re: Is LSU becoming more ghetto? Is there a solution?

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Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, or California are doing great?

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I think he was referring to “culture”. Those liberal bastions have their own issues.

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You can always tell the people who drove from I-10 to Tiger Stadium and thought they saw all of Baton Rouge

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That entry from I-10 from the east is the good way into campus, via Dalrymple and LSU Ave.

From the north on Highland or Nicholson? The Bottoms and OSBR. The north gates area is a dump now.

From the south via College onto Highland? The Murder Hub (formerly Plantation Trace), the apartments on Lee, the Neighborhood Walmart, and the worst concentration of ghetto fast foos workers got you covered, fam. Even the Chik-fil-a and Whataburger have bad service more than half the time.

From the south via Burbank? Once you turn from Bluenonnet, Gardere, and Starring, not great.

From the south via Nicholson? The Tigerland area is a ghetto shithole, but at least it's somewhar obscures by the train tracks.

And none of that addresses the student body. Let's just say that many of them don't stick around beyond a year or two. That'a always happened at LSU, but the reasons may be different now.

Do they keep stats on this or is that racist?

My daughter recently graduated from a large LA high school. Great grades and test scores. Top 3 percent in her class.

She got offered $0 in scholarships by LSU. Only TOPS.

Meanwhile LSU is expanding admitting ghetto students who presumably are getting a ton of need based grants and DEi scholarships.

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I come in peace as a Bama dude on this topic

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A good friend is a Bama grad, lives in Tuscaloosa, and says that city is going to hell also.

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Is LSU becoming more ghetto?

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Yes. Was evident too many when on campus, at football game days, and freshman week videos.


With what is basically Tate’s last incoming freshman class It may be getting past a point of a solution without some drastic measures a group of people will get offended by and riot.

LSU still had not posted Common data set for Fall 2025 freshman class which includes the % of the class that submitted ACT or SAT scores, and they still have not updated the enrollment at a glance for this past Spring in 2026 which is at one of the places where you can get breakdown of demographics for undergraduates on campus (doesn’t include online and can remove duel enrollment High Schoolers & Graduate schools).

This upcoming 2026 fall freshman class is still basically Tate’s and his appoints to admissions committee with most offers made before the new administration was in charge or even hired. New guys then went limp at the gate by only requiring ACT/SAT scores below a set GPA for 2027 fall freshman before requiring it for all in 2028, and there is no minimum requirement or significant weight added to scores making it just one of many things the committee makes decisions on.

Here's a solution. Todd Graves needs to buy every house from West Chimes all the way down to 1010 Nicholson and bulldoze all of them. Then develop mixed commercial/residential properties over the entire area.

That's all I got.

Yeah. Of course there is a solution. It hurts feelings though

Gotta up the acceptance requirements and not worry about race percentages

The area between campus and downtown has been ghetto for 50+ years.

LSU is done. It’s now like a public high school. It’s a hip hop culture. It will never be the same.