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Opinion

A Difficult Choice ad is displayed Wednesday, April 23, 2014 near Perkins Rd and South Acadian.

Opinion: Reproductive rights debate detrimental to health care

By Jana King April 23, 2014

As you were headed out for spring break last week, you may have noticed a new billboard on South Acadian Thruway. With just the phrase “Pregnant?” and a phone number, it’s not clear what...

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Opinion: New iPhone app allows users to talk trash anonymously

By Eli Haddow April 23, 2014

Wisdom is found within the collared shirt. That’s the word on the street at least. And by street, I mean Yik Yak, the anonymous micro blog that is taking LSU — and particularly LSU Greek Life...

This may surprise some, but there is a world outside the south United States.

Opinion: Leaving home state is beneficial for growth

By Annette Sommers April 23, 2014

When I came to LSU as a freshman, I only knew one other person. I wasn’t worried because I was under the impression that college would be filled with an eclectic population of students from all over...

Opinion: History proves that abstinence-only sex education isn’t effective

Opinion: History proves that abstinence-only sex education isn’t effective

By Jana King April 22, 2014

Sex is a right, not a privilege. And it’s one that Louisiana lawmakers are trying to take away from you. Louisiana legislation has been on fire recently with attacks on human sexuality coming from...

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Opinion: Online commentary is important, even when hateful

By Jose Alejandro Bastidas April 22, 2014

Imagine you read a pro-abortion rights column on The Daily Reveille website. Being anti-abortion, you are outraged by the columnist’s words. You are determined to respond to this one-sided writer’s...

Jennifer Scalzo, left, and her husband Anthony Scalzo stand by the Virgin River during a rally in support of Cliven Bundy near Bunkerville, Nev. Friday, April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)

Opinion: No, because if laws are not enforced then they are not laws at all

By Joshua Hajiakbarifini April 21, 2014

In society, laws are only as meaningful as much as they are enforced. For the past 20 years, the federal government has had a dispute with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy over his use of public lands without...

Supporters prepare to rally for Cliven Bundy at the Bundy ranch near Bunkerville Nev. Monday, April 7, 2014. The Bureau of Land Management has begun to round up what they call "trespass cattle" that rancher Cliven Bundy has been grazing in the Gold Butte area 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)

Opinion: Yes, the government used excessive force

By John Ryan McGehee April 21, 2014

In law, there is a general acceptance of the concept of retributive, or proportional, justice. For instance, if you are caught speeding down Nicholson while trying to make it to a 9:30 a.m. exam on time,...

Texas A&M students Kirsten Stokes, Lauren Taylor and Josh Vasquez talk about their spring break experience so far on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/The Brownsville Herald, Paul Chouy)

Opinion: LSU Students delighted to be back on campus after an uneventful spring break

By SidneyRose Reynen April 21, 2014

Along with the glorious smell of cigarette smoke and copious amounts of pollen, the joy in LSU students to be back on campus after a week long break is in the air. With only two weeks of classes and final...

** FILE ** In this Jan. 18, 2007 file photo, Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor," in New York. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file)

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By Jana King April 10, 2014

The week before Spring Break is always hectic, filled with exams and projects and the occasional coffee bomb scare. But while we’re ordering venti-triple-espressos and rushing to the UREC to put...

Mustaches are a positive symbol of masculinity

Mustaches are a positive symbol of masculinity

By John Ryan McGehee April 10, 2014

Dirty hipster, pedo, Ron Jeremy look-alike, cowboy— all words used to describe men who make the brave decision to forego shaving and don what some may describe as the “hirsute appendage of...

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Drivers should understand automotive basics

By Justin Stafford April 10, 2014

Automotive insight should stretch beyond knowing how to start an engine, select a radio station and line the shifter up with the “D” on a console or steering column. St. Joseph’s Academy,...