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FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, file photo, Cornelio Bonilla pumps gas at Best Food Mart gas station in Gainesville Ga. Sinking oil prices have cratered the stock market, but a silver lining may soon appear. Cheaper gasoline and heating oil will give consumers worldwide more money to spend, or save and spend later, and possibly boost economic growth in the U.S., Europe and much of Asia. (AP Photo/Kevin Liles, File)

OPINION: Oil industry needs subsidies to compete

By Garrett Marcel January 31, 2016

While driving to campus every day, I notice the falling oil prices and think to myself how wonderful cheap gas is as a consumer. But as a petroleum engineering major, my thoughts quickly turn to “S---,...

FILE - This file photo combination made from Aug. 6, 2015, photos shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and Fox News Channel host and moderator Megyn Kelly during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena, in Cleveland. Trump isn’t backing down from his threat to boycott Thursday night’s GOP debate. Trump, who has called Kelly a “lightweight” and biased, told reporters at an Iowa press conference Wednesday night that he would be holding a fundraising event in Iowa at the same time as the debate to benefit veterans and wounded soldiers instead. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

SATIRE: Donald Trump announces he will host a debate moderated by Sarah Palin

By John Gavin Harp January 28, 2016

This article is purely satire and meant only for the readers’ enjoyment. Presidential candidate and self-declared winner Donald Trump said he will host his own debate this weekend in Des Moines,...

LSU organization Black Out holds a solidarity demonstration in the Quad on Wednesday , April 29, 2015 against police brutality and in honor of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.

OPINION: LSU’s black organizations are essential

By Clarke Perkins January 28, 2016

Different groups on campus, no matter their sex, race or ethnicity, face battles others know nothing about. Each community confronts its own problems. It’s easy to put all of your resources toward...

In this May 5, 2015, file photo, a marijuana plant grows at a Minnesota Medical Solutions greenhouse in Otsego, Minn. A southeastern Illinois company says it has started growing medical marijuana and may be the first in the state to do so. Officials at Ataraxia in the Edwards County city of Albion, Ill., said Monday, July 13, 2015 that they received state authorization July 10, and have started cultivating the genetic strains that will be the basis of their products. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Opinion: Legalizing marijuana contradicts fight against drug addiction

By Charlie Bonacquisti January 27, 2016

As of June 2015, 23 states and D.C. legalized marijuana in some way, mostly medicinal. Despite marijuana’s negative effects, many politicians have taken on its legalization as part of their platform,...

“If they allowed them there might be more accidents, more impulsive thinking,” said Breelin Clark, psychology senior.

OPINION: Students should be allowed to keep stun guns and Tasers

By James Richards January 26, 2016

With terrorist fear-mongering from both Republican and Democratic politicians steadily rising, Americans don’t feel safe in their own homes. Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., recently...

File-This April 9, 2012, file photo shows Instagram being demonstrated on an iPhone in New York. Social media websites Facebook and Instagram have stopped working Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. The problem is affecting users in Australia but also in other countries including the United States. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof, File)

OPINION: Millennials should give Baby Boomers a break

By Jay Cranford January 26, 2016

Lazy, entitled and self-absorbed. Ask anyone over the age of 40 to describe millennials, and this will be the choired response. We’ve all heard the anti-millennial rhetoric of how our generation...

AHTD Director Scott Bennett speaks to the crowd gathered at the Arkansas/Louisiana state line for the ribbon cutting ceremony for I-49 between Texarkana and Shreveport.

OPINION: African-American neighborhoods are not expendable

By Michael Beyer January 25, 2016

African-American neighborhoods are as disposable today as they were in the ’50s to Louisiana transportation officials. In an effort to connect I-20 to I-49 in Shreveport, transportation officials...

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. shakes hands with students after speaking at a campaign event on the campus of Iowa State University, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

OPINION: Bernie’s in the lead…now what?

By David Schneider January 25, 2016

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is finally meeting and exceeding Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire. But if he wants to be America’s first democratic socialist president,...

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, Stacey Dash attends the "American Sniper" premiere in New York. Dash wrote on her website that BET lies to its viewers and promotes segregation. The dispute stemmed from Dash's "Fox & Friends" interview on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, when she was asked about the lack of black nominees for Academy Awards.The former "Clueless" star said that people need to make up their minds between segregation and integration, "and if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the (NAACP) Image Awards, where you're only rewarded if you're black." (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Opinion: Stacey Dash doesn’t understand segregation

By Garrett Hines January 24, 2016

Stacey Dash made comments last week causing many to cast her some major side-eye and consider revoking her “black card.” Last semester, I wrote a piece that angered LSU’s black community,...

FILE - This Jan. 21, 2016 file photo shows the Flint River near downtown Flint, Mich. City leaders are floating a shockingly high price to replace the city's water infrastructure damaged after the state’s disastrous decision in 2014 to use the Flint River as the city’s drinking water source without adding a chemical to control corrosion, which caused high levels of chloride from the river to react with iron in the pipes, causing lead to leach into water for a year and a half and contributing to a spike in child lead poisoning before city and state officials fully acknowledged the problem. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

OPINION: Media should pay attention to water crisis in Louisiana

By Michael Beyer January 24, 2016

The clean water crisis has focused on Flint, Michigan, but access to clean drinking water is both a national problem and a Louisiana one.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Opinion: Response to previous gun column

Opinion: Response to previous gun column

By Jay Cranford January 20, 2016

In Tuesday’s issue of The Daily Reveille, my colleague Charlie Bonacquisti argued for the  right to conceal carry on college campuses. I wholeheartedly disagree with her. Before you...

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Opinion: Job opportunities present in Louisiana to combat climate change

By Garrett Hines January 20, 2016

Not long ago, fellow Louisianians were sweltering and dreaming of a mild Christmas. As record high temperatures broke across the state, social media posts abounded with proclamations decrying the heat...