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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Loyola commit Stephen Still plays the field in one of the final games of his high school career. Courtesy of Dunham Athletics.

Life goes on for Wolf Pack recruits who lost senior seasons

Brendan Heffernan July 23, 2020

After six years of being on the same team, Wolf Pack volleyball recruit Emily Sheperis wasn’t sure if she’d see some of her best friends ever again. “I’ve seen these girls grow up.” said Sheperis,...

White cement letters spell out Loyola

ICE mandate fuels efforts to accommodate international students

Shadera Moore July 14, 2020

Disclaimer: As of July 14, the Trump administration has reversed course and rescinded the guidelines that would have prevented international students from taking a full schedule of online classes this...

The Rev. Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. sits in his office at Fordham University in March 2017. Schroth served as advisor for The Maroon and a journalism professor at Loyola from 1986 to 1996. Schroth passed away July 1, 2020 at age 86. (Photo Courtesy of Michael Wilson).

Jesuit priest, former Maroon advisor Raymond Schroth passes away at 86

Rae Walberg July 14, 2020

The Rev. Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., a Jesuit priest, former journalism professor and advisor for The Maroon for 10 years died July 1, at 86 years-old. Schroth is survived by his nephew Kevin Schroth and...

Talia Moore (right), A20, performs a fight scene as Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet in 2019. Moore was one of several theater students of color who said they felt typecast in the departments productions, but her role as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet was one of the first opportunities she was able to play a non-traditional Black role.

Theater students allege typecasting, exclusion of students of color, department promises change

Erin Haynes July 13, 2020

The death of George Floyd and the resulting Black Lives Matter protests have catalyzed students in Loyola’s Theater Arts and Dance Department to come forward with allegations of typecasting in productions,...

Illustration by Hannah Renton

Films For When You Miss Loyola and New Orleans, Part 2

Ver Lumod July 7, 2020

About two months ago, The Maroon published a list of films for when anyone misses the great city of New Orleans, and most particularly the Loyola campus. Turns out, there's a lot more that the Big Easy...

Photo credit: Michael Bauer

The Maroon launches mobile news app

Rae Walberg July 1, 2020

After a year of development, The Maroon is launching an app to make Loyola coverage available on handheld Android and Apple devices. Maroon advisor Michael Giusti said the intention of the app is to...

Sunderland Shands, Political science and spanish sophomore, protests on the streets of Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd.  Floyd died May 25 after Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, an action that has prompted nationwide protests against police brutality. Photo courtesy of Sunderland Shands.

Loyola students protest following death of George Floyd

Rae Walberg June 29, 2020

The narrative of police brutality was nothing new to Sunderland Shands, political science and Spanish sophomore. On Jul. 6, 2016, when Shands was in high school in Minneapolis, Philando Castile was shot...

Computers sit in an empty lab in the Loyola School of Communication and design in 2019. Loyolas decision to open campus but hold many online and hybrid classes in the fall has sparked calls by students for the university to reduce tuition.

Online, hybrid fall classes spark student calls for a tuition reduction

Zia Sampson June 25, 2020

Although campus will be re-opening in August, Loyola has adjusted classes so that most instruction is partially or entirely online in order to follow social distancing guidelines, a decision that has left...

The class of 2020 stands in front of the Loyola sign outside Marquette Hall. The 2020 graduating class had their senior year cut short and honored with a virtual graduation party due to COVID-19. Photo credit: Loyola University New Orleans

2020 graduation ceremony cancelled, sparks petition to refund fees

Gabriela Carballo and Shadera Moore June 20, 2020

Postponed commencement ceremonies that were set to take place this August have officially been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to an email from University President Tania Tetlow,...

Walter Block, professor of economics at Loyolas headshot. Blocks academic work has been criticized for what some students have said is an ideology that perpetuates racist and sexist beliefs.

Clashing petitions call for Walter Block to be fired, given a raise over academic work

Emma Ruby and Rose Wagner June 17, 2020

A student petition urging Loyola to fire Walter Block, professor and chairperson of the economics department, on the basis of “racist and sexist beliefs” has received more than 500 signatures, sparking...

Palm Court sits outside the Music/Communications Complex below a cloudy sky in late March 2020. The School of Mass Communication and design has received criticism for hailing a diverse student body but not a diverse faculty.

Letter: If Loyola’s student body is so diverse, why isn’t the faculty?

Lauren Saizan June 17, 2020

Dear Editor, As a journalist, blogger, copywriter and communicator of information to the public, I use writing as a tool daily in my professional life. I mostly tell the stories of others, as I did...

The Communications/Music Complex at Loyola sits under a sunny sky May 17, 2020. During an October 2019 accrediting analysis of Loyolas mass communication program, visiting accreditors reported that Loyola’s school benefited from strong leadership and a diverse student body.

Accrediting visit reported mass communication program “free of harassment,” discrimination

Shadera Moore and Emma Ruby June 15, 2020

During an October 2019 site visit evaluating Loyola's mass communication program, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication reported that Loyola’s school benefited from...

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