re: No discussion on the hood takeover of LSU North gates?

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You have not learned. This happens because the school lets in bad apples and then the bad apples invite more bad apples who don’t even attend the school. To stop it entirely you need to stop letting in bad apples. Look we understand LSU is not an Ivy League with high standards but it was never like this even 6-10 years ago. There were borderline standards but it appears that there is nothing now

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As of several minutes ago the Common Data set for 2025 fall incoming freshman class showing % that actually submitted ACTs or SATs amongst other stuff is still missing in action along with the 2026 Spring Enrollment at a Glance which would break down demographics of campus and more importantly of undergraduates on campus.

I would guess the ACT/SAT submission rate of the 2025 incoming freshman dropped lower than 2024’s only having 47% submit scores along with possibly an increasing number of enrollees with higher GPAs not submitting scores. Maybe some weird change with scholarship and grant $ totals that shows up more. That seems like it would have all been expected after past several years, so the common data set not posted online yet is very strange. Seems like 2 years ago LSU’s website had a revised version posted towards the end of May.

I honestly cannot think of any valid reason the enrollment at glance numbers have not been updated for the 2026 Spring by now, and I have started to wonder if more blacks are sticking around in the Spring due to an over abundance of scholarships and grants handed to them compared to white undergraduates causing whites to make up more of the annual dip in Spring enrollment than usual which put white undergraduates too close to 50% if not just below 50% for the Spring.

They might be hoping they pull off a fall census miracle and get white undergraduates back with official fall census numbers. They might have to include duel enrollees, graduate students, and professional students in their totals they push in press releases this fall.

Southern game was bad. Weed smoke everywhere and the worst post game traffic since mid 2000s. Northgate fiasco last year and as seen here is all about the merchants and the crowds they attract. A smoke shop and a hookah lounge on the same block and no police presence to disperse a crowd of expensively dressed loiters....recipe for disaster.

I think I now agree with Gary chambers we need to invest in north Baton Rouge, give them bars, restaurants, grocery stores, hookah shops, daquari cafes, subsidized housing, all the federal government grants they can get.

Let it be its own city, can call it whatever cultural fitting name they want, hell it can be the first ever historically black city, they can all go to the great southern university. I’d be willing to pay more taxes for this l.

Shooting near independence park, these takeovers, what is the common denominator that keeps ruining areas??

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If I were chancellor, I would tell them to get it under control or we are playing multiple neutral site games.

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I thought fans hated the neutral site games

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expensively dressed loiters.

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The girls may dress nice, but the guys all wear the same jeans and a tight white T-shirt

Instagram page - The Lotus BR Hooka Lounge

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when did it become so noticeable?

General thought is the game with Southern University

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Thats also the fall (2022) that the Honors dorm had the sista brawl. Seems like there were some other issues in parking lot or nearby the Honors dorm that fall. I think that was Tate’s first full freshman class where his policies and focuses were in effect for entire process. Even with ACT/SAT’s being voluntary the class’s average ACT score dropped half a point, and by 2023’s fall freshman class to show an increase to counter the demographic shift becoming more obvious Tate shifted to ACT super scores and comparing super scores to true composite scores on top of submission rates dropping due to being voluntary.

LSU is 80% black now but they won’t tell anyone that

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LSU is 80% black now but they won’t tell anyone that

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It’s not 80% but it’s the most it’s ever been. I’d bet 25%-30%, with white student being around 50%. The remaining 20-25% mixed between Asian and Hispanic.

There’s a reason GentleJackJones’s kids are at College of Charleston and the youngest literally just started at Auburn…I also get on campus for a football game once or twice a year now.

After seeing some of the stuff I saw at the SC game, there's no chance in hell I would feel comfortable sending my kids to LSU. I know they cracked down hard after that weekend, but it was BAD

It’s quite sad….send your Kids to Ruston instead