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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon
Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon
Rose Wagner

Rose Wagner, Editor-in-Chief

Rose Wagner is a senior journalism and political science double major from the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is her second semester as editor-in-chief and fourth year with The Maroon. Outside of Loyola, Rose has worked on multimedia stories with Gray Television's national investigative unit and covered St. Tammany Parish for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate. When Rose is not in the newsroom, you can find her binge-watching Jeopardy! and listening to true crime podcasts. Contact: [email protected]

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Conduct Unbecoming: How the student code of conduct rules conduct hearings

Rose Wagner
April 29, 2021
Mass communication senior Rose Wagner signs a desk in the offices of The Maroon. As outgoing editor-in-chief, Wagner joined previous editors-in-chief in signing the desk at the end of her time leading the newsroom.

Column: I was proud to be your editor-in-chief

Rose Wagner
April 23, 2021
A graduation tassel lays across a gown decked out in Loyolas emblem. Loyola has announced its official graduation plans for the class of 2021.

Graduation moves to UNO arena after student complaints

Rose Wagner
April 6, 2021
A plate is served up in Loyolas Orleans Room. Loyola and Tulane students will be able to use their meal plans at each others campuses for the first time since the Omicron surge.

Students left in a lurch as campus dining closes for Easter

Rose Wagner
April 1, 2021
Christian Martinez, right, and Aidan Gibson, left, campaign for SGA president and vice president respectively during a Peace Quad campaign event. The pair was disqualified from the SGA race after being found guilty of multiple campaign violations.

Martinez/Gibson ticket removed from SGA elections for campaign violations

Rose Wagner
March 30, 2021
Seniors share mixed emotions over 2021 commencement plans

Seniors share mixed emotions over 2021 commencement plans

Rose Wagner
March 29, 2021
Class of 2020 to have in-person commencement in May

Class of 2020 to have in-person commencement in May

Rose Wagner
March 29, 2021
A graduation tassel lays across a gown decked out in Loyolas emblem. Loyola has announced its official graduation plans for the class of 2021.

Loyola announces commencement plans

Rose Wagner
March 29, 2021
SGA candidates launch campaigns for 2021-2022 year

SGA candidates launch campaigns for 2021-2022 year

Rose Wagner
March 5, 2021
Marquette Hall stands tall on Loyolas campus at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

Fall semester will be in-person with full capacity classes

Rose Wagner
March 5, 2021
Martinus Mitchum, via Facebook

Former Loyola Officer Martinus Mitchum killed during Carver basketball game

Rose Wagner
February 26, 2021
A Loyola sign sits bathed in sunlight outside Marquette Hall.

Commencement to be held on campus, divided into multiple ceremonies

Rose Wagner
February 18, 2021
A weather map displays the potential freezing conditions across the country.

Monday classes canceled due to freezing weather

Rose Wagner
February 14, 2021
Loyola changes room selection process, requires sophomores to live on campus

Loyola changes room selection process, requires sophomores to live on campus

Rose Wagner
February 9, 2021
Loyola to discontinue studio arts degree, merge it with design

Loyola to discontinue studio arts degree, merge it with design

Rose Wagner
February 8, 2021
A chart displaying COVID-19 cases at Loyola over time. Cases peaked at 36 active cases on Jan. 15

Loyola’s COVID-19 cases peak ahead of spring start

Rose Wagner
January 19, 2021
The SGA office sits unoccupied.

Board of Trustees to add new young member after SGA lobbying

Rose Wagner
December 14, 2020
Reported active COVID-19 cases as documented by Loyola University New Orleans. The university defines an active case as someone who has tested positive for the virus and has reported it to the university.

Loyola’s active COVID-19 cases hit all-time high

Rose Wagner
November 20, 2020
National Hurricane Center

Classes canceled after noon ahead of Hurricane Zeta

Rose Wagner
October 28, 2020
The latest projection from the National Hurricane Center shows Tropical Storm Sally, expected to become a hurricane, heading toward Louisiana. Loyola has suspended classes Tuesday in anticipation of the storm.

Loyola suspends class Tuesday amid hurricane threat

Rose Wagner
September 13, 2020
A truck drives past a street sign for Jefferson Davis Parkway on Sept. 3. A new city renaming commission voted to rename the street and is planning on considering renaming other streets named after Confederates in the coming weeks. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

New Orleans confronts its Confederate history with plans for street renaming

Rose Wagner
September 10, 2020
A picture of history senior Stephanie Adams

Loyola senior grapples with saying goodbye to college during COVID-19

Rose Wagner
September 10, 2020
A sign promoting social distancing hangs from a lamppost in Palm Court Aug. 3. Loyola is offering free on-campus testing in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

Testing for COVID-19 available at Loyola Aug. 31

Rose Wagner
August 29, 2020
New meal plan option allows students to order from off-campus restaurants

New meal plan option allows students to order from off-campus restaurants

Rose Wagner
August 18, 2020
Sonya Duhé poses in front of the anchor desk in Studio A at Loyola. Duhé is suing Loyola University New Orleans, where she taught for more than a decade, claiming the school violated her contract by not welcoming her back as a member of its faculty after Arizona State University nixed her as its next journalism dean amid allegations of racism back in June.

Sonya Duhé sues Loyola, claims wrongful termination after losing ASU job

Rose Wagner
August 12, 2020
Walter Block, professor of economics at Loyolas headshot. Blocks academic work has been criticized for what some students have said is an ideology that perpetuates racist and sexist beliefs.

Clashing petitions call for Walter Block to be fired, given a raise over academic work

Emma Ruby and Rose Wagner
June 17, 2020
Sonya Duhé will not return to Loyola after losing ASU deanship over allegations of racism

Sonya Duhé will not return to Loyola after losing ASU deanship over allegations of racism

Rose Wagner
June 8, 2020
Sonya Duhé poses in front of the anchor desk in Studio A at Loyola. Duhé is suing Loyola University New Orleans, where she taught for more than a decade, claiming the school violated her contract by not welcoming her back as a member of its faculty after Arizona State University nixed her as its next journalism dean amid allegations of racism back in June.

ASU nixes Sonya Duhé as next journalism dean amid allegations of racism, insensitivity

Rose Wagner
June 7, 2020
Arizona State Universitys Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication building is pictured on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. ASU students are petitioning for the removal of incoming ASU dean and outgoing Loyola director Sonya Duhé after allegations by former Loyola students of racist and insensitive behavior came to light earlier this week.

ASU students petition for Sonya Duhé’s removal as incoming dean

Rose Wagner
June 6, 2020
Sonya Duhé poses in front of the anchor desk in Studio A at Loyola. Duhé is suing Loyola University New Orleans, where she taught for more than a decade, claiming the school violated her contract by not welcoming her back as a member of its faculty after Arizona State University nixed her as its next journalism dean amid allegations of racism back in June.

Outgoing Loyola director under investigation at Arizona State

Rose Wagner
June 5, 2020
Photo credit: Rose Wagner

[Photo] Local restaurant reopens following COVID-19 guidelines

Shadera Moore
May 23, 2020
Holy Name of Jesus Church sits under a cloud of fog on May 17, 2020. President Tania Tetlow announced May 20 that the university will resume on-campus classes in August despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Housing displacement, social distancing to come with return to campus in the fall

Rose Wagner
May 21, 2020
The Loyola sign sits outside Marquette Hall on May 17, 2020. President Tania Tetlow announced May 20 that the university will resume on-campus classes in August despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

Loyola to resume on-campus classes in August, President Tetlow confirms

Rose Wagner
May 20, 2020
A Welcome to Loyola sign waves outside Thomas Hall on May 17, 2020. The university posted a fall 2020 schedule to its website on May 19 that says the university will resume on-campus classes Aug. 24 with online classes and finals between Thanksgiving and the spring semester. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

Loyola posts fall 2020 schedule with Aug. 24 start date, online finals

Rose Wagner
May 20, 2020
Alcoholics Anonymous goes virtual during COVID-19

Alcoholics Anonymous goes virtual during COVID-19

Rose Wagner
May 19, 2020
A sign on the door to Ignatius Chapel on Loyolas campus on May 17, 2020 references the closure of in-person worship services. The chapel re-opened on May 17 for in-person Sunday mass for the first time since the universitys closure back in March. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

Ignatius Chapel reopens Sunday mass with 45-person limit

Rose Wagner
May 17, 2020
An issue of The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate sits on a subscribers driveway May 7. Due to COVID-19, local journalists have had their hours cut. The Advocate company put 10% of its staff on a “permanent furlough,” while the rest of the organization’s staff members have had their hours cut for payroll savings, working four-day work weeks once every pay period, according to newsroom leaders. Photo credit: Michael Giusti

New Orleans journalists face furloughs, memories of Katrina

Rose Wagner and Gabriella Killett
May 14, 2020
People line up outside the Utah Department of workforce Services Monday, April 13, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Congress, the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve have mounted the largest financial intervention in history a full-scale drive that includes mandating sick leave for some, distributing $1,200 checks to individuals, allocating rescue aid to employers and expanding unemployment benefits to try to help America survive the crisis. Yet those measures are only temporary. And for millions of newly unemployed, they may not be enough. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Out of a job but not unemployed: Many in Louisiana still wonder if they qualify for state aid

Rose Wagner
April 13, 2020
An illustration in maroon and gold block art of a girl listening to a podcast with headphones on

A podcast for every mood of quarantine

Rose Wagner
March 30, 2020
Crystal Roa adjusts equipment before measuring the height of a patient at Lukes House Clinic. Roa is a volunteer Spanish medical translator at the free clinic. Photo credit: Rose Wagner

[Photo] Student interns as medical translator for Spanish speakers

Rose Wagner
March 15, 2020
Archbishop of New Orleans Gregory Aymond speaks at a live-streamed mass in St. Louis Cathedral on March 22, 2020. Aymond announced Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Archbishop of New Orleans tests positive for COVID-19

Rose Wagner
March 23, 2020
Illustration by Andrew Lang. Photo credit: Andrew Lang

University will allow preferred names and pronouns on LORA

Rose Wagner
March 18, 2020
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
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
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
Holy Name of Jesus stands against the cloudy sky March 11, 2020 after the announcement that classes were going online.

What does going online-only mean for Loyola? President Tetlow answers your questions

Rose Wagner
March 11, 2020
Classes to go online for the rest of the semester due to COVID-19

Classes to go online for the rest of the semester due to COVID-19

Rose Wagner and Daniel Schwalm
March 11, 2020
The Maroon staff critiques the paper copy in the Maroon office on Friday, March 6. The papers Editor-in-Chief has been placed under self-quarantine after coming in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.

The Maroon moves online-only this week, Editor-in-Chief goes into self-quarantine

Rose Wagner
March 11, 2020
Students walk past the sign for the Tom Benson Jesuit Center in the center of campus on March 4. Loyola is relocating the plans for the center from the place where the sign sits to the corner of Monroe Hall near the large oak tree. Photo credit: Michael Bauer

Loyola relocates plans for Tom Benson Jesuit Center

Rose Wagner
March 6, 2020
Who are the candidates? A look at who is running for SGA president and VP

Who are the candidates? A look at who is running for SGA president and VP

Rose Wagner and Erin Snodgrass
March 3, 2020
Photo credit: Rose Wagner

[Photo] Tanuja Singh will step into provost role this summer

Emma Ruby
February 14, 2020
Loyola Law Professor Chunlin Leohards office sits empty on Feb. 7 while the professor remains in coronavirus quarantine in California after evacuating Wuhan, China. Leonhard does not have any symptoms of coronavirus, according to media outlets, but is under federally mandated quarantine for two weeks.

Loyola law professor under coronavirus quarantine

Andres Fuentes and Rose Wagner
February 7, 2020
The Carrollton Gauge in the Mississippi River shows water levels approaching 16 feet.

[Video] Mississippi River water levels reach “flood fight” stage

Rose Wagner, Pack News
February 3, 2020
Data obtained from Loyola University Police Department

Campus elevators leave some stranded

Rose Wagner
January 31, 2020
NOPD arrests suspect in shooting death near Brunos, TJ Quills

NOPD arrests suspect in shooting death near Bruno’s, TJ Quills

Rose Wagner
January 29, 2020
Graph of amount of times an elevator broke

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Out of Order note on broken elevator

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[Video] Crawfish season off to slow start after foggy weather

Rose Wagner, Pack News
January 21, 2020
Tanuja Singh, Loyolas newly appointed provost, speaks to faculty during a meeting on Nov. 19

Loyola announces Tanuja Singh as its new provost

Rose Wagner
January 15, 2020
A permit approved by the city is displayed after a cyberattack on the city.

City Hall processes permits by hand in the wake of cyberattack

Rose Wagner, Reporter
January 13, 2020
The cross street of Hillary and Burthe Streets. Police are investigating a homicide that occurred there in the early hours of Jan. 10.

[Photo] Man found shot and dead a block from Bruno’s

Gabriella Killett
January 10, 2020
A streetcar sign lies on the corner of Jackson and St. Charles. A 2016 lawsuit is responsible for construction making 6 streetcar stops accessible. Photo credit: Alexandria Whitten

RTA ramps up accessibility

Rose Wagner
December 10, 2019
Who are the candidates? A look into the three potential provosts

Who are the candidates? A look into the three potential provosts

Rose Wagner
December 5, 2019
Sophomore psychology majors Melissa Berner and Ivy Fitzgerald light candles during the Take Back the Night march on Oct. 24. The march took place down St Charles Avenue and Broadway Street. to stand in solidarity with sexual assault survivors and victims of gender violence.

Take back the night shows solidarity for victims

Rose Wagner
October 31, 2019
Rates of reported rapes at Loyola nearly six times rates of forcible sex offenses at LSU

Rates of reported rapes at Loyola nearly six times rates of “forcible sex offenses” at LSU

Rose Wagner
October 29, 2019
A college student uses a metal nail to break off a piece of wax concentrate before inhaling its vapor to get high Sept. 10. Earwax-like marijuana concentrates have been known to elicit extreme highs and, sometimes, psychotic behavior, according to Special Agent Randy Ladd of the Denver Division of the DEA.

Learning to Concentrate

Rose Wagner
October 25, 2019
Demetrio Dane Castillo, music composition senior, adjusts his snare drum equipment before marching band practice at Yulman Stadium, Aug. 30. Castillo is one of three Loyola students who march and perform with Tulanes marching band. Photo credit: Rose Wagner

Loyola musicians find a home in Tulane’s marching band

Rose Wagner, Managing Editor for Print
September 6, 2019
Students move into Buddig hall during move in. Buddig hall is one of two residential halls without live-in community directors.

Residential hall community directors in short supply

Rose Wagner
August 23, 2019
Picture of LOYNO

Tetlow gives updates on university status

Rose Wagner
August 19, 2019
Loyola senior Devyn Koslen sits on the bench dedicated to Dawson Rutter III outside Miller Hall. Rutter passed away tragically in 2017 prior to graduating from Loyola. Photo credit: Chris Wiseman

New on-campus memorial honors deceased student

Rose Wagner
May 4, 2019
A Robert Street resident carries bottled water to his home in response to a boil water advisory for the Uptown area on May 3, 2019. The water main that caused the flooding was over 100 years old.

Uptown New Orleans residents prepare to deal with flooding, boil water advisory

Rose Wagner
May 3, 2019

SGA plans to add graduate students to the senate

Rose Wagner
April 5, 2019
College Democrats pushed to uninvite pro-abortion rights speaker

College Democrats pushed to uninvite pro-abortion rights speaker

Rose Wagner
April 4, 2019

Alicia Bourque’s full statement on the College Democrats speaker

Rose Wagner
April 2, 2019
President-elect Jessamyn Reichmann and vice president-elect Freedom Richardson pose outside of Monroe Hall on March 11, 2019. They won after running unopposed. Photo credit: Cristian Orellana

Reichmann and Richardson make plans for next year’s SGA

Rose Wagner
March 22, 2019
An elderly Shih Tzu sits in her stroller during a visit to Loyola as part of Wolf Pack Wednesdays partnership with the Visiting Pet Program.

Therapy dogs help students pawspurr during midterms

Rose Wagner
February 22, 2019
Th Communcation/Music Complex sits in the rain on February 20, 2019. The building holds the newly named College of Music and Media. Photo credit: Cristian Orellana

Loyola announces the College of Music and Media

Rose Wagner
February 20, 2019
Permanent director of student affairs named, interim provosts term is extended

Permanent director of student affairs named, interim provost’s term is extended

Rose Wagner
January 23, 2019
University Senate endorses idea for online associate degree program

University Senate endorses idea for online associate degree program

Rose Wagner
January 18, 2019
CRISTIAN ORELLANA/ The Maroon.

Some RAs ‘caught off guard’ by anonymous email demanding change

Rose Wagner
January 17, 2019
Photo credit: Andres Fuentes

Donnelly Center wins public relations award

Rose Wagner
January 16, 2019
A Kill Bill-inspired poster used to promote the Lemon Pepper mixer. This poster was a part of their “Change the Narrative” campaign. Photo credit: Rose Wagner

Lemon Pepper hopes to add flavor to post-grad life for students of color

Rose Wagner
December 8, 2018
Photo credit: Cristian Orellana

Eight former Loyola priests named in Jesuit sex abuse list

Rose Wagner
December 7, 2018
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