Most of the people who care about what happens on the LSU campus are likely grousing about the poor performance of the football team’s offense during a 20-10 win over South Carolina on Saturday.

But that is entirely the wrong focus. Something else happened on that campus Saturday, and it’s the continuation of a problem decades in the making which is accelerating because of awful leadership at LSU and in Baton Rouge.

I’m talking about this…

That wasn’t the only shooting on LSU’s campus on Saturday. In another incident, some idiot apparently shot himself trying to get his gun out of his pocket.

There is no reason to bring a gun to a tailgate party. You can’t bring it into the stadium. If you’re carrying a gun on that campus it means you aren’t going to the game and somehow you think you’ll need it to hang around with your friends.

Which makes you one of the people likely to be involved in a stupid incident like the one in the video above.

And something else happened…

It’s been a very busy evening on LSU’s campus with a double shooting, riot and self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The latest happened around 8:30 p.m. with one gunshot victim found at Highland Rd. & Dalrymple Dr. A second victim was found a block away on East Chimes St. & Highland Rd.

Both victims were rushed to a hospital in stable condition.

Prior to the double shooting, there was a riot another block away on State and Highland streets. At this time, sources tell UWK it was a group of people, possibly doing donuts, jumping on vehicles and shut down the roadway. An officer was injured during the riot as well and had minor injuries.

It’s unclear if the riot and double shooting are connected.

Wait… a riot? And they beat up a cop?

Oh, and this wasn’t even the first time morons with guns graced LSU’s campus to turn it into a shooting gallery this season. It happened during the Florida game, too…

Everyone who’s been on that campus this fall has noticed what’s going on there.

The whole place smells like weed now. And the entire northern part of the campus, especially along Highland Road from the student union to the north gates of campus and beyond, is no longer reflective of SEC tailgating.

These aren’t students, they aren’t alumni and they’re not even fans.

It’s the criminal element blowing in from the slum north of campus and using the tailgating revelry as a cover for their own activities.

This isn’t about race, though it involves race. Race is the reason nobody has done anything about the fact that the trashiest elements of society in the state capitol are now invading the campus of the flagship university.

Interestingly enough, Southern University four miles to the north has begun policing their own on-campus experience to squeeze the bad element away, and now it’s finding a home at LSU.

People have been complaining about this for YEARS, and nothing has been done. It’s gotten worse now.

Now there’s a shooting practically every week, and a very large number of longtime LSU season ticket holders are openly saying this is going to be their last year. They’ve had it with what’s happened to the LSU campus.

What’s happening on football Saturdays is only part of the experience. You might have noted this a couple of months ago at the beginning of the school year…

That was the scene during the Welcome Week celebration on campus, and the crowd watching that OnlyFans model (not an LSU student) twerking off a balcony at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center was considerably more…

…let’s call it eclectic than just the student body.

Of course, what went on inside the building that week wasn’t a whole lot better.

Take a look at welcome week at LSU..

WTF happened to our college campuses..!? pic.twitter.com/IeZdswZ2cG

— American AF (@iAnonPatriot) August 20, 2025

They’re teaching twerking classes at the UREC on campus now, so the institution has embraced the most degraded elements of ghetto subculture.

For a decade, LSU has used a “holistic” admissions policy, in which they’re not even bothering to use standardized test scores in admissions decisions. And it’s been stated university policy for quite some time that “holistic” admissions were a mechanism to “diversify” LSU’s campus along demographic lines.

So you aren’t taking the best and brightest students you can find, you’re expressly using race to change the student body, and that inevitably means you’re introducing a culture to the campus which is a whole lot less oriented to successful academic performance.

Is it a surprise that the Baptist Student Center at LSU’s north gate is now riddled with bullet holes?

The miracle is that it took as long as it did for the gunshot wounds to materialize. Now that they have, it’s imperative that an oppressive presence of the Louisiana State Police materialize on LSU’s campus for the Texas A&M game in two weeks before somebody gets killed – which will absolutely happen if this current course continues, and if it does, look out below. And stop-and-frisk tactics should absolutely be brought to bear.

There are several other major steps which must be taken right now, or else the entire country is going to begin noticing that LSU is just an extension of the slum north of campus – and that will start to reflect in the quality and quantity of the admissions applications being turned in for next year.

Make no mistake where we are. Either LSU’s decline is halted now, or it won’t be fixable later.

The first step that must be taken is to name a new president expressly hired and cast-iron committed to return LSU to status as a serious academic institution utterly free of woke and DEI influences.

LSU is Louisiana’s flagship university, and the people of Louisiana have made it very clear in all of the recent elections that we are opposed to woke ideology and the behavioral decline it engenders. We are entitled to expect the state’s flagship university to reflect those values, starting with its leadership.

The trans communist Antifa agitator leading that unruly protest as the Board of Supervisors met earlier this month about hiring a new president was expressly objecting to this new direction. He might have been the most obnoxious, but make no mistake – the status quo crowd among the faculty and a lot of the people who call themselves boosters of the university, who have sat on their hands as LSU has devolved to the point where gangbangers now use the campus as a playground for gunplay and open illegal drug use, don’t want an anti-woke president.

Well, too bad. Some typical weak-sauce campus administrator a search firm will produce will not change this direction. LSU has to make a purposeful hire.

And the vision that new leader should be tasked with is to make LSU something different – an explicitly non-woke, if not explicitly anti-woke, public university.

A public version of Hillsdale College or Liberty University is actually the single best marketing posture LSU could adopt. Parents across the country, given reason to believe they could send their kids to LSU without getting a blue-haired, nose-ringed Marxist cult member coming home for Thanksgiving, will rush to give the school a look. And yes, doing this will run off a good many of LSU’s faculty. It will also lead to a flood of applications from others who will see LSU as a place where they don’t have to adopt woke catechisms in order to advance in their careers.

It takes courage to do this, but it’s a very high-reward strategy. And when your football season ticket holders don’t want to come to campus because of the shootings, the gang culture and the pervasive cannabis stench they’ve got to wade through in order to watch a game, you don’t have much left to risk.

Once a new president tasked with cleaning up the fraying character of the institution is hired, Step Two is a complete revamp of the university’s admissions process. Starting with the rejection and dismantling of “holistic” admissions. LSU needs to bring back a radical meritocracy, with standardized test scores as a key, if not THE key, component.

This doesn’t mean LSU should pursue a less-black student body. What it means is that LSU should be colorblind in its admissions process and become invested in the academic rigor of its students. The most optimistic, ideal result possible would be if insisting on the highest possible SAT or ACT scores among LSU enrollees led to the same or even more diverse demographic mix of students.

But the flagship university should be a place for serious students. Not freaks, morons, revolutionaries or trash.

The thing is, we know that a commitment to old-fashioned academic rigor actually works. Louisiana and Mississippi have both embraced a return to traditional methods of teaching reading and math at the K-12 level and the two states are skyrocketing in the rankings when it comes to the performance of younger students.

So embrace it at the top of the educational chain.

And with its internal house in order, the next step is to finally do something about the problem of that slum north of campus.

When Mark Emmert was LSU’s chancellor a full generation ago, he used to absolutely rail about the atrocious quality of the neighborhoods between his campus and downtown Baton Rouge. Emmert never shut up about how that was the best real estate in town and that it should have been a collection of office towers, high-end condos, luxury retail shops and other amenities. He wasn’t wrong, but he could never gin up suitable motivation among the state’s political leaders for gentrifying a part of town which is perhaps the most intensely gang-infested, crime-infested area in all of Louisiana.

LSU’s campus is crowded. There isn’t enough parking. Maybe LSU needs a massive new parking lot – or several – north of campus. And maybe LSU has other physical plant needs which can only be addressed with more land.

That would present a situation whereby the use of eminent domain would be highly appropriate. And if later, it turns out that LSU grabbed more land than was necessary, then some of that land might appropriately be put on the market for developers to bid on.

We’re certainly past the point of listening to anyone’s demand that a crime-infested slum next door to the state’s flagship campus remain in place when there are now repeated shootings on the campus at times it’s the showpiece for the whole state.

No, I don’t think so. That ship has sailed.

We need an aggressive, even obnoxious, cleanup of LSU’s campus and its surroundings. The sooner, the bolder, the better. Objections by trans Antifa communists, race hustlers and status-quo pantywaists should have no deterrent effect to needed reforms.