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Keynote speaker and estranged son of the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, Nathan Phelps speaks to secular humanists Sunday, April 14, 2013.

Opinion: Pain could offer Phelps’ family perspective

By Joshua Hajiakbarifini March 23, 2014

Last week, Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and one of America’s most infamous bigots, passed away. He left behind a complicated legacy, forever clouded by his most controversial...

Dietzel

Letter to the Editor: Young voices important in elections

By Jacklin McCroskey March 23, 2014

Most people didn’t even care about the 6th District race for Congress until Edwin Edwards controversially entered the race. Soon thereafter, people started pretending they had passionate opinions...

Student Government presidential candidate Christian Coleman from the Experience LSU ticket answers a question Monday, March 17, 2014 during the 2014 Student Government Debate held in the Holliday Forum.

Letter to the Editor: SG Commissioner of Elections urges student vote

By Missy Wheeler March 20, 2014

I apologize if you’re getting sick of the elections news. I can’t ask you to vote for anyone; I’m not allowed to. But I will ask you to vote. This letter was originally about all of the...

Opinion: Consent Culture

Opinion: Consent Culture

By Jana King March 20, 2014

If we are fighting against rape culture, or the attitudes and actions that make rape permissible in our society, what are we fighting for? A consent culture. In a consent culture, it would be encouraged...

Senator Dan Claitor has his portrait taken at Claitor's Law Books & Publishing Div.

Opinion: 6th district congress candidates are more of the same

By Jose Alejandro Bastidas March 20, 2014

People are so fired up about Edwin Edwards joining the 6th district congressional seat race they are failing to see the real issue. None of the current candidates will give Baton Rouge – and the...

Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, center, walks down the hallway pushing his son, Eli, as he is accompanied by wife Trina Scott Edwards, right, and Charlotte Guedry, left, before speaking at the Baton Rouge Press Club in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, March 17, 2014. Edwards announced that he would join the race to represent the state’s Baton Rouge-based 6th District of the U.S. House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Travis Spradling)

Opinion: Edwards’s candidacy tarnishes Louisiana politics

By Eli Haddow March 19, 2014

On Monday, 86-year-old Edwin Edwards hijaked Louisiana’s 6th District congressional race, turning it into a sideshow for the circus that will be this November’s midterm elections. He’s...

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a government meeting that focused on economic and social issues in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday March 19, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

Opinion: U.S. must take more severe action against Russia

By John Ryan McGehee March 19, 2014

Students should know word usage is important. The right phrase can transform the mundane to the exciting, and the horrifying to the justifiable. Let’s say you want to break up with your significant...

Opinion: The Tipping Point

Opinion: The Tipping Point

By Annette Sommers March 19, 2014

A new IRS law eliminating automatic gratuity went into effect this year, and servers across the nation have dropped jaws and teary eyes. This is yet another low-blow from the government agencies to the...

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook

Opinion: Three ways America has failed women in March 2014

By Jana King March 18, 2014

It’s not fun being the person to call out American politicians and the judicial system for their perpetuation of female oppression. But we live in a country where rape culture, female sexualization...

The SmokingWords campaign to make LSU campus tobacco-free is in part attributed to smokers and cigarette butt litter in the Quad.

Opinon: Emphasis needs to be placed on treatment for nicotine addiction

By Justin Stafford March 18, 2014

More and more public places are banning or restricting tobacco use, primarily smoking, on their premises, but nicotine is highly addictive and resources to help users kick the habit are too few. Kick Butts...

File- This March 13, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listening on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing. In the aftermath of committee chairwoman Sen. Feinstein’s accusations that the CIA’s intimidating tactics and breaching of its constitutional authority for filing a criminal complaint against congressional aides, observers say the U.S. intelligence community and its congressional minders have committed serious missteps over the 13 years since the 9/11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Opinion: Defender or Pretender: Defender of the NSA goes after the CIA

By Joshua Hajiakbarifini March 18, 2014

It’s a dark and quiet night on the University’s campus, until all computers flip on and their hard drives are erased. All research files and information incriminating several companies have...

Student Government candidates discuss possible initiatives Monday, March 17, 2014 during the 2014 Student Government Debate held in the Holliday Forum.

Opinion: Student Government debate inconclusive, fails to address real campus issues

By Megan Dunbar March 17, 2014

Ill-fitting high heels and suit jackets coupled with a billion iPhone photo opportunities, cheerful white Greek faces and one Twitter hashtag used more for public relations than actual questions. Welcome...