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Opinion: Sexting is never safe

Opinion: Sexting is never safe

By Garrett Hines October 4, 2015

There is no trust in the digital age. Sending sexually explicit photographs, GIFs and memes to one’s significant other or a potential hook-up is standard procedure for millennials. After picking...

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Opinion: Don’t fall for the Facebook privacy hoax

By Jack Richards October 4, 2015

“Just in case this is true, I’d rather be better safe than sorry” *insert meaningless legal mumbo-jumbo.* If you’ve scrolled through Facebook in the past week, you may have seen...

Student Parking on Game Day

Opinion: Upperclassmen should get the good parking spots

By Garrett Marcel October 4, 2015

The world we live in is barbaric, and nowhere is this more apparent than in LSU’s parking lots. I am a senior, and almost all of my classes are near the Quad. I spend my days with hours of breaks...

Opinion: Reggie’s response highlights racism in Baton Rouge

By Opinion Staff October 1, 2015

Yesterday Reggie’s’ Twitter account responded to Clarke Perkins’ column, “Tigerland’s dress code is discriminatory.” The bar claimed its policies only served to protect...

Opinion: Boil water advisories highlight failing La. infrastructure

By Garrett Hines October 1, 2015

“A boil advisory has been issued for the following communities…” This decree is made on countless news broadcasts across Louisiana regularly, and we need to have a discussion about the...

Opinion: In most recent mass shootings, we are all to blame

By Justin DiCharia October 1, 2015

We killed at least 10 students in Roseburg, Oregon. Our inaction and incompetence bought the gun and loaded the bullets that ripped flesh and bone in the nightmarish catastrophe Thursday morning. The deaths...

First-world problems derive from routines and expectations not found in undeveloped countries.

OPINION: First-world problems a function of routine and expectations

September 30, 2015

Routine thinking causes first-world problems. These problems receive a considerable amount of scorn and condemnation with plausible reason. Instead of a quick and unfair judgment, we should delve deeper...

Empty desks line a classroom in Audubon Hall on Monday, October 14, 2013 at LSU.

OPINION: Trigger warnings detrimental to college students’ future

September 30, 2015

A movement is arising on college campuses across the nation — a student-led crusade to eradicate words, literary materials and ideas they deem “discomforting.” The topic of trigger warnings...

Speaker pro tempore Andrew Mullet walks down the aisle Wednesday, Aug. 26, during the Student Government meeting in the Student Union.

OPINION: SG members should be held to a higher standard

September 30, 2015

We elect the politicians we think we deserve. Judging from our batch of Student Government senators, we evidently don’t deserve much. Louisiana politics is a spectacle of controversy and intrigue....

Hipster Mr. Monopoly

Opinion: Louisiana’s craft brewing industry is going strong

By Garrett Hines September 29, 2015

A hot meal is nothing without something cold to wash it down with. Nowhere is that more true than in Louisiana, where the jambalaya, gumbo and shrimp creole is hot enough to make you want to Slap Ya Mama....

Nike Air Force 1s are commonly worn by black men.

Opinion: Tigerland’s dress code is discriminatory

By Clarke Perkins September 29, 2015

I bet rapper Nelly would be confused if he found he couldn’t get into some Tigerland bars “stomping” in his Nike Air Force 1s. Only a select group of people have to worry about being...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks about his tax plan during a news conference, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Opinion: Donald Trump should stop pretending like he’s an average American

By Kain Hingle September 29, 2015

On Monday, Donald Trump’s campaign released his tax plan and it looks like former Florida governor Jeb Bush’s plan on steroids. According to The New York Times, Trump would give massive tax...