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Opinion

Amsterdam residents use dedicated bike lanes Monday, Sept. 9, 2013 to avoid dangerous vehicle traffic.

Opinion: City’s bicycle facility development slow but necessary

By Morgan Searles September 9, 2013

In the past six months, I’ve ridden in the world’s most bicycle-friendly city, on one of the top urban bike paths across the USA and in what I consider one of the scariest places to put two...

Positivity

Head to Head: We should be kind and positive to others

By Mariel Gates September 8, 2013

We live in a world where negative energy is impossible to abolish. There will always be death, people will always have hatred and wars will always rage, whether in our homeland or oceans away. We must...

Positivity

Head to Head: Negativity can be absolutely necessary

By Justin Blanchard September 8, 2013

As humans, we naturally strive to be happy. Yet, when given some actual thought, being positive all the time is not happiness. It’s called mania. Mania is experienced by someone suffering from bipolar...

Activist investor Carl Icahn speaks at the World Business Forum in New York in this photo from Oct. 11, 2007. In a letter that became public Tuesday, Icahn is giving back all of the money that outside investors hold in his hedge funds. In a letter to limited partners, the billionaire investor said he did not want to be responsible to investors for "another possible market crisis," especially given the rapid increase in markets over the past two years. Icahn, who has built a reputation as an activist investor, said he was also concerned about the economic outlook and political tensions in the Middle East.

Opinion: The billionaire who affects the products we use every day

By Joshua Hajiakbarifini September 8, 2013

As college students, we all enjoy our Netflix subscriptions, Dell computers and Apple products. So what do they all have in common? The same activist shareholder: Carl Icahn. Icahn is a corporate raider...

LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander speaks before the Board of Regents on Aug. 21, 2013 in the Louisiana Purchase Room located in the Claiborne Building in Downtown Baton Rouge.

Letter to the editor: Graduation really makes the difference

Earlier this week, LSU student columnist Alix Landriault suggested in an Op-Ed piece in The Daily Reveille that LSU and its students should prioritize and take the issue of graduation very seriously. I...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 3: Senator John McCain plays poker on his IPhone during a U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing where Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey testify concerning the use of force in Syria, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, Tuesday, September 3, 2013. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Opinion: McCain’s poker game shows clear disconnect in government

By John Ryan McGehee September 4, 2013

Sitting through class for hours on end sucks. The lectures are not engaging, and the droning of your average professor could lull an insomniac to sleep. However, it’s why we’re here: to go...

CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, right, and other protestors hold up signs in the hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, as Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance President Barack Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Opinion: Intervention in Syria would only inflame the conflict and harm US interests

By John Ryan McGehee September 3, 2013

Think of the last time you got sloppy in Tigerland: you thought you knew exactly what you were doing — you were only going to take a few shots and go home. You woke up the next day filled with shame,...

Patrick F Taylor is the beneficiary of a $2 million donation from a corporation.

Opinion: Corporations tend to corrupt higher education

By Joshua Hajiakbarifini September 3, 2013

Patrick F. Taylor Hall is finally getting renovated, brought to you by Chevron’s recent $2 million donation to the University. Many corporations have enough influence over public policy already,...

LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander smiles at a comment from the Board of Regents on Aug. 21, 2013 in the Louisiana Purchase Room located in the Claiborne Building in Downtown Baton Rouge.

Opinion: LSU President may have to get creative

By Alix Landriault September 3, 2013

Sixty percent on an assignment means a “D” — one point above failure. According to a survey compiled this year, only 60 percent of LSU students graduated from LSU within a six-year time...

Demonstrators chant slogans during a protest against ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s release from prison, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. Mubarak has been in detention since April 2011. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to stop the killing of some 900 protesters in the 18-day 2011 uprising, but his sentence was overturned on appeal. In April, his retrial opened along with those of his security chief and six top police commanders. His trial has been postponed to Sept. 14. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Opinion: Why care about Egypt?

By John Ryan McGehee August 28, 2013

As this week draws to a close, most of us are enjoying syllabus week shenanigans and gearing up to watch the Tigers rip TCU a new one. Halfway around the world, though, there are massive protests, violent...

Trader Andrew O'Connor, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Worries about a potential military strike against Syria are dragging down the U.S. stock market in early trading. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Opinion: Penalties not severe enough for Wall Street

By Joshua Hajiakbarifini August 28, 2013

It’s been almost five years since the greatest financial crisis since The Great Depression, but punishment doesn’t seem to be coming for those who caused this crisis. Essentially, this Great...

William Bouvay Jr., 42, of 8224 Skysail Ave., was arrested Wednesday morning, Sept. 19 in relation to the bomb threat reported Monday, Sept. 17.

Opinion: 24 years in prison too steep for Bouvay’s 12 hours of disorder

By Mariel Gates August 26, 2013

A few weeks ago, William Bouvay Jr. was sentenced to 24 years in prison without the possibility of parole or probation. His crime: calling in the fake bomb threat that caused mass confusion on LSU’s...