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Prof Who Faces Multiple Bias Claims Vows to Sue if He Loses His Job

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 26, 2021 9 Comments

"multiple students have denounced these claims as false"...

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Louisiana School Boards Assoc. Quits NSBA Membership Over Request For AG Garland To Weaponize FBI Against Parents

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 16, 2021 11 Comments

In addition to Louisiana, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, the Florida school board association has also denounced the toxic Garland memo...

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LSU Ready to Unenroll 78 Students Who Broke COVID Vaccine Rules

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 17, 2021 2 Comments

“The goal from the start has been to get everyone in compliance, but while the number has shrunk, those 78 are being contacted that they are being unenrolled from the university."...

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Southeastern Louisiana U. Guts Student Newspaper Budget to Pay for New Title IX Staffers

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 05, 2021 3 Comments

“The University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors approved the shift in funding Thursday without discussion”...

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Some Medical School Programs at Tulane University Put on Probation Over ‘Diversity Concerns’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 08, 2021 2 Comments

"we can and must do more to improve the oversight of our GME programs while also improving our learning and working environments, including enhancing equity, diversity, and inclusion"...

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LSU Hires Critical Race Scholar As President

Posted by Jeff Reynolds on June 03, 2021 41 Comments

Dr. William F. Tate IV, who becomes the first Black university president in the SEC, was not included in the initial list of eight semifinalists published by the special committee appointed to interview candidates for the position....

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Federal Appeals Court Ruled Texas, Louisiana Can Cut Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 24, 2020 11 Comments

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that Texas and Louisiana can cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. The decision affects Mississippi as well since the state "is under 5th Circuit jurisdiction."

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Tulane Cancels Talk By Author After Students Misunderstand And Protest Book

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 07, 2020 47 Comments

Edward Ball is the author of a new book called 'Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy' which explores ugly, racist aspects of his own family's past. You would think this is a book which would appeal to progressive college students. At Tulane, a talk by Ball has been canceled for now, because student critics were outraged by the very idea of this event.

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Black Campus Activists at Tulane U. Demand Free Tuition and Reparations

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 29, 2020 9 Comments

"Tulane must first acknowledge the trauma it has inflicted on black community members."...

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Tulane U. Threatens Expulsion for Parties Due to Coronavirus Fears

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 16, 2020 2 Comments

"The behaviors of the student hosts and those who chose to attend these parties was disrespectful, selfish and dangerous and not in line with Tulane values."...

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Law Requiring Abortionists Have Hospital Admitting Privileges

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 29, 2020 47 Comments

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts as the deciding vote, to strike down a Louisiana law that requires abortionists have hospital admitting privileges. Roberts said he voted because he had to follow precedent.

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Louisiana State U. Prof Vows to Drop Students Who Are on ‘Hate List’

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 12, 2020 9 Comments

"If @LSU won't take action, we as professors can. Keeping a list of names and if I see them enrolled in my course, I will drop them."...

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Wuhan Virus Watch: New Orleans May be “Hot Spot” Because of Mardi Gras

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 25, 2020 14 Comments

Currently, the US is reporting over 54,000 coronavirus cases and 775 deaths. Louisiana officials say their state has 1388 cases and 11 deaths. They also predict that New Orleans will be a coronavirus "hot spot," after over a million people celebrated Carnival in the area for more than a month, culminating in Mardi Gras at the end of February.

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Louisiana Postpones Primary Until June Due to Coronavirus Concerns

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 13, 2020 9 Comments

Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin announced the state will hold its primary on June 20 instead of April due to coronavirus:

“We can pull off elections after disasters or issues like this but we have to have more time than 30 or 60 days,” he said Friday.

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Tulane U. Removes ‘Victory Bell’ From Campus After Learning it Was Used on a Plantation

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 01, 2020 4 Comments

"campus landmark would be moved to storage as officials investigate its exact origins"...

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Supreme Court Will Hear Louisiana Abortion Law That Requires Clinics to Have Hospital Admitting Privileges

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 04, 2019 23 Comments

Abortion activists want abortion viewed as a medical procedure, which it is, but provide it with special exceptions. The case June Medical Services v. Gee proves this point, which challenges a Louisiana law that requires abortion centers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

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The Truth About Huey P. Long’s Hypocrisy and Supposed ‘Assassination’

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 13, 2019 13 Comments

Decades before wild-haired Bernie Sanders, there was Louisiana Democratic Gov. Huey Long. He served as the state's 40th governor from 1928 to 1932. Long was a tyrant and dictator. A hypocrite who lectured others, but filled his pocketbook. He also ruined lives if you betrayed or didn't show loyalty to him. Even if death Long continues to haunt the family of the man who supposedly assassinated him.

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Arrest Made in Gruesome Murder of Louisiana Civil Rights Activist, Sadie Roberts-Joseph

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 16, 2019 20 Comments

An arrest has been made in the gruesome murder of 75-year-old civil rights activist, Sadie Roberts-Joseph. She was found dead in the trunk of her car last week. Roberts-Joseph founded an African American history museum in Louisiana.

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