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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

College freshman enrollment update

Ashlyn Bobb-Collins February 14, 2025

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s summary report this year reports that college freshman enrollment is down by 5 percent. This was supported with the understanding that the change in the...

Title IX updates struck down

Elise Beck January 31, 2025

In 2024, the Biden administration attempted to update the Title IX laws created in 1972. The original laws were created to prevent sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs. For example,...

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Will we get snow? Is it going to be ice or just regular rain?

Ecoi Lewis, Worldview Editor January 17, 2025

Forecasters aren’t sure for the southeast part of Louisiana, but we are experiencing our coldest winter yet. As soon as the calendar turned to January, Louisiana and 13 other southern states are dealing...

PlayStations for guns are offered up in New Orleans

PlayStations for guns are offered up in New Orleans

Ecoi Lewis, Worldview Editor January 17, 2025

On New Year's Eve, dozens of cars lined up outside of a church parking lot in New Orleans to exchange their firearms for video game consoles. Unchained Realities, a local nonprofit, created the event...

Public health workers demand better for Louisiana residents

Ecoi Lewis January 17, 2025

The Louisiana Department of Health has implemented a new policy that bans promoting COVID, Flu, and monkeypox vaccines even though Louisiana is ranked #32 on vaccination rates.  According to a recent...

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First Bird Flu deaths reported in the US

Ecoi Lewis, Worldview Editor January 17, 2025

Bird flu has taken its first human victim. Reports started coming in December from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the U.S.’s 1st severe human case of avian influenza, or...

Emma Bell foundation helps make a difference in school zones

Emma Bell foundation helps make a difference in school zones

Maria DiFelice December 6, 2024

Amy and Brent Savoie, started the Emma Bell Foundation in 2022 after their six year-old daughter Emma died in a car accident in a school pick-up line. In honor of her child's love for dance, Amy Savoie...

Louisiana’s reproductive rights case remains ongoing

Ecoi Lewis, Worldview Editor December 6, 2024

The fight for reproductive rights in Louisiana has been put on pause for now. A few issues ago, we told you about how Louisiana declared the reproductive care drugs, Misoprostol and Mifepristone as...

Visiting Pet Program provides community with pet therapy

Visiting Pet Program provides community with pet therapy

Marcela Baez December 6, 2024

The Visiting Pet Program, founded in 1987, is a nonprofit organization that uses pet therapy to spread joy and offer emotional support to the New Orleans community. Volunteers bring their trained therapy...

Shocking Win

Shocking Win

Sophia Maxim and Alana Frank November 9, 2024

The world tuned in with anxious anticipation for the reveal of the next U.S. president. Polls fluctuated, beginning in favor of Kamala Harris but shifting toward Donald Trump by the late night....

Pet evacuation bill protects strays from Hurricane Francine

Pet evacuation bill protects strays from Hurricane Francine

Ava Dufrene November 8, 2024

An estimated 50-70 thousand animals died in Hurricane Katrina, according to the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Among the fifteen thousand pets rescued by the SPCA, about 15-20%...

SOUL volunteer Anna Hernandez works hard shoveling dirt in Mid-City on Jan. 20, 2023. SOUL has made strides to reforest New Orleans.

SOUL NOLA celebrates planting its 10,000th tree

Kloe Witt November 8, 2024

Seeds are being planted in efforts to make New Orleans a greener place, thanks to the organization SOUL NOLA. Sustaining Our Urban Landscape is a nonprofit organization that has been working since 2016...

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