October 26, 2012

LSU graduation rate reaches 66%, an all-time high
Amite Tangy Digest
LSU’s six-year graduation rate has increased to 66.7 percent, the highest in the university’s history, according to the LSU Office of Budget and Planning.

Football-Ticket Tax Break Helps Colleges Get Millions From Fans
San Francisco Chronicle
Theodore L. Jones has held season tickets on the 43-yard line at Tiger Stadium, home of the perennial football powerhouse Louisiana State University, for almost 20 years.

Paintings represent fairytales
The Daily Reveille
Paintings, prints and soapstone sculptures adorned the walls and display cases of the “Once Upon a Time” exhibition on Thursday evening at the LSU Museum of Art.

Ghost Chase honors UREC employee
The Daily Reveille
Thursday night was an average night on sorority row  — cars zoomed by, the lake glistened in the moonlight and groups of zombies and ghosts ran down the street.

The E.J. Ourso College of Business
Architecture News Plus
The E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University is a glass and steel ‘academical village’ for business education.

Bird watchers flock to coastal Louisiana
Anchorage Daily News
An elusive chicken-like marsh bird is drawing nearly 130 bird watchers from 27 states and Poland, Kuwait, England and Canada this weekend to the rice fields of Jefferson Davis Parish.

LSU football has second highest graduation rate among SEC programs
New Orleans Times-Picayune
LSU maintained the second-highest graduation rate for football players in the SEC for the second consecutive year, according to the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate data released Thursday.

Vanderbilt, LSU lead in graduation rate
ESPN
Vanderbilt and LSU are the top two football programs in the SEC in terms of graduation success rate.