BATON ROUGE: Louisiana State University has launched a new Ph.D program in mass communications and public affairs.

The program, to be housed by LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication, was recently approved by the Louisiana Board of Regents and will begin accepting students in the fall semester of 2000. In the first year it will admit seven students, rising to 35 when the course is fully established.

This will be the first doctoral program of mass communication in Louisiana - ...