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Opinion: American Apparel distances itself from controversial history in all the wrong ways

Opinion: American Apparel distances itself from controversial history in all the wrong ways

By Alex Mendoza March 25, 2015

Executives at controversial fashion brand American Apparel have decided to clean up the company’s image. In the process, they’ve decided that nipples and body hair on adult women are on par...

U.S singer Solange Knowles leaves Carven's ready-to-wear fall-winter 2015/2016 fashion collection presented during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, Thursday, March 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Opinion: Society should accept black women’s natural hair

By Clarke Perkins March 24, 2015

Hair is simply threadlike strands that grow from your head, and whether it is straight, curly, kinky, wavy or dreadlocked, you shouldn’t be judged or discriminated against because of it. It has always...

Opinion: Implanting microchips in children is a step too far

By Jen Blate March 24, 2015

How would you feel if you found out that you were microchipped by your parents? The initial thought is extremely disturbing. Microchipping your pet involves implanting a small chip with your contact information...

In this March 17, 2015, photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. holds-up a synopsis of the House Republican budget proposal as he announces the plan on Capitol Hill in Washington. The new House and Senate Republican boast that they both balance the federal budget within 10 years, without raising taxes. Their own numbers, however, say millions of American families and businesses would have to pay more in taxes to make the math work. To the tune of about $900 billion more over the next decade. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Opinion: GOP budget proposal would cut benefits and higher education funds

By Cody Sibley March 24, 2015

The House Republicans unveiled their budget proposal, and it unsurprisingly guts nearly every form of assistance for American families. The GOP wants to freeze the maximum Pell Grant at $5,775 per student...

Jindal on Morning Joe

Letter to the Editor: Gov. Jindal’s budget cuts harm the state’s higher ed. schools

March 23, 2015

Louisiana’s colleges and universities are being abused by Bobby Jindal’s irresponsible budget priorities almost as much as the students who attend them. While the governor’s fiscal house...

Letter to the Editor: A response to “Handle With Care”

By Gerard “Jerry” Villere March 23, 2015

Mr. James Richards arguments sound reasonable. But they are specious. As a simple analogy consider the person who will not fly because of their fear of dying in a plane who therefore drives a motorcycle...

President Barack Obama gestures at his town hall-style meeting at Memorial Hall, Wednesday June 30, 2010 in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg) Original Filename: Obama_Racine_WIRAC103.jpg

Opinion: Americans should demand for more government transparency

By James Richards March 23, 2015

Thousands of college students are soaking up the sunshine this week for spring break. They’re probably already on their third case of Natural Light and on the way to a sunburn a redneck would be...

Opinion: Knowing how to prevent identity theft is a must for college students

By Jay Cranford March 23, 2015

Identity theft is when someone steals your social security number, bank account information, birth certificate or passport number. College students in particular are more vulnerable to this type of crime....

Letter to the Editor: Inviting speakers to campus not an endorsement of their views

Letter to the Editor: Inviting speakers to campus not an endorsement of their views

By James R. Stoner, Jr. March 22, 2015

To the Editor: I suppose it falls within editorial prerogative to frame The Reveille’s coverage of Heather Mac Donald’s visit to campus to speak about the issue of race and policing under the...

Protesters hold an event to oppose The Response on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, outside of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Opinion: US should outlaw gay conversion therapy

By Cody Sibley March 22, 2015

Oregon, Iowa and Colorado are all working to pass bills to ban gay conversion therapy for minors, and it’s about time the rest of America did the same. The only places in the U.S. that have banned...

Opinion: America should adopt compulsory voting laws

Opinion: America should adopt compulsory voting laws

By Alex Mendoza March 22, 2015

Did you vote last November? If not, President Obama thinks maybe it’s time you were punished for it. During a meeting with a Cleveland civic group Wednesday, the president mused aloud about the effects...

Mayfield High School junior Laura Cruz, 18, looks up at the sign she is holding on Monday, March, 2, 2015, during a student-organized walkout to protest the PARCC exams in Las Cruces, N.M. Students frustrated over the new standardized test planned school walkouts across New Mexico to protest the requirement. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Robin Zielinski)

Opinion: Standardized tests not a good measure of students’ intelligence

By Markus Hüfner March 19, 2015

I still remember the day I called the Office of Enrollment Management when I was applying to the University a little over a year ago. I was wondering if international students majoring in mass communication...