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Age of Delightenment: Unfriending people on Facebook can be positive

By Sara Boyd
March 17, 2010

I was desperate for Facebook friends when I first joined the site  in the spring of 2005. It was only open to college students at the time, and I was about to start college in a new state where I...

Our View: Monday’s student suicide calls for deep introspection

By
March 16, 2010

Students and faculty across campus are still reeling from Sarvnipun Chawla's tragic, fatal fall from the roof of the Life Sciences building Monday morning. Now, after the coroner has ruled his death a...

 

From the Editor’s Desk: Lsureveille.com offers extensive SG campaign coverage

By Nicholas Persac
Editor
March 16, 2010

Most students can only daydream of being able to spend millions of dollars.But for one group of students, that reality is all in a year's work.Student Government exists solely "to serve the students at...

Letter to the Editor: 3/17/10

By
March 16, 2010

SG leaders offer condolences for student's deathAs student leaders on this campus, it is our job to represent each individual student to our fullest potential. The tragedy that occurred Monday, March...

Our View: Malt madness provides a different kind of competition

By The Editorial Board
March 15, 2010

The NCAA men's basketball tournament starts tonight with the play-in game between Arkansas Pine Bluff and Winthrop, and The Daily Reveille is getting involved in the madness.This year readers can turn...

Burns After Reading: Beltway blowhards are the real American idiots

By Scott Burns
Columnist
March 15, 2010

America has a serious problem on her hands, in case you haven't heard.Forget Al-Qaeda. Forget the deficit. Forget unemployment. The biggest threat facing our political system isn't terrorism, global warming...

Cancel the Apocalypse: Columnist becomes seven-day convert of Islam

By Andrew Robertson
March 15, 2010

Islam has been given the least attention of all my religious studies. I felt unworthy and uninformed when I set out to compose a column on the second largest and fastest growing religion on Earth. So I...

Nietzsche is Dead: Citizens must take political responsibility, action

By Matthew Albright
Opinion Editor
March 15, 2010

Politics is a game.It's an old and clichéd sentiment, but it's true.This view is generally considered a negative, cynical result of a broken democratic process, but it's important to realize political...

Damaged Goods: ‘Tool Academy’ should recruit more annoying men

By Matthew Sigur
March 14, 2010

The best show on television isn't "Lost" or "The Office"  or reruns of "The George Lopez Show" on Nick at Nite.The best show on television is "Tool Academy." I'm not saying the first three are bad,...

Campus-resident alien: African Americans should be called American

By By Marcelo Vieira
Columnist
March 14, 2010

As an international student and columnist, some friends have told me I should write about customs and situations that immediately stand out differently from where I came from in my daily life here in America....

Return of the mack: Police reaction at parade scarier than initial incidents

I'm not saying Baton Rouge Police Department officers used excessive force and arrested people unnecessarily at the St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday.But it certainly looked like it.I'm not sure what...

Nietzsche is dead: ‘Egosexual’ politicians like Vitter deserve scrutiny

By By Matthew Albright
Opinion Editor
March 14, 2010

Political news has been especially full of sex recently.There's Eric Massa, the disgraced New York congressman who outrageously and hilariously managed to stun Glenn Beck by flaunting his impropriety with...