"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This part of the First Amendment, known as the "Establishment Clause," was included in the...

Baton Rouge has it all — scenery, wealth and poverty. While many try to escape the bounds of poverty by simply ignoring the issue, others work to make the reality of it disappear completely. LSU...

Since its discovery, nuclear power has almost always been a controversial issue. Despite the potential of nuclear sources, it's constantly balanced with the dangers associated with it. Given tragic accidents...

The subject of creationism in public school classrooms has once again taken precedence in the South's legislative season. In Tennessee, where John Scopes was memorably tried for defying a legislative act...

"Kittens inspired by kittens" video references, making plans to go to Pluckers, changing one word in a bylaw — these are my only memories of being a member of the Student Government Senate. Those,...

The International Energy Agency released its World Energy Outlook for 2010 last November, which announced global conventional oil production peaked in 2006. The announcement gave credence to claims by...

Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, a multitude of individuals have employed lazy science to influence the opinions of Louisiana residents. When sifting through the noise of television, blogs...

This letter was written in response to Thursday's article entitled "SG Senate spends 58 percent of meeting time on issues with little student impact."   We write to you today in response to the article...

I wrote earlier this week about how Louisiana was the most violent state in the country. Today, I have more bad news. Louisiana's roads received the worst ranking in the United States from MainStreet.com. The...

It's a familiar scene: A sickeningly faux drawl fills the humid air of Bourbon Street, which teems with Voodoo-practicing locals at a perpetual Mardi Gras parade. World-renowned actors and their dialect...

Somewhere in the bowels of the LSU System, our campus is missing out on millions of dollars, as today's cover story indicates. LSU System President John Lombardi wishes you didn't know about this. This...

As the Egyptian people pursue their ascribed destiny of freedom, the world anxiously awaits an archetypical revolution. Egypt has undergone all of the standard phases: unrest from an autocrat's worn-out...