re: NSFW - Anyone Else See Twerking Off the Side of the Assembly Center at the Freshman Bash?

She Turnt it up alright??

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part of the presentation was to say LSU was a testing optional school.

It seems as if LSU is exploiting black HS graduates. It's an easy money grab. Market easy entry and diversity, then take their TOPS money with the expectation that they'll drop out after first semester. LSU knows these kids will never make it to Junior or Senior year.

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Sad...contact your reps and board of supervisors. The next Presidential hire is crucial..

Whoever hired that performance should be fired immediately

If John Bel still governor we wouldn't have had Omar and this embarassing display

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Last week we had a whole thread about how awesome LSU used to be...beer trucks dropping off kegs all over campus, chicks in bikinis on all the fraternity house lawns, South Seas parties...nothing but 80s and 90s grads reminiscing about the good times.

Those same posters are INFURIATED by this display of debauchery.

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I think the distinction is school-sponsored vs. not-school sponsored. Were fraternities in the 80's and 90's doing all kinds of wild stuff? Of course. However, that was at a time without smart phones, social media, and the internet. It happened. Not just at LSU. But it wasn't broadcast to the world almost instantaneously.

LSU is in a constant battle with every other college to recruit good students. A video like this occurring at an on-campus party doesn't help LSU's image in that regard. We don't live in a world any longer where acts like this remain isolated. It reflects poorly on LSU's image/marketing

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I think the distinction is school-sponsored vs. not-school sponsored. Were fraternities in the 80's and 90's doing all kinds of wild stuff? Of course. However, that was at a time without smart phones, social media, and the internet. It happened. Not just at LSU. But it wasn't broadcast to the world almost instantaneously.

LSU is in a constant battle with every other college to recruit good students. A video like this occurring at an on-campus party doesn't help LSU's image in that regard. We don't live in a world any longer where acts like this remain isolated. It reflects poorly on LSU's image/marketing

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LSU's image isn't Harvard. It's LSU. Our brand is debauchery. Come here, get a decent cheap education, have fun. That's what brought our parents here in the 70s. It's what brought our grandparents here in the 50s. What hurt is was trying to be something we weren't, instead of embracing what we are.

The school used to let the student orgs do this on their own. Now they don't. But the overall party hasn't changed.

Problem is Gen X parents who are now scared to let their kids do what they did (and since half this board is Gen X with poorly socialized kids, I'm sure I'll get grief for this).

i'm guessing the tigerland bars are dark af now too?

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A video like this occurring at an on-campus party doesn't help LSU's image in that regard.

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The f&%k it doesn't!? Do you have any idea what a 17 year-old kid's priorities are when deciding where to go to school? If they're not getting into an Ivy or similar tier university, seeing a party like what was happening in that video would 100% be a MASSIVE feather in LSU's cap. They would see that video and think "f$%k yeah! I wanna go party THERE!"

We have seen a massive trend since Covid of Yankee teens wanting to flee the no-fun PC cultures of Northern colleges for the Southern party scene. They want to go somewhere that it's okay to drink, dance, and meet people of the opposite sex without being called a colonizer, a racist, a misogynist, and a potential rapist for just existing. Videos like this sell LSU as a beacon to those kids as a destination where they can have fun during their mandatory 4 years of online lectures, sparknotes, chat gtp essays, webassign homework, and incomprehensible ESL instructors.

LSU needs to stop pretending it's Harvard or MIT. It's LSU. EMBRACE being LSU. Embrace what makes you different from every other college in every other state.

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I can assure its not the image the school wants to present

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I agree. However, I believe that decision to be to their detriment. They straight up do not have the values, endowment, facilities, or partnerships to BE what they want to be perceived as. The reality is LSU is a value college. It’s draw is cheaper tuition than its academic peers while providing a good education FOR THE PRICE, but not an elite education overall. LSU has a few programs that punch well-above its weight class, but LSU is not a tier 1 or even tier 3 university. Trying to pretend that they are while suppressing what makes them attractive in the first place is a recipe for disaster. F. King Alexander’s reign of idiocy proved that in how his minions attempted to demolish Greek life and tailgating.

LSU’s administration forgets their customer base. Universities aren’t just a public service, they’re also a business with customers, assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses. They are delusional and arrogant to the point of losing all touch with reality.

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think the distinction is school-sponsored vs. not-school sponsored

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That distinction is meaningless now, with the oversight they put on student life.

Again, you're living in fantasy throwback 80s world.

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In April the Reveille ran a story about me and our restaurant in Liverpool, so I took my 5 yr old son to campus and to a baseball game.

I graduated in 08, and admittedly didn’t go to class much, but there were many for African-Americans than I remember. Took him to the quad, and saw no talent. It was definitely a different campus than I recall.

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Please translate this into some kind of meaningful point