The storyline two years ago seemed so promising. A declining nation torn apart by war, partisan politics and economic calamity was in desperate need of a political savior. Barack Obama emerged from the...

While you may be subconsciously avoiding any further columns with the words "budget cuts" or "financial crisis," I am desperately trying to wake up from a nightmare where those words are already losing...

It's safe to say hardly anyone uses their cell phone solely as a mobile telephone now. With smartphones booming in popularity, these little gadgets give users access to the world at their fingertips. "With...

In case you haven't heard, journalism is apparently disappearing. On Oct. 18, National Public Radio published an article entitled "What's the Point of Journalism School, Anyway?" where the writer rhetorically...

Students should not sit idly amid budget cuts What a sad day in which we all live. What a tragedy that many of us at this esteemed university would rather dance a jig on the fences of neutrality and apathy...

The bodies of 72 migrant workers were found in Mexico in August. All were executed after being lined up against a wall and shot. Who were their executioners? The Zeta Cartel, founded and trained by U.S....

The state recently gave a private company with no history in Louisiana $30 million of public money. To the public flagship university with 150 years of history in Louisiana, the state gave nothing —...

After reading Chris Grillot's article about "The 99," I am not surprised why he got so many of his facts wrong, given that his interpretation afterward was based upon speaking with a worker in the production...

It's a sad day for music lovers. A huge force in the industry has fallen. Like so many more before it, and after years of investigation, file sharing and peer-to-peer network LimeWire has been ordered...

 I haven't taken a class that requires clickers since my freshman year, but this semester has reminded me of this technological farce. Teachers are wasting their time and students' money with the...

For literary nerds like me, November is a big month. Exactly 100 years after the death of the giant of American literature, the University of California Press is publishing the first volume of "The Autobiography...

Beneath Renee Major's George H. Deer Distinguished Teaching Award from spring 2010 hangs two letters. Major, a University English instructor and associate director of University Writing, ironically received...