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LSU housing over capacity; students temporarily staying at Ion faced roaches, rats
Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:29 am
Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:29 am
Nothing beats a Jet 2 Holiday than living at LSU!
The ion is absolutely the worst. Trash everywhere, rodents. You can smell the weed as soon as you open the entrance. Google reviews are absolutely horrendous.
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EDT: they also ran out of parking passes
The ion is absolutely the worst. Trash everywhere, rodents. You can smell the weed as soon as you open the entrance. Google reviews are absolutely horrendous.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - LSU is over capacity again this year, having to temporarily house 170 incoming freshmen and upperclassmen at the LSU Lod Cook Hotel and the Ion Apartments. Some students say they moved into the Ion to find they were not alone, claiming their places had roaches and mice.
“Everywhere I’ve heard, ‘Oh, yeah, I knew this was be Ion when I seen it,’ or ‘everyone comes, like I knew this was Ion.’ Like, that’s so sad. Like it should be like girl, move to the Ion, not get out,” Jessica Livingston said
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EDT: they also ran out of parking passes
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 6:46 am
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Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:31 am to LSUTANGERINE
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I knew this was be Ion when I seen it,’ or ‘everyone comes, like I knew this was Ion.’ Like, that’s so sad. Like it should be like girl, move to the Ion, not get out
This is a college student?
Is her first class remedial English?
Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:33 am to LSUTANGERINE
Should have stayed at El Cid.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:34 am to LSUTANGERINE
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Everywhere I’ve heard, ‘Oh, yeah, I knew this was be Ion when I seen it,’ or ‘everyone comes, like I knew this was Ion.’ Like, that’s so sad. Like it should be like girl, move to the Ion, not get out,” Jessica Livingston said
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Jessica Livingston
Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:36 am to LSUTANGERINE
Hood rats should feel at home there.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 5:39 am to LSUTANGERINE
So the embarrassing amount of extra fees aren't going back to help the students? Shocked.
At what point do we start hard core auditing and firing/filing charges against people for utter mismanagement of public funding?
At what point do we start hard core auditing and firing/filing charges against people for utter mismanagement of public funding?
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 5:41 am
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:38 am to Breesus
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Is her first class remedial English?
She’s a perfect example of why LSU is over capacity now. They’re admitting anyone and everyone nowadays. It’s fricking disgusting.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:41 am to LSUTANGERINE
How do you end up over capacity? They double booked students to rooms?
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:44 am to Upperdecker
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How do you end up over capacity? They double booked students to rooms?
Not sure. But I think they bank on a lot of locals getting a housing exemption and staying at home.
They also ran out of parking passes
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 6:45 am
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:47 am to Upperdecker
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How do you end up over capacity?
They’re allowed (at least when I worked there, I assume the rule is still the same) to admit up to 4% of the previous year’s class as exceptions. These exceptions are the retards who don’t meet the admission requirements. If they use the entire 4% each year, eventually you’re going to get where they are now - record enrollment each year and, now, over capacity.
LSU is woke as frick now and it’s enraging. If a kid doesn’t meet requirements, he/she can go somewhere else and transfer in later.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:49 am to LSUTANGERINE
Some have even been forced to set up camp at the PMAC
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:02 am to LSUTANGERINE
And people are upset that Tate left. This overcrowding has been an issue for years. They did nothing about it.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:07 am to Jake88
It appears Tate protected himself by staying quiet and staying out of athletics, which is what 90% of the alumni worry about.
Maybe the next president tries to tackle some of the infrastructure issues.
Maybe the next president tries to tackle some of the infrastructure issues.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:10 am to Jake88
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This overcrowding has been an issue for years. They did nothing about it.
They have been constantly building new dorms for a decade. They’re building more right now across in the TD village lot.
Granted they shouldn’t have admitted more than they could house but honestly 170 isn’t that enormous of a number. As someone else said they probably banked on local students staying at home who didn’t.
They certainly aren’t doing nothing
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:10 am to LSUTANGERINE
Shoulda never got rid of Kirby Smith!
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:18 am to LSUTANGERINE
I lived at Ion first year it opened. Had to be in a hotel for a few months because my room wasn’t ready. That was actually awesome.
It was The Standard then something else then Ion.
That place has been a shite hole from the beginning. But it’s run by student managers and of course is 99% LSU students who destroy the place. There’s not much that can be done when the residents who live there are actively destroying it.
It was The Standard then something else then Ion.
That place has been a shite hole from the beginning. But it’s run by student managers and of course is 99% LSU students who destroy the place. There’s not much that can be done when the residents who live there are actively destroying it.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:18 am to Breesus
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This is a college student? Is her first class remedial English?
I was coming to post this after reading the story online. This is beyond sad and an absolute indictment of how far standards have dipped as a society for the privilege of attending a university.
This individual has no business being enrolled at an institution of higher learning, and no institution that has lowered standards this much should be allowed to consider itself one of higher learning.
Civilization’s decline continues.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:21 am to LSUTANGERINE
Yeah my son (returning Junior) just found out they ran out of parking passes?!?! WTF??? How do you math that? Bunch a morons running that place right now.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:22 am to LSUTANGERINE
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They also ran out of parking passes
This isn’t uncommon for universities. My son started at TCU this week. Freshmen are required to live on campus even if local and aren’t allowed to have vehicles due to limited parking availability. Exceptions are made on a case by case basis, usually if the student has a sick parent requiring support or care. They did have a lottery for the few leftover parking spots and my son lucked out with one but it’s all the way across campus from his dorm.
Several other universities we considered also had limited parking passes available with incoming freshmen being last in line for a pass.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:29 am to Indefatigable
quote:They've been doing it for years. Last year they were offering, what, $3000 to live at home. 170 is a problem when you're one of the 170.
Granted they shouldn’t have admitted more than they could house but honestly 170 isn’t that enormous of a number. As someone else said they probably banked on local students staying at home who didn’t.
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