Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Students hand their identification cards to the desk assistant in Cabra Hall. The new visitation was implemented this fall in order to place more responsibility upon individual residents.

Visitation policy is modified

DIANA MIRFIQ September 13, 2013

Until three area directors on campus came together to formulate a new residential visitation policy, it looked as if a change would not come. Residential Life area directors Alex Kelch, Christina Nielsen...

Brief: Scholarship seeks student candidates

The Maroon September 13, 2013

The Fratermeh Moazami Endowed Scholarship is a scholarship available to two undergraduate students in Middle East Peace Studies program. To apply, you must be a sophomore, junior, or senior registered...

First year senators elected

ALICIA SERRANO September 13, 2013

Reid Canal, music performance freshman, Lester Duhe, mass communication freshman, and Lindsey Mixer, general studies freshman, are the three newest members of Loyola's Student Government Association legislative...

Haley Nagim

Former student dies

SARAH SZIGETI September 13, 2013

Hailey Nagim was always open to the world. She would go to Audubon Park for hours, "doing nothing but staring at the swans and willow trees and passersby, talking about aliens, or God or how beautiful...

Avia Alonzo, office manager of the department of languages and cultures, works with Destiny Simms psychology junior,  to train her as a work study employee. Some students say their federal work study has been cut this fall.

Fewer work study jobs are available

TAYLOR DENSON September 13, 2013

After being awarded work-study for the past two years, Kat O'Toole, English writing junior, came back to campus without a renewed work study position. Carrie Glass, the newly appointed director of financial...

ANDREA GALLO

LSU faces legal battle in open records suit

NIA PORTER September 13, 2013

Louisiana State University's adamant refusal to hand over presidential search records has landed its Board of Supervisors in hot water with the Louisiana Supreme Court., according to The Associated Press. The...

Loyola professor fights crime through religion

Loyola professor fights crime through religion

The Maroon September 13, 2013

As a professor in Loyola's Institute for Ministry and chair of the New Orleans Crime Coalition, Michael Cowan combines these distinct passions to combat crime through a religious perspective. In his public...

ALLISON ROGERS

Column: Unilateral action in Syria is not the answer

ALLISON ROGERS September 13, 2013

Something needs to be done. Syrian civilians cannot keep dying at the hands of their government and as a cost of a rebellion. CNN reports that more than 100,000 Syrians are dead and millions more are...

Akeem Biggs, theatre sophomore, talks with Alex Kneib, history pre-law junior. The fraternity entered this semester with hopes to expand.

Fraternity looks to expand in fall

BURKE BISCHOFF September 7, 2013

Pi Kappa Phi, Loyola's newest and second-largest fraternity on campus is looking to grow their membership and to build its members into leaders on campus, Andrew Ketcham, english writing junior and archon...

Mid-summer Mardi Gras hits New Orleans

The Maroon September 5, 2013

Party-goers enjoy Mid-summer Mardi Gras, which was celebrated on Oak Street on Aug. 31. The paraders marched down South Carrollton Avenue to Palmer Park and back to Oak Street. The theme this year was...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, right, and Don Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at a White House press conference in 2005.

Former New Orleans mayor indicted

BURKE BISCHOFF September 5, 2013

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is set to face trial on Oct. 7 for multiple criminal counts of bribery. Nagin, who served as New Orleans mayor from 2002 to 2010, will go to trial for indictment charges...

Halliburton pleads guilty

BURKE BISCHOFF, BURKE BISCHOFF, and BURKE BISCHOFF September 5, 2013

Halliburton Energy Services, BP's cement contractor for the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, is pleading guilty to destroying evidence related to the Deepwater Horizon spill. The company...

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