Less than two weeks before I started my internship at The Times-Picayune this summer, I came across a New York Times article announcing that the paper would lay off 200 staff members and reduce printing...
In particularly difficult situations, I find it beneficial to remind myself that whatever I'm going through - no matter how awful or unfair - will build character. Suddenly everything sounds better. "I'm...
Over the course of the past several weeks, I have engaged in many discussions about whether Catholic organizations should be required to provide birth control and other reproductive health services as...
It is difficult to assign blame for the ludicrous prices of most textbooks. After all, as much as they may hurt the wallets of students, textbooks, which are not as commercially sustainable as regular...
Of the subjects commonly taught in universities, it could easily be argued that mathematics is the most zealously avoided. In high school, a large contingent of students decide that the math they are...
Applications for Loyola's Student Government Association election were due on Friday, April 10. Few students applied. Half the positions were not even initially filled. So who is the April fool? Is it...
There comes a point in almost every college student's life when they must decide one thing: food or beer. When times get tough and that sacred meal plan suddenly vanishes, students all around quickly...
KRISTEN HIMMELBERG Assistant Life & Times Editor
• April 19, 2012
For the first two years, Loyola students are required to live on campus, but as junior year approaches many opt to find a place off campus. During the spring is when many students start to look for off-...
KRISTEN HIMMELBERG Assistant Life & Times Editor
• April 19, 2012
A Loyola band has recently been catapulted into the international music arena. They are competing in a worldwide battle of the bands competition to win an opening spot for this summer at a premier outdoor...
At the beginning of the present depression in 1929 there was a group of bright and optimistic economists who prophesied very confidently that we had nothing to fear. Depressions, they said, were bound...
For the first 50 years, Loyola was mainly a commuter university, but since the 1960s Loyola has grown to be a much more residential campus. Today, Loyola has four residence halls and 1,308 students who...
The draft will continue. Despite the efforts of more than 80 Democrats and Republicans, in all probability America's young men will still have to succumb to the whims of a lottery. Recently many Congressmen...
