Probation: not for committing a crime, but for failing to meet University academic standards. It is a frightening term for students. Academic and scholarship probation are major problems for some students,...

After a good showing in doubles at the SEC Indoor Tennis meet, the Tigers tennis team opened the dual-match season with strong play in both doubles and singles in victories against in-state foes, Centenary...

Not much was going right for the No. 6 LSU women's basketball team Sunday, but the Tigers played tenacious defense the entire game and eventually wore out No. 18 Vanderbilt in the second half. Facing a...

Friends? Who needs friends? Apparently we, the United States, don't. We are isolating the rest of the world at an alarming rate. Dubya is hell-bent on attacking Iraq and, to the rest of the world, it amounts...

A few months ago Miramax re-released "A Hard Day's Night" on a collector's edition DVD, packed with extras. What could have been a pathetic exploitation of the Beatles' rising fame is actually a debonair...

Alumnus: LSU stifles free speech I am writing to set the record straight regarding Arts and Sciences Dean Jane Collins' termination of my appointment to the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council this past...

Adam French stuffed his laptop into his backpack and locked his Graham Hall dorm room on his way to statistics class. Despite the near-freezing temperatures outside, he left his coat. That is because his...

Last week, LSU track and field coach Pat Henry compared the season to a ladder, and said the goal of a team is to progress each week. And in just the second meet of the indoor season, two LSU athletes...

Eighty-five-year-old Hewitt Theriot remembers clearly Sept. 15, 1944. That day, Theriot was part of a small fleet of ships fighting for the Pacific island of Pelelieu. "We lost over 2,000 men that day,"...

An offensive lineman for Southern University died from a gunshot wound to the head early Friday in front of the Varsity Theater on Highland Road. Baton Rouge Police Cpl. Don Kelly said James Allen, a 23-year-old...

Renovations currently are underway in the Union's Royal Ballroom, courtesy of a portion of students' fees. According to Shirley Plakidas, Union director, the ballroom is being updated with all new lighting...