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re: Would you support a 'Don't Send Your Kids To LSU' campaign?
Posted on 5/21/23 at 3:40 am to Monkeyboy
Posted on 5/21/23 at 3:40 am to Monkeyboy
Homicides are definitely way up now than during the years of 85-95, these aren’t Nola stats we are comparing during that timeframe, it’s not even debatable. The homicide rate the past two years is way worse than anything in the 80-90’s. Your graph doesn’t specify the homicide rate now in BR compared to the 80’s-90’s. Ever since 2017, there has been over 500 shootings in BR every year. For the past 6 years violent crime has absolutely been underreported in BR due to the meddling of the current administration, which again, skews your data in that graph you posted, drastically.
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Posted on 5/21/23 at 4:19 am to Giantkiller
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It's only a matter of time before a student is killed literally ON campus and to me
This already happened, but it happened like 15 years ago.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 7:00 am to member12
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Don’t think you need to worry about your kids getting into LSU.
Actually, no. If you have to worry about your kid getting in, they probably don’t need to go there.
However, if they do, and I spend the kind of money it cost to go there, I should have a reasonable expectation of their safety.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 7:08 am to Pu2kph0
LSU doesn’t need your hillbilly kids. Send them somewhere else.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 7:35 am to Giantkiller
There is a similar ongoing campaign , but for different reasons. Over the last 6 years the now former head of admissions focused all recruiting efforts on out of state kids, making sure they received grants and scholarships to attend LSU. A large number of these kids didn’t finish 2 years at LSU, causing the loss of many millions of dollars. Meanwhile , LSU refused to recruit or provide similar incentives to the best students in this state and many of whom were children of LSU alums. As a result, several top schools are quietly telling their best students to look out of state because “LSU doesn’t care about you”.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 7:40 am to Giantkiller
No.
It's the shitty city, not the school and unless you're going to napalm between campus and downtown, and north of Florida Boulevard, the idiocy and incompetency in City Hall will never change
It's the shitty city, not the school and unless you're going to napalm between campus and downtown, and north of Florida Boulevard, the idiocy and incompetency in City Hall will never change
Posted on 5/21/23 at 7:48 am to Giantkiller
My campaign to my kids is to go out of state, once they leave for college there’s a good chance they never return to Louisiana
Posted on 5/21/23 at 8:47 am to Midtiger farm
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Pretty much every single one Have you? Have you gone to the ghetto of these towns, the industrial, dirty parts, you’ve been to the former good parts of these cities that have now turned to shite
Every single one? And you've seen the ghettos of every single one? That's... impressive, I suppose.
I've been to several and seen the less than ideal parts of them to know that Baton Rouge is much worse than it should be; most of the city is the "former good part that turned to shite."
I went in the late 90s, and saying this sucks, but that's the way it is.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 9:38 am to Breauxsif
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Homicides are definitely way up now than during the years of 85-95, these aren’t Nola stats we are comparing during that timeframe, it’s not even debatable. The homicide rate the past two years is way worse than anything in the 80-90’s. Your graph doesn’t specify the homicide rate now in BR compared to the 80’s-90’s. Ever since 2017, there has been over 500 shootings in BR every year. For the past 6 years violent crime has absolutely been underreported in BR due to the meddling of the current administration, which again, skews your data in that graph you posted, drastically.
People love to play the 80s and 90s card. BR is way more dangerous now than it was then. Particularly in South BR. There was never a year where we had triple digit homicides in that time. We had 170 in 2021.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 10:33 am to Breauxsif
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Your graph doesn’t specify the homicide rate now in BR compared to the 80’s-90’s.
I never said the table specified homicide rate. I said in my post it was a table depicting total violent crimes (includes rape, assaults, armed robberies, etc.). My point was that violent crime was worse in BR in the 80s and 90s, that's just a fact. The number of homicides, in pure numbers, are definitely up the last 3 years. The highest homicide rate per 100,000 people, though, at least as of 2020 (can't find data past this), was in 1993. I bet 2021 through 2023 and 1993 are in the same ball park as far at homicide rates go, especially if you go with the rate of East Baton Rouge Parish. Baton Rouge's population has been stagnant over the years but EBR parish has about 75,000 more people now vs. the 90s.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 11:24 am to Giantkiller
There's nothing new about high crime areas north of LSU. The one thing that has changed is the turning of Tigerland into a ghetto
Posted on 5/21/23 at 11:34 am to Monkeyboy
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My point was that violent crime was worse in BR in the 80s and 90s, that's just a fact.
I remember BR in those times quite well. You might have had a good deal of crime in North Baton Rouge in the 90s but just about the entirety of South Baton Rouge was safe outside of a few neighborhoods. We didn't have gangland style hits in broad daylight on Bluebonnet
Posted on 5/21/23 at 11:38 am to member12
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Academic stagnation is the biggest threat LSU faces. Not whatever the foolish OP is posting. LSU damn well needs to start climbing in the rankings again or Tate will be out on his arse. Being better than Ole Miss isn’t enough.
I just hope we give him time. The rankings are a lagging indicator and we have a lot of work to undo F King's damage.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:13 pm to fallguy_1978
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We didn't have gangland style hits in broad daylight on Bluebonnet
?? Bluebonnet by the mall didn't exist until what, late 80s really 90s? There was certainly nothing out there other than Jimmy Swaggert land. No mall or any of that.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:18 pm to member12
A monkey with a dissected brain can get into LSU. At LSU, if you can write your name on a piece of paper, that’s three credit hours. If you can put the name of the school you’re going to, that’s four credit hours. It’s a party school full of dumb hicks, nothing more
This post was edited on 5/21/23 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:33 pm to Giantkiller
Didn't have to. My son did not like Baton Rouge at all and chose to go to LA Tech.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:35 pm to JasonDBlaha
And yet here you are on a LSU message board.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:37 pm to JasonDBlaha
OK Aggie
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:39 pm to member12
LSU doesn’t have a high enough applicant count to become more selective in their admissions. Say all you want about “but we have 20,000 applicants!” but a 75% acceptance rate says otherwise. Simply put, LSU is not a popular destination for over-qualified high-quality high school graduates.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:40 pm to JasonDBlaha
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LSU doesn’t have a high enough applicant count to become more selective in their admissions. Say all you want about “but we have 20,000 applicants!” but a 75% acceptance rate says otherwise. Simply put, LSU is not a popular destination for over-qualified high-quality high school graduates.
Lol, no employer is going to LSU because of the highly selected student body.
They go to Harvard for that.
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