As an alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences, I am embarrassed by the actions of Dean Collins in terminating fellow alumnus Dr. Chris Warner from the A&S Advisory Board for his "rude and argumentative"...
By Bryan Wideman, Sports Writer
• December 6, 2002
Parity is the word for the 2002 college football season. On any given day, it was understood that one of the elites of college football would fall by the wayside, and the race for the Heisman trophy was...
By Amanda Vierck, Contributing Writer
• December 6, 2002
The LSU swimming and diving team received some bad news on Dec. 2. Diving coach Doug Shaffer announced that All-American Michelle Coryell has been forced to retire due to a back injury.
"Michelle has been...
By Lindsey deBlieux, Special Sections Editor
• December 5, 2002
First there was Isidore; then there was Lili. Two major storms blew through Louisiana during the semester, bringing the campus and city to a halt.
Tropical Storm Isidore trudged through Louisiana on Sept....
As a steady rain cascaded across the aluminum roof of Shiloh Baptist Church's activity center, a calm spirit filled the room as students and community members celebrated the beginning of the Kwanzaa season.
The...
It's barely December and the Christmas season is upon us. Endless holiday sales, classic TV shows like "A Christmas Story" being shown six times a day and houses in my neighborhood lit up with enough lights...
Good 'ole Lee Corso.
The guy has a sense of ironic humor that nobody surrounding college football possess.
His colleagues Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler couldn't believe when Corso made this raucous...
Since January 2001, Asim Javid has delivered a loud opposition to the preachers that frequent Free Speech Alley. Javid, a graduate student pursuing a master of arts in liberal arts, is the subject of this...
By Amanda Vierck, Contributing Writer
• December 5, 2002
It has been an eventful fall semester for LSU students, especially those who played intramural sports.
"We survived," said Brad Wilson, LSU's coordinator of intramural sports. "It wasn't easy with all...
By Bryan Wideman, Sports Writer
• December 5, 2002
The LSU football team went through more ups, downs, peaks and valleys this season than the typical high school kid who travels to Six Flags over Texas and rides the Texas Giant 10 times in a row.
At the...
With a tough combination of late-night studying and early morning exams, students feel the powerful effects of sleep deprivation.
Doctors say every human being requires a certain number of hours of sleep...
By Charles Nauman, Contributing Writer
• December 5, 2002
It has been eight years since the intergalactic bounty hunter known as Samus battled her archenemy, Mother Brain, in Super Metroid on Super Nintendo. Now she's back in the prequel "Metroid Prime" on Gamecube.
For...
