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The Venue at Northgate, an apartment complex near LSU’s campus, stands tall on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, on Aster Street in Baton Rouge, La.

Roommate Roulette: Off-campus apartment hunt begins for LSU freshmen

By John Buzbee February 24, 2022

LSU freshmen are weighing their options for off-campus living in Baton Rouge this spring, as their first-year housing contracts near expiration and many students sign leases for next semester. Many...

Banners reading “COVID-19 Vaccine Site” move in the wind on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, outside of the LSU Union Theater.

What will it take for LSU students to get booster shots? Student campaign offers $100 gift cards

By Piper Hutchinson February 24, 2022

During the third week of February, the vaccine clinic in the LSU Student Union administered an average of four booster shots a day. On Tuesday, 121 were administered.  Through the "Shot for 100" program,...

Sister Cindy raises an arm up emphatically on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, in Free Speech Plaza on LSU’s Campus in Baton Rouge, La.

Evangelical preacher, TikTok star ‘Sister Cindy’ visits LSU Free Speech Alley

By Maddie Scott February 23, 2022

Cindy Smock, a popular evangelical Christian preacher known as “Sister Cindy,” visited LSU’s Free Speech Alley on Monday and Tuesday to encourage modest dress, abstinence from alcohol...

Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, the governor's chief budget adviser, left; House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, center; and Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, speak ahead of a meeting of Louisiana's income forecasting panel on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

LSU infrastructure needs likely millions higher given unfactored rise in construction costs

By Piper Hutchinson February 22, 2022

Note: Louisiana legislators will decide what to do with a significant surplus of cash available to the state in the next legislative session in March. Ahead of the session, The Reveille is dedicating a...

An LSU shuttle sits in the parking lot on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, of Azalea Hall on South Campus Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

Students report unreliability of LSU’s campus shuttle system, mobile app problems

By Chandler McIntosh February 20, 2022

LSU students have complained of inconsistent OnDemand rides through the university’s shuttle system with ambiguous pickup locations and overall unreliability. LSU’s OnDemand transit services...

LSU Food Pantry sits Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, on the first floor of the Student Union on 310 Student Union in Baton Rouge, LA.

LSU Food Pantry takes initiative to assist food-insecure students with MLK Food Drive

By Chandler McIntosh February 18, 2022

The LSU African American Cultural Center is hosting its 2022 Martin Luther King Food Drive and is inviting students, faculty, and campus organizations to donate.The AACC Center is accepting donations until...

The Office of Title IX sits Jan. 25, 2022, in 118 Himes Hall.

New student-led group forming to advise Title IX Office on sexual assault issues

By Corbin Ross February 18, 2022

Isabella Rovere, the director of the We’re Committed campaign in Student Government, is organizing an Advisory Council for Power-Based Violence, a council which will advise the Title IX office on...

Traffic comes to a halt Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, on Highland Road in Baton Rouge, LA.

Baton Rouge traffic ranked fourth worst in U.S. behind Los Angeles, New York and Miami

By Josh Archote February 17, 2022

Baton Rouge traffic is the fourth worst in the U.S. behind Los Angeles, New York and Miami only, according to a traffic index ranking by TomTom, an electronics company. Congestion levels in Louisiana’s...

Raccoon falls through 459 Dining Hall ceiling in room of packed students

Raccoon falls through 459 Dining Hall ceiling in room of packed students

By Chandler McIntosh February 16, 2022

A raccoon fell through the ceiling of the 459 Dining Hall into the dining area Wednesday night as students were eating. Pictures and videos taken by students capture diners watching as the confused raccoon...

The Sun peaks out from behind the State Capitol on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, at 900 North Third Street in Baton Rouge, La.

Republican iconoclast rips ‘lazy’ Legislature for killing Supreme Court bill: ‘Too stupid to work together’

BATON ROUGE—The only Republican bill that would have increased minority representation through redistricting reached its death on the House floor Wednesday, prompting its author to give his fellow...

US coast to see century’s worth of sea level rise by 2050. Louisiana projected to see worst of it

US coast to see century’s worth of sea level rise by 2050. Louisiana projected to see worst of it

By Josh Archote February 16, 2022

In the next 30 years, sea levels along U.S. coastlines are projected to rise by the same amount they did in the last 100 years, a government report released Tuesday warns. Louisiana is projected to see...

Proposed Louisiana Supreme Court map filed by Representative Barry Ivey, R-Central. The map, presented in House Bill 22, would create a second majority minority district in the seven-member Supreme Court. 

Lone Republican seeks to increase minority representation in Louisiana electoral maps

By Piper Hutchinson February 16, 2022

A Republican-majority redistricting committee advanced a bill that would add an additional majority Black district to the seven-member Louisiana Supreme Court. HB22, the only bill authored by a Republican...