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A Mardi Gras Indian of the Red Cheyenne tribe dances with a decorative rifle on Super Sunday, March 19, 2023, in A.L. Davis Park in New Orleans, La.

Mardi Gras Indians celebrate Super Sunday: ‘Today, we challenge each other with our art’

By Cross Harris March 23, 2023

On Super Sunday, March 19, the Mardi Gras Indians took to the streets. In costumes weighing hundreds of pounds, built from great profusions of feathers and beads, the tribes faced off to see who was the...

Candace Owens looks out on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in the Student Union in Baton Rouge, La.

Candace Owens draws crowd at LSU for talk on feminism, family and more

By Lizzie Falcetti March 22, 2023

A jam-packed audience filled the LSU Student Union Theater on Tuesday to hear from conservative political commentator Candace Owens.  Before Owens stepped on stage, the audience roared with applause...

Neon signs light the French Quarter's Bourbon Street at dusk on Saturday, March 4, 2023, in New Orleans, La. Kirsten Stimmel's father, Carl Stimmel, played gigs as a drummer in the Quarter during the 1950's.

A departed father’s final trip to New Orleans: ‘He always loved the city’

By Cross Harris March 20, 2023

Mardi Gras was hot this year. The afternoon sun beat down on the French Quarter's iron balconies, casting shadows on the celebration below. In the beer- and sweat-soaked streets, crowds of shining people...

LSU President William F. Tate IV conducts interviews March 13 prior to the departure of the Scholarship First bus tour.

A year in review: President Tate tours the state for anniversary of his ‘scholarship first’ agenda

By Oliver Butcher, News Editor March 20, 2023

LSU President William F. Tate IV hopped on a large purple bus on Monday for a 1,000-mile journey of the state.Tate’s four-day trip, which spanned from New Orleans to Monroe, from crawfishing to surveying...

Conservative commentator Candace Owens speaks at the Convention of the Right, in Paris on Sept. 28, 2019.

Controversial conservative commentator Candace Owens to speak at LSU

By Reveille Staff Report March 19, 2023

Candace Owens, a prominent, controversial conservative commentator, will speak at LSU on Tuesday. Owens's talk will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, in the LSU Student Union Theatre as part of Turning...

Davante Lewis, Jay Dardenne, Shawn Wilson and Laurie White Adams held the position of student body president before they held elected office.

Before they were state leaders, they were student leaders

By Piper Hutchinson March 19, 2023

Shawn Wilson has been building bridges since his college days.  Wilson, former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development who’s now the sole Democrat in the race...

Clouds cover the sky above the Louisiana State Capitol on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2023, near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU faculty, administration respond to tenure attacks: ‘Leaders in the state have shown no backbone’

By Oliver Butcher, News Editor March 19, 2023

Tenure in Louisiana has faced attacks from the state house, prompting concerns from some professors.Academic tenure, which all but guarantees job security for professors that have completed certain educational...

Students lounge about on Thursday, March 24, 2022, on the LSU Parade Ground on Highland Road in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU vice president of enrollment management leaving for new position at Temple University

By Reveille Staff Report March 13, 2023

LSU's vice president of enrollment management and student success, Jose Aviles, will take a new position at Temple University starting in May, ending his five-year tenure at LSU, the university announced...

Pride flags adorn the walls in the new LGBTQ+ Center Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Coates Hall room 175.

New center creates space for LGBTQ community on campus: ‘There’s a space that is for me’

By Lizzie Falcetti March 13, 2023

The LGBTQ community has a new home on LSU’s campus. The LGBTQ+ Center, located in Coates Hall room 175, opened in February and “serves as a connecting point for LGBTQ+ people,” according...

The capitol building stands tall on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in Baton Rouge, La.

A month to go: More bills to watch in Louisiana as the legislative session approaches

By Claire Sullivan March 9, 2023

A little more than a month remains before lawmakers kick off the regular legislative session at the Louisiana Capitol on April 10, debating issues ranging from abortion to taxes and libraries. The Reveille...

Max Gruver stands in his South Hall dorm room.

Report: Max Gruver’s parents awarded $6.1 million in wrongful death lawsuit

By Reveille Staff Report March 8, 2023

The parents of the LSU student who died in a hazing incident in 2017 were awarded $6.1 million in a wrongful death suit by a Baton Rouge jury, according to The Advocate.  Gruver, 18, died from alcohol...

Austin American-Statesman reporter Tony Plohetski shows a video of himself reporting on the Uvalde school shooting on Monday, March 6, 2023, as part of a talk about covering the Uvalde school shooting given at the LSU Journalism Building in Baton Rouge, La.

Austin reporter, editor visit Manship School to discuss covering Uvalde school shooting

By Claire Sullivan and Gabby Jimenez March 8, 2023

Tony Plohetski, an Austin American-Statesman reporter who spent weeks covering the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, got a late-night call that was a turning point in the massacre’s coverage. “Come...