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An @LSU Twitter post featured these students in the Quad on Wednesday, Jan. 15, with the caption "Welcome back, Tigers!"

Quick Takes: What do you miss most about life before lockdown?

By Opinion Staff September 14, 2020

I miss a lot of simple things: hugs, high fives, movie theaters and smiles unobstructed by masks. I miss all the cliché things that are supposed to come with your senior year of high school and freshman...

LSU Coach Ed Orgeron hypes up the crowd on Victory Hill before the LSU vs. Texas A&M football game on Saturday, November 30, 2019.

Opinion: By sending students home, colleges are creating a bubble for sports

By Rece Beaugh September 13, 2020

One of the main arguments against college football is that it should not be played if students are not on campus. But what if that would actually make it safer to play football? The idea of a “bubble”...

An LSU student uses a scantron in Campbell B. Hodges Hall.

Opinion: The University should offer pass/no credit grading option for fall semester

By Tamia Southall September 13, 2020

Every student remembers the day the administration announced campus would be closed for the remainder of spring semester due to the increase in COVID-19 cases nearby. The transition to online learning...

Parties During A Pandemic

Opinion: University needs to provide more ways to get involved, not just Zoom meetings

By Elizabeth Crochet September 13, 2020

I believe I speak for many students at the University when I say I am bored, upset and beyond frustrated with the state of things on campus. Since March I have longed for the day I would be able to return....

Medieval peasants cartoon

Opinion: Let’s just go back to the Middle Ages

By Marie Plunkett September 13, 2020

I’m not the first to say it and I certainly won’t be the last: ye Gods, curse this year. 2020 has been a cacophony of natural disasters, social injustice and public health fumbles. It really...

LSU football players leave LSU President office on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 after holding protest.

Opinion: Football players’ protest a necessary wake-up call to administration

By Cécile Girard September 13, 2020

On Friday, Aug. 28, the LSU football team held a march on campus in protest of the ongoing epidemic of police brutality and systemic racism in America.Players spoke with Head Coach Ed Orgeron and...

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2018, file photo, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) holds his hand to his heart during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in New Orleans. The 41-year-old Brees, who is the NFL's all-time leader in yards passing, completions and touchdowns, is entering his 20th NFL season and 15th with the New Orleans Saints. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Training camp notebook: New additions could finally bring Saints to Super Bowl

By Michael Sanchez September 11, 2020

The week we have all been waiting for is upon us, Saints fans. Kickoff is this Sunday. The team has been training hard for their Week One match-up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Here are some takeaways...

Wendy's twitch tournament

Opinion: Corporate memes feel ‘dystopian,’ not truly relatable

By Cécile Girard September 8, 2020

Move aside, ethos, logos and pathos—memes are the hottest new marketing device in town. Fast food chains like Wendy’s have known this for several years now and have used it to their advantage...

Workplace Appearance Cartoon

Opinion: Make room for self-expression in the workplace

By Gabrielle Martinez September 8, 2020

The workplace status quo needs a makeover. Career choice has long been a determining factor in people’s right to self-expression. From tattoos to piercings to unnaturally colored hair, markers of...

Parents and incoming students unload their belongings on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 at West Laville Hall on South Campus Dr. 

Quick Takes: What’s your reaction to the University quarantining students on campus?

By Opinion Staff September 8, 2020

"The University quarantining students in their dorms is a little strange to me considering the fact that dorms are such tightly enclosed places. Students are bound to break that quarantine whether it be...

Grace King Hall sits on Highland road on March 11, 2020.

Opinion: First-year housing expectation defies student interest

By Kevin Doucette September 7, 2020

As a freshman, you’re expected to spend your first year at the University living in a residence hall on campus. This rule was first enacted in the 1970s, scrapped, returned briefly in 2007 and most...

Nancy comic

Opinion: ‘Nancy Antoinette’ should be held to the same rules as regular Americans

By Elizabeth Crochet September 7, 2020

Congratulations, America: this week, we were gifted our very own Marie Antoinette. Except she goes by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and instead of the infamous "let them eat cake,"...