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Student-created Web site provides student resources

By Ryan Buxton
Staff Writer
September 24, 2009

A newly launched, student-created Web site is dedicated to becoming the most current, reliable source for University professor ratings, course discussions and reviews of local businesses.Joshua Duke, business...

Study: More hurricanes, but not as strong – 9:15 a.m.

By The Associated Press
September 24, 2009

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new study says that between 1851 and 2008 the number of hurricanes in the North Atlantic increased, but that the severity of storms has not. The study was done by researchers...

End of industrial engineering degree proposed

By Kyle Bove
Senior Staff Writer
September 23, 2009

College of Engineering Dean Richard Koubek recently requested the University terminate its industrial engineering program in 2012. Koubek, who is an industrial engineer himself, said he and the engineering...

Raising Cane’s founder to speak at entrepreneurship event – 10:25 a.m.

By Ryan Buxton
Staff Writer
September 23, 2009

Raising Cane's founder Todd Graves will speak at the kick-offevent for the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute fellows programtoday. Graves will speak about his successes in business and give advice...

University retention rates increasing, still lower than peers – 12:10 p.m.

By Emily Holden
Contributing Writer
September 23, 2009

University retention rates have increased steadily since 1987. About 58.9 percent of the 2002 freshman class graduated within six years -- an almost 20 percent increase, from 39.4 percent, since the 1987...

ROTC training 150 future officers

By Adam Duvernay
Senior Staff Writer
September 23, 2009

Following the surrender of the Confederate Army, two captured Confederate cannons were gifted to campus from the University's first superintendent, Col. William Tecumseh Sherman. The cannons remain outside...

Student Union holds grand opening – 3 p.m.

By Steven Powell
Contributing Writer
September 23, 2009

The LSU Student Union will hold its Grand Opening today from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the first floor of the Union. Union officials will cut the ribbon to officially complete Phase I of construction at 3:30...

Tropical Storm Nora strengthens in Pacific – 10:55 a.m.

By The Associated Press
September 23, 2009

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Nora is strengthening in the open Pacific far off Mexico's coast, but the system is not expected to threaten land. The storm has maximum sustained winds near 45 mph (75...

Health Center stops testing for H1N1

By Adam Duvernay
Senior Staff Writer
September 23, 2009

The Student Health Center recently stopped testing students for the H1N1 virus and will no longer track the number of individual cases on campus.Testing students for the virus has become unproductive,...

Ex-girlfriend: Yale murder suspect was controlling – 9:50 a.m.

By The Associated Press
September 23, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — A former high school girlfriend of a Yale lab technician charged with murder said Wednesday he was extremely controlling — that he told her what clothes she could wear, where...

Jindal urges expansion of offshore drilling – 9:45 a.m.

By The Associated Press
September 23, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal is urging the Minerals Management Service to expand offshore drilling, but to also pay Louisiana more to fix the damage offshore drilling has caused to the...

Karla Delgado, computer engineering freshman, drinks a coke on Tuesday. A proposed sugary beverage tax could increase soft drink prices a cent per ounce.

Health policy report promotes tax on sugary beverages

By Mary Walker Baus
Staff Writer
September 23, 2009

Karla Delgado said she enjoys having a regular Coca-Cola every day, but the computer engineering freshman said she may not be able to enjoy her fizzy fix as often if prices in soft drinks rise.On Sept....