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Mardi Gras Expo teaches history behind festival

By Mallory Logan
Contributing Writer
February 5, 2010

It's Carnival time, and excitement is spreading to students around campus.The Student Activities Board hosted a Mardi Gras Expo in Free Speech Alley on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and educated students...

World’s largest auto maker recalls two million cars

By Jacob Most
Contributing Writer
February 5, 2010

University students and local Toyota dealers are scrambling to solve problems caused by the Japanese auto maker's recalls in January. Toyota Motor Co. said it was suspending the sale of eight models and...

Senate plans to get students involved in budget cuts

By Catherine Threlkeld
Staff Writer
February 5, 2010

Student Government senators and executive staff members discussed ways students can help with budget cuts Wednesday. J. Hudson, SG director of external affairs, said the executive staff had a great collaborative...

First year students attend IMPACT program, learn college study skills

By Sabrina Trahan
Contributing Writer
February 5, 2010

The Center for Academic Success and the First Year Experience pride themselves on making adjustments easier for first year students. The CAS and the FYE hosted Wednesday the second session of the IMPACT...

Cold temperatures damage crops, cities

By Hannah Adams
Contributing Writer
January 18, 2010

This month's unusual, enduring cold snap has many individuals across the South hoping for warmer weather as crops and cities continue to sustain damage. Homeowners began wrapping household pipes and making...

Semester begins one week later this spring

By Ryan Buxton
January 18, 2010

Students return for the spring semester a week later than they have the last two years, as the academic calendar was changed to begin the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.The change was made to accommodate...

The Five opens today, accepts non-University patrons

By Sumit Kumar
Contributing Writer
January 18, 2010

LSU Dining opened its newest dining hall today, The Five Commons, in the northwest part of campus. The hall is named after the adjoining Pentagon residential complex. With a seating capacity of more than...

$12.6M shaved from fiscal budget

By Xerxes A. Wilson
January 18, 2010

In the wake of mid-year budget cuts, University instructors will gather in funeral attire aside the University's Sesquincentenial kick-off ceremony to protest budget cuts and further job terminations....

Sesquicentennial to be kicked off today

By Ryan Buxton
Senior Staff Writer
January 18, 2010

The University turns 150 years old in 2010, and the year-long birthday party kicks off today. 'LSU 150: The Year Ahead,' the launch event for the University's sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, will...

Tiger Lair construction may cause decline in food sales

By Rachel Warren
Contributing Writer
January 18, 2010

After the prolonged process of completing Phase I of Student Union construction, Union officials have begun Phase II.At the end of the fall 2009 semester, workers began construction on the Tiger Lair food...

Commission will not limit TOPS

By Xerxes A. Wilson
Senior Staff Writer
January 18, 2010

Plans to cap the TOPS program and add a need-based aspect to the award were rejected by the Post Secondary Education Review Commission at its monthly meeting last week. The review commission - also known...

One University student remains in Haiti after earthquake

By Sarah Eddington
Contributing Writer
January 18, 2010

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, leaving much of the country in shambles. Hospitals, entire neighborhoods, schools and even the presidential palace were among the wreckage. For many...