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Opinion

LSU students walk Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 into the Student Union.

Quick Takes: How should the University respond to students breaking COVID-19 protocol?

By Opinion Staff August 31, 2020

"The University should start by issuing a warning to all students stating that actively breaking protocol will be met with the highest level of discretion. If students continue to break protocol after...

Letter writing cartoon

Opinion: Write letters to save the United States Postal Service

By Marie Plunkett August 31, 2020

One of my fondest childhood memories is of checking the mailbox every morning for pen pal letters. The anticipation and excitement I felt as a child hasn’t lessened much now that I’m an adult...

Tucker Carlson speaking with attendees at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Opinion: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is a shameful excuse for a journalist, ‘spews hate’

By Gabrielle Martinez August 31, 2020

With an average audience of 4.33 million viewers each night, frozen dinner heir and political pundit Tucker Carlson consistently spews hate through misinformation and misdirection as the host...

Former LSU football player Derrius Guice greets fans before the Alabama game on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 at Victory Hill.

Letter to the Editor: LSU’s handling of Guice rape allegations displays University’s ‘inner demons’

By Jonathan Moss August 31, 2020

It is a shameful time to be a member of the LSU community.  Last week, USA Today reported that two former University students claimed former Tiger running back Derrius Guice raped them...

A chemical fire burns on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, after Hurricane Laura swept through Lake Charles, LA.

Opinion: Hurricane Laura reminds us climate change is already here

By Claire Sullivan August 31, 2020

Climate change is not a far-fetched theory of the future but a reality of today.It is the whipping lashes of Hurricane Laura battering homes in Lake Charles. It is the Northern California fires erasing...

Kellyanne Conway speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore. 

Opinion: ‘Family first’: the Conways are an example to us all

By Elizabeth Crochet August 31, 2020

For the TV producers out there, I have a new show for you -- how about instead of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," we try "Keeping up with the Conways?" In case you haven't heard, they're the hottest...

Baton Rouge Parish Prison

Opinion: University must abolish its long-standing use of prison labor

By Kevin Doucette August 30, 2020

Editor's Note: A previous version of this column incorrectly described Tammy Millican as the manager of the University's prison labor program; this has since been corrected.  As recently as Nov. 2019,...

Youtube, courtesy image of Irish Tech News 

Opinion: Boom in online content threatens the role of higher education

By Evan Leonhard August 30, 2020

Somewhere down the YouTube rabbit holes that have become far too familiar in the late-night solitude of the past six months, I stumbled upon a series of philosophy lectures from a group of academics who...

A man walks through Lake Charles, LA, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, after Hurricane Laura swept through the area the night before.

Opinion: The places affected by Hurricane Laura need a lot more help than they’re getting

By Henry Huber @HenryHuber_ August 29, 2020

It’s disappointing that when a city like Lake Charles gets demolished by a category four hurricane, the most attention they get from celebrities and the nation is from a confederate...

A man walks through Lake Charles, LA, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, after Hurricane Laura swept through the area the night before. 

Opinion: Hurricane Laura destruction not a ‘checkmate’ for Northern liberals

By Cécile Girard August 28, 2020

As a Category 4 hurricane barreled toward my hometown Wednesday afternoon and I anxiously refreshed my weather updates for the hundredth time that day, an interaction I found in the New York Times comments...

A apartment building is damaged Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, after Hurricane Laura went through the area near Lake Charles, La.

Opinion: Observing Hurricane Laura’s devastation as a former resident

By Henry Huber August 27, 2020

I had no idea that when I left Lake Charles a week ago to head back to Baton Rouge for school, I would never return to the same Lake Charles. I am both sickened and restless, scrolling through pictures...

COVID-19 Football Cartoon

Opinion: ‘Louisiana Saturday Nights’ amid COVID-19 could spell disaster

By Domenic Purdy August 26, 2020

On August 11, the Pac-12 and Big Ten decided to postpone their fall sports seasons into 2021, citing the health of their fans, athletes and staff as the rationale for their decision. Simultaneous to this...