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Our View: Students should rethink importance of election

By
October 27, 2010

While Gov. Bobby Jindal is flying around the country campaigning, Louisiana voters will have the chance next week to change the tone of the higher education debate in the state. Voting booths will open...

Letter to the editor: LSU fans were embarassing in Auburn, Ala., this past Saturday

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October 26, 2010

To whom it may concern,   I am a senior at LSU and have been to every away game (and home game) and have sat on the first row for every away game.   Being the dedicated Tiger fan that I am, I...

Letter to the Editor: O’Donnell’s history shows problems, irresponsibility

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October 25, 2010

While I'm sure you're receiving boatloads of hatemail from neoconservatives regarding your "View From Another School" for Friday, Oct. 15, I'm writing to express my disbelief at the profound ignorance...

The Bottom Line: Monkeys easily grasp economic principles

By Devin Graham
Columnist
October 25, 2010

I recently found an article on CNN about long-tail macaques and their life in the jungle. Not about their food preferences or use of primitive, simple tools but their use of complex economic concepts....

Cancel the Apocalypse:

By Andrew Robertson
Opinion editor
October 25, 2010

In the past few months, three notable firings have exposed mass media ethics for what they truly are: A closed circle bearing the name of "political correctness" with stern consequences for deviation. Or,...

Burns After Reading: Don’t ‘hide your kids or hide your wife:’ The future looks promising

By Scott Burns
Columnist
October 25, 2010

I've been called many things in my time at The Daily Reveille. Critics have labeled me a radical, a doomsayer, a "nega-tiger," a liberal, a conservative and a "pussy on a pedestal" — not to mention...

Campus-resident alien: Chilean miners ordeal distracted us from our own lives

By Marcelo Vieira
Columnist
October 24, 2010

The intensive live broadcast of the Chilean miners rescue a couple weeks ago gave us a clear notion of the broken boundaries between reality and fiction in today's media. Between the lies of what TV stations...

Pop goes the culture: Vatican newspaper mistakenly glorifies Homer Simpson

By Kelly Hotard
Columnist
October 24, 2010

What drew you to read this column? Was it the outrageous headline? If so, you're not alone — an attention-grabbing title was probably what the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, also counted...

Letter to the Editor: 10/29/10

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October 24, 2010

Cato report on governors not newsworthy As my midterms drew to a close I thought I would sit back and relax with The Daily Reveille, skim the articles and descend upon and destroy the easiest crossword...

Press X to not die: University Internet not worth current asking price

By Adam Arinder
Columnist
October 24, 2010

$750,000 can buy a lot of things. While buying a private island with slip-and-slides as the only mode of transportation takes top priority on my list, I must say using the money to pay for Internet doesn't...

View from another school: Nelson Mandela: the most overrated person in history

By Dominic Mhiripiri
Brown Daily Herald
October 23, 2010

PROVIDENCE (UWIRE) — I was present at Brown University in May when thousands of people gave Nelson Mandela a rapturous standing ovation in absentia. Alongside Morgan Freeman and Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Failure of Diplomacy: O’Donnell isn’t a witch, and it shouldn’t matter if she were

By Zachary Davis
Columnist
October 23, 2010

"I'm not a witch." Those now regrettable words, spoken by Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, will probably go down as one of the most interesting starts to any political ad ever. Close behind it, however,...