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All content by Charlie Stephens
Mike the Tiger struts towards the glass on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, at Mike the Tiger's Habitat in Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: Thanks for everything, LSU

By Charlie Stephens
November 27, 2022
Memorial Tower reflects in a window on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, at the LSU Law Center on Highland Road in Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: LSU’s strategic planning is yielding results

By Charlie Stephens
October 23, 2022
Lookout pier sits on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 on the Mississippi River in Downtown, Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: So, when are you leaving Louisiana?

By Charlie Stephens
September 28, 2022
Jeff Landry Graphic

Opinion: Anybody but Jeff Landry for governor

By Charlie Stephens
September 21, 2022
Opinion: Joe Biden and American democracy make a hopeful comeback

Opinion: Joe Biden and American democracy make a hopeful comeback

By Charlie Stephens
September 10, 2022
A sign points out the LSU Library on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in the LSU Quad in Baton Rouge, La. The university removed the former name "Troy H. Middleton" after a petition garnered over 14,000 signatures.

Opinion: Building Name Evaluation Committee should release long-delayed report

By Charlie Stephens
August 28, 2022
Crime Tape

Opinion: New Orleans reverses facial recognition ban, takes a step back for privacy rights

By Charlie Stephens
August 22, 2022
Abortion-rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, July 4, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Opinion: University Administration’s silence on backsliding reproductive healthcare is deafening

By Charlie Stephens
August 7, 2022
House Speaker Clay Schexnayder waits to hear results of votes in the Senate Chambers during a veto session in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Louisiana state senators have narrowly voted to overturn Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards' rejection of a bill prohibiting transgender students from participating in school sports. The vote came Tuesday on the opening day of the first veto session under the state's nearly 50-year-old constitution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Opinion: Speaker Schexnayder may have saved tenure this time, but attacks on academic freedom won’t stop

By Charlie Stephens
August 5, 2022
John Kennedy

Opinion: Republican Legislators should focus on solutions, leave aside culture wars

By Charlie Stephens
July 28, 2022
Abortion-rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, July 4, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Opinion: The Supreme Court is a radical Republican tool

By Charlie Stephens
July 25, 2022
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 State Police needs to address deep-rooted problems

By Charlie Stephens
July 17, 2022
US senator elect Bill Cassidy celebrates win against Mary Landrieu at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Saturday December 6, 2014.

Opinion: Thank you for rejecting your party’s worst instincts, Bill Cassidy

By Charlie Stephens
July 8, 2022
Courtesy of Andrew Sluyter 

Opinion: Understanding the full history of the land that became LSU

By Charlie Stephens
July 5, 2022
Firearms are tools that were created for a concrete purpose, as part of an evolution of projectile launching mechanisms.

Opinion: Firearms distributors outnumber educators on LSU Board

By Charlie Stephens
June 25, 2022
In this April 3, 2013 photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. With up to 70,000 transactions each day over the past month, bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are beginning their downward spiral into irrelevance

By Charlie Stephens
June 16, 2022
Rep. Raymond Crews, R-Bossier City. Courtesy of Louisiana House. 

Opinion: Raymond Crews and his Republican colleagues are holding the state back

By Charlie Stephens
June 4, 2022
Signs encouraging citizens to sign a petition instituting the area of St. George as a city are arranged outside of Megan's Dress 2 the 9's Wednesday, June 18, 2014.

Opinion: St. George will hurt Baton Rouge; should be invalidated

By Charlie Stephens
May 26, 2022
LSU Interim Vice President and Executive Vice Provost Matt Lee speaks Wednesday, April 20, 2022, during the annual LSU Day at the Capitol at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: May the university’s next provost serve students, future of university

By Charlie Stephens
May 3, 2022
Studying at library as community

Opinion: LSU Library is the ‘superior campus study spot,’ especially during finals season

By Charlie Stephens
April 24, 2022
A pair of trees frame the State Capitol on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, at 900 North Third Street in Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: University needs to take vocal stance at Legislature in support of tenure

By Charlie Stephens
April 19, 2022
LSU Student Government President Lizzie Shaw and Vice President Nick St. Mary react to student government election results Monday, April 4, 2022, in the Live Oak Lounge on the first floor of the LSU Student Union in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Opinion: Student Government needs to truly advocate for students on every level

By Charlie Stephens
April 12, 2022
The front gates of Louisiana State Penitentiary stand below passing clouds in Angola, LA.

Opinion: Louisiana’s death penalty defense goes against supposed ‘pro-life’ values

By Charlie Stephens
April 7, 2022
The State Capitol sits beyond a lake on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, at 900 North Third Street in Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: State lawmaker threatens academic freedom, university recruitment with attack on tenure

By Charlie Stephens
March 28, 2022
LSU President William F. Tate testifies to the Senate Finance Committee on March 8, 2022. 

Opinion: Legislature should fund Tate’s ‘scholarship first agenda’ to secure Louisiana’s future

By Charlie Stephens
March 18, 2022
Three student government campaigns faced off in the 2021 SG debate on March 22, 2021.

Opinion: Campaigns are the lifeblood of Student Government, entry point for involvement

By Charlie Stephens
March 14, 2022
Memorial Tower peaks above the building on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, at LSU's campus on Tower Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: Devaluation of expertise threatens university’s ‘scholarship first’ vision

By Charlie Stephens
March 6, 2022
LSU president William F. Tate IV speaks at the Our Lady of the Lake and LCMC Health investment press conference Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, at the LSU Foundation Center for Philanthropy in Baton Rouge, La.

Opinion: Health systems’ investment in LSU more a business partnership than a philanthropic gift

By Charlie Stephens
March 4, 2022
A smoke stack rises above the surrounding buildings on Feb. 20, 2021, at the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering.

Opinion: University lagging behind in sustainability, must aggressively commit to net-zero emissions

By Charlie Stephens
February 20, 2022
A couple holds each other's hands on the way to class on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, on the university's campus.

Opinion: Similar political views important for relationships, reflective of values

By Charlie Stephens
February 12, 2022
Faculty Senate Encourages Misinformation cartoon

Opinion: LSU Faculty Senate should promote truth, not COVID-19 misinformation

By Charlie Stephens
February 5, 2022
John Bel Edwards Cartoon

Opinion: Our flagship cannot survive without adequate investment

By Charlie Stephens
January 28, 2022
COVID Test Cartoon

Opinion: Others could learn from LSU

By Charlie Stephens
January 23, 2022
A statue of Shaquille O’Neal stands on Feb. 26, 2021 outside of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Opinion: Coach Mulkey is right, university must honor women equally on campus

By Charlie Stephens
January 19, 2022
The Pentagon, which includes LeJeune, Beauregard, Taylor, and Jackson Halls, sits Wednesday, June 17, 2020 on LSU's campus.

Opinion: President Tate, restoring trust demands renaming buildings

By Charlie Stephens
December 1, 2021
Three student government campaigns faced off in the 2021 SG debate on March 22, 2021.

Opinion: Be vigilant in upcoming Student Government election season

By Charlie Stephens
November 28, 2021
President Joe Biden greets Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, left, after arriving at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. Biden traveled to Louisiana to survey storm damage from Hurricane Ida and meet with officials.

Opinion: Gov. Edwards’ commitment to clean energy vital to Louisiana’s future

By Charlie Stephens
November 21, 2021
LSU/USC

Opinion: Inaction on building renaming a holdover from USC for President Tate

By Charlie Stephens
November 14, 2021
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards acknowledges the House and Senate leadership after addressing the legislature for the opening of the 2020 general legislative session in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Opinion: Student engagement critical to successful redistricting in Louisiana

By Charlie Stephens
November 7, 2021
LSU athletic director Scott Woodward holds an introductory press conference in the Journalism Building on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.

Opinion: The Tiger Athletic Foundation should be dissolved

By Charlie Stephens
November 3, 2021
LSU's student government's mission statement displays across the wall of the student government office on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 on the first floor of the Student Union on LSU's campus.

Opinion: Student Government in desperate need of transparency

By Charlie Stephens
October 27, 2021
LSU President. F. King Alexander gives a speech during LSU's 2018-19 Student Government inauguration on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, near Memorial Tower.

Opinion: F. King Alexander was truly committed to public higher education

By Charlie Stephens
October 24, 2021
West Virginians protest at Senator Joe Manchin's houseboat, Almost Heaven, in the Washington marina.

Opinion: Sen. Manchin’s political grandstanding is hurting West Virginians

By Charlie Stephens
October 13, 2021
David F. Boyd Hall houses the LSU Graduate School on Nov. 21, 2016, at 114 West David Boyd Hall.

Opinion: The state of graduate education at the university is dismal

By Charlie Stephens
October 6, 2021
Thomas Durant stands in front of the former Troy H. Middleton Library. Middleton's name was recently removed from the library after his segregationist beliefs came to light.

Opinion: The university is not serious about renaming buildings honoring racists

By Charlie Stephens
September 26, 2021
In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. People charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol left behind a trove of videos and messages that have helped federal authorities build cases. In nearly half of the more than 200 federal cases stemming from the attack, authorities have cited evidence that an insurrectionist appeared to have been inspired by conspiracy theories or extremist ideologies, according to an Associated Press review of court records. 

Opinion: Political unity abused by Republicans for partisan benefit

By Charlie Stephens
September 19, 2021
The LSU Library needs $1 million to waterproof its damaged basement.

‘Opinion: Dilapidated LSU Library inconsistent with a “scholarship first’ university

By Charlie Stephens
September 15, 2021
Flooding near Campus Drive makes its way into the streets on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, around LSU campus.

Opinion: The university’s emergency support fund needs help

By Charlie Stephens
September 12, 2021
Coates Hall serves as a testing center on Jan. 25, 2021 in the LSU Quad.

Opinion: Unvaccinated students need to be nudged more aggressively

By Charlie Stephens
September 9, 2021
LSU's Provost, Dr. Stacia Haynie, sits in her office on Friday, Sep. 18, 2020 at Thomas Boyd Hall.

Guest Column: Haynie demotion showcases long road to equity on campus

By Charlie Stephens
July 9, 2021
LSU’s Memorial Tower rises above the tree line on Mar. 3, 2021, from its location near the Parade Ground.

Letter to the Editor: Students deserve advocacy at all levels — including state government

By Charlie Stephens
April 11, 2021