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

Tate let in a bunch of riff raff when they ditched standardized tests in admissions criteria. They’re reversing course on that so hopefully the problem will begin to clear up in a few years time.

As for the drive into campus, depending on the route you take, you may or may not be driving through Old South Baton Rouge, which has been a ghetto shithole since before the Civil War. That hasn’t changed. It’s actually probably gotten better in a lot of ways. A lot less crime in there than even 10-20 years ago.

The current commissioner of Higher Education, a former Obama appointee, has prioritized increasing minority (all races other than White and Asian) completers on all La campuses. The Office of Civil Rights is currently investigating this issue. LINK

For some reason, Landry has allowed her to stay in the position.

Every southern city has ghettos. 100% of them. The more southern the more ghettos.

What’s the news here?

I intend to in retirement. I plan to travel the world.

No. Look at the sharlo townhomes and all that’s behind them. WAY more ghetto
What used to be the commons is too. A lot of the new apartment complexes on Ben Hur are even becoming ghetto as well.

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I don’t care what color someone is as long as they actually have what used to be needed to get in. Merit based….

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If it was that ACT/SAT score submissions wouldn’t have dropped to 47% for fall of 2024 class (LSU still has not posted that data for fall of 2025) while Tate boasted of increased scores that were really about voluntary compared to mandatory score submission years and then in 2023 had to start using super score as the composite score to compare to prior true composite scores when 2022 average took a dip. After this LSU aggressively promoted a minimum score for applicants to submit that would help with admissions, scholarships, and honors admissions and to not submit anything lower to not hurt their applications which also helped average scores continue to tick up or at least stay the same.

You don’t need to game the system if they were bringing in the best of best like they kept pushing. Alumni focused on sports and Tate not forcing his black coaching hires just kept being fooled. Many on the rant and the OT kept pushing those ACT scores increasing that LSU promoted while failing to actual look for themselves.

LSU or a private investor needs to start buying every house from the north gates to downtown, starting with the west side of Highland.

A clean, safe connection from LSU to downtown between Highland and Nicholson would be a good start.

Parents from out of state who send their kids here and they end up in that housing outside the north gates have no idea what lurks 100 feet from their children's apartments.

All I know is that if you want to better the quality of student AND drive up demand simultaneously… raise the standards.

Regardless of race… high school quality students want to apply to schools that will turn them down. The #1 way to make someone want something is to tell them they can’t have it. The more exclusive you make LSU’s image, the more people will flock to it.

And I know that’s not LSU’s mission as a land grant, public university… but if you want to okay the competition/rankings/image game… that’s your play. Otherwise, don’t play the game.