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 [...]
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 [...]
Films like “Animal House” portray college life as a perpetual party filled with sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Students making similar lifestyle choices as John “Bluto” Blutarsky play a balancing act between having fun and endangering their health, even if they abide by the law.
“Have you ever done salvia? It’s like a three minute [...]
Josh Dear is like any other collegiate weightlifter. He practices beside his teammates. He tries to eat healthy and take care of his body. With his hands caked in white chalk and surrounded by coaches and comrades, he grips the coarse bar and squats up to 470 pounds. Josh Dear is like any other collegiate [...]
