A fixed diet, 23 hours in a metabolic chamber, four weeks of medication and a six-week commitment to a study, all for a higher metabolism and a $750 compensation? Would you be willing to participate? Sixty...

   AValentine’s Day has always been such a commercial holiday. Every year, people spend a lot of money to give the significant other in their lives chocolates, mushy love cards and...

   Not even the home court of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center could save LSU from dropping its third straight game. A combination of missed free throws by LSU in the last two minutes of...

   Tall, dark and handsome … and naïve. Alexandre’ Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo” has come to life in a Kevin Reynolds version of the classic novel...

   After a five year hiatus following the release of their second album, "Pinkerton," Weezer is making up for lost time. The band returned to the national spotlight with 2001's self-titled...

   A new era of baseball will soon begin at LSU under the leadership of head coach Raymond “Smoke” Laval. With the exit of legendary coach Skip Bertman and the departure of six...

On the Record    Record executives at EMI dropped a bomb last week, terminating pop diva Mariah Carey’s four-album deal after just one release. This proved to be a retaliatory strike,...

Limp Bizkit searches Louisiana for new guitarist    Limp Bizkit’s search to replace departed guitarist Wes Borland will find its way to New Orleans Feb. 5, and the band is asking those...

Talk of another Indiana Jones movie spurns discussion     Although Harrison Ford was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille career achievement award at last week’s Golden Globes, the actor’s...

Students attend MLK commemorative forum    Despite the sparsely populated crowd at the Martin Luther King Jr. Forum, most people in attendance said they understood its message clearly. The...

   There is one thing that the LSU basketball team has in common with Tennessee’s team – neither squad seems to be able to win on the road. Both the Tigers and the Vols have...

   As Americans, we are a people of great diversity. From the very beginning our country was born out of a wide assortment of races, languages, and classes. We are a melting pot, and these...