What? Christmas is over? A new semester already? Say it isn’t so.
Alas, reality sunk in this morning when my alarm emitted a premature cacophony, forcing me to admit that it’s time once again to return to the tedious school routine that follows every Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
After a national championship defeat and the announcement of an $8 million midyear budget cut, it feels like students should be traipsing through campus with black veils hung across their faces in mourning.
Instead, we return, prepared to turn the page on the ostensibly bleak winter we’ve endured so far. No matter the fate of the LSU football team or the extent of the University’s financial adversities, classrooms will fill up — at least for a few days — and students will embrace the offerings of a fresh semester and a new chapter in LSU’s history book.
As the campus community wades through the continued uncertainty of just how stingy the University’s budget will be, The Daily Reveille is here to keep you abreast of all the latest updates. Our goal is to inform students of exactly how respective cuts will affect them, while holding the University’s administrators and our state politicians accountable for their decisions.
It’s not all doom and gloom, however, regardless of what the Mayans might say about 2012.
Progress is being made on the much-anticipated parking garage on Raphael Semmes Drive (see page 6), a University student is nuzzling up with Betty White on “Hot in Cleveland” (page 15) and LSU’s landscape architecture program has once again been named one of the best in the nation (see Wednesday’s edition).
Amid the University’s inevitable ups and downs, The Daily Reveille will be here to cover all news in a timely, comprehensive manner. Our website, lsureveille.com, provides access to 24-hour updates.
What else can we do to serve the campus community better? Reveille editors are always interested to hear your input. Additionally, if you ever see news happening on campus, please call the Reveille newsroom at 225-578-4810.
 
Contact Matthew Jacobs at [email protected].