Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

The Peacock in the Peacocks and Birds display was one of 30 light displays at the Chinese Lights exhibit in City Parks Botanical Gardens. The Chinese Lights exhibit will be on display from February 23 to May 1.

Chinese festival lights up botanical garden

Zach Brien, Senior Staff Photographer March 14, 2016

China Lights at New Orleans City Park transformed the Botanical Gardens into a Chinese lantern display, created by a team of over 100 artists and the technical staff at Sichuan Tianyu. The festival features...

Lydia Kolda of Squirrel Queen rock performs at Third Friday.

Loyola strikes a major chord with music therapy program

Rebeca Trejo and Nick Morea March 14, 2016

Loyola’s College of Music and Fine Arts keeps New Orleans’ musical legacy alive by creating programs that offer students the opportunity to pursue a wide variety of practices within the industry. Not...

Album Review: 2015 Record Recap

Blaise Radley March 11, 2016

When looking back at a year's best albums, it is often hard to gain perspective on what records truly made a mark on the aural landscape. Sometimes the influence of an album has been lessened by its release...

Television Review: Aziz Ansari: Master of None

Roland Corwin, film studies senior March 11, 2016

  Aziz Ansari has been building momentum for quite a long time now and 2015 seemed to be his breakout year. Ansari sold out Madison Square Garden with a new stand-up routine (also a Netflix original),...

Spring 2016 commencement speaker announced

Spring 2016 commencement speaker announced

Rebeca Trejo, Life & Times Editor March 7, 2016

In a campus email, the Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., university president, announced legendary entertainer Harry Connick Jr. as the commencement speaker for the 2016 spring ceremony. Connick, who co-founded...

Album Review: Kendrick Lamar: ‘untitled, unmastered.’

Blaise Radley March 4, 2016

Releasing an album without warning is probably the most effective manner to announce your status as a heavyweight within the music world. On a creative level it implies that producing an album of worthy...

Pos adventure

“Po’s adventure”

Kristen Stewart, mass communication senior March 4, 2016

Respectable Solutions by Anna & Emma

Respectable Solutions by Anna & Emma

Patrick Gallagher, english writing junior March 4, 2016

“Picking Petals”

Ella Jacobs, digital filmmaking sophomore March 4, 2016

They speak it like dropped pennies found beneath the cracks of the road – Priceless. They make wishes – throw them at the water wells flourishing with the numerous copper thin bits, shimmering like...

Historical oak tree makes its way back to campus

Historical oak tree makes its way back to campus

Chasity Pugh March 4, 2016

While many see the benches in front of Monroe Hall as a place to lounge between classes, the wooden seats have a story behind them connected to a Loyola alum and a historical oak tree. In 2011 it was...

Opus spotlights life and death in Dead Man Walking

Opus spotlights life and death in “Dead Man Walking”

Skyllarr Trusty, Life & Times Assistant Editor March 4, 2016

Based on the book of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and death row spiritual adviser, the opera spotlights her connection with a fictional death row inmate named Joseph De Rocher. The...

“Skinny Thoughts”

Ella Jacobs, digital filmmaking sophomore February 29, 2016

She dreamt of the angelic roses with thorn cut drops and petals that bleed. They filled her heart with the fullness of salt that puffs our lips from days engulfing popcorn buckets. Discounted price...

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