Opinion: Pro-Life means supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement
September 26, 2020
There is a difference between being pro-life and being against abortion.Pro-life means supporting life at all stages, including conception, natural death and anything in between. While there are a lot of pro-life people who understand this, there is also a shocking number of people who seem to think ...
Opinion: Louisiana education needs to step up
September 25, 2020
I couldn’t have been more than six years old when I was coloring in the classroom in elementary school and a friend asked me if I’d hand him the “skin color.” Struggling with the idea that I didn’t look exactly like everyone else and the fact that I never got sunburnt in the summertime, led...
Editorial: Anti-racism doesn’t end here
September 24, 2020
The events of this past summer have given new life to the Black Lives Matter movement. Countless Americans have stepped up and joined the fight against racism by protesting in the streets, supporting community organizations and looking out for their friends and neighbors. However, as the months pass...
Opinion: Help protect immunocompromised classmates
Emma Trunkle
September 12, 2020
During my freshman year, I was in-and-out of the hospital a solid five times attempting to navigate our healthcare system in New Orleans as an 18-year-old with newfound independence. I got consistently conflicting diagnoses from doctors and struggled to navigate how to communicate with Student Affairs...
Opinion: Community is the key to quarantine
Ryan Wiles
September 11, 2020
People need people, that’s just how it goes. For most of the summer, I, like most other students, was isolated in my childhood home. At first, I saw it as an opportunity to challenge myself to do something I wouldn’t regularly be able to fit into my routine, but that got old pretty quickly. There...
Column: College football isn’t worth the risk right now
September 10, 2020
A little more than eight months after Louisiana State University won the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship relying on the strategy, the Tigers couldn't call a five-man protection if they wanted to. On Aug. 26, The Advocate reported that all but four LSU offensive lineman were in ...
Editorial: Manners still matter in online classes
September 10, 2020
Online classes are weird. All of us are still adjusting to the new ways our classes work, whether they’re Hy-Flex or entirely online. One thing is clear: Internet-based classes are going to make up the bulk of our college educations for the foreseeable future. Since it looks like we’re going to have...
Opinion: Loyola is putting finances over students’ safety
September 5, 2020
Let’s say you're standing by a trolley track, or in New Orleanian fashion, a streetcar track. There are five people tied to the track and a streetcar is heading right for them. There’s a lever right next to you and, if you pull it, it will redirect the streetcar onto another track with only one person...
Opinion: Animal Crossing is good for your mental health
September 4, 2020
High school was some of the toughest years of my life: I struggled in math, I dealt with friendship drama and I was heartbroken when my best friend transferred to another school. I felt completely jaded with adolescence and the high school experience— the warm fuzzy feeling I first felt in eighth grade...
Column: I got engaged during a pandemic
September 4, 2020
'Going the Social Distance' is a series by Loyola students, for Loyola students about the triumphs and terrors of trying, or not trying, to maintain a social life during a pandemic. I got together with my now-fiancée in early February. Little did we know then that we would quickly be separated in our...
Editorial: It’s on us to keep each other safe
September 3, 2020
We’re finally back. Some of us thought it was inevitable, some of us thought it was impossible. But whatever your individual expectations were, this new semester is starting with in-person classes, despite an ever-present pandemic and hurricane warnings. In the past few weeks, we’ve already seen...
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...
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