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Letters To The Editor

LSU President F. King Alexander gives a speech during LSU's 2018-19 Student Government inauguration on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, near Memorial Tower.

LSU President F. King Alexander: “We can all play a vital role in eradicating hatred, bigotry and prejudice”

By LSU President F. King Alexander September 11, 2019

When our football team hosted Georgia Southern two weeks ago, a student allegedly directed an offensive racial slur at a group of peers while they were seated in the student section. I am saddened and...

Tureaud Hall

Letter to the Editor: The unsent letter: After six decades, revisiting the unfair treatment of AP Turead

By Clare Coss, Class of 1957 September 8, 2019

March 8, 2019 Dear Editor, This letter is decades overdue. I first wrote it in the fall of 1953 but was scared to send it in. My freshman year, pledged to Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, seen as a “Yankee”...

The Student Health Center rests at its location on LSU's campus on Monday, April 2, 2018.

Letter to the Editor: People should get tested for STIs, educate themselves before contracting them

By Jordon Smith April 26, 2019

In recent years, many states across the country have decreased their STD rates. As a country, we have continued to decrease the incidence rates of gonorrhea and syphilis. Although we have advanced dramatically...

LSU's campus is riddled with many warnings of towing enforcement during school hours around campus on Sept. 12, 2017.

Letter to the Editor: Towing vehicles unnecessary when students pay for permits, numerous fees

By Tammia Marcano April 26, 2019

It is quite frustrating as a University student that cars are being towed on a campus for which a parking permit is mandated.  For the year 2018-19, freshmen students are required to live on campus,...

Barnes & Nobles bookstore on Wednesday Aug. 18, 2016.

Letter to the Editor: ‘Open Education Resources’ key to reshaping textbook market

By Charlie Spring April 19, 2019

In response to the previously submitted "Letter to the Editor" regarding underutilized textbook resources, there is no question that the outrageous price of textbooks imposes an undue burden on students....

Actor duo William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman recently came under fire for their role in the admissions scandal. Huffman is one of 50 people charged in the sweeping college admissions scandal, in which wealthy parents allegedly cut fat checks to have their children falsely certified as athletic recruits at fancy colleges and universities, or to facilitate cheating on the SAT and ACT exams.

Letter to the Editor: Journalists should stop promoting generalizations about white people

By Arthur Richter March 26, 2019

As I read the article by Olivia James in the March 20 edition of The Reveille, I was very disappointed that she chose to lump all white people as privileged and all black and brown people as disadvantaged....

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Letter to the Editor: Scientific progress not made with inhumane, unethical animal experimentation

By Ingrid Taylor September 6, 2018

For someone who professes to love animals, Christine Lattin appears to harm them with no compunction. There are two main issues here: the irrelevance of her experiments, and the inhumane acts perpetrated...

LSU biological sciences professor Christine Lattin attaches a band to a House Sparrow.

Letter to the Editor: Animal research necessary to improve human, animal medicine

By Christine Lattin September 3, 2018

I became a biologist because of my love for animals and the environment. Now, as a biology professor at LSU, I study hormones and the brain, and the work I do helps us understand how to help wildlife when...

LSU fans enjoy tailgating weather on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, on the Parade Ground under the Memorial Tower.

Letter to the Editor: My Big Fat Greek Tailgate

By Felip Fuentonomopolous July 17, 2018

On July 10, The Daily Reveille outlined the changes to the University’s new policies regulating Greek life. These changes included an update to PS-78, the controversial decision to ban on-campus...

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Letter to the Editor: Gumbo Yearbook necessary, essential campus tradition

By Marlie Lynch April 25, 2018

“We’re all here to fight with you.” The words Nadeen Abusada, Tiger TV station manager, just told me in the hallway before I sat to write this. It’s one of those things that make...

The LSU Pro-Life club displays flags each representing an abortion done in one day by Planned Parenthood on Nov. 13, 2017, on the LSU Parade Ground.

Letter to the Editor: ‘The first right we have as human beings is the right to life’

By Ben Parks January 26, 2018

This past Monday, Jan. 22, marked the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion, ruling that access to abortion falls under the right to privacy protected...

LSU Recycling

Letter to the Editor: LSU should reduce waste, become more eco-friendly

By Kristina Plunkett November 18, 2017

In order to truly love purple and live gold, LSU needs to be more green. While LSU has already started moving in the right direction, I think we can do better! Besides reducing waste and pollution, becoming...