According to Chris Cameron, director of the Office of Co-Curricular Programs, both the Beggars and Alpha Delta Gamma fraternities have been suspended from campus for the fall semester. The fraternities will start serving their suspensions in August for having “dirty” pledge classes.
Loyola’s Bateman Team won first place in the 2009 Public Relations Student Society of America’s annual Bateman Case Study Competition. The team competed against 76 other universities around the country in the competition.
With more than 4,811 undergraduate applications and 800 first-year deposits as of Monday, June 15, Loyola University is expecting the number of incoming freshmen to exceed the amount of first-year students it has welcomed in nearly five years.
On Saturday, May 30, 28 undergraduate students from 15 different Jesuit Universities arrived at Loyola for two weeks to participate in the inaugural session of the first Jesuit Summer Institute for Advanced Studies. Centering on the theme of “Culture and Crisis in New Orleans,” the two-week program transcended the boundaries of traditional classroom education.
While students are on summer break, Michael Giorlando and a handful of other coaches in the Intercollege Athletics and Wellness Department will spend their summer running a series of summer day camps.
The contract between Loyola and Nebraska Book Company, the former managment company for Loyola’s bookstore, has ended, ushering a return to the corporate firm Follett Higher Education Group.
The first class of seven students from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in its home at Loyola University is about to graduate.
With possible cases of swine flu showing up in Louisiana, campus officials are warning students about health practices concerning the growing pandemic.
Loyola University must pay nearly $300,000 to two former professors who sued the institution over the post-Hurricane Katrina restructuring plan called “Pathways.”