Legacy

Our guide to the nearly incestuous relationships between your favorite reality stars.

What’s in a marriage?
Sociologist Andrew Cherlin calls it “the capstone experience” of one’s life. LSU graduate instructor Jensen Jeung argues that “much of how we conceptualize marriage and families are social constructions … we create the meanings.”
We have created many meanings. Within marriage we find pageantry, genealogical associations and the like. But if we take [...]

A 54-year-old man rolls around on the red bricks in front of the glass of Mike the Tiger’s habitat. He ignores the smudges that appear on his khaki slacks from the water leaking out of Mike’s pond. Mike VI, the Bengal-Siberian mix that resides on LSU’s campus, watches from atop a rock near his pool.
Mike’s [...]

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 program [...]

Sex. Everyone talks about it, but not everyone is doing it. Tales of post-bar sexcapades may seem commonplace on our campus, but some LSU students are eliminating the three-letter word from their physical vocabulary. Abstinent students aim to enhance trust, communication and even spirituality in their current relationships without doing “The Deed.”
Abstinence is the decision [...]

Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman’s devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, 1847
“Would you like to dance?” asked the [...]

Titans have been clashing since the time of the ancient Greeks. Now, in the 21st century, the titans of technology continue to battle for control. The two biggest juggernauts? Apple’s iPhone and Motorola’s Droid.
The iPhone has dominated sales with very little competition for the past few years. However, with Motorola’s slogan “Droid Does,” many consumers [...]

“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.
Charlie Pruitt, [...]

A man’s voice swirls with Momma’s sweet contralto while an 11-year-old girl sobs in the bedroom. Momma unlocks the door, the light casting a flickering triangle on her needle-pocked forearm and the money in her fist. When the man shuts the door, the little girl’s hope dissolves to terror.
While her child is raped, the opiates [...]

It’s a typical summer Friday in South Louisiana — the kind of day where you can bottle the air and drink it through a straw — and in an open barn off a derelict highway in Covington, I was just bitten by an alligator.
This alligator — along with 1,500 others — resides on Insta-Gator Ranch [...]