Before coming to LSU and moving to Baton Rouge, I assumed our fair Verona was merely an overgrown backwater town with a football problem. After almost two years of driving around town daily to alleviate...

Mourners held a jazz funeral Saturday to mark the passing of a beloved Baton Rouge institution. The grieving dressed in black, except for powdered sugar stains -- the mark of a good beignet. Those close...

Start with a misguided Attorney General, sprinkle in Congressmen with selective reading skills, and top it off with chunky lobbyists and you've got a tasty dish. Unfortunately for those of us who prefer...

Cohesion will be key for the LSU softball team this season as five starters from a year ago are no longer on campus. Juniors Tessa Lynam and Blair Smith, sophomore Alicia Owen and seniors Christy Connor...

Parking affecting student's grades I know people are tired of hearing this, but parking is out of control. While I still pay the same amount for parking every year, Kirby Smith lot has been reduced to...

On the court Baron Davis directs traffic and calls plays; off the court he produces movies and calls the shots. The New Orleans Hornets all-star point guard is executive producer of the new movie "Asylum"...

It is not often that the Alabama basketball team loses two straight games at the Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Ala. As a matter of fact, the Crimson Tide had not lost two straight games at home since...

University students, student organizations and staff members met in the Union Saturday morning to devote a day of service to South Baton Rouge. Maurice Gipson, Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative committee...

My story is an old one. It is about a man who died nearly two thousand years ago, a death, despite all my cynicism that I believe was not the end of this man, but of his beginning. In case you haven't...

Paul Blanchet, a professor of speech pathology at the LSU Health Sciences school in New Orleans, has not let his stutter affect his career choice. "Being a speech pathologist, it is a little more expected,"...

LSU Theatre is reliving the sights and sounds of the 60s with the first musical of the spring semester. "Violet" is based on the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts. Set in the south in 1964,...

Although students are not yet feeling the effect, College of Arts and Sciences administrators are taking steps toward implementing the proposed changes in the college. Last semester, the college announced...