The University needs money.Instead of LSU Cribs-style pools and state-of-the-art video services found in athletic buildings, average students are greeted with old classrooms, broken desks, faulty ventilation,...
Halloween seemed pretty simple back in the good ole' days.But All Hallow's Eve takes on an entirely new meaning in college.You see, for many students, Halloween isn't just some silly festival. It's a coming-out...
School voucher column based on misconceptionsIn Thursday's issue of The Daily Reveille, Mark Macmurdo's opinion column eloquently states what every true American should believe, "A system of privately...
Halloween just isn't fun anymore.Five years ago, a Washington state school canceled its Halloween celebration because "real witches" were offended by kids running around in green paint and pointy hats....
Perhaps no venue provokes as much fear as "The Farm," except maybe Death Valley. Anyone familiar with the Angola State Penitentiary either has his own stories about the prison or knows someone locked up...
Do you remember "The Balloon Boy"?Our story begins a few weeks ago in a tiny stream, when the Heene family reported their son missing. Mom and Pop built an experimental balloon and feared their son hopped...
Success in our society is numerically quantified. Whether it's your GPA or the size of your bonus check, we're all measured according to our performance. A student with a 4.0 GPA is immediately perceived...
Sigh. It seems once again the topic of pro-abortion versus anti-abortion has reared its ugly head. It makes its rounds every year as a good fallback for opinion columnists who have no more pressing, relevant...
My father returned home from a very important business trip a few weeks ago.It was the kind of trip that involves meticulously packing several suits and ties — the kind of trip on which business...
After seeing first-hand what happens when religion and government become bedfellows, our founding fathers made sure government was used to neither support nor suppress any religion.Our government has done...
Two films — one playing in cinemas and another recently released on DVD — tackle the relationship between law and justice, prison and freedom.The first one, "Law Abiding Citizen," now in theaters,...
Prof. remembers discriminationI liked Lindsey Meaux's story in the Oct. 22 Daily Reveille about Middleton Library. At the time of Middleton Library's construction in 1958, I was Professor of Forestry at...
