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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

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...

Photo courtesy of AP Photos

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...

Trump's win shocks campus

Trump’s win shocks campus

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...

Courtesy of Beth Walker

Ochsner Health names first female CEO

Nicholas Gonzales November 8, 2024

Ochsner Health’s mission stated on the official webpage is to “serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate” while promoting “healthier lives and strengthening communities” by reducing healthcare...

Private investment specialist Will Harrison analyzes data of unemployment and economy trends in his office at Merril Lynch of Sept. 30.

City struggles with unemployment, savings

Violet Bucaro, News Director November 8, 2024

Unemployment is up, savings are down in Louisiana With high unemployment, a tourist economy, and low-wage part-time jobs, New Orleanians are desperate to save money. Ryder Vassilos is a newly employed...

** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, AUG. 11 **A portion of Grand Isle, La., is visible in this March 6, 2002, aerial photo. A widely publicized government report recently predicted that sea-level rise caused by global warming could swallow sizeable chunks of the coastal United States in the coming century. Grand Isle, on the Southern most tip of Louisiana, has been battling costal erosion by the surrounding Gulf of Mexico for years. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Hurricanes compound coastal erosion woes

Ecoi Lewis November 1, 2024

Louisiana is slowly disappearing. Coastlines and beaches are receding while hurricanes have been growing stronger. The reason is coastal erosion, which is the wearing down of land by sea involving waves,...

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