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FILE - This Nov. 24, 2014, file photo, shows the Phi Kappa Psi house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Greek organizations at the school have until Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, to agree to new drinking rules as a condition for ending a temporary ban on social activities, which UVa. President Teresa A. Sullivan imposed following a November Rolling Stone article describing a campus culture that fosters violence against women. The article was later discredited by the magazine's editors. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Sweet Briar College faculty passes resolution opposing closure

By Amy Friedenberger | The Roanoke Times March 17, 2015

Sweet Briar College, a private university in Virginia announced this month they would be closing their doors due to financial strain, but its faculty passed a resolution barring the shut down Monday night.  The...

Team huddle on pitchers mound, during the Tigers’ 5-3 defeat against Ole Miss on Saturday, March. 14, 2015.

LSU remains No. 1 in Baseball America poll

By Shreveport Times. March 17, 2015

The LSU Tigers remain number one in the Baseball America College Top 25 for the second consecutive week.  Florida, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M and South Carolina join LSU in the top 10 which totals...

Toon: Studying abroad

Internships Abroad: Unpaid, With a $10,000 Price Tag

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, The New York Times March 16, 2015

As summer nears students may be making plans to head home to their hometowns,  take summer school or to enter an internship program.  Interning abroad for the summer sounds appealing, but it...

LSUPD sees increased arrests with use of License Plate Reader

‘The Jinx’ director discusses possible Robert Durst confession, arrest timing

By Dave Walker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune March 16, 2015

HBO's documentary miniseries "The Jinx" aired its last episode Sunday, March 15, the same weekend Robert Durst, the subject of the show, was arrested at a New Orleans hotel.  The miniseries built...

Bodies of two Louisiana soldiers recovered after Florida helicopter crash

By Carlie Kollath Wells NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune March 12, 2015

The bodies of two Louisiana National Guard soldiers were recovered after their Black Hawk helicopter crashed Tuesday night (March 10) off Navarre Beach in Florida, officials said. Two more Hammond-based soldiers...

Mile Hatfield "Let's Get Quizzical" owner reads questions during trivia night on Monday, March. 09, 2015, at the Chimes in Highland Rd.

Late-night trivia at The Chimes Restaurant lifts Monday blues

By Tommy Romanach (Manship News Service) March 11, 2015

A bevy of drinks, late-night meal and endless conversations flow through The Chimes Restaurant and Taproom every Monday night. Chimes trivia night is the result of a perfect match – a location and...

The Sigma Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma is under fire after a video release shows several members of the fraternity chanting a racist song.

Oklahoma University SAE chapter not first to be kicked off campus

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez (Manship News Service) March 11, 2015

Three years before the University of Oklahoma shuttered its campus chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon for chanting racial slurs during a fraternity event, LSU’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was thrown...

Military personnel wade in the water and search on the beach under heavy fog at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Wednesday, March 11, 2015, for the wreckage of a military helicopter that crashed with 11 service members aboard. The helicopter went down Tuesday evening. A Pentagon official says all aboard are presumed dead. (AP Photo/Melissa Nelson-Gabriel)

Fog lifting, easing search in Florida helicopter crash

By MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL, Associated Press March 11, 2015

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) — Human remains and helicopter parts were recovered Wednesday after seven Marines and four soldiers crashed in heavy fog during military training in Florida. All 11...

University of Oklahoma students rally outside the now closed University of Oklahoma's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house during a rally in Norman, Okla., Tuesday. (Photo: Sue Ogrocki, AP)

Why the expelled Oklahoma students have a ‘chance’ of succeeding in court

By Terrence McCoy, The Washington Post March 11, 2015

Legal scholars say the Sigma Alpha Epsilon members expelled from Oklahoma State University for a racist video could possibly win in a lawsuit against the school. Constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky,...

It's the White House.

White House to answer Twitter questions on Student Aid Bill of Rights

By Deanna Narveson March 11, 2015

Director of The Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz will be answering questions about college affordability on Twitter at 12:30 p.m. today via her handle @Cecilia44.  Students can tweet questions...

Actress, Anna Kendrick sits in the LSU quad for the filming of 'Pitch Perfect'.

Trio of television series set to begin production in Baton Rouge

By Aggi Ashagre March 9, 2015

Hollywood South is still booming with business as three television shows announce upcoming production in Baton Rouge. Among the three shows are "Hap and Leonard" (Sundance Channel), "Underground" (WGA...

Mumford & Sons perform at Jazz Fest on April 29. The festival continues this weekend.

LISTEN: Mumford & Sons release new single ‘Believe’

By Aggi Ashagre March 9, 2015

The first single from British folk band Mumford & Sons' upcoming album was released Monday afternoon. "Believe" is the first cut from the band's third album "Wilder Mind," which is set for a May 4th...