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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Brief: Loyola will host an anti-racism workshop

The Maroon February 6, 2014

The Jesuit Social Research Institute will host an anti-racism workshop for Loyola faculty, staff and students. The event will take place 7-9 p.m. on February 7 in the Octavia Room and will continue during...

Brief: Church celebrates New Year festival

The Maroon February 6, 2014

Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in eastern New Orleans will throw a three-day Tet New Year festival beginning on Friday, Feb. 7. The festival will celebrate Tet, the Vietnamese new year holiday. On Friday,...

Brief: Loyola will hold a couples’ blessing

The Maroon February 6, 2014

The Alumni Association of Loyola will hold a Valentine's Day blessing on Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Ignatius Chapel on the first floor of Bobet Hall. The blessing is not limited to couples and will take...

Brief: Gandhi memorial unveiled on death anniversary

Associated Press February 6, 2014

DELHI, India (AP) - A mural of Mahatma Gandhi on the wall of the Delhi police headquarters was unveiled on Jan. 30, 2014. The mural comes 66 years after Gandhi's death by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist,...

Caitlin Vanderwolf, English writing freshman and first-year group member, helps cook breakfast in the kitchen at Crescent City Cafe. Vanderwolf is one of several individuals in Loyola’s Christian Life Communities who sought to strengthen their relationships with each other and with the greater New Orleans community by volunteering at Crescent City Cafe on Jan. 18.

Christian Life Communities put faith into action, serving meals to the homeless

LAUREN SAIZAN January 31, 2014

At 6:45 a.m. on Jan. 18, Katalina Mananghaya got into a van with nine other members of Loyola's Christian Life Communities and set out to serve meals to the homeless and poverty-stricken at the Crescent...

Sectarian violence continues in Myanmar

Sectarian violence continues in Myanmar

Gemunu Amarasinghe January 31, 2014

A Muslim man cuts hair at a makeshift barber shop next to a roadside produce stand in Tha' Chaung village in Myanmar. Myanmar Buddhists killed 48 Muslims on Jan. 25, 2014, the latest in a series of sectarian...

Loyola students perform at Tulane University’s McAlister Auditorium at the Expressions of Unity Step Off for the Dream on Jan. 17, 2014. The step off was the first event of the MLK Week for Peace, a weekend of events that spanned Jan. 17 to 20.

MLK Week for Peace unites New Orleans

ASIA ALVARADO January 23, 2014

Forty-six years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, Loyola students are continuing his dream by striving for peace and equality, through the 27th annual Week for Peace. Usually a weeklong event, the...

Naomi Yavneh, director of the University Honors Program, advises Mara Steven, history/pre-law junior, and Samantha Ybarzabal, psychology junior, during a community engagement portfolio meeting. The new honors curriculum emphasizes Jesuit values such as service.

Honors curriculum revised to emphasize Ignatian values

RAQUEL DERGANZ BAKER January 23, 2014

Loyola honors students can now distinguish themselves by more than just an alternative common curriculum. Naomi Yavneh, director of the University Honors Program, said that the honors curriculum was revised...

Service learning across borders

The Maroon January 16, 2014

Over winter break, the Ignacio Volunteers traveled to Jamaica and Belize for service immersion programs.

LUCAP protests military school

The Maroon December 16, 2013

The Loyola University Community Action Program sent students to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in Fort Benning, Ga. on Nov. 24 to protest what they describe as the violence...

The Priests kneel in prayer. The Irish music group, which has performed around the world, sang at Loyola on November 26.

Loyola rings in holidays with Priests

MARY GRACI December 5, 2013

Irish music group The Priests returned to Loyola on November 26 for a special holiday performance after making their U.S. debut at Loyola in 2012. Jessica Brown, communications/artist relations manager,...

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