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The Bottom Line: Tip jars at LSU go missing, service quality plummets

By Devin Graham
Columnist
September 21, 2010

I'm a frequent (and quite pleased) customer of several local coffee shops. It recently came to my attention that our beloved CC's coffee shop in Middleton Library, as well as several other University businesses,...

Letter to the Editor: Contraflow system creates traffic jams

By Noelle Dazzio
LSU alumna
September 21, 2010

I am confident that I'm not alone when I say that I was appalled at the inefficiency of the contraflow after the game on Saturday.  Several streets had been blocked off, which seemed to make the situation...

Cancel the Apocalypse: Classics instructors fired, questions remain unanswered

By Andrew Robertson
Opinion Editor
September 21, 2010

The date Jan. 21, 2011, will mean different things for different people. But for 14 University instructors, it will be the last day they are employed by the University. The amount saved by the University...

Burns after Reading: National debt continues to escalate, record deficit projected

By Scott Burns
Columnist
September 21, 2010

It doesn't take a certified accountant or an MIT graduate to tell you the U.S. balance sheet isn't looking too pretty these days. The Congressional Budget Office claims the U.S. national debt is hovering...

Pop Goes the Culture: ‘Glee’ promotes stereotypes, misleads youth, ruins music

By Kelly Hotard
Opinion Columnist
September 20, 2010

Bless me Breesus, for I have sinned: I can't stand the juvenile, drama-filled TV show you watch with Brittany and Baylen every week, otherwise known as "Glee." I know, I know — only the evil Cheerios'...

Campus-Resident Alien: TV drug ads trying to sell viewers more than medication

By Marcelo Vieira
Opinion Columnist
September 20, 2010

Televised drug ads have become more than simple advertisements for medicinal products — they've become alarmingly misleading.   This would be an important subject under any point of view, but...

Press X to Not Die: Students should have choice on how they take notes in class

By Adam Arinder
Opinion Columnist
September 20, 2010

If you're reading this column in class, look up for a second and glance around the room. How many people do you see on laptops? Chances are, if you're in one of the bigger auditorium classrooms, at least...

Letters to the editor: 9/20/2010

By
September 18, 2010

Foreign languages are essential to a flagship university A front page article of Sept. 3 in The Daily Reveille ran under the title: "‘Vast majority' of instructors will keep jobs in the spring."...

View from another school: Can’t find a job? Don’t impulsively Teach for America

By Egu Ramanathan
The Daily Texan
September 18, 2010

Austin, Texas – Entrance into the "real world" is daunting for anyone, especially for those without job prospects. With employment particularly difficult to come by, Teach For America presents a...

Failure of diplomacy: US interventionism policies cause more harm than good

By Zachary Davis
Columnist
September 18, 2010

The withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq is only the latest example of the United States' interventionism, which is the process of taking it upon ourselves to get involved in other countries' problems. It...

Pop Goes The Culture: Anonymous web comments should have signatures

By Kelly Hotard
Opinion Columnist
September 15, 2010

What would you do if you knew you would get away with it? The rise of the unnamed and anonymous in our generation's pop culture provides some pretty disturbing answers to that question. It seems a day...

Letters to the Editor: 9/17/10

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September 15, 2010

Let us drink and sing while the walls crumble around us It is a sad ordeal when, even with all of our University's proposed budget cuts, we choose to continue with things like Fall Fest.  Now I am...