At the beginning of each new semester, single students glance around classrooms scanning for attractive seatmates or potential project collaborators. Some of these contacts wilt after one night stands;...
The term “basic bitch” originated within the black community as an extension of the term “ratchet.” The original basic bitch was a stereotypical lower class African American woman...
Q When you first moved to Regina, how different was it from New Orleans?
A Well, moving to Canada was kind of like moving from one extreme to another. The people and the culture are very different,...
Proudly sporting his company t-shirt, Johnathan Simoneaux walks into a hot, humid warehouse filled with various disturbing contraptions and creepy oddities.
Among everything, one particular monster stands...
Some LSU students don’t know LSU has a rugby team. Some LSU students do, but don’t know much about the sport. “I know there was a movie Invictus, and that’s about it,” says...
Louisiana has a long history of questionable sex education regulations.
The law that currently governs sexual education inthe state has been in effect since 1992. It states that “the major emphasis...
Every college student knows the metaphor that sums up the stressful environment of college: A Venn diagram of grades, social life and sleep, only two of which are attainable at once. This picture is grossly...
Baton Rouge may be best known for LSU football, but the capital city has a solid selection of delicious restaurants. Out-of-state students tend to stick to eateries around campus or limit themselves to...
“Snowpiercer” (2013) is as violent as it is brilliant—which is to say very, very much so. Set in a dystopian future when a failed experiment to reverse the effects of climate change buries...
Preface: I was asked by my editor to write a real-time reaction to Taylor Swift’s new music video, “Shake it Off.” If you want to see the list and read my comments, please skip to the...
One who adopts specific elements of a culture by a different cultural group is one who appropriates.
You may not be familiar with the term “cultural appropriation,” but at one point or another...
When Rheagan Courville and Lloimincia Hall take the mat in gymnastics meets, both women seem superhuman. They fly through the air, moving in seemingly impossible ways as they flip, spin and jump across...
