The state recently gave a private company with no history in Louisiana $30 million of public money.
To the public flagship university with 150 years of history in Louisiana, the state gave nothing — less than nothing, in fact.
To pay Nucor, the state took away money from LSU.
For a promise of roughly 1,000 steel factory jobs at some time in the indefinite future, the state is putting possibly that many of its public university employees in currently existing jobs throughout the state out of work.
And that’s not all.
Through relentless, massive and Draconian budget cuts, educational opportunities for students are being drastically limited if they aren’t being eliminated entirely.
If this is fine with you, then please continue to keep your seat. 
If, on the other hand, you find something wrong with the state’s priorities, then now is the time for you to stand up and shake off your apathy.
Now is the time for Tigers to roar. Later will be too late.
On Nov. 10 at 11:30 a.m. on the steps of the State Capitol, students from universities all over Louisiana will be coming together to demand the state reset its priorities and fully fund higher education and to demand that the state invest in its true future — its young people.
The Capitol is only a short distance from here.
If students can come from New Orleans, Lafayette, Hammond, Thibodaux and everywhere else around the state, so can you — and in droves.
I’m talking to you, LSU.
You can’t leave this up to the next person.
YOU have to do it. You.
If you don’t show up, the politicians in the Capitol will merely sneer and continue murdering your future and the state’s.
 
Michael F. Russo,
associate librarian and LSUnited member
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