Letter: To Those Who Ask, ‘What Next?’
Robert B. Morrison III
June 24, 2020
Dear Loyola, Over the last three weeks, my days have been filled with mental and emotional stress and strain. The world as we know it has not turned upside down, but rather right-side up. We are finally coming together to say no to racism in our country and our communities. George Floyd’s murder...
Letter: An Open Letter to Loyola Students Who Want Me Fired
Walter Block
June 23, 2020
According to John Stuart Mill’s justly famous essay “On Liberty”: “The greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record that he always studied his adversary's case with as great, if not with still greater, intensity than even his own. What Cicero practised as the means of forensic...
Letter: If Loyola’s student body is so diverse, why isn’t the faculty?
June 17, 2020
Dear Editor, As a journalist, blogger, copywriter and communicator of information to the public, I use writing as a tool daily in my professional life. I mostly tell the stories of others, as I did in the fall of 2015 when I was news editor of The Maroon. That semester, I chose to focus the lengthiest...
Opinion: It’s been eight years, and it feels like nothing has changed.
Andi Robinson
June 12, 2020
I was twelve years old when I watched the jury deliver a non-guilty verdict to George Zimmerman. I was thirteen when Eric Garner was killed with an illegal chokehold. I was fourteen when Michael Brown was killed and the Ferguson riots began. I was almost fifteen when Freddie Gray was killed and Sandra...
Editorial: Loyola students deserve better
Daniel Schwalm and Gabriela Carballo
June 11, 2020
Last week, the Loyola School of Communication and Design was rocked by public accusations of racism and mistreatment raised by students against former director Sonya Duhé, who was slated to become the next journalism dean at Arizona State University. In a tweet that she later deleted, Duhé said, ...
Letter: Student media requires independence, not faculty influence
Elizabeth Davis
June 11, 2020
Editor: I was saddened to read in the June 5 Maroon about the experience of Nia Porter, a Loyola 2015 graduate. The article states that after Porter was elected the first black editor-in-chief of The Maroon, The Maroon failed to report this "because they said (Sonya) Duhé, (former director of ...
Letter: As Loyola’s police chief, I am angered by the killing of George Floyd
Todd Warren
May 31, 2020
Dear Editor, I’ve been a proud law enforcement officer for 28 years— a beat cop for six years, an internal affairs investigator for four and a police chief/executive for 18. During all that time, I can honestly say that I haven’t had a single moment when I wasn’t proud to be a cop: I bleed...
Editorial: Housing cancellations are painful, but there were no good options
May 23, 2020
Many students were left scrambling to find a place to live following Loyola’s May 21 announcement that most on-campus housing arrangements for upperclassmen and grad students would be cancelled. More than a third of on-campus housing slots have been removed in an effort to reduce density in residence...
Editorial: A letter to our seniors
May 20, 2020
It’s been almost two months since campus shut down for the semester, although it feels like a lot longer. While all of us were sad to have to leave, nobody felt it more acutely than you, our seniors. The rest of us can’t imagine what it must be like to have our college experience cut short like...
Fun ways to connect with friends virtually
May 19, 2020
Let’s face it, having to leave school and say goodbye to all of our friends so suddenly was hard for many of us. And frankly, it isn’t great for our mental health to simply press pause on our social lives indefinitely. Just because we are physically distant from our friends doesn’t mean we have...
JC’s Declassified School Survival Guide: Goodbye Edition
Jc Canicosa
May 9, 2020
In a university full of SoundCloud rappers, eccentric professors and Zoom classes, JC Canicosa— that’s me—and The Maroon try to do the impossible: create a guide that will help you survive Loyola. *cue theme song* Ah, graduation. Just how I pictured it. Sitting in my living room. Alexa playin...
Opinion: Thank you, from your outgoing SGA president
Jessamyn Reichmann
May 8, 2020
The time has come and gone on my term as Student Government Association president, an experience I'll cherish forever. Having been sworn in without any prior SGA position, I knew every day would be a humbling lesson. Nevertheless, I committed myself to a path of service, and I hope that I have accomplished...
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