Despite increased tuition costs ,the University reeled in its biggest freshman class since it added admission standards in 1988.

The class comprises 5,725 new students, according to the Office of Budget and Planning. The previous largest freshman class had 5,700 students in 2004. In fall 2011, there were 5,290 new freshmen.

The University’s total en-rollment this year is 29,549 — 2 percent more than the 28,985

students enrolled last fall. The University expected only a 200-student increase for the fall, but wound up with 564 more.

Undergraduate enrollment increased by about 3 percent, go-ing from 23,980 in 2011 to 24,641 in 2012.

In July, the University an-nounced a 10 percent in-state tuition increase and a 15 percent out-of-state tuition increase.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management Da-vid Kurpius said interest in the University is growing although tuition has increased.

“The interest in LSU has

never been higher and even with recent tuition increases, LSU re-mains an affordable option for students to earn a nationally rec-ognized degree,” he said.

Since the University has a larger freshman class than usual, and students are paying increased tuition, the extra money is plug-ging a $33.5 million budget defi-cit.

Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jen-kins said in a statement the Uni-versity will strive to provide the best educational services it can.

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Bomb threat causes traffic and frustration

Bomb effects could vary depending on motivesChris GrillotStaff Writer

Though no explosive devices were found in Monday’s bomb threat, the dam-age and loss of life could have varied significantly had the threat been real, ac-cording to Rick Blackwood, retired Navy captain and retired University English pro-fessor.

Blackwood, who was an intelli-gence officer with the Navy SEALs and

director of intelligence for the Department of Defense, said in an email the damage would depend on “the motive or goal of the bomber; his skill as a bomb maker; his tac-tical anticipation as to what would be hap-pening near the site of the explosion, that is, who or what was nearby at the instant of detonation.”

He added that the loss of life would depend upon “how well the bomb

BOMB EFFECTS, see page 6

University brings in biggest freshman class yetChris GrillotStaff Writer

ENROLLMENT, see page 6

Exams, classes and meetings usually crowd the minds of University students on Monday mornings, but traffic, a closed campus and uncertainty replaced routine this week after a bomb was reported on campus.

An emergency text message inform-ing students, faculty and staff of a reported bomb on campus and ordering an immedi-ate evacuation lit up phones at 11:32 a.m. on Monday.

But an explosive was never found, ac-cording to Capt. Cory Lalonde, LSU Police Department spokesman.

It wasn’t until around 11 p.m. that campus was deemed safe to return to nor-mal operations and reopened to all students, faculty and staff.

The investigation is still ongoing, but no new information was available as of Tuesday, Lalonde said. The original threat was reported to the East Baton Rouge Par-ish 911 Call Center.

Students began pouring out of class-es, and while some were able to get away quickly, many were stuck in a campus-wide traffic gridlock.

Many faulted the initial text message as being too ambiguous about whether buildings or the entire campus should be evacuated.

As University personnel and students left, confusion ensued, according to busi-ness management sophomore Jessie Cline.

“I sat down to eat lunch and within five minutes there were tons of students and cars

Staff Reports

BOMB THREAT, see page 6

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Louisiana Emergency Services unit’s bomb squad searches Evangeline Hall on Monday after the bomb scare.

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Kate Middleton topless photos ruling: �rst battle in privacy war

LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Kate Middleton’s aggressive legal strategy over topless photos of Britain’s likely future queen is the first salvo in what could be a decades-long tug-of-war over their family’s privacy.

A French court ruled in favor of the royal couple on Tuesday in their fight over the photos, but the scope of that ruling will be lim-ited.

The unauthorized topless photos of Kate have already been widely published in France, Italy, Ireland and on the Internet.YouTube blocked in Saudi Arabia to stop viewing of anti-Islam �lm

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — YouTube said Tuesday that it was stopping users in Saudi Arabia from viewing an anti-Islam video that has sparked protests across the Muslim world, after the kingdom’s press agency reported that the ruler had banned all access to the film and the site appeared to be blocked there.

The online video sharing site said that it was preventing “In-nocence of Muslims” from being seen on its site in Saudi Arabia after being notified by the government there that the clip is breaking the country’s laws.

Chicago teachers vote to return to classroom after week on strike

CHICAGO (AP) — The city’s teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines, ending a spiteful stalemate with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that put teacher evaluations and job security at the center of a national debate about the future of public education.

Union delegates voted over-whelmingly to formally suspend the strike after discussing details of a proposed contract settle-ment worked out over the week-end. Classes were to resume Wednesday.Advocacy group: More than half of residents in 39 states will be obese

NEW YORK (AP) — We Ameri-cans already know how fat we are. Can it get much worse?

Apparently, yes, according to an advocacy group that predicts that by 2030 more than half the people in the vast majority of states will be obese.

Mississippi is expected to re-tain its crown as the fattest state in the nation for at least two more decades. The report predicts 67 percent of that state’s adults will be obese by 2030; that would be an astounding increase from Mississip-pi’s current 35 percent obesity rate.

(AP) — State regulators say they are issuing a $12,189 fine against a chemical terminal flooded during Hurricane Isaac because it did not notify authorities fast enough about chemical releases.

On Tuesday, the Louisiana De-partment of Environmental Qual-ity said it issued the fine against Stolthaven New Orleans LLC, a company that operates a chemical terminal along the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish.

DEQ says the chemicals — 1-octene and ethyl acrylate — leaked out on Aug. 30 but that the company told DEQ about it on Sept. 1.

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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman says the pet cat that sneaked into her luggage for a flight to Florida has returned home safely and seems relatively unaffected by his surprise vacation in Orlando.

Ethel Maze said that Bob-Bob the stowaway spent 10 hours in a suitcase before she opened it last week. She says he was lethargic and wet from perspiration, and she initially thought he’d died.

Eventually he perked up, and he spent the week in a crate at Maze’s hotel.

South African miners sign wage deal, ending violent �ve-week strike

MOOINOOI, South Africa (AP) — Striking platinum miners in South Africa have signed a wage deal end-ing a bloody five-week strike at the Lonmin PLC mine that had spread to the gold and chrome sectors of the industry, which anchors the econo-my of Africa’s richest economy.

The agreement ends a strike with political and economic reper-cussions, but does not resolve rage engendered by the country’s huge inequality and the government’s failure to address massive unem-ployment and poverty.

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COVINGTON (AP) — A Man-deville man who pleaded guilty to what prosecutors call a Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Hugo Urrea pleaded guilty to securities fraud, felony theft and money laundering charges.

The Attorney General’s Of-fice says Urrea wasn’t a licensed securities dealer but lured acquain-tances into investing money with him. Prosecutors say he deposited the money in his bank accounts and used it for personal expenses.

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TRANSPORTATION

Many students, professorscommute long distances

Blake Broussard works a part-time job, owns a house, raises a 19-month-old daughter and drives at least 45 minutes to school most mornings.

But like many students and teachers who commute to school from places like Lafayette , St. Francisville and New Orleans , he doesn’t mind it too much, and he likes where he lives.

“With traffi c, I always leave about an hour-10 before my class starts,” said Broussard , a history junior who lives in Gonzales but commutes to Baton Rouge every day for work and school.

He, like many commuters, listens to the radio during the road trip. But even two of his fa-vorite radio hosts, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic of ESPN’s Mike & Mike in the Morning , can’t always make it smooth sailing.

“It’s defi nite-ly monotonous,” he said, “You can kind of zone out and just wake up when you fi nd a parking spot.”

History professor Maribel Dietz , who has worked at the University for about 15 years , said she moved from Baton Rouge to Lafayette about eight years ago, switching commut-ing roles with her husband, who serves as the dean of the liberal arts college at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette .

Dietz usually fi nds car-pooling buddies to lighten the load of an hourlong commute at least three days a week. This semester she splits driving duties

with French instructor Amanda LaFleur .

“The good thing about the commute is that we don’t have to go through Baton Rouge ,” Di-etz said. “The only time we have trouble is when there’s a bad ac-cident.”

Biology professor Adam Hrincevich , however, does travel through Baton Rouge , and he’s been commuting full-time from New Orleans for about fi ve years.

Hrincevich said he spends about $600 a month on gas now-adays, but it’s still considerably less than the $1,000 a month he used to pay to rent a spare apart-ment in Baton Rouge .

“I don’t mind the drive, it’s actually therapeutic,” he said, adding that the other drivers can sometimes entertain him as much as anything else.

“You see people putting on makeup, reading books, eating, foot driving — you really have to be a defensive driver to deal with

that,” he said.A l t h o u g h

he said he loves LSU , Hrincev-ich doesn’t see himself ever moving perma-nently from New Orleans , which he described as “a much more culturally stimu-

lating town…unlike any other place.”

Kathrin McLean , a wild-life ecology senior , wakes up around 6:15 a.m. to make it on time for her 7:30 class from St. Francisville .

“[My parents and I] found

that between how much it would cost for me to have an apartment compared to the gas prices, that it’d end up being cheaper for me to just deal with the gas,” McLean said.

Other students also reported that the savings from living at home more than compensate for the cost of gas, despite the av-erage cost per gallon of regular gasoline rising to $3.66 for the Gulf Coast region, according to the U.S. Energy Information Ad-ministration .

Some students try to sched-ule classes so that they only have to drive in two or three days a week. But others, like 34 -year-old petroleum engineering soph-omore Clayton Campbell , actu-ally spend more time in a car than in the classroom each week.

Campbell endures about an hour and 15 minute commute to and from Madisonville at least fi ve days a week and sometimes six if there’s a weekend study session he needs to attend.

“It’s about $140 to $200 a week [for gas], almost as much as tuition,” he said, adding that he budgets about $3,200 a semes-ter for gas in his Chevrolet diesel pickup truck.

Dietz calls gas a sunk cost in commuting, so she doesn’t worry about it too much.

“In an ideal world, we’d have a train or a bus,” the history pro-fessor said. “But unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world.”

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‘In an ideal world, we’d have a train or a bus.

But unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal

world.’ Maribel DietzHistory Professor

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TECHNOLOGY

Olivia McClureContributing Writer

A June 2012 Forbes article titled “Here’s the Real Reason There Are Not More Women in Technology” reported that many young women are unaware of the variety of career options avail-able in the technology fi eld.

Harvey Mudd College Presi-dent Maria Klawe, quoted in the article, said reasons why young women do not choose tech ca-reers include a lack of interest in technology, little confi dence in their abilities at a tech career, and a fear that they would have to work alongside people with whom they would not feel com-fortable.

Organizers and participants of the Women in Technology Ca-reers Forum will meet to help re-verse that trend on Thursday.

Karen Sirman, the event’s chairwoman and a senior man-ager with University Information Technology Services, said the fo-rum will strive to expose young women to professionals in tech-nology careers while showcasing numerous different tech career opportunities and their benefi ts.

“The purpose of the event is to make young women more aware of the potential and the advantages of a career in technol-ogy,” Sirman said.

Sirman said the event will consist of a panel discussion, lunch, a career day-style net-working session and drawings for door prizes. It is sponsored by ITS, Career Services and national technology companies.

The panel is comprised of eight women who are Uni-versity faculty members and high-ranking professionals in private industry and state govern-ment, Sirman said. According to the event website, panelists will discuss their accomplishments and ways young women can turn their interest in science, technol-ogy, engineering or math, com-monly referred to as STEM, into a successful career.

Sirman said a central goal of the forum is to encourage young women to examine any interests they may have in technology and consider potential related careers.

“All of these women have been in technology careers and know the rewards,” she said.

Sirman said organizers ex-pect 150 to 200 students to at-tend the event. Among those in attendance will be students from several local high schools, Sir-man said.

“Basically it says we need to work harder with high schools to guide them, and that’s why we’re invit-ing local high schools,” Sir-man said, re-ferring to the Forbes article, which is men-tioned on the event website.

D i r e c t o r of Career Ser-vices Mary Fe-duccia said it is important to promote STEM careers as good opportunities to students while they are still in high school.

She pointed out one attrac-tive element of tech careers is the fi nancial rewards they offer.

“The careers available in those disciplines are the high-est-paying jobs available,” Feduccia said.

In addition to reaching out to high schoolers, Feduccia said Career Services will be available at the forum to help students cre-ate a four-year career plan and talk about steps they can take to prepare for a tech career, like

completing internships.Feduccia said since women

represent a minority, they are highly recruited, especially by employers in STEM fi elds. She said events like the Women in Technology forum are invaluable because they introduce young women to jobs that demand their skills that they may not have con-sidered otherwise.

“Often times, women are not groomed to consider such fi elds because they have been male-dominated,” Feduccia said.

The forum will take place Thursday in the Royal Co-tillion Ball-room on the second fl oor of the Student Union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sirman said students planning to attend must register online at lsu.edu/wo-menintechnol-ogy.

Feduccia said a leader-ship reception will also be held Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. for high school principals, STEM professionals and leaders on campus.

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Main Street Market gets faceliftThe Main Street Market, a bus-

tling weekday lunch location and Saturday morning hotspot during the Red Stick Farmers Market, is being renovated to better serve its weekly stampede of visitors.

The makeover, tag-teamed by Commercial Design Interiors and a trio of University interior design students, will be funded by the Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance, the organi-zation that manages the Main Street Market, and the Louisiana Office of State Buildings.

Matthew Edmonds, co-owner of Commercial Design Interiors with his partner Tracy Burns, said the ren-ovation began when the Louisiana Office of State Buildings approached Commercial Design Interiors with the job.

The company accepted, but Ed-monds and Burns, both being interior design professionals-in-residence at the University, asked if three student interns could assist with the project.

Logan Wheeler, Sarah Allee-Walsh and Madeleine Rappold were chosen as interns and worked on the undertaking for 40 hours per week, Edmonds said.

Edmonds said the interns were allotted much of the responsibil-ity in designing the new floor plan, conducting on-site analysis and prec-edent research, developing various design ideas and presenting them to clients.

“We really let the students have a lot of the decision-making in this,” Edmonds said. “One of the things that the students identified through site analysis is what’s working well and what’s not working well.”

Functionality and aesthetics were the two main aspects consid-ered when redesigning the market, Allee-Walsh said. Incorporation of local culture was also important, she said.

“We started this whole process off by making multiple visits to the Main Street Market and studying the space,” Wheeler said.

The students observed lengthy lines blocking different areas of the market, which obstructed circula-tion of foot traffic. Additionally, re-tail space was occupying too much square footage and blocking “great views” through store windows, Ed-monds said.

The solution was to better uti-lize the retail area while recapturing the market’s natural lighting and al-lowing people to easily maneuver, Edmonds said.

“We really wanted to have a vi-brant, thriving, sustainable market-place for all of Louisiana’s farmers,” Allee-Walsh said.

From an aesthetics standpoint, the rehabilitated market will include

farmer’s cart-styled kiosks rather than the current “batting cage” stalls. Historical images of Baton Rouge will be incorporated and new ceil-ing elements will capture the mar-ket’s natural lighting and acoustics and provide the illusion of the sky. The facade of the market will also be spruced up.

The interns drew inspiration from the Mississippi River when designing the new layout, and their muse was a 19th century Mississippi River navigation map, which will be enlarged and pasted on the floor.

“You can literally pinpoint New Orleans, Baton Rouge, anything on the river,” Allee-Walsh said.

The total cost and start date for the renovation have not yet been determined.

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going by. I stayed near campus just in case classes weren’t canceled.”

Not everyone left campus im-mediately. Chemical engineering sophomore Tiffany Lyan finished her in-class assignments before evacuating.

“My professor said we could leave if we wanted to, but also said we could stay to finish our lab,” she explained. “About half of the stu-dents stayed to finish titrations.”

By midafternoon, campus was empty and bomb squads began searching buildings. At 2 p.m., it was announced that all scheduled campus activities including classes were canceled for the remainder of the day.

It is not yet known if classes missed on Monday will require a make-up day, said Director of Me-dia Relations Ernie Ballard.

But as some students fled cam-pus in the wake of the bomb threat, those living on campus were left in a confused limbo, said Cason Reed-er, political science freshman.

Students living on campus were not allowed to return to their rooms and apartments until seven hours after the ordered evacuation.

“It kinda sucked,” Reeder said. “I was stuck for almost seven hours with nothing to do. I just wanted to go to sleep.”

Aside from the initial warn-ing, Reeder said he didn’t receive any instructions. He left his room in Herget Hall immediately after the 11:32 a.m. warning.

“I didn’t really know what to

do,” he said. Reeder wasn’t alone in his

frustration. Taylor Hart, business freshman, spent several hours in Highland Coffees watching Netflix until students were allowed back on campus.

“They were going to make us go to Evangeline Hall and just chill there until they decided that it re-ally was a hoax,” Hart said. “The whole situation was just bad. Why is the University going to keep stu-dents on campus, where the bomb is?”

Mass communication profes-sor Rosanne Scholl also questioned the evacuation procedure. Many students were able to find space on a Tiger Trails bus, but were stuck in

traffic for hours.“Imagine if this were real,”

Scholl said. “What would have happened if a bomb went off with traffic backed up around campus?”

News Editor Brian Sibille, Staff Writers Joshua Bergeron and Chris Grillot, and Senior Contrib-uting Writer Wilborn Nobles con-tributed to this report.

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“Bound for Books” reviews “Delirium.”

“LSU’s faculty and staff, along with numerous programs and services, are available to

assist students to make sure they are successful in their educa-tiona endeavors,” he said. “We will make every effort to re-tain these students and see them

successfully complete their de-grees at LSU.”

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences remains the largest undergraduate college

after the University Center for Freshman Year.

While undergraduate enroll-ment increased, graduate numbers decreased slightly from 4,604 in

fall 2011 to 4,525 this fall. ENROLLMENT, from page 1

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BOMB EFFECTS, from page 1

performed; did it work as [the bomber] intended it to; how well the first responders respond, that is, are the police and bomb squad guys and emergency medical per-sonnel able to get in quickly and do their jobs effectively; and the bomb maker’s and his intended victims’ luck.”

LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde reiterated Black-wood’s sentiments.

“It’s nearly impossible to say what would happen if

someone used an explosive device on campus,” he said.

Blackwood pointed out that if the four bomb threats in the last week — at LSU, at the University of Texas at Austin, North Dakota State University and Hiram Col-lege in northeast Ohio — lead to a trend of phony bomb threats across the nation, schools may stop evacu-ating when threatened.

“That could be when the bomb

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The bomb threat Monday caused traffic to build up as students, faculty and staff evacuated campus.

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They’re some of the biggest celebrities on LSU’s campus.

They can be found in Tiger Stadium on Saturdays in the fall, Alex Box Stadium in the spring and even at some gymnastics meets. Cameramen love them. Fans want to be them.

But fame is not the driving force behind the members of the Painted Posse .

“Nobody knows our names,” said Joey LeBlanc, mechanical engineering junior . “It’s the fact that we’re doing it for something that we love, which is the same reason the players are out there.

They’re doing it because they love the game.”

The Painted Posse has more than just a love of the game. They stake out in front of the gates to ensure they are the fi rst ones in the student section, and the group doesn’t leave until the band is fi n-ished with the alma mater.

The members of the Paint-ed Posse follow the tradition of painting their bodies in the style of the LSU uniform and banding together in the front row of the student section.

But at the end of the day, the purpose of the Painted Posse goes beyond school spirit. Most, if not all, of the Painted Posse members are involved in a Chris-tian campus ministry and seek to exemplify their beliefs through their fandom.

SportsWednesday, September 19, 2012 page 7

Members involved in campus ministryMarcus RodrigueSports Contributor

Painted Posse bound by Tiger pride, religious beliefs

POSSE, see page 11

FANS

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The Painted Posse cheers at the front of the student section Saturday during the Tigers’ 63-14 win against Idaho in Tiger Stadium.

PASS RUNOR33% 67%

North Texas: 26 attempts, 192 yards, 36 percent off. plays

Washington: 19 attempts, 195 yards, 27 percent off. plays

Idaho: 23 attempts, 222 yards, 38 percent off. plays

2012 Season: 68 attempts, 609 yards, 33 percent off. plays

2011 Season: 279 attempts, 2,135 yards, 32 percent off. plays

North Texas: 46 attempts, 316 yards, 64 percent off. plays

Washington: 52 attempts, 242 yards, 73 percent off. plays

Idaho: 39 attempts, 250 yards, 62 percent off. plays

2012 Season: 137 attempts, 808 yards, 67 percent off. plays

2011 Season: 591 attempts, 2,836 yards, 68 percent off. plays

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LSU junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger throws a pass in the Tigers’ victory against North Texas on Sept. 1 in Tiger Stadium.

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LSU sophomore running back Kenny Hilliard runs for a touchdown during the Tigers’ victory against Idaho on Saturday in Tiger Stadium.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fi x it.Or so the old adage goes, but

the LSU Tigers are looking for a fi x. They just haven’t found it yet.

In the past, LSU coach Les Miles and his staff have received negative reaction to their lopsid-ed play calling.

Miles has said he wants to return to a more balanced attack that stays closer to 50-50 this sea-son.

But Miles said play calls de-pend on the current situation in a game.

“There are pieces and times in every game where you must throw it, and there’s pieces and times in every game where you must run it,” Miles said. “The game dictates that many times.”

In the last few seasons, the game must have dictated running.

Last season, 68 percent of the Tigers’ total offensive plays were rushing plays, and 57 percent of their total yards were picked up on the ground.

The Tigers have fi nished two straight seasons with more rush-ing yards than passing yards, and

Rushing StatisticsPassing Statistics

There’s speed and then there’s football speed.

Someone forgot to tell LSU freshman cornerback Kavahra Holmes .

From the gridiron to the track, Holmes is used to sprinting past his opposition.

“Speed is the advantage in almost any sport,” he said last month at Football Media Day , the only time true freshmen are al-

lowed to speak with the media. “It’s my special-ty.”

The Breaux Bridge native is on scholarship with the No. 2 Tigers this fall, but his athletic

season won’t end after an LSU bowl game.

He’ll hop across Nicholson Drive this spring and join the track team, where he is expected to run the 400-meter dash and several relay events.

Multi-sport athletes are noth-ing new for LSU coach Les Miles .

Trindon Holliday and Xavier Carter each split time between the track and the turf, former safety Chad Jones pitched on LSU’s 2009 baseball national champion-ship team and sophomore safety Ronald Martin dabbled in basket-ball last season.

But there’s always the whis-pers.

“I’m always being asked

about one sport or the other,” Holmes said.

LSU track and fi eld coach Dennis Shaver said Holmes shouldn’t feel pressure to choose.

“He’s a genuine two-sport athlete,” Shaver said. “He’s on scholarship for football, but it was important to show how many past guys have succeeded doing both under Miles. We’re all look-ing for great athletes.”

The 6-foot-2 product entered fall camp as a wide receiver , mostly running deep routes and even taking a few reverses after catching 23 passes for 377 yards alongside fellow incoming LSU wideout Travin Dural at Breaux Bridge High School last fall.

But the coaching staff switched him to cornerback for depth purposes after Tyrann Ma-thieu ’s dismissal last month, an abrupt change for a top-100 re-ceiving recruit.

“We’re not necessarily say-ing [cornerback] is the place he’ll end up,” Miles said during fall camp . “...He came in and did a great job at receiver.”

While his football pads and LSU’s classic white jer-sey may obscure Holmes’ lanky 180-pound frame, there’s no hid-ing it on the track.

There’s also no hiding his speed.

Holmes was the No. 2-ranked 400-meter high-school runner in the country, setting a state record with a 46.07 time during the 2011 AAU Junior Olympics in New Orleans .

He also led Breaux Bridge to the 2011 state title, anchoring two relay teams and winning the indi-vidual 400-meter dash.

Then the Olympics came calling.

Holmes was invited to the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in June , a dream opportu-nity for the sprinter.

He declined.“I was in summer school for

LSU,” Holmes said. “I had to focus on academics to be ready for football. The Olympics are my dream and there’s no doubt I would love to be ready for the 2016 Rio Games . That is on my list, but foot-ball was fi rst this time.”

That left him watching the Lon-don Olympics from his West Campus apart-ment, wondering what could have been if he had made it.

But Holmes had his second family to remind him why he stayed.

Holmes is one of four Tigers from Breaux Bridge, a town of just 8,139 people.

Sophomore defensive line-man Quentin Thomas and fresh-man Lamar Louis each grew up with Holmes and are now his roommates, creating a family atmosphere an hour away from home.

“I’m pretty sure his mom could whip me and my mom could whip him — that’s just how tight we are,” Louis said. “We know he’ll eventually be running for Team USA . It’s no limit on his opportunities because we’ve seen the work from the beginning.”

Thomas said Holmes is al-most as quick with a joke as he is on his feet, but still needed to learn the rigors of being an athlete at LSU.

“Such a funny guy — always

playing pranks,” Thomas said. “But obviously, it’s an adjustment for anybody. I’ve been here a year, so that benefi tted Lamar and him. We get to stay close.”

One of those adjustments in-volves Holmes’ lean frame. It’s an ideal fi gure for speeding down the track.

For Saturdays in the South-eastern Conference ? Not exactly.

Holmes said he had to bulk up to hold his own on the football fi eld.

“The main focus is about hit-ting the weight room and getting more physical,” he said. “That’s

not the goal for track. It’s about lean muscle and sleek speed.”

But Shaver, who also laud-ed Holmes’ decision to skip the Olympic Trials as “wise,” said football training doesn’t impede a track athlete as long as he or she stays injury-free.

“What they do during the fall really does prepare them to transition sports,” he said. “We’ll bring him along slow, but he’s used to switching. Football speed and track speed are two different things, but Kavahra is blessed with both.”

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RECENT LSU TWO-SPORT ATHLETES

Ronald Martin: Intercepted two

passes last week against Idaho,

walked on to the LSU basketball

team where he played one minute

against Florida.

Spencer Ware: Rushed for 707

yards with eight touchdowns last

season, played 21 games for LSU

baseball in 2011, totaling � ve RBI.

Chad Jones: Drafted in the 3rd

round of the 2010 NFL draft by

the N.Y. Giants, drafted in the 13th

round of the 2007 MLB draft by

the Houston Astros.

Trindon Holliday: Recorded four

career touchdowns on punt and

kick returns, won the 100-meter

dash title at the 2009 NCAA

Outdoor Championships.

Jared Mitchell: Joined Jones as the

� rst two athletes ever to win both

a BCS National Championship

(football ’07) and a College World

Series title (baseball ’09).

Chris AbshireSports Writer

HOLMES

‘Speed is the advantage in almost any sport.’

Kavahra HolmesLSU freshman cornerback

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Depth is a word synonymous with success in college football.

To be the best, coaches strive to put together teams who possess top-tier talent at every position. Teams with superior talent across the board like LSU , Alabama and USC are ex-tremely tough competitors.

There’s no substitute for having the best 22 players on the fi eld.

Or is there?On Saturday night, the whole

country saw what happens when future NFL stars are backed up by players whose closest NFL experi-ence will be managing their fantasy football teams. USC most likely put itself out of the national champion-ship conversation in only the third week of the college football season, falling to then-No. 21 Stanford , 21-14, for the fourth straight season.

It’s going to be tough for Tro-jans’ quarterback Matt Barkley to bring home the BCS National Title he passed up the NFL for.

The loss wasn’t because Bark-ley and wide receiver Robert Woods aren’t signifi cantly better than their Stanford counterparts. It came down to the fact USC has a bunch of no-bodies backing up their superstars.

Talent only takes a team so far. Having backups and third-stringers who give the starters a run for their money in practice only improves competition and the overall talent level of the entire team.

Barkley and Woods practice against walk-ons everyday. Maybe if the Trojans weren’t paying for the transgressions of former coach Pete Carroll they would have more scholarships available to make sure the fi rst-teamers don’t just waltz through practice.

LSU doesn’t have that problem.Injuries? No sweat.Having a high-caliber player

like junior starting running back Al-fred Blue go down with a leg injury for a few weeks might cause a coach to panic. Coach Les Miles will sim-ply reach into his bag of running

backs and grab one of the four qual-ity rushers still left at his disposal.

Not many other teams in the country have a sixth-year player waiting in the wings who can play any offensive line position. The Tigers have exactly that in senior offensive line utility man Josh Dworaczyk .

Losing junior offensive tackle Chris Faulk to a season-ending knee injury should have had a signifi cant impact on LSU’s national title as-pirations. Because of Dworaczyk’s versatility and experience, the Ti-gers won’t miss a beat as he fi lls in for Faulk at left tackle.

Starting strong safety Craig Loston could have been spotted dur-ing LSU’s game against Idaho on the bench nursing an injured toe. To say sophomore safety Ronald Martin was a suitable replacement would be an understatement.

Martin had two interceptions against the Vandals , taking one back for a touchdown. Loston better get back on the fi eld quickly before he fi nds himself playing the part of Martin’s understudy.

The element of competition among the LSU players makes them a unique, cohesive group. For some

teams, vying for starting spots could drive a wedge between teammates.

That’s not the case at LSU .Knowing nobody’s spot on the

depth chart is safe makes it neces-sary for each player to come out and compete every day.

Taking dismissed All-American cornerback Tyrann Mathieu’s place opposite Tharold Simon is true freshman Jalen Mills , a young man who wants to play so badly he brings a pen and pad to practice every day to take notes.

These kinds of players make LSU such a benefi ciary of addition by subtraction. When one quality player goes down or acts out, anoth-er is chomping at the bit to show he has what it takes to be at the top of the depth chart.

Controversy only makes the Ti-gers stronger and deeper. And that’s a scary thought.

Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.

MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

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LSU freshman running back Jeremy Hill (33) runs the ball Saturday during the Tigers’ 63-14 win against Idaho in Tiger Stadium.

Depth is an advantage for strong Tiger team

BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore safety Ronald Martin (26) celebrates Saturday after catching an interception in the Tigers’ 63-14 victory against Idaho in Tiger Stadium.

Contact Micah Bedard at mbedard@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @DardDog

Early in the season, both the Tigers and Lady Tigers looked to true freshmen to help fill voids left by departing No. 1 golfers.

The Tigers lost Sang Yi to graduation in May. Yi was named first team All-Southeastern Con-ference last season and finished his LSU career with nine top-five finishes, 15 top-10 finishes and a 73.28 scoring average.

The Tigers returned play-ers to step into Yi’s top spot, but there was still a hole in the lineup. Enter true freshman Zach Wright.

Wright came to LSU as a highly rated ju-nior golfer and the top ranked high school golfer in Ari-zona. He was considered a top-10 recruit in the nation when he signed with LSU.

While still in high school,

Wright reached the Sweet 16 in match play at the 2010 United States Junior Amateur Champi-onship and scored ten career top-10 finishes in American Junior Golf Association events.

The highly decorated

freshman was able to crack coach Chuck Winstead’s lineup for the season-opening Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic at the Farm Golf Club on Sept. 7.

“I wanted to come in and contribute to the team early,” Wright said. “I wanted to come in and help the team as much as I could. So far, I think I have done that.”

Wright posted solid rounds of even par, 2-over and 4-over to

help the Tigers secure a tie for fourth place at the Collegiate Classic. The Ti-gers, with Yi, finished eighth at the same tour-nament a season ago.

At 6-over, Wright finished in a tie for No. 31 individually.

“I just want to help the team,” Wright said. “I want to play well myself. If I play well myself, then I won’t be hurting the team, and that is what matters.”

The Lady Tigers were left with just as big of a hole in their lineup when sophomore Austin Ernst left the program last May.

Ernst was the NCAA indi-vidual champion in the 2010-11 season after shooting a school-record 7-under over four rounds, and was the driving force behind the Lady Tigers’ back-to-back third-place NCAA finishes.

With the Lady Tigers return-ing only three golfers from last season, they are relying heavily

upon freshman Nadine Dreher. Dreher is a true freshman

who came to Baton Rouge from Vienna, Austria, where she was a member of the Austrian National team in 2011.

In the season-opening Cou-gar Classic, Dreher posted rounds of 6-over, 2-over and 6-over to finish No. 91 individually.

Though collegiate golf teams only take the top four scores on the team, each of her scores con-

tributed to the Lady Tigers’ team score.

“I think it was a great ex-perience for her,” said LSU coach Karen Bahnsen. “I think she was

a little apprehensive in the first round, and once she settled in, she played really well in the sec-ond round. I see a lot of great things ahead of her.”

Dreher said it was a decent start, but she plans to keep work-ing on her game.

“Right now I am in the mid-dle [of all of the golfers],” Dre-her said. “I can improve quickly because I have only been playing for five years. I can be No. 1.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Toronto shortstop Yunel Escobar was sus-pended for three games Tuesday by the Blue Jays for wearing eye-black displaying a homophobic slur written in Spanish during a game last weekend against Boston.

Escobar apologized “to all those who have been offended” for what he said was meant to be “just a joke.”

“It was not something I in-tended to be offensive,” he said through a translator. “It was not anything intended to be directed at anyone in particular.”

The suspension — issued af-ter input from Commissioner Bud Selig, the players’ union and team management — was to have start-ed Tuesday night at Yankee Sta-dium. The game between Toronto and New York was rained out.

As part of his penalty, Esco-bar’s lost salary during the ban — about $82,000 — will be di-rected to two advocacy groups, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against

Defamation and You Can Play.Escobar will also take part in

an outreach initiative to promote tolerance to others based on their sexual orientation, and participate in a sensitivity training program.

Pictures posted online showed the 29-year-old Cuban infielder with the message written in his eye-black, a sticker players wear under their eyes to reduce sun glare, dur-ing Saturday’s home game against Boston.

Major League Baseball regu-lations prohibit derogatory words and symbols on uniforms. Writing something of that nature on eye-black would fall under that cat-egory, said MLB spokesman Pat Courtney.

“Mr. Escobar has admitted that his actions were a mistake and I am hopeful he can use this unfortunate situation as an opportunity to edu-cate himself and others that intoler-ance has no place in our game or society,” Selig said in a statement.

It’s not easy keeping a tiger un-der control, but Catholic High man-aged to contain an LSU commit in its recent matchup against Denham Springs.

Any onlooker at Olympia Sta-dium could point out the towering figure sporting the purple and gold for the Yellow Jackets.

Denham Springs’ Tevin Law-son, a 6-foot-4, 275-pound defen-sive tackle who has verbally com-mitted to LSU, garnered the most attention from recruiters Friday night in Catholic’s 42-13 victory.

Known for his Southeastern Conference build and the ability to play on both the offensive and de-fensive line, Lawson is the type of athlete that coaches look to add to their programs.

“He can run and he has a body that can add weight,” said Denham Springs head coach Dru Nettles. “He’s a prototypical LSU line-man and athlete who’s going to be a special one once he fills out in college.”

Lawson only recently began to flash his abilities at defensive tackle after being a left tackle on offense for the majority of his high school career.

ESPN ranked him as the No. 135 recruit in the 2013 class, and Catholic was well aware of his presence.

Catholic repeatedly ran plays to the left side of the offensive line, away from Lawson. Though he successfully drove opposing offen-sive linemen into the pocket, they continuously double-teamed the se-nior and made him a nonfactor.

Lawson’s performance may not have had a major impact on the game, but his head coach said he knows his defensive lineman has potential.

“Tevin’s a disruptive guy in-side, and he’ll get doubled a lot,” Nettles said. “He’s got some big upside, though. He’s going to get better, and two or three years from now, he’s going to really grow into [a defensive tackle]. He needs 30 more pounds to really be a defen-sive tackle like they project.”

Lawson wasn’t pleased with his performance against Catholic High, but he intends to continue to work toward being at LSU next season.

He feels he is more than ready to play in Tiger Stadium.

“I feel that I can go [to LSU] and get better, stronger and faster,” Lawson said. “I’m going to do what I can to be on the line for the Tigers.”

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GOLF

Freshmen step into key rolesWright, Dreher solid in �rst tourneyJames Moran Sports Contributor

WRIGHT DREHER

‘I can improve quickly because

I have only been playing

for �ve years. I can be No.1. ’

Nadine Dreherfreshman golfer

they’re well on their way to a third.

Many people expected LSU to pass more often this season, led by junior transfer quarter-back Zach Mettenberger who was hailed by many Tiger fans as a savior from the run-heavy days of the past.

But that hasn’t been the case.In LSU’s fi rst three games,

the run game has dominated the offensive gameplan with 67 per-cent of the calls — nowhere near the 50-50 Miles said he hopes for.

Against Washington — the Tigers’ most lopsided play-call-ing game this season — the Tigers ran the ball 52 times and passed only 19, meaning a whopping 73 percent of the Tigers’ plays from scrimmage were rushes.

But even though the Tigers are passing at almost the same rate, Mettenberger has increased their effectiveness in the passing game.

Last season behind the arms of senior quarterbacks Jordan Jef-ferson and Jarrett Lee, the Tigers averaged 7.7 yards per comple-tion. This season Mettenberger and his receivers have averaged 9 yards per completion.

Mettenberger is also con-necting on a higher percentage of his passes, completing just more than 72 percent compared to the 62 percent the Tigers posted last season.

Senior wide receiver Rus-sell Shepard said the threat of Mettenberger leading a revamped Tiger passing attack is enough to worry opponents.

“We’ve shown we can throw the football,” Shepard said. “We’ve shown we can throw it down the fi eld, short and all types of different ways, and I think that keeps defenses on their toes.”

Against Idaho on Saturday, the Tigers came the closest to 50-50 this season. The Tigers threw for 222 yards, breaking the 200-yard landmark for the fi rst time this season.

At halftime, the Tigers actu-ally had more passing yards than rushing yards.

But as the Tigers ran away with the game, they kept the ball on the ground. By the end of the

game, the Tigers were back to 62 percent run plays with 52 percent of their 472 total yards coming from the run.

Maybe there’s a method to the Miles’ run-heavy madness.

LSU’s recent history proves that the Tigers are less successful the more they pass.

In the only game LSU lost last season — the 21-0 throt-tling at the hands of Alabama in the BCS National Championship Game — the Tigers had more passing yards than rushing yards.

The last time LSU ended a game with more passing attempts than rushing attempts was in 2009 in a 25-23 loss to Ole Miss.

LSU has now spent 19 straight weeks ranked in the AP top 5 — a school record — and in that time, the Tigers have relied most heavily on the run game.

Senior offensive lineman Josh Dworaczyk said his opinion of the coaches’ play calling fi ts the old adage, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fi x it.”

Mettenberger reiterated Dworaczyk’s thoughts, saying that if the running game is work-ing, there’s no reason to abandon it just for the sake of throwing for more yards.

“As a thrower and a quarter-back, I’d love to throw the ball downfi eld a little more, but like I always say, ‘whatever gets victo-ries,’” Mettenberger said. “If we keep pounding the ball like we do, we’re not going to throw the ball downfi eld 40 times a game.”

Dworaczyk said he sympa-thizes with LSU fans who would like to see more passing in the Ti-gers’ gameplan.

He said he knows running the ball most of the time doesn’t make the most exciting offense, but it works for the Tigers.

“I hope our fans realize that whenever this offense is rolling and we’re running the ball like we are, we’re demoralizing de-fenses,” Dworaczyk said. “And I enjoy it.”

“We’re a Christian group, and our job is to represent Christ,” said civil engineering se-nior Chad Roe .

Roe fi rst got involved with the Posse through his involve-ment in Baptist Collegiate Min-istries , which is also the case for LeBlanc and political science senior Cameron Cooke , who is the captain of the Posse . Mem-bership in the group is somewhat handed down, as the Posse was founded in 2003 by four students who participated in BCM .

Those in the Painted Posse do have their fun, but they must follow guidelines. They cannot sit during the game (halftime and commercial breaks excluded), and they are not allowed to swear or make obscene gestures.

“I’ve made that mistake be-fore,” LeBlanc said. “Sometimes you get excited. … But we keep each other in check. We try to be a good representation [of Christ].”

The members of the Paint-ed Posse also use their jerseys to show their true colors. Since 2005 , the members of the group have been required to have a cross painted on the left side of their jerseys.

The jerseys are important to the image of the Painted Posse , as they are painted to be nearly exact replicas of the players’ jer-seys. According to Cooke , any-where between 12 and 20 members participate each week, congregat-ing around the student section gate about fi ve hours before the game to begin the painting process.

Melissa Schroeder , an el-ementary education junior , paints all the white letters and numbers to maintain consistency, but she is assisted in painting the two purple coats and stripes by other female painters. They paint num-bers on the back and letters on the front, and they have spelled out such gems as “No Saban Novem-ber” and “Put ‘Em on a Spit.”

Following the games, the Posse makes its way up the hill and to the Quad, where they wash

off their paint in the fountain.Members choose numbers

based on a certain player or po-sition that they want to represent for that season. LeBlanc wears No. 30 for the kickers , Roe wears No. 99 for junior defensive end Sam Montgomery and Cooke wears No. 24 for junior corner-back Tharold Simon .

Some members of the Posse are friends with football players,

who personally thank them for their passionate displays on Satur-days.

“They all very much appre-ciate it,” Cooke said. “It’s good to

know that the players appreciate it just as much as the students do. It really is ultimately all about the players.”

Cooke and LeBlanc are both from Baton Rouge and were raised as Tiger fans. Cooke has been participating in the Posse since fall 2009 and even decided to spend a little more time in col-lege just for one more year of football.

“I could have graduated in three years, but I decided to make it three and a half just so I could get that extra football season,” Cooke said. “The Painted Posse

really does make my college ca-reer fun. I look forward to every game starting Monday.”

Roe , who is from Fairbanks, Alaska , shares the same passion for LSU football even though he grew up some 4,000 miles away from Baton Rouge .

Roe grew up as a fan because his grandfather and uncle played football for LSU , but he fell in love with the program when he attended his fi rst LSU game.

“It’s that pure love of LSU football,” Roe said. “It was some-thing that embraced me back in 2004 when I heard the band play ‘Touchdown for LSU’ for the fi rst time.”

The Painted Posse has forged a camaraderie through countless Saturdays of cheering the Tigers on.

“[Chad and I], as engineering students, don’t get out a whole lot,” LeBlanc said. “I mean, we’ve got college stories, but this is something that I know is never going to go away.”

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OFFENSE, from page 7 POSSE, from page 7

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Members of the Painted Posse perform the second down cheer from the front of Tiger Stadium’s student section Saturday during the Tigers’ victory against Idaho.

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‘� e Painted Posse really does make my college career fun. ’

Cameron Cookepolitical science senior

Rain boots and water puddles always make for gloomy days, but there’s never been perhaps a more depressing moment in our time on the LSU campus than Monday, when the bleak scene was accented by thousands of students rushing off campus only to be gridlocked in traffi c.

As we look back on Monday’s bomb threat — and it’s important to note that nobody seems to recall when the University last experienced a bomb threat — a number of prob-lems occurred, not that anyone would be able to tell based on the cheery news conference University offi cials delivered Monday afternoon.

Among the questions swirling through our minds after the text mes-sage snapped us into reality were: Is there really a bomb? What do they mean by “evacuate”? How long will sitting in traffi c take?

Judging from Facebook and Twitter, most other students won-dered the same things.

We hope whoever did this, who-ever threatened our lives and our University, pays for it to the fullest extent. The University offi cials and police who are investigating should stop at nothing to ensure the safety of students, faculty, staff and whom-ever else was on campus.

As the investigation continues

and suspects appear, we want jus-tice for our campus and for students across the nation who bear the con-sequences of such outrageous and unsettling threats. We also demand that our administrators better prepare for this type of incident, should it happen again.

University Relations told The Daily Reveille, “Our plan in this type of situation is to communicate to students, faculty and staff to evac-uate campus using their best method possible.”

What about students who live on campus? After receiving that text message, they had no idea where to go if they couldn’t take shelter at a friend’s apartment. They would have had to return to their on-campus housing to fi nd out that dorms and apartments were being evacuated.

Then there’s the question of the text alert that told everyone to evacuate. Evacuate where? Out of your building? Off of campus com-pletely? What about nearby campus locations — is The Chimes OK?

Those answers never came. Neither did an answer for how any-one could evacuate “as calmly and quickly as possible.” It would be a miracle if someone managed a speedy exit amid the unending lines of cars that tangled across Highland, Nicholson and nearly every other path that exited the University.

If a bomb had detonated within

30 minutes of students receiving the text message, not only would thou-sands of lives — or possibly 10 times that — have been lost, it also would have been nearly impossible for emergency vehicles to navigate the gridlock to set up a triage.

How is it that on gameday, 90,000 people can get on and off campus in a somewhat orderly fash-ion, but during a bomb threat, chaos ensues? We understand that games are planned for and bomb threats are out-of-the-blue, but the University should have procedures in place for

contrafl ow and orderly evacuations.Given the bomb threats on col-

lege campuses that came before LSU’s, it’s hard to believe that our University offi cials wouldn’t have re-evaluated our evacuation plans before Monday, but it appeared that they had not. We hope University offi cials used Monday to set a prec-edent for future emergencies.

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What did you think of the University’s

response to the bomb threat?

‘It was very timely. I got the message immediately

and everyone

got out very quickly.’

Kari Taylorsecondary English

education freshman

‘It took me two hours to

get home, and I live

20 minutes away.’ Victoria Harrison

nursing freshman

‘I thought it was all right.

I live off campus, so it took me

� ve minutes to get off campus.’

Dominik Pecorarobusiness sophomore

‘If we have to make up another day of school on a Saturday,

that would be annoying.’

Joel Meservyphilosophy graduate

student

‘They were on top of letting us know what was going

on.’Paisley Balthazarpsychology freshman

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for fuel effi cient vehicles. But you cannot conclude that the one policy necessarily entails the other. Most importantly, you are omitting 3 key points:- consumers are actively seeking more fuel effi cient vehicles under current prices.- vehicle manufacturers support the new CAFE standards, with NO promise of or policy for higher gas taxes, - and most importantly, greater fuel economy is expect to reduce U.S. imports and LOWER global oil prices, thereby lowering prices of gasoline and all other petroleum products we use.”- ridgepablo

In response to David Scheuermann’s column, “People should be better protected from surveillance,” read-ers had this to say:

“It’s not important that people like me understand the implica-tions of these government surveil-lance initiatives; it is important that young people do, and that they also

accept the truth: that governments can never be trusted, absolutely, to guard citizens rights and freedoms. Governments are always the great-est threat to freedom. Not ‘terrorists’ or their state sponsors.These measures are preparations for the identifi cation and punishment of ‘Thoughtcrime.’ They do not target those who’ve committed crimes, or even those who plan to commit crimes; it attempts to identify those who, by their behavior, words or deeds, and their associations, are considered potential ‘enemies of the State.’ These measures target freedom of expression, freedom of thought, and freedom of association. Essentially, they target freedom it-self.Thanks, David, for writing this. You best protect your freedoms by using them.”- CAulds

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As McDonald’s embraces some new changes, many other national fast food chains aren’t lovin’ it.

Following the Supreme Court ruling to uphold Obama’s healthcare law requiring national restaurants with at least 20 loca-tions to post their calorie counts, McDonald’s U.S. President Jan Fields announced that all nation-wide McDonald’s restaurants have posted the calories of their menu items on the menu boards and drive-thrus as of Monday.

But the question remains: Will the addition of calorie counts alter consumer habits? I doubt we’ll see significant changes in a state that loves food as much as Louisiana.

Although the healthcare law has not yet gone into effect, other fast food restaurants will likely feel obligated to follow in Mc-Donald’s footsteps, and while it’s good to see the chain step-ping up to inform customers on the nutritional facts of their food, the food remains unquestionably unhealthy.

The world’s largest ham-burger chain has made attempts to offer the public healthier op-tions with the inclusion of the “Favorites Under 400,” which lists several items on the menu with fewer than 400 calories.

But a combination of these items still adds up to a high-cal-orie meal. For example, a classic combo includes a cheeseburger at 300 calories, a carton of medium

French fries at 380 calories and a large Coca-Cola at 310 calories.

You would assume most peo-ple would begin to change their eating habits with information like this available to the public, but according to the New York Times, a study at Stanford Uni-versity found that the addition of calorie counts created little change in the behavior of cus-tomers.

Fast food is infamous for its connection to obesity, and fast food frequenters go to McDon-ald’s because they want that fatty burger and fries, which can be viewed as a treat.

After an eight-hour day at work, the convenience of fast food is undeniable, and despite the study’s results, some will opt out of their usual Angus bacon and cheeseburger — which now will be unable to deny its 790 calorie deliciousness — for a healthier option.

You are what you eat, though, and those people will continue to eat what they please whether the calories are posted or not.

Louisiana is a perfect ex-ample. It was named the fifth fattest state in the country in 2011 with the adult obesity rate at 31.67 percent, according to a report from the Trust for Ameri-ca’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Obesity is becoming an ever-growing epidemic in the state and country, and fast food restaurants play a major role in the blame game.

But I didn’t always think that way. Since I can remember, there have always been warnings against the excessive consump-tion of fast food, but until I was about 16, I never contemplated

the importance of a well-bal-anced diet.

In my high school nutrition class, we were assigned to watch the 2004 documentary “Super Size Me” by Morgan Spurlock, which exposed the dramatic truth about fast food.

Spurlock ate McDonalds every day for a 30-day period in the documentary despite protests from his vegan wife.

At the end of the experiment, he gained nearly 25 pounds and a 13 percent body mass increase.

A few years ago, Taco Bell,

another favorite among col-lege students, introduced its diet “Fresco” menu, but the Taco Bell in the 459 Commons doesn’t of-fer this healthier version in its limited selection.

However, LSU Dining has taken a big step to enlighten stu-dents about food selection on campus.

LSU Dining’s website in-cludes the menus and nutritional facts of almost all the on-campus dining options to accommodate students who are interested in counting calories.

So while the addition of Mc-Donald’s calorie counts is a move in the right direction, the fast food industry could use a drastic makeover in creating this classic all-American food.

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

Jerome Richardson is 46 years old. He has spent more than two-thirds of his life as a prisoner.

But now, thanks to a new Louisiana law, he is eligible for parole for the first time since he was handed a life sentence in 1986 for aggravated rape.

The law was passed in re-sponse to a Supreme Court deci-sion two years ago, in which the court ruled that sentencing minors convicted of crimes besides homi-cide to life imprisonment without a chance for parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Richardson, a Jefferson Parish native, was 15 when he was con-victed of aggravated rape along with a 19-year-old accomplice.

He was told, before he was able to vote, before he could go to his high school prom, that he would be in jail until the day he died.

Does this help society? Who benefits from destroying the dreams and prospects of children?

The Court’s decision and the new law are steps in the right di-rection, but they barely scratch the surface of the problem. What we need is an entirely new approach.

In 2010, more than 70,000 juveniles were under incarcera-tion, according to the Justice De-partment’s Office of Juvenile Jus-tice and Delinquency Prevention. While the number has been on the decline over the past decade, it is still a staggering statistic.

Studies have shown time and time again that putting youths in jail or training school has no effect on decreasing delinquent behav-ior.

For too long, the corrections system in the United States has

been focused on punishment for crimes and not rehabilitation of criminals. Prisons have developed an entire culture of gangs and re-peat offenders caused by appalling conditions.

The U.S. has the highest per-centage of the population in jail of any industrialized nation. The prisons are overpopulated, which leads to increased prison violence and lower quality of life.

Contrast that to Norway, home of “the world’s cushiest jail,” Bas-toy Prison, where inmates hold keys to their rooms and help raise farm animals in their spare time. Norway’s rate of repeat offenses is about 20 percent, compared to ap-proximately 67 percent in the U.S.

Here in America, we’re tough on crime. We’re not like those hip-pie Scandinavians — we teach our prisoners with discipline and good old American grit.

But good old American grit has never worked. It’s not the way

to re-teach our prisoners, and cer-tainly not the way to treat our chil-dren.

Each year, as many as 200,000 juveniles are tried as adults in the United States, according to esti-mates by the Campaign for Youth Justice. These children are forced into a boiling-pot environment with our nation’s most depraved rapists, murderers and gangsters.

Is it any wonder they continue to commit crimes?

We cannot continue to try mi-nors as adults. Throwing hundreds of thousands of juveniles into the adult system every year defeats the purpose of the juvenile system that we bothered to establish.

Though it’s unlikely we’ll see a drastic change in the adult prison system any time soon, an overhaul of the juvenile system is not impossible. Juvenile detention centers should be revamped into rehabilitation centers focused on job skills and psychiatric therapy.

Here in Louisiana, we have a proud history of improving prison conditions for children. The Juve-nile Justice Reform Act of 2003 resulted in the closure of the no-torious Tallulah Correction Center for Youth and an increase in alter-native methods of delinquent reha-bilitation.

It was a great moment of jus-tice in a state with a reputation for brutal and overstuffed prisons. With the new law, Louisiana has momentum again, and now a real change can come.

Gordon Brillon is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Lincoln, R.I.

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New law highlights youth prison policy injusticeBUT HE MEANS WELLGORDON BRILLONColumnist

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McDonald’s calorie count won’t make signi�cant impactLA SEULE FEMMEKATE MABRYColumnist

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