President Obama's series of televised appearances has done precisely what is was designed to do. It distracted America from the crisis at hand and marketed the president's policies to a jaded, skeptical...
Student Government elections are all about empty promises and bogus campaign tactics.Most of the empty promises I can live with. I didn't actually expect SG President Colorado Robertson to follow...
We are nothing, if not inconsistent.Racial diversity has been a talking point in America since it's conception. In today's pop culture, the lack of racial diversity often muses up article after scholarly...
Seventy or so miles doesn't seem much to a man with his own motorcade.But for many Baton Rouge residents with jobs in New Orleans, it's a lifetime away.In his 2009-2010 executive budget, Gov. Bobby Jindal...
The economic crisis is being portrayed as the end of the world as we know it.It has supplanted the war in Iraq — where American soldiers still die — as the biggest problem facing President...
The U.S. education system is in such a desperate condition that it is moving backward to mitigate its circumstances.Girls, less than 50 years ago, especially in Louisiana, fought to attend the same schools...
Whenever the demon of nostalgia rears its nauseating head, it's only a matter of time before someone points out "chivalry is dead."The next time this happens, stop whatever you're doing, look them in the...
Columnist Dini Parayitam wrote Tuesday about the modern woman's role in the workplace and at home. Given the overwhelming feedback, we devoted an entire column for as many responses as we could fit. Here's...
When God felt the earth was corrupt, He told Noah to build an ark. In the ark, Noah would take his family.And a male and female of every creature on Earth — and Noah thought he had. But he was mistaken.Slithering...
Open letter to newly elected graduate school representativesThe new executive board and half of the new senate is comprised wholly of chemical engineering students. While everyone was fairly elected, this...
A University of Montana law professor is looking to the state legislature to establish written policies for hiring student employees at the its student newspaper, the Montana Kaimin.Assistant law professor...
Trying to explain earmarks to Republican diplomats must be like Oscar Nunez from "The Office" giving financial advice to Michael Scott: "Your mommy and daddy give you $10 to open up a lemonade stand. So...
