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Opinion

LSU athletic director Scott Woodward is introduced to the crowd during the Tigers' 5-3 victory over Lamar on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in Alex Box Stadium.

Letter to the editor: Woodward decision to end transfer-fund policy is best for LSU

By Scott Burns September 18, 2019

Dear Editor, In its Sept. 4 editorial, the Reveille editorial board argued that athletic director Scott Woodward’s decision to end the $7 million annual transfer-fund policy displayed “LSU’s...

Free Speech Alley is located directly in front of the LSU Student Union on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019.

Letter to the editor: “Education should not be a commodity to be meted out by the fortunate”

By Golden G. Richard III September 18, 2019

Dear Editor, The opinion piece on free college tuition by Draven Coleman raises important points about the K-12 educational arena, and there's no question that there's room for improvement in this area....

Private Prison Cartoon

Opinion: Louisiana should follow California’s lead, abolish private prisons

By Cecile Girard September 17, 2019

California made headlines on Sept. 11 for voting to end contracts with private prison companies, a move that will effectively over the state of all for-profit prisons in the next decade. While the difference...

Students check out booths at Free Speech Alley on Sept. 1, 2017.

Letter from the editor: We apologize for associating partying with the black community in Thursday’s paper

On Thursday's edition of The Reveille, we used a photo that depicted a group of female African-American students attending an on-campus event with the headline “Rowdy Reputation: University struggles...

CBD cartoon

Opinion: Louisiana CBD regulations are doing more harm than good

By Gabrielle Martinez September 15, 2019

If you haven’t yet heard the acronym “CBD” at least once this year, then you’ve probably been living underneath a rock. If you’ve heard of it but you don’t actually...

Plus-minus cartoon

Opinion: The University’s plus-minus grading system illogical, harmful to students

By Maya Stevenson September 14, 2019

In the 2015 fall semester, the University implemented the plus-minus grading system with the intention of more accurately representing students’ grades. This only put more academic pressure on them. The...

The LSU Early Childhood Education Laboratory Preschool on Sunday Aug. 28, 2016, on Gourrier Avenue.

Opinion: Free childcare on campus should be available to students

By Ashlon Lusk September 12, 2019

The University should provide a free childcare system on campus for students who have children.As I sat in my economics class in Dodson Hall, I heard a baby crying. It wasn’t a very loud cry, but...

Opinion: Ralph Abraham and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad education reform ideas

Opinion: Ralph Abraham and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad education reform ideas

By Cecile Girard September 12, 2019

Given the god-tier levels of ineptness U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos displays on any given day, it seems unthinkable that any government official could top her ignorance on education. Enter Republican...

In this Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, file photo, law enforcement officials process the crime scene from Saturday's shooting which ended with the shooter, Seth Ator, being shot dead by police in a stolen mail van, right, in Odessa, Texas. The mass shooting in West Texas spread terror over more than 10 miles (16 kilometers) as Ator, fired from behind the wheel of a car. Ator zigzagged through Midland and Odessa, two closely intertwined cities now brought closer by tragedy. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Opinion: Legislators must make stricter gun laws in response to high number of mass shootings

By Ashlon Lusk September 12, 2019

In light of a series of recent mass shootings, it’s time for legislators to create laws to help reduce the number of gun-related tragedies in the U.S. Seven people died and 25 were wounded in the...

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...

The sun sets above Tiger Stadium on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019.

Opinion: LSU falls short in face of racist comments in Tiger Stadium student section

By Maya Stevenson September 9, 2019

On August 31, several University freshmen were attacked with racially charged and xenophobic comments in the student section of the first football game of the year. What is usually an exciting event for...

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”...