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Opinion

On campus housing for LSU students at Nicholson Gateway apartments straight off of Nicholson Drive.

Opinion: LSU housing crisis reveals lack of concern for student body, prioritizes monetary gain

By Marie Plunkett @MarieC_214 July 12, 2020

With so much uncertainty surrounding the upcoming fall semester, the last thing University students need is more confusion, but that’s exactly what students got on June 19. LSU Residential Life (Res...

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2019, file photo, the Washington Redskins logo is seen on FedEx Field prior to an NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Redskins in Landover, Md. Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says Seattle-based Amazon will begin pulling Redskins team merchandise from its online marketplace. Ferguson urged the online giant to remove such merchandise it because of growing calls for the team to change what he called their use of a racial slur in the name. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally, File)

Opinion: Washington Redskins’ ‘dated, offensive’ name change long overdue

By Grace Pulliam July 10, 2020

For over twenty years Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has been adamant he would never consider changing the team’s controversial name, a term the Oxford Dictionary describes as “dated...

An Alligator opens its mouth Aug. 22, 2013 at LSU's Alligator Research Station.

Opinion: La. Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, ‘nuisance hunter’ shouldn’t have euthanized Lakeview alligator

By Grace Pulliam July 7, 2020

Authorities at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) captured and tranquilized a 10-foot, roughly 300-pound American alligator without incident after members of the New Orleans’s...

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Opinion: Pandemic response should be treated as humanitarian, not partisan issue

By Grace Pulliam July 4, 2020

Welcome to the second half of the most chaotic year of the new millennium.  I've been thinking a lot about what it might look like in retrospect. I know one thing for sure: when people think of 2020,...

FILE - This combination of photos shows logos for social media platforms, from left, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The company behind Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Dove soap and a host of other consumer products says it will stop advertising on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in the U.S. through at least the end of 2020 because of the amount of hate speech online. (AP Photo)

Opinion: Social media activism not meant to be strictly ‘slacktivism,’ new revolution is digital

By Grace Pulliam July 2, 2020

This column is a head-to-head. Read the opposing article "Opinion: Slacktivism discredits Black Lives Matter by making it the latest 'trend'" here.  With the defining social movements of the early...

FILE - This combination of photos shows logos for social media platforms, from left, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The company behind Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Dove soap and a host of other consumer products says it will stop advertising on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in the U.S. through at least the end of 2020 because of the amount of hate speech online. (AP Photo)

Opinion: Slacktivism discredits Black Lives Matter by making it the latest ‘trend’

By Marie Plunkett @MarieC_214 July 2, 2020

This column is a head-to-head. Read the opposing article "Opinion: Social media activism not meant to be strictly 'slacktivism,' new revolution is digital" here. On June 2, Instagram went dark –...

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Opinion: Environmental racism is rampant in Louisiana oil, petroleum industry

By Marie Plunkett @MarieC_214 July 1, 2020

Racism takes many shapes and forms, spanning from microaggressions and racial profiling all the way to the use of slurs, physical assault and murder, but one of the least talked about forms is environmental...

President Donald Trump speaks before he signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Washington. Listening are from left, Larry Kudlow, White House chief economic adviser, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarty of Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Ableism remains implicit in leftist anti-Trump rhetoric

By Grace Pulliam June 26, 2020

I think it’s possible that I hate the concept of "Rampgate" even more than Donald Trump does (which is, a whole lot). If you have no idea what I’m talking about ⁠— first of...

President Donald Trump speaks to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference and Exposition, at the McCormick Place Convention Center Chicago, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Admitting you don’t know something isn’t always a bad thing

By Marie Plunkett June 26, 2020

“Fake it ‘til you make it” is great advice for temporary problems, like gaining confidence or crushing a job interview. Sometimes keeping up a competent and confident appearance is all...

The Juneteenth flag flies in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The Juneteenth flag commemorating the day that slavery ended in the U.S. will fly over the Wisconsin Capitol for the first time in state's history, Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Opinion: Juneteenth deserves our attention this year

By Grace Pulliam June 23, 2020

In an earlier version of this column, the Reveille published Juneteenth began on June 19, 1855. It has been corrected to June 19, 1865. Two months after Confederate leader Robert E. Lee surrendered in...

A Baton Rouge police officer watches the crowd of about 1,000 protesters march peacefully to the State Capitol on Sunday, May 31, 2020 during the protest of the death of George Floyd in Downtown Baton Rouge.

Opinion: Louisiana police reform can’t happen if legislators don’t get on board

By Marie Plunkett @MarieC_214 June 23, 2020

After years of Black Lives Matter and numerous cases of police brutality with seemingly little to no change at all, protesting can start to feel disheartening. Social media campaigns and marches only go...

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Opinion: What it means to be a columnist

By Grace Pulliam June 22, 2020

I sort of fell into my work at the Reveille. At times it feels like I tricked my way into the Opinions section somehow and just haven't been found out yet. I never thought of myself as someone with...