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Brief: Lower employments reported

Associated Press March 22, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment rates increased in half of US states in January since December, as employers nationwide added the fewest jobs in seven months. The Labor Department said unemployment rates...

Brief: New career to be offered by UNO

Associated Press March 22, 2013

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Students interested in making a career out of developing computer and video games may be interested in a new discipline to be offered by the University of New Orleans. The university...

Jasmine Barnes, mass communication junior, applauds other recently-elected student government officials as election results are revealed on March 19. Barnes will be SGA president for the 2013-14 academic year.

Barnes elected SGA president

HASANI GRAYSON March 21, 2013

SGA announced that students elected Jasmine Barnes as the president for the 2013-14 academic year during the school-wide vote. The newly elected president said she was excited to listen to student input...

Full Interview: SGA Constitutional Changes

Pack News March 20, 2013

Our reporter, James Lambert sat down with the out going SGA President and Vice President to talk about issues concerning SGA constitutional changes.

Pack News for March 15, 2013

Pack News March 15, 2013

This week, Pack News reporter James Lambert sat down with the SGA President and Vice President and talked about constitutional changes that The Maroon broke last week. Also, a candidate was cut from the...

Brief: Gamblers pay child support

The Maroon March 14, 2013

HOUMA, La. (AP) - Child support debts cost gamblers in Louisiana casinos more than $806,000 of their winnings last year. Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Suzy Sonnier told...

Brief: Senior class gives scholarship

The Maroon March 14, 2013

The 2013 Loyola University New Orleans Senior Class Giving Committee will be using this year's senior glass gift to award a scholarship for an incoming freshman. Seniors can donate $20.13, in honor of...

Brief: Dux Academicus recipient publishes research

The Maroon March 14, 2013

2012 recipient of the Dux Academicus award Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., recently published new research in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Her research highlights methods that are vital...

Spring Break vacation spots are fun and affordable

VANNIA ZELAYA March 14, 2013

The days are getting sunnier, warmer and longer, and they serve as a reminder that the second biggest break of the semester is right around the corner. With some research assistance from Lonelyplanet.com...

Stipends are unbalanced

Stipends are unbalanced

LUCY DIECKHAUS March 14, 2013

The Student Government Association's executives receive more money for doing their work than the officers of any other student-run entity on campus. SGA executives have historically been and are being...

SGA voting process changes

HASANI GRAYSON March 14, 2013

In response to low voter turn out, the Student Government Association has decided to move the polls off of Blackboard. Mara Steven, SGA chief justice, said voter turn out in the past has only been about...

In this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo, Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gives a Mass outside the San Cayetano church where an Argentine flag hangs behind him in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Bergoglio was elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis I.

First Jesuit named pope

BRIAN MURPHY AND MICHAEL WARREN March 14, 2013

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis I, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina's conservative Catholic church, is the first Pope from the Americas. Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio,...

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