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A sign for the Louisiana Cancer Research Center is displayed on Tulane avenue in New Orleans, Nov. 2. The center is working to give the highest quality care and earn National Cancer Institute Designated Cancer Center accreditation.

Louisiana Cancer Research Center aims to treat state cancer crisis

Domonique Tolliver, Managing Editor for Digital November 3, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency recently released a letter that demonstrates the disproportionate impact cancer is having on Louisiana's Black community.  The letter was sent to the state's Department...

A voter enters the early voting center on Chef Menteur Highway on Nov 1. About 363,009 residents who participated in the states early voting period keeping up with the state’s steady increase in midterm election turnout.

Louisiana’s midterm early voting turnout keeps growing

Sara Cline, Associated Press November 3, 2022

A little more than 12% of registered voters in Louisiana have cast their ballots ahead of next week’s elections, keeping up with the state’s steady increase in midterm election turnout. Of the 363,009...

People board streetcar

Commuters struggle with public transportation

Nadir Benslimane, Staff Writer November 1, 2022

Public transportation in New Orleans has been running behind when it comes to suiting commuter students' needs. Loyola commuter students and some members of the Commuter Student Association gave their...

Spending on student course materials drops

Arianna D'Antonio, Worldview Editor October 31, 2022

Student spending on course materials has dropped nearly 50% over the last decade, according to the Association of American Publishers. Loyola senior Roxana Coriano said it may be due to students’ inability...

louisiana juvenile handcuffed in front of prison

Juvenile transfer to Angola sparks controversy

Heather Rabassa, Copy Editor October 28, 2022

Nicknamed the “Alcatraz of the South,” the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, is known for being a prison for the state’s worst offenders and death row inmates, and in June, Louisiana...

Nathan Henne sitting behind his desk. Behind him, the FSLN flag is displayed on the wall.

FSLN flag displayed in professor’s office infuriates Nicaraguan students

Macie Batson, Senior Staff Writer October 27, 2022

Late last month, graduate student Alejandra Arguello Fletes sent a letter to Loyola in response to a video post from the university’s official Instagram page on Friday Sept. 23. The post showed Nathan...

State representatives race for representation

State representatives race for representation

Jackie Galli, Managing for Print October 25, 2022

Representatives Royce Duplessis and Mandie Landry will appear on the ballot in coming weeks to fill the district 5 state Senate seat vacated by Karen Carter Peterson. District 5 encompasses much of Central...

Pomelo owners in front of sign

Pomelo celebrates 1-year anniversary

Macie Batson, Senior Staff Writer October 24, 2022

When Loyola business professor Frankie Weinberg is not in the classroom teaching students, he is putting his business knowledge to use at his Magazine Street restaurant Pomelo, which recently celebrated...

A police cruiser parked in front of New Orleans Police Departments first police station.

NOPD lacks urgency; sexual assault victim speaks out

Macie Batson, Senior Staff Writer October 21, 2022

It was October of 2019. A former Loyola student was out with her friends at a Halloween party when someone approached her and offered her a drink. She accepted it and woke up on the party’s filthy...

President Joe Biden speaks about the student debt relief portal beta test as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. The FBI warns that those seeking loan forgiveness may be targeted in scams.

FBI warns of student loan debt forgiveness scams

Domonique Tolliver, Managing Editor for Digital October 21, 2022

The university and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are warning students to be aware of fraudulent websites, emails, texts or phone scams aiming to deceive those seeking federal loan forgiveness. The...

ship in mississippi river

Low water disrupts industry along lower Mississippi River

Michael Goldberg, Associated Press/Report for America October 19, 2022

Plummeting water levels in the lower Mississippi River are projected to drop even further in the weeks ahead, a projection shows, dampening the region's economic activity and potentially threatening jobs...

cancer alley residents with protesting signs

EPA finds evidence of racial disparity in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

Janet McConnaughey and Michael Phillis, Associated Press October 18, 2022

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said it has evidence that Black residents in an industrial section of Louisiana face an increased risk of cancer from a nearby chemical plant and...

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