President JFK’s nephew to speak at Loyola

Mark K. Shriver, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, will be delivering a speech at Loyola.

The event, which is a part of the Presidential Guest Series, will be held on Sept. 30 in Roussel Hall at 7 p.m.

Shriver will speak about his late father, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps and Special Olympics, and how he strives to apply his father’s principles of faith, hope and love in his own career.

Career Expo to be held at Mercedes-Benz Superdome

The annual fall Career Expo is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The event is designed to allow students to network with potential employers.

Court rules Angola’s heating conditions unconstitutional

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State officials are asking a federal appellate court to reverse the judge’s finding that hot conditions at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s death row are unconstitutional.

In a filing with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for the state Department of Corrections argue that there is no basis in law for Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson’s order that heat indexes on death row not top 88 degrees from April through October.

The attorneys say inmates don’t have a constitutional right to mechanical cooling. While the Eighth Amendment doesn’t permit inhumane conditions, they say, it also doesn’t mandate comfortable prisons.

Jackson toured the Angola prison last summer and ruled in December that high heat indexes on death row amounted to a violation of the inmates’ constitutional rights.

During a court-ordered monitoring period last summer, the state’s attorneys say the heat index on the death-row tiers frequently ranged between 86 and 97 degrees, and rarely exceeded 99 degrees.