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Industrial engineering junior Kaitryana Leinbach delivers candy to nursing homes as part of her volunteer work.

Four LSU students to compete in Miss Louisiana pageant, reflect on pageant experiences, sisterhood

By Amber Buettner February 4, 2020

Four LSU students will be competing in the 57th annual Miss Louisiana Competition held on June 18-20 at the Monroe Civic Center. Young women from all across the state will compete for the major title,...

The LSU Student Health Center on 56 Infirmary Drive, Baton Rouge on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020.

LSU Student Health Center confirms several student cases of mumps

By Reveille Staff Report February 4, 2020

LSU's Student Health Center has confirmed several student cases of mumps, which was communicated to students and faculty in a Division of Strategic Communications email on Tuesday.Mumps is a contagious...

LSU Libraries Special Collections recently acquired a Nuremberg Chronicle, one of only about 700 in the world.

LSU Libraries Special Collections acquires rare Nuremberg Chronicle, one of only 700 remaining copies

By Marykelly Munster February 4, 2020

LSU Libraries Special Collections recently acquired a Nuremberg Chronicle, making it the largest single purchase the library has made since 2001. After a failed attempt to obtain the famous document last...

A learning pollinator garden lies in the“Life Sciences Annex” in between the Life Sciences Building, Chopin and Williams Halls.

Small fee with big impact: $2 Student Sustainability Fund finances several LSU sustainability projects

By Caitie Zeilman February 4, 2020

Tucked between several fees students pay every semester lies the Student Sustainability Fund, a project dedicated to making the University's campus a more environmentally-friendly place. The project...

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2009, file photo, Warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Burl Cain, discusses the gurney used for lethal injections to Ruth Graham, far right and others as they visit the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it's been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber's black-padded gurney to die. Sixty-eight people sit on Louisiana’s death row, with no execution dates set. Though the state historically has been tough on crime and holds the dubious distinction as the nation's incarceration capital, Louisiana seems to be doing very little to carry out its death penalty. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File)

Report: Louisiana executions stall for a decade amid legal quandary

By Melinda Deslatte| The Associated Press February 4, 2020

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it's been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber's black-padded...

The University's campus during a storm on Tuesday Feb. 23, 2016.

Report: Slow-moving storm system prompts fear of flooding in Louisiana, rest of Deep South

By AP News Report February 4, 2020

ATLANTA (AP) — A slow-moving storm system could dump several inches of rain in some parts of the South, prompting flood watches, forecasters said Tuesday. Two dozen counties in north Georgia will...

Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, the governor's chief budget adviser, left; House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, center; and Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, speak ahead of a meeting of Louisiana's income forecasting panel on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

Report: Democrats lead some Louisiana House panels, but GOP controls

By Melinda Deslatte February 4, 2020

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's new Republican House speaker rewarded his Democratic supporters with top leadership positions on five subject-matter committees, but kept the key chairmanships...

Brother Jed Smock preaches on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 in the Free Speach Alley

‘Just a show’: Controversial preacher Brother Jed Smock visits LSU, receives negative feedback from students

By Lara Nicholson February 3, 2020

Free Speech Alley offers a variety of different characters and oddballs: club members handing out flyers, activists sharing their causes on megaphones or religious groups sitting with literature, waiting...

Participants work together to create a video game in just 48 hours at the Global Game Jam, hosted by LSU Digital Media Center from Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2020.

LSU Digital Media Center hosts Global Game Jam, invites participants to create video games

By Amber Buettner February 3, 2020

The LSU Digital Media Center hosted the Global Game Jam from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. This is the sixth time that this event was being hosted by the University. At Global Game Jam, participants form teams and...

The Esports room operates during regular business hours in the UREC on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

‘Rocket League school’: LSU Rocket League team wins tournament in New York

By Joanna Clark I @front_row_jo February 2, 2020

The LSU Rocket League team was in a league of their own during a Rocket League tournament on Jan. 17-20. LSU was invited to send one team to New York to compete in a tournament the weekend following the...

A pride flag hangs in the LGBTQ+ Project offices in the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the Student Union on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020.

LSU LGBTQ+ Faculty Caucus proposes new LGBTQ+ Center for students

By Jacob Matthews February 2, 2020

LSU's LGBTQ+ Faculty Caucus is proposing the creation of an LGBTQ+ center on campus. Despite the pre-existing LGBTQ+ room on campus in the Women’s Center, the Faculty Caucus agreed that a full building...

LSU Voter Registration Day taking place in Free Speech Alley on Thursday, September 19, 2019.

LSU Geaux Vote ranked fifth of 131 student voting organizations, registered 1,800 students to vote in 2019

By Taylor Landry February 1, 2020

Geaux Vote was recently ranked fifth out of 131 TurboVote campus partners for registering about 1,800 students to vote in 2019. Geaux Vote is a nonpartisan student organization that operates through the...