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This week in SG: Rescheduled meetings, events

By Caroline Savoie February 23, 2021

After a week that froze Student Government affairs, meetings and events are back on schedule. Several events have been rescheduled including Tigercast, which will be held on Feb. 26.  Tigercast, SG’s...

Faculty advisor Doug Draper with Manship students Mary Coll, Caylee Deshotel, Jordan Klemm, Gabie Debruler, Natalie Marse and Madelyn Ybarzabal. 

‘The Cooperation Party’: LSU students prepare for PRSSA competition

By Anne Marie Wherritt February 23, 2021

The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) hosts the Bateman Competition every year, where universities across America create a campaign for a given topic. Mass Communication Professor and...

Gamestonks

How some LSU students joined the January stock market frenzy

By Josh Archote February 22, 2021

Many LSU students invested money in companies targeted by a group of online amateur investors in January. AMC Theaters and other movie companies have seen their stocks decline throughout the pandemic. Marketing...

LSU alumnus Alex Cagnola works with NASA's Artemis program.

LSU alumnus works with NASA’s Artemis Program, says LSU impacted career journey

By Bryant Randall February 22, 2021

LSU engineering alumnus Alex Cagnola is working with NASA and their Artemis program to design some of the agency's most powerful rockets that are intended for expeditions to the moon and future space explorations. There...

Pennington

New Pennington research aims to promote COVID-19 testing in Black communities

By Henry Weldon February 21, 2021

Pennington Biomedical Research Center is implementing a new study that aims to offer and promote COVID-19 testing in some Black communities within Baton Rouge. A higher percentage of Black people experience...

The State Capitol building sits on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 in Downtown Baton Rouge.

‘Every shooting, every killing impacts somebody’s family’: BR Crime hits record high in 2020

By Henry Weldon February 20, 2021

East Baton Rouge Parish passed a grim milestone in 2020, and it wasn't COVID-19 related. On Dec. 4, the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office announced that it had investigated 125 homicides,...

Icicles hang off of the Starbucks umbrella Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 during the winter weather mix at the LSU Nicholson Gateway apartments on Nicholson Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU cancels classes Friday due to freezing weather and power outages

By Reveille Staff Report February 18, 2021

The University announced via email Thursday afternoon that campus will remain closed Feb. 19 "while the campus and the Baton Rouge area continue to deal with significant issues related to this week’s...

LSU medical physics students Jared Taylor and Nousha Afshari at SpaceX

LSU physics graduate students invited to present space radiation research at SpaceX

By Josh Archote February 18, 2021

There are several technological barriers that lie ahead of humankind’s ability to send astronauts to Mars and eventually colonize the red planet.  One of those barriers is space radiation and...

LSU students sled down the Indian Mounds on Monday, Feb. 15. 

LSU Indian Mounds sledding causes controversy; here’s what some students are saying

By Anna Jones February 18, 2021

When severe winter weather conditions resulted in school cancelation Monday morning, a group of LSU students decided to visit a historical monument. But they didn't spend the day examining its origins...

Ice-covered trees sit Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 during the winter weather mix outside of the LSU track and field stadium on Nicholson Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

Cold comfort: LSU faces continued power outages amid winter storm

By Katherine Manuel & Nick Frewin February 18, 2021

As some LSU students enjoyed two “snow days,” others faced power outages amid freezing temperatures caused by a winter storm. Baton Rouge spent 64 consecutive hours below freezing temperatures...

FILE - This Oct. 28, 2012 file photo shows Chris Harrison at the Hamilton "Behind the Camera" Awards at the House of Blues West Hollywood, Calif. Chris Harrison, host of “The Bachelor,” says he is stepping down from his TV role and is “ashamed” for his handling of a swirling racial controversy at the ABC dating show. In a new statement posted Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 Harrison apologized again for defending the actions by a contestant that many consider offensive.(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

‘The Bachelor’ host stepping away after racial controversy

By Associated Press February 16, 2021

Chris Harrison, host of “The Bachelor,” says he is stepping down from his TV role and is “ashamed” for his handling of a swirling racial controversy at the ABC dating show.In a...

FILE - People wait in a long line to buy groceries at H-E-B on South Congress Avenue during an extreme cold snap and widespread power outage on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Millions endure record cold without power; at least 20 dead

By Associated Press February 16, 2021

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A winter storm that left millions without power in record-breaking cold weather claimed more lives Tuesday, including three people found dead after a tornado hit a seaside...