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Trucks

Opinion: Trucks symbol of excess, display fragile masculinity

By Ryan Thaxton September 20, 2016

Trucks are obtrusive, unnecessary and ugly. We are humans, not elephant seals. Males need to stop equating their worth with the size of the horns they honk. No college student living and driving in the...

Free speech alley in front of the LSU Student Union on Tuesday Sept. 20, 2016.

Head to Head: Free speech argument should not be used to justify hate speech

By Anjana Nair September 20, 2016

The controversy over the line between hate speech and free speech has always been a fight between conservatives who cite the First Amendment as their only credible rationale and liberals who aren’t...

Free speech alley in front of the LSU Student Union on Tuesday Sept. 20, 2016.

Head to Head: Free speech Warrior Yiannopoulos upholds American values, troll culture

By Jacob Hamilton September 20, 2016

Freedom of speech is as American as the image of Abraham Lincoln straddling a mammoth grizzly bear with an American flag saddle, holding an assault rifle in one hand and the Constitution in the other,...

Opinion: Climate change exists regardless of political views

By Anjana Nair September 19, 2016

The way I see it, the human race has two types of problems: how to live with each other, and how to live with ourselves. The first category includes all types of social, economic and political debates,...

Satire: Emmys finally pay attention to people who aren't white

Satire: Emmys finally pay attention to people who aren’t white

By John Gavin Harp September 19, 2016

In a surprise twist akin to those found in popular white culture staple “Game of Thrones,” the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards recognized roles played by non-white actors. When the Academy of Television...

Hillary Clinton

Opinion: Focus on Clinton’s illness misplaced, exaggerated

By Lynne Bunch September 18, 2016

Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with a “mild, non-contagious” bacterial pneumonia on Sept. 9 that left her dizzy at the anniversary ceremony for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. After being forced...

Dakota Pipelines

Opinion: North Dakota pipeline continues exploitation of Native Americans

By Anjana Nair September 18, 2016

Thousands of people from around the world stand in solidarity with members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota, as its members continue to fight against the construction of the North Dakota...

A banner outside the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity house on Saturday, September 10 before the LSU vs. Jacksonville State game reads, "Oh say can you see Kaepernick sits when he pees."

LETTER: Coalition calls on LSU Dean of Students to reprimand DKE

Dear Mari, We are writing in response to the recent banner displayed by the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity on Saturday, September 10, 2016, which read: “Oh say can you see Kaepernick sits when he...

Opinion: Third party candidates have no place in presidential debates

By Ryan Thaxton September 15, 2016

With both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump touting the highest negative ratings in modern American history, 62 percent of voters want to see third party candidates in the upcoming Presidential debates,...

Student Government continues talks of potentially banning all tobacco on campus. In a poll, approximately 60% of students voted not in favor of the ban.

Letter to the Editor: University should enforce tobacco policy, create smoking zones

By David Munoz, electrical engineering senior September 15, 2016

When we see a sign on campus, what do we do? Read it, of course. When it gives instructions straight from the school, do we follow it? Of course — but only if it’s inconvenient, right? By the...

College Party

Opinion: College students should expect parties, join in on the fun

By Clarke Perkins September 15, 2016

Everyone does realize that a college and its surrounding apartment complexes are filled with students in their late teens and early twenties… not 40-year-olds with three kids, right? I’m just...

Smoking

Opinion: When it comes to smoking, students deserve the right to make their own choices

By Anjana Nair September 15, 2016

As someone who grew up in this city and who has a sister who went to college years before I did, I visited LSU’s campus quite a few times before I enrolled. I always loved the campus atmosphere:...