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Of gods, angels, and the Shreveport Biomedical Research Foundation
LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Elliott Stonecipher In a few weeks, at 12:01 a.m., on October 1, North Louisiana LSU Hospitals will be taken over by the...
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Jindal, Faircloth and their money-burning ruse
Governor Bobby Jindal (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Elliott Stonecipher It is now much easier to make the case that Governor Bobby Jindal knows his chances of winning the presidency in the 2016 election...
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It’s time for the LSU Board to resign
By Robert Mann It’s still too early to tell if the LSU Board of Supervisors will finally be forced to cough up the more than $140,000 in fines and fees assessed today in court by Judge Janice Clark....
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King Alexander might be the leader LSU needs
LSU President F. King Alexander By Robert Mann Even a blind miner occasionally finds a diamond. That seems to have been the case when the miners — otherwise known as LSU Board of Supervisors — hired F....
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The unbearable whiteness of being on Bobby Jindal’s higher education boards
By Robert Mann Here’s a question that every candidate for Louisiana governor ought to answer in a public forum in the next week or two. It’s a simple question, so suggesting that they need time for...
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Loyal to Jindal, not students, LSU’s board must go
By Robert Mann Next January, after taking his oath of office and calling a special session to clean up Gov. Bobby Jindal’s fiscal mess, our next governor should immediately demand the resignation of...
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Six years too late, the LSU Board finally speaks up
By Robert Mann Forgive me if I sound like the rooster who thought the sun rose because he crowed. But I wonder if Saturday’s unusual joint statement by the LSU Board of Supervisors had anything at all...
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In 1992, then-LSU Board member Rolfe McCollister demanded Edwin Edwards...
By Robert Mann In the fall of 1992, Rolfe McCollister, publisher of the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, was a member of the LSU Board of Supervisors. At the time, the state was enduring a budget...
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LSU Board member Rolfe McCollister: Faculty who criticize LSU in print are...
Rolfe McCollister By Robert Mann In a new column in the Baton Rouge Business Report, publisher Rolfe McCollister seems to question whether it is ethical for an LSU faculty member to criticize, in...
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Shots fired: What’s the meaning and the fallout over LSU’s decision to...
By Robert Mann The word about LSU’s financial woes, particularly the threat of academic bankruptcy, is now national news. From the Boston Globe to Bloomberg News to the Houston Chronicle to Al Jazeera...
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