Lil Wayne and campus dwellers alike share an obsessive affinity for skinny jeans—but recent studies show how skinny jeans, along with other popular clothing choices, can interfere with nerves, muscles and blood flow. Skinny jeans have been shown to compress a specific nerve in the upper thigh called the the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, said Dr.

The UL Lafayette Opera Theatre, in collaboration with The Compound, present the revival of "Grand Pré," a musical about the deportation of the Acadians, to be performed in Angelle Hall. "This musical was originally commissioned by the Acadian Cultural Center in 2005," said Cody Daigle, "Grand Pré's" playwright.

Kristina Marshall, a local actress, singer, poet and playwright, adopts her rap persona, Femme Fatality, as she recites one of her recently recorded rhymes, her hands spinning records on an imaginary turntable like a DJ. "(Femme Fatality) loves to have a good time.

The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum is celebrating Louisiana's bicentennial year of statehood, and the museum's curator, Lee Gray, Ph.D., gave a preview of what the museum currently offers in addition to upcoming events. "I'm trying to give a broad range for the bicentennial," explained Gray.

Jaqueline Lassiter, voted Most Eligible Bachelorette by The Vermilion in 2010, is now officially off the market and happily engaged to Max Hutson. The UL alumnus acknowledged a mutual two-year attraction prior to meeting, but the couple did not personally know each other until Hutson found Lassiter's name in an issue of The Vermilion.

UL Lafayette offers a diverse list of classes that cover a wide range of topics—some even unheard of to the students and professors, which provided the opportunity to promote four unique classes UL has to offer. The child and family studies department offers a course (CAFS 243) regarding human sexuality, which is available in the spring and fall semesters.