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University consolidates six colleges, programs

By Andrea Gallo
Staff Writer
September 7, 2011

The University is creating a college encompassing six of its current schools and departments, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton revealed earlier today. The College of Education, the School...

Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., shake hands Wednesday after a Republican presidential candidate debate.

Candidates discuss role of federal government in Wednesday night’s debate

By Clayton Crockett
September 7, 2011

Though the diagnosis of a broken economy was unanimous, Republican presidential candidates argued the proper, conservative prescription in the second Republican Presidential Debate on Wednesday. The debate,...

A CATS bus drives by campus Wednesday to pick up passengers.

CATS to offer free gameday rides

By Morgan Searles
Staff Writer
September 7, 2011

In a city where one game of football can clog highways, halt traffic and fill every parking space within 10 miles of campus, alternative methods of transportation are often welcomed in Baton Rouge with...

Jindal’s re-election prospects tower over opponents as 2011 season ramps up

By Clayton Crockett
Staff Writer
September 7, 2011

As Gov. Bobby Jindal's colossal re-election campaign gets under way, it seems the incumbent candidate is fighting a race guaranteed to go his way. Jindal kicked off his campaign Aug. 23 with a new commercial...

University’s proposals rejected for BP research

By Andrea Gallo
Staff Writer
September 7, 2011

After creating oil spill research proposals with other state universities last year, those proposals submitted with LSU as the lead institution were denied funding in BP's most recent round of Gulf of...

LSU drinking and driving rates double the national average

By Austen Krantz
Contributing Writer
September 7, 2011

The LSU Health Center's Health Promotions staff plans to use recent surveys on University students' alcohol and drug use to help students stay mentally and physically healthy this fall. The National College...

Board changes appeal criteria for violations

By Paul Braun
September 7, 2011

The Residential Life Student Conduct Board is currently interviewing potential board members for the 2011-12 academic year, said Kara Helgeson, ResLife Policy and Process manager. The board is made up...

LSU Dining limits meal transfers

By Paul Braun
Contributing Writer
September 7, 2011

Students with meal plans are now limited to one meal transfer per meal period per day. The limit has been reduced from two meal transfers per transaction, said Dining Director David Heidke. The new limit...

University looks for child care solutions

By Juliann Allen
Contributing Writer
September 6, 2011

The University Council on Women and the LSU Child Care Center are joining forces this year to seek a solution to the center's affordability and long waiting list. UCW is looking at what peer institutions...

Members of Spectrum, the organization for LGBTQ students and their allies at LSU, met with SG members on Tuesday to discuss adding an all-inclusive minority action caucus.

Student Government ponders possibility of minority committee

By Kate Mabry
Staff Writer
September 6, 2011

Student Government was set to speak Tuesday night in the Student Union's Barataria room about the addition of a LGBTA — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally — caucus, but the legislation...