By Erin Rolfs, Contributing Writer
• December 5, 2002
It's 3:30 p.m. Monday and WAFB Channel 9 is at volume 20 in Express Deli on Highland Road. The owner directed me to the TV perched in the corner of the restaurant.
"Look, look!" said Roul Saymeh.
Saymed...
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...
By Maggie Rabalais, Special Sections Writer
• December 5, 2002
While studying, have you ever found yourself making fun of that funky jazz beat playing in the background at Starbucks, singing along with IHOP's oldies tunes or wishing you had brought your Walkman to...
It helps to think of "Solaris" as a film about concepts, rather than a concept film. Director Steven Soderbergh's genre-hopping has brought him to the final frontier, but it's surprising to see just how...
