Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Actors Symphony Sanders and Cecil Baldwin get in formation during Welcome to Night Vales live performance at the Civic Theater March 31, 2021. Welcome to the Night Vale is a supernatural radio show for a nondescript, fictional South Western town.

Welcome to Night Vale brings surreal storytelling to New Orleans

Artie Bennett, News Editor April 10, 2022

Welcome to Night Vale returned to the stage and ended the podcasters’ two-year touring hiatus last month. After shows in Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia the podcast performed...

Carter swings a club while two teammates look on as well as Head Golf Coach Cory Amory

Men’s golf wins first tournament since 2017

Emma Smithers, Staff Writer April 8, 2022

The men's golf team took home a win for the first time since 2017 at the 2022 Wolf Pack Spring Invitational this March. The men won the tournament by two shots and had two players finish in the top...

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Community reacts to gas prices

Arianna Blakely, Copy Editor April 8, 2022

Matt Gantt has seen many things during his six years as an Uber driver. Paying up to $200 for a week's worth of gas? That's a new one—until now.  Today, gas prices are reaching record highs across...

Loyola student NCognita performs during BUKU Music + Arts Project at the Riverside stage on March 26, 2022. NCognita is one member of the Loyola community who is making an appearance in local music again.

Local music festivals return to the Big Easy, feature Loyola

Gabrielle Korein, Senior Staff Photographer April 8, 2022

Festivals are a big part of New Orleans identity as a creative haven for artists and musicians alike, making the live music and arts festival dry-spell during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic particularly...

Hand places SGA ballot in an election box labeled To Be Determined

SGA elections come later than expected

Gabriella Killett, News Editor April 7, 2022

Loyola’s student government elections this year will end more than a month after they did last year, as SGA’s elections commissioner, elected after an initial struggle to find one, is running events...

Professor Stacey Battis teaches Bad Moms: Literary Maternity on March 29, 2022. Classes on Jan 18, 2024 will be in-person after two days of online classes.

Loyola adds new women writers courses

Sofia Luciano Santiago, Staff Writer April 4, 2022

A new women’s writers course will be added to the Loyola core curriculum in the Fall 2022 semester as a course option for the writing about literature core requirement. While this course isn’t the...

A film is screened at the 20% Film Festival and Showcase March 24.

20% Film Festival honors women in film

Jackie Galli, Sports Editor April 2, 2022

Women filled only 20% of the behind-the-scenes jobs in the top 100 highest-grossing films of 2019. This disparity inspired the title for the 20% Women’s Film Festival and Showcase, a film festival...

EDITORIAL: To use or not to use? The Oxford comma

EDITORIAL: To use or not to use? The Oxford comma

Editor’s Note: The editorial board could not come to a consensus on the subject. Therefore, two editorials are running representing the split opinions of the staff. Long live the Oxford comma Gabriela...

OPINION: Artists need to get out of their heads

OPINION: Artists need to get out of their heads

Ver Lumod, Reviews Editor March 31, 2022

One of my favorite filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, once talked about the relationship between the artist and his audience in a 1967 interview. He told the story of a wood-carver in medieval China who was tasked...

Vasquez goes for the ball on the beach court wearing cool shades and facing the net

Beach volleyball ends inaugural season

Jackie Galli, Sports Editor March 31, 2022

Sunscreen. Sandy toes. Cool shades. The beach volleyball team experienced these for the last time together this season on the court March 29. The beach volleyball team ended the roughly three week season...

OPINION: Squishmallows for hire

OPINION: Squishmallows for hire

Grayson Gustin March 31, 2022

From Carlos, the enthusiastic crustacean made salsa instructor, to Avery, a Mallard who's obsessed with rugby, Squishmallows emerged in 2017, as a Kellytoy product line of “loveable buddies,” but they...

Students perform on stage for the upcoming musical Head Over Heels in Loyolas Marquette Theater on March 29, 2022. This will be Loyolas first musical since Cabaret was shut down before opening in spring 2020.

Loyola produces first musical in two years

Madeline Taliancich, Managing Editor for Digital March 30, 2022

Mariola Chalas said she’s been expecting a cancellation email while rehearsing for Loyola’s upcoming musical. Chalas, a musical theatre senior, was in the production of “Cabaret” that was shut...

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