LSU’s president is taking a different approach to campus speech

December 15, 2023

William Tate, LSU — MULTIPLE PARTNERS: LSU President William Tate and LSU Health are partnered with LCMC Health in a bid to obatain an NCI designation. The system is also involved with Ochsner in the multi-university Louisiana Cancer Reearch Center. Photo by Collin Richie

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While presidents of Ivy League universities are in the spotlight for their comments on the Israeli-Hamas conflict, LSU President William Tate has a different philosophy: Stay mum. Tate told a gathering of faculty earlier this month that he is resisting calls to comment “about various geopolitical activities over the last month” because doing so may

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