Legacy

Baton Rouge encompasses innovation and originality, ranging from cutting-edge industries, elbow-rubbing politicians and spirited universities to flavorful cuisine, colorful personalities and alternative attitudes. This collection of characteristics is scattered through eclectic neighborhoods, sparkling like gems in the capital area’s sturdy setting. While generic Goliath-like shopping malls and chain stores encroach on Baton Rouge’s authenticity, local [...]

What began as a mix of musically ambitious high school graduates evolved into a cohesive college indie rock band, complete with guitarists solicited from Craigslist and hungry undergraduates starving for their big break in the eclectic Baton Rouge music scene. Like many bands, the student-comprised Human Like Me transformed from adolescent performers into a competitive [...]

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For two of Jason Sherman’s four years of college, he wasn’treally in college. Instead, he was traveling the world.
By graduation, Sherman visited more than 35 countries, most classified as Third World. Sherman spent a year at an orphanage in Guatemala where he learned the importance of empowering people.

Imagine never having contact with anyone besides your parent or guardian in your entire lifetime. For half of all intellectually handicapped people, this is a harsh reality. Caitlyn Louviere and the LSU chapter of Best Buddies are working to eliminate this reality. Louviere serves as president of the University’s chapter of Best Buddies, an international [...]

“As a kid, I saw a veteran as [an old] bum,” said James Wyant, a clean-cut microbiology sophomore with glasses.  “Now, I am one.” Wyant, 26, received his discharge letter from the U.S. Navy last August. Wyant, like other men and women on campus, made the decision to postpone higher education to serve his country. [...]

If it bleeds, it leads. That’s all too true today as media outlets fill their publications with murders, accidents and other tragedies. Between the time of the event and the story’s publication, medical professionals transport the victims from the scene to the hospital, simultaneously working to keep them alive. University students Aaron Webb, Floyd DesOrmeaux [...]

It’s 10 p.m. on a humid August night, and Nick Hufft isn’t nervous. His eyes move around like newly-released pinballs and his finger wags an unlit cigarette, but he’s not nervous – he’s ready. It’s 10 p.m. on a humid August night, and Nick Hufft isn’t nervous. His eyes move around like newly-released pinballs and [...]