The Loyola Internet connection, particularly in residential halls, has been everything from shoddy to inaccessible, and students are growing increasingly frustrated. The Internet has become a necessary...
There's something about Valentine's Day: this happy, disgusting day that I could go on about, from capitalist exploitation to celebrations of love being wonderfully polluted by industry. Fortunately,...
Dear Editors, To accuse Block of being pro-slavery is like accusing Ignatius of Loyola of being anti-papacy or Lenin of being anti-Communist. It is so ridiculous as to be refuted by its very...
Dear Editors, One of our goals as an academic institution is to encourage people to cultivate critical thinking. You can imagine my dismay when reading the Sunday New York Times and I found remarks...
When I was a senior in high school, the drama club coach decided we were to perform Thornton Wilder's "Our Town". For those of you who don't know, "Our Town" is notable for being performed without a set...
In Shakespeare's 18th sonnet he pronounces that he and his love will both die, yet because of his poetry their love and lives will be eternal. And it's true. Four centuries later that love is still there,...
Students seemed to have mixed feelings about whether Mayor Mitch Landrieu should have called for a shutdown of the city for last week's snow days New Orleans resembled a ghost town on Tues. 28 and...
For some, hitting the end of the third week of the 2014 spring semester means a week closer to Mardi Gras parades. For others, it means midterms are around the corner and you haven't even bought your...
Recently unearthed from my mother's attic was a framed Maroon article. It was an interview conducted shortly after I was elected SGA president in 1999. I read with amusement and some resignation about...
The other day, my friend and I were daring each other to do unusual things in crowded areas-run across table tops, stand in a trashcan for five minutes, hug a stranger and give them a compliment, etc. I...
Last Friday, President Obama delivered a speech outlining a series of reforms to the federal government's phone and Internet surveillance program. While he acknowledged that federal surveillance programs...
Not many Loyola students have had the privilege of experiencing a night at Friar Tuck's or a construction-free Monroe. They didn't see the vegetable garden in front of Monroe's aquarium windows next to...
