Chancellor should resign from University's top position

It is an honor to be a student where stately oaks and broad magnolias shade inspiring halls.

We have all felt, on some level, the University's commitment to the unquenchable desire of learning and achievement. When we leave the University, its spirit will live in us as we pursue higher goals and dreams with every ounce of tenacity and determination within our fierce Tiger souls.

Unfortunately, the time to leave has come for the chancellor.

Sean O'Keefe's tenure as the University's chancellor will inevitably be remembered for his immediate response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the beginning of the Forever LSU campaign aimed at bettering the University's standing among other schools in the country, a national championship victory and, most somberly, the shooting deaths of Chandresekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam at the tail end of this past fall semester.

What's happened since these events? New Orleans is still piecing itself together, with little or no visible aid from the University. The University is still decidedly third-tier. Komma and Allam's assassins remain at large.

Responsibility for all this ultimately lies with the chancellor - and he has failed us.

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