November 20 - 6:30 p.m. Tureaud 206

Karen Hartman, an argument and logic professor at LSU, will be mediating discussion among members on current events.
We will be assigning 5 articles to have read for the night, e-mail suggestions to kristinlinder@studentsforreform.org!

Russell Primeaux is an adjunct professor at the LSU Law Center. He has been an attorney for 19 years, and he focused in intellectual property law for almost 13 years. Prior to that, he was a judge advocate in the Marines.

Tell us a little bit about your field of law.

The general field that we work in is called Intellectual Property Law, and it includes, probably, four main areas of law: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. With the growing importance of the internet and just information in general, a 5^th related area is emerging that people are calling technology law. It encompasses everything technology-related that doesn’t fit into any of those other four areas. So that’s kind of the way you can categorize it.

For most of us, Halloween has just passed, and we’ve slowly sobered up and regained our humanity. We’re leaving a season with reverence for the dead, where ours and many other cultures around the world celebrate life and ancestry through feasts, goodwill, tricks, and general debauchery. Blissfully, we play with the idea of death and the dead and walk around in mobs that smile and cheer to each other. All the while, as we stumble down Carlotta and stare at all the bare flesh, some people across the world are stumbling and half naked for an entirely different reason.

November 15, 6:30 p.m. Tureaud 206

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

Without a doubt, Tom Brokaw got it right when he called the Americans who lived during World War 2 “The Greatest Generation”. The men and women who lived during that time became soldiers, farmers, factory workers, and homemakers; they bought war bonds, broke traditional occupational barriers to fuel the military, and both at home and abroad heroically fought that noble war against global dictatorship. I am humbled by the hardships, uncertainties, and self-sacrifice they endured to win and then bequeath to us a free and democratic society.

This was my letter to the reader for Print Issue 5:

All week I have been thinking about what I wanted to tell the next set of readers who picked up this issue. I decided mainly I wished to say, Thank You. In August when a few of us came up with the idea for an independent paper on campus, many said it was over-ambitious. It was very ambitious, I agree. But to call it over-ambitious at any time would be to deny the need for its arrival. Things have not been easy, money has not been falling into our laps, time is not something students have an excess of, but we have gotten it done. Not always on time, certainly not perfect, but each issue has been set around campus every other week to be found by LSU students.

We had our first debate November 2, and I couldn’t be happier with how it went.

82 people came to hear the College Republicans, College Democrats and College Libertarians debate. The issues that SFR presented were the minimum wage, state-funded higher education and nuclear proliferation. Every side came incredibly well prepared.

Our biggest goal was achieved: hearing other sides of an issue and beginning to form your own ideas. No matter who people showed up to support, if anyone, when each person talked you could see heads shaking in agreement around the room. After the debate, the different parties mingled. Some SFR members who are just getting involved in politics expressed excitement over being able to identify with so many different ideas.

November 2

We are hosting a debate between the College Republicans, College Democrats, and College Libertarians.

Come and get exposed to different views.