These past few weeks in the Baton Rouge community have been peppered with violence and unwarranted crime. A city we love, work, and worship has become a battleground of young people and violence....
In its most recent flooding event, Lake Charles was pelted with 15 inches of rain in the span of 12 hours. The water submerged entire vehicles, trapped children in their schools and damaged hundreds of...
Let’s not mince words: Israel is an apartheid state, occupying and displacing native Palestinians.
Even before its founding in 1948 as a Jewish state, Israel expelled and subjected Palestinians in...
Every state on Louisiana’s border plans to cut the $300 per week in additional benefits allocated to the unemployed under the American Rescue Plan.
Last week, business groups sent a letter to Gov....
On April 14, 2018, Executive Deputy Athletic Director Verge Ausberry received a text message from wide-receiver Drake Davis concerning an argument with his romantic partner Jade Lewis that read,...
Elon Musk is an enigma.
He’s a 50-year-old South African tech mogul whose family fortune comes from apartheid-era emerald mining whose humor is best described as a 15-year-old who just discovered...
The author of this article, Daniel O’Leary, is an immunocompromised sophomore studying biological sciences at the University. I have never been a fan of shots. Going to...
What comes to mind when you think of the year 2014?
If you’re anything like me, you immediately associate the year with its distinctive online aesthetic… that is, after getting past the initial...
“Beauty will save the world.”
This famous quote from Dostoevsky’s 1874 classic "The Idiot" might seem rather bizarre to us today. Will it? Really?
The West, America especially, has...
As COVID-19 vaccinations have become increasingly available to the general U.S. public, new debates over the concept of vaccine passports — which could become required for people to gain access...
Police corruption is nothing new (especially in this day and age when cops feel like they can get away with anything), but it is disheartening for it to hit so close to home.On March 30, Baton Rouge District...
Student Government elections can be fiercely competitive, sparking debates about contrasting visions for the future of the University and the role of student leadership. Many of us see the debates, the...
