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Fans brave early rain to see Eminem, KISS at Voodoo Experience

By Jake Clapp
Entertainment Writer
October 31, 2009

To see a slideshow of all three days at Voodoo, click here. Editor's Note: This story has been corrected to show that Babin enjoys seeing the indie bands Le Carnival offers not Le Ritual.More than 150,000...

Bike Week celebrates bicycling and educates students

By By Brianna Paciorka
Contributing Writer
October 31, 2009

LSU Bike Week, a week-long celebration of cycling focusing on educating students on bicycle safety and laws, begins today. An initiative of the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation, Student Government,...

Search for Calif. crash survivors now recovery mission

By The Associated Press
October 31, 2009

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The search for nine people missing when a U.S. Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine Corps helicopter over the Pacific Ocean is now a recovery mission, officials said Sunday.Petty...

Former state Gov. Dave Treen dead at 81

By The Associated Press
October 29, 2009

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, who became the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1979 but lost a re-election bid to the flamboyant...

Commission says University must increase graduation rate

By Kyle Bove
Senior Staff Writer
October 29, 2009

Chancellor Michael Martin said the Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission's recommendation the University must increase its graduation rate to 75 percent by 2018 will be "a large leap" but...

Two Louisiana soldiers among 18 honored by Obama

By The Associated Press
October 29, 2009

NEW ORLEANS (AP)  Two Louisiana soldiers killed in Afghanistan were among 18 fallen service members honored Thursday by President Barack Obama at the Delaware air force base where their bodies were...

Sorority Row seeks additional security after armed robbery

The Panhellenic Council will pay the LSU Police Department more for increased security along Sorority Row after two members of Delta Gamma sorority were robbed at gunpoint in early September.The robbery,...

Professor speaks about economic benefits of beauty

By Olga Kourilova
Contributing Writer
October 29, 2009

A tall, modest-looking man in his 60s, whose face is filled with a gray, whitened beard and oval-rimmed glasses atop a shiny bald head, told about 300 students in Lockett Hall a high dollar will always...

Double homicide trial set for May

By Xerxes A. Wilson
Staff Writer
October 29, 2009

Clad in black and white stripes, Devin Parker — the only man indicted for the murder of University graduate students Chandrasekhar Komma and Kiran Allam — appeared before Judge Richard "Chip"...

University focuses on ‘big’ performance initiatives

By Ryan Buxton
Staff Writer
October 29, 2009

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Astrid Merget described the University as a large, architecturally sound monument, flanked by elaborate Corinthian columns representing the different branches of the...

Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen dead at 81 – 10:25 a.m.

By The Associated Press
October 28, 2009

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, who became the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1979 but lost a re-election bid to the flamboyant...

Sidewalk chalk banned by University

University students walk over colorful sidewalk advertisements throughout campus on any given day without noticing, but the University is paying attention.Sidewalk chalking is considered vandalism at the...