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Editorial: University resources inadequate to aid sexual assault victims

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board August 26, 2014

Stop what you’re doing and look around. Wherever you are, you’re bound to see women walking around, studying or laughing. Women you have class with, women you’ve run into once or twice...

Governor Bobby Jindal speaks to LSU Engineering students after he discussed expanding LSU’s engineering college February 3, 2014 in Patrick F. Taylor Hall.

Editorial: Jindal offers no help to students

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board March 10, 2014

While most of the LSU student body and the world watched as Lil Boosie, aka Torrence Hatch, talked to the media on Monday for the first time since his release from prison, Gov. Bobby Jindal addressed the...

Opinion: Time for Louisiana leadership to stand up for higher education

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board January 22, 2014

At Tuesday’s announcement of a proposed $141.5 million increase in state higher education funding for the state’s upcoming fiscal year budget, Gov. Bobby Jindal spent much of his time lauding...

Gov. Bobby Jindal joins leaders from the state's higher education systems to make an announcementabout funding for higher education in Baton Rouge Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at The E. J. Ourso College of Business

Editorial: Time for La. leadership to stand up for higher education

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board January 21, 2014

At Tuesday’s announcement of a proposed $141.5 million increase in state higher education funding for the state’s upcoming fiscal year budget, Gov. Bobby Jindal spent much of his time lauding...

Trees bathe in sunlight Tuesday afternoon in front of the Studio Arts Buildings on campus.

Editorial: Time to stop the waiting game — fix buildings

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board December 4, 2013

“The REC is getting a lazy river, and we are losing buildings,” ceramic junior Patrick LeBas The University is crumbling around us and so far the administration’s response has been to...

Larry Nanney, of Rockfield, Ky., a Korean War Veteran who served with the Army and Air Force is overcome with emotion while greeting people during the Bowling Green-Warren County Veterans Day Parade, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in Bowling Green, Ky. (AP Photo/Daily News, Alex Slitz)

Editorial: Honor Veterans Day by volunteering, giving back

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board November 10, 2013

We as students spend most of our days rushing from class to meals to club meetings, engrossed in the tiny interactions and goings-on of our lives. Every so often, something comes around to pull us out...

Opinion: Louisiana Town named most unequal place in America

Opinion: Louisiana Town named most unequal place in America

By Jay Meyers November 4, 2013

If you’ve lived in the state long enough, watching Louisiana consistently rank lowest in categories measuring the well-being of society has essentially turned into a running joke. In September of...

An Indian student displays "NO RAPE" message painted on her hands during a demonstration to demand death sentence for four men convicted of rape and murder of a student on a moving bus in New Delhi bus last year, in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. A judge on Friday ordered all four to the gallows for a brutal attack that left the young woman with such severe internal injuries that she died two weeks later. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Editorial: If you are a survivor of sexual abuse, come forward

By The Daily Reveille Editorial Board September 25, 2013

Next week, the University will host the annual Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network’s day of awareness to educate students about sexual violence on campus. Last week, multiple news outlets reported...

Planned Parenthood

Head to Head: Planned Parenthood is not a reliable provider of healthcare

By Christine Guttery September 12, 2013

“Planned Parenthood. Care. No matter what.” So it says on the front page of the official website but Planned Parenthood doesn’t practice what it preaches and it certainly doesn’t...

Trina Grimes Scott and former Gov. Edwin Edwards met when she was his pen pal while he was in prison.

Opinion: Louisiana remains the most corrupt state

By Jay Meyers September 12, 2013

Immediately after taking office in 2008, Gov. Bobby Jindal set to overhaul Louisiana’s ethics laws, which is quite the daunting task for our notoriously corrupt state. Indeed, Louisiana has had a...

LSU international studies sophomore Andi Aguilar (left), also known as One Dollar Baby, and psychology senior Jodi Shipley (right), also known as Rosie the Rioter, arm wrestle Satuday, April 20, 2013 during the Blunt Force BRAWL at the Spanish Moon.

Opinion: Too much Spice Girls, not enough Riot Grrls

By Jana King September 5, 2013

Girl Warrior, Feminists in Action and other local groups have done a lot of positive work in the way of empowering young women. I am in awe of how many women in this community have come together to make...

This photo combo shows Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, left, and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. Summers is the White House insider with a direct line to President Barack Obama. Yellen is the Federal Reserve veteran with a long list of congressional patrons. The two Ivy League trained economists have emerged as leading contenders to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Fed, the nation’s central bank. Obama could announce his nominee in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, J. Scott Applewhite)

Opinion: Obama should tap Yellen for next Fed Chairman

By Jay Meyers September 5, 2013

President Obama’s replacement for current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake will likely be one of the most contentious and important economic decisions of his presidency. Should it be former Secretary...