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Showing posts with label Baton Rouge Advocate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baton Rouge Advocate. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Not the best of all possible worlds: A litany of distressing news in my local newspaper

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  This morning, I scanned my local newspaper as I sipped my first cup of coffee and was slammed with a litany of depressingly lousy news.  F...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

What happens to young people who go to college without basic reading and writing skills? It's not good

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  The Baton Rouge Advocate published an editorial a few days ago titled "Get ahead in colleges like LSU, without all the hard work....
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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Like Manna From Heaven, Biden Administration Cancels Half a Trillion Dollars in Student Debt

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Like manna raining down from heaven, President Biden will cancel a mountain of college debt. Student debtors making less than $125,000 will ...
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Sunday, August 21, 2022

University Foundation Accounts Are Basically Slush Funds for University Big Wigs

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 As a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, I was often assigned to teach courses off campus.  Would the university reimbur...
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Saturday, March 19, 2022

Baton Rouge Man Convicted of Massive Student Loan Fraud: Baton Rouge Community College Becomes Crime Scene

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 A few days ago, Elliott Sterling of Baton Rouge was convicted of massive student-loan fraud. As reported in the Baton Rouge Advocate , Ster...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

LSU Football Player Kills a Man in Scotlandville: Will He Still Play in the Playstation Fiesta Bowl?

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An LSU football player killed Kobe Johnson, an 18-year-old man, yesterday evening in Scotlandville. This is what we know. Clyde Edwards-He...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Secret Searches for College Presidents: Are They Good for Higher Education? A Call for a Federal Open Records Law That Applies to All Colleges That Receive Federal Funds

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Inside Higher Education published an article earlier this week on the controversial career of Evan Dobelle, currently president of Westfiel...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Memo to LSU: Fire Your Lawyers, Fire Your Executive Search Firm, and Apologize to Judge Clark

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When I practiced law years ago, my senior partner gave me three good pieces of advice. 1. Always comply with a court order. 2. Never hide...

Imperious, Arrogant and Defiant: LSU Plays the Scofflaw and Refuses to Compy with a Court Order

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I sat in Judge Janice Clark's courtroom this morning, curious to see how she would deal with Louisiana State University's continued ...