Is LSU becoming more ghetto? Is there a solution?

Shiny hook baw but you're on a hot trail.

Look at their parents. The 40-60 range of adults reminisce about rap songs in their adolescence and will watch reels with throwbacks about how ratchet they were growing up.

Go back and look at Reggies or Fred's 20 years ago and adults were saying the same thing that the current is saying about LSU being too ghetto.

Tate let in a ton of minorities because he lowered entrance levels and removed ACT requirements.

Seems the new admin has interest in raising them or at least making it a little more restrictive.

But yes a big ghetto cohort that would have either never gone to college or gone to southern ended up at LSU.

Maybe when those kids drop out or graduate things will balance out some.

LSU-HBCU.

To answer, yes.

To answer more broadly, this is a real issue everywhere east of the Rockies.

Most places are becoming more ghetto. Are all places becoming ghetto? No. Most subdivision that 25 years ago someone would have considered someone having "made it" are now a mix of upstanding people, and people who somehow came into a little bit of money or financing and don't know how to act.

My hypothesis is that from 2005 - 2022, you had two instances of people basically being gifted homes. One where mortgage apps weren't strict (05-08), another where money was basically free (19-21). You had defaults from this lending, but some people stayed. Other people left and rented out their houses. Blackrock scooped up a ton of residential homes and rented them out to folks who would otherwise be in a lower-class neighborhood.

My hypothesis relates to middle class suburbs, but I think it makes the issues worse the farther down you go the income ladder.

It's like a DEI hire.

There have been problems along Highland and S. Stadium and down by the Law School but the powers that be closed off the first site mentioned.

Yes it is and it happened quick

Season ticket holder for 4 years before COVID, and going to games since 2008.

We took our daughter to a game last year against South Carolina (first game since 2018) and it was insane. Weed smoke everywhere you walked. Multiple shots fired right outside the stadium

It felt like I was on a different campus

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Ever been to Columbia, SC?

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Maybe the hottest place on the planet.

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Go back and look at Reggies or Fred's 20 years ago

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Has it improved since then? Or is it worse than ever?

LSU has been engaged in completely unconstitutional and illegal DEI practices for the last 20 years. The last president we had put that on steroids. Even the recent Supreme Court case declaring DEI unconstitutional did nothing to lesson the LSU DEI onslaught.

We just got rid of the entire DEI department this past week. Hopefully that’ll help get rid of the ghetto culture on campus. It might also eliminate all the twerking kweens and strippers at tailgates and during orientation.