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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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A yearbook photo of the first Black organization on campus "Expression" taken in 1969. Taken from The Maroon Archives.

Loyola honors the founding of Expression, it’s first Black student organization

Matthew Richards, Editor-in-Chief April 4, 2025

In 1968, a group of 25 students got together on Loyola’s campus in the middle of a world of chaos and launched Expression, the first organization composed of mostly Black students in Loyola history.  To...

Photo of the 2025 Bloom Fest schedule outside Monroe Hall.

Loyola hosts inaugural Bloom Festival

Elise Beck, Reviews Editor April 4, 2025

On April 1, 2025, Loyola hosted its first annual Bloom Festival to honor former Loyola student Kendall Daigle, who passed away in 2014 at age 19. Daigle was an English student who adored art and poetry.  The...

Baseball eyes conference title

Baseball eyes conference title

Matthew Richards, Editor-in-Chief April 4, 2025

As the regular season winds down, Wolf Pack baseball finds themselves ranked outside of the top 10 in the most recent National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics poll coming in at No. 12.  After...

The WolfPack cheer teams poses for a picture. The team received its highest score in program history.

Loyola cheer reflects on end of season

Hannah Darcey March 30, 2025

The Loyola competitive cheer team wrapped up their 2025 season after competing in the Southern States Athletic Conference Championship in Decatur, Alabama.  The team finished with a new program record,...

NAHJ President Dunia Elivir and NABJ President Ken Lemon discuss inclusion at the Diversity in Journalism forum on March 20, 2025. Courtesy of Leonard Jackson III.

Diversity in Journalism: Leaders unite to tackle media bias and future challenges

Alana Frank, Campus News Editor March 30, 2025

Amidst growing challenges surrounding discourse of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and bias within the media, three prominent, national journalism associations discuss trials and tribulations...

The plaque commemorating the first Black organization "Expression" is unveiled the Palm Court on March 25, 2025.

Loyola Honors Legacy of Expression: University’s first Black student organization plaque unveiling

Alana Frank, Campus News Editor March 30, 2025

Loyola University New Orleans hosted an event commemorating and celebrating the making of Expression, the university's first Black student organization, founded in 1968. The unveiling of a plaque memorializing...

Students protest for the release of Mahmoud Khalil on March 11, 2025. Khalil, a Columbia graduate student, is currently being held in Jena, Louisiana awaiting potential deportation.

‘I cannot be deported right now’

Alana Frank, Campus News Editor March 30, 2025

As Loyola University students grapple with new federal policies that could threaten immigrant students' rights, many fear that exercising free speech, especially through protest, could come at a devastating...

Uptown music venue, Gasa Gasa, reopened on Freret Street on March 15. The venue reopened welcoming ages over 18, a change from it previously being 21 plus.

Gasa Gasa’s back, and 18+

Violet Bucaro, News Director March 28, 2025

A dancing crowd, loud music, and a ladder. One of Gasa Gasa’s first shows boomed on Freret street as the party continued and Micha Burns climbed up 15 feet to fix the club’s low hanging disco ball....

Rally against the death penalty

Rally against the death penalty

Eloise Pickering and Callie Honeycutt March 23, 2025

The state of Louisiana implemented a method of execution this month that advocates describe as cruel and unusual.  Jessie Hoffman’s execution was the first carried out in Louisiana in a decade and...

Loyola faces campus wide hot water outage

Loyola faces campus wide hot water outage

Alana Frank, Campus News Editor March 23, 2025

For weeks, Loyola University has been left in hot water— because they didn’t have any. What started as an equipment failure quickly escalated into a full-scale infrastructure crisis, leaving students...

Map of Orange Grove. Courtesy of Stephanie Oblena/The Maroon.

Environmental organization fights to preserve burial ground of enslaved peoples

Maleigh Crespo March 19, 2025

Chemical industry company Air Products plans to open a clean energy complex in Ascension Parish on the property of the Orange Grove Plantation, which endangers the burial sites of nearly 300 enslaved people.  RISE...

Blas Isasi's sculpture 1,001,532 CE on display at the Ford Assembly Line building in Gentilly, Louisiana.

Peruvian artist comments on post-colonial world

Violet Bucaro, News Director March 17, 2025

Peruvian born New Orleans traveling artist Blas Isasi advocates for human rights through sculpture art. He makes statements on society inspired by Andean tradition and history to uncloak the impact of...

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