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Memorial Tower sits in the distance, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU promised paid family leave to all employees. Not everyone’s getting it.

By Piper Hutchinson February 6, 2024

LSU leaders said they would provide paid family leave for all employees starting Jan. 1, but some employees who have requested it have been told the policy hasn’t been approved. The university announced...

Students walk through the Quad on Feb. 2, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La. 

Back to school: students’ stories from winter break & the semester to come

By Cross Harris February 4, 2024

With a school-canceling cold snap, burst pipes and flooding, LSU’s spring semester started strangely. Now that class has been back for nearly a month, the Reveille interviewed students to find out...

Memorial Tower stands tall on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU-led consortium secures $160 million grant for energy transition initiative

By Ashlynn Baillio February 3, 2024

The National Science Foundation announced Jan. 29 that the LSU-led consortium Future Use of Energy in Louisiana had secured a monumental $160 million grant. The funding, awarded through the NSF Engines...

Student Senators listen to meeting business Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in the LSU Student Union in Baton Rouge, La.

‘Work to be done’: SG resolution would request online DEI statement

By Cross Harris February 1, 2024

A resolution proposed at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting would request the university add an “expansive” diversity, equity and inclusion statement to the Student Government website.The...

 The Louisiana Supreme Court Building on Royal Street in New Orleans, Dec. 7, 2021. 

5th Circuit grants motion against Black voters to rehear case over La. supreme court seat

By Wesley Muller February 1, 2024

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to rehear a decades-old voting rights case that established the only majority-Black state supreme court district in Louisiana, according to the court’s...

Memorial Tower sits in the distance, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

The mystery of Memorial Tower’s long-missing original chimes

By Morgan Carter February 1, 2024

For decades, 18 metal chimes rang out of Louisiana State University’s Memorial Tower, filling campus with the "Westminster Quarters" every quarter hour. Renovations in the 1980s changed...

Point-au-Chien

LSU Awarded $780K from National Academies to Protect Coastal Land

By Sarah Walton January 31, 2024

LSU has won a $780,000 award from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to aid the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe in protecting its lands from coastal erosion. the university announced...

Pedestrians pass the Queens County Supreme Court Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Shortage of prosecutors, judges leads to widespread court backlogs

By Amanda Hernandez January 29, 2024

Still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, court systems in many states are working to clear their case backlogs. Some court systems have moved cases faster using virtual court proceedings, court data dashboards...

LSU student government senator Corbitt Driskell seconds Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, during a meeting at the Capital Chamber in the LSU Student Union.

SG members comment on LSU’s DEI scrub

By Aidan Anthaume & Cross Harris January 29, 2024

LSU’s Student Senate held its first meeting of the semester Wednesday night; the Reveille spoke with senators and other SG members to understand their thoughts on recent changes in LSU’s online...

Lockett Hall sits Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, on Field House Drive on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

Flooding in Lockett Hall dredges old frustrations: ‘tear it down’

By Cross Harris January 29, 2024

Flooding in Lockett Hall Thursday morning canceled some classes that afternoon. Other courses continued during the morning flooding, prompting concern from students.  “I hope this is a sign...

The LSU Library reception desk sits Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024 at the LSU Library on Tower Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

Escaping the rain with watercolors at the LSU Library

By Sarah Walton January 25, 2024

Wednesday was a considerably water-centric day. Rain drenched LSU, flooding some areas and leaving students soaked on their journey from class to class. As the rain inundated campus, another water...

LSU President William F. Tate IV discusses the change of wording from "inclusion" to "engagement" in the Division of Engagement, Civil Rights and Title IX Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at a Faculty Senate meeting inside the Woods Auditorium on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU president defends DEI language removal at Faculty Senate meeting

LSU President William F. Tate IV addressed the university’s abrupt shift from diversity, equity and inclusion language to “engagement” at Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, responding...