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Opinion: Despite high education rate, women still struggle for equality

By Clarke Perkins March 10, 2015

“Girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.” That childhood rhyme could be true today, but even with college knowledge, women are still undervalued...

George Henderson, left, professor emeritus, joins students at the University of Oklahoma to protest a fraternity's racist comments on March 9, 2015 in Norman, Okla. University President David Boren lambasted members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on Monday who participated in a racist chant caught on video, calling them disgraceful and their behavior reprehensible, and ordered that their house be vacated by midnight Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Steve Sisney)

Opinion: SAE chants highlight racism in Greek community

By Logan Anderson March 9, 2015

My freshman year of college, I wanted nothing more than to join a Panhellenic sorority. I had never considered rushing before coming to LSU ­— no one in my immediate family had ever joined a...

Gina Gowdy joins protesters on the street outside a Ferguson, Mo., fire station, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Ferguson. The Justice Department on Wednesday cleared a white former Ferguson police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices it called discriminatory and unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Opinion: Ferguson report shows serious change is needed in American law enforcement

By Alex Mendoza March 9, 2015

Racial profiling, bigotry and profit-driven law enforcement probably sound to you like serious problems. But in Ferguson, Missouri, fundamental incompetence has failed to force serious change in law enforcement. I’m...

Opinion: Investing skills are beneficial to your wallet

By Jay Cranford March 9, 2015

Investing — it’s a word you’ve heard thrown around before, probably from your parents, movies or TV. But when you read financial advice about saving for retirement by investing or investing...

Kanye West, centre and Elena Perminova, right, wife of Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev attend Christian Dior's fall-winter 2015-2016 fashion collection, as part of Paris Fashion Week, presented in Paris, France, Friday, March 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Opinion: Kanye West’s recent comments show his ignorance and hypocrisy

By Clarke Perkins March 8, 2015

I’mma let you finish, but every day Kanye West makes it nearly impossible for his fans to defend him. Although West has been on the top of many people’s hate list, and according to Star Magazine...

President Barack Obama signs H.R. 240, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The president signed a law funding the Homeland Security Department through the end of the budget year. The president signed the bill Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office with a small group of photographers present. The White House wouldn't permit reporters to attend. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Opinion: Denying citizenship to immigrants counterproductive to American interests

By Cody Sibley March 8, 2015

Despite its partisan tendencies, Congress finally passed a clean Homeland Security funding bill, which means we won’t have a government shutdown. President Obama issued an executive order at the...

Ben Carson speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: Ben Carson’s comments on homosexuality offensive

By Logan Anderson March 8, 2015

Ben Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who is exploring a possible run for president in 2016. He is also an idiot. On the surface, he does not appear to be an idiot. Carson has received the Presidential...

Opinion: Advertisements shouldn’t rely on sexual objectification

By Jen Blate March 5, 2015

When’s the last time you saw a commercial that actually focused on the product a company is selling? Our television, magazines, Internet and billboards are full of so much clutter that it’s...

Opinion: Clinton's email scandal is the least of her problems

Opinion: Clinton’s email scandal is the least of her problems

By Cody Sibley March 5, 2015

Republicans recently found dirt they can use on Hillary Clinton, and they’ve already managed to blow the situation out of proportion. While Clinton was Secretary of State, she used her personal email...

Opinion: Fox News gives American media a bad reputation

By Markus Hüfner March 4, 2015

Just a couple weeks after the citizens of Canada voted to shut down their version of Fox News, I find myself again tuning in to the original American version and getting frustrated by the bias. It might...

Opinion: Despite Russian aggression, Obama must maintain legitimacy

Opinion: Despite Russian aggression, Obama must maintain legitimacy

By Alex Mendoza March 4, 2015

Conservative pundits would have you believe world-renowned bully Vladimir Putin’s blatant attacks on Ukranian sovereignty are akin to his stealing President Obama’s lunch money and giving him...

Classroom

Opinion: Budget cuts threaten undervalued instructors

By Justin DiCharia March 3, 2015

In the spring of my freshman year of college, Martha Strohschein reinvigorated my passion for writing. Her English 2000 class hammered vigorous work ethics, research elements, writing skills and critical...