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...
When you hear the word anti-Semitism, what comes to mind?
Probably the Holocaust and the Nazis that perpetrated it. Maybe it’s the long lineage of anti-Jewish sentiment in western history, which...
I am about to say something the majority of people will probably disagree with. Members of Generation Z, supposedly known for being tolerant of everyone, ultimately view their beliefs as absolute truth....
By night I may be an impossibly cool opinion columnist, but by day I am merely an RA in a freshman residence hall.As an RA, I know what goes into making Residential Life tick, and I’ve seen what...
The past year has been brutal. There are only so many disasters that we can take, and between the pandemic, police brutality, mass shootings, hurricanes and the Husch Blackwell report, I really thought...
Last week, Associate Athletic Director Sharon Lewis announced a $50 million lawsuit against the University. The list of defendants includes the LSU Board of Supervisors, F. King Alexander, Joe Alleva,...
Most people would agree with the statement that the news has been extremely heavy over the last year. Growing up, I always had a fascination with the news. I wanted to know what was going on at all times,...
It’s easy to think that your individual contribution to recycling, in a city of over 700,000 people, won’t make much of a difference — but that’s not true. It absolutely can!
On...
