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Archive for November 2009

Big Boy Toys

Nov 8th, 2009 | By Hope Carter | Category: Professor Profiles

The University has its own Crime Scene Investigator. But instead of being a white male named Gil Grissom, he’s a 48-year-old Lebanese-American, Sociology professor who specializes in criminology. His name: Ed Shihadeh.
“I study why crime happens, why crime goes down, why crime goes up, who’s committing most of the crime, who isn’t committing the crime [...]



Random Facts: Getting the dirt behind Louisiana’s Finest

Nov 8th, 2009 | By Caroline Gerdes | Category: Random Facts

Former Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards described being caught in bed with “a live boy or a dead girl” as the only ways to ruin a political career.

Though never caught in bed with either, Edwards went to prison in 2002 for extortion.

Maybe “a live boy or a dead girl” aren’t the only two things that can [...]