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Opinion: New play examines the complexities of the word "slut"

Opinion: New play examines the complexities of the word “slut”

By Logan Anderson February 3, 2015

I was first called a slut in 8th grade. I was waiting for the bus when a group of girls I didn’t recognize walked past me. One of them whispered something while staring at me, and the group began...

A man open carries a 1911 handgun while listening to Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Scott Wilson during a CCDL gun rights rally at the Connecticut state capitol in Hartford, Saturday April 5, 2014 against the state's gun control law passed one year ago on April 4, 2013 in response to the Newtown school shooting. (AP Photo/The Bristol Press, Mike Orazzi) MANDATORY CREDIT

Opinion: Guns should not be allowed on college campuses

By Clarke Perkins February 2, 2015

Florida just can’t seem to get it right. While its judicial system desperately needs to redeem itself, a newly-passed bill has the potential to push the state 10 steps back. The deaths of Trayvon...

Opinion: “Sex Box” show goes too far

By Jen Blate February 2, 2015

“Sex Box” is a new show where couples discuss their relationships with experts, then go in an opaque, soundproof box and proceed to have intercourse. Afterward, they discuss their “intimacy...

Opinion: Criticism of all-female “Ghostbusters” cast is sexist

By Alex Mendoza February 2, 2015

Huge news broke last week when director Paul Feig tweeted his casting picks for an all-female Ghostbusters reboot slated for a July 2016 release. Feig wants Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon...

Amal Clooney, a member of a legal team representing for Armenia, arrives at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Clooney, the wife of George Clooney, is among the lawyers arguing at the European Court of Human Rights against a Turkish man convicted in Switzerland for denying the 1915 Armenian genocide. Armenia, which argues that denying the genocide should be a crime as denying the Holocaust is in many European countries, is challenging a decision that ruled the man’s right to free expression was violated. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

Opinion: Professional women shouldn’t be asked fashion questions

By SidneyRose Reynen February 1, 2015

For many women, fashion is truly their biggest passion. We’ve all seen those girls on campus with designer bags and matching shoes, wondering how they do it every day. But Amal Clooney (née...

In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, the Ford logo shines on the front grille of a 2014 Ford F-150, on display at a local dealership in Hialeah, Fla. Ford's net income tumbled in the fourth quarter as the company took an expected charge to deal with currency devaluation at its Venezuelan operations, the company announced, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. But without that loss and other one-time items, Ford came out ahead of Wall Street's expectations for the fourth quarter and the full year. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Opinion: America’s real “welfare queens” are huge corporations

By Cody Sibley February 1, 2015

It’s tax season! You know what that means? It’s time for your crazy Tea Party relatives to start complaining about paying taxes. Get ready for them to scream about Obamacare and how we’re...

Many Tiger Plaza apartments feature a balcony on the upper floors and a separated patio for the ground floors. The community is located within Tigerland.

Opinion: Living on- or off-campus is choice all students must make

By Jay Cranford February 1, 2015

All of us will have to decide whether to live on or off campus.   Moving off campus will probably be your first time living without someone watching over you.  You will have a lot more freedom...

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Academic fraud won’t tarnish LSU’s reputation

By Jay Cranford January 29, 2015

The NCAA is currently investigating 20 schools for academic fraud. They haven’t released the names of the schools, but they have said 18 of the schools are division one schools. This means it is...

Everybody's All American (1988) was filmed in Tiger Statdium.

Student athletes shouldn’t get special treatment

By Clarke Perkins January 29, 2015

Hopefully, now, college athletes will be treated the same way as us “normal” college students. It took the NCAA long enough to figure out that athletes were getting unfair special privileges....

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UNC’s “paper classes” disrespect African-American studies

By Logan Anderson January 29, 2015

The academic fraud case currently being investigated at UNC does more than discount the educational integrity of athletes -- it undermines the legitimacy of African American Studies programs nationwide. UNC’s...

Pat Adam signs Saturday, April 7, 2014 at Deaf Chat Coffee held at CC's Community Coffee House on Jefferson Highway.

Opinion: Deaf children need proper accommodations in school

By Jen Blate January 29, 2015

This Saturday, the city of Port Allen, Louisiana, hosted a deaf education summit where people came from all around the state to make sure the deaf community has a voice. More than 20 years ago, something...

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Opinion: America needs to focus on higher education, not wars

By Cody Sibley January 29, 2015

Last month, President Obama officially “ended” the war in Afghanistan. This war lasted 13 years, cost us $753.3 billion and killed about 2,200 of our soldiers. Of course, Obama didn’t...