Compromise.Sounds like a dirty word today, doesn't it?It isn't terribly uncommon to hear politicians couched as "uncompromising warriors," people of ideological purity and conviction ready to fight the...

The Environmental Defense Fund and the Ad Council released an emotionally moving commercial depicting an older man standing on train tracks. After expressing apathy on global warming, he steps off the...

Students traveling this summer have another option to take them to the New Orleans airport. A newly-opened private shuttle service, called Tiger Airport Shuttle, offers transportation from Baton Rouge...

With budget cuts causing concrete carnage throughout the state, it's tempting to start slashing salaries and programs left and right. The impressive salaries higher education administrators currently earn...

Viewers of the new critically acclaimed HBO series "Treme" follow the stories of several New Orleans residents as they try to put the pieces back together several months after Hurricane Katrina.The show...

The most beautiful thing in the academic study of religion is the ability to ask any and all questions — no matter their heretical nature — to find some possible truth in what is usually considered...

Nicolas Cage bought a pyramid-shaped tomb in New Orleans for his eventual death.You see that? I don't have to write a snazzy lead anymore. I just write what Nicolas Cage is doing. You're instantly hooked.The...

The value of eloquence and style has taken on a negative connotation in the last couple of decades. Many speakers are now criticized for their ability to poetically express their ideals, thus degrading...

I may be wrong and pessimistic, but I'm starting to think our society has come to a point where even politics are treated like products to be marketed. It seems today that ads and strategies make a bigger...

Foreign language requirements necessary, useful I am writing to oppose Sara Boyd's "Foreign language requirement impotent, pointless" column from April 22, 2010. One might be surprised to find an engineering...

The controversy continues over the decision to pull biology professor Dominique Homberger from instruction of a BIOL 1001 class suffering from low grades and a high course drop rate. After the American...

As the editorial page editor, I'm really getting tired of writing about budget cuts.Between staff edits and personal columns, I've had to delve into the bureaucracy and the intricacies of the budget —...