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All content by Eli Haddow
Fraternity houses sit on LSU's campus on March 27, 2014.

Opinion: Greek newspaper should find a new identity

By Eli Haddow
April 30, 2014
The remote controlled DJI Phantom drone with an attached GoPro 3 camera used by Brian Tercero of Keller Williams Realty used to create a high definition video of a property is seen in Santa Fe, N.M. on April 18, 2014. (AP Photo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, Clyde Mueller)

Opinion: Drones need more legislative regulation

By Eli Haddow
April 28, 2014
Yik Yak Screenshot

Opinion: New iPhone app allows users to talk trash anonymously

By Eli Haddow
April 23, 2014
The Louisiana State Capitol building basks in sunlight Wednesday near the Claiborne Conference Center in downtown Baton Rouge.

Capital Calamity

By Eli Haddow
April 8, 2014
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, followed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. leave a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, where they talked about the Supreme Court decision in the McCutcheon vs. FEC case, in which the Court struck down limits in federal law on the aggregate campaign contributions individual donors may make to candidates, political parties, and political action committees. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Opinion: Supreme Court decision expands freedom for campaign donations

By Eli Haddow
April 2, 2014
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2014 file photo, show attendees play a video game wearing Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets at the Intel booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show(CES), in Las Vegas. Facebook said Tuesday, March 25, 2014, it has agreed to buy Oculus for $2 billion, betting that its virtual reality may be a new way for people to communicate, learn or be entertained. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Opinion: Facebook’s virtual reality investment discouraging

By Eli Haddow
March 26, 2014
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, center, walks down the hallway pushing his son, Eli, as he is accompanied by wife Trina Scott Edwards, right, and Charlotte Guedry, left, before speaking at the Baton Rouge Press Club in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, March 17, 2014. Edwards announced that he would join the race to represent the state’s Baton Rouge-based 6th District of the U.S. House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Travis Spradling)

Opinion: Edwards’s candidacy tarnishes Louisiana politics

By Eli Haddow
March 19, 2014
Opinion: Twitter ambiguity raises questions on veracity

Opinion: Twitter ambiguity raises questions on veracity

By Eli Haddow
March 12, 2014

Opinion: Riverside Towing is an unfixable disgrace

By Eli Haddow
February 26, 2014
LSU kinesiology senior Garrett Bailey presents his katana which Bailey won after winning the Louisiana State Powelifting Championship in 2013.

Opinion: Politicians should focus on sword rights rather than gun rights

By Eli Haddow
February 23, 2014
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrives at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Nagin, who faces charges that he accepted bribes and free trips among other things from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)

Opinion: Nagin’s guilt symbolic of New Orleans’ lost years

By Eli Haddow
February 13, 2014
Michael Goodwin, Senior Partner for HTC, displays an HTC First cell phone wit the new Facebook interface at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013. The company says it is not building a phone or an operating system. Rather, Facebook is introducing a new experience for Android phones. The idea behind the new Home service is to bring content right to you, rather than require people to check apps on the device. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Opinion: Social media contributing to breakdown of societal hierarchy

By Eli Haddow
February 5, 2014
President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, listen. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

Opinion: Obama’s State of the Union dull, lacks ambition from 2009

By Eli Haddow
January 29, 2014
Textbooks are displayed Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 in the LSU Bookstore.

Opinion: Textbook racket steals student money

By Eli Haddow
January 21, 2014
Bobby Jindal

Opinion: Louisiana higher education shocking

By Eli Haddow
December 5, 2013
Pope Francis leaves at the end of a Mass on the occasion of his visit at the Parish Church of St. Cirillo Alessandrino, in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Opinion: Pope’s stance against capitalism could alienate groups

By Eli Haddow
December 2, 2013
FILE - In this July 11, 2009 file photo, American seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, left, and Rinaldo Nocentini of Italy, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, right, climb towards Col de Port , France, during the 8th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 176.5 kilometers (109.7 miles) with start in Andorra and finish in Saint-Girons, France. When Alex Gibney set out to document the cyclist Armstrong’s 2009 Tour de France comeback, the filmmaker admits he bought into the hype: The man who’d cheated death was coming back to reign supreme -- clean. Gibney's documentary, "The Armstrong Lie, " from Sony Pictures Classics releases Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Opinion: ‘Academic doping’ is not a reasonable solution

By Eli Haddow
November 24, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for newly-elected Rep. Vance McAllister, R-La., Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McAllister’s wife Kelly, watches at center. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Opinion: Mr. McAllister goes to Washington

By Eli Haddow
November 21, 2013
Bobby Jindal

Opinion: TOPS money, opportunity wasted on unworthy students

By Eli Haddow
November 18, 2013
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., waves as she arrives with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. The president traveled to the Gulf Coast region to visit the Port of New Orleans to make a case that more exports equal more jobs. After New Orleans he will go to Miami area for three Democratic fundraisers. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)

Opinion: Healthcare legislation shows government incompetence

By Eli Haddow
November 14, 2013
Elizabeth Zavala, International Studies senior on left, and Ryan Balsamo, Physical Geography senior, study Italian at the language lab in Prescott Hall room 234 on Monday, Nov 16.

Opinion: University needs to expand foreign recruitment

By Eli Haddow
November 11, 2013
Protestors, including CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, left, listen as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on potential changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Faced with anger over revelations about U.S. spying at home and abroad, members of Congress suggested Tuesday that programs the Obama administration says are needed to combat terrorism may have gone too far. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Head to Head: The NSA violates the Third Amendment

By Eli Haddow
November 4, 2013
File-This July 29, 2011 file photo shows Trina Grimes Scott and former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards greet the media after getting married in the French Quarter in New Orleans, La. Edwards returns to the spotlight with the Sunday Oct. 27, 2013, premier of "The Governor's Wife," a new reality television series that puts his romance with Grimes out there for all to see. The couple — he's 86, she's 35 — has a child together. Eli was born in August. The series follows Trina and Edwin's decision to get pregnant and ends with the baby's delivery and introduction to the world. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber, File)

Opinion: Edwin Edwards running for office is not a good idea

By Eli Haddow
October 31, 2013
Neil Riser, R-Columbia, a candidate for the 5th Congressional District, calls voters on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 from an office in Monroe, La. Riser is one of 14 contenders seeking the 5th District seat. (AP Photo/The News-Star, Margaret Croft)

Opinion: Louisiana congressional district race a sign of bigger issues

By Eli Haddow
October 27, 2013
In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, a pedestrian walks past the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington on a rainy day. The national debt actually reached the limit in May 2013. Since then, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has made accounting moves to continue financing the government without further borrowing. But Lew says those measures will be exhausted by Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. The government will then have to pay its bills from its cash on hand — an estimated $30 billion — and tax revenue. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Head to Head: Numbers don’t lie, the debt needs to be addressed

By Eli Haddow
October 23, 2013

Opinion: Students’ ignorance about government continues

By Eli Haddow
October 21, 2013
Shanta Driver arrives at the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. Driver is the National Chair of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary. Driver argued her side of an affirmative action case before the Supreme Court, Tuesday after affirmative action opponents persuaded Michigan voters to outlaw any consideration of race after the Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that race could be a factor in college admissions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Opinion: It’s time to end affirmative action, diversity will survive

By Eli Haddow
October 17, 2013

Opinion: Private sector must pick up slack in school system

By Eli Haddow
October 15, 2013
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks during a rally for South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who announced her candidacy for a second term at the Bi-Lo Center, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, in Greenville, S.C. Supporting Gov. Haley were Perry, Bobby Jindal-La. and Scott Walker-Wis. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Opinion: Jindal brings focus to GOP governors from Washington

By Eli Haddow
October 9, 2013
World War II veterans from the Chicago area salute as the colors are presented at the World War II Memorial in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. This group of veterans came to Washington for the day just to see the memorial. It was an act of civil disobedience that marked the fact some barriers nor a government shutdown would keep a group of World War II veterans from visiting the monument erected in their honor. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Opinion: When governing fails, politicians turn to stunts

By Eli Haddow
October 6, 2013