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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

A truck drives past a street sign for Jefferson Davis Parkway on Sept. 3. A new city renaming commission voted to rename the street and is planning on considering renaming other streets named after Confederates in the coming weeks. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

New Orleans confronts its Confederate history with plans for street renaming

Rose Wagner September 10, 2020

455 days. That’s how long New Orleans was part of the Confederacy before it was occupied by Union troops. About 100 years. That’s how long signs bearing the names of Confederate soldiers have occupied...

Loyola freshman Myranda Cook walks to her first in-person class in Monroe Hall on Sept. 3. Photo credit: Peter Buffo

Loyola freshman grapples with entering college during a pandemic

Rae Walberg September 10, 2020

Six months before studio art freshman Myranda Cook came to Loyola, she was told that she would finish her final year online, missing out on the festivities that usually conclude a senior year of high school,...

A picture of history senior Stephanie Adams

Loyola senior grapples with saying goodbye to college during COVID-19

Rose Wagner September 10, 2020

History senior Stephanie Adams never imagined her final year of college would look like this. She had planned for Feminist Fridays surrounded by her friends and young freshman eager to talk for hours...

Photo Gallery: Masks of Loyola

Zia Sampson September 7, 2020

The start of school looks a little different and everyone's sporting a new accessory thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students are using the mask mandate to express themselves while keeping themselves...

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“Tenet” review: An ambitious and baffling trip across time

Ver Lumod September 7, 2020

Christopher Nolan adds his signature time bending flair to the spy genre for his latest film “Tenet.” The result is a wildly exciting action film, one packed with dazzling style and multilayered substance. The...

Franklin, the six-year-old son of Megan Braden-Perry, doodles in his homemade classroom. Parents like Braden-Perry are trying to get creative to help their kids cope with going to school online. Photo credit: Megan Braden-Perry

Parents help kids cope with online school during COVID-19

Shadera Moore September 5, 2020

Posters upon posters of nouns, numbers and a handwritten note from mommy to son plaster the walls of Megan Braden-Perry’s New Orleans home.Her son's school went virtual due to COVID-19, so Braden-Perry...

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Watch and Stream: September 4

Ver Lumod September 4, 2020

As theaters reopen across the United States, we are combining "Streaming This Week" and its previous incarnation "Watch in Theaters" into a new recommendation series. "Watch and Stream" is an integrated...

Clip art footsteps lead to a container of to-go food. Students in quarantine complained about not receiving enough food while in isolation.

University-mandated quarantine leaves student-athletes feeling deprived of nutrition

Gabriella Killett and Brendan Heffernan September 3, 2020

Kevin was shocked when he received his first Loyola provided meal during quarantine the morning after his suitemate, friend and fellow student-athlete tested positive for COVID-19. Kevin, whose name...

Loyola students reported off- campus incidents of suspicious circumstance and sexual battery that took place at Audubon park and happened Sunday and Monday. Audubon Park is across St. Charles Ave. from the university. Photo credit: Michael Bauer

Students report sexual battery, “suspicious” man in Audubon Park

Gabriella Killett September 1, 2020

University police received two reports of an unidentified man approaching groups of Loyola students, all women, in Audubon Park late at night and, in one instance, committing sexual battery. The incidents...

Members of the Louisiana National Guard sign students in for free on-campus testing in the parking lot of Mercy Hall Aug. 31. Photo credit: Michael Bauer

Parents say unmasked soldiers conducted COVID-19 testing on campus

Rae Walberg August 31, 2020

Updated as of 7:52 p.m., Aug. 31 The university hosted free city-sponsored COVID-19 testing on campus with tests conducted by members of the Louisiana National Guard. But some Loyola parents on Facebook...

Loyola-branded masks raise controversy about their effectiveness

Cristo Dulom August 29, 2020

While wearing the Loyola-issued masks, you can blow out a candle. According to Bill Nye, this means that a mask is ineffective. But according to government agencies, the university and a biologist, there...

Predictions for Tropical Storm Laura from the National Weather Service estimate the storm may become a hurricane by the time it makes landfall later this week. Photo credit: National Weather Service

In-person classes to resume Wednesday, with caution amid tropical storms

Rae Walberg August 24, 2020

Loyola will resume in-person classes on Wednesday and will play Thursday by ear as Tropical Storms Marco and Laura, which is predicted to become a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, near the city. Operations...

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