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Flooding near Campus Drive makes its way into the streets on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, around LSU campus.

Opinion: The university’s emergency support fund needs help

By Charlie Stephens September 12, 2021

The university’s emergency support fund has already had an active life in the five years since its creation. According to Sara Whittaker, the assistant vice president for communications and marketing...

University parking lots stay full on Friday, April 21, 2017, on LSU campus. 

Opinion: Dwindling parking spaces leave commuters to hike across campus

By Anthony Bui September 12, 2021

Our university spans more than a thousand acres and enrolls over 34,000 students, yet there is a single unifying belief among those who have ever had to park a car here—the university truly hates...

LSU Sport's Nutrition Center opens the Fueling Station for student athletes struggling to eat healthy while dealing with time management.

Opinion: Improve your body on a student’s budget with these healthy habits

By Canaan Charrier September 12, 2021

No matter how hectic life may seem right now, your health remains a top priority. While we’re still in the baby steps of our semester, I’d like to encourage you along your wellness journey...

Guthrie Matherne, left, and Blakland Matherne, right, looks at what remains of their hurricane destroyed business in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021, in Lockport, La. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Opinion: The university needed to plan sooner for Hurricane Ida

By Samuel Camacho September 11, 2021

Hurricane Ida's historic landfall on south Louisiana last week devastated much of our nation's coast. At the time of writing, 82 people across the nation have died from storm-related injuries....

Two Sonic chicken slinger sandwiches sit ready for your consumption.

Opinion: Choosing the superior chicken sandwich is the true dilemma of our times

By Anthony Bui September 11, 2021

Recently, there has been a question weighing heavily on my mind and heart. I go to bed thinking about it; I wake up in the morning, and it is the first thought that pops into my mind. When I stand in those...

Coates Hall serves as a testing center on Jan. 25, 2021 in the LSU Quad.

Opinion: Unvaccinated students need to be nudged more aggressively

By Charlie Stephens September 9, 2021

In a review of Cass Sunstein's book "Why Nudge," the magazine Behavioral Scientist points out that people often make mistakes—like refusing vaccines. These mistakes can have life-altering...

Mass communication sophomore Carley Oakley wears a mask with a dollar bill covered in "Title IX" on Monday, March 8, 2021 during the Tigers Against Sexual Assault sit-in at the Football Operations Center on Skip Bertman Drive.

Opinion: Football season can’t distract from unresolved Title IX issues in athletics

By Claire Sullivan September 8, 2021

Two months into the 2020 football season, USA TODAY published a bombshell Title IX investigation that detailed years of mishandling of sexual and domestic violence reports at the university. The report...

Vehicles head slowly east on the Interstate-10 twin spans leaving New Orleans while only a trickle of cars heads west back into the city before landfall of Hurricane Ida in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. A combination of voluntary and mandatory evacuations have been called for cities and communities across the region including New Orleans, where the mayor ordered a mandatory evacuation for areas outside the city’s levee system and a voluntary evacuation for residents inside the levee system. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Opinion: Criticizing people for not evacuating ignores economic realities, other constraints

By Claire Sullivan September 5, 2021

Each storm is unique, but there are some constants in the aftermath. One of those constants is the slew of unsolicited opinions—typically from my native region of the Northeast—blaming those...

Debris lies in the street on an abandoned block in a residential section of New Orleans East, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. A decade ago, polluted water up to 20 feet deep flooded 80 percent of the city. Katrina killed more than 1,500 people in Louisiana, many of them drowning inside their homes, and hundreds more simply disappeared, the National Hurricane Center reported a year later. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Opinion: Reflections from the eye of Hurricane Ida

By Evan Leonhard September 4, 2021

I was four years old when Hurricane Katrina laid siege to New Orleans, my hometown. The infamous storm and its immediate aftermath are a bifurcating moment in both the city’s history and the lives...

A Navy carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, during a casualty return at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Soviak died in an attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, along with 12 other U.S. service members supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel.

Opinion: The 13 Afghanistan service members died heroes, their stories should be honored

By Elizabeth Crochet September 4, 2021

Everyone has their own idea of a hero. For some, it is someone we know personally and seek to emulate. For others, it is the characters we watch on TV or read about in books. No matter your definition,...

Students crowd the PMAC to explore the variety of career opportunities offered at LSU job fair on Tuesday, September 9, 2014.

Opinion: Students, choose your major wisely

By Samuel Camacho August 29, 2021

Choosing your major is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make in your life. It’s also one of the hardest. It determines the difference between having a six-figure salary or receiving...

Tiger Stadium stands on Aug. 21, 2021, in the background of the LSU Welcome Week Carnival in Lot 401 on South Stadium Drive on LSU’s campus.

Opinion: Freshmen, everything will be okay

By Anthony Bui August 28, 2021

Dear freshman class of 2021, I know that things have been especially difficult for you guys. Your final year of high school probably wasn’t what you imagined. You were plagued by social distancing,...