Stock up on antiperspirant. In a city known for dancing at funerals, things can get a little hot and sweaty when the dance floor isn't in front of a coffin. But we're not talking about your grandmother's second line. Follow our lead and try to keep up. Jock Se Bloque Saturn Bar, 3067 St.
Graphic design professor Daniela Marx is hoping the new art exhibit in the library will jump start a new way of advertising events on campus. The Collins C. Diboll art gallery on the fourth floor of Monroe Library features two similar shows: Hyperflux, and works by artist Jen McKnight, an assistant professor at University of Missouri-St.
So I met Cupid yesterday. No, not the guy with the song that my four-year-old nephew could dance to. The real Cupid. Eros, Kama, whatever you want to call him. He came into the bar I work at and ordered a whiskey sour. I asked him if he was old enough to drink.
While dinosaurs fascinate most young boys, Jay Crutti, faculty adviser of Loyola's Crescent City Radio, was more interested in pirates - Pirate radio stations. As a teenager, Crutti operated an (illegal) pirate radio station from his parents' home and has also been involved with Tulane's radio station WTUL 91.
God's Been Drinking, but you don't have to for the show to be enjoyable - unless, of course, you want to. God's impaired judgment descends upon local comedians every Friday in the form of improvisational comedy at La Nuit Theater. The performance is reflective of the theme, filled with incoherent storylines that leave the audience bewildered and tickled by the absurdity.
Loyola announced this afternoon that, due to the increased threat of Tropical Storm Gustav, classes are cancelled Aug. 29 and normal campus operations will cease the next day. Students, faculty and staff must evacuate Loyola's campus by Aug. 30 at 9 a.m. The university requested that all staff check in on the morning of Aug.
Loyola announced this afternoon that, due to the increased threat of Tropical Storm Gustav, classes are cancelled Aug. 29 and normal campus operations will cease the next day. Students, faculty and staff must evacuate Loyola's campus by Aug. 30 at 9 a.m. The university requested that all staff check in on the morning of Aug.
Incoming freshman class is a sign of progress
Walking through the new and improved Danna Center has left many to wonder, "Whose idea was this?" With new paint, television monitors, more food selections and new furniture, the Danna Center can best be described as "mod." Director of co-curricular programs Chris Cameron said architect Henry Muñoz of the Kell-Muñoz Firm first had the vision for the student activity center's modernized look.
Traces of environmental friendliness are everywhere, from the shirts with a healthy earth slapped across the fronts to bags in the grocery store to other consumer merchandise advocating a "greener" lifestyle. Loyola, too, has recently been aiming to make its campus more eco-friendly and to raise its D minus grade from the non-profit Sustainable Endowments Institute to a more acceptable score.
Orientation for the 2012 centennial class ended Saturday with the opportunity to help rebuild New Orleans. Mission and Ministry - a new joint organization between Loyola University Community Action Program and University Ministry - collaborated with new student orientation to coordinate "Into the Streets," three community service tours addressing post-Katrina issues: "Rebuilding New Orleans," "New Orleans Social Justice" and an "overflow" tour to areas hardest hit by Katrina.
William Locander joined Loyola this spring semester as the new dean of the Joseph A. Butt, S. J., College of Business. Coming from Jacksonville, Fla., Locander brings to Loyola a sense of energy, hard work and entrepreneurship. Locander served as the founding director and chair of the Davis Leadership Center at Jacksonville University's Davis College of Business. Locander brings this leadership role to Loyola to share it with students and faculty.
For many Loyola students who light up after a few hours of studying, the library entrance's steps are the perfect social smoking area. But if a new Loyola SGA proposal passes this year, the smoke clouds that rise above the Monroe Library and many other places on campus will permanently disappear.
View Larger Map Although The Maroon took a hiatus during the summer, thieves - both successful and unsuccessful - and the occasional transvestite did not. To compensate for the time, here are five of the top stories between May and August. Two men wearing ski masks broke into a business on the 7600 block of Maple St.
The Maroon provides a guide of fun places for newcomers to the Big Easy to go on a Friday night along with the fashion do's and dont's at each location
From the sound of his music, one could imagine that Juvenile, or as his momma named him,Terius Gray, has an upbeat personality. And, after long-time friends patiently waited almost two hours for the New Orleans-born rapper to appear on Crescent City Radio's "The Hip-Hop Spot with Alex McConduit,"
Legendary jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong performed on many a stage during his reigning career, and now Loyola's brand new eatery, Satchmo's is furnished with its own stage and is waiting for the next round of greats to pop out of the Wolfpack. Located in the former Underground area in the Danna Center, Satchmo's will host a variety of student talent every Tuesday and Thursday during the 12:30-2:00 p.m. window, including music (both bands and solo acts), DJ's, stand-up comedy, spoken word, poetry, monologues, fire breathers, chainsaw jugglers, you name it.
"Traitor" sets itself up as a twist-filled ride through the world of espionage and deceit, but the final product is something much less than what is promised in the previews. Enjoy the first two minutes of this film, because it's all downhill from there.
This summer's top five hottest entertainment stories Jamie-Lynn Spears gives birth to daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge at age 17. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi tie the knot. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt escape to France to deliver their twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.
If a night on the town isn't your forte, then a cozy night in with popcorn, pajamas and a vintage movie is your best bet.
There's a lot of strong emotion surrounding women's basketball coach Dobee Plaisance's transfer to Nicholls State University. Plaisance announced that she was leaving Loyola at the end of May, and "we were very hurt," Trenell Smith, management junior, said.
Loyola's volleyball team is set to defend last year's Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Championship title and looking to take the top spot in regionals. Keelyn Henderson, international business senior, is one of the returning players from last year's team, and she is the team's defensive specialist.
Loyola's rugby team is hoping to become the big-man on campus this fall. Expanding their presence will require more than just an increase in face time.
Richard Hinton Named New Assistant Basketball Coach Head coach Michael Giorlando announced the hiring of assistant coach Richard Hinton for the men's basketball team. Hinton is an experienced coach and the 'Pack is confident he will help the team move forward.
I couldn't have done it without my teammates, who didn't even want to sit by me on the bench at halftime. June 2005: I'm 25 pounds lighter. Maple Street's four corners haven't yet torpedoed my physique. A couple of my buddies and I are in the middle of a quarterfinal playoff for the Riverside Indoor Soccer men's league in Harahan.
In an attempt to seem more worldly and intelligent than I actually am, I subscribe to more magazines than I could possibly read or give a crap about. If say, Barack Obama decided to stop by my apartment, he would see the latest issue of "Business Week" sitting on my coffee table and think, "This young man, who is clearly a real gem, possesses every positive adjective I can think of, and I should offer him a position in my cabinet as Secretary of Looking Jazzy and Acting Classy.
Updates and centennial class give positive outlook
Dear Editor, In the Maroon's recent article on the Center for Intercultural Understanding's renovation plans, marketing junior, Jasmine Bailey, was quoted as saying Loyola isn't just a white student body, "and a lot of the big players in the administration would like it to seem that way.
Dining Services is very excited about our new renovations. From the Orleans Room to the Underground, everything has been re-designed. Dining Services conducted research to create the new dining locations, and we are very proud of the results. Beginning in the Orleans Dining Room you will notice we have changed the layout of the stations.
The stereotypes that plague the Greek system at Loyola have shaped the way students and administration view a certain fifteen organizations on our campus. Do higher-ups at Loyola want to rid the university of Greek life? I don't know if I'd go that far, but I can present a few cases that give me a suspicious feeling.
"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life. I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair, and I know what it's like to be blessed by the opportunities of this great nation." -John McCain on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
