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Brother Jed Smock preaches on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 in the Free Speach Alley

‘Just a show’: Controversial preacher Brother Jed Smock visits LSU, receives negative feedback from students

By Lara Nicholson February 3, 2020

Free Speech Alley offers a variety of different characters and oddballs: club members handing out flyers, activists sharing their causes on megaphones or religious groups sitting with literature, waiting...

Participants work together to create a video game in just 48 hours at the Global Game Jam, hosted by LSU Digital Media Center from Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2020.

LSU Digital Media Center hosts Global Game Jam, invites participants to create video games

By Amber Buettner February 3, 2020

The LSU Digital Media Center hosted the Global Game Jam from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. This is the sixth time that this event was being hosted by the University. At Global Game Jam, participants form teams and...

The Esports room operates during regular business hours in the UREC on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

‘Rocket League school’: LSU Rocket League team wins tournament in New York

By Joanna Clark I @front_row_jo February 2, 2020

The LSU Rocket League team was in a league of their own during a Rocket League tournament on Jan. 17-20. LSU was invited to send one team to New York to compete in a tournament the weekend following the...

A pride flag hangs in the LGBTQ+ Project offices in the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the Student Union on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020.

LSU LGBTQ+ Faculty Caucus proposes new LGBTQ+ Center for students

By Jacob Matthews February 2, 2020

LSU's LGBTQ+ Faculty Caucus is proposing the creation of an LGBTQ+ center on campus. Despite the pre-existing LGBTQ+ room on campus in the Women’s Center, the Faculty Caucus agreed that a full building...

LSU Voter Registration Day taking place in Free Speech Alley on Thursday, September 19, 2019.

LSU Geaux Vote ranked fifth of 131 student voting organizations, registered 1,800 students to vote in 2019

By Taylor Landry February 1, 2020

Geaux Vote was recently ranked fifth out of 131 TurboVote campus partners for registering about 1,800 students to vote in 2019. Geaux Vote is a nonpartisan student organization that operates through the...

Washing machine prices inside the dorm rooms are set to $1.25 a load making it $5.00 just to clean and dry two loads of laundry on Tuesday Oct. 06, 2015, in Laville Hall on LSU campus.

LSU’s Freshman Leadership Council launches initiative to make laundry free in residential halls

By Joanna Clark February 1, 2020

The Freshman Leadership Council is working to make laundry at LSU “laund-free.” A “Free Laundry for LSU Students” survey created by a small group within Freshman Leadership Council...

All West Feliciana Schools have buzzer systems that control access into schools.

Louisiana’s public school safety spending rising, resources remain scarce

By Hailey Auglair January 31, 2020

When former law enforcement officer Roy Murry became the director of security for Caddo Parish schools in 1993, his safety budget was $490,000. Today, as worries about possible school shootings increase...

Kristin Grady Gilger talks about her book No Crying in the Newsroom on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2020 in the holiday forum in the Journalism building.

Kristin Gilger reminds LSU students there’s ‘no crying in newsrooms’ in Reilly Center talk

By Amber Buettner January 30, 2020

Kristin Gilger, co-author of the book “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms,” shared what she's learned about workplace barriers female journalists face with LSU students on Thursday. The event...

Six lakes surround LSU's Campus in Baton Rouge on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.

LSU Lakes in desperate need of care; University, BRAF to begin dredging by January 2021

By Lara Nicholson January 30, 2020

The six lakes surrounding campus have been a staple at the University since 1938. Students and local residents often run, bike or walk their dogs around the perimeters. Children growing up in the city...

FILE - In this March 21, 2018, file photo, Gayle Benson, widow of NFL New Orleans Saints and NBA New Orleans Pelicans owner Tom Benson, walks down the steps to receive his casket with New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond for visitation at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Attorneys for several men suing the Roman Catholic church say documents they obtained through discovery show that the New Orleans Saints team aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.” (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Report: New Orleans Saints helped shape accused clergy list, victim lawyers say

By Jim Mustian January 30, 2020

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints say they only did “minimal” behind-the-scenes public relations work on the area’s Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis, but attorneys suing...

The Indian Mounds sit on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 on Dalrymple Drive.

New research shows LSU Indian Mounds could be oldest man-made structure

By Jacob Mathews January 30, 2020

The Indian Mounds on Cypress and Field House drive could be the oldest man-made structure left standing, according to Geology Professor Brooks Ellwood and the LSU Geology & Geophysics Department. After...

The construction site receives numerous shipments of material stored at Park Place on Jan. 9, 2017, at the corner of Dodson Avenue and West Parker Boulevard.

Report: Louisiana to borrow up to $350 million to pay for construction work

By Melinda Deslatte January 30, 2020

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's new legislative leaders quickly signed off Thursday on plans for the state to borrow up to $350 million to replenish the account that pays for state-financed construction...