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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Celebration Church gives back during pandemic

Anum Siddiqui, Pack News April 3, 2020

While churches shift their Sunday service online due to the coronavirus, Celebration Church in the New Orleans area continues to give back to their community. Church volunteers get together once a week...

Natalie Reaux helping her son Maxx Reaux with some math homework before his afternoon snack.

Teachers and parents adapt to online homeschooling across the United States

April 2, 2020

Schools all across America were hit with an emergency closing leaving many to wonder when they will open their doors again. Many parents in Orleans Parish were told classes will begin again in April, but...

Uptown college students sit outside of popular local bar and grill. Photo credit: Hannah Renton

Governor closes bars, movie theaters and restricts restaurants in efforts to slow virus spread

Rae Walberg March 16, 2020

In response to Louisiana's surge of COVID-19 cases that have already killed two and affected 132, Governor John Bel. Edwards announced new measures banning gatherings of more than 50 people on Monday afternoon...

Crystal Roa adjusts equipment before measuring the height of a patient at Luke's House Clinic. Roa is a volunteer Spanish medical translator at the free clinic. Photo credit: Rose Wagner

Student interns as medical translator for Spanish speakers

Rose Wagner March 15, 2020

Crystal Roa never thought she would be spending her sophomore year of college in a clinic, explaining to a woman she had never met that her health, and life, were in critical condition if she didn’t...

The outside of Bruno's, a popular Uptown college bar. On Thursday, March 12, a Loyola student was hit outside the bar during the bar's popular Wine Wednesday. The driver eventually fled. Gabriella Killett/The Maroon.

Loyola student hit in car by driver outside Bruno’s on Wine Wednesday, driver flees

Gabriella Killett March 13, 2020

A man, who fled the scene after, hit a Loyola student Thursday, March 12, at midnight in a car accident on the corner of Hillary St and Maple St., according to a New Orleans Police Department incident...

President Donald Trump announces a national emergency due to COVID-19 during a news conference about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, March 13, 2020, in Washington.

Trump declares national emergency, waives student loan interest

Rose Wagner March 13, 2020

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Friday afternoon, a move he said will open up around $50 billion of federal funds to help fight the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. The president...

A voter checks her ballots after coming out of a booth while voting in the primary election, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Mechanic Falls, Maine. Voters in Louisiana will have to wait until June to cast their primary ballots, as the state delayed its primaries in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Louisiana becomes first state to delay presidential primaries

Rose Wagner March 13, 2020

Louisiana has delayed its April presidential primaries, becoming the first state to do so in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin announced early Friday that the contests...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards speaks to his supporters at the New Orleans Jazz Market on September 25, 2019. The Governor has signed a proclamation banning public gatherings of more than 250 people and closing public schools across the state until April in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. Photo credit: Andres Fuentes

Governor bans large gatherings, closes public schools

Erin Snodgrass March 13, 2020

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed a proclamation today immediately halting all gatherings of more than 250 people, and closing all K-12 public schools across the state until Monday, April 13. The...

A Tulane University Police car sits outside of Phelps House residential hall on the evening of Thursday, March 12. The police presence came after reports of a student jumping off of the stairwell outside the building. A Tulane sophomore was reported dead of a 'apparent accident' later in the day.

Tulane student dies in ‘apparent accident’

Rose Wagner March 13, 2020

A Tulane student died late Thursday in an "apparent accident," according to Tulane University President Mike Fitts. Raymond Baltz III, sophomore and member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, lived in Phelps House,...

The Loyola sign sits in front of Marquette Hall on Loyola's campus on a sunny day

Delgado joins Loyola, 9 other Louisiana universities in moving online due to COVID-19

Sam Lucio March 13, 2020

Delgado Community College has informed students and faculty that the college will begin transitioning to online-only classes due to the coronavirus. Delgado now joins 10 other Louisiana colleges and...

Protesters gather outside the Supreme Courthouse in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, March 4. Hundreds gathered as the Court began oral arguments in a case regarding a Louisiana abortion law. Lily Cummings/ The Maroon.

Louisiana abortion case heard by Supreme Court

Lily Cummings March 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — On March 4, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of The Supreme Court of the United States in response to a 2014 Louisiana abortion law being contested before the court. The law,...

Nadia Lee, human trafficking survivor and prevention assistant at Eden House, shares her story. Photo provided by Nadia Lee.

Trafficking survivor advocates for safety

Lily Cummings March 8, 2020

Nadia Lee was 26 when she came to New Orleans but while others flocked to the city for French Quarter Fest, Lee was brought to the city by pimps. “To think that it’s not going on during festivals...

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