As we look to the future to provide us with new sources of energy to combat our growing energy habits, our best bet might come from research done in the past 50 years on an element called thorium. Thorium...

Listen up, female Tigerland friends: I hold a solution to all of your problems. You've probably heard of it — Plan B One-Step. For those of you who are against the use of birth control just for the...

STORRS, Conn. — (UWIRE) Henry David Thoreau wrote "the government is best which governs least." This is not to agree with the anarchists who say "the government is best which does nothing at all"...

Tuesday's session of Chats with the Chancellor solidified an already evident problem on campus — University students are incredibly apathetic toward the budget cut crisis. The stage was set for a...

The Sept. 3 article "‘Vast majority' of instructors will keep jobs in the spring" was a textbook case of spin.  In an e-mail to the faculty last week, Chancellor Martin confirmed what Eric...

Amid a global economic recession, one area of the economy is inversely growing larger: advertising. It takes the slightest amount of cultural awareness to notice advertising's prominence in otherwise dire...

It was a somber close to one of the longest wars in U.S. history as President Barack Obama declared the end of combat operations in Iraq last month. There was no "Mission Accomplished" banner draped above...

Faculty union to benefit professors, the University As an LSU Faculty Senator, I was pleased to learn that the Louisiana Association of Educators, an affiliate of the National Education Association, will...

Google recently announced it will soon open a music store of its own soon in an attempt to capture some of the online music industry's lucrative profits. So far, Google is only in negotiations and hasn't...

This is very difficult for me. To those who know me personally or the few who keep up weekly with my columns, it's quite evident I'm the biggest Google-loving, Apple-bashing son-of-a-who-knows-what to...

It was ladies' night at MTV's 27th annual Video Music Awards on Sunday. The show was hosted by a woman — comedian Chelsea Handler — for the first time since 2007. But in reality, it was just...

Double Cheeseburger at McDonald's: $1.19 Double Cheeseburger at McDonald's in the Student Union: $1.59 Hamburger in Tiger Stadium: $4. Knowing you're being violated by money-grubbing corporations and associations...