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Best of Reveille: The winners of the top stories of the last year, voted on by readers

By Reveille Staff Report August 4, 2023

We’ve counted up the votes for the best stories from the Reveille over the last year. Here are your winners: Best News StoryThe making of 'Sister Cindy': The viral evangelical preacher returns to...

Clouds pass over Memorial Tower on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, on Tower Dr on LSU Campus.

Graduate students call on LSU to raise wages to $23,000 per academic year

By Will Nickel & Jayden Nguyen August 2, 2023

United Campus Workers Louisiana is demanding that LSU fulfill its promise of paying its graduate students $23,000 per academic year. The demand comes after LSU received $8 million in the state budget and...

An excavator sits near a large hole on Friday, July 7, 2023, on Tower Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

What is the construction at LSU and when will it be done? Here are the projects being worked on

By Jayden Nguyen & Will Nickel July 30, 2023

Campus may look a little different when students return to LSU in August. Construction on various parts of campus started earlier this summer, with holes being dug in the Quad and streets like Tower Drive...

Roy Haggerty was named university vice president and provost in August 2022. As provost, he's responsible for hiring deans.

LSU appoints four new deans in four months, filling years-long vacancies

By John Buzbee July 30, 2023

Fall semester begins with four new deans supplanting the long-standing interims of their respective schools. The new deans are for the College of Agriculture, the College of Music and Dramatic Arts, the...

The sun shines on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, on Memorial Tower in Baton Rouge, La.

Free speech experts place LSU on shaky legal ground for firing grad assistant over voicemail

By Claire Sullivan July 26, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. Several free speech experts say LSU is on murky legal ground for firing a graduate assistant after his profane voicemail to...

LSU Olinde Career Center sits Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, on the first floor of the LSU Student Union.

Trying to get a summer job, internship you actually want? Students, adviser have advice

By Colin Falcon, Editor in Chief July 24, 2023

A summer internship can be a valuable tool for college students to gain real-world experience in their desired fields and put summer downtime to good use, but the complications of how and when to apply...

Students walk to and from the LSU Student Union, where the NCBRT held their active threat training on March 28 & 29, 2023.

Free speech group demands LSU rehire graduate assistant terminated for vulgar voicemail

By Piper Hutchinson July 21, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. A national free speech organization has sent a letter to LSU President William F. Tate that demands the university undo its...

An ice cream cone melts in the summer heat on Friday, July 14, 2023, in Baton Rouge, La.

‘It feels like it’s 100-and-something degrees:’ how Louisianans are managing summer’s heat

By John Buzbee & Colin Falcon July 21, 2023

Last month was the hottest June on record for many regions of Louisiana and for nurse and resident Tricia O’Neill, this was reflected in an inflated electricity bill caused by an overworked air conditioning...

Beverly Scott Shabazz, 75, discusses life in the aftermath of her late husband Milton Scott’s shooting 50 years ago. 

50 years after fatal shooting: Milton Scott’s family, FBI agents talk about the emotional toll

Second of two stories. Video available here.  BATON ROUGE--Beverly Shabazz did not have a job and was seven months pregnant with her second child when her husband, Milton X Scott, was shot...

Trees frame Memorial Tower on Thursday, June 22, 2023, near Tower Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU fires graduate assistant who left vulgar voicemail for state senator

By Piper Hutchinson July 20, 2023

Note: Click here to see the Louisiana Illuminator's original reporting. An LSU graduate assistant will be relieved of his teaching duties — but remain at the school as a student — after...

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks about the investigation into the death of Ronald Greene in Baton Rouge, La., Feb. 1, 2022. The Democratic governor blocked a package of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation from becoming law Friday, June 30, 2023, including the state's version of a “Don't Say Gay” bill and a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Lawmakers override governor’s veto of bill banning gender-affirming care

By Allison Allsop July 18, 2023

BATON ROUGE–Lawmakers on Tuesday overrode the governor’s veto of a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors. That was the only veto override that made it through both the House and Senate,...

A car passes the Nicholson Drive and Bob Pettit Boulevard intersection on Saturday July, 15, 2023, in Baton Rouge, La.

Tigerland A and B bus routes restored after leaving many without transportation to campus

By Colin Falcon, Editor in Chief July 17, 2023

Parking and Transportation Services has reintroduced modified Tigerland A and B bus routes after many students were left to improvise ways to campus when the routes were discontinued earlier this summer. LSU’s...