Skip to Main Content
The Student News Site of Louisiana State University

Reveille

The Student News Site of Louisiana State University

Reveille

The Student News Site of Louisiana State University

Reveille

columnists

Eat Less, Learn More: Quantifying difficulty of college majors proves challenging

By Matt Lousteau
Columnist
October 5, 2010

With over one hundred majors at the University, discussions and disagreements about which majors are harder or hardest are quite common. We engineers tend to think we have it the toughest, and students...

Sportsman’s Paradise Lost: ‘Pledge to America’ insult to American public, conservative base

Being a Republican these days must be quite similar to being a fan of LSU football. There's certainly talent within the ranks. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty are all stars in the political arena,...

Burns After Reading: Joe Alleva shouldn’t expect too much from certain fans

By Scott Burns
Columnist
October 4, 2010

Tiger fans have always been notorious for a number of reasons. But in the past few weeks, LSU fans have elicited a substantial amount of negative attention from sports pundits and college football analysts...

Cancel the Apocalypse: Administration at odds with faculty, war of the protocols begins

By Andrew Robertson
Opinion Editor
October 4, 2010

The bureaucracy that is LSU has proven itself time and again to be a veritable foe for a foreign language-loving journalist. In the words of Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor John Hamilton at Monday's...

The Bottom Line: Facebook on the forefront of strategic Internet advertising

By Devin Graham
Columnist
October 4, 2010

Every advertiser's dream — to place ads directly into relevant conversations and meetings between people who will buy their products — may soon be here, and it's all because of our little friend...

Press X to Not Die: AOL, Jonas Brothers team up to ‘redesign the Internet’

By Adam Arinder
Columnist
October 3, 2010

I remember the good ol' days.   Back when I would hurry up with my homework after school so I could fire up the family computer to play games and surf websites on the super awesome America Online.   I...

Pop Goes the Culture: Want to be a rock star? Get a corporate sponsorship

By Kelly Hotard
Columnist
October 3, 2010

Billboard magazine recently released its third annual "Maximum Exposure List" — better known as the top 100 ways to launch your music career. At No. 23, we have "Integrated tour sponsorship with...

Campus-Resident Alien: Tyler Clementi’s suicide reminds us of our own ignorance

By Marcelo Vieira
Columnist
October 3, 2010

Everyone is obviously shocked about the suicide of Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old music freshman at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Last week, he jumped from the George Washington Bridge days after he...

Guest Columnist: Out-of-state student wishes he’d known about budget cuts earlier

By Trevon Nwankwo
Guest Columnist
October 3, 2010

Four hours and 20 minutes — with rain. Three hours if I catch good weather and smooth traffic.   These are the times it takes me to drive from Baton Rouge to Houston, my home town.   I...

Campus Resident Alien: LSU orchestra should change name to get recognition

By Marcelo Vieira
Columnist
October 2, 2010

The LSU Symphony Orchestra performed its second concert of the school year Friday at the recently renovated and reopened Student Union Theater.   It made a lot of sense that the shiny new theater...

View from another school: Stand up to homophobes, bigots in order to save lives

By Sean Curtis
Daily Targum
October 2, 2010

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The news of the death of an innocent young man this week swept the Rutgers university campus. Many are furious, many are heartbroken, most of us are ashamed. University first-year...

Failure of Diplomacy: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ a threat to equality, national defense

By Zachary Davis
Columnist
October 2, 2010

U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips of California ruled Sept. 9 the military's policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was unconstitutional. She ruled restricting homosexuals from serving openly violated...