HOUR ONE:

President and Chief Executive Officer Rose Hudson joins us from the Louisiana Lottery. The Louisiana Lottery has a record turnover, the second in the nation. There is over 35% turnover to the state. The lottery made Louisiana $170 million last year. She is also treasurer of the North American State Provincial Lotteries. "Each year we have about 9 million dollars in unclaimed prizes... we give the players money back to them."

She is not allowed to purchase a lottery ticket, nor is anyone on staff at the Louisiana Lottery. Hudson says that the Jindal administration has publicly and rightful said that they will not sell the Louisiana Lottery. "We've given out about 34 million dollars in prizes since 2012."

"We're talking 446 million dollars in revenue," Hudson says in response to how many people play the lottery. Rose Hudson is six feet tall.

Tiger Rag Columnist Marty Mule remembers the legendary Hot Rod Hundley. "I know he always thought that leaving New Orleans was a terrible decision." Hot Rod Hundley was beloved by many.

HOUR TWO:

President of Public Affairs Research Council Robert Travis Scott discusses the Innovation in Louisiana: Maximizing Investment in University Research to Promote a Knowledge-Based Economy. "It's not just an academic problem," Scott says. "Louisiana Tech believe it or not has some of the best metrics in terms of leveraging the most commercial impacts of licenses... their spending is among the lowest in the state." Scott praises LSU's engineering program.

Scott has a degree in International Relations from South Carolina.

The Louisiana Legislative session begins in two weeks. Scott says, "God help us."

"A lot of these movie productions rent studios or people... people come from out of state and they don't stay here," Scott says. He asserts that it is not beneficial to spend state money on a non resident of Louisiana.

"I think he's experiencing a tough way to go," Scott says of Jindal, "we've had both spending and revenue practices that weren't the best."

"There's no question about the fact that he has cut the budget," Scott says, "but when you're this desperate to fill the budget, it doesn't reflect well."

"Jay Dardenne has a long history of really being able to understand a lot of the complexities of the state budget process," Scott says.

Representative Darrell Ourso recently won the Louisiana House seat against Buddy Amoroso by 72 votes. "If we can get the process underway, we can hopefully be driving over that bridge in ten years or less."

"I'm not for federal government taking over education," Ourso says. He feels Common Core is a standard. "We have to really look at the millions of dollars spent... do you start all over?"

HOUR ONE:

Boyd Professor J. Gerald Kennedy joins us in studio to discuss LSU and Flannery O'Connor and his works on Edgar Allen Poe.

"He is a writer who continues to be very contemporary," Kennedy says, "I think today he would be diagnosed as bipolar." Poe was not a lifelong drug and alcohol abuser as commonly believed.

Dr. Kennedy says he feels that after Flannery O'Connor was diagnosed with lupus her writing improved tremendously. "It really crystalized the urgency for her work." He continues, "You can't read Flannery O'Connor without cracking up." LSU will celebrate her 90th birthday at Barnes and Nobles at 3 pm on March 22nd.

Editor in Chief of the Reveille Chandler Rome and graduate student Joseph Hollands comment on the SAE fraternity scandal and the article in the Reveille about how this relates to LSU Greek Life.

Hollands says, "You were going to either be a black Greek or nothing at all... and even if you were accepted by the white Greeks, would you still be accepted by your own people in general?"

"It was mandated that they had to take a certain amount <of minorities>," Rome says as he tells a story of a sorority alumni board rejecting a qualified girl because she was African American.

"People are labeled Greek or non Greek," Hollands says, "When running for student government positions, you start counting votes on whose Greek or not."

"I don't see much <hostility and division> between Greeks and non Greeks," Rome says, "it's an unspoken division."

HOUR TWO:

Republican councilman Buddy Amoroso and former councilmanDarrell Ourso join the show to debate their views before the District 66 election on March 28th.

"I will not raise taxes on the hardworking taxes of Louisiana, I will not expand Obamacare," Amoroso begins, "Education is a yes to competition and a no to Common Core."

"The BESE board is our constitutionally charged office to deal with Common Core," Ourso says, asserting that it is not the governor's issue. "We need to amend our state constitutions to allow for independent school districts."

They both support St. George.

"I have never said that I am for expanding Obamacare," Ourso says. He continues, "No, I'm not signing the pledge<Grover Norquist>. I'm not saying I'm for taxes, but we have to look at all options."

"I give the Governor an A+ when he's in the state," Amoroso says.

"We don't have a revenue problem," Amoroso says, "We have a spending problem. I'm opposed to raising new taxes."

"You don't have the right to have a nondisclosure as a public official," Amoroso says.

They comment on the Fairness Ordinance.

"We need to give autonomy to universities to have control over their tuitions," Ourso says.

"We need to protect LSU as our flagship school," Amoroso says.