BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer It's been a non-stop victory tour for the LSU women's basketball team after their national championship win last weekend, but Wednesday might have been the most spectacular. A massive crowd cheered for the team during a procession down Victory Hill to the PMAC. Earlier in the day, the team's stars took over a Raising Cane's drive-thru, leading to a line out the door. And before that, player Alexis Morris, who's bound for the WNBA draft, got to throw out the first pitch at LSU's baseball game, after she befriended Coach Jay Johnson during a chance encounter. While Louisiana's unemployment rate has steadily shrunk, it's also part of a longstanding national trend: People are leaving the workforce entirely. Who's most likely to do this? While lots of people quit for lots of reasons, the most common is men under 40 who play hours of video games, according to one economist's research. Here's what he says is going on. When at Glasgow Middle School, walk like the Romans do. And by that I mean walk on a period-accurate Roman road built using Romanesque materials and building techniques. Here's a look inside a fascinating class project led by a former Louisiana Teacher of the Year. |