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Opinion: Knowing how to prevent identity theft is a must for college students

By Jay Cranford March 23, 2015

Identity theft is when someone steals your social security number, bank account information, birth certificate or passport number. College students in particular are more vulnerable to this type of crime....

Protesters hold an event to oppose The Response on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, outside of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Opinion: US should outlaw gay conversion therapy

By Cody Sibley March 22, 2015

Oregon, Iowa and Colorado are all working to pass bills to ban gay conversion therapy for minors, and it’s about time the rest of America did the same. The only places in the U.S. that have banned...

Opinion: America should adopt compulsory voting laws

Opinion: America should adopt compulsory voting laws

By Alex Mendoza March 22, 2015

Did you vote last November? If not, President Obama thinks maybe it’s time you were punished for it. During a meeting with a Cleveland civic group Wednesday, the president mused aloud about the effects...

Mayfield High School junior Laura Cruz, 18, looks up at the sign she is holding on Monday, March, 2, 2015, during a student-organized walkout to protest the PARCC exams in Las Cruces, N.M. Students frustrated over the new standardized test planned school walkouts across New Mexico to protest the requirement. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Robin Zielinski)

Opinion: Standardized tests not a good measure of students’ intelligence

By Markus Hüfner March 19, 2015

I still remember the day I called the Office of Enrollment Management when I was applying to the University a little over a year ago. I was wondering if international students majoring in mass communication...

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Opinion: 7 Financial Mistakes Students Make

By Jay Cranford March 19, 2015

1. Missing out on scholarships and Financial Aid You might be surprised at the amount of people who don’t take full advantage of financial aid to pay for college. Plenty of people miss paying for...

FILE - In this Aug. 8. 2011 file photo, a Wall Street sign hangs near the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. The U.S. stock market is opening modestly higher Monday, March 9, 2015, following a sell-off Friday. (AP Photo/Jin Lee, File)

Opinion: US Congress enables economic inequality

By Justin DiCharia March 19, 2015

Washington, D.C. — where senators and congressmen dressed in dapper, hand-tailored business suits drove poor and middle class Americans into economic captivity. The metaphoric prison is located billions...

FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Supreme Court is allowing the Obama administration to keep secret photographs and videotapes of a Guantanamo Bay detainee identified as the would-be 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The justices on Monday turned away an appeal from a human rights group that argued the release of videotapes and photographs of the interrogation and confinement of Mohammed al-Qahtani would serve the public interest. The Center for Constitutional Rights has accused the FBI and military personnel of subjecting al-Qahtani to isolation and aggressive interrogation techniques in 2002. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Opinion: U.S. officials should stop obscuring facts about prisoner mistreatment

By Alex Mendoza March 18, 2015

As far as the Pentagon is concerned, you don’t need to know what goes on inside Guantanamo Bay. In fact, you don’t even need to know what goes on inside Angola Prison. Pentagon officials are...

Opinion: Raising taxes on the rich is necessary for America's welfare

Opinion: Raising taxes on the rich is necessary for America’s welfare

By Clarke Perkins March 18, 2015

Sitting around complaining about how terrible our government is won’t solve anything. It’s time to start making sacrifices because, as they say, teamwork makes the dream work. This has been...

Opinion: LSU should follow Texas' lead and consider concealed carry laws

Opinion: LSU should follow Texas’ lead and consider concealed carry laws

By James Richards March 18, 2015

Texas, the land of the free and the home of the 72 ounce steak dinner. As the saying goes, everything is bigger there, from the personalities to the hats.  Lawmakers in the Texas legislature are also...

Snowden talked via video link from Russia to a crowd in Auckland’s Town Hall. | AP Photo

Opinion: Edward Snowden a national hero, revolutionary

By Jack Richards March 17, 2015

Depending on who you ask, June 2013 was either the beginning of the end of unethical U.S. government surveillance or the time a traitor jeopardized the future of U.S. intelligence. However, few people...

Opinion: David Vitter's political agenda threatens constitutional rights

Opinion: David Vitter’s political agenda threatens constitutional rights

By Logan Anderson March 17, 2015

Sen. David Vitter is attempting to use a bill intended to fight human trafficking to rob people born in the United States of their Constitutional right to citizenship. In January, Senate Majority Whip...

A group of teens talk about sagging their pants at the Dorchester Youth Collaborative in Dorchester, Mass., Feb. 4, 2013.  

Opinion: Potential Opelousas, La., laws against sagging pants racist

By Cody Sibley March 17, 2015

Opelousas Chief of Police Donald Thompson asked the city council to ban sagging pants, showing that racism is still alive in Louisiana. People who break the ordinance could pay up to $200 in fines and...