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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Sara Brennan stands behind the counter at The Commissary, a Dickie Brennan and Co. central kitchen, market, and restaurant on September 5. Opened in April of 2020, the staff of The Commissary quickly encountered unprecedented challenges in the restaurant industry. Photo credit: Michael Bauer

Food industry workers pivot during COVID-19

Alexander Mccall September 14, 2020

Months of restaurants and businesses closing and reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many service workers wondering what comes next.With the extension of Phase 2, many establishments and workers...

Cosma Dog performs a live show at Gasa Gasa.  The band has been struggling since the outbreak of COVID-19. Courtesy of Kate Fenasci.

Loyola-based band adapts to a ‘new normal’

Gabby Barre September 14, 2020

As the city remains under COVID-19 restrictions and music venues remain closed, local musicians are facing uncertainty about the state of their industry.At the rise of the COVID-19 outbreak in March, Loyola...

The latest projection from the National Hurricane Center shows Tropical Storm Sally, expected to become a hurricane, heading toward Louisiana. Loyola has suspended classes Tuesday in anticipation of the storm.

Loyola suspends class Tuesday amid hurricane threat

Rose Wagner September 13, 2020

Loyola will operate normally until 4 p.m. Monday and classes for Tuesday are cancelled as Tropical Storm Sally, which is predicted to become a hurricane by the time it makes landfall Monday night, barrels...

Photo credit: Gabriella Killett

Tanuja Singh steps up as provost during unprecedented times

Rae Walberg September 13, 2020

Pitted against a global pandemic, two potential hurricanes and racial bias scandals in her first month at the university, Loyola's newly inducted Provost Tanuja Singh said she has remained focused by not...

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

Loyola’s optional COVID-19 testing yields two positive cases

Gabriella Killett September 11, 2020

One student and one professor, out of 633 tested Loyola community members, tested positive for the virus during the voluntary COVID-19 testing held last week by the National Guard, according to an email...

Elisabeth Beth Cohen is mixing music at the Banks St. Bar. Cohen, class of 2020, is building her career as DJ Lady Lavender. Courtesy of Bryce Ell.

Loyola alumna builds career as DJ

Gabrielle Korein September 10, 2020

Elizabeth “Beth” Cohen, 22, better known as Lady Lavender, is an up-and-coming electronic music DJ, as well as a Loyola university alumna. Cohen graduated this past May with a degree in music industry...

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...

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

“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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