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All content by Annette Sommers
FILE - In this May 20, 2013 file photo, graduates pose for photographs during commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. The job market for new college graduates is brightening but remains weaker than before the Great Recession began. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Opinion: Students should appreciate early graduation

By Annette Sommers
April 29, 2014
LSU President F. King Alexander speaks with the Manship School Create Lab about #FixLSU in Free Speech Alley Friday, April 25, 2014. Check out the complete slideshow.

Opinion: Students need to take action to see change on campus

By Annette Sommers
April 27, 2014
This may surprise some, but there is a world outside the south United States.

Opinion: Leaving home state is beneficial for growth

By Annette Sommers
April 23, 2014
photo illustration by Taylor Balkom

Opinion: Shallow conversations limit our potential relationships

By Annette Sommers
April 9, 2014
Opinion: No, the restrictions protect the general public.

Opinion: No, the restrictions protect the general public.

By Annette Sommers
April 8, 2014
Texting and reading while driving are both still legal in Louisiana due to legislation that was struck down.

Opinion: Phones, reading still legal while driving

By Annette Sommers
April 3, 2014
In this picture taken on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Lebanese teacher Rajaa Bshara, right, reads a story for Syrian refugee students at a mixed Lebanese-Syrian students classroom at a Lebanese public school in Beirut, Lebanon. More than 2 million of those who should be in school remain in Syria, where classrooms have been bombed, used as shelters or turned into military barracks. Another 300,000 Syrian children don’t attend school in Lebanon, along with some 93,000 in Jordan, 78,000 in Turkey, 26,000 in Iraq and 4,000 in Egypt, UNICEF officials in Geneva said. Those numbers likely are higher, as UNICEF can’t count the children whose parents didn’t register with the United Nations refugee agency. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Opinion: Student-teacher relationships are lacking in school

By Annette Sommers
March 25, 2014
FILE - In this March 19, 2006 file photo, the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Phelps, the founder of the Kansas church known for anti-gay protests and pickets at military funerals, died late Wednesday, March 19, 2014, his family said. He was 84. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Opinion: Celebrating Phelps’ death is hypocritical

By Annette Sommers
March 23, 2014
Opinion: The Tipping Point

Opinion: The Tipping Point

By Annette Sommers
March 19, 2014
Miss Dacula Pageant representatives from Dacula, Ga., stand on the steps inside the Statehouse while posing for photos during a visit, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Opinion: Beauty Pageants encourage superficiality

By Annette Sommers
March 16, 2014
Spritz is an app that emphasizes speed reading, but some argue it comes at the cost of comprehension.

Opinion: Speed reading has negative outcomes

By Annette Sommers
March 13, 2014
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE - A woman poses in front of an ice sculpture with a swim suit frozen inside of it during the Hello Sunny beach promotion, hosted by the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau in Tribune Plaza, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Chicago. Visit sunny.org for more information. (Photo by Jeff Haynes/Invision for Greater Fort Lauderdale/AP Images)

Opinion: The truth of ‘The Evolution of the Swimsuit’

By Annette Sommers
March 6, 2014
This photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) shows radioactive water leaked from a tank at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Highly radioactive water has overflowed from a storage tank, but the operator says it did not reach the Pacific Ocean. The operator, TEPCO said Thursday that the leak involved partially treated water from early in the crisis, meaning it was more toxic than previous leaks. Three reactors melted at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, with radioactive water partially recycled and stored in more than 1,000 tanks. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. )(AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. )

Opinion: Fukushima nuclear disaster now an American problem

By Annette Sommers
February 25, 2014
The hallway of the Studio Arts Building. 

Opinion: Dangerously Cool

By Annette Sommers
February 20, 2014

Opinion: College Students addicted to Study Drugs

By Annette Sommers
February 19, 2014
Educational signs are displayed inside a PETA tent Tuesday afternoon near the student union.

600 words of Sommers: No. There are more humane alternatives

By Annette Sommers
February 12, 2014
LSU students experience the snow days that arrived in the Deep South. 

Opinion: Campus responds to Saturday classes with delight

By Annette Sommers
February 6, 2014
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AVAAZ - Members of global advocacy group Avaaz stand next to a digital counter showing the number of petition signatures calling for net neutrality outside the Federal Communication Commission in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Avaaz joined other US advocacy groups to deliver more than a million signatures for a free and democratic internet to the FCC. (Kevin Wolf/AP Images for Avaaz)

Opinion: Net neutrality important for success of the Internet

By Annette Sommers
February 2, 2014

Opinion: Grantland outrage illuminates transgender stigma

By Annette Sommers
January 30, 2014
Dennis Rodman waves to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, seated above in the stands, after singing Happy Birthday to Kim before an exhibition basketball game with U.S. and North Korean players at an indoor stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

Opinion: Rodman has social responsibility in North Korea

By Annette Sommers
January 23, 2014
Opinion: Vegetarianism misunderstood, deserves second thought

Opinion: Vegetarianism misunderstood, deserves second thought

By Annette Sommers
December 3, 2013
Plan B

Opinion: Plan B, morning-after contraceptive pills ineffective

By Annette Sommers
December 2, 2013
LGBTQ Pride ralliers end their march on the steps of the State Capitol June 15, 2013 in downtown Baton Rouge.

Opinion: Baton Rouge lacks adequate LGBT protection laws

By Annette Sommers
November 24, 2013
Opinion: Objections to organ donation selfish, irrational

Opinion: Objections to organ donation selfish, irrational

By Annette Sommers
November 18, 2013
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2013 file photo, pro-abortion rights activists, rally face-to-face against anti-abortion demonstrators as both march in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in a demonstration that coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The Supreme Court declines for now to jump back into the abortion wars, but a variety of new abortion restrictions in several states could eventually win high court review. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Opinion: Fetal protection laws unclear and contradictory

By Annette Sommers
November 17, 2013
Supreme Court

Opinion: Taxes should be used for education, not incarceration

By Annette Sommers
November 13, 2013

Opinion: Remedial classes should be offered in Louisiana 4-years

By Annette Sommers
November 11, 2013
Animal Shelter

Opinion: Shelter follows local example, stops euthanizing animals

By Annette Sommers
November 4, 2013
Opinion: DNA database gives government too much power

Opinion: DNA database gives government too much power

By Annette Sommers
November 3, 2013
Banned Books

Opinion: Book ban a bad attempt at editing history

By Annette Sommers
October 28, 2013
Opinion: University social media causes student division

Opinion: University social media causes student division

By Annette Sommers
October 27, 2013
One in five undergraduates say they are constantly stressed, according to a study conducted for The Associated Press.

Opinion: Professors should hear out students’ grade appeals

By Annette Sommers
October 22, 2013
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd talks about the events leading up to the arrest over the weekend of two juvenile girls in a Florida bullying case at a press conference in Winter Haven, Fla., Monday, Oct. 15, 2013. Two middle school girls ages 14 and 12 have been arrested and charged with felony aggravated stalking in connection with the suicide earlier this year of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick in Lakeland. Judd said police arrested the 14-year-old girl after she posted online Saturday that she bullied Rebecca and she didn't care. The 12-year-old girl was Rebecca's former best friend, but Judd said the 14-year-old girl turned her against Rebecca. (AP Photo/The Ledger, Calvin Knight) TAMPA TRIBUNE OUT

Opinion: Cyberbullying is as harmful as face-to-face harassment

By Annette Sommers
October 20, 2013
The 5 dining hall welcomes students Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 for lunchtime.

Opinion: Healthy on-campus dining options insufficient

By Annette Sommers
October 14, 2013
Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden (left) and Marmillion/Gray Media president Rannah Gray (right) announced the addition of Red Stick Revelry, a New Year's Eve celebration, on August 28, 2013, at a news conference in Town Square. The event will include a countdown to midnight with the descent of a red stick sculpture along with live entertainment.

Opinion: St. George is a futile, selfish scheme for class division

By Annette Sommers
October 7, 2013
The Louisiana State Capitol building basks in sunlight Wednesday near the Claiborne Conference Center in downtown Baton Rouge.

Opinion: Underprivileged areas in BR should not be overlooked

By Annette Sommers
October 6, 2013
Head to Head: Body modifications are unnatural and unnecessary

Head to Head: Body modifications are unnatural and unnecessary

By Annette Sommers
October 3, 2013
In this Aug. 1, 2013 photo provided by General Motors, cars are assembled at the General Motors Spring Hill Manufacturing Plant in Spring Hill, Tenn. General Motors announced Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, that it is spending another $167 million at the factory so it can build two new midsize vehicles. (AP Photo/General Motors) (Credit: AP)

Opinion: U.S. factories can help fight unemployment

By Annette Sommers
September 30, 2013