• The candle pass is the most common wedding ceremony tradition. The bride-to-be’s sisters pass a candle, covered at the base with flowers. The sisters each say something about the bride-to-be, then finally pass the candle to the engaged sister to blow out. This ceremony announces the engagement to the chapter as well as [...]
Carl Maddox served as athletic director for LSU from 1968 until 1978. He even helped lead the Tigers to the 1958 national football championship as assistant coach, according to Mississippi State University obituaries.
Dr. Charles E. Coates, a chemistry professor, was LSU’s first football coach. Coates lost the only game he ever coached (34-0 to Tulane) [...]
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 [...]
The Athletic Department raked out an average of $62,000 per month earlier this year to pay for Tiger Stadium’s utility bills from January through July.
The sum of the stadium’s utility costs during that six-month stretch: $437,487.
The University could have purchased 36 new Smart cars with that amount of money and still have more than $5,000 [...]
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In 1960, Dr. George Mickey, dean of the Graduate School, was accused of murdering a UNO professor, Margaret McMillan, and dumping her body off River Road just outside campus.
Mickey was cleared and released because of “tampered evidence,” despite McMillan’s bloodstains and fingerprints in Mickey’s car, as well as a faulty alibi.
This is [...]
Students spend an average of $3 billion a year on movies, DVDs and entertainment.
Students spend $11 billion a year on snacks and beverages to eat and drink while watching movies.
Of that $11 billion, $10.5 billion is beer.
More than one-third of American women consider money more important than good sex to the success of a marriage.
In [...]
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 [...]
In the 1950s, Mike the Tiger was kidnapped by Tulane fans before a game. He was found abandoned in New Orleans — he and his cage both spray-painted Tulane green.
In 1981, pranksters broke open Mike’s cage and released the tiger. He ended up in the Bernie Moore Track Stadium.
That same day, track trial records were [...]
