The Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation to examine if LSU is in compliance with Title IX requirements. This is after extensive media coverage of the university. The U-S Department of Justice referred the allegations to the Office for Civil Rights to investigate. They will examine complaints from the 2018 – 2019 academic year to the present.
LSU’s associate athletic director of football recruiting, Sharon Lewis, tells USA Today she will file several lawsuits against the school, claiming she was mistreated for trying to stop sexual harassment. Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins says the allegations are explosive, including the details of an argument Lewis had with former football coach Les Miles.
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Lewis says the argument was over Miles’s alleged desire to have blond women or light-skinned black women on the recruiting staff that he considered prettier.
The LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau says 7,800 Louisiana voters have left the Republican Party since the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan says this mirrors nationwide stats that roughly 100,000 Republicans have unregistered.
Over that same period, Democrats lost 8,000 members, continuing the party’s ongoing downward trend.
A teacher’s union files a lawsuit against the Caddo Parish school board claiming its attendance bonus for educators is discriminatory. Red River United Vice President Jordan Thomas says every teacher who worked this school year should be recognized and the system could have offered prorated bonuses based on attendance to do that.
A statement from the Caddo Parish School System says they do not comment on pending litigation.