its rela-tionship with the University.

“I believe the student body will become some of the most sophisticated social media users,” he said.

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‘I believe the student body will become some of the most

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University present across platforms

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The University is developing plans to renovate the Nicholson Drive area to create a destination for students and visitors, renovate family and graduate housing and address traffi c and safety concerns for students.

“If you drive down Nicholson from the North, if you blink once or yawn, you don’t really know you are on the LSU campus,” said Steven Waller, executive director of the University’s project to de-velop Nicholson.

Waller , who is also director of Residential Life , said he wants that area to be considered part of the campus. Over the next eight

months, Waller , with input from the LSU community, plans to col-lect ideas for this development and decide which are the most benefi -cial for students and the commu-nity.

Chancellor Michael Martin said he is supportive of this effort.

“We are excited about the talks of redeveloping the Nicholson area, and we’re currently looking at all possibilities to create some-thing that is benefi cial to the LSU community, while also being good neighbors to the Baton Rouge com-munity around our campus,” Mar-tin said in an e-mail.

Waller said he hopes this de-velopment can be funded primarily from the private sector or a cost-sharing initiative so tuition and

student fees don’t increase. The University hopes to take

advantage of private offers in order to minimize the fi nancial impact on students, Waller said.

He said the University is in the fi rst phase of the development effort. He wants this to be a “des-tination for everybody and a place people want to be, not just a place they have to travel through.”

Waller said students have sug-gested everything from restaurants and gift shops to dry cleaning and a bowling alley. There have also been suggestions of a structure similar to the Student Union or a courtyard like the Quad, Waller said.

Rachelle Mosing , internation-al studies freshman , recommended “a place where students can eat at

midnight — somewhere clean and safe.”

Waller said he wants to im-prove safety for commuters and possibly build a connection corri-dor to the University.

Mosing said Southeastern University has a tunnel for students to cross through to avoid heavy traffi c. She said she would like to see something similar for Univer-sity commuters.

Waller said updating or replac-ing the family and graduate hous-ing on Nicholson would be a factor in this new development.

Jazmine Wilson , kinesiology freshman , said she would never consider living in graduate housing in its current condition.

“It’s gross,” Wilson said.

Wilson said if they renovated the housing she might reconsider.

She suggested creating a retail shopping area that would include a thrift store for penny-pinching col-lege students.

Ernest Blanche , civil engi-neering freshman , suggested add-ing a grocery store to the mix of retail spaces so students don’t have to travel far to get necessities.

On April 18 , a “town hall meeting” will be held in the Union for all students, faculty and staff to voice their interests. Waller expects the planning to conclude near the end of October .

A man unaffi liated with the University was taken into custody March 22 for disturbing the peace.

Jeremy Allen Dosie Cook , 23, of 8020 Comite Drive, Baker, showed up at LSU football’s prac-tice facility wanting to try out dur-ing the team’s Pro Day. Lalonde said Cook wasn’t allowed to try out for the team because he wasn’t an athlete.

After being asked to leave, Lalonde said Cook walked to the intersection of Skip Bertman Drive and Nicholson Drive, where he started to remove his clothing and caused a disturbance.

Lalonde said offi cers took him into custody and issued him a mis-demeanor before releasing him.

Offi cers arrested mechanical

engineering student Jake Alan Murphy for felony theft of a bi-cycle on March 19 .

LSU Police Department spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said the 19-year-old from 1323 Rue Beauvais, Mandeville, was identifi ed as a suspect in an inves-tigation for a stolen bicycle near Middleton Library.

Lalonde said investigators were able to contact Murphy and located him at the Pi Kappa Al-pha fraternity house. Lalonde said

Murphy admitted to stealing the bicycle and returned it to the inves-tigators.

He was arrested at 10:30 a.m. and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish prison.

David Zavala, a 43-year-old from 153 North 17th St., Baton Rouge, was issued a misdemean-or and escorted off campus after

violating his banishment from the Student Union’s bookstore.

On March 22, offi cers were dispatched to the LSU Bookstore at approximately 10 a.m. after a staff member recognized a man who had been previously banned from the store. Lalonde said offi -cers located Zavala and removed him from the premises.

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Man escorted from Student Union bookstore after being banished

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A re-al-life Hamburglar has struck at a Maine McDonald’s.

Police say a young man, seem-ingly inspired by the pattie purloin-ing character once featured in Mc-Donald’s advertising campaigns, ran between a car and the takeout win-dow at the Augusta restaurant Sun-day night as an employee handed a bag of food to a driver.

A witness flagged down an of-ficer leaving a nearby convenience store.

Lt. Christopher Massey, acting on a description of the hungry thief, found him in the parking lot of a ri-val fast food restaurant diving into a McDonald’s bag.

Massey tells the Kennebec Jour-nal the suspect swore and ran into the woods. He was never caught.

Massey says the three young men who had their food stolen didn’t know the burger thief.

McDonald’s replaced the stolen food, worth about $20.

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — At least one of five century-old in-candescent light bulbs still works af-ter being pulled from the cornerstone of a Cleveland-area building.

The Plain Dealer reports GE Lighting began a 100th anniversary celebration of the Nela Park op-eration Monday at one of the park’s original buildings at the East Cleve-land research center.

The lead-box time capsule held photos of Nela founders, journals, a book of technical specifications and a Plain Dealer. The 40-watt light bulbs were packed in sand above the box.

A special socket was used to show off one bulb’s longevity. The rest went to a research lab.

The University is not up for reaffirmation under the South-ern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges until 2014, but administrators and faculty have already begun the process of main-taining accredita-tion.

Reaffirming accreditation is the process by which schools secure their accreditation status for a 10-year period.

The commis-sion, commonly known as SACSCOC, accredits more than 800 higher education institutions across the South, as-suring that each school measures up to the agency’s standards.

“Everyone should realize the significance of the SACS com-mittee’s accreditation,” said T. Gilmour Reeve, vice provost for Academic Programs, Planning and Review.

Reeve said reaffirmation is important because staying ac-credited ensures student aid and research grants. He made the dis-tinction between reaffirmation and

reaccreditation, explaining that reaccreditation applies to schools that have lost accreditation.

Accredited schools, like the University, are up for reaffirma-tion every 10 years when the SAC-SCOC considers upholding cur-rent accreditation. The University will make its case for reaffirmation for the first time since 2004.

In 2004, the University was part of a pilot group that involved the development of a quality en-

hancement plan, said Stephenie Werline, assistant to the vice provost for Academic Pro-grams, Planning and Review.

The Universi-ty compiled one of the first quality en-hancement plans for the SACSCOC

that outlined new programs aimed to improve student experience across campus, Werline said. The 2004 quality enhancement plan in-volved plans for Communication across the Curriculum, residential colleges and a summer reading program.

While Communication across the Curriculum and residential col-leges have flourished at the Uni-versity, summer reading has been phased out, Werline said.

The current quality enhance-ment plan team is led by Carol O’Neil, human ecology professor.

O’Neil said her team’s process is still in its early stages. A broadcast e-mail was sent out requesting concept papers from the Univer-sity community.

“The proposals we have gotten look very good,” she said.

The deadline for the final quality enhancement plan is in De-cember 2013.

The second part of reaffirma-tion is compliance certification.

The SACSCOC considers 94 principles as part of the reaffirma-tion process, according to Darrell Henry, director of SACSCOC Reaffirmation of Accreditation for the University and head of the Steering Committee.

Compliance certification is broken down into four main prin-ciples that include integrity, core requirements, comprehensive standards and federal require-ments, Henry said.

He said the reaffirmation pro-cess already involves hundreds of faculty, staff and students, and the process is on schedule for comple-tion in December 2014.

Reeve said there’s no assur-ance when it comes to reaffirma-tion of accreditation, but the Uni-versity has little to worry about.

Reeve, Henry and O’Neil all emphasized the importance of community awareness during the reaffirmation process.

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Nature as an endangered species since 1986.

Protestors got “clearcut” haircuts to demonstrate what de-forestation looks like. Students took turns getting their heads shaved in assorted designs: the wondercut, the tiger stripe, the tiger hawk and the clearcut.

Operation Tiger members also took turns dressing up as orangutans and tigers, both of which they say are threatened by deforestation.

Jessica Seaman , Operation Tiger campus coordinator , said students should hold the Univer-sity administration responsible for policies that are harmful to the environment.

She said there is a need to en-sure the University doesn’t have economic ties with Asia Pulp and Paper.

As of press time Tuesday, University Media Relations di-rector Ernie Ballard said he could not fi nd any relationship between the University and the Asia Pulp and Paper company. Bal-lard said the University’s Offi ce of Purchasing does not have the

company listed as a vendor. Seaman added that if the

company continues to function as it does presently, it could result in the destruction of 98 percent of Indonesia’s rainforests by 2022. The Daily Reveille reported in 2011 that the number of tigers in

the wild has dropped from 50,000 to 3,000 in the past 50 years, ac-cording to an estimate by the International Union for Conser-vation of Nature . At this current rate of decline, tigers could be-come extinct within 20 years.

Seaman said students need to demand that University administrators pass a policy for-bidding the University from pur-chasing paper from unsustainable companies like Asia Pulp and Paper.

“We are tigers at LSU ,” Sea-man said. “This is about pro-tecting the environment. Simple things can make a huge differ-ence, and we can be that differ-ence.”

Seaman said the University has a responsibility to set a prec-edent in environmental ethics.

“The goal is to spark policy change,” Seaman said.

Student Government Assis-tant Director of Sustainability Lauren Hull emphasized that the University’s failure to move to-ward sustainable paper purchas-ing, it puts tigers and others in danger of deforestation.

“I want to leave a sustainable paper legacy at LSU ,” Hull said.

Seaman said this event is one of dozens taking place around the country to protest the paper company and to draw attention to environmental and economic impacts on communities around the world.

Students who participated in the protest said they enjoyed the free haircuts in support of the cause.

Accounting freshman Brad Cook said he wanted a haircut and saw someone post about the protest on Facebook.

“It seemed like a good enough cause,” Cook said. “And I got a free haircut out of it.”

Business freshman Derek Scheuermann said he believed in the cause.

“Our school mascot is a ti-ger,” Scheuermann said. “Why not save them?”

Operation Tiger set a goal of 20 haircuts to be given at the protest, which they achieved with 23 participants.

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residency programs. About 20 percent of the stu-

dents from Tulane University School of Medicine will stay in state for residencies, which Nelson said is be-cause the school tends to attract stu-dents from across the country.

“We really supply the work force for the state,” he said. “You

have to have a fi rst-class facility and cutting-edge teaching. Otherwise they’re not going to stay, regardless of their passion for Louisiana.”

Nelson said 60 percent of those staying in the state will go into pri-mary care. Other competitive resi-dency programs include orthopedics, dermatology, radiology and surgery.

“What happens after those four years in medical school is really the

most important time in your educa-tion,” he said. “You assume more re-sponsibility and you learn so much.”

He said Louisiana’s physician workforce is one of the oldest in the country, which means many will be retiring in the coming years.

“If our students don’t stay here, we won’t have the workforce in place to keep it going,” he said. “We really need to keep them here.”

Nelson said the number of stu-dents staying in the state decreased signifi cantly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but the promise of a new University Medical Center to replace LSU’s Charity Hospital in the years ahead has caused the numbers to in-crease.

He said he believes the upward trend will continue unless LSUHSC gets hit with an unexpected

budget cut. “You hear about budget cuts;

that’s a concern for everybody,” Nelson said. “Hopefully the funding to higher education will soon be re-stored and the numbers will be even higher.”

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the ACA , it has participated “in good faith to help make it work.”

Blue Cross and Blue Shield has worked to comply with the ACA since it was passed, but it’s been a challenge because there have been 178 new regulations issued since its implementation, Mayhall said.

Mayhall said the effects of the ACA on insurance providers are massive and diffi cult to quantify.

“If the ACA survives the Su-preme Court challenge and reaches 2014 essentially unchanged, the insurance marketplace will again change very drastically,” Mayhall said. “You might say we’ve been playing baseball since 1934, and starting Jan. 1, 2014, we’ll be re-quired to start playing football.”

Baier said he predicts the Su-preme Court will decide to sustain the law in a 5-4 vote.

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A poster advertises various haircuts offered Tuesday by Operation Tiger.

Spring football has its pros and cons, giving teams the chance to shake rust and develop early en-rollees while lacking the structure and focus of regular-season train-ing.

But with the spring game looming this weekend, the LSU football team used Tuesday’s prac-tice to begin preparation for Satur-day’s showcase.

Junior cornerback Tharold Si-mon said LSU coach Les Miles and his staff treated Tuesday’s session much more like a fall practice.

“That’s what Coach Miles mentioned, ‘We’re going to pre-pare this week like it’s a game week,’” Simon said.

Junior receiver Odell Beck-ham Jr. said it was a more intense practice on Tuesday. That feroc-ity was evident during individual drills.

During the early periods, the defense ran a violent, gauntlet-style drill where one player has to maneuver around, or through, three other athletes to touch a dummy. Simon said he had never gone through the drill before and thinks new defensive back coach Corey Raymond introduced the drill to adjust the younger play-ers to getting off blocks and making tackles.

“We’re just trying to get those

Tonight’s game between No. 15 LSU (18-6) and Louisiana-La-fayette (13-10) has a little more on the line than the standard midweek game.

For the Tigers, the key word is retribution — though they won’t admit to it.

The two teams were in a simi-lar place last season when they played March 22 in Alex Box Sta-dium. LSU sported a 16-4 record but was coming off a sweep at the hands of then-No. 1 Florida.

Possibly still shaking from three close losses to the Gators, the Tigers got their tails handed to them by the Ragin’ Cajuns in an 11-5 loss, one of the uglier defeats

in a midseason slide that effective-ly eliminated LSU from postseason play.

“ULL always plays us tough,” said senior utility man Grant Dozar. “They take this game pretty serious.”

This time, LSU is coming off its second series loss of the sea-son after it dropped two one-run games at Auburn before rallying to win the series finale.

With No. 3 Arkansas coming to town this weekend and a road series against No. 1 Florida loom-ing on the horizon, LSU could un-derstandably look past an in-state team hovering above .500.

But LSU coach Paul Mainieri said he understands the tendency

to overlook ULL with the difficulty of the upcoming schedule, but he knows his team can’t look past ULL.

“ULL has a really good program. They always have and they always will,” Main-ieri said. “Anything can happen on a given day. We know how

important the SEC games are on the weekend. ... Sometimes there’s a challenge to keep the focus of your team on the most immediate game.”

Sophomore right-hander Joe

SportsWednesday, March 28, 2012 page 7

BASEBALL

No. 15 LSU looks to avenge last year’s loss to the CajunsLuke JohnsonSports Writer

ULL, see page 15

TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior in�elder Austin Nola (36) eyes a pitch March 20 during the Tigers’ 15-5 win against Southern University in Alex Box Stadium.

FOOTBALL, see page 15

FOOTBALL

Tigers prepping for spring gameAlex CassaraSports Contributor

Next up for the Tigers:

Who: LSU (18-6) vs. UL-Lafayette (13-10)When: 6:30 p.m. todayWhere: Alex Box StadiumListen at home: 98.1 FM

Like father, like son

There came a point in 2002 when Karen Mainieri couldn’t take it any longer.

She was tired of chasing her rambunctious 7-year-old son Tommy around the stands in Notre Dame’s Frank Eck Stadium, and finally convinced her husband to bring Tommy along in the dugout with him.

As the adage goes, mother knows best.LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri and his son Tom-

my have been side by side ever since, even as he moved dugouts from South Bend to Baton Rouge.

“I wish I would have been old enough to make the decision on my own,” the younger Mainieri said. “I’ve learned a ton by being in the dugout.”

Paul, who also grew up the son of a baseball coach, knew his son would begin to pick up the intricacies of baseball by being so close to the action. He couldn’t have imagined it would be so quickly.

He pointed to a game at Notre Dame against Creigh-ton in 2002. Paul was coaching third base, and during a mound visit, with two men on base, he felt a tug on his pant leg from Tommy, who had run out with an important question.

“He’s looking up, I’m looking down. I said, ‘What’s wrong, Tom?’” Paul said. “‘I just wanted to know if you were going to bunt or hit-and-run here,’ is what he asked me at 7 years old.”

Now a 17-year-old junior at Catholic High in Baton Rouge, Tommy laughs at his early curiosity, but he said he cherishes the moments he spends with his father at work. His full school schedule and spot as a second basemen on

Chandler RomeSports Contributor

Mainieri, son form strong bond in dugouts, baseball stadiums

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[Top] LSU head baseball coach Paul Mainieri and his 17-year-old son, Tommy, look upon the �eld at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb., where the College World Series is held every summer. Tommy and his dad [left] have become closer since spending many baseball seasons in the dugout together.

MAINIERI, see page 15

Major League Baseball teams spend millions of dollars on scout-ing departments. They send doz-ens of scouts across the country to gather as much information as pos-sible on their opponents.

LSU doesn’t have that luxury. LSU coach Paul Mainieri has

three assistant coaches, a strength and conditioning coordinator, a di-rector of baseball operations and a number of trainers and equipment managers. None of these people hold the title of “scout.”

That forces Mainieri to use non-traditional methods to construct scouting reports. It typically boils down to two things: television and Mainieri’s

familiarity with opposing coaches.Since Mainieri arrived at LSU

in 2007, LSU has appeared on tele-vision 146 times, with 23 more games to be broadcasted during the 2012 season. That trend appears at almost every other Southeast-ern Conference school, allowing Mainieri and his coaches to stay in Baton Rouge to scout their op-ponents.

“So many games are televised in college baseball that we can watch the games and scout them ourselves,” Mainieri said. “We have the whole list of every game that our opponents will play on TV, and we just DVR those games and study them later.”

Mainieri said he doesn’t need to see a team to have a general idea of how it plays. With 30 years of collegiate coaching experience, he has observed or faced most coach-es in the business.

The experience gained from playing the same schools on a

year-to-year basis helps build a trend that follows a coach.

“One of the biggest parts of scouting is to understand the way the coach plays,” Mainieri said. “Whether he’s a coach that likes to bunt, likes to hit and run or likes to squeeze. That along with a stat sheet and you get just about all the information you need.”

Other schools don’t utilize the same scouting practices as Main-ieri. He said when some coaches are looking for a scouting report on a certain opponent, they will call another coach in the conference and ask for help.

The practice is not one Mainieri supports.

“We don’t call random people and say, ‘How did you pitch that guy?’,” Mainieri said. “It’s an awk-ward thing to do. How do you trust the person you’re getting the scout-ing report from? The value of it is very limited.”

Though Mainieri doesn’t ask opposing coaches for scouting re-ports, he does call on his years of experience to have a friendly con-versation with another coach about an upcoming opponent.

“If we have a very close friend from our years in the business, I might get some general thoughts from them about the style of play,” Mainieri said.

Though a detailed scouting

report can provide a wealth of in-formation, Mainieri said it’s not the knowledge of an opponent that matters most.

“So much of our philosophy is not so much worrying about our opponent as much as it doing what we do best,” Mainieri said. “We’re not going to force our pitcher to adapt to the hitter. We want the hitter to have to adapt to our pitcher.”

The LSU softball team last played McNeese State (19-8) on Feb. 25. At that time, the Tigers had a 6-4 record and had recently fallen out of the top 25.

LSU (23-8, 7-1 Southeastern Conference) won the contest, 2-0, as junior pitcher Rachele Fico tossed a one-hitter with six strikeouts and only one walk.

Since that game, the Tigers have gone 16-4 and have won their last seven games.

LSU is ranked No. 23 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll and has received the most votes of any unranked team in the USA Today/NFCA Coaches poll.

Freshman infielder Dylan Su-pak said she has seen LSU improve

steadily since the beginning of the season.

“Our pitchers are throwing better and better every day,” she said. “Our defense had a couple er-rorless games this weekend so that all contributes.”

The teams’ first meeting of the season was in Baton Rouge at Tiger Park, but senior left fielder Ashley Langoni said traveling to Lake Charles to play McNeese is another monster.

“Every time we go there, they bring all of Lake Charles to come out,” she said. “We’ve got to play them like any other SEC team. Oth-erwise, they’ll catch us off-guard.”

McNeese State pulled off early-sea-son victories against then-No. 1 Arizona State, the defending

national champions, and then-No. 17 Houston.

“They’ve had some big wins this year,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “They have a new coaching staff and a lot of energy over there

in Lake Charles.”Torina said the key to surviv-

ing on the road will be making no assumptions about the Cowgirls.

“We don’t ever want to relax,” she said. “We always want to make sure we’re working, even when we’re in a good spot. That way, we don’t ever fall.”

Despite Fico’s dominating performance in the teams’ previous matchup this season, Torina hadn’t decided on a starter for tonight’s game as of Tuesday’s practice.

“We’re going to see how ev-erybody’s feeling after the week-end and we’ll make the decision after they throw [at practice],” Torina said. “We have three great options.”

Supak said she likes facing an opponent for the second time in a season.

“We’re really familiar with them,” she said. “We played them in the fall and we played them in the spring. They’re a good squad and they’re very scrappy.”

Freshman outfielder A.J. An-drews and sophomore utility play-er Jacee Blades have been lead-ing the Tigers’ offense recently,

combining for six RBIs in last weekend’s sweep of South Caro-lina.

“She’s been such a huge help for this team, and she’s done so many things to spark this offense,” Torina said of Blades. “I think she’s

earned her way into the lineup, even when everyone is healthy.”

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LSU senior out�elder Ashley Langoni swings at a pitch March 18 during the Tigers’ match against Mississippi State at Tiger Park. LSU won, 4-0.

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SOFTBALL

Tigers head to McNeese State for midweek road test

BASEBALL

Mainieri turns to non-traditional methods to scout opponents

LSU has won 13 of last 14 games

Hunter PaniaguaSports Writer

Coach relies on TV, familiarity

Next up for the Tigers:

Who: LSU (23-8,7-1 SEC) vs. McNeese State (19-8)When: 6 p.m. todayWhere: Cowgirl Diamond, Lake Charles, La.

A school-record four LSU gymnasts have been named to the 2012 All-Southeastern Conference team, the SEC announced Tuesday.

Freshmen Rheagan Courville and Lloimincia Hall were named to the SEC First Team, while fresh-man Jessie Jordan and senior Ash-ley Lee earned SEC Second Team honors.

Courville, Hall and Jordan also made the SEC All-Freshman team.

The four athletes earned the recognition based on their finish at the SEC Championship. Individual event champions and the top-three finishers in the all-around event earned first-team honors.

The top freshman and the top three freshmen placers in the all-around made the Freshman All-SEC team.

LSU senior forward Storm Warren will play in the Reese’s Division I College All-Star Game held Friday afternoon in the Mer-cedes-Benz Superdome as part of NCAA Final Four activities, the National Association of Basketball Coaches announced late Monday night.

The four-year letterman, who averaged 8.2 points per game and 5.1 rebounds this season, will be part of the West All-Star team, coached by former LSU men’s bas-ketball coach Dale Brown.

Brown and former Tiger and NBA star Shaquille O’Neal will be among the special guests at the NABC Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast on Saturday.

The LSU track team will ride its hot streak to Austin, Texas, today to compete in the Texas Relays from today to Saturday.

The University of Texas will host some of the top track and field teams in the nation during the four-day event, highlighted by the sprint relay events on the final day.

“They have to step up their intensity,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “When you go to the Texas Relays, it’s a chance for a lot of the very best relay teams in the United States, that come from all over ... to line up. It’ll be the first chance out-doors that we all have the chance to line up and run these sprint relays against one another.”

The No. 2 Lady Tigers possess the nation’s top-ranked 4x400-meter relay team, after the crew of seniors Rebecca Alexander, Cassandra Tate, Jonique Day and junior Siedda Her-bert posted a time of 3:36.21 last weekend in the LSU Relays.

The team of Alexander and fel-low senior Semoy Hackett, sopho-more Jasmin Stowers and junior Kimberlyn Duncan hold the No. 2 spot in the 4x100-meter relay, with their time of 43.86 seconds in the same meet.

“I feel like the team did great,” Duncan said. “I feel like it showed everybody a little bit of how the rest of the season is going to go. From here on out, the meets are going to get harder and more intense. Then, next thing you know, it’s regionals, then the [Southeastern Conference meet] and then nationals, so you just have to be ready to go.”

Duncan will also open her in-dividual events at the Texas Relays with her first running of the 100-me-ter dash this season. The Bowerman Award hopeful, awarded to the na-tion’s top track and field athlete, has been held out of her individual events for the past two meets to fo-cus on the relays and to be better prepared once she does start indi-viduals.

“I’m actually going to open up in the 100 this week,” Duncan said.

“Then I know I’m going to open up more in my individual events. So this week is mainly relays, but I do get to run the 100, and I think next week, after that, we’ll see if I’m able to run the 200.”

Freshman sprinter Aaron Er-nest, the early breakout star for the Tigers, is expected to compete in Austin after having a 101-degree fe-ver earlier in the week, causing him to miss two days of practice.

“It seems that he’s come down

with a bug,” Shaver said. “But hope-fully he’ll recover and will be able to go with us this week.”

Ernest has grabbed the spotlight in recent weeks with two wins in as many meets in the 100-meter dash, which earned him SEC Men’s Run-ner of the Week honors.

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LSU freshman sprinter Trevor Sansone runs March 24 during the men’s 4x200-meter relay at Bernie Moore Track Stadium.

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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sean Payton has planned the New Or-leans Saints’ offseason, done some work on the upcoming draft and jotted down ideas for the start of training camp.

And now, with his season-long suspension set to begin Sunday, he is checking to see if mentor Bill Parcells would run the team while he serves his penalty for allowing a Saints assistant coach and players to operate a crunch-for-cash bounty system.

Speaking publicly for the fi rst time since the Saints were sanctioned for targeting specifi c opponents, Payton said Tuesday he will soon decide whether to appeal his sus-pension, something Commissioner Rog-er Goodell said he would allow.

Payton also said he was meeting with Parcells, who lives near Palm Beach, site of the NFL meetings, to discuss the plan for the season.

“For me to be down here, if I didn’t call him or try to set up a time to see him, I’d probably get his wrath,” Payton said.

Payton said he, general man-ager Mickey Loomis — who is fac-ing an eight-game suspension — and team owner Tom Benson are weighing a number of scenarios. Among them: Does Parcells want to coach?

If Payton appeals, and he has until Monday, Goodell said he would “probably” allow him to continue working past the intended start of his suspension. Goodell also said he would expedite the appeal process and his decision, meaning Payton might only get a few more days of work before

having to step aside.The NFL’s investigation in

New Orleans found that Payton initially lied to league investigators about the existence of a bounty and instructed his defensive assistants to do the same. Payton twice apolo-gized for his role in an enterprise that offered payouts for knocking out opponents, saying he takes “full responsibility” for a system that operated for three years under his watch.

As many as 27 players could also be sanctioned for their roles in the scandal.

“As the head coach, anything that happens in the framework of

your team and your program, you’re re-sponsible for,” Pay-ton said. “And that’s a lesson I’ve learned. And it’s one that it’s easy to get carried away, in regards to a certain side of the ball or more in-volved offensively or defensively. And that’s something that I regret.”

Payton said he was confi dent he will coach the Saints again in 2013, and that his biggest challenge was realizing that for the fi rst time in 39 years, he may not have an active role in football as a player or coach.

“You go through a range of emotions that kind of hit you,” Payton said. “You’re disappointed. You’re disappointed in yourself that it got to this point. I think we’re trained as coaches to begin prepa-ration right away. I fi nd myself re-fl ecting on it, and you go through a lot of emotions.”

Asked if he might work in broadcasting this season, Payton said anyone in his position would keep his options open. He said he hasn’t been in touch with Gregg Williams, the former Saints de-fensive coordinator who ran the

bounty system and was suspended indefi nitely. Asked if bounties were what he envisioned when he asked Williams to build a defense, he re-plied, “No, obviously not.”

Much of the conversation re-volved around Parcells, the two-time Super Bowl winner who hired Payton as an offensive assistant in Dallas in 2003 and was a fi nalist for the Hall of Fame this season.

“He’s a great teacher,” Payton said. “Certainly I’m biased, having worked with him. But he’s a Hall of Fame head coach. And I would also say there’s some things prob-ably set up in the framework of our program that would be exactly how he would have set those things up had he been the head coach here in ’06. So there’s some carry-over that way.”

If Parcells returned to the side-line, he may have to wait another fi ve years before becoming eligible for the Hall of Fame again. Par-cells, who turns 71 in August, may not want to wait that long. Asked by Sports Illustrated on Monday if he had a desire to coach another team, Parcells said, “I don’t think so.”

In addition to the penalties for Payton and Loomis, the league suspended assistant head coach Joe Vitt for six games. Goodell also fi ned the Saints $500,000 and took away second-round draft choices in 2012 and 2013.

Payton said he didn’t want the scandal to “taint or tarnish” his team’s recent success.

“We’ll get through this,” he said. “This will be a challenge. ... You know, we’ve gone through a lot of adversity and we’ve won a lot of games in really a short window of time. And I know our players are leaders both within the locker room and the coaching staff will look at this as a challenge and a little bit as an opportunity.”

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Payton seeks mentor Parcells’ counsel Tim ReynoldsThe Associated Press

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Former Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, right, shakes hands with New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton in December 2006 after the Saints defeated the Cowboys 42-17 in Irving, Texas.

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‘We’ll get through this. ... I know our players

are leaders both within the locker room and the coaching sta� will look

at this as a challenge and a little bit as an

opportunity.’Sean Payton

Saints head coach

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What are your thoughts

on the Affordable Care Act going to the Supreme

Court?

‘Not everyone needs all the same stuff. The legisla-

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Tenure TensionOn Friday morning, many

Louisiana schoolteachers’ fears became reality.

Gov. Bobby Jindal ’s edu-cation reform plan was pushed through the House of Represen-tatives with a 64-40 vote .

In a column last week, I ad-dressed teachers’ and students’ concerns about the attitude Jindal has expressed toward his constit-uents, particularly in the educa-tion realm.

Most of the feedback I re-ceived involved disagreements on one topic: teacher tenure.

Tenure is a system that es-sentially rewards teachers or pro-fessors for good work by provid-ing job security, making it harder for them to be fi red.

Jindal’s reform plan will change a number of things, in-cluding requirements for tenure. Some believe it should be done away with entirely, while others are fi ghting to keep tenure as it is.

In the past, Louisiana public school teachers were eligible for tenure after three years of teach-ing and receiving “satisfactory” assessments based on students’ performance on standardized tests at the end of each year.

At any rate, the previous re-quirements seem too easy.

Jindal’s education reform will require teachers to be rated as “highly effective” for fi ve years in a row before becoming eligible for tenure.

Ultimately, it will be harder for teachers to receive tenure.

Sounds like a good thing, right? But after researching the topic, it seems the answer of whether tenure should exist is not as clear-cut as we may like.

Tenure began in the late 19th century when teachers demanded protection from parents and ad-ministrators who tried to dictate lesson plans. It evolved further during the women’s suffrage movement because women could be fi red for getting married or having children .

Today, public school teach-ers in all states receive tenure af-ter one to seven years on the job.

Before passing judgment, it’s good to distinguish between the two types of tenure.

Tenure for a college profes-sor is slightly different than K-12 tenure because it’s intended to allow professors to research the subjects they want and publish articles that may be against soci-etal norm or administrative val-ues without being fi red.

Providing tenure for profes-sors is also an asset for universi-ties because it offers exceptional professors an incentive to stay at the University.

If the University didn’t of-fer tenure to our professors, we would probably not be able to re-tain some of our great educators and researchers.

But some argue against ten-ure for college professors.

Utah Rep. Chris Herrod has said he believes tenure hurts up-and-coming professors’ chances at getting jobs because universi-ties cannot get rid of the old, ten-ured professors who are “barely there.”

It’s a warranted fear. Just walk through the hallway of any department once a day and you’ll see what Herrod means — some professors never seem to be there.

While there are some con-cerns about college professors, K-12 tenure is more controver-sial.

First and foremost, most ca-reers do not have tenure. People have to prove themselves day-in and day-out to keep their jobs.

Tenure essentially allows teachers to slack off without con-sequence, keeping ineffective teachers employed when better ones may be looking for jobs.

Another criticism is that K-12 tenure is not earned — it’s given to nearly everyone. A 2009 study by the New Teacher Proj-ect found less than 1 percent of evaluated teachers were rated “unsatisfactory.” This shows ten-ure may be too easy to receive.

In light of these reasons, Jindal’s tenure reform seems like a good move, but it’s fl awed in some ways.

Jindal’s goal is to better public education in Louisiana . Increasing tenure requirements may help somewhat, but making teachers entirely responsible for students’ performance is not the answer.

Even the most inspiring teacher cannot make every stu-dent learn, because some don’t

want to — it’s a cultural problem, not a teaching problem.

The teacher evaluation sys-tem needs to be based on some-thing more effective than pupils’ test scores, but it should only re-ward the best.

Here are a few solutions: yearly peer reviews, board re-views, service reviews, extracur-ricular involvement — the list could keep going.

The reviews should be done to attain and maintain tenure.

Overall, tenure seems more warranted at the college level than K-12, but that doesn’t mean it should end.

Public school teachers pro-vide a service to the state for extremely low pay. It’s a service most would never consider do-ing, especially those individuals screaming to destroy tenure.

Rewarding the best teachers with tenure is the least we can do.

Chris Grillot is a 20-year-old English and mass communication senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter at TDR_cgrillot.

THEC-SECTIONCHRIS GRILLOTColumnist

BILL FEIG / The Associated Press

Surrounded by religious and education leaders, Gov. Bobby Jindal, third from right, speaks March 21 at the Louisiana state Capitol about his education package that was debated the next day on the House � oor.

Good teachers deserve to be rewarded, but it should be harder to attain

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Cigarettes and alcohol.This pair was once as in-

separable and acceptable — and American — as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but somewhere along the line a rift was born, leav-ing drinkers steaming ahead while smokers choked on the fumes.

The demonization of smoking — or smokers, in particular — is a peculiar feat. I’d reckon the capac-ity for humans to kill themselves in the most pleasurable of ways is inexhaustible, and singling out a man or woman for choosing one pernicious pleasure over another is unfair.

But what troubles me are the personal assaults on smokers for problems that aren’t inherently smokers’ problems.

I think we can settle some

misunderstandings, which is why I put forward a Smoker’s Manifesto for Etiquette.

Take littering, for instance. Have you ever seen a captioned photo of cigarette butts on the ground with the headline, “This is why I hate smokers”?

I have. But such one-sided chastisement smacks of personal prejudice against the act of smok-ing.

What about the act of lit-tering? Simple solution: No one should litter.

As smokers, we must always take the extra effort to dispose of butts responsibly, and as people, we shouldn’t throw our trash on the ground. It’s not a matter of smok-ing but of being a decent and re-spectful person.

Another important factor of smoking etiquette is minding your smoke and surroundings.

Don’t smoke around children.Children should never be ex-

posed to adult substances without

parental consent, especially alco-hol and tobacco. Smokers should always take note when children are around and move away accord-ingly.

Along the same grain, one should mind his or her smoke.

When sitting at a table with friends, smokers or not, watch the way your smoke is blowing.

Believe it or not, nonsmokers, no one likes the taste or smell of secondhand cigarette smoke.

Smokers, I know it seems to be a natural law that your smoke will inevitably blow directly in the face of whomever is sitting with you, but you must be mindful of the air of others, whether in public or private.

Watch your exhalation, as well. When in groups and crowds, always exhale upward above the heads of those around you. And hold your cigarette embers in rath-er than out so the only person at risk of being burned is yourself.

Minding your surroundings

also means always asking before smoking at someone’s home, even if outside.

On the whole, these guidelines are obvious. The general message is to not be an ass and not to invade other people’s space.

Just as you don’t want your food or drink to get on your neigh-bor, neither should you allow your ashes or smoke to meet a similar fate.

Courteousness, cleanliness and non-invasiveness are traits all people should uphold in every ac-tivity.

Smokers, our days of smoking freely and openly are numbered by most measures.

Fliers are popping up around campus each day demonizing smokers for their individual choic-es. Don’t give them ammo by smoking irresponsibly.

I argue the strife may be avoided if we smoke responsibly and respectfully, especially regard-ing those around us.

Imagine the difference be-tween finding a man outside sur-rounded by six crushed Natty Light cans and another sipping a gin and tonic.

It’s a rough comparison, but the message is that presentation is key. The difference will be just as stark if you use an ashtray rather than toss your trash on the ground.

With mutual respect for one another’s decisions and space, I imagine we can all kill ourselves together without arguing in the meantime.

You pick your poison, I’ll pick mine, and we can all agree to keep the two apart.

Clayton Crockett is a 20-year-old international studies sophomore from Lafayette. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ccrockett.

The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, an-nounced his resignation last week, effective by the end of this year.

Unlike popes or patriarchs, it’s not unusual for the spiritual head of the Church of England to duck out before dying.

What is unusual is to see a man as well regarded and loved as Williams leave so soon.

The Episcopalian Church is an international subdivision of the Anglican Communion.

Anglican literally means “Church of England” in Latin, and the Archbishop of Canterbury is the highest effective office in the Anglican/Episcopalian Faith.

The actual highest office be-longs to the Queen of England, of course, but that’s primarily a cer-emonial distinction.

The Anglicans broke away from the Catholic Church when Pope Clement VII denied Henry VIII’s request for a divorce, and they’ve been doing their own thing pretty much ever since.

The Episcopalians have al-ways been quite a bit more liberal than their Roman cousins, and Wil-liams has continued that tradition with gusto.

Love him or hate him, Wil-liams is a titan in the world reli-gious community.

He was “enthroned” in 2002 and has been surrounded by con-troversy ever since — something not new to Williams.

As a young priest in the 1980s, Williams traveled to the U.S. and sung psalms outside of nuclear

weapons depots and U.S. military bases.

He and his parishioners were thrown in jail.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Williams was giving a lecture a few feet from the World Trade Center when the towers were hit.

In reference to al-Qaida, Wil-liams said, “bombast [and rheto-ric] about evil individuals does not help anything,” and he urged the West to address the issue of terror-ism with a level head.

Williams is one of the good ones. He’s the sort of believer who sticks to his guns — he stands up for what he thinks is right, a qual-ity lacking today, especially among traditional religious leaders.

Three years after 9/11, he was invited to speak on the subject of Christianity by Al-Azhar Univer-sity in Cairo — one of the most re-nowned Islamic institutions in the world.

While speaking at Al-Azhar, Williams told the audience that the followers of God should never find their way into violence.

Williams came under fire back home for encouraging greater un-derstanding among the faiths and suggesting the U.K. had nothing to fear from the influx of Muslim and Hindu immigrants it has experi-enced over the last several decades.

It almost got him drawn and quartered.

Williams has been incredibly critical of consumerism and called every transaction in the industrial-ized West an “act of aggression” against the poor and exploited who man the sweatshops and factories of the Third World.

The stance got him labeled an “enemy of the free market.”

Furthermore, he has fought tirelessly to avoid the schism

currently threatening to rip the An-glican Communion asunder: the fact that American Episcopalian churches have begun appointing homosexual bishops and priests.

Williams has tried to find a middle path that might keep his church together. He has tried to spare 77 million Episcopalians the pain of watching their faith go down in flames — at least the faith as it is now.

And it’s most likely his in-ability to please either side in this

particular conflict that has caused him to give up his job and seek a quiet retirement.

The loss of Rowan Williams as a player on the world religious stage is going to do much more harm than good.

It’s indicative of a further nar-rowing of perspectives. Everyday and everywhere people seem to be more and more determined to di-vide themselves.

We exist in a world where folks just can’t stomach the idea of

tolerating the opposition, the alien and the foreign.

The Episcopalians aren’t just losing a good leader in Williams — we’re all losing a role model.

Nicholas Pierce is a 22-year-old history junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_nabdulpierc.

Smokers and nonsmokers lack respect for one another

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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who announced his resignation last week, reads the Book of Common Prayer on March 16 in the grounds of Lambeth Palace, London. He will take up a new post as master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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Defensive coordinator John Chavis was especially animated during the drill and could be heard clearly from the other side of the field, yelling when players made mistakes.

“That’s just Coach Chavis,” Simon said. “He wants everything fast and physical.”

When one player wasn’t using his hands while blocking sopho-more cornerback Ronnie Vin-son, Chavis sent Vinson back to the start to get a full run-through. Vinson made the blockers pay

when he bowled over two of them on the next rep.

Beckham, who played with Vinson at Isidore Newman in New Orleans, said he’s excited to see what his old high school teammate can contribute.

“I know that when he gets his opportunity to play he’s going to take advantage of it,” Beckham said. “I’m just waiting to see it.”

Students will be able to watch the Tigers’ spring game prepara-tion Thursday during LSU Student Appreciation Day. With an LSU ID, students can attend practice starting at 4 p.m. with a meet-and-greet after.

Catholic High’s varsity baseball team make attending every game almost impossible.

Paul said when Tommy or his other son, 28-year-old Nick, aren’t in the dugout, there is a no-ticeable spot missing that’s more than a physical presence.

“They’ve stood next to me so many times, for so many big games, that when they’re not there, it seems like part of me isn’t there,” Paul said.

Paul said LSU’s grueling schedule only affords him about a “50/50” chance to see Tommy play. When he does make it out to the park, Paul admits his nerves are more rampant than during the games he coaches.

Paul often secludes himself from the crowd to focus solely on his son and hopes those around

him don’t perceive him as aloof or anti-social.

“ W h e n I sit in the stands and watch my son play, I’m all ‘dad,’” Paul said. “I have to keep r e m i n d i n g myself that I’m a coach, and I have to conduct my-self in a way when I watch

these games that’s reflective of my profession.”

Tommy said he often looks into the opposing dugout and heard whispers when his name is announced. With his dad being a coach his entire life, Tommy said he’s learned to take everything in stride, even the occasional taunt-ing or criticisms he may face af-ter a tough LSU loss.

“I’ve learned to take the good with the bad,” Tommy said. “It doesn’t really matter what people think to me. He’s my dad

either way. I love him.”Having two generations be-

fore him as head coaches, Tom-my said he wants to be a coach, but he said in order to do that — in his mind — he must play col-lege baseball. He said his dad’s first Division I coaching stop, Air Force, has begun recruiting him and he visited campus last fall.

Although deemed “verti-cally challenged” by his father, 5-foot-6-inch Tommy dismisses any qualms about his height by saying what his father has been preaching for years.

“‘The bigger they are, the harder they fall,’ that’s what my dad always says,” Tommy said.

For now, Paul said he is over-whelmed with pride for his son and lauded how hard he works in

both academics and athletics. He said even though he

might be absent for some holi-days, work extremely long hours and deal with devastating losses, one thing will always remain constant.

“The one thing that I know between my dad and I and my son and I is that nothing will come between us, “ the older Mainieri said. “We’re always going to be fiercely loyal to each other.”

Broussard (2-0) — who was sad-dled with the loss in last season’s matchup — will get the starting nod for the Tigers, but LSU will likely use several pitchers through-out the course of the game.

“With only having one mid-week game, there is an advantage to using a lot of guys,” Mainieri said.

With the weekend starters lasting deep into games, Mainieri is taking the opportunity to get his bullpen some needed work. Main-ieri mentioned Broussard, juniors Brent Bonvillain and Kevin Berry and freshman Cody Glenn as pitch-ers likely to get some playing time tonight.

Freshman Austin Robichaux (0-2) will start for ULL, but the Ragin’ Cajuns will likely take a similar approach and throw several pitchers at LSU.

With freshman outfielder Chris Sciambra’s season-ending neck injury, the Tigers are giving senior Beau Didier his first start of the season in the designated hitter spot, with freshman Jared Foster likely sliding over to play center field.

Didier has accumulated just nine at-bats this season but has a double and a home run to his credit.

“I’m just thankful to get an-other opportunity,” Didier said. “I love this program and I want to do anything I can to help it. I’ve been here for four years, I’ve seen the [highs] and lows of the program.”

LSU will wear pink helmets, with some players wearing pink wristbands in a show of support for breast cancer awareness.

Mainieri’s wife suggested the idea to him, and Mainieri pulled the necessary strings to make it happen. Mainieri’s sister Cathy Mainieri-Gagnon and former LSU slugger Mikie Mahtook’s mother Mary Ann Mahtook — both breast cancer survivors — will throw the first pitch.

“We just thought it would be a way to honor some family mem-bers,” Mainieri said. “[It will] make people more aware of it and make sure they get their check-ups and ... show people it’s a very survivable disease as long as you catch it early.”

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