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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Tiffany Willis joined the competitive cheer and dance teams as the assisstant coach. Photo credit: Tiffany Willis

Willis adds fresh perspective for Loyola’s dance and cheer teams

Jillian Oddo October 30, 2018

It is all quiet on campus as the sun prepares to rise, but Loyola’s dance and cheer teams are making noise already practicing bright and early at 6:30 a.m., new Competitive Cheer and Dance Assistant...

Rebekah Vensel, music industry senior, stands in the center with Adren LaGrone, biology senior, (left) and Danely Romero, music with elective studies senior, (right) pose at the Punkin Point Farm. The farm is Vensels family-owned pumpkin farm in Pennsylvania. Photo credit: Rebekah Vensel

Loyola senior runs pumpkin patch with family

Andres Fuentes October 30, 2018

Fall break is typically filled with Netlfix binges, small road trips and maybe an essay or two, but for Rebekah Vensel, it's always been about the pumpkins.Making the 1,140.3 mi trip every year to her...

Student leaders discuss assault and rape culture

Student leaders discuss assault and rape culture

Maia Moses October 29, 2018

Student leaders of two on-campus organizations, the Women’s Resource Center and Alpha Chi Omega, led a discussion Oct. 18 on the prevalence of rape culture in the modern era and how the student population...

The Enter if You Dare sign sat outside of a palm reading tent at Scout Island Scream Park. The sign set the tone for park, as only those who are brave should risk entering in the attractions. Photo credit: Erin Haynes

City Park welcomes Scout Island Scream Park

Erin Haynes October 29, 2018

Scout Island Scream Park will leave the Wolf Pack howling as it adds itself to the list of already terrifying Halloween attractions in New Orleans. For years, City Park has held spooky festivities...

Local tour merges the haunted and the historic

Local tour merges the haunted and the historic

Tyler Wann October 29, 2018

    Many places have laws requiring disclosure if someone has previously died in the building. Tour guides like to say that New Orleans doesn’t have those because it’s almost a...

FILE- In this Aug. 2, 2018, file photo, New York Giants cornerback Eli Apple works out during NFL football training camp in East Rutherford, N.J. The Giants traded Apple to the New Orleans Saints on Tuesday, Oct. 23. 2018.  (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Column: Saints are going for broke

Andrew Lang October 28, 2018

The New Orleans Saints are all in this season. The Saints announced the acquisition of cornerback Eli Apple from the New York Giants for a 2019 fourth-round draft selection and a 2020 seventh-round draft...

A woman dressed in a catrina costume poses for a portrait during the annual Catrinas Parade, as part of Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, culminating with visits to the graves of departed loved ones on Nov. 1 and 2. The figure of a skeleton wearing broad-brimmed hat was first done as a satirical engraving by artist Jose Guadalupe Posada sometime between 1910 and his death in 1913, to poke fun at women who pretended to be European by dressing elegantly and as a critique of social stratification. CHRISTIAN PALMA/AP.

Opinion: Pixar movie captures the essence of Day of the Dead

Cristo Dulom October 28, 2018

Coco is a vibrant, deep and aurally pleasing movie. It is a fun story and has a plethora of likeable characters. The movie illustrates the traditions of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in an enjoyable...

The tapestry of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero hangs from a balcony of the facade of St. Peters Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of saintliness for the faithful today. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Opinion: En la vida o la muerte, Monseñor Oscar Romero es mi santo

Berta Alvarado October 28, 2018

Click here for an English translation El 14 de Octubre 2018 fue el día más feliz de mi vida, que aunque no pude estar en Roma, en el Vaticano para presenciar la canonización de Monseñor Oscar Romero,...

Amani Bryant poses in the University Sports Complex. Bryant was hired Sept. 24 as an assisstant coach for both the cross country and the track and field programs. Photo credit: Sidney Ovrom

Coach Bryant sprints to new position

Cody Downey October 27, 2018

From student athlete to volunteer coach to now assistant head coach, the move to working with Loyola’s cross country and track and field teams is just another hurdle for Amani Bryant to jump over. Head...

Femme Fatal(e) skeleton at The Skeleton House on St. Charles Ave. Vanessa advises everyone to stay safe on Halloween. Photo credit: Hannah Renton

How to slay Halloween in New Orleans

Vanessa Alvarado October 27, 2018

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays for many spooky and not so spooky reasons. Who doesn't love playing dress up? Halloween gives me the excuse not to be just Vanessa for the night. Being just...

Beau relaxes while students study in the honors office on the first floor of Monroe Library. Although he used to suffer from anxiety, Beau now acts as an emotional support dog for Loyola students. Photo credit: Andres Fuentes

Beau helps students through ruff times

Henry Bean October 27, 2018

Between moving away from home and learning to tackle exams, college can be a stressful time, but Loyola students have access a four-legged friend to help them survive.Beau is a purebred golden retriever...

Pharmacist Donna L. administers a flu shot Jan. 18, 2018, at a Walgreens in New Orleans. Doctors and pharmacist can give the flu shot. SOFIA SAMAYOA/The Maroon.

College students fail to be vaccinated

Tyler Wann October 26, 2018

College students are failing to make the grade when it comes to being vaccinated for the flu, with less than half of students on college campus getting vaccinated. According to a 2017 survey done by the...

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