Growing up, my uncle always told me, “the average person is as bright as a brick.” Many years later, I realized how right he was. In our media-centric era, it’s vitally necessary to sift through...

The internet has always been a social place. It was created to enable communication. But the rise of Facebook, Twitter, etc. has launched the social web to a scale unimaginable to its first users. It...

Dear Attorney General Jeff Landry, Enshrined in its mission statement, Loyola University encourages students to “pursue truth, wisdom, and justice; and to work for a more just world.” Loyola students...

When I came home from school for break, I was excited to spend hours upon hours sleeping with my many cats. I hadn’t been home for longer than two weeks in almost six months. Unfortunately, even as I...

Many of the most popular, cult classic television shows would not be around today if they followed the current algorithm that Netflix is trying to push. Completion rates are a measure of how many people...

Father Daffron has announced plans to make Loyola a “go-to place” for workers in the region. Included in these plans is the construction of a new, massive 600-bed residence hall on campus. This will...

With finals and the end of the fall semester approaching, it's easy to lose sight of the university's ongoing search for its next president. Since Tania Tetlow’s move to Fordham University as its...

Today's service workers are increasingly being treated like crap. Why? To me, it appears that there is a power struggle going on, in which customers, particularly those who have never worked in customer...

I, like any person, have gone through difficulties in my life. In some cases, I’ve even overcome the unimaginable. This includes people having been ruthlessly mean to me - in a variety of spaces –...

The cyclical, contaminating nature of money is what prohibits many people in the world from reaching their full potential. While I initially wrote this piece to highlight the technical pitfalls of our...

Many of us eat in the Orleans Room. Whether it’s a quick bite before class, a free meal with a friend or an all-you-can-eat-buffet after a long day, the OR is the place to go if you live on campus. We...

Despite the fact that the climate change issue is clearly a dire crisis important for everyone on the globe to address, politicians refuse to step up to the plate. This year alone, several bills were introduced...