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Linda Jarrett reads through notes at Dying with Dignity offices in Toronto, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. Canada's highest court Friday, unanimously struck down a ban on doctor-assisted suicide for mentally competent patients with terminal illnesses. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)

Opinion: US should follow Canada’s lead in legalizing euthanasia

By Cody Sibley February 24, 2015

Earlier this month, the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a 21-year ban on euthanasia. It’s time for America to do the same. The unanimous ruling won’t actually take effect until 2016, so lawmakers...

Sleep

Opinion: Students need sleep in order to succeed

By Jen Blate February 24, 2015

Mornings aren’t my finest moments. The sight of a sunrise is so bright it makes my eyes bleed. But mornings are not a prime time for many people, myself included. And I can guarantee that I am not...

Opinion: Walmart’s wage increase won’t solve its bigger problems

By Alex Mendoza February 23, 2015

Despite impending pay raises, Wal-Mart is still relying on taxpayers to provide for its employees. This April, half a million Wal-Mart employees will get a raise to at least $9 an hour. For some employees,...

Scantrons

Opinion: Grade inflation hurts LSU students’ report cards, job opportunities

By Justin DiCharia February 23, 2015

LSU professors are giving out As and Bs like the candy corn you’ve been trying to get rid of since last Halloween. In 2013, 88 percent of LSU freshman maintained a 3.0 GPA or higher. The number of...

Opinion: Obamacare helps more than it hurts

Opinion: Obamacare helps more than it hurts

By Clarke Perkins February 23, 2015

There isn’t one government mandate that will please everyone. That’s impossible. But when the good begins to outweigh the bad, the complaining should start to trickle down. That doesn’t...

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: Building a good credit score starts in college

By Jay Cranford February 22, 2015

College is a time where we lay the foundation of adulthood. We get an education that will secure our careers, we meet people that we will probably know for the rest of our lives and of course, we start...

Opinion: Baton Rouge PD should stop enforcing unconstitutional sodomy law

Opinion: Baton Rouge PD should stop enforcing unconstitutional sodomy law

By Cody Sibley February 22, 2015

Despite their already horrible reputation, cops are always finding new ways to worsen it. On Feb. 12, a Baton Rouge police officer found two men having sex in the back of a car at Forest Community Park...

Yazmin Vash Payne

Opinion: Trans women of colors’ deaths in the South cannot be ignored

By Logan Anderson February 22, 2015

Yazmin Vash Payne. Ty Underwood. Lamia Beard. Taja de Jesus. Penny Proud. Kristina Gomez Reinwald. These are the six transgender women of color who have been killed since the beginning of 2015. Proud,...

Opinion: New policy for campus tobacco users is pointless and cannot be enforced

By James Richards February 22, 2015

On Friday, everybody got an email from the University about how “certain areas of campus” with “some individuals” are not following the University’s tobacco-free policy. Vice...

A pair of prop Oscars are seen during rehearsals for the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. The Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 22. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Opinion: 2015 Oscars disappoint due to lack of diversity

By SidneyRose Reynen February 19, 2015

This Sunday, I will no doubt be bundled up on my couch with a glass of sparkling grape juice watching the Academy Awards. Sitting on top of piles of ignored homework, I’ll roll my eyes at every corny...

Desuirea Harris, the grandmother of Mike Brown, second from right, is comforted by Lala Moore, right, at the memorial to Brown in the Canfield Green Apartments, in St. Louis, marking six months since Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

Opinion: #BlackLivesMatter should include black women

By Clarke Perkins February 19, 2015

After the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, three women started the movement “#BlackLivesMatter.” It remains extremely popular, used constantly on social media, and remains the slogan for many...

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2015 file photo, University of Michigan-Flint freshman Lina Eltahir, 17, right, stands with others at a candlelight vigil at the school in Flint, Mich., in memory of three people who were killed near UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. Vigils across the county popped up in the wake of this tragedy. "I don’t know that I've ever seen this many vigils come together this quickly and be so well attended," said Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' San Francisco Bay Area chapter. "It gives me relief that the three young people in Chapel Hill inspired so much mobilization and love and activism." (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May, File) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

Opinion: U.S. media and justice system encourage hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims

By Alex Mendoza February 18, 2015

In Western media, Muslims only make the news when they’re behind a gun —  not in front of it. That was Afghan journalist Abdullah Azada Khenjani’s response to last Tuesday’s...