ICE mandate fuels efforts to accommodate international students
July 14, 2020
Disclaimer: As of July 14, the Trump administration has reversed course and rescinded the guidelines that would have prevented international students from taking a full schedule of online classes this fall while remaining in the U.S. Changes to international students' visa eligibility from U.S. Imm...
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...
Loyola’s healthcare heroes reflect on fighting a global pandemic
June 10, 2020
As a 13-year-old girl hospitalized for appendicitis, Sophia Thomas, A’17, felt vulnerable. She had to stay in a hospital alone for a week, away from her parents, depending solely on the care of nurses. That was when she decided to devote her life to working in health care. Since then,Thomas has ea...
New Orleanians protest the death of George Floyd
June 1, 2020
Over the weekend, hundreds of demonstrators peacefully marched side-by-side from Duncan Plaza to New Orleans Police Department Headquarters protesting the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. Protestors held signs that said “Black Lives Matter”...
Loyola graduate 3D prints face shields for local hospitals
Jillian Oddo
May 28, 2020
Due to COVID-19, hospitals around the U.S. are in need of masks and face shields and one recent Loyola graduate, Baasel Syed, A'20, is using university resources to help provide help to local New Orleans hospitals. “I asked the hospitals what they needed, and the one thing they said they would ...
Local restaurant reopens following COVID-19 guidelines
May 23, 2020
After Louisiana entered Phase One of reopening its economy last weekend, local restaurant owners such as Caroline Nassrah, A'06, and Aimée Herrmann, who own the vegan dining spot Kindred, are practicing new ways of keeping their businesses afloat while keeping their staff and their customers safe. ...
Alcoholics Anonymous goes virtual during COVID-19
May 19, 2020
Skyler was isolated. They were anxious to be around people in public, plagued by a certain social paranoia. Feeling a lack of control, unable to see some semblance of a future, Skyler spent most of their time inside, drinking alone to feel something, or nothing, depending on the day. But that was...
New Orleans journalists face furloughs, memories of Katrina
Rose Wagner and Gabriella Killett
May 14, 2020
Less than a year after The Advocate won a Pulitzer Prize and acquired the Times-Picayune, creating the largest newsroom in Louisiana and changing the face of New Orleans journalism, a global pandemic hit, raising concerns about the newsroom’s revenue, future and the lives of local journalists. “This...
Pregnant women cope with giving birth during COVID-19
April 29, 2020
In April 2019, Loyola A'11 Melanie Shannon became pregnant after a year and a half of trying. Ten weeks later, she was devastated with the news that she lost her baby. “That last summer was just this really hazy grief-filled period; I was just kind of ready to throw in a towel and say we are not...
Gov. Edwards extends Louisiana stay-at-home order, makes changes
April 27, 2020
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced an extended stay-at-home order Monday, which despite the postponement of reopening the state's economy until May 16, includes three specific changes to the order in place. If table service isn't available outside, restaurants are now able to allow customers...
Recent alumni take advantage of stimulus check
Jc Canicosa
April 22, 2020
Bryant Istre A'19, is feeling fairly fortunate in the midst of a national pandemic. Istre is one year out of college, and he has a job that can be done fully remotely in an industry that he says is well-insulated from the crisis: education. But he understands that his financial security may not...
The New Atlantis: Climate experts prepare for New Orleans’ potentially bleak future
April 7, 2020
Three hundred years ago, the ancestors of former Loyola environmental science professor John Clark, were some of New Orleans' first settlers. Twelve generations later, the prevalence of climate change has Clark wondering if his grandchildren will be the family's last generation of New Orleanians. “This...
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