Streaming This Week: July 3
July 3, 2020
We are now on the first Friday of the month, and streaming services have got exciting new content. Here are the films and TV shows streaming this week. July 3 Hanna: Season 2 (Amazon Prime Video) The Amazon Original action drama is back with a second season. The titular protagonist, played by Esme Creed-Miles, takes on a secret government program train...
Streaming This Week: July 1
July 1, 2020
We are now halfway through 2020. While it hasn't always been pleasant for everyone, streaming services have got you covered. Here are the films and TV shows streaming for the next two days. July 1 - Netflix Schindler's List The 1993 American historical drama is one of director Steven Spielberg's f...
The Maroon launches mobile news app
July 1, 2020
After a year of development, The Maroon is launching an app to make Loyola coverage available on handheld Android and Apple devices. Maroon advisor Michael Giusti said the intention of the app is to expand the Maroon’s mediums of coverage. “The app is just one more tool to let us do what we...
Loyola students protest following death of George Floyd
June 29, 2020
The narrative of police brutality was nothing new to Sunderland Shands, political science and Spanish sophomore. On Jul. 6, 2016, when Shands was in high school in Minneapolis, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer at a traffic stop a few miles outside the city. Shands wanted to...
Online, hybrid fall classes spark student calls for a tuition reduction
June 25, 2020
Although campus will be re-opening in August, Loyola has adjusted classes so that most instruction is partially or entirely online in order to follow social distancing guidelines, a decision that has left many students frustrated. Out of the over 1,000 classes being offered this semester, 20% of those...
2020 graduation ceremony cancelled, sparks petition to refund fees
Gabriela Carballo and Shadera Moore
June 20, 2020
Postponed commencement ceremonies that were set to take place this August have officially been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to an email from University President Tania Tetlow, prompting some students to demand that Loyola refund their graduation fees. “Our plans to h...
Clashing petitions call for Walter Block to be fired, given a raise over academic work
Emma Ruby and Rose Wagner
June 17, 2020
A student petition urging Loyola to fire Walter Block, professor and chairperson of the economics department, on the basis of “racist and sexist beliefs” has received more than 500 signatures, sparking a counter-petition in defense of Block and university-wide conversations about the professor’s controv...
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...
Accrediting visit reported mass communication program “free of harassment,” discrimination
June 15, 2020
During an October 2019 site visit evaluating Loyola's mass communication program, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication reported that Loyola’s school benefited from strong leadership and a diverse student body. “The unit has a climate that is free of harassment...
Loyola faces a budget deficit, staff furloughs due to COVID-19
Khayla Gaston
June 14, 2020
Loyola is starting to grapple with the initial financial impacts of COVID-19, which University President Tania Tetlow predicts will leave the university with a budget deficit for this fiscal year, forcing administrative salary cuts and staff furloughs, at least temporarily. In statements sent to both...
President Tetlow addresses community on racism, bias at Loyola
June 12, 2020
University President Tania Tetlow spoke at a virtual town hall June 11 with over 50 members of the Loyola community about racism and bias at Loyola. The meeting was held in the wake of allegations of racism and insensitivity made by more than a dozen students against former Director of the School...
New ASU dean led Loyola’s journalism school accreditation visit
June 11, 2020
Arizona State University’s journalism school has named Kristin Gilger, business journalism professor, as its interim dean, after Sonya Duhé was removed as the school's incoming dean due to allegations of racism and insensitivity. Gilger was also the chairperson of the three-person team from the...
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