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Head to Head: Responsible students will make LSU safer

By Marie-Therese Yokum
Columnist
March 5, 2012

"Just say no" just doesn't work anymore. Creating a law doesn't automatically ensure everyone will follow it. With school shootings remaining an all-too-common disaster, the opportunity to protect yourself...

Head to Head: Allowing weapons on campus is a crazy idea

By Parker Cramer
Columnist
March 5, 2012

Wham, bam, oh dang I shot you, ma'am. Allowing guns on campus is like letting Snooki reproduce: just plain stupid. I have no problem with guns. I'm from Texas — I was born with a holster. I support...

Never Empty Thoughts: Responsible students will make LSU safer.

By Marie-Therese Yokum
Columnist
March 5, 2012

"Just say no" just doesn't work anymore. Creating a law doesn't automatically ensure everyone will follow it. With school shootings remaining an all-too-common disaster, the opportunity to protect yourself...

The Philibuster: My name is Phil, and I’m a Girl Scout cookie-holic

By Phil Sweeney
Columnist
March 4, 2012

Every year, it's invariable. During the last months of winter's oppressive reign, I'm always a little blue, a little fuzzy. A little googly-eyed, maybe. It's not depression. It's not a more psychiatric...

The New Frontiersman: British band Radiohead has reached legendary status, and it shows

By Clayton Crockett
Opinion Editor
March 4, 2012

On the latter half of a life lived in a tie and buttoned collar, either the tie asphyxiates the wearer or the wearer loses the tie. One could go the way of Ernest Hemingway — drunken author and father...

Manufacturing Discontent: North Korean deal proves diplomacy is capable of success

By David Scheuermann
Columnist
March 4, 2012

Apparently, the United States can pursue diplomacy. After years of hostility and threats, North Korea struck a deal with the U.S. last week to cease nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile...

Positively Carnal: Don’t be daunted by societal standards of beauty

By Kristi Carnahan
Columnist
March 2, 2012

Most people think it's easy to spot a person who has an eating disorder. They believe anorexics are sickly bags of skin and bones who avoid eating at all costs and that bulimics immediately jump up from...

For Thinkers Only: Republican candidates look to turn up heat, pump up ads ahead of Super Tuesday

By Matthew Westfall
Columnist
March 2, 2012

Now that all those second-class primaries and Mickey Mouse caucuses are out of the way, we can turn our attention to the biggest and brightest stage in the 2012 Republican presidential primary –...

Scum of the Girth: Vasectomy bill in Georgia an inane piece of legislation

By Parker Cramer
Columnist
March 1, 2012

Keep your bills away from my balls. At least that's what they're saying in Georgia, where Rep. Yasmin Neal, D-Riverdale, has introduced a bill to ban vasectomies unless men faced a serious health risk. Since...

Head to Head: Civil disobedience is not an act of terrorism.

By David Scheuermann
Columnist
March 1, 2012

Do you remember where you were when a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack brought down the Church of Scientology website? No? What about when PayPal went under attack? Still nothing? These attacks...

Head to Head: Anonymous is evil and threatens freedom

By Clayton Crockett
Opinion Editor
March 1, 2012

It was called freedom of speech. It was called the Internet. His name is Robert Paulson. But this isn't Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" or Project Mayhem. It's Anonymous. It's a shame that our intelligence...

Shockingly Simple: Pfizer should pay up following recent birth control debacle

By Andrew Shockey
Columnist
February 28, 2012

Imagine waking up tomorrow to learn your preferred condom brand's most recent shipment was defective. You spend weeks obsessing over how you could have been more careful, but eventually your ex calls with...