By: Ryan Broderick

As The Chronicle’s staffers have been cleaning up our office and generally attempting to get in order for the new semester, there’s been a lot of looking back at old issues in our archive room. One of the possibly most mind-boggling articles w...

By: By Jessie Fillingim

I've tried to ignore their babbling for as long as possible, but it turns out ignorance is contagious. The Tea Party movement, according to a recent poll, is viewed favorably by 1/3 of Americans. 40 percent have not heard of the movement or like me, plug ...

By: John Leschak

The “non-activist” judges at the Supreme Court have done it again! In the recent Citizens United case, the Court invalidated part of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act prohibiting corporations (and unions) from paying for election...

By: Aiden Singh

In what can only be considered the greatest political blunder in recent memory, President Barack Obama has managed to reduce his standing from one of the most powerful and influential entrants into the Oval Office since the establishment of the Executive ...

By: Chelsea Tirrell

My friend said something to me the other day that kind of got me wondering. “You have to have sex before you get married. If you wait until marriage and the sex sucks, you’re screwed for the rest of your life.” Okay, he sounds like an ov...

By: David Gordon

At the end of last semester, we bid farewell to Steve Cooney as he graduated and welcomed Lindsay Christ to the position of Editor-in-Chief. But, as John Lennon so wonderfully stated, “life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other ...

By: Dara Adeeyo

On Sunday Jan. 31, 2010, my beloved Grandmother passed away. She was 80 years old. Although I haven’t seen her in six or so years, she had a big impact on my life. One of my fondest memories of her includes peanut butter sandwiches....

By: TJ Edouard

As we all know, Feb. 1st marks the beginning of Black History Month. Be on the lookout, because it is  now the month when Lackmann Dining serves fried chicken, yams, and cornbread in some vague and unsought effort to be culturally diverse. You might ...

By: By Katherine Yaremko

In response to Haiti’s devastating earthquake on Jan. 12, millions of ordinary citizens donated money to relief organizations. The generosity and empathy that poured forth quickly became overwhelming with serious complications arising over issues of...

By: Rachel Lutz

In a partisan 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission that it hereby recognizes corporations as having the protections that U.S. citizens have, as outlined in the First Amendment. This means that...

By: TJ Edouard

A 100 and 50 years ago this month, John Brown was sentenced to death by hanging for executing an ineffective slave rebellion. On Oct. 16, Brown, accompanied by 21 other men, apprehended the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. The men sought...

By: Jessie Fillingim

People do some crazy things to have a family. American couples outsource to India for surrogates so they don’t have to pay up to $50,000 in the United States. Celebrities collect babies. Michelle Duggar of “18 Kids and Counting” is about...

By: John Leschak

Last week, the New York State Senate rejected a bill that would have allowed gay couples to wed. The 38 to 24 vote defeating the bill was a blow not only to supporters of same sex marriage, but to the fundamental constitutional right of equal protection u...

By: Jack Carlson

I graduated in 1960. I did not play football, but the football program was part of the dynamic, vibrant college experience I thoroughly enjoyed. Football is after all a consistent, repetitive annual public relations program. Even the Ivy League recognizes...

By: Dara Adeeyo

The fall 2009 semester has finally come to an end. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty happy that this semester is over. Here at The Chronicle we faced a lot of news-like trials and tribulations that caused us slight distress. Join us as we...

By: Katherine Yaremko

Writing an article about education in a college newspaper might seem redundant. However, I still feel as though the U.S. education system could greatly benefit by altering the structure and means by which it teaches, particularly during the elementary and...

By: Dani Frank & Rebecca Astheimer

Welcome readers to the final installment of two girls one Column (for the fall 2009 semester, that is). We admire the fact that you are taking time out of your busy ‘’hell week’’ in order to read or column. Or perhaps you’ve ...

By: Ryan Broderick

Now I’m pretty liberal, like smoking weed while playing electric guitar with Satan liberal. I’m also an Atheist. I don’t believe in a God, life after death or any of the other trappings of supernatural thinking. But I do believe in holid...

By: Ryan Broderick

There’s a bottomless pit that communication students are graduating into right now. The Internet has changed a lot and like every new form of media, it’s reorganizing the way things are done and the way people communicate and work. Part of tha...

By: Dara Adeeyo

I love white men. But if I want to get married to one, I can’t go to Louisiana. Last week, Tangipahoa Parish Judge Keith Bardwell, a white male who claims to not be a racist, refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. But he is no...