LSU Students Need to Fight for Their Right to Party

Campus Witnesses 'War on Fun'

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

A Louisiana State University student newspaper columnist saw the future three years ago, and he's making sure everyone on campus reads all about it.

"I've seen a concerted effort by many within the University to chip away at core elements of the student culture," writes LSU columnist Jason Dore in an editorial on the online edition of the student newspaper, The Daily Reveille.

Dore has been an LSU student for more than seven years and credits the campus for its uniqueness in student and social culture. Things are changing at the Baton Rouge campus, as Dore says the administration has severely cracked down on fun.

"Whether you believe it or not, the university administration has been embroiled in its own war, the "War on Frats,'" the student for a few years short of a decade says. "They should follow the example of the Bush administration and give a name to their efforts."

Dore writes that the administration began to pick on the Greek system after the death of a student. The university even went as far as to board up the former Delta Chi house in 2003, only to allow Pi Kappa Alpha to move in several years later.

"The days of big on-campus fraternity parties occurring weekly are long gone," he says. The university won't be happy until fraternities merely exist as glorified service organization, he says in the column.