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Faculty Senate calls for questions to ask during Chancellor Budget Forum

By Nicholas Persac
Contributing Writer
September 7, 2010

The Faculty Senate is collecting questions from the University community to discuss during a Forum with the Chancellor on Sept. 28. "A special community-wide panel composed of at least two faculty members,...

Campus Crime Briefs: 9/8/10

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September 6, 2010

Student arrested for DWI, threatening to bite, kick officer Officers arrested a 20-year-old female student Sept. 3 for DWI, simple assault, running four stop signs and an expired driver's license.   Officers...

Student loan debt now surpasses credit card debt in the US

By Sydni Dunn
Staff Writer
September 6, 2010

Student loan debt has exceeded the nation's credit card debt, according to the Federal Reserve's G.19 Consumer Credit June report.   Student debt has reached more than $830 billion — $665 billion...

LSU looks into more online courses, working with BRCC

By Catherine Threlkeld
Staff Writer
September 6, 2010

Tune in to KLSU at 5:20 p.m. to hear Reveille Radio's coverage of online colleges   The University is looking to put more classes online and collaborate with Baton Rouge Community College to provide...

Bobby Jindal orders flags at half-staff through Sept. 11 – 2:26 p.m.

By The Associated Press
September 6, 2010

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal is ordering the flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff this week, to memorialize Louisiana soldiers who have died in wars fought since the...

No fatal crashes recorded during Labor Day weekend

By Staff Reports
September 6, 2010

Louisiana State Police recorded no fatal crashes during Labor Day weekend, according to an LSP news release. Twelve people were killed on Louisiana roadways during Labor Day weekend in 2009, the release...

Manship School searches for new dean

By Linden Uter
Contributing Writer
September 5, 2010

A 13-member search committee is still in the process of finding a new dean for the Manship School of Mass Communication after sifting through a list of 21 applicants at a meeting Friday. During the summer,...

An Alta Gracia Apparel seamstress sews collegiate apparel in the company factory in Villa Altagracia, Dominican Republic.

Apparel company first to pay living wage

By Frederick Holl
Staff Writer
September 5, 2010

Every fall, University students flock to retailers around campus to buy clothes and show off their Tiger pride, but they rarely think of the people who make the products they buy. One company is trying...

BR anticipates return of Bayou Country Superfest next year

By Kayla DuBos
Contributing Writer
September 5, 2010

Two of three necessary organizations for the Bayou Country Superfest have signed on for the next edition of the event.   Both the Mayor's Office and the Baton Rouge Area Convention and Visitors Bureau...

University student dies on canoe trip in Mississippi

By Staff Reports
September 5, 2010

A University student died this weekend while on vacation in Mississippi, according to the president of the LSU Indian Student Association.   Joseph Smiles Gotham, a 24-year-old computer science graduate...

A Kashmiri Muslim protester throws stones and bricks at Indian police and paramilitary soldiers during a protest in Srinagar, India, Sept. 6.

Nation and World: 9/07/2010

By The Associated Press
September 5, 2010

Lawyer says Iranian woman could be stoned soon   TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are...

LSU School of Art hosts work of deceased professor

By Julian Tate
Contributing Writer
September 5, 2010

The LSU School of Art Glassell Gallery unveiled its newest exhibit Saturday commemorating a University art professor who died last fall. Robert Hausey, a professor at the University for 32 years, died...