In the first two months of 2008, San Diego suffered an outbreak of a once-common disease which has all but disappeared in this country — measles.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dates...

We are like fish swimming wide-eyed through an ocean of blood that no longer taste the horror in which we are suspended.On Dec. 19th, eight days after the automotive bailout bill failed in the senate,...

The Faculty Senate is proposing a policy change that would begin classes at the time listed on the schedule, on the hour and half-hour, and conclude 10 minutes earlier. The Senate argues the current system...

Every night at 10 p.m. in dorms, apartments and houses across campus, DVRs begin recording and TV sets flicker to life. An influx of wit, humor, and pithy critiques of everything from politics to the media...

With the state and the LSU System in severe financial trouble, a movement to protect students' interests will have to quickly establish an identity and voice to have any positive effect. The gay and lesbian...

NORMAL, Ill. — Climate change. Global warming. The impending catastrophic assault on the innocent lives of cute, cuddly, polar bears.Call it what you want, it's received a lot of attention lately.But...

When I moved to the U.S. from India, I was in the first grade. The school environment, teachers and classmates seemed completely different from those back home. I remember conversations about "my mother...

PSA, MSA offend AmericanDespite the overwhelmingly negative response to Dini Parayitam's India-Pakistan article, I have decided to write this rebuttal to the MSA and PSA. I have the utmost respect for...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE — Sometime during the past eight years, I became skeptical of self-professed patriots who justified opinions in the name of allegiance to the flag. Whether it was the American...

Move over, Miley. There's a new teen role model in town — who just happens to be preggers.Fictional pregnant teens like Juno MacGuff of "Juno" and Amy Juergens of "The Secret Life of the American...

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, public discourse was left with a new rhetorical flourish — "the terrorists have won."Used sometimes as a somber conclusion to a stirring plea and sometimes as a pretentious...

In spring 2008, the University's Student Health Center distributed more than 2,000 STD testing results to students.  These results not only showed an increase in students getting tested but also an...