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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon

Murder clearance rates in New Orleans have dropped for the last several years.

New Orleans hits 120th homicide for 46th year in a row

John Casey November 3, 2017

The city of New Orleans is on a grim streak. The first of October marked the 46th consecutive year with over 120 homicides in the city. Only two other American cities with populations under a million can...

Algiers Folk Art Zone to host sixth annual festival

Kaylie Saidin November 1, 2017

It has been 17 years since New Orleans native Charles Gillam founded the Folk Art Zone & Blues Museum, which continues to be an integral part of the artistic community in Algiers Point. The museum,...

Mass communication junior Nick Boulet uses a water refill station in the Monroe Library.  The stations have eliminated waste from millions of water bottles. Photo credit: John Casey

Water refill stations reduce plastic bottle use

Hayley Risse November 1, 2017

Loyola’s sustainability initiative in 2012, intended to implement water refill stations around campus, has eliminated waste from just over three quarters of a million disposable water bottles as of this...

Tulane provost Robin Forman speaks about his universitys decision to allow guest status to students from Puerto Rico. Photo credit: Nick Reimann

Tulane offers free tuition for displaced students in Puerto Rico

Nick Reimann October 25, 2017

With Puerto Rico still reeling after Hurricane Maria, Tulane is now offering a helping hand for the thousands of students studying there that were displaced. The university sent out a blog post...

Loyola hosts annual Take Back the Night march

Cody Downey October 25, 2017

Sponsored by Loyola, Tulane, Dillard, Xavier, University of New Orleans and University of Holy Cross, the annual Take Back the Night event will begin at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday night in Loyola’s Horseshoe...

President Donald Trump listens as he is introduced to speak with winners from the National Minority Enterprise Development Week Awards Program, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump speech at Values Voter Summit draws criticism

Jack Deorio October 24, 2017

President Donald Trump became the first president to attend the Values Voter Summit earlier this month, a summit that has been criticized by organizations nationwide for connections to anti-LGBT and white...

Brittiny McNeil holds the hat and flag of her late husband New Orleans Police Officer Marcus McNeil while she is comforted by her daughter Camille McNeil, 2, left, next to her other daughter, Maisie McNeil, 5, bottom right, and McNeils mother Kimberly McNeil, top right, and his grandmother Alvena McNeil at Mount Olivet Cemetery during his funeral in New Orleans, La., Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Michael Harrison, left, and Mayor Mitch Landrieu, second left, stand with hands over their hearts. McNeil, 29, was shot and killed Oct. 13 during a routine patrol. (Matthew Hinton/The Advocate via AP) Photo credit: Associated Press

City mourns fallen police officer

John Casey October 24, 2017

A New Orleans police officer was shot and killed in the early morning of Oct. 13 during a shootout in New Orleans East.According to NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison during a press conference, four...

A student walks out of the Dana Center on Loyola Universitys campus and tosses a bottle into nearby recycling bins.  The new bins were intended to be more attractive and unique with hopes of enticing individuals to use them more frequently. Photo credit: John Casey

Recycling efforts on campus still evolving

Hayley Risse October 19, 2017

Reduce, reuse, recycle. Plastered on posters and printed on trash cans, these three words, accompanied by three rounded arrows, are the distinguished symbol of environmentalism. In recent years, Loyola’s...

Entergy continues fight for new power plant

Jules Lydon October 19, 2017

The ongoing city-wide debate about power supply for the city may soon have an answer. The question of how the city of New Orleans can boost power, primarily for the purpose of powering an overwhelmed...

Jefferson Parish, La., authorities and others from other parishes respond to an oil rig explosion in Lake Pontchartrain off Kenner, La., Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. (Matthew Hinton/The Advocate via AP) Photo credit: Associated Press

Gas platform explodes on Lake Ponchartrain

John Casey October 18, 2017

On Sunday night, law enforcement officials were overwhelmed with calls as Kenner residents scrambled to report a blast on Lake Pontchartrain. A natural gas storage platform roughly a mile and a half off...

Renata Massion, Tulane University junior majoring in political economy and international development, spreads mulch between rows of crops at Samuel J. Green Charter School’s garden in uptown New Orleans. Massion works at the site through a partnership with Edible Schoolyard New Orleans, a non-profit aimed at encouraging children to make healthy connections between food and school. Photo credit: India Yarborough

New food studies program stresses social justice, service learning

India Yarborough October 18, 2017

Milking cows and goats, collecting eggs from chickens and learning about workers’ exploitation during a high school trip to an educational farm in upstate New York changed one Loyola student's view of...

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a leading advocate in the House for comprehensive immigration reform, speaks in support of people affected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program during a rally at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Photo credit: Associated Press

DACA rescission could lead to deportations in Louisiana

Mairead Cahill and Jack Deorio October 13, 2017

  The citizenship of almost a million young Americans was thrown into question last month as protections for childhood immigrants were rescinded. President Donald Trump announced his intent...

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