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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2008 file photo, a cardholder poses with his Visa credit card, in Springfield, Ill. In an effort to combat credit card fraud, the payment processor Visa on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 said it will be rolling out a product next month that will track credit card users on their smart phones. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Opinion: Financial literacy courses should be mandatory for high school students

By Jay Cranford March 29, 2015

According to the The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States scores slightly below average in financial literacy among 15-year-olds. The good news is financial literacy...

Opinion: Bitcoin is the beginning of a millennial-focused financial system

Opinion: Bitcoin is the beginning of a millennial-focused financial system

By James Richards March 29, 2015

Bitcoin is the future of money. Most people, including nearly all college students, have no clue what Bitcoin is, what the point of Bitcoin is and why people are obsessively excited about it. Even if you...

Opinion: Victim blaming keeps abusive cultures alive on college campuses

Opinion: Victim blaming keeps abusive cultures alive on college campuses

By Logan Anderson March 29, 2015

As soon as news broke that Acacia was being investigated for hazing, people flocked to social media to discount the claims made by a former pledge. When a video featuring an Acacia pledge detailing the...

Opinion: America isn't the melting pot it claims to be

Opinion: America isn’t the melting pot it claims to be

By Markus Hüfner March 26, 2015

My first impression of race relations at LSU could not have been worse when I came here in August. It looked like everybody only had friends of their own skin color, and when the long-awaited football...

Dozens of fast food workers and their supporters protest workplace conditions in front of a McDonald's restaurant, Tuesday, March 17, 2015 in New York. Labor organizers say McDonald's workers in 19 cities have filed complaints over burns from grease, a lack of protective equipment and other workplace hazards. It's the latest move in a campaign to win pay of $15 an hour and unionization for fast-food workers by publicly pressuring McDonald's. The company says franchisees are committed to providing safe working conditions, but it will review the allegations detailed in complaints filed with U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Opinion: Food industry should adhere to better safety and health standards

By Jen Blate March 26, 2015

We’ve all been to McDonald’s and enjoyed a Big Mac and fries, and we all know what a Big Mac tastes like. That’s because McDonald’s is the leading worldwide food service retailer...

Opinion: Alumni need to step up, endowments may save university

By Justin DiCharia March 26, 2015

While the LSU football team consistently ranks in the top 50 percent of SEC football programs, the University’s endowment programs don’t come near the top 50 percent of SEC endowment funding. The...

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Opinion: Opponents of climate change reform have no ground to stand on

By James Richards March 25, 2015

On Monday, the resident pariah and Grandpa Munster look-alike of the Senate Ted Cruz announced he’s running for president in 2016. Cruz built a reputation out of being irritating and supporting terrible...

Opinion: American Apparel distances itself from controversial history in all the wrong ways

Opinion: American Apparel distances itself from controversial history in all the wrong ways

By Alex Mendoza March 25, 2015

Executives at controversial fashion brand American Apparel have decided to clean up the company’s image. In the process, they’ve decided that nipples and body hair on adult women are on par...

U.S singer Solange Knowles leaves Carven's ready-to-wear fall-winter 2015/2016 fashion collection presented during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, Thursday, March 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Opinion: Society should accept black women’s natural hair

By Clarke Perkins March 24, 2015

Hair is simply threadlike strands that grow from your head, and whether it is straight, curly, kinky, wavy or dreadlocked, you shouldn’t be judged or discriminated against because of it. It has always...

Opinion: Implanting microchips in children is a step too far

By Jen Blate March 24, 2015

How would you feel if you found out that you were microchipped by your parents? The initial thought is extremely disturbing. Microchipping your pet involves implanting a small chip with your contact information...

In this March 17, 2015, photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. holds-up a synopsis of the House Republican budget proposal as he announces the plan on Capitol Hill in Washington. The new House and Senate Republican boast that they both balance the federal budget within 10 years, without raising taxes. Their own numbers, however, say millions of American families and businesses would have to pay more in taxes to make the math work. To the tune of about $900 billion more over the next decade. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Opinion: GOP budget proposal would cut benefits and higher education funds

By Cody Sibley March 24, 2015

The House Republicans unveiled their budget proposal, and it unsurprisingly guts nearly every form of assistance for American families. The GOP wants to freeze the maximum Pell Grant at $5,775 per student...

President Barack Obama gestures at his town hall-style meeting at Memorial Hall, Wednesday June 30, 2010 in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg) Original Filename: Obama_Racine_WIRAC103.jpg

Opinion: Americans should demand for more government transparency

By James Richards March 23, 2015

Thousands of college students are soaking up the sunshine this week for spring break. They’re probably already on their third case of Natural Light and on the way to a sunburn a redneck would be...