In the fall of 2005, Jamie* was a freshman: naïve, idealistic and trusting. She loved the Baton Rouge bar scene and began to go out regularly. She recognized one of the patrons as one of her professors — a particularly attractive professor — and when the opportunity arose, she didn’t see anything wrong with interacting [...]
Two kids created cryingwhileeating.com, where you can witness user-submitted videos of people … well, crying while eating.
Examples include Sam, who is crying over milk and cookies because he broke up with his girlfriend; Aggi, who is crying over a chicken leg because she feels sorry for the chicken; and Tom, crying while eating the last [...]
Vet school 101: You can’t be a veterinarian just because you don’t like people.
“That’s the first thing they tell you in vet school,” Professor Gary Sod explained when I met him in his office. He then confessed that was the reason he chose vet school to study medicine. “I don’t like people,” he said with [...]
Dear Pilgrims,
So the legend goes: It was a balmy day in November when Squanto interrupted your meal of flour and sugar to bring you the gift of corn. Then John Smith came out of the brush with a young Pocahontas and announced, “Hey, look what I found!” Then another pilgrim — the one with the [...]
Wakeboarding
Adrenaline junkie Adam Silcio’s vice once involved taking punches, but these days he’s hitting waves. Silcio, a sports marketing junior, fought his way through the dreary world of mixed martial arts, or ultimate fighting, for six years until he discovered wakeboarding. Silcio, president of the Wakeboard Club at LSU, described riding with a team as [...]
Drunkenness. Debauchery. Public nudity. Near-death experiences. Legacy has compiled as many bizarre, hilarious and unbelievable dorm stories we could fit that will make you think, “That really happened? Where?!”
FISH FIRE
Being homesick can lead to irrational actions. And irrational would be the perfect word to describe Chastity Johnson and two friends deciding to make a home-cooked [...]
Repent while there’s yet time!” A voice yells over the crowd, growing more intense with each repetition. “Repent. Repent. Repent. Repent!”
My heart races every time they come to preach at Free Speech Alley. They wear sandwich boards printed with various quotes of scripture, like John 3:3: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can [...]
