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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Five years af-ter Hurricane Katrina’s wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause.

“My administration is going to stand with you and fi ght alongside you until the job is done,” Obama said to cheers at Xavier University, a historically black, Catholic university that was fl ooded by the storm.

The president said there are still too many vacant lots, trailers serving as class-rooms, displaced residents and people out of work. He said New Orleanians have showed amazing resilience.

“Because of you,” the president de-clared, “New Orleans is coming back.”

Obama spoke fi ve years after Hurri-cane Katrina roared onshore in Louisiana, tearing through levees and fl ooding 80 percent of New Orleans. More than 1,800 people along the Gulf Coast died.

Hardship struck again this year in the form of the BP oil spill. More than 200

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and created the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. But its aftermath allowed University students, faculty, staff and facilities to shine.

Evacuees in Baton Rouge created an opportunity for the University to serve as a hospital, enroll New Orleans’ students and provide volunteer efforts for the needy.

TRANSFER STUDENTSUniversity Registrar Robert Doolos

said the University had to be fl exible to ac-commodate students who transferred from universities in New Orleans.

“We had to break a lot of the normal

rules in order to help these students,” Doo-los said. “School was the only piece of nor-mality that was left for them. And it was something they could hang on to.”

The University canceled classes for a week, but admitted 3,768 students during that time.

“We had to fi nd a way to register them without getting any money up front. We had to register students without any re-cords,” Doolos said.

Of the students admitted, 2,700 were enrolled on the 14th day of class. Sixty-two percent of the transfers were from the University of New Orleans, 13 percent from Tulane University and the remainder from Loyola University, Xavier University, Dillard University and other New Orleans schools, Doolos said.

DeShaun Price, a transfer student from the University of New Orleans, came to Baton Rouge two days before the storm.

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5 Years After Katrina

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Levees broke, streets fl ooded and more than 1,800 people died. Thousands more were forced from their homes. Five years later, its effects still haunt us.

President commits to Gulf Coast revival after disasters

University refl ects on role during Katrina 5 years later

Obama: Katrina aftermath a ‘man-made catastrophe’

Hurricane provided opportunities for LSU

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Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina fi ll the streets near downtown New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2005. After the levees broke under the Category 3 winds, 80 percent of the city fl ooded in the days after the storm.

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7 U.S. troops killed in latest Afghanistan fi ghting

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Seven U.S. troops have died in attacks in Afghanistan’s embat-tled southern and eastern regions, while offi cials found the bodies Sunday of fi ve kidnapped cam-paign aides working for a female candidate in the western province of Herat.

Two servicemen died in bombings Sunday in southern Af-ghanistan, while two others were killed in a bomb attack in the south on Saturday and three in fi ghting in the east the same day, NATO said. Their identities and other details were being withheld until relatives could be notifi ed.

The latest deaths bring to 42 the number of American forces who have died this month in Af-ghanistan after July’s high of 66. A total of 62 international forc-es have died in the country this month, including seven British troops.

Hurricane Earl barrels toward eastern Caribbean

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Earl has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane as it barrels toward several islands in the eastern Caribbean.

Meanwhile, the Category 1 Hurricane Danielle was bringing dangerous rip currents to the U.S. East Coast.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Earl could make landfall over the Northern Leeward Islands as soon as Sun-day night. It could become a major hurricane by Tuesday.WWII tanker off Calif. coast may still pose threat

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A tanker ship torpedoed by a Japa-nese submarine during World War II near California’s Central Coast may still represent a danger to the environment, said scientists inves-tigating the rusting hulk.

The 440-foot Montebello has

been lying under 900 feet of water since Dec. 23, 1941 — 16 days af-ter the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Nearly 70 years later, scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute are trying to de-termine if the 3.5 million gallons of crude oil in its hold are still there, and whether the sludge can threaten the coastline.Obama says he isn’t worried about Muslim rumors

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Barack Obama says he isn’t worried about a recent poll showing nearly one-fi fth of Americans believe he is a Muslim.

In an interview broadcast Sunday on “NBC Nightly News,” the president, who is a Christian, blamed the confusion over his reli-gious beliefs on “a network of mis-information.”

He says he can’t go around with his “birth certifi cate plastered on (his) forehead.” He says he has faith in “the American people’s capacity to get beyond all this nonsense.”

Judge tosses brutality suit against offi cers

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — A state judge has dismissed a lawsuit ac-cusing three Opelousas police offi -cers of brutality.

Judge James Doherty ruled there was insuffi cient evidence to

Offi cer, that’s not me! Mistaken ID jails Louisiana minister

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A se-ries of unfortunate coincidences led to a case of mistaken identity that put a Louisiana minister behind bars. Gregory Jones, pastor at Eden Worship Center, was pulled over for speeding and arrested as a man wanted for violating parole in Texas. The minister not only had the same name as the wanted man, but the same birthdate and a Texas driver’s license. So he was handcuffed and taken to a Shreveport jail.

Jones said deputies treated him well. A photograph and fi nger-print check confi rmed he wasn’t the wanted man.

Destroyer had 4 kittens aboard on two-day trip to Louisiana

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — When the USS Orleck departed for Lake Charles on May 18, the Gear-ing-class destroyer had four secret stowaways who managed to remain undetected for the vessel’s two-day trip. Once the Orleck docked at its new homeport, Debbie Lynn Hoff-pauir and other USS Orleck Naval Museum volunteers discovered the kitten quartet as they inspected the newly arrived ship.

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against Sgt. Bill Ortego, Sgt. Brody Ortego and Freddie Henderson, a reserve offi cer. Henry claimed ex-cessive force by the offi cers left him with injuries after his 2007 arrest.

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Charlie Melancon and David Vitter easily secured victory in the primary elections for U.S. Senate candidacy held Saturday. The two will now compete for Vitter’s seat in the Nov. 2 general election.

Both candidates secured their party nominations. Vitter, the single-term Republican junior senator, cap-tured 88 percent of the vote, beating Chet Traylor with 7 percent and Nick Accardo with five percent, according to the Secretary of State’s office.

Melancon, a Democrat who currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives, earned 71 percent, surpassing Neeson Chauvin with 18 percent and Cary Deaton with 12 percent.

The Libertarian Party held its first Louisiana primary, as well. In that race, Randall Todd Hayes earned 62 percent of the vote, surpassing Anthony Gentile with 38 percent and earning him a spot on the ballot in November.

Under current law, only regis-tered Republicans can vote in that

party’s primary — both Democrats and independents can vote in the Democratic primary.

Vitter and Melancon had been expected to easily clear their primary challenges. The two had already be-gun running attack ads against each other before securing their parties’ nominations.

The fight between Vitter and Melancon has already turned ugly, attracting national attention. Mel-ancon has run ads attacking Vitter’s “serious sin.” Vitter’s phone number was found on a Wasington, D.C. es-cort service, eliciting national scan-dal last year.

Melancon has also criticized Vitter for not firing a staffer in charge of women’s issues after the staffer was arrested for assaulting a woman.

Vitter attacked Melancon for “supporting the Obama agenda,” tying him to the president on issues like health care reform and financial bailouts — issues that, like Presi-dent Barack Obama, are unpopular in Louisiana. Vitter has also accused Melancon of using tax dollars to buy a $50,000 SUV.

The LSU Board of Supervisors on Friday unanimously approved the renovation of Kirby-Smith Hall.

The project will generate 360 beds for student housing by August 1, 2011.

The construction project will revamp the first through seventh floors of the residence hall. The hall was retired as a housing facility in 2006 and has since been used only for emergency housing by the Uni-versity and by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s transition team.

According to Act 959 documen-tation, the project will improve un-used student rooms, baths, lobbies, corridors, elevators and associated support spaces. The work will in-clude new paint, carpet, ceiling tiles, furniture, security cameras and a card access system for about 83,270 square feet.

The renovation’s projected cost is $1.7 million, paid for by fees and “self-generated revenues.”

“The unanticipated demand for on-campus housing in the last two years has resulted in waiting lists of 500 and 1,000, respectively, for 2009 and 2010,” wrote Steve Waller, direc-tor of Residential Life, in the project

proposal. “The additional capacity from opening Kirby-Smith will help supplement our inventory.”

The Board also approved the LSU System’s $2.42 billion unre-stricted operating budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year.

In his budget narrative, Chancel-lor Michael Martin asked the Board for “guidance, cooperation and sup-port in addressing solutions to the fiscal crisis” as the University faces budget cuts and increases in tuition.

“The actions we take will chart the course for LSU for generations to come,” Martin wrote.

The Board formally inducted the 2010-11 Chairman James W. Moore Jr. and Chairman-Elect Ben Mount for 2011-12.

Moore praised the leadership of his predecessor, Blake Chatelain.

The Board also approved a proj-ect to replace and water-proof the aluminum seating in the south end zone of Tiger Stadium, and the re-naming of the Music and Dramatic Arts Acting Studio to the “John Den-nis Acting Studio.”

Minutes before adjournment, Lombardi addressed the crowd.

“This is going to be a challeng-ing year for LSU and for higher edu-cation in general,” Lombardi said. “If we all work together, we will be successful.”

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LSU System President John Lombardi speaks during the Board of Supervisors meeting Friday. “This is going to be a challenging year,” he said.

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Renovations on West Laville Hall have been completed, but there are still several kinks that need to be fixed.

Several pieces of furniture have been ordered but have yet to show up, according to Brent Cock-rell, Residential Life coordinator of Acadian, East Laville and West Laville halls.

Marcus Lewis, a plumber who was working in West Laville, said sewer stop-ups are occurring be-cause of rust that developed during 50 years of neglect.

West Laville now has central air after decades of window units that caused mildew and mold to form on the windows, Cockrell said.

Cockrell explained there is “a lot of wear and tear when you have that many students” living in the building, which was built in the late 1940s.

Students are inconvenienced by workers constantly going in and out of the building to finish the re-pairs.

“The building’s a lot nicer now, but it’s pretty obvious they finished in a hurry,” said Simone Guidry, civil engineering fresh-man.

Guidry’s closet wall was not plastered completely, leaving a hole leading directly to the innards of a wall, and the plaster was not smoothed out on several walls, causing globs of it to stick out more than other areas.

The bathroom lights over the showers sometimes have glitches, Guidry said.

“Sometimes they’re off. Sometimes they’re on,” she said. “You never know.”

Her sister, Melissa Guidry, a political science and business senior, lived in West Laville the semester before it closed down for renovations. She said the bath-rooms were in disrepair and in need of a thorough cleaning, and she was shocked if she saw a girl in the retro blue-tiled bathroom with-

out shoes on.The building had not been ren-

ovated since the Guidrys’ 78-year-old grandmother had lived there in 1956.

West Laville has been refur-bished with fresh paint and new flooring.

Andy Russell, residential as-sistant in West Laville, said study rooms have been added, and the previously open lobby has been walled off to allow for an extra room for meetings. Beds that used to be attached to the walls are now easily moved, along with the rest of the new furniture added to West Laville.

“It looks like a totally different

building now,” Cockrell said.Cockrell said a larger kitchen

was added, along with study and recreational rooms. These extra rooms did take up living space for students.

Ramps and showers compliant with the Americans with Disabili-ties Act have also been added.

Plans for a connection be-tween East and West Laville by de-molishing the patio between them are in the works, Russell said.

West Laville renovations reach endRestoration first for dorm since 1956

RESIDENTIAL LIFE

Meredith WillContributing Writer

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The newly renovated West Laville now has its own front desk. Before, the desk in East Laville served both buildings. It’s the first renovation since 1956.

HAVING A BALL

ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille

A father pushes his daughter in a giant inflatable ball Saturday afternoon in at Back to Basics, and event hosted by The Key Foundations and Christian Student Center to bring families together.


As higher education faces “serious problems,” bold lead-ership like that of Huey Long is needed to keep the state’s system intact, descendants of the famous Louisiana governor said Satur-day.

“Higher education cannot sustain those types of cuts, and I say without hesitation, if Huey Long was governor today, we wouldn’t be in this situation,” said state Rep. Jimmy Long, D-Natchitoches, who is a member of the Long family.

Jimmy Long spoke Saturday with other relatives, professors and historians about the politi-cian’s legacy during the Huey Long Symposium .

Secretary of State Jay Dardenne and the Foundation for Historical Louisiana hosted the symposium in the Old State Capitol .

Jimmy Long said “the mech-anism to fund higher education” was different during Huey’s time, and current constitutional restric-tions limit what may be cut from the state’s budget, leaving higher education on the chopping block.

The state told the University to cut $73.8 mil-lion from its oper-ating budget Aug. 12. Since January 2009, the Univer-sity’s funding has been cut by $42 million, trans-lating into 376 eliminated posi-tions and sweep-ing reductions in programs and services.

Huey Long’s great-grand-son, Russell Mosely , said the University was “at the bottom of nearly everything” when Huey was elected governor, but his passion for the University drove him to triple enrollment , double the size of both the faculty and campus facilities and even co-write “Touchdown for LSU.” What was a “Class C University” grew into “Class A University” because of Huey’s “bold leader-ship,” Mosely said.

“It’s sad to see our state in this condition,” Mosely said. “But if you think it’s bad now, look at how it was in the ’20s.”

Mosely , who is a local at-torney , said higher education in Louisiana is only now recovering from cuts during the ’80s, and current political leadership needs to examine the state constitu-tion’s budgetary restrictions and

“make the decision to care about schools” during this “somber time in higher educa-tion.”

“The last thing you ought to cut is educa-tion,” said Ted Jones, a local at-torney who is a long-time friend of the Long fam-ily . “We need a

Huey Long [today] who has the

mind and knows politically how to help higher education.”

Jones said the governor should lead the legislature to en-sure fi nancial stability for higher education institutions, something he believes Huey Long would do now. Huey Long worked for the “common man” and was able to put aside partisan differences to accomplish concrete improve-ments for the state, Jones said.

“Outside of God, [Huey Long ] was probably the great-est builder this state has ever

known,” Jones said .Other panelists included

Richard White, associate dean of the E.J. Ourso College of Busi-ness. Two University professors moderated the discussions.

Dr. Carl Weiss Jr. , whose fa-ther was accused of assassinating Huey Long , spoke publicly about the shooting for the fi rst time dur-ing “The 75th Anniversary Pan-

SHOULD’VE BEEN A COWBOY

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Some of the best bull riders from around the world showed off their skills and competed at the Professional Bull Riding Invitational held at the Baton Rouge River Center this past weekend.

Panelists, speakers recall Long’s legacy

STATE

Nicholas PersacContributing Writer

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Plight of higher education discussed at Huey Long Symposium

‘‘‘If Huey Long was governor today, we wouldn’t be in this

situation.’

Rep. Jimmy LongD-Natchitoches, Long family member


Women of the multicultural sorority Sigma Lambda Gamma came from all over the U.S. on Fri-day to celebrate the opening of its newest chapter at the University.

Sigma Lambda Gamma was officially recognized Friday as a University sorority by the LSU Panhellenic Council Friday in a ceremony in the Student Union Cotillion Ballroom.

Sigma Lambda Gamma is the largest Latina-based national sorority. Its mul t icul tural m e m b e r s h i p reaches across the country.

B r i t t a n y Foster, political science junior, and Joanne Busalacchi, bi-ology junior, spent two years working to

bring the sorority to the University.“For two years we have want-

ed to bring the multicultural aspect to the community as another option for girls,” said Cerise Edmonds, coordinator for Cross Cultural Af-fairs.

Before Foster and Busalacchi arrived in the ballroom for the cer-emony, members of Sigma Lamb-da Gamma from other chapters “strolled” to different songs, doing cheers along the way and setting the mood for the event.

“Strolling is like stomping but in a more rhythmic, dance-like fashion,” said Angela Guillory, di-rector of Greek Life.

The event began as Foster and Busalacchi strolled into the ball-room masked, each hiding their her identity.

Foster and Busalacchi stood at attention as they greeted each chapter of every sorority and fra-

ternity present at the event.The girls were unmasked at

the end and given their jerseys as they were greeted with a heavy ap-plause.

“After two years, it is very re-warding to be here today,” Busalac-chi said. “It has taken a long time, and we are so happy to bring Sigma Lambda Gamma here. We’ve been through a lot, and we have learned a lot.”

Guillory said she was proud of the girls for their hard work and perseverance.

“It’s a unique and different sorority,” Guillory said. “I think it will be very good for our commu-nity.”

Foster said she was amazed the sorority was finally present at the University.

“We’ve wanted to bring Sig-ma Lambda Gamma to campus to bridge that gap between the [Na-tional Pan-Hellenic Council] and [the Panhellenic Council],” Foster said. “We are excited to see this colony of Gammas grow.”

Marlie Quimtero, chemical engineering junior, explained how excited she was to have Sigma Lambda Gamma on campus this year.

“I pledged at Iowa State Uni-versity, but then I moved down here for school, and I am so thrilled to have a colony here at LSU to be a part of,” Quimtero said. “These girls have worked extremely hard, and it shows. They have done an amazing job.”

Students spent two years campaigning

GREEK LIFE

Kayla DuBosContributing Writer

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Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority joins campus

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Political science junior Brittany Foster performs in part of a ceremony in the Student Union on Friday night. She was one of two students initiated into Sigma Lambda Gamma Friday night in the Union.

‘It’s a unique and different sorority. I

think it will be very food

for our community.’Angela Guillorydirector of Greek LIfe


Much has been learned since Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast five years ago. Univer-sity researchers have made signifi-cant discoveries in hurricane track-ing, analyses and response.

At the Earth Scan Laboratory, founded in 1988 and housed in the School of the Coast and Environ-ment, researchers analyze data gen-erated from real-time satellites to track storms.

“During hurricane season, if there’s something big in the Gulf or Caribbean, our satellites can go into rapid scan mode and get images as often as every couple of minutes,” said Nan Walker, director of ESL.

But Walker said it’s more than just images. The satellites also gen-erate data on atmospheric and oce-anic factors.

Researchers recently discov-ered hurricanes have the potential to intensify over areas of high heat and decrease in intensity over cool-er areas, Walker said.

Walker said her most sig-nificant discovery since Hurricane Katrina came after analyzing at-mospheric factors from hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ivan.

With Katrina and Rita, the hurricanes intensified dramati-cally over high heat areas, but Ivan showed minimal change.

“In the case of Ivan, the up-per atmosphere was not conducive to intensification,” she said. “For Katrina and Rita, the conditions were perfect. Without them, the hurricane can’t reach its maximum potential, so that was a very key factor.”

Walker said this information

can be used to predict how a hur-ricane will intensify.

“The track of the hurricane over these features is really impor-tant,” she said. “It’s moved the Na-tional Hurricane Center to a point where they’re paying a lot more at-tention to the ocean.”

Walker said the data will create better hurricane predictions.

While the intensity of Katrina was devastating, so were the levee failures surrounding New Orleans, which is why the University is also working on ways to mitigate their effects.

Joseph Suhayda, interim direc-tor of the LSU Hurricane Center, said the center, established in 1999 to conduct research and assist the state in coping with hurricanes, is focusing on flood insurance protec-tion.

“We’ve got a contract with the state to assist the parishes as they try to cope with technical aspects of the National Flood Insurance Pro-gram,” he said.

The Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency has issued new standards for levees in order to re-ceive levee certification and credit for flood insurance protection, Su-hayda said.

“A lot of our levees could po-tentially be decertified, meaning you could have a levee in place, but as far as FEMA is concerned, they wouldn’t give credit for it,” he said. “As we witnessed in Katrina, the presence of the levee doesn’t nec-essarily mean it’ll be there through-out the storm.”

Suhayda said homes built in-side areas with uncertified levees would need to be built to about 11 feet of elevation.

“You need to build at the same elevation inside the protected area as you do outside, and that’s what’s causing a lot of problems in the state,” he said. “They spent a lot of money building those levees, and

they’re close to being certifiable, but until they do FEMA won’t give you flood insurance rates to protect you from the 100-year flood.”

Only the levees that failed were rebuilt, while many of the original ones are still in place, said Craig Colten, geography professor.

“Some areas still have the same flaws in them,” he said.

Although new additions like flood walls, gates and barriers will mitigate surge effects, the levees are still susceptible to overflowing, Colten said.

“You won’t have the same kind of calamity that we saw in Ka-trina,” he said. “But the city is still susceptible to flooding.”

Most levees are designed for Category 3 hurricanes, Suhayda said.

“At this point in time, we can’t afford Category 5 protection,” he said. “If we have a hurricane in the

next month, the hurricane protec-tion system is not yet able to stop the overtopping and flooding.”

Another University organiza-tion that collects storm data is the Digital Hurricane Consortium — a collaboration of universities that monitor wind, surge, wave, rainfall intensities and damage on land-fall-ing storms.

The consortium, formed post-Katrina, is designed to combine data from various universities in-cluding the University of Florida, Texas Tech University and the Uni-versity of Notre Dame.

“Everyone can have access to a larger data set,” said Marc Levi-tan, civil and environmental engi-neering professor. “Only by com-bining this data can we make real progress.”

The on-campus Stephenson Disaster Management Institute was formed as a direct result of

Katrina in an effort to bridge the gap between researchers and prac-titioners, said Joseph Booth, execu-tive director of SDMI.

As part of SDMI, researchers, managers and expert advisers col-laborate to study disaster manage-ment problems and develop realis-tic solutions.

“We are leveraging the re-sources we have here on campus in order to be better informed and make better decisions,” Booth said.

In the event of another large hurricane, Booth said there would be better coordination of resources in facilitating all levels of response.

“It would be adding extra lay-ers of resources into the state’s re-sponse,” he said. “Things would run a lot smoother.”

RESEARCH

University researchers lead the way in hurricane studiesData could mean better predictionsSarah EddingtonStaff Writer

Contact Sarah Eddington at [email protected]

photo courtesy of LSU EARTH SCAN LABORATORY

This sea surface temperature image shows the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 31, 2005, two days after Katrina’s passage. Katrina’s track is shown with six mile-per-hour winds. Katrina appears to have lost intensity in an area of low heat.


million gallons of oil surged into the Gulf of Mexico before the well was capped in mid-July. New Orleans’ economy, heavily dependent on tourism and the oil and gas industry, was devastated.

Standing in front of an Amer-ican fl ag with students arrayed behind him, Obama boasted his administration’s efforts to re-spond to the Gulf spill. One of his promises — to stop the leak — has been kept.

“The sec-ond promise I made was that we would stick with our ef-forts, and stay on BP, until the damage to the Gulf and to the lives of the people in this region was reversed,” Obama said. “And this, too, is a promise we will keep.”

Obama’s speech didn’t offer any new plans for restoring the Gulf, bringing coastal Louisi-ana’s fast-disappearing wetlands back to life or cleaning up BP’s oil. Some residents had hoped Obama would take the opportuni-ty to announce an early end to the deepwater drilling moratorium he enacted. He made no mention of the moratorium.

Obama offered a list of ac-complishments he said his admin-istration has achieved, including helping move residents out of temporary housing, streamlining money for schools and restora-tion projects and working to re-build the poorly maintained levee system that failed the city when Katrina struck.

He promised that work on a fortifi ed levee system would be fi nished by next year, “so that this city is protected. ... We should not be playing Russian roulette every hurricane season.”

Implicit in Obama’s remarks was an indictment against former President George W. Bush’s ad-ministration for its handling of the crisis. Obama called Katrina and its aftermath “a man-made catastrophe — a shameful break-down in government that left countless men, women and chil-dren abandoned.”

Obama has faced questions about how his administration handled the Gulf spill, including accusations offi cials moved too slowly and deferred too much to BP. The White House has scrambled repeatedly to right the response, pleasing Gulf Coast residents with a $20 billion vic-tims’ compensation fund Obama

pushed BP to establish. There is still plenty of skepticism among Gulf Coast residents about gov-ernment promises, and Obama sought to alleviate that.

“In Washington we are re-storing competence and account-ability,” he said. “We’re putting in place reforms so that never again in America is someone left behind in a disaster.”

Arriving without any new policy announcements or benefi ts for the city, Obama appeared to

hope that his pres-ence would reassure residents they were not forgotten.

Obama toured Columbia Parc, a development of at-tractive new town-houses replacing the St. Bernard Hous-ing Development that fl ooded during Katrina. He met a longtime resident who had to be res-cued from her home in a boat after Ka-trina struck. Several

dozen demonstrators, protesting a shortage of affordable public housing, chanted nearby: “Hous-ing is a human right.”

Obama also visited the Park-way Bakery and Tavern, a local restaurant known for po-boys, which was underwater after Ka-trina. “I appreciate you coming here,” one woman told him. He responded with a hug.

After his speech, Obama de-fended his administration’s han-dling of the oil spill in an inter-view with “NBC Nightly News.” The president said that “because of the sturdiness and swiftness of the response, there’s a lot less oil hitting these shores and these beaches than anybody would have anticipated given the vol-ume that was coming out of the BP oil well.”

Price, an engineering sopho-more at the time, enrolled in bi-ology and art classes and was housed in the Pentagon. He said most of the other students in the Pentagon were from New Orleans and he met people from several different uni-versities.

“ T h e y put everybody from NOLA in the same area,” Price said.

D o o l o s said 223 trans-fer students ended the se-mester with all W’s or F’s.

“They re-ally shouldn’t have been here, but they wanted to come. They were under phenomenal stress, and we did make accom-modations for these students,” Doolos said. “We did not want them to hurt.”

Price, like many other trans-fers, returned to New Orleans for the spring 2006 semester.

“A lot of people didn’t return to school,” Price said. “Prior to the storm, there were a lot of in-tramural games and sports. It was hard to really enjoy going back to school.”

Price now works in Baton Rouge and didn’t get to fi nish his degree.

“I just left school and haven’t been back to school since,” Price said. “I can’t really blame it all on the storm, but it kind of messed everything up.”

UNIVERSITY RESPONSEThe University has grown

from Katrina’s devastation.The Carl Maddox Field

House and PMAC were trans-formed into the largest fi eld hos-pital in national history. The Men-tal Health Center, UREC Student Recreation Center, Day Care Center and Student Health Center offered free services to evacuees.

The University housed and fed 950 relief personnel from sev-eral agencies, including Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Guard, Red Cross, FBI, U.S. Forestry Service, Depart-ment of Homeland Security, De-partment of Health and Hospitals, and police and surgical teams.

According to Vice Chancellor for Finance and Admin-istrative Services Eric Monday, more than 2,700 faculty, students and staff volunteered to help during the crisis.

Former Student Government Presi-dent Colorado Rob-ertson was a junior when Katrina hit. He spent two days volunteering at the

Maddox Field House.“It was nothing like Gustav.

It was chaos,” Robertson said. “We were still setting up cots.”

Associate Sports Information Director Bill Martin was a junior at the time. He sent an email to

eight or nine former co-workers, which spread, and soon he was being interviewed by national news media.

“There won’t be a more grati-fying or more surreal experience [than] I went through [after the storm],” Martin said in the email.

Martin spent the night along-side athletic personnel and ath-letes installing countless IV poles.

“We had student athletes bringing people in,” Martin said. “I vividly remember [former bas-ketball players] Tasmin Mitchell and Glen Davis being heavily in-volved that whole night.”

Faculty, staff and students used their skills and time to as-sist in housing, technology, com-munications, dining, security and volunteering to make the Univer-sity a relief center. Doolos said “no” and “it’s not in my job de-scription” were not acceptable answers for anyone.

RESPONSE, from page 1

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at [email protected]

‘‘‘There won’t be a more gratifying or

more surreal experience [than] I went through [after

Katrina.]’Bill Martin

Associate Sports Information Director

OBAMA, from page 1

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]

‘‘‘We should not be playing Russian roulette every

hurricane season [with unfortifi ed

levees.]’Barack Obama

President

Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 page 9

In a matchup of top-25 teams, the margin for error is of-ten razor thin.

Throw Vendula Strnadova, Conference USA Offensive MVP, into the mix, and it’s nonexistent.

The Czech youth national team member was limited to just one shot in Saturday’s match with No. 18 LSU .

However, it proved one too many as Strnadova rocketed a

shot from inside the penalty area to beat LSU junior goalkeeper Mo Isom and give No. 23 Memphis a 1-0 win against the Tigers .

The 17th-minute blast epitomized a shaky open-ing half for LSU (1-1), who struggled to defend and produced few scoring chances in the fi rst 45 minutes.

Memphis (3-0) outshot LSU, 9-3, in the fi rst half and nearly stretched its lead to 2-0 when se-

nior forward Laura Laufenberg’s header hit the post only minutes

before halftime.“In the fi rst

half, we were really outcompeted,” said LSU coach Brian Lee . “Some of our younger kids just weren’t ready for the real college environ-ment against a top-level team.”

Instability was nothing new for the

Tigers , who started freshmen on the back line and lost a sixth-min-ute goal in an exhibition against DAVID LYLE / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior Courtney Alexander (6) dribbles the ball into South Alabama territory. The Lady Tigers shut out the Jaguars 8-0.

Deangelo Peterson slowly navigated through pu-trid water in the fl ooded streets of New Orleans fi ve years ago. Peterson, now a junior tight end, used one arm to paddle in 6-foot high waters on the Bullard Av-enue service road on an eerie August evening. He held his mother Deborah in his other arm.

The Petersons were victims of Hurricane Katrina, which rapidly pumped water into the streets of New Orleans and its surrounding areas.

Deangelo, his mother, two sisters and two nieces were forced to evacuate from his aunt Yolanda’s apart-ment after the fi rst fl oor was completely fl ooded. The group fl ed from their house three blocks away, which was completely submerged.

Deborah couldn’t swim, so Deangelo organized trips to a nearby Quality Inn.

“I was worrying, ‘What’s going to happen next?

LSU falls to Memphis 1-0 on road

Ryan GinnSports Contributor

Nearly 20 fouls called in match

SOCCER, see page 19

SOCCER

PETERSON, see page 19

Peterson recalls his traumatic Katrina journey, family ordeal

FOOTBALL

Hurricane upheval helped LSU land Russell ShepardSean IsabellaSports Writer

Daily Reveille fi le photo

LSU defensive back Daniel Graff is blocked by an Auburn player in LSU’s win against Auburn on Oct. 24, 2009.

Sports

Coach recalls aftermath of fi rst hurricane experience

LSU football coach Les Miles was driving home from work Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. He decided to fi ll up his gas tank.

Miles saw long lines at gas stations. People were pumping gas, preparing for Hurricane Katrina, a phenom-enon Miles was not familiar with having moved to Louisi-ana in January of that year.

“The closest I had gotten to a hurricane before was a Midwest forecast where they put that circular thing in the Gulf, and I’m going, ‘What does that mean?’” Miles said.

Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans on Aug. 29. LSU’s home opener, scheduled for Sept. 3 against North Texas , was in jeopardy in the hurricane’s aftermath.

LSU provided a haven for hurricane victims. The PMAC was crowded with survivors needing medical attention, and the Carl Maddox Field House was designated as a Special Needs Shelter.

The North Texas game was postponed until Oct. 29.

MILES, see page 19


Les Miles speaks to the Tigers in Tiger Stadium on Nov. 18, 2006 during the 23-20 win against Ole Miss.


Hurricane Katrina fl ooded New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

‘‘‘You just have to have continuity in your back four.’

Brian LeeLSU soccer coach

Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer


Jefferson to begin second season as Tigers’ starting quarterback

The quarterback position can be quite the head-scratcher sometimes.

Regardless of individual perfor-mances, quarterbacks traditionally re-ceive credit when the team is success-ful, yet are the fi rst to take the fury in times of misfortune.

For LSU, it is no different.When Jordan Jefferson led the

Tigers to a 38-3 victory two sea-sons ago against Georgia Tech in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, he naturally re-ceived praise. Conversely, Jefferson took most of the criticism last year when LSU fi nished with a mediocre 9-4 record.

Jefferson, now a junior, enters his second year as the Tigers’ starting quarterback and is confi dent he can lead an LSU squad to its fi rst double-digit win total since the 2007 national championship season.

“They know that I have great ball management,” Jefferson said. “[Last season] was just a lack of experience. It was my fi rst time fully starting the whole year. I didn’t really play a full season where they would know how to use me.”

Jefferson fi nished his fi rst season as a starter throwing for 2,166 yards to go along with 17 touchdowns and a respectable 61.5 completion percent-age.

The St. Rose native only broke the 200-yard passing barrier on fi ve occasions, but limited mistakes to only seven interceptions.

Those numbers were enough to convince LSU head coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Gary Crowton to keep the reins in Jeffer-son’s hands.

“He has to put some of those young players into position for us and communicate effectively so those players that need a coach on the fi eld can turn to a quarterback and under-stand,” Miles said of Jefferson’s pro-gression. “He is getting there, and it is a work in progress, but I think he is very accepting of his role.”

Despite Jefferson’s strong grasp on the No. 1 spot on the depth chart, junior Jarrett Lee is visible in Jeffer-son’s rearview mirror.

Lee continues to spend time as Jefferson’s backup, which has been his job since starting eight games in 2008.

The coaching staff is exuberant to have a situation with two experi-enced signal callers, as the two have a combined 23 starts between them. The two also provide constant com-petition for each other in practice to keep each other on his toes.

“[Lee is] putting the pressure on Jordan, which is good for Jordan to

feel that somebody is right there and working hard because there is noth-ing like competition,” Crowton said. “Jordan knows he can’t make errors.”

Although Lee has regained a sense of confi dence from Miles and Crowton, it is still a mystery whether he could handle the full-time duties if Jefferson were to get injured.

In 11 games — including eight starts — during the 2008 season, Lee threw seven interceptions that were returned for touchdowns including a

string of four straight games in which he threw a pick-six.

But to his defense, he was only a redshirt fresh-man.

“Jarrett Lee is kind of a man on a mission,” Crowton said. “He has things to prove with the errors he made as a freshman. I think he’s settled down and ma-tured.”

An upbeat Lee agreed.“As a young player and you

come into college football, you have to expect some of those things are go-ing to happen and you have to … put them behind you,” he said.

Behind Jefferson and Lee, only two quarterbacks remain on the roster — junior T.C. McCartney and fresh-

man Barrett Bailey. Bailey, a preferred

walk-on, assumed the role of the No. 3 posi-tion on the depth chart this summer following the departure of Chris Garrett, who trans-ferred to Northwestern State, and Zach Lee, who signed a $5.25 million contract with

the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Lee making strides despite backup roleSean IsabellaSports Writer

Contact Sean Isabella at [email protected]


Quarterback Jordan Jefferson throws a pass during the Tigers’ 24-15 loss toAlabama on Nov. 7, 2009. Jefferson will be starting for the second consecutive season.

FOOTBALL

‘‘‘[Last season] was just a lack of experience.’

Jordan JeffersonLSU junior starting quarterback

The Daily Reveillepage 12 page 13

During some of the darkest weeks in New Orleans history, Ba-ton Rouge served as a stronghold for a city ravaged by one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history.

In some cases, entire busi-nesses from New Orleans came to the capital city, like Chinese Com-bo King , which is now located on West Chimes Street .

Despite the relative setback of waiting two years for a parking lot, the business is here permanently, said owner Alice Lo .

“The people and students, ev-eryone is so nice,” Lo said.

Baton Rouge was not prepared for the massive infl ux of refugees from New Orleans, but the city has remained resilient in many ways.

Since July 2005 , the Baton Rouge metro area has become home to 21,372 new businesses, a 33.9 percent increase, according the release.

Other statistical indicators show Baton Rouge is stronger economically now than it was be-fore Katrina. Average wages have

increased 25 percent between the fi rst quarter of 2005 and the fi rst quarter of 2009 , according to BRAC data. The nine-parish area’s sales tax collections from 2005 to 2009 have increased 19.1 percent. The average home sale price has increased 16.2 percent.

This is due partly to a $2.40 increase in federal minimum wage levels since Katrina.

BRAC reports the post-Ka-trina economic effects safeguard-ed the area from the most damag-ing aspects of the recession, even though acute economic pressure was felt after the storm. BRAC ex-pects 1 to 2 percent job growth to continue for the capital region in 2010.

“These data match our own anecdotal experience that the mar-ket’s confi dence in investing in the nine-parish Baton Rouge area was improved post-storm,” Adam Knapp , BRAC President and CEO, said in a news release last week.

The storm imbued business owners with a sense of coopera-tion and acted as a regional su-ture between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

“For the fi rst time the Baton

Rouge and New Orleans business communities are sitting down talk-ing about what they can do togeth-er,” Knapp said. “We are literally forging relationships across two regions. That would have been hard to imagine fi ve years ago.”

Another post-Katrina increase came in local crime rates.

“There was a brief upsurge in certain crimes late 2005 and 2006, some of which could certainly be attributable to the population in-crease resulting from Katrina,” said Sgt. Don Kelly , Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman .

The Baton Rouge metro ar-ea’s population has grown from 706,909 in 2005 to 786,947 in 2009 , an increase of 11.3 percent, according to BRAC.

“We must be very careful when trying to do any compari-sons or draw any meaningful con-clusions between pre-Katrina and post-Katrina crime statistics,” Kelly said.

Five years ago Sunday, Hur-ricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. The city of New Orleans was underwater, driving thousands of people to Baton Rouge for shelter.

Many came to the University , where a fi eld hospital rose out of the chaos. Campus transformed into an 800-bed fi eld hospital , the larg-est in national history. About 1,700 medical personnel from across the country treated more than 6,000 pa-tients and triaged more than 15,000 , according to “LSU in the Eye of the Storm,” a book published about the experience.

The morning after the hurri-cane, students and administrators awoke to a campus that was largely unscathed. But 80 miles away, New

Orleans was drowning, and evacu-ees swarmed the University campus.

D’Ann Morris , assistant to then-Chancellor Sean O’Keefe , said the chancellor’s offi ce heard rumors of “a lack of coordination” in the PMAC . O’Keefe told her to assess the situation.

“I noticed that ‘lack of coor-dination’ was an understatement,” Morris said.

Morris said thousands of refu-gees were milling around at random, indistinguishable from the scattered volunteers.

“It was total chaos,” she said. “There were people everywhere.”

Morris and Eric Monday, then associate vice chancellor for fi nance and administrative services , said O’Keefe’s leadership was invalu-able during the crisis.

“Sean O’Keefe had the ability to manage crises very well,” Mon-day said.

Monday said about 2,500 peo-ple, many of them students, volun-teered to help. At fi rst, they only

caused problems.“They were all there to be help-

ful, but they were all in the way,” Morris said. “There was no way to tell who was a vol-unteer and who was a patient.”

Morris and her team sepa-rated volunteers and evacuees, dividing them based on tasks necessary to care for the people in the PMAC . Students ferried equipment and sup-plies, gave food and water to survi-vors and assisted with medical care.

Morris said volunteers worked tirelessly throughout the disaster.

“It was hard to send them home,” she said.

From the initial chaos, order began to take shape. The PMAC be-came an “emergency room” where

patients requiring urgent care were treated. The Carl Maddox Field

House became the “in-patient” care facility.

Student volun-teers wheeled stabi-lized patients from the PMAC to Mad-dox Field House past Bernie Moore Track Stadium, where heli-copters were landing — ferrying evacuees to and critical patients from campus.

Morris’ most vivid memory is of

Tyrese , a 4-year-old boy among a group of children who had been separated from their parents. In the weight room of Maddox Field House, where the Athletic Depart-ment had made room for the chil-dren, Tyrese hugged her.

“Ms. D’Ann, are you going to fi nd my mommy?” he asked her. “Because I don’t think I can live here forever.”

“I walked out and had a com-plete meltdown,” Morris said.

Morris received a call that night saying the boy’s parents had been found. After confi rming the moth-er’s identity, Morris found a pilot willing to fl y the boy — for an LSU baseball cap.

“It was one amazing story after another,” Morris said.

Monday said the disaster pre-pared the University for future ca-tastrophes and provided a model for crisis management.

“LSU is a community,” said Monday , who attended the Univer-sity as an undergraduate. “Few times in your life do you get to sense it in such a large way.”

KAT-5

photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An NOAA satellite image from Aug. 29, 2005, at 4:57 p.m. EDT shows Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall earlier that day.

photo courtesy of IRWIN THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News

Strong winds blow the roof off the Backyard Burger restaurant in Kenner on Aug. 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall.

ERIC GAY / The Associated Press

Looters take merchandise from downtown businesses on Aug. 30, 2005 in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit the area.


Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina wait on Sept. 6, 2005 outside Pleasant Hall on campus to register for food, supplies and shelter.


Emergency teams assemble at Bernie Moore Track Stadium on Aug. 29, 2005. Helicopters landed on the fi eld, ferrying evacuees. The University served as a makeshift fi eld hospital after the storm.

University served as fi eld hospital during Hurricane KatrinaStudents, faculty helped evacueesMatthew AlbrightStaff Writer

Businesses grow, prosper in Baton Rouge following Katrina in 2005Andrew CavazosContributing Writer

Contact Andrew Cavazos at [email protected]

Contact Matthew Albright at [email protected]

In the aftermath of Katrina, homes and businesses were destroyed in Baton Rouge [above]. Five years later, some effects of the storm can still be seen.

PROGRESSION OF THE STORM

‘‘‘LSU is a

community. Few times in your life do you get to sense it

in such a large way.’Eric Monday

vice chancellor for fi nance and administrative services


Dr. Ron Coe questions an elderly evacuee at the PMAC on Aug. 31, 2005. The PMAC was converted to a triage center for injured victims of Hurricane Katrina in the aftermath of the storm.

See more photos of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath at lsureveille.com

Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 Monday, Aug. 30, 2010

Read more about LSU’s role during Hurricane

Katrina at lsureveille.com.


The start of a new semester marks new classes and a new schedule of intramurals at the UREC Student Recreation Com-plex .

The UREC staff worked to prepare a full schedule of events for students this semester. The fall schedule will feature 12 dif-ferent leagues and tournaments.

The typical sports — fl ag football, 3-on-3 basketball, in-door volleyball, tennis, racquet-ball and table tennis — will re-main on the schedule with a few alterations.

UREC staff members get feedback from students on im-provements and adjustments that can be made after every intramu-ral season. Matt Boyer, assistant director of leagues and tourna-ments , said one of the UREC’s goals for this semester was to give students more bang for their buck by extending the season.

“All sports will start in Sep-tember, and the season will be longer,” Boyer said. “They’ll play four games in the season,

and the fi fth game will be the playoffs.”

Boyer also hopes to make intramurals appealing to more students. He feels the sports were clashing between serious com-petitors and those playing for fun.

“We’re drawing only the competitive athlete, and we don’t want that,” Boyer said. “We want everyone to come out and play whether they’re highly com-petitive or recre-ational.”

UREC hopes to solve this problem by alter-ing the playoff format.

“The play-offs will be split into the competi-tive and the rec-reational,” Boyer said. “This way you’re playing teams in the playoffs of the same caliber and not seed No. 32 ver-sus No. 1, where teams get de-molished. We want to get people excited and out there and play-ing.”

Along with traditional intra-murals, UREC returns dodgeball to the fall schedule. Intramural dodgeball came to LSU in the spring 2010 semester and proved to be a hit.

The newest event added this fall is futsal. Futsal is a 5-on-5 soccer game played indoors. Graduate Assistant of Leagues and Tournaments Matt Katz said futsal is basically a variation of standard indoor soccer.

“In indoor soccer, people bang the ball off the walls,” Katz said. “Futsal is indoor soccer, but without walls ... played on the basketball court.”

The futsal ball is slightly differ-ent than a typical soccer ball.

“It’s a smaller, weighted ball so it doesn’t bounce quite as much,” Boyer said. “It’s more about skill instead of just kicking it as hard as you can. There’s more strategy and

teamwork involved.”UREC will also host a series

of events for homecoming week Oct. 25 through Nov. 3.

These events include a punt, pass and kick contest, a kickball tournament, a dodgeball tourna-ment and a sand volleyball tour-nament .

Overall, Boyer said the out-look for this semester is a bright one, and he believes the changes

will be for the better.“We have a good idea of

what we want to do, and we think it will be exciting,” Boyer said. “And it’s different.”

Registration for all fall sports

is currently underway and will continue into early September .

Fall semester brings full schedule of intramural sportsUREC

Mark ClementsSports Contributor

Contact Mark Clements [email protected]

Futsal league new addition to program

‘‘‘We want everyone to come out and

play whether they’re highly competitive or recreational.’

Matt Boyerassistant director of

leagues and tournaments


LSU sweeps Invitational, is 3-0 for first time since 2007VOLLEYBALL

The LSU volleyball team beat Texas A&M in straight sets (25-9, 25-17, 25-22) Saturday to complete a weekend sweep at the Texas A&M Invitational.

The No. 23 Tigers started the weekend with two wins on Fri-day, defeating Pacific, 3-1, and Siena, 3-0. The team is 3-0 for the first time since 2007.

Junior middle blocker Mi-chele Williams earned tourna-ment MVP honors, while senior outside hitter Angela Bensend and junior libero Lauren Waclaw-czyk were named to the All-Tour-nament team.

In the final match, Williams connected in 12 of 19 swings without an attack error for a ca-reer-best .632 hitting percentage.

“We know those three have to be good for us to succeed,” said LSU coach Fran Flory. “[Wil-liams] has been this force for us the whole time, but people didn’t know it or didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to it because we had [former middle blocker Brittnee] Cooper. People tend to watch that rather than know the work that Michele has always put in.”

Waclawczyk, who managed eight digs and six assists in the third match, said the award hon-ors could have gone to anyone on the team.

“I think all of us could have gotten [All-Tournament hon-ors],” Waclawczyk said. “We had such a good team effort this weekend. Everyone had such an important role, and it makes you work hard for each other.”

The Tigers earned a .274 attack percentage through the weekend while holding oppo-nents to .066 team clip.

Flory said that by the end of the weekend, the team had gone above and beyond what she ex-pected.

“I think we started the week-end very close to what our expec-tations were,” Flory said. “We thought we were going to be a little over-prepared and over-anxious, and [Friday] we played that way. But [Saturday] we actu-ally surpassed my expectations of where we would be at this point.”

Waclawczyk also said the team is moving in the right direc-tion.

“The first few games were a good starting point for the season, and the last game we brought it all together,” Waclawczyk said. “We stayed focused the whole time and came out with a really good win. I think we really did take that step forward this week-end.”

Flory said she was glad to get three nonconference wins under her belt and said pre-conference tournaments are the key to getting into NCAA postseason play. The team ended last season’s NCAA

tournament run with a second-round loss to Texas A&M.

Senior setter Brittney John-son said she was excited to have the opportunity to get back at the

Aggies this year.“I feel like we came in as a

team and played really well and played together,” Johnson said. “It was definitely good to have

some revenge on [Texas A&M] because they kicked us out of the playoffs [last season].”

Even with three wins in the bag, Waclawczyk — known on

the court as “Sunshine” — said there is work to be done to take the team to the next level.

“We are still a young team,” Waclawcyzk said. “You can’t ever be satisfied. Being compla-cent with what you’re doing can be a disease. We have to keep taking steps forward.”

Flory said the team is a work in progress, but showed signs of its potential this weekend.

“I think what we got out of this weekend was a little glimpse of when this group puts their minds to something, they can do some special things,” Flory said. “There’s plenty of improvement we’re going to make throughout the season, but it was certainly an outstanding effort.”

The Tigers travel back to Texas this weekend for matches with Alcorn State, Central Ar-kansas and TCU in Fort Worth.

Williams named Tournament MVPMark ClementsSports Contributor


Junior middle blocker Michele Williams spikes the ball during a scrimmage in the PMAC on Aug. 21. The Tigers swept the Texas A&M Invitational in College Station, Texas, wwlast weekend, and Williams was named tournament MVP.

Contact Mark Clements at [email protected]


FOOTBALL

The LSU football world will not fi nd senior running back Richard Murphy in the No. 26 jersey he has donned since his freshman year in 2006.

Instead, he will sport No. 18, a designation for the LSU player who embodies the greatest lead-ership qualities of the team. Since 2003, the number has been worn by quarterback Matt Mauck, run-ning back Jacob Hester and tight end Richard Dickson .

“That tells you who Mur-phy is,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “Off the fi eld he is a great young man, and on the fi eld they expect him to play with great talent and abil-ity and make them proud of that number.”

M u r p h y certainly has a lot to show his teammates af-ter he suffered a season-end-ing knee injury in the second game of the 2009 season against Vanderbilt.

Murphy returned to the fi eld in spring practice, and he said he is healthy and mentally stronger with the 2010 season on the ho-rizon.

“Before the injury, I never noticed that it only takes one play,” Murphy said. “I run hard because you never know when you’re going to fall. And I gained more weight so I can take those contact hits in the [Southeastern Conference].”

Murphy’s selfl ess nature was never hidden amid his passion for football, another testament to the traits that earned him the No. 18 jersey.

Murphy rushed for an eye-popping 7,059 yards at Rayville High School— fi fth in state his-tory— and coach Bo Barton said Murphy had a chance to break the all-time state rushing record.

But that wasn’t who Murphy was.

“He didn’t want to stay in the games because he wanted the younger kids to get more ex-perience,” Barton said. “A lot of games we pulled him out in the fi rst half. He always said, ‘No, coach, I’m not about [breaking the record]. If I do it and it’s a tight game, great, but I don’t want

to do it in a game just to try and break the record.’”

Murphy has played behind Justin Vincent , Alley Broussard , Hester , Charles Scott and Keiland Williams throughout his LSU ca-reer, but now he is the most vet-eran running back remaining.

Junior Stevan Ridley said Murphy has earned the respect of everyone by showing tremendous courage in the wake of horrifi c setbacks in his life. Murphy also tore his ACL as a junior in high school in the fi rst round of the state playoffs, and both his par-ents died before he began at LSU.

“We’ve been on the back seat together since we’ve been here the last two or three years,” Rid-ley said. “Part of coming to LSU is you’re going to be competing

against the best of the best and some-times you have to wait for your time. I don’t think it mat-ters who’s starting. We’re looking to be a two-headed mon-ster out there.”

Murphy has ac-cumulated 442 yards rushing and two touchdowns in 29 games since 2007, including every game as a sopho-more and junior.

LSU offensive coordinator Gary Crowton anticipates him to be right back

in the mix in the backfi eld this season.

“He can catch, run the ball, he has understanding and has in-telligence,” Crowton said. “I re-ally like that experience in that area. I don’t know whether he is going to be a starter or backup, but he’s going to help us, there’s no question.”

Murphy said his biggest strengths are his hands on the swing pass, and he said he has improved in running between the tackles by emulating the LSU runners who came before him.

Barton called Murphy a role model for the town of Rayville, and he said the Rayville High School football team “fl ocks to Richard” when he comes to visit.

Barton said all Murphy needs is the opportunity to carry the running game and he’ll surge ahead like he has blazed through hardships his whole life.

“I really believe in my heart that if he touches the ball 16 or 17 times a game, everybody will go, ‘Wow, why hasn’t this been hap-pening for four years?’” Barton said. “The whole town of Ray-ville goes ‘wow’ every time he touches the ball.”

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LSU running back Richard Murphy fi ghts off Auburn strong safety Eric Brock during LSU’s 30-24 win Auburn in 2007. Murphy will change his jersey number from 26 to 18 this season to signify his leadership with the Tigers.

‘‘‘Off the fi eld he is a great young man,

and on the fi eld they expect him to

play with great talent and

ability and make them proud of that

number.’Les Miles

LSU football coach


“I got a phone call that said, ‘You have one hour to get all of your stuff out of the PMAC or you will not see it until this is over,’” LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory said while recalling the Tigers’ eventful 2005 season.

Because of Hurricane Ka-trina, the 2005 LSU volleyball team was homeless.

On August 29, 2005, Hur-ricane Katrina made landfall on Louisiana’s Gulf coast and dev-astated the entire area.

The Tigers were in States-boro, Ga., the weekend of the storm. They returned to Baton Rouge to fi nd they were without a home until further notice.

“We scrambled and called a bunch of people with trucks and grabbed all of our nets, all of our balls, everything,” Flory said.

The Tigers did not play in the PMAC again until Oct. 14 .

In the meantime, the Tigers’ home court was an emergency tri-age center for the injured. Their practice facility, the auxiliary gym of the PMAC, had been con-verted into a makeshift morgue.

Before the Tigers took to the road again, they helped with the relief effort.

“We went and volunteered, holding babies who had been or-phaned or who couldn’t fi nd their parents in the [Carl Madddox]

Field House,” Flory said. “Then I kind of pulled our team out of that because it was too emotional, so we went and washed laundry.”

Flory said washing the laun-dry was still rewarding.

“People would donate clothes, but the Red Cross doesn’t allow it to be handed out, even if it’s new, without being washed,” Flory said. “And you think wash-ing laundry isn’t a big deal, but the joy that the people had of actually having clean clothes … was actually pretty cool.”

The Tigers, 3-0 at the time, were on the road for their next 14

matches. They started with four consecutive wins and nine wins in 10 matches .

As brutal as the long-term road trip sounds, Flory said it was good for her team to be able to temporarily escape.

“Atlanta was our fi rst trip af-ter that,” Flory said. “The whole bus just kind of breathed a sigh of relief. And we went and we played really well.”

Flory said the team knew how meaningful these games were for not just them but for the entire community.

“The kids, they were playing

for the state,” Flory said.When the Tigers returned

home in October to face Missis-sippi State , they boasted a 13-4 overall record, 3-3 in SEC play. T h e n - A t h l e t i c Director Skip Bertman was im-pressed.

“They have played every game on the road in a season that got underway in August,” Bertman said in a cyber-side chat in Oc-tober 2005. “As the Maravich Center continued to undergo ren-ovations, Coach Flory had origi-nally scheduled her fi rst home match to be in late September.”

The Tigers defeated the Bull-dogs in straight sets that night in the fi rst of a 6-0 record at home. The undefeated home record helped propel LSU to a 21-8

overall record and its fi rst-ever SEC West crown.

Five years down the road, the Tigers are fi ve-time reigning SEC West champs and defending SEC

overall champi-ons.

Flory said the Katrina season was in-strumental in catapulting the program to its current status.

“Our play-ers are now able to adapt a little

better,” Flory said. “Adversity strengthens you. And I think as a coach I do a much better job of preparing kids for the what-might-happen.”

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Volleyball team remembers volunteer efforts during KatrinaVOLLEYBALL

‘‘‘We went

and volunteered,holding babies who

had been orphaned.’Fran Flory

LSU volleyball coach


Senior setter Brittney Johnson (12) and junior middle blocker Michele Williams (23) jump to block the ball during a scrimmage Aug. 21.


LSU’s Sept. 10 contest against Ari-zona State was moved to the Sun Devils’ home stadium, while the PMAC served as the largest fi eld tri-age unit in U.S. history.

Miles was proud to see volun-teers stepping up to the plate.

“I saw [former LSU basketball player Glen Davis] with a volunteer tag on, and then there were people like [strength and con-ditioning coordina-tor] Tommy Moffi tt who would work there until 10 p.m. and stay to volun-teer until two and three and four in the morning,” Miles said. “There were men and women who stood up and were accountable to their re-sponsibilities.”

Miles’ wife, Kathy , remembers the piercing noise of helicopters that hovered in the Baton Rouge skies to bring aid to victims.

“Rescue teams [landed] on the track area to bring all the people into the PMAC to take care of their medi-cal needs,” she said. “The fact that people pulled together and really tried to help each other was a nice thing.”

The Miles children — Kath-ryn, Manny, Ben and Macy Grace — were 11, 9, 7 and 2 years old, re-spectively, when Katrina hit. Kathy Miles said Hurricane Gustav , which

ravaged Baton Rouge in September 2008, helped the children understand the impact a hurricane can have on a city.

The Miles family witnessed New Orleans one year after Katrina on a drive through the city. Les Miles said it was poignant to see the dam-age that pervaded the city even af-

ter much time had passed.

“I took my family as far east as I could and came into New Orleans from the West Bank. We went back into St. Bernard and came across the bridge,” he said. “It was heart-rending to see all the devas-

tation ... signs on houses, thousands of cars stuck places and under over-passes. It was absolutely amazing.”

Kathy Miles said she and other LSU coaches’ wives put together a video for the coaches’ convention the following January that chronicled Hurricane Katrina’s impact.

She said the presentation showed how people banded together to help however they could.

“When you think back about it now in the fi fth anniversary, you re-alize how devastating it was for ev-erybody,” Kathy Miles said.

Texas .Despite the inconsistent

play, three of the four starting defenders played all 90 minutes.

The growing pains on the back line may take time to heal, but Lee believes his patience will pay off later in the season.

“You just have to have conti-nuity in your back four,” he said. “It’s a new group. We’re still building their comfort level play-

ing with each other, so they’re going to have to play all the min-utes.”

Buoyed by a record crowd of 1,223 at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex , each side pushed in an incredibly aggressive game for the goal.

Although neither team was shown a card, nearly 20 fouls were whistled. Lee said the fouls could have been even higher.

“The offi cial was consis-tent in not calling,” said Lee . “I

thought our kids adjusted to that, and we kept our composure.”

LSU responded with urgen-cy in the second half, outshoot-ing Memphis .

Despite the pressure, how-ever, there was no equalizer to be found.

Sophomore forward Tricia Johnson and freshman forward Kaley Blades , both of whom came off the bench, provided the majority of efforts on goal.

Each took three shots. No

other LSU player took more than one shot.

“The halftime talk wasn’t anything about tactics or forma-tions, it was just about compet-ing at the level that is necessary in terms of running and tack-ling,” Lee said. “The girls did that in the second half. They just

really weren’t ready for Mem-phis’ determination tonight when the game started.”

Are we going to make it out? When’s the next time we’re go-ing to eat?’” Peterson said.

After spending two miser-able nights in the hotel, the Pe-terson family managed to catch a boat to Chef Menteur Highway and found an 18-wheeler to take them into town.

They were still far from safe-ty.

Less than 20 miles west of the Petersons, Daniel Graff and his family were in danger.

Graff, a senior special teams player, was enrolled at the Uni-versity of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was visiting his family in Me-tairie when Katrina hit.

The Graffs evacuated when they found a hotel vacancy in Little Rock, Ark. Fifteen hours later — seven more than it would normally take — Graff and 13 other family members arrived at their destination.

Graff’s house suffered rela-tively little damage. A tree de-stroyed his roof and electrical lines, leaving the family without power until mid-October.

“When I went to some of

these houses, they had nothing — 10 feet of water, and everything they owned was destroyed,” Graff said. “They had to start their whole lives over again.”

Matters seemed like they couldn’t get any worse for Peter-son. They did.

Peterson’s four days at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center still haunt him.

When as many as 20,000 evacuees poured into the center Aug. 29, no food, water or medi-cal assistance was available.

“When we were there, chil-dren were being taken ... they were either dead or raped,” Pe-terson said. Because of the lim-ited police presence, “me and my cousin … stayed up three straight nights, watching my momma, watching my sister.”

Violence heightened during the family’s stay, leaving thou-sands of people on edge. Dean-gelo’s older sister, Beatrice, said chaos and eventually gunfi re en-sued.

“Everybody started shoot-ing and fi ghting, and people were running all over,” she said.

Peterson and his family eventually took a helicopter to

the airport and caught a fl ight to San Antonio.

Though most were devas-tated by the hurricane, some ben-efi ted from Katrina’s aftermath.

Sophomore wide receiver Russell Shepard, star of LSU’s 2009 recruiting class, insists Ka-trina was a blessing in disguise.

“If Katrina never happened, and I never got to meet the good people, I never would have been here,” he said.

While Shepard was six hours away from Katrina’s destruction, Graff spent the next four years re-building his house with his fam-ily.

Peterson had nothing to re-turn to. His mother went back to New Orleans , but Peterson has not returned to the house he once called home.

“Every time someone brings Katrina up, I have fl ashes,” Pe-terson said. “Try to put it in your past.”

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This might be a strange com-parison, but Hurricane Katrina and Lindsay Lohan actually have a lot in common.

You probably have no idea what I’m talking about, so keep reading.

For start-ers, they each began as inno-cent as Justin Beiber. Hur-ricane Katrina wasn’t always a hurricane. She was just a baby thunderstorm at one time.

And Lohan wasn’t always a drug addict. She be-came famous after starring in “The Parent Trap.”

Then they both grew into some-thing horrific. Lohan bleached her hair and became a frequent visitor of rehab facilities.

Hurricane Katrina gained speed, and at its strongest, was a Category 5 hurricane.

Both were destructive. Lohan destroyed her innocence — and a few of her cars — in a string of over-indulgent escapades.

Katrina killed more than 1,800 people and caused billions in property damage.

And lastly, just when we think we can’t take anymore of hearing about them, each are repeatedly brought back up in the media.

Lohan recently spent time in jail, which added to the random string of appearances she frequently made in the news.

And five years later, whenever some form of news about New Or-leans is brought up, you’re bound to hear about the storm the city has tried to forget.

Before I go on, I’m not saying Hurricane Katrina should be forgot-ten — it can never be forgotten. But the constant reminders of the storm have to end.

Try watching the New Orleans Saints play a game on TV. The announcers will surely make a com-ment about how “the Saints were a team ravaged by Hurricane Katrina five years ago” or how “the Super-dome was in chaos not long ago.”

And it appears in more than just real football. It has gone virtual.

Madden NFL 11’s announcers also make references to the destruc-tion when you play as the Saints in the virtual representation of the Superdome.

Just Google search New Or-leans. Six pictures on the first two pages are of a flooded city.

The reminders of the dev-astation need to stop. We aren’t devastated anymore — I know there are some parts that will never be

rebuilt and some parts that are still coming back, but the city itself is back and has been for a while.

Contrary to popular belief, New Orleans is not flooded anymore. Nu-merous renovations have been done to the Superdome. The city has a world champion football team. Busi-nesses have been rebuilt, and new ones have moved in.

The city is under a new political regime attempting to remove corrup-tion, the French Quarter is thriving and most suburbs, except Chalmette, New Orleans East and parts of Lakeview, are back up and running better than before the storm.

We should focus on examples like these rather than the statements about destruction.

Unless you’re from New Or-leans or its suburbs, you likely have no idea how annoying it is to see pictures of the city flooded or to be asked by someone from out of state if you moved back into your house yet — and again, I know there are some areas where people cannot go back.

We New Orleanians have tried to put the storm out of our minds. We don’t go around talking about how

much it sucked when our houses flooded. The only reference we may make is referring to things in the past as “before the storm” or “after the storm, ” similar to B.C. and A.D.

So unless a family member was claimed by the storm or for some reason your house still hasn’t been rebuilt — or you haven’t moved into a new one — most of us from New Orleans have put Katrina in our past, and we focus on the future rather than dwell on it.

Hurricane Katrina and Lind-say Lohan have many similarities, though they do have one huge dif-ference. Hurricane Katrina needs to be remembered annually, while the constant reminders need to stop.

In Lohan’s case, we can do without the reminders of how she’s gone off the deep end — we can just forget her completely.

Chris Grillot is a 19-year-old mass communication and English sopho-more from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_cgrillot.

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With Pakistan in crisis, disaster relief needs an overhaul

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (U-WIRE) — Three Iowa Supreme Court justices who upheld marriage equality in last year’s landmark ruling are now under threat.

Bob Vander Plaats, fresh off a failed attempt to secure the Re-publican gubernatorial nomination, recently spoke out against retain-ing the three judges this Novem-ber. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, widely believed to be campaigning for the 2012 GOP presidential nom-ination, also expressed support for ousting Chief Justice Marsha Ter-nus and Justices Michael Streit and David Baker.

The Editorial Board strongly rejects this assault on the Supreme Court. The recall of judges due to disagreement on a single judi-cial opinion endangers our liberal

democratic system and the Consti-tutional rights it guarantees. The blinkered views of Vander Plaats, Pawlenty and their ideological brethren fly in the face of one of the core purposes of the judiciary: pro-tecting minority rights against the will of an oppressive majority.

Our country’s Founding Fa-thers were well aware of the tyran-nical power of majorities. Alexan-der Hamilton, in the “Federalist No. 9,” wrote of factions arising and fragmenting the union; while James Madison’s response is often read with an eye toward political parties, it’s also relevant when discussing unsavory majorities.

“When a majority is included in a faction,” Madison wrote, “the form of popular Government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens.”

This was an argument against direct democracy, and Madison pro-posed that a majority must thus be limited in its ability to railroad the political system. While his solu-tion was the use of representative democracy, it isn’t the sole remedy — particularly in a time of mass referenda on gay marriage and civil benefits.

The battle over retention un-derscores the importance of the Bill of Rights — both on the national and state levels — and an indepen-dent judiciary that upholds those sacrosanct rights. The Iowa Bill of Rights guarantees the rights of all Iowans, regardless of whether they are members of the majority. And the Iowa Supreme Court has the duty to uphold those constitutional rights.

The court exercised that duty in Varnum v. Brien, which over-turned the state’s ban on same-sex

marriage. To recall judges based on that ruling needlessly politicizes the judicial branch and undermines ju-diciary independence.

In addition, further politiciza-tion of the courts could needlessly inject money into the judiciary process, concomitantly eroding the merit system.

“In this moment, that’s the is-sue — minority rights,” Iowans for Fair and Impartial Courts spokes-man Norbert Kaut told the Editorial Board. “But what prompted us to think about forming this organiza-tion was seeing, in other states, how the plaintiff’s bar and corporate interests would contribute a lot of money to a judicial campaign.”

Vander Plaats may disagree with the court’s ruling on same-sex marriage for personal, reli-gious and political reasons. But the court did not overstep its judicial role, and it did not trample on his

Constitutional rights; the current justices shouldn’t be ousted for an imagined slight.

In the words of former Su-preme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, “The law sometimes de-mands unpopular outcomes, and a judge who is forced to weigh what is popular rather than focusing sole-ly on what the law demands has lost some independence and impartial-ity.”

Justices should be retained based on their ability to uphold the law and defend the Constitution, not on their ability to kowtow to outside opinion.

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FAILURE OF DIPLOMACY

If you have been paying attention to the news, there’s a chance you have heard of the floods going on in Pakistan.

Torrential downpours from the start of monsoon season have caused the water levels to rise, resulting in massive amounts of damage and entire villages being swept away. Currently, it is esti-mated that more than 20 million people have been left homeless.

If I may be blunt, we cannot and must not send another cent to Pakistan in the form of disaster relief.

Before gathering your tar and feathers to come after me, let me explain before you call me a heartless monster. Afterward,

feel free.Obviously, I can see the

issue of my living in Louisiana and claiming we can’t send mon-ey to disaster-hit countries. How-ever, what I am saying is not the absolute stopping of aid, but just how it is done.

Additionally, I’m sure some of you are sick of hearing about Hurricane Katrina every single time New Orleans in brought up in the news, and with yesterday being the fifth anniversary, I’ll try not to add too much more to the Katrina talk.

Instead of simply send-ing money, whether directly or through non-government or-ganizations, I propose we send

specialists, equipment or the proper foodstuffs. The result of

this would be cutting out the middle man and spending the money our-selves instead of entrusting it to someone else.

This view may just be

cynical and distrusting, but if we look at some of the past for-eign relief efforts, we can see our previous methods might not be worthwhile, especially with the economy in such a crappy situation.

Take Haiti for example.In the months following

the earthquake that devastated the country, our government sent more than $379 million to help, yet only a penny out of every dollar went to the Haitian government.

Personally, I think this is a great idea and something we should definitely implement in our Pakistan relief, as well. The aspect I take issue with in the Haitian relief effort, however, is how the rest of the money was distributed.

A lot of the U.S. federal relief money went toward American-based NGOs and aid groups. The problem is these groups would buy supplies and goods from American companies even if they heavily subsidized their products and undercut the local products.

In other cases, these NGOs did not coordinate with each oth-er and instead helped the major areas and neglected others.

This may just be the left-ist in me speaking, but what we need to do is have the govern-ment step in and control exactly how our money is spent. I know some people hate the idea of this, but I am sure people hate their tax dollars being wasted even more.

Perhaps what we need is an international equivalent of FEMA, or perhaps we need to create a temporary branch for whenever a disaster arises.

Look, I know we haven’t had the greatest history with govern-ment relief, and I’m sure some of you are shaking your heads as you read this right now.

However, maybe we can try to make as much out of situations like this as we can. We’re having a job crisis, and an undertaking

such as this would require a ton of manpower to get the wheels working. Hire more people to be sent over to disaster zones under government control and have those people be monitored by an expanded disaster relief bureau.

Another issue, which per-tains more to Pakistan than other recent disaster zones, is our po-litical situation in the region. We do not have the best relation-ship with some of the Pakistani population. If we directly help the people, as opposed to giving money to other organizations, we could improve how they view us.

We just need to make sure the more than $71 million we’re pledging is being used the best it can.

Understandably, for a large part we may already be control-ling our relief practices, but more must be done before we continue to give aid to those in need. Not only is this important for our crippled economy by ensuring the resources we send are not wasted by mismanagement or corruption, but also to make sure the people in need are properly receiving help.

I think we all know how infuriating it is when disaster relief goes wrong. As it is now, it’s simply a waste of our tax dollars and inefficient to those in dire need of our help.

Zachary Davis is a 19-year-old history sophomore from Warsaw, Poland. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_zdavis.

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Gardening experience a plus.

MAKE EXTRA CASH At College Typing Ads for Companies! Work PT/FT. Earn $100s Weekly!

www.bit.ly/MissDataWork

PHOTO EDITOR HELP NEEDED Photo studio needs part time help w photo editing & offi ce tasks. Approx 10-20 hrs/wk. Flex hrs. Email

resume to [email protected]. No calls please.

PLUCKERS WING BARNOW HIRING Cooks and Delivery Drivers. Apply

at 4225 Nicholson

PART TIME IT WORK Work around school schedule possible. Experience and profes-

sional appearance required. Send resume to [email protected]

FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIESFlexible Hrs & comp. pay

Apply in person @

2380 Towne Center Blvd Suite 1040 BR, LA 70806

NOW HIRING FOR FALL!Child Care Center near LSU now hiring for Fall Semester. Afternoon Teachers needed 2:30-

5:30 Mon-Fri. 225.766.1159

INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE Looking for an intern to assist with fi nancial & tax related projects. Computer/ General Offi ce Skills/ Strong MS Offi ce & Excel Skills Email resume to: jobs@

advantous.com

SPANISH SPEAKER NEEDEDHome Servicing LLC is looking for a part time student worker fl uent in Spanish to assist us

with our Spanish-only clients. Pay is $12/ hour plus bonuses. Hours are fl exible. Please send

resume to [email protected].

PART-TIME Courier needed for BR law offi ce, M-F afternoons (1:00-5:00), e-mail pam@

moorethompson.com 225.766.1100

CHILD CARE WORKER NEEDED Sundays, 8:30am - 12:30pm; 4pm-7pm. Working with

infants thru age 5. Experience preferred. $8.50/hour. Contact [email protected]

225.926.4175

COUNTRY CLUB OF LOUISIANA seeking part-time employee in Tennis Pro Shop. Hours:

4-8pm Tu/ThContact: 337.794.3029

COUNTER CLERKpart time afternoon, fl exible hours, great for

students Welsh’s Cleaners at Perkins Rd. and College Dr. apply in person

TUTOR NEEDED

Tutor 7th grader in our home in CCLA. Prefer an education major or recent ed. major grad. Math especially. For Monday and Thursday.

225.752.8302 or 225.202.2712

GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ILLUSTRATOR needed for T- shirt business. Must have knowledge of

Illustrator and Photoshop. Dream Silk Screens, 3 miles from campus on Perkins. Send resume and work samples to artdept@varsityrunning.

com 225.383.8914

LUBE CENTER MANAGER Come grow with us! Established, locally owned company in Baton Rouge, is currently recruiting for experienced oil & lube assistant managers.

Managers are responsible for all aspects of store operation such as: sales, customer

service, staff supervision, training, and store maintenance and appearance.

Successful candidates will posses: - 2+ years of oil change/ lube center manage-

ment or retail management- excellent customer service skills

- proven sales ability -ability to effectively manage work force

- strong knowledge of automobile maintenance and service

- oral and written communication skillseffective problem-solving skills- basic merchandising ability

- professional appearance and presentation. Comprehensive comp & benefi ts package, in-

cluding tuition reimbursement, medical/ dental benefi ts, supplemental insurance, and paid

time off. Earning potential starting at $13/ hr from base rate, weekly bonus and commission.

Weekend and holiday availability required. Candidates must pass pre-employment back-

ground and drug screen.Please send your confi dential resume along

with your salary requirements to [email protected] or fax to 225-214-3509; ëlube

manager’ in the subject line or cover page for consideration. Only experienced applicants will be considered, only those chosen for interview

will be contacted. EOE

WEEKENDS OFF! Local company has im-mediate openings for various offi ce positions.

General Accounting experience along with Microsoft Word and Excel experience are

required. Must be detailed, well organized and a team player. Competitive hourly wages and benefi ts. Offi ce hours 7:30am to 5:30pm. Will

work with Your Schedule. EOE

PARRAIN’S SEAFOOD Now hiring all front of the house positions. Apply in person Mon-Fri

between 2:00 and 5:00 225.381.9922

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

locations:

JEFFERSON 7615 Jefferson Hwy Baton Rouge 70809

PERKINS ROWE 7707 Bluebonnet Blvd. Baton Rouge 70810

“Flexible schedules & Benefi ts for Full Time Associates”

Please apply in person during regular restau-rant hours.

Equal Opportunity Employer

PHYSICAL THERAPY TECHS.Outpatient/ orthopaedic clinic needs part-time physical therapy techs. Kinesiology/

Pre-Physical therapy students preferred. Tech. positions begin volunteer (30 hrs) then to paid as training requirements are fulfi lled. PT Techs.

with exp. eligible for immediate hire. Please send resume. [email protected].

PART-TIME STUDENT WORKER Small BR offi ce looking for student available at least 4 con-secutive hours on days schedule permittingM - F for shipping & receiving. MUST be at-

tentive to details and be able to LIFT 150 lbs. Send resume to: [email protected]

$$$$12/HOUR$$$$Home Servicing LLC is looking for a part time performing loans collector. Hours are 3pm to

8pm Monday through Thursday. Pay is $12 per hour plus bonuses. Please send resumes to

[email protected].

CHILDCARE HELP NEEDEDto help with homework, bathing, feeding 3 kids

(6,5,2) after school several days/ week (fl ex-ible). Reliable transportation a must.

Call 772-1968 Amy

MAXWELL’S MARKET Now hiring cashiers, serv-ers, and kitchen postions for part time shifts. Flexible schedules. Please apply in person at

7620 Corporate Blvd or 6241 Perkins Rd.

EARN $1000-$3200 A month to drive our brand new cars with ads placed on them. www.

AdCarDriver.com

STUDENT WORK!$16.00 Starting Pay!

Customer Sales/ Svc.

Flexible PT/ FT, No Exp Necc.

Conditions Apply- Call NOW!

225-237-3002

LAW FIRM LOOKING for receptionist/ offi ce as-sistant to answer phones, greet clients, assist attorneys/ staff and run errands. Please email

resume and available work hours to [email protected]

MAKE EXTRA CASH At College Typing Ads for Companies! Work PT/FT. Earn $100s Weekly!

www.bit.ly/LSUDataWork

VET ASST NEEDED Small animal hospital in Mid City 15 min. from campus. 225.387.2462

STUDENT WORKERS NEEDEDfor vocational counseling co. fax resume to toll

free 1-309-405-1532

PARKVIEW BAPTIST PRESCHOOLPreschool Afternoon Teachers needed

3-6pm fl ex days.

no degree required.

Please email your resume to [email protected]

P/T STUDENT WORK with local apparel com-pany / retail website. Customer service, order processing. Pay based on experience and skill

level. E-mail resumes to [email protected] VarsityVests.com / FanTheFire.com

1 BR / 1 BA CONDO, Gated Complex, Ample Parking, Sparkling Pool, on LSU Bus Route

(Brightside). $63,000. 337.937.5585

MATTRESS MART TWIN SETS $127.00FULL SETS $157.00

QUEEN SETS $187.00QUEEN EURO TOPS $254.00 FULL PILLOW TOPS $267.00

BED FRAMES FROM $30.00 225.272.4850

’03 TOYOTA 4 RUNNER SPORT LeatherTow Package

Excellent Condition83,000 Miles - $13,000

225.772.1680

TIGER MANOR CONDOMINIUMS. UNITS READY FOR FALL and SPRING 2010-2011!! Reserve now! Brand new 1, 2, and 3 bedroom units

for sale starting at $124,900. Ask about our Guaranteed Buy-Back Program!! 3000

July St. 225-346-5055 www.tigermanor.com Location. Location. Location... Start Living.

225.383.0143

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

mckproperties.com

NOT TOO LATE! 3br/2ba gated, on LSU bus route, pool, assigned parking. 1/2 1st month

free. $1400/mo 318.447.2622

3BR/2.5BA 1500SQFT $1125/MONTH South Brightside View Drive: On-Site Manager, Flex-ible Leasing Terms, Washer & Dryer, Ceiling

Fans, Central A/ C, Near Bus Stop, Small Pets Allowed, Master Bedroom has it’s own Bath-

room and Walk-In Closet 225.978.7400

1726 BRIGHTSIDE MANOR Beautiful 2br on Bus Rt. washer/dryer, fenced patio, wat/sew

pd. $850 Move in special 588-3070

BEAU CHENE CONDOS 2BR 2BATH WITH WOOD FLOORS AND ALL APPLIANCES $950 w/s pd

588-3070 or 955-6480

TIGER MANOR RENTAL $525/mo3 bdrm apt., 1 room available, 2 Roomates,

seniors 1-Accounting, 1-Engineering. Excellent accomodations. Walk to campus. Call Doug-

337-316-1647, or 337-234-019 337.234.0196

1 BED ROOM AVAILABLE NOW $475. 4065 Burbank. $300 Deposit. Near Walk-Ons www.

lsubr.com for pics and fl oorplans. No Pets. One year lease.

LSU TIGERLAND 1-2 BR, TH & Flats, Pool, W/S Paid, $450 - $650/mo. 225.615.8521

HIGHLAND ROAD House 3br/2ba $1099/mo. 225.769.1079

1-2 BR APTS near LSU, $500-$600, water, sewage, Hot water included. Call Wang

225.278.6621, 225.278.6622

SPECIALS NOW AVAILABLE Arlington Trace, Summer Grove &

Help Wanted

For Sale

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Lake Beau Pre Townhomes! 2 & 3 Bedroom Floorplans

Gated Communities, Clubhouse with Work Out Room, Pool & Gaming Areas

Dean Flores Real Estate 225.767.2227

LARGE 1-BR (650 sq ft) $500 and 2-br (1170 sq ft) $700 in small quiet complex ideal for se-rious students. Walk, cycle or take the LSU bus to school, shopping. On-site manager, reserved parking, video surveillence security. 757-8175.

Apply online at http://riverroadapartments.tripod.com

BRIGHTSIDE PARK TOWNHOMES LARGE 2BR 2.5 BATH W/ D, POOL, PETS OK, 1737 S.

BRIGHTSIDE VIEW. $800 955-6480/588-3070 southlandpropertiesinc.com

APTS TO RENT 3030 congress blvd(offPerkins, multiple flats and

townhouses recentlyrenovated, no pets, 1 month rent, 1 month

security, maxpro 268-0801(Mon-Fri)

1,2,3 BR CONDOS IN BRIGHTSIDE / SHARLO $650-$1000. 955-6480

southlandpropertiesinc.com

2 BR/2BA LIKE new in gated Arlington Trace available now; 1100 per month; 225.932.9552

TIGER MANOR CONDOMINIUMS. UNITS READY FOR Fall 2010 and Spring 2011!! Reserve Now!

Brand new 1, 2, & 3 bedrooms available. Re-serve your unit today! Walk to class! 3000 July

St. 225-346-5055. www.tigermanor.comLocation. Location. Location... Start Living.

225.383.0143

HAPPY WITH YOUR ROOMATE? 1 br/1ba condo on bus line in Brooke Hollow. Close to pool. New paint and new carpet. Rent includes

water, sewer and trash fees. $625/ mo. Call (225)937-1317

NEAR LSU Carlotta/ Ivanhoe $385-$505 588-3039

L S U Walk to Campus -pool- 2BR all appls. inc

w/ d $695 1BR $495 Studio inc ul’s $445. 2BR near BRCC $595. 766-5511

HOUSES & CONDOS FOR LEASERENTAL PROPERTY FOR LEASE IN ALL AREAS

AND PRICE RANGES. TO VIEW AVAILABLE RENT-ALS GO TO

WWW. KEYFINDERSBR. COM or call Keyfinders

Realty FOR MORE INFO 225.293.3000

CANTERBURY SqUARE APTS 1 and 2 bedrooms $455-$545

NOW LEASING Graduate and part-time students 3003 River Road 225.343.2466

2 BEDROOM TOWN HOME A two-bedroom townhome will be available for rent on Sep-tember 30, 2010, at Cobblestone at Essen

Apartments. As the current occupant, I will be relocating. Accent walls, washer and dryer con-nections, microwave, oven, stove, refrigerator, ceiling fans in all rooms, and other amenities. Their is also a 100.00 discount on rent for the duration of the lease. Rent is now 847.00. If in-terested, please reply at kaylin_mickeymouse@

yahoo.com. 225.572.1358

3 BEDROOM 1 BATH - $1100/MONTH 875 As-ter St. Walk to LSU. Washer Dryer Dishwasher.

Central AC, all hardwood floors. Pets OK. Fenced in backyard. Call for an appointment to

see. 225.205.0390

2BR/1B DUPLEx. wood & tile floors. New kit & bath. sm.yd. pet OK $650. 1BR $375 w/util.

McDaniel Prop. 225.388.9858

PERFECT STUDIO APT on Capital Heights near Acadian. Fully enclosed with privacy gate.

Washer/ Dryer, refrigerator included. Some furniture can remain. $600/ mth. Stephanie

Stalter (225) 573-1951. (225) 298-1250

FEM. GRAD STUDENTS 4bedrm/2ba house, common area furnished, Nicholson Lakes

$400.+util. 504.717.5188

$375 PLUS HALF UTIL. Need roommate to share 2bedroom/1bath house in Beauregard

Town. 205.292.7620

MALE ROOMATE WANTED! Non-smoking male roomate. $375/month includes utilities, cable, laundry. 15 minutes from LSU. 225.266.0132

ROOMMATE NEEDED WESTHAVEN SUBD-COM-MON HOUSE AREA, ON BUS RTE,6MI FROM

LSU $375+ UTIL SPLT- BREAUxAIR@COx. NET 504.738.5671

SPACIOUS ROOM AVAILABLERoom available in 2 bedroom Heatherstone

townhouse. 2.5 bath, furnished living, dining, and kitchen. $595/month plus utilities. Email

[email protected] for more info.

ROOMATE TO SHARE CONDOMale Roommate to Share 2BR/2BTH furnished condo-Brightside Estates-w/grad student. W/D,

CBL/ UTIL/INTERNET paid. $500/ month. Prefer student. No pets. dober_mann@msn.

com 225.588.9409

LONELY BUSINESS JUNIOR, seeks female com-panion for a discreet no-pressure friendship

(possibly relationship) [email protected]

Personal emails only please, no dating site invites.

CONTRIVED FEMALE SEEKS male dirtbag for viewings of Pauly Shore’s 1993 classic film Son

in Law. [email protected]

CAMCORDER LOST - in Music Building back in June. Contains DVDs of daughter’s piano and gymnastics competitions. If found please call 318-446-3627 or email me at [email protected].

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