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1 week ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
For one last time, I’m sitting down here at the editor’s desk in the wee hours of the early morning to scribble down some disjointed thoughts for page 2. This week I’ll be breaking two of the key rules I’ve tried to instill in our more creative work as Editor-in-Chief this year — don’t write about the newspaper and don’t write about writing.
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2 weeks ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
When I first arrived in Chicago what struck me most about the city was how much land it occupies and the lengths it stretches. Although urban living makes owning and maintaining a car more difficult, destinations are often many neighborhoods away and definitively too far to walk unless you really want to make a day of it. I soon found a two-wheeled answer to this slight annoyance — a brand new bicycle.
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3 weeks ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
In the first address before a joint session of Congress of his second term, President Donald Trump boldly declared March 4 he’d “brought back free speech in America.” Just five days later Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests on the New York campus, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with intent to deport Khalil in a clear violation of his status as a permanent resident and green card holder, The Associated...
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3 weeks ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
In the second and final series of finance town halls held this school year, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Wayne Magdziarz detailed the university’s budget for the coming fiscal year and discussed how Loyola is preparing for challenges facing higher education. At the March 27 Lake Shore Campus town hall, Magdziarz discussed changes which were made in the current budget — fiscal year 2025 — to ensure the university would achieve its revenue target of $12 million.
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1 month ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
Midway through his eighth academic year at Loyola, College of Arts and Sciences professor A.S., who requested to be identified only by his initials, was shocked upon being informed his time at the university was effectively coming to an end, as CAS wouldn’t be sponsoring the extension of the visa which permits him to live and work in the U.S. Representatives from CAS told A.S. it’s the college’s policy not to sponsor visas for part-time faculty members and stated there’d been a mistake the...
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1 month ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
In recent weeks commencement-related tasks and notices have increasingly flooded the inboxes of fourth-year students. While the process of registering for graduation has been fairly straightforward, there’s one aspect of the pomp and circumstance I feel is absurd enough to warrant writing about — why do I need to buy a cap and gown? When am I ever going to wear this again? Unlike high school, I don’t have younger siblings waiting to don Loyola’s maroon.
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1 month ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
In January and February, vexillological Illinoisans engaged in a process led by the state to select a new state flag. Disappointingly, citizens who participated in the process overwhelmingly voted to retain the current flag, which some have lovingly dubbed a “Seal on a Bedsheet” — or SOB. Voters were presented 13 potential designs, with 10 picked from hundreds of submissions and the other options being the 1918 centennial flag, the 1968 sesquicentennial flag and, of course, the SOB.
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1 month ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Griffin Krueger
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In January and February, vexillological Illinoisans engaged in a process led by the state to select a new state flag. Disappointingly, citizens who participated in the process overwhelmingly voted to retain the current flag, which some have lovingly dubbed a “Seal on a Bedsheet” — or SOB. Voters were presented 13 potential designs , with 10 picked from hundreds of submissions and the other options being the 1918 centennial flag, the 1968 sesquicentennial flag and, of course, the SOB.
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1 month ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
Given how quickly the new federal administration has been firing government employees, it’s been difficult to keep track of every area that’s been impacted. While staffing shortages at the Social Security Administration and Environmental Protection Agency will certainly have a more immediate impact on people’s lives, perhaps the most disheartening cuts so far have been at the National Parks Service.
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1 month ago | 
loyolaphoenix.com | Griffin Krueger
Every day our world is more and more digitized. While my back is certainly counting its blessings, being spared the toil of lugging a heap of books and paper back and forth between campus and my apartment, there’s another part of me — maybe the soul? — which longs for the analog age. Of course, there’s comfort in a book, and although our Gen X parents may still have their noses in E-readers, kids our age seem to agree on the virtues of printed books.
