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Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., left, arrives with Republican nominee for governor Ovide Lamontagne for a Republican Unity Breakfast following Tuesday's state primary Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 in Bedford, N.Hl (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Our View: Jindal should focus on higher education, not cutting taxes

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board January 14, 2013

If you are bleeding from the head and also happen to have a couple of scrapes on your knees, it makes sense to go to the hospital for the blood gushing from your brain before addressing the tiny scrapes. Apparently,...

The Daily Reveille shifts focus toward digital, multimedia, enterprise reporting this semester

By Andrea Gallo January 13, 2013

The Daily Reveille launched a new website last semester, and we’re grateful that we did because it gave us the ability to break more stories and to better serve you, the students of LSU. We used...

LSU Interim System President and Interim Chancellor William Jenkins hosted a town hall discussion Thursday, Nov. 29, in the Bo Campbell Auditorium, Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes, on the reorganization and realignment of the LSU System.

Students deserve more input during LSU reorganization

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board January 13, 2013

Don’t blink this semester. Before you know it, LSU could be a different university, and those steering the flagship may be more unfamiliar to students than they have been in the past. As “One...

Vice Chancellor and CFO Eric Monday speaks at an Emergency Operations Center meeting Thursday afternoon.

Our View: Eric Monday’s departure should serve as wake-up call

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board November 27, 2012

The theme song of the LSU administrators right now is the ‘80s hit “Another One Bites the Dust,” and we can’t blame them. The news of CFO and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administrative...

This July 13, 2011, photo made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shaking hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus."As details emerge about Petraeus' extramarital affair with his biographer, Broadwell, including a second woman who allegedly received threatening emails from the author, members of Congress say they want to know exactly when the now ex-CIA director and retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren't told sooner. (AP Photo/ISAF)

Petraeus scandal should serve as warning for emails

By The Oracle Editorial Board November 14, 2012

If any good has come from the troubling tale of former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus and his sordid affair with his 40-year-old biographer, it is a lesson in exercising caution in what one writes in...

A Baton Rouge fire department paramedic assists Jinjuta Jirawatjunya, international student from Thailand and food science master's student, after she was struck by a car on the corner of Nicholson and North Stadium drives Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012.

Recent accidents should incite a call to action

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board October 10, 2012

A stroll through the University’s campus yields not only stately oaks and broad magnolias, but a Quad where Facility Services trucks roam free and streets where vehicles zoom by and may or may not...

President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney participate in the first presidential debate at the University of Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. (AP Photo/Pool, Rick Wilking)

Grading the first presidential debate

By The Daily Reveille's Opinion Staff October 4, 2012

Wednesday night’s debate saw a fast-footed Mitt Romney face a calm and cool President Barack Obama. While eloquence and calculation may be staples of Obama’s rhetorical style, not managing...

LSU students, faculty and staff evacuate campus Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 after a bomb scare.

Our View: ‘One hour and 20 minutes’ is a lie, Monday a failure

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board September 19, 2012

One hour and 20 minutes. That’s the amount of time University administrators and police forces across the state keep uttering when they estimate how long it took everyone to evacuate campus after...

Catherine Threlkeld / The Daily Reveille LSU President William Jenkins, flanked by Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Michael Edmonson and LSU Police Department Corey Lalonde, speaks at a news conference about a bomb threat made to the school today, causing a campus-wide evacuation, in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/The Daily Reveille, Catherine Threlkeld)

Our View: Questions unanswered after bomb threat

By Daily Reveille Editorial Board September 18, 2012

Rain boots and water puddles always make for gloomy days, but there’s never been perhaps a more depressing moment in our time on the LSU campus than Monday, when the bleak scene was accented by thousands...

From the Editor’s Desk: The Daily Reveille will not publish a print edition Tuesday

By Andrea Gallo September 17, 2012

There's not much that can frazzle The Daily Reveille staff -- we slept in the newsroom during Hurricane Isaac for God's sake. But when our phones unanimously chimed and alerted us of the bomb threat...

One World Trade Center, is now up to 104 floors, rises above the lower Manhattan skyline, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 in New York. Tuesday will mark the eleventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Remembering 9/11: The University looks back

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board September 10, 2012

An 11th anniversary can be difficult to commemorate — it’s easy to forget an anniversary without a five or zero behind it. Nevertheless, the unique and intriguing effects of 9/11 on the University...

LSU football coach Les Miles sings the Alma Mater with players Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 after the Tigers' 41-3 win over the University of Washington Huskies in Tiger Stadium.

Athletics bailout is appreciated, but embarrassing

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board September 9, 2012

Welcome to LSU, where the value of your education is determined by the football team’s success. That great professor recruited from an Ivy League school? You can thank quarterback Zach Mettenberger...